On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 07:43:35 -0500 (CDT), Di Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>(I don't >really want to buy a new keyboard)
Keyboards are cheap. I've had to buy four replacement keyboards in
the past three years, and I can generally get them for under $30.
Kelly
[EMAIL PROTEC
On Wed, 06 Oct 1999 21:14:20 +, Deb Bassett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Apparently it is a block device... however looking in /proc/devices, the
>kernel doesn't support the device though - so how do I change it so it
>does?? I'm still have newbie status me thinks...!!
Check to see if there's
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 19:19:03 -0500 (CDT), "Marlene E. Morley"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Someone I know takes a shower with his keyboard (Get all of that
>kinky stuff out of your head...:) he says that the steam and the heat
>will help clean it, and as long as you let it dry long enough it'll
>st
On Sat, 09 Oct 1999 13:47:39 -0400, Deb Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I'm hacking together an outline for it at the moment, and I would
>like to know what you think such a Guide should include. Input from
>users of all experience levels would be appreciated. When you
>started with Linux
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:47:03 -0500, Aaron Malone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Actually, you *do* have to tell Win/DOS that you've inserted a floppy
>drive. You do so by typing "a:" then running commands, or by
>double-clicking on the "3 1/2 Floppy (A:)" icon. The advantage in
>this is that the ac
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 16:11:19 -0700 (PDT), R Pickett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Indeed; I was just trying to respond to the allegation that typing
>'dir a:' would fubar a disk after a disk change.
In theory it could _if_ the driver is using write caching. What could
in theory happen is a sector
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:39:58 -0400, "Beverly Guillermo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>You have it your setup to enter X automatically, so you're running at
>runlevel 5, rather then runlevel 3. Runlevel 3 is the usual
>initialization of Linux that brings you to the console login. Check
>your /etc/i
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 20:45:01 +0300, Jane Susi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I'm sorry, if I bother you with a really silly question, but...what
>shall I do, if this "kill -9" just does'nt work? Not very long time
>ago it just happened, so what to do for avoiding such situation??
If kill -9 doesn't
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 12:13:07 -0700, "Tamara Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
>I've also occassionally had k -9 pid# not kill the process, I think I
>looked around and made sure I killed the parent process first, then
>tried it again. Not an expert on this. But since the process
>numbers are
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 04:34:13 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>If a process is in the middle of a system call (such as I/O, disk
>reading, whatever), it can't be killed while doing the system call.
This is technically not entirely correct. You can't kill a process
while it's waiting on a fast res
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:38:33 +0100, kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I've tried looking all over the place in Windows hoping that the
>modem's configuration would be listed somewhere. I looked where
>Winblows Help said the IRQ level should be listed, but it wasn't
>there (Help gave some obscure rea
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 15:13:19 +0100, kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>That's what windoze Help told me to do, but I don't have a
>'Resources' tab there. Help said it sometimes isn't there, but it
>didn't offer any alternative course of action. Any other way I can
>find out?
If there's no "Resource
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:27:41 -0600, "Clare Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>One of my unix students ask me if unix/linux had the same plethora of
>viruses that Windows/NT has. While I couldn't sight any statistics, I
>said I hadn't heard of any successful unix/linux viruses. I did some
>research
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999 23:07:49 -0400, Walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I'm confused about the usefulness of explaining CMY to RGB to HSV
>relations and not supporting it. What is the big BLOCK in the way of
>CMYK or LAB(or HSB or HSB or LCH or whatever you wanna call it)
>support in GIMP? (Also, why
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999 10:05:54 +, Kir Kolyshkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Well, there is one VERY important issue - do you need BITMAPPED
>graphics or VECTORED one. GIMP, Corel PhotoPaint, Adobe Photoshop are
>all doing bitmapped graphics well for us (although my personal
>favorite is The GIMP
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 17:17:09 -0400, "Chris Ritsert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>1) unactivate auto configure hostname in setup 2) checked the
>contents in my /etc/host.conf file and it says: order hosts,bind
Have you checked /etc/resolv.conf to make sure that "nameserver" is
set to the IP address
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 21:20:03 -0400, "Chris Ritsert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>the line in /resolv.conf just read "search" how should this line read
>exactly?
