Re: [techtalk] login restriction

2000-07-07 Thread kelly
/inetd.conf and comment out the lines that enable telnetd and rlogind, then killall -HUP inetd. Kelly ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: security blather Re: [techtalk] login restriction

2000-07-07 Thread kelly
, a firewall _could_ terminate a SMTP session that doesn't "act right", but it can't tell that until the connection has been established and some data has been exchanged. Unless, of course, someone has a "psychic firewall" out there that I haven't heard about.

Re: security blather Re: [techtalk] login restriction

2000-07-07 Thread kelly
elnet. They look exactly the same. Kelly ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] GPG on different machines

2000-07-31 Thread kelly
there >any good practices regarding the number of keys a user may have? It's my considered opinion that you should have a different key for each account/resource you have; that way, the compromise of one key doesn't threaten any of your other resources. Kelly

Re: [techtalk] KDE / OpenSource

2000-08-07 Thread kelly
usiness client who doesn't care about learning anything; he just wants it to work. Kelly ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] KDE / OpenSource

2000-08-07 Thread kelly
members about making GIMP more compliant with KDE's environment, but those overtures have been ignored. Kelly ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] KDE / OpenSource

2000-08-07 Thread kelly
s_ are undistributable because they include Qt (or at least Qt runtime linkages, which are probably enough to violate the GPL) code. KDE's choice of license is ill-considered, not because it prevents them from distributing their source, but because it prevents them from dis

Re: [techtalk] BASH command return value

2000-08-07 Thread kelly
\u just looks up the username internally. Kelly ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Using AOL with Linux???

2000-08-14 Thread kelly
ess AOL, because AOL doesn't publish its communications protocols and nobody has bothered to reverse-engineer them (as far as I know). I think you saw "proprietary" and redflagged. :) Kelly ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Debian/proftpd problems... AGAIN

2000-08-15 Thread kelly
s a 100 >Mbps LAN with no traffic on it. The FTP daemon may be trying to reverse-lookup the hostname of the connecting system, for logging purposes. Kelly ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Netstat weirdness

2000-08-16 Thread kelly
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 09:14:21 -0400, "C. M. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >The IP address assigned to eth0 is correct in ifconfig, but >wrong/different in netstat. Ditto eth1. No, they appear to be correct to me. Keep in mind that those are network routes, n

Re: [techtalk] Netstat weirdness

2000-08-16 Thread kelly
net. In short, there's doesn't appear to be anything at all wrong with your routing. Kelly ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] There's nothing more I hate

2000-08-16 Thread kelly
t are the people who write Linux. Slashdot is 98% wannabee (possibly higher); while the real developers might read and occasionally post to Slashdot, Slashdot posters are not representative of Linux developers. Kelly ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [techtalk] There's nothing more I hate

2000-08-16 Thread kelly
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 18:03:20 -0400, Brendan Coffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >And slashdot is not "the Linux community." Please. I know that. Tell Fred that (I did). Slashdot has done a great deal to harm the public image of Linux, if

[techtalk] web+ (free version)

2000-01-30 Thread Kelly Kirby
ke it would do it. Webplus has a free version for Linux and I downloaded it. Don't worry about technical details.. I'll have my daughter-- April translate. thanks Kelly __ Free Internet Access from AltaVista: Get it, share

Re: [techtalk] Su slow?

2000-02-02 Thread Kelly Kirby
Excuse, please, my newness.. but, have you checked your system processes? Kelly __ Free Internet Access from AltaVista: Get it, share it & win! http://freeaccess.altavista.com/pika/www/initweb.jsp [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Re: [grrltalk] yet another intro...

