Re: [techtalk] Fwd: Question re: Firewalls

2001-05-13 Thread Nils Philippsen
' 5. reject(*) any packet contacting our TCP or UDP ports 113 (ident/auth) -- some servers out there are nosy and we don't want them to wait on a timeout before they serve us 6. Log any packet that came this far (before dropping it) "nat" table ======= POSTROUTING chain -

Re: [techtalk] Minor ln -s question

2001-04-23 Thread Nils Philippsen
s directive inside your virtual host definition in httpd.conf: [...] Alias /var/www/shag/ /shag/ [...] Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching

Re: [techtalk] RE: [grrltalk] webads

2001-04-16 Thread Nils Philippsen
US TV/phone/cable provider where you could get TV, phone and cable modem access (4Mbit/s and 1 static IP, not the lousy ADSL 768/128kbit with dynamic IPs you get over here (or not)) for 60 or 70 USD a month. Let's talk about envy ;-/. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-712

Re: [techtalk] Red Hat 7.0 and video cards

2001-01-18 Thread Nils Philippsen
cific, sorry (it seems that every distributor wants to boil its own soup when it comes to X configuration). Maybe the Red Hat packages work on andrake as well, but I don't know really. Best wishes, Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [techtalk] Red Hat 7.0 and video cards

2001-01-17 Thread Nils Philippsen
ctively. Of course you should be able to recycle an old XF86Config. To distinguish between version 3 and 4, the old style configuration file is /etc/X11/XF86Config and the new style one (for XF 4) is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +

Re: [techtalk] SQUID PROXY THINGIE

2000-12-10 Thread Nils Philippsen
etc/squid/squid.conf itself. Oh, and get yourself a proper ISP that doesn't force you to use their proxy (which might or might not work). Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of

Re: [techtalk] Gnome question

2000-10-15 Thread Nils Philippsen
su to. After you finish su, it will be removed. If you don't want that behaviour, just comment out this line in /etc/pam.d/su: sessionoptional /lib/security/pam_xauth.so Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL

[techtalk] Re: [issues] Standards?? PHOOEY!!!

2000-07-02 Thread Nils Philippsen
were plug compatible? Don't forget that up to (Super) Socket 7 this more or less was the case. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind;

Re: [techtalk] X port

2000-06-25 Thread Nils Philippsen
nnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 xhost: unable to open display "localhost:0" nils@wombat:~> DISPLAY=:0 xhost access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect >8 Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.20

Re: [techtalk] friendly html/php editor on linux?

2000-06-07 Thread Nils Philippsen
ftware/ Thanks for the quick response! I will definitely try it out, maybe even try hacking indentation into it (if I don't go nuts with all those braces. LISP *shudder*) Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROT

Re: [techtalk] Web programming and nomic

2000-06-07 Thread Nils Philippsen
database. If you want to be fairly independent of which DB you use (modulo the DB's feature set, that is), take a look at PHPLIB (http://phplib.netuse.de), which has a nice abstraction class with which you can use just about any database through the same API. Nils -- Nils Philippsen /

Re: [techtalk] two questions

2000-06-07 Thread Nils Philippsen
l (I'm talking 7-10MB here) /boot partition, where you put your kernels and initrds into, directly after that other OS, then /, swap, /usr adn whatever else. Newer versions of LILO _could_ support kernels after 1024 cylinders, but the BIOS must support it (only very recent ones do this)

Re: [techtalk] friendly html/php editor on linux?

