Yeah, since you beat my record uptime of 173 days and some odd hours you can
now reboot. :) I have had good luck with 3com and d-link. Although d-link's
that use the rtl8039(?) module is broken in kernel 2.4.2 to about 2.4.9(?).
I know my d-link wouldn't transmit or recieve packets with
Might want to take a look at this:
http://www.linuxcanada.com/quasar.html
Haven't used it or heard much about it, just came across it when looking for
a QuickBooks alternative.
I did find this web page, but I don't know when it was last updated. It does
list quite a few apps and a
Doubtful, these ISO files are dated 07-17-2001. Seems like OL 3.1.1 hasn't
propogated to the mirrors yet. I'll wait.
Jim
On Friday, February 01, 2002 12:47, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
I have heard that you can d/l the 3.1.1 ISO's from:
ftp://ftp.linuxberg.com/pub/ISO/Caldera/OpenLinux3.1/
witless when
it does finally work) and have played with about every variation of
muting/unmuting that I can imagine. So, I'll open the case when I get a
chance and check it out.
Jim
On Tuesday, January 15, 2002 1:10, Dave Anselmi wrote:
Jim Conner wrote:
[...]
As for fixing cd audio
Found another wrinkle on my system. This may affect some and not others
depending on hardware and such. If you have DMA turned on when you compiled
the kernel, it will enable DMA for the cdrom and cdrw. This will cause a
kernel oops when you mount the cd and the only way out is the reset
I thought I recalled it being bantered around a while ago. I checked the old
Caldera mailing list archive and found a few things. This one of note.
http://www.mail-archive.com/users@lists.calderasystems.com/msg69403.html
Might be an easy fix. Dunno if it will work, I'm not using eD2.4
it running
again. Glad to help.
Jim
On Wednesday, December 26, 2001 9:24, Bill Day wrote:
ATTENTION
Jim Conner is a kde god
Just thought you alls hould know this... 8^)
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I was the one that posted that. Here's the link again.
http://noframes.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5655mode=threadorder=0thold=0
Jim
On Thursday, December 20, 2001 11:23, Joel Hammer wrote:
Someone posted a reference to the filtrex wp8 filter for word documents
recently. I've lost it.
I'm currently running W3.1 with kernel 2.4.16 and ext3. All I had to do was
upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.25 and compile ext3 into the kernel(not a module) and
it worked. I tried to compile util-linux and it didn't work. I can't
remember the error, but I didn't do it. Currently only having a
Happy B-Day. Dang young'uns. :)
Jim
On Tuesday, December 18, 2001 11:36, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
Tony Alfrey babbled on about:
Happy Birthday! I missed the start of the thread, but did someone say
how old you are or do we really want to know?
a ripe old 28 years today (dec 18)
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I remember this going around earlier this year. Just thought I'd pass along
the info. It's about the filter for WP8 that expired and was never fixed or
updated. It has been and here's the link.
http://noframes.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5655mode=threadorder=0thold=0
Jim
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I know that 2.4.15 had this problem. I thought they fixed it with 2.4.16.
Jim
On Sunday, December 09, 2001 9:42, Collins Richey wrote:
snip
Make sure you get 2.4.16+ (at least 2.4.17-pre1. 2.4.16 causes
filessystem corruption (all fs types).
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On Sunday, December 09, 2001 1:04, Collins Richey wrote:
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 10:59:20 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 12:45:16 -0500 Jim Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I know that 2.4.15 had this problem. I thought they fixed it with
2.4.16
You might want to upgrade to rpm 3.0.6. This is compatible(AFAIK) to rpm 4.x
and might fix your problems. What it'll take to do this, I'm not sure.
Jim
On Wednesday, December 05, 2001 4:33, Net Llama wrote:
I just finished upgrading glibc to glibc-2.2.4. All appears to be fine
(no glibc
If you search for kio_rpm at apps.kde.org, you will find a kio slave for
Konqueror that will do the same and possibly more, not sure.
Jim
On Sunday, December 02, 2001 8:02, Peter Ruskin wrote:
snip
If you're using KDE you can also use krusader to see the internals of a
RPM and extract
:
On Sunday 02 Dec 2001 14:15, Jim Conner wrote:
If you search for kio_rpm at apps.kde.org, you will find a kio slave
for Konqueror that will do the same and possibly more, not sure.
