Linux Box Available

2002-07-03 Thread Adam Martin
My apologies if this is not acceptable for the list. But I have a box available for sale…   Pentium 200 MMX 64MB Ram 2GB HDD SoundCard NIC FDD Keyboard & Mouse Fresh Installation of RedHat 7.2   Not sure what it is worth, so if anyone is interested… drop me a line at [EMAIL PROTE

Re: NetBSD Live!

2002-07-03 Thread David A. Mann
Wayne Rooney wrote: > This is what the second CD of a 4 disc Slackware set typically does, so > you can try it on a computer without installing anything or altering > partition tables, etc. There's also the UMSDOS filesystem. I installed it on a W98 laptop once (work hired it so I wasn't willi

Re: Installfest List.

2002-07-03 Thread David A. Mann
Chris Hellyar wrote: > If you're interested in the installfest, or helping out on the day, join > up to keep up with happenings, so to speak. All I want to know is where & when... you'll post that info here when its decided, right? :) Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/ (out of d

Re: Redhat 7.4 beta is out..

2002-07-03 Thread Zane Gilmore
Does anyone know what the story is with the .3 and .4 distro numbers? It looks as tho Redhat has changed their numbering system. On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 15:08, Mahesh De Silva wrote: > > Just came across this at http://www.distrowatch.com > > Some since improvements in the wings.. 5 cd's tho..

Re: RH 7.2 "DOS + Windows support"

2002-07-03 Thread V K
> The windows support is wine, not sure of what the > dos support is. In that case that would have to be dosemu. Thanks for the package info Jeremy. Now I can tell the person who told me this that Red Hat does not have the magic bullet of running MS on Linux any more than anyone else (not that I

Redhat 7.4 beta is out..

2002-07-03 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Just came across this at http://www.distrowatch.com Some since improvements in the wings.. 5 cd's tho.. hmhmh 3.2 gigs.. i just might wait till a nz mirror has it. Includes openoffice (about time), gnome 2.0, apache 2.0 and no more netscape. C Mahesh http://www.sold.com.au - SOLD.com.au - Fin

Re: NetBSD Live!

2002-07-03 Thread Nick Rout
> > >Something like this for linux would be cool, I like > > >OS's which can run off a cd, no need for harddrive > > >etc.. > > It's called SuSE Live, and has been available for purchase and/or > download for absolute yonks. > As have many other versions of the same idea, based on all sorts of d

Re: NetBSD Live!

2002-07-03 Thread V K
> >Something like this for linux would be cool, I like > >OS's which can run off a cd, no need for harddrive > >etc.. It's called SuSE Live, and has been available for purchase and/or download for absolute yonks. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in

Re: playing movies

2002-07-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Stephen Nicholas wrote: > The ACPI i'm using is a patch for the 2.4.18 kernel, in the kernel > in General Setup --> ACPI Support it gives the options: OK, I didn't know about it. On my Inspiron 8000 APM works reasonably well so I din't bother. > With this particular laptop A

Re: playing movies

2002-07-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Tim Wright wrote: [...] > Using ACPI you hibernate using: > echo 1 > /proc/acpi/sleep > > Unfortunatly I don't know how to unhibernate. I suspect you echo '0' to > the file, but am not sure. Am going to test oneday. Are you sure you are talking about hibernation and n

Installfest List.

2002-07-03 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi-ho, Last night at the Installfest meeting at the Uni we talked about setting up a separate list for the Installfest organisation type thing... This list is for people interested in helping out, so that we don't flood the general CLUG list with organisation stuff running up to the date. If yo

Re: playing movies

2002-07-03 Thread Stephen Nicholas
Cool, thanks for the tips (re: Xv etc), i'll try them out The ACPI i'm using is a patch for the 2.4.18 kernel, in the kernel in General Setup --> ACPI Support it gives the options: [ ] ACPI Support < > AC Adapter < > Battery < > Button < > Fan < > Processor < > Thermal Zone [ ] Debug Statements

Re: playing movies

2002-07-03 Thread Tim Wright
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Stephen Nicholas wrote: > I'm using ACPI, not entirely sure how to fully hibernate (I assume you > mean like APM's suspend (which i have on the desktop)) with that. ATM > tho the hardware screen blanking blanks the screen when dvd's are > playing, so I have to move the mouse e

Re: Newbie question

2002-07-03 Thread newslett
I have a copy of 8.2 as well as the latest Cooker (devel version) that I'd be happy to loan you or give you a copy, provided you give me 3 CDR's for the copy. I am running Cooker and KDE 3.0.2 and it rocks. I have very few problems with it and it's my daily use desktop...I dualboot but find my

Newbie question

2002-07-03 Thread Fred Wyatt
Greetings.     I recently bought from DSE their 3 CD set of Mandrake 8.1. These disks installed without any snags, but I found KMail a bit clumsy after being accustomed to Outlook Express.     So I imported an upgrade CD for KDE 3.0 and then my troubles began. Installation of the upgrade was

