Re: RH XFS

2002-06-18 Thread Kurt Wall
Also sprach Net Llama!: you sure that Ted didn't contribute too? I could have sworn i remembered him bitching about it about 14 months ago. You might be right, but Tweedie gets most of the blame or credit. Anyhoo, ext3 ReiserFS are filesystems that i will never ever willingly use again.

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: Still the best...

2002-06-22 Thread Kurt Wall
Also sprach Bruce Marshall: On Saturday 22 June 2002 12:32 pm, Terence McCarthy wrote: On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 10:12:15 -0400 Bruce Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. Go on, list them. I didn't make that statement It was

Re: slack 8.1

2002-06-23 Thread Kurt Wall
Also sprach Ken Moffat: I installed Slack 8.1 from the iso, ran xf86config and startx, but the (virtual?) screen is too large for my monitor, and scrolls to the bottom and right when I move my mouse pointer to the edge. I'm pretty sure it's a /etc/X11/XF86Config issue, but I'm not sure

Re: Practical limit to PATH statement length?

2002-06-24 Thread Kurt Wall
Also sprach James McDonald: all, Just wondering if linux has an upper limit to the $PATH length... Have been installing apps in /usr/local/app_name and PATH is becoming a war and peace book. There is, but it's something like 1024 or 2048 characters. To shorten PATH, you can create

Re: Slackware 8.1 experiences

2002-06-25 Thread Kurt Wall
Also sprach Ken Moffat: Is there a printer config tool? (my HP840c won't work for some reason. I tried kde print tool but no luck) Command line 'lpr' works, but can't print from X. /usr/share/apsfilter/SETUP Kurt -- Baker's First Law of Federal Geometry: A block grant is a solid

Re: ransom love leaves as caldera ceo

2002-06-27 Thread Kurt Wall
Also sprach dep: http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=117 'Ransom Love is recognized as a key thought leader and luminary in the Linux and UNIX industry and working closely with him will be a great opportunity,' said McBride, also in the release. Key thought

Re: hey alan bryant!

2002-07-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Also sprach Net Llama!: Considering how he stopped responding to email about 7 months ago, i'm not too surprised. its like he dropped off the face of the earth (and too my money with him, seriously). Eew. Bummer. Kurt -- Hoping to goodness is not theologically sound. - Peanuts

Re: NPR - Lindows + WalMart

2002-07-14 Thread Kurt Wall
Also sprach Ken Moffat: On Morning Edition on NPR this morning they had a special on Walmart selling lindows computers. Not a bad audio clip. If you'd like to hear it check www.npr.org, then under programs choose Morning Edition, Latest program, and scroll down to the Lindows link. (You

Re: glibc, ldconfig, and ignorance (attachement)

2002-09-17 Thread Kurt Wall
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 02:59:06PM -0400, Net Llama! wrote: Well, this seems a bit worrisome: ldconfig: Cannot stat /usr/lib/libcurses.so: No such file or directory Try: # ln -s /usr/lib/libncurses.so /usr/lib/libcurses.so Kurt ___ Linux-users

Re: Rant......

2002-09-18 Thread Kurt Wall
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 02:01:49PM +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: I thought the Herd project was older than Linux. It just never really took off. Linux is what Hurd was supposed to be, more or less. Right? I think RS is po'd that Linux beat Herd to the punch. Hurd had some, um, development

Re: Update GCC from 2.95.2: 2.95.3, 3.1.1, or 3.2?

2002-09-18 Thread Kurt Wall
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:48:02AM -0400, Net Llama! wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Tim Wunder wrote: OK, Caldera eW3.1 base install (but I guess by now it's a far cry from that...) with updated kernel 2.4.18 with preepmt patch, and glibc 2.2.5. I've been having a persnickety atexit problem

Re: unitedlinux news conference

2002-09-20 Thread Kurt Wall
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:55:26AM -0400, Tim Wunder wrote: Did anybody else get two copies of this e-mail? [snippage] Yes. Kurt ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: system crashed?