2000-06-07 Thread Nils Philippsen
ot;woven". I'd really like to have indentation and syntax highlighting working. At the moment I use c++-mode, but that's far from perfect (it gets pretty nuts on the HTML parts :-). Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [techtalk] Gnome and window managers

2000-05-27 Thread Nils Philippsen
e Gtk+ widget library, but in this case this will suffice), what doesn't change is WindowMaker's (WM uses it's own widgets). Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBO

Re: [techtalk] Need help finding scanner to use w/Linux

2000-05-23 Thread Nils Philippsen
ort USB only in a spartanic fashion and with most distros not out of the box) ones. NB: SANE is an interface for applications to access scanners under Linux (Unix?!), comparable to TWAIN under Windows. If you're scanner is supported by SANE, you can e.g. scan directly out of the Gimp. Nils -

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

2000-05-06 Thread Nils Philippsen
test account, I'm not _that_ adventurous) are warned that you're about to loose mail. Well, if I could configure it properly -- but maybe I'm just too stupid. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [techtalk] Major device numbers

2000-04-30 Thread Nils Philippsen
7, 3 May 5 1998 /dev/loop3 brw-rw1 root disk 7, 4 May 5 1998 /dev/loop4 brw-rw1 root disk 7, 5 May 5 1998 /dev/loop5 brw-rw1 root disk 7, 6 May 5 1998 /dev/loop6 brw-rw1 root disk 7, 7 May 5 1998

Re: [techtalk] RH 6.2 and SCSI Probs - Long

2000-04-26 Thread Nils Philippsen
on't solve this problem by recompiling the kernel -- except if you compile the scsi stuff not as a module but statically, which is not a very elegant solution. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL P

Re: [techtalk] sound.... still

2000-04-16 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Nils Philippsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Sarah Hollings wrote: > > > After much frigging about with my system, and I mean ***a very very > > large amount of frigging*** I still cannot get sound working on this > > machine. >

Re: [techtalk] Linux 6.1 Mouse Problems

2000-04-16 Thread Nils Philippsen
PS/2 to > Microsoft but now the mouse pointer sits in the top left corner. Any idea > how to get this mouse working? maybe (I don't have such a mouse) it will work if you specify "IMPS/2" as the protocol (because this actually is 'IntelliMouse over PS/2'). Nil

Re: [techtalk] sound.... still

2000-04-16 Thread Nils Philippsen
t > tell the modconf program what the parameters are to make it sodding well > work. > > I constantly get the error from modconf: > > "/lib/modules/2.2.14/sound.o: invalid parameter io" I haven't configured an AWE for a while, but I think the parameter is called &

Re: [techtalk] procmail question

2000-04-05 Thread Nils Philippsen
nuxchix.org > linuxchix > * ^Cc.*@linuxchix.org > linuxchix > * ^CC.*@linuxchix.org > linuxchix How about this instead: :0 H * ^X-BeenThere:.*@.*linuxchix\.org.* linuxchix Then any mail addressed directly to you (e.g. this one) lands in your INBOX and those addressed to the lists

Re: [techtalk] argh! (gnumeric troubles)

2000-04-04 Thread Nils Philippsen
ndency testing. > > What about --justdb ? If you want to pretend you've installed something, > that works quite nicely. You would have to have a package providing what is missing which is not always the case. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.715

Re: [techtalk] argh! (gnumeric troubles)

2000-04-04 Thread Nils Philippsen
you've installed an equivalent by other means. You can > --nodeps, but that defeats the entire point of dependency testing. That's a symptom of poor packaging :-), honest: apache (or zope or roxen) should provide 'webserver', then windowmanagers 'windowmanager

Re: [techtalk] mutually incompatible files?

2000-04-04 Thread Nils Philippsen
; bonobo. And gnorpm-0.85 needs libxml.so.0 (earlier xml version, Ig uess). Go ahead and install the new libxml, then rebuild gnorpm. Should work. > So I should update gnorpm. What do I do about this bonobo/games problem? > It's also required for gnumeric. > /me beats head against wall

Re: [techtalk] argh! (gnumeric troubles)

2000-04-04 Thread Nils Philippsen
ver more frustrated, I'm sorry being the cause (guessing from the version numbers)... If I can help you any further, don't hesitate asking. Maybe you'll get quicker response by using my work address (the right-most in the sig). Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-7122

Re: [techtalk] argh! (gnumeric troubles)

2000-04-01 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote: > 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 de

