[techtalk] loadlin and 96mb ram

2000-06-21 Thread Bilal Muddassir
hi peoples, because my root partition is located off the 1024th cylinder on my 15gb quantum fireball, i have to go through the windows 98 se startup menu scheme to select and click to fire loadlin in order to jump into linux. how to make all 96mb ram available to the kernel instead of the 64mb

[techtalk] Booleans in other (human) language?

2000-06-21 Thread lanae
Hi, I have a quick question. When a Spanis-speaking person, for example, goes to use a search engine type function on the web, that is made in their language, is it customary for them to use AND OR NOT or those words in their own language (y, o, no in this case) When I looked at the Spanish Yah

Re: [techtalk] loadlin and 96mb ram

2000-06-21 Thread Anne Forker
Hi, On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Bilal Muddassir wrote: > because my root partition is located off the 1024th cylinder on my 15gb > quantum fireball, i have to go through the windows 98 se startup menu scheme > to select and click to fire loadlin in order to jump into linux. > > how to make all 96mb

Re: [techtalk] loadlin and 96mb ram

2000-06-21 Thread mezanin
> just add a line > > mem=96m > > to your linux.par file. > Out of curiosity, where is the linux.par file? I don't have that anywhere on my system. =) Beverly ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo

Re: [techtalk] loadlin and 96mb ram

2000-06-21 Thread Anne Forker
Hi, On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Out of curiosity, where is the linux.par file? I don't have that anywhere > on my system. =) So do I 'cause I don't have loadlin installed. ;-) It's a file containing some boot parameters for the linux kernel (therefore the suffix "par"). --

Re: [techtalk] Booleans in other (human) language?

2000-06-21 Thread Christian MacAuley
> If I made a site search that let them use y, o, no would they just use AND, OR, NOT anyway since theyre used to that? I don't have any experience with this in particular, but i have made multilingual websites before. My inclination would be to allow both the English words *and* their Spanish c

Re: [techtalk] loadlin and 96mb ram

2000-06-21 Thread Bilal Muddassir
> > Out of curiosity, where is the linux.par file? I don't have that >anywhere > > on my system. =) > >So do I 'cause I don't have loadlin installed. ;-) It's a file containing >some boot parameters for the linux kernel (therefore the suffix "par"). umm so it is as easy as making a linux.par fi

[techtalk] TBU software

2000-06-21 Thread Sally_Hutchinson
*nervous about breaking the silence on the list* :P Lucky me just got hooked up with a sweet DLT 4000!!! woo woo, go me :) Anyway, I was looking for some recommendations on what tbu software I should use for it. I've only got three systems on my little network (got a cool switch too, too bad I

Re: [techtalk] loadlin and 96mb ram

2000-06-21 Thread Anne Forker
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Bilal Muddassir wrote: > >So do I 'cause I don't have loadlin installed. ;-) It's a file containing > >some boot parameters for the linux kernel (therefore the suffix "par"). > > umm so it is as easy as making a linux.par file in the C:\LINUX directory > where my LOADLIN.

[techtalk] Perl question

2000-06-21 Thread Lynn Kuhlman
I can't get my program to print anything to a file. It was complaining about line earlier. Is this correct? if ($string1 =~ /\*\s*\$string2|\$string2/) ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tech

Re: [techtalk] Perl question

2000-06-21 Thread Stewart Larsen
I think the slashes should be in the form "s/exp1/exp2/" - Original Message - From: "Lynn Kuhlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 12:16 AM Subject: [techtalk] Perl question > I can't get my program to print anything to a file. It was complain

Re: [techtalk] Perl question

2000-06-21 Thread joey tsai
> Is this correct? > > if ($string1 =~ /\*\s*\$string2|\$string2/) ^^^^ Looks like you're escaping the variable, you're searching for a literal dollar sign rather than the value of $string2. // jt ___ t

Re: [techtalk] Can I change my mind now??

2000-06-21 Thread Jenn V.
Storm wrote: > > Actually, ... I know I can :) > Ok,.. here's the question,. > > When I installed Linux (Mandrake 7) I told it to automatically start the KDE > ( or whatever, since it lets me choose from several GUIs). I was thinking > maybe I would start from a command line ( so that I d