What does Aliant Telecom use for DSL?

protocol, then it should work fine. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. I give you this one rule of conduct. Do what you will, but speak out

iRATE radio 0.3 released

prompting, more publicity, and several others. The iRATE radio website is at http://irate.sourceforge.net/ -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. I give you

Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?

/ It would probably be a lot of work. uCLinux is now integrated with the 2.6 kernel, I understand. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. I give you this one rule

Recommend a better sound card?

if the card's vendor provides complete hardware specs to Free Software developers. If you'd like to email me your recommendation send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for your help. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL

If esd is running Mozilla won't launch

then started esd again, I am able to open new Mozilla windows. So I guess I have a workaround, but it should not be this way. Can you tell me what is wrong? Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Importing Corel Draw

the Debian package, as there has been a lot of work such as the very recent 2.0 and 2.0.1 releases. However, they don't appear to provide Debian packages, I thought they did. Maybe you can use alien to convert an RPM. You will also need the Import/Export plugin package as well. Mike -- Michael D

How to install BitTorrent on Woody?

. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Can't play audio CDs

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Re: OT: C++

://www.accu.org/ They also have a bunch of very helpful technical book reviews on their website. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: OT: C++

You might also find my article helpful: Pointers, References and Values: Passing Parameters, Returning Results, and Storing Member Variables with Musings on Good C++ Style at: http://www.goingware.com/tips/parameters/ Best, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software

Making a custom Debian distro?

, the startup script would relaunch this browser. Thanks for any tips you can give me. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Please Help Pass W3C Patent Policy

things people can do with their computers, things for which patent-free Free Software would spring up, thus assisting the market failure of the patents. That might not be the case if there were Free Software that implemented a patent. Respectfully, Mike Crawford -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare

Re: Please Help Pass W3C Patent Policy

. If I distributed my work, even with source, I would be in violation of the kernel's GPL and ever kernel developer would have standing to sue me because I didn't license my addition to the kernel with the GPL. Regards, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development

Making a DSL server?

an ISP and needed to service hundreds of connections, this wouldn't be a problem. Does anyone make DSL server hardware that serves one connection? What do I even look for. Thanks for any help you can offer. Regards, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development

Re: Making a DSL server

to any configuration that can't be avoided. Does Linux handle DSL authentication? Can linux configure a DSL modem to handle authentication, without any use of Windows? Is there a way I can test this authentication with my office LAN? Thank you for your help. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare

Re: Kernel for PowerPC (AppleMac)

system software, rather than just being used for booting, then you have an old world machine. You will need to know that for when you install. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting

Compiling gnucash 1.7.7 for Woody?

. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Security: system reboot?

root by setting their userid. It won't tell you if someone has cracked your system in such a way as to be able to reboot you without becoming root though. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: External serial modem advice ?

really sad to see that from a Hayes product. I have also used a Hayes 1200 (that I bought for $700!) and a Hayes 28.8, and they were both rock-solid. Each gave years of performance without a hint of trouble. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting

Re: how to have a gpg public key?

How can i have a gpg public key? Go to a locksmith in your nearest town and ask them to cut you one. They keep blanks on hand. Warmest regards, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting

Re: Q on NYT article on the cost of Spam

://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2003/7/9/831/85518/55#55 Direct mail is very scientifically targeted http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2003/7/9/831/85518/67#67 Ever Faithful, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting

restarting wget?

to do this, but I haven't been able to get it to work. Alternatively, is there another recursive website downloader that can do what I want? I just want something I can restart in the event of failure. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting

Re: Let's Put SCO Behind Bars

there as well, with a plain-text version coming up in the next couple days. The original article is still at: http://www.goingware.com/notes/prosecute-sco.html I'll try to shut up now. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com

Re: Let's Put SCO Behind Bars

/notes/prosecute-sco.html I just got out of bed after sleeping for 17 hours from a hacking bender so it's going to be a little while before I can get it together to post it. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL

Let's Put SCO Behind Bars

simple, valid markup, and with no external dependencies such as images or external stylesheets. It even looks good in lynx! Thank you for your attention. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting

Please test iRATE radio

the irate-devel mailing list: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=77232 Thanks for your help. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. I give you

running short on DMA buffers during badblocks

it's got the benh patch, I don't know because I don't have my kernel sources online right now. /dev/sda11 is 16.7 GB in size. I will probably upgrade my kernel once I'm done with the installation of my new drive. Thanks for any advice you can give me. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc

USB Midi adapters for Linux?

the midiman midisport or MOTU Fastlane. Does anyone know about these specifically? Midisport: http://www.m-audio.net/products/midiman/usbmidi.php FastLane: http://www.motu.com/english/hardware/fastlane_usb/body.html Thanks for your help. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert

Re: OS X Games

compiler for Mac OS X is gcc. Objective C has been compiled with gcc for many years. Next tried to avoid releasing the sources to the objective c compiler but the Free Software Foundation wouldn't let them.) -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http

Re: FireWire harddrives

much for IDE drives because they have to be mounted inside the cases and have such unpleasant cables. Even Ultra160 scsi can be external. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting

Re: dual boot win2k and debian

to grub to deal with that, but I don't know what it would be. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dual boot win2k and debian

installation CD and choose the repair option. Then install grub with just setup (hd0) and NOT setup (hd0,0) Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow

Re: OT: Programming books

://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/articles/ http://www.goingware.com/tips/ http://www.byteswap.net/ Best, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: cross platform development

://www.goingware.com/zoolib/cookbook/ there is also some sample code. It's best these days to get it from CVS. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow

Re: XMMS goes silent when moving windows

? Which kernel version are you using? Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: macintosh hardware

. There are a few linux distros for the Mac. Besides debian, there is Yellow Dog and LinuxPPC, which I think are both ports from Red Hat, and there is the Apple-sponsored mkLinux which uses the Mach microkernel like OS X does. I used to run mkLinux on my Mac a few years ago. Michael D. Crawford

Re: (semi-OT) JPG files - Movie file

search gives Loki's SDL Motion JPEG Library: http://www.lokigames.com/development/smjpeg.php3 however I get the impression from the page that it's not ready for production use yet. There are also motion jpeg hardware cards available on the market. Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert

Standards docs available in Debian?

through apt. Are these indeed available with apt? It would be easier than hunting them down, and make it easier to find a place to put them. Ever Faithful, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting

floating point hex calc?

address, but unfortunately doesn't seem to be able to handling floating point the way I want. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: floating point hex calc?

); foo = *(float*)bar; printf( %1.15f\n, foo ); return 0; } -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: kinda OT: Web Hosting

with them is that they have always had excellent customer service, and have always treated me really well. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow

Is there a later mozilla?

and relaunch it. Thanks, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

electronic CAD software?

of commercial applications for this sort of thing, but most are very expensive. I don't need anything very elaborate at this point, I'd just like to learn back what I used to know about electronics. Thanks, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http

Re: What [OT] stands for?

Either Ornithology or Ornithologist, depending on the context. It means the study of birds. Bird scientists are very active online. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nature of a boot loader

grubboot.dat to your Windows partition and add it to your NT or Win2k boot menu. This probably works on XP too, but I don't have XP. Yours, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting. http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills

Using p2c to translate Delphi to C?

to make it work, but I worry about causing some problem because I don't have a Delphi compiler. Is there a version of p2c available anywhere (it doesn't have to be a Debian package) that can translate Delphi to C? Or any kind of Delphi to C translator? Thank you for your help. Michael D. Crawford

Re: killing the penguin (framebuffer)

leaving the framebuffer, you can run at higher resolution and use nice fonts like the one from Sun. Just type reset to get rid of the penguin. Best, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting

Can't get out of dependency resolution in dselect

the dialog just brings me back into the dialog. -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Firewire card supported by Linux?

with PCILynx drivers. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Serial terminal program?

on the old SunOS. On Windows I use Hyperterminal. I'll need it for powerpc, but if one is available for x86 there is likely to be one for powerpc too. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

re: foobar

Here's an obscure one for you. What's the word related to foobar that starts with a t? It was coined under the same circumstances as foobar and snafu were, I think world war II communications. If you can't figure it out, I'll tell you. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert

re: foobar

~ TARFU ? (:-O Yes, it's TARFU. Things are really fouled up, to be polite. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. I give you this one rule

Re: ... new machine to install Linux ...

showed an unusually large amount of free space, but I just thought this was a UI bug. Once my FAT partition got sufficiently full, some truly amazing filesystem corruption happened to all my Linux filesystems. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting

errors with db2html or sgmltools --backend=html

/xml/3.1.3/db3xml.dtd; [ !ENTITY mdc Michael D. Crawford !ENTITY chap1 SYSTEM chap1.xml ] book titleMy First Book/title chap1; /book here is chap1.xml: chaptertitleThe First Chapter/title paraThe first paragraph/para paraThe second paragraph/para /chapter !-- Local Variables: sgml-parent