Re: [techtalk] argh! (gnumeric troubles)

2000-03-31 Thread Nils Philippsen
, I forgot what's current) gnome-libs (1.0.57, >= 1.0.56 needed) bonobo (0.9) if you want to try out the whole components hullaballoo recent gtk+ and glib (1.2.7) and the rest of the "gnome supportive" stuff (ORBit, imlib, ...) Cheers, Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße

Re: [techtalk] Forgotten root password

2000-03-02 Thread Nils Philippsen
more generic solution, like everyone else has said is Everyone should have "password ..." and "restricted" options set in /etc/lilo.conf. Anyway -- you can't stop me. I've got a screwdriver :-). Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7

Re: [techtalk] Fwd: Blondes???

2000-02-16 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, J B wrote: [jokes snipped] Now this isn't exactly on-topic on techtalk, is it? (F'up set to grrltalk.) Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The us

[techtalk] Re: Browser reviews (was Re: [grrltalk] YA intro)

2000-02-09 Thread Nils Philippsen
th the "Pixmap" theme (which is the worst of all w.r.t. this). Of course, I have a somewhat faster 'puter and I am biased on this issue, but who isn't? Maybe someone can shed some light on to what's the main problem with pixmapped themes (in GTK). Nils -- Nils Philipps

Re: [techtalk] web+ (free version)

2000-01-30 Thread Nils Philippsen
gt; At some time future I will try to learn those fun languages but right > now to many things are going for me to start. I've been experimenting with PHP for just a week now. I've done db access in C and perl before (and much of it) and this is as easy (perl) or much easier (C) than tho

Re: [techtalk] web+ (free version)

2000-01-30 Thread Nils Philippsen
east, it is free (as in speech). It works by inserting commands directly into the HTML code, á la: [...] This is some html code. And this: is something generated dynamically with PHP. [...] Of course, for e-commerce you would do some database queries (and the like) in the ""-part(s). N

Re: [techtalk] printer probs with 2.2.13 and lpd

2000-01-29 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Dakota Surmonde wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Nils Philippsen wrote: > > > What does `lsmod | grep parport` give? > > since I've got a monolithic kernel absolutely nothing :) but dmesg | grep > parport gives > > parport0: PC-style at 0x3

Re: [techtalk] X emulator for X?

2000-01-27 Thread Nils Philippsen
t virtual terminals, e.g. 32bpp on tty7/:0 and 8bpp on tty8/:1 Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded

Re: [techtalk] printer probs with 2.2.13 and lpd

2000-01-27 Thread Nils Philippsen
ar/spool/lpd/lp/status file says : > waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) What does `lsmod | grep parport` give? Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind;

Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size

2000-01-14 Thread Nils Philippsen
on? I think that at least half of the price was for the monitor, so it must have been something good. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teac

Re: [techtalk] Monitor Size

2000-01-14 Thread Nils Philippsen
one of those TVs of the 70s, you know that round edge stuff. Weird. And expensive. The thing cost something like 30.000DM (~15,000US$) at the time (computer + monitor). Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAI

Re: [techtalk] Which PGP?

2000-01-13 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Subba Rao wrote: > On 0, Nils Philippsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wouldn't use the "original" PGP as it has a pretty dumb license and this > > backdoor crap. I use the GNU Privacy Guard (www.gnupg.org) and am conte

Re: [techtalk] cracked?

2000-01-13 Thread Nils Philippsen
rsion of syslogd/klogd dieing without visible cause. I think it was with RHL 6.0, an update solved the problem. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cri

Re: [techtalk] Which PGP?

