Hi, everyone,
First, I agree with the comments about Red Hat in the essay. We still use
Red Hat at work, but I personally gave up on it after 6.0. It's not just
libpcap and termcap: they've now gone their own way on even the C compiler
in 7.1 (though gcc is still available). Also, 6.1 and 7.
Exactly what is the "locale" in Linux, and how does one change it?
Apparently mine should be C, which apparently is by far the most common
value, but is set to CX. It is causing some of my programs that run off of
the X server to behave erratically, or not function at all. Anybody know
anything ab
Actualy as soon as I get a chance to.. I plan to write a "debian caveats" that covers
things like ease of use /install.. various diffrences that might confuse users of
other distributions, speed of stable releases.. and so forth
With the release of Debian 2.2 the installation has become MU
Every now and again you find a site with a bunch of the kind
of stuff you can never find when you try.. I just found one..
At
http://www.technetcast.com
they have a bunch of audio and video files.. like a series of
MIT lectures by Donald Knuth, presentations by Stroustrup etc.
Looks quite int
Than you for the suggetion about shadow passwords and
PAM. I spent a good bit of the morning learning about
these and I feel it was time well spent. I feel I
will look into using PAM when I need to do program
specific authorization in the future. And I feel
releived to know what shadow password
Hi, Ryan,
Locale refers to the country you are in and/or the language you are using.
It is a setting for internationalization/localization. "C" just means
default, which is determined by what you set as your default at install
time. I have no idea what CX is.
How you switch locales does vary
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Steve Kudlak wrote:
> Maybe I should read more closely.
Yes, you should.
http://www.linux.org.uk/pipermail/techtalk/2001-April/003353.html
> MY wonderment is that no one ever
> asked what was the problem of running telnet.
I think it's because everyone here already prett
Megan McGuire wrote:
> My laptop goes into sleep mode after a while in screen saver, but I
> cant ever wake it up, I end up having to restart... is there a way to
> turn off sleep mode? I'm using Mandrake 7.2 and KDE.
I don't know if you have gotten an answer to this yet but since I
hadn't seen
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Lora wrote:
> Megan McGuire wrote:
> > My laptop goes into sleep mode after a while in screen saver, but I
> > cant ever wake it up, I end up having to restart... is there a way to
> > turn off sleep mode? I'm using Mandrake 7.2 and KDE.
I've been having the 'can't wake up' p
