[techtalk] Netscape
In Netscape, when I go to certain pages, it (Netscape) goes *poof* (shuts down). I don't begin to know where to look to figure out why. All my settings are default settings, except that I enlarged the font size. Any ideas, anyone? Carolyn ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Netscape
hi carolyn - just a guess, but i've found that under both linux and windoze, netscape is buggy in handling java/javascript. (funny since - if i recall correctly - didn't netscape author javascript?). my netscape does strange things on javascript-intensive pages. shelly techchron.com beta 2 http://jove.prohosting.com/~tchron - Original Message - From: Carolyn Jarie Getter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 1:12 PM Subject: [techtalk] Netscape > > In Netscape, when I go to certain pages, it (Netscape) goes *poof* (shuts > down). I don't begin to know where to look to figure out why. All my > settings are default settings, except that I enlarged the font size. Any ideas, > anyone? > > Carolyn > > > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Netscape
Carolyn Jarie Getter wrote: > > In Netscape, when I go to certain pages, it (Netscape) goes *poof* (shuts > down). I don't begin to know where to look to figure out why. All my > settings are default settings, except that I enlarged the font size. Any ideas, > anyone? > > Carolyn > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk Unfortunately, this is not a configuration problem. Everyone has this problem to varying degrees of annoyance with the 4.X versions of netscape on linux. This is almost always a problem with the java and java script implementation in netscape. Try turning off java script and java and going to those pages. If it still crashes, then you may want to look at upgrading your netscape version. To turn off java/java script: Menu Bar- | |-Edit- | |- preferences Select the 'Advanced' tab in the left side of the dialog box and de-select the java and java script options. -- .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." ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Netscape
Sure 'nough. Turning off Java and JavaScript did the trick. (Shouldn't such quirks be ironed out by now?!) I wish I had asked much sooner, as it would have saved me lots of aggravation! Thanks for the tip! Carolyn ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
RE: [techtalk] Netscape
Carolyn Jarie Getter, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said: > Sure 'nough. Turning off Java and JavaScript did the trick. > (Shouldn't such quirks be ironed out by now?!) Netscape isn't open source. You can't really expect them to be enthusiastic about fixing bugs. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Netscape
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Carolyn Jarie Getter wrote: > In Netscape, when I go to certain pages, it (Netscape) goes *poof* (shuts > down). I don't begin to know where to look to figure out why. All my my netscape does that when i go to heavily javaed paged (gosh my english sucks!). i mean many java applets and programs on a site make my netscape crash. one stupid thing that has helped me every now and then is that i turn off all java support, exit netscape, launch netscape, turn java support on and try again. maybe doing one restart aftern truning the support on. sara ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] memory config?? HELP!!
hi, all. stephanie here, formerly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Heh. what a long strange trip it's been. ;) anyway, I need help! I wanted to research this before asking, but my system is at a crawl. I put linux mandrake 7.1 on a 400mhz with 64 or 128 mbs of ram, i forget which (it has 1 dimm/simm/dim sum/whatever), but linux thinks it is a 166 with 27 mbs! it showed up that way during the install, not sure why, and now it is swapping and paging all over the place and is making my life miserable. anyone know how to make it rethink how much ram and processor paower there is? i looked in some books...no good. =( oh. I had 7.0 on there and humming at one point so i know it's not just bunk hardware. I think. here's what dmesg has to say about memory... [beleza@ani lists]$ dmesg |grep mem Memory: 25868k/28608k available (1208k kernel code, 416k reserved, 580k data, 72k init, 0k bigmem) 25 mbs??!!?? eh, help??!!?? thank you!!! -- Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail/ ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
RE: [techtalk] memory config?? HELP!!