Re: Need scp client v1 for Mac OS

NiftyTelnet SSH has a graphical SCP client. I think it only does SSH1 though, but I'm not sure. The standard NiftyTelnet does not have SSH. You need this one: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jonasw/freeware/niftyssh/ Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development

Nits in unstable ssh config

(NiftyTelnet SSH) I have debian powerpc unstable installed on my Macintosh 8500. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. I give you this one rule of conduct

Local imap from remote pop

I have accounts on several servers at my hosting service. I normally read my mail via ssh and elm. I would like to download my mail via POP and read it off a server in my house using IMAP. Is it possible to do what I want, and can you tell me the basics of what I will need to do? I've

Re: bash ?

or some such. Alternatively, you can execute the shell script with dot: . myscript executes the script in the context of the current shell. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills

Re: A lilo.conf question

, Stan Brown wrote: image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only append=video=vesa:mtrr vga=0x31b What I think shhould work, but doesn;t is: append=video=vesa:mtrr vga=0x31b hdc=ide-scsi ct of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare

Re: Anyway to emulate IE?

/ Best, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.goingware.com/ Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.

line length in evolution mail

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Mozilla 0.9.7-2 quits on back button

Today when reading Slashdot, and following links to other pages, then pressing the back button to return to slashdot, Mozilla 0.9.7-2 from Sid (PowerPC) suddenly quits. I only noticed this today, and haven't updated for a few days. Mike

Re: how much can it take

shopping season. It seems they never tested the server under a production load. You may find the article helpful: Use Validators and Load Generators to Test Your Web Applications http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/articles/webapptesting/ -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development

Downloading huge files with Mozilla?

HTTP. Is there a browser available that both has support for SSL and will just download a file into its final location, and not into /tmp? Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting

Re: Memtest tool

. It doesn't seem to cause trouble in daily use but memtest86 finds it repeatably with one of its tests; sometime soon I will replace my CPU - I'm pretty sure it's the CPU because I've already replaced all my RAM! Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting

GRUB to book 2nd drive

the second drive, in part my concern is whether the Win2k installer is going to eat my SCSI drive. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.

Installation questions

that I will install a lot of software on the pentium II, at least not right away, I mostly want to use it as a fileserver and would even find it useful without X for a while. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting

Compacting evolution mail folders

emptied, is about a quarter of a gigabyte! (I am getting a bigger drive soon... but still...) Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.goingware.com/ Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.

Re: simple database?

files, so if you like you can treat them as user documents and transfer them around via email, ftp etc. by themselves. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better

getting unstable non-us?

running an unstable PowerPC Mac for a while now and it works well for me, so I'd like to see all the bleeding edge stuff. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills

Re: LILO doesn't work!

itself. An advantage to grub is that you don't need to reinstall your block disk if you change kernels, and if you forget to install a kernel in grub's menu, you can use its command line to load the kernel manually. It is not yet at 1.0 but it works well on my x86 machines. Mike -- Michael D

Recommend hardware for driver tutorial?

, and network) and then get ahold of something for which no driver is yet available and contribute a real driver to the kernel. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better

update-rc.d not found in PATH during upgrade

for some time now, but this is the first time I've installed debian at all on x86. I've been using slackware for years. So I'm experienced with Linux and x86, but only modestly so with debian installation. -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http

Should I use a proxy? DNS cache?

neither a proxy nor a DNS cache. Would it help things to use them? I can see how having a DNS cache would help when my ISP's nameserver goes down, which it seems to quite a bit. If I should use a proxy, which one should I get? Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software

Recommend backup program?

Can anyone recommend a backup program to me that I could use to do backups in the following way. I see that there are several programs available in Woody for backup, but I'm not sure they have what I want. I haven't checked freshmeat yet. I'd be fine compiling from source, although I imagine

Making a minimal Woody install CD

What would I need to do to make a minimal install CD for Woody. What I would like to do is have the kernel, ramdisk, drivers and base on the CD, then be able to boot off the CD, prepare my filesystems, install the base, but then do the rest of the installation over the network. This would be

Re: 2 distros

SCSI drives as much as I can. Best, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Ethernet problem

into Linux fixes your problem, then maybe you have a similar situation to mine. If that's the case then your choice would be to continue booting off a floppy, or put LILO or Grub into your boot block so you can get into linux from a cold boot. Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software

