Linux-Misc Digest #23, Volume #26 Fri, 13 Oct 00 20:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: Financial software ~ Quickbooks Pro ~ Linux? ("Matt O'Toole")
Re: help audio on linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Dialing in VPN with Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Double click rate (Peer Hebing)
Staroffice related question. (Alex)
Re: help with compiling new kernel for ibm laptop (Dances With Crows)
Re: help audio on linux (Dances With Crows)
"~" in cdburns (Tijmen Stam)
qmail Install question (Jim McIntyre)
Two IP Addresses - 1 NIC - Possible? ("Web Enthusiast")
Re: SCSI HD, Red Hat 6.2, No can see ("Web Enthusiast")
Re: AVI for LINUX (Andrew Daviel)
Trapped in X Window - HELP ("Web Enthusiast")
no space for semaphores (Andrew Daviel)
Re: End-User Alternative to Windows (Larry Ebbitt)
Re: help audio on linux (David Hassett)
Re: Trapped in X Window - HELP (Andrew Daviel)
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Reply-To: "Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Financial software ~ Quickbooks Pro ~ Linux?
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:15:21 -0700
Have you tried any of the net-based apps, which you can use from any web
browser? There are reviews of them on ZDnet, Cnet, etc.
Matt O.
"Jean-David Beyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Frank Miles wrote:
>
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Frank Miles wrote:
> > >
> > >> In article <8s4i1f$ffi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, -ljl-
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > >> > Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> >> Brett Randall wrote:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> > Hi all
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > I am looking to totally replace Windows with Linux. I have been
> > >> >> > working with, administrating, programming and hacking up linux
for
> > >> >> > around 4 years now, but not once have I found a reasonable
financial
> > >> >> > accounting package for small-to-medium businesses.
> > >>
> > >> gnucash is pretty good, quite stable (not the development version),
but
> > >> probably not yet ready for business applications.
> > >
> > >Which version? I tried one a couple of months ago, presumably not a
> > >developmental version (gnucash-1.3.7-1.i386.rpm), and never got it to
run right.
> > >It also did a lousy job (useless, IMO) of importing from Quicken.
Problems
> > >included double counting of things.
> >
> > The current version (1.4.6 or 1.4.7 ?) is considerably better. Among
> > the improvements IIRC was improving Quicken imports. I never ran
Quicken,
> > so this information is based on their ChangeLog and my limited
experience
> > doing imports using the QIF format from CBB ... your mileage may vary.
> >
> > It's clear that gnucash is undergoing active development -- there's a
fair
> > amount of activity on their mailing lists. The developers seem to have
an
> > ambitious plan for further development, in particular features more
applicable
> > to running businesses than personal finance. IMHO it's quite usable now
for
> > personal finance, even if some features aren't as far along as I'd like.
> >
> > -frank
> > --
>
> Is there any attempt to make it do federal and state income taxes? It used
to take
> me 4 long days to do my taxes manually, and just one intolerably long
afternoon with
> TurboTax. I see no indication that GnuCash will do tax returns. Does it
have a
> facility to produce a Quicken Master File so I can run TurboTax on it? Or
does it
> now do income taxes?
>
> --
> .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
> /V\ Registered Machine 73926.
> /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
> ^^-^^ 2:05pm up 3 days, 19:44, 3 users, load average: 2.06, 2.09, 2.01
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: help audio on linux
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 22:20:37 GMT
In article <Pine.GSO.4.10.10010131629270.19050-100000@cuphy5>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Is Linux talking to your sound card?
> How can I know that?
> >
> > Can you play any other audio (wav, au, MP3, etc.) out your
> > sound card?
>
> NO
Read the Sound-HOWTO file.
Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre
Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..." - Hospital/Shafte
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dialing in VPN with Linux
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 22:22:28 GMT
In article <8rv8uo$3n8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have been given a Secure ID key to dial into the VPN of my employer.
> What is the method for doing this on Redhat 6.1? I understand it
> is similar to PPP but I need to enter the SecureID which is
periodically
> changed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Do you truly mean "Virtual Private Network", or are you trying to dial
into a private modem bank that uses SecureID for authentication?
I suspect the latter, and if so, it's not a problem, I do it regularly.
I set up kppp to use terminal authentication, and when it asks for my
password, I type in my PIN, and the current number on my SecureID card.
No problem at all.
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From: Peer Hebing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Double click rate
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 00:26:50 +0200
Hi
I am not sure , my suggestion is to open a shell and type in :
mouse-properties-capplet .
