Re: excite@home going down?

2001-11-28 Thread Greg Turpin
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 8:41 pm, you wrote: > It is hard to believe that they wouldn't want to maintain service without > interruption. After all, we are already installed, and shell out $$ every > month for the service. We should be a cash cow for somebody. > This is certainly disgusting,

CD burn error

2001-11-28 Thread Zoran's mailinglist account
Hmmm, I continuously receive this error output from xcdroast which doesn't mean a lot to me. It's a Traxdata IDE burner, the mastering works without a hitch but it's when I try to write the CD that it stops with an error... Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... cdrecord: Input/o

Re: excite@home going down?

2001-11-28 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:41:47PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: >It is hard to believe that they wouldn't want to maintain service without >interruption. After all, we are already installed, and shell out $$ every month >for the service. We should be a cash cow for somebody. >This is certainly disgus

Re: (no subject)

2001-11-28 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thursday 29 November 2001 14:52, Jerry McBride enunciated: > I just left kernel.org and noticed the new 2.5.0 beta kernel sounc was > posted for public consumption... > > Anyone else notice or working with it??? > > I just tossed 2.4.16 onto my test server. I've never had this much fun in > my

(no subject)

2001-11-28 Thread Jerry McBride
I just left kernel.org and noticed the new 2.5.0 beta kernel sounc was posted for public consumption... Anyone else notice or working with it??? I just tossed 2.4.16 onto my test server. I've never had this much fun in my OS/2 days! -- ***

Re: spam

2001-11-28 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 23:13 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > All the spam I get is addressed to my email address.  How would I get > mail that isn't addressed to me? Gee, why don't you whip up a few of those nifty Sylpheed filters and get rid of all your spam? :o) -- +

Re: spam

2001-11-28 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 23:13 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 22:21:04 -0500 Bruce Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 November 2001 20:27 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > > > Here's a good question.  I see a lot of postings about ways of > > > eliminating

Re: spam

2001-11-28 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 22:21:04 -0500 Bruce Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 28 November 2001 20:27 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > > Here's a good question.  I see a lot of postings about ways of > > eliminating spam.  How does one differentiate between spam and > really > > interesti

Re: excite@home going down?

2001-11-28 Thread Joel Hammer
It is hard to believe that they wouldn't want to maintain service without interruption. After all, we are already installed, and shell out $$ every month for the service. We should be a cash cow for somebody. This is certainly disgusting, but, that is the capitalist system. However, to avoid my em

Re: spam

2001-11-28 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 20:27 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > Here's a good question.  I see a lot of postings about ways of > eliminating spam.  How does one differentiate between spam and really > interesting new mail that doesn't happen to come from your known and > most frequent corresponden

Re: excite@home going down?

2001-11-28 Thread burns
On November 28, 2001 07:13 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > I may have an enforced vacation from email coming up. excite@home, > the ISP for my ATT cable connection, is in bankruptcy. ATT Broadband > is trying to buy them out to insure continuous coverage, but no news > yet. Rumor is going around De

Re: [Fwd: [announce] OpenOffice.org Build 641b]

2001-11-28 Thread Ken Moffat
> Previously, Collins Richey chose to write: > > 1> How to deinstall OO (old version) > What I did, to try it out, was extract the download into a directory off my home dir, then make a script that cd's to that directory and runs the 'soffice' script. or just cd to the dir and run ./soffice

spam

2001-11-28 Thread Collins Richey
Here's a good question. I see a lot of postings about ways of eliminating spam. How does one differentiate between spam and really interesting new mail that doesn't happen to come from your known and most frequent correspondents? -- Collins Richey Denver Area gentoo_rc6 k2.4.16+ext3+xfce+sylph

Re: SPAM Denial

2001-11-28 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 04:48:50PM -0500, Matthew Carpenter wrote: >I'm looking for a little help turning on blackholing on my email server >(running sendmail). It looks like the m4 files are there for it, but I am >looking for someone who has implemented it on eS or COL S3.1. I am running >bot

Re: [Fwd: [announce] OpenOffice.org Build 641b]

2001-11-28 Thread Tim Wunder
Previously, Collins Richey chose to write: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:40:41 -0500 Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > FYI.I don't believe Sun will be releasing another beta, so this > > is as close as you're gonna get to a second SO 6.0 beta. > > > > Release notes are here: > > http://www.

