On Friday 13 January 2006 11:45 pm, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Robert G. Scofield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Suggestion:
>
> Step 1. Create /etc/apt/prefernces as follows:
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: 50
>
>
> Step 2: Add an &quo
I love K3b, and actually use it to back up my business files in Windows 98
since I don't like my CD burning EULA in Windows. But K3b is not yet
available in Debian testing. (I use it in SuSE.)
Suppose I downloaded K3b and compiled it in Debian. Then suppose that K3b
later becomes available i
Here's an interesting error message I've been getting after running both
apt-get update and aptitude update:
"Failed to fetch
http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/debian/dists/testing/main/binary-i386/Pa
ckages.gz 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch
http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/debian/dists/t
I'm calling this message an "observation" because I don't know enough to offer
an explanation of what it is I am observing. But generally I have had a
better experience with apt-get than I have with aptitude. I think it's
Karsten Self who has written a piece explaining why aptitude is better.
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 10:25 am, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>
>
> Try doing an "apt-get dist-upgrade" and see if that looks like the case.
> Good luck!
I get the same message with "dist-upgrade."
But thanks for your response.
I'm not that worried about it, I'm just trying to learn what's going on
When I do "apt-upgrade" now there is a message that alsa-base and alsa-utils
have been kept back. Why have they been kept back?
Is it because alsa needs an upgrade of a dependency so that if the packages
alsa is dependent upon are upgraded in the future, then alsa will be upgraded
later?
Th
My son runs Windows XP. He is home for the summer. During the school year
his laptop has been connected to the U.C. Santa Cruz dorm "Resnet" system.
At home his laptop is in his room where he has a wireless connection to the
Internet by way of a router.
Recently he has been getting this ver
One of the nice things about open source is that different people can produce
different versions of a product. SuSE, Debian, and at least one other
distro, have their own version of Open Office. And the SuSE and Debian
versions look nicer with colored icons, etc.
But Debian Open Office has a
On Sunday 06 March 2005 20:57, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>
> Speaking for myself:
>
>
>
>- GNOME has an alarming tendency to make like a supercharged VW
> Beatle on a ice-slicked Colorado mountain road: continuous 360s
> until it plunges headline over a 1500' abyss. The number of m
On Sunday 06 March 2005 09:21, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> What program on Linux most closely resembles Nero for DVD burning in both
> interface and features?
I'm not that familiar with Nero though I have used it once I think. (It's on
the family computer.) I also don't burn DVD's. But KDE's K3
On Saturday 05 March 2005 13:26, Troy Arnold wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:07:09PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > I'm looking for examples illustrating the flexibility possible with
> > GNU/Linux.
>
> How about the ability to tailor your working environment to the
> abilities (limits) of y
On Friday 04 March 2005 08:42, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> First: my usual suggestion is to go through the configuration tool
> rather than edit the file directly. No real harm, either way, but once
> you modify a conffile in Debian, automated updates _won't_ touch it. A
> set of MD5 hashes is kep
On Thursday 03 March 2005 22:53, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
>
> I'm wondering if something is overriding XF86Config-4. Could GDM be doing
> something? Here's another thought. You might remember several weeks ago
> when I was trying to set up X. I was trying to follow t
On Thursday 03 March 2005 17:33, Ken Bloom wrote:
>
>
> Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> find
> Section "Screen"
> then find the Subsection "Display" which corresponds to the default
> color depth. Add "1024x768" at the beginning of the Modes line.
>
First let me say thanks Ken and thanks David.
My Debian screen resolution defaults to a bothersome 800x600. I'm trying to
get it to 1024x768.
If I use "xf86cfg" and choose 1024x768 nothing changes.
If I type "xrandr -s 1024x768" then the resolution changes for the current
session only. When I reboot I go back to 800x600.
So, can anybod
Because I don't have my computer on for 24 hours a day, I always
modify /etc/crontab to fire at a time when I will likely be on my computer.
So in my Debian partition crontab fires during the 8:00 pm hour, and in my
SuSE partition crontab fires during the 9:00 pm hour.
Since I've had SuSE 9.2,
Finally, after weeks of work I've got sound working on my Debian Sarge net
install. You'll never guess what I did. All I did was update the kernel
from 2.4 to 2.6.
