Re: Which file system am I using?

2003-11-20 Thread Joel Hammer
: Consuming 0.3K bytes, Joel Hammer blathered: What command can I issue to see what file system I am running on a linux partition? mount usually works for me: $ mount /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (r0) /dev/hdb1 on /home type ext3 (rw) /dev/hdb2

Which file system am I using?

2003-11-19 Thread Joel Hammer
What command can I issue to see what file system I am running on a linux partition? Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: sendmail won't start

2003-11-19 Thread Joel Hammer
The old script was called mta. What if you try that instead? Or, just write your own script. The startup scripts are complicated only because they need to do a lot of figuring out where things are, etc. Since you know where things are, a startup script customized for your machine might be very

Problems printing out PDF files

2003-11-18 Thread Joel Hammer
My daughter is printing out pdf applications for grad school. We get various errors with acroread, but basically some documents don't print. Here is one type of error. If I print the document to a file, here is what I get with gv. Error: /invalidfont in -dict- Operand stack:

Re: SO 7: importing postscript

2003-11-17 Thread Joel Hammer
Insert graphic Joel On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:56:10AM -0700, Collins Richey wrote: On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:52:23 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I do this same sort of thing with convert. (It's part of the imagemagick package.) convert file.ps file.jpg and then import

SO 7: importing postscript

2003-11-16 Thread Joel Hammer
I tried to import some postscript files (GNUplots) into SO 7. I first converted them to epsi with ps2espi. They display fine in gv but look lousy in SO. If converted from ps to jpg, they look fine in SO when imported. gs is used by ps2epsi. Is there a way to tweak gs to make things look better

Re: SO 7: importing postscript

2003-11-16 Thread Joel Hammer
:15PM +0100, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: Joel Hammer wrote: gs is used by ps2epsi. Is there a way to tweak gs to make things look better when imported into SO ? As I've said in another thread (and keep saying), my all time favourite in handling ps/pdf stuff is GSview (http

Re: StarOffice 7 reviewed in Wall Street Journal

2003-11-15 Thread Joel Hammer
and limitations. On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:12:44PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: I can't link to it because it is from Thurs and it requires a subscription. But: The WSJ technology guy reviewed SO 7. He said the following: SO 7 is much better then SO 6 for importing all types of MS Office documents

StarOffice 7 reviewed in Wall Street Journal

2003-11-14 Thread Joel Hammer
I can't link to it because it is from Thurs and it requires a subscription. But: The WSJ technology guy reviewed SO 7. He said the following: SO 7 is much better then SO 6 for importing all types of MS Office documents, including excel and powerpoint as well as word. He was very impressed by

OT Matrix III

2003-11-12 Thread Joel Hammer
Just in case you've read the bad reviews and got turned off, Matrix III is at least 2x as good as Matrix II. The reviewers must like mindless, repetitive kung fu and must not like interesting dialogue that probes the meaning of the human experience, heavily interlaced with the usual astounding

Re: StarOffice 7 user question

2003-11-12 Thread Joel Hammer
I just tried to time the starts on three machines. The older version of Star Office (6.0) let me count to 15 (one one thousand, two one thousand, etc) before it was started on a 1 gig duron with 256meg. SO 5.2 on an .8 gig Athlon and 770 megs took so long I thought it wasn't going to start (got to

Re: Braindead Windows

2003-11-10 Thread Joel Hammer
Yes, I have also found another use for windows. Politics. I have gotten, by default, the job of getting us up and going with digital photography in our pathology department. You have to experience it to believe it, but our IS department is trying to make my life as difficult as possible because

Re: Kernel config question

2003-11-07 Thread Joel Hammer
I am a bit rusty on building kernels but: It all depends on whether or not you configured the kernel or a module. If just a module, you could get by with just compiling the module. Rarely, there is a command for compiling the module in the source for the module. Or, you make just: make dep;make

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-05 Thread Joel Hammer
for another big fat piece of sloppy programming. You would think with the size of their user base. But, consider the quality of their user base. Joel On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:29:24PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: Well, have found one drawback in SO 7. It won't open really big powerpoint

