Re: [techtalk] swaping & upgrading

1999-11-23 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 19:36:39 -0500, Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 19:36:39 -0500, Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Wrt/swap space: Linux uses a swap partition instead of a swap file. Well, Linux can use a swap file if you want it to. Swap partitions ar

RE: [techtalk] swaping & upgrading

1999-11-23 Thread Robert Kiesling
Hello all, I'm new to this list, but I do a lot of on-line support, and I'm not that new to Linux any more. StarOffice (at least the older versions) used the Motif toolkit, which can be distributed statically linked. It takes forever to load, as you said. The only thing to do about it would

Re: [techtalk] iGeek

1999-11-23 Thread coder
heres another which have some cool cases IMHO. course, coolest in my book is a caseless boxen flayed out across my wall like a dissected digital lifeform. or something. http://www.colorcase.com/products/index.html > "Y." wrote: > > I'm not sure if someone if someone has posted about this befo

Re: [techtalk] swaping & upgrading

1999-11-23 Thread T. E. Pickering
> 1. In relation to the discussion before about the swap directory and > Netscape and StarOffice. >a.How can I tell if my swap directory is (or is not) being > utilized? I never hear or see the HD light go on, like I do when > erWindows is using the HD for swap space- the 'free' comma

Re: [techtalk] New document to install Qmail

1999-11-23 Thread Subba Rao
On 0, Deb Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subba Rao wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > I have written a mini-HOWTO document for installing Qmail on linux. > > The URL is: > > > > http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/OS/Qmail.html > > > > Hope this helps interested newbies. > > Hi Subba. >

RE: [techtalk] swaping & upgrading

1999-11-23 Thread Naomi Hospodarsky
One thing that comes to mind is: What other processes do you have running that could be sucking up resources? You can open a terminal window,type: top and it'll show you a continually refreshing list of the running processes, how much memory they are utilizing and how much CPU time they are using.

Re: [techtalk] swaping & upgrading

1999-11-23 Thread Meredith Tupper
Elizabeth wrote: > {snippage} >b.when using (and when I installed) StarOffice it takes (took) a _very_ > long time to load the program (as in minutes), once i'm using it its okay. > But I have 64 mb ram (and I think 128 swap), and from what I've read, > people are doing it with much less an

[techtalk] swaping & upgrading

1999-11-23 Thread Elizabeth
Hi all, I too have been a lurker (only a few weeks though) and am ready to come out of the shadows... About a month ago I started using linux regularly on a dual win95/redhat 5.2 system. I have several problems/questions: 1. In relation to the discussion before about the swap directory and

Re: [techtalk] iGeek

1999-11-23 Thread jenn
"Y." wrote: > > I'm not sure if someone if someone has posted about this before. But I > wondered what ppl's thoughts were about the iGeek computer from BeComputing. > See http://www.becomputing.com/geekmachines/igeek/ Never seen it till now. Took one look at the candycoloured boxen, and the 'I

Re: [techtalk] New document to install Qmail

1999-11-23 Thread Deb Richardson
Subba Rao wrote: > > Hello > > I have written a mini-HOWTO document for installing Qmail on linux. > The URL is: > > http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/OS/Qmail.html > > Hope this helps interested newbies. Hi Subba. I was wondering if you might be interested in including your HOWTO in the

[techtalk] New document to install Qmail

1999-11-23 Thread Subba Rao
Hello I have written a mini-HOWTO document for installing Qmail on linux. The URL is: http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/OS/Qmail.html Hope this helps interested newbies. Subba Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] iGeek

1999-11-23 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:28:47 -0500, Y. wrote: >I'm not sure if someone if someone has posted about this before. But I >wondered what ppl's thoughts were about the iGeek computer from BeComputing. I like the penguin case. -- wow, this is kinda nifty. the Win98 protocol stack is like a chinese pu

Re: [techtalk] cutting up pdf files

1999-11-23 Thread Robert Kiesling
As Postscript, print a range of pages to a file. To get PDF,I'm not sure. It's probably one of Adobe's proprietary things. On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Kathy Hargreaves wrote: > Anyone know how to extract certain pages from PDF files? > > Kathy > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.li

[techtalk] cutting up pdf files

1999-11-23 Thread Kathy Hargreaves
Anyone know how to extract certain pages from PDF files? Kathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

[techtalk] iGeek

1999-11-23 Thread Y.
I'm not sure if someone if someone has posted about this before. But I wondered what ppl's thoughts were about the iGeek computer from BeComputing. See http://www.becomputing.com/geekmachines/igeek/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] packet filtering and ssh

1999-11-23 Thread Amos Hayes
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Jennifer Tippens wrote: > Figured it out. > > The line should be: > $IPCHAINS -A input -i $E_IF -p tcp -s 0/0 1023 -d (my gateway's > ipnumber)/32 22 -j ACCEPT That won't work in all cases. Here are a couple things to note: ssh (the client), when suid root (as is the case