[expert] minicom permission

2000-03-20 Thread Michael Holt
. I've tried chmod 755 /dev/modem, but I still can't access the program unless I'm logged on as root. Is this a security setting with RedHat/Mandrake distribs? And how can I give permission to users to access minicom? Thanks very much, Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] minicom permission

2000-03-20 Thread Michael Holt
/modem symlinked to? Do a chmod 755 on that dev and that *should* fix it. John Thank you for the quick answer, however I was just enlightened to change the permissions on /usr/bin/minicom and that did the trick. I will keep that in mind for the future though. Michael Holt [EMAIL

Re: [expert] multi-processor system support in Linux

2000-03-25 Thread Michael Holt
find the 'smp' kernel at there cooker site; I use these two: ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/contrib/RPMS In fact I just downloaded there standard kernel 2.2.15-0.17mdk last night and I saw the smp kernel right there. Michael Holt

[expert] mouse scrolling

2000-03-25 Thread Michael Holt
appreciated! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Linux and DVD and Supermount

2000-03-25 Thread Michael Holt
Wayne wrote: Totally off topic but for those contemplating buying a DVD drive, do your very best to find a multiregional model. They will play movies from anywhere in the world without having to worry about region specific decoders Wayne Which ones would fall into that category? Michael

Re: [expert] grossir la barre de deroulement de netscape

2000-03-26 Thread Michael Holt
e la barre a une trop petite largeur.merci de m'aider Parlez vous english? We need english to answer you questions Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Wacom

2000-03-26 Thread Michael Holt
reading on this list that people have been using USB mice and I have seen the (USB) option under 'mouseconfig' so would I need any special drivers to use the graphics pad? (I guess I'm asking if anyone has had experience with this setup?) Thanks in advance, Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] /boot/System.map question

2000-03-28 Thread Michael Holt
arch/i386/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.xx') As to what the System.map file is for, I have my guesses, but I really don't know. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-03-29 Thread Michael Holt
it will be /dev/hda1 and so on; the Master boot record is not the same as /boot, it's hidden from you so you don't count it as a partition number) Then save and exit, find a terminal window and type 'lilo' so that lilo sees the changes, and reboot your computer. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] RE: mdk7.0 install failure

2000-03-30 Thread Michael Holt
Software, makers of the award-winning Web Browser - http://www.operasoftware.com If you have a CDRW, you can download the iso image from the Mandrake website or from linuxberg (of 7.0-2) Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-03-30 Thread Michael Holt
frequently, but I already knew that). I've noticed that about Windows, but I thought that was supposed to be a 'feature'??? :-o Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for all the help, folks. I'm Mandraked! --- John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote: One

[expert] Signature

2000-03-31 Thread Michael Holt
a quote. How do you do that? I'm sure you don't type it everytime, well I wouldn't think you would anyway. Thanks, Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Michael Holt
well as the things that soar, then when we talk the boss into trying out something new, we can say well in advance 'we better use windows for the shizbang products, linux would be better to handle our firewall and we can use the iMacs for the graphics department.' When more things become available to Linux users (which will happen!) you can incorporate them. -- Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] TCP/IP Problem

2000-04-03 Thread Michael Holt
I'm also dual booting, I've noticed that Windoze seems to have quite a problem with connecting to different sites, don't know how to answer other than - just use Linux! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scott Sweeney wrote: You might want to try the Microsoft Windows [expert] mailing list.:P

[expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-06 Thread Michael Holt
recommend Corels WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux. I also use M$ Word 2000 for Windows, and I think that Corel just blew them out of the water!!! -- Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-07 Thread Michael Holt
Please excuse my faux pas, I was using the Netscape 6 release and hadn't quite got the feel for the settings. oops! Mike Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 10:15:33PM -0700, Michael Holt wrote: Michael, would you please turn off HTML mode, at least for this list. Thanks

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-07 Thread Michael Holt
- Original Message - From: Michael Holt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 12:15 AM Subject: [expert] Office Suite for Linux Hello all! I just wanted to say, I went to the Corel-linux roadshow last night in Seattle and while I'm