2000-02-08 Thread Kelly Kirby
On Mon, 07 February 2000, Deb Richardson wrote: > > Just so all the new folks know...introductions should only be posted to > grrltalk. I get to crosspost stuff 'cuz I run the place ;) > > Thanks! > > - deb > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and

[techtalk] cable modem & gateway

2001-06-02 Thread Kelly McQuarrie
#x27;ve received the error. Any ideas? I've never done this before so don't be afraid of suggesting the obvious. Thx -Kelly __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail -

Re: [techtalk] cable modem & gateway

2001-06-03 Thread Kelly McQuarrie
ppreciated. Thx -Kelly On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Kath wrote: > Do you mean you are trying to setup ipmasquerading? > > (You have multiple machines behind one box which does NAT translation > because you can only get one IP from your ISP and/or want a firewall to > protect your netw

Re: [techtalk] Opinion needed on Mail Clients

2001-06-06 Thread Kelly McQuarrie
Hi Claudine: I've been using pine since I switch to unix so I can't compare it to anything else. Why do you like mutt better? Maybe I should switch? -Kelly On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Claudine Chionh wrote: > Hi Michelle and others, > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 12:24:05PM -07

[techtalk] linksys drivers

2001-06-10 Thread Kelly McQuarrie
TX version 4.0 & 4.1 Guess what I've got, version 4.1 Does anybody have any ideas on how I can get around this problem? I don't mind trying another distribution. HELP 8( -Kelly __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses f

Re: [techtalk] simple question on technical training

2001-06-22 Thread Kelly McQuarrie
Hello: My company has a general rule that we get two classes a year. They send us to more sometimes if something comes up and they need us to learn something new. That's just within my business unit and it's not an actually policy or anything. Kelly McQuarrie Unix System Adm

Re: [techtalk] sign up to make money

2001-06-22 Thread Kelly McQuarrie
How is this considered a technical topic? -Kelly On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Cherry wrote: > Dear Friend: > > Make money to paste following as websit and sign up: > > http://net-4-biz.affiliatetracking.net/al/af.cgi?120305

Re: [techtalk] problem

1999-10-06 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
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. Kell

Re: [techtalk] parallel zip drive

1999-10-06 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
th the kernel source. I don't know off the top of my head which drivers are required for parallel ZIP drives. I'm sure someone else here can provide that information if you need it. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] (keyboard) problem

1999-10-06 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
it dry long enough it'll >still work. I dunno if that'll help you right now, but you know >hey... I've cleaned out keyboards by completely drenching them in water then letting them dry out upside down over a towel placed on top of a heating vent. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] request for ideas

1999-10-09 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
27;s been a long time since I was a new Linux user, and I was a previous Unix user at that point, but I'll try to remember what problems I had (I do remember struggling endlessly with LILO to get it to recognize my hard drive, but I think that's no longer a problem...). I'd be glad t

Re: [techtalk] request for ideas

1999-10-11 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
con. The advantage in >this is that the actual mounting is transparent to the user. More accurately, DOS "mounts" the floppy drive every time it accesses it. Very inefficient. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] request for ideas

1999-10-11 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
on all devices). Moral: always sync your disks. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] KDE vs Gnome

1999-10-14 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
5 and xdm in runlevel 4. The only consistent usage for runlevels is 0 is shutdown, 6 is reboot, and 1 is single-user mode. 2 thru 5 are highly variable. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Is there a Kill -8, too?

1999-10-14 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
n extremely small amount of memory, so they're not a major concern, and are usually evidence of poorly-written code. If you can't kill -9 a process and it's neither a zombie nor in a disk wait, then your kernel is unstable and you should probably reboot. :) Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Is there a Kill -8, too?

1999-10-14 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
But since the process >numbers are sequential, it's not so hard to find out the order in >which the procs started. ps will list the parent process ID (as PPID) with the right combination of options. I think it's -l, but don't quote me on that. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Is there a Kill -8, too?

1999-10-14 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
the syscall returning with EINTR (or, EAGAIN) or automatically restarting, depending on certain flags set in the signal handling system for that process. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] For the not so techie Linux users

1999-10-14 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
the new window that pops up, click the "Resources" tab. The modem's configured IRQ will be shown here as "Interrupt Request". Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] For the not so techie Linux users

1999-10-14 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
Any other way I can >find out? If there's no "Resources" tab then the device you've selected is a "virtual" device which doesn't really have any hardware directly associated with it. You'll have to poke around to find what the "real" modem device is

Re: [techtalk] Question for the group

1999-10-14 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
sful unix/linux viruses. I did some >research this morning and still can't come up with any hard data. Any >ideas? The first example that comes to mind would be the infamous Internet Worm of 1988, which exploited a buffer overrun bug in sendmail and fingerd for VAX-based UNIX machines.

