Linux-Misc Digest #758, Volume #26 Tue, 9 Jan 01 01:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: How to obtain info on "GNOME vs KDE" ? (MH)
Re: locked directory? No access rights as root? (Terry Wagner)
Re: ppp problem with ISP (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: booting Redhat 7.0 from floppy is very slow ("Jim")
Re: what news reader do you use? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux version of Dos's debug ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Enter escape charcter in vi or another editor (Venugopal)
Re: Enter escape charcter in vi or another editor (Dances With Crows)
Re: MP3 to wav or audio cd (Dances With Crows)
Converting filesysetem (reiserfs,ext2,ext3). (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Re: The mailx program (John Hasler)
Re: konqueror and home key. (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Re: Converting filesysetem (reiserfs,ext2,ext3). (Blake Leverett)
Re: How to obtain info on "GNOME vs KDE" ? (Jody Goldberg)
Re: ppp problem with ISP (Darrel E. Knutson)
kernel configuration tools. (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Re: How to obtain info on "GNOME vs KDE" ? (Jody Goldberg)
Samba, Free Food and Cake at LUGOD anniversary (Jan 15) (William Kendrick)
Gnome terminal URL support? (jeff)
Re: epoch time <-> human time (rj)
KDE Napster (Knapster) (Cubic Decimeter)
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From: MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to obtain info on "GNOME vs KDE" ?
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 19:28:00 -0800
Roberto Alsina wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Arctic Storm wrote:
> >
> > > > The biggest difference [between GNOME & KDE] is the
> > > > browser. Konqueror is an excellent browser in its own right, and
> > > > GNOME doesn't even have one.
> > > > Therefore, KDE wins.
> > >
> > > I have GNOME, and it originally came with Netscape 4.x, and I recently
> > > installed Netscape 6. What do you mean by, "GNOME doesn't even have
> > > one
> > > [browser]"?
> >
> > Netscape? Need I say more?
>
> Yes. You need, for example, say what is the connection between
> Netscape and GNOME?
>
> I mean, other than using GTK+ (not GNOME) as a low-level toolkit
> (less than 20K of the 5M LOCs of Mozilla!, a whole toolkit built over
> it), I know of none.
>
You really should try to FOLLOW the thread. Had you done so, you would
have known that I was in fact making YOUR point.
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From: Terry Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: locked directory? No access rights as root?
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 03:43:35 GMT
lenny wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Terry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > I've been using Linux-Mandrake 7.2 for a few weeks now. A couple days
> > ago, I tried adding a creative dvd decoder card with a passthrough cable
> > for my regular video card. Things seemed to be okay until I tried
> > accessing the cdrom. I get the error message that I "don't have the
> > access rights to this location". I then noticed the same thing with the
> > floppy. I used konqueror and the cdrom and floppy icons have little
> > padlocks on them. I tried accessing them as root to no avail. I looked
> > at my /etc/fstab file and it looks like I'm using supermount. I open
> > the cd tray place a cd in it, then click on the desktop cdrom icon and
> > the tray closes, lights go on, etc, then the same old message about not
> > having the rights. I tried creating another icon on the desktop- this
> > didn't work either. I removed the dvd decoder card and nothing's
> > changed. Is there a way to unlock these things? I'm a relative newbie
> > at this so any help is much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks, Terry Wagner
>
> I see no one else is answering this
> so here are my thoughts..
>
> not sure but you can try as root
> chmod 544 /mnt/cdrom
Well, I just tried it.......no luck. What I did was from a command line, type
su, then the root password, then the command as above. I got nothing. Then I
opened up a terminal window, typed su, then the root password, then changed to
the root directory, then type the command as above. Still nothing. Do I have
to reboot? Isn't there a command to "unlock" things? Maybe linux's
definition of lock isn't quite what I think it is. Would it have anything to
do with locking in place [somewhere] the location of physical drives so that
if I were to tinker with adding or removing hard disks or something, the
location of the CDROM drive would be locked to a certain address? Any help is
greatly appreciated- I'm also learning quite a bit- thanks.
