[techtalk] RTFM and FAQ archives
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 06:13:09PM -0500 or thereabouts, Esther Lumsdon wrote: > STC is a professional society for technical writers. I'm not > one, but I thought their t-shirt was an excellent example of > technical writing. The t-shirt sounds great! > > Useful info: > A very handy ftp site is ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/ > a usenet-by-hierarchy archive site is > ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/ Another useful one I love is the Internet FAQ Consortium. http://www.faqs.org http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/ Searchable and fast. I think rtfm.mit.edu has more FAQs on it. I'm sure there's some missing from www.faqs.org. But I've always found the RFCs I was interested in on there. On the subject of rtfm: a friend of mine put an entry for 'man rtfm' on a system he was responsible for. It was a "how to use the man pages" piece aimed at people who wouldn't understand 'man man'. I don't think he can be the only person who did that :) Telsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
[techtalk] Which PGP?
Hi, I am trying to get back into using PGP. It appears that there are several different versions of PGP. Which version of PGP is most widely used and supported? Thank you in advance for any info and pointers. Subba Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/ => Time is relative. Here is a new way to look at time. <= http://www.smcinnovations.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Which PGP?
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 08:01:45AM -0500, Subba Rao wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to get back into using PGP. It appears that there > are several different versions of PGP. Which version of PGP is > most widely used and supported? > i am using pgp 2.6.3ia (but i am in europe). this version has no backdoor, but version 5 has. -bi [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Which PGP?
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Birgit Schmid wrote: > i am using pgp 2.6.3ia (but i am in europe). this version has no > backdoor, but version 5 has. How about GnuPG? I'm trying both GPG and PGP 6.5 right now to decide which to stick with; are they 100% compatible? Jason Puckett / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.intemperance.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Which PGP?
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Subba Rao wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to get back into using PGP. It appears that there > are several different versions of PGP. Which version of PGP is > most widely used and supported? I wouldn't use the "original" PGP as it has a pretty dumb license and this backdoor crap. I use the GNU Privacy Guard (www.gnupg.org) and am content with it so far. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] cracked?
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Cynthia Dale wrote: > Most likely you didn't get hacked. It looks like your logs rotated via > cron, as is SOP nowdays with Red Hat. I am not sure why syslogd restarted > so many times or why it isn't logging as it did before, though. I'd check > the following: > rpm -Va >rpmcheck and look at the rpmcheck file > /etc/passwd to see if anyone's been added > and things like that. I think, it may be a bit confusing what you said. I think you meant something along the line: "Look at the rpmcheck file to see if any programs have been altered and look at /etc/passwd to see if anyone's been added". Because /etc/passwd will most likely be marked as "altered" with 'rpm -V', as everyone has her/his own accounts and passwords in it. I didn't follow the thread, but I remember some version of syslogd/klogd dieing without visible cause. I think it was with RHL 6.0, an update solved the problem. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Which PGP?
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 09:02:31AM -0500, Bonedaddy wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Birgit Schmid wrote: > > > i am using pgp 2.6.3ia (but i am in europe). this version has no > > backdoor, but version 5 has. > > How about GnuPG? I'm trying both GPG and PGP 6.5 right now to decide > which to stick with; are they 100% compatible? > i am sorry, i never used one of these. whenever i use pgp it's with mutt or mailx. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
[techtalk] Pine and Reply-to
I'm getting, from several different mailing lists including linuxchix, duplicate copies of every post of mine that someone replies to, largely as far as I can see because I can't set a reply-to when I write the mail and the replies therefore get CC'd to my inbox. However, asking about this on my local comp.advice newsgroup started an argument: one person said it's the list admin's responsibility, another said it's my job to filter them out, and yet a third wanted to know what the first two were on about and why on earth couldn't people just be more careful about pruning the headers before they hit Send. With regard to linuxchix, what's accepted policy? Vicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] System CRASH - one solution
How about this, though. It is always the same inode-- When fscking, inode 818763 is always deleted with zero dtime. What does this show? I ran badblocks on /dev/hda1 (where the inode would be) and the system once again crashed. Thanks, Jen Robert B Benson wrote: > Greetings all, > > With intermittent faults, memory (SIMMs, DIMMS, etc.) is the first place to > look. Next, large scale chips like the PCI bus manager (device that manages > all) could be the fault. > > The fault behind the cause is of course HEAT. Heat sinks and more air > movement around heat sources could increase life times of systems and even > monitors (even mine have a fan, power taped off heater voltage). > > One could 'live' with the fault, swap in half the memory bank with new > devices (testing to find which bank is the fault) or upgrade the system > board. > > Best of luck, RBBenson > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Which PGP?