2002-09-20 Thread Kurt Wall
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:00:01PM +0800, m.w.chang wrote: it really crashed the system. pondering why... cd /proc cd devices cat * connection to server lost Hmm. On my systems, /proc/devices is a file, not a directory. K ___

Pittsburgh Mirror Offline Until 26/09/2002

2002-09-25 Thread Kurt Wall
All, My mirror of the SxS will be offline until late tonight, Wednesday September 25, 2002 or early tomorrow morning, Thursday, September 26, 2002, while I take remedial and preventive measures against the Apache/SSL worm(s). Sorry for the inconvenience. Kurt

Re: Apache Worm

2002-09-25 Thread Kurt Wall
Also sprach stayler: Hi Guys. This may seem a simplistic question but here it goes. I take it the fix for this SSL exploit is to build the latest OpenSSL, 0.9.6g, and then rebuild Apache against it? Or is it to rebuild modssl agains the new libraries? I'd like to understand this a

Re: beyond.linuxfromscratch.org

2002-10-11 Thread Kurt Wall
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:48:39AM -0400, Douglas J Hunley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 m.w.chang spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: :( Mr. Hunley's linux-sxs won this time. was there any doubt? :) Of course not. What a silly question! K

Re: Need help with PPP Server Setup Please.

2002-11-25 Thread Kurt Wall
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:51:07PM +, DragonsFireBurns wrote: [...] When I do ; ls -al of /usr/sbin/pppd (or /sbin/pppd) should look like this: Try ls /usr/sbin/pppd /sbin/pppd Kurt ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mount image and archive files

2002-11-26 Thread Kurt Wall
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 05:50:30PM +0800, m.w.chang wrote: we all knew how to mount an iso cd image file. i wonder whether it's possible to mount other formats: nrg and cue+bin under linux. how about tar.gz, tar, rpm, rar and zip? something like winrar 3.0 for Win$ is doing, but via a

Re: this is pretty cool

2002-11-26 Thread Kurt Wall
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:43:39PM -0500, dep wrote: [Rick Moen flamage] jeeezus. sorry i brought it up. i like the guy. ROFLMAO! Kurt ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: Alternate EtherExpressPro/100 Driver

2002-11-26 Thread Kurt Wall
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:27:36PM -0500, Matthew Carpenter wrote: I've been using it quite nicely for some time now. Caldera included it in their 2.4.13 kernel Addon package for COL311. I didn't realize that it wasn't a 2.4.13 module until one day I was scanning through the packages and

Re: this is pretty cool

2002-11-27 Thread Kurt Wall
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:16:14AM -0500, Net Llama! wrote: Hey, at least i don't have a blond mane, hawaiian shirt, short shorts on. every day of the year. with a fine coating of dandruff on my shoulders at all times. and BO strong enough to kill a muskox. oh, wait, did i say that

Re: postscript question

2002-11-27 Thread Kurt Wall
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:58:45PM +0200, Jorge Bravo Abad wrote: Hi, I would like to know how to convert a plot save in a file .ps to a file .eps in order to insert this plot in a latex2e file. I have tried to open the file with gimp and xfig and after save it to file.eps but the result has a

Re: [OT] Andrew Matthews Read This, Please

2003-01-06 Thread Kurt Wall
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 08:21:17AM -0700, Andrew Mathews wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew, I'm Andy, not Matthew. Sorry, Andy. I could have sworn I wrote Andrew Matthews, but it was early. I'm unable to send you email: Reporting-MTA: dns; marta.kurtwerks.com

Re: KPF

2003-01-11 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Ted Ozolins wrote: % [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % % Kde Pukes Flawlessly ;-) % % Yeah, but it does it in full technicolor G You've got a point there, Ted. Kurt -- If a camel flies, no one laughs if it doesn't get very far. -- Paul White

Re: Reply-to is fixed

2003-01-12 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Douglas J Hunley wrote: % -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- % Hash: SHA1 % % seems the upgrade to mailman 2.1 did some weird things with my settings. they % should be fixed on all the lists now. let me know personally (not to the % lists) if things still aren't right 'kay.

