OT How do you spell leenix?

2002-02-14 Thread Joel Hammer
One funny part of my computer crash. My wife called @HOME tech support (They are in Canada), since she thought it was our cable modem gone bad. They asked which OS she was using. When she said linux, they asked her to spell it. Joel ___ Linux-users

Re: Comcast mail

2002-02-13 Thread Joel Hammer
With register.com, you own your domain name. Register.com doesn't know what your email address is, necessarily. Joel mailbank.com). Either way, for a nominal fee you get out of being email shackled to your ISP. and sells your e-mail address to every spamming slime in the world?

Re: Reading Documents with Various editors

2002-02-13 Thread Joel Hammer
Oh boy. It sounds like they are going for nifty features in place of what most users really want, no hassles and standardization. It is to be hoped that they will supply a patch for 5.x that will allow opening and saving of documents in the new format. After all, 5.x is very nice, and maybe a

After the crash: No dhcpcd-eth1.info in /var/run

2002-02-13 Thread Joel Hammer
After setting up my dynamic ip with comcast (it never seems to change, because it can't, I don't run dhcpcd as a daemon) all was fine until today, when my box just crashed. No warning. I was at work. When I rebooted the network wouldn't start. That's because the network script reads in

Crash: How to track the cause

2002-02-13 Thread Joel Hammer
My linux box crashed today. I was at work, so it wasn't me. /var/log/messages has no indication way. Is there a way to trace the cause? Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info,

Re: Sendmail Masquerading Question

2002-02-13 Thread Joel Hammer
I do the same as you. But, I use mutt, which puts on the proper world accessible address (hammershome.com) instead of my private network name jhammer.org (which also exists on the net but its not mine.) All my mail is composed and sent on my box which runs sendmail and also serves as the

Re: Webcam and TV-card how do I switch?

2002-02-12 Thread Joel Hammer
I have found that removing the bttv module and then reinstalling it is a good way to turn off my video capture card if kwintv has not shut down improperly. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Reading Documents with Various editors

2002-02-12 Thread Joel Hammer
We got at memo a work today, a 300 word memo in Word that was 45 KB long. It has a small corporate logo on it. I decided to experiment. Using Word97, I saved it in four formats, DOC, HTM, RFT, and TXT, with the following file sizes: 46k .DOC 3.2k .HTM 196k .RTF 2.0k .TXT So, RTF is the

Re: Reading Documents with Various editors

2002-02-12 Thread Joel Hammer
BTW, I used staroffice 5.2, not 5.3. I don't know if there is a 5.3. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.

Re: Ammunition

2002-02-12 Thread Joel Hammer
This is really an old argument. Basically, MS can do anything it wants to do down the road. After all, almost all MS users are entirely dependent on MS. The herd thinks that if there are enough sheep, someone will stop the wolf from eating them. Congress would step in or something. Or, the wolf

Re: Reading Documents with Various editors

2002-02-12 Thread Joel Hammer
I haven't fooled around with OpenOffice yet. I would HOPE they haven't made things worse as far as the import filters, but, you never know. Joel On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 07:55:35PM -0600, Michael Hipp wrote: Good summary, Joel. Do you have a copy of OpenOffice handy to try also? Joel Hammer

Re: Comcast mail

2002-02-12 Thread Joel Hammer
How is this different from a thing like Register.com? Register.com seems to provide similar sames services, and for the same price ($36.00 per year). Joel Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:09:21PM -0600, Michael Hipp wrote: Bill, FWIW, I have for years now been using the services of

Re: Netscape 6.2 and aol mail

2002-02-12 Thread Joel Hammer
wrote to netscape online support, but, I suspect I'll get nothing back. So, it looks like I won't be using aol mail from netscape in linux. I haven't tried netscape from windows, and don't intend to. No big loss, but the girls like it. Joel On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:33:18AM -0500, Joel Hammer

Netscape 6.2 and aol mail

2002-02-11 Thread Joel Hammer
One of the advantages of netscape over mozilla is that the former can hook up to netscape email, they say. However, when I try to download messages from aol with netscape, nothing happens. Is anyone successfully using netscape email with aol? Thanks, Joel