On 0, Nils Philippsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Subba Rao wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to get back into using PGP. It appears that there > > are several different versions of PGP. Which version of PGP is > > most widely used and supported? > > I wouldn't use the "original" PGP as it has a pretty dumb license and this > backdoor crap. I use the GNU Privacy Guard (www.gnupg.org) and am content > with it so far. > > Nils > Thanks for replying. Is GNU PG easy to use? Subba Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/ => Time is relative. Here is a new way to look at time. <= http://www.smcinnovations.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] question
In keeping with all the links posted here, there's a site called FAQFinder (http://faqfinder.cs.uchicago.edu) which will find natural language questions in FAQ files. I don't think it has all the Linux FAQs, but if you need a fast answer to a question that you think might be in a FAQ, try that one. It's written in LISP and running on a LISP web server! (I'm doing a presentation for class on it - so it's not really a shameless plug...) Britta -- /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ - NO Word docs in e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Which PGP?
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:13:34PM -0500 or thereabouts, Subba Rao wrote: > On 0, Nils Philippsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I wouldn't use the "original" PGP as it has a pretty dumb license and this > > backdoor crap. I use the GNU Privacy Guard (www.gnupg.org) and am content > > with it so far. > > Thanks for replying. Is GNU PG easy to use? I personally (and your mileage may vary on this) find it easier than PGP. I found PGP's command line options tricky. I hadn't realised how used I'd got to the idea that you could write "command -a -b" as "command -ab", and that with GNU programs you could often do "command --alpha --beta" (ie, use words after a double hyphen) and mix those with the short ones. PGP's command options always confused me, because they're nothing like that at all. (xterm and associated programs' options confuse me, too, yes :)) GnuPG has the short options and the longer ones, which remind me what it is I'm doing :) The documentation for GnuPG seems reasonable. I understood it, and that's definitely a good sign. The whole area of encryption and cryptography is an almost-closed book to me, so if I can read it and have a reasonable idea of how to use it, I think most people can. This isn't some false modesty: for some reason, my brain absolutely melts when it comes to this subject! It was certainly easy to swap from using PGP with mutt to using GnuPG with mutt, which is the primary reason I wanted it. One thing to beware of: it can take quite a while to generate your initial key, and the signatures can be vast. Telsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Pine and Reply-to
That's interesting if you're getting doubles on this list. The reason is because the message below includes a reply-to: header to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In general, I think it's up to people's preferences -- I generally prefer to get two messages so that one shows up in my inbox, as it can take a little while for me to sort through all the messages I get on various mailing lists. Most mailing lists, including LinuxChix, include a "sender:" header that looks like: Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whereas something that's sent to you by someone's MTU is not going to have this header on there. This is how you can have your rules distinguish between something sent to you by someone and something sent to you via a mailing list. Some caveats: Not all mailing list managers follow this convention (e.g., onelist.com). Also, not all MTUs are capable of filtering on the sender: header. For example, I don't know if pine can do this. Netscape Communicator can (on Win -- I assume Linux is the same), but it's kind of counter-intuitive (you have to create a header called "sender"; the one that's called sender right now actually looks at the "from:" header, which means you'll have two "sender" headers to choose from when making rules). Jen - Original Message - From: "V Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "techtalk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 8:48 AM Subject: [techtalk] Pine and Reply-to > > I'm getting, from several different mailing lists including linuxchix, > duplicate copies of every post of mine that someone replies to, largely as > far as I can see because I can't set a reply-to when I write the mail and > the replies therefore get CC'd to my inbox. > > However, asking about this on my local comp.advice newsgroup started an > argument: one person said it's the list admin's responsibility, another > said it's my job to filter them out, and yet a third wanted to know what > the first two were on about and why on earth couldn't people just be more > careful about pruning the headers before they hit Send. > > With regard to linuxchix, what's accepted policy? > > Vicky > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
[techtalk] Monitor Size
I'm using a 15" monitor. The text size is often smaller than I want, but it gets too heavy if I increase it too much (and without anti-aliasing that ain't too purty). Would a 17" monitor make much difference to my aging eyes or would the change be minimal? Is it worth shelling out the bucks? = Glen Strom [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com techtalk@linuxchixp://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] System CRASH - one solution
