Re: Kde 3.1 questions

2003-02-09 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
My sound is working (Gentoo KDE 3.1), so I cannot help with that. As to .Xdefaults, I do not think KDE uses those. However, regular X apps (meaning not QT) do use this file independent of whatever KDE is up to. There is an option in KDE somewhere that says if KDE should apply look and feel to

robots.txt

2003-02-09 Thread Ken Moffat
Anyone know the function of robots.txt? I have seen attempted access to it in my apache logs. -- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: robots.txt

2003-02-09 Thread Ken Moffat
Ken Moffat wrote: Anyone know the function of robots.txt? I have seen attempted access to it in my apache logs. Ah, never mind, I found a page describing this functionality. http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html -- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Printing woes

2003-02-09 Thread edj
Greatly modified COL 3.1, 2.4.17 kernel, CUPS 1.1.18, Canon S900 printer, Turboprint driver, USB connection. Nothing prints. First, ran mknod /dev/usb/lp0 180 0. Then, added printer to /etc/modules/default. Everything I can think of looks alright. CUPS shows the printer with no errors

Re: Printing woes

2003-02-09 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
What are you trying to print, and with which command? I have found that when ghostscript cannot parse a file, it will silently not print. And, CUPS is using ghostscript to convert at least PostScript to your printer's format. Have you tried printing a test page? From the http://localhost:631

Re: robots.txt

2003-02-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Ken Moffat wrote: Anyone know the function of robots.txt? I have seen attempted access to it in my apache logs. Yes. That is where you can limit the browsing of well-behaved robots. For instance, I run a website with a database of millions of nearly- identical dynamic

Re: robots.txt

2003-02-09 Thread M.W. Chang
I have deleted apache from my linux server. will not bother to look back. Ken Moffat wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: Anyone know the function of robots.txt? I have seen attempted access to it in my apache logs. Ah, never mind, I found a page describing this functionality.

Re: robots.txt

2003-02-09 Thread Net Llama!
On 02/09/03 10:57, Ken Moffat wrote: M.W. Chang wrote: I have deleted apache from my linux server. will not bother to look back. Why? Please don't feed the troll. -- ~ L. Friedman [EMAIL

Help avoiding .* problems

2003-02-09 Thread Tom Condon
Yup. Shot myself in the foot again. Some versions of *nix *do* and some versions *don't* allow access to '..' when you specify '.*' in a regular expression (say, chown). I'm running RedHat on a laptop (and may need to re-install now), but I'd like to avoid this in the future. Is there a

Re: robots.txt

2003-02-09 Thread Ken Moffat
Net Llama! wrote: On 02/09/03 10:57, Ken Moffat wrote: M.W. Chang wrote: I have deleted apache from my linux server. will not bother to look back. Why? Please don't feed the troll. sorry, you are correct. -- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help avoiding .* problems

2003-02-09 Thread Ben Duncan
go to the directory *ABOVE* the one you want to change. Lets say the directory is /home/jones. cd /home then do chown -R jones jones/ or if needing to change the OWNER and Group chown -R jones:newgroup jones/ Tom Condon wrote: Yup. Shot myself in the foot again. Some versions of *nix *do*

Re: Help avoiding .* problems

2003-02-09 Thread Tom Condon
On Sunday 09 February 2003 11:49, Ben Duncan carved in granite: go to the directory *ABOVE* the one you want to change. Yup. That would have saved me a lot of troubles. Thanks. Still interested, though, in why some *nix systems will go up that level and some won't. Just in case anyone

Re: Kde 3.1 questions

2003-02-09 Thread Collins Richey
[ snips ] On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 09:17:54 +0100 Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My sound is working (Gentoo KDE 3.1), so I cannot help with that. As to .Xdefaults, I do not think KDE uses those. However, regular X apps(meaning not QT) do use this file independent of whatever KDE is up

Re: robots.txt

2003-02-09 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sun, 09 Feb 2003 10:16:40 -0800 (PST) Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Ken Moffat wrote: Anyone know the function of robots.txt? I have seen attempted access to it in my apache logs. Yes. That is where you can limit the browsing of well-behaved robots.