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-04 Thread Joel Hammer
Well, I do pay a fee to belong to the lindows warehouse. And, I got only a download, not a boxed set. No user manual, CD, etc. So, Sun didn't have too much overhead selling me this thing. Joel On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:38:39AM -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote: I'd like to know how they can sell

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-04 Thread Joel Hammer
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:01:31AM -0700, Collins Richey wrote: Only negative experience. Since I get really good results with OpenOffice, I would never pay even $.02 for Star Office. You, on the other hand, may find some particular feature that makes the departure from open software

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-04 Thread Joel Hammer
at work, too, and they run fine. Wonder why SO can't handle the larger file? Joel On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:53:11AM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: I just bought SO 7 from the lindows warehouse. At $30 bucks I figured why not, SO6 works well. An immediate, and welcome difference, is that it starts up

Star Office 7

2003-11-03 Thread Joel Hammer
I just bought SO 7 from the lindows warehouse. At $30 bucks I figured why not, SO6 works well. An immediate, and welcome difference, is that it starts up much faster. This is actually important for reading documents on the internet. And, wonder of wonders, it doesn't start a second instance of

Wonders of vim: Multiple file editing

2003-11-03 Thread Joel Hammer
Just to share the joy of vim, which is the vi loaded with many distros. I had to edit about 30 documents, converted from .doc via staroffice to text files. StarOffice did the conversion perfectly. Each had a similar format as .doc files, and I needed to make changes in the newly created text

nl putting in extra returns on only on some boxes

2003-11-02 Thread Joel Hammer
I am running this command: nl -bp___ -s -w 3 against some files to number them. The files look like this: SITE ___ Foot ___ Leg SIZE ___ Less than 5 mm ___ More than 5 mm etc. The output looks like this on my older linux box: SITE 1 ___ Foot 2 ___ Leg SIZE 3 ___ Less than 5 mm 4 ___ More

Acroread: Why it won't open documents

2003-11-01 Thread Joel Hammer
Just in case you have this problem. I downloaded acrobat reader from the lindows warehouse (Debian system). It wouldn't open valid pdf documents or items linked on the internet. As usual, knowing bash helps. which acroread shows that the acroread command is really a script: #!/bin/bash cd

Re: Acroread: Why it won't open documents

2003-11-01 Thread Joel Hammer
$* ] /usr/Acrobat5/bin/acroread || /usr/Acrobat5/bin/acroread $* Joel On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:57:37AM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: Just in case you have this problem. I downloaded acrobat reader from the lindows warehouse (Debian system). It wouldn't open valid pdf documents or items linked

Re: Acroread: Why it won't open documents

2003-11-01 Thread Joel Hammer
Yes. There is a yearly fee. I am not sure if it is worth it, but, for a rich sloth like me, its OK. Joel On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 12:19:38AM +0800, M.W. Chang wrote: does one need to pay Lindows to access her warehouse? ___ Linux-users mailing list

Importing mutt aliases into Netscape 7

2003-10-08 Thread Joel Hammer
Does anyone know of a way to import addresses from a text file like mutt aliases into a more convoluted file like the abook of mozilla? Or,failing that, is there a simple explanation somewhere of the abook data format? Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users

Re: question

2003-10-07 Thread Joel Hammer
If you can't ping machines on your intranet I would think you have a local network configuration problem. Are you trying to ping by IP or name? If you can't ping the ip's, it would suggest your wife is on a different subnet. If you can ping ip's but can't ping names, you might try just adding the

Xine: Slowing down playback speed

2003-10-04 Thread Joel Hammer
When invoking xine with: xine -l ECIR.mgp for example, the playback is much too fast. Is there are a command line parameter or option that controls playback speed? I've read man xine and the two options they suggest, the down arrow key during play back, and the -S parameter, don't work for

Laptop suggestions

2003-10-04 Thread Joel Hammer
I need to buy a laptop in the next week for a trip. I don't think I can get a laptop loaded with linux during that time so I will likely just get an XP machine and either remove XP or dual boot it sometime down the road. So, my question, any laptop suggestions that would play well with linux?

