Re: RH 10

2003-07-24 Thread Rick Forrister
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:22:28 -0400 mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I just read about RH opening up the development process to outsiders, over on ZDNet. *Then* I read the system requirements for 10: 200MHz for *non-graphical*, 400MHz for graphical...*minimum*. Does RedHat think they're

Re: Red Hat to abandon retail channel

2003-07-21 Thread Rick Forrister
On 20 Jul 2003 09:49:02 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 05:25, SAQIB wrote: http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=364 Saqib Ali - So in essence, does this mean that I'll no longer be able to go to the

Re: Red Hat to abandon retail channel

2003-07-21 Thread Rick Forrister
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:25:47 -0400 Lorenzo Prince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the fact the RH is no longer going to produce boxed sets of RH CD's mean that they will now offer their tech support packages and pay-per-call tech suppor t for downloading customets? A couple of weeks ago, I

Re: Multiboot issues and BRUB

2003-07-15 Thread Rick Forrister
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 08:03:37 -0400 Mark Haney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank for that, the only problem is, I have never had to make a GRUB bootdisk, and don't know how. Also, I know the command to re-build GRUB so that it becomes the bootloader again, but can't get to my RH install in

Re: dual boot

2003-06-08 Thread Rick Forrister
? chainloader +1 (Tho it works, am I overkilling with redundant statements?) 5. Trying hard to make item 2 above work! No luck! Need help to understand the logic of item 4 to continue. Nathan 2. Re: dual boot (Rick Forrister) Message: 2 Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 09:06:20 -0700 From

Re: dual boot

2003-06-06 Thread Rick Forrister
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 23:09:41 -0700 (PDT) redhatdaemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone know of a good HOWTO on creating a dual boot win2000/redhat box? i've done it before w/ 98, but i just can't seem to get 2000 to work. My system here has two Linux installs and Windows 2000 on it, runs

Re: What distribution works well with old computers?

2003-06-05 Thread Rick Forrister
On 04 Jun 2003 22:42:12 -0500 Paul Sutcliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What distribution works well with old computers? like a pentiumMMX 233MHz 6.1 ran well, and IIRC, 7.3 did well, too. I think I had to do a text based install with 7.3. YMMV. rickf -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Struts Training in NYC and DC in January

2003-01-04 Thread Rick Forrister
Thank you for spamming everyone on a technical mailing list. It's people like you that make Village Idiot a bad name. On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 19:47:28 -0500 John Menke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Increase Your Struts Productivity - Attend the BaseBeans Public Struts Training We have a 11 hour

Re: Red Hat 8.0 nvidia drivers?

2002-10-16 Thread Rick Forrister
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 22:33:44 +0200 Cristian Grigoriu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith Winston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was hoping that nvidia would have posted 8.0 drivers on their site [snip] The newer drivers, version 3123 of NVIDIA_Kernel NVIDIA_GLX both work very well with a

Re: Red Hat 8.0 nvidia drivers?

2002-10-05 Thread Rick Forrister
On 04 Oct 2002 15:11:18 -0400 Keith Winston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was hoping that nvidia would have posted 8.0 drivers on their site by now, but they only have Red Hat drivers up thru 7.3. Has anyone had luck compiling the driver from the source for RH8.0? The newer drivers, version

Re: Red Hat 8.0 nvidia drivers?

2002-10-05 Thread Rick Forrister
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 22:33:44 +0200 Cristian Grigoriu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith Winston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was hoping that nvidia would have posted 8.0 drivers on their site by now, but they only have Red Hat drivers up thru 7.3. Has anyone had luck compiling the

Re: migrate-to-kde

2002-09-26 Thread Rick Forrister
shyam wrote: hi friends In one of our system i am running RH 7.2 GNOME ,but i need to migrate to KDE . is it possible without reinstallation ? if so how Did you install KDE during installation? If not, do so now, and install switchdesk also. You'll then have the opportunity to switch

Re: Thanx:migrate-to-kde

2002-09-26 Thread Rick Forrister
shyam wrote: On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 Rick Forrister wrote : shyam wrote: hi friends In one of our system i am running RH 7.2 GNOME ,but i need to migrate to KDE . is it possible without reinstallation ? if so how Did you install KDE during installation? If not, do so now

Re: Note to Redhat, Installer needs a bit of help....just a bit.

