Re: (OT) Re: KDE3

2002-04-18 Thread Bob Raymond
On Thursday 18 April 2002 11:27 am, Tim Wunder wrote: On Wednesday 17 April 2002 08:08 pm, Bob Raymond wrote: snip My Gentoo build is still recovering from my stupidity, typing: rm -rf /etc I feel your pain. Did this as root on our RS6000 at work. My first experience restoring from

Re: (OT) Re: KDE3

2002-04-18 Thread Bob Raymond
On Thursday 18 April 2002 11:30 am, Bob Raymond wrote: On Thursday 18 April 2002 11:27 am, Tim Wunder wrote: On Wednesday 17 April 2002 08:08 pm, Bob Raymond wrote: snip My Gentoo build is still recovering from my stupidity, typing: rm -rf /etc I feel your pain. Did this as

Re: (OT) Re: KDE3

2002-04-18 Thread Collins
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:47:54 -0700 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On April 17, 2002 07:55 pm, Collins wrote: Being a dedicated xfce-sylpheed fan, who cares grin. But then I did the test anyway. Kmail 3.0 starts in about 10 seconds (dragging in all the KDE framework), then about 3

Re: AOL on linux w/o win4lin or vmware

2002-04-18 Thread Tim Wunder
Joel Hammer wrote: Is there a way to get AOL to work on linux without win4lin or vmare? Have you tried the latest WINE? I would suspect there aren't many in the linux community who have tried. This is for a member of your family, I trust, and not for you... Isn't there another way to

Re: AOL on linux w/o win4lin or vmware

2002-04-18 Thread Joel Hammer
It's for the wife. She will NOT give up AOL. In other ways, she is a fine person. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.

Re: AOL on linux w/o win4lin or vmware

2002-04-18 Thread Net Llama!
Joel, that's beautiful! That should be added to someone's fortun file. On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Joel Hammer wrote: It's for the wife. She will NOT give up AOL. In other ways, she is a fine person. Joel -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman

RPM annoyance

2002-04-18 Thread Net Llama!
I like to build my RPMs from source, which means SRPMs. Seemingly randomly, right at the end of the build process, when it should be actually creating the RPM, instead I see (what looks to me) a cryptic error glob counldn't find something or other. Someone suggested that my autoconf is horked

Re: AOL on linux w/o win4lin or vmware

2002-04-18 Thread Stuart Biggerstaff
Doesn't AOL still have the access-through-an-ISP option? I recall once upon a time it was possible to for a reduced cost, access AOL's stuff from the Internet. I looked into that--probably a couple of years ago--for a friend who had got hooked on AOL features but was frustrated by not having

Re: (OT) Re: KDE3

2002-04-18 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 07:27:34AM -0400, Tim Wunder wrote: On Wednesday 17 April 2002 08:08 pm, Bob Raymond wrote: snip My Gentoo build is still recovering from my stupidity, typing: rm -rf /etc I feel your pain. Did this as root on our RS6000 at work. My first experience restoring from

Re: AOL on linux w/o win4lin or vmware

2002-04-18 Thread Net Llama!
I think Joel's problem is that his 'better half' refuses to give up her AOL addiction. I think an intervention is in order :) On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Ted Ozolins wrote: On April 18, 2002 05:11 am, Tim Wunder wrote: Joel Hammer wrote: Is there a way to get AOL to work on linux without

Re: AOL on linux w/o win4lin or vmware

2002-04-18 Thread BOF
Joel Hammer wrote: Is there a way to get AOL to work on linux without win4lin or vmare? Yes. Persuade AOL Corporation to release the source code, tweak it as needed, and compile it under the Linux libraries. (Sorry! I couldn't resist that.;-). Outside of that, AOL is a Windows-based

Re: RPM annoyance

2002-04-18 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:02:59AM -0400, Net Llama! wrote: I like to build my RPMs from source, which means SRPMs. Seemingly randomly, right at the end of the build process, when it should be actually creating the RPM, instead I see (what looks to me) a cryptic error glob counldn't find

Re: RPM annoyance

2002-04-18 Thread Net Llama!
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:02:59AM -0400, Net Llama! wrote: I like to build my RPMs from source, which means SRPMs. Seemingly randomly, right at the end of the build process, when it should be actually creating the RPM, instead I see (what looks to

Re: RPM annoyance

2002-04-18 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:50:31PM -0400, Net Llama! wrote: ... hrmmm...i had an older version of tcsh installed. Just upgraded to the version that comes with RH-7.2. Tried to build xfce from the SRPM again, and once again it bombed right at the end: + /usr/local/lib/rpm/find-lang.sh