>would my ISP's nameserver be a number like this206.222.1.2?
My /etc/resolv.conf is appended. In my case, the name server is
127.0.
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 04:13:33 +, Kir Kolyshkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>There is feature freeze now in GIMP development front, and I use last
>released development version 1.1.10 and can't see any vector graphics
>support.
Paths are a vestige of vector graphics support.
Kelly
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 12:45:18 +, Kir Kolyshkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>Paths are a vestige of vector graphics support.
>Oops...you are right, and I'm sorry for my bit of
>misinformationreally sorry.
Not a problem. We have a lot of undocumented and poorly-documented
features in the G
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 09:55:11 -0400, Cathy James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> A window manager is the piece of executable code that renders
>stuff on the screen for you, and allows you to open and close
>windows, drag them around, resize them, etc.
Technically the window manager doesn't d
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 18:04:12 -0400, Walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>True. However, Photoshop has supported them for as long as I can
>remember (since ver 3.0, at least) without taking them any farther
>into Illustrator's vector realm.
Doesn't mean it can't be done.
>I would think that it would
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 20:22:01 -0700 (PDT), Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>It's like the difference between drafting/architecture and
>painting... drafting and painting have their own purposes, and can
>both be done very methodically. Personally, I would think it would be
>a Good Thing (tm) to h
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 10:56:08 -0700 (PDT), Vinnie Surmonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Not exactly irrational -- law of supply and demand. More people want
>those seats at christimas than in june, so the airlines can get away
>with charging more (ditto RAM and just about everything else)
We have a
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 15:40:47 -0400 (EDT), Laurel Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Has anyone actually used Y or Berlin, etc?
As far as I know, both are entirely or virtually entirely vapor. :)
Kelly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 23:45:06 -0400, Brendan/Coolian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I've been trying to follow the whole KDE/GNOME fiasco, and I was
>seeing down the road GNOME merging with KDE, because of the whole
>licensing resolution with the QT 2.0 set.
This won't happen, for a variety of tech
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:16:43 -0400, Brendan/Coolian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>Last I checked the license Qt is to be released under is NOT
>>GPL-compliant. IHMO, IANYAL.
>Well, I read this on their site. Tended to believe it.
Troll is, of course, biased. You really shouldn't accept legal
o
I'm getting "hda: lost interrupt" messages from my kernel, which I
just upgraded to 2.2.12. Anybody got any idea what this means (beyond
the obvious)? Do I need to do something about this, or is it not all
that important?
Kelly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 22:59:46 -0400, "Wendt,Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>What makes Qt a dog?
I recall reading a profiling test that showed that Qt is about 10x as
slow as GTK for a rather common operation.
>>Last I checked the license Qt is to be released under is NOT
>>GPL-compliant.
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:09:01 -0400, "Caitlyn Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I can't disagree with the latter statement, but it no longer applies
>to KDE. When TrollTech changed the license, it met the Open Source
>definition, at least sufficiently to satisy, form what I've read,
>Eric Raymon
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 01:04:15 -0400 (EDT), Laurel Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Gnome and KDE will never merge because it would be very very hard and
>nobody would ever do it (unless you're volunteering here..). Harder
>than implementing every Gnome feature from scratch in KDE or vice
>versa. Gt
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:56:53 -0500, Aaron Malone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>As a side note, someone (I think kelly) described Qt as a 'dog'. I'm
>curious about this... my experiences with Qt have been great -- much
>easier to write in than Gtk+. I'm hardly an experienced X
>programmer, though.