2002-09-25 Thread Rick Forrister
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have spent the better part of three days trying to reinstall red-hat on my systems and thought that I'd offer up some feedback to the people who design the installation tools for RedHat. The reasons for the multiple installs are most likely hardware related

Re: NULL

2002-09-23 Thread Rick Forrister
Furnish, Trever G wrote: Hmmm... I thought the correct answer was always when it's ready. Now they have pre-announced shipping dates for products still in beta? Seems ... disappointing. -Original Message- From: Carter, Shaun G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday,

Re: Redhat minimal install can be 350 MB ?

2002-09-17 Thread Rick Forrister
Laurent Brissonnet wrote: Hi, It is said on redhat web site, that the minimal space to install redhat is 350 MB. And indeed, when we follow the classical install we reach this figure. Is there a minimal redhat package list to install only the minimum with a XF86Free server ? This

Re: redhat 7.0

2002-09-12 Thread Rick Forrister
Vam Makam wrote: I just installed redhat 7.0 but was wondering if I should just install a newer version? Also, it doesn't recognize my D-Link 530TX+ nic so what other nics are recommended? If you can upgrade without cost (download iso's burn your own CD's), then I would strongly suggest

Re: mount RH6.1

2002-09-12 Thread Rick Forrister
Linux wrote: Hi I was introduced to Linux at RH7.0 level and are struggling to understand why I cannot mount a floppy on a RH6.1 system I came across yesterday. I've used the command mount /mnt/floppy and mount /dev/fd0 but these spew out that extra command s are needed and the msdos

Re: Python

2002-09-11 Thread Rick Forrister
Gordon Messmer wrote: On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 12:03, ech0 wrote: Hey I have been told to learn Python by alot of people because it is similar to perl and would be a great confidence builder, etc. [snip] and maybe recommend books that are actually worth buying on Python or websites

Re: DVD burners and cdrecord?

2002-08-30 Thread Rick Forrister
Jayson Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] dribbled... Does anyone know if cdrecord can burn to DVD burners. I didn't see anything in the man pages, but thought there might be a new(er) version that could handle it. Jayson, you want to look for dvdrecord. One of the RedHatters created it as a

Re: writing DVDs

2002-08-28 Thread Rick Forrister
Giurgiu Sergiu wrote: On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 11:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, This is my first attempt at backing data on DVDs. Currently I have a program that backs up some data on a external firewire HDD. I dont format HDD but I use it in raw mode. When I get a HDD all I do

Re: Download RH Betas

2002-08-27 Thread Rick Forrister
Ismael Touama wrote: hi, try sunsite.unc.educ. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]De la part de Spanke, Alexander Envoyé : mardi 27 août 2002 12:27 À : 'RedHat General - Mailinglist' Objet : Download RH Betas Hi, Where can i download the limbo beta ? better still, try ftp.redhat.com in

Re: Hard Drive Help

2002-08-27 Thread Rick Forrister
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need some help. 1. I have a server that has been up for 100+ days and I need to do some hard drive work on. I know that the server has an available 33 gig scsi drive on it, but I'm not sure how linux saw the drive. Unfortunately due to the amount of uptime,

Re: Newbie: Changing the date in Linux

2002-08-27 Thread Rick Forrister
Brian Lucas wrote: Is there an easy way to change the date in Linux without rebooting the box? Yes. try man timeconfig and man setclock. rickf -- If you are successfull they'll beat a path to your doorstep ... Picket signs firmly in hand! -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Re: WARNING! - HP pavilion 2.2 GHz

2002-08-22 Thread Rick Forrister
julius wrote: After spending three days with customer support from several different companies, I have finally ascertained that the harddrive controller chipset on the HP pavilion ze5000 series and xt395 is currently NOT supported by linux. I thought I would forward this information to save

