Re: [techtalk] Athlon and Power Supply

2000-07-13 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > > As far as I know, any athlon will need a big ol' power supply. They > shouldn't be that much more expensive (if any) than the 'normal' wattage, > though. > > -nicole > > At 10:05 on Jul 13, Kath combined all the right letters to say: > > > Does the Athlon proces

Re: [techtalk] kernel-automounter, fstab, vfat and minix

2000-04-13 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Well, can't understand what do you mean by kernel automounter, because later you're just talking about plain old fstab. Automounter uses its own mount point and it's own config files (/etc/auto.master and others). If we are talking about fstab and we mount partitions manually (mount /floppy) when

[Fwd: Re: [techtalk] Ether-Address and IP-Address]

2000-04-13 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
> is there a programm, which can I use to find the IP-Address > to a specified Ether-Address (network card) ??? Well, if you don't have a switch or router between your linux box and that PC you are looking for, you can use the following methods. 1. ping ip_addr, then arp will show you MAC-IP pa

Re: Need Modem Recommendation

2000-03-15 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Well, I personally own 3Com (USRobotics) Courier, which costs about $170, and I find it the best possible modem available for under $200. It has a flash memory and our Russian hackers (not to mix with crackers!) do their own flash upgrades for that modems which adds even more features and controls

Re: [techtalk] Linux Agents/Robots ??

2000-03-06 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Robert Siemer wrote: > > Are there any command line search agents/bots/crawlers for Linux? I want > > to search a few engines at the same time for some key topics. > > Search-engines: ht://dig, e-swift(?), web-glimpse I want to add UdmSearch engine to this list - this is a project I work on duri

Re: [techtalk] Direct 3d acceleration

2000-02-15 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
coder wrote: > So, my questions is this: Does anyone have OpenGL support for direct > hardware > access in XFree86 or even a commercial product? As far as I know, hardware 3D acceleration support will be included in XFree86-4.0. -- |< () http://kir.sever.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [techtalk] Windows ssh clients

2000-01-18 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
"Wendt,Andrew" wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, you wrote: > >What are some ssh clients available for Windows platforms? Where can I find them? > > PuTTY is here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ > > It's free... I believe it's written by one of the Nasm authors. I have a free win

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] Disk imaging software

2000-01-04 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One thing that I've seen a lot of in the Windows world is imaging products > like Ghost and ImageCast -- basically, the make an image of a hard disk and > put it in a file. You can then use this file to re-image other computers. > When you have a complex installation,

Re: [techtalk] linux + disk

1999-12-28 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Kathy Hargreaves wrote: > Does anyone know if Red Hat 5.2 has any Y2K problems? www.redhat.com claims that since 4.2 there are no y2k related problems. But I think there are many other problems, so in any case you should at least apply all the recommended updates. > Also, I seem to remember the

Re: [techtalk] Pine Usage

1999-12-17 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > (just thought of something ;o)) If it's a constant nuisance you might > also put it in your .profile or .bashrc. Works for me :o) I had to do it > on my university's server 'cause it doesn't like termtype 'linux'. > > -nicole Well, the better way is (or ask your sysadmi

Re: [techtalk] winmodem sound driver

1999-12-13 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Laurel Fan wrote: > Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Dec-99 [techtalk] winmodem sound d.. by > "Theresa Radke"@corelcit > > I have a PC-Chips MB with a winmodem onboard, I visited their > > website and asked an engineer to please provide me with a > > driver, I was actually shocked when he produced a

Re: [techtalk] Slackware and RPM

1999-12-07 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Nils Philippsen wrote: > On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Laurel Fan wrote: > > > Excerpts from linuxchix: 5-Dec-99 [techtalk] Slackware and RPM by Subba > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I am a Slackware user and typically count on "tar" and "gzip" to 3~ > > > extract packages. > > > Some of the tools that I want

Re: [techtalk] linux 6.1 install

1999-10-30 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Sharon Kisel wrote: > At 05:50 AM 10/29/99 GMT, you wrote: > >On 10/28/99, 10:58:23 PM, Sharon Kisel wrote: > > > >> I'm having trouble going through with an update from > >> Redhat 5.2 to 6.1. > >[...] > > argh! lotsa information, more then i thought i'd get back! > > I'm going to work on this

Re: [techtalk] linux 6.1 install

1999-10-29 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Laurel Fan wrote: > Excerpts from linuxchix: 29-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] linux 6.1 in.. by Kir > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 2. Mount CD-ROM, cd to its "images" directory (on my machine I type "mount > > /mnt/cdrom; cd /mnt/cdrom/images") and do > > > > cp boot.img /dev/fd0 > > > > This command will cre

