Re: Overriding SuSe Defaults.

2002-06-21 Thread Matthew Carpenter
This is a nice entry in /server.log On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:29:42 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you don't mind a horrible hack, there's a fairly easy way to do this. Just go ahead and let Yast install whatever it wants. Then use rpm to find all the files it installed (rpm

Re: mozilla 1.1a

2002-06-18 Thread Matthew Carpenter
What's up with that special message Printing is not implemented yet or somethingorother when running mozilla (1.0) from a shell? On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:16:45 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, m.w.chang wrote: can you print webpages/messages with mozilla

Re: M$ at it again - funny

2002-06-18 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Nice. So this site makes itself look like news.com? So what do we make of the stories? Are they pure humor or slander? On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 10:13:25 -0400 Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got this link from another list. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-935994.html?legacy=cnettag=lthd

Re: Would someone recommend...

2002-06-18 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Offline Book Manager? Could you explain further? What kind of books? Accounting data? pdf's of books? what? On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 21:32:27 -0400 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a linux app that would be considered the ultimate, offline bookmark manager. I'm looking

Re: Noteworthy News Item

2002-06-18 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Can you post it? I am about subscribed out. I get so much junk-email that I'm taking a break from registering from anything superfluous. On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 05:01:56 -0400 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From America's Paper of Record ;-)

Re: Getting email remotely

2002-06-18 Thread Matthew Carpenter
That would depend on your email client and server. My choice would be running COLS for the email server (which includes stunnel) and Sylpheed for the email client on a Linux box. COLS can be configured using stunnel to provide SMTPS and by default offers SPOP3 and SIMAP (these protocols through

Re: RTFM on /proc/sys/net?

2002-06-15 Thread Matthew Carpenter
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps Thanks, Michael ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. -- Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL

Re: gphoto install

2002-06-10 Thread Matthew Carpenter
No. I know that on the Mustek MDC800 camera, you (can?) use gphoto, set it up as a MDC800 (or MDC8000) camera, and for the path, use /dev/usb/mdc800 I know this works. I am not aware whether this camera can be mounted and accessed like a disk. But the point is, this camera is a

Re: where does caldera

2002-06-09 Thread Matthew Carpenter
rpm -ql qt rpm -ql qt2 On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 08:01:39 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: where does caldera keep qt /lib or /usr/lib, I have forgotten and qt resides in both on mine obviously my fault Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061

Re: gphoto install

2002-06-07 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Ditto. On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 16:22:51 +0200 Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A readme? Why was the original poster trying to run it? I was wondering at the uppercase name. ___ Linux-users mailing list -

Re: gphoto install

2002-06-07 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I have little USB camera experience, but when setting up my dad's MDC8000 for him, it was as simple as plugging it in and telling gphoto what and where is was (/dev/usb/mdc8000), which was exactly like what I did for the serial-connection. On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 16:37:29 +0200 Roger Oberholtzer

Re: Shut UP! Konqueror

2002-06-06 Thread Matthew Carpenter
You know, I just realized last night that the configuration piece in KDE Control Center on my box was put there by Caldera, and not part of the KDE packages The only way I figured this out was that while showing a friend how to change CD-automated settings, I clicked KControl -Peripherals -

Re: Question PCMCIA

2002-06-06 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Are you getting dhcp on the cards or using a staticly assigned address? What is the result if you type ifconfig -a? If there is an eth0 listed, what is the IP Address? If not, try ifconfig eth0 pick an IP address up and try the ifconfig -a again. On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 21:49:18 -0500 Richard R.

Re: Newbie like question on KDE upgrade

2002-06-06 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I prefer using wget. Once you learn the location of the ftp:// files, use a command line and type: wget -cm ftp://ftp.somehwere.com/pub/wherever/* If the transfer dies, run this again and wget will recover where you left off. It will create a directory in the current directory called

Re: gphoto install

2002-06-06 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Permission Denied as root? Strange. Unless INSTALL doesn't have eXecute permission for root... do the following from a command line (or the GUI equivalent) from the directory where INSTALL is located: chmod oga+x INSTALL On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 11:30:34 -0400 Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee

Re: KVM recommendations?

