Re: [techtalk] Linux - Windows System

2001-02-28 Thread James A. Sutherland
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, Hi Liese! > I've been using linux for 1.5 years now and it has completely replaced > my windows desktop.. but.. after 1.5 years i'm really anxious to play > Baldors Gate again (and discworld noir, and heroes of m&m, ...) and > since I'm doing

Re: [techtalk] Linux - Windows System

2001-02-28 Thread WolfRyder
At 06:19 PM 2/27/01 -0500, Patrick Ouellet wrote: Let me clarify. 1st I didn't want to lose everything on my SuSE box by having to put Windows on 1st. and 2nd I've had HDs go bad on me before and didn't want to lose BOTH OSs. Call me paranoid, but I've had to reinstall windows a heck of a lot

[techtalk] killing processes on dead pts/n 's

2001-02-28 Thread David Merrill
Greetings, I access my linux box from work with PuTTY, and occasionally I lose my connection. When this happens, I wind up with a process (mutt usually, or vi) that is still running, that I sometimes cannot kill using "kill", or with top. It seems to be because the process no long has a pts assoc

Re: [techtalk] killing processes on dead pts/n 's

2001-02-28 Thread Eric R. Turner
kill -9 or kill -SIGKILL My understanding is that this MUST work because programs cannot block the SIGKILL signal. Eric BTW, some processes automatically spawn child processes, so if you don't kill the parent process then a child process will be created each time you kill another one. T

Re: [techtalk] killing processes on dead pts/n 's

2001-02-28 Thread Elaine Poulsen
Are you using kill -9 to kill it? David Merrill wrote: > > Greetings, > > I access my linux box from work with PuTTY, and occasionally I lose my > connection. When this happens, I wind up with a process (mutt usually, > or vi) that is still running, that I sometimes cannot kill using > "kill"

Re: [techtalk] killing processes on dead pts/n 's

2001-02-28 Thread David Merrill
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:43:10AM -0700, Elaine Poulsen wrote: > Are you using kill -9 to kill it? Yes. > > David Merrill wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > > > I access my linux box from work with PuTTY, and occasionally I lose my > > connection. When this happens, I wind up with a process (mu

Re: [techtalk] killing processes on dead pts/n 's

2001-02-28 Thread Anmol Khirbat
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, David Merrill wrote: > Greetings, > > I access my linux box from work with PuTTY, and occasionally I lose my > connection. When this happens, I wind up with a process (mutt usually, > or vi) that is still running, that I sometimes cannot kill using > "kill", or with top. Y

[techtalk] linux robotic webcam chat thingy

2001-02-28 Thread Anthony Umann
hi, i am testing a linux robotic webcam chat thingy, feel free to poke around http://cam.vidcard.com uses bt878 video capture card, slick little rs-232 controlled camera, apache, php, mysql and some c to talk to the cam cgi. thanks, -anthony http://www.iomojo.com -Original Message--

[techtalk] Web-based e-mail for Linux?

2001-02-28 Thread jennyw
I'm finally going to put together a mail server. I'm used to using IMAP4/POP3 and Web-based e-mail from my current provider, so I would like to build a mail server that has the same functionality. Does anyone have suggestions on what software packages I could use to accomplish this, and links to

[techtalk] Re: Web-based e-mail for Linux?

2001-02-28 Thread Barbara Schelkle
Hi, > I'm finally going to put together a mail server. I'm used to using > IMAP4/POP3 and Web-based e-mail from my current provider, so I would like to > build a mail server that has the same functionality. Does anyone have > suggestions on what software packages I could use to accomplish this,

Re: [techtalk] Web-based e-mail for Linux?

2001-02-28 Thread James A. Sutherland
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, jennyw wrote: > I'm finally going to put together a mail server. I'm used to using > IMAP4/POP3 and Web-based e-mail from my current provider, so I would like to > build a mail server that has the same functionality. Does anyone have > suggestions on what software packages I

Re: [techtalk] Re: Web-based e-mail for Linux?

2001-02-28 Thread jennyw
Thanks Barbara! And also everyone else who responded! The suggestions are helpful, but I was wondering if there are any programs that people especially like? For example, I now realize realize there are actually hundreds of Web-based e-mail programs out there (about 200 at hotscripts.com alone).

Re: [techtalk] Re: Web-based e-mail for Linux?

2001-02-28 Thread Amy
For Webmail, you HAVE to check out Squirrelmail. Far superior to IMP, and we have used IMP for a couple of years, I think. We just recently switched to SM, and it is fabulous. I believe the address is http://www.squirrelmail.org/ We have over 3000 customers, and very few complaints about this prog

RE: [techtalk] Linux - Windows System

2001-02-28 Thread Lothan
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Patrick Ouellet > Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 3:20 PM > To: Linux Chix > Subject: Re: [techtalk] Linux - Windows System > > And for your question Liese: > I diffenetly suggest a dual boot... > Wine and VMWare wont do any good