[techtalk] re: Where's your favorite place to get software?

2000-08-19 Thread pheret werks
i would highly suggest NOT buying software and getting it online . . . well, that's how i do it . . . go to www.freshmeat.net, www.linuxberg.com, do a search for software, it's absolutely amazing what you can find out there. i can recommend something for just about anything you might need! whooh

Re: [techtalk] hi, I'm brand spanking new

2000-08-19 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:08:42PM -0700 or thereabouts, jboudell wrote: > Hi, > found linuxchix.org while surfing... Cool. Welcome :) > I'm an utter linux almost newborn. I've been using Winblows forever and > have recently decided to give Linux a try. This weekend I'd like to > install Red H

[techtalk] RPMs

2000-08-19 Thread WolfRyder
I was all set to install the new KDE2 and StarOffice. After getting instructions here...(very clear, btw, thank you!) I followed them to discover to my dismay the program to unpack (is that the right word) and install rpms didn't get installed during initial setup of my SuSE 6.4. So, I tried i

Re: [techtalk] hi, I'm brand spanking new

2000-08-19 Thread Britta Koch
> The graphical stuff in Linux is provided by X, (X Windows system) > and you will certainly want to use that, with either KDE or GNOME > on top of it because they're pretty, integrated, and have handy > tools. But from my experience, when you are asked whether you want > the computer always to bo

Re: [techtalk] RPMs

2000-08-19 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 06:01:51AM -0500, WolfRyder wrote: > I was all set to install the new KDE2 and StarOffice. After getting > instructions here...(very clear, btw, thank you!) I followed them to > discover to my dismay the program to unpack (is that the right word) > and install rpms didn't g

Re: [techtalk] !@#$#$YT emachines and XF86

2000-08-19 Thread Beverly Guillermo
Do you have the gpm working in console? Beverly On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, alissa bader wrote: > okay, I have in front of me an emachines box. I > decided to put Slackware 7.1 on it. Installation > itself seemed to go well. But I am running into > problems when trying to configure xwindows. I'm

[techtalk] insmod, RH62 SMP

2000-08-19 Thread Will Ware
I'm having some trouble building a device driver on a RH62 SMP box and getting it to load. Apparently the symbols are named differently under SMP. I had seen a recommendation somewhere to use the kernel source tree makefiles to build the device driver, so I tried that, but it didn't help. (Perhaps

Re: [techtalk] re: Where's your favorite place to get software?

2000-08-19 Thread Magni Onsoien
pheret werks: > i would highly suggest NOT buying software and getting it online . . . > well, that's how i do it . . . go to www.freshmeat.net, > www.linuxberg.com, do a search for software, it's absolutely amazing > what you can find out there. i can recommend something for just about > anythin

[techtalk] Scrolling in xterm

2000-08-19 Thread Subba Rao
My xterm is version 4.0.1b(104). I have the scrollbar showing up on the left side of my window. I am not able to interactively use the mouse to scroll back in the window. A mouse click in the scroll bar will position the view in the scroll buffer. How can I use the mouse button to move interacti

Re: [techtalk] insmod, RH62 SMP

2000-08-19 Thread Eito Katagiri
Hi, How did you build your module? I think that you need to define "SMP" to compile a module for SMP-enabled kernel. If you look at some source, there are "#ifdef"s for SMP. I believe that you can define it as compiler option like "gcc -DSMP foo.c" HTH, :eito On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 09:30:56A

[techtalk] (no subject)

2000-08-19 Thread The_polymorph
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Re: [techtalk] !@#$#$YT emachines and XF86

2000-08-19 Thread alissa bader
did at first, ,then i killed it and tried running XF86Setup and xf86config. Still no luck on the mouse. And yanked out the winmodem too. --alissa --- Beverly Guillermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have the gpm working in console? > > Beverly __

[techtalk] [rms@gnu.org: Using the GNU FDL]

2000-08-19 Thread Tami Friedman
--- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) --- From: Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Using the GNU FDL Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 02:22:51 -0400 If you know someone who is writing a manual about free software, and looking towards comm

Re: [techtalk] Scrolling in xterm

2000-08-19 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 01:20:54PM +, Subba Rao wrote: > My xterm is version 4.0.1b(104). I have the scrollbar showing up on > the left side of my window. I am not able to interactively use the > mouse to scroll back in the window. A mouse click in the scroll bar > will position the view in t

[techtalk] Sum up of Apache problems

2000-08-19 Thread Kath
    This problem is similar to the problem I had with proftpd on the same box.  When my Windows/Mandrake box I cannot access any site on my Debian box when in Windows.  The boxes CAN ping each other.  From the Debian box I can access itself through either the local host address (127.0.0.1) o

Re: [techtalk] Sum up of Apache problems (Ok, I am officially STUPID)

2000-08-19 Thread Kath
I figured out my problem.  I had specified to use my ISP's proxy server in Internet Explorer and did not tell it to not use a proxy for my internal network.  DUH KATHLEEN!!!   - Kathleen - Original Message - From: Kath To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 19,

Re: [techtalk] Where's your favorite place to get software?

2000-08-19 Thread Agata Rawdanik
jennyw wrote: > I'm just amazed at the number of places you can get Linux CDs at these days. > Anyone care to recommend a favorite place? > > It seems that the various sites have vastly different pricing schemes for > the various distributions. I'm kind of on the cheap side myself, but would > l

[techtalk] Re: [grrltalk] AOL for Linux

2000-08-19 Thread Pandora
AOL is evil and must be stopped -Original Message- From: Shawn Ann Griffith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 19 August 2000 00:53 Subjec