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-07 Thread Michael Holt
with their Office Suite. If anybody out there would like to get their hands on an alternative to M$ Office, I HIGHLY recommend Corels WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux. I also use M$ Word 2000 for Windows, and I think that Corel just blew them out of the water!!! -- Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Michael

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Michael Holt
Well, in my dictionary 'WINE' stands for WINdows Emulator. Mike Fieschko wrote: "Michael" == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael What kind of problems? I've heard their OS version of Michael linux wasn't doing to hot, but I was hearing that WINE is Micha

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Michael Holt
: Michael Holt wrote: Well, in my dictionary 'WINE' stands for WINdows Emulator. No. WINE is an acronym for: WINE Is Not an Emulator. This follows the GNU recursive model: GNU is Not Unix. Wine is not an emulator or a simulator - Windows programs directly execute on a Linux

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Michael Holt
change what the program does. ~Mike~ Vic wrote: Sorry to butt in, is wine an "adaptor" or an "emulator"? I have heard both from different sources. On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, Michael Holt mewed: Well, in my dictionary 'WINE' stands for WINdows Emulator. Mike Fieschko w

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Michael Holt
;Wine Is Not an Emulator." Go check it out. John -- Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Michael Holt
APIs exist in Linux, then you aren't emulating, you are simply providing what the program requires, under a different OS. The underlying architecture is still the same. Russ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Holt Sent: Sunday

Re: [expert] Good-bye.

2000-05-06 Thread Michael Holt
reedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. -- = "Microsoft has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." ===== Michael Holt

Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] Connecting to the Internet - why is it so difficult?

2000-05-06 Thread Michael Holt
)* -- = "Microsoft has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." ===== Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ki

[expert] Re: [newbie]

2000-05-07 Thread Michael Holt
ams wrote: Prueba ecribiendo esto cuando arranca: boot: linux cdrom Ok, I've figured out what this says, now I'm just wondering who it's to? Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==

[expert] [newbie] OT - Quake

2000-05-07 Thread Michael Holt
I've heard there's a download of Quake available for Linux and I would like to try it out - could someone point me to where to find it (hopefully RPMS) and let me know what to copy? I've never played it before but it looks cool. -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED

[expert] Re: [newbie] The pppd daemon died unexpectedly!

2000-05-07 Thread Michael Holt
works under $user? Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==

[expert] Re: [newbie] Necesito ayuda con netscape y java

2000-05-07 Thread Michael Holt
-- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==

[expert] Re: [newbie] How 2 refresh floppy contents?

2000-05-07 Thread Michael Holt
pop the next floppy in, it will reload the page. Mike -- ========== Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==

[expert] Re: [newbie] OT - Quake

2000-05-07 Thread Michael Holt
-- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==

[expert] Re: [newbie] OT - Quake

2000-05-07 Thread Michael Holt
-- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==

Re: [expert] OT: /root

2000-05-08 Thread Michael Holt
T as /user - you are vunerable. Nuff said. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was under the impression that 'love bug' was written using VB sript and took advantage of the scripting host in Outlook Express... how then would that affect Linux? Mike -- == Michael Holt

Re: [expert] OT: /root

2000-05-08 Thread Michael Holt
didn't understand it, but I'm looking forward to the day when I do. In the meantime that's why he's the guru and I'm the newbie. He says; I do and it's a perfect relationship. My L-M machine runs better than Winblows ever did. MANDRAKE ROCKS!!! Pj Michael Holt wrote: Pj wrote

[expert] [Fwd: [Cooker] scroll wheel on logitech mouse?]

2000-05-08 Thread Michael Holt
Kevin Forge wrote: Michael Holt wrote: Kevin Forge wrote: Michael Holt wrote: Kevin Forge wrote: In a related question. Is there a way to make the middle button on one of these cheap MS compatible mice work in X ? Are you talking about a standard (U

Re: [expert] Dual AMD K6's?

