[techtalk] Direct boot

2000-01-30 Thread Judith Bush
For a kiosk i have built, i have this script in /etc/init.d/ so the machine goes straight to the user interface upon boot. It's nothing fancy and certainly could be cleaned up. The essentail line is: su - kiosk -c startx & in which root su's to the user and executes the command to start th

[techtalk] Kinda off topic, but...

2000-01-30 Thread Nicole
Does anyone know of any good morphing software? I am supposed to be doing some animations at work, i.e. getting a few pictures in a sequence and then having a software program fill in the rest. Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Kinda off topic, but...

2000-01-30 Thread Sunnanvind
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Nicole wrote: > Does anyone know of any good morphing software? I am supposed to be doing > some animations at work, i.e. getting a few pictures in a sequence and > then having a software program fill in the rest. I got my RH linux on a CD that came with a magazine, and amon

[techtalk] web+ (free version)

2000-01-30 Thread Kelly Kirby
I really need help with setting up web+ on my computer. I have apache running, and web + is loaded..but, I have no clue about the webplus.exe in the cgi-bin. It keeps telling me that it isn't running. Explanation: I want to learn about developing e-commerce type sites and this looked like it wou

[techtalk] have you seen this program?

2000-01-30 Thread Laurel Fan
I'm looking for a program that I saw 2 years ago or so. It's basically a utility that can act as a tcp or udp client or server, which is useful when writing and debugging such programs. Better than using telnet, since telnet can't do udp or debug a client. I saw it running on Solaris, and my g

Re: [techtalk] web+ (free version)

2000-01-30 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 30-Jan-100 [techtalk] web+ (free version)Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] (712*) by > web + is loaded..but, I have no clue about > the webplus.exe in the cgi-bin. It keeps telling > me that it isn't running. Are you sure webplus.exe isn't a windows binary? What happens if you ru

Re: [techtalk] have you seen this program?

2000-01-30 Thread Phil V Savoie
Hi Laurel, Have you tried rpmfind.net? Just my $0.02 Phil At 14:09 30/01/00 -0500, you wrote: > >I'm looking for a program that I saw 2 years ago or so. It's basically >a utility that can act as a tcp or udp client or server, which is useful >when writing and debugging such programs. Better

[techtalk] [Fwd: afresh]

2000-01-30 Thread Deb Richardson
Kathy Hargreaves wrote: > > I have some questions about starting out on a new (empty) disk. > > If I start with installing Windoze, do I repartition to get partitions for > > windoze > linux > swap > user space > > ? > > If this is right, is it clear (from docs?) how big each partitio

Re: [techtalk] have you seen this program?

2000-01-30 Thread Wendt,Andrew
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, you wrote: >I'm looking for a program that I saw 2 years ago or so. It's basically >a utility that can act as a tcp or udp client or server, which is useful >when writing and debugging such programs. Better than using telnet, >since telnet can't do udp or debug a client. Ne

[techtalk] Newbie users' guide?

2000-01-30 Thread Bonedaddy
Can someone recommend a good online guide for a new Linux/Unix user? A couple of friends who have accounts on my system haven't had much (or any, in some cases) experience with unix, and I'd like to be able to point them to an easy-to-understand web page that can help get them up to speed with th

Re: [techtalk] MP3's and my laptop

2000-01-30 Thread Terri Oda
>THere's a good point... seeif you can find a sceleorn optimized decoded Good thought only... if winamp runs on a friend's celeron, why won't it run on my laptop's celeron? Is there anything potentially different? I've tried all the usual buffer tricks in both operating systems, but windows med

Re: [techtalk] have you seen this program?

2000-01-30 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 30-Jan-100 Re: [techtalk] have you see.. by Phil V [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Have you tried rpmfind.net? Well, not having an rpm based system, I don't really want to find rpms. Is this site useful otherwise? [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Newbie users' guide?

2000-01-30 Thread Phil V Savoie
Hi Jason, I found this while cruisin'. Has some good newbie stuff as well. http://www.linuxstart.com Regards, Phil At 15:45 30/01/00 -0500, you wrote: >Can someone recommend a good online guide for a new Linux/Unix user? A >couple of friends who have accounts on my system haven't had much

Re: [techtalk] have you seen this program?