Re: HowTo : make a diff date

2002-08-13 Thread Rick Forrister
cana rich wrote: Hello, I would like to make a diff in the date of a file from the copy to the dateday. I mean i would like to know how many days has been left since the copy of the file. The following bit of python code will do the job. As set up, it displays the days, hours,

Re: HowTo : make a diff date

2002-08-13 Thread Rick Forrister
Anthony E. Greene wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13-Aug-2002/07:04 -0700, Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cana rich wrote: I would like to make a diff in the date of a file from the copy to the dateday. I mean i would like to know how many days

Re: how do i solve this problem ?

2002-08-09 Thread Rick Forrister
suresh wrote: Hi, I have a 7.1 installation ,and i need to upgrade a few packages which need libcypto.so.2 and libssl.so.1 which is provided by openssl-0.9.6b-18.i686.rpm ,but what do i do about these dependencies ? (I cant run up2date because it is on a private VSAT network ...) Thanx in

Re: Utilities to format partition?

2002-07-31 Thread Rick Forrister
Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 08:36, Kevin Myers wrote: On 31 Jul 2002 08:43:24 -0400, you wrote: I have an old NTFS partition in my /dev/hda1. I'd like to re-format it to ext3 partition. Is there such utility in linux/Redhat, so I don't have to reboot and use

Re: please remove me from list

2002-07-25 Thread Rick Forrister
kita-rs wrote: hi , i inadvertently signed up for receipt on one of these lists. my email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] my mailbag is getting bombarded with mail. thx ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: please remove me from list

2002-07-25 Thread Rick Forrister
Mark C wrote: On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 15:45, Rick Forrister wrote: kita-rs wrote: hi , i inadvertently signed up for receipt on one of these lists. my email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] my mailbag is getting bombarded with mail. Just curious, but how can you inadvertently subscribe

Re: please remove me from list

2002-07-25 Thread Rick Forrister
KnowHow Tech Support wrote: I don't see where he was directing that to you at all. Looks to me like he just sent that response back to the list. It had that flavor to me. If I'm wrong, then apologies as appropriate. Does _EVERY_ Unsubscribe Me message have to turn into a chain of 50

Re: Product ID for Book version of 7.2

2002-07-23 Thread Rick Forrister
Chris Velevitch wrote: I have recently purchased the O'Reilly book Learning Red Hat Linux, 2nd Edition. This book included the 7.2 disks. What is the product ID of this version of Redhat 7.2 so that I can activate the support services at Redhat.com? Chris Chris, if you buy from someone

Re: One more question...

2002-07-22 Thread Rick Forrister
Nigel Peck wrote: When I enter a command at a shell prompt, how do I return to a prompt immediately rather than waiting for the command to complete. Nigel, just type an ampersand at the end of the command line, i.e.: foo This makes it a background process, and returns immediately to the

OT: News this good _MUST_ be shared!

2002-07-11 Thread Rick Forrister
Mind you, there's no mention of virtual beer, but ... 8^) Study: Beer Builds Strong Bones Scientists have kept the secret to strong bones bottled up for years. Now, a new study has raised the bar on the list of nutrients that could have benefits. NewsCenter 5's Rhonda Mann said that the good

Re: P4 system...that works with 7.3

2002-07-10 Thread Rick Forrister
Sajeewa Chandrasekera wrote: and I tried intel 845GN P4 mother board with Redhat 7.3 and failed. It seems RH7.3 doesn't support P4 ? There are apparantly problems with the Intel 845G chipset, but not with the prior versions. I'm running on an Intel D845EBGL motherboard, and everything

Re: remove please

2002-07-03 Thread Rick Forrister
Neil wrote: could you remove me from the mailing list ? thanks ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list Neil, I'm sure you've already heard this, but _YOU_ need to remove

Re: nvidia drivers

2002-07-03 Thread Rick Forrister
Sharkey, Scott wrote: Where, exactly, are the 7.3 drivers on their web site? I can find the March 7, 2002 drivers -- but no RH 7.3 there. Scott, try http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux rickf -- If you are successfull they'll beat a path to your doorstep ... Picket signs

