Re: [techtalk] swtiching rhat drives . . .

1999-11-10 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Jeff Dike wrote: > > ---8<--- snip --- > > root@wombat:/tmp> ls -l /dev/mem > > crw-r- 1 rootkmem 1, 1 May 5 1998 /dev/mem > > root@wombat:/tmp> cp -a /dev/mem . > > root@wombat:/tmp> ls -l mem > > crw-r- 1 root kmem 1, 1 May 5 1998 me

Re: [techtalk] netscape woes

1999-11-10 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Erin Clarke wrote: > Running RH6.0 on P166 64MB RAM, KDE, NSBrowser using ~23mb, NSMail&News > using ~16mb (after a recent reboot, this will increase over the next > week...) > > I've been using Netscape 4.6 (yes, yes, I should update it) w KDE (yes, > yes, its not GPL, I kno

[techtalk] Voodoo problems

1999-11-10 Thread Cathy James
First off, I think I've fixed the HTML/rich text problem. Please let me know if anyone receives this message as anything but plaintext. As I noted in an earlier message, I am having problems running X on my Voodoo3 3000 AGP. Someone kindly pointed out that Caldera OpenLinux 2.2

Re: [techtalk] netscape woes

1999-11-10 Thread Caitlyn Martin
Hi, > > I had major problems with the Gnome/Enlightenment/Netscape combos. > > Switching to KDE fixed 90% of them. > > I think that's a bit drastic for a browser problem, really. It wasn't just a browser problem. Gnome had this lovely tendency to core dump, crash, lockup, etc... I updated it

Re: [techtalk] netscape woes

1999-11-10 Thread Kristin Ziel
just to add my little bit of netscape experience to this thread... i'm having problems at home as well...i'm still running netscape 4.5 and who knows what else.. and lately it seems as tho i'm lucky to keep a copy of netscape from freezing within 15 minutes. i have also noticed that after closi

RE: [techtalk] netscape woes

1999-11-10 Thread Bent Mathiesen
Let me add some info :) For long tiem I was forced to use Internet explorer on NT But at home I sat up 3 linux box'es - with netscape <= 4.5. It worked fine. It was standard redhat. Later - like 2 months ago - I have set up a PC where I am now with SuSE 6.1 (later 6.2) and netscape 4.5 and 4

Re: [techtalk] swtiching rhat drives . . .

1999-11-10 Thread Jeff Dike
> What switches where you using for cp? It _only_ works with '-a' all > others ('-dpf' for example) copy "byte by byte" and thus fill your > disk :-). I did just -p. Both the man page and info file say this: -a, --archive same as -dpR -d is preserve symlinks, -p is preserve

RE: [techtalk] netscape woes

1999-11-10 Thread Cathy James
>A few days ago I upgraded to Netscape 4.7. It seem to work fine >but the upgrade have made netscape complain about the java >plugin. It cannot find it ? (it is in the path listed). >I will look into it and get the Java part running. Maybe, at >that time, Netscape will freeze again >I need

Re: [techtalk] netscape woes

1999-11-10 Thread Shahla Bright
What if I decide not to use a desktop environment at all? I was pretty happy with plain old fvwm in a former life, but I don't know how to get back there. Thanks all, sha --- Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shahla Bright wrote: > > > So...(taking a deep breath, revealing ignorance) > how

xinitrc (was:Re: [techtalk] netscape woes)

1999-11-10 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 10-Nov-99 Re: [techtalk] netscape woes by Shahla [EMAIL PROTECTED] > What if I decide not to use a desktop > environment at all? I was pretty happy with > plain old fvwm in a former life, but I don't > know how to get back there. So you'll want something like: ---cut

Re: [techtalk] netscape woes

1999-11-10 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 09:30:03AM -0800 or thereabouts, Shahla Bright wrote: > What if I decide not to use a desktop > environment at all? I was pretty happy with > plain old fvwm in a former life, but I don't > know how to get back there. > > Thanks all, > sha It depends how and where you s

[techtalk] Finally!

1999-11-10 Thread Mike and Mary Anne Cox
How long have I been on this mailing list now? I am doing a happy dance because yesterday I finally was able to get OSS to find, see, recognize and install my sound card and it WORKS!!! Of course, I put another sound card in. I just couldn't the on board sound card to be recognized no matter

[techtalk] netscape woes and solutions

1999-11-10 Thread Cathy James
Several comments were made in various forums on LinuxToday that I wanted to pass along. First of all, one person claims that Netscape 4.71 solves the Java problem. You might want to try it. Second, if you want to get away from Netscapes crashes, someone else said that O

[techtalk] Applixware

1999-11-10 Thread Ingrid Schupbach
Hello. Does anyone out there have an opinion on Applixware? I am on the hunt for better wordprocessing software for Linux. Currently, I have Corel WordPerfect, but it renders the fonts in such an ugly way on screen that I find it difficult to work with (they print out just fine, though). I nee

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] Applixware

1999-11-10 Thread Norma
You can try out StarOffice at http://www.sun.com . I like it, I even use it under Windows (even though I have Word Perfect). I'm happy I can use any font I want with it under Linux. Norma *This sigline is Y2K compliant* - Original Message - From: Ingrid Schupbach <[EMAIL PR

Re: [techtalk] Applixware

1999-11-10 Thread Mike and Mary Anne Cox
Have you tried Star Office? At 05:45 PM 11/10/1999 -0500, you wrote: >Hello. > >Does anyone out there have an opinion on Applixware? I am on the hunt for >better wordprocessing software for Linux. Currently, I have Corel >WordPerfect, but it renders the fonts in such an ugly way on screen that

Re: [techtalk] Applixware

1999-11-10 Thread jenn
Norma wrote: > > You can try out StarOffice at http://www.sun.com . I like it, I even use it > under Windows (even though I have Word Perfect). I'm happy I can use any > font I want with it under Linux. > I use staroffice and have no complaints with it. The assorted extras do turn out useful -

Re: xinitrc (was:Re: [techtalk] netscape woes)

1999-11-10 Thread K. Ziel
this is great! I want to go to fvwm (environment i used in school) because it seemed so much more slick, and less bogged down ditto what shahla said, and thank you to laurel kristin On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: > Excerpts from linuxchix: 10-Nov-99 Re: [techtalk] netscape woes by >