Re: Linux on P150? (was Luggable 'downgrade'?)

2001-12-11 Thread Declan Moriarty
Anything! Mandrake seems to be sweeping the reviews just now and 8.1 is recently out. There are a lot of 'drakes' in it (Harddrake, rpmdrake, etc) Ignore them if they get on your nerves. -- Regards, Declan Moriarty Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost Electronic

Re: 'Scopes (was Linux for Luggable)

2001-12-11 Thread Declan Moriarty
On Monday 10 December 2001 20:46, you wrote: Declan Moriarty wrote: You've all heard of pc upgrades; I've just fluttered a few quid on a downgrade. Exact specs (Intel)'386, 4MB, 40MB HD, ISA bus, cga (sub hercules) orange screen. Why? I hear you ask in pained anguish. Well It's

Apology and downgrade problem

2001-12-11 Thread Declan Moriarty
First the apology: My mailer (kmail) insists on sending mail that was put in the outbox and then removed. I dunno why. Sorry folks if you are getting battered by idiotic comments with my e-mail on them. I'm inclined to reply first and think afterward :-(. If you see anything wildly offline

Re: Creating RPM package

2001-12-11 Thread Lavinius Romio Petru
good Idea would be to make a perl install and forget the RPM !!! Regards Romio PS make an unistall too :) - Original Message - From: Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 6:39 PM Subject: Creating RPM package

New Steps 11/12/2001

2001-12-11 Thread Kurt Wall
Kernel - Patching the kernel with pre-[whatever] patches (Collins Richey) Kurt -- About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard. ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: whois (cont)

2001-12-11 Thread Chang
But most of my queries required her.. besides, another Hongkong linux user (using same ISP) didn't have that problem. So I suspected that it was something else. Is there an alternative linux client that works better? $ whois 203.81.0.1 -h localhost The GeekTools Whois Proxy has encountered an

Re: whois (cont)

2001-12-11 Thread Chang
The problem apnic got the info of most asia domains. I needed it... I suspect that it's the server that rejected my query. Peeking at the whois.h: /* 6bone referto: extension */ #define REFERTO_FORMAT %% referto: whois -h %255s -p %15s %1021[^\n\r] /* String sent to RIPE servers - ONLY FIVE

Re: Linux on P150? (was Luggable 'downgrade'?)

2001-12-11 Thread David A. Bandel
Declan Moriarty wrote: Anything! Mandrake seems to be sweeping the reviews just now and 8.1 is recently out. There are a lot of 'drakes' in it (Harddrake, rpmdrake, etc) Ignore them if they get on your nerves. Yes, but I was more than just slightly annoyed to find out: 1. No wireless

Re: Netscape mail

2001-12-11 Thread Joel Hammer
I suppose I could do that. Argg. I would have to learn about imap. I would like it more if I could be sure netscape would leave the mail on the server. Joel On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:25:20PM -0800, David Aikema wrote: On Monday 10 December 2001 09:57 pm, Joel Hammer wrote: My daughter wants

KDE 2.2.2 still depend on htdig

2001-12-11 Thread DOUGLAS HUNLEY
Subject pretty much says it all. Does anyone know if KDE 2.2.2 still needs htdig for it's help system or did they write their own indexing engine? -- Douglas J. Hunley Unix/Linux Admin http://linux.nf Down the wire, off the router, through the firewall, nothing but 'Net...

Re: Apology and downgrade problem

2001-12-11 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 4:16 am, Declan Moriarty wrote: First the apology: My mailer (kmail) insists on sending mail that was put in the outbox and then removed. Eh?Sounds like a normal situation to me. (sending this from kmail) --

Re: Printer Recommendations

2001-12-11 Thread Mike Andrew
Perhaps I should qualify my request: I'm looking for currently available Linux-compatible color injet printers. As you would know, it's not so much the 'best' (tm) printer available in Linux but more, the best driver available. For whatever reason, the Epson (Stylus) series of printers has the

Parla Italiano Re: parlez francais?