Re: New CD won't play

2003-01-12 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Federico Voges wrote: [PGP noise snipped] % Congratulations. You've just been bitten by RIAA and digital rights % management, that is, by RIAA managing your digital rights and deciding % on your behalf where you can play your music. I'd return the CD as % defective, because

Re: New CD won't play

2003-01-12 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote: % On Saturday 11 January 2003 11:07 am, someone claiming to be David A. Bandel % wrote: [...] % DRM (digital rights manglement, RIAA digitally mangling your rights). % Take it back and tell them it's defective, you can't play it in your % computer's CD.

Re: New CD won't play

2003-01-12 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote: % On Sunday 12 January 2003 10:41 am, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall wrote: % Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote: % % On Saturday 11 January 2003 11:07 am, someone claiming to be David A. % Bandel % wrote: % % [...] % % % DRM (digital rights

Re: Reply-to is fixed

2003-01-12 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, stayler wrote: % Apparently Mailman is the list manager du jour? Was there something % wretched about majordomo? It's a bitch to administer. Kurt -- Don't go surfing in South Dakota for a while. ___ Linux-users mailing list

Re: Reply-to is fixed

2003-01-13 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, stayler wrote: % That's always a good reason. Thanks In addition, setting up archiving, digests, and other features folks have come to expect of modern mailing lists is easier to accomplish with Mailman than Majordomo. Kurt -- Political T.V. commercials prove one

Re: mozilla profile in use

2003-01-13 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote: % On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Bruce Marshall wrote: % On Monday 13 January 2003 9:08 am, Ken Moffat wrote: % Collins wrote: % Mozilla expert wanted, please! [tale of woe] % Additionally, in the same directory, there is a file called XUL.mfasl % which can get

Re: what's the point of /etc/cron.d?

2003-01-15 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, m.w.chang wrote: % % most distributions use xinetd not inetd Not so. Kurt -- Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stupid scripting question -- FAQ-ish

2003-01-20 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote: % On Monday 20 January 2003 1:21 pm, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: % On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: % On 1/20/2003 12:38 PM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: %A non-sendmail specific version: %mail -s GNUCash update [EMAIL

Re: Gimp: Arrow Heads: solved

2003-01-22 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Joel Hammer wrote: [how to make arrows using the GIMP] % Somehow, this ought to be easier. Agreed. I use xfig, which has a handy template (flowcharts) for doing this. Kurt -- We must remember the First Amendment which protects any shrill jackass no matter how self-seeking.

Re: OT Tux

2003-01-24 Thread Kurt Wall
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:56:40PM -0600, Rick Sivernell wrote: List At the below url is a place to get stickers of Tux, first it is great sticker, but it is in Germany, I speak no German and do not know the money system. If someone overthere can check out the site and tell me how much

Re: Updated Step

2003-01-26 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Douglas J Hunley wrote: % -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- % Hash: SHA1 % % Nobody spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: % Kurt Wall has just updated http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman.html to % incorporate the following: Fixed typos, added Mailman logo % % shit

Infrared?

2003-01-26 Thread Kurt Wall
Hello, list, Using Alan Cox's dmidecode utility, I discovered that one of my boxen apparently has an IR connector: Handle 0x001B DMI type 8, 9 bytes. Port Connector Internal Designator: IR1 Internal Connector Type: Infrared External Designator: IR1

Re: re-compiling apache

2003-01-26 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, m.w.chang wrote: % % I am learning to re-compile apache, and for milk's sake, % why would the installation script touched the /usr/include/ctype.h? % As a result, after I used checkinstall to make install, a subsequent % and rpm -e apache would delete /usr/include/ctype.h.

Re: re-compiling apache

2003-01-26 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, m.w.chang wrote: % I noticed that the `make install` ran chmod on /usr/include/*.h. and % this may be why checkinstall included the file. I think the % installation script just copied some *.h files to /usr/incldue, but too % lazy to write each each *.h a chmod statement.

Re: Infrared?

