Re: mtrr setup?

2003-01-08 Thread Net Llama!
On 01/07/03 17:43, David A. Bandel wrote: David A. Bandel spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: What's in your /proc/mtrr file anyway and are you sure you can do better? reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size=2048MB; write-back, count=1 you have 2Gb of memory? yup --

Re: linux firewire recommendations

2003-01-08 Thread Net Llama!
On 01/07/03 11:02, Bill Campbell wrote: I'm still a bit leery of USB-anything. FireWire has been around and well supported by Apple for quite a while so I suspect it's a bit more robust. Leery about what exactly? USB seems to be far more mainstreamed on PC hardware these days. --

Re: divx4

2003-01-08 Thread Net Llama!
Its funny that you think that. MPlayer used to (maybe still does in some circles) have the most horrid reputation of being the project run by immature stuck up assholes (pardon my french). They've come a long way. On 01/07/03 15:24, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Yup, that's what I felt. I did Xine

Re: mtrr setup?

2003-01-08 Thread kwall
Feigning erudition, David A. Bandel wrote: % -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- % Hash: SHA1 % % On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:56:37 -0500 % begin Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: % % -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- % Hash: SHA1 % % David A. Bandel spewed electrons into the

COL Workstation 3.1.1

2003-01-08 Thread m.w.chang
I downloaded the iso directly from ftp.iso.caldera.com (without registration on the webpage). It seems that the installation process willl always access the network (after knowing that the cdrom has the files)and it would abort the installatio process for an unknown reason. must I register my

[gentoo] installation

2003-01-08 Thread m.w.chang
glancing the installation guide: 1. must the internet be accessible when installing gentoo? 2. what are Portage Tree and GRP? 3. where does the `emerge` command get her source files? the cdrom? 4. can I use my own kernel source (say a direct download from kernel.org plus xfs patch for 2.4.20)

Re: COL Workstation 3.1.1

2003-01-08 Thread m.w.chang
I had no problem with the COL 3.1 cd I bought. For the same machine, the 3.1.1. image (burnt with Nero) aborted after finding the installation source. It's an Asus TUSL2-C motherboard. Strange... I have to suspect that something else is wrong. I've installed quite a few 3.1.1 WS systems

Re: [gentoo] the new xfs fs support

2003-01-08 Thread m.w.chang
problem solved. m.w.chang wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml am I reading the wrong one? -- Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. .~. In Linux We Trust. news://news.hkpcug.org/ v \ http://www.linux-sxs.org news://news.linux.org.hk /( _ )\

Re: COL Workstation 3.1.1

2003-01-08 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 02:52:38PM +0800, m.w.chang wrote: I downloaded the iso directly from ftp.iso.caldera.com (without registration on the webpage). It seems that the installation process willl always access the network (after knowing that the cdrom has the files)and it would abort the

Re: Dual boot upgrade...

2003-01-08 Thread Jack Berger
My two cents: Unless you're really enamored with using lilo as the primary boot loader I'd use the NT boot loader to do the booting. This requires installing lilo in your primary linux partion (ie /dev/hda1 for example), and making a copy of the Bootsec.lin file for NT to use. The links below

Re: [gentoo] installation

2003-01-08 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 14:56:38 +0800 m.w.chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: glancing the installation guide: 1. must the internet be accessible when installing gentoo? I would think so. It compiles from source, which it loads from the net. It is possible to make binary install packages from a

Linux 2.5.54... a treat!

2003-01-08 Thread Jerry McBride
It's been a while since I tried the 2.5.x kernel tree... and on a whim I grabbed a copy of the latest 2.5.54 tarball for something to do. Anyways, it configured and compiled without any extra fuss or hacking like some of the previous releases. All in all, it's feel pretty sweet. If you're

Re: LAN*Assist on linux?

2003-01-08 Thread M.W. Chang
I haven't received rthe Jan 2003 issue, yet... thx. Jack Berger wrote: Here's one possible candidate. Haven't tried it myself but the claim is that it can do what you want. Power Sessions with Screen http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6340 -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision.