Terry
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ppp problem with ISP
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 22:43:23 -0500
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.misc Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Ask them! They changed their protocol. Tell them that you are starting
> >> ppp, and that their end doesn't respond. But you haven't proved that
> >> to me, and so I for one don't believe you. It's easy to prove it to me:
> >> show me the pppd log messages. Nothing more nor less is required. Just
> >> do it instead of rambling on.
> >>
>
> > i've already provided the error messages that were in /var/log/messages
>
> And I've already told you what to do with them. Look, for the MILLIONTH
> time: turn on debugging in pppd; divert pppd messages to the file of
> your choice (/var/log/messages is fine); show us the log that
> results. You'll know it when you see it. Your previous 4 or 5 lines
> (from a pppd without debugging turned on) will comprise
> about 0.1% of it. You'll get every aspect of the protocol interchange
> logged.
>
> > One of them being that pppd was getting a sigterm.
> > <begin sarcasm> hmmm, that's funny, if pppd wasn't running....how could
> > it get a sigterm? Weird. <end sarcasm>
>
> Are you naturally dense or WHAT?
>
> Peter
Just so he know what we mean, here I turned on debugging and I logged in
(correctly). I diddled the telephone numbers and passwords to protect the
innocent, but this is the kind of thing we will need to see:
Jan 8 22:38:42 valinux ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/modem at
115200
Jan 8 22:38:42 valinux pppd[1119]: pppd 2.3.7 started by root, uid 0
Jan 8 22:38:43 valinux chat[1121]: abort on (BUSY)
Jan 8 22:38:43 valinux chat[1121]: abort on (ERROR)
Jan 8 22:38:43 valinux chat[1121]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Jan 8 22:38:43 valinux chat[1121]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
Jan 8 22:38:43 valinux chat[1121]: abort on (Invalid Login)
Jan 8 22:38:43 valinux chat[1121]: abort on (Login incorrect)
Jan 8 22:38:43 valinux chat[1121]: send (ATZ^M)
Jan 8 22:38:44 valinux chat[1121]: expect (OK)
Jan 8 22:38:44 valinux chat[1121]: ATZ^M^M
Jan 8 22:38:44 valinux chat[1121]: OK
Jan 8 22:38:44 valinux chat[1121]: -- got it
Jan 8 22:38:44 valinux chat[1121]: send (ATDT1234567^M)
Jan 8 22:38:44 valinux chat[1121]: expect (CONNECT)
Jan 8 22:38:44 valinux chat[1121]: ^M
Jan 8 22:39:07 valinux chat[1121]: ATDT7580156^M^M
Jan 8 22:39:07 valinux chat[1121]: CONNECT
Jan 8 22:39:07 valinux chat[1121]: -- got it
Jan 8 22:39:07 valinux chat[1121]: send (^M)
Jan 8 22:39:07 valinux chat[1121]: expect (ogin:)
Jan 8 22:39:07 valinux chat[1121]: 50666/ARQ/V90/LAPM/V42BIS^M
Jan 8 22:39:09 valinux chat[1121]: [rbtserv6]^M
Jan 8 22:39:09 valinux chat[1121]: Welcome to exit109 Internet Services!^M
Jan 8 22:39:09 valinux chat[1121]: ^M
Jan 8 22:39:09 valinux chat[1121]: ^M
Jan 8 22:39:09 valinux chat[1121]: login:
Jan 8 22:39:09 valinux chat[1121]: -- got it
Jan 8 22:39:09 valinux chat[1121]: send (mylogin.ppp^M)
Jan 8 22:39:09 valinux chat[1121]: expect (ord:)
Jan 8 22:39:09 valinux chat[1121]: ^M
Jan 8 22:39:09 valinux chat[1121]: login: mylogin.ppp^M
Jan 8 22:39:09 valinux chat[1121]: Password:
Jan 8 22:39:09 valinux chat[1121]: -- got it
Jan 8 22:39:09 valinux chat[1121]: send (MyPaSsWoRd^M)
Jan 8 22:39:09 valinux chat[1121]: timeout set to 5 seconds
Jan 8 22:39:09 valinux chat[1121]: expect (~)
Jan 8 22:39:09 valinux chat[1121]: ^M
Jan 8 22:39:10 valinux chat[1121]: PPP session from (208.225.64.55) to
208.225.67.131 beginning....~
Jan 8 22:39:10 valinux chat[1121]: -- got it
Jan 8 22:39:10 valinux chat[1121]: send (^M)
Jan 8 22:39:10 valinux pppd[1119]: Serial connection established.