This should alse be found under a menu point called conifuguration ->
peripherie -> mouse
Cu
P.Hebing
Leonard Evens schrieb:
> I am running the gnome desktop under RedHat 6.2. I feel stupid,
> but I can't seem to find a way to change the click interval between
> the clicks when one double clicks on a choice. It is a bit fast,
> and has been that way for a while, and I would like to slow it
> down. I've tried everything I could find in the Gnome tool box.
>
> --
>
> Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
> Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Staroffice related question.
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 18:50:47 -0400
Dear all:
Does anyone know what kind of format does StarOffice to store e-mail?
Can I use pine to access my e-mail folders (in StarOffice).
Sincerely.
Alex.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: help with compiling new kernel for ibm laptop
Date: 13 Oct 2000 23:09:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 13 Oct 2000 15:59:17 GMT, Hung Ngoc Lai wrote:
>Please help me with this problem.
>Currently, I am running RH 6.1 on my ibm thinkpad i-series laptop.
>The kernel is 2.2.12-20. I would like to upgrade the kernel to
>2.2.17. Here are the steps that I use to recompile the new kernel:
>Everything seems to be working; however, my NIC does NOT work.
>I try to start the CARDCTL program. The program tells me that the
>/proc/devices does not have pcmcia. In the menuconfig process,
>I make sure that I include support for my pcmcia NICs (I am using
[snipp]
Get the pcmcia-cs package (http://pcmcia.sourceforge.net/ if nowhere
else), untar it, ./configure && make && make install . The PCMCIA
support built in to the 2.2.x (and even the 2.4.x, last time I checked)
kernels doesn't work very well if at all. The modules work much better.
>I really would like to use the new kernel 2.2.17 because I really
>would like to enhance my system. If anyone has experiences
>in this area, please help...
I don't know how much benefit you'll derive from 2.2.17. If all your
hardware was supported in 2.2.12, most likely you won't notice any
improvement anywhere. 2.4.x *may* run a bit faster for you, but it's
still in heavy development and pieces tend to break unpredictably in my
experience (especially on laptops.) Also, I thought all those i-series
ThinkPads had Lucent Losemodems built in; the binary-only driver for
those things will *NOT* work if the kernel version is > 2.2.15.
>my email is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Posted here for the benefit of all. If you don't know how to use
http://deja.com/home_ps.shtml , then I suggest you learn right quick.
--
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Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: help audio on linux
Date: 13 Oct 2000 23:09:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:39:58 -0400, Xingzhi Zhang wrote:
>I know this kind of question muste be asked million times:
There's this thing called a FAQ; have you read it? There are these
things called HOWTOs; have you read them? http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/
and http://linuxnewbie.org/ are invaluable, as is looking in the
dead-tree manual that came with your distribution.
>But If I use the CD player in Redhat 6.1 I can not hear the music, the
>player shows every thing is fine, I also can hear it if I plug the speaker
>directly to the CD player, But I can not hear through sound card.
>I checked the sound card, it is connect to CD player. and it works under
>windows. Any idea ?
Not enough info! Try the following steps, in order:
0. Open a mixer program and make sure the master and CD volume controls
are set at a reasonable level.
1. Run "sndconfig" as root if the mixer program complains that the
mixer device isn't present; this means your sound card hasn't had the
correct driver loaded.
2. http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO.html
3. Post the exact make and model of your sound card. "Soundblaster
compatible" is not a valid response; we're looking for something like
"Crystal CS4236" or "Ensoniq ES1371". If the soundcard is PCI, run cat
/proc/pci and post the lines from that which concern the sound card.
Once you've done that, someone will most likely be able to tell you
exactly what to do to activate your soundcard.
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Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
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From: Tijmen Stam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "~" in cdburns
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 01:25:32 +0200
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Hi. I'm actually making a backup, of both my old (dos and win95) an new
(linux) hd.
Now I've got the problem that on the dos/win hd are a lot of files that
have a name like FILENA~1.HTM (that's their real name, becuse it were
once windows filenames wich I later copied with dos... Stupid.)
The problem is that I have a dir with all these files, but gcombust sais
"ignoring ... <filenames>" and cdrecord (wich gcombust is just a
frond-ent to) does too. I don't want all these files tarred in one big
backupfile, I Just wann'em plain, damn'it!
How do I do that?
Tijmen
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From: Jim McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: qmail Install question
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 23:17:20 GMT
When I run "make setup check" on qmail-1.03, I get the error message:
"/usr/bin/ls cannot open output file qmail-remote: permission denied. Ay
suggestions for a fix?
TIA
Jim
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From: "Web Enthusiast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Two IP Addresses - 1 NIC - Possible?
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 19:32:55 -0400
I have both Red Hat Linux and Corel Linux installed on my machine.