2000-01-13 Thread Nils Philippsen
as a pretty dumb license and this backdoor crap. I use the GNU Privacy Guard (www.gnupg.org) and am content with it so far. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; i

Re: [techtalk] cron race

2000-01-09 Thread Nils Philippsen
m that gets run every day, checking whether it's Sunday (and issuing the weekly one), the first of a month (... monthly) or Jan 1st (yearly). That should be an easy one. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [techtalk] libraries gtk+ and glib

2000-01-06 Thread Nils Philippsen
t needs to know what packages in which versions are installed, which have these and those files ...). Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching shou

Re: [techtalk] fixing things, was: missing posts

2000-01-04 Thread Nils Philippsen
of course, you could figure out which of the roughly 100K > registry keys needed to be edited. Good luck. Tried it. Failed. Need I say more :-) ? What bugged me most was that even installing NT over the installation didn't help -- I had to blow it away and start from a "clean"

Re: [techtalk] Postgresql and perl...

2000-01-04 Thread Nils Philippsen
uot;\n"; } -- 8< -- snap or: [...] my $result = PQexec ($conn, ""); [...] print $result->getvalue ($row, $col); [...] for more info, see 'man Pg' or 'perldoc Pg'. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL

[techtalk] fixing things, was: missing posts

2000-01-04 Thread Nils Philippsen
nter. I wasn't able to fix this because the driver didn't install "over it" due to the registry entries and I couldn't _tell_ the system to uninstall it because it didn't show up in the control center. This is unacceptable. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 3

Re: [techtalk] need database recomendations

2000-01-04 Thread Nils Philippsen
concurrent transactions. And it's still by magnitudes faster than some grep on a flat file. Trust me, I use it :-) Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind;

Re: [techtalk] linux on mac hardware

2000-01-04 Thread Nils Philippsen
d'l'ed completely and has got (according to the article) an excellent handbook. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teachi

RE: [techtalk] Filename star

1999-12-31 Thread Nils Philippsen
'*\**' -print" will find all files containing an asterisk except the ones with a dot at the beginning of the name: nils@wombat:~/test> touch '*' '*.*' '.*' nils@wombat:~/test> find . -name '*\**' -print ./* ./*.* Nils -- Nils Philippsen /

Re: [techtalk] Soundcard "stolen" by Quake II

1999-12-29 Thread Nils Philippsen
ices: fuser -v /dev/audio fuser -v /dev/dsp fuser -v /dev/mixer Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regard

Re: [techtalk] sound woes

1999-12-28 Thread Nils Philippsen
and trying with xmms and mp123. Do you have sound compiled as a module and what soundcard do you have? What do 'lsmod' and 'cat /dev/sndstat' give? A first try to see if sound does work is 'cat /boot/vmlinuz >> /dev/audio' :-). Turn the volume down before. If y

Re: [techtalk] X emulator for X?

1999-12-27 Thread Nils Philippsen
installed it from > the cd I installed RH from. Hmm, what does `rpm -q XFree86 XFree86-Xnest` give? You could also run strace on Xnest: strace -o strace.out Xnest -geometry 640x480 :1 (the output will be in the file strace.out) But don't post the strace output directly to the list, it'll

Re: [techtalk] X emulator for X?

1999-12-27 Thread Nils Philippsen
quot; [...] FontPath "unix/:-1" [...] EndSection --- 8< --- All other font paths are commented out in mine. Xnest should use /etc/X11/XF86Config as well. Maybe you use an Xnest from a different version or a differently packages one (e.g. searching for XF86Config in /etc instead of /e

Re: [techtalk] X emulator for X?

1999-12-27 Thread Nils Philippsen
480 with 8bpp): Xwrapper -bpp 8 :1 # if you want, run a windowmanager: fvwm2 & program_you_want_to_run_in_8bpp & Hope this helps, Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of CO

Re: [techtalk] Fax via linux???

1999-12-19 Thread Nils Philippsen
u can use efax (simple, minimalist, shipped with e.g. Red Hat Linux) or HylaFAX (multi-user, multi-modem, a pain to setup :-), http://www.hylafax.org). Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Th

[techtalk] bash v1 vs. v2, was: Package managers

1999-12-19 Thread Nils Philippsen
no problems so far. I (personally -- disclaimer-a-gogo [tm]) think that having v2 as /bin/bash2 wasn't very wise, as it complicates dropping v1 completely somewhere in the future unnecessarily. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [techtalk] Foreign keyboards in X?

