Re: [techtalk] webads

2001-04-16 Thread Sienca Teng
On Sunday, April 15, 2001 09:36, James A. Sutherland wrote: > I'm amazed by the number which give errors WITHOUT you doing anything > "odd" - I've seen plenty which are spewing errors even under IE 5.5 on > Win98/ME with NO filtering! If the script doesn't even work there, > where on earth does it

Re: [techtalk] RE: [grrltalk] webads

2001-04-16 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Lothan wrote: > On a complete different tangent, I never did understand how folks in the UK > could tolerate metered service for local calls. It just seems so... > uncivilized. Of course, I was born and bred in the USA so I come from a > completely different background and po

RE: [techtalk] locale

2001-04-16 Thread Ryan Thibodeau
Thanks for helping me out. I am running Redhat 6.2. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 5:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [techtalk] locale Hi, Ryan, Locale refers to the

Lame Language (was: Re: [techtalk] Almost arrested for using telnet(civility)

2001-04-16 Thread Curious
I'm moving this thread to geekgrrl.. since it seems to be where issues conversation has moved... Language can be so anyoing sometimes... sometimes in unexpected ways... Take for example a youngster who had difficulty hearing.. according to the National Association for the Deaf.. the term to be

[techtalk] Metered service (was: webads)

2001-04-16 Thread Martin . Caitlyn
Lothan wrote: > On a complete different tangent, I never did understand how folks in the UK > could tolerate metered service for local calls. It just seems so... > uncivilized. Of course, I was born and bred in the USA so I come from a > completely different background and point of view. I grew

[techtalk] Metered calls (was: webads)

2001-04-16 Thread Martin . Caitlyn
Hi, Nils, and everyone else, > (It's similar in Germany:) It's not that you have much of a choice when > you're more or less forced to use what the monopoly gives to you. For > instance the German Telekom (former state monopoly gone public) owns the > last mile to the customer (and many of the s

RE: [techtalk] locale

2001-04-16 Thread Martin . Caitlyn
Hi, Ryan, and everyone else, > Thanks for helping me out. I am running Redhat 6.2. OK. If you're running KDE and your problem is specifically with a KDE/QT app, you can do this graphically and on the fly, but not in the version of Gnome that came with 6.2. I don't know if this has changed w

[techtalk] Is NFS soft mount safe?

2001-04-16 Thread Brian Sweeney
'Lo all- I've got someone on the network who's setup up a small nfs client/server (1 server, 2 clients) using RHL. They mount everything read-only. The trouble is they've been complaining because in general the "clients" in this case are more important and more robust machinesthan the server, a

Re: [techtalk] Metered calls (was: webads)

2001-04-16 Thread Christian MacAuley
> > (It's similar in Germany:) It's not that you have much of a choice when > > you're more or less forced to use what the monopoly gives to you. For > > instance the German Telekom (former state monopoly gone public) owns the > > last mile to the customer (and many of the smaller telcos have to l

[techtalk] Slightly OT: keyboard/X windows on Solaris

2001-04-16 Thread Amanda Babcock
I have a problem that is driving me up a wall. It's not Linux-related, or even FreeBSD. It's actually on my Solaris box, which runs on Sun hardware, a Sparc Classic. I have two identical keyboards for this thing. They both have this weird caps lock problem. It's not normal caps lock - the lig

Re: Re: [techtalk] Seeming inconsistency between /etc/passwd and "real" password data

2001-04-16 Thread Julie
From: Seageraves Caren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 futu

[techtalk] Correction on my comments about Mandrake/Red Hat internationalization

2001-04-16 Thread Martin . Caitlyn
Hi, everyone, In my last post I implied that Mandrake installs the Hebrew (he) locale and various other bits of Hebrew and bidi support by default. This is incorrect. The rpms are on the CDs and you can install them if you choose to. However, unless you choose Hebrew as your default language