Re: Laptop suggestions

2003-10-04 Thread Joel Hammer
you go on one charge on the laptops you like, just doing stuff like word processing? Joel On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:18:06AM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: I need to buy a laptop in the next week for a trip. I don't think I can get a laptop loaded with linux during that time so I will likely just get

Re: Laptop suggestions

2003-10-04 Thread Joel Hammer
Not according to Consumers Report. Joel On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:27:02PM -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: When Centrino was first released it had problems with the wireless part of the chip - does it still have that? ___ Linux-users mailing list

File times

2003-10-02 Thread Joel Hammer
Can someone point me to documentation on file times? I am a bit confused regarding this subject (ctime, atime, and the rest). My hope is to find a time that is set when the file is created but which is not changed even if the file is modified. Joel

Re: Find command with multiple file types

2003-10-02 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks, both ! and -o work just as expected. Now, please see my next question about file times. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: File times

2003-10-02 Thread Joel Hammer
When I list a directory with ls -al I get many files with a date of Dec 2001. If I use ls -al --time=ctime or --time=atime or --time=status I get a variety of newer dates, but nothing with Dec 2001. What time is being shown with ls -al ? Thanks, Joel On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:25:27PM

Backing up debian

2003-09-30 Thread Joel Hammer
I am finally making my cheapo lindows box into a honest machine by installing a backup program. I just mount a drive on another computer, run find -newer somedate and tar them and zip them. Works OK. I fine tune what files to tar with sed /file/d. Now, my question is, on a debian machine, since

stale NFS handle

2003-09-30 Thread Joel Hammer
I mounted a drive on a server via samba on a client (/mnt/Backup) . I then changed smb.conf on the server to reference a different path, and now my client complains that there is a stale NFS handle on /mnt/Backup. Is there a way to fix this problem without rebooting? Thanks, Joel

Re: stale NFS handle

2003-09-30 Thread Joel Hammer
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:24:38PM -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: NFS literally drove me nuts. Best bet sofar, if you can stand the permissions mangling is switching to samba. You'll be impressed with the speed of samba 3.0 compared to NFS any version. I was using samba, not NFS, when this

Find command with multiple file types

2003-09-30 Thread Joel Hammer
This simple chore of setting up a backup program is taking my evening. I remember now why I was putting this off. I am using find to find files newer than the last backup to feed them to tar. This is working as expected, more or less. I want to find all file types except directories, especially

Re: from an sco press release today

2003-09-29 Thread Joel Hammer
Actually, it was worse. It seems they asked for recounts without any clear criteria for recounting ballots. That was the famous hanging chad debate. That was what the Supremes declared unconstitutional. Which is surprising, because I would have thought a compelling need to elect a Democrat would

Re: fmt: How to skip some text?

2003-09-28 Thread Joel Hammer
in fmt? elsewhere on this list. Joel On Sat, Sep 27, 2003, Joel Hammer wrote: I want to use fmt in vi to format text, eg: :1,$ ! fmt -w 130 Without vi, this command would look like: cat file ! fmt -w 130 I want it to format everything except lines which begin

Bug in fmt?

2003-09-28 Thread Joel Hammer
Just trying to format some text with fmt, making paragraphs look nice and all. But, I want fmt to skip lines beginning with tabs (lists). Here is an example of the kind of text I am working with (ignore the lines): = The first part of this paragraph needs

Re: Su

2003-09-28 Thread Joel Hammer
You are missing an ending quote in line 18. Now, you might ask, how did I find this? vi .profile :set syntax=sh :syntax on Joel On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:17:32AM +1000, James McDonald wrote: line 18 PATH=/usr/lib/j2re1.4.1/bin:$PATH doesn't have a closing quote

Re: Su

2003-09-28 Thread Joel Hammer
before I test it. This syntax thing works for other languages, like html. To see what else is available, in vi(m): :help syntax Joel On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 05:04:35PM -0700, Ted Ozolins wrote: Joel Hammer wrote: You are missing an ending quote in line 18. Now, you might ask, how did I find

Footers in Enscript

2003-09-27 Thread Joel Hammer
I may be missing something obvious, but: The enscript (1.6.3) man page claims that the footer option works just like the header option, but, when I try it I get no footers in the output. Looking at the postscript output shows that although my footer string is indeed in the postscript file, there

Re: Footers in Enscript

2003-09-27 Thread Joel Hammer
Well, it looks like if you want footers you sorta have to roll your own. My solution is attached below. I guess there is no do_footer routine because the do_header routine does the footers, too, at least in some circumstances. There happens to be a supplied fancy header a2ps.hdr which also prints

fmt: How to skip some text?