2000-05-09 Thread Michael Holt
according to the current AMD roadmap which may change. Keith -- There's ease of use and then there's ease of usefulness. Choose usefulness. Choose Linux. On Tue, 9 May 2000, Michael Holt wrote: kaygee wrote: AMD chips cannot be used in dp configurations although the K7

Re: [expert] How do I install QuakeIII on a Linux box

2000-05-21 Thread Michael Holt
on a Linux box. I have the CD, but when I click the Setup.exe nothing happens. Help!!! Oh boy. -Stephen- PS: Okay, okay -- I'll be nice -- go to www.linuxquake.com. You can't use the Windows setup executable to install Quake III, sorry. -- == Michael Holt

Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK

2000-06-12 Thread Michael Holt
I can't tell you how well it works, but you can try this out: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/!INDEX.html Let me know what you think, k? Mike WeiQuan Tian wrote: Dear all: Could any body know there is any utility like Defrag under Windows for optimization of Hard

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-04 Thread Michael Holt
John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, you wrote: Yes, /tmp should be for temporary stuff. And this "stuff" is sockets, in this case, in a hidden directory. In 7.1 the use of /tmp for these sockets has been discontinued. Now they use /root/tmp which most people leave alone.

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-04 Thread Michael Holt
Socket programming protocols basically form sockets for ONE task and then destroy it. In this case, it appears to be needed at boot time as the target of a symlink. Civileme Ok, that makes sense; which brings my next question, what would be a simpler term for 'socket programming

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-05 Thread Michael Holt
John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, you wrote: Has there ever been a satisfactory explanation of WHY they put PERMANENT stuff in a temporary directory? It seems rather loco to me to put ANYTHING you want to keep in a TEMP directory... :-) John Is it something

Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

2000-07-05 Thread Michael Holt
Civileme wrote: Michael Holt wrote: Socket programming protocols basically form sockets for ONE task and then destroy it. In this case, it appears to be needed at boot time as the target of a symlink. Civileme Ok, that makes sense; which brings my next question, what

Re: [expert] alias?

2001-09-08 Thread Michael Holt
Thank you so much Tom! It's funny how logical things can seem after you hear the correct answer! Mike Tom Walsh wrote: Michael Holt wrote: Hello all you experts out there! I just started attending a local linux users group which meets once a month. Last month I learned about using aliases

Re: [expert] alias?

2001-09-08 Thread Michael Holt
wrote: Michael Holt wrote: Hello all you experts out there! I just started attending a local linux users group which meets once a month. Last month I learned about using aliases; ll instead of ls -l. I just had my appendix out and so I've had to miss today's meeting and I was hoping

[expert] alias?

2001-09-08 Thread Michael Holt
Hello all you experts out there! I just started attending a local linux users group which meets once a month. Last month I learned about using aliases; ll instead of ls -l. I just had my appendix out and so I've had to miss today's meeting and I was hoping that someone here could refresh my

Re: [expert] kvm switch

2002-01-30 Thread Michael Holt
11:36am... Charles A Edwards carefully chose these words: Hey all I've got a logitech trackman marble which works fine no matter how I connect it. My problem is, when I connect it through my kvm switch (linksys 2-port with button on front), my wheel stops working. Is there any

Re: [expert] kvm switch

2002-01-30 Thread Michael Holt
10:46am... James carefully chose these words: (the only problem is grabbing the wrong mouse and wondering where my pointer went.) James lol... I could see this being a problem! Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net

Re: [expert] Cooker sources

2002-01-30 Thread Michael Holt
8:35pm... NDPTAL85 carefully chose these words: Is anyone else having problems adding cooker sources to the Software Manager? I keep getting errors midway thru the process. Same here - thought it was just me! When I first installed mdk8.1, I was able to add cooker sources just fine, but

Re: [expert] kvm switch

2002-01-31 Thread Michael Holt
8:19pm... Robert Goshko carefully chose these words: On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 17:23, Michael Holt wrote: Yeah, I sorta figured that would be the answer :( It's not that big a deal I guess - I can live without the wheel. I really thought the kvm was supposed to be transparent though. I think

RE: [expert] kvm switch

2002-01-31 Thread Michael Holt
Yesterday... Robin carefully chose these words: This maybe a bit late on the thread, hope still helps. I have a Linksys electronic KVM switch with Logitech mouse, they work together well with a few catches. First, you have to tell your box it's a standard 3 button wheel mouse. Second, disable