Re: 7.2 or 7.3 support for Intel 845G

2002-07-01 Thread Rick Forrister
Thomas Kiblin wrote: Any timeframe on when we'll see support for this latest chipset from Intel? I have a bunch of servers using the Asus p4b533-VM motherboard, and I am getting all sorts of PCI bridge errors, and PCI IDE errors and BAD performance (around 2.8Mbs), can't set DMA mode,

Re: nvidia drivers

2002-07-01 Thread Rick Forrister
kevin ferguson wrote: Hi m8 I'm using a ge-force 2 mx 400 works great, not sure about the other range thou. Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Mark Neidorff wrote: I've heard good things about the nvidia cards. From the rhcl, it looks like only the gforce2 will

Re: nvidia drivers

2002-07-01 Thread Rick Forrister
BG wrote: Quite the contrary, Rickf. With the use of the Nvidia drivers OpenGL and other graphics tools are available. OpenGL is not available with the Nvidia cards when using the RH boxed driver. Please re-read what I wrote below. It clearly states that I believe the basic nv driver

Re: Motherboards Suitability/Reliability

2002-06-27 Thread Rick Forrister
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yannis G. Lazarou wrote: Hi, RedHat Linux users! I have to choose the most appropriate motherboards for two systems that will run Linux Redhat 7.1 or 7.2with the following specifications:1. System A: Intel P4 2GHz, Memory: 1GB 800 MHz RDRAM, Adaptec AHA-29160

Re: KDE 3.0.1

2002-06-25 Thread Rick Forrister
Werner Puschitz wrote: On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Mick Szucs wrote: Apologies if this is not the correct forum for this list. According to the documentation at KDE, there is no official KDE support for Redhat - http://www.kde.org/packagepolicy.html I'm wondering if this is actually the

Re: RedHat 7.3 with Intel 845e/845g chipsets?

2002-06-10 Thread Rick Forrister
Timothy Lee Young wrote: How about a discussion of the new Intel chipsets? Anyone running RedHat 7.3 on one of these new motherboards with the Intel 845e or 845g chipsets? I have an Epox 4G4A+ (intel 845g chipset) coming this week. What can be expected with an out-of-the-box install?

Re: Printing multiple pages on one page

2001-03-08 Thread Rick Forrister
Steve Mckay wrote: Does anyone know of a way to print multiple pages on one page. Kind of like fineprint or handyprint for windows. man mpage. 4 on one by default, best rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Giving power and money to politicians is like g

Re: Help

2001-03-08 Thread Rick Forrister
t version of the man output to lp. best rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Giving power and money to politicians is like giving car keys and alcohol to teenage boys." --P. J. O'Rourke __

Re: rpm won't install

2001-03-01 Thread Rick Forrister
r original install of cdrecord. rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Giving power and money to politicians is like giving car keys and alcohol to teenage boys." --P. J. O'Rourke ___ Redh

Re: Loss recovery begins

2001-02-28 Thread Rick Forrister
for both their IDE SCSI units. Running Wolverine, the 7.1 beta, I've had good success with my Iomega 650CD CDRW USB drive. best rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Giving power and money to politicians is like giving car keys and alcohol to teenage

Re: [OT] cheap Linux box

2001-02-26 Thread Rick Forrister
nly a case, motherboard, cpu, and maybe a floppy drive. So your barebones system will come in more like $450+ to the same point. For a PII or PIII system with a 400-600 MHz system, I think $450 is doable. best rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Giving

Re: Wolverine vs Fisher

2001-02-23 Thread Rick Forrister
with fixes in place. 8^) best rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Giving power and money to politicians is like giving car keys and alcohol to teenage boys." --P. J. O'Rourke ___ R

Re: Wolverine vs Fisher

2001-02-23 Thread Rick Forrister
rpjday wrote: On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Rick Forrister wrote: Charles Galpin wrote: I got an announcement this morning that we have a new beta version of Red Hat Linux (didn't say what version) called wolverine. So what was Fisher? Hi Charles, Fisher was a regular beta

Re: Pre-newbie questions

2001-02-22 Thread Rick Forrister
, software development, web server, etc.). -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Giving power and money to politicians is like giving car keys and alcohol to teenage boys." --P. J. O'Rourke

Re: perl 5.6 for RH 6.2

2001-02-22 Thread Rick Forrister
CS/. best rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Giving power and money to politicians is like giving car keys and alcohol to teenage boys." --P. J. O'Rourke ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EM

Re: help me!