Orinter not working

2002-07-03 Thread Barry
Hi all, I can not work out why my printer will not do its thing. Using Cups, jobs panel tells me 2 jobs are queued, 1 printing, 1 pending. Printers panel says 'printer state processing, accepting jobs, Parrelel port busy, will retry' This is after restarting linux & kde and sending the jobs

GPL Java wysiwyg editor

2002-07-03 Thread Will Pilvio
Hi all, There was talk about this in yesterday's meeting: http://www.hexidec.com/ekit.php Ekit is a program & applet that uses the Java 2 libraries to create an HTML editor. The Ekit standalone also allows for HTML to be loaded and saved, as well as serialized and saved as an RTF. It is approa

Re: RH 7.2 "DOS + Windows support"

2002-07-03 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
The windows support is wine, not sure of what the dos support is. jeremyb. > From: V K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/07/03 Wed PM 08:20:23 GMT+12:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RH 7.2 "DOS + Windows support" > > Red Hat 7.2 (and 7.1) suppposedly offer to install a package "DOS + > Wi

Re: Re: NetBSD Live!

2002-07-03 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
Ahhh, slackware, brings back memories :-) I've still got my 3.0 cd lying around somewhere. Might have to re-visit with a newer release sometime tho' ;-). jeremyb. > From: "Wayne Rooney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/07/04 Thu AM 12:59:36 GMT+12:00 > To: "Jeremy Bertenshaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mathematica

2002-07-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, V K wrote: > Nobody's mentioned octave yet. Both octave and scilab are similar to > matlab, just not 100% compatible. Mathematica seemed a lot more > symbolic, so I doubt either of those is a substitute for mathematica. > However if they do what you need to do you're set (and

Re: playing movies

2002-07-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Stephen Nicholas wrote: > On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 03:10:58PM +1200, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Stephen Nicholas wrote: [...] > > My guess: This is a Xv/Xshm driver issue. > > > > 1. make sure you load the Xv driver in XF86Config-4 > >(presumably y

Re: NetBSD Live!

2002-07-03 Thread Wayne Rooney
>Something like this for linux would be cool, I like >OS's which can run off a cd, no need for harddrive >etc.. This is what the second CD of a 4 disc Slackware set typically does, so you can try it on a computer without installing anything or altering partition tables, etc. Wayne

Re: Funky Characters, was InstallFest Meeting tonight in Room 101 8pm

2002-07-03 Thread Stephen Nicholas
Aaaah, thanks. :) S. On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:02:55PM +1200, David A. Mann wrote: > Stephen Nicholas wrote: > > > For the sake of the blind, can someone describe what this cool little "?" > > symbol looks like. > > Its a little 1/2 symbol. > > > In mutt I get it looking like a ? (aka: a qu

Any Makefile gurus out there?

2002-07-03 Thread David A. Mann
Hi all, I'm after some help with Makefiles. I have very little experience with these things... I am looking for a way to make a -D option depend on the command-line- specified target. Eg: 'make foo' calls 'cc -Dfoo [files]' 'make bar' calls 'cc -Dbar [files]' Note that for each target, all t

It helps to plug it in...

2002-07-03 Thread David A. Mann
And it also helps if your cable isn't half stuffed. My Displaytech LCD module now functions :) A loose connection within a plug just caused me a couple of evenings frustration. Stupid IDC parallel connectors. It had some positive benefit though; My driver was well debugged before I got the

Re: Funky Characters, was InstallFest Meeting tonight in Room 101 8pm

2002-07-03 Thread Stephen Nicholas
For the sake of the blind, can someone describe what this cool little "?" symbol looks like. In mutt I get it looking like a ? (aka: a question mark), and when i view the email save directory in galeon (ie html'ified... (but not really)) it shouws up as "=BD" (without the quotes obviously)... I

RH 7.2 "DOS + Windows support"

2002-07-03 Thread V K
Red Hat 7.2 (and 7.1) suppposedly offer to install a package "DOS + Windows support", under custom install (not installed by default). Can someone please give me some info as to what this really is? Is it just a category which then leads to installation of various dos/win-related packages? Is this

Re: mathematica

2002-07-03 Thread V K
Nobody's mentioned octave yet. Both octave and scilab are similar to matlab, just not 100% compatible. Mathematica seemed a lot more symbolic, so I doubt either of those is a substitute for mathematica. However if they do what you need to do you're set (and about 2k better off). SuSE 8.0 contains

Re: [Fwd: Re: Re my link]

2002-07-03 Thread Rex Johnston
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 18:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In my opinion, suggestions to indivisuals should be on an individual > basis, not aired on list, now who needs to learn some netiquette? Hoisted by one's own petard, methinks. Rex