Jan 8 22:39:10 valinux pppd[1119]: Using interface ppp0
Jan 8 22:39:10 valinux pppd[1119]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
Jan 8 22:39:13 valinux pppd[1119]: local IP address 208.225.67.131
Jan 8 22:39:13 valinux pppd[1119]: remote IP address 208.225.64.55
We gotta see yours to see where it goes wrong.
Now do you get it?
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/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
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From: "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: booting Redhat 7.0 from floppy is very slow
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 04:01:38 GMT
I had speed problems loading the kernel from a floppy on my Dell running Red
Hat 7. I solved it by using "mkbootdisk --compact <kernelversion>" to
create the boot disk. Alternatively you can use a LILO config file on a
floppy and specify the compact option in it.
Hope this helps,
--Jim
"Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have installed Redhat 7.0 on two machines, IBM 300GL with PII350 and
> 128MB, Dell XPS T450 with 196MB. They have the same problem. It is very
> slow to boot from floppy. It takes more than 5 minutes to read some
> information in. As soon as finishing the reading part, Redhat is working
> fine.
>
> Did anybody experience same kind of problem before? What kind of problem
> it could be? I have another machine installed RH 7.0. It boots normally
> from floppy.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: what news reader do you use?
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 04:13:58 GMT
>>>>> "John" == John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> What news readers do you all use?
John> Gnus. Before it I used readnews.
Was there a hiatus between use of these? I remember readnews; that
was a _LONG_ time ago! Someone allowed you to run Gnus atop Emacs
back in the days when servers served 16 users with a mere 32MB of RAM?
Tell, tell...
By the way, I've been using Gnus, of late; the "second best" option
I'd commend to those that think it's a bit too complex would be SLRN.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux version of Dos's debug
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 04:14:06 GMT
>>>> "Jack" == Jack Kaufmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jack> Is there a Linux equivalent to Dos's debug which allows viewing
Jack> of binary files in hex format?
There are a number of binary _editors_; Emacs has a binary file mode,
and there's "Beav," and probably others.
Alternatively, if all you want to do is to _see_ the contents listed
in hex, try:
% od -x some_binary_file | more
0000000 2320 4341 5220 6172 6368 6976 6520 6865
0000020 6164 6572 0a44 2073 6572 7669 6365 7320
0000040 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020
0000100 2020 3737 3720 2020 2020 2020 2020 3020
0000120 2020 2020 2020 2020 3020 2039 3736 3933
0000140 3734 3639 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 300a
0000160 4620 7365 7276 6963 6573 2f6e 7461 7574
0000200 685f 7665 7273 696f 6e2e 7478 7420 2020
0000220 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2036 3636
0000240 2020 2020 2020 2020 3537 2020 2020 2020
0000260 2020 3638 2020 3937 3731 3130 3730 3820
0000300 2033 3139 3939 3933 3238 0a46 2073 6572
0000320 7669 6365 732f 7361 706e 7461 7574 682e
0000340 7372 7663 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020
0000360 2020 2020 2020 2020 3636 3620 2020 2020
0000400 2020 3436 3120 2020 2020 2020 3234 3420
0000420 2039 3735 3531 3533 3231 2020 3338 3336
0000440 3639 3934 390a 4420 7465 6d70 6c61 7465
0000460 7320 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020
0000500 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020
0000520 2020 2037 3737 2020 2020 2020 2020 2030
0000540 2020 2020 2020 2020 2030 2020 3937 3639
0000560 3033 3531 3120 2020 2020 2020 2020 2030
0000600 0a44 2074 656d 706c 6174 6573 2f73 6170
0000620 6e74 6175 7468 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020
0000640 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 3737
0000660 3720 2020 2020 2020 2020 3020 2020 2020
0000700 2020 2020 3020 2039 3736 3930 3335 3131
0000720 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 300a 4420 7465
0000740 6d70 6c61 7465 732f 7361 706e 7461 7574
0000760 682f 3939 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020
0001000 2020 2020 2020 2020 2037 3737 2020 2020
0001020 2020 2020 2030 2020 2020 2020 2020 2030
0001040 2020 3937 3639 3033 3531 3120 2020 2020
0001060 2020 2020 2030 0a46 2074 656d 706c 6174
0001100 6573 2f73 6170 6e74 6175 7468 2f39 392f
0001120 6578 7461 7574 6865 7272 6f72 2e68 746d
0001140 6c20 2020 3636 3620 2020 2020 2020 3430
0001160 3220 2020 2020 2020 3234 3320 2039 3735
"od" is one of the standard Unix file utilities, standing for "octal
dump." The -x option changes over from octal to hex.
