Linux-Misc Digest #354, Volume #21 Tue, 10 Aug 99 17:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Riva TNT / xscreensaver GL (Andy Piper)
Re: CIA assassinations (Ottavio G. Rizzo)
Re: Marx vs. Nozick (Hobbyist �)
Re: How do I tell RH sees a second CPU? (Marco Anglesio)
Re: What I think of linux. (Don Werve III)
Re: CIA assassinations (Marco Anglesio)
Re: linux isn't finding my adaptec aha-1542cp scsi adapter? (Greg de Freitas)
Re: Media key for staroffice 5.0 (Ulrich Brachvogel)
Re: Couldn't mount Windows 98 second edition (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: EZ-BIOS and LILO (Peter Gavin)
Re: Marx vs. Nozick (Hobbyist �)
Re: Where do i get linux products? (Big Daddy)
Re: Distribution Suggestions? (Tom Fawcett)
Re: Running Star Office 5.1 When not logged in as the Install User (Big Daddy)
Re: "starve the rotten little bastards" ("A.T.Z.")
Re: CIA assassinations (Peter Seebach)
Using Save Link As in Netscape (Adrian Geekie)
Re: Linux vs. Unix (Floyd Davidson)
Re: CIA assassinations (Marco Anglesio)
Running Star Office 5.1 When not logged in as the Install User (Adrian Geekie)
Complete Linux -> The book (Pearce)
Re: Running Star Office 5.1 When not logged in as the Install User (Aran Cox)
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From: Andy Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Riva TNT / xscreensaver GL
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 21:02:27 +0100
I've just installed the SVGA X server from nVidia's website,
and it seems to work really well. The only issue I have is
with 3D performance on the xscreensaver Open GL modules.
I followed the advice in the FAQ file on nVidia's site, and
symlinked /usr/lib/libMesaGL.so.3.0 to the new library at
/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.0 - however, the OpenGL demos for
xscreensaver now run at a ridiculous speed and flicker
horribly. I can't see what (if anything) I've done wrong -
can anyone who has used the nVidia server help me out?
Cheers
Andy
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Andy Piper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fareham, Hampshire
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ottavio G. Rizzo)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: 10 Aug 1999 18:20:49 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (MK) writes:
> >The advantage of a nationalized health care system is the elimination
> >of bureaucracy, elimination of competition and redundancy, elimination
> >of much profiteering by corporations, doctors and hospitals.
>
> ROTFL ROTFL ROTFL
>
> Maybe you talk about planet Xyzzy, but definitely not about planet
> Earth! On planet Earth, precisely proliferation of bureaucracy and
> poor and expensive management of health care is what is hallmark of
> nationalized healthcare.
I suppose you've never had any health problem in the States: fill in
this form, fill in this other form, talk with two other people that
will fill in other forms in order to decide if you should really see a
physician, fill in other forms, and finally argue with the insurance
company that doesn't want to foot the whole bill (possibly with the
difference being $2.12, which is way less that the cost of getting
that money from me).
What makes you think that a private company won't have an evil
inefficient burocracy? Moreover, what is the country that is spending
the most money on health expenses (while not even covering every
citizen)?
Ottavio
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hobbyist �)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Marx vs. Nozick
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 11:19:50 -0400
On 10 Aug 1999 14:03:24 GMT, Richard Kulisz wrote these sagacious
words :
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: Hobbyist � <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >On 09 Aug 1999 23:05:24 -0400, Johan Kullstam wrote these
: >sagacious words :
: >: yes, but i cannot choose my employer based on what computer system i
: >: get. they *all* want me to use microsoft windows.
: >
: >That's because Windows is the dominant OS.
:
: And you don't think MS deliberately and consciously set out to
: dominate the PC OS market? William Gates III said as much!!
Oh sure. Bill is completely materialistic and when you are such
you never have enough. He achieved this dominance with our help.
We have to now deal with it. The DOJ trial is one means. Let's
see how it goes.
The overwhelming windows dominance has made windows despite it's
many shortcomings the best choice for many users because of it's
overwhelming hardware and software support.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Anglesio)
Subject: Re: How do I tell RH sees a second CPU?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 16:47:20 GMT
On Mon, 09 Aug 1999 19:59:27 GMT, Jared Hecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Subject line says it all. I added a second PPro to a RH5.2 machine and
>while I *think* it's faster I am looking for a utility that confirms Linux
>sees it (I know RH6.0 deals with SMP better and am planning to upgrade).
>xosview did not, nor did xsysinfo.