2003-01-26 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Ted Ozolins wrote: % Kurt Wall wrote: % % Hello, list, % % Using Alan Cox's dmidecode utility, I discovered that one of my % boxen apparently has an IR connector: % % Handle 0x001B %DMI type 8, 9 bytes. %Port Connector %Internal Designator: IR1

Re: mp3 volume question

2003-01-27 Thread Kurt Wall
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:29:14AM -0500, dep wrote: speaking of which . . . i just set up sound on my wife's machine, which is running suse. it has been a zillion years since i added sound to a linux machine. the volume is *way* too low. i remember there being a commandline app that

Re: Well known port number quesation ...

2003-01-27 Thread Kurt Wall
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 12:32:22PM -0600, Ben Duncan wrote: Ok .. remote lpd/lpr request go to WHICH port number ... 35 , 515 ? printer 515/tcp spooler # line printer spooler printer 515/udp spooler # line printer spooler CUPS uses IPP (Internet

Re: Re: Sco Linux 4 issue - SOLVED

2003-01-27 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Jack Berger wrote: % Suse 7.x has the same problem. It's due to Yast2 seeing Pentium 4 as an SMP % installation. % % http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_noapic.html % http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/disableapic.html %

Re: COL 3.1.1 on ftp.iso.caldera.com [2]

2003-01-27 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, m.w.chang wrote: % thank you. that's my point. % % I would love someone to mail me his/her working cdrom via surface mail. % I could afford a few USD. Send me an address in private email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and I'll send you copies of the CDs I burned. Kurt -- Boston, n.:

Re: Step by Step addon suggestion...

2003-01-27 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Jerry McBride wrote: % On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:21:28 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % % with linux: http://www.linuxcompatible.org % % All I get from this url is a blank page... Maybe slammer got it... :') Works for me... Kurt -- It's not reality or how you perceive things

Re: linux from nothing

2003-01-29 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, dep wrote: % begin Kurt Wall's quote: % | Feigning erudition, James Bonnet wrote: % | % | [...] % | % | % kinda like if I made a new OS jimbix on xenix or something... =) % | % | Jimbix! I like that. % % yup. i loved it as a kid -- getting up in the morning and having a big

Re: linux from nothing

2003-01-29 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote: % % Redhat-7.0 had a seriously broken gcc implimentation. 8.0 has a beta % release of glibc. All the intermediate releases had no such problems, % and use standards compliant releases of gcc glibc. I beg your pardon, but Red Hat 7.3 still used GCC 2.96:

Re: linux from nothing

2003-01-30 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote: % On 01/29/03 19:42, Kurt Wall wrote: % Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote: % % % % Redhat-7.0 had a seriously broken gcc implimentation. 8.0 has a beta % % release of glibc. All the intermediate releases had no such problems, % % and use standards

Re: email RFC's?

2003-01-30 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Andrew Mathews wrote: % I've been searching for a reference to any specifications concerning % maximum message sizes for email. I've googled a fair amount but not % found anything specific other than RFC 1870 which doesn't give a % commonly accepted maximum size, just a 64k

Re: combining images

2003-02-02 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Rick Sivernell wrote: % List % % Is there away to convert MS type icons *.ico to png or some useable % format for programming? Quick easy would be preferred as a batch if % possible. ImageMagick will do this: $ convert some.ico some.png Kurt -- At no time is freedom of

Re: Playing my first DVD...

2003-02-02 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Jerry McBride wrote: % % I just played my first DVD on my linux box tonight. Beautiful. I'm running % XINE and the only thing I had to add was the libdvdcss library and it all came % into place. % % My first DVD was RED PLANET... excellent. % % Thanks for the SXS, Llama. It

Re: Some help with BIND9 settings!

2003-02-04 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Tasha Smith wrote: % % Hiii...Thank you soo much i really appreciate your patience with me. Setting this % thing up. I will be hanging around this mailling list soo next time someone else % needs help like me i can offer them a hand and if not point them to these post at %

Re: OT What If?