2003-09-27 Thread Joel Hammer
I want to use fmt in vi to format text, eg: :1,$ ! fmt -w 130 Without vi, this command would look like: cat file ! fmt -w 130 I want it to format everything except lines which begin with at least two blanks, like this: 1. My list First Second Third Is

Re: Displaying octal numbers in bash

2003-09-25 Thread Joel Hammer
This seems more work that it should be. I did solve my problem with bc, but, there must be an easy way to get bash to display octal. Joel On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 06:35:18PM -0700, Tom Wekell wrote: Joel Hammer wrote: I understand that bash will do arithmetic in octal if you prefix

Underscores in Postscript fonts

2003-09-24 Thread Joel Hammer
Maybe I am just missing something obvious, but, is there an easy way to get underscores in your typical postscript font, like Times-Roman? Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: The spammers are winning

2003-09-24 Thread Joel Hammer
There must be a sleezy lawyer somewhere who could sue SOMEBODY to get these windows machines off the net. How about the ISP's who let these things onto the internet? Maybe pass some tough pollution laws. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL

Displaying octal numbers in bash

2003-09-24 Thread Joel Hammer
I understand that bash will do arithmetic in octal if you prefix the constant with 0. So: a=05 b=017 c=$((a*b)) echo $c yields 75 This is the correct answer, but it is in decimals, not octals. Is there a way to make echo display octal? Thanks, Joel ___

Re: email attack

2003-09-23 Thread Joel Hammer
I didn't see any info about it in your post. My email these days consists almost entirely of worms, especially if measure d in number of bytes, not number of individual letters. It is really bad. Let's hear a round of applause for Bill Gates and his computer revolution. The best thing is that MS,

VIM question

2003-09-23 Thread Joel Hammer
Being offline has its benefits. I finally learned how to navigate the help pages of vim and have learned a lot. Once having learned vim, I'll never go back, but I'd like to get an abbreviation to change fonts easily. However, the command: :iabb SF fails with this error: {font

Re: VIM question

2003-09-23 Thread Joel Hammer
-V 2) as the esc key here seems to work. This seems to be a solution: :iabb SF font(Times-Roman8} and then run enscript with: enscript -e2 -ojunk.ps input.txt I suppose this will cause some complications down the road. Joel On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:46:22PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: Being

Re: VIM question:Solved

2003-09-23 Thread Joel Hammer
during insert mode gives: I don't really understand this, but, it works. Joel On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:26:08PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: Dud Dumb mistakes. First, the command should have been: :iabb SF This still gives the error I mentioned below. I guess the reason

Re: VIM question:Solved

2003-09-23 Thread Joel Hammer
Hmmm... It looks like email really doesn't handle the esc (0) character well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] got removed from the post below in several places. Joel On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:54:35PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: Finally read enuf to get the answer. It's simple. You just need enuf cntrl-v's

Fetchmail error

2003-09-21 Thread Joel Hammer
I pop my mail off a server with fetchmail. Every now and then there is a socket error while downloading an email. The transfer stops, and nothing else gets downloaded. I have to log onto the mail server manually with telnet to DELE the offending email. The really bad part is that the emails I

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-20 Thread Joel Hammer
Geez, they just arrested a Muslim army Chaplain (West Point Grad, Asian American, studied in Syria), who worked with the Muslims held in Cuba. They are seeing spies under every bed, now. BTW, a big difference between WWII and now is that German Americans were strongly and DEMONSTRABLY supportive

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-18 Thread Joel Hammer
It would be easy just to unload your MS stock. Apple, for example, rose about 50% in the last several months. MS has been a laggard, and promises to remain so. It is just too big to keep on growing. Joel On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 08:16:17AM -0400, dep wrote: quoth Matthew Carpenter: | They

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-18 Thread Joel Hammer
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:34:28AM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote: You're scary. Is this what Americans (US Citizens in this context) think of this Homeland Security thing? If so, holy fsck. I hope you got to see the photo posted recently on Powerline from 9/11 of the man falling, rather

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-18 Thread Joel Hammer
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:33:34PM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote: There have actually been a number of politicians who have suggested we need to re-institute internment camps, just like we had in WWII. According to most historians, that was a pretty dark day in the US's history, and here

Re: OT: Here we go again ...

