Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-13 Thread Denis Havlik
:Try :http://www.redhat.com : :Many organizations when they get their domain names get com, :org and net, to prevent others from using too similiar a :name. Check out whitehouse or nasa if you don't believe the :problems not doing so can cause. grin ... i know that, but redhat.org is running a

Re: [expert] performance - emacs?

1999-11-13 Thread Denis Havlik
:I played a bit with hdparm utility to tune my HD, and found that :enabling DMA allowed me to boost HD read performance from 4Mb/s to :11.2 Mb/s (as reported by hdparm -t). Now my emacs loads in about 2 :secs, but xemacs still takes forever - looks like I'll have to play :with hdparm some more...

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-13 Thread Denis Havlik
: Take a look at this: : : http://www.redhat.org : : ...hehehe, it took me a while to figure out what was going on. :www.redhat.org resolves to 127.0.0.1. CLASSIC! : Hey, you are right on that one! Where does that come from? Certainly not from my "hosts" file... A RH easter egg in a

Re: [expert] A script to discover IP?

1999-11-13 Thread Tim Howell
Thanks for your help, Ramon. I now have a script that emails me only the assigned IP address - took a while to get the parsing right! A couple more questions, if you don't mind: 1. Is there a way to pipe the contents of a file into the subject line when using the "mail" command? I would like

[expert] PlayStation Emulator for Linux

1999-11-13 Thread koko
Hi, After long time not updated, now SOPE has release ver. 0.03.1 in source code. Anyone interested to try ? goto http://www.emuhq/sope/ I hope with the open source, SOPE will then beating the 'Bleem! for win9x' Luqman Registered User #140544 LiNUX Mandrake

Re: [expert] A script to discover IP?

1999-11-13 Thread Ramon Gandia
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Tim Howell wrote: Thanks for your help, Ramon. I now have a script that emails me only the assigned IP address - took a while to get the parsing right! A couple more questions, if you don't mind: 1. Is there a way to pipe the contents of a file into the subject line

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-13 Thread Christopher Cox
Hi Ron, You didn't look did you...:-) www.redhat.org is a Microsoft Frontpage Personal Web Server ad. Pretty low IMHO. Regards Christopher Cox

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-13 Thread Christopher Cox
Ah. Do I feel foolish. How did they do that!

[expert] remove

1999-11-13 Thread terry
remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] My URL is : www.megabitwest.net "take my advice and have a good day whatever side of bed or grass you woke up on."

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-13 Thread Tim Val Litwiller
it's not just in Linux that it resolves to 127.0.0.1, I tried it in MSIE5. Christopher Cox wrote: Ah. Do I feel foolish. How did they do that!

[expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?

1999-11-13 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Why does http://www.redhat.org resolve to 127.0.0.1? I'm using Windurs 98 with IE. Seve

[expert] Looking for module for Turtle Beach Mentego A3D sound card.

1999-11-13 Thread S. Newhouse
It does not exist. You can find a beta version of a driver (Vortex chipset driver) at www.opensound.com. At this time it only supports playback and it costs $10 (not much if you want to support opensound IMHO) unless you want to keep restarting the evaluation version. But the playback is quite

RE: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?

1999-11-13 Thread Andy Abshagen
Because that is how someone has set it up on their dns server. I did check and it is not owned by RedHat at all. Most likely just someone that was wanting the domain for email only and wanted to play a joke on everyone else. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?

1999-11-13 Thread Denis Havlik
:Because that is how someone has set it up on their dns server. I did check :and it is not owned by RedHat at all. :Most likely just someone that was wanting the domain for email only and :wanted to play a joke on everyone else. This is the best practical joke I have seen in the long time... I

RE: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?

1999-11-13 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 01:16 AM 11/14/99 +0100, Denis Havlik wrote: :Because that is how someone has set it up on their dns server. I did check :and it is not owned by RedHat at all. :Most likely just someone that was wanting the domain for email only and :wanted to play a joke on everyone else. This is the best

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-13 Thread Derek Simkowiak
:Try :http://www.redhat.com : :Many organizations when they get their domain names get com, :org and net, to prevent others from using too similiar a :name. Check out whitehouse or nasa if you don't believe the :problems not doing so can cause. grin ... i know that, but redhat.org is

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-13 Thread Derek Simkowiak
Hi Ron, You didn't look did you...:-) www.redhat.org is a Microsoft Frontpage Personal Web Server ad. Pretty low IMHO. Regards Christopher Cox Hahahaha this is hilarious. Now we know who's actually running Mandrake and who's running that "other" O.S.

RE: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?

1999-11-13 Thread Derek Simkowiak
Because that is how someone has set it up on their dns server. Oops, I wasn't thinking before when I said someone submitted it to Internic with that address. They just configured their bind server that way. I guess it's time for a cup of coffee... --Derek

RE: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?

1999-11-13 Thread Derek Simkowiak
I was not avare that one can put "private" IP - addresses in "public" DNS. Actually the fact that 127.0.0.1 address gets resolved over "public" DNS at all sounds completely weird to me. I have always thought all the internet infrastructure ignores non-routable IP-addreses. You're not

RE: [expert] Looking for module for Turtle Beach Mentego A3D sound card.

1999-11-13 Thread S. Newhouse
If you don't have permission to access the server, ask your ISP why? -sen nixien writes: Hi Sen and all Thank you for taking time replying my email. Having read your email, I tried to browse www.opensound.com, unfortunately, I don't have permission to access the server. Do you why or

[expert] VNC Server

1999-11-13 Thread Sridhar G
I am using VNC Server on my Linux box. Till yesterday I was able to use VNC Viewer on my WIn95 machine. Now, all I get is a semi refreshed screen and it hangs. The Xclient file on my X11 dir is looking for etc/sysconfig/desktop file. I don't seem to have that file. Can anyone tell me what it

Re: [expert] lp0 - no such device

1999-11-13 Thread Sridhar G
Hi guys, As suggested I included modprobe to my rc.local and it worked. I am now wondering how it worked without these lines, before. Thanks Sridhar - Original Message - From: Derek Simkowiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 6:19 PM Subject: Re:

[expert] Re: Mozilla/Netscape 5.0

1999-11-13 Thread Ramon Gandia
Hi Ben, I thought I would share my answer to your messages with the Mandrake crowd and see what they make of it. Here it goes. Bear in mind that Mozilla is not Netscape 5.0. I am not sure if they share much if any code at all. I suspect that Netscape 5.0 will have SOME of Mozilla's work

Re: [expert] VNC Server

1999-11-13 Thread Derek Simkowiak
The Xclient file on my X11 dir is looking for etc/sysconfig/desktop file. I don't seem to have that file. Can anyone tell me what it contains, and if it is not critical can some email me the file. I consider this a bug in Mandrake, but I am too lazy to report it. It is a "missing"