On Mar 4, Telsa Gwynne conjectured:
> On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 09:47:20PM +0100 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't have much experience with dailup connections but anyway..
>
> Me neither, alas.
Yeah, that's the problem among my friends -- they all have DSL, so th
I hope someone here can give me an idea about what I can try here. I've
already asked a few people I know, and they were all lost.
So here's the troube: About 2 weeks ago, I wsa trying to upgrade from
RedHat 6 to 6.2, and the cd I was using is bad somehow. Like it got to a
certain point in th
On Nov 22, -sjh- conjectured:
> Karl-Heinz wrote:
>
> > I obviously misinterpreted that "awesome"! In my simple mind "awesome"
> > seemed to be a negative word - like terrible - but now that I come to
> > think about it there is a far remembering of it also meaning "superbe".
>
> "Awesome" sou
On May 14, Emily the visible conjectured:
> My box can ping itself. It tries to send out pings and makes its light
> on the hub blink. I dunno if windows boxen can ping themselves, and when
> it tries to send out a ping it doesn't make its light on the hub blink.
>
> Therefore, I'm concluding th
On Apr 3, Eric Baudais conjectured:
> > windowmanager is needed by gnome-core-1.1.6-0.1
>
> It says you don't have a windowmanager installed which seems unlikely,
> but maybe you don't. If you don't I would recommend either Sawmill,
> WindowMaker, or Enlightenment.
I'm already using Enligh
On Apr 3, Beverly Guillermo conjectured:
> What version of redhat are you updating? You might be better off getting
> the latest CD and doing a complete system upgrade. =)
6.0. Last I heard, 6.1 was buggy. 6.2 is out, but I don't have time or
patience to download it, and the nearest computers
I'm trying to get gnumeric to upgrade. Still. SO I tried installing some
packages that don't look gnumeric-related (gnome-games, actually, and
esound.) So, I try to install bonobo, and it tells me that there is a
conflict with the file /usr/share/gnome/apps/Games/gnomine.desktop in
instlling bo
Okay... so I tried to rpm -Uvh all the stuff I downloaded (which wasn't
everything in the directory, but I got ~20 packages), and it said this:
error: failed dependencies:
indent is needed by ORBit-devel-0.5.0-0.1
windowmanager is needed by gnome-core-1.1.6-0.1
libgdk_pixb
THanks!
I put all the rpms it looked like i neded onto the iBook, and I'll try
upgrading them this afternoon. If that doesn't wrk, I don't know what
I'll do... cry, probably.
Conni
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On Mar 30, Nils Philippsen conjectured:
> hmm, this too is antiquated... gnumeric-0.51 is the current version
Huh. 0.38 was the most recent rpm gnome.org had. SO I'll get the source
and deal with it, maybe. Unless someone knows where I can find an rom for
gnumeric-0.58...
> (does anyone know
On Mar 30, Rik Hemsley conjectured:
> > 00098304 T gtk_object_get_data
> > 00098280 T gtk_object_get_data_by_id
> > 00096914 T gtk_object_get_type
> > 00098698 T gtk_object_get_user_data
> > 000975b0 T gtk_object_getv
>
> Whichever version that is, it's screwed.
THat appears to be the one in /u
On Mar 30, Rik Hemsley conjectured:
> Search your system for old versions of the gtk library.
> find /usr/lib /usr/local/lib -name 'libgtk*'
/usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
/usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0.1.0
/usr/lib/libgtkxmhtml.so.1
/usr/lib/libgtkxmhtml.so.1.0.1
/usr/lib/libgtk.a
/usr/lib/libgtk.la
/usr/l
I swear, this computer is tying to kill me. I noticed that I had a near-
antiquated version of gnumeric, so I downloaded version .38, and tried to
install it... failed depndencies. So I got the libraries it wanted,
installed them, and upgraded gnumeric. It didn't complain during the
installatio
On Mar 27, Tina Johnsson conjectured:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Shaun wrote:
> [--snip--]
> > anyone know of a stable spreadsheet?, have had trouble with gnumeric and abacus
> > i would prefer xwindows based, but will try terminal if they are worth it
>
> I loved the spreadsheet included in StarOff
On Mar 26, Darren Osadchuk conjectured:
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Rik Hemsley wrote:
>
> [snip]
> >> (I wonder what I did last night that caused the problem; I didn't change
> >> ownership of anything...)