Try checking your dmesg output. It should see two cpus.
marco
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> | --Dave Foley, of Kids in the Hall <
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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 05:54:06 -0700
From: Don Werve III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
I'll take the average age down a notch. :) I'm 18.
I started using Linux about a year or so ago. I had heard about it six months
earlier, from an article (essay?) spouting the technical praises of Linux vs.
WindowsNT. Since I enjoy reading and writing, this extremely well-written
piece got me hooked. :)
Six months later, I installed Linux on an extra drive that I bought for the
purpose. I would log in, play (and break a _lot_ of stuff), and then log out
and go back to Windows. My amount of play-time slowly grew, especially after I
successfully patched the 3.3.1 XFree86 server to take my Matrox G100 video
card. Last time I booted Windows on my machine was...er...three or four months
ago, I think. Can't quite remember. <G>
In fact, I just pulled out my old 1.2G Windows95 drive, and now my system
consists of a single 4.3G HD...I'm going to throw an extra drive in just for
MP3s, though, or just get a CDRW.
My background is pretty limited. Started programming on a Commodore Vic20 when
I was about six, wrote some simple games and such. Couldn't do much due to
lack of documentation, as the only BASIC book I had was for the TRS-80...good
thing that the language was somewhat standard. I am still miffed about "HOME"
on Apple ][ = "CLS" on PC. :)
I then graduated to an XT-type PC...AT&T PC6300. One of the first XTs in the
consumer market to use the 8086 (as opposed to an 8088)...too bad it was in
monochrome. :( This was only my father's box, though.
_My_ first machine was an Epson 8088, with 640K of RAM and a whopping 40M hard
drive (split into two partitions, even). It even had an EGA display and a
color monitor. I used QuickBASIC 4.0 extensively on that machine, and even
used a little MS VisualBASIC for DOS (1.0). I think I still have my VB 1.0
disks, even...wonder if those are antiques yet? Wrote an inventory / quotation
program for a small PC business that worked like a champ. :) Too bad the
business didn't (people weren't much into custom PCs at the time).
I then graduated to a 286 (that I still have!), which was a major jump. VGA
display, 80M HD, 1.44M floppy...wow! Running Windows 3.1, but I spent most of
my time in DOS. I've always been a command-line type.
Next up was a Packard Bell 486sx/20, and I remember my excitement when my
father came into my room and said "486". This is back in the days when Windows
3.0 was in use, and seing a system as fast as this was amazing. That computer
served me faithfully until my Junior year of high school, using Windows
3.11+WIN32s, MS Office 2.1 (not a bad version, really), Netscape 2.02. Used
CorelDRAW! 2.0 and PaintShop Pro 2.0 quite a bit as well, and managed plenty of
school projects. 630M HD space total (2) drives, and 6M of RAM.
Next jump was to a 486DX2/50, 16M RAM, Windows95...and that's what convinced me
to use Linux. <G> This system was such a dog! I'm reeeeal good at tweaking
them, though, and managed to get Photoshop 3.0.5 running with acceptable
performance.
My current system is an AMD K6-2/333MHz, 128M RAM, and RedHat Linux 5.1 (2.0.37
kernel). I love this machine! It's funny to hear about people's machines
crashing, because it seems so far in the distant past. Only problem I have is
that WM 0.53 (yes, I need to get 0.60) keeps segfaulting, and it takes me three
seconds to restart it (pops up this little box, click "ok", and it restarts
WMaker without closing any apps). This is probably going to be my workstation
for quite awhile, as I haven't seen any real needs for massive upgrades.
Not to mention that the money I saved on software goes into my "Don needs a 19"
monitor fund". <G> I'm into C/C++ right now, and gcc/g++ rocks! I somewhat
miss the IDE, but I've found KWrite to work beautifully, and Makefiles aren't
that bad. Not to mention, I saved a few hundred dollars off the price of VC++,
and since I don't make any money off my programming, that's a big difference.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I take up the average age a notch, I'm 62
>
> Cheers
>
> Robert Crawford wrote:
> >
> > 33, first used apple II, first owned Tandy Color Computer (I still have
> > it somewhere), next was a comodore 64, then a line of pc clones, started
> > linux about 2 years ago (and I am not a Computer Sci geek, I am a
> > Liberal Arts/Socal Studies kind of person).
> >
> > > > > > You're right, somewhat. I would be curious as to the average age of Linux
> > > > > > users. I'm 34. First computer I ever had my hands on was a Commodore PET.
> >
> > --
> > Robert Crawford
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > www.snowcrest.net/robertc
> > Linux and vi, the choice powertools of the next century.
