RE: [techtalk] pppd (ifup script)

2000-02-16 Thread CATHERINE LUCAS
Hey Harry, > Hey Karen, actually my name is Catherine ;-) > Check your logs "/var/log/messages" to see why it bombed. If you can > post that it might be helpful. These are the relevant lines. I can make neither head nor tail of them! Feb 15 22:47:52 ruth ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on a

Re: [techtalk] pppd (ifup script)

2000-02-16 Thread Jenn V.
CATHERINE LUCAS wrote: e relevant lines. I can make neither head nor tail of them! > > Feb 15 22:47:52 ruth ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on at > Feb 15 22:47:52 ruth pppd[11248]: no device specified and stdin is not a tty Second line seems to imply, to me, that your pppd startup command/

Re: [techtalk] ICQ client

2000-02-16 Thread David Elliott
- Original Message - From: "Snarfblat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 5:35 PM Subject: Re: [techtalk] ICQ client > My personal preference is gtkicq. I love a good gtk theme with custom > icons. GnomeICQ is the successor to gtkicq...it's the

Re: [techtalk] career/family question

2000-02-16 Thread Steve Kudlak
Rik Hemsley wrote: > #if Linda Walsh > > Dunno if I want to do this...but... > > > > No one is "equal" in every way with everyone else [...] > > Misquote from Python: > > "You are ALL INDIVIDUALS !" > (moment's pause) > "I'm not ! ... and neither's my wife !" > > [...] > > It'd by like

Re: [techtalk] career/family question

2000-02-16 Thread Tami Friedman
Wow! Thats the best bungle story I've heard from that era,and I was a draft counsellor then! .Tami .signature: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected > Unfortunately gender does matter. In 1972 I received a draft notice to go to > Viet Nam (lucky lottery winner...lol). Seems they misspelle

Re: [techtalk] career/family question

2000-02-16 Thread Magni Onsoien
Tania Morell: > :) Strange topic for techtalk but... It really should be an important part of ANY organizer programme, so I think we should discuss it further in order to make a spec and then get it implemented ;) > :( Not so happy to admit... sometimes I do sleep in > my clothes. And I

Re: [techtalk] 1st time adding a modem to linux.

2000-02-16 Thread Tania Morell
I've had my internal pci modem for about 2 years now so if I can't get it to work with linux, I'd have to buy another one... I have an old ISA 28.8 modem, though. I intalled it and had it working in 5 minutes but it's slow. I want to get adsl as soon as it's available in my area so I don't wa

RE: [techtalk] pppd (ifup script)

2000-02-16 Thread moebius
Hey Catherine, Sorry about that, I don't know where I got Karen from. It must be the crack ;-). So what seems to be happing is that no device is being used for the ppp0 device. Normally this is run thru the modem. How are you setting up ppp? Thru LinuxConf? Anyhow, I would recommend wvdial. I

Re: [techtalk] career/family question

2000-02-16 Thread moebius
Hey All, Just my $.02. I just moved out here to Seattle about 6mo. ago. I don't have a car so if I want to go grocery shopping I have a few options. A: bum a ride B: Take mass transit C: don't keep any food in house or D: shop at homegrocer.com. Guess which one I chose. I am not married/have a

Re: [techtalk] career/family question

2000-02-16 Thread Cynthia Dale
Hey y'all (: Here's my plan: I'm moving my mom in with me, and paying her a salary. She already cleans and cooks when she comes to my house, and right now, she is working as a waitress, which is too hard for her at her age, and too stressful. I realize that not everyone gets along with their mo

[techtalk] Fwd: Blondes???

2000-02-16 Thread J B
1. Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever."---Miss Alabama in the

Re: [techtalk] Fwd: Blondes???

2000-02-16 Thread Tania Morell
Why you derty, low-down stereotyper you! How dare you imply that blondes are stoopid! My afrikan ancestors take a fence. ;( -T = Tania Morell [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.shadow.net/~tania __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo!

Re: [techtalk] Fwd: Blondes???

2000-02-16 Thread Linda Walsh
Re: your Subject choice... This isn't meant as a criticism -- just using it to point out an example about the environment we live in. "Blonde jokes" are based on a stereotype typically applied only to women. When I talk about why equality is not possible in this environment, thi

[techtalk] Re: Blondes???

