Re: [techtalk] Filename star

1999-12-29 Thread Britta Koch
On 29.12.99 at 14:06 Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: >A nice enough solution (you forgot to claim that you followed the advice of an >earlier thread about sys-adminning and "did not panic" :-) ). Bad luck if you >had a few hundred files dot-files in the directory, though, since these would >be sorted b

Re:[techtalk] Soundcard

1999-12-29 Thread Catie Flick
On 28 Dec, Theresa Radke stumbled around in the dark a bit, turned on the light and wrote: > Hi!! > > This is my soundcard, and while I don't have a solution for your issue, > I am wondering how you get mp3's to play at all?? I have the 2.2.13 kernel, > with cmpci as a module and installed, I

Re: [techtalk] Filename star

1999-12-29 Thread Cynthia Dale
I haven't tried it, but I hear mc (midnight commander?) is good for this type of thing. Cindy On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Britta Koch wrote: > On 29.12.99 at 14:06 Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > > >A nice enough solution (you forgot to claim that you followed the advice of an > >earlier thread about sys-

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

1999-12-29 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Catie Flick wrote: > Warning, unrecognized mpg123 output:"Ouch ... error while writing audio data: > Device not configured" > > I've made sure it's not being used by any other process, but this > hasn't solved my problem :( > I'm sure it's probably a dodgy sound card driver

Re: [techtalk] Filename star

1999-12-29 Thread Kirrily 'Skud' Robert
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > >One final anecdote: Kernighan and Pike in "The Practice of Programming" tell >of how Stephen Bourne (writer of the Bourne shell, amazingly enough) created >254 files for testing his shell's file handling capabilities: each file had a >on

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

1999-12-29 Thread Catie Flick
On 29 Dec, Nils Philippsen stumbled around in the dark a bit, turned on the light and wrote: >> I've made sure it's not being used by any other process, but this >> hasn't solved my problem :( >> I'm sure it's probably a dodgy sound card driver issue, but I was just >> wondering if anyone had an

Re: [techtalk] Soundcard

1999-12-29 Thread Theresa Radke
Ok now I gotta try this:-) On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 09:55:20 +1100 (EST) Catie Flick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 29 Dec, Nils Philippsen stumbled around in the dark a bit, turned on the light and >wrote: > >>> I've made sure it's not being used by any other process, but this >>> hasn't solved

Re: [techtalk] Ok, now it is interesting....

1999-12-29 Thread Theresa Radke
For the first time ever, I was able to hear an mp3 play, how did I accomplish this?? well, while in kvirc I noticed if I right click I get a play option, so I went into options and found the area to specify a player, and I put mpg123 as the player, then right click...select people are are stran

[techtalk] Eterm

1999-12-29 Thread sara korhonen
ok, so this is one the REAL rtfm-questions, but after i rtfmed and rtfmed and dind't figue out, i gave up and decided to ask, whether anyone here knows how to get Eterm, to have a background color at the same time when it's transparent? meaning that the background color would also be somewhat tr

Re: [techtalk] Filename star

1999-12-29 Thread Xavier Gutierrez Munoz
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Subba Rao wrote: > >I have noticied a meta character named file in the root's home directory and another >user's >home directory. They were created on December 23rd. The file ownership permissions are >perfectly normal. The dreaded meta-character is '*'. > >To remove this I

Re: [techtalk] Eterm

1999-12-29 Thread coder
sara korhonen wrote: > > ok, so this is one the REAL rtfm-questions, but after i rtfmed and rtfmed > and dind't figue out, i gave up and decided to ask, whether anyone here > knows how to get Eterm, to have a background color at the same time when > it's transparent? meaning that the background

Re: [techtalk] Filename star

1999-12-29 Thread Tamara Thompson
Objection!!! <<< Xavier Gutierrez Munoz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/29 6:40p >>> On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Subba Rao wrote: > >I have noticied a meta character named file in the root's home directory and another >user's >home directory. They were created on December 23rd. The file ownership permissions

Re: [techtalk] Eterm

1999-12-29 Thread Cecilie P. Johansen
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, coder wrote: > > sara korhonen wrote: > > > > ok, so this is one the REAL rtfm-questions, but after i rtfmed and rtfmed > > and dind't figue out, i gave up and decided to ask, whether anyone here > > knows how to get Eterm, to have a background color at the same time when >