Jim
Thanks for the tip Jim. BTW it's http://apps.kde.com.
On Sunday, December 02, 2001 8:02, Peter Ruskin wrote
If it's just the rpm binary and not the whole rpm package, have somebody that
is using SuSE 7.3 with default rpm and libs to send you the binary and tell
you what directory it was in. I'm using OL W3.1 or I'd do it. I don't think
my rpm binary would work on your system. But if you want to
Here's a copy of the e-mail that I got. Granted, it's from Insight instead
of ATT, but I suppose that all the providers are trying to keep broadband
access to their customers by using a court order if necessary.
http://www.insight-com.com/net/UPDATES/
I hope I don't lose connection. The
Kernel 2.4.16 was just released today. It basically is the same as 2.4.15
with the 2.4.16 pre1 patch with one other fix on the 8139too module.
Jim
On Monday, November 26, 2001 1:44, Keith Antoine wrote:
On Monday 26 November 2001 10:10, Net Llama enunciated:
The problem with 15, to the
You should be able to set apache to port 8080(or some such) and redirect port
80 to there. I'm not sure how or if it will work.
Jim
On Friday, November 23, 2001 4:02, Kurt Wall wrote:
snip
The contract does forbid it, I'm afraid. I'll have to find another
solution.
Kurt
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3:42am
Well, /dev/hdc is a block device, not a link. You'll need to use this
command.
mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0 //Read the man page if needed.
Make sure it has the proper permissions and ownership with chmod and chown.
Jim
On Monday, November 19, 2001 7:02, Randy Donohoe wrote:
Trying to get my DVD set
Take a look at Kapital by theKompany. There should be a demo rpm on their
ftp site to look at. It's very similar to Quicken. I currently use
Moneydance, but will probably be transfering to Kapital soon. It's cheaper
than Moneydance, and looks nicer.
Jim
On Monday, November 19, 2001 9:33,
If you need any help finding/installing it, let me know. I just did this and
it's a little tricky. Ok, here's a quick SxS.
- Download korelib tarball and kapital rpm for distro.
- Untar korelib, ./configure, make, make install
- Edit /etc/ld.so.conf. Add line: /usr/local/lib. Run ldconfig as
if that helps.
Jim
On Tuesday, November 13, 2001 9:30, Tim Wunder wrote:
Previously, Tim Wunder chose to write:
Jim Conner wrote:
Did you do a ./configure? What options did you use, if any? I'm
having a problem with KDE 2.2.1's Konqueror working with https
sites(online banking). Could
Did you do a ./configure? What options did you use, if any? I'm having a
problem with KDE 2.2.1's Konqueror working with https sites(online banking).
Could this be the problem or could it be another problem? Currently, I'm
using NS 4.77 to do this and it works. On another note, Konqueror
I have a Yamaha 4416ez(IDE) that I bought 10/99. It's 2 years old and
probably burnt 200+ cdr(w)s. There have been some coasters, but most were my
fault. I haven't got a coaster in linux that wasn't my fault. The only
reason I'd upgrade is for speed. I'd buy another Yamaha. If you are
Well, I live in Lafayette, about 70 miles north of Indy. I guess we'll be
neighbors. :) Here's a link off Yahoo that lists a few.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/U_S__States/Indiana/Cities/Indianapolis/
Business_and_Shopping/Business_to_Business/Communications_and_Networking/
Thank you for your efforts here. I hope you don't get /.'ed. :) Please keep
these here for a while to allow us to download them.
Many thanks,
Jim
On Thursday October 18, 2001 3:01 pm, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
1 - 7 are there now..
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I have a Yamaha 4x4x16 that I purchased 2 years ago and it's burnt hundreds
of cd's and it's still going strong. I'd recommend a Yamaha or Plextor.
Most low end burners are reboxes. They are made by someone else(one or more
companies) and then have a different faceplate, sticker and box put
Quite possibly this uses the pheonix kernel module. You will probably have
to recompile the kernel and hope it works. YMMV. An easier solution would
be to buy a PCI ethernet card, install it, remove the USB one and configure
it to work. You just have to figure out if the time you take to
Glad you got it working. When it comes to perl, I can read a perl script and
get a feel for what it is supposed to do. As for editing/creating a perl
script, well, I don't have a clue.