RE: [expert] kvm switch

2002-01-31 Thread Michael Holt
9:54am... Robin carefully chose these words: I have never had problem with wheel, I am switching between Mandrake and Win2k, wheel works fine in both OS. I have a MouseMan Wheel from Logitech and Linksys 4 port switch http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?action=zoomprid=137grid=25

Re: [expert] kvm switch

2002-01-31 Thread Michael Holt
8:52pm... James carefully chose these words: h is this one of those how you hold your tounge things? I agree on the stumped part.. What mobo are you running maybe that's the key James On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:43:08 -0800 (PST) Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 9:54am... Robin

Re: [expert] SuSE 7.3 Personal

2002-02-07 Thread Michael Holt
Tuesday... Ralph F. De Witt carefully chose these words: even the instruction. SuSE telephone tech support though more limited than Mandrake actually gets problems solved, Mandrakes does not. SuSE email support does generate answers, speed of reply is about the same as Mandrake two weeks,

Re: [expert] Matrix screensaver install.

2002-02-07 Thread Michael Holt
8:57pm... Dwaine Felch carefully chose these words: Thanks, that works but it still is not the screensaver I expected; cmatrix runs like a game any ideas how to make the screensaver part work? Dwaine For some reason, mandrake has chosen not to include xmatrix in their xscreensaver package. I

Re: [expert] FW: Matrix screensaver install.

2002-02-08 Thread Michael Holt
3:49pm... Dwaine Felch carefully chose these words: Mike, I downloaded matrix from yours (ftp), put it in /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/ and made it executable (chmod +x). But when I start xscreensaver I can't select it because doesn't appear in the screensaver as selectable. Do I need to do

Re: [expert] Win4Lin + VMWare

2002-02-17 Thread Michael Holt
Yesterday... gikoreno ran for the door shrieking: Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone has managed to install Win4Lin AND VMware on the same Kernel (the updated Mandrake 8.1 kernel), success or not, what things break, things that I need to be carefull about, and any info that I could get

Re: SOLVED! (Was Re: [expert] Evolution error!)

2002-02-17 Thread Michael Holt
8:15am... Dave Sherman ran for the door shrieking: Date: 17 Feb 2002 08:15:36 -0600 From: Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake-expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SOLVED! (Was Re: [expert] Evolution error!) On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 07:20, daRcmaTTeR wrote:

Re: [expert] Win4Lin + VMWare

2002-02-17 Thread Michael Holt
11:13am... Michael Leone ran for the door shrieking: Win4Lin needs to patch the kernel; you don't have to use a Mandrake specific kernel if you don't want to. Just patch a generic kernel; that's what I did. vmWare requires no kernel patches(or didn't use it, anyway), so you should be able to

Re: SOLVED! (Was Re: [expert] Evolution error!)

2002-02-18 Thread Michael Holt
Yesterday... Dave Sherman ran for the door shrieking: Date: 17 Feb 2002 14:58:35 -0600 From: Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake-expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SOLVED! (Was Re: [expert] Evolution error!) On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 10:19, Michael Holt wrote

RE: [expert] DVD (newbie) full screen

2002-02-20 Thread Michael Holt
3:42pm... David Joham ran for the door shrieking: Hello I have just bought a dvd drive (12x - I hope this is enough for watching DVDs) and have some qustions: a) Is is against the law watching DVDs on linux? b) Full screen - How to get full screen with ogle? I used Crtl-F but the movie

Re: [expert] DVD (newbie) full screen

2002-02-21 Thread Michael Holt
4:09pm... Sridhar Dhanapalan ran for the door shrieking: 12x is fine for dvds. No, it's not illegal to watch dvds, it's illegal to distribute the code that bypasses encryption. I believe you're talking about 'widescreen'; check the package of the movie you're watching. Don't confuse

Re: [expert] DVD (newbie) full screen

2002-02-21 Thread Michael Holt
Tomorrow... Sridhar Dhanapalan ran for the door shrieking: I was actually responding to the same message as you were, not to you directly (there was nothing wrong in your post). Sorry, I guess I should've been a bit clearer about that :-) My bad, I had just woke up ;-) Mike -- Michael Tracy