% man od
should also be illuminating...
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From: Venugopal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Enter escape charcter in vi or another editor
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 04:30:11 -0000
Bill M Leagans wrote:
>
>
> How do you enter special charactes in vi or another editor such as ASCII
> code 27 (escape).
>
You can use echo command at the prompt instead of vi to do this.i.e.
suppose you wanted to have ESC J in a file z you could use echo "\033J" >
z at the command prompt.Any ascii code can be thus output using its octal
form.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Enter escape charcter in vi or another editor
Date: 9 Jan 2001 04:32:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 20:44:17 -0600, Bill M Leagans staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>How do you enter special charactes in vi or another editor such as
>ASCII code 27 (escape).
>The reason being is that I can control the advanced functions of my
>printers such as duplex, tray selection easier this way. Though since
>I can't enter special characters in editors I've had to resort to
>creating then in windows and copying them over.
(while inserting or replacing text)
^V<special character>
This is very useful, but really, your print filter should be doing the
tray selection/whatever. http://linuxprinting.org/ should have info on
the things you can do with your printer filter to make it do duplexing
and/or use different trays. You can set up several printer queues, lp
for standard, lpduplex for duplex, lptray2 for tray 2, etcetera. HTH,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: MP3 to wav or audio cd
Date: 9 Jan 2001 04:32:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 02:28:02 GMT, R.Constantine staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>Anyone know of a program that will make wav out of mp3 so I can burn
>them on a cd? rob
mpg123 -y -w crud.wav crud.mp3
xmms (use the Disk Writer plugin, it's under Output Plugins)
grip (well, it uses mpg123 to do the real work, but....)
There may be others, but these work pretty darn well.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Converting filesysetem (reiserfs,ext2,ext3).
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 05:12:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are there any tools out there which allow one to convert a filesystem
from one format to another without losing data. Similar to the kind of
thing Partition magic does?
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The mailx program
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 04:07:22 GMT
tony writes:
> If you have some scripts that need it, then just
> # ln -s /bin/mail /bin/mailx
I would be very surprised if that link does not already exist on his Red
Hat system (but mail is probably in /usr/bin, not /bin).
Run
ll `which mail`
Then run
ll `which mailx`
Compare the outputs.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Subject: Re: konqueror and home key.
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 05:26:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 20:14:29 GMT, Roberto Alsina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Sometimes when I am searching a document, I want to go to the top a
>> the document. When i do this I press the home key.
>> Unfortunately konqueror takes me to the top of the document.
>> Is there any way to change this behaviour?
>
>Excuse me, but isn't Konqueror doing exactly what you want? ;-)
Oops. No that's not what Konqueror does.
When you press home it opens the window to your home directory.
That's what I get for posting at 7:00am.
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From: Blake Leverett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Converting filesysetem (reiserfs,ext2,ext3).