Re: [techtalk] whas up wid da GIMP? [from Updated Enlightenment (more @debian, GIMP and COREL DRAW*)]

1999-10-15 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
edly working on substantial enhancements in this area. Constructive suggestions of how to improve the GIMP are, of course, always welcome. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] To me it fast becomes a non-technicalissue...(COREL/GIMP/PHOTOSHOP etc.)

1999-10-16 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
gt;favorite is The GIMP), but Corel Draw! is a vector graphics program, >and you can't obtain such functionality from bitmapped graphics. GIMP is starting to get vestiges of vector graphics capabilities, although they're not there yet. I think someone's planning on extend

Re: [techtalk] re: Modem Help

1999-10-18 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
ameserver" is set to the IP address (numbers, not name) of your ISP's nameserver? Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] re: Modem Help

1999-10-18 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
omington.in.us search poverty.bloomington.in.us ucs.indiana.edu indiana.edu nameserver 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] To me it fast becomes a non-technicalissue...(COREL/GIMP/PHOTOSHOP etc.)

1999-10-19 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
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 grap

Re: [techtalk] To me it fast becomes a non-technicalissue...(COREL/GIMP/PHOTOSHOP etc.)

1999-10-19 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
umented features in the GIMP now (not to mention terribly buggy ones, like the so-called "intelligent" scissors). I'm a developer and I don't know what's going on most of the time. I certainly wouldn't expect a user to. :) Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] GUI's

1999-10-19 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
could be quite a shock to someone >coming from the windows world, where there is *one* windows manager, >*one* desktop, and *one* widget set. Yup, this is one of the biggest problems people moving to Linux have, I think. Don't forget that there are various breeds of X as well,

Re: [techtalk] To me it fast becomes a non-technicalissue...(COREL/GIMP/PHOTOSHOP etc.)

1999-10-19 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
ace, but with overall different functions. I tend to disagree, actually. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] To me it fast becomes a non-technicalissue...(COREL/GIMP/PHOTOSHOP etc.)

1999-10-19 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
gt;a Good Thing (tm) to have different tools for vecto and pixel drawing >JUST as you have different tools for drafting and painting. There's a lot of commonality, though. If we ever get dynamically loaded tools going, there'll really be no reason not to do it. Kelly *

[moving off topic...] Re: [techtalk] Rising RAM Prices

1999-10-20 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
else) We have a local hotel that puts the room rate up on a digital display so they can change it at a whim. They're $31.99 a night on Monday, $45.99 on Friday (at least on game weekends), and $69.99 the weekend of graduation. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Alternatives to X?

1999-10-20 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
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

Re: [techtalk] GUI's

1999-10-20 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
KDE. Last I checked the license Qt is to be released under is NOT GPL-compliant. IHMO, IANYAL. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] GUI's

1999-10-21 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
houldn't accept legal opinions offered by a party trying to convince you that their legal opinion is, in fact, correct. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

[techtalk] "hda: lost interrupt"

1999-10-21 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
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

Re: [techtalk] GUI's

1999-10-21 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
e in my mind whether a GPL product should rely on a third-party library which is not released under the GPL, the LGPL, or an equivalently open license.) >What's IANYAL, you are not _yet_ a lawyer? :-) Exactly. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] GUI's

1999-10-22 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
I am going on my personal evaluation of the licenses as I understand them. Neither I nor ESR are lawyers, although I'm closer than he is. For legal advice, contact an attorney. :) Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] GUI's

1999-10-22 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
friend, while Mattias Ettrich has been quite rude to me over the years. Second, I hate C++. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] GUI's

1999-10-22 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
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 a

Re: [techtalk] Font confusion

1999-10-29 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
includes a Makefile; try doing a "make install". Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Gimp, Gimp Users, Deevelpers and the like...

1999-11-01 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
yt GIMP material on may mailmg list. If someone can >point me to the rifht one I'd loove it. There's [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the newsgroup comp.graphics.apps.gimp. Why can't you use gimp-user for this? Kelly (GIMP developer emeritus) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] 6.1 install, Victory!

1999-11-02 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
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

Re: [techtalk] Gimp...

