Re: freecell
Have to agree on that one.Pysol is probably the best solitaire collection around.. even the windows version is great. Ray On 10 Feb 2002, at 17:14, David A. Bandel wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 13:19:03 -0800 (PST) begin Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Greetings, Does anyone know of a very good FreeCell game? I've tried Ace of Penguins and XFreecell, and neither is really up to snuff. As much as I hate to admit it, the MS version seems to be the gold standard to which the others are not comparing. Well, since you seem to like KDE, I assume you've tried kpat (the old xpat2). But my favorite is PySOL. Not sure if the Caldera's version of Python is up to it, so you may need to upgrade that, but PySOL is king in my house. When I did an upgrade, I nearly had a mutiny on my hands until I put PySOL back on. You'd have thought I'd deleted their bank accounts! Ciao, David A. Bandel -- Focus on the dream, not the competition. -- Nemesis Racing Team motto Internet (H323) phone: 206.28.187.30 ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. Ray Nancy Plummer Copper, Elektra WOK http://www.nanray.cjb.net/gsdped/gsdbintro.html ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Elx Linux
Thanks Ken, I'll try that. Ray On 6 Feb 2002, at 20:53, Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:38:33 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still having issues with the CD-RW and CD-R and Floppy drive and the locks. Once in a while I can get to them but then cannot unmount them as it thinks they are busy. I disabled supermount by changing the /etc/fstab lines, which cured my cd problems. Here are the new lines I use. /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,user,rw,noauto 0 0/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 defaults,user,rw,noauto 0 0/dev/floppy /mnt/floppy vfatdefaults,user,rw,noauto 0 0 I use append append=hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi to enable my cd-rw and dvd for scsi emulation. This is mostly untested, but both show in cdrecord -scanbus -- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. Ray Nancy Plummer Copper, Elektra WOK http://www.nanray.cjb.net/gsdped/gsdbintro.html ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Elx Linux
I have installed ELX Linux also. I am very impressed. At first I didn't think to much of the My Computer and the Network Neighborhood on the desktop but after playing around a little and using the different features of them, I found them rather handy. But then, I'm not a real dyed in the wool Linux user either. The one thing I found interesting is that I have 2 harddrives in the box. Elx installed on the proper drive but doesn't see the other drive (windows) so that I could mount the windows drive. Altho it did find the other 2 machines on my network (both Windows) and set them up with Samba. I am still having issues with the CD-RW and CD-R and Floppy drive and the locks. Once in a while I can get to them but then cannot unmount them as it thinks they are busy. Overall I would say its an excellent distro and would recommend it especially for Windows users who want to ease into a Linux enviornment. Ray Ray Nancy Plummer Copper, Elektra WOK http://www.nanray.cjb.net/gsdped/gsdbintro.html ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Microsoft Support OT
Ah, but no one has come up with the most definitive one: Most Certainly Shi**y Experience Ray On 19 Jan 2002, at 8:59, Tim Wunder wrote: From: Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Dis- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Microsoft Support OT Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe Date sent: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 08:59:37 -0500 Previously, Ian chose to write: Douglas J Hunley wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled on about: And a bunch of other people babbled about it before them... SNIP Not bad, I kinda watched this thread with amusement, in case nobody was keeping track here are the entries in no particular order, although possibly chronological. Must Consult with Someone Else, Mouse Certified System Engineer Must Confer with Someone Experienced Microsoft Certified Solitaire Expert Mandrake Consultant Suse Expert My Certification Somewhat Exaggerated Mentally Crippled Self Evangelists My Capabilities Seriously Exaggerated Valuable info like this need to be on the SxS. Bedtime reading, perhaps? -- Caldera eWorkstation 3.1, kernel 2.4.9, KDE 2.2.1, Xfree86 4.1.0 ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Ray Nancy Plummer Copper, Elektra WOK http://www.nanray.cjb.net/gsdped/gsdbintro.html ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: ELX linux
I thought it was a bit sluggish too. But not as sluggish as Mandrake 8.1 Was running on AMD K6 2-500 with 256MB ram on its own HD. Ray On 8 Jan 2002, at 19:19, Ken Moffat wrote: Date sent: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 19:19:11 -0800 Anyone trying ELX think it's a bit sluggish? (maybe it's because I have it about 40 gigs in to a 60 gig drive?) -- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Ray Nancy Plummer Copper, Elektra WOK http://www.nanray.cjb.net/gsdped/gsdbintro.html ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: elx linux distro