2002-06-04 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I used a couple a couple years ago, named MasterView or MasterSwitch... They worked really well, but I never tried NT on them. Linux and 9x worked flawlessly (except when the KVM lost power or got shut off. Then you have to bounce Windows or restart X) On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 14:12:05 -0700 Condon

Re: KVM recommendations?

2002-06-04 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Be careful if you choose a cheap one, as I bought two that don't work at all. They'd be better off as Video switches. On Mon, 03 Jun 2002 17:06:29 -0400 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would anyone recommend a KVM brand, modle or other? I've got a situation that's perfect for one,

Re: printing in OpenOffice.org 1.0 calc

2002-06-04 Thread Matthew Carpenter
What printer driver are you using in OOo? Mine show up and work correctly by default using CUPS/OOo1.0 but in the older SO releases, you set up the driver within SO. Perhaps you had a special driver set up is SO and the printer isn't PostScript capable? On Mon, 03 Jun 2002 21:39:34 -0700

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-04 Thread Matthew Carpenter
2002 10:02:24 -0400 Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Carpenter spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: Hey Doug- Can you make resources available for Member-spun RPM's? I have seen some serious lacking of space

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-03 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Hey Doug- Can you make resources available for Member-spun RPM's? I have seen some serious lacking of space for RPMs built for certain distros... :( Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems a lot of potential talk about crafting our own distro. You folks serious? Who's got the

Re: Screenshot captures

2002-06-03 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I always use ksnapshot. It's part of KDE and I haven't tried it in Gnome or any other wm... It allows you the option of capturing the whole screen or just one window. In the latter case, it allows you to set a timeout for you to get the cursor in the correct window, otherwise it takes a

Re: linux kernel recompile

2002-05-29 Thread Matthew Carpenter
The .spec file is used with rpm to create the .rpm files we all know and love. Inside it contains information like package description, files included, dependencies, configure/make procedures, installation/removal procedures, etc Look at an existing one to see what I mean... Checkinstall

Re: OT Video CD

2002-05-29 Thread Matthew Carpenter
How about converting ASF and DiVX movies to VCD? My DVD player will handle CDR/VCD's but not cd's with ASF or DiVX (WMP-style AVI). On Wed, 29 May 2002 09:50:24 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 May 2002, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2002 09:51:45 -0400

Re: 75 days and still perking...

2002-05-29 Thread Matthew Carpenter
That and that wierd voice that keeps telling you to blow up a bus... or the ability to read minds... or the handy third eye on your kids... (I live 80 feet from the main power-towers, so I can joke) On Tue, 28 May 2002 13:57:37 -0700 (PDT) Keith Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geophysically,

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread Matthew Carpenter
1 Celeron 300-450 running COLS3.1 with Multimedia packages from COLW 1 P133 running SuSE 7.1 1 Cyrix 6x86 P120+ running MDK 8.1 (COL3.1.x stiffed this box) 1 Cyrix 6x86 P166+ running Win98 (wife) 1 P150 running MDK 8.0 1 Compaq Armada7800 400MHz running COLW3.1.1 1 PII-400 running MDK 8.1 2 P200

Re: OT How many Boxen?

2002-05-29 Thread Matthew Carpenter
How is the Gaming Edition anyway? On Tue, 28 May 2002 19:12:16 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * An AMD K6-450 with Mandrake Gaming Edition (8.1) ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-28 Thread Matthew Carpenter
. Anderrssonnn :) On Fri, 24 May 2002 14:15:02 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 24 May 2002 11:13, Matthew Carpenter wrote: wwwWRROOOuuuwuwSCREECHhhh Sorry. You asked for feedback Sounds like a great idea. BTW- Your nickname

Re: KDE 3.0.1 is out

2002-05-28 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Some of the only issues I've run into with it blowing up on me have been related to the .DCOP and socket links when I do something out of the ordinary. I'd kind of prefer that these were deleted at start up (softlinks from .kde and .kde2 to /tmp/...) because while I can figure them out, I always

Re: backup systems

2002-05-28 Thread Matthew Carpenter
controversy RAID is not a replacement for backup. It is a complement to a good backup system. Many will tell you that Tape Backup is slow, antiquated, and no to be trusted. I would not begin to argue these issues either way. I would say this: If you will NOT be using a Tape Backup (or CD, or

