Re: [eug-lug]javascript redhat 9

2003-10-12 Thread Ben Barrett
No, use Firebird! No, use Konqueror! Netscape! It doesn't matter; so long as use enable javascript support aa well as setup the media plugins you want. I'd suggest mplayer, but the Heck, you might even get it to work from lynx or links, text-mode browsers. I presume you know about

Re: [eug-lug]Borders

2003-10-12 Thread T. Joseph Carter
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 04:29:21PM -0700, Linux Rocks ! wrote: funny... I talked to someone that was having a bad MS day too... I was in staples getting blanks ($9.99/50). She was complaining that she needed a new mouse because the new mouse she got didnt work. everytime she would turn the

Re: [eug-lug]javascript redhat 9

2003-10-12 Thread Bob Miller
Ben Barrett wrote: No, use Firebird! No, use Konqueror! Netscape! It doesn't matter; so long as use enable javascript support aa well as setup the media plugins you want. I'd suggest mplayer, but the Heck, you might even get it to work from lynx or links, text-mode browsers. I presume

Re: [eug-lug]Re: streaming music

2003-10-12 Thread Ben Barrett
I got close... apparently I don't have [the correct?] RealPlayer codec support in mplayer. Initially, I discovered that RealPlayer no longer works on my system : / I had RealPlayer 8.01 installed by RPM, which I got from the community-supported players... the libc6 RPM from Real. I cannot

Re: [eug-lug]javascript redhat 9

2003-10-12 Thread Larry Price
I think Dirk is really asking about playing Real Audio Media under Red Hat. A quick poke at RealOne's website causes me to to think that anything coming out of that company should be avoided like the plague This Page ought to help you if you must http://forms.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html

[eug-lug]Today's KDE Tip

2003-10-12 Thread Bob Miller
Look, I'm not trying to sell anyone on KDE, I just keep finding these really weird and useful things in it. GNOME is good. Enlightenment and fluxbox and fvwm and all the rest are good. CDE is -- well, it's okay with me if you use CDE, so long as you don't make me use it too.* Today's discovery

Re: [eug-lug]Re: streaming music

2003-10-12 Thread Mr O
How about an actual page we can go to? There's also plugins for XMMS that'll handle Real Audio. --- Dirk Ouellette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone with RedHat 9 connect to and hear either of these streams? If so, how is your system set to do so?

Re: [eug-lug]javascript redhat 9

2003-10-12 Thread Elijah Buck
mplayer has a realplayer plug in. On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 10:03, Larry Price wrote: I think Dirk is really asking about playing Real Audio Media under Red Hat. A quick poke at RealOne's website causes me to to think that anything coming out of that company should be avoided like the plague

Re: [eug-lug]javascript redhat 9

2003-10-12 Thread Linux Rocks !
mplayer is pretty decent... I use it :) Jamie On Sunday 12 October 2003 08:09 am, Mr O wrote: : Grab the latest Mozilla, click on the link. If you need a plugin : (not normally for javascript) it'll tell you or start : downloading a bunch of strange text. Looks to me like it wants : you to pick

[eug-lug]Gentoo: keeping a package unmasked

2003-10-12 Thread Bob Miller
Recently, someone (either Mr. O or Larry) showed me the glmatrix screen saver. It's part of the latest xscreensaver release, and it's pretty cool. It wasn't on my Gentoo box, because the latest unmasked xscreensaver is 4.10. So I brought in the unstable version, 4.13: # env

Re: [eug-lug]Borders

2003-10-12 Thread Linux Rocks !
Joseph, as usual, your making incorrect assumptions. I never mentioned slackware (or debian for that matter...) to her, nor in my message. The fact that she couldnt even install a mouse leads me to belive that she couldnt install windows, or linux, so why should I assume she would be installing

Re: [eug-lug]javascript redhat 9

2003-10-12 Thread Linux Rocks !
On that note... you might check out #linux on IRC, (sorry, cant remember the server...) there was a guy that was often online that did support for real, and he was pretty helpful. Jamie On Sunday 12 October 2003 10:03 am, Larry Price wrote: : I think Dirk is really asking about playing : Real