>
> --
> John Today is only the tomorrow
> you worried about yesterday.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Don E. Werve III -- [Page currently down / changing ISPs]
E-Mail: hari AT iveleague DOT org
"Microsoft Windows98 is a 32-bit hack of a 16-bit graphical
shell for an 8-bit operating system originally designed for
a 4-bit microprocessor by a two-bit company that can't
stand one bit of competition."
- Anonymous
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Anglesio)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:06:11 GMT
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999 14:39:31 GMT, MK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is the fact that all such schemes are basically ponzi schemes
>guraanteed to eventually fail also irrelevant?
Any mutual insurance scheme is a ponzi scheme given sufficiently
conservative assumptions. However, those aren't necessarily realistic.
>Maybe you talk about planet Xyzzy, but definitely not about planet
>Earth! On planet Earth, precisely proliferation of bureaucracy and
>poor and expensive management of health care is what is hallmark of
>nationalized healthcare.
Not really. Substantial gains in life expectancy and quality of life are
very cheap (mandatory vaccination programs, regular access to a general
practitioner or nurse practitioner) when compared to big
For that matter, I don't see why a corporate or private healthcare
provider wouldn't evolve the same bureaucracy, except at private sector
rates. (While public sector blue collar workers can do better than in the
private sector, the real bulk of money is paid to white-collar employees
and these do much better in the private than the public sector).
>Or rather you are talking nonsense -- what does it mean, to "expect it
>to work on no money whatsoever"? The regular practice
>seems to be the best option -- buy health insurance from the insurance
>company, which then covers the bill. So far there's nothing better
>than this.
Perhaps you're not well acquainted with the Blue Cross system in the US,
which you hve just described, but it happens to be the most expensive of
all possible alternatives. HMOs, which provide managed care (in the same
way that a nationalized system would, merely privately), are the dominant
health care provider in the US. Centralized management, which you assert
can't work, seems to be thriving.
marco
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Don't let anyone tell you any different. <
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From: Greg de Freitas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: linux isn't finding my adaptec aha-1542cp scsi adapter?
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 20:28:36 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ian MacDonald wrote:
>
> Hi Gaiko,
>
> I'm experiencing the exact same problem. Although my SCSI adapter is an
> Adaptec AHA1540CF and I'm running RedHat.
>
> My primary boot disk is an IDE and I thought I'd add an old SCSI control I
> had lying around. I discovered after loading the kernel source that the
> driver for the aha154x cards will only try to autodetect the cards at two
> I/O addresses (0x330 and 0x334). After setting my card to use I/O address
> 0x334, I was able to load the driver manually using: insmod 1542 and then
> manually mounting the attached drives.
>
> For some reason the kernel will not automatically detect and load the
> aha1542 driver during the boot process. I too always get the "zero scsi
> hosts detected message" I even tried (without success) recompiling the
> kernel to include SCSI support and the AHA1542 driver as built-in instead of
> as modules.
>
> Anybody here know what might be happening?
I have it compiled in,
Maybe there's a clue in my 486's setup:
bench:~# dmesg
...
Configuring Adaptec (SCSI-ID 7) at IO:230, IRQ 11, DMA priority 5
scsi0 : Adaptec 1542
scsi : 1 host.
scsi : detected total.
...
bench:/etc# head -20 lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hda1
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
append="init single aha1542=0x230"
read-only
prompt
image=/vmlinuz
label=linux
...
adjust numbers to suit,
then run lilo,
reboot,
:-)
>
> System Info:
>
> 486 DX100
> 32MB Ram
> RedHat Linux 5.1 (kernel 2.0.35)
> Adaptec AHA1540CF SCSI Controller
>
> -- Ian MacDonald
>
> Gaiko Kyofusho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:7oiuf4$5b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi, i got a adaptec aha-1542cp ISA scsi adapter card and tried putting
> > it in my 486 linux box. I have some other scsi devices (drives and
> > cdrom) that i hooked up to it if that matters. I then booted up (with a
> > boot disk that had aha-1542cp support compiled in already) and it didn't
> > see my card, it said that zero scsi hosts were detected (that that is
> > the only scsi anything that the kernel told me during bootup). I
> > tried some slackware boot disks that had all the different adaptec
> > adpaters on them <compiled in> and even the slackware generic scsi
> > boot disk and still no luck. Now i am *very* much a scsi newbie and
> > could have the dip switches setup wrong (though i read over a whole
> > bunch of lit. on setting up scsi devices. Even if i did set it up wrong
> > would that make it "invisable" to linux? *Any* help here would be
> > *greatly* appricated since i am not sure what i should try next.