1999-12-19 Thread Nils Philippsen
nodeadkeys" # I personally don't want to type ` + SPACE to # get a backtick Well, that's the "should work" way -- tell me if it works (I don't have a Swedish keyboard to test). It should be less pain this way than with xmodmap. Nils --

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

1999-12-16 Thread Nils Philippsen
e, I'm just interested. Hey, I upgraded a running system from libc5 to glibc with RPM, if that isn't smooth, what else? Admittedly, I had to reboot to get the glibc version of init running instead of the old one. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.

Re: [techtalk] UUCP, was: POP mail

1999-12-16 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Jenn V. wrote: > Nils Philippsen wrote: > > Yes, here. And it makes perfect sense to use UUCP on Linux instead of POP. > > With UUCP I have "my own" mail domain and can setup any number of accounts > > if I wish. > > Ditto with SMT

RE: [techtalk] UUCP, was: POP mail

1999-12-16 Thread Nils Philippsen
I don't send or receive sensitive things via email. But POP/IMAP have the same issues (unless the SSL variants are used). Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples

[techtalk] UUCP, was: POP mail

1999-12-16 Thread Nils Philippsen
lls. Anyway when I'm out of college I'm gonna have to find a provider that lets me do UUCP instead of POP/IMAP. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples th

Re: [techtalk] XFree86 on a Neomagic 256ZX LT

1999-12-15 Thread Nils Philippsen
inks by hand. That won't work, because the config will be for the VGA16 server und you'd Maybe you could give the 3.9 betas a try. It is possible that they have better support for the Neomagic (guessing here). Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.

Re: [techtalk] bizarre....

1999-12-13 Thread Nils Philippsen
stro with RPM ... (almost anything except Slackware, Debian, Corel (Debian derivative) and Stampede IIRC). Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching shoul

Re: [techtalk] Fw: Modprobe soundcore

1999-12-06 Thread Nils Philippsen
your PATH (it's in /sbin) so try '/sbin/modprobe ...' instead. Do you try this command as a non-root user? Only root can fiddle with (kernel-)modules. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL

Re: [techtalk] Slackware and RPM

1999-12-06 Thread Nils Philippsen
t be easily > unpacked with normal unix tools. Unless you count perl as a normal unix tool. On http://www.iagora.com/~espel/rpm2cpio you can see how to grab the cpio.gz out of the rpm in perl -- rpm is just a cpio.gz with a header. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Strasse 39 / D-71229 Leonb

Re: [techtalk] Bourne Shell Programming and Awk

1999-12-06 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Cat wrote: [snip] > LIST=`ls -l $DIR | awk '{print \$9}'` I think you'll just have to leave the backslash out. The awk command is already in single quotes, so the $9 will go to awk unencumbered. That's my guess at least :-) Nils -- Nils Philippse

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

1999-11-28 Thread Nils Philippsen
tion markers. No I'm not going to tell names, dig the archives by yourself. Please. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115 / D-70197 Stuttgart / +49.711.6599405 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; i

Re: [techtalk] ftp only shell for users...

1999-11-27 Thread Nils Philippsen
(or /bin/true for that matter) isn't in /etc/shells. Some daemons check for the user's shell there. Just a guess. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115 / D-70197 Stuttgart / +49.711.6599405 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the

Re: [techtalk] Users and everything?