I want to have both an external, and private IP address on my machine to
enable me to access my Intranet Website, 192.168.0.*
In NT, this is child's play, but I am interested in learning Linux, and
other OS's for that matter, and would like to know if it is possible to
have two IP addresses assigned to one NIC
Thanks
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From: "Web Enthusiast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI HD, Red Hat 6.2, No can see
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 19:36:48 -0400
Thanks. Will try it
Daisuke Kanzaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8s3f6l$b1b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Web Enthusiast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Tried installing Red Hat 6.2 from a burnt CD onto
> > a SCSI Hard Drive (Worked Sucessfully from
> > IDE Hard Drive) but to no avail. Does not even
> > detect SCSI adapter Adaptec AH 1542
>
> When running the install program, it displays the following thing:
> boot:
> When this is seen, you can type the following thing:
> boot:text expert
>
> This means the install program starts with text and expert mode.
>
> After that, the install program asks you about a SCSI card and
> LAN card you are using. Maybe you can find AH 1542.
>
>
> Daisuke Kanzaki
>
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From: Andrew Daviel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AVI for LINUX
Date: 13 Oct 2000 23:49:22 GMT
Zoran P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi there,
: who knows a AVI-Player for SuSE-Linux ??
: xdvplay don't work...
xanim works for many codecs
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From: "Web Enthusiast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Trapped in X Window - HELP
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 19:47:02 -0400
I'ma Linux newbie who thinks he knows it all.
Tried editing xf86config and downright MESSED it up
Now my x window boots butr everything is HUGE
To top it off my mouse works like it's on crack, just
zipping all over the place. I cannot even use it to access
the menu to open up a console window, don't know how to boot into
text mode only, so stuck since it always boots into X
HELP
Using RH6.2
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From: Andrew Daviel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: no space for semaphores
Date: 13 Oct 2000 23:56:48 GMT
We've been running a mailserver for a while now (230 days) and an a/v application I am
trying to run dies with:
Cannot acquire the semaphore(semget return -1): No space left on device
There is lots of disk space and lots of swap space.
I presume the app has ENOSPC back from semget().
Where are semaphores allocated and how can I get space back ?
I don't really want to reboot, which would no doubt fix the problem.
I kill the a/v program regularly to load new databases (just plain killall, no -KILL)
so
I guess it might slowly chew its way through the allocation.
Anyone know anything about this ?
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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 19:58:12 -0400
From: Larry Ebbitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: End-User Alternative to Windows
2:1 wrote:
>
> The early OSs were a lot less than DOS was. Dos is an old OS. 20 years
> ago, that wasw about all the OS you could fit o to one of those
> computers, but it was still an OS. Just because it was used long past
> it's use-by data, doesn't make it any less of an OS.
The industry standards and real OS's were around long before DOS for
OC's. IBM had a couple and UNIX was around.
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From: David Hassett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: help audio on linux
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 01:00:04 +0100
Xingzhi Zhang wrote:
>
> Dear Linux Fellows:
>
> I know this kind of question muste be asked million times:
>
> I have due booting system for my PC.
>
> I can play music under Windows through CD.
>
> But If I use the CD player in Redhat 6.1 I can not hear the music, the
> player shows every thing is fine, I also can hear it if I plug the speaker
> directly to the CD player, But I can not hear through sound card.
>
> I checked the sound card, it is connect to CD player. and it works under
> windows.
>
> Any idea ?
Random guess. You have a Gateway PC. You have an Ensoniq AudioPCI es1371
soundcard. You have Boston Acoustics Media Theatre speakers. If so, try
plugging your speakers into your sound card with the analog lead rather
than your digial lead. Linux doesn't support digital output. This helped
someone else once, including me. Perhaps it wil help you. :-)
Cheers,
Dave. :-)
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From: Andrew Daviel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Trapped in X Window - HELP
Date: 14 Oct 2000 00:01:29 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Web Enthusiast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I'ma Linux newbie who thinks he knows it all.
: Tried editing xf86config and downright MESSED it up
: Now my x window boots butr everything is HUGE
: To top it off my mouse works like it's on crack, just
: zipping all over the place. I cannot even use it to access
: the menu to open up a console window, don't know how to boot into
: text mode only, so stuck since it always boots into X
ctrl-alt-kbd+ and ctrl-alt-kbd- to scroll through video modes
ctrl-alt-F1, ctrl-alt-F2 etc to switch to a text console, then
alt-F1, alt-F2 to switch text consoles and alt-F7 or something to
go back to X.
to change the initial startup edit /etc/inittab and change
the "5" initdefault to 3
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