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 05:30:38 GMT
Thaddeus L Olczyk wrote:
> Are there any tools out there which allow one to convert a
> filesystem from one format to another without losing data. Similar
> to the kind of thing Partition magic does?
I doubt you'll find a tool to convert to ReiserFS, since it's
pretty new. Same for ext3. Best bet is to copy entire partiton to
another partition, reformat the old partition to Reiser or ext3,
and copy data over. One trick - say your other partition is a
windows partition. You can't copy the files there because dos
partitions don't do permissions. So create a file using dd the
size of your ext2 partition (on your dos disk), and use mke2fs to
turn this file into an ext2 filesystem. Mount the file somewhere,
and copy the entire old partition to this new file. After
formatting the disk to reiser, re-mount the big file, and copy
everything back.
Be sure to backup everything twice no matter what you decide.
Blake Leverett
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jody Goldberg)
Subject: Re: How to obtain info on "GNOME vs KDE" ?
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 05:30:44 GMT
In article <93daiq$9dc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Harlan Grove wrote:
>
>As for bundled applications, neither suite (if Gnome's collection can
>be called that, and if AbiWord, gnumeric, etc. matter anymore given
>Helix has embraced OpenOffice) is anywhere close to as stable
>as 'commercial' suites. StarOffice may be a resource hog, but it
>provides much more than either KOffice or the Gnome bundle (with the
>exception of Gnome's Dia, which is worth keeping as a stand-alone app).
Two small corrections.
1) Gnumeric and Abiword are both under active development.
2) Helix has not 'embraced' openoffice, nor has the GNOME project
decided to adopt OO as the one true office suite (despite some
press releases that seem to imply that).
I'd have to say that I mostly agree with with your assessment.
Gnumeric definitely lags behind starCalc in feature count. My
experience with both Applix and Xess/NeXS has been more mixed. Both
suffered from various limitations and instabilities. However, I
have not used Xess since 3.04 it must have evolved alot since then.
Despite that I think Gnumeric has a very good chance of becoming a
viable replacement for commercial spreadsheets. For features that
both Gnumeric and StarCalc implement Gnumeric tends to do them
better (eg General number formats, merged cells). I would
characterize starCalc as an attempt to reproduce XL95. The age and
size of their codebase is something of a hinderance to development.
In contrast, Gnumeric is new enough that algorithmic changes to the
core can be made when necessary. Some of the recent work on styles
moves to using an asymetric-quadtree for storage. The result was
almost an order of magnitude speed improvement for average sheets,
and 2-3 orders for large sheets.
Gnumeric is usable now for standard day to day spreadsheet tasks.
High quality graphs will be available when GNOME 1.4 ships and
Bonobo becomes part of the platform. My goal is to be feasible for
power user use within 2 years.
NOTE: If you help it can be sooner :-)
Disclaimer : By day I work with spreadsheets, by night I develop
parts of Gnumeric.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darrel E. Knutson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ppp problem with ISP
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 06:31:36 +0100
In article <93bg33$fir$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh) wrote:
>I'm sorry.Do you want help or do you just want to qvetch? We have made
>suggestions and all you do is repeat what you said in your last post. I
>will gladly ignore future postings if all you want to do is complain. If
>you want help, then give some indication that you are listening and
>trying to fix things.
Hey, I understood that. The German would be "quatschen".
Unfortunately, I have followed the suggestions made in this thread and am
experiencing problems similar to "Glitch". I can triple boot into BeOS
5.03, Windows NT 4.0SP5 and Red Hat Linux 7.0 on the same PC, but it's only
on Linux that my PPP connection dies every time. And, since I am mostly a
Macintosh user and used to having things mostly work most of the time, this
is something that is frustrating me. For now, I am contiuing to experience
problemfree and fast connections using BeOS.
I have been looking for an answer and I am not inexperienced with various
operating systems. There is something seriously wrong with the PPP setup on
Linux. The Linux box in my office could get on the LAN without a problem
and I am looking forward to some SSH2 sessions to it from my PPP connection
at home, but how many more hours will this mean?