2001-12-11 Thread Mike Andrew
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: DOUGLAS HUNLEY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: vrijdag 7 december 2001 20:20 Onderwerp: parlez francais? If you speak French and have a little free-time every so often, we could use your help translating the Linux StepByStep into

Re: rat help

2001-12-11 Thread Mike Andrew
now, what would be helpfull if any body has them are the serial port ps/2 mouse diagrams, power setting or etc. Ay help is appreciated. Could not find on the Net. There is no 'standard' pinout for ps/2 motherboard connections. *Generally* they are an 8 pin single in line effort with pin 7

Re: recompiles differ on suse

2001-12-11 Thread Mike Andrew
Tried both modular and also monolithic ran bzlilo.Card is builtin AC97 and works on everthing else except a suse recompile. Must say I am getting pingged off with suse. you need the es1371 module loaded. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your

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

2001-12-11 Thread Mike Andrew
Matthew Carpenter wrote: % Speaking of which, does anyone have a recommendation for a good WYSIWYG HTML Editor? There's a product called Quanta. Don't know anything about it, though. Kurt I'm pleased with it. Doug Hunley put me on to Quanta+ originally, it now ships as standard with RH7.2

Re: Mail Server Recommendation

2001-12-11 Thread karthik v
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Re:Thread on the kernel list about Coding style

2001-12-11 Thread karthik v
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Re: HTML Editors (WAS: Re: Opera 6 beta available)

2001-12-11 Thread Declan Moriarty
On Monday 10 December 2001 17:07, you wrote: Matthew Carpenter wrote: % Speaking of which, does anyone have a recommendation for a good WYSIWYG HTML Editor? Have you eliminated screem? Try that -- Regards, Declan Moriarty Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost

Re: rat help

2001-12-11 Thread Declan Moriarty
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 14:29, you wrote: now, what would be helpfull if any body has them are the serial port ps/2 mouse diagrams, power setting or etc. Ay help is appreciated. Could not find on the Net. Did you check Tom's Hardware book? (Tom Enghald that is). If Mozilla

RE: Linux on P150? (was Luggable 'downgrade'?)

2001-12-11 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Declan, Anything! Mandrake seems to be sweeping the reviews just now and 8.1 is recently out. There are a lot of 'drakes' in it (Harddrake, rpmdrake, etc) Ignore them if they get on your nerves. I'm running SuSE 7.3 on a P120 as a server/firewall for my home network. It slows down

Re: rat help

2001-12-11 Thread Robert . Thompson
I use this site for pinouts. It may have other useful info also. http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~tjohnson/pinouts/ Declan Moriarty

CDRW

2001-12-11 Thread Herbert H. DeLong
Is there a CDRW or CDW on the market and usable in Linux for a 486DX2-66Mhz? Also where is it available? I use COL e2.4.

Re: CDRW

2001-12-11 Thread Aaron Grewell
For a low-end box I'd recommend a SCSI burner (mine is a Toshiba, works great), and a SCSI HDD as well. Faster boxes can keep the IDE models' buffers full, but on a slower machine that's harder to do, especially since UDMA-33 was considered fast in those days. The SCSI card offloads all that

Re: CDRW

2001-12-11 Thread David A. Bandel
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:20:07 -0500 Herbert H. DeLong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a CDRW or CDW on the market and usable in Linux for a 486DX2-66Mhz? How much RAM do you have? I highly recommend you go SCSI on the system you describe above. Two things about writing a CD: 1 - you

Re: CDRW

2001-12-11 Thread Kurt Wall
Herbert H. DeLong wrote: % Is there a CDRW or CDW on the market and usable in Linux for a % 486DX2-66Mhz? % Also where is it available? I use COL e2.4. Here are some resources: Linux Hardware Database: http://lhd.datapower.com/ Linux Hardware Compatiblity HOWTO:

RS6000's

2001-12-11 Thread Mike Andrew
Folks, I've been donated a few older RS6000's. Does someone know how to install Linux on them? Do I do a cross-compile, if so, how? _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: Creating RPM package

2001-12-11 Thread Mike Andrew
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to create RPM packages for programs I've created myself, I've read the feed yahoo checkinstall _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at

Re: KDE 2.2.2 still depend on htdig

2001-12-11 Thread Mike Andrew
Subject pretty much says it all. Does anyone know if KDE 2.2.2 still needs htdig for it's help system or did they write their own indexing engine? afaik there is no kde inspired search engine strictly for kde. However, if you use Kdevelop, you can choose from a variety of searchers. The one I

Re: RS6000's

2001-12-11 Thread Kurt Wall
Mike Andrew wrote: % Folks, I've been donated a few older RS6000's. Does someone know how to % install Linux on them? Do I do a cross-compile, if so, how? What? You mean you don't want to use than marvel of engineering, AIX? Kurt -- Most people want either less corruption or more of a chance

Re: RS6000's

2001-12-11 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Depending on the specific model, you may be able to install: LinuxPPC, YellowDog Linux, SuSE, and a few more. Check, the distro's web site for compatibility tables... But you can keep AIX and learn :). It's not bad, I've used AIX 3.5 and 4.x

Re: KDE 2.2.2 still depend on htdig

2001-12-11 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Mike Andrew babbled on about: Subject pretty much says it all. Does anyone know if KDE 2.2.2 still needs htdig for it's help system or did they write their own indexing engine? afaik there is no kde inspired search engine strictly for kde. However, if you use Kdevelop, you can choose

Re: RS6000's

2001-12-11 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Kurt Wall babbled on about: Mike Andrew wrote: % Folks, I've been donated a few older RS6000's. Does someone know how to % install Linux on them? Do I do a cross-compile, if so, how? What? You mean you don't want to use than marvel of engineering, AIX? If it will suport it, use AIX 5L..