What does your BIOS show for RAM? How is the CPU recognized? If the BIOS has the correct information , boot with your Emergency disk then use your rescue disk to repair your system. Davida -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 12:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [techtalk] memory config?? HELP!! hi, all. stephanie here, formerly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Heh. what a long strange trip it's been. ;) anyway, I need help! I wanted to research this before asking, but my system is at a crawl. I put linux mandrake 7.1 on a 400mhz with 64 or 128 mbs of ram, i forget which (it has 1 dimm/simm/dim sum/whatever), but linux thinks it is a 166 with 27 mbs! it showed up that way during the install, not sure why, and now it is swapping and paging all over the place and is making my life miserable. anyone know how to make it rethink how much ram and processor paower there is? i looked in some books...no good. =( oh. I had 7.0 on there and humming at one point so i know it's not just bunk hardware. I think. here's what dmesg has to say about memory... [beleza@ani lists]$ dmesg |grep mem Memory: 25868k/28608k available (1208k kernel code, 416k reserved, 580k data, 72k init, 0k bigmem) 25 mbs??!!?? eh, help??!!?? thank you!!! -- Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail/ ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
RE: [techtalk] Netscape
I have noticed this crashing of netscape when java applets run - it's annoying that it happens for some of my own java applets, which work fine when just run in the applet viewer. The ones that are more likely to make netscape crash tend to be bigger and perhaps get a 'back log' of stuff such as things that happen on 'mouse dragged'... (at least it seems they crash in these conditions) but the applet in the applet viewer doesn't crash. Has anyone got any advice about writing java applets so they are less likely to crash? Does using threads help? I've only made very limited use of threads so far. Maybe there's some way I should be able to check whether it's likely to crash and get it to suspend or something, instead of crashing the whole of netscape? Helena ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Netscape
Hi, Carolyn, and everyone else, > > Sure 'nough. Turning off Java and JavaScript did the trick. (Shouldn't such > quirks be ironed out by now?!) I wish I had asked much sooner, as it would > have saved me lots of aggravation! Thanks for the tip! > Now, try upgrading to 4.73 and turning it on again. 4.73 went a very long way towards resolving this, and is way more stable than any previous Netscape 4.x version. Take care, Caity ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] simple html/javascript problem?
Hi, I've had this problem for a bit and it's driving me crazy. I'm the webmaster and designer for my church's webpage, atlantanewhope.org. Now, here's the deal - the page displays fine under Netscape and Explorer, but looks all ugly under two browsers - Mozilla, and IE for Mac. Now, as I understand it, these two browsers are the most standards-complaint browsers around, so I'm assuming there's a problem with my HTML and/or Javascript. But I haven't the slightest idea what - the HTML and JS I use is very simple (it IS just a church webpage) and it looks okay with the online validators as well as the other sites that check your html for you. If you go to the website (atlantanewhope.org/about) there's two main things that don't render right: (1) to move between areas there are buttons (about/info/features) with mouseovers. Now, it looks okay in all browsers, but in IE/Mac and Mozilla it slows the whole system to a crawl and utlizies near 100% CPU. It works fine in Netscapes and IE/Win though. The replacement image for the mouseover is an animated gif, and that seems to be the only reason why it doesn't work. (2) For the content on each page, the text is framed by a few pictures of lines so it looks nice and neat. Again, this looks great everywhere except with Moz. The pictures display outside their table cells and just look like a mess. When you see it, you'll understand what I'm talking about. So, does anyone know of a solution so the webpage can look right under all browsers? Or has anyone run into this before? Is there anything wrong with my table elements and javascript mouseovers? Thanks, // jt ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] Palm Pilot software and older tcl/tk libraries
Since you were all so wonderfully helpful on the "Netscape goes *poof*" problem, :) Just for fun, I am test driving for a few days a friend's Palm IIIx. I'd really like to see if I can't get it up and running and cooperating with Linux. When I tried to install the software for it (hope you're not wanting the specifics, as I'm too lazy to track them down), it hollered that I needed assorted libraries for tcl and tk. The libraries it wants are libraries that are to versions older than the tcl and tk currently on my disk. Is there a solution to this other than downloading copies of old tcl and tk libraries? Carolyn ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Palm Pilot software and older tcl/tk libraries
