On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:57:10PM -0400 or thereabouts, Jennifer Davis wrote:
> I've been on this list for a week or so now and I haven't written anything
> yet (sorry!).
:)
> I just purged my Slackware 7.0 and replaced it with Slackware 8.0. It has
> been my easiest install ever of Slackware
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:15:46AM +1000 or thereabouts, Mary Gardiner wrote:
>
> A tailor made solution for this kind of thing is the 'screen' utility.
screen has to be one of the most underrated apps there is. So many
people don't know about it. I prefer it over kterm's tabbed terminal
windows
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 10:57:43AM -0700 or thereabouts, Michelle Dukich wrote:
> 1. We tried to use Mahogany and slurped all our old
> emails over to it. It is COMPLETELY useless to search
> for old messages by keyword which is a BIG need for
> us. From what I have read in Sven's Man pages, it
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:13:43PM + or thereabouts, Subba Rao wrote:
>
> I do tag several email and save them to a folder in one attempt. How do I
> 'delete' or mark the contents of the email folder as 'read' in one attempt?
t for tag a message.
T for tag a pattern.
in this case th
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 03:25:00PM -0400 or thereabouts, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote:
> Hi, everyone,
>
> I decided to play around with the latest version of Gnome kindly provided
> my Mandrake, and something really weird is happening. Somehow, my letter
> "r" key has been remapped. Do you know h
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:08:42PM -0700 or thereabouts, Terry wrote:
> Suse Linux says: (quote)
>
> New! SuSE Blinux for Visually Impaired Customers
Whilst I'm all for the work SuSE did integrating this, Blinux has
been around for a long time. It's not just theirs :)
http://leb.net/blinux/
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 07:44:34PM +0530 or thereabouts, Suhas Pande wrote:
> Respested Sir; hello;
> i ve got P!!! 500 MHz,64 Mb SD RAM,i810 E motherboard in my computer.
> I wanted to install Red Hat linux 7.0 version(i ve it's cd).But i am facing
> serious problems in the very begining of th
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 05:48:21AM -0700 or thereabouts, Michelle Dukich wrote:
> Hello fellow Chix:
>
> I am trying to uninstall Nautilus and my google
> searches to find help all point to Eazel, which is
> dead since they went under. Does anyone have the
> instructions they can send out?
As
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:23:52AM +0100 or thereabouts, Conor Daly wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:26:35PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> Michelle Murrain thought:
> >
> > both of the servers I get my mail on (my home server and work) can do
> > IMAP. Problem is, Netscape/Mozilla
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 10:24:40AM +0100 or thereabouts, Conor Daly wrote:
> The thing that gets me with rpm is the way I cannot query an uninstalled
> package to see what's there...
> isn't installed, do an rpm -ql package-0.1.3.9-i386.rpm and I get back
> "pagkage is not installed" I KNOW it'
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:54:22AM -0500 or thereabouts, piglet wrote:
>
> I notice that no one ever mentions Corel as a newbie distroI'm
> surrounded by RH folks, and I work on RH boxen at work, but it's always been
> confusing to me. Now that I'm running linux on my normal workbox, I opted
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:04:28PM -0700 or thereabouts, Stacy Brock wrote:
> > Methinks there is a significant amount of
> > Debian snobbishness floating around, not too unlike
> > the Gnome vs. KDE desktop wars. Why a distro has to
> > be un-user friendly to be cool is beyond me, and that
> > c
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 05:42:41PM -0400 or thereabouts, coldfire wrote:
> > > Two things, for me. One is that when you compile from source, you
> > > can set compile-time options, change the default install directory,
> > > things like that. With an RPM, all of that gets decided for you.
>
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:16:45PM -0700 or thereabouts, Joseph Barney wrote:
> This is such a newbie question but here goes. Someone
> in the IRC channel #linuxhelp on undernet told me
> about a patch I should get for IRC security (kernek
> patch) and I'm wondering which kernel needs to be
> up
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 06:26:57PM -0700 or thereabouts, Joseph Barney wrote:
> If anyone wants to know where to get Linux cheap
> without having to buy a 40 buck power pack at a store
...