Comcast mail

2002-02-11 Thread Joel Hammer
Any comcast users here? Currently I have multiple mail boxes on my @HOME account. The people at comcast tell me that I can only have one mailbox (account name) when I switch over to the comcast mail server. Can this be true? Joel ___ Linux-users

Re: Netscape 6.2 and aol mail

2002-02-11 Thread Joel Hammer
I get this error message when I try to ping the imap.mail.aol.com server: jhammer6.jhammer.org 172.18.145.1: icmp: echo request (DF) 10.133.176.1 jhammer6.jhammer.org: icmp: host 172.18.145.1 unreachable-admin prohibited filter When I try telnet imap.mail.aol.com, I get the

Re: Comcast mail

2002-02-11 Thread Joel Hammer
What a @#$%^ service. I use my hammershome address for most of my stuff but my daughter needs an email address, too. I suppose she'll need to use aol. Thanks, Joel On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:02:10AM -0500, Tim Wunder wrote: Previously, Joel Hammer chose to write: Any comcast users here

Re: Comcast mail

2002-02-11 Thread Joel Hammer
I run an imap server on my home box but don't allow access to it for security reasons from outside my home network. I pop the mail off @HOME for her. I may have to do make her use hammershome for her mail address. Joel On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:28:23AM -0500, Tim Wunder wrote: I feel your

Re: Netscape 6.2 and aol mail

2002-02-11 Thread Joel Hammer
Just more more info. I called Comcast and they (the nice lady at the other end of the line) claimed that this 10.xx. ip number has nothing to do with comcast. She suggested a virus. This is getting irritating. I will try to call aol next. Joel ___

Re: OT Another Microsoft marketing success

2002-02-10 Thread Joel Hammer
the software they donate is just stolen for private use, they'll still get the tax write off, which is more than they are getting now. Does anyone still wonder why MS is making LOTS of money while other hi tech companies are struggling? Joel On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 10:21:51PM -0500, Joel Hammer

Re: OT Another Microsoft marketing success

2002-02-10 Thread Joel Hammer
Still thinking about this gift. Someone mentioned giving out free linux cd's with staroffice. Sounds good until your think about who is going to be teaching the underpriviledged to use this software. Americans? The US Peace Corp? What does an American know about computers except MS ? I think Bill

Re: Printing question

2002-02-09 Thread Joel Hammer
Does the print file generation take a long time on the linux server or is the slowness in the transfer to the printer? You could just change lp=/tmp/outfile and time the output. You would first have to touch /tmp/outfile and run checkpc -f. Joel After observing the behavior with top, it appears

Re: HELP!!

2002-02-09 Thread Joel Hammer
You could try editing your password files. Look at /etc/shadow. For example: andrew:s52TAIl4IT.:11314:0:-1:7:-1:-1:134535852 aph5::11476:0:-1:7:-1:-1:134535844 user aph5 has no password and you can log on with just the user name. Joel On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 12:32:44PM -0600, daddy

Re: OT Another Microsoft marketing success

2002-02-09 Thread Joel Hammer
Trying to think beyond linux, this will also kill any chance Apple might have in Africa. After all, Apple would have to give away hardward as well as software. You just gotta love those guys! Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list -

procmail just stopped

2002-02-08 Thread Joel Hammer
For reasons that escape me (thus this email), last evening procmail just stopped working. Nothing happened as far as I know. sendmail and all works but I am getting all mail in my default mailbox. proclog shows no activity since last night. Here is my .forward file: |exec /usr/bin/procmail

Re: procmail just stopped

2002-02-08 Thread Joel Hammer
OK. I just remembered. I was fooling around with permissions on my home directory last night. Although it is not blazened everywhere, the permissions of the directory where .forward resides have to be restrictive. I had made my home directory world writeable (not smart) while trying to fix a