Of course I had earlier installed Alsa. I had deliberately refused to upgrade
the kernel because some of the people writing abou
On Thursday 03 February 2005 06:24, Lewis Perdue wrote:
> I don't suppose anyone knows a hack that will allow Firefox to support a
> wheel mouse? I've gotten hooked on configuring mine to scroll down a page
> at a time. Firefox does not support, so I went back to Mozilla.
Maybe I don't know what y
I'm reading How To's on the web still trying to get audio working in Debian.
Right now I have a question about two messages I get when booting. Can
anybody tell me what they mean?
1) "via82cxxx_audio: blacklisted" My sound driver is supposed to be via82xx.
The word "blacklisted" seems omino
I think I know the answer to this, but I want to make sure. I believe that it
is more secure to FAX a document than it is to email a document or message,
right? This assumes that one does not use email encryption.
I realize that someone can tap a phone line, and that would enable a person to
On Friday 28 January 2005 17:59, Rick Moen wrote:
>
> To my knowledge, current sound-setup problems owe much to the fact that
> everyone's moving rapidly away from the old kernel-bundled oss-free
> driver set towards ALSA ones, and ALSA's configuration tools continue to
> be simply awful. Back wh
On Friday 28 January 2005 17:59, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Robert G. Scofield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>Back when we all used oss-free, the simple fix was to
> use the sndconfig package (RH-written, kindly placed under GPL by them,
> and then packaged up for Debian and other distros).
On Friday 28 January 2005 11:47, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> So if you haven't already, put
> localhost:631 in your browser's location bar. If the cups daemon is
> running, you should get a menu to start working CUPS. If you have a
> printer correctly installed, clicking on the "print test page" fo
I've done a Sarge net install three times now, and it's quite an experience.
I get a different set of packages even when I choose the same stuff to
download. I don't have sound and I can't print. But I've got some stuff to
read on sound, and will try to take care of that on my own. But the p
After downloading KDE for my Debian install a couple of weeks ago I got a
message asking me to set directories that are repositories so that history
files can be rotated and for security checks. I didn't know what to list for
these directories. I've never been asked this question running Red H
On Thursday 20 January 2005 10:11, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> Robert G. Scofield said:
>
>
> That's a cool story. I was never able to get WP8 to work for Linux (and
> finally just gave up, even after spending $130 on it), though I really
> wanted to; WP was always my
On Thursday 20 January 2005 00:07, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 January 2005 22:48, Josh Parsons flailed at a keyboard and
>
>
>
> Meanwhile, I see you're at the Philosophy department. Spiffy. I got my BA
> in philosophy from UCD in 1992. Is Dr. Mattey still around?
Not only is
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 18:45, Rick Moen wrote:
>
First, let me say thanks for the post. There's a lot of good stuff in here
for me. So I'm saving it.
>
> Under ordinary circumstances, you should not need to manually download
> individual packages (or sets of packages) for a Debian box.
In
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 11:41, Rick Moen wrote:
>
> Don't sweat that. It's there in case XFree86 attempts some stupid guess
> at your video memory amount that you _know_ to be wrong, in case you
> therefore wish to un-comment that line, to hit XFree86 with the Cluebat
> of Enlightenment.
>
T
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:26, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>
>
> Also, don't forget about "XFree86 -configure". This will get you in the
> right ballpark. After writing a reasonable XF86Config-4 file, you can fine
> tune your way to the front row seats.
First, thanks to you and Jeff for respon
This Debian Net Install is requiring a lot of work. I'm trying to set up X,
and I keep reading warnings that one can burn out a monitor or video card if
one screws up. That's why I'm asking this question.
I ran the xf86config program and was asked how much RAM my video card has.
I've got onb
On Friday 07 January 2005 15:55, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
>
> In my experience, the installer prompts you to proceed at each step, and
> offers alternatives. It does NOT "not go forward unless [some other
> partition] is formatted&
I'm sorry if this message gets out twice, but Kmail seems to have eaten my
first try.
I've got a strange error message regarding my Swap partition. Here's the
background:
I have my main Linux distro, SuSE 9.2, on hdb2. I had a duplicate copy of
this distro on hdb3. I installed Debian over t
I've got a strange error message regarding my Swap partition. Here's the
background:
I have my main Linux distro, SuSE 9.2, on hdb2. I had a duplicate copy of
this distro on hdb3. I installed Debian over the duplicate on hdb3. When
installing Debian, the installer would not go forward unles
On Thursday 06 January 2005 09:35, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>
> Hi Bob,
Hi.