Our Kurt

2002-04-18 Thread Keith Antoine
I see that you have come out of your shell again Kurt, nice article though! LINUXPLANET: DISTRIBUTION WATCH: SUSE LINUX 8.0 BETA SuSE is aiming high with their 8.0 release, due out April 22. They claim it will be the fastest, easiest, prettiest, bestest distribution yet. Is it? Kurt Wall takes

Re: AOL on linux w/o win4lin or vmware

2002-04-18 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on April 18, Joel Hammer managed to emit: Is there a way to get AOL to work on linux without win4lin or vmare? Possibly with wine, but I wouldn't try it. Then again, I won't use Windows, Win4Lin, VMWare, AOL, Wine, KDE, GNOME, margarine, or instant coffee. Go figger. K

Re: Our Kurt

2002-04-18 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on April 19, Keith Antoine managed to emit: I see that you have come out of your shell again Kurt, nice article though! Thank you. Nice of you to say. They finally let me out... Kurt -- You are a very redundant person, that's what kind of person you are.

Re: Our Kurt

2002-04-18 Thread Net Llama!
Kurt Wall wrote: Scribbling feverishly on April 19, Keith Antoine managed to emit: I see that you have come out of your shell again Kurt, nice article though! Thank you. Nice of you to say. They finally let me out... i assume the 'they' would be Caldera and their ridiculous non-compete

Re: Our Kurt

2002-04-18 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on April 18, Net Llama! managed to emit: i assume the 'they' would be Caldera and their ridiculous non-compete crapola Nah. Caldera's non-compete didn't keep me from doing anything. It was they as in the they that make it necessary to line my KurtWerks Model II with

Re: AOL on linux w/o win4lin or vmware

2002-04-18 Thread Keith Morse
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Kurt Wall wrote: Scribbling feverishly on April 18, Joel Hammer managed to emit: Is there a way to get AOL to work on linux without win4lin or vmare? Possibly with wine, but I wouldn't try it. Then again, I won't use Windows, Win4Lin, VMWare, AOL, Wine, KDE, GNOME,

Re: (OT) Re: KDE3

2002-04-18 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on April 18, Bill Campbell managed to emit: Then there was the bug in Tandy Model 16 Xenix where one could type ``lp *'' in the root directory, and it would actually make a link of / into /usr/spool/lpd. Then if one tried to remove files under /usr/spool/lpd, it

Re: Our Kurt

2002-04-18 Thread Keith Morse
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Kurt Wall wrote: Scribbling feverishly on April 18, Net Llama! managed to emit: i assume the 'they' would be Caldera and their ridiculous non-compete crapola Nah. Caldera's non-compete didn't keep me from doing anything. It was they as in the they that make it

Re: AOL on linux w/o win4lin or vmware

2002-04-18 Thread Ted Ozolins
On April 18, 2002 08:05 am, Joel Hammer wrote: It's for the wife. She will NOT give up AOL. In other ways, she is a fine person. Joel Sorry Joel, I just glanced over much earlier posts where you had already stated that. My apologies. -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C.

Re: Our Kurt

2002-04-18 Thread Ken Moffat
I'd like to see a comparison to Elx Pregold, which sounds very similar. It lacks KDE3, and the alternate window managers, having KDE2.2.2 and Gnome1.4, but is extremely full featured, up to date, and installed flawlessly on my generic brand with Athlon 1.4gig, 256megs sdram, SBLive Value, generic

usb help needed

2002-04-18 Thread Net Llama!
Greetings, I've taken the plunge into the world of USB in linux, by purchasing a Philips USB webcam. The cam is definitely supported under linux, so that's not my problem. What i'm confused about is the entire process of 'hotplugging'. I read the material on linux-hotplug.sf.net, and it

Re: OT Cloing HP Visualize Workstations (HP-UX 10.20)

2002-04-18 Thread Andrew Mathews
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, long time since I've read or posted...been away from home most of the last month working a office rollout. The customer who is driving the requirements for this office, has some pretty finicky and esoteric requirements to run the cadd software that

Re: usb help needed

2002-04-18 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Which model is your camera?? I have a PCVC680K and I've made some tests with COL3.1.1. I did it some time ago and the only thing that I remember about it is that I had to download a newer version of xawtv to make it work with my camera.

Re: usb help needed

2002-04-18 Thread Keith Antoine
On Friday 19 April 2002 12:14, you wrote: Greetings, I've taken the plunge into the world of USB in linux, by purchasing a Philips USB webcam. The cam is definitely supported under linux, so that's not my problem. What i'm confused about is the entire process of 'hotplugging'. I read the

adsl modem directly connected to hub

2002-04-18 Thread m.w.Chang
I have seen people claiming that one could share the internet link that way. internet | adsl/cable modem | hub -- workstations | server I just wonder: 1. how one should configure the linux to make that possible? Create a virtual ppp/eth device that talks to the