Re: Disk Activity

2002-02-08 Thread Joel Hammer
I would look in /var/log/messages. Maybe you are getting numerous error messages logged there, causing the disk activity. Joel On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 06:46:28PM -0600, Michael Hipp wrote: Something is continually strobing my hard disk about 1/second all the time I'm logged into KDE. Seems

Re: Disk Activity

2002-02-08 Thread Joel Hammer
Hmm... Is this the despised rmmod command? I would remove this from the root crontab or system crontab. I think a number of distros use it, to get rid of unused modules, but, it causes more pain than it is worth in some situations. Are there any other logs you could peek into? httpd, secure,

Configuring KDE Redhat 7.1 without reinstalling

2002-02-08 Thread Joel Hammer
I mucked up my xf86config file when I changed monitors and mice on my RedHat 7.1 box. This is XFree 4.0 something. Is there a way to run the redhat cdrom to just get it to configure my hardware again? Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list -

Re: Configuring KDE Redhat 7.1 without reinstalling

2002-02-08 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks. That is a REAL fine untility. Joel As root type setup. Last option in the list is X configuration. Should get you back to a basic config file. Tom Wilson ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

PDF editor

2002-02-07 Thread Joel Hammer
Is there some way to edit PDF files without coughing up money for a proprietary pdf editor? Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.

Re: weird opera behavior

2002-02-06 Thread Joel Hammer
This is a feature. Muck around preferences or the like and look for the option that turns off downloading images. Joel On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:58:52AM -0500, dep wrote: damndest thing. on my wife's machine, opera all of a sudden displays no images at all and instead merely has the boxes

Re: Script help

2002-02-05 Thread Joel Hammer
Well, I don't understand the -w option. And I don't understand the pipe command, and I don't understand what the arp cache is too well, but: Why not just ping all these addresses first, then use arp to get their MAC's? If you are on this network, your arp cache will store those mac's, at least

Re: Poor Man's Remote Admin

2002-02-04 Thread Joel Hammer
I use mutt for email attachments. I haven't found the option to attach things with mail. so: echo This is your message in the letter body sent `date` | mutt -s Update -a FileToAttach YourAddress What is the easiest way to send a simple text email from the command line?

Comcast question: dynamic ip and hostname

2002-02-03 Thread Joel Hammer
I changed over to a dynamic ip from a static ip number with comcast recently. I got an ip number and ran nslookup against it to see what my new host name was, and it was: pcp361333pcs-udp079123uds.towson01.md.comcast.net Now, when I run nslookup against my ip number, which hasn't changed, I

Re: Comcast question: dynamic ip and hostname

2002-02-03 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks everybody. It sounds like things are more or less like they were under the old @HOME arrangement, which is good. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests

Re: smaba 2.2.2 and winXP Home

2002-02-02 Thread Joel Hammer
There have been lots of issues with XP on the samba mailing list. You might want to check out the samba archives. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ Or join the samba mailing list at www.samba.org Joel On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 08:39:18PM +0800, Chang[linuxism] wrote: Trying to connect my sister's

Re: New virus?

2002-02-01 Thread Joel Hammer
MS users are so dopey, you just never know. I got an email the other day that had a funny title like: Great things are happening The text part said to run the attachment, which was a microsoft thingee. I immediately contacted our IS people. I haven't heard back, but I am starting to think that

OT MS product placement

2002-02-01 Thread Joel Hammer
Just to give you some idea of the power of MS to get its story out and the attitude of businessmen towards us little people. The Wall Street Journal has been a vocal critic, on its editorial page, of the efforts to rein in Microsoft's attempt to monopolize the cyber world. Now comes an editorial

Re: New virus?