> http://www.lsl.com
> http://www.cheapbytes.com
> http://www.linuxmall.com
> http://www.elinux.com
>
> If a
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:23:49AM +0100 or thereabouts, Paul Hardacre wrote:
> Just yanked this out of the lilo.conf man page:
Wow. This is clearly lilo month on linuxchix. We're going through
that manual like crazy. Passwording it, text mode, what else is in
there? :)
Telsa
_
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:01:33AM +0100 or thereabouts, Conor Daly wrote:
> gnome-terminal and can read all the all of the subject lines in mutt. So
> now, the point of these ramblings... Can I set the console to 128x50 or
> something like that? Had a look at stty but couldn't find anything
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:37:57AM -0500 or thereabouts, Daniel Manrique wrote:
> Do keep in mind that neither GNOME nor KDE are window managers. One could
> think of them as "desktop environments", a part of which is a window
> manager.
I knew someoone would brhing this up :)
[GNOME window mana
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 06:07:25PM -0400 or thereabouts, Linda MacPhee-Cobb wrote:
> I would like to address several issues quickly here.
>
> First to the person who thought that it was foolish to have security set at
> medium on a linux box. rtfm. That is where security should be set for a
>
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 06:10:22PM -0400 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> OK. I never claimed to be a computer "expert", but "trolls" live under
> bridges in my vocabulary (in childrens books mostly) or I "troll" from
> the back of the boat with suitable tackle and bait...
>
> "Troll"
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 12:19:39PM +0200 or thereabouts, Gina Lanik wrote:
> hm, what I forgot - no I don't mean removing the entry for runlevel 1.
> relevant part of my inittab:
> # What to do in single-user mode.
> ~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin
> HTH & HAND,
This won't cover booting with sash or /bin
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 01:47:35AM +1000 or thereabouts, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> However, it did remind me that Linux is a system with a large enough
> public user base to be subject to frequent attacks when on a hostile
> network (eg the internet).
>
> Securing Linux is an important part of ru
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 01:46:45AM +1000 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Oh, I'm soo evil!
>
> > 1) Hardware access exploits (how exactly do you remove a hard drive and gain
> > access to its data, how to encrypt one, how to lock a machine up).
>
> Take one screwdriver.
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 07:30:38PM -0700 or thereabouts, Lothan wrote:
> I should apologize up front for the "me too!" but I couldn't resist
> seconding that motion. Google is amazing for all kinds of searches,
> particularly tech searches. Its search results are far more relevant than
One thing
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:30:57AM -0700 or thereabouts, Brian Sweeney wrote:
> Julia-
> So, to sum it all up:
...
> As a side note, did you want to run make modules and make modules_install?
> Check out the modules.txt file in the Documentation directory of your linux
> src dir for more info
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 01:05:03AM -0400 or thereabouts, A Kozic wrote:
> I'd like to thank everyone who helped me out with my Mandrake stuff.
> It still doesn't work.
> I'm getting Debian.
>
> -- Avery, who wasted $30 on the pipe dream of "easy-to-use"
If you actually spent the money, isn't the
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 02:00:36PM +0100 or thereabouts, James Sutherland wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 29 April 2001 12:49, Sandrine Burriel wrote:
> > ..
> > > I'm
> > ..
> > > using linux occasionnally (because I'm mostly required to work
> > > on windo
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 11:57:30PM +1000 or thereabouts, Neale Green wrote:
> Could anyone advise me of, and/or point me in the direction of (URL) some
> preferred Linux distributions for operations on systems with limited
> resources, please?
>
> I'm currently working with a slightly modified ol
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:54:16AM -0400 or thereabouts, Molly Tomlinson wrote:
> Does anyone have a recommendation for a good, slim laptop? I will be
> taking it on a cross-US bike trip this summer; small and light will be
> my primary concerns. :) I'd like something reasonably powered - I will
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 01:41:27AM -0500 or thereabouts, Samuel Tesla wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > > $ ln -s
> >
> > And if you're like me and constantly forget which order it's
> > in, 'ln --help' or 'man ln'.
>
> I've lost count of how many times I've had to
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:12:43PM +0100 or thereabouts, Conor Daly wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:57:21PM +0200 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> Nils Philippsen thought:
> > On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Lothan wrote:
> >
> > > On a complete different tangent, I never did understand how folks in
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:48:02AM -0400 or thereabouts, Kath wrote:
> Out of boredom, I take a little ride, going past my school. Guess
> what I see? They are putting new windows in the area where the T1
> line enters our school building. They UNHOOKED the T1 line and left
> it dangling from
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:36:02PM +1000 or thereabouts, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:14:34AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Tami Friedman wrote:
> > > For now, I am curious if anyone
> > > can give me a good reason why a sysadmin would not allow telnet to
> >
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:18:26PM -0500 or thereabouts, Kathryn Hogg wrote:
> Mary E. Mulderrig said:
> > It is offensive to me. It seems homophobic.
