[expert] Best mpeg video player setup (for the archives)

While you read this, download mtv (or mtvp) from http://rpmfind.com/ freshmeat.com or other places on the net. GTV crashed, the new one I just upgraded to. The old one that comes stock in MDK7.1 used to work a little bit, and on some files, as long as you turned audio off. I got SDL 1.1

[expert] Best mpeg video player setup (for the archives)

While you read this, download mtv (or mtvp) from http://rpmfind.com/ freshmeat.com or other places on the net. GTV crashed, the new one I just upgraded to. The old one that comes stock in MDK7.1 used to work a little bit, and on some files, as long as you turned audio off. I got SDL 1.1

Re [expert] Linux free ISP's

http://www.httpboards.com/boards/index.cgi?user=brm2b=2 Interesting link I found for free ISP's. There was one a while back that likes Linux users as long as you brought up their home page when you first signed on everything was OK, don't know if they are around anymore, check that site above.

Re [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

Bring up a console window, type man pppd Maybe set 'crtscts' or 'cdtrcts' or check if it is set wrong Check the idle variable, mabe it's just timing out? Not sure how you set up pppd to run, you may not have all the variables set right.

Re [expert] strange K mail oddity

Vic wrote: Or did I press the wrong button??? I noticed that sometimes when I click reply on K mail (or at least I think I clicked it) it replies directly to the person's e mail instead of the list like if they ask a question and I want to reply to the list so others can

Re [expert] make command

Submitted 17-Aug-00 by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I can't find the 'make' command on Mandrake 7.0 You should go back and install as "developer" I think you can do it after the fact, but since I got 7.1 I have to wonder. Watch out, don't get 7.1 they don't include the standard C++ header files for

Re [expert] Kernel 'upgrade' to 2.2.16 with reiserfs. I rebootedbefore completing the upgrade. OOPS!

Caleb Crome wrote: Hi, I just upgraded my Mandrake 7.1 installation to the 2.2.16 kernel, however silly me, I figured, "it'll just work," so I didn't create a backup configuration in my lilo. Now I can't reboot because the installed kernel won't mount the reiserfs. (Yes, I

Re Re Re [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! HowdoIsetthedefault editor soI can TRASH IT?

"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: How do I filter out Mallard's hot wind using qmail? Go to your options menu and set it to move messages with "Mallard" in them to another mail directory. That should do it. If everyone ignores the GEEKYNESS of Linux, maybe LINUX WILL GO AWAY!

Re [expert] To the Powers That Be.

Allen Bolderoff wrote: I say moderate. this way only one person needs to put up with the crap. Yea, let's get a mandrake kiss ass corporate employee to censor out stuff so you won't find out how crappy this 7.1 release really is. That way the stock price will dictate what you can and can't

Re Re [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do Isetthedefault editor soI can TRASH IT?

Pj wrote: About 4 years ago I was contemplating a MAC. I was at the local sales/repair shop and asked to see it's DOS. All I saw was icons! "How do I get into it?" "You don't", was the reply. "But how do I write script or change stacks?" "You don't. That's what we're here for." Neither the

[expert] $30 and 2 hours later, NO C++ includes !! (mdk 7.1)

Thanks for wasting the two hours I had today to do some programming! I was compiling just fine in 7.0 after figuring out how to install everything I needed. now I do a clean install of 7.1 "developer" and everything else is installed to compile C++ except the libsrcc++ or whatever you call it.

Re Re [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I setthedefault editor so I can TRASH IT?

Fredrik Nilsson wrote (in part): I have made a short list of some useful commands. WOW, that convinces me, let's see... I want to copy this word so yw, but wait, I have to tell it what word, so Mj on over there near it and then yw and then Mklljjjll on over to where I want it

Re [expert] remove yang@moultonlogistics.com

Scott Matthews wrote: remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did it work?

Re [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I setthedefault editor so I can TRASH IT?

Ron Marriage wrote: if you want to use the power and the potential that comes with linux, then you have to get out to the console and learn how to use the professional editors that everyone else will be working with. Power? The power to waste my life away with silly commands I will forget

Re [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I setthedefault editor soI can TRASH IT?

Anton Graham wrote: Problem is newbies are the ones most likely to trash their installations and need a rescue disk without a clearly defined plan of action. For these individuals, vi is the only editor guaranteed to be running on the system. the others are all in the /usr tree and/or

Re [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I set thedefault editor so I can TRASH IT?

Thanks, it worked! I put that line in /etc/bashrc at the end, it seemed to make more sense to me since it is the main bash set up file for the system. It's easier for me to remember where it is. I tried typing it in at a shell prompt and it worked OK till I exited the console, so it needs to be

[expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I set the default editor so I can TRASH IT?

Why did Mandrake pick the most geekyist editor for a setup that is suposto be easy for users? Anyone else seen this joke of a program? With Vim all you have to do is spend a half hour trying to get it give you help, then scroll all the way to the bottom of a super long whoopy-do list of usless

Re [expert] hello???

I can handle this one. When the listserver sends out a message to the 100's of subscribers and a message bounces at let's say AOL, the AOL mailer may pick any / all return address it finds and send a bounce message back to those. Thus you get a bounce message in your box. Just ignore it. If you