> It is always the same inode-- When fscking, inode 818763 is always > deleted with zero dtime. What does this show? This could just be a temporary file that some daemon has opened and unlinked. When the system crashes, the one reference to that file (the process) has disappeared, so fsck sees an unreferenced file and has to clean it up. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size
If you are going to buy a new monitor, go ahead and shell out the small extra amount to go up to a 21"...you can find good ones at good prices...look through the archives, we had a discussion on prices and quality early on in the life of techtalk... --- I'm using a 15" monitor. The text size is often smaller than I want, but it gets too heavy if I increase it too much (and without anti-aliasing that ain't too purty). Would a 17" monitor make much difference to my aging eyes or would the change be minimal? Is it worth shelling out the bucks? = Glen Strom [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Pine and Reply-to
V Clarke wrote: > However, asking about this on my local comp.advice newsgroup started an > argument: one person said it's the list admin's responsibility, another > said it's my job to filter them out, and yet a third wanted to know what > the first two were on about and why on earth couldn't people just be more > careful about pruning the headers before they hit Send. Hm. I don't think the list admin /can/ do much about it - on this list, for instance, if I hit 'reply' I just get the list. If I hit 'replyall' I get .. let's check ... just the list again. H So I suspect it's a function of the end-user's mail. Do this experiment with the various lists you're on - see what you get when you hit reply/replyall. Certainly the list admin can't do anything about it once the end user has hit their preferred 'reply' button. And given that some people WANT to get the duplicate mail, and some don't, it's impossible for them to please everyone. :/ Jenn V. -- "We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor. This is women's work!" Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/ Jenn Vesperman[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simegen.com/~jenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size
J B wrote: > > If you are going to buy a new monitor, go ahead and shell out the small > extra amount to go up to a 21"...you can find good ones at good > prices...look through the archives, we had a discussion on prices and > quality early on in the life of techtalk... Carry a tape measure. Measure them yourself - they did this at my husband's work one day, and found a massive disparity in size-of-usable-screen between two allegedly 21" monitors. Neither of which was 21" corner-to-corner of usable screen. Don't bother getting into fights with salesmen over it - just use it so you're comparing apples to apples. As for the original question: go to shops. Look at monitors. The only person with your eyes is you, and what's perfectly acceptable to me can be absolutely useless to someone else. Sorry, but that's the truth. (add that I have three significant vision problems in one eye, and none in the other, and I really expect that noone sees the world the way I do!) Jenn V. -- "We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor. This is women's work!" Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/ Jenn Vesperman[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simegen.com/~jenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size
Also...most of the larger monitors will tell you exactly wht the viewable area of the CRT is. (I have yet to figure out why a 15" LCD has a 14" viewable) Average is...21"- from 18.5"-19", 19" has 18", 17" has 15.7-16", 15" has 13.4-14" Hope this helps... But, as stated, you are the one that has to live with it. Find one you like, and go for it... - Carry a tape measure. Measure them yourself - they did this at my husband's work one day, and found a massive disparity in size-of-usable-screen between two allegedly 21" monitors. Neither of which was 21" corner-to-corner of usable screen. Don't bother getting into fights with salesmen over it - just use it so you're comparing apples to apples. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size
GJS wrote: > > I'm using a 15" monitor. The text size is often smaller than I > want, but it gets too heavy if I increase it too much (and > without anti-aliasing that ain't too purty). Would a 17" monitor > make much difference to my aging eyes or would the change be > minimal? Is it worth shelling out the bucks? > Im using a 19" which seems to be the sweet sport for price/performance at the momemnt. I was able to find a radius monitor which uses a Trinitron picture tube, and the quality is pretty good for just over $400. I dont think I could work on anything else at this point :) of course, if you can afford a nice 21" trinitron, then I would go that route... -- .oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://cubicmetercrystal.com/ "You are the product of a mutational union of ~640Mbytes of genetic information." [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 06:29:40 +1100, "Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Carry a tape measure. Measure them yourself - they did this at my >husband's work one day, and found a massive disparity in >size-of-usable-screen between two allegedly 21" monitors. Neither of >which was 21" corner-to-corner of usable screen. >Don't bother getting into fights with salesmen over it - just use it >so you're comparing apples to apples. This shouldn't be happening anymore, at least in the US; there was a -massive- consumer fraud suit filed against virtually the entire industry by something like 37 state attorneys general and a settlement decree entered. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size