2001-02-14 Thread Rick Forrister
the redhat-list. Heh, heh, heh. Sounds like the instructions I once wrote when I was in the Air Force on how to use the bathroom. 8^) -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Giving power and money to politicians is like giving car keys and alcohol to teenage

Re: windows doc to linux ???

2001-02-09 Thread Rick Forrister
will do this. There's also a "reader" for WinWord docs out there, but I don't remember the name as I've never used it. Try a search on tucows. rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Giving power and money to politicians is like giving car keys and alcohol

Re: This is real hell

2001-02-05 Thread Rick Forrister
ailed to you. You don't even have to unsubscribe to stop list email for a while - select the option to "Disable mail delivery" and you can put a temporary stop to it until you're ready to go again. rickf Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politicia

Re: donations for eaarthquake

2001-01-31 Thread Rick Forrister
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, suman wrote: Why does not everybody make donations for the earthquake in Gujarat The tone of this could have been a bit more polite. It _sounds_ almost like an accusation that we don't give a damn, and have done nothing. Many of us have. Rick Forrister

Re: Redhat 7.0

2001-01-22 Thread Rick Forrister
Star/Kapok 2100P laptop with a PCMCIA 56kb modem card. Both connect to my personal ISP service over dialup lines with, again, no issues. best rickf Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought."

Re: Ramen hole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2001-01-18 Thread Rick Forrister
Please don't include large chunks of text, such as articles, unnecessarily. Ramen has been an ongoing discussion. Better to include links rather than articles. best rickf Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought

Re: Mail Delivery Question

2001-01-11 Thread Rick Forrister
Just tuck it in as a first/early rult. best rickf Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought." --Robert Heinlein ___ Redhat-list mailing list [

c programming question - regexec related

2001-01-11 Thread Rick Forrister
){ ... } and looking at the address field in HEADER shows that for the first three calls the address is valid. After the third call, the address field is corrupted. No other areas of the code access that regex_t struct or reference it in any way. best rickf Rick Forrister

Re: Drive Imaging

2001-01-09 Thread Rick Forrister
rd drive over 40GB. Is there a *flawless* way to just plug in the new drive and copy everything over and then remove the old drive? So i could use as a back up in case this new one ever goes down. Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once

Re: Anybody heard ...

2001-01-03 Thread Rick Forrister
suspect that they'll try to link the 7.1 release to the release of kernel 2.4. best rickf Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought." --Robert Hei

Re: Anybody heard ...

2001-01-03 Thread Rick Forrister
en skipped in the past, but in general they just get ratcheted upwards until there's a major change in the distribution - then they go to a n.0 release. best rickf Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, st

Re: VMware (Was: WINE)

2000-12-28 Thread Rick Forrister
, but people tend to stumble upon this on a fairly regular basis. Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought." --Robert Heinlein ___ Redhat-list mailing

Re: VMware (Was: WINE) [OT: ram]

2000-12-28 Thread Rick Forrister
checks on each memory access, hence the performance slowdown. One other question, I know adding large ram causing performance drop is usually the chipset limitation but can CPU sometimes have this limitation? best rickf Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest

Re: OT Question Re: VMware (Was: WINE)

2000-12-28 Thread Rick Forrister
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Peter Kiem wrote: I'm *trying* to search Micro$oft's website but I keep getting timeouts on their webpage generations. What are they running on? i486 machines??? Nah! You're just seeing Windows 2000 Server Edition at it's glorious best. 8^) best rickf Rick

