[techtalk] pine four.twenty

1999-10-14 Thread Nicole
is pretty groovy! (now that I finally got the sucker built) the new stuff is listed at http://www.washington.edu/pine/changes/4.10-to-4.20.html Kolor support --> you can make different parts of message headers different colours... like the "From" can be red while the "To" would be blue... :o)

Re: [techtalk] pine 4.2

1999-10-14 Thread Nicole
> > grr... having problems building pine 4.2 on rh6(.0) > > It's Pine 4.20. 4.2 came out rather some time ago. Sor-ry...if i meant 4.2 like you are reading it i probably would have said 4.02... I am not a big naming convention guru. :o) and yes, I realise that was released quite some time ago

Re: [techtalk] pine 4.2

1999-10-14 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Nicole wrote: > grr... having problems building pine 4.2 on rh6(.0) It's Pine 4.20. 4.2 came out rather some time ago. > i made the modification to pico/osdep/os-lnx.h > (insert #include in between line 35 and 36) Under redhat, are you doing "build slx" ? That always work

Re: [techtalk] runlevels & distributions

1999-10-14 Thread Dakota Surmonde
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Beverly Guillermo wrote: > I'm running Slackware and Redhat right now. I've never heard > of dreadrat? It sounds interesting though.. Slackware does that would be red hat :) I like red hat, it's just more fun to be an equal-opportunity-insulter :) I tend to use red hat b

Re: [techtalk] pine 4.2

1999-10-14 Thread Nicole
> > You can look into /usr/src/linux/include - maybe the files pine need are > there, so you have to make a simlink from /usr/include to /usr/src/linux, > just like that: ahh THAT is the problem! /usr/src/linux/include did NOT exist meaning the kernel-source-2.2.x.i386.rpm (x being the kernel ve

Re: [techtalk] PS2 Mouse and RH6.1

1999-10-14 Thread Wendt,Andrew
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote: >Anyone install RH6.1 yet? I downloaded the iso image >and installed it here at work (fresh install on new >drive). VERY easy/fast install, except now the mouse >has gone nuts (jumps and skips around randomly - not >usable at all). It works fine if I boot to the

Re: [techtalk] PS2 Mouse and RH6.1

1999-10-14 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Michelle Leonard wrote: > Anyone install RH6.1 yet? I downloaded the iso image > and installed it here at work (fresh install on new > drive). VERY easy/fast install, except now the mouse > has gone nuts (jumps and skips around randomly - not > usable at all). It works fine if I boot to the ol

Re: [techtalk] pine 4.2

1999-10-14 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Nicole wrote: > > I have NO idea why it is having a cow... I *have* these files on my > > system. > > okay here are all the files it complains about... > /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:27: linux/limits.h: No such file or > directory > > [root@ghettoBOX pine4.20]# ls /usr/include/linux/limits.h > l

Re: [techtalk] pine 4.2

1999-10-14 Thread Nicole
> I have NO idea why it is having a cow... I *have* these files on my > system. okay here are all the files it complains about... /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:27: linux/limits.h: No such file or directory [root@ghettoBOX pine4.20]# ls /usr/include/linux/limits.h ls: /usr/include/linux/limits.

Re: [techtalk] pine 4.2

1999-10-14 Thread Nicole
> Excerpts from linuxchix: 14-Oct-99 [techtalk] pine 4.2 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:27: linux/limits.h: No such file or > > directory > > This is strange. It's complaining that it can't find the file > /usr/include/linux/limits.h, which is on my computer, so I'm assu

Re: [techtalk] pine 4.2

1999-10-14 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 14-Oct-99 [techtalk] pine 4.2 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:27: linux/limits.h: No such file or > directory This is strange. It's complaining that it can't find the file /usr/include/linux/limits.h, which is on my computer, so I'm assuming that it

Re: [techtalk] Netscape and Java

1999-10-14 Thread Mike and Mary Anne Cox
Well color me red. I know that I saw a version for Win and one for Linux at http://download.com. However, in effort to track down the direct link, I can no longer find either of them. I also went to neoplanet.net and I see now that it says they are working on compatibility for Linux. Yes, I