"Jenn V." wrote: > As for the original question: go to shops. Look at monitors. The only > person with your eyes is you, and what's perfectly acceptable to me can be > absolutely useless to someone else. Sorry, but that's the truth. Unfortunately if you _really_ want to see what you're getting, you'll probably need to take your video card as well :-) I only have a 15" Philips monitor (very nice by 15" standards, but still only 15") and thought it was the limiting factor. Then I bought myself a new TNT2 card and the improvement in visual quality was _very_ noticeable. It's no good seeing your monitor in the shop if the shop has a much better video card than you do :-) -- Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 5632563 or shout loudly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Which PGP?
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Subba Rao wrote: > On 0, Nils Philippsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wouldn't use the "original" PGP as it has a pretty dumb license and this > > backdoor crap. I use the GNU Privacy Guard (www.gnupg.org) and am content > > with it so far. > > > > Nils > > > > Thanks for replying. Is GNU PG easy to use? >From the command line as easy as or easier than PGP. There are numerous tools most of which are called "pgp4pine" to confuse us :-) which will incorporate PGP or GnuPG into pine for example or another mailer which can filter through pipes. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size
> I only have a 15" Philips monitor (very nice by 15" standards, but still > only 15") and thought it was the limiting factor. Then I bought myself a > new TNT2 card and the improvement in visual quality was _very_ > noticeable. It's no good seeing your monitor in the shop if the shop has > a much better video card than you do :-) Also -- cables and cable length make a difference -- unshielded long cables result in bleeding and/or fuzzy character. Another thing on 'seeing better' -- a larger monitor will definitely help *if* you don't increase the resolution. The problem I'm seeing, for example, on my laptop, I have a 15.4" screen and 1280x1024 resolution. Even a 100dpi font is too small, since the actual resolution of the monitor is about 135 dpi. Windows, at least, allows easy scaling in the display section. There is a scaleable font package on linux, but I haven't been motivated enough to track that down. Even so, in things like netscape, some sites use their own fonts, overriding the user's default settings resulting in itty-bitty text. The alternative is tell netscape to always use the user font -- this helps alot, but results in some sites not displaying correctly. I had one app (Virgin Megastore player under windows) that refused to play unless I set the font size back down to the default 'normal (96 dpi)'. Each change of the font size in windows results in a necessary reboot (what doesn't?). Another option -- flat panels of the same size are usually sharper imaged than CRT's. The CRT's almost always have some skew at the edges and it's difficult to keep all 3 guns in perfect alignment -- resulting in character fuzz -- on a flatpanel, there are no guns to keep in alignment. And maybe lastly -- make sure your video card and monitor can support 72Hz refresh rates or above -- 60Hz (except on a flat panel, most of which will only work at 60Hz) rates often result in noticable flicker and even if not consciously noticable, leads to increased eyestrain. Good luck... -linda [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Pine and Reply-to
You can set your reply to in pine. :o) In your .pinerc you can add the line customized-hdrs=Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can change all (well, all of the basics, safely) of your headers this way, including your From: (that's what I do here when I'm telnet-ed in to the university server). -nicole At 16:48 on Jan 13, V Clarke combined all the right letters to say: > > I'm getting, from several different mailing lists including linuxchix, > duplicate copies of every post of mine that someone replies to, largely as > far as I can see because I can't set a reply-to when I write the mail and > the replies therefore get CC'd to my inbox. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size
Linda Walsh wrote: > Also -- cables and cable length make a difference -- unshielded long cables > result > in bleeding and/or fuzzy character. Yep - my dad has exactly this. He runs a 21" monitor in 1280x1024 with a two or three metre extension cable and the picture looks absolutely _disgusting_. Seriously, my 15" looks better in that resolution. He insists that the picture is perfect for him and could not be improved in any way. I have to change the res down to 800x600 before I can stand to use that screen. > And maybe lastly -- make sure your video card and monitor can support 72Hz > refresh > rates or above -- 60Hz (except on a flat panel, most of which will only work at > 60Hz) rates > often result in noticable flicker and even if not consciously noticable, leads > to increased eyestrain. Yep - 85Hz is a good setting for me, if I can do that then I'm happy. I've never really noticed the difference increasing refresh above this. -- Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 5632563 or shout loudly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Which PGP?