2000-02-16 Thread J B
Before I get flamed for it, that list of quotes was not intentionally sent to the techtalk list. Oopssorry! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

RE: [techtalk] Fwd: Blondes???

2000-02-16 Thread Roehr, Susan N
Not to mention...this is the techtalk list. S. > -Original Message- > From: Linda Walsh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 1:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [techtalk] Fwd: Blondes??? > > > Re: your Subject choice... > This isn't meant as

[techtalk] Formatting floppy

2000-02-16 Thread kev
Hi, I have a floppy disk which is DOS formatted. How do I format it as a Linux disk? Sorry for the dumb question, but I searched in RH manuals and the RedHat site, but no joy... thanks, - Kev [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

RE: [techtalk] Fwd: Blondes???

2000-02-16 Thread J B
Actually, THAT was the reason I was apologizing. Were I to intentionally post, it would have been to grrltalk, not techtalk. >Not to mention...this is the techtalk list. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com **

Re: [techtalk] Fwd: Blondes??? Isn't this a techlist?

2000-02-16 Thread Janus
At 05:47 PM 02/16/2000 GMT, you wrote: > >5. "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of >your life."---Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for >a federal anti-smoking campaign. > Oh, and Brook Shields is a brunette > >7. "Outside of the kil

Re: [techtalk] Fwd: Blondes???

2000-02-16 Thread Tania Morell
Well, I laughed my head off... ;) -T --- Tania Morell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why you derty, low-down stereotyper you! > How dare you imply that blondes are stoopid! > My afrikan ancestors take a fence. > > ;( > > -T > > = > Tania Morell >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.shadow.net/~

Re: [techtalk] Formatting floppy

2000-02-16 Thread aaron
Should be able to run: mke2fs /dev/fd0 (or whichever floppy drive it is) This needs to be done as root. Then mount with: mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy (or alternate mount point) - Aaron Schultz - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have not lost my mind. It's backed up on disk somewhere." -- On Wed,

Re: [techtalk] Formatting floppy

2000-02-16 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
On 16.02.00, 20:04:29, Kevin Porter wrote: > I have a floppy disk which is DOS formatted. > How do I format it as a Linux disk? > Sorry for the dumb question, but I searched in > RH manuals and the RedHat site, but no joy... Kevin, are you sure you want to do this? Under normal circumstances t

Re: [techtalk] Formatting floppy

2000-02-16 Thread moebius
Hey Kev, Give this a shot. Insert the disk into the drive. Assuming that your floppy is /dev/fd0 (most are), do this: %mkfs.ext2 /dev/fd0 viloa, all done. You should see info about the superblocks being written. Now you can mount it to the dir ( I use /mnt/floppy) of your choice. So, if I didn't

Re: [techtalk] Fwd: Blondes???

2000-02-16 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, J B wrote: [jokes snipped] Now this isn't exactly on-topic on techtalk, is it? (F'up set to grrltalk.) Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripple

[techtalk] icq

2000-02-16 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
Okay, so I just installed gnomeicu. (I used the rpm, so I may decide to go back and get the source later if I can't get it worked out right.) Okay. So, I ran it, and it worked... until I wanted to add a contact. It gave me this error: gnomeicu: error in loading shared libraries: gnomeicu: und

[techtalk] icq

2000-02-16 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
Okay, so I got the source. Now, I ./configure'd it, and says this: [root@sakura gnomeicu-0.90b]# ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checki

RE: [techtalk] icq

2000-02-16 Thread Ji Lee
are you sure you have gnome development library? the file "gnome-config" comes in gnome-lib-devel-1.xx.xx package You can check by typing "rpm -q -l gnome-libs-devel | egrep gnome-config" -- O O _ O '\ [_] /` | \_/ | `___ ___' | | `-' g@ Y O D L E E

RE: [techtalk] icq

2000-02-16 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Feb 16, Ji Lee conjectured: > are you sure you have gnome development library? > the file "gnome-config" comes in gnome-lib-devel-1.xx.xx package > You can check by typing "rpm -q -l gnome-libs-devel | egrep gnome-config" Bleh. Guess not. Too bad my ppp connection sucks too much to download

Re: [techtalk] career/family question

2000-02-16 Thread Simona Nass
Cynthia Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to techtalk/linuxchix: >I plan to build a "mother-in-law" house behind mine so that she'll have >her own space. (: Technically, doesn't a "mother-in-law" refer to something that's part of your own house but just with a separate entrance, usually (always?)