1999-11-03 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
t >memory errors. Do not know if it is not interacting with Windows >memory manager properly, or what. But if I shut the app down between >graphics, it runs great! Have you reported this to the developers? Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] GPL Questions

1999-11-11 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
itute "combination" for the virus-like aspect of the GPL. The foregoing is not legal advice. For legal advice, please consult an attorney. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] GPL Questions

1999-11-11 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
The LGPL allows linkage to proprietary applications. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] GPL Questions

1999-11-11 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
s it will charge less -- or nothing. Hence, most GPL code is in fact available for free, but the license does not strictly require it. The foregoing is not legal advice. For legal advice, consult an attorney. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] GPL Questions

1999-11-11 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
. Copyright is inherent in all authorship, and when you distribute software you almost always give at least an implicit license to use. Again, this is not legal advice; for legal advice consult an attorney. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] GPL Questions

1999-11-11 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
ware and >I'd rather not be dealing with two versions of the system for >simplicity-sake. Of course, I don't want anyone to steal our work >and make it proprietary which is why I'm looking at the GPL. Does >this clarify things?) I think you want the LGPL. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Problems w/Gimp

1999-11-20 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
Gimp do you have? The behavior you're reporting sounds like 0.54 -- I'd hope that nobody is distributing such an ancient version 1.1 has GtkRGB support and should cope even with very restricted colormaps, thanks to the magic of Raph... :) Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] swaping & upgrading

1999-11-23 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
ion table with fdisk (Linux's, not MS); e.g., >fdisk /dev/hda for an IDE drive, or fdisk /dev/sda for a SCSI drive. You can also just look at /proc/partitions, assuming you have the /proc filesystem mounted (which virtually everyone does). Or /proc/swaps, for that matter. :)

Re: [techtalk] mail format (was re: ftp for non users)

1999-11-29 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
nch MSIE. It's damnably hard to tell for certain what a Windows program is trying to do, though. I don't buy the "out of memory"; according to Norton System Doctor, I have 100 megs of VM and at least 80% of both USER and GDI resources either MSIE is even larger than I th

Re: [techtalk] Home pages for regular users

1999-12-02 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
or CGI, you will want to add "AddHandler cgi-script .cgi" or something similar. (Don't do this unless you trust your users.) The Apache website has quite a bit of good documentation on how to configure Apache, although it can be a bit confusing at time. They do have a decent set of FAQs

Re: [techtalk] Samba and kernel options

1999-12-04 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
ount remote systems on your Linux machine, you'll need to compile the SMB filesystem into the kernel or a module. Otherwise, just your basic network support. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Re: Using Crack 5.0

1999-12-04 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
ount with an encrypted password like '!' or '*' cannot be logged into at all -- no password will hash to that. Such an account poses no integrity risk, at least not in the sense of password security. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Bourne Shell Programming and Awk

1999-12-04 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
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

Re: [techtalk] Samba question

1999-12-13 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
twork Neighborhood -- often for >days. I had Windows add a spurious route to my network configuration once, which resulted in packets going off into lala land. It took me almost a week to fix that -- and I had to dump the Window registry to do it. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] winmodem sound driver

1999-12-13 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
ssor cycles, though. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] winmodem sound driver

1999-12-14 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
l processing--converting the signal on the phone line to the digital stuff the computer wants--is done by a dedicated DSP (digital signal processor) chip. WinModems don't have a DSP, so the CPU has to do it instead. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] winmodem sound driver

1999-12-14 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
ink of, except perhaps Intel's bottom line. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] winmodem sound driver

1999-12-14 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
h CPU that you just don't notice it, especially if you're not running any CPU-intensive applications which most people using Windows don't do, at least not when browsing the net. Windows does not encourage you to make the most of your computer. :) Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] winmodem sound driver

1999-12-14 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
ve said is that it is not >compatable. The real reason is they're probably contractually forbidden from doing so. See the court's Findings of Fact in _Department of Justice v. Microsoft_. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] winmodem sound driver

1999-12-14 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
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

Re: [techtalk] truncated file names

1999-12-14 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
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 *

Re: [techtalk] winmodem sound driver

1999-12-15 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
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

Re: [techtalk] http://cristal.inria.fr/~harley/ecdl7//

1999-12-15 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
nes working on >whatever, but if we spread the workload around too thinly then we >won't earn as wuch kudos for it ;-) One of these days I'm going to get my "distributed renderer" going. :) Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] DVD-ROM on Linux?