2003-09-17 Thread Joel Hammer
Wouldn't it be great if people starting saying, enuf is enuf. Maybe if people whose computers were cracked and taken over by hackers faced legal sanctions (fines, suspension of service, etc.), they would take responsibility to fix up their boxes. Now, the lazy bones (or is it brain dead?) windows

Re: A contented linux user

2003-09-15 Thread Joel Hammer
Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 08:52:37PM +0800, Chong Yu Meng wrote: Actually, I have to say that in certain cases, it *is* cheaper and even more stable to run Microsoft than Linux or Solaris, or any kind of UNIX. It's generally easier to find a Sys Admin who is familiar with Windows than someone

Re: A contented linux user

2003-09-14 Thread Joel Hammer
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 08:52:37PM +0800, Chong Yu Meng wrote: Actually, I have to say that in certain cases, it *is* cheaper and even more stable to run Microsoft than Linux or Solaris, or any kind of UNIX. It's generally easier to find a Sys Admin who is familiar with Windows than someone

OT Linux now avaible in stores

2003-09-07 Thread Joel Hammer
I got this in the last few days from the CEO of Lindows. Just thought I would pass it along. (See below.) I know that there are those who don't think highly of lindows, but, they can rest assured that they are not the target audience of lindows. Lindows is targeting windows users. I have been

Re: OT Linux now avaible in stores

2003-09-07 Thread Joel Hammer
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 07:42:22AM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: Its fricking mozilla. Its not like Lindows wrote their own or anything. Yes, of course it is mozilla, but, it is configured to work. For example, no font problems, and plugins work as expected. Joel On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at

Re: OT Linux now avaible in stores

2003-09-07 Thread Joel Hammer
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 09:40:58AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: I've been leery of Lindows since reading that they run everything as root. If that's true, it's no more secure than the average Windows box. Yes, but, you can easily add a regular user, just like with any linux distro. Using

Re: Comcast looking for competent SysAdmins?

2003-09-06 Thread Joel Hammer
Its not just spam. I am on comcast and I still log endless code red and other nasties trying to attack web servers, and almost every originating IP is from comcast. Joel On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 09:12:17PM -0600, Andrew Mathews wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 rant As of

OT Netgear ethernet switch froze

2003-09-06 Thread Joel Hammer
This morning my internal network was down. The problem was the netgear switch box. It was accepting signals but not transferring them to recipients. Unplugging it and plugging it back in solved the problem. Does this have any ominous portents? Joel

Re: OT Netgear ethernet switch froze

2003-09-06 Thread Joel Hammer
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:46:25PM -0400, burns wrote: Have you updated the firmware in your Netgear lately? I have a RP614 No. I didn't know it could be updated. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: Video card

2003-09-01 Thread Joel Hammer
:51PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2003, Joel Hammer wrote: recompiled it how? what did you change from the last kernel? I didn't change a thing. I just went into /usr/src/linux, and ran make dep make clean make bzImage. If you've never built a kernel on this machine, you

Re: Video card

2003-09-01 Thread Joel Hammer
Well, I finally got the thing to reboot, and the newly compiled kernel is running, and I get the exact same error from the nvidia install script. It claims the compiler I used to compile the kernel is different from the one I am compiling the kernel module for the nvidia driver. I'll never

Re: Video card

2003-09-01 Thread Joel Hammer
the compiler at some time, too. So, I just recompiled my kernel with the current compiler. Luckily the .config was the same. That was supposed to have made things better, but, there was no change. Same error when I tried to compile the kernel module. Joel Net Llama! wrote: On 08/31/03 15:43, Joel

