Re: Help

2001-07-26 Thread Net Llama
--- Linuxism Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > btw, there is nothing wrong with telnet.. :) Other than the fact that its a huge gaping security risk. = Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux FAQ &

Re: another helpful feature from microsoft corp.

2001-07-26 Thread Linuxism Chang
There was an article around that could totally kill that feature. It involves the use a file named _RESTORE in C:\ or the directory that contains _RESTORE after removing the folder _RESTORE. Then WinME would never be able to create the folder again. > 1. Right click the My Computer icon on the D

Re: Help

2001-07-26 Thread Linuxism Chang
btw, there is nothing wrong with telnet.. :) Jim Conner wrote: > You're welcome. I ran into an empty Control Center once while updating > kde2.x, also some of the apps didn't be have quite correctly. I was told > then(not sure from where) to do this and it worked for me. Glad it worked > f

mailcap for octet-stream

2001-07-26 Thread Joel Hammer
I use mutt. I would like mutt to be able to start abiword for .doc attachments (word documents) and acrobat reader to display pdf document attachments. However, mutt's viewer lists both of these attachments as octet-stream. I believe that this means that mutt can't tell what these files really are

Re: The Strangest Things In My Mailbox!

2001-07-26 Thread Myles Green
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 02:37:20 -0600 Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 12:26:25AM -0600, Myles Green wrote: > > > [snippage] > > > > in fact, it was one of their dial-up help-desk people who first > turned > > me on to linux way back when - right after i said 'what do

Re: dying harddisk

2001-07-26 Thread Mike Andrew
On Friday 27 July 2001 04:37, Auyeung at Technet wrote: > Thanks, Rick, Jinm and Kurt, > > I have a backup and so dd to another hd. Put the new hd into another box ( > totally different > hardware ) and to my surprise, on boot up Anaconda detected the change and > reinstalled the new modules corre

Re: [Xpert]Fwd: i810 and i810e display corruption problem!

2001-07-26 Thread David Aikema
- Original Message - From: Mike Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 7:21 AM Subject: Re: [Xpert]Fwd: i810 and i810e display corruption problem! > On Thursday 26 July 2001 14:00, David Aikema wrote: > > I finally completed the kde2.2beta1 build

Re: Help

2001-07-26 Thread Jim Conner
You're welcome. I ran into an empty Control Center once while updating kde2.x, also some of the apps didn't be have quite correctly. I was told then(not sure from where) to do this and it worked for me. Glad it worked for you. Jim On Thursday July 26, 2001 6:35 pm, Rick Sivernell wrote: >

Re: [Xpert]Fwd: i810 and i810e display corruption problem!

2001-07-26 Thread Mike Andrew
On Thursday 26 July 2001 14:00, David Aikema wrote: > I finally completed the kde2.2beta1 build yesterday and having been > using it a fair bit today (6.5 hours). Thus far I have not seen a > single trace of screen corruption (normally starts to appear within curiosity. have you also crippled th

Re: The Strangest Things In My Mailbox!

2001-07-26 Thread Mike Andrew
On Thursday 26 July 2001 16:47, dep wrote: > or you have a clue-enabled isp who knows his way around filters. i've > gotten scads of 'em on the earthlink account, but nothing on any of [snip] we updated ami-virus (as we do, do) every 2 days. It picked this one and consigns it to /dev/null. I

Re: Help

2001-07-26 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Thursday 26 July 2001 18:27, you wrote: > What you probably need to do is move $HOME/.kde2 to $HOME/.kde_backup. Log > out of the user and log back in. This will reset all the settings and > stuff for kde. The config files for kde and various apps are in > $HOME/.kde2/share/config/*. Be car

Re: Help

2001-07-26 Thread Jim Conner
What you probably need to do is move $HOME/.kde2 to $HOME/.kde_backup. Log out of the user and log back in. This will reset all the settings and stuff for kde. The config files for kde and various apps are in $HOME/.kde2/share/config/*. Be careful what config files you move back because on

Re: Help

2001-07-26 Thread Ken Moffat
KDE2.1.1 runs fine here on caldera 2.4 On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 07:29:43 -0500 Rick Sivernell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > List > > KDE is so fxx bad. It now looses it self. Can not set configuration > in Control center. Set config in kmail and logoff relogin you reset kmail > configs. Thi

Reply

2001-07-26 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Thursday 26 July 2001 17:35, you wrote: > On Thursday 26 July 2001 08:29, Rick Sivernell wrote: > > List > > > > KDE is so fxx bad. It now looses it self. Can not set > > configuration in Control center. Set config in kmail and logoff relogin > > you reset kmail configs. This is nonsens