>
> You need to do two things:
>
>
> 1. Get the md5sum for the entire ISO file by doing:
>
> $ md5sum sarge-i386-netinst.iso
>
>The output will look something like:
>
> 6c190153f506bdf1474c728b8e5fcb90 sa
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 17:51, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Robert G. Scofield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > So I downloaded this file: sarge-i386-netinst.iso
>
> Also, download the matching md5sum. Then run "md5sum" on the ISO, and
> compare. _Then_ burn it, and t
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 15:10, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>
> Also, just to make sure the iso file isn't corrupted, do:
>
>file sarge-i386-netinst.iso
>
That's interesting because it says the CD is bootable. But I think I need to
try the suggestions of Marc and Jonathan. I did choose "d
I've been reading about the Debian network installation and decided to try it.
As I understand it you download a relatively small file to burn to a CD, and
then later install what you need.
So I downloaded this file: sarge-i386-netinst.iso
But when I burn it, it doesn't boot. I downloaded i
On Thursday 30 December 2004 12:13, Rod Roark wrote:
>
> > It seems like any new distro put into /dev/hdb3 will automatically
> > use /dev/hdb7 (which SuSE 9.2 is using), right? Is there anyway to
> > install a new distro on /dev/hdb3 and have it use a /home on /dev/hdb3?
>
> I would expect that
On Thursday 30 December 2004 11:21, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> On Thu 30 Dec 04, 11:11 AM, Robert G. Scofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >
> If you run two distros, you probably want different home directories.
>
> If you wanted to "test" out a distro, t
I have two questions about running more than one Linux distribution on a
single machine.
#1: Does the existence of a separate partition for /home mean that it is not
practical to run more than one Linux distribution on a machine?
I have SuSE on one partition, and I have space allocated for ano
Rod Roark wrote:
vmlinux (pale blue) -> vmlinuz-2.6.8-24.10-default
Perhaps this last symlink is vmlinuz and not vmlinux?
Correct.
If so
it seems the problem is just that your vmlinuz and initrd
symlinks are out of sync. So perhaps all you need to do is:
cd /boot
rm vmlinuz
ln -s vmlin
Here is the entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst that looks like the candidate
for editing:
"kernel (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2 vga=794 selinux=0
splash=silent
resume= /dev/hdb5 desktop elevator=as showopts
initrd (hd1,1) /boot/initrd"
There are similar vmlinuz and initrd entries for the "Fa
Jonathan Stickel wrote:
Yep, "ls -l" would be helpful, but for seeing which files are
symlinks. Hopefully you have 2 separate kernels available,
"2.6.8-24.10-um" and "2.6.8-24.10-default", and that one is not a
symlink to the other. From your first post, the errors seemed to be
about the "um
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
Jonathan's suggestion is the most economical and likely to succeed. Let's
see what's inside of /boot. I'm hoping there will be more than one kernel.
Pete
Okay, with the duplicate system I had a hard time figuring out which was
the "working" one. So here's the info.
Rod Roark wrote:
If it's not mounted then you can mount it with something
like this:
mkdir /myroot
mount -t reiserfs /dev/hdb1 /myroot
This assumes your SuSE root partition is /dev/hdb1 (first
partiton on secondary drive), change accordingly.
Then, see what's in /myroot/etc/lilo.conf or in
/my
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
Being able to recover from this kind of thing is of prime importance for the
scenario that a system you depend on gets hosed.
You're right.
As long as you don't care about the system, take the opportunity to learn
how to recover.
You're right.
At best, you'll get your
Jonathan Stickel wrote:
Don't panic because of a kernel panic!
Your system should be recoverable. From what I can tell, the module
for reiserfs in your new kernel is bad. The simple solution is to use
your previously working kernel. Most linuxes keep old kernels around
by default until you ma
I'm in big trouble. I just updated my kernel with the SuSE update. I
now a get this error message when I boot:
"Loading kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko
reiserfs: no version for 'struct-module' found: kernel tainted
reiserfs: verson magic: '2.6.8-24.10-um gcc-3.3' should be
'2.6.8-24.10-defaul
On Monday 20 December 2004 00:26, Mark K. Kim wrote:
Thanks to Bill, Swaine, and Mark. I've got it working.