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Birgit Schmid wrote: > > > i am using pgp 2.6.3ia (but i am in europe). this version has no > > backdoor, but version 5 has. There is no backdoor in any current version of pgp (that is authentic. If you download it from a warez site, well, you get what you ask for). The problem lies in that NAI may be closing the source code, which would destroy any trust in pgp, but this is still a far cry from a validated backdoor. Cheers, GC -- Gregory Conron [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (902) 443-4562 - voicemail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Jan-100 Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size by Linda [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Another option -- flat panels of the same size are usually sharper > imaged than CRT's. The CRT's almost always have some skew at the > edges and it's difficult to keep all 3 guns in perfect alignment -- > resulting in character fuzz -- on a flatpanel, there are no guns to > keep in alignment. I've noticed the skew and fuzz less on Trinitron-based monitors. I forget the technical details, but they do things a bit differently than normal CRTs. Trinitron does add a bit to the price, but not as much as LCD. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size
But, you have to be careful of the trinitron anywhere where there might be electrical interference, or vibration. The type of mask that Sony uses on the tubes is highly susceptible to said interference. I've noticed the skew and fuzz less on Trinitron-based monitors. I forget the technical details, but they do things a bit differently than normal CRTs. Trinitron does add a bit to the price, but not as much as LCD. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
[techtalk] News Reader Question
I have just switched over to xrn as my news reader, but I had been using K-news (and before that X-News under Windows :^). Both news readers think my e-mail is login@localhost. How do I change this to my correct e-mail address? (And I don't want to re-type it every time I'm going to send a message.) Also, I noticed in xrn that it has a "path" line that contains localhost!login. What does this mean? Should I change it? How do I change it? I don't have a local news server (I'm still migrating from windows), everything is read straight from, and sent straight to, news.mindspring.com. Thanks in advance, Stephan PS. If it matters, I'm running Red Hat 6.1, October GNOME, and kernel 2.2.12. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] News Reader Question
Stephan, what is happening is the news readers are using the default domain on your computer which is 'localhost'. In your preferences for them it should want to know what your username for your email is and what the domain is. The path with the exclamation point is what is called a 'bang' path used in older email systems. April Stephan Zaniolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just switched over to xrn as my news reader, but I had been using >K-news (and before that X-News under Windows :^). Both news readers think >my e-mail is login@localhost. How do I change this to my correct e-mail >address? (And I don't want to re-type it every time I'm going to send a >message.) Also, I noticed in xrn that it has a "path" line that contains >localhost!login. What does this mean? Should I change it? How do I >change it? I don't have a local news server (I'm still migrating from >windows), everything is read straight from, and sent straight to, >news.mindspring.com. > >Thanks in advance, >Stephan > >PS. If it matters, I'm running Red Hat 6.1, October GNOME, and kernel 2.2.12. > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org > -- Do you do Linux? :) Get your FREE @linuxstart.com email address at: http://www.linuxstart.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] question
-Original Message- From: Britta Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In keeping with all the links posted here, there's a site called FAQFinder >http://faqfinder.cs.uchicago.edu) which will find natural language questions in FAQ >files. I don't think it has all the Linux FAQs, but if you need a fast answer to a >question that you think might be in a FAQ, try that one. > > It's written in LISP and running on a LISP web server! > > (I'm doing a presentation for class on it - so it's not really a shameless plug...) > > Britta > Britta.. I'd love to have this link.. but, this one didn't work.. Would you mind sending it again? Kakirby -- = http://www.MAILPUPPY.com == 10MB, Auto-Reply, Address Book, & more FREE! Your FREE E-Mail Retriever! powered by OutBlaze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] question