Re: Hiding a process

exec -a $NAME $COMMAND $ARGS exec -a /sbin/getty 31337r007k17 -destroyeverything ;- Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.goingware.com/ Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Ethernet problem

! In windows, the slow animation of that horizontal bar in the boot screen freezes. It's more informative in Linux, if I recall correctly it freezes the first time one of the startup programs tries to access the ethernet. Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http

Re: Swapfiles

I used to do tech support for Microport System V/AT. It was Unix System V ported to 80286 IBM AT's. When I started work there, Microport had swapping. A program would be read into memory in its entirety, or it would be disk resident. It wasn't paged. A program's memory was swapped out to

mkhybrid question

I have a question about how to use mkhybrid to create a CD image that can be used from both Mac OS and Windows. There's two ways you can do this. One is to make an ISO9660 filesystem that has both the Apple and the Joliet extensions. The other way is to make an ISO9660 filesystem with the

Re: PCMCIA Firewire adapters? (was Re: External USB hard disks?)

I don't have personal experience with any PCMCIA firewire adapters, but this page may help you: http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/hcl.php Note that very likely what you want is a CardBus card, rather than a PCMCIA card. Strictly speaking, PCMCIA is the ISA bus in a small form factor to fit in

Update shouldn't nuke XF86Config-4

. This happened with a woody update last night. I know have xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-16, I'm not sure what I had before. Best, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow

Re: Update shouldn't nuke XF86Config-4

it. I said no. So maybe the problem is in GPM assuming it should write into XF86Config-4 - does the package do that when it updates? Aside from that, if my mouse needs the protocol MouseManPlusPS/2, is there a way I can have GPM and X running on the same machine? Michael D. Crawford GoingWare

Re: Soft Raid5 Problems

the filesystem formatters do their own bad block checking. Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Web logfile analyzer?

the search engines, but I do believe it is very worthwhile, and the right thing to do, to set out content that is useful to people in hopes of driving traffic to my site. But I have a limited amount of time to do that and want to be more intelligent about how I do it. Thanks in advance. Michael D

Re: Reading to turn computer into internet router for modem

, but it will help your performance if you do. It will also help your performance if you set up a caching nameserver, but again that is not necessary. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting

Re: SCSI through PCMCIA card

. Only caveat is that my laptop has Slackware and not Debian, but I don't see why it would be any different, the software you'd use would come from the same source code. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL

RE: Applications close by themselves with CPU under load.

and check your whole drive. If you have a SCSI disk you may be able to do this from the SCSI host bus adapter's BIOS setup utility. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to the GoingWare

C++ Style at Kuro5hin

, although it does have its trolls. It was written in Emacs on Woody, and viewed in Mozilla 0.9.9. Best, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to the GoingWare Newsletter at http

Mozilla can't post at Kuro5hin

Mozilla try posting a comment there? Maybe this is a bug someone needs to know about. I emailed one of K5's staff but I'm not sure what client systems they have for testing. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com

ATI video out on laptop?

for a pleasant evening cuddled up with one's honey on the couch to watch a movie. It would be much nicer if I could play it on the TV set. I guess I could spring for a dedicated DVD player, but then there's the region coding thing. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development

Re: GRUB question

the GRUb command line. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to the GoingWare Newsletter at http://www.goingware.com/newsletter/ Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow

Re: Change compile options wi/ apt-get source?

too. Recompiling glibc is a bit risky because you can make your machine unbootable if you make a mistake. I think Mandrake is Pentium optimized. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe

Evolution quits while recieving mail

there is a later Evolution version available, but there doesn't seem to be a debian package for PowerPC later than 1.0.2-1. Is there a later PowerPC debian package I can obtain somewhere? Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http

Re: word format

to format a nice resume, and it is absolutely free. It's not even shareware, it is Free Software in the sense of Free Speech. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to the GoingWare Newsletter

disable paragraph flows in mozilla?

. Can someone enlighten me? I'm using Mozilla 0.9.9 on Debian Woody x86. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to the GoingWare Newsletter at http://www.goingware.com/newsletter/ Tilting

Re: are there bootable net install alpha woody isos?

I only have windows up Does anyone know whether it would be possible to use the tools that create an iso under Cygwin on Windows? If this were explicitly supported it would likely help a lot of people. http://www.cygwin.com/ - a Free Software *nix environment for Windows. Mike -- Michael D

Re: Debian on an old system

think you'll be fine. It would be greatly to your benefit to build a custom kernel that has only the features you need, and whose build options are optimized to the kind of processor you are running. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http

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