> >
> >Um, you ran Gnome ? It's buggy.
>
> Well, I'm new enough at this to not be wedded to a
On Mar 18, Jeff conjectured:
> Ack! That cheap mobo comment wasn't directed at you, Lighthouse Keeper,
> that was the quality of the i586 mobos I had to deal with... The 486
> might use a wierd chipset, or just be getting worn out (sometimes that
> happens, but not often). My apologies.
:) I
Argh. So I reinstalled the whole bloody thing. Thsi time I told it to go
only to cylinder 1024 (the old disk has 1046 cylinders) and unmounted
the dos partition before updating the db. It seemed happy, except that,
for some reason, the DOS partition is mounted read-only. Even if I
explicitly t
So. I finally got an ethernet card for my old 486 and put linux on it.
But there are weird problems with the filesystem, including during
updatedb, getting FAT errors for the dos partition and "attempt to read
past end of block". And the gcc is either not there or non-functional. I
put RedHat 6
On Mar 6, Jeff Dike conjectured:
> > Strings? How do I do that? Then how do I get the stuff from the
> > output?
>
> strings is a very handy little utility. 'strings filename' goes through
> filename printing out anything that looks like text.
Well, if there were actually anything *useful*
On Mar 6, Robert Siemer conjectured:
> From: "Caitlyn M. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > ... Netscape
> > freezing hard, and other random freeze ups. When I went away from Gnome
> > (admittedly an older version) my problems went away. Oh, Netscape still
> > hangs sometimes (4.71), but it doe
On Mar 6, Laurel Fan conjectured:
>
> Yeah, I didn't read the message after that before replying, sorry...
'Sokay :)
> So in my reply to that, I said basically "yes, probably a version
> problem". Since upgrading ICQ is not an option, have you tried strings
> on the files? If that works, you
On Mar 6, Laurel Fan conjectured:
> Excerpts from linuxchix: 6-Mar-100 Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/i.. by
> Lighthouse t. D. Sun@one
> > A ls of that directory gives me uin.dat and uin.idx. 'more'ing them gives
> > me garble. If it's possible to import the file, that might work, but I
> > haven'
On Mar 6, aaron conjectured:
> Change msdos to vfat in the fstab. Line 4 is probably the filesystem
> type that it's complaining about. I don't believe "auto" is valid.
According to a message from Feb 16, from K-H Zimmer, it is. I'd cut and
paste, but that's a pain in pine.
However, man moun
On Mar 6, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun conjectured:
>
> A ls of that directory gives me uin.dat and uin.idx. 'more'ing them gives
> me garble. If it's possible to import the file, that might work, but I
> haven't seen a way to do that yet. I can look m
/dev/hda3 / ext2defaults 1 1
/dev/hda2 swapswapdefaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/dosc msdos defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0/mnt/floppy autosync,user,noauto,
On Mar 6, aprilk conjectured:
> >
> In the icq directory there is one called 'Db99b' if you have one of the more recent
>versions or 'Db' for the older ones I think, it has files in there with your icq uin.
>Those are your contact list and history databases.
> I don't know if everybuddy uses th
The last 2 nights around 10pm, my system has been freezing up totally.
What I was doing at the time:
case a (sat):
seti@home on tty2
pppd running, modem connected.
enlightenment/gnome
netscape
xchat
everybuddy
ssh in terminal
'make' as su for xmms install.
it froze right after i told it to 'make'
Since I was having infinite trouble getting ICU to work, I went and
downloaded everybuddy. Now I need to get my ICQ contact list back. THat
means booting windows, though, unless it's findable in my windows
partition from under linux. It appears not to be so. I've been searching
the directory w
On Mar 3, Rik Hemsley conjectured:
> #if Simona Nass
> > Other than Excel, is there anything like it for UNIX? -S.
>
> Apparently Gnumeric is supposed to be like Excel. Funny, it
> doesn't seem anything like it to me. Perhaps I missed something,
> or perhaps it's just Gnome hype strikes again.
On Mar 1, Linda Walsh conjectured:
> I just recently jumped on the seti bandwagon. I downloaded the
> unix client (text only) -- but there is reference to an 'xseti'
> add-on that plots the seti data. Does anyone know where I can
> download it? I couldn't find it on the setiathome.ssl.berkele
Okay... So i downloaded gnome-core-devel, ./configured, and make. Still
not doing waht it's supposed to. SHould I just paste the whole make
output? I'm about to say to Tartarus with it and get everybuddy.