Re: [eug-lug]Today's KDE Tip

2003-10-12 Thread Linux Rocks !
Thats funny... I just saw that yesterday from the panel menu (actually, I use gnome panel under E!), Theres a KDE menu at the bottom of my gnome-applications panel, under the kde menu, select: settings-modules/System Administration/Linux Kernel. I havnt used it, but its nice to see it :) Jamie

Re: [eug-lug]Gentoo: keeping a package unmasked

2003-10-12 Thread Linux Rocks !
I was only able to find a couple screenshots, and one (jwz.org) was really small), the other wasnt a very good screenshot... anyone have any decent screen shots? Gee... wonder when the red/green 3Dglmatrix is going to be available :) Jamie On Sunday 12 October 2003 11:23 am, Bob Miller wrote:

[eug-lug]Usenet servers?

2003-10-12 Thread Daniel
Anyone know good usenet servers to use instead of efn? Thanks doverbay ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [eug-lug]Gentoo: keeping a package unmasked

2003-10-12 Thread Bob Miller
Linux Rocks ! wrote: I was only able to find a couple screenshots, and one (jwz.org) was really small), the other wasnt a very good screenshot... anyone have any decent screen shots? Gee... wonder when the red/green 3Dglmatrix is going to be available :)

Re: [eug-lug]Usenet servers?

2003-10-12 Thread Tony Newman
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 13:29:25 -0700, Daniel wrote: Anyone know good usenet servers to use instead of efn? Thanks doverbay So it's not just me... I should have guessed that. The non-efn news servers I use seem to be working fine (news.cadsoft.de, news.consultron.ca, and others). The EFN

Re: [eug-lug]Usenet servers?

2003-10-12 Thread Daniel
Thanks. I get a diabetes newsgroup that usually has about 250 a day. I haven't gotten any all week. On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 13:29:25 -0700, Daniel wrote: Anyone know good usenet servers to use instead of efn? Thanks doverbay So it's not just me... I should have guessed that. The

Re: [eug-lug]Gentoo: keeping a package unmasked

2003-10-12 Thread Mr O
Emerge -C xscreensaver then install from source :) There's another cool one in the package that has a little bug with a headlight that walks around a darkened desktop and wherever the light shines you can see you background. Did you do your screen captures with the screensaver running in a

Re: [eug-lug]Borders

2003-10-12 Thread Mr O
Shutdown your machine, unplug your PS/2 mouse and plug in a USB mouse. Upon startup, launch 'X' and watch in puke because it can't find your pointing device. :) Then fire up lynx, hit google, and find the settings you need for a USB mouse. Edit your XF86Config and you're a happy camper. So... in

Re: [eug-lug]Borders

2003-10-12 Thread Linux Rocks!
Oh... yeah, you can definetly have problems while using linux, I never said you cant have problems. I said you never have those problems (like where you turn your computer on, you get a new hardware found, please reboot your computer - rinse, lather, repeat. Where your machine is in an endless

Re: [eug-lug]Borders

2003-10-12 Thread T. Joseph Carter
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 02:35:51PM -0700, Linux Rocks ! wrote: Joseph, as usual, your making incorrect assumptions. I never mentioned slackware (or debian for that matter...) to her, nor in my message. I made no assumptions. Save of course the fairly safe one that the average computer user

Re: [eug-lug]Gentoo: keeping a package unmasked

2003-10-12 Thread Linux Rocks!
Nice :) I like it! If I can manage to get things backed up tonite, Ill install slack9.1, I hope it comes with slack9.1 :) Ill have to have that! It looks like it does a 3d motion (simular to rock or is that rotor?) Jamie Bob Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux Rocks ! wrote: I was only

Re: [eug-lug]Usenet servers?