Re: [techtalk] runlevels & distributions

1999-10-14 Thread Steve Kudlak
At 02:06 PM 10/14/99 -0700, you wrote: >> I'm serious, either I've heard of it and don't remember it anymore, or I've >> never heard it. *ducks* =) > >correct me if I'm wrong but... deadrat...redhat...it makes sense although >I admit this is the first time I've heard it referred to in that way. :)

[techtalk] pine 4.2

1999-10-14 Thread Nicole
grr... having problems building pine 4.2 on rh6(.0) i made the modification to pico/osdep/os-lnx.h (insert #include in between line 35 and 36) but it is still having a cow i can ./build clean but when i get to ./build lnp it just sucks it up... the first error i hit is during the build of c-

RE: [techtalk] Question for the group

1999-10-14 Thread Steve Kudlak
At 07:03 PM 10/14/99 GMT, you wrote: > >for example, restrict a user's access to control panel so that they can't >alter the network configuration, even restrict their access so they can't >right click on Network Neighborhood and change the network configuration, >all they have to do is access the

Re: Viruses for Linux -- Was [techtalk] Question for the group

1999-10-14 Thread Laurel Fan
Hmm. It is well known how to exploit a buffer overflow for any unix platform. It is also usually possible to determine remotely or locally what OS a machine is running. Root can watch what any user does. So, to have an interesting virus/worm: 1. Get on a system. 2. Get root. (Either use a n

RE: [techtalk] Question for the group

1999-10-14 Thread Steve Kudlak
At 02:31 PM 10/14/99 -0400, Brian Engle wrote: >http://www.ciac.org/ciac/CIACVirusDatabase.html > >UNIX AT&T Attack virus >UNIX Ebola > > >and as someone already stated, bliss for the linux platform, not sure if >it's distribution dependent or kernel dependent, or ev

RE: [techtalk] Question for the group Viruses and whoops! (long and windy:)

1999-10-14 Thread Steve Kudlak
At 11:52 AM 10/14/99 -0600, Clare Smith wrote: > Steve says: Whoops...Speaking of inadvertly doing this worng...Just sent an empty message via a mistake I made in Eudora. Speaking of Windoz, misdesign. OK, this is kind of sociological and hope I won't get snarled at for it. There haven't been th

Re: [techtalk] Netscape and Java

1999-10-14 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 14-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] Netscape and.. by Mike and Mary A. Cox@spr > I'm still very much a newbie, but I'm wondering if anyone has successfully > installed the Neoplanet Browser version for Linux. Where's the linux version? I can't seem to find it. (You do mean the neo

RE: Viruses for Linux -- Was [techtalk] Question for the group

1999-10-14 Thread Janus
At 06:08 PM 10/14/1999 -0400, you wrote: >> >>I have never heard of a unix system having a virus problem... EVER! I have >>never known of a virus checker for unix. I don't believe these systems are >>immune to viruses, however. I think that it's just a matter of the system >>not being widely po

RE: [techtalk] Question for the group

1999-10-14 Thread Steve Kudlak
At 11:52 AM 10/14/99 -0600, Clare Smith wrote: > >Besides, a lot of viruses take advantage of bugs and/or holes left in the >applications or the OS. And we all know how many of those are in the >Microsoft software! > >that must be why they call it windows :D (I couldn't resist!) > >thanks much >c

Re: [techtalk] runlevels & distributions

1999-10-14 Thread Amanda June Harter
> I'm serious, either I've heard of it and don't remember it anymore, or I've > never heard it. *ducks* =) correct me if I'm wrong but... deadrat...redhat...it makes sense although I admit this is the first time I've heard it referred to in that way. :) -Amanda [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [techtalk] Updated Enlightenment

1999-10-14 Thread Norma Armstrong
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cathy James > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 6:37 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [techtalk] Updated Enlightenment > > > > >I still however *hate* GTK-Perl. I use the word *hate* > >lik

RE: [techtalk] Updated Enlightenment (more @debian, GIMP and COREL DRAW*)