> > -Mary.
> >
> > > This is in your recognition of your efforts to be a person that increases
> > > the level of faggotry and lameness on this p
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:13:35PM -0700 or thereabouts, jennyw wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: "Rebecca J. Walter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > EMACS!!!
> > it is very NONwysiwyg. but it color codes tags and has an option you
> > can activate to have it autoload in the browser every
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 08:28:57AM -0800 or thereabouts, buddy guy wrote:
> Hoping someone out there might have some advice
> I am using grip with cdparanoia as my ripper and lame
> as my encoder.
> Periodically I will get this error (pop up window
> produced by grip) while ripping a cd
> ___
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 10:34:04AM -0600 or thereabouts, Betsy wrote:
> i think i remember that RH doesn't support USB... could be wrong tho.
> anybody know for sure?
It certainly supports -some-.
I have a USB trackball on my laptop (I hate the mousepad thing there,
I need three buttons :)) an
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:51:02PM -0500 or thereabouts, Anthony Russello wrote:
>
> Does anyone here know if mozilla is capable of viewing secure 128 bit
> encrypted sites?
>
> I've been trying to use it to view certain sites, and I just get an error
> statng that the connection was refused. M
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.
> Some questions :
>
> Thirdly, isn't there a tool for verifying the installation and installed
> packages in RH? If
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:05:33PM -0600 or thereabouts, Kathryn Hogg wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > Deb: Do we have any SPAM blocking software for linuxchix.org?
>
> My real question is if these spammers are actually subscribed to the list?
> If not, then why is the list allowing posts f
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 01:03:50PM -0600 or thereabouts, ktb wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:34:48AM -0800, RobertWichert wrote:
> > Speaking of books...
> > Does anyone know of a book on Red Hat Linux 7? I have Linux 7
> > installed, but it seems to be just different enough from 6 that the s
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 02:10:49PM -0800 or thereabouts, Raven ex Machina wrote:
> Heya --
>
> Quoth Tesla:
> > "A decent book about networking" which would help me understand the
> > difference between TCP and UDP and why I should care, and how all
> > this stuff relates to my husband's firewall
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:35:18AM -0700 or thereabouts, mc wrote:
> I have to disagree on the home network part. Sharing resources at home,
> especially when more than one person wants the internet connection is
> becoming "the thing to do." The list of how to's available on the web is
Yes. I
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 01:06:46AM +0100 or thereabouts, Magni Onsoien wrote:
> David Merrill:
> > > Sounds like a good idea. Should work in a washing machine as well,
> > > shouldn't it? I use to take mine intop the shower, that's also a bit
> > > cool. "I just had a shower with my keyboard today
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:02:35PM +0600 or thereabouts, Kathryn Hogg wrote:
> For those of us who grew up in the pre-CD days, what do you use to convert
> your collection of vinyl albums to a digital format? I've got about 500
> albums that I would love to convert if for no other reason than re
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 03:52:37PM -0800 or thereabouts, gabrielle wrote:
> I inherited a couple of linux boxes from other people in my group. Both
> are running Redhat, but I don't know what versions. Probably old, as they
> were built more than a year ago. Is there a way to find out which v
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 04:56:55PM +0100 or thereabouts, Magni Onsoien wrote:
> Bravard, Mark:
> > 1) How do you configure an account so that each time you logout the system
> > will execute the fortune command and sleep for 15 seconds?
...and in those fifteen seconds someone hits ^C and sends
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 04:16:45AM -0800 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On the whole this little adventure was a good thing.
> which is aliased in my .bashrc, and if it is, I'll fix the alias so it
> searches a more reasonable path for what it is supposed to do. If it
> isn't, I'll c
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 12:46:01PM -0400 or thereabouts, Walt wrote:
> I'm having some difficulty when attempting
> to install the (I think) latest glibc rpm from
> RedHat's site. It says:
>
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> error: glibc-2.1.92-14.i686
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:44:38AM -0700 or thereabouts, Anmol Khirbat wrote:
> I'm thinking about buying a laptop for running linux. I've been surfing
> the net and researching for three days now but I am as confused as ever.