Re: ABC of Linux

2000-12-20 Thread Rick Forrister
d. Not the best way to go, as these are normally out of date. You need to get the more recent version. If buying or downloading a more recent version isn't practical for some reason, send me a message (OFF THE LIST!) and I'll see if I can't help you get either 6.2 or 7.0. Rick Forrister

Re: LS-120 newbie question

2000-12-14 Thread Rick Forrister
drives as a boot device. best rickf Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought." --Robert Heinlein ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROT

Re: LS-120 newbie question

2000-12-14 Thread Rick Forrister
actly as you do. Can you check is your LS 120 of the same version?. I mean an ATAPI device or an ide-floppy are these different things? Eduardo On 14 Dec 2000, at 11:11, Rick Forrister wrote: Eduardo, just reinserted my ls120 to my laptop, checked tested. Assuming that you have a mount

RE: 7.0 upgrade pbs ... more and WARNING

2000-12-05 Thread Rick Forrister
your help :=) Philippe Bit more research would have saved some time. Believe the use of kgcc to rebuild kernels is discussed clearly in the RH 7.0 docs, also. Which are available for free download on the net. best rickf Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: H

Re: RH Notebooks

2000-12-04 Thread Rick Forrister
ldn't boot unless you had an MS partition on the drive. Had to put a single block, DOS partition on the linux drive. Then got a BIOS upgrade, which fixed that. They don't come with linux pre-installed, but it was as simple as "insert cd, click mouse a bit, take a nap." Rick Forrister

Re: Stupid question

2000-11-02 Thread Rick Forrister
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How the heck to I find out what version of RED HAT is actually on a machine? "cat /etc/redhat-release" best rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, st

Re: stupid perl programming problem

2000-11-02 Thread Rick Forrister
it'll become mandatory then. For example, your hash, words, should have been declared as "my %words=();" early on in the file. best hope it helps. rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought."

Re: dd = destroy data?

2000-10-24 Thread Rick Forrister
to take a pass or two over the drive. My first thought was to boot up with Tom's boot/root disk and do: dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda Try "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda" -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, st

Re: ver 7.0

2000-10-24 Thread Rick Forrister
The deciding factor apparantly was the use of an interface matching the needs of those components. The idea is that a minor update should be sufficient to bring 7.0 up with those components when released. Prognostication can be a hard way to make a living. -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PR

Re: US Elections - enough is enough!

2000-10-23 Thread Rick Forrister
there. The greatest value in a symbol is behind it, not in it. rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought." --Robert Heinlein ___ Redhat

Re: US Elections - enough is enough!

2000-10-22 Thread Rick Forrister
leaving the rest of the message unreferenced, libertarians are neither conservatives nor liberals in the current usage of the terms. More of a strict constitutionalist approach, in essence. rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays

Re: US Elections - enough is enough!

2000-10-22 Thread Rick Forrister
operation. Where I work, and some friends at the V.A. ran into the same, the "cuts" consisted of terminating a large number of people and then rehiring them as contractors. That way, they're no longer on the "payroll", they're just a line item in overhead budget. Neat, Huh? best

Re: What was Gore's Role in Inventing the Internet?

2000-10-19 Thread Rick Forrister
they were expecting was to sell a few systems. Gates was quite familiar with it, and when was asked by IBM if he could provide an OS, in addition to the BASIC he was on tap for, said yes, then bought QDOS, buffed it a tiny bit, and thus was born the first version of PC-DOS. best rickf -- Rick

Re: HP 970 Cse printer

2000-10-10 Thread Rick Forrister
ou can't access the duplex mode printing. Overall, it has worked well, and one of these days there'll probably be a fully configured filter for it. best rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought."

Re: SCSI Cards ??

2000-10-06 Thread Rick Forrister
ort" on the box for years now. best rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought." --Robert Heinlein ___ Redhat-list mailing lis

Re: unsubscribe -can someone at least bother to reply 4 the first time

2000-10-06 Thread Rick Forrister
expression which refers to a habitual drunk. Both may apply, however "sod" depends on known behaviour, as opposed to "sot", which we can only speculate on, but which might explain some of his problems. I suppose one could be a "besotted sod"? 8^) rickf -- Rick Fo

Re: Does any one know........