Re: Video card

2003-09-01 Thread Joel Hammer
Good idea. which `gcc` returns: /usr/local/bin/gcc and file `which gcc` shows a binary file. strings `which gcc` shows version 2.95.3, which is what I think I am using. I went the extra step and recompiled my modules and make'd modules_install. However, depmod wouldn't work, never has on this

insmod error: Couldn't find kernel version module was compiled for

2003-09-01 Thread Joel Hammer
This was the video card thread, but I have made great progress. I found that if you use a -keep option with the installer script, it saves everything, including the instructions, so you can fiddle with whatever. I tracked down the Makefile for building the kernel module and put in the

Re: insmod error: Couldn't find kernel version module was compiledfor:SOLVED

2003-09-01 Thread Joel Hammer
linux users. Now, of course, the question arises, do I have to do this all for the other kernels I boot on this machine? I'll have to find out someday. Thanks for all the suggestions. Joel On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:57:43AM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: This was the video card thread, but I have

Re: insmod error: Couldn't find kernel version module was compiledfor

2003-09-01 Thread Joel Hammer
I am using 2.4.5-win4lin. Joel On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:18:01AM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: Out of sheer curiosity, which kernel version are you using? ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: Video card

2003-08-31 Thread Joel Hammer
recompiled it how? what did you change from the last kernel? I didn't change a thing. I just went into /usr/src/linux, and ran make dep make clean make bzImage. I shoulda saved an old copy of the kernel. I rebooted without trouble after running lilo.conf, but the second reboot I got a hard

Re: Enscript question: Making page colored

2003-08-30 Thread Joel Hammer
. Joel On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 11:29:02PM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote: Quoth Joel Hammer: Does anyone know a way to make enscript produce output with the entire page colored, not just the text background? Add to the top of the document, where val is a decimal value between 0 and 1

Fonts small with X :1 -query host

2003-08-30 Thread Joel Hammer
Using lindows 4.0. I am really rusty on X and hope not to have to spend a lot of time on this issue. I have set up kdmrc to allow XDMCP requests, and changed Xaccess and things work. However, the fonts are much smaller in kde when started up via an XDMCP request than when kde just starts up in the

Re: devfs - interesting news

2003-08-29 Thread Joel Hammer
This brings up the question. How did devfs get into the kernel with only one maintainer? And, can we avoid its replacement and just go back to the bad old days? I believe lindows came precompiled with devfs, and of course, I wouldn't dream of compiling a lindows kernel without devfs, even if I

Enscript question: Making page colored

2003-08-29 Thread Joel Hammer
Does anyone know a way to make enscript produce output with the entire page colored, not just the text background? Enscript will take raw postscript. Is there a way to make postscript make the whole page a particular color? Thanks, Joel ___

OT VBscript in html: Security threat?

2003-08-28 Thread Joel Hammer
I see that vbscript can be embedded in html. Javascript was written to make it very hard to attack the client computer, whereas vbscript doesn't have these safeguards built in, does it? VBscript can do a lot of stuff, like write to your hard drive and run windows software. It really is a beaut.

Re: Apache setup help

2003-08-27 Thread Joel Hammer
Just how are you serving up this document to your browser? Is Apache actually doing it? Have you put a file named index.html into the root directory? What is your root directory? Is your document valid html? Joel On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:49:44PM -0700, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: James

Helper applications in mozilla-1.3

2003-08-26 Thread Joel Hammer
Using lindows 4.0. In mozilla, if I edit helper applications, nothing seems to happen. That is to say, if I change the application for jpeg's to save to file or some other program besides kview, it still opens up in the browser. The mimetype file in ~/.mozilla/(and so one) is updated. Any

Re: Helper applications in mozilla-1.3

2003-08-26 Thread Joel Hammer
My other lindows computer 4.0 works without a glich or hitch. Joel On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 07:11:45PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: On 08/25/03 18:11, Joel Hammer wrote: Using lindows 4.0. In mozilla, if I edit helper applications, nothing seems to happen. That is to say, if I change

Xine slow to start up while probing hardware

2003-08-24 Thread Joel Hammer
xine seems to be working but: When I issue the command xine, I get a long delay while it probes the audio hardware. This is what I see. xine *asx This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.9.21 (c) 2000-2003 by G. Bartsch and the xine project team. Built with xine library 1.0.0 (1-beta12)

windows = virii

2003-08-22 Thread Joel Hammer
I got fed up with the large number of notifications of viruses in my email so I consigned all my samba forum (Windows users by definition) mail to dev/null (procmail is good for something.) I have stopped getting these silly emails full of virii. So, I guess we know whose machines are infected.