1999-10-14 Thread Steve Kudlak
At 09:30 AM 10/14/99 -0400, Jenn wrote: >It works great. I have had it installed for about a week now. Alot of >changes and ease of use. I like being able to update the menus on the fly. >It isnt as much of a hog as enlightenment use to be, but you definitly >need some memory. I still however *ha

Re: [techtalk] Question for the group

1999-10-14 Thread Vinnie Surmonde
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Clare Smith wrote: > One of my unix students ask me if unix/linux had the same plethora of > viruses that Windows/NT has. While I couldn't sight any statistics, I said I > hadn't heard of any successful unix/linux viruses. I did some research this > morning and still can't co

RE: [techtalk] For the not so techie Linux users

1999-10-14 Thread Norma Armstrong
Disgusting they are especially when they fail to work for the Operating system they are meant to work with! (Like mine I can't even get the resources changed because Windows won't let me set it). Norma > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EM

[techtalk] PS2 Mouse and RH6.1

1999-10-14 Thread Michelle Leonard
Anyone install RH6.1 yet? I downloaded the iso image and installed it here at work (fresh install on new drive). VERY easy/fast install, except now the mouse has gone nuts (jumps and skips around randomly - not usable at all). It works fine if I boot to the older install. Tried 2 mice, MS Inte

Re: [techtalk] For the not so techie Linux users

1999-10-14 Thread Just This Girl
Your modem should be on the IRQ for the serial port its on, shouldn't it? That would be IRQ 4 (COM1) or IRQ 3 (COM2). I would, however, like to add a note of caution on using Windows IRQ tables to set up hardware for Linux. Windows does naughty things and is more lax and permissive. In my person

RE: [techtalk] Question for the group

1999-10-14 Thread Jack Baker
for example, restrict a user's access to control panel so that they can't alter the network configuration, even restrict their access so they can't right click on Network Neighborhood and change the network configuration, all they have to do is access the windows help file, look up network config

Re: [techtalk] Netscape and Java

1999-10-14 Thread Mike and Mary Anne Cox
I'm still very much a newbie, but I'm wondering if anyone has successfully installed the Neoplanet Browser version for Linux. I installed it on Windoze just to check it out and I think it's pretty good actually. It's much smaller in size as compared to Netscape. (I've never really been a fa

Re: [techtalk] For the not so techie Linux users

1999-10-14 Thread Mike and Mary Anne Cox
If you go to the Control Panel in windoze, you can do one of two things. click on the device manager tab, select View devices by type, then click on your modem, select properties, from the popup that appears, select the Resources tab, it should have all I/O info and IRQ info for you there. The

RE: [techtalk] Question for the group

1999-10-14 Thread Brian Engle
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/CIACVirusDatabase.html UNIXAT&T Attack virus UNIX Ebola and as someone already stated, bliss for the linux platform, not sure if it's distribution dependent or kernel dependent, or even if it exists, but I have seen references to it, dou

Re: [techtalk] Question for the group

1999-10-14 Thread Beverly Guillermo
> One of my unix students ask me if unix/linux had the same plethora of viruses that > Windows/NT has. While I couldn't sight any statistics, I said I hadn't heard of any > successful unix/linux viruses. I did some research this morning and still can't come > up with any hard data. Any ideas? Vi

Re: [techtalk] Question for the group

1999-10-14 Thread Elaine Poulsen
There was a virus "demo" created for linux called bliss or .bliss. It would attach itselft to binaries and propagate much like win/dos based viruses. However the only damage it could do would be to files that it owned. Unless it was part of a trojan and gained root perms it wouldn't be a big thre

Re: [techtalk] runlevels & distributions

1999-10-14 Thread Beverly Guillermo
> It may be time to slap your forehead, roll your eyes skywards, and utter an > expletive. I think Dead Rat is rhyming slang for a certain popular distro. Or > were you joking about not having heard of it? Apologies if that's the case :-) > > - Kev I'm serious, either I've heard of it and don't r