2000-10-04 Thread Rick Forrister
My Linux 6.2 system, which has been [ab]used for quite awhile, and rather heavily, too, is at about 4% as of this morning. Don't bother. best rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought."

Re: cant mount CDROM on RHL7

2000-10-03 Thread Rick Forrister
nd stopped after I did a full shutdown/powerdown and then rebooted the system. I've no idea why, though this may relate to a change in hardware recognition. best rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, st

Re: issues

2000-09-29 Thread Rick Forrister
t that one. With circles 'n arrows 'n a paragraph on the back of each one to be used as evidence against us... 8^) best rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought." --

Re: [OT - beers] (was: Re: name of current release)

2000-09-29 Thread Rick Forrister
rs, that's one of my "warm fuzzy" memories. best rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought." --Robert Heinlein ___ Redhat

Re: issues

2000-09-29 Thread Rick Forrister
to restaurants at thanksgiving! :-) Or to church, let alone both at the same time! 8^) rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought." --Robert Hei

Re: 7.0

2000-09-28 Thread Rick Forrister
the most basic install without disk interchange. best rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought." --Robert Heinlein ___ Redhat-list ma

Re: RH 70 and $9.95

2000-09-27 Thread Rick Forrister
s my needs. In your case, I'd contact sales about the past practice of free/cheap upgrades for recent purchasers, and work up from there. best rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought."

Re: 7.0

2000-09-27 Thread Rick Forrister
just "mount image.name -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt/cdrom". Then just reference /mnt/cdrom as if a cd were mounted. best rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought.&

Re: RH 70 and $9.95

2000-09-26 Thread Rick Forrister
rs will be able to access certain levels of Red Hat Network for free, and greater levels of service will be available for customers of Red Hat's service offerings." -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once

[OT] Hardware configuration issue, ASUS CUBX, PIII/733 CPU

2000-09-13 Thread Rick Forrister
runs several Red Hat installations, of course! 8^) TIA rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought." --Robert Heinlein ___ Redhat-list ma

Re: Installation and upgrade

2000-08-30 Thread Rick Forrister
a single point in the system on all machines connected to that system. Best rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definition: Honest Politician: Once bought, stays bought." --Robert Hei

Re: X Display resolution

2000-08-28 Thread Rick Forrister
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Now for a generic X question. How can I tell at what resolution and color depth a running server is operating What about if HW accel . is being used? Try "xdpyinfo" command. best rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definitio

Re: rh 7.0 official release..

2000-08-21 Thread Rick Forrister
; they've had a policy of no pre-release announcing. It will be announced about the time they start to get the boxed distro packages into stock. best rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] "To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three p

Re: How to I start up xfce as startx default?

2000-08-18 Thread Rick Forrister
do I start it up? While logged in as the user you want to be rickf in my case, just type "xfce_setup". Then type "startx" as usual. How do I get it to be an option for the switch manager? Not sure that currently can be done. I'll check on it. best rickf

Re: Suggested CD-RW Drive

2000-08-16 Thread Rick Forrister
full details to Leonard Zubkopff, the driver writer (now at VA Linux) and free cards. Their boxes have proclaimed Linux support for several years now. rickf -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] "To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people

Re: printers

2000-07-25 Thread Rick Forrister
DeskJet 842C or 970Cse ? Is the resolution and color good ? Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Rick Forrister [EMAIL PROTECTED] "To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent." Robert Copeland -- To unsubscribe: m

Re: [OT] Sun MicroSystems Workstations.

2000-07-21 Thread Rick Forrister
and/or floppy. Can this workstations work alone or should they work always networked? Not knowing exactly where you checked; but I just checked eBay (search SPARC) and found a Sun SPARCStation 20 with 64Mb RAM, CDROM, etc. currently going for $300.00 US. http://www.ebay.com/ best rickf -- Rick Forrister

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