Re: mirror for knoppix

2003-01-08 Thread M.W. Chang
can a search on google.com for knoppix 3.1 download help? I forgot where I got the iso... Keith Morse wrote: Just wondering if list members have a recommendation for a knoppix mirror? -- .~.Might, Courage, Vision. In Linux We Trust. / v \ http://www.linux-sxs.org /( _ )\ Linux

Re: [suggestion] db.html

2003-01-08 Thread M.W. Chang
gcc is surely simpler than glibc... oh.. I mixed them up in my reply to Mr. Hunley... I was talking about glibc, not gcc.. sorry, Doug. Net Llama! wrote: On 01/07/03 11:28, Douglas J Hunley wrote: the gcc_notes are my content from hunley.homeip.net . they are not part of the site (yet) How

Re: [gentoo] installation

2003-01-08 Thread M.W. Chang
I havne't started the installation. not until this weekend. in the meantime, I will read through the installation procedure carefully. Why a spare machine? The network set up in the gentoo install is fine. At least if you are using ethernet. I do not know about modems. Does the gentoo network

Re: [gentoo] installation

2003-01-08 Thread m.w.chang
here Code listing 9.2: Getting ready for GRP # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/GRP # mount -o bind /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/packages /mnt/gentoo/GRP hmm... maybe I need to read something on the anotomy of the gentoo distribution. I possibly missed a few pages in the user guide. I do not know what GRP is. In what

Re: LAN*Assist on linux?

2003-01-08 Thread m.w.chang
chatting only? can you actually place words into the command line of the remtoe host from your machine? it's like an interactive linux session. Net Llama! wrote: [y]talk -- Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. .~. In Linux We Trust. news://news.hkpcug.org/ v \ http://www.linux-sxs.org

Re: [suggestion] db.html

2003-01-08 Thread Net Llama!
glibc is documented on the SxS, and is quite simple to build. On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, M.W. Chang wrote: gcc is surely simpler than glibc... oh.. I mixed them up in my reply to Mr. Hunley... I was talking about glibc, not gcc.. sorry, Doug. Net Llama! wrote: On 01/07/03 11:28, Douglas J Hunley

Re: LAN*Assist on linux?

2003-01-08 Thread Net Llama!
No, you can only talk. It might help if you explained what it was you were attempting to do. On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, m.w.chang wrote: chatting only? can you actually place words into the command line of the remtoe host from your machine? it's like an interactive linux session. Net Llama! wrote:

Re: updating openssh

2003-01-08 Thread Net Llama!
I don't think you understand the concept of a private key if you're emailing all over creation. On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, m.w.chang wrote: whenever I change the key, I emailed my yahoo account the new private key. putty can be downloaded from anywhere. Another approach is to the web server. I

Re: CSS Help, Please

2003-01-08 Thread ronnie gauthier
Not sure if this will help but seeing as its sorta netscape based try adding MEDIA=SCREEN to the style tag.style type=text/css media=screen On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 22:41:15 -0500 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: CSS Help, Please So, I was playing with CSS on a web page. If I use the

Re: divx4

2003-01-08 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:40:48 -0500 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You got that right. They are much better at telling you why they dropped support for DeCSS than how their software works. I did an install with much headaches and

Re: Digital Video Editing Software

2003-01-08 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Matthew Carpenter wrote: Here is a good read if you're interested in digital video editing using OSS and Linux. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5817 Searching for Linux audio tools I found a very smart site by the Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and

Re: updating openssh

2003-01-08 Thread Andrew Mathews
m.w.chang wrote: whenever I change the key, I emailed my yahoo account the new private key. putty can be downloaded from anywhere. Another approach is to the web server. I don't carry any USB storage device. I prefer to get everything from the net, including my private key. :) Jesus Christ!

Re: LAN*Assist on linux?

2003-01-08 Thread Tim Wunder
I received my Feb 2003 LJ this past Monday... On 1/8/2003 10:34 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: Nor have I. In fact, i think the majority of the issues over the past 6 months have arrived well after the first of the month. Seeing as how i'm in the continental 48 states, i find

RE: COL Workstation 3.1.1

2003-01-08 Thread Rick Sivernell
Well, I have never gotten a good clean install on eW or eS 3.1.1. with kde there is a either a bad library r it is missing, I have forgotten the name. On the last 2 installs while sound card is found and played at install start, the dev/dsp has required a chgrp/own to run as user. I am not quite

Re: CSS Help, Please

2003-01-08 Thread ronnie gauthier
I just looked at this again and do you have the style tags in the external file?? On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 22:41:15 -0500 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: CSS Help, Please So, I was playing with CSS on a web page. If I use the following style.css file, I don't get the body settings I want

Re: linux firewire recommendations

2003-01-08 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 17:55:41 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/07/03 11:02, Bill Campbell wrote: I'm still a bit leery of USB-anything. FireWire has been around and well supported by Apple for quite a while so I suspect it's a bit more robust. Leery about what exactly?