Carolyn Jarie Getter: > Just for fun, I am test driving for a few days a friend's Palm IIIx. I'd really > like to see if I can't get it up and running and cooperating with Linux. > When I tried to install the software for it (hope you're not wanting the > specifics, as I'm too lazy to track them down), it hollered that I needed > assorted libraries for tcl and tk. The libraries it wants are libraries that > are to versions older than the tcl and tk currently on my disk. Is there a > solution to this other than downloading copies of old tcl and tk libraries? Depend on what you want. I don't want the graphical annoyances, so I use pilot-link, which I installed as an RPM on my RH 5.2 box. I guess you'll find it after a quick Google/ftpsearch-search (my Netscape just crashed (surprise!) so I don't wanna crawl through my bookmarks now. After all it's almost 11.30pm, so I'd better get som sleep or something.). I think there is also a Gnom/KDE-interface to it, but I have now idea about if it provides any more functionallity. Does anyone know programs (Gnome/KDE/graphical/non-graphical) that can communicate with my addressbook or diary on the palm, like I see they are doing with some windows-apps? (No, I haven't really used both my 'puter and my palm, I've just used my Palm for games, diary and addresses, and my computer for "the rest".) Magni :) -- ulimit is good for you. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Netscape
> In Netscape, when I go to certain pages, it (Netscape) goes *poof* (shuts > down). I don't begin to know where to look to figure out why. All my > settings are default settings, except that I enlarged the font size. Any ideas, > anyone? When Netscape crashes, be sure to kill all of it's processes. Usually when my Netscape did this it left 3 or 4 child processes running and consumed 99-100% of my system resources until i got to an xterm to kill them. Ick. Now i use Mozilla, which is not only open source but compliant with the World Wide Web consortion's standards. http://www.mozilla.org ~Christian » Christian MacAuley » [EMAIL PROTECTED] » http://jellspace.net ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] mass useradd
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 10:57:36AM -0400, Brian Sweeney wrote: > Hello all- > > Haven't been on the list in a while...hope everyone's doing well in their > endeavors. I have what I hope is a quick question. I would like to know if > there's a way (possible using perl/expect?) to add multiple users from a > text file list all simultaneously. I figure I could either put the > usernames and passwords in one file (deliminating them with commas, spaces, > tabs, , whatever), or put the username list in one file and the password > list in another. [snip] > Is there a built-in linux command to do this, or does anyone know of a good > script? (Sorry my response is so delayed, I hardly ever read techtalk anymore.) As a matter of fact, there's a program that does exactly what you're looking for: chpasswd(8). It takes a file of format: aaron:foo887 josh:farglebog pete:monkeypants read from stdin (that is, "cat new-passwords.txt|chpasswd" or similar) and updates the password files accordingly. -- Aaron Malone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) System Administrator "Of course I'm crazy, but that Poplar Bluff Internet, Inc.doesn't mean I'm wrong." http://www.semo.net -- Robert Anton Wilson ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] mass useradd
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 04:35:37PM -0500, Aaron Malone wrote: > > As a matter of fact, there's a program that does exactly what you're > looking for: chpasswd(8). It takes a file of format: Except my sleep-addled brain just realized you wanted *add* a bunch of users, not change their passwords. Sorry. Well, maybe someone else needs to know how to do this. If anyone is still interested, I can post a python script that will add multiple users -- just let me know. -- Aaron Malone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) System Administrator "Of course I'm crazy, but that Poplar Bluff Internet, Inc.doesn't mean I'm wrong." http://www.semo.net -- Robert Anton Wilson ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] X port
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 05:53:51PM +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > > Typically, X connects on ports 6000, 6001, 6002, ... (where the number > > increments for each connection). The fun thing here is that you can't > > completely block off these ports, because of the way X runs even on the > > local machine -- the local machine must be able to connect to those ports. > > So if you are controlling the external connections, you have to ensure > > that you still leave local access to those ports (trust me .. it *is* > > possible to mess this > > up if you are me!). > > Not quite. Local connections (as in "DISPLAY=:n", where n is your display > number) go through local (UNIX) sockets, so they are not affected by IP > firewalling. Here (XFree86-3.3.6), the sockets are in /tmp/.X11-unix/Xn. > If you want to mess up X by firewalling, you'd have to set the DISPLAY to > something like "localhost:n". Oops! Now you mention it, I realise that I was an idiot when I posted some of that. Which makes me wonder what else I must have been doing to completely block out X connections last year (I was fooling around at the time and not really concentrating, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't the $DISPLAY manipulation you mentioned). Ah well .. glad somebody was able to put everybody back on the right path. Thanks. :-) Sheepishly, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Netscape
"Shelly L. Hokanson" wrote: > > hi carolyn - > > just a guess, but i've found that under both linux and windoze, netscape is > buggy in handling java/javascript. (funny since - if i recall correctly - > didn't netscape author javascript?). my netscape does strange things on > javascript-intensive pages. Java - IIRC - was supposed to be a platform-independant language. Unfortunately, as in all such things, a certain unnamed company was enthusiastic about NOT adhering to standards. (Others were too, just that a certain company is rather high profile) So writing Java which works for Browser A doesn't mean it necessarily works for Browser B and we're right back into platform dependance again. Le sigh. 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 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
