Re: A little consideration, please?

1997-08-22 Thread Stephen Witt
> I am driving about 100 (non-deductable) miles each way and am giving up > one of my vacation days for this, just as I am giving up vacation days > to speak at the IN Conference in Germany. I gave up vacation days to speak > at Linux Expo, too. I think you should give up vacation days to go to G

Re: POV-ray?

1997-08-22 Thread Stephen Witt
> Hello, > > Does anyone who uses POV know why I cann't see http://www.pov.org/ ? > Can you see it or not? > Yes, http://www.pov.org/ gets me there. It seems to be an alias (if that's the right DNS term) for http://www.pbs.org/pov/index.html. =

Re: POV-ray?

1997-08-22 Thread Stephen Witt
> Does anyone who uses POV know why I cann't see http://www.pov.org/ ? > Can you see it or not? > Actually, http://www.pov.org is a web site for P.O.V. Interactive, an award winning PBS series or something. I guess I should actually look at the page before I report success. Sorry... ===

Re: Basic questions

1997-08-18 Thread Stephen Witt
On Mon, Aug 18, 1997 at 06:08:02PM -0400, Robert S. Ross wrote: > I could use some help with some basic questions that have me puzzled. > 1. How do I get Linux to boot from the HD? I am using System Commander, > and it will call LILO if configured. Are you running NT? There is a HOWTO or some oth

Re: ICQ

1997-07-31 Thread Stephen Witt
I apologize for this in advance for this is going to be a major soapbox speech. I think that programs like ICQ, that may or not have great functionality, are inappropriate as a general solution to the problem (whatever it is) unless the source or the protocol specification is freely made available

Re: How to Make fvwm2 "ClickToFocus"

1997-07-18 Thread Stephen Witt
> Shaya Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I make fvwm2 "ClickToFocus" instead of having the > focus follow the mouse. It should be easier to tell which > files do what in /etc/X11/fvwm2, that it is. > In my ~/.fvwm2rc file there is a section on Focus Setup that I include below:

What depth is my Xserver running at?

1997-07-17 Thread Stephen Witt
Subject pretty much says it all. I've got a Dell PPro w/ Number 9 Reality 332 (S3 virge). My XF86Config has entries for multiple displays (I think) at different depths. Reading the XFree86 docs last night indicated if there are multiple entries w/ different depths, then it uses the one the serve

Re: A debian network

1997-07-17 Thread Stephen Witt
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > machine (Pent 166) through it to the net ... can I do this without a > dedicated router, maybe using the 486 as a router and putting the Pent on > a new, local network? Will a 486 be up to the task of being a router, > web server, mail server, etc. all a

Segmentation fault with mh

1997-07-07 Thread Stephen Witt
I've been using Netscape as my mail user agent at home (on my Debian 1.3 box), but would like to using mh-e, as that is what I use at work, love emacs, etc, etc. Before trying mh-e, I just tried to run mh in "raw" mode, so to speak, by doing "inc". This gives me a segmentation fault. I'm using

diald problems...

1997-07-07 Thread Stephen Witt
Hi, I'm trying to set diald up at home. I'm using Debian 1.3. My network connection is a modem using PPP to my ISP. My ISP dynamically assigns both local and remote IP addresses for this link. I've been using PPP manually for some time now, so have a working connection script. The symptom

mh in a POP environment

1997-07-03 Thread Stephen Witt
I was wondering what the best way of using mh with a POP server might be? I've been a mh user (mh-e) for years at work (SunOS and Solaris) and would like to try it with my Linux machine at home (I have been using Netscape mail). Does mh POP work OK? Should I use one of the other POP packages avai

Re: I need a disk partitioner!!!

1997-07-01 Thread Stephen Witt
fips works fine with Win95. Last September I had a new Dell with a 3 GB disk and Win95 installed and defragmented the disk with some Norton utility program and then resized the partion down to 1 GB and then created three more partitions for Linux (/root, swap, and /usr) and it worked just fi