Just wondering, has anyone sent an email to ELX on these couple of items we are all having a problem with? After all, their site says its supposed to be set up so any novice can immediately work in Linux and basically have no problems. Ray On 26 Dec 2001, at 10:32, Ted Ozolins wrote: On Wednesday 26 December 2001 02:36 am, you wrote: Recently, somebody somewhere said: Yep, you're right about the CDROMS - no devices sg0-1 and sr0-1, I'm buggered how to set them up; MAKEDEV doesn't seen to work. SCSI support is there, however. cdrecord --scanbus returns the expected data. Ahem, beg pardon of my ignorance, but have you tried /dev/scd0? It seems to work for me. Been using Caldera for so long never thought of scdX as the dev's. You are right, I deleted /dev/cdrom and linked cdrom to scd0 and all works just great. I still can not log into webmin. I'll rpm -e webmin and re-install it and see if that fixes the beast. I can log into swat with no problems. I'm using Mozilla as the browser. Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Ray Nancy Plummer Copper, Elektra WOK http://www.nanray.cjb.net/gsdped/gsdbintro.html ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: elx linux distro
I also did the download of Elx. I did 2 installs with it, same machine twice. MachineVia Apollo chipset, AMD K6 2-500, 256 megs ram, PCI Riva TNT Graphics Card, Fijitsu 10 meg primary with Windows, Western Dig 20 Gig blank secondary, Lite-on CD-RW, Generic 56x CD, Sylvania F74 monitor, MS Mouse, Sound Blaster 16 PCI. First Install Custom Went pretty much as Collins did except that I installed everything. Just to see what would happen. The Partitioning I think is a minor problem as I had the same problem being unable to select which hard drive. However after pressing tab and watching closely, eventually you could see a faint highlight on the Drive section then use the down arrow to select hdb. The rest of the install went pretty smooth and didn't have to do much at all except indicate DHCP and root password. After the reboot I entered KDE. Ran the config wizard that comes up to set up KDE Desktop. All went well. The panel and menus are re- done not standard KDE that we are all familiar with however its not that big a deal. Actually makes more sense and does not have as much duplication. The panel or taskbar at the bottom of the screen is totally different offering a selection of icons that launch a button menu of various programs. One such is the Internet button. Clicking it brings up a window of icons with all the internet programs such as browsers, messengers, email programs, download mgrs, etc, there is a 'help' or description screen at the bottom of the window as you rollover each button. In all there are about 6 of these icons in the panel. Desktop, Internet, Office, Development, Configuration, My Computer. Oh yeahOn the main desktop is an Icon for My Computer, very similiar in function to Windows my Computer, and also an Icon for Network Neighborhood, also similiar to Windows. I had 3 problems with the custom install, ELX did not configure my sound card correctly, nor did it configure the CD-RW or CD-R properly so that I could pop in a cd and browse. And finally while it did find not only the Windows hard drive on the machine, and 2 other machines that were also on the network. I could not browse or mount them for browsing. Because of the above problems, I decided to try a reinstall, so I deleted the partitions and did a. Default Install Almost is hands off install. had to select DHCP and root password, also had the option of choosing pkgs and whether to make a boot disk. Went well, it found and partitioned HDB and left alone the Windows Drive. Everything else was about the same. Had the same problems with the CD-RW and CD-R, Same Sound problems, Same no browsing of Network Machines. However, I had to leave for awhile and shut down the machine, when I came back and rebooted it, it went to Kudzu and found the sound card and configured it correctly. Still could not browse the CD-RW or the CD-R. I set up a new Icon for the desktop and discovered the problem or at least part of it. FSTAB had both set as CDROM not CDROM and CDROM1 also did not have the CDRW as a SCSI device altho CDR-Toast did recognize it and allowed me to configure it. I tried browsing, both but for some reason couldn't. I looked in the file manager and there were locks placed on /mnt/cdrom, /mnt/cdrom1, and /mnt/floppy. Why I haven't a clue at this point. Still couldn't browse or mount the other networked machines. Probably some simple configuration or other. The Distro appears to be either Mandrake or RH based. Uses RPM's. Default is Reiserfs. I felt a lot of thought and work has gone into the menus and into the installation and probably would work ok with only one CD-RW or CD-R. I also felt it would be a pretty good distro for a Linux Newbie. As long as there was someone to help out nearby if they ran into a problem. Sorry this is not more technical, but I wanted to 'play dumb' and see if it would do everything without any knowledge of Linux. As this is actually a pre1 distro, I didn't really expect it to be foolproof yet. One last thing, I was disappointed with the speed it operated on my machine, altho it was a bit faster than Mandrake 8.1 it was much slower than Libranet 1.9.1 all of which I have recently tried on this machine. Oh well, its sold for Xmas and I had to clean it off so don't have to worry about it anyway. hahaha Merry Xmas to all Ray Plummer Ray Nancy Plummer Copper, Elektra WOK http://www.nanray.cjb.net/gsdped/gsdbintro.html ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
ELX Linux
For those of you who like to try new distros, ELX Linux is available for download today. The FTP connection didn't work but the HTTP one did. I haven't finished downloading it yet so don't have any other comments. you can get it at www.elxlinux.com click on download Ray Ray Nancy Plummer Copper, Elektra WOK http://www.nanray.cjb.net/gsdped/gsdbintro.html ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Howto with NT problems
Keith, Try the default password that comes with NT which I believe is administrator. It may have never been changed. Ray On 30 Sep 2001, at 10:54, Keith Antoine wrote: Query #2 There are tons of manuals re the vsision and anything in NT related to vision but there is nothing to tell us how to change ADMINISTRATOR password. I Ray Nancy Plummer Copper, Elektra WOK http://www.nanray.cjb.net/gsdped/gsdbintro.html ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: A couple of Questions about Debian Linux/Storm Linux
I had a 3com nic and didn't have any problem with Progeny or with Libranet. I installed Libranet later on another machine with a linksys nic and didn't have any problem either. Ray On 23 Sep 2001, at 10:33, Ken Moffat wrote: Did your Progeny recognize your NIC no problem? I installed and have no net connection, using CheapBytes CD's. On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 09:45:30 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shane, You might also want to try Progeny-debian or Libranet-debian. Both are debian distros with good graphical installers. They can be downloaded and burned. I have tried both and prefer Libranet for various reasons but both are good. www.libranet.com www.progeny.com Ray Ray Nancy Plummer Copper, Elektra WOK http://www.nanray.cjb.net/gsdped/gsdbintro.html ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: A couple of Questions about Debian Linux/Storm Linux
On 23 Sep 2001, at 12:10, Collins Richey wrote: Ray, I keep looking for A Debian distribution that is up to date. Progeny is still using 2.2.x kernels. Even LibraNet is using 2.4.3 with reiserfs (which sounds like inviting trouble to me). Have you done much with either of these? How difficult/time consuming is it to bring either of these distros into the modern world? Alas, I've gotten too spoiled with gentoo or jblinux or even Mandrake, for that matter. Collins, Once you have installed the distro, you can upgrade to woody easilly just by changing the sources.list and running update and then upgrade. I did not install reisersfs as I haven't had the time to study what it can and cannot do. I sent a URL last week to the list of a doc about moving from bsd to debian, was good told how to do the woody upgrade and bunch of other stuff. Check the archives for this list. If you can't find it let me know and I'll see if I can relocate it and send it to you. Ray Ray Nancy Plummer Copper, Elektra WOK http://www.nanray.cjb.net/gsdped/gsdbintro.html ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: recording video
Keith, check out here for just about any info on CD recordable stuff. http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/ There are tons of links to other places for more specific info also. A week or so ago, The Screen Savers had an article about copying movies to CD's you might check there also http://www.techtv.com/screensavers look in the question and answers section. And yes most of this info is about windows but, once armed with what you need, you can probably find the Linux stuff to do it. Ray On 21 Aug 2001, at 13:37, Keith Antoine wrote: I would like to ask a rather openended question re recording old vhs tapes to harddrive. #1 Can this be done on linux and if so what do I need, I have a Nvidia card by Guillemot (Cougar) with tv in and out. #2 Has anyone used Windows for this and what did you use? #3 I understand there is a limittation in mpeg 1 that allows only 1 hrs recording, does mpeg 2 fare any better? I plan to re-record to cdrom either vcd or svcd. -- - To make yourself look truthful one has to lie, as most people do not want to kmow the truth; but only that which they believe. - Keith Antoine aka skippy 18 Arkana St The Gap Queensland 4061 Australia PH 16 7 33002161 Retired Geriatric and Sometime Electronics Engineer ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Ray Nancy Plummer Copper, Elektra WOK http://www.nanray.cjb.net/gsdped/gsdbintro.html ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Question on script
I have a small script that pings my ISP every so often so the ISP doesn't shut my server connection down for lack of activity. The script is as follows #!/bin/sh ping -i 600 wvi.com/tmp/pinglog.txt On my desktop I have set up an icon to start the script called pingit. The execute line is /root/pingit . Now the problem is, that when I click on the icon for the script, it should start running and run in the background. And I should be able to see it in the Taskmanager, but I don't see it running and it evidentally is not executing. I have tried to start it in a terminal with the following: !pingit I get an error msg that has to do with the '' If I try to run it with just !pingit, it says that there is no such command. Anyone have any ideas? All Help would be appreciated. Thanks Ray Ray Nancy Plummer Copper, Elektra WOK http://www.nanray.cjb.net/gsdped/gsdbintro.html ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Question on script
Thanks Kurt. That fixed things. Ray On 12 Aug 2001, at 18:27, Kurt Wall wrote: From: Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Question on script Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe Date sent: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 18:27:37 -0600 In the last episode, we heard [EMAIL PROTECTED] say: I have a small script that pings my ISP every so often so the ISP doesn't shut my server connection down for lack of activity. The script is as follows #!/bin/sh ping -i 600 wvi.com/tmp/pinglog.txt On my desktop I have set up an icon to start the script called pingit. The execute line is /root/pingit . Lose the period, if it's there. I don't think it is necessary to run it in the background, either. Moreover, you need to do something with stderr: ping -i 600 wvi.com /tmp/pinglog.txt 2 /tmp/pingerr.txt The other problem is that ping must run in a terminal, so create the shortcut to run in a terminal (I believe there's a checkbox for this purpose). !pingit What's with the !? I get an error msg that has to do with the '' If I try to run it with just !pingit, it says that there is no such command. Right. The script is named pingit not !pingit. Try: ./pingit The shell has a special meaning for !. Kurt -- QOTD: It's not the despair... I can stand the despair. It's the hope. ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Ray Nancy Plummer Copper, Elektra WOK http://www.nanray.cjb.net/gsdped/gsdbintro.html ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: .htaccess file
ME TOO ! Ray Plummer On 14 Jul 2001, at 18:31, Federico Voges wrote: I'm interested. On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 14:08:11 -0500, Ronnie Gauthier wrote: A while back I wrote a short tutorial on the use of the .htaccess file. It covers most everything except password protection, of which there are already enough written. If anyone would like it let me know. If there are enough I'll just post it here, otherwise I wont waste space and time. Ronnie ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Federico Voges Socio gerente Intrasoft Malabia 2137 14 A (1425) Buenos Aires Argentina Te/Fax: 54-11-4833-5182 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.intrasoft.com.ar PGP Public Key Fingerprint: A536 4595 EB6F D197 FBC1 5C3A 145C 2516 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies . iQA/AwUBO1C6HxRcJRaVKt4XEQJLoQCg98QBgaSp85GNfeRgokdm0w90j4wAmwZg 7p+grEvyKEsn/zktNUazDGUN =WzPT -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Ray Nancy Plummer Copper, Elektra WOK http://www.nanray.cjb.net/gsdped/gsdbintro.html ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Suse vs Mandrake decision
Comment on Mandrake 8.0 I downloaded the ISO for both the install and the extended stuff. The install went great, but then I have a pretty plain vanilla machine to install it on. However, I was disappointed in the KDE that was installed. I didn't see the familiar KDE panel, menu and etc. While browsing through the menus it seemed very Gnome centric even in KDE. Couldn't find the usual KDE configuration screens etc. Also Mandrake used to put the icons on the desktop for the CD Floppy disk and Printer. All that came up was the Trash and Home icons. However, Gnome desktop was fully configured. One wonders if Mandrake is pushing Gnome by limiting KDE. Also for some reason after I had it running for about an hour, it started writing to my hard drive and locked up the mouse and keyboard this continued for several minutes and did not let up. I finally had to just shut the thing down (power off). The one other annoying thing was that it configured my video so that the visable screen on my 17 monitor was located in the lower right quadrant of the monitor. It had about an inch on the top and left side of black space. Again, couldn't find anyway to adjust that through the KDE menus. As I use the same monitor for 4 machines, I did not want to adjust the monitor controls on the monitor as all the others place the screen in the center of the monitor. Just my .02 cents. Will dL SUSE and give it a try. Ray Ray Nancy Plummer Copper, Elektra WOK http://www.nanray.cjb.net/gsdped/gsdbintro.html ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