OTTurboTax heads up

2003-02-09 Thread R. Quenett
http://dslr.net/forum/remark,5550487~root=sware R -- http://www.quen.net Fix reason firmly in her seat and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of

Re: Help avoiding .* problems

2003-02-09 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Tom Condon wrote: % % Yup. Shot myself in the foot again. % % Some versions of *nix *do* and some versions *don't* allow % access to '..' when you specify '.*' in a regular expression % (say, chown). So, you did: # chown blat .* Perchance # chwon blat `pwd`/* % I'm

Re: OTTurboTax heads up

2003-02-09 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, R. Quenett wrote: % http://dslr.net/forum/remark,5550487~root=sware Yup, another reason *not* to use TurboTax. Kurt -- If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law. -- Roy Santoro ___

Re: OTTurboTax heads up

2003-02-09 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sun, 09 Feb 2003 17:04:08 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R. Quenett) wrote: http://dslr.net/forum/remark,5550487~root=sware And so when did Intuit port anything to Linux? If they haven't, then YHGMTPOTG. Ciao, David A. Bandel -- Focus on the dream, not the competition. Nemesis

Tom Condon...

2003-02-09 Thread Kurt Wall
..the shell option you want is dotglob, or, rather, to disable dotglob. From the bash manual page: dotglob If set, bash includes filenames beginning with a `.' in the results of pathname expansion. So, shopt -u dotglob should

Re: OTTurboTax heads up

2003-02-09 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 06:32:10PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote: Feigning erudition, R. Quenett wrote: % http://dslr.net/forum/remark,5550487~root=sware Yup, another reason *not* to use TurboTax. Fortunately the Mac version of TurboTax doesn't have this. The Mac version of TT was the thing that

Re: Kde 3.1 questions

2003-02-09 Thread Tim Wunder
On Sunday 09 February 2003 5:21 pm, someone claiming to be Collins Richey wrote: [ snips ] On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 09:17:54 +0100 Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My sound is working (Gentoo KDE 3.1), so I cannot help with that. As to .Xdefaults, I do not think KDE uses those.

Re: Kde 3.1 questions

2003-02-09 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 19:25:27 -0500 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snipped ] So, other than changing some things (ie tinker with sound), nothing has changed. OK. Obsiously, if nothing was changed under KDE's settings that would affect aterm (or, rather, non-kde apps), then there's

Re: OTTurboTax heads up

2003-02-09 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, David A. Bandel wrote: % On Sun, 09 Feb 2003 17:04:08 -0600 % [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R. Quenett) wrote: % % http://dslr.net/forum/remark,5550487~root=sware % % And so when did Intuit port anything to Linux? % If they haven't, then YHGMTPOTG. [Googling...] Ah, You Have Greatly

Re: OTTurboTax heads up

2003-02-09 Thread R. Quenett
from David A. Bandel And so when did Intuit port anything to Linux? If they haven't, then YHGMTPOTG. Oh, I think you might find that some of the people here still use this sort of thing from time to time. There also are quite a few who have, on occasion, posted OT. Still, I'm happy to

Re: OT a gd jb

2003-02-09 Thread Jack Berger
It's an old(*) programmers trick from when there were reasonable limits on the length of a variable name compilers would permit (6-8 chars.). In order to use a variable name that somewhat resembled the term you were modelling, you would drop the vowels from the word. There was also some efficiency

Greetings !

2003-02-09 Thread Chong Yu Meng
I was wondering why the Caldera mailing list was so quiet, and where everyone went ! Then I saw the new look of the StepByStep site (very nice ! Who did the design ?) and I realized the party probably moved somewhere else. Is Keith Antoine here ? Happy Chinese New Year everyone ! Regards,

Re: Greetings !

2003-02-09 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Chong Yu Meng wrote: % I was wondering why the Caldera mailing list was so quiet, and where % everyone went ! Then I saw the new look of the StepByStep site (very % nice ! Who did the design ?) and I realized the party probably moved % somewhere else. Is Keith Antoine here ?