I assume you have already found the Linux on Laptops page at
http://w
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:33:16PM +1100 or thereabouts, Bek Oberin wrote:
> sara ruohotie wrote:
> > but anyway, i'll see if i can make the sysadmin to rebuilt mutt. and
> > meanwhile i'll be looking for an option on how to make mutt put
> > something else than '+' on a continued line. but anyw
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 08:21:15PM +0100 or thereabouts, Conor Daly wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 02:30:55PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> Telsa Gwynne thought:
[or didn't think, apparently!]
> > you have to invoke it from the command line. You can't use t
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 02:04:51PM +0100 or thereabouts, BobTFish wrote:
> At 13:41 15/10/00, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> >On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 07:46:44AM -0400 or thereabouts, Barbara McMillin
> >wrote:
> > > Oftentimes I find myself in Gnome as guest and I want to chan
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 07:46:44AM -0400 or thereabouts, Barbara McMillin wrote:
> Oftentimes I find myself in Gnome as guest and I want to change to root.
> How is this done on Gnome desktop? Barbara
I don't know any way to change everything from one user to another
user in X (which is what GNO
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:33:40PM -0700 or thereabouts, curious wrote:
> all of the RFC's I posted were "april 1st" RFC's like the infinate monkey
> protocol, ip over avian carriers.. etc..
> I was tring to bring light to reading RFCs by pointing out some of the
> lighter ones..
One of those y
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:40:26AM +0800 or thereabouts, antonxie wrote:
> Well techtalkers...
>
> I've installed Staroffice 5.2 too on a separate partition u01.
> I'm complete newbee...not bumblebee nor gonnabe...
:)
> I have it installed on /u01/staroffice52/
> To run the program, I have to
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:26:23AM -0700 or thereabouts, curious wrote:
> *WARNING* be sure to TEST your autoresponder BEFORE going away anywhere...
> THINK mailing list.. THINK of whathappens when a responder REPLYS to a
> mailing list message.. (it recives it's OWN REPLY which it then REPLYS
> T
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 09:57:58PM +0100 or thereabouts, Chris J/#6 wrote:
>
> > The new builds of Mozilla are getting very good. I've switched to it as my
> > standard browser now. Check out a new nightly build. It also has a full
> > featured IMAP mail client.
> >
> > Jason
>
> I've found
Phil Savoie wrote:
> > I was looking today for about 2 hours on how to disable the automount
> > "feature" in RH6.1. It appears that every time a CD is loaded the
> > filemanager pops up showing the contents of the CD. This is not what I
> > would like to see happen. I would like to manually
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:08:42PM -0700 or thereabouts, jboudell wrote:
> Hi,
> found linuxchix.org while surfing...
Cool. Welcome :)
> I'm an utter linux almost newborn. I've been using Winblows forever and
> have recently decided to give Linux a try. This weekend I'd like to
> install Red H
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 07:49:21PM -0700 or thereabouts, Ashok Kanodia wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get the information on Red Hat's (RHCE) exam.
> I am trying to get the test questions for this.
Several books and websites are out there with sample questions (of
variable quality: b
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 10:46:22AM -0400 or thereabouts, Fan, Laurel wrote:
> Subba Rao, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said:
> > I am pretty new to GNOME. My .xinitrc has gnome-session at the end.
> > What I am looking for is virtual desktops (like I had in
> > FVWM2). I would like that available on the des
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 09:35:04AM -0400 or thereabouts, Katie Rauss wrote:
> Yay, a fellow Mandrake user (one of my friends is in love with Debian and
> abuses Mandrake to no end)!
Fun fun fun :)
> The partitioning process in Mandrake (I use 7.0, but I'm assuming 7.1 is the
> same or bette
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 10:57:33AM -0400 or thereabouts, Subba Rao wrote:
>
> I am trying to compile the kernel 2.2.16.
> I have turned off "sound" menu items, because I plan to use OSS sound
> driver.
Not that I know this, but I know a man who does...
You need ACI-mixer (part of the sound stu
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 06:08:41PM -0400 or thereabouts, Susannah D. Rosenberg wrote:
> Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> >
> > One of the *BSD people was explaining the updating process to me
> > at LinuxTag. What has long put me off is the same reason I keep
> > delaying Debian
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 09:23:38PM -0700 or thereabouts, Julia Coolman wrote:
> Kind folks:
>
> Please don't be mad. I am thinking of installing netBSD, to play with and
> to keep my linuxppc partition company.
>
> Before I leap I would like to look over a comparison between the unices,
> or may
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 05:39:54PM -0400 or thereabouts, Lilly S. wrote:
> Has anyone tried this before. I do like the idea!