1999-11-27 Thread Nils Philippsen
nown problem -- it should get solved if you update to the latest pppd, usermode and rp3 packages. Then use rp3 to connect (I don't know if kppp works this way). I know that rp3 is made for gnome, but it should work with KDE, too. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115 / D-70197

Re: [techtalk] cutting up pdf files

1999-11-24 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Kathy Hargreaves wrote: > Anyone know how to extract certain pages from PDF files? Hmm, load it up in ghostview or gv (if you have a recent ghostscript), select the pages and save them? Just a guess, might even be wrong. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115

Re: [techtalk] a really dumb "make" question

1999-11-15 Thread Nils Philippsen
? Sorry but you have to be a bit more specific for intelligent answers :-), so what did you try to do, how did you do it, etc. > (slack 4.0) Sorry, but I can't remember how to check for specific packages with Slackware. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115 / D-70197 Stut

Re: [techtalk] StarOffice and Gnome installation issues

1999-11-15 Thread Nils Philippsen
ished (I don't know what the current limit is, if any). Even with old kernels it was possible to use multiple swap partitions. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115 / D-70197 Stuttgart / +49.711.6599405 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cri

RE:[techtalk] StarOffice and Gnome installation issues

1999-11-15 Thread Nils Philippsen
Hi, Karl-Heinz and others, I take this as an invitation to nitpicking :-) On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: > On 11/13/99, 12:37:15 PM, Nils Philippsen erroneously: > > > StarOffice is a real memory hog > > Unfortunately this is true. :-( > We managed it

Re: [techtalk] Thanks! and PDF files

1999-11-15 Thread Nils Philippsen
y museum :-). Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115 / D-70197 Stuttgart / +49.711.6599405 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence. -- Edsger W.

Re: [techtalk] Free Purify equivalent?

1999-11-15 Thread Nils Philippsen
of and checking which mem areas get allocated and not freed (I think). It's got a nice UI and shows you were memory got allocated which didn't get freed afterwards (along with function names and line numbers, if compiled with debugging symbols). Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115

RE:[techtalk] StarOffice and Gnome installation issues

1999-11-13 Thread Nils Philippsen
more than possible that it just consumes more RAM than you have (if you have less than 128MB, I'm almost sure it does) and Linux is steadily swapping pages out of memory on the disk and vice versa. I wait for Miguel advancing with his bonobo stuff, so that I finally can use gnu

Re: [techtalk] Thanks! and PDF files

1999-11-13 Thread Nils Philippsen
> know where I can get a tool to (easily) create PDF files in Linux? (Note: > cheaper is better. ;^) Ghostscript has a PDF output device, so you may just produce Postscript and let ghostscript render the PDF. ghostscript here has a nice script that does it for you: ps2pdf. More info: man gs

Re: [techtalk] StarOffice and Gnome installation issues

1999-11-13 Thread Nils Philippsen
t specifically noted as being) > RedHat specific. Could you supply us with the error messages? Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115 / D-70197 Stuttgart / +49.711.6599405 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its t

[techtalk] Gnome/KDE, was: netscape woes

1999-11-11 Thread Nils Philippsen
Netscape has it's bugs, but it is open, usually in multiple iterations (just > like on your machine, Deb) almost all the time, and it isn't all that awful. > Yes, it needs to be closed now and again. Netscape -- when not crashing -- tends to be a real hog here with me, both perf

Re: [techtalk] swtiching rhat drives . . .

1999-11-11 Thread Nils Philippsen
d recursion and "copying a device as a device". Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115 / D-70197 Stuttgart / +49.711.6599405 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarde

Re: [techtalk] netscape woes

1999-11-10 Thread Nils Philippsen
d use it for something else), if it weren't doing that properly, no one would use Linux for serious stuff (and I don't mean Netscape). Reboots are for hardware and kernel (though that may be solved sometime in the future) upgrades. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115 / D-70197

Re: [techtalk] swtiching rhat drives . . .

1999-11-10 Thread Nils Philippsen
ere you using for cp? It _only_ works with '-a' all others ('-dpf' for example) copy "byte by byte" and thus fill your disk :-). Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115 / D-70197 Stuttgart / +49.711.6599405 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [techtalk] swtiching rhat drives . . .