Re: Greetings !

2003-02-09 Thread Chong Yu Meng
Wow ! That's fast ! I just finished hanging out the laundry and a reply has arrived ! From Kurt Wall, no less ! How're things, Kurt ? I'm updating the Steps I wrote on Java and Novell eDirectory, and adding one for Tomcat. Should be ready by end of this week, I think. Should I still send it to

Re: Greetings !

2003-02-09 Thread Andrew Mathews
Chong Yu Meng wrote: I was wondering why the Caldera mailing list was so quiet, and where everyone went ! Then I saw the new look of the StepByStep site (very nice ! Who did the design ?) and I realized the party probably moved somewhere else. Is Keith Antoine here ? Happy Chinese New Year

Re: Greetings !

2003-02-09 Thread Jack Berger
Hey, Pasca, Good to see you made it over. But the big question is where ya been sleepin' all this time? Most people (and the others too) started migrating over to here quite some time ago. -jhb- From: Chong Yu Meng [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was wondering why the Caldera mailing list was so quiet,

Re: Greetings !

2003-02-09 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 09 Feb 2003 19:17:57 -0700 Andrew Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chong Yu Meng wrote: I was wondering why the Caldera mailing list was so quiet, and where everyone went ! Hey Pascal! Good to hear from you again. Yeah Keith is still here, though he tends to wander a bit. g

Re: Greetings !

2003-02-09 Thread Net Llama!
Pascal, great to have you back. As for why the Caldera list was so quiet, just about everyone jumped off that ship months ago. Doug did most of the new design work for the SxS site. Its still being completed by the editors as time allows. Keith is still around, pokes up every so often with

Re: Greetings !

2003-02-09 Thread Net Llama!
On 02/09/03 18:10, Chong Yu Meng wrote: Wow ! That's fast ! I just finished hanging out the laundry and a reply has arrived ! From Kurt Wall, no less ! How're things, Kurt ? I'm updating the Steps I wrote on Java and Novell eDirectory, and adding one for Tomcat. Should be ready by end of this

Re: Greetings !

2003-02-09 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote: % Pascal, great to have you back. As for why the Caldera list was so % quiet, just about everyone jumped off that ship months ago. Doug did % most of the new design work for the SxS site. Its still being completed % by the editors as time allows. Keith

Re: Kde 3.1 questions

2003-02-09 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I understand what you are saying, but Tim has a point. It's no mystery that I'm pretty happy with KDE for most things. It is bloated, but I'm into bloat-balancing. I like the pretty's, the things which presidents, managers and directors love to tinker with which make them try and stick with

Re: Kde 3.1 questions

2003-02-09 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I sure hope it becomes a windows killer. We need one. However, I have some rants on opensource in gengeral shooting itself in the foot while trying to kill windows G but I won't go into them here. However, KDE has to become easier to install and maintain before it is a windows killer.

Re: Greetings !

2003-02-09 Thread Keith Antoine
On Monday 10 February 2003 11:52, Chong Yu Meng wrote: I was wondering why the Caldera mailing list was so quiet, and where everyone went ! Then I saw the new look of the StepByStep site (very nice ! Who did the design ?) and I realized the party probably moved somewhere else. Is Keith Antoine

Re: Greetings !

2003-02-09 Thread Keith Antoine
On Monday 10 February 2003 12:04, Kurt Wall wrote: Feigning erudition, Chong Yu Meng wrote: % I was wondering why the Caldera mailing list was so quiet, and where % everyone went ! Then I saw the new look of the StepByStep site (very % nice ! Who did the design ?) and I realized the party

Re: OTTurboTax heads up

2003-02-09 Thread Ken Moffat
R. Quenett wrote: http://dslr.net/forum/remark,5550487~root=sware R Odd that all this should show up here just when I left the turbotax and taxcut website and was trying to figure out where to plop my hard earned $$. As an aside: FreeFile looks promising for some.

Re: Greetings !