Jim
On Sunday September 23, 2001 3:49 pm, Keith Antoine wrote:
snip
Thanks Jim, and last night I came to
I'd use soft-links 'ln -s', but I'm not sure it will let you do a soft-linked
directory within a soft-linked directory. If there isn't any thing that will
prevent you from doing that, that's what I'd do. Yes, this is a quick and
dirty solution. The other way is to edit the perl install
Please note that the following is my opinion.
I've heard plenty of people complain about the loss of certain 'liberties and
freedoms' recently. Whether this is concerning the tightened security at
airports, AOL and Earthlink cooperating with the federal investigation, or
other related
Please send it here as well.
Thanks,
Jim
On Friday September 14, 2001 1:17 pm, Bruce Marshall wrote:
I have received a 40+ picture slide show of many events during the
attack. Most of the pictures are excellent. If anyone would like me to
send it to you, or if someone wants to put it
backing the US in it's endeavor
to bring the terrorists to justice and wanting to help with the cleanup in
any way possible. I'm going outside in a few minutes to hang those flags
with pride.
God Bless America
Jim
On Wednesday September 12, 2001 9:00 pm, Keith Antoine wrote:
Jim Conner
I got off work yesterday morning at 7am, went to a local diner for coffee and
breakfast, then came home to read some e-mail and go to bed. I caught some
of the early e-mails on this list and was shocked into disbelief. I was
finally able to get to www.cnn.com and read what they had to say.
Here's another great article by dep.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3751/1/
I've helped 2 of my friends install Caldera eD2.4. One is using it on a
sporadic basis, just testing the waters, not doing anything critical yet.
He's hooked on Shisen-Sho though. And the other
I've proposed something like this to a couple of KDE mailing lists. While it
got warm kudos for the idea, getting it implemented was a problem. I
proposed that it become a section in the KHelpcenter. Titled: How do I?
This would have the 27 questions and others with instructions in plain
If you are referring to questions once a new user looks at a Linux distro for
the first time(or tenth time), please see my post in the FAQ thread. If you
are wanting questions about people that are curious about linux, then here
are some with some of my answers.
Can Linux run program XYZ?
Glad to hear that you are feeling better. I just gotta figure out how to get
KDE2.2 on eD2.4 without totally fubaring KDE. Then again, I'm probably going
to upgrade(clean install) of W3.1 or SuSE 7.2, I haven't figured out which
yet, when I upgrade my hardware in a week or two. I've heard
I'm wondering if an upgrade to X4.1 would fix this. The command you are
looking for is ldconfig. It's used to reload the libraries.
Jim
On Sunday August 19, 2001 11:56 pm, Shawn Tayler wrote:
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:33:38 +1000, Keith Antoine wrote:
I do like the new desktop and the way the
Try:
/dev/sda1 /carddisk msdos ro,user,noauto 0 0
That might work.
Jim
On Monday August 13, 2001 1:52 am, Keith Antoine wrote:
My /etc/fstab is listed and yes its set to ro, I typed that line is does it
need alterring ??
[kantoine@bigpond kantoine]$ cat /etc/fstab
devpts /dev/pts devpts
I've had that problem too. I installed Acrobat Reader 4.0(or it was
installed initially). It's in the Utilities submenu of KMenu. I've just had
to open up the pdf file in that to read it. I think that there was some
format changes between pdf 3.0 to pdf 4.0 that made it incompatible. I
Would cdrecord -scanbus show this device? Just curious, I don't have one but
a friend of mine has a similar device.
Jim
On Wednesday August 08, 2001 6:41 am, Stew Benedict wrote:
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Keith Antoine wrote:
I have a usb compactflash card reader which I have used in windows
, 2001 5:00 pm, Keith Antoine wrote:
On Thursday 09 August 2001 00:53, Jim Conner orated thus:
Would cdrecord -scanbus show this device? Just curious, I don't have one
but a friend of mine has a similar device.
Jim
I had read the previous mails re this and was planning to have a look when
I'm running eD2.4 with 2.2.14 kernel. Yes, I know 2.4.7 is current, but I
don't have any usb devices and plan on updating the kernel when I update the
distro and hardware. :) What problems are you having with the cdrw drive?