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, K Kirby wrote: http://faqfinder.cs.uchicago.edu > I'd love to have this link.. but, this > one didn't work.. Would you mind sending it again? I'm assuming it's due to the paranthesis; try it now. -- http://home.swipnet.se/sunnanvind I am you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Jenn V. wrote: > Carry a tape measure. Measure them yourself - they did this at my husband's > work one day, and found a massive disparity in size-of-usable-screen > between two allegedly 21" monitors. Neither of which was 21" > corner-to-corner of usable screen. CRT screens are *never* 21" of usable screen. > Don't bother getting into fights with salesmen over it - just use it so > you're comparing apples to apples. Agreed - one might be 20" usable and one might be 19" usable, for example. > As for the original question: go to shops. Look at monitors. The only > person with your eyes is you, and what's perfectly acceptable to me can be > absolutely useless to someone else. Sorry, but that's the truth. Again agreed - personally, I'd prefer a TFT-screen to a CRT-screen, even if it means smaller, but my eyes are okay (and I want 'em to stay like that). Sunnan -- http://home.swipnet.se/sunnanvind I am you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] question
--- K Kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In keeping with all the links posted here, there's a site > called FAQFinder http://faqfinder.cs.uchicago.edu) > > > > Britta > > > > Britta.. I'd love to have this link.. but, this > one didn't work.. Would you mind sending it again? That link did work for me. However, the url at the site is http://faqfinder.ics.uci.edu:8001/ . = Glen Strom [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 06:29:40 +1100 "Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > J B wrote: > > > > If you are going to buy a new monitor, go ahead and shell out the small > > extra amount to go up to a 21"...you can find good ones at good > > prices...look through the archives, we had a discussion on prices and > > quality early on in the life of techtalk... > > (add that I have three significant vision problems in one eye, and none in > the other, and I really expect that noone sees the world the way I do!) You're right... I'm kind of blind (take glasses off, I'm legally blind... put glasses on, legally I've got perfect vision). The boyfriend has rather weird vision too, not quite as easily defined. We have very different tastes in monitors. What follows is mostly my taste. 1. 21" monitors are very big. If you like 'em you really like 'em, if you don't, you hate 'em. I'm of the hate 'em school. They weigh too much, and I have to sit 5 feet away to be able to use the thing *and* have use of something aproximating peripheral vision. 2. Sometimes a good glare filter can make drastic improvements in your visual experience with a monitor. The bf prefers glass ones, I just like having one. 3. Most unix/X programs seem to default to fonts best described as "tiny". Play around with options, and things like 13-16 point type. Personally, I need to find out if I have a true type font server running so I can have my lovely calligraphic yet usable at small sizes fonts back. *They* don't hurt my eyes. That godawful 12 pt courier *does*. 4. Don't buy a monitor without having sat down to use it (or one of a similar size) for several hours. You might find that while a 14" monitor is too small, and a 17" one is as well, a 19" one is just right. (I'm really weird... 14" is a lovely size, and 19" is a lovely size, but 15", 17" and 21" are terrible) 5. I cannot emphasize this enough... Run your monitor at the highest possible refresh rate. Trade display size and color depth for better refresh rates. 1024*782 @80Hz is very very nice, but so is 640*480 @80Hz. Pay for the best refresh rate, not the biggest screen. Your eyes will thank you. 6. Get a color scheme that works for you, and stick with it. I like black text on a light yellowy background for major reading of computer text, purply or blue-green title bars, matching widgets, light yellowish text in the titlebars, menubars in a grey or purply shade with text in a deeper shade of the same color etc (mental note: create a windowmaker theme like this using decent fonts so my eyeballs stop trying to kill me after extended GIMP sessions). You might find that different colors work better for you. Just remember that while your favorite color in real life might be red, on a computer screen it probably is something different. The boyfriend finds my kind of color scheme unreadable. Emily (my motto ought to be "find something that gets out of your way and lets you work, and stick with it") [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
[techtalk] Screen colours :-)