RE: [techtalk] Question for the group

1999-10-14 Thread Clare Smith
Besides, a lot of viruses take advantage of bugs and/or holes left in the applications or the OS. And we all know how many of those are in the Microsoft software! that must be why they call it windows :D (I couldn't resist!) thanks much c -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mai

Re: [techtalk] Question for the group

1999-10-14 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:27:41 -0600, "Clare Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >One of my unix students ask me if unix/linux had the same plethora of >viruses that Windows/NT has. While I couldn't sight any statistics, I >said I hadn't heard of any successful unix/linux viruses. I did some >research

RE: [techtalk] Question for the group

1999-10-14 Thread Henti Smith
Hi there Clare.   I'm not sure .. but this would prolly classify as my personal thought why not ;P   Linux/Unix as such don't have "Viruses" in the windows sence .. maynely becuase of the privalige system unix uses when it comes to running applications .. and the way memory is used ..  one

RE: [techtalk] Question for the group

1999-10-14 Thread Samantha Jo Moore
I have never heard of a unix system having a virus problem... EVER! I have never known of a virus checker for unix. I don't believe these systems are immune to viruses, however. I think that it's just a matter of the system not being widely popular, and the fact that the hardware platforms in

Re: [techtalk] MAJOR newbie question

1999-10-14 Thread Tamara Thompson
When I telnet I often find that the backspace key isn't mapped. So I type 'stty erase ^?' other variations can be 'stty erase ^backspace key'. This can be put in your .login script. Tamara ps: if you are telneting from outside your school, why don't you use ssh instead of telnet? Once I use

[techtalk] SCSL (was Staroffice)

1999-10-14 Thread Cathy James
>I believe it [is|will be] released under Sun's source code license, >which basically means "You can have the code but you can't do anything >with it". Hey, that's the best one-line summary of the SCSL I've ever seen! :-) >However, I can't even seem to locate a source code download of

Re: [techtalk] runlevels & distributions

1999-10-14 Thread kev
It may be time to slap your forehead, roll your eyes skywards, and utter an expletive. I think Dead Rat is rhyming slang for a certain popular distro. Or were you joking about not having heard of it? Apologies if that's the case :-) - Kev Beverly Guillermo wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Vinnie

Staroffice (Was: Re: [techtalk] Glibc)

1999-10-14 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] Glibc by Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You mean it's not? Bleah. I believe it [is|will be] released under Sun's source code license, which basically means "You can have the code but you can't do anything with it". However, I can't even seem to lo

[techtalk] Question for the group

1999-10-14 Thread Clare Smith
One of my unix students ask me if unix/linux had the same plethora of viruses that Windows/NT has. While I couldn't sight any statistics, I said I hadn't heard of any successful unix/linux viruses. I did some research this morning and still can't come up with any hard data. Any ideas?   Clar

Re: [techtalk] For the not so techie Linux users

1999-10-14 Thread Beverly Guillermo
> That's what windoze Help told me to do, but I don't have a 'Resources' > tab there. Help said it sometimes isn't there, but it didn't offer any > alternative course of action. > Any other way I can find out? > > - Kev Try going to: START | SETTINGS| CONTROL PANEL | MODEMS Goto the DIAGONISTI

Re: [techtalk] Different Linuxes - what's the difference?

1999-10-14 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 14-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] Different Li.. by Ingrid Schupbach@miranda > Linux Journal's September issue had a nifty chart comparing the various > Linux distributions which showed what each requires, costs, and and their > various features. More specifically, at: http://207

Re: [techtalk] For the not so techie Linux users

1999-10-14 Thread kev
Kelly Lynn Martin wrote: > On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 15:13:19 +0100, kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >That's what windoze Help told me to do, but I don't have a > >'Resources' tab there. Help said it sometimes isn't there, but it > >didn't offer any alternative course of action. Any other way I can

Re: [techtalk] Different Linuxes - what's the difference?