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread Tim Wunder
Previously, Collins Richey chose to write: > I liked in Opera. I don't really understand why Galeon (overlay on > top of the Mozilla Gecko engine) is so snappy whereas Mozilla is darn > slow. A question that's been debated on the Mozilla newsgroups for what seems like ages. AFAIK, Galeon doesn'

Re: [Fwd: [announce] OpenOffice.org Build 641b]

2001-11-28 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:40:41 -0500 Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI.I don't believe Sun will be releasing another beta, so this > is as close as you're gonna get to a second SO 6.0 beta. > > Release notes are here: > http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/latest_build/release_notes

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 00:13:06 + dallam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Collins, > This old machine is a 100mhz, 1.2 hdd with 32mb's of ram. I don't > have the space for 30MB's of browser when 4MB's does all I need. > IIRC Mozilla is pretty large also and requires about 233mhz cpu > doesn't it?

Stallman looses

2001-11-28 Thread Collins Richey
Some of you may wish to applaud. Richard Stallman has failed to be elected to the Gnome board of directors. RMS came eighteenth out of 25 candiates, picking up 50 of the 420 eligible votes, and failed to get one of the eleven seats. Check it out at http://lwn.net/daily/ -- Collins Richey Denve

excite@home going down?

2001-11-28 Thread Collins Richey
I may have an enforced vacation from email coming up. excite@home, the ISP for my ATT cable connection, is in bankruptcy. ATT Broadband is trying to buy them out to insure continuous coverage, but no news yet. Rumor is going around Denver that we may have a 2 week outage before ATT Broadband ha

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread dallam
Hi Collins, This old machine is a 100mhz, 1.2 hdd with 32mb's of ram. I don't have the space for 30MB's of browser when 4MB's does all I need. IIRC Mozilla is pretty large also and requires about 233mhz cpu doesn't it? Due to cpu speed and disk space I tend to run only small, fast applications on

Re: Re: new install init

2001-11-28 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:13:34 -0500 Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lee wrote: > > > implement was go back to using 7.1. I think Mandrake, like Caldera > > and Red Hat have adopted the M$ new distro development model. > >After releasing a really good distro (Win 95, COL 2.2, Mandrake >

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 01:38:28 + dallam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't have the cpu to run Mozilla or the patience to use > Netscape, so I like using opera. I don't understand the "cpu" bit. I've only got 300MZ to play with. Mozilla is oh-so-slow to startup, but OK after that. Now I'm

Re: Printer Recommendations

2001-11-28 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 20:14:26 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Collins Richey wrote: > > [3.5 k deletia] > > % ayup. I've used cups exactly that way, but I removed some M$sh%t > % options a year ago when I had a major snafu on the fscking WinME > box, > % and I haven't had the urge to mess with

SPAM Denial

2001-11-28 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I'm looking for a little help turning on blackholing on my email server (running sendmail). It looks like the m4 files are there for it, but I am looking for someone who has implemented it on eS or COL S3.1. I am running both. I'm planning to implement blacklisting as well as procmail to dit

[Fwd: [announce] OpenOffice.org Build 641b]

2001-11-28 Thread Tim Wunder
FYI. I don't believe Sun will be releasing another beta, so this is as close as you're gonna get to a second SO 6.0 beta. Release notes are here: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/latest_build/release_notes_641b.html Tim Original Message Subject: [announce] OpenOffice

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread Susan Macchia
Just to clarify a point, any program can create new windows *without* spawning a new process. Spawning a process or thread is an implementation detail of an application that is independent of the user interface. John Hiemenz wrote: > On Wednesday 28 November 2001 07:47 am, you stated : > > Quoti

Re: Root Filesystem trouble /dev/hdb7

2001-11-28 Thread Kurt Wall
Dave Anselmi wrote: [...] % You might try mke2fs -n before you go the -S route (and you need the block size % for that too, anyway). [nod] Kurt -- The worst cliques are those which consist of one man. -- G.B. Shaw ___ Linux-users mai

Re: Re: new install init

2001-11-28 Thread Tim Wunder
Lee wrote: > Tim Wunder wrote: > > >>Lee wrote: >> >>Huh!? Are you REALLY saying that Win95 was better than Win98SE? Are you >>REALLY saying that COL 2.2 was better than 2.4? >>Speaking as someone who's used all of the above, I would have to say >>that my experience sharply contrasts yours.