> >
> > -Gaiko
> >
> > Gaikokujin Kyofusho
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
--
Ciao 4 now, Greg.
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From: Ulrich Brachvogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Media key for staroffice 5.0
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 18:50:55 +0200
Bob Martin wrote:
>
> John Badarte wrote:
> >
> > I am new to Linux.
> >
> > I installed suse 6.1 and was unable to install staroffice 5 because it kept
> > asking me for some media key #.
Withe suse distribution comes a squre shaped pape with the StarOffice
media key. If you key it in,
you'll install a transient version os SO. After registering your copy
the StarDivision people will send you a registration key which you have
to apply then to your copy.
Ulrich Brachvogel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: Couldn't mount Windows 98 second edition
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 19:24:57 GMT
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999 02:18:41 GMT, Unknown wrote:
>Couldn't mount Windows 98 second edition
Interesting.. I've never mounted an OS before - only a file system.
What OS are you trying to mount this OS under? If you're talking about
'mounting' it with VMWare - why didn't you say so? Maybe you just have to
register VMWare? (I have heard that it is only a 30 day trial copy you
download).
Maybe I'm the dense one here.. No chance you're actually talking about a
filesystem - is there?!
--
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Humming along under SuSE Linux 6.0 / OS/2 Warp 4
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From: Peter Gavin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: EZ-BIOS and LILO
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 11:53:47 -0400
Justin B Willoughby wrote:
>
> I believe I have a 10GB drive from WD that I am using their EZ-BIOS
> software + LILO. Its been a little while and I think the first time I
> booted after I installed LILO I had to do some thing (answer a EZ-BIOS
> prompt or some thing) and it has been doing great ever since. You can
> install Linux with out the EZ-BIOS and see if you can access your whole
> drive, if so ditch the EZ-BIOS altogether.
>
DON'T DO THIS!! I had EZ-BIOS & LILO working fine on my 10 gig WD
drive, but just for fun, I tried removing EZ-BIOS to see if Linux could
access the whole thing by itself, figuring I'd just reinstall EZ-BIOS if
it didn't work. Well, it didn't work, so I reinstalled EZ-BIOS, but
somehow, everything got fscked up. After much fdisking, I realized
there was something terrible wrong w/ my ptable, so I ended up having to
'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512K count=1' just to get it working.
You have been warned :)
Pete
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hobbyist �)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Marx vs. Nozick
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 11:25:48 -0400
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999 15:30:41 GMT, MK wrote these sagacious words
:
: >exactly. you're forced to use what they ask you to use.
:
: Gee, and I thought that this pertains most of tools in most
: of businesses in the world.
Exactly. This whining about which operating system you have to
use is such a double standard.
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From: Big Daddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Where do i get linux products?
Date: 10 Aug 1999 20:08:13 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc George Clover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Is there a centralized place on the web where i can order Linux related
: products (besides LinuxMall.COM)?
: I need computers and software that runs on Linux.
www.linuxgeneralstore.com
this is an atlanta based store; dunno if they support web-orders (haven't
checked recently).
--
Big Daddy
Don't despair; your ideal lover is waiting for you around the corner.
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From: Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Distribution Suggestions?
Date: 10 Aug 1999 12:37:31 -0400
Nicholas Pappas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was wondering if any kind Linux folks could pass along their feelings
> for certain distributions -- which ones are better (naturally, opinions are
> a big part). :)
This question gets asked (and answered) very often. Go to www.deja.com and
search in comp.os.linux.misc for subject "distribution" or "best
distribution" and you'll get lots of messages discussing this. Even if you
restrict the search to the last few months you'll probably retrieve more
than you want to read.
I've suggested to Kiesling that he add this question to the Linux FAQ, but
he doesn't want to do it for some reason.
-Tom
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From: Big Daddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Running Star Office 5.1 When not logged in as the Install User
Date: 10 Aug 1999 20:07:02 GMT
Scribbling furiously, Adrian Geekie managed to write....
: I installed Star Office 5.1 when logged in as root. Now I want to run
: it when logged in as another user but I can't. Is this possible or do I
: have to re-install. I am running Red Hat 5.2.
Presuming that you downloaded & installed the "free" edition (also known
as "personal"), it would do you good to read the documentation. ;-)
The personal edition is good for only one user; you'll hvae to re-register
another copy & install it.
--
Big Daddy
The man who sees, on New Year's day, Mount Fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant
is forever blessed.