[...] >6. Get a color scheme that works for you, and stick with it. I like >black text on a light yellowy background for major reading of computer >text, purply or blue-green title bars, matching widgets, light yellowish >text in the titlebars, menubars in a grey or purply shade with text in a [...] Eek. I cannot understand why people have black letters on a light background for viewing text... Most GUIs will default to such a colour scheme, but I always thought that was to make newbies more comfortable because it looks more like what people are used to with paper. It seems to me if you want the text to stand out and not the background, you would do the opposite... Text on a printed page is easy to read, but then again paper doesn't glow at you. What do you people prefer as colours for extended viewing of text? :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Screen colours :-)
"Wendt,Andrew" wrote: > > > What do you people prefer as colours for extended viewing of text? :-) > i would die without my green text on a shaded Eterm background.. Makes me think of the old 'green screen' CRT's way back when.. :) My roomate seems particularly fond of the classic amber color on a clear eterm with a dark theme background. Of course, i havent used an office suite thingy since i cant remember when, but i imagine black text on a white background would work best there.. just my pointless 2 cents... -- .oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://cubicmetercrystal.com/ "You are the product of a mutational union of ~640Mbytes of genetic information." [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Screen colours :-)
--- "Wendt,Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you people prefer as colours for extended viewing of > text? :-) There was a study done several years ago on this subject. The results were inconclusive (surprise, surprise :->). If anyone wants to read it, the website is at http://hubel.sfasu.edu/research/AHNCUR.html. = Glen Strom [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
Re: [techtalk] Screen colours :-)
coder wrote: > i would die without my green text on a shaded Eterm background.. > Makes me think of the old 'green screen' CRT's way back when.. :) > > My roomate seems particularly fond of the classic amber color on a clear > eterm with a dark theme background. I'm used to white on black as seen in the Linux console :-) At work I have two machines on my desk, one a crappy 486 with the bare minimum install plus an ssh client for use as a terminal; the other one is a PII-300 which I mainly use in X and if I open a shell window on that it's white on black as well. My home machine is also used mostly in X and is setup the same way. So basically my colours are chosen based on not having unusual changes all the time, rather than having actually tried to find out what's easy on the eyes. A friend of mine has an interesting idea - all his root consoles have a blue background and his regular consoles are the normal white on black so he can easily tell which he's switched to. > Of course, i havent used an office suite thingy since i cant remember > when, but i imagine black text on a white background would work best > there.. I shudder at the thought of using anything WYSIWYG on other than black on white :-/ -- Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 5632563 or shout loudly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
[techtalk] [Fwd: linux conf in germany]
Can anyone help this guy out? Pit Schultz wrote: > > dear deb, > > maybe you can help me. > > i am organizing a thread of a linux conference > at the zkm, karlsruhe germany at the end of march. > it's the social-political-cultural part. of course > there are lots of men in this business but i am > really trying to bring in some women. > > maybe you can recommend some "names" in the linux > community? i just read the women thread on shlashdot > which is rather disappointing. a girlfriend runs > a list called 'faces' (for women only) and works at > the women's university in Hannover (Expo2000) she's > also still looking. > > aren't there some female academics or hackers > which published a text about the demographics of > the slashdot-effect, the work aspects of programming > for linux, the gender speficic issues of linux etc. > > greetings from berlin > /pit > > (sorry, male :) > > ps. > > if you like to announce your site and lists on > our mailinglist, just send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.nettime.org > > we also organized a sucessful conference > on open source last june: http://www.mikro.org/wos > -- Deb Richardson, Executive Editor Linuxcare, Inc. tel: 613.562.9723, fax: 613.562.9304 [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com Linuxcare. At the Centre of Linux. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