2002-02-01 Thread Joel Hammer
Really? Can you mail it to me so I can look at it on my linux machine? Joel in which case, you ought to ask your marketing department why they are sending things to me as well, because i got one of these, same subject. -- ___ Linux-users

Re: Incrementing Letter variables in bash

2002-01-31 Thread Joel Hammer
You can convert a number into a letter with: echo -e \\octal, if you think this might help. Joel On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:32:47AM -0500, Ian wrote: So far my searching hasn't turned up anything useful. Is there a quick way to increment a letter variable in a bash script? I am creating a

Re: Incrementing Letter variables in bash

2002-01-31 Thread Joel Hammer
Here is a short script which will do what you want. Run it as: scriptname letter and see the magic. #!/bin/bash upletter () { octal=`echo -n $L | od -A n -o` new_octal=`echo obase = 8;ibase=8;$octal + 1 | bc` L=`eval echo -e $new_octal` } L=$1 upletter echo This is the new letter $L

XMMS runs fast and no sound for some users

2002-01-31 Thread Joel Hammer
I used to know this but: XMMS runs fine for my regular user, but when another regular user tries to use it, the song loads, but plays very fast, and there is no sound. There is no attempt made to access the audio device, because this behavior occurs even when there is another xmms program running

Re: XMMS runs fast and no sound for some users

2002-01-31 Thread Joel Hammer
, Joel Hammer wrote: I used to know this but: XMMS runs fine for my regular user, but when another regular user tries to use it, the song loads, but plays very fast, and there is no sound. There is no attempt made to access the audio device, because this behavior occurs even when there is another

Re: Kwintv won't save channels anymore

2002-01-30 Thread Joel Hammer
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 05:14:12PM -0800, Net Llama wrote: --- Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not as far as I can recall. This is the only program acting funny. Try running an strace on it and see if it complains about a missing file or an attempt to write to something. Also, what

Re: Mutt is being a bad dog...

2002-01-30 Thread Joel Hammer
Here is what I have in my .muttrc file. This seems to take care of this problem for me. I am doing almost the same thing as you. set hostname=hammershome.com my_hdr From: Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joel When I send mail using /usr/bin/mail , the messages are sent out using

Re: Kwintv won't save channels anymore

2002-01-30 Thread Joel Hammer
The most annoying thing is that the audio of the cable channel stays on. I don't know how to kill that. If I could kill it, without having to shut down kde, I could live with the shut down problem. Well, I have at least found that my removing the module bttv, the sound stops. Reinstalling

Re: Linux Compete for Microsoft partners

2002-01-29 Thread Joel Hammer
I did that too. My son and one daughter both ended up using linux, since windows just wouldn't run on either or their two machines, after a while. My son got a laptop for school, and had to replace windows98 with XP, because the latter would crash several times a day. XP hasn't crashed yet,

OT Testing

2002-01-29 Thread Joel Hammer
If you read email with the subject line: OT Testing you have a serious problem. Please seek immediate therapy. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located

Passwords: How are they stored?

2002-01-27 Thread Joel Hammer
I had thought that passwords were not stored on your computer, simply the hash'ed password. Yet, when I try to change my password, I get told my new password isn't acceptable because it it too similar to the old one, or just involves a change in case. Any insight appreciated, Joel

Re: Passwords: How are they stored?

2002-01-27 Thread Joel Hammer
-0500, Bruce Marshall wrote: On Sunday 27 January 2002 9:09 am, Joel Hammer wrote: I had thought that passwords were not stored on your computer, simply the hash'ed password. Yet, when I try to change my password, I get told my new password isn't acceptable because it it too similar to the old

Re: Passwords: How are they stored?

2002-01-27 Thread Joel Hammer
Hmmm... Hmmm.. Yes. Now that you mention it. I wonder why I didn't think of that myself? Thanks, Joel On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 02:24:02PM -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote: On Sunday 27 January 2002 12:20 pm, Joel Hammer wrote: I thought that for security reasons, the actual password is never

Re: Article: Converting A Company To OSS

2002-01-26 Thread Joel Hammer
Like the author, I too find that staroffice works, despite being ugly. Since I have upgraded to a faster work station, it doesn't seem so slow. I was suprised that he sounded as if all the various workers were running software installed locally, not on a server with X terminals for clients.

vi and formatting

2002-01-26 Thread Joel Hammer
I like vi, and it is neat to turn text documents into postscript with enscript. However, I would like to be able to format things better than just straight text with one font. Enscript understands certain embedded escapes to change fonts and other items. However, these extra characters on a line

Re: Mail Server?