2000-01-30 Thread Phil V Savoie
Hmm... Once you locate the rpm there is sources for the rpm as well. Perhaps you could compile? Phil At 15:55 30/01/00 -0500, you wrote: >Excerpts from linuxchix: 30-Jan-100 Re: [techtalk] have you see.. by >Phil V [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Have you tried rpmfind.net? > >Well, not having an rpm ba

Re: [techtalk] web+ (free version)

2000-01-30 Thread aprilk
Laurel Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Excerpts from linuxchix: 30-Jan-100 [techtalk] web+ (free version)Kelly >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (712*) by >> web + is loaded..but, I have no clue about >> the webplus.exe in the cgi-bin. It keeps telling >> me that it isn't running. > >Are you sure webplus.exe is

Re: [techtalk] have you seen this program?

2000-01-30 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000 15:55:53 -0500 (EST), Laurel Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Well, not having an rpm based system, I don't really want to find >rpms. Is this site useful otherwise? You can always use alien to derpmize the rpm. Search for alien on freshmeat. Kelly [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [techtalk] Newbie users' guide?

2000-01-30 Thread J B
The best Newbie guide I have found is the Linux Newbie Administrators Guide (NAG) it is at http://sunsite.auc.dk/linux-newbie/ Can someone recommend a good online guide for a new Linux/Unix user? A couple of friends who have accounts on my system haven't had much (or any, in some cases)

Re: [techtalk] web+ (free version)

2000-01-30 Thread Nils Philippsen
On 30 Jan 2000, Kelly Kirby wrote: > I really need help with setting up web+ on > my computer. I have apache running, and > web + is loaded..but, I have no clue about > the webplus.exe in the cgi-bin. It keeps telling > me that it isn't running. > > Explanation: I want to learn about developing

Re: [techtalk] web+ (free version)

2000-01-30 Thread aprilk
Nils Philippsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 30 Jan 2000, Kelly Kirby wrote: > >> I really need help with setting up web+ on >> my computer. I have apache running, and >> web + is loaded..but, I have no clue about >> the webplus.exe in the cgi-bin. It keeps telling >> me that it isn't running.

Re: [techtalk] have you seen this program?

2000-01-30 Thread Andre Pang
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 02:09:22PM -0500, Laurel Fan wrote: > I'm looking for a program that I saw 2 years ago or so. It's basically > a utility that can act as a tcp or udp client or server, which is useful > when writing and debugging such programs. Better than using telnet, > since telnet ca

Re: [techtalk] web+ (free version)

2000-01-30 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, aprilk wrote: > Mom has PHP on her computer, is not a programmer and doesn't even > pretend to try(unless html, that is). I haven't even learned it yet. It's simple. It looks like a mixture of C and perl with OO-mechanisms (if you wish, you can ignore it and go the procedura

Re: [techtalk] have you seen this program?

2000-01-30 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
> Well, not having an rpm based system, I don't really want to find rpms. > Is this site useful otherwise? I have used quite a few rpms converted to debs with alien, it works quite nicely... they get entered into the dpkg database as normal debs would and I have had few problems with the handful

Re: [techtalk] have you seen this program?

2000-01-30 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
> You can always use alien to derpmize the rpm. Search for alien on > freshmeat. Or even apt-get install alien. -Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] web+ (free version)

2000-01-30 Thread aprilk
Nils Philippsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, aprilk wrote: > >> Mom has PHP on her computer, is not a programmer and doesn't even >> pretend to try(unless html, that is). I haven't even learned it yet. > >It's simple. It looks like a mixture of C and perl with OO-mechanisms (if

Re: [techtalk] MP3's and my laptop

2000-01-30 Thread Sunnanvind
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Terri Oda wrote: > >THere's a good point... seeif you can find a sceleorn optimized decoded > > Good thought only... if winamp runs on a friend's celeron, why won't it run > on my laptop's celeron? Is there anything potentially different? > > I've tried all the usual buffer

Re: [techtalk] have you seen this program?

2000-01-30 Thread Laurel Fan
Thanks everyone, netcat is exactly what I was looking for. Apparently things of this sort are a 'network piping program', which I suppose makes sense, now that I think about it... [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] MP3's and my laptop

2000-01-30 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 30-Jan-100 Re: [techtalk] MP3's and my.. by Terri [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Good thought only... if winamp runs on a friend's celeron, why won't it run > on my laptop's celeron? Is there anything potentially different? Your laptop could be on crack... A friend of mine found

Re: [techtalk] MP3's and my laptop

2000-01-30 Thread Terri Oda
>Have you tried other mp3-players for windows? >Like winamp or sonique? >I mean, if they work, then the problem's with linux. >If they don't work, then the problems.. er.. not with linux. >Sunnan *nod* I've used winamp and some other player that I've since forgotten the name of under windows. I