2003-02-09 Thread Keith Antoine
On Monday 10 February 2003 12:51, Net Llama! wrote: Pascal, great to have you back. As for why the Caldera list was so quiet, just about everyone jumped off that ship months ago. Doug did most of the new design work for the SxS site. Its still being completed by the editors as time allows.

Re: OTTurboTax heads up

2003-02-09 Thread ronnie gauthier
I filed at fileyourtaxes.com, fast and free. On Sun, 09 Feb 2003 19:56:21 -0800 - Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: Re: OTTurboTax heads up R. Quenett wrote: http://dslr.net/forum/remark,5550487~root=sware R Odd that all this should show up here just when I left the

Re: Kde 3.1 questions

2003-02-09 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 22:29:35 -0500 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snipped ] That said, one thing I'm intrigued about is the upcoming enhancements paid for by the German government. Apparently KDE 3.1 or 3.2 is supposed to have an Outlook-like PIM and some back-end stuff.

Weird boot problem??

2003-02-09 Thread Michael Fakaro
My kids wanted to play some games so I shutdown, booted into windows and then when they were finished booted back to Red Hat 8. When it got to checking root it said it had errors and forced a check. I did shutdown properly so I don't know how any errors were present. Anyway it checked to 57.5 %

Divorcing SuSE and A4

2003-02-09 Thread Matthew Carpenter
There are several issues I've come across with SuSE, which I don't quite understand. Coming from COL, I never had to deal with these. The first one is what incantations do I need to bellow in order to get anything to print on US Letter!? I have so far found 3 different places within KDE/YAST

Re: Greetings !

2003-02-09 Thread Chong Yu Meng
Keith Antoine wrote: Got a new job, an erection engineer in a tool factory, work is a bit slack at the moment due to the drought. Hmm... erection engineer... and they say there are no imaginative job titles anymore, since the dot-com crash ... :)

too small linux partition?

2003-02-09 Thread Scott S. Jones D.C.
Lonnie: I am posing my question to you and to the list. I respect the knowledge and helpfulness with the list. I am running out of room on my linux installation. When I want to install something new under linux, I look at my disk usage with df -k and see that 98% is used of a 1.4 gig

OTRe: Greetings !

2003-02-09 Thread Chong Yu Meng
Net Llama! wrote: Pascal, great to have you back. As for why the Caldera list was so quiet, just about everyone jumped off that ship months ago. Doug did most of the new design work for the SxS site. Its still being completed by the editors as time allows. Keith is still around, pokes up

Mail Question

2003-02-09 Thread Chong Yu Meng
Ok, here's my first question on the list : Scenario : Company XYZ, which I used to work for, deployed a server in a certain local ISP. I wrote a Java servlet that tries to mail the results of a form to the server administrator, along with an acknowledgement email to the person who filled out

Re: Divorcing SuSE and A4

2003-02-09 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 12:11:01AM -0500, Matthew Carpenter wrote: There are several issues I've come across with SuSE, which I don't quite understand. Coming from COL, I never had to deal with these. The first one is what incantations do I need to bellow in order to get anything to print on US

Re: Kde 3.1 questions

2003-02-09 Thread Tim Wunder
On Sunday 09 February 2003 7:48 pm, someone claiming to be Collins Richey wrote: On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 19:25:27 -0500 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snipped ] So, other than changing some things (ie tinker with sound), nothing has changed. OK. Obsiously, if nothing was changed under

Re: Kde 3.1 questions

2003-02-09 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 15:21:53 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snips ] On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 09:17:54 +0100 Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My sound is working (Gentoo KDE 3.1), so I cannot help with that. As to .Xdefaults, I do not think KDE uses those. However,

Re: Kde 3.1 questions

2003-02-09 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 22:29:35 -0500 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're looking for a great tool and I understand that... I'm looking for a Windows Killer. KDE so far seems to be the closest thing for Linux at this point. flame-guard-up I also wonder at the current attempt

Re: Kde 3.1 questions

2003-02-09 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 21:36:51 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 22:29:35 -0500 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snipped ] That said, one thing I'm intrigued about is the upcoming enhancements paid for by the German government. Apparently KDE