Re: [techtalk] KDE / OpenSource

2000-08-07 Thread kelly
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 22:44:14 -0400, Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I understand, but I'm from the "throw the little kid into the pool" >if they sink jump in and rescue them, if the float great. :) That doesn't work when you're talking about a business client who doesn't care about learning

[techtalk] Problems booting from RAID

2000-08-07 Thread Jane Dawson
Hi, I decided to set up a completely RAID-based system using two identical IDE hard disks, each with 3 partitions (boot, swap and data). The setup is hda1 and hdc1 = 800Mb boot hda2 and hdc2 = 128Mb swap hda3 and hdc3 = 3Gb data I'm using kernel 2.4.0-test5 with Ingo's 'dangerous' raidtools

Re: [techtalk] KDE / OpenSource

2000-08-07 Thread kelly
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:12:07 -0400 , "Fan, Laurel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Maybe so. But another issue is that KDE has incorporated a lot of >non-KDE-written GPL'd code, without asking the authors if it was ok >to link their code with Qt. In essence, forcing their controversial >interpretatio

Re: [techtalk] KDE / OpenSource

2000-08-07 Thread kelly
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 19:01:01 +0200, Patricia Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Of course not -- but as soon as you take GPLed code from KDE and >include it in your code, you agree with that it is OK that KDE is >GPLed and that there is no licencing problem. KDE can release its code under any lice

Re: [techtalk] *nix comparisons?

2000-08-07 Thread sara ruohotie
hmm, first of all, i'm sorry to flood the lists, but i just came back from the states, i was spending my honeymoon there and i was very much apart from any internet access. so i'm reading these ~600 now and answering a bit late to those i feel i have something to say to. and about the subject.

Re: [techtalk] Problems booting from RAID

2000-08-07 Thread Magni Onsoien
Jane Dawson: > I decided to set up a completely RAID-based system using two identical IDE > hard disks, each with 3 partitions (boot, swap and data). > > The setup is > > hda1 and hdc1 = 800Mb boot > hda2 and hdc2 = 128Mb swap > hda3 and hdc3 = 3Gb data > > I'm using kernel 2.4.0-test5 with In

Re: [techtalk] BASH command return value

2000-08-07 Thread kelly
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:34:07 -0400, Subba Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >In BASH, why does the "\u" and "whoami" make a big difference for the >$? value in PS1 string? The BASH version is 2.04. Because 'whoami' is a command, and running it resets $?. \u just looks up the username internally. Ke

Re: [techtalk] problems upgrading to gnome 1.2 and enlightenment 0.16.4

2000-08-07 Thread colin parr
Well, you know what they say: If you think something's foolproof you've got to remember not to underestimate the ingenuity of the common fool... I have installed rpms from the command line before but not very often so I wasn't familiar with the options you can use which you don't in gnorpm etc.

Re: [techtalk] *nix comparisons?

2000-08-07 Thread J-Mag Guthrie
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, sara ruohotie wrote: > i used to be a linux user very much (i was when i joined this list over a > year ago) but then i started dating this guy, who's nowadays my husband > and he turned me into using freebsd (he knows many of the freebsd > developers and thus has been using a

Re: [techtalk] Debianaut Loses WindowMaker Menus!

2000-08-07 Thread J-Mag Guthrie
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > Are you using the debian menu utility or do you build your own from > scratch? I will have to dig up the name of the package but the utility > makes it so your window manager's application menu is always up to date > with what's installed (every time

[techtalk] Trying to Head Off Potential Problem...

2000-08-07 Thread wny-tc
Greetings. Keith here in the Depths of the Great Bergen Swamps of WNY... Before I get into the nuts&bolts and install Linux/Mandrake 7.1, I am trying to identify stumbling blocks in the path. A BIG one may be my on-board modem. Seeing that the modem driver looks suspiciously like a WinModem I