There were only two hitches.
>
> Change the stuff after vfat to:
>
> defaults,uid=1000,gid=win,fmask=117,dmask=007
The first hitch is that fmask had to be set to 107.
>
>
>
> addgro
On Sunday 19 December 2004 23:00, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>
>
> I think because it's a mount point, you can't really affect its
> permissions. Can you remind us what the exact fstab entry was that you
> used?
Yes, thank you Bill. Here's the Ken Bloom creation:
/dev/hda1/mnt/windows
Recently I asked for help here because I couldn't write from Linux to my
Windows partition. After some helpful responses I blindly copied Ken Bloom's
fstab entry into my fstab, and I could write to Windows.
At that time, however, I had just one Linux account, "bob." So someone logged
into bo
On Sunday 12 December 2004 00:54, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> Each file system type has its own set of options. Adding those extra
> options probably won't affect a VFAT partition in anyway (it'll probably
> be ignored.) `man mount` has the list of standard file systems and the
> options applicable for
On Saturday 11 December 2004 18:24, Ken Bloom wrote:
> Here's an fstab entry I have on 2.6:
>
> /dev/hda6 /home/bloom/vfat vfat
> defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=177,dmask=077 0 2
>
> Note that in a real fstab file, that would all be on one line.
>
> This gives me rw--- on files and rwx
Thanks to a Rod Roark Sunset Systems box, I'm back on Linux after about a 10
month absence due to a defective motherboard. I'd like to be able to write
to Windows files from Linux on this dual boot machine. The Windows partition
is mounted when Linux boots. But while I can read the Windows fi
I was wondering if someone could recommend an inkjet printer for Linux use.
My printer will cost more to repair than it will cost for me to buy a
new one. I'm not using Linux now because of a motherboard problem. I'm
a 100% Windows98 user. But I will get a new computer as soon as I get
the mo
Rod Roark wrote:
Just in case you were thinking of trying a different
distribution. ;-)
What level of expertise does one need in order to install Gentoo? It's
not like installing Mandrake or SuSE, right? I'm somewhat familiar with
the Debian install. Is it like Debian?
Bob
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I've been using Memorex and Yamaha ultra speed 24X CD-RW's to back up my
work files. They are not lasting. They seem to die after about 3 or 4
or 5 burns. In fact they've gone so quickly that I at first thought my
CD reader was not working I can't risk not having my work backed up
because t
Jonathan Stickel wrote:
Are you sure she _can't_ sign in? When I go to msn.com (with
firefox), I see a link labeld "sign in". Clicking there brings me to
a webpage with a place for username and password. Maybe this is what
she needs to do to login, whereas with IE it did it automatically?
Th
Rod Roark wrote:
That's easy. Dump MSN and save a few bucks to boot.
I knew this was not the right list to post on. But I got nothing
against pointing out the obvious.
Toast.net is a good, cheap national dialup ISP that I have
used and recommended in the past.
After that's done, the time wil
I gave a friend some LUGOD-inspired advice to switch her browser from
Internet Explorer to Firefox. She is trying to, but there's a catch.
Her ISP is MSN. When she connects to MSN with Internet Explorer she
gets the membership webpage which allows her to do things like check
e-mail, etc. Bu
Jeff Newmiller wrote:
First thing that comes to mind is the old "burning the image as a
file" problem...
In a gui program, choose the "burn an image" option rather
than the "make a cd" option.
Okay, this was it. The CD will now boot.
But I've got a super problem that no one can help me with
I can't seem to burn a bootable Linux iso image.
I downloaded two of the three Mandrake 10.0 files. I assume that CD 1
is the bootable file. But every time I burn a CD, the CD fails to
boot. Is there a secret as to how to get my downloaded file to boot?
Thank you.
Bob
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What is the most stable motherboard currently used for Linux? That is,
if someone were building a computer, what motherboard would you
recommend?
What is better for Linux, an AMD chip or a Pentium 4?
Thank you.
Bob
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I'm getting ready to order SBC DSL, and I'm planning on networking a router
with two computers to share the SBC connection.
I've heard from two sources that the DSL modems that SBC now use have
compatibililty problems with lots of equipment that is not purchased from
SBC. I've heard SBC's olde
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 10:23, Rod Roark wrote:
>
> If you think it really came from the list, send me all the
> headers from the message (do not include the payload or
> your message will most likely be rejected).