Re: Digital Video Editing Software

2003-01-08 Thread Tim Wunder
On 1/8/2003 12:16 PM, someone claiming to be Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: Matthew Carpenter wrote: Here is a good read if you're interested in digital video editing using OSS and Linux. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5817 Searching for Linux audio tools I found a very smart site

[OT] Hardware Info Help

2003-01-08 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Folks, For those of us who belong in (and are trying to return to) the Mac world, can someone tell me the equivalence of the Celeron chip? I am looking at downloading Gentoo, and they have various options, x86, i586, i686, ..., Pentium3. But where does the Celeron fit into this? Where to read

Re: [OT] Hardware Info Help

2003-01-08 Thread Aaron Grewell
Celeron fits into the budget category. Intel has always had these chips and in the old days they were marked with sx (386sx, 486sx). Now they're called Celerons, and there are several varieties. The only two you should need to know about are P3 Celerons and P4 Celerons. These are low-cache

RE: [OT] Hardware Info Help

2003-01-08 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Aaron Grewell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] typed thusly on Wednesday, January 08, 2003 10:46 AM: Celeron fits into the budget category. Intel has always had these chips and in the old days they were marked with sx (386sx, 486sx). Now they're called Celerons, and there are several varieties.

Re: mirror for knoppix

2003-01-08 Thread Keith Morse
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, M.W. Chang wrote: can a search on google.com for knoppix 3.1 download help? I forgot where I got the iso... Keith Morse wrote: Just wondering if list members have a recommendation for a knoppix mirror? I have and ended up using a listed mirror on knoppix's web site.

Re: LAN*Assist on linux?

2003-01-08 Thread Net Llama!
February or January?? Either way, the last one i got was the December issue, and it was 6 days late. This is getting really annoying. On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: I received my Feb 2003 LJ this past Monday... On 1/8/2003 10:34 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: Nor have

Re: LAN*Assist on linux?

2003-01-08 Thread Tim Wunder
February, the *big* article being Behind the ALTIX 3000. Strange thing is, I can't seem to find my January issue here at work... I may have taken it home, though. On 1/8/2003 2:27 PM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: February or January?? Either way, the last one i got was the December

Re: [OT] Hardware Info Help

2003-01-08 Thread Net Llama!
Its also worth nothing that Celerons have a 128KB cache, while the 'normal' PIII PIV chips have a 256KB cache. On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Aaron Grewell wrote: Celeron fits into the budget category. Intel has always had these chips and in the old days they were marked with sx (386sx, 486sx). Now

Re: [OT] Hardware Info Help

2003-01-08 Thread Stuart Biggerstaff
And at that isn't it something like double the cache of the original Celeron? Of course it's worth noting that whether they suck or not just about all current processors are i686 (Pentium Pro). I think the AMD K6 series was the last i586 put in many PCs, and though they would often outperform

Re: [OT] Hardware Info Help

2003-01-08 Thread Aaron Grewell
The original Celeron had no L2 cache at all. Its performance was so abysmal that Intel had to quickly come out with the Celeron A which includes the 128KB L2 cache we know today. K-6-II and III chips definitely gave better bang for the buck than the original Celerons, but the Celeron A was the

Interesting News

2003-01-08 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I followed a link from the Linux and Windows Highlights from Around The Web at http://computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,74564,00.html It was supposed to be news article detailing the Indian government paving the road o Linux and OSS acceptance in their country. The part that

Re: [OT] Hardware Info Help

2003-01-08 Thread Aaron Grewell
Both are available, but it should be noted that it's on-chip L3 cache. L2 is still 256K or 512K depending on what model you buy. The L3 isn't as fast as the L1 or L2, and is only really useful in database and other such apps where lots of very large data transfers need to be cached. On Wed,

RE: [OT] Hardware Info Help

2003-01-08 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Aaron Grewell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] typed thusly on Wednesday, January 08, 2003 2:17 PM: Both are available, but it should be noted that it's on-chip L3 cache. L2 is still 256K or 512K depending on what model you buy. The L3 isn't as fast as the L1 or L2, and is only really useful in

