Re: [techtalk] LinuxPPC

2000-01-28 Thread franzoni
t something like: button 1 = button 1 button 2 = PageUp + button 1 button 3 = Insert + button 1 Eugenia --- Eugenia Franzoni Pluto Linux User Group http://www.pluto.linux.it [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] weird laptop problem

2000-01-24 Thread franzoni
ops is the Linux Laptop Home Page (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/). Eugenia --- Eugenia Franzoni Pluto Linux User Group http://www.pluto.linux.it [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] odd problems

1999-12-28 Thread franzoni
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Emily Cartier wrote: > However, there are other goals, and thus other interesting problems. > Machine B has 3 accounts set up (root, my personal account and an > account for my sister to play games on). Root can run Gnome and Nethack > for Gnome. I can run Gnome and Nethack f

Re: [techtalk] mail format

1999-11-28 Thread franzoni
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Rino Mardo wrote: > So what do we standardized on text-only formats? > We have yet to hear the silent majority. I do use pine, too, so html emails are a nuisance. I also think that we could just follow netiquette (on this subject, but on quoting and subjects - sigh - too) wi

Re: [techtalk] Mail Question

1999-11-24 Thread franzoni
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > But your "from" is always the same, unless you change it in netscape > universally. > > Also, netscape's IMAP will only let you have one account for a mail > server. Last week, I set up netscape IMAP mail to read from the > "problem" account on mail

Re: [techtalk] laptops

1999-11-24 Thread franzoni
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Maureen Lecuona wrote: > I have been running linux exclusively on laptops since 1994. It's not so bad. > Most of the time the problems center around sound, pcmcia, and as usual, the > XFREE Configuration file. > > I have run on Toshiba (tecra, libretto) and Ibm Thinkpads

Re: [techtalk] Mail Question

1999-11-24 Thread franzoni
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > If you can serve mail from your linux box, I'd imagine your win98 box > could read from it. Most mail programs will not know what address the > mail came in to and thus when you send out mail it'll all come from the > same address. > > For example,

Re: [techtalk] Tar file splitting

1999-11-17 Thread franzoni
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, coder wrote: > Ex: > > cat foo_aa >> foo.tar; > cat foo_ab >> foo.tar; > cat foo_ac >> foo.tar; you can only use cat foo_* > foo.tar (they're in alphabetical order) Eugenia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Tar file splitting

1999-11-17 Thread franzoni
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Xavier Gutierrez Munoz wrote: > Sorry for asking such a newbie's question but I don't know how to split a > tar file to fit a set of floppies. I just want to get my october's read > mail out of the server via ftp but I want to pack and compress it before I > do that. you can

Re: [techtalk] GPL Questions

1999-11-12 Thread franzoni
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Stephan Zaniolo wrote: > I read through the GPL and at the end it says that GPLed programs are not > allowed to be incorporated into proprietary systems. I was planning on > publishing an API for this system that others could use in proprietary > software. (Note: no c

Re: [techtalk] Voodoo problems

1999-11-10 Thread franzoni
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Cathy James wrote: > Has anyone out there successfully gotten X running properly > on a Voodoo card, particularly a Voodoo3 3000 AGP? The release > notes for X note that the Voodoo support is very new and perhaps > not yet stable. The solution may be to wait for the V

Re: [techtalk] Install from floppies

1999-01-16 Thread franzoni
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, J B wrote: > Have been following the thread on splitting files to floppy. Would this > work to split the installation files? Or, is there a specific way to create > floppy disks to do an install on a machine wihtout a CD-Rom? I have an old > 486 that I am considering se