I ran Sybil for a couple of months and noticed that /dev/cdrom
I've noticed that if you use -t vfat with vfat, fat and msdos loaded, it will
choose which one it needs. At least I think so. The problem with loop could
be the order that it is being loaded in relation to other modules. If you
have /usr/bin/play from sox, try play foo.wav and see if you
When you did the logout from kicker(kpanel) did you put a check in 'Restore
session when logging in next time'? If you do any changes to kicker or the
desktop, this needs to be checked.
Jim
On Saturday August 04, 2001 8:20 pm, Keith Antoine wrote:
On Sunday 05 August 2001 11:10, Bill
I have a Yamaha 4416e ide version of your scsi. It'll be 2 years old in
October and still running strong(knock on wood). Either get a Plextor or
Yamaha, rated #1 #2 respectively. As far as IDE v. SCSI, their isn't much
difference in linux and they are equalably reliable. Any other brand
When this saga comes to a conclusion, I think it would make a great SxS.
Jim
On Saturday August 04, 2001 12:25 am, Joel Hammer wrote:
Well, my long march may be getting to an end.
Thanks to this list, I have finally realized that mpage and psnup take a
SINGLE multipage postscript file and
Interesting, I'm not running a DNS server(named) at all. It's just that it's
picked up in the last few days. Almost constantly doing this. Is this
comming from my box or from @Home? Would somebody explain what arp is doing
beyond what the man pages say about arp?
Jim
On Friday August 03,
Or even taking our own selves too seriously. :)
Jim
On Tuesday July 31, 2001 8:36 pm, Lee wrote:
snip
Most of us on this list perfer a little jabber every now and then; it keeps
us from taking Bill Gates or Ransom Love seriously.
Lee
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Quite a few people were getting this error. Possibly due to the Code Red
worm. It was supposed to hit 8pm EDT, that would be about 10am your time(if
my math and timezones are correct). Haven't heard if it was unrelated to
this or not.
Jim
On Wednesday August 01, 2001 1:31 am, Keith
Last time I got hit on port 80 a little over 75 times. Today, I got hit
zero. Might be going after a different set of IPs, not that I'm complaining.
Personally I think that the lazy, incompetent sysadmins that have left their
systems vulnerable to this attack should be unemployed. I've had
I checked Symantec's and McAfee's virus site for the file and turned up
empty. It's not a virus or an abortive attempt at one. And a search of
www.securityfocus.com came up empty. If you are running squid, it came up in
a recent Linux Advisory Watch(7/29/01). If you search for squid on
I had this problem too with Rekall. I e-mailed Thekompany and was told to
look here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=35262
It says to just do a rpm --nodeps and it will install. I think that kdbcore
is/will be in kde2.2. IIRC, I did a quick search on rpmfind.net and
, 2001 8:49 am, Auyeung at Technet wrote:
I checked antivirus.com and cert.org and nothing came up either.
Auyeung
- Original Message -
From: Jim Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: Strange file
I checked
Welcome back! Glad you had a safe and enjoyable trip.
Jim
On Tuesday July 31, 2001 12:43 am, Keith Antoine wrote:
Sorry but I am back |;-00.Did 4630 km wothout leaving
my home state, and now feel like a stunned mullet after a final drive of
1150 yesterday and today. Had a
This book as an interesting theory why businesses and people use/adopt
Windows and how to change that mind set. I just read the blurb here not the
book. Just thought I'd pass this along in case there are those that haven't
seen it.
http://linuxpr.com/releases/3999.html
Jim
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12:42am
You will need the QT 2.3.0 if you upgrade to KDE2.1.1 or higher. If you are
going to keep/use any KDE1.1.2 programs, you will need to keep QT 1.44. QT
2.x is not backward compatible to QT 1.xx. Likewise when QT 3.x is release
early next year, it will not be backward compatible to QT2.x.
Well, let's play it by ear. If spam becomes a major problem, we can discuss
a solution for it at that time.
Jim
On Sunday July 29, 2001 9:16 pm, Douglas J. Hunley wrote:
Well, enough people complained to me that their admins are unresponsive,
don't care, whatever. Fine. I figured as much.
It worked. Interesting, I've only had sporadic trouble with @Home and Yahoo
on this list.