Re: Digital Video Editing Software

2003-01-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
The multitasking thing is funny - considering MS's definition of multitasking is looking at the screen and moving the mouse at the same time G. On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 14:19:23 -0500 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/8/2003 12:16 PM, someone claiming to be Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:

Re: divx4

2003-01-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 08:47:39 +0100 Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:40:48 -0500 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought an emerge -p xine-lib shows that it will install libdvdcss and libdvdread which are need for encrypted DVDs. You should try

RE: [OT] Hardware Info Help

2003-01-08 Thread Stuart Biggerstaff
I think just a couple of things, and you've said this better than... At 03:14 PM 1/8/03 -0800, Aaron Grewell wrote: Well, let me see if I can get this right. L1 cache is always built into the processor. It's very fast but there isn't much of it, used to keep very frequently used information

RE: [OT] Hardware Info Help

2003-01-08 Thread Aaron Grewell
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 15:44, Stuart Biggerstaff wrote: I think just a couple of things, and you've said this better than... At 03:14 PM 1/8/03 -0800, Aaron Grewell wrote: Well, let me see if I can get this right. L1 cache is always built into the processor. It's very fast but there isn't

knowledge base sotware

2003-01-08 Thread Net Llama!
Can anyone recommend knowledge base software? I'm looking for something web based that stores articles of commonly found problems in categories that are all indexed so that you can easily search through it. -- ~ L. Friedman

XMMS, ALSA, and CD Sound (or lack thereof)

2003-01-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I've installed Alsa 0.9.0_rc6 on my Gentoo system. All appears to work in that I've unmuted and set volumes with amixer. Aplay works on wav files and I can play some streaming music with mplayer as well as play CDs with mplayer. XMMS will play a wave file. However, I can not play CDs with

Re: CSS Help, Please

2003-01-08 Thread Ian Stephen
I don't think putting the style tags into the HTML file was what ronnie meant, I think he meant take them out of the CSS file. Try that, just start the CSS file with body { IanS On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 16:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feigning erudition, ronnie gauthier wrote: % I just looked at

Re: COL Workstation 3.1.1

2003-01-08 Thread m.w.chang
I couldn't reach that stage. it died right after detection of installation source. I did it make it through on the old i440BX motherboard. hmm. Rick Sivernell wrote: Well, I have never gotten a good clean install on eW or eS 3.1.1. with kde there is a either a bad library r it is missing,

Re: knowledge base sotware

2003-01-08 Thread m.w.chang
a replacement frontend for linux-sxs? how about a bulletin board system? Net Llama! wrote: Can anyone recommend knowledge base software? I'm looking for something web based that stores articles of commonly found problems in categories that are all indexed so that you can easily search

Re: knowledge base sotware

2003-01-08 Thread kwall
Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote: % Can anyone recommend knowledge base software? I'm looking for something % web based that stores articles of commonly found problems in categories % that are all indexed so that you can easily search through it. http://freshmeat.net/users/internetscout/

Re: CSS Help, Please

2003-01-08 Thread kwall
Feigning erudition, Ian Stephen wrote: % I don't think putting the style tags into the HTML file was what % ronnie meant, I think he meant take them out of the CSS file. Doh! % Try that, just start the CSS file with body { That seems to work. Thanks, Ian and Ronnie. Kurt -- What this country

Re: knowledge base sotware

2003-01-08 Thread David A. Bandel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 17:24:31 -0800 begin Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Can anyone recommend knowledge base software? I'm looking for something web based that stores articles of commonly found problems in categories that are all

Re: knowledge base sotware

2003-01-08 Thread Net Llama!
No, this has nothing to do with the SxS. On 01/08/03 18:21, m.w.chang wrote: a replacement frontend for linux-sxs? how about a bulletin board system? Net Llama! wrote: Can anyone recommend knowledge base software? I'm looking for something web based that stores articles of commonly found

Re: knowledge base sotware

2003-01-08 Thread Net Llama!
On 01/08/03 18:45, David A. Bandel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 17:24:31 -0800 begin Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Can anyone recommend knowledge base software? I'm looking for something web based that stores articles of commonly