2002-01-25 Thread Joel Hammer
I use sendmail, procmail, and fetchmail. They work fine. It can get to be a bother to set up. I don't have any web interface experience. Joel On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 01:50:37PM -0500, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I currently would like to set up a mail server on my internal lan. Something that

atd startup error

2002-01-24 Thread Joel Hammer
Can't link execution file: Permission denied Does anyone know why I am getting this error when I try to run atd? Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and

Re: atd startup error

2002-01-24 Thread Joel Hammer
As root. I have the same at.deny list on two different machines, but only one machine refuses to start atd. Joel On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:39:31AM -0500, Ian wrote: Joel Hammer wrote: Can't link execution file: Permission denied Does anyone know why I am getting this error when I

Netscape and symbolic links

2002-01-24 Thread Joel Hammer
I have just noticed a problem with netscape 6.2. When I try to open a file or look into a directory on my local computer, it will not do it if it involves following a symbolic link. I can go directly to the file, bypassing the link, and open the file with no difficulties. Has anyone seen this

Re: atd startup error

2002-01-24 Thread Joel Hammer
, as always, appreciated. Joel On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 10:11:24AM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: As root. I have the same at.deny list on two different machines, but only one machine refuses to start atd. Joel On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:39:31AM -0500, Ian wrote: Joel Hammer wrote: Can't

Re: Netscape and symbolic links

2002-01-24 Thread Joel Hammer
school loan. That I had to use explorer for with win4lin. I will try mozilla on my redhat machine to see if that will work for this federal loan page. Joel On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:04:45PM -0800, Net Llama wrote: --- Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just noticed a problem

Re: Congress to look at software liability? OT

2002-01-20 Thread Joel Hammer
. Joel On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 01:55:01PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 11:18:45AM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: This must be the dumbest idea in a long time. This is like holding a builder liable because someone broke into his building by digging under the foundation or smashing

Re: Congress to look at software liability? OT

2002-01-18 Thread Joel Hammer
The problem with holding software writers liable is this. They cannot anticipate all the uses or all the hardware the software will be aplied to. Neither, can they predict all the ineractions with every other piece of software aver written. Therefore, software would come with incredible

Re: Mail loops back to me error

2002-01-14 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks. That solved the problem. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: ingenuity sought

2002-01-13 Thread Joel Hammer
It looks like Bill's suggestion should work. But, if you don't want to be that fancy, and if you don't know perl, the following script should do what you want: #!/bin/bash for i in `find *jpg -maxdepth 0 -type f` do newname=${i%%.jpg}'.640x480.jpg' convert $i -geometry 640x480 $newname done

Mail loops back to me error

2002-01-13 Thread Joel Hammer
I am trying to set up mail for my home network. I think it used to work but after getting new IP's everything is being reconfigured. Anyway, when I try to send a letter like this: echo test | mutt -s Testing [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this is my home, private network), I get the following error in my

Re: Galloping dhclient...

2002-01-13 Thread Joel Hammer
I don't have dhclient on my boxes, and the man page doesn't mention any options to help out. What I would do is use dhcpcd, which doesn't automatically overwrite /etc/resolv.conf, OR, edit the binary dhclient. vi -b works fine for this. Try :/resolve.conf and then change one letter in the name.