Re: Re: new install init

2001-11-28 Thread Lee
Tim Wunder wrote: > Lee wrote: > > > implement was go back to using 7.1. I think Mandrake, like Caldera and Red Hat > > have adopted the M$ new distro development model. After releasing a really good > > distro (Win 95, COL 2.2, Mandrake 7.1) follow it with one not quite so good and > > degrade t

Re: Root Filesystem trouble /dev/hdb7

2001-11-28 Thread Dave Anselmi
Declan Moriarty wrote: > I tried > mount /dev/hdb7 - bad superblock > e2fsck -p /dev/hdb7 > It spits me back a notice saying "Try e2fsck -b 8193" > I tried for copies in 8K increments up to 49153, and 65537. Same result. Do you know what block size the fs uses? 8193 is only for 1k blocks. e2fs

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread Ian Marchak
Quoting Susan Macchia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > MDI stands for "Multiple Document Interface". It is a GUI policy > that is used by an application where it opens up windows within > its own larger window. The first time I saw it was on Windoze. > Opera uses it, StarOffice uses it. Doh. Thanks. I'

Re: new install init

2001-11-28 Thread Dave Anselmi
Keith Antoine wrote: > I have just installed Mandrake 8.1 on a server for someone, but for the first > time I have had init problems on a clean install. It will not boot to kde and > in a console it stops with a flashing console login screen, the its stosp and > says:: > init id "x" respawning to

Re: html editor (was Opera 6 available)

2001-11-28 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 08:03:00AM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote: >Declan Moriarty wrote: >% >% If you need a wysiwyg editor, you're like me - not an expert. There will be >% Unix heads who chew matchsticks and do all this in emacs with a quiet >% contempt for such editors. Get the book, or print the

Re: Opera 6 Beta and Java

2001-11-28 Thread dallam
Yes Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Can Opera do java yet? > > Mark > > ___ > Linux-users mailing list > Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-==-

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread Susan Macchia
MDI stands for "Multiple Document Interface". It is a GUI policy that is used by an application where it opens up windows within its own larger window. The first time I saw it was on Windoze. Opera uses it, StarOffice uses it. IMHO it can be a useful UI technique if used judiciously, but for

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 9:46 am, John Hiemenz wrote: > Multi-Document Interface. > > When a program opens new windows as child windows of the parent, but keeps > them all contained within the parent window. (as opposed to spawning a new > process with a new window) There is a setting which

Opera 6 Beta and Java

2001-11-28 Thread MHeinrich
Can Opera do java yet? Mark ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: new install init

2001-11-28 Thread Tim Wunder
Lee wrote: > implement was go back to using 7.1. I think Mandrake, like Caldera and Red Hat > have adopted the M$ new distro development model. After releasing a really good > distro (Win 95, COL 2.2, Mandrake 7.1) follow it with one not quite so good and > degrade the overall quality with each n

new site "feature"

2001-11-28 Thread Douglas J Hunley
I've made a small change to the left-hand navigation menu on the StepByStep site. At the top of the list are the words 'StepByStep'. They were formerly just a header, but now if you click on them you will reload the main page for the site. think of it as a 'take me home' button if you like. enj

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread John Hiemenz
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 07:47 am, you stated : > Quoting Susan Macchia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Just tried it and find it has much improved performance over 5.0. Don't > > care > > so much about it being larger in size since I have 384mb. If you want a > > fast > > reliable browser, Opera

Re: Can't remember which list...

2001-11-28 Thread John Hiemenz
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 10:08 pm, you stated : > s-n-f 2006+'s... anyone have a 6 or 7 bay scsi-2 tower forsale? I've got a 7-bay here. In great (almost new) condition other than one of the 50-pin (centronics) connectors is a bit kaput. I have a terminator plugged into that end, since I c

Re: argh...no init found

2001-11-28 Thread John Hiemenz
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 05:58 pm, you stated : > --- John Hiemenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Your mount points/names are different between the two boxes? > > (if I'm right, do I get a chocolate bar?) > > Yes, the mount points & names do differ between the two boxes. But i > don't fol

Re: SOLVED! Re: argh...no init found

2001-11-28 Thread John Hiemenz
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 06:02 pm, you stated : > Bingo! User error strikes again. Wrong root= for the new kernel. > Thanks. > Hersheys Symphony with almonds ;P ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo

Re: new install init

2001-11-28 Thread Lee
Keith Antoine wrote: > I have just installed Mandrake 8.1 on a server for someone, but for the first > time I have had init problems on a clean install. It will not boot to kde and > in a console it stops with a flashing console login screen, the its stosp and > says:: > init id "x" respawning to