2003-10-12 Thread Ken Barber
On Sunday 12 October 2003 16:13, Daniel wrote: I get a diabetes newsgroup that usually has about 250 a day. I haven't gotten any all week. Ahem well, I haven't gotten any all week either, but is that something we normally talk about in this forum? heh heh Ken

Re: [eug-lug]Borders

2003-10-12 Thread Ken Barber
: On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 04:29:21PM -0700, Linux Rocks ! wrote: : I talked to someone that was having a bad MS day : [snip] I told her that w/linux, you dont : ever have that problem! On Saturday 11 October 2003 03:11 pm, T. Joseph Carter wrote: : And now she's going to go out and get

Re: [eug-lug]Gentoo: keeping a package unmasked

2003-10-12 Thread Bob Miller
Mr O wrote: Emerge -C xscreensaver then install from source :) There's another cool one in the package that has a little bug with a headlight that walks around a darkened desktop and wherever the light shines you can see you background. Yeah, I saw that one. Did you do your screen captures

Re: [eug-lug]Gentoo: keeping a package unmasked

2003-10-12 Thread Jack Morgan
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 11:23:49AM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: It wasn't on my Gentoo box, because the latest unmasked xscreensaver is 4.10. So I brought in the unstable version, 4.13: # env ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge xscreensaver Today I have emerge syncd and I want to update world,

Re: [eug-lug]Re: mplayer config

2003-10-12 Thread Ben Barrett
Dirk, visit http://ftp3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ and then http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/en/codecs.html (which explains to unpack the codec files to your /usr/local/lib/codecs directory) Furthermore, the following link explains that you should use the -forceidx options with mplayer

Re: [eug-lug]Borders

2003-10-12 Thread T. Joseph Carter
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 05:33:59PM -0700, Ken Barber wrote: I HOPE Joseph was joking. 'Coz if he wasn't, he still shouldn't be taken seriously If I were serious, I'd have suggested something more likely such as RH9 or so since that's at least not unreasonable for a newbie to start with.

[eug-lug]Funny Anti-Linux FUD

2003-10-12 Thread Ben Barrett
Ask SLashdot just had a neat entry, seeking items for compilation into a Funny Anti-Liunux FUD list: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/11/0628257mode=thread Thought y'all might enjoy this; either for reference or to chime in all those gems from your old bookmarks = )) Cheers,

Re: [eug-lug] email protection systems (was: speeches (was: Firewalls...) )

2003-10-12 Thread Ben Barrett
Cory, you might want to check out this ask slashdot thread; I think the readership would appreciate your notions, plus there might be some good feedback (criticism or advice). It might be hard to get modded up since this thread is already a few days old... but you might also enjoy the others'

[eug-lug].PHP FILES

2003-10-12 Thread Dirk Ouellette
Can .php files be played in linux? If so, how? Thanks, Dirk ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [eug-lug].PHP FILES

2003-10-12 Thread Linux Rocks!
Played? do you mean PHP Hypertext Preprocessor? as in webpages? if so, I think any modern browser and parse PHP just fine. I think even lynx/link does! If you mean something other than webpages, please send more details... Jamie Dirk Ouellette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can .php files be played

Re: [eug-lug].PHP FILES

2003-10-12 Thread Larry Price
On Sunday, October 12, 2003, at 10:38 PM, Dirk Ouellette wrote: Can .php files be played in linux? If so, how? Thanks, Dirk You need to have mod_php installed for your webserver. I seem to remember someone raving about a command-line PHP interpreter a while back, but you are usually going to

Re: [eug-lug]Borders

2003-10-12 Thread Linux Rocks!
Ken Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 04:29:21PM -0700, Linux Rocks ! wrote: : I talked to someone that was having a bad MS day : [snip] I told her that w/linux, you dont : ever have that problem! On Saturday 11 October 2003 03:11 pm, T. Joseph Carter

[eug-lug]Chris LaVoie quoted in InternetWeek

2003-10-12 Thread Bob Miller
Those of you who read Slashdot regularly saw this InternetWeek article. Microsoft Dissatisfaction Running High, Users Contemplate Switch http://www.internetweek.com/webDev/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15201593 Those of you who compulsively read every link from Slashdot (-: saw that the article