Re: Slackware 8.1 ISO

2002-06-20 Thread Myles Green
On June 20, 2002 07:09 am, stayler wrote: has anyone found a mirror with the new version of Slackware on it? The only source seems to be slackware.com even after 2 days. Seems strange. I managed to scoop it from a mirror in Sweden lastnight. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta

Re: Slackware 8.1 ISO

2002-06-20 Thread Aaron Grewell
Check out this mirror list, it may help: http://alphageek.dyndns.org/linux/slackware-8.1.shtml On Thursday 20 June 2002 06:09 am, stayler wrote: has anyone found a mirror with the new version of Slackware on it? The only source seems to be slackware.com even after 2 days. Seems strange.

RE: Still the best...

2002-06-20 Thread Brian Witowski
After checking the UnitedLinux web site, I have to say, this is the smartest thing anybody's done for Linux in quite some time. All the different distros, package managers etc only serve to confuse matters from the end-users' point of view. Even if it lacks a few features or isn't exactly what

Re: More strife

2002-06-20 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Myles Green spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: On June 14, 2002 08:57 pm, Douglas J Hunley wrote: I currently do this on the mothership: mkdir -p /dev/shm/tmp /dev/shm/var/lock /dev/shm/var/run mount --bind /dev/shm/tmp /tmp

Re: OT Mozilla revisited

2002-06-20 Thread Ken Moffat
Has this script made it to step x step? On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 08:40:10 +0200 Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please do. On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:45:29 -0500 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a patched run-mozilla.sh that fixes the problem, basically it checks

Any ideas on ppscsi/sane problem?

2002-06-20 Thread Harry G
I am running Suse 8.0 which is using the stock kernel. Ihave a HP Scanjet 5100C parport scanner that ran fine under 7.3. Won't work in 8.0. Here is what was done: Sane is installed. I do a modprobe epst and modprobe ppscsi. My /var/log/messages files returns: Jun 20 08:41:50 linux kernel:

Re: Any ideas on ppscsi/sane problem?

2002-06-20 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Thursday 20 June 2002 16:56 pm, Harry G wrote: I am running Suse 8.0 which is using the stock kernel. Ihave a HP Scanjet 5100C parport scanner that ran fine under 7.3. Won't work in 8.0. Here is what was done: Sane is installed. FYI I sent an email earlier saying I was having

Re: mpg123 and xmms - now artsd

2002-06-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Can't you also do artsd appname (i.e artsd realplayer) for the command to start the app. I may have the artsd command name wrong as I'm going from memory. Alan Jackson wrote: On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:49 -0700 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Jackson wrote: Here are my

Re: Need to move parition

2002-06-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Got it. Thanks. Now I'm having problems finding a drive with space. I've got another drive coming. Net Llama! wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Right now I really don't care about elegance - I just need to get the stuff off that disk and replace it G. A symlink it is then. yea, it

Re: Need to move parition

2002-06-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I'm trying to find a partition with enough space now. Matthew Carpenter wrote: You can do anything you want. Your best bet would be to move (copy if you like backup) the contents of /home to /usr/home (which will be a directory /home on sda2). Then, umount /home and delete the

Re: Need to move parition

2002-06-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. Right now I'm running /var is off the drive, I'm trying to move /home and the drive is still running but I do need to move it. Net Llama! wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:30:40PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: You're correct, you can have a

Re: Mail clients

2002-06-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Okay. Thanks. I'm moving to xfce and am looking for a kmail replacement. I ran Sylpheed very briefly - does it handle mail lists like KMail does where if you define a folder as containing a mail list you can enter the reply to address and any mail sent while you are in that folder has the

Re: Slackware 8.1 ISO

2002-06-20 Thread Kurt Wall
Also sprach stayler: has anyone found a mirror with the new version of Slackware on it? The only source seems to be slackware.com even after 2 days. Seems strange. rsync://carroll.aset.psu.edu/slackware/slackware-8.1/ Kurt -- Why does New Jersey have more toxic waste dumps and California

Re: OT Mozilla revisited

2002-06-20 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Moffat spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: Has this script made it to step x step? the editors have it. it's going up soon - -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep -

Re: OT Mozilla revisited

2002-06-20 Thread Net Llama!
errr...i posted it yesterday morning. see NEW. Douglas J Hunley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Moffat spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: Has this script made it to step x step? the editors have it. it's going up soon - -- --

Re: mpg123 and xmms - now artsd

2002-06-20 Thread Alan Jackson
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:21:28 -0400 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:45:00 -0500 Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In theory, it is supposed to auto-suspend after 5 seconds of idle time, but I haven't seen this happen. Are you using aRts in Full

IBM's ThinkPad-Linux support project being dropped

2002-06-20 Thread Michael Hipp
Does this mean IBM is becoming less enthusiastic about Linux. Anybody hear more of this? Michael http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/archives/200206/msg00090.html === WARNING: This e-mail has been altered by MIMEDefang.

Re: IBM's ThinkPad-Linux support project being dropped

2002-06-20 Thread David A. Bandel
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 21:11:59 -0500 begin Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Does this mean IBM is becoming less enthusiastic about Linux. Anybody hear more of this? Michael http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/archives/200206/msg00090.html I suspect this means IBM just isn't

Re: IBM's ThinkPad-Linux support project being dropped

2002-06-20 Thread Harry G
I suspect it is totally a business (translated profit) decision. The money right now is in large systems, where they can sell their database, WebSphere system, and hardware. I personally feel that it will all come full circle eventually. Many, if not all Linux companies are hurting, and

Opera question 6.01: Password prompt not offered

2002-06-20 Thread Joel Hammer
I just installed 6.01 version of opera. I really am getting desperate over netscape (slow, crashes, consumes mucho CPU time). I have a home page with a password required for one of its links. I can access this easily with netscape 6.2 and opera 6.0 but when I try with opera 6.01 I get a

Re: mpg123 and xmms - now artsd

2002-06-20 Thread Alan Jackson
Yeah - in theory anyway. Actually it does seem to work, but I'll need to find all the places that is needed and put it in - I probably make some aliases as well. We'll see if it works with pysol... 8-) On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:07:23 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't you also

Re: Opera question 6.01: Password prompt not offered:Solved

2002-06-20 Thread Joel Hammer
Sheez. Solved the problem. Don't know why opera 6.01 is different but this is the deal. Two directories with password protection, one worked and one didn't. Here they are: Location /andrew AuthType Basic AuthName Sorry-Members only AuthUserFile

Re: Mail clients

2002-06-20 Thread Alan Jackson
I don't think so, although the development team seems to be very active. If someone suggested that to them , they might go ahead and implement it. The other thing I like about it is I can also run it under Solaris at work. On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:16:42 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mail clients

2002-06-20 Thread Alan Jackson
Spoke too soon. Looks like it's coming/here. There is a page of patches, http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed/ and one of the patches available is : Mailing list support This patch improves mailing list support to 0.6.5claws25: a Mailing-List menu is added and contains, if applicable,