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:53:25 -0400 (EDT), Ingrid Schupbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I have spent the past hour trying to figure out how to give myself
>more font options in gimp. Currently I only have 4 fonts. I went to
>gimp.org and downloaded a big file of fonts, and I unzipped and
>untarre
On Mon, 01 Nov 1999 13:47:51 -0500, Steve Kudlak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>One thing I notice that is sort of misssing is GIMP there are several
>groups and mailing lists ddvoted to it. I have not reeceived veey
>much from the any of them, except a little from the plug in
>registy..Are there peo
On Tue, 02 Nov 1999 22:48:05 -0500, Steve Kudlak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I also dunno if there will be an MS-WIN GIMP.
There already is.
Kelly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
On Wed, 03 Nov 1999 20:32:35 GMT, "J B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I am running GIMP/Win on a Windows 2000 box. Runs great. The only
>problem I have found is that if I try to manipulate more than one
>graphic, whether concurrently or not, in the same session, that I get
>memory errors. Do not k
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 09:50:09 -0600, Stephan Zaniolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I'm >interested in licensing these under the terms of the GPL, but I
>remember hearing somewhere that Java is not a "free" language and
>therefore can't be licensed under the GPL.
As far as I know, there is no legal
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 23:23:18 -0500, Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>I was planning on publishing an API for this system that others
>>could use in proprietary software. (Note: no code from the system
>>would/ should be used in the proprietary system, just
>>method/function calls)
>Then yo
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 02:51:38 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> 'I warrant that this code was written by me and I'm willing to
>let other people use it for free so long as they ALSO let other
>people use it for free'
That's not at all accurate.
The GPL says "Here. You can use this. You ca
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:00:43 -0600, Stephan Zaniolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I read through the GPL and at the end it says that GPLed
>programs are not allowed to be incorporated into proprietary systems.
This is a misstatement, in my opinion.
What you cannot do is license a GPL progra
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 22:25:23 -0600, Stephan Zaniolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>But I could write a
>proprietary program for GNOME using the GNOME API (assuming there is
>one), right? Or am I missing something?
I think gnome-libs is LGPL, which allows linkage with proprietary
code. However, you
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999 00:30:42 -0600 (CST), Darren Osadchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I'm having some odd colour problems with Gimp (and Wordperfect, it
>turns out). When I start Gimp, I get a message which reads, "Unable
>to allocate sufficient colormap entries. Try exiting other color
>intensive
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 19:36:39 -0500, Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 19:36:39 -0500, Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Wrt/swap space: Linux uses a swap partition instead of a swap file.
Well, Linux can use a swap file if you want it to. Swap partitions
ar
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:33:14 -, "Lindsay Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
>I was out of memory or system resources! This is on a machine with
>132MB of RAM and 3GB free HD space and just after a reboot! Don't you
>just love how compatible Microsoft's applications are with their own
>OS?>
T
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 11:07:10 -0500, Subba Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>How can my other users on this system, have their own web pages? I
>want them to have their own directories and HTML documents (in their
>$HOME directories). I may allow simple CGI programs.
To srm.conf (or really any of th
On 4 Dec 1999 15:01:30 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>The goal for me is to use the NT systems local printer, CD-R and
>scanner devices. The SMB documents talk a lot about the Client and
>Server. The source I have downloaded will create a smbd and nmbd.
>1. Do I need anything running on the NT
On 4 Dec 1999 16:07:49 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Crack nor JR, tried anything on the application accounts. They tested
>only the user accounts. Is it because the encrypted password existed
>in the 2nd field? How does one test the integrity of the application
>accounts?
An account with an e
Not that it helps, but probably the simplest answer to your problem
is:
find . -type d -name "${char}*" -print
However, I assume you're not allowed to use find. :)
Kelly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:10:03 -0600, "Kathleen Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>First thing, before you assume something is wrong -- try doing a
>"Find" on that computer. I've found that Windows 95 (and 98) do
>weird things and don't show up in Network Neighborhood -- often for
>days.
I had Wi
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 23:50:21 -0500 (EST), Laurel Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Wow, you actually got a driver for a winmodem???
Yeah, it's just a matter of emulating a DSP in the kernel. Raph has
been talking about doing this for some time.
It's a REAL waste of processor cycles, though.