Re: [expert] Fine I give up on everything

2002-02-22 Thread Michael Holt
6:04pm... Expert ran for the door shrieking: FLAMED BY YOU NAZI FROG COCKSUCKERS eh? Nazi frog ___ Dude, lay off the caffine! Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Fine I give up on everything

2002-02-23 Thread Michael Holt
Tomorrow... Tom Eastman ran for the door shrieking: Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:34:02 +1300 From: Tom Eastman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Fine I give up on everything On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 07:17:25PM -0800, Michael Holt wrote: 6

Re: [expert] DVD (newbie) full screen

2002-02-24 Thread Michael Holt
Yesterday... Rich Buckner ran for the door shrieking: Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 19:53:34 -0800 From: Rich Buckner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Joham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] DVD (newbie) full screen On Wednesday 20 February 2002 02:42

Re: [expert] Fine I give up on everything

2002-02-24 Thread Michael Holt
3:54am... jipe ran for the door shrieking: Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 03:54:18 +0100 From: jipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Fine I give up on everything Le Dimanche 24 Février 2002 03:25, vous avez écrit : Ta mere est tellement grosse

[expert] xmatrix

2002-02-25 Thread Michael Holt
Hello all, I've been trying to figure out how to change the color of the xscreensaver hack xmatrix. By defualt, it's green, but I want to be able to change the color to blue for example. Any ideas? thanks! Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA

[expert] upper to lower case in directory?

2002-03-02 Thread Michael Holt
Hello all! I've got a directory of mp3's which I stream from my server on an internal lan. I've recorded a great deal of them from my own cd's but some have come from kazaa, etc... I would like to be able to convert the entire directory from upper to lower case, and I have found a

Re: [expert] upper to lower case in directory?

2002-03-03 Thread Michael Holt
Yesterday... Dwaine Felch ran for the door shrieking: Try making the changes below and if that helps. #!/usr/bin/perl while (@ARGV) { $x = $_; tr/A-Z/a-z/; system(mv,$x,$_); } Thank you Dwaine! I actually did have it typed correctly on the system whwich I'm using

Re: [expert] upper to lower case in directory?

2002-03-03 Thread Michael Holt
Yesterday... Tom Badran ran for the door shrieking: Search for chcase on freshmeat.net :) Thanks Tom! That did the trick! Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] OT -- gimp plugin?

2002-03-09 Thread Michael Holt
Hello experts! I've got a graphics question, though not really specific to any OS. A couple years ago, my wife and I went to the local mall, sat in a booth and paid $5 to have a machine take our picture and then sketch it in what looks like the hand of Da Vinci. It's a very cool

Re: [expert] OT -- gimp plugin?

2002-03-09 Thread Michael Holt
11:13am... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ran for the door shrieking: On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Michael Holt wrote: Hello experts! I've got a graphics question, though not really specific to any OS. A couple years ago, my wife and I went to the local mall, sat in a booth and paid $5 to have a machine

Re: [expert] OT -- gimp plugin?

2002-03-10 Thread Michael Holt
Yesterday... sda ran for the door shrieking: On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 07:54:52AM -0800, Michael Holt wrote: Hello experts! I've got a graphics question, though not really specific to any OS. A couple years ago, my wife and I went to the local mall, sat in a booth and paid $5 to have

Re: [expert] OT -- gimp plugin?

2002-03-11 Thread Michael Holt
Yesterday... sda ran for the door shrieking: Yeah, I've been playing with the different filters, and the gimp does a lot, I was just looking for something a little bit more automated - does that make sense? No not really, best thing is learn how to use the application. Alright, thanks

Re: [expert] OT -- gimp plugin?

2002-03-12 Thread Michael Holt
1:24am... Sridhar Dhanapalan ran for the door shrieking: Yeah, I've been playing with the different filters, and the gimp does a lot, I was just looking for something a little bit more automated - does that make sense? No not really, best thing is learn how to use the application.