Now, here's the situation with me:
The modem is actually an external ISDN adapter with a built-in analog
modem. I do not have an ISDN card (would that make things easier? I already
have a device that connects three other computers to my ISP). When Linux
checks the modem, everything comes up fine and I am set up for ISDN speed.
I have no script and my ISP uses PAP. I've e-mailed my ISP and so far his
answers haven't been very helpful because he and another ISP I asked are
just as baffled as I am as to why it isn't working for me.
I started learning Linux from the command line and am getting tired of GUI
tools that have never worked for me. Exactly which configuration files
should I be looking to edit in vi? And their typical locations? Is there
any page that describes every configuration (the inline/online help isn't
very detailed) for PPP using the Gnome or KDE tools? Or how about one with
descriptions of the config files?
Darrel, frustrated in a suburb of Hamburg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: kernel configuration tools.
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 05:30:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK. I'm about to compile the 3.4 kernel.
I haven't compiled a kernel since 0.9.
Do the tools you use to compile the system configuration?
I've got three computers using Mandrake 7.2.
I would to compile the kernel on my fastest machine and transfer
it to the other machines, but I don't want to go in and manually
configure things by hand.
TIA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jody Goldberg)
Subject: Re: How to obtain info on "GNOME vs KDE" ?
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 05:36:57 GMT
In article <93cjh2$j5a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roberto Alsina wrote:
>
>Actually, GNOME has a port of KDE's old and unmaintained HTML library.
GNOME has gtkhtml. It was originally based on KDE's library but has
long since been completely rewritten. As the core of Evolution's
email editor it is seems to function nicely as a light weight
editable html viewer.
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From: William Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Samba, Free Food and Cake at LUGOD anniversary (Jan 15)
Crossposted-To:
ucd.life,sac.announce,ucd.general,sacramento.internet,sac.general,sac.internet,ucd.cs.club
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 05:44:42 GMT
LUGOD, The Linux Users' Group of Davis, will hold its next meeting on:
Monday
January 15, 2001
6:30pm - 9:30pm
The meeting will be held at:
Z-World, Inc.
2900 Spafford Street
Davis, CA 95616
The topic will be:
Samba
presented by Jeremy Allison
Samba is an open source software suite that
provides seamless file and print services to
SMB/CIFS (MS-Windows networking) clients.
Jeremy Allison co-wrote a majority of the code
in Samba, and currently works at VA Linux Systems on
both Samba and in VA's Professional Services.
Free food:
Deli sandwiches, coffee, cake and more will be
available for free during this meeting,
to celebrate LUGOD's 2 year anniversary.
For details on this meeting, maps, directions, public transportation
schedules, etc., visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/
LUGOD is a non-profit organization dedicated to the
Linux Operating System, and which meets twice a month in Davis, CA.
Please visit our website for details:
http://www.lugod.org/
-bill!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.lugod.org/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jeff)
Subject: Gnome terminal URL support?
Date: 9 Jan 2001 05:48:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I notice in Gnome Terminal that the mouse cursor seems to detect when it
passes over a URL. Has anyone found a way to configure this to trigger a
browser on clicking? Even better (if a mouse would not be required) is
there a way that I can get Gnome Terminal to invoke urlview via keystroke?
Thanks for any hints.
-jeff
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From: rj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: epoch time <-> human time
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 05:53:03 GMT
Mike Wescott wrote:
> rj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Is there a simple way to find human-readable time from "978931272 since
> > midnight jan 1 1970"?
>
> perl -le 'print scalar localtime 978931272'
> Mon Jan 8 00:21:12 2001
Hey, cool! Thanks! I just picked up a book on perl the other day and am
slowly making my way through it. I knew it was going to be cool! :)
rj
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From: Cubic Decimeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDE Napster (Knapster)
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 00:56:14 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am totally new to Linux, maybe been using it for about a week, so I am
pretty much lost. Is anyone familiar with the Linux version of Napster
called Knapster? It is version 0.13. My problem is when I start downloading
a song, it atomatically terminates instantly. I have only been able to
download 2 songs. What gives here?
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Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 15:26:27 GMT
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