Kell
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 09:27:14 -0500, "Theresa Radke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>A real waste of processor cycles?? How so?? you make it sound as if
>running a driver for a winmodem is not a good thing to do, could you
>please explain?
In a "real" modem, signal processing--converting the signal on
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:46:53 -, "Ian Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I suspect that this was meant to disparage winmodems, not the Linux
>drivers.
Correct. I have never understood why winmodems exist at all. They
make no sense at all from any standpoint I can think of, except
perhaps
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:20:06 -0500, "Theresa Radke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I use the 56k modem on windows all the time and don't notice any
>severe drag on my system... so guess I'll install that driver and
>save some money.
You probably have a fast enough CPU that you just don't notice it,
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:05:40 -0500, "Theresa Radke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Oh, RH was not pre-installed, it came on a CD as the operating system
>for the box. They said they could not install linux on the system as
>it was too difficult. What they should have said is that it is not
>compata
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 20:46:50 GMT, "J B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Ran a Lucent Winmodem on my Windoze system at home. Did not
>noticeably slowdown my system (PIII/500, 292MB)...
With that much CPU it's probably the case that your CPU was spending
most of its time idling anyway.
I suspect that
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 18:59:53 -0500 (EST), Laurel Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>It's much easier for people to help you if you give them the relevant
>config files or errors...
Sometimes it's quite unobvious what might be "relevant". :)
Kelly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxch
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:41:44 -, "Ian Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Possibly in laptops? But other that that I'd agree.
A DSP chip is probably going to have less power draw than a
Pentium
Kelly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:49:50 -, "Ian Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>We should pick a preffered "community computing" project and ask
>people to join that. Either this, seti@home, the RSA/DES thingy or
>whatever. I can probably get a dozen or so machines working on
>whatever, but if we s
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 23:18:06 +1100, "Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I believe they're /supposed/ to function properly most of the time,
>Telsa...
>Strange concept, isn't it?
Thank Microsoft for the general notion that random failures are
acceptable.
Kelly
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:45:52 -, "Ian Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I've seen this kind of thing running under PVM when I was at
>university, how would it cope with the kind of latency inherent in
>such wide distribution? Unless it was doing animation, then you could
>farm out whole fra
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:30:13 -, "Ian Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Buy your CPU will be running almost constantly anyway, and the DSP
>will be an extra drain. I was thinking more in terms of space
>constraints really though.
Well, laptop processors have variable power drain depending
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 14:36:11 -, "Ian Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>surely there's this bit about ". . . all goods should be of
>merchantable quality and fit for the purpose for which they are
>. . ." in the Sale of Goods act? How does M$ defend themselves about
>that in the UK?
Does t
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:16:32 +0100 (CET), Nils Philippsen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Anyway when I'm out of college I'm gonna have to find a provider that
>lets me do UUCP instead of POP/IMAP.
Not that it's of much help to you in Europe, but I've been VERY
pleased with my UUCP feed from crnet.n
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999 18:18:46 GMT, "J B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Subba- So basically you are saying that the ppl out there who do not
>run a M$ os do not have the right or the desire to watch DVD movies,
>or to play DVD games on their systems?
Merely that you currently have to pay for that rig
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999 02:15:52 -0500, coder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>You can play DVD's on linux / BSD / other systems with software
>decoders. These are not as efficient as hardware decrpytion
>(obviously), but they do allow you to play the movies from hard disk
>or other medium.
Is that legal
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999 04:31:59 -0500, coder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Well, i spose the crack itself is illegal to distribute (software to
>circumvent copyright protection mechanism are illegal last time I
>checked), however, if you are not distributing the decoded
>audio/video or playing pirated
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:50:44 -0500, Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>You'll save some memory by saying 'm' to things you don't need too
>much, but that's about it.