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-28 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Actually, KDE used Kandalf... On Fri, 24 May 2002 10:55:16 -0400 Leon A. Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Scottaline wrote inter alia: Sounds like a great idea. BTW- Your nickname is skippy, so where does Gandalf come into this sig? Remember I used to use Merlin and my

Re: linux kernel recompile

2002-05-28 Thread Matthew Carpenter
You might try starting with the Caldera SRPMs for 3.1.1. They have the (rather extensive) spec file and default i386 .config file available so you can have a starting point to tweak from... On Sun, 26 May 2002 09:02:29 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am now in Caldera e2.4

Re: I should shutup

2002-05-28 Thread Matthew Carpenter
What happened? Have you been able to determine what the problems were? Have you removed possible problems? What's your hardware look like? On Mon, 27 May 2002 07:10:11 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 26 May 2002 23:01, Tony Alfrey wrote: I had problems like this

Re: Linuxandmain

2002-05-28 Thread Matthew Carpenter
On Tue, 28 May 2002 06:30:52 -0400 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there's a certain segment of the linux community that seems to love nothing more than a good lynching, to its and linux's detriment. Nicely put. ___ Linux-users mailing list -

Re: OT Video CD

2002-05-28 Thread Matthew Carpenter
What do you currently use for video editing? I'm hoping to do some video conversion/possible editing in the future and would like to know what others are using and their opinions. Matt On Tue, 28 May 2002 09:51:45 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, all i've got are

Re: 75 days and still perking...

2002-05-28 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Hey, even recycled parts CAN last a long time, if given the right OS... :) On Tue, 28 May 2002 13:44:19 -0400 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scribbling feverishly on May 26, Tyler Regas managed to emit: With the esxception of 31.5 logged and planned downtime hours, 1.5 unplanned

Re: Question

2002-05-23 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Thanks. You learn something new every day! On Wed, 22 May 2002 17:52:53 -0400 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Port 115. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and

Re: a crackpot idea i had

2002-05-23 Thread Matthew Carpenter
i386 doesn't NECESSARILY mean anything, but it is supposed to mean that the code was compiled specially for the i686 architecture. As for SuSE RPMS, there is a very slim chance that SuSE RPMs will work on Caldera. SuSE sticks nearly ALL their stuff in different places as opposed to the

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-23 Thread Matthew Carpenter
On Wed, 22 May 2002 16:37:21 -0700 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My one beef (other than the price!) right now is the inability to install the yahoo messenger rpm; dependency problems. I went with gaim instead. works well. I still don't understand this one. I suppose I did a --nodeps

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-23 Thread Matthew Carpenter
On Wed, 22 May 2002 18:31:42 -0600 Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Skippy is just trying to tell me what we all learned along the way. Caldera was never especially good at providing updates (except for security), and the Caldera file setup was sufficiently different, that most RPMS

Re: backing up a laptop

2002-05-23 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I could be wrong about the exact syntax, since I haven't done it in a while... I believe something along the lines of: tar zxf - / |ssh backuphostname cat backup.laptop.tgz Or something to that extent. It's been a while and I never really used it much. It should feed the contents of the

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-23 Thread Matthew Carpenter
begin Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, 23 May 2002 15:33:18 -0600) snip While I support the concept of developing your own distro (it's good clean fun and educational and who could resist a Skippy distro grin), I question the long term viability. Either you choose an RPM binary distro, in

Re: Installation Guide for OO

2002-05-22 Thread Matthew Carpenter
On Tue, 07 May 2002 07:56:18 -0600 BOF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that in order to use this, you have to have Open Office installed as it is in an open office file format. ROFL ___ Linux-users mailing list -

Re: CheckPoint Firewall.

2002-05-22 Thread Matthew Carpenter
My input is about CheckPoint FireWall-1 in general. I have only run CheckPoint on Solaris and Nokia's, but what I can tell you is still valid for consideration: Their product is a good product. Very powerful and fairly easy to use Their included management GUI is only for Windows. An

Re: FreeSCO vs. SmoothWall

2002-05-22 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Things I like to look for in Firewall solutions: Are they connection tracking (ie. do they use Linux 2.4 kernel)? Smoothwall DID NOT last I knew. I don't know anything about Freesco. On Wed, 22 May 2002 12:00:28 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/22/2002 10:50 AM, someone

Re: And now...., from our unlimited /hutzpah/ department

2002-05-02 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Check out this one: Tales Of The UneXPected A Windows XP installation brings welcome stability, but legacy software can cause interoperability headaches and require unexpected upgrades for both hardware and software. http://computerworld.com/nlt/1%2C3590%2CNAV47_STO70559_NLTOS%2C00.html And

Nice move Caldera...