1999-11-09 Thread Nils Philippsen
hat I really need to know about. Then leave out the -v switch. Some like silence, some not. When copying whole filesystems one might want to know how long it'll take to finish. That's where stderr redirection is due. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115 / D-70197 Stuttgart / +49.7

Re: [techtalk] swtiching rhat drives . . .

1999-11-09 Thread Nils Philippsen
f a different disk. If you have SCSI, it might suffice to just switch the IDs afterwards, boot off a floppy and do the LILO stuff then. Remember: have a boot floppy at hand if you mess with LILO. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115 / D-70197 Stuttgart / +49.711.6599405 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [techtalk] pppd problems using kppp/RH6.0

1999-11-01 Thread Nils Philippsen
t; My modem is a Practical Peripherals MC288LCD V.34. I don't think that the type of modem is an issue. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115 / D-70197 Stuttgart / +49.711.6599405 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; it

Re: [techtalk] ISA / PCI

1999-10-28 Thread Nils Philippsen
> On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 16:06:52 +0200 (CEST), Xavier Gutierrez Munoz > wrote: > > >I don't have any idea of doin' it from software. If you decide to open the As I said before, it's as simple as looking for the PCI-to-ISA bridge in /proc/pci. No magic. Nils -- Nils

Re: [techtalk] ISA / PCI

1999-10-27 Thread Nils Philippsen
re? if not, i > suppose i'll open the box up, but even then, how can i tell? if `cat /proc/pci | grep -i isa` yields something like this: 'ISA bridge: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 2).', you have ISA. But in general you simply have an ISA bus, ISA-less machines are few. Nils -- N

Re: [techtalk] Would like advice on building system -- video

1999-10-27 Thread Nils Philippsen
odoo2, it's not X's department, as it only does the 3D accel > bits. Mine works great in q3test, I haven't bothered to try it with > anything else. Hmm. This might be interesting when XF86-4.0 comes (Mesa+GLX *yummy*). Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115 /

RE: [techtalk] Would like advice on building system -- video

1999-10-26 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Cathy James wrote: > > Does anyone know if XFree86 supports the Voodoo2 > and/or Voodoo3? According to http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.5/README3.html, Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo3 cards are supported. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115 / D-70197

Re: [techtalk] Newbie: my printer.

1999-10-25 Thread Nils Philippsen
t on RHL 6.0) to be lucky. At least that's my experience. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115 / D-70197 Stuttgart / +49.711.6599405 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded a

Re: [techtalk] ISA Ethernet card under RHat 6

1999-10-25 Thread Nils Philippsen
rts > >cat /proc/interrupts > > None of the things in ioports seem to be something that > looks like a my NIC. It only gets shown if the driver for it is installed correctly (it shows the resources the kernel assigned to the various devices). What type of card is yours? N

Re: [techtalk] Is there a Kill -8, too?

1999-10-16 Thread Nils Philippsen
tion, but...what > > shall I do, if this "kill -9" just does'nt work? Not very long time > > ago it just happened, so what to do for avoiding such situation?? Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115 / D-70197 Stuttgart / +49.711.6599405 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [

Re: [techtalk] Is there a Kill -8, too?

1999-10-13 Thread Nils Philippsen
> > > Just This Girl wrote: > > > > > > > > > Did you try 'kill pid' or 'kill -9 pid'? 'kill -9' should bring down > > > > > anything. > > > > I'm sorry, if I bother you with a really silly quest

Re: [techtalk] using ppp as non root user

1999-01-16 Thread Nils Philippsen
or the ppp server to all normal users. I don't know which distro you have, but with Red Hat Linux 6.1, there's the usermode/rp3/wvdial combo which does just that what you want. And it's got a nice panel applet, too :-) Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115 / D-70197 Stutt

Re: [techtalk] pppd problems using kppp/RH6.0

1999-01-04 Thread Nils Philippsen
) under "A shorter index->Issues of TCP/IP Networking->IP Routing". The next thing would be setting up IP masquerading and/or WWW proxying if you have more computers on your network with which you want to access the internet. Bye, Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Vogelsangstrasse 115 / D