Re: [techtalk] RE: Other OSes on a Linux box

2000-01-11 Thread Patrick Jones
Yes, I set up my dual-boot system using that howto. Works fine for me (Mandrake 6.1). What problems are you having? Yvonne wrote: > Has anyone tried these directions for the NT OS Loader + mini-HOWTO? > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html#toc2 > I tried using them, and I was

Re: [techtalk] .rar

2000-01-11 Thread aprilk
Kir Kolyshkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sunnanvind wrote: > >> Hello, dears; how can I unrar a file? Got it from an Amiga user; but I know >> that it's possible in windows or dos. Would rather do it in linux natively, >> though.. > >there is a rar for linux available around...dunno the url, sorr

Re: [techtalk] POP mail security

2000-01-11 Thread Dan McGarry
- Original Message - From: Emily Cartier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 7:49 AM Subject: Re: [techtalk] POP mail security > On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 18:52:29 +1100 > "Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's odd. When I use man, it usually ac

Re: [techtalk] put a drive to sleep...

2000-01-11 Thread Walt
>Maybe this would help? > >http://staff.washington.edu/xyzzy/scsi.html > Thank you Jen! :-) Appears to be 'xactly what I need. Walt -~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] put a drive to sleep...

2000-01-11 Thread jennyw
Maybe this would help? http://staff.washington.edu/xyzzy/scsi.html Jen - Original Message - From: "Walt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 5:28 PM Subject: Re: [techtalk] put a drive to sleep... > hdparm seemed to be exactly what I was > lo

Re: [techtalk] know of a good linux web site manager?

2000-01-11 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:01:33 -0800 (PST), Michelle Leonard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I'm looking for a basic web site manager - mostly for link checking, >renaming pages and files, etc. Nothing fancy... I don't know of anything in particular. However, if you want to specify more precisely wh

Re: [techtalk] man, more or less? :)

2000-01-11 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
On 1/11/00, 10:28:16 PM, Telsa Gwynne wrote: > [a, b and c snipped] > I didn't know about the options $MANOPT, $PAGER, and the rest. [...] > I re-read man man (ahem) and spotted references to > /etc/man.config. Thanks for telling me! I am not able to find this config file nor did I find a way

Re: [techtalk] put a drive to sleep...

2000-01-11 Thread Walt
hdparm seemed to be exactly what I was looking for, but the -y (put in standby) -C (current power status) and -S (set sleep-when-idle timeout) all give this error: /dev/sde: Operation not permitted on a scsi drive. Any more suggestions? I tried the newly- learned 'apropos' looking for sleep

[techtalk] know of a good linux web site manager?

2000-01-11 Thread Michelle Leonard
I'm looking for a basic web site manager - mostly for link checking, renaming pages and files, etc. Nothing fancy... TIA! Michelle __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [techtalk] man, more or less? :)

2000-01-11 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 07:28:11PM + or thereabouts, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: > Am 1/11/00, 4:22:42 PM, schrieb Telsa Gwynne: > > > man on my RH 6.1 system pipes through less. > > Or acts as if it does. > > Just an idea: might it perhaps be that in your ~/.bashrc > there are half a dozen so

[techtalk] RE: Other OSes on a Linux box

2000-01-11 Thread Yvonne
Has anyone tried these directions for the NT OS Loader + mini-HOWTO? http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html#toc2 I tried using them, and I was able to install Red Hat with NT, and I did get the menu for both NT & Linux to work, but then had other problems... Thanks, Yvonne ***

Re: [techtalk] put a drive to sleep...

2000-01-11 Thread Jeff Dike
> Is there some command or function that I can use that tells a hard > drive to spin down, etc? Try 'man (heh) hdparm'. The -y switch looks like what you want. -S and -C also look interesting. However, this is an ide command, but there is this at the end: Although this utility is in

Re: [techtalk] put a drive to sleep...

2000-01-11 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:39:24 -0800, Walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I'm not even sure what to search for on this one... I have a 9 gb >scsi drive that I actually only will need to spin up once every 24 >hrs or so, backup information onto it and go back to sleep. >Is there some command or functi

Re: [techtalk] man, more or less? :)

2000-01-11 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
Am 1/11/00, 4:22:42 PM, schrieb Telsa Gwynne: > man on my RH 6.1 system pipes through less. > Or acts as if it does. Just an idea: might it perhaps be that in your ~/.bashrc there are half a dozen so called 'aliases' defined? Please type the command alias to see if some are working. > I'm cu

[techtalk] put a drive to sleep...

2000-01-11 Thread Walt
I'm not even sure what to search for on this one... I have a 9 gb scsi drive that I actually only will need to spin up once every 24 hrs or so, backup information onto it and go back to sleep. Is there some command or function that I can use that tells a hard drive to spin down, etc? Thanks, Wa

Re: [techtalk] A bit o' tech advice..

2000-01-11 Thread jennyw
Did you use the hosted version or did you manage the software yourself? Someone else at our company uses the hosted version; I installed our own copy. We had issues with it, but these all stemmed from the fact that we were running it on NT and had Access as the database. Once the database got to

Re: [techtalk] Bug tracking/Change orders

2000-01-11 Thread Esther Lumsdon
Keystone is a web-based bug tracking system. Fewer than 10 concurrent licenses are free. I believe it requires mysql. It organizes things as "slips", so there's no reason why a slip must be a bug or an enhancement. I was looking at it 6+ months ago. I found it in the Tools FAQ for comp.softwa

Re: [techtalk] A bit o' tech advice..

2000-01-11 Thread Cynthia Dale
I've used that before and have not had such happy luck. It will "white screen" at times, loosing info from the tech and/or customer. I love the way it's laid out and organized, and the way it works when it does work, but if you don't want to lose information, don't use it. Cindy On Mon, 10 Jan

[techtalk] man, more or less? :)

2000-01-11 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 07:49:43AM -0500 or thereabouts, Emily Cartier wrote: > On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 18:52:29 +1100 > "Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Actually, you didn't waste your time - I didn't realise 'man' was paged > > with 'more' typically - if I know I'm planning to search a

Re: [techtalk] .rar

2000-01-11 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Sunnanvind wrote: > Hello, dears; how can I unrar a file? Got it from an Amiga user; but I know > that it's possible in windows or dos. Would rather do it in linux natively, > though.. there is a rar for linux available around...dunno the url, sorry. If you won't be able to find it, contact me,

Re: [techtalk] POP mail security

2000-01-11 Thread Michael Carson
Emily Cartier wrote: > That's odd. When I use man, it usually acts as if it's piped through > less to begin with. More doesn't need a 'q' to end, but less does. On some systems, more is less. :) Either an alias or a symlink. C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] A bit o' tech advice..

2000-01-11 Thread Michael Carson
It isn't free, by any means, but Footprints has looked pretty good to me. I haven't used it, but when I was looking into such things some time ago, that one looked most promising. The address is http://www.unipress.com/footprints/ C. Conrad Golightly wrote: > I have searched far and wide f

[techtalk] .rar

2000-01-11 Thread Sunnanvind
Hello, dears; how can I unrar a file? Got it from an Amiga user; but I know that it's possible in windows or dos. Would rather do it in linux natively, though.. Thanks in advance; Sunnan -- http://home.swipnet.se/sunnanvind I am you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] POP mail security

2000-01-11 Thread Emily Cartier
On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 18:52:29 +1100 "Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Laurel Fan wrote: > > > > > If the asker does know how to do all of this, and is insulted, I'm > > sorry, but I'm glad you're insulted because you just wasted my time. > > Actually, you didn't waste your time - I d