Jim
On Sunday July 29, 2001 4:34 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
test
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These webcasts play in RealPlayer. I found the three for the debate and
panel discussion very educational and informative. I found the one by Fred
Baker informative as well. Each of these segments run from 20 to 40 minutes
each so they can take some time to watch. I just thought I'd throw
I haven't got any of these or the SirCam stuff(looking around quickly for
wood to knock on). I don't think it's this list, the name doesn't sound
familiar.
Jim
On Friday July 27, 2001 10:48 pm, dep wrote:
On Friday 27 July 2001 08:48 pm, Shawn Tayler wrote:
| Is there a Jerry Andrews on
What you probably need to do is move $HOME/.kde2 to $HOME/.kde_backup. Log
out of the user and log back in. This will reset all the settings and stuff
for kde. The config files for kde and various apps are in
$HOME/.kde2/share/config/*. Be careful what config files you move back
because
You're welcome. I ran into an empty Control Center once while updating
kde2.x, also some of the apps didn't be have quite correctly. I was told
then(not sure from where) to do this and it worked for me. Glad it worked
for you.
Jim
On Thursday July 26, 2001 6:35 pm, Rick Sivernell wrote:
In the BIOS there are usually two places to set auto for detecting the hard
drive. That's to get the C/H/S and to see what, if any, translation needs to
be done. These settings are usually Normal, LBA, Auto, etc. This might be
the problem that is occuring between the bios and the kernel.
More often than not, this is caused by a full partition, usually /tmp will be
the culprit. Check to see if any of your partitions are full or very close
to it.
Jim
On Thursday July 19, 2001 4:13 pm, Mark Heinrich wrote:
snip
I tried that but the .xsessions-error file was empty. I looked
Usually, somewhere in the bios settings, you tell it how much system memory
to use for video memory. If you can find that, subtract it from 192mb and
you got your answer, else free -m will give it in mb.
Jim
On Friday July 13, 2001 3:26 pm, David Aikema wrote:
Ok I booted up and
Well, LART is an acronym for Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool(preferably
something large and very heavy). I've seen this used quite frequently on the
a.t.s.r newsgroup. This newsgroup is for Bobs and ex-Bobs that are
recovering. A 'Bob' is a person that is in the tech-support field. For
-0500, Jim Conner wrote:
About 3 months ago when we were evaluating Sybil, there were some rpms for
KDE 2.1.1 that were made. I don't have them. You can build them yourself
if you want. Just grab all the source rpms for eD2.4/kde 2.1.1 and do a
rpm --rebuild name.src.rpm. This will put
If you have KDE 2.1.1+ you can use Konqueror to browse window shares. I'm
not sure how this is setup, but I assume it works.
Jim
On Sunday July 08, 2001 11:13 pm, Jerry McBride wrote:
I've set up a test samba 2.2.0a server on eDesktop 2.40 desktop computer
and have 5 windows clients plugged
IIRC, you have to set it up similar to a usb hard drive/zip/ls120. This will
give you the /dev/??? that corresponds to this device. You can then use some
of the graphic/camera applications out there to use it. I haven't done this,
but I'm just going on what I remember what I've read. If
to reload M$
Jim Conner wrote:
IIRC, you have to set it up similar to a usb hard drive/zip/ls120. This
will give you the /dev/??? that corresponds to this device. You can then
use some of the graphic/camera applications out there to use it. I
haven't done this, but I'm just going
In order to get rid of BM, you need to use a BM rescue floppy or BM installed
on a windows partition. You will break things if you try fdisk /mbr from a
dos/win boot floppy and if you try to overwrite it with either grub or lilo.
Personally, I wish that Caldera hadn't offered it, but it was
I have @Home as well. I didn't have any trouble setting it up as a static
ip. I've tried to set it up using dhcp and haven't had much luck. Probably
a setting is off somewhere. I've heard of people having problems with
Linksys cards though. I've used D-Link DFE530TX+ and haven't had any
My apologies for forwarding it here. I'll be more careful of this in the
future.
Jim
On Monday July 02, 2001 10:57 pm, Les Bell wrote:
snip
If I want to know what Caldera is up to, I can find out - and did find out
- on the Caldera users list. Same goes for Red Hat, SuSE, etc. all of which
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