2003-02-04 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Stuart Biggerstaff wrote: % Actually, this sort of points out some fundamental differences between % print and electronic publishers. Print publishers have spent the last % twenty years working to invalidate Fair Use. Electronic ones (software, % music, film) wrote

Re: fetchmail choked on a piece of mail

2003-02-05 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Joel Hammer wrote: % My incoming mail goes to various mail servers on the internet, and I run % fetchmail to get them from various POP servers. % % Today, for the first time in memory, when fetchmail tried getting my mail, % a particular piece of mail kept freezing during the

Re: Savage4 video

2003-02-06 Thread Kurt Wall
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 04:56:19AM -0800, Ken Moffat wrote: Anyone know anything bad about Savage 4 video cards? I see these 32 meg cards in low end boxes. (cheap ones) The Savage4 is supported in the savage driver. You could search the XFree86 lists at www.mail-archive.com for more

Re: A little chuckle ot

2003-02-07 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Collins Richey wrote: % On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 09:27:14 -0800 % Aaron Grewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % % The worst is it's their own fault. If there's a web archive of their % list I haven't found it. % % A simple google archives gentoo-user led me to the archives in about

Re: Alberta Mirror is back on line

2003-02-08 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Ted Ozolins wrote: % Myles Green wrote: % % % Anyway, a new server, a new look, AND a new URL: % http://stepbystep.dnsalias.org % % Hourly Rsync's of the Mother Ship % % Please adjust your bookmarks. % % Thanks! % % % % I'm not sure if its just me or the link on the

Re: Alberta Mirror is back on line

2003-02-08 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Ted Ozolins wrote: % Myles Green wrote: % % % Anyway, a new server, a new look, AND a new URL: % http://stepbystep.dnsalias.org % % Hourly Rsync's of the Mother Ship % % Please adjust your bookmarks. % % Thanks! % % % % I'm not sure if its just me or the link on the

favicon.ico

2003-02-08 Thread Kurt Wall
Many Web sites (www.mozilla.org and slashdot come to mind) have a little icon that appears at the beginning of the URL in the address bar of Web browsers and on tabs and in (some) bookmark pages. Several questions: 1) Is this icon a Windows .ico format file or what? 2) What are the requirements,

Re: OT a gd jb

2003-02-08 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Jack Berger wrote: % Thanks, bt i thnk i alrdy gt 1. % OR % at lst i dd ystrd. ;-) % From: Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] % f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng. Kurt -- There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved

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 ___

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 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: 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 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: Tom Condon...

2003-02-10 Thread Kurt Wall
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 08:13:15AM -0800, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Kurt Wall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] typed thusly on Sunday, February 09, 2003 3:43 PM: ...the shell option you want is dotglob, or, rather, to disable dotglob. From the bash manual page: dotglob

Re: How do I change from ext3 to ext2?

2003-02-10 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote: % I think all you need to do is remount it as ext2. But this doesn't turn off the has_journal bit on the FS. Kurt -- To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated but not be able to say it. ___ Linux-users mailing

Re: favicon.ico

2003-02-10 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Ian Stephen wrote: % There's some good information % here...http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/articles/favicon.html Thanks for the link. Alas, it doesn't start out well, though: 'This little icon is called a favicon, and it works only in Explorer 5 and above. If your

Re: favicon.ico

2003-02-10 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Ian Stephen wrote: % Well, I should have seen that coming. How 'bout % http://mail.ort.edu.ar/penguin/ ROFLMAO! It's no big deal, Ian. I'm got the little icon showing up now, so I'm fat, dumb, happy, and one smidgen geekier than I was a couple of days ago. Thanks again. K --

Re: How do I change from ext3 to ext2?

2003-02-10 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Gerry Doris wrote: % On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Jerry McBride wrote: % % % Gerry Doris wrote: % I want to do some disk rearranging and it would be really convenient if my % partition were ext2 instead of ext3. % % % From the EXT3.FAQ % % Q: How do I convert my ext3

Re: slightly OT DVD jitters

2003-02-11 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote: % I've had a DVD player for a bit over a year, and today, suddenly % whenever I play any DVD, the picture jitters. Sound quality is fine, % but the picture just shakes up down. This is with the same version of % Xine that i've been using for quite a

Re: Question about the linux-sxs.org web site...

