[techtalk] RE: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #162 - 11 msgs

2000-08-14 Thread Brian Sweeney
I know there was a bug in the installer of 6.0 that wouldn't install if you attempted to leave one of your partitions as unformatted FAT (I experienced it myself, and it took HOURS to troubleshoot). I don't know if it's still a problem in 6.2, but I think I remember someone mentioning it... If y

RE: [techtalk] Virtual desktops in GNOME

2000-08-14 Thread Fan, Laurel
Subba Rao, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said: > I am pretty new to GNOME. My .xinitrc has gnome-session at the end. > What I am looking for is virtual desktops (like I had in > FVWM2). I would like that available on the desktop or in the panel(if > that's what it is called) on the bottom. > > Where can I

Re: [techtalk] *nix comparisons?

2000-08-14 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
Hi, > > What we advise people is to "go with what you know". If you don't know > anything, we suggest you pick one and stick to it. It helps if you pick > something that folks around you are using as it will be easier to find > help. Sometimes I agree with this, but sometimes I don't. I starte

Re: [techtalk] ISDN and Linux

2000-08-14 Thread Lyta Alexander
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Rachel Andrew wrote: > > Hi > > I've tried to do this before unsuccessfully but I thought I'd have another > go at it. > > At the moment my network at home consists of two pooters. A doze box called > George and a Linux box called Dot. ATM i am connecting to the net > thr

Re: [techtalk] Virtual desktops in GNOME

2000-08-14 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 10:46:22AM -0400 or thereabouts, Fan, Laurel wrote: > Subba Rao, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said: > > I am pretty new to GNOME. My .xinitrc has gnome-session at the end. > > What I am looking for is virtual desktops (like I had in > > FVWM2). I would like that available on the des

Re: [techtalk] *nix comparisons?

2000-08-14 Thread Robert Wade
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote: > > Sometimes I agree with this, but sometimes I don't. I started with Free > BSD, but moved to Linux simply because more apps seemed to be available at > the time and more people were migrating to Linux than to BSD. I'm > comfortable in either

[techtalk] FTP & chroot

2000-08-14 Thread Sheryl Weidner
Hello list, Puh-lease, somebody out there, take a moment to answer this if you can. I'm running wu-ftpd on a RedHat Linux system and have a directory that requires a username & password to access. The account is set up with the proper permissions (e.g. home directory is set to the directo

Re: [techtalk] Using AOL with Linux???

2000-08-14 Thread tami
>It is not possible to use AOL's proprietary service with Unix and Linux. This is not true. GNU/Linux users are free to use their machines to access any proprietary systems they wish to. THere is no prohibition in the GPL against using proprietary services - just against linking free wi

Re: [techtalk] Using AOL with Linux???

2000-08-14 Thread Robert Wade
You misunderstood me, I said nothing about the gpl and was not referring to that. I was saying that AOL makes it's proprietary systems inaccessable to anyone who is not running their software, which is not available for Unix as far as I know. I'm aware that the gpl allows you to run proprietary

Re: [techtalk] Using AOL with Linux???

2000-08-14 Thread kelly
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 14:54:27 -0500 (CDT), <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>It is not possible to use AOL's proprietary service with Unix and >>Linux. >This is not true. GNU/Linux users are free to use their >machines to access any proprietary systems they wish to. THere is no >prohibition i

[techtalk] problem

2000-08-14 Thread Anthony Russello
Alright, here's the deal, I had my Linux machine (Mandrake 7) running just fine. I'm using fetchmail to retrieve my email messages from my pop3 ISP server. The fetchmail file is perfect, I've been using it for a month. Then I installed a new hard drive. That worked, but left things a littl

Re: [techtalk] problem

2000-08-14 Thread Robert Wade
Quite odd that it wouldn't work after a fresh install. Can you give me the output you get when you run fetchmail in verbose mode (fetchmail -v)? Robert Wade On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Anthony Russello wrote: > > Alright, here's the deal, I had my Linux machine (Mandrake 7) running > just fine. I'