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Coffee.html
Discovered it, printed it out, got into row with partner about
the likelihood of starting a fire if I let the kettle (coffe
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 05:54:44PM -0400 or thereabouts, Susannah D. Rosenberg wrote:
> sorry, no clue. oooh... . damn.
> it's like a little howto on being a group-based access nazi. cool!
>
> quote from the default suse group.conf:
> '# Example: games are alowed between the hours of 6pm and
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 03:10:04PM -0700 or thereabouts, ' ' wrote:
> I have a coworker running Red Hat 6.0, and gnome automatically boots up. He
> would like to change this to boot to another GUI such as KDE, but is still
> unsure which one he would like. What is the name of the file that con
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 10:07:28AM -0400 or thereabouts, Lilly S. wrote:
> This is for all of us newbies. I thought it's a nice "cheat-sheet".
It's brilliant.
Addenda:
> | -- etc - configuration files for network, X11, mail, etc.
I once heard this described as containing the "personality" of y
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 03:58:28PM -0500 or thereabouts, Nicoya Helm wrote:
> I think I must be missing something very obvious here. When I try to
> do a tftp transfer from another machine to mine (running solaris 8),
> the request is timing out, but from what I can see the server is
> running
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 01:50:02AM +0800 or thereabouts, Samantha Atkins wrote:
> Once in a while Linux (RH 6.2) will insist that a cdrom is busy and
> thus will not let me umount it and thus will not let me eject it. After
I know the feeling. I meet this occasionally with RH 6.1.
> looking a
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 07:15:39AM -0400 or thereabouts, Kath wrote:
> Does anybody have a copy of the script that I got through this list?
> I lost my HD and the script and the email with it in a crash :( It was
> a script to copy files from one HD to another.
Probably it was one of these tw
On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 01:45:08AM -0400 or thereabouts, joey tsai wrote:
> > If you're not happy about killing things, stop them with 'kill -STOP', do
> > a screen refresh and see what doesn't repaint itself. And then 'kill
> > -CONT' them when you want them back in the land of the living.
>
>
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:35:21PM -0400 or thereabouts, srl wrote:
> On Thu, 18 May 2000, Clair Mooza wrote:
>
> > I don't know the first thing about Perl and am very new to Linux/Unix.
> > I was wondering what a good first book(s) would be to start with. I am
> > looking for a reference book a
On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 03:05:30PM -0700 or thereabouts, Allen Heinecke wrote:
> At this point I understand that there should be a file someplace in my etc
> dir that controls access for sendmail, which is what I am currently using.
> However, I don't see one. I am going to make one and place it i
On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 07:45:50AM -0700 or thereabouts, Allen Heinecke wrote:
> I have question on mail.
>
> How do I block or autodelete all mail from a specific domain or email
> address?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you in advance :)
>
> -Lone
For MTAs:
If you ar
On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 08:55:07PM -0700 or thereabouts, Julia Coolman wrote:
> Kind folks:
>
> You helped me figure out some dhcp stuff a few weeks ago. could you help
> me decipher some messages when i'm trying to turn a tarball into an rpm
> now?
>
> after i enter "rpm -tb gnomeicu-0.93.ppc.r
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 12:12:38AM -0400 or thereabouts, Sharon Souter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Speaking of Netscape. I have encountered an unusual (to me anyway) problem.
> When I go to the screen to configure my e-mail server, the bottom extends
> below the working area on my screen and I cannot get
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 02:28:35AM + or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Kristina Pfaff-Harris wrote:
> >
> > Hi all. I have a tricky modem that used to work and now doesn't. Oh, it
> > dials and connects and authenticates, but after ACKing the remote address,
> > it hangs up! I have
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:42:00PM - or thereabouts, ALEX WRIGHT wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Mandrake 7.0 with GNOME and KDE and Afterstep installed, and I'm
> wondering how you change between desktop managers.
> I've currently got AfterStep, but I'd like to switch to using KDE (or maybe
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 01:18:41PM -0600 or thereabouts, Jeramia Ory wrote:
> > Actually, a brilliant FAQ entry would be:
> > I have mailer XYZ. How do I...