Re: CDRW

2001-12-11 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 10:31 am,Aaron Grewell wrote: For a low-end box I'd recommend a SCSI burner (mine is a Toshiba, works great), snip Where did you get it and do you think it is still available? Thanks! -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd rather be sailing

Re: CDRW

2001-12-11 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 15:21 pm, Tony Alfrey wrote: Where did you get it and do you think it is still available? megahaus.com or dirtcheapdrives.com are good places for SCSI stuff. -- ++ + Bruce S. Marshall

Re: CDRW

2001-12-11 Thread Aaron Grewell
I got mine at the local computer shop. I was in a hurry, so I didn't shop around at all. This was a year or so ago, so I'm not up on the latest. On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 12:21, Tony Alfrey wrote: On Tuesday 11 December 2001 10:31 am,Aaron Grewell wrote: For a low-end box I'd recommend a SCSI

Re: Netscape mail

2001-12-11 Thread Tim Wunder
Previously, Joel Hammer chose to write: ... have checked the leave on server box in the preferences, but, that doesn't seem to do any good. This has never been a problem for me using Mozilla since, well, since a LONG time ago. Are you sure you've selected it properly? Do you have Delete

Re: RS6000's

2001-12-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Mike Andrew wrote: Folks, I've been donated a few older RS6000's. Does someone know how to install Linux on them? Do I do a cross-compile, if so, how? Mike, you'll want a PPC linux, which is what I happen to do. I would be very interested in getting one of those

Re: rat help

2001-12-11 Thread Richard R. Sivernell
Declan That was part of what I wanted. If I had th mobo pinout for comport ps2 connect (PI 133 mHz) AT mobo. I have gotten com 2 to see the mouse in Caldera 2.3, but X doesnot see it in 4.1.0.1 (3.1.1 EW). I have a S3 Virge 4 meg card and X is having a failed to setup write combining

Re: New Steps 11/12/2001

2001-12-11 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 07:07:01 -0500 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kernel - Patching the kernel with pre-[whatever] patches (Collins Richey) The irony of it all. Just last night I was reading on the weekly summary of kernel maintainers traffic that they have decided to make incremental

Re: Linux on P150? (was Luggable 'downgrade'?)

2001-12-11 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 07:45:00 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Declan Moriarty wrote: Anything! Mandrake seems to be sweeping the reviews just now and 8.1 is recently out. There are a lot of 'drakes' in it (Harddrake, rpmdrake, etc) Ignore them if they get on your

Re: rat help ot

2001-12-11 Thread Collins Richey
[ snips ] On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:38:49 + Declan Moriarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Mozilla finishes booting this session, I'll get you a link from the bookmarks... Wait - it's going to do something soon ... Yep, I got very tired of waiting for mozilla (or netscape or konqueror) to

Re: recompiles differ on suse

2001-12-11 Thread Keith Antoine
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 00:31, Mike Andrew enunciated: Tried both modular and also monolithic ran bzlilo.Card is builtin AC97 and works on everthing else except a suse recompile. Must say I am getting pingged off with suse. you need the es1371 module loaded. No I found out

Creating RPM package

2001-12-11 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello I want to create RPM packages for programs I've created myself, I've read the howto's and their reasonably clear, however, I do not use a makefile, my programs are in perl. I want to copy some files to different locations, check some paths and run a perl program to generate the config

cd as scsi

2001-12-11 Thread Keith Antoine
My burner is seen as ascsi device, obviously if I am going to burn with it. However I also want to see my dvd/cdrom reader as a scsi device so as I can use it for DAO burning. Stuffed if I can get /dev/sr1 to be 'seen'.. I have hdc=ide-scsi in lilo, I have changed /dev/dvd to point to

Re: cd as scsi

2001-12-11 Thread Myles Green
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:00:19 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My burner is seen as ascsi device, obviously if I am going to burn with it. However I also want to see my dvd/cdrom reader as a scsi device so as I can use it for DAO burning. Stuffed if I can get /dev/sr1 to be