Mounting Fat partitions - was- Newbie Question

2002-08-26 Thread Robert Fisher
This works for me... In KDE go to System Hardware Browser select Hard Drives This should show you the partions. Then edit the file /etc/fstab to mount the partition Mine looks like this LABEL=// ext3defaults1 1 LABEL=/boot/boot ext3defaults

Good books (was: Re: Newbies problems)

2002-08-26 Thread Timothy Musson
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:16:29PM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: Christopher Sawtell wrote: Although this book is about 10 years old it is the one from which I learnt my way around the unix beast. The book is Peter Norton's Unix. Search on that title to get the very book's record.

Re: Acronyms

2002-08-26 Thread Keith McGavin
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Michael Beattie wrote: ## Colorize smileys: :-) ;-) :-/ :-( color body yellow black [ \t]?[;:][-=]?[PpD)/(|}{] Hi Mike, I had a few problems getting the -=[] characters from your above expression to work in my ~/.muttrc file. The only way I could get

tex anybody?

2002-08-26 Thread Peter Elliott
greetings all massive favour to ask here. some few people have mentioned that they have bandwidth available for the downloading of .iso images, so: would somebody be kind enough to grab these two for me and bring them along to the meeting on thursday? i can sling you blank discs etc, and

Re: Acronyms

2002-08-26 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:16:28PM +1200, Keith McGavin wrote: Hi Mike, I had a few problems getting the -=[] characters from your above expression to work in my ~/.muttrc file. The only way I could get yellow smileys was by splitting the expression up into three lines. Also added

Re: Acronyms

2002-08-26 Thread Timothy Musson
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:30:51PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:16:28PM +1200, Keith McGavin wrote: my ~/.muttrc file ### color body yellow black [ \t]?[;:][-=]?[PpD)/(|}{] above is split into 5 parts: [ \t] - Must start with a space or tab. (some

Re: combined file sizes info, how ?

2002-08-26 Thread Yuri de Groot
Thus spake Peter Cornelius on this Mon, 26 Aug 2002 : ] Hey, what's up with you guys? I write something and anticipate a lot of ] flack in return and this is only the second response I've opened so far - ] and both have been complimentary. I shall just have to try harder to 'wind ] you up' in

RE: Good books (was: Re: Newbies problems)

2002-08-26 Thread Guy Steven
My bible for a long time was O'Reilly's Unix in a Nutshell. Guy. -Original Message- From: Timothy Musson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 26 August 2002 8:48 p.m. To: CLUG Subject: Good books (was: Re: Newbies problems) On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:16:29PM +1200,

Re: combined file sizes info, how ?

2002-08-26 Thread Richard Waid
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 08:13, Yuri de Groot wrote: Thus spake Peter Cornelius on this Mon, 26 Aug 2002 : Only if you're the admin. Users can just point and click through kde and not even care that linux is running underneath. Ask the workers at City Hall in Largo, Florida. Or my partner, who

Meeting Location?

2002-08-26 Thread Mark Carey
Hi, Is this Thursdays meeting in the usual place? Or are we to be relocated again? Mark

Re: combined file sizes info, how ?

2002-08-26 Thread Michael Beattie
Once upon a flamwar, Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote: I think I need to give you some lessons Peter, if you're going to try and start a flame war you need to use some better ammunition. Start preaching to the converted how Microsoft products are better because you find out about the security

Re: Re: combined file sizes info, how ?

2002-08-26 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
Maybe, depends if yo momma is still wanting to go out on a date that night ;-P jeremyb. From: Zane Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2002/08/27 Tue AM 11:18:28 GMT+12:00 CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: combined file sizes info, how ? Jeremy, are you coming to the

Re: When I was a newbie...

2002-08-26 Thread Michael Beattie
[Dont CC me on replies please.] On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:04:36PM +1200, Stephen Nicholas wrote: Indeed it is Tim. Great guy! He's gonna be my best man in fact. Nice. That'll be about the bazillionth time this year he's trek'd up to Chch. Yeah, Call me what you will... but I kind like o

Re: Acronyms

2002-08-26 Thread Michael Beattie
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:05:35PM +1200, Stephen Nicholas wrote: What does Mail-Followup-To: do? Tells your client where to Reply to. No, this is not the same as Reply-To: M-F-T: allows you to specify multiple addresses. e.g.: Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you use mutt, check that

Re: Mounting Fat partitions - was- Newbie Question

2002-08-26 Thread Peter Cornelius
Wow! A question I can answer? Have I misunderstood the question? I thought that I was destined to only ever ASK questions. A red letter day. Break open the champagne. Robert/Maurice Fisher asked: Now that we have got to this point I want to copy our pictures and music back to the Fat

Re: When I was a newbie...

2002-08-26 Thread Tim Wright
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Stephen Nicholas wrote: I thought I might tell ya all a story, about how i've got to where I am with linux (which is not to say that I'm a whiz, but that i can use it).. and i'll try and keep this story short, Here goes: snip That's a cool story. Had me laughing. Can we

thanks and apologies (Was - tex anybody?)

2002-08-26 Thread Peter Elliott
hey all well thanks to paul(swafford) chris(topher sawtell) and possibly nick(rout) i've a surfeit of tex coming my way. this is not a complaint but is by way of acknowledging the generosity and helpfullness of this groups members. it's also an acknowledgement of the way i managed to mismanage

Re: combined file sizes info, how ?

2002-08-26 Thread Bjorn Nilsen
probably the BSDs as well as they do not use the GPL - Original Message - From: C Falconer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1) Solaris 2) AIX 3) SCO 4) UnixWare 5) Netware 6) MacOS (?) Looks like I need two hands to count all the OSs covered by that... On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 12:59, Guy

HOWTO flame was: combined file sizes info, how ?

2002-08-26 Thread Christopher Sawtell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now THAT'S proper Flamebait... =) No, no, that's just so insufferably bland. What you really need is something more like this to really stir them up:- I have just spent a very pleasurable afternoon at a primary school with a 10 year old girl playing around with a

Re: HOWTO flame

2002-08-26 Thread Stephen Nicholas
Classic! On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 05:08:47PM +1200, Rex Johnston wrote: On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 16:44, Christopher Sawtell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now THAT'S proper Flamebait... =) No, no, that's just so insufferably bland. What you really need is I've never actually used

Re: What to I need for Linux?

2002-08-26 Thread Tim Wright
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Tess wrote: Ok in about Feb next year I am getting a new computer. So this old dunger that I am on now will officially become the guinea pig. I would like to install Linux on to this one just for trial purposes first. So what will I need?? Or am I OK?? I don't know if