>
> As a user of Outlook Express 5.0 for Mac here in the lab, and of Outlook
> Express 5.0 for Windows at home, I would be willing to he
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:28:08AM -0800 or thereabouts, Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
> I have a couple of problems. The first one is just plain irritating... the
> fonts in applications are too dang big. Licq and mozilla seem to set their
> own font sizes but things like netscape and gaim use whatever
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 03:27:12PM +0800 or thereabouts, dez wrote:
> thanx ..jeff..BTW all yours are cpoming thru as an attachment which i
> thought was odd...
> so thats what mine were doing eh?
> yep i agree...dont get me started on outlook ...owww
[snip]
> dez
> - Original Mes
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 03:02:27AM -0500 or thereabouts, Laurel Fan wrote:
>
> Emacs psgml mode is great! Commands to insert an element and the
> required sub-elements, complete a tag name, automatically insert
> the correct end tag, insert an attribute, etc. I use it to do DocBook,
> and have
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:53:02PM +1100 or thereabouts, Jenn V. wrote:
> Sriram-HO wrote:
> >
> > Is there any bandwidth management software for Linux available? Something
> > like Floodgate?
>
> Not sure - I do know that Dancer is constantly tweaking
> /something/ to ensure that large downloa
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 03:32:16PM + or thereabouts, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> #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 perha
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 09:18:35AM -0500 or thereabouts, Laurel Fan wrote:
> There's "sc - spreadsheet calculator". I've never used it, except when I
> tried it for a few seconds while trying all of the 2 letter UNIX
> commands.
Ouch. You did that too? :)
I learnt most of the two-letter ones th
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 08:19:22AM -0500 or thereabouts, Phil Savoie wrote:
> Would anyone happen to know how to include the prog name in the title
> bar of a kde session terminal? Basically what I would like to do is
> start the prog and instead of "Konsole" in the titlebar have the prog
> name
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 03:57:27AM -0500 or thereabouts, Dan Nguyen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 07:15:16PM +1300, Jamie Walker wrote:
> > As for the version jump - by all accounts after too many questions about
> > "When are you going to upgrade to Linux 6.0 like Redhat have?" he
> > decided
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 09:39:20PM -0500 or thereabouts, Tania M. Morell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've used Berkeley unix and SunOS for years at my university but not
> linux. I use Mandrake at work and RedHat intermittently at home but I've
> yet to understand the differences between them.. Maybe I
I asked about the attractions of graphical mailers:
> >I am very curious to know what X-based mailers have that console
> >mailers don't. Note that I can view URLs and display pictures in mutt
> >when I run it in X, so that doesn't count!
Thanks for the responses :)
Britta:
> I think it's not
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 10:59:17AM -0800 or thereabouts, Lighthouse Keeper in the
Desert Sun wrote:
> Maybe I need gnome-core-devel. THat is the only one it wants... (This is
> a big pain in my arse, you know? My modem freezes and stalls a lot after
> a couple hundred K, and I'm using a 28K d
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 11:47:01PM -0500 or thereabouts, Dan McGarry wrote:
> Up till now, I've stayed with MS Outlook Express because of laziness (and
> several hundred MB of stored messages). Some recent problems with it have
> sent me looking for a decent X-based mail client. I'm looking for:
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 12:28:50AM -0600 or thereabouts, Stephan Zaniolo wrote:
[programs you expect not getting started when you click on them in
Gnome]
> seem to be correct. The only thing I know I've done since it worked last
> was to try fixing a problem with my internet connection. For som
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 02:36:04AM +0100 or thereabouts, Sunnanvind wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Laurel Fan wrote:
> > http://gtk.themes.org/php/docs.phtml?docid=55&secid=2.1
Poking around from this list I found a pile of stuff I could really
have done with knowing about. Thanks!
> Unbelievab
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 09:28:41PM -0500 or thereabouts, Subba Rao wrote:
>
> Assuming there are some hidden characters in the rc.M file, I deleted
> the problem portion of the file, and retyped them. That did not help
> either. If there are some hidden characters in a text file, how do I
> fi
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 08:26:06PM +1100 or thereabouts, Jenn V. wrote:
> > What do you people prefer as colours for extended viewing of text? :-)
>
> Black on white, always. White on black is literally painful!
> For me.
I remember when I started using X finding that the combinations of
colou
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:13:34PM -0500 or thereabouts, 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 content
> > with i
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 06:13:09PM -0500 or thereabouts, Esther Lumsdon wrote:
> STC is a professional society for technical writers. I'm not
> one, but I thought their t-shirt was an excellent example of
> technical writing.
The t-shirt sounds great!
>
> Useful info:
> A very handy ftp site is
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