Re: [expert] Slightly OT: Supporting Mandrake

2002-03-13 Thread Michael Holt
Well, I've read the posts and after listening to everyone, I would like to add my point - which is - who cares? If you use mandrake and you like it, doesn't it make sense to support them? If you like driving your car, don't you put gas in it? What happens if you don't put gas in? C'mon

[expert] pasting into email? OT

2002-03-16 Thread Michael Holt
Hey, hope everyone is enjoying the weekend! I have a question item number 1000 on my little annoyances list!, how do you paste a URL into an email using pine? I love using pine, it's quick to move around and it's pretty easy to configure - but having to re-type long strings instead of just

Re: [expert] pasting into email? OT

2002-03-16 Thread Michael Holt
Tomorrow... Kenneth G. Kay ran for the door shrieking: There is a little trick you have to apply: use the standard X mouse actions as usual, but hold down the shift key while pasting the text to Pine or while selecting text for copy from Pine. Ken aha! I knew there had to be a way!

Re: [expert] pasting into email? OT

2002-03-17 Thread Michael Holt
Tomorrow... Ron Stodden ran for the door shrieking: Surely just select the source string with your mouse, then go to the destination place and click your middle button (if you have a wheel mouse click the wheel, if you only have a two button mouse click both at once). This method is

Re: [expert] info on pine

2002-03-17 Thread Michael Holt
Yesterday... Craig Woods ran for the door shrieking: Having not used pine, would some kind soul impart how it stacks up against mutt. Is pine a command line program or is it GUI? Thanks, Dr John, The Night Tripper Well, I've only tried some of the others a couple of times, so I can't tell you

Re: [expert] FreeBSD

2002-03-18 Thread Michael Holt
12:02am... David ran for the door shrieking: Hello all, Can someone compare/contrast FreeBSD and Linux for me? From my experience, installing most *nix's is pretty simple after you're used to one. The linux and FreeBSD hard drive and partition labeling schemes are quite a bit different

Re: [expert] Vi, emacs, and editors

2002-03-18 Thread Michael Holt
Yesterday... civileme ran for the door shrieking: SCENARIO: Son: Daddy, why do we have to hide from the police? Father: Because we use emacs, son. They use vi. (Shamelessly ripped off from someone's signature who shall remain anonymous here unless he claims ownership) Anyway, have a nice

Re: [expert] Vi, emacs, and editors

2002-03-18 Thread Michael Holt
1:31pm... Deryk Barker ran for the door shrieking: Thus spake Michael Holt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... p.s. just to stay on topic, VI is the best!!! ;-p How can a falsehood be on topic? :-) hehe! I knew that would get an answer :-) -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA

Re: [expert] M$ has done it again. Good thing we have Linux.

2002-03-23 Thread Michael Holt
1:52pm... Charles A Edwards ran for the door shrieking: Lots of mail about MDK 8.2 not working well. Don't know why. Maybe those people are stressing their hardware to the limit. As for me, 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 worked perfectly. I can't say the same for my office computer which is Windows

Re: [expert] M$ has done it again. Good thing we have Linux.

2002-03-24 Thread Michael Holt
Yesterday... Lyvim Xaphir ran for the door shrieking: Mandrake has released 8.2 with quite a few bugs, you may be one of the lucky few who are using a combination of the right hardware / not using a lot of the software packages available. Please, no flames, I'm not working for

Re: [expert] Hi everyone mandrake 8.0 to 8.2

2002-03-25 Thread Michael Holt
5:40pm... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ran for the door shrieking: Hi everyone. First of all, I'm new at this. Not Linux, just taking part in this chat. I have been a Linux fan for many years. I own a computer business were everything is Linux oriented. Consulting, networking, you name, from

[expert] toshiba laptop (OT)

2002-03-28 Thread Michael Holt
Hey guys, Problem is this; does anyone know if I can just use plain old 144 sodimms for any toshiba in my 315CDT or if I have to go with the ones specifically for that model? I wouldn't think it would make a difference, but they have gone to the trouble of making SEVERAL different

Re: [expert] toshiba laptop (OT)

