Re: [techtalk] Re: Computer Books

2000-12-29 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 01:03:50PM -0600 or thereabouts, ktb wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:34:48AM -0800, RobertWichert wrote: > > Speaking of books... > > Does anyone know of a book on Red Hat Linux 7? I have Linux 7 > > installed, but it seems to be just different enough from 6 that the s

Re: [techtalk] Video card for viewing cable

2000-12-29 Thread Subba Rao
On 0, curious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had good experinces with a generic bttv card... > (don't remeber which one it was.. I just opened the box and looked at the > chip before I baught it :) ) > http://www.metzlerbros.de/bttv.html > > some other useful links: > other supported cards: >

Re: [techtalk] Re: Computer Books

2000-12-29 Thread ktb
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 10:46:38AM +, Telsa Gwynne wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 01:03:50PM -0600 or thereabouts, ktb wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 07:34:48AM -0800, RobertWichert wrote: > > > Speaking of books... > > > Does anyone know of a book on Red Hat Linux 7? I have Linux 7 > >

[techtalk] Corrupted tar file

2000-12-29 Thread Alain Tésio
Hello, I think I\'m missing something obvious : I get the error \"unexpected EOF in archive\" when I\'m trying to untar a large backup tar. How can I extract as most files as possible from the tar ? Do I need something else to fix it, similar to bzip2recover ? I have tried unsucessfully --ignore

[techtalk] fwiw: a Linux 7 book title

2000-12-29 Thread D. Vatalaro
De-Lurking for a moment... I don't know how good it is (have yet to crack it open), but I have a copy of "Red Hat Linux 7 Bible" by Christopher Negus (IDG Books, ISBN: 0-7645-4778-X). Our recent delivery of KRUD uses RH7, due to some problems with X in KRUD's previous implementations of RH 6.x. S

[techtalk] umask: thanks

2000-12-29 Thread Naomi Hospodarsky
Just wanted to express thanks for everyone who answered my question about default umask. Everyone's answers coupled with picking through man pages and the Web really helped out. Thanks all! :) Naomi ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:

Re: [techtalk] Re: Computer Books

2000-12-29 Thread Char
I have found that the Idiot/Dummy books go out constantly in our library. Personally, I've read a few of them and they always left me with more questions than they answered. However, for the very basic non-computer person - they seem to love them. I did enjoy the dog training for Dummies book -