Re: COL Workstation 3.1.1

2003-01-08 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 03:35:13PM +0800, m.w.chang wrote: I had no problem with the COL 3.1 cd I bought. For the same machine, the 3.1.1. image (burnt with Nero) aborted after finding the installation source. It's an Asus TUSL2-C motherboard. Strange... I've loaded a bunch of 3.1.1 WS systems,

Re: COL Workstation 3.1.1

2003-01-08 Thread m.w.chang
I hope it's just a BIOS seting problem, not some tricks on the part of SCO. hmm... the 3.1.1. installed on the i440BX baord, but not this newer i815ep board. really puzzling... I've loaded a bunch of 3.1.1 WS systems, both from bought CDs, and from ones I've burned from ISO images (usually

Re: [suggestion] db.html

2003-01-08 Thread m.w.chang
I am hitting the atexit() problem reported by Tim Wunder months ago finally. :) however, I haven't patched the makefiles according to the glibc notes. Net Llama! wrote: glibc is documented on the SxS, and is quite simple to build. -- Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. .~. In Linux We Trust.

Re: CSS Help, Please

2003-01-08 Thread ronnie gauthier
You got it. On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 18:14:06 -0800 - Ian Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: Re: CSS Help, Please I don't think putting the style tags into the HTML file was what ronnie meant, I think he meant take them out of the CSS file. Try that, just start the CSS file with body

Re: CSS Help, Please

2003-01-08 Thread ronnie gauthier
Mozilla cannot handle nested css. when you include the style tags in the external file which by default encloses the contents in tags you have caused a nesting problem. On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 21:21:25 -0500 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: Re: CSS Help, Please Feigning erudition, Ian

Re: CSS Help, Please

2003-01-08 Thread ronnie gauthier
Didnt know if it would but though that it might have been reintroduced as a feature. Earlier versions of netscape either required the media= or crashed when encountering any other than screen or with comma seperated multiple values. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: Re: CSS Help,

Re: Linux 2.5.54... a treat!

2003-01-08 Thread Jerry McBride
I've got it on my home lan and my personal lapop. We'll see just how good it is for that purpose... it is beta, but so far it looks ok. As for performance, it seems like all the previous builds. Hmm... just got a message, 2.5.55 is now out for testting... gotta go. :') On Wed, 08 Jan 2003

Re: COL Workstation 3.1.1

2003-01-08 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:06:24PM +0800, m.w.chang wrote: I hope it's just a BIOS seting problem, not some tricks on the part of SCO. hmm... the 3.1.1. installed on the i440BX baord, but not this newer i815ep board. really puzzling... The SuSE web site had something blaming the Host adapters,

Re: CSS Help, Please

2003-01-08 Thread Ian Stephen
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 20:14, ronnie gauthier wrote: Mozilla cannot handle nested css. when you include the style tags in the external file which by default encloses the contents in tags you have caused a nesting problem. When you say cannot handle nested css I hope you don't mean one can't

Re: COL Workstation 3.1.1

2003-01-08 Thread Ralph Sanford
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 22:31, Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:06:24PM +0800, m.w.chang wrote: I hope it's just a BIOS seting problem, not some tricks on the part of SCO. hmm... the 3.1.1. installed on the i440BX baord, but not this newer i815ep board. really puzzling... The

Re: CSS Help, Please

2003-01-08 Thread kwall
Feigning erudition, ronnie gauthier wrote: % I just looked at this again and do you have the style tags in the external % file?? Yes. If I put the style tags into the HTML file, I don't get this behavior, but I don't want to have to do that -- it ruins one of the nicest features of a stylesheet,

Re: CSS Help, Please

2003-01-08 Thread kwall
Feigning erudition, ronnie gauthier wrote: % Not sure if this will help but seeing as its sorta netscape based try adding % MEDIA=SCREEN to the style tag.style type=text/css media=screen It didn't work. % On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 22:41:15 -0500 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following % Re: CSS Help,

Re: [OT] Hardware Info Help

2003-01-08 Thread kwall
Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote: % Also worth noting is that there are Xeons out there with 1MB cache (i % think 2MB as well, but i'm not 100% sure). And costing a king's ransom, I should think. Kurt -- The sooner all the animals are dead, the sooner we'll find their money.

Re: Interesting News

2003-01-08 Thread kwall
Feigning erudition, Matthew Carpenter wrote: % I followed a link from the Linux and Windows Highlights from Around The % Web at % http://computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,74564,00.html % It was supposed to be news article detailing the Indian government paving % the road o Linux