1999-10-14 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 14-Oct-99 RE: [techtalk] Different Li.. by Henti [EMAIL PROTECTED] > location of some files ( userspace, config, other arb things) > syntax in commands ( there are small differences > C libs used. > startup system ( System V or something el

Re: [techtalk] newbie questions

1999-10-14 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] newbie quest.. by Beverly [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Did you hear that VA Linux, O'Reilly, and SGI are preparing to package > Debian in the future to sell in Retail stores? I haven't been to clear > about how the volunteers/maintainers feel about this m

Re: [techtalk] For the not so techie Linux users

1999-10-14 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 15:13:19 +0100, kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >That's what windoze Help told me to do, but I don't have a >'Resources' tab there. Help said it sometimes isn't there, but it >didn't offer any alternative course of action. Any other way I can >find out? If there's no "Resource

Re: [techtalk] For the not so techie Linux users

1999-10-14 Thread kev
Naomi Hospodarsky wrote: > There is an older MS hardware information utility called MSD that you can > run in DOS mode to find the answer to your question about IRQs. I *think* > you can find it under the "other" directory on WIN95 cd-rom. I have it > here, and can email it to you if you'd like

Re: [techtalk] For the not so techie Linux users

1999-10-14 Thread Naomi Hospodarsky
There is an older MS hardware information utility called MSD that you can run in DOS mode to find the answer to your question about IRQs. I *think* you can find it under the "other" directory on WIN95 cd-rom. I have it here, and can email it to you if you'd like. Naomi >That's what windo

Re: [techtalk] Different Linuxes - what's the difference?

1999-10-14 Thread Ingrid Schupbach
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Janus wrote: > All my experience (limited as it is) is with BSDI Unix and Red Hat. Having > watched the ^H thread, I have become curious -- what, if any, are the most > noticeable differences between the various flavours of Linux? > Linux Journal's September issue had a n

Re: [techtalk] For the not so techie Linux users

1999-10-14 Thread Jim Browning
Try this: in the Device Manager, select "View by connection", expand the + choices to show whichever COM your modem is on, and see if it has a resources tab. If so, it will show you the IRQ. - Original Message - From: kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October

Re: [techtalk] For the not so techie Linux users

1999-10-14 Thread kev
Kelly Lynn Martin wrote: > On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:38:33 +0100, kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >I've tried looking all over the place in Windows hoping that the > >modem's configuration would be listed somewhere. I looked where > >Winblows Help said the IRQ level should be listed, but it wasn't

Re: [techtalk] Netscape and Java

1999-10-14 Thread kev
Beverly Guillermo wrote: > There are known issues with version 4.51 and 4.61 in the Unix versions of > Netscape. It's happened with some java code that just wants to hang the > program instead of properly exiting correctly. I heard the latest > version (4.7) of netscape has fixed it. Try that

Re: [techtalk] Is there a Kill -8, too?

1999-10-14 Thread Jenn
killall might work i.e killall netscape On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Jane Susi wrote: > > > > > > Just This Girl wrote: > > > > > > > Did you try 'kill pid' or 'kill -9 pid'? 'kill -9' should bring down > > > > anything. > > I'm sorry, if I bother you with a really silly question, but...what shall

RE: [techtalk] Updated Enlightenment

1999-10-14 Thread Cathy James
>I still however *hate* GTK-Perl. I use the word *hate* >like I would in a sentence to describe Hitler. Could you be more specific in telling us what's wrong with it? --Cathy James [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

RE: [techtalk] Updated Enlightenment

1999-10-14 Thread Jenn
It works great. I have had it installed for about a week now. Alot of changes and ease of use. I like being able to update the menus on the fly. It isnt as much of a hog as enlightenment use to be, but you definitly need some memory. I still however *hate* GTK-Perl. I use the word *hate* like I w

Re: [techtalk] For the not so techie Linux users

1999-10-14 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:38:33 +0100, kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I've tried looking all over the place in Windows hoping that the >modem's configuration would be listed somewhere. I looked where >Winblows Help said the IRQ level should be listed, but it wasn't >there (Help gave some obscure rea

Re: [techtalk] Is there a Kill -8, too?

1999-10-14 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 04:34:13 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >If a process is in the middle of a system call (such as I/O, disk >reading, whatever), it can't be killed while doing the system call. This is technically not entirely correct. You can't kill a process while it's waiting on a fast res

Re: [techtalk] Is there a Kill -8, too?