Conni
cursing like a sailor at the computer
--
First we go to Three Mile Island, then
On Feb 18, Dan Nguyen conjectured:
> Your missing some more devel stuff. As you see below your missing
> gnome-config and well without it your program wn't know where to find
> the panel-applet-devel stuff. I'm not sure which rpm they would be
> available in :(
Hmm. I do have the gnome-config
On Feb 18, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun conjectured:
> Okay. So discovering that it needed the devel libraries to install was
> one thing. I got all the files, and installed them. So I told gnomeicu
> to ./configure, and it gave me this error again:
> checking for gnome-
Okay. So discovering that it needed the devel libraries to install was
one thing. I got all the files, and installed them. So I told gnomeicu
to ./configure, and it gave me this error again:
checking for gnome-config... no
checking for gnomeConf.sh file in /usr/local/lib... not found
configure
On Feb 16, Ji Lee conjectured:
> are you sure you have gnome development library?
> the file "gnome-config" comes in gnome-lib-devel-1.xx.xx package
> You can check by typing "rpm -q -l gnome-libs-devel | egrep gnome-config"
Bleh. Guess not. Too bad my ppp connection sucks too much to download
Okay, so I got the source. Now, I ./configure'd it, and says this:
[root@sakura gnomeicu-0.90b]# ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checki
Okay, so I just installed gnomeicu. (I used the rpm, so I may decide to
go back and get the source later if I can't get it worked out right.)
Okay. So, I ran it, and it worked... until I wanted to add a contact. It
gave me this error:
gnomeicu: error in loading shared libraries: gnomeicu: und
On Feb 9, Glenda R. Snodgrass conjectured:
> > pages. I'm trying to learn it so I can use it for papers for a class I'm
> > in (plain old pico isn't quite good enough for something I have to turn in
> > for a grade...)
>
> If you're not averse to popular GUI apps, you might want to try the Linu
So, I wasn't paying attention and I think I missed a discussion of this
before.
What references exist for LaTeX? I have the TeX "gentle introduction" but
I tried doing it, and it didn't work. (I used the tags they suggested,
and latex foo.tex gave me about 30 errors.) I looked at the man pages
Okay, so last night Ben and I bought an iBook. (I couldn't resist. It
was too cute.) The screen resolution isn't wonderful, but it'sn not too
bad, either. It has max of 800x600 since it's only got 4 MB video ram.
Anyway. Y'all remember how I was having trouble convincing my Linux
firewalling
On Feb 5, Nicole Zimmerman conjectured:
> > > Braille terminal ? ;)
> >
> > Heh. Actually I have near-perfect vision in my left eye - and am almost
> > legally blind in the right.
>
> My eyes aren't too great either. My right eye used to be glued to my
> nose while my left was nearly okay (thou
On Feb 2, Terri Oda conjectured:
> Incidentally, the other thing I loved about Eurocom was that their techs
> were totally unphased when I brought it in for servicing (the hard drive
> was faulty) and they found that i'd made it a dual boot. They told me that
> I'd have to reinstall linux myself
On Jan 28, Davida Schiff conjectured:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Red Hat 6.1 and was wondering if there's there a way to boot directly
>into gnome without having to log in (anywhere). I am setting up the PC for my mom and
>need it to be very user friendly.
>
I've never done this, but from what I
So, signs point to the problem not being this box. The problem actually
lies either with the Mac or somewhere between the Mac and here. We both
think that the hub probably isn't bad, since it's stil pretty new (less
than a year old) and some diagnostic tests show that its behavior is
consistent
On Jan 25, Laurel Fan conjectured:
> Excerpts from linuxchix: 24-Jan-100 Re: [techtalk] Really weird.. by
> Lighthouse t. D. Sun@one
> > The problem lies somewhere between eth0 (my computer) and eth1 (the mac 4
> > feet away). They don't want to talk to each other. Silly machines.
>
> Do they
It was taking too long to delete all the unnecessary included lines from
my previous message, so:
I have a USR sportster 56k ISA modem. It's currently working to connect
me through kppp. There's something weird in the chat script, is all I can
figure.
THe computers are connected through a NetGe
On Jan 24, Brian Engle conjectured:
> 1) ping the eth0(internal LAN) address of the linux box from the linux box
> (this meant the net card is working)
Did that, several times. Worked.