Also, you will probably have to put some stuff in modules if you use a
lot of devices because there's a limit to how large your
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 11:00:21 +1300, Jamie Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>We have machines here booting via network card bootROMs from a Novell
>server, and we need as much as possible in modules so the kernel
>image plus initrd can fit on a floppy-sized image. In our case, the
>limit to kernel
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 13:54:57 -0500, Deb Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Check the copyright and licensing, and if it seems questionable, I
>recommend that you do not download the files. If you have already
>downloaded the files, I recommend that you delete them from your
>system if they se
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999 10:06:13 +0100, Sunnanvind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I know that the topic sounds wierd, but here's what I really meant:
>Some programs will only run in for example 604x480x8bpp. My screen
>works best in 1024x768x16bpp (it's a tft-screen), so is there a way
>to trick programs
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999 21:19:45 -0500 (EST), Kathy Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Does anyone know if Red Hat 5.2 has any Y2K problems? Also, I seem
>to remember there's a way to find out how large a disk I have without
>having to open my box and look at it. Anyone?
Check /proc/partitions
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 12:13:28 +0100 (CET), Nils Philippsen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Not quite. The only place where a dot is special is at the beginning
>of a filename (Unix has no such concept as filename segments) where
>it means "this file is hidden".
And even so that's just a function of h
On Mon, 3 Jan 2000 07:19:14 -0800 (PST), Michelle Leonard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
>Working on my first resolution - to get a "real" database system
>running. Our existing database to date consists of bunches of
>flatfiles and directory filesystems. Access is through perl
>scripts/html pages.
On Mon, 3 Jan 2000 19:55:52 -, "Ian Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Bur if by "real" database you mean a genuine RDBMS then both mSQL and
>mySQL fail the test. One of the reasons that they are so fast is that
>a lot of functionality is missing from them. Have a look though, and
>see what
On Mon, 3 Jan 2000 15:21:02 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>My question is ... if I buy a bunch of Intel-based servers from a
>company like VA or Penguin, am I likely to be able to run NT on them
>as well? And, more importantly, if there's a problem, am I going to
>be able to get help or am I go
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 14:12:45 +0100 (CET), Nils Philippsen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>That's absolutely impossible with Windows. I once had a Windows NT
>installation (at a friend's computer) which had a driver halfway
>installed, i.e. some registry entries where already in place, but it
>didn't s
On Tue, 04 Jan 2000 11:06:49 -0500, Caitlyn Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Yikes! OK, I hate to defend Microsoft at any time, but this is just
>blatantly wrong. Both are sold retail, and both are relatively easy
>to install if you know what you are doing and have the right drivers
>up front.
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 12:05:36 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Compaq isn't without issues, but at least we can count on the
>drives staying put, the servers taking up a lot less space, and
>better support (reseller plus manufacturer).
I hope the support they give enterprise customers is better t
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000 18:58:04 -0500 (EST), Kathy Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>On the days when two or more date conditions are met, I want the script
>to run first with the ``weekly'' option, then with the ``monthly'' one,
>then with the ``yearly'' one. And I don't want to stagger the hou
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:39:24 -0800, Walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I'm not even sure what to search for on this one... I have a 9 gb
>scsi drive that I actually only will need to spin up once every 24
>hrs or so, backup information onto it and go back to sleep.
>Is there some command or functi
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:01:33 -0800 (PST), Michelle Leonard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I'm looking for a basic web site manager - mostly for link checking,
>renaming pages and files, etc. Nothing fancy...
I don't know of anything in particular. However, if you want to
specify more precisely wh
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 02:01:01 +0800, "K Kirby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>What is RTFM? If it's not too much trouble?
Read The F*cking (or Fine) Manual
Kelly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 06:29:40 +1100, "Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Carry a tape measure. Measure them yourself - they did this at my
>husband's work one day, and found a massive disparity in
>size-of-usable-screen between two allegedly 21" monitors. Neither of
>which was 21" corner-to-corne
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 19:30:39 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I'm not sure how tp run ifconfig on it. Normally, you have a cable
>modem that plugs into the ethernet card on the computer. So, when you run
>ifconfig it reports on your computers ethernet card not on the ethernet on
>the mode
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 21:05:39 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I don't know if that is normally the case, however I would think that
>it would not be. The reason that I say this is that the cable modem is not
>directly connected to the computer. It is connected thru cat5 cable.