1999-12-15 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
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. K

Re: [techtalk] http://cristal.inria.fr/~harley/ecdl7//

1999-12-15 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
then you could >farm out whole frames at a time I guess. I'll be honest, I don't know >that much about the subject. Raytracing, at least, is pixel-independent. You can break each image down into chunks and farm out each chunk. Note that this is not intended for rendering in re

Re: [techtalk] winmodem sound driver

1999-12-15 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
ble power drain depending on how hard they're working -- make them work harder and they draw more. Space might theoretically be an issue, but a DSP chip isn't very large. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] DVD-ROM on Linux?

1999-12-15 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
themselves about >that in the UK? Does the UK allow the buyer to waive that provision? The US allows for the purchaser to waive the common law requirement of merchantability, and of course Microsoft buries such a waiver in their adhesive contract of sale. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] UUCP, was: POP mail

1999-12-16 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
Y pleased with my UUCP feed from crnet.net. $10 a month, and it's only gone down for more than 6 hours once in over a year. And I can call them on the phone and talk to a techie who actually knows what UUCP _is_. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Re: DVD-ROM on Linux?

1999-12-18 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
ntly have to pay for that right, because of the DVD decoder patents. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Re: DVD-ROM on Linux?

1999-12-18 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
other medium. Is that legal, though? What's the terms on software implementations of the decoding algorithm? Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Re: DVD-ROM on Linux?

1999-12-18 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
or playing pirated videos then you *should* be fine. Well, some of us actually care about following the law, and agitate for its change through legal channel. BTW, the DVD thing is patent, not copyright. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] modules and xconfig

1999-12-20 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
because there's a limit to how large your final monolithic kernel image can be. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] modules and xconfig

1999-12-20 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
, the >limit to kernel size is about 520k or thereabouts. Is that the size after bzipping? My current kernel is 422k bzipped, and I don't have _everything_ moduled out that I possibly could, although certainly I do have a lot of it... Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Linux Books

1999-12-21 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
>system if they seem to be of questionable legality. Actually, you're under no obligation to delete them if you downloaded them innocently. The tort is committed by the operator of the site, who is probably looking at a massive copyright lawsuit any moment now. Kelly [

Re: [techtalk] X emulator for X?

1999-12-27 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
is there a way >to trick programs and make them run in a window, while believing that >they run in full screen in their preffered resolution/color depth? You can probably do this with Xnest. Would be terribly inefficient, though. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] linux + disk

1999-12-28 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
eck /proc/partitions (assuming you have Linux 2.2.x and /proc support enabled). Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Filename star

1999-12-31 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
that's just a function of how ls and the shell behave -- there's nothing in the kernel that makes a leading dot special. The only names that are special as far as the kernel is concerned are '.' and '..'. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] need database recomendations

2000-01-03 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
y large databases so I'll let one of the others who has provide suggestions. (I know Deirdre has been doing database engine work for years.) BTW, if you want a consultant on this project, let me know. I'm available. :) Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] need database recomendations

2000-01-03 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
them. Have a look though, and >see what you need. Given that she said they were currently using flat files, I suspect that mySQL will be adequate for at least the medium term, and its low cost makes it more feasible than grabbing for the Oracle brass ring. :) Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Other OSes on a Linux box

2000-01-03 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
eric" hardware expect problems. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] fixing things, was: missing posts

2000-01-04 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
nter. This is unacceptable. Yup. It's very easy to get Windows "wedged" into a state where it is virtually unrecoverable. Although, technically, the problem you had here could have been recovered by manually editing the registry. Assuming, of course, you could figure out which of the

Re: [techtalk] Other OSes on a Linux box

2000-01-04 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
ivers >up front. The problem is getting the right drivers up front. Windows will, in my experience, blithely install the wrong driver, making your system about as stable as a two-legged coffee table. The simple fact is that Windows is not intended to be installed by non-experts. Kelly *

Re: [techtalk] Other OSes on a Linux box

2000-01-04 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
as changed. Load of BS. I had to bring an attorney in to the picture to get them to finally replace a defective Presario laptop (four trips to their repair shop, each time they broke something new). Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

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