2002-03-29 Thread Michael Holt
site wants me to use KTT650/64 which it says are only for a certain group of toshiba laptops (mine included). Are they just not telling me that I can spend less and get the more common SDRAM SODIMMS? Mike -- Michael Holt (o_ www.holt-tech.net (o_ (o_

Re: [expert] toshiba laptop (OT)

2002-03-30 Thread Michael Holt
Yesterday... civileme ran for the door shrieking: Michael Holt wrote: EDO and SDRAM are fundamentally different in timing, and SDRAM will never work in place of EDO. A few mainboards actually offered slots for both or the same slots for both, but in that case they actually imposed

Re: [expert] OT--And now for the comic relief

2002-03-30 Thread Michael Holt
Yesterday... civileme ran for the door shrieking: http://www.itworld.com/Sec/2199/020329nt2000hole/ Why isn't this news exciting? Civileme I believe that it was just last year that I heard M$ was trying to make it illegal to announce a security bug in their software??? You're just supposed

Re: [expert] toshiba laptop - FBDev and X lockups

2002-03-31 Thread Michael Holt
Yesterday... Hoyt ran for the door shrieking: (BTW, the 6 on board uses FBDev faster and better than the SVGA, and with equal resolution.) I was using the chips drive with XFree 4.x in mandrake 8.2. I was experiencing severe X lockups (screen and keyboard). After installing the FBDev rpm,

Re: [expert] OT--And now for the comic relief

2002-03-31 Thread Michael Holt
Yesterday... FemmeFatale ran for the door shrieking: That is... sad. And disgusting. Damn I hate M$ more more when I hear stuff about their BS tactics. Jaws indeed. I hope someday that M$ goes down to a more manageable size gets some real competition. Be it linux or something else. Femme

Re: [expert] toshiba laptop - FBDev and X lockups

2002-03-31 Thread Michael Holt
2:39pm... Hoyt ran for the door shrieking: The symlink for /etc/X11/X still points to XFree86. I modified the contents of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Hoyt Ahh... thanks! Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net

Re: [expert] toshiba laptop - FBDev and X lockups

2002-03-31 Thread Michael Holt
in the bios?) and the only thing I had to configure 'post install' was the sound card. Everything so far has been great, except for some reason pcmcia services won't start at boot no matter how many times I tell it to and I could definitly use more ram and a bigger hdd. Mike -- Michael Holt

[expert] evolution: have to open twice before reading mail

2002-04-04 Thread Michael Holt
and now she's use to the program and likes it (except for this strange behavior). I've tried upgrading and it's done the same thing since version 1 and still on version 1.03. TIA, Mike -- Michael Holt Kirkland, WA (o_

Re: [expert] bootable CD

2002-04-04 Thread Michael Holt
=/dev/hdc/folder2 initrd=/boot/folder2/initrd.img append= hdd=ide-scsi hde=ide-floppy devfs=mount mem=1024M That's just a possibility, I don't know if it would work. Mike -- Michael Holt Kirkland, WA (o_

Re: [expert] How to get dock apps and the like to auto start underblackbox in Mandrake 8.1

2002-04-05 Thread Michael Holt
wish to use, and make it look like this: rootCommand:xscreensaver gkrellm -w whateverelseyouwanttostart of course, make sure to put the '' between your commands and the existing ones. Mike -- Michael Holt Kirkland, WA (o_

Re: [expert] evolution: have to open twice before reading mail

2002-04-05 Thread Michael Holt
killev first, but not as often as without. I went ahead and added killev to my menu to execute before evolution and so far it seems to work. I'll let you know if it reverts back to the previous behavior. Strange, eh? Thanks! Mike -- Michael Holt Kirkland, WA

[expert] Local news (OT)

2002-04-05 Thread Michael Holt
it bad enough that this almost doesn't shock anyone anymore; but this lady who represents the education of the future of America, isn't bright enough to use a different phone in her elaborate little plan??? I really don't know what to be more upset about. -- Michael Holt

Re: [expert] A little vi help

2002-04-07 Thread Michael Holt
as italics, bold, etc. Is that possible? Does vi have something built in that will allow you to format a document? tia, Mike -- Michael Holt Kirkland, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net

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