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread Ian Marchak
Quoting Susan Macchia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Just tried it and find it has much improved performance over 5.0. Don't > care > so much about it being larger in size since I have 384mb. If you want a > fast > reliable browser, Opera is it (once you get past the MDI interface and > tailor > it

Re: html editor (was Opera 6 available)

2001-11-28 Thread Kurt Wall
Declan Moriarty wrote: % % If you need a wysiwyg editor, you're like me - not an expert. There will be % Unix heads who chew matchsticks and do all this in emacs with a quiet % contempt for such editors. Get the book, or print the manual; Years ago I got We could always start an emacs versus

Re: new install init

2001-11-28 Thread Kurt Wall
Keith Antoine wrote: % I have just installed Mandrake 8.1 on a server for someone, but for the first % time I have had init problems on a clean install. It will not boot to kde and % in a console it stops with a flashing console login screen, the its stosp and % says:: % init id "x" respawning

Re: Root Filesystem trouble /dev/hdb7

2001-11-28 Thread Kurt Wall
Declan Moriarty wrote: % I'm in trouble - 'Can't mount root filesystem' - that sort of trouble. [tale of woe mercifully deleted] % Any other ideas? Somebody circulated some scripts to rescue this a while % back, but they're saved on the dud partition :-( Try mke2fs -S on the dead partition. -S

Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread Susan Macchia
Just tried it and find it has much improved performance over 5.0. Don't care so much about it being larger in size since I have 384mb. If you want a fast reliable browser, Opera is it (once you get past the MDI interface and tailor it to your choosing). I haven't been running it long enough to

Root Filesystem trouble /dev/hdb7

2001-11-28 Thread Declan Moriarty
I'm in trouble - 'Can't mount root filesystem' - that sort of trouble. I'm not out of the frame, just in trouble. A browser failed to download a file - I tried 3 or 4 times, and it took 30-50K and then complained of an internal error. I got out of X and found the kernel repeating a line about r

Re: Another M$ vulnerability

2001-11-28 Thread Chang
that's how they keep running their business. they got bugs, lots of them, but they won the hearts of secretries, kids and housewives. what could we do about it? :) > Just go to http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,48613,00.html > >> when will they learn. > >> http://www.wired.com/news/int

Re: tutorial for find?

2001-11-28 Thread Chang
try man man -k find man -k search man -k locate > > I know what you mean about the man pages. What I have found is that the > > Unix man pages, at least AIX man pages, provided a few examples of the > > command in action at the end of them. That is how I found good info on > > find. There is

Re: HTML Editors (WAS: Re: Opera 6 beta available)

2001-11-28 Thread Bill Day
Quanta is pretty kewl... was turned on by it in when I was still running kde1 stcok for COL... now with kde2.1.1(yeah I know...) its even beter. very nice easy to use interface once you learn where everything is at... Have yet to try bluefish.. so can't give no opinions of it.. On Wednesday

Re: html editor (was Opera 6 available)

2001-11-28 Thread Declan Moriarty
SCREEM I forget what it stands for - something like 'site creating environment' It does php and asp and all that sort of thing, and is wysiwyg. I don't know where to find it. If you need a wysiwyg editor, you're like me - not an expert. There will be Unix heads who chew matchsticks and do all

Re: new install init

2001-11-28 Thread Declan Moriarty
Congratulations on such a fine error! ;-) The only time I ever got things respawning too fast was on init, and it usually was a module thing. BTW, I'm on Mandrake 8.0; Their X setup stuff is poor IMHO. They took Red Hat's xconfigurator, but there's a catch 22 in that - it's first guess needs

new install init

2001-11-28 Thread Keith Antoine
I have just installed Mandrake 8.1 on a server for someone, but for the first time I have had init problems on a clean install. It will not boot to kde and in a console it stops with a flashing console login screen, the its stosp and says:: init id "x" respawning too fast, disable for 5 min Th

Re: HTML Editors (WAS: Re: Opera 6 beta available)

2001-11-28 Thread Keith Antoine
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 16:12, Kurt Wall enunciated: > Matthew Carpenter wrote: > % Speaking of which, does anyone have a recommendation for a good WYSIWYG > HTML Editor? > > [long unwrapped line snipped] > > > There's a product called Quanta. Don't know anything about it, though. > > Kurt