-- Old Japanese proverb
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From: "A.T.Z." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: "starve the rotten little bastards"
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 21:33:20 +0200
Richard Kulisz schreef:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, A.T.Z. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Richard Kulisz schreef:
> >> And what if they have kids?
> >
> >They get extra money.
>
> Currently. Under your proposed system, would they just starve to death?
No.
> >> Oh, but that's Not Your Problem
> >
> >No.
>
> No, it isn't your problem, or No, that's not what you believe?
Not my problem.
> >> it? Ahhh, that's the solution; forced sterilization!! All the problems are
> >> solved that way, aren't they?
> >
> >You don't know how our system works. Large companies has to provide daycare for
> >little children.
>
> What the bloody hell are you talking about? Because I sure wasn't talking
> about the *current* system in the Netherlands, I was talking about the
> changes you want to make to it. Something along the lines of "And perhaps
> they shouldn't get money at all."
Everything told till now is the SYSTEM HOW IT WORKS AT THIS MOMENT in The
Netherlands. Like it or not. And yes, the system needs to be evaluated, just like
any system needs to be evaluated after some time.
If someone chooses to stop working why should he/she get money. And no, if someone
gets ill it's not a free choiche.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Seebach)
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 19:50:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Marco Anglesio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Not that either system is optimal, but most americans can't afford the
>fruits of the US's vast expenditures on medical research, either. Believe
>it or not, good public health is a matter of promoting some relatively
>inexpensive fundamentals.
However, the American system at least provides a mechanism for some of that
research to happen. It would get done a lot faster, and it would cost
everyone less, if more people were paying for it, rather than fewer.
Economies of scale can be a very good thing.
-s
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From: Adrian Geekie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Using Save Link As in Netscape
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 22:10:22 -0200
Greetings.
If I try to change the directory where a file should be saved using the
netscape save link as option, it loses the file name. Is there a way
around this?
Thanks
Adrian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Floyd Davidson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux vs. Unix
Date: 10 Aug 1999 18:55:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pretty Boy Mohandas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Floyd Davidson wrote:
>> Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
>How do you pronounce that? [ook-pee-dveek]?
euk pee ag vik
is about as close as I can come. There is only a vague
similarity between the sounds of those letters in English and
the way the word is pronounced in Inupiaq.
It means the place where people hunt snowy owls. And indeed,
I see 2-3 of them almost every day!
--
Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Anglesio)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 19:43:18 GMT
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999 18:44:29 GMT, Peter Seebach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This is true, because we do a lot of the basic research the UK is using.
Not that either system is optimal, but most americans can't afford the
fruits of the US's vast expenditures on medical research, either. Believe
it or not, good public health is a matter of promoting some relatively
inexpensive fundamentals.
marco
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> Marco Anglesio | discrimination, the failure of the <
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From: Adrian Geekie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Running Star Office 5.1 When not logged in as the Install User
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 22:01:31 -0200
I installed Star Office 5.1 when logged in as root. Now I want to run
it when logged in as another user but I can't. Is this possible or do I
have to re-install. I am running Red Hat 5.2.
Thanks for the help
Adrian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pearce)
Subject: Complete Linux -> The book
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 16:42:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just saw thsi advertised on Amazon last night. Its put out by the
guys from the LDP so I am betting it is a good book. Anyone seen it
yet, have any feedback, recommend it to a newbie?
Thanks In Advance!
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From: Aran Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Running Star Office 5.1 When not logged in as the Install User
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 15:27:43 -0500
Adrian Geekie wrote:
>
> I installed Star Office 5.1 when logged in as root. Now I want to run
> it when logged in as another user but I can't. Is this possible or do I
> have to re-install. I am running Red Hat 5.2.
>
> Thanks for the help
>
> Adrian
Yes it is possible. You can handle this a couple of different ways.
You can spend a while figuring out which directories/files under the
star office install directory need to be made writeable by you. I gave
up on that. If it is a single user system you can just change the
ownership on all the files like:
chown -R user.users /usr/local/Office51
(replace user with your username)
Or you can make it all writeable by the users group, which is probably
what you belong to.
chgrp -R users /usr/local/Office51
find /usr/local/Office51 -type f -exec chmod g+rw {} \;
find /usr/local/Office51 -type d -exec chmod g+rwx {} \;
Or you can just make it all world writeable.
Remember all the above commands must be run as root, but after that it
should be runnable by a normal user. (I did something like the above
and it worked for me.) Remember that if you installed StarOffice
somewhere else, you might need to adjust the above commands.
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