Sorry, the message has been exterminated. I empty my trash folder when I get
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 09:43, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>
> ps- is there a new virus? all of a sudden, starting from last night
> i've gotten a huge ton of emails that say things like:
>
>Arggghh, I hate plaintext!
>
>Here is your excel file.
>
>I don't bite, weah!
>
>Your file
On Monday 01 March 2004 06:28, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>
>
>
> the fact of the matter is, nobody was really happy with xfree86 before
> this happened. they were extremely slow, secretive, and seemingly
> rejected patches in a passive-aggresive way (the cygwin xfree86 issue).
> it's just that they
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 00:54, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 04:29:46PM -0800, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
>
> I asked around and the solution was to run esd ON TOP of artsd, and then
> have XMMS talk to esd.
I'm not totally following this discussion, but I really enjoy XMMS. A
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 01:35, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>
> > My issues are,
> >
> > 1) From the Linux OS, I cannot excess the internet.
>
> I wasn't at the IF, so I don't know the details of your setup.
> Are you trying to access via dialup (modem) or DSL?
>
> Directly on DSL, or on a LAN (e.g.
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 10:25, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>
>
> hi bob,
Hi Pete.
>
> out of curiosity -- why did you reinstall?
My hard drive went bad. In fact you were the one who said I needed a new hard
drive. So I installed Linux on the new hard drive. Maybe "reinstall" was
not the rig
When I first installed SuSE 9.0 it automatically put my Windows partition in
/etc/fstab. That was nice because I want to be able to use Open Office in
Linux to work on Windows files. More importantly, I need to be able to back
up my Windows files with my Linux CD burning software. I recently
On Saturday 31 January 2004 13:59, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
>
> a) Even if it can, if you plan to make a dual boot you are better off
> having the OS that will use the os format the partition it will run in.
>
This means installing Windows
> first is almost always the best approach.
>
Okay then I'll
Thanks to those of you who told me I need a new hard drive.
I'd like to create a dual boot system on the new hard disk (which I haven't
purchased yet). I'd like to do all of the partitioning from YAST. According
to the YAST documentation YAST can delete FAT32 partitions. YAST can resize
FAT3
On Thursday 29 January 2004 11:09, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
>
> So, what does all of this mean? If I continue to hear the grinding/barking
> sound does that mean that I need a new hard disk? Of course I really don't
> know if that sound is connected to the problem. But ho
A few days ago I started occassionly hearing a weird sound coming from my hard
drive when I would launch Konqueror. The sound came in sets of four "grinds"
or "barks." It was a grinding sound. But it also sounded something like a
dog barking four times in the distance.
I just rebooted into L
First let me say "Thanks" to both Trevor and Dave. I've got the XMMS playing
KXPR. KXPR and KXJZ are the only stations I've seen so far that specifcally
mention Linux as an option (though of course one can always use Real Player).
On Monday 26 January 2004 00:52, Dave Margolis wrote:
>
> Konqu
I came across a LUGOD post dated January 9, 2002 from Richard Crawford. He
wanted to listen to KXJZ but at the time that station only offered its stream
in Windows Media. But if one goes to www.csus.edu/npr they now have options
for Windows Media, Real Player and XMMS for Linux for both KXJZ a
I wanted to put an "N" in front of "ewbie", but there are too many people on
this list that would know I was lying.
I've been given these instructions:
#./configure
#make
Log in as root on your machine
#make install
But when I type "make" I get the error message that make is an unknown
command
Can someone tell me how to reinstall GRUB from the command line?
I had to reformat my Windows partition and so GRUB got eaten. I checked
various documentation, and even asked SuSE Support how to reinstall GRUB, but
no one has given me the answer.
There is a simple command for reinstalling LI
I've been having unbelievably horrible security problems on both my family's
computer (Win98SE) and the Windows partition of this dual boot system. Two
weeks ago someone was stealing my email from my ISP's server. I then got
Norton Personal Firewall for both computers, and for the last three d
On Saturday 16 August 2003 11:02 pm, Ryan Castellucci wrote:
>
> Read the manpage for tune2fs if you want to adjust these paramaters.
Thank you. I wondered how to do that.