2003-02-11 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Bob Hemus wrote: % tom wrote: % % Greets all, % % This message was originally intended % for the admins for linux-sxs.org; % snip % % Now when accessing the http://www.linux-sxs.org % site now, instead of the index I get a directory %

Wierd log Messages

2003-02-12 Thread Kurt Wall
Okay, list, this one has me stumped. Every day, at approximately 2:10 a.m., I get the following log message in my debug log: luther kernel: nsm_mon_unmon: rpc failed, status=-13 Grepping the logs shows it is pretty consistent: # grep nsm_mon_unmon /var/log/* debug:Feb 3 02:10:57 luther

Re: Need help moving to Linux from win2k

2003-02-12 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Mike Griffin wrote: % I was given this E-mail from a fellow Linux user, he said you all might % be able to help. I apologize if this is inappropriate for this mailing. % Can any on help me with finding the following list of needed solutions? % % We want the following

Re: Wierd log Messages

2003-02-12 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote: % Could this be it? %

Re: favicon.ico

2003-02-13 Thread Kurt Wall
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:46:03AM -0500, Tim Wunder wrote: On 2/13/2003 9:56 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Douglas J Hunley wrote: Kurt Wall spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: It ain't happenin', dude. However, if i added the magic

Re: favicon.ico

2003-02-13 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote: [I claim I did] % You did? % Hmmm % I don't recall seeing that... At least I thought I did (say what I said I said, that is). % FWIW, I just tested it with Mozilla 1.0.1 that came with RH 8 and it works % swimmingly... Hmm. % Added %

Re: How do I know which distro I am running on?

2003-02-13 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Susan Macchia wrote: % Hi all, % % Does anyone know how I can find out which distro I am running on? I can use % uname to find the kernel and basic OS (i686-Linux vs. ia64-Linux, for example), % but I need to know more than that because the same combinations can be found on %

Re: Why doesn't rdev work?

2003-02-13 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Gerry Doris wrote: % I've been playing with rdev on a Redhat 8.0 system. If I create a % bootdisk using mkbootdisk it works just fine. % % Running rdev correctly gives the result of % % /dev/hda3 (ie. root is on /dev/hda3) % % If I run % % rdev /dev/fd0 % % on the newly

Re: slightly OT DVD jitters

2003-02-13 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote: % On 02/11/03 16:35, Kurt Wall wrote: % Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote: % % I've had a DVD player for a bit over a year, and today, suddenly % % whenever I play any DVD, the picture jitters. Sound quality is fine, % % but the picture just shakes up

Re: xfree86-4.3.0?? (kurt maybe)

2003-02-16 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote: % Has anyone heard anything about when XFree86-4.3.0 will be officially % released? Last I heard (about 3 weeks ago) was that it was slated for % Feb-15, but that's come gone, and still no final build that I can find. % % Kurt, i know you're fairly active

Re: External USB harddrives...

2003-02-17 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Joel Hammer wrote: % Regarding the snow, I feel your pain, and a lot more. % % Here in Baltimore, I spent two 4 hours day shovelling my driveway out. I % am hoping the snowplows finally come by tomorrow. That would be day four % since the storm started. Right -- just in time

XFree 4.3.0 Tentative Schedule

2003-02-17 Thread Kurt Wall
Lonnie asked about the 4.3.0 release schedule. This just in from the XFree86 list(s): Code freeze (critical fixes and doc updates only)21 Feb 2003 Last submission date for doc updates 25 Feb 2003 4.3.0 tagged for release 27 Feb 2003 Kurt

Re: XFree 4.3.0 Tentative Schedule

2003-02-18 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Rick Sivernell wrote: % Lonnie / Kurt % %Is this r4elease a one that we should be moving to? % What are your thoghts about 4.3, enlighten educate us. % cheers 4.3 has better support for a number of cards, better anti-aliasing support, and improved hardware detection --

Re: XFree 4.3.0 Tentative Schedule

2003-02-19 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Rick Sivernell wrote: % Kurt % %Many thanks for the heads up here on Xfree 4.3. I will need to view % the change log. Here are some highlights from the draft release notes: * Mesa 4.0.4 is included for OpenGL(tm) support. * AMD x86-64 support. * Support for