1999-10-14 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 12:13:07 -0700, "Tamara Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I've also occassionally had k -9 pid# not kill the process, I think I >looked around and made sure I killed the parent process first, then >tried it again. Not an expert on this. But since the process >numbers are

Re: [techtalk] Is there a Kill -8, too?

1999-10-14 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 20:45:01 +0300, Jane Susi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I'm sorry, if I bother you with a really silly question, but...what >shall I do, if this "kill -9" just does'nt work? Not very long time >ago it just happened, so what to do for avoiding such situation?? If kill -9 doesn't

Re: [techtalk] KDE vs Gnome

1999-10-14 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:39:58 -0400, "Beverly Guillermo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >You have it your setup to enter X automatically, so you're running at >runlevel 5, rather then runlevel 3. Runlevel 3 is the usual >initialization of Linux that brings you to the console login. Check >your /etc/i

Re: [techtalk] newbie questions

1999-10-14 Thread Beverly Guillermo
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Laurel Fan wrote: > 2) Debian is a group of volunteers, not a company, so it will always be > serious about free software, and they spend their time working on the > distro instead of marketing. Each maintainer is also personally > responsible for his/her packages. Did yo

RE: [techtalk] KDE vs Gnome

1999-10-14 Thread Beverly Guillermo
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Vinnie Surmonde wrote: > wait a minute > > you're right..I apparently can't read > > > actually, I read all the 3s as 5s...sometimes the automatic error > correction in my brain is annoying :) > > Vinnie Heh... I get it too, when I'm up all night working on something and

[techtalk] Paths (formerly: upgrading to Netscape 4.7) (fwd)

1999-10-14 Thread Beverly Guillermo
It's just as to write './' in front of every command. I think it helps me remember that having the current directory in the path isn't always true for most unix/linux environments. =) Beverly On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The root shell DOES NOT include "./". Very deliberatel

Re: [techtalk] Netscape and Java

1999-10-14 Thread Beverly Guillermo
There are known issues with version 4.51 and 4.61 in the Unix versions of Netscape. It's happened with some java code that just wants to hang the program instead of properly exiting correctly. I heard the latest version (4.7) of netscape has fixed it. Try that or one of the other available grap

[techtalk] runlevels & distributions

1999-10-14 Thread Beverly Guillermo
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Vinnie Surmonde wrote: > I know deadrat does it like that (or similarly enough that it's not worth > thinking about :) ) ... what are you running? :) > > Vinnie I'm running Slackware and Redhat right now. I've never heard of dreadrat? It sounds interesting though.. Slack

RE: [techtalk] Different Linuxes - what's the difference?

1999-10-14 Thread Henti Smith
> All my experience (limited as it is) is with BSDI Unix and > Red Hat. Having watched the ^H thread, I have become curious -- what, if > any, are the most noticeable differences between the various flavours of > Linux? here is a quick breakdown .. location of some files ( userspace,

[techtalk] Different Linuxes - what's the difference?

1999-10-14 Thread Janus
All my experience (limited as it is) is with BSDI Unix and Red Hat. Having watched the ^H thread, I have become curious -- what, if any, are the most noticeable differences between the various flavours of Linux? There is sime self-interest involved. I am saving uip for an (off-line) basic UNIX b

Re: [techtalk] For the not so techie Linux users

1999-10-14 Thread kev
Norma Armstrong wrote: > You're welcome. I hope this works out for you. I tried the setserial -g command and it said IRQ 4. But I can't find out what IRQ my modem is actually on! I don't want to mess about with IRQ levels unless I know what I'm doing, I like my hardware smokeless :-) Bearing in

Re: [techtalk] Netscape and Java

1999-10-14 Thread kev
Ingrid Schupbach wrote: > Hello yet again! > > I think I've hit on another solution. The Netscape that currently comes > with RH 6.0 is NOT the most recent available. Since upgrading, the > trouble appears to have gone away. Since upgrading to what? I upgraded from 4.51 (which came with 6.0) t