Re: Universal vs local time

2003-08-22 Thread Joel Hammer
Here is what I get with the various suggestions: hammer11:~# uname -a Linux hammer11 2.4.20 #1 Thu Jun 19 14:13:55 PDT 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux hammer11:~# date Thu Aug 21 22:25:02 EDT 2003 hammer11:~# date Thu Aug 21 22:25:20 EDT 2003 hammer11:~# hwclock --show Thu Aug 21 22:25:31

Re: SCO fizzles

2003-08-22 Thread Joel Hammer
Wetzker: Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 21 Aug 2003 21:50:19 -0400 Yes, but what will the jury think? Joel On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 07:21:49PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/smoking-fizzle.html That is the $3,000,000,000.00 question. It is a VERY

Universal vs local time

2003-08-21 Thread Joel Hammer
How can I tell if my linux box is running with the clock set to universal or local time? This is one of the questions asked when configurating a kernel. Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: SCO fizzles

2003-08-21 Thread Joel Hammer
Yes, but what will the jury think? Joel On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 07:21:49PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/smoking-fizzle.html ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: Universal vs local time

2003-08-21 Thread Joel Hammer
localtime. Joel On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 09:15:58PM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote: Quoth Joel Hammer: How can I tell if my linux box is running with the clock set to universal or local time? This is one of the questions asked when configurating a kernel. Huh? Where? Look at the BIOS clock

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-18 Thread Joel Hammer
From a desktop perspective, everybody uses office. Unfortunately, everybody also uses some other task specific app without which, the job cannot be done. Office functionality is crucial but it as only the first step. I must agree. Try getting your new USB PDA to sync with linux. I

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-18 Thread Joel Hammer
I use the lexmark z53, too. It is great with linux. However, I haven't seen any other printers with such specific support for linux. I hope there are more around. Joel On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 06:02:52PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote: Good support for my Lexmark Z53. Lexmark even provides linux

Re: acixxx problem compiling new kernel 2.4.20

2003-08-18 Thread Joel Hammer
This is the WalMart special. There may be no scsi devices but there are scsi drivers loaded: lsmod | grep scsi: ide-scsi7696 1 scsi_mod 53420 5 [sr_mod ide-scsi usb-storage sd_mod] ide-mod 153700 4 [ide-cd ide-scsi ide-disk ide-probe-mod] I

Re: Easy to make Linux SCO free...

2003-08-18 Thread Joel Hammer
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:39:29PM -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: It's hard to believe that such bastards exist. No, it is not. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: acixxx problem compiling new kernel 2.4.20

2003-08-18 Thread Joel Hammer
Well, I got it to compile. There is an option: Build Adapter firmware with kernel build with the aic7xxx module. I deselected that and it compiled. Joel On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:18:19PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: This is the WalMart special. There may be no scsi devices but there are scsi

Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread Joel Hammer
Just a recent bad experience using Knoppix to recover data. I recently used Knoppix to recover data on my dual boot machine when my lindows installation got whacked when XP crashed. (It was curious. The lindows boot process just seemed to end very prematurely as shown in messages but the thing

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-16 Thread Joel Hammer
I must disagree. This worm writer has performed a great public service. Making people patch their computers. MS should be writing worms like this. Joel The people that write and launch these programs in the wild should caught and forced to do something really unpleasant for a very long

Double click vs single click in kde

2003-08-16 Thread Joel Hammer
Where in the kde 3 control panel can you change the launching of programs from two to one click and vice versa. Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: Double click vs single click in kde

2003-08-16 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks. Joel On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:54:37PM -0600, Andrew Mathews wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joel Hammer wrote: | Where in the kde 3 control panel can you change the launching of programs from | two to one click and vice versa. | Thanks, | Joel

Re: northeast power outage

2003-08-15 Thread Joel Hammer
Well, what does the average person want to know about? The power grid or lifestyles of the rich and famous or American idol? We get what we deserve. Engineers are SO boring. And, the environmentalists will fight attempts to increase power generation, except by building wind farms (aka

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