Re: [techtalk] help with sorting text in a file

2000-05-14 Thread Ian Phillips
> done Yours, Ian. -- #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO Software Inc. #endif| www.tibco.com ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] RedHat6.2 compatible printer

2000-05-12 Thread Ian Phillips
an send to tell it to print in full-duplex mode? It'd sure save quite a few dead trees if I could. Yours, Ian. -- #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO Software Inc. #endif| www.tibco.com ___ techtalk mail

Re: [techtalk] warm/fuzzy alternatives to outlook?

2000-05-05 Thread Ian Phillips
> and emacs-psychiatric will help you solve your relationship problems or > what ever you need. xemacs (at least) has nice little games like tetris Does Emacs support Imap these days? If so, consider me converted... Ian. -- #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO So

RE: [techtalk] Users, groups, admins, roots...

2000-04-19 Thread Ian Phillips
l be in the wrong. If so, sorry for the bad advice. Anyone care to give a definitive answer? Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO Software Inc. #endif| www.TIBCO.comµç!µ©d™¨¥Šx%ŠËmyÈmjY%Š{±r±¢¸!¶Úÿ 0–)îƊàºOæj)fjåŠËbú?µç!µ©d

RE: [techtalk] Users, groups, admins, roots...

2000-04-19 Thread Ian Phillips
thout more info about your system I can't do this. The above solution will work. Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO Software Inc. #endif| www.TIBCO.com-yÈmjY&j)bžb²Û^rZ–Ibžì\†,h®m¶Ÿÿà %Š{±¢¸.“ùšŠYšŸùb²Ø§~íyÈmjY

RE: [techtalk] disk space monitoring?

2000-04-17 Thread Ian Phillips
The following should do the trick: cd /export/home du -s * | sort -n -r assuming you want to check all directories in /export/home of course. Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO Software Inc. #endif| www.TIBCO.com

RE: [techtalk] Need Notebook reccomendation

2000-02-01 Thread Ian Phillips
s they'd be more likely to have "cutting-edge" chipsets (read: X problems ;-) Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO Software Inc. #endif| www.TIBCO.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

RE: [techtalk] Monitor Size

2000-01-21 Thread Ian Phillips
ther) :-) "Like so many things in life. . . size matters" -- T.V. Advert. Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO Software Inc. #endif| www.TIBCO.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

RE: [techtalk] Monitor Size

2000-01-21 Thread Ian Phillips
industry by something like 37 state attorneys general and a settlement In adverts at least you usually see monitors advertised as, say, 21" and then in the small print it says something like "actual viewable size 19.7"". I think I've seen this in US mags as well. Ian. #ifnde

RE: [techtalk] New Linux machine

2000-01-21 Thread Ian Phillips
idea to get a desktop case if you are considering doing this at a leter date (so the CD/DVD will still be flat). I'd generally go with coder when it comes to CPU and memory, if you're using it as a server you may want to consider ECC memory, but it is more expensive and you need to ma

RE: [techtalk] Other OSes on a Linux box

2000-01-04 Thread Ian Phillips
(well, Linuxcare do it for them anyway ;-) Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO Software Inc. #endif| www.TIBCO.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

RE: [techtalk] Can't print to NT printer

2000-01-03 Thread Ian Phillips
ly attached to your Linux machine. You can enable "IP Printing" by adding the service in your "Network Properties" window. If you've now copied your I386 directory from your windows CD to your Hard disc then you'll need your media to make this change. Hope th

RE: [techtalk] need database recomendations

2000-01-03 Thread Ian Phillips
hem. Have a look though, and see what you need. DBD/DBI are wonderful tools though, and have the advantage that if you can write your UI using these then it will make transitioning to a larger DBMS next time much less painful. Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TI

RE: [techtalk] Package managers, was: X in Corel vs. Red Hat (was: winmodem sounddriver)

1999-12-17 Thread Ian Phillips
I'm sure that there is a good reason but I don't know what it is :-) Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO Software Inc. #endif| www.TIBCO.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

RE: [techtalk] X in Corel vs. Red Hat (was: winmodem sound driver)

1999-12-16 Thread Ian Phillips
> IMO, debian has a better package manager. It also has about 3000 What's better about it? I know (roughly) how RPM works and what features it offers, but what advantages does dpkg give me? Apart from better quality control ;-) Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips

RE: [techtalk] DVD-ROM on Linux?

1999-12-15 Thread Ian Phillips
n email to the Trading Standards Office, so hopefully I'll be able to give you an answer in the next few days sometime. Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO Software Inc. #endif| www.TIBCO.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

RE: [techtalk] DVD-ROM on Linux?

1999-12-15 Thread Ian Phillips
And I'm fairly sure most other EU countries have similar legislation. Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO Software Inc. #endif| www.TIBCO.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

RE: [techtalk] http://cristal.inria.fr/~harley/ecdl7//

1999-12-15 Thread Ian Phillips
arm out whole frames at a time I guess. I'll be honest, I don't know that much about the subject. Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO Software Inc. #endif| www.TIBCO.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

RE: [techtalk] winmodem sound driver

1999-12-15 Thread Ian Phillips
though. Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO Software Inc. #endif| www.TIBCO.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

RE: [techtalk] http://cristal.inria.fr/~harley/ecdl7//

1999-12-15 Thread Ian Phillips
since they have the software all nicely packaged and ready to play. Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO Software Inc. #endif| www.TIBCO.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

RE: [techtalk] http://cristal.inria.fr/~harley/ecdl7//

1999-12-15 Thread Ian Phillips
kload around too thinly then we won't earn as wuch kudos for it ;-) Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO Software Inc. #endif| www.TIBCO.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

[techtalk] XFree86 on a Neomagic 256ZX LT

1999-12-15 Thread Ian Phillips
play running in 640x480, I know, because XF86Setup does this, but then fails to generate a working config file. Does anybody know what the "generic" CF86Config is that XF86Setup uses, I can get by for now by just copying that into place and seting up the server links by hand. Yours, Ian.

RE: [techtalk] winmodem sound driver

1999-12-15 Thread Ian Phillips
> Correct. I have never understood why winmodems exist at all. They > make no sense at all from any standpoint I can think of, except > perhaps Intel's bottom line. Possibly in laptops? But other that that I'd agree. Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillip

RE: [techtalk] winmodem sound driver

1999-12-14 Thread Ian Phillips
27;t that much anyway it makes sense to me to spend the extra on a "real" modem and not have to thrash your CPU every time you need to go online, although I haven't looked at any performance figures for winmodems I imagine the CPU hit would be quite high. Yours, Ian. #ifndef __

RE: [techtalk] Network Printer Hardware question

1999-12-10 Thread Ian Phillips
printers/laser/OptraS/1855tech.html Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO Software Inc. #endif| www.TIBCO.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

RE: [techtalk] KFM weirdness.

1999-12-06 Thread Ian Phillips
1.0 came out, the "Kool" was dropped, and now officially doesn't stand for anything. Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO Software Inc. #endif| www.TIBCO.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

RE: [techtalk] KFM weirdness.

1999-12-02 Thread Ian Phillips
> BTW, does the "K" stand for Kallisti? Slightly dissapointingly, it actually stands for "Kool". Hail Eris! Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO Software Inc. #endif| www.TIBCO.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

RE: Re: [techtalk] No HTML/RTF messages, please!

1999-11-30 Thread Ian Phillips
graphic files in a HTML formatted mail. Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO Software Inc. #endif| www.TIBCO.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

RE: [techtalk] Re: FAQ creation

1999-11-30 Thread Ian Phillips
_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO Software Inc. #endif| www.TIBCO.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

RE: [techtalk] mail format (was re: ftp for non users)

1999-11-29 Thread Ian Phillips
ral list at some point later today. Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include | TIBCO Software Inc. #endif| www.TIBCO.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org