Testing: Ignore

2002-01-12 Thread Joel Hammer
Please ignore. This is only a test. If this had been a real post this would be filled with misinformation. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: Testing: Ignore

2002-01-12 Thread Joel Hammer
This is still a test. On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:31:43AM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: Please ignore. This is only a test. If this had been a real post this would be filled with misinformation. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc

Comcast Cable server DHCP experience

2002-01-12 Thread Joel Hammer
This change over to dynamic IP's has been anything but easy. It has taken me several days to get this straightened out. So, I'll pass it along. I was using @HOME with a static IP. I use register.com to maintain my domain hammershome.com, which points to my static ip. With comcast, there are no

Re: internet sharing of cable

2002-01-12 Thread Joel Hammer
Here is all I have to set up my gateway machine. I noted you didn't mention ip_forward in your post. That might be the problem. Fill in your values for the $VARIABLES noted below. As I understand it, you can ping the gateway machine from your daughter's computer. That suggests that packets are

Re: Switching to DHCPDC on Comcast:SOLVED, so far

2002-01-10 Thread Joel Hammer
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:12:48PM -0700, Collins Richey wrote: I have a simple router, and the only thing I have to do is give the router the host name that @home/@attbi expects. The rest is lights and mirrors. That was the rub. I didn't know, and @HOME didn't tell me, that I needed to supply

Where is /etc/resolv.conf defined?

2002-01-09 Thread Joel Hammer
I would like to know how my linux box knows that /etc/resolv.conf is the place to look for dns servers. I have grepped through the linux sources, but could not find any file with resolv.conf in it. I grepped /etc and found a few files. One is /etc/lst.cnf, which has all the various files

Re: User sound permissions

2002-01-09 Thread Joel Hammer
I have found that permission on things like: /dev/dsp are frequently the problem. Joel On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:46:20PM -0800, Ken Moffat wrote: Another question. I'm trying out ELX linux, but the sound for users doesn't work, and I can't find the audio group to add my users. (works for

Re: Where is /etc/resolv.conf defined?

2002-01-09 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks. I have no idea about kernels and libraries, all just mystical C talk to me. I was asking this question because I wanted to understand if I had to rename my /etc/resolv.conf.dhcp file to /etc/resolv.conf after dhcpcd creates the latter file. I guess the answer would be yes, if I want to be

Re: Switching to DHCPDC on Comcast:SOLVED, so far

2002-01-09 Thread Joel Hammer
Well, tonight is the big switch in my area. @HOME even called the house tonight to advise me of the switch. This, on top of the two emails and one snail mail notice. Tomorrow morning I'll know how it went. Shame they couldn't spare 1% of this effort to help linux users. Joel

Re: Maxtor 80 meg drive

2002-01-08 Thread Joel Hammer
My son just got a copy of XP professional for $20 from his school. Student discount. That is the kind of price I am trying to get. Joel Take a look at: www.bcd2000.com They have XP Home (full version) for 99 bux, but their XP Pro is priced at $159. FWIW Regards,

Re: Switching to DHCPDC on Comcast:SOLVED, so far

2002-01-08 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks. That did the trick. @HOME was expecting a hostname. I am a bit puzzled by the startup scripts. I don't know what to put into the ifcfg-eth1 script for the dynamic parameter. So, in my usual style, I just ripped out all the fancy garbage (That is, stuff I can't understand) in the network

Re: A gnutella client that works (for me)

2002-01-07 Thread Joel Hammer
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:55:19AM +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:24:17 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Well, in the past two days I have tried, on my caldera 2.4 with an 2.4 | kernal and XFree4x: | Limewire: Failed, runtime java error. Odd. LimeWire

Re: Maxtor 80 meg drive

2002-01-07 Thread Joel Hammer
Can someone point me to an up to date discussion on how to partition a disk this size? I want to use this disk as my primary drive (newer, faster, bigger) and I need some information on partitioning it. I use LILO. Thanks, Joel I just bought a big drive. I was surprised to see they say I

Re: Maxtor 80 meg drive

2002-01-07 Thread Joel Hammer
Gigs, megs, what the difference? Yes, I do mean gigs. Joel Are you sure you don't mean an 80GB drive? I probably have a couple of 70MB Maxtor MFM drives sitting around as door stops ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at

Re: Maxtor 80 meg drive

2002-01-07 Thread Joel Hammer
I want to use this drive to boot several versions of linux. If I can get a cheap copy of XP, I will want to put that on there, too. I will use most of this drive as a big storage unit for: 1. All those mp3's which my family loads off the internet (five people can fill up a hard drