I've (after many years of use..) been looking up what my shell actually can do
for me to make my life easier. I've been going thru the features of tcsh (first
shell I ever used, but I'm determined to go thru bash and zsh or ksh (when time
permits that is..)).
So, of course, I got some
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:48:32AM +0200, Philippe MICHEL wrote:
Hello,
I am using Debian slink, and a standard modem/pppd connection to my
provider.
Everything works well since years (I used the same config with Slakware)
But how/where can I see with which speed the modem has been
Gary Hennigan writes (Re: Very large SCSI drives and partitioning.):
There shouldn't be anything inherently wrong with a 70G
partition. Linux limit for a partition size is somewhere in the TB
range. I bet it'll make for some LONG fsck times though!
You might read the Large Disk HOWTO to see if it
Hi all,
I have to build a cyber cafe with 9 clients and 1 server all with Linux!
It has to have scanner, printers (with accounting), webcams, CD-R, Zip
and acouting.
What scanner I can buy?
What printer and system printing I can use?
What webcam?
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 03:55:39PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
1. When I press tab to autocomplete something in the command line,
and there are more than one possible autocompletion, the shell BEEPS.
This is very annoying, especially when my gf is asleep within ten feet
of my computer. :)
Dear debs
Could anyone using (or having used) Slackware please tell me what's
(particularly) good about it? - What particular things made you
choose Slack?
From what I've read, it's probably the distro closest to the
roll-your-own type of thing. Correct?
Slack's package format is .tgz;
The system defaults for X apps are under usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults. The
user preferences are read from ~/.Xresources and/or ~/.Xdefaults. The
preferences for colors and what to do with ^G (the beep) can be set in these
files. The manpages for xrdb and xterm should be helpful also. To save
Hi the list,
I apologize if that is a little bit off topic but I am a bit puzzled
and I know there are experts on this list. I would like an
explanation on why the two for below give different results.
Thanks,
ChriS
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 11:26:44PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
Could anyone using (or having used) Slackware please tell me what's
(particularly) good about it? - What particular things made you
choose Slack?
It was around and (IMO) better than Yggdrasil when I used it. :)
From what I've
Quick answer here - I'll make two assumptions:
1) This is NOT for a programming assignment. ;-)
2) Using the comma within a condition is treated as AND (). That's
messier code than I usually create.
Making the z = x + y assignment is part of the loop's condition, so it is
evaluated at whatever
On 04-Aug-2000 Christophe TROESTLER wrote:
Hi the list,
I apologize if that is a little bit off topic but I am a bit puzzled
and I know there are experts on this list. I would like an
explanation on why the two for below give different results.
my comment here is -- use better
Hello,
I am looking for some documentation on how to compile kernels 2.3.x with ip
masq support. The current HOWTO doesn't cover those kernels yet.
Thanks for any advice.
Greetings,
In mandrake, when you want to see a file and it's in binary form..it warns
you about it and asks if you still want to see it. but in debian, it just
automatically shows it then you can no longer read anything on that console
and thus rendering that console useless until you
Here's a thought - are you attempting to mount
\\desktop\c$
as the name of the share? If so, your shell will probably be getting
confused by the dollars sign. (For those who don't know, NT W and NT S
create shares of c$ and d$ and so on for the root of each drive. The $
stops the
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:46:31PM +, john smith wrote:
1. if the console is trashed already with displaying binary..is there a
way to make it recover w/o rebooting? logging out of the console doesn't
seem to work.
try typing 'reset' + Enter on the fsckd console. (there was a thread
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:46:31PM +, john smith wrote:
Greetings,
Hello
1. if the console is trashed already with displaying binary..is there a
way to make it recover w/o rebooting? logging out of the console doesn't
seem to work.
reset, as has been suggested to me in an older thread
Yes, at least mine can. Sold as a ViewTop BP-S3-Ax. Fitted with sockets for
8 chips but sold locally with only a choice of 2 or 4meg installed.
The manual claims max [EMAIL PROTECTED] colors or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
[EMAIL PROTECTED] colors with 4Meg installed.
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at
Hi,
I downloaded and installed icewm but it comes only with its default theme, I
remember having seen it in the slink CD with some themes like OS2, FVwm,
motif, ... etc. I thought they would come has part of the icewm package
since they are the simplest among ice themes (compared to the very
* Lehel Bernadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000804 21:30]:
On 04-Aug-2000 Carl Fink wrote:
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:16:33PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote:
You can also browse tarballs, gzips, bzips, gzipped tarballs, bzipped
tarballs, and zips as well, providing that the attendant gzip, bzip,
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:48:32AM +0200, Philippe MICHEL wrote:
Hello,
I am using Debian slink, and a standard modem/pppd connection to my
provider.
Everything works well since years (I used the same config with Slakware)
But how/where can I see with which speed the modem has been
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, John Reinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) This is NOT for a programming assignment. ;-)
Ho, no! :-) These are just some experiments.
2) Using the comma within a condition is treated as AND (). That's
messier code than I usually create.
Well, this is uncorrect. Execute
Woody has an icewm-themes package, there's probably one in Potato too.
Tom
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 08:42:04AM -0700, Ezequiel wrote:
Hi,
I downloaded and installed icewm but it comes only with its default theme, I
remember having seen it in the slink CD with some themes like OS2, FVwm,
From: David Karlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A rose (or potato) by any other name, smells just as sweet.
So what?
Before you open the box and smell it, all you have is the name.
Then it makes a difference whether the name is sweet flower or
thorny flower.
Daniel
--
Daniel Barclay
[EMAIL
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 01:09:12AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:46:31PM +, john smith wrote:
Greetings,
Hello
1. if the console is trashed already with displaying binary..is there a
way to make it recover w/o rebooting? logging out of the console doesn't
Folks,
Tomcat (the JSP/Java Servlets plug-in for Apache from Jakarta) is not
available as a Debianised package. Is anyone working on this? Has
anyone had success installing this under Debian? Is there a reason
why a package hasn't yet been developed?
I don't want to waste my time
Folks,
I am a Computer Science professor at American University in Washington
D.C.
I want to recommend that we replace Solaris in our Computer Science
department with Debian. In doing so, I know that we will encounter
problems wuite specific to the public (as in non-profit, public
Hi, I was reading today on slashdot about Evolution 0.3. They have a
download link for the tar.gz file. I was wondering if the apt-get
utility
will work if I use the spidermonkey.helixgnome.com source for the
update?
Has anyone else tried this?
No, this won't work. You can (or
I suggest going to comp.lang.c and checking the C FAQ. Specifically look
for the inherent problem of putting the same variable on both sides of a
relational operator: (x+y) x
If memory serves, the behavior is undefined -- so don't do it!
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 11:55:36PM +0200, Christophe
Cuando: jue, 03 de ago de 2000, a las 10:51:54 -0700
Quien: kmself@ix.netcom.com
Que: Cool trick: gmc and Debs
The cool hat trick: You can browse through the contents of a Deb
package *.deb file) with gmc as if it were a locally mounted fileystem,
without having to unarchive and untar
Hello...
As I've reported in another post, my system is locking sometimes. I
couldn't yet determine what is the problem, but something strange
happened today:
To see what could be the problem, I left the system with xmms running
while I was out for 4 hours. When I came back, the keyboard was
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
Hello,
I am looking for some documentation on how to compile kernels 2.3.x
with ip masq support. The current HOWTO doesn't cover those kernels
yet.
http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/unreliable-guides/index.html
I also have these
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:55:25AM -0600, Adam Scriven - Lore wrote
Ok, by some great and wonderful streak of stupidity, I seem to have somehow
completely fscked up my router.
It's hooked up to an ADSL modem, running PPPoE (Roaring Penguin), and that
part
looks like it's working great.
My only concern is that these are x86 machines, not Sparcs. My experience
is that Linux does not run as well as Solaris on the Sparc platform.
Specifically, RedHat 6.1 on a SUN4U box doesn't seem to play very nice with
the SCSI controller and the entire machine pauses for noticeable periods
To follow up: how floating point numbers are represented in the machine
during computations may vary slightly from how they get represented when
stored into a variable. That is, the evaluation of (x+y) may have
greater numerical precision then the result of z = x + y. In the second
case, there
I'm having trouble with the current pre-release of potato. I
can't tell if this is a bug, an odd incompatibility in my system
(which works fine with slink), or something I'm doing wrong.
When I get to the step of configuring device drivers, I can't
install module lp.
When I try, I get these
On 4 Aug 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
pelleg As I've reported in another post, my system is locking sometimes. I
pelleg couldn't yet determine what is the problem, but something strange
pelleg happened today:
i havent been following this thread but i'll see if i have any ideas.
pelleg To
Simon == Simon Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Simon Folks, Tomcat (the JSP/Java Servlets plug-in for Apache
Simon from Jakarta) is not available as a Debianised package. Is
Simon anyone working on this? Has anyone had success installing
Simon this under Debian? Is there a
Hello,
I'm wondering if anybody can help me figure out how to connect two computers
to one net connection (@home network). The computer I want to add is a
Debian box (potato), the currently connected computer is a Windoze box. I'd
like to be able to run stuff like sshd, apache, etc. off the
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