>
> > And if I install a new distro over this Mandrake 9.0 system, and format
> > /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda8, will the problems
After so many boots Linux does fsck. When this happens on my system I get
"PASSED" for /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda8. What types of problems give rise to
"PASSED"?
And if I install a new distro over this Mandrake 9.0 system, and format
/dev/hda5 and /dev/hda8, will the problems disappear?
Thank y
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 04:51 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>
> what kind of burner do you have?
Plextor based on your and Rod's recommendation. You see, I listen to what you
say.
>
> > Also, isn't there an easier program one can use to burn CD's with?
>
> cdrecord is, imho, the easiest. even
I'm trying to get my CDRW to work under Linux. I'm following some directions
from the CD Write How To, and from another website. I'm at the point where I
am supposed to type "cdrecord -scanbus." I get this error message when I do:
"cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'.
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Re: [vox] HTML Email Questions
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:09:40 -0800
From: Rick Moen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting Robert G. Scofield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Here are some questions about sending email in HTML form
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Re: [vox] HTML Email Questions
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:21:29 -0800
From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 10:47 am, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
> Here are some questions about sending emai
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 11:09 pm, Rick Moen wrote:
>
> > I'm distressed to read on your FAQ that Gobe Productive is being taken
> > over by someone else.
>
> No sign of life yet from freeradicalsoftware.com -- but they claim to be
> preparing to re-release it under the GNU GPL. That will/woul
On Sunday 08 December 2002 08:28 am, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> I came back from a week-long business trip in Santa Barbara to find that
> my RH7.2 box is acting kinda weird.
You might try subscribing to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
While I have not been following the issue I've noticed (as I've been de
On Friday 06 December 2002 04:15 pm, Rick Moen wrote:
>
> If it'll help, I include a (too-brief) rundown on all available word
> processors for Linux as part of my Word Perfect for Linux FAQ,
> http://linuxmafia.com/wpfaq/ . Please see especially section 8.5 ("What
> alternatives to WP exist on L
I just installed RealPlayer8 and it's screwed up the sound in my system. The
one thing I can still do is play the CD player okay and listen to music.
However, there is now now sound when I start or leave KDE. Also RealPlayer
did not do it's startup sound. I have deleted RealPlayer. This pro
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 07:35 pm, you wrote:
> i finally found a use for supermount.
What does supermount do?
Bob
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In my personal account on my system the connection between K-Mail and
Konqueror is broken. Here's what I mean. If I receive an email with a URL
in the body of it I can no longer click on the URL and bring up Konqueror.
However, the connection is not broken in my business account. There I can
On Monday 22 April 2002 09:50 am, you wrote:
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> Rod suggess checking the filesystems to make sure they are not full (good
> idea too)
When you guys talk about the filesytems being full, do you mean that the hard
disk is full? I once completely filled up a Red Hat system to the point
where I'
Can anybody tell me how to get Konqueror to work with the Netscape plugins?
I've tried Konqueror help. It falsely claims that there is a menu that goes
Preferences->Web Browsing-> Netscape Plugins for some information and actions
to take with respect to Netscape Plugins. But there's no such m
On Saturday 01 December 2001 04:41 pm, Pete Salzman wrote:
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> it's been a long time since i used that monstrosity called star office,
What wordprocessor are you using? What do you recommend for Linux? Are you
using Latex?
Bob
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On Saturday 01 December 2001 12:29 am, you wrote:
>
> My wife and I have decided that we need to get a photo-quality printer
> anyway. I have sworn to do some research and find one that will work
> for all of our printers. Heh.
I read in Linux Magazie that Lexmark has at least one printer (mayb
On Friday 30 November 2001 06:14 pm, you wrote:
> In our house, we have an HP DeskJet 712c printer.
I've established a connection from my
> Linux box to the printer just fine,
You mean it actually prints from the Linux box?
but when I try printing from my
> Linux box, I receive this error o
On Friday 30 November 2001 03:28 pm, you wrote:
> if you don't do this,
> you'll need to add your umask to both files.
Okay, I did this and it worked.
Thanks to all of you.
After two and a half years as a Gnome user I've converted to KDE. This umask
change allows me to access and write to the
On Thursday 29 November 2001 02:34 pm, you wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 02:31:43PM -0800, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
> > I'm trying to change the umask value in two of my accounts from 002 to
> > 001. However, after I log out of each account the value reverts back to
>
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