2002-05-02 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Caldera Announces Support For Other Linux Versions Linux users will now have more choices for service and support as Caldera announces broad support for other brands of Linux, including distributions from Red Hat, SuSE and MandrakeSoft.

Re: speed of transfer

2002-04-16 Thread Matthew Carpenter
adventuring with new products. Matthew Carpenter wrote: It may be a bit bigger than what you need, but I have to take a moment and plug OpenNMS. It's a very well done Network Management System that collects data using SNMP and service polling, providing a simple yet

Re: KDE 3.0 is out!

2002-04-08 Thread Matthew Carpenter
check /etc/X11/wmsession.d/* On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 22:29:00 -0800 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.1 on the lab rat. Downloaded the KDE3 rpm binaries for man8.1 and did the install. I can run kde3 from the console (runlevel 3) How ever even though kde3 appears in

Re: procmail, day 2

2002-04-08 Thread Matthew Carpenter
what does you config look like? Do the first lines of each rule make sense? Or does procmail think you are listing two lock files? You can typically go without the lockfiles. On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:36:48 -0500 Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 05 April 2002 01:54,

Re: kde3 rocks!

2002-04-08 Thread Matthew Carpenter
What are the caveats to compiling (or did you get SuSE RPMS)? On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:04:19 -0500 Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 05 April 2002 13:02, Net Llama wrote: does it suck? not for me -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778

Re: kde3 rocks!

2002-04-08 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Please. I'd like to see it. Then if anyone would like to host these and any other COL3.1.x RPMs, I would like to supply them. I simply don't have to online-space to take advantage of (yet?). On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 21:39:52 -0500 Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 05 April 2002

Re: kde(3) mutterings

2002-04-08 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Guys! I believe this is a config setting. Don't ask me what it is, but I'm pretty sure of it. On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 21:36:01 -0700 Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the things I don't like is kdm. It seems there used to be a way, but the current kdm has no way to exit X to a normal

Re: Asta La Vista Outlook!

2002-04-03 Thread Matthew Carpenter
begin Rick Sivernell [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, 2 Apr 2002 21:36:32 -0600) sylpheed here Ditto ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above

Re: Ximian/RedCarpet/SuSE 7.2 Question

2002-04-03 Thread Matthew Carpenter
you let me know how to fix it? Thanks. T.J. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. -- Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bind and getting named.root

2002-04-02 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I got the file immediately when I tried. Then, when I attempted to get it again from the same host, it times out. I wonder if they may be limiting d/l's by IP? Or more likely they just have their anonymous count maxxed out. On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 20:45:49 -0800 (PDT) Shawn Tayler [EMAIL

Re: Where is linux.nf ?

2002-03-26 Thread Matthew Carpenter
powertrips.org. IN NS dns1.powertrips.org. www IN A powertrips.org. www IN CNAME powertrips.org. admin IN A powertrips.org. mailIN A 66.28.158.4 @ IN MX 10 66.28.158.4

Re: Linux Games In Web Store?

2002-03-26 Thread Matthew Carpenter
how long they'll be around. IIRC Loki is in reorg, not under. Am I wrong? On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 19:45:28 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the only Linux games company that i ever knew of was Loki, and they went under last month. --- Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Linux Games In Web Store?

2002-03-26 Thread Matthew Carpenter
games company that i ever knew of was Loki, and they went under last month. --- Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for cross-listing this, but I don't recall where this info came from. A while back I followed a link which I'm pretty sure I got off here... and I ended up

Re: In case you like to expirement...

2002-03-26 Thread Matthew Carpenter
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:04:54 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally... having multiple version branches of the linux kernel makes no sense to me. What would you prefer? ___ Linux-users mailing list -

jobs.linux-sxs.org

2002-03-11 Thread Matthew Carpenter
! Matt ps. and let me know so I can try again. The first time I didn't save it and since I used Netscrape I lost it. I had to do it over again and this time I saved it. Both times it took me into the same guy's entry! -- Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e

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