> 2) ping your external IP(ppp0) address from the linux box (this means tcp/ip
> is set up right on the linux
On Jan 24, Laurel Fan conjectured:
> Make sure everything's locking/unlocking the modem correctly? (check
> /var/lock)
One I can answer in a sentence or two. Joy.
I deleted the lock option from ppp-options to appease kppp (which I can
run as su, but I haven't for the life of me any idea how t
Okay. So, as some of you may already know, my system was hacked a week or
two before Christmas. So I backed up the important data (minus one dialup
script, but that's a problem I'll get to shortly.) and put a tarball of it
on Ben's Mac. I figured I'd deal with it when we got back from vacation,
On Jan 24, Brian Engle conjectured:
> sorry to be nitpicky
>
> > From: Laurel Fan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > Excerpts from linuxchix: 23-Jan-100 Re: [techtalk] ipchains log.. by
>^^
> y2k?
Actually, it's probably an Elm problem. CS-UNC had a similar
On Jan 14, V Clarke conjectured:
> I'd love to, but this version of Pine doesn't _have_ replyall. It prompts
> you when you hit reply; if you choose the replyall option, it replies to
> the sender with a CC to the mailing list; if not you only get the sender.
> It also prompts for reply-to header
On Jan 14, Wendt,Andrew conjectured:
> What do you people prefer as colours for extended viewing of text? :-)
I personally like white letters on black background. And word processing
apps are always black letters on white bg. This is why I prefer to use
paper copy for extended reading. I can'
On Dec 17, Alain Toussaint conjectured:
> > Alas, tis an internal OEM with no documentation. It's an old USRobotics
> > Sportster 56K internal.
>
> i have an internal sportster 33.6 modem currently,would you like that i share
> my configurations files (but then,i dunno if they will apply direct
On Dec 17, Jenn V. conjectured:
> Can you listen to the modem and watch the lights - do they
> change? Does the modem react at all to the initialisation
> string? Have you power cycled the modem a few times (leaving
> it off long enough for its ram to clear - twenty seconds
> should be enough
On Dec 16, Tech Docs conjectured:
> Friends... let me be very specific about my pine problem. On the machine
> things work fine and perfect. When I give a telnet and then use Pine it says
> ansi not set and Pine cannot run. I checked my Telnet mode and I do not find
> anything unusual. What could
On Dec 15, Robert Kiesling conjectured:
> I'm not sure about the masquerading because my systems are the proxy
> server type. But I'm sure I could help config the ppp. Depends on
> whether your using the standard /etc/ppp/ system-wide files or a
> wrapper like kppp.
I'm using the /etc/ppp stu
On Dec 14, Robert Kiesling conjectured:
> More likely, the video card was specified incorrectly, perhaps
> from the start, and XFree86 didn't use any of the incompatible
> features until it tried to use the higher res. Rechecking
> the hardware config and hand-editing the XF86Config file is
> m
On Dec 14, Laurel Fan conjectured:
> Excerpts from linuxchix: 14-Dec-99 [techtalk] update by Lighthouse t. D.
> Sun@one
> > Any ideas as to what would cause this?
>
> Possibly, X is trying to run at a higher resolution/colordepth/refresh
> rate than is possible with your monitor and video card
Okay, it was definitely a hack, but not an interesting one at all. What I
did was a full reinstall with reformat and everything, after tarring my
home directory on storing it on my bf;s Mac. I saved a few other
inportanat files that I didn't feel like recreating (rc.local and
rc.firewall come to
Okay, so today I was using my ppp connection for several hours, then we
went to watch Sunday night Fox and came back. I have the command to dial
aliased to include tail -f /var/log/messages. I told it to dial, and it
said "tail: no such file /var/log/messages." I said "Uh" and
tried aga
I know there has to be info somewhere on this... but I can't seem to find
it. I've found tons of sites telling me how to share my printer with NT
or Windows, but I am needing to share it with my guy's Mac.
Pointers to a HOWTO or a list of commands etc are good. (I've been
unable to completely u
On Nov 27, Kathleen Weaver conjectured:
> >People what do you say? Shall we be more text-/console-friendly and
> >standardized on text only emails.
>
> Standard netetiquette says that not only should text-only be sent to email
> lists, but also we should cut down on quoting.