Re: XFree 4.3.0 Tentative Schedule

2003-02-19 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote: % On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Kurt Wall wrote: % * An Xcursor library for alpha blended and animated cursors. % % I dont' suppose that I could convince you to write a SxS on setting this % up? I could be persuaded. I have some notes I used. Its remarkably simple

Re: Sudo in a cron job question

2003-02-19 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote: [...] % Um, no. I *am* trying to run the working script via a cron job, as my % normal user. But it don't work. I've configured sudo so that it doesn't % ask for a password when my user tries to run 'sudo checkinstall'. When I % put that in my script and

Re: Sudo in a cron job question

2003-02-19 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote: % On 2/19/2003 1:56 PM, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall wrote: % Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote: [...] % So, you're using authenticate NOPASSWD flag or some such? % % Something like that.. the relevant portion of my /etc/sudoers file % % User_Alias

Re: Perf problems with Samba -- ext3? [was: Re: How do I changefrom ext3 to ext2?]

2003-02-19 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Zoki wrote: % Le 11/02/2003 01:37, ??Bruce Marshall?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] a ?crit?: % % On Monday 10 February 2003 18:17 pm, Gerry Doris wrote: % I want to do some disk rearranging and it would be really convenient % if my partition were ext2 instead of ext3. % % snip % %

Re: Perf problems with Samba -- ext3? [was: Re: How do I changefrom ext3 to ext2?]

2003-02-19 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Zoki wrote: % Le 19/02/2003 23:12, ??Kurt Wall?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] a ?crit?: % % snip % % % % *** Did anybody notice any performance issues between Samba and ext3 % % compared to Samba and ext2? % % *** Well no, I'm not concerned directly but there was some talk in my

Re: New graphical login manager wdm

2003-02-21 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Collins wrote: % FYI, % % A user on another group pointed out this package, and I like it. Wdm is based % on xdm, but it allows you complete choice of Session type, reboot or % shutdown, etc. from the gui login panel. % % The home page is : http://voins.program.ru/wdm/ %

Re: New graphical login manager wdm

2003-02-21 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: % How does this fit in with xfce - aren't they both window managers? It's a display manager, like xdm, kdm, and gdm... Kurt -- Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency. -- Richard Nixon

Re: OTHAPPY B-DAY KURT!

2003-02-21 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, DOUGLAS HUNLEY wrote: % I know I'm probably a day late (or early) but I know it's around here soon, so Happy B-Day! Two days early: on February 23rd, I'll be 29 again. ;-) Thanks for the congratulations. My father sent his condolences. ;-) Kurt -- When a fellow says, It

Re: OTHAPPY B-DAY KURT!

2003-02-22 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Tony Alfrey wrote: % On Friday 21 February 2003 08:34 pm, Kurt Wall wrote: % Feigning erudition, DOUGLAS HUNLEY wrote: % % I know I'm probably a day late (or early) but I know it's around % here soon, so Happy B-Day! % % Two days early: on February 23rd, I'll be 29 again

Re: Connection errors to sxs.lists.linux-users

2003-02-22 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: % I get errors that I've never seen before when I try to connect to this % newsgroup.: % % 400 loadav (inn:) 1705 gt 1500 % % I assume the server is overloaded and has too many connections?? Looks like the server is overloaded: the load averge is

Re: OT Re: Ogg

2003-02-22 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Tony Alfrey wrote: % On Saturday 22 February 2003 11:11 am, Joel Hammer wrote: % Question: Does anyone know where to get a plugin libvorbis.so that % works with xmms version 1.0.0 for playing ogg files ? % % So so so so what's what's what's what's with with with with the the

Re: CGI question: Popup boxes

2003-02-22 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Joel Hammer wrote: % Using CGI scripts on the server, written in bash, is there a way to tell the % browser to open a new window to receive output? I suppose you could use a little bit of JavaScript to open a popup window. Kurt -- The problem with any unwritten law is that

Re: Connection errors to sxs.lists.linux-users

2003-02-23 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: % I must have missed something here - my reader shows my post, then this one. % % Is there a problem with the sxs news server? Processing differences between the news server and the mail server, I suspect. [...] Kurt -- A rock pile ceases to be a

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