Re: Help

2001-07-26 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Thursday 26 July 2001 08:29, Rick Sivernell wrote: > List > > KDE is so fxx bad. It now looses it self. Can not set configuration > in Control center. Set config in kmail and logoff relogin you reset kmail > configs. This is nonsense and is totally bad code. It can not have been > teste

Re: Help

2001-07-26 Thread Net Llama
As much as I'd love to blame this on KDE, i think you caused this mess. You can't copy .kde2 to .kde. The configuration file layout changed in a huge way. So basically what is occuring is that KDE2 is looking for the appropriate config file to write the changes you are making, isn't finding it,

Help

2001-07-26 Thread Rick Sivernell
List KDE is so fxx bad. It now looses it self. Can not set configuration in Control center. Set config in kmail and logoff relogin you reset kmail configs. This is nonsense and is totally bad code. It can not have been tested by kde developers at all. I have copied .kde2 to .kde. Also

3Com dropped packets fix

2001-07-26 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
FYI, in case you, or anyone you know, are using a 3Com NIC in their Linux box and are seeing lots of dropped packets. If your driver is compiled static, the option has to be added to the boot args. At 12:01 PM 7/24/2001 +0200, you wrote: >Hi > >If I do a complete network scan (nmap: tcp conne

Re: Test

2001-07-26 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Thursday 26 July 2001 11:24, you wrote: > Testing to see if this gets through. I've had some problems posting and > responding in the last two days. > Mike > > "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, > killing, and dreadful idolatry took [place there." > --Baldasar

Test

2001-07-26 Thread Michael Scottaline
Testing to see if this gets through. I've had some problems posting and responding in the last two days. Mike "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing, and dreadful idolatry took [place there." --Baldasar Rusow, Estonia, mid 16th century __

Re: dying harddisk

2001-07-26 Thread Kurt Wall
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 01:07:11AM +0800, Auyeung at Technet wrote: > Thanks, Rick, Jinm and Kurt, > > I have a backup and so dd to another hd. Put the new hd into another box ( > totally different > hardware ) and to my surprise, on boot up Anaconda detected the change and > reinstalled the new

Re: dying harddisk

2001-07-26 Thread Auyeung at Technet
Thanks, Rick, Jinm and Kurt, I have a backup and so dd to another hd. Put the new hd into another box ( totally different hardware ) and to my surprise, on boot up Anaconda detected the change and reinstalled the new modules correctly --- no more kernel panic --- I think I start to fall in love w

Re: dying harddisk

2001-07-26 Thread rickf
Jim Conner wrote: > > I've been told that this works. Haven't used it. Please read appropriate > man pages. YMMV. You will need to add the correct /dev/hd?? to have it use > the correct drive/partition. Read the man pages for any other possible > missing options. > > Step 1: badblocks -o bad

Re: More SxS Mirrors

2001-07-26 Thread Jim Bonnet
The watsonville locataion is hosted from my house which has a bunch of machines running, all of which are running 3.1Workstation or 3.1Server.. I do all my own DNS on 2 different boxes and run a mail server too.. oops- the mail server is 2.4 :) cheers-- Jim > Quoting David Aikema <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: More SxS Mirrors

2001-07-26 Thread Ian Marchak
Quoting David Aikema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Uh how accurate are these mirror locations anyway? Ian's is > listed as a Toronto mirror but my best attempts to track down the > @home servers handling personal webspace have them located in San > Francisco. I'm assuming similar issues would also

Re: Way off topic

2001-07-26 Thread Terence McCarthy
On Thursday 26 July 2001 08:10, Myles Green wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 07:18:44 + > > Terence McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just how is beer "Way Off Topic" on a Linux list? > > for a non-drinker? waaay out there ;) Perhaps you not tried a really good beer? :-) > > > Terence

Re: The Strangest Things In My Mailbox!

2001-07-26 Thread Kurt Wall
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 12:26:25AM -0600, Myles Green wrote: > [snippage] > > in fact, it was one of their dial-up help-desk people who first turned > me on to linux way back when - right after i said 'what do you mean > reformat the drive and reinstall !?! again !!? blah! blah! blah! there's > g

Re: dying harddisk

2001-07-26 Thread Kurt Wall
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:49:43PM +0800, Auyeung at Technet Systems wrote: > Hi, everyone, > > My harddisk running RH7.0 is developing bad sectors. > What is the name of program that will run a surface scan on > a Linux system? > I man fsck and it seems that fsck is not the answer? badblocks

Re: Way off topic

2001-07-26 Thread Myles Green
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 07:18:44 + Terence McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just how is beer "Way Off Topic" on a Linux list? for a non-drinker? waaay out there ;) > Terence (CAMRA member) CAMRA? wha'sat? -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://linuxsteps.