Isn't there also n
On Nov 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] conjectured:
> Excuse me but am I the only one having problems viewing the mails. I use
>Mutt and most emails I received are in HTML format. Can something be
>done (like we standardized on non-HTML emails) or is HTML emails the norm
>here?
>
You are not the first
On Nov 24, Maureen Lecuona conjectured:
> IBM has pretty decent support for the Thinkpad 600 and Red Hat.
>
> But you won't buy one for under $3400. Check out some of the lesser vendors that
> sell linux based servers: VA, Penguin They may have laptops.
>
VA does not, at least that I could s
I'm looking into buying a laptop. So far I've looked at Dell and Sony.
I'd consider a powerbook, if I knew I could get software for it (linux,
that is.) Does anyone know of companies that sell laptops with linux
installed? I don't want to have to pay for more miscrosoft if I don't
have to. I'
On Nov 8, Caitlyn Martin conjectured:
>
> FWIW, my home machines now have just one OS: Linux :)
I'm close... now that I have a working modem set up and ip forwarding and
all... but I can't seem to shake my addiction to age of empires...
What's worst is that I'm really bad at it, too... :P
Co
I got it all straightened out with help from a friend, who was also nice
enough to set up my firewall...
Thanks anyway, though
Conni
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On Nov 7, sara korhonen conjectured:
> > Ben suggests it may not even be reaching the modem. Other programs do
> > reach it, so there probably isn't some glaring configuration error...
> > it's the ones that aren't obvious that get you...
>
> i use minicom mostly to connect to internet via my m
Um, we got the last bit figured out.. however, we still can't get it to
connect: the modem initialization strings never receive an OK. So it
waits 30 seconds, then fails. We know this is really weird. (And when I
use kppp, the string ATZ receives an OK, and in minicom, some long AT
string gets
On Nov 6, Laurel Fan conjectured:
> Are you sure your chat script is correct? The default one doesn't
> always work; for example, my dialup server uses "annex username:"
> instead of "login:".
Yeah, we fixed that after you pointed it out. But
> You can try it out by connecting directly w
On Oct 30, Laurel Fan conjectured:
> Excerpts from linuxchix: 30-Oct-99 [techtalk] partitions etc by
> Lighthouse t. D. Sun@one
> > Is it possible to format a partition of an existing drive?
>
> Yes. The mkfs command takes the device name or mount point of a
> partition as an argument, for exa
Is it possible to format a partition of an existing drive?
My current win98 install is fouled up beyond recognition, and I already
have 5/8 of my drive partitioned for redhat. The other 3/8 is win98, and
I would like to format just htat part since I don't really want to
recreate the entire conten
On Oct 28, Walt conjectured:
> At 03:44 PM 10/28/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >Holy moly, $800 for setup... I guess if that's what it takes to get cable
> >in a rural area. I also didn'tknow that youc ould get cable connections
> >at 512k both ways... mine goes extremely fast for dl, and is somethin
On Oct 28, Caitlyn Martin conjectured:
> It is really bad netiquette, particularly on a UNIX list, to send messages
> in HTML or RTF format. *Please* use plain text. At work, where I have to
> use Microsoft software I can read them, but have you ever seen what HTML
> looks like in KMail? Most
On Oct 11, Deidre L. Calarco conjectured:
> > For example: ME: "You have to mount the disk before you can read it."
> > HE: "Huh? Mount? What is mount? It's already in the drive!"
> > "Recompile the kernel? I don't want popcorn right now!"
> > "The scheduler? My calendar thingy on my Pal
I think this may have bounced the first time I sent it.
On Nov 19, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun conjectured:
> Okay. So I got ppp working, and IP masquerading and ipchains all set up.
> So, I wanted to g*et a file from a remote computer where I have stuff
> stored. I ftp&
Okay. So I got ppp working, and IP masquerading and ipchains all set up.
So, I wanted to get a file from a remote computer where I have stuff
stored. I ftp'ed (don't mention security, okay...) and got the file I
wanted. The first time, it stalled after 600k. The second time, it
stalled after 1
I know this is a similar problem to one that was discussed recently. But
I'm not using kppp. I'm using a script called ppp-on and ppp-on-dialer
that I got from /usr/doc/ppp-2.3.7/scripts/ I'll paste it in (changing
username and pwd to protect the guilty) and the error message that happens
when
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