>ifconfig r
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 08:58:21 -, "Ian Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>In adverts at least you usually see monitors advertised as, say, 21"
>and then in the small print it says something like "actual viewable
>size 19.7"". I think I've seen this in US mags as well.
Yes, the "actual viewab
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 00:37:02 -0500 (EST), Beverly Guillermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>What exactly is printk()? I haven't found any information about that
>particular function.
printk is a function in the kernel. It's not callable from user
software. printk is essentially printf for the kern
My sister's boyfriend has this laptop that can't really run Linux and
I'm not sure what the problem is. (Actually I have no idea.) He has
kernel 2.2.9 installed (I know, out of date, we're going to try a
couple of newer ones in a few days). It boots ok, but the keyboard
has nasty problems -- it
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 08:38:32 -0800, Linda Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> All that having been said though, I'd try to find out what type
>of hardware is driving the keyboard. Can he boot into DOS? Guess that
>wouldn't really mean anything since there may be a standard keyboard
>interfa
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:58:26 -0500, "Wendt,Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Many BIOSes have settings to turn on USB keyboard support for
>DOS. Even though DOS doesn't support USB, the BIOS makes it look like
>a `legacy' keyboard.
Nothing in the BIOS about USB. I checked that first-thing. :)
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:47:32 -0800 (PST), Nicole Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I'm not too fond of Mandrake either. I installed it on a friend's computer
>and she's still having problems... enough to scare her away from using it.
>It's okay if you just want the default everything and never
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:22:45 +0100, Sunnanvind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>What permissions should kppp have?
>Who should be the owner?
>I can dialup as root, but if I try to use kppp as a user, it dials, then the
>ppp deamon "dies unexpectedly".
>I know that this is in the help file, but I've lo
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:31:28 +0100 (CET), Britta Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
>As I said, my computer clock is way slow. Whenever I set it, it only
>takes a few days for it to get a few hours behind again. Do I just need
>to change the battery? My computer is only 10 months old - could it be
>
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:03:29 GMT, "J B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Internal clocks work by counting the cycles in electricity.
Not on PCs. There's a small quartz oscillator on the system board
that drives the internal clock. (Otherwise, how would it run when the
power is down, eh?)
If you l
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 19:58:52 GMT, "J B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>OuchOk, then why does my BIOS, and a couple of other machines want to
>know what the cycle time is for power?
I have no idea. It's possible that one some systems, the clock
switches to line frequency. Line frequency is
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:46:06 GMT, "J B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>What would you plug the machine into if you are using DC for distribution??
>I do not know.
In most countries with DC power, an "inverter" is required to use
hardware manufactured for AC systems. It's very hard to step down
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:15:14 -0600, Naomi Hospodarsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
>Hello all, I have what seems like a simple question what do I do
>with a .diff file? It is a software patch, but I'm not sure how to
>apply it. Any suggestions?
"patch < file.diff" usually works. If not, tr
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 13:09:52 GMT, Karl-Heinz Zimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Sorry about that, but why not giving your mother a nice little
>account e.g. called 'mom' without any password but reserve the true
>'root' account for yourself to pre- vent her from destroying the
>system by accident?
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000 15:55:53 -0500 (EST), Laurel Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Well, not having an rpm based system, I don't really want to find
>rpms. Is this site useful otherwise?
You can always use alien to derpmize the rpm. Search for alien on
freshmeat.
Kelly
[EMAIL PROTE
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 01:06:24 +0100, "T. E. Pickering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>i don't have a dell laptop, but their support for my old dell desktop
>was top-notch. cdrom didn't work under linux (back in 1995, no
>less)? no prob! guy came out the next day with a new one and
>installed it. mo
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 19:43:30 -0500 (EST), Beverly Guillermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Is there something that changes latex or tex to postscript? Can
>someone post some tutorials for latex/tex as well?
TeX (or LaTeX) generate .dvi files. dvips generates postscript from
dvi. dvips is normally
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