Re: [techtalk] linux 6.1 install

1999-10-28 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Tonya Winter wrote: > I have the same problem Sharon describes. I tried it again and this is what > I found when I pressed Alt F3: > > mounting hdc on /tmp/rhimage as type iso9660 > creating directory /tmp/rhimage rc=0 > calling mount (/tmp/hdc, /tmp/rhimage, iso9660, -1058209791, (nil)) > removi

Re: [techtalk] linux 6.1 install

1999-10-28 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Sharon Kisel wrote: > I'm having trouble going through with an update from Redhat 5.2 to 6.1. I > have a bootdisk, which goes through to the choice of update from Cdrom or > Hdd. when i choose cdrom, and put the cd in, the drive light comes on and > the screen changes to "welcome to redhat linu

Re: [techtalk] Would like advice on building system

1999-10-27 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Cathy James wrote: > I apologize if this question has already gone out. > Does Linux support AGP cards, or only PCI? I have S3Trio64/2X 4Mb AGP card and it works fine with XFree86 3.3.5 after a bit of hacking. The problem is a small bug in 3.3.5 which prevents from detecting the card correctly.

Re: [techtalk] CD ROM

1999-10-24 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Tonya Winter wrote: >Thank you Jane for warning me about 6.1, maybe I will upgrade to 6.0 > instead. I beleive Jane was wrong while she told you that 6.1 is not a "stable" release. She seems to mix kernel versioning system and RedHat distribution versions. So let me tell you: when we speak

Re: [techtalk] Would like advice on building system

1999-10-19 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Cathy James wrote: > Also, what prices can I expected for inexpensive Ethernet cards? > I'd like to eventually network this machine with my husband's, and configure > the 486 I'm replacing to server as an Internet firewall/server. Seems that you don't need FastEthernet, so you can stick

Re: [techtalk] To me it fast becomes a non-technicalissue...(COREL/GIMP/PHOTOSHOP etc.)

1999-10-19 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Kelly Lynn Martin wrote: > On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 04:13:33 +0000, Kir Kolyshkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >There is feature freeze now in GIMP development front, and I use last > >released development version 1.1.10 and can't see any vector graphics > >support

Re: [techtalk] To me it fast becomes a non-technicalissue...(COREL/GIMP/PHOTOSHOP etc.)

1999-10-19 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Kelly Lynn Martin wrote: > On Sat, 16 Oct 1999 10:05:54 +0000, Kir Kolyshkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >Well, there is one VERY important issue - do you need BITMAPPED > >graphics or VECTORED one. GIMP, Corel PhotoPaint, Adobe Photoshop are > >all doing

Re: [techtalk] To me it fast becomes a non-technicalissue...(COREL/GIMP/PHOTOSHOP etc.)

1999-10-19 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
"Caitlyn M. Martin" wrote: > But... for a simple vector graphics program that is open source and ree, > KIlliustrator is worth looking at :) Since CorelDRAW! for Linux doesn't exist > yet, that's what I'm using. > > > except for xfig and the likes > > Kir, wouldn't you agree that KIllustrator

Re: [techtalk] To me it fast becomes a non-technicalissue...(COREL/GIMP/PHOTOSHOP etc.)

1999-10-16 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Steve Kudlak wrote: > After talking a number of people on line, this always seems like the "vi > vs. EMACS" debate. In that besides it sounds an awful lot like me saying to > a vi enthusiast "But vi DOESN'T EVEN TRY TO DO WHAT EMACS can..." it would > fast become just some weird argument in the t

Re: [techtalk] PS2 Mouse and RH6.1 - almost solved

1999-10-16 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Michelle Leonard wrote: > Thanks Kir! You are welcome! > Mouse was misbehaving in both console and X > > The ps command returns > gpm -t imps > which is not right, since I switched to a generic ps2 > mouse. So after reviewing gpm manpage, ran > killall gpm > gpm -t ps2

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] A simple problem

1999-10-10 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Ellen Gibboney wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone tell me why I can't kill a netscape pid, It just hangs there > and slows everything down. I removed a lock file. It seems like a > simple problem. Yes, it happens sometimes with Netscape (bug), and if you see it in the top of 'top' output but nowhe

Re: [techtalk] Setting up my Mitsumi 4802TE CDRW under Redhat Linux6.0

1999-10-09 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
JoAnn Elliott wrote: > hello all, > as long as this discussion is on, my Mitsumi CDRW is 4802TU for USB, is > there any hope for this? I am using Linux on laptop. I'm afraid you'll have to wait for kernel 2.4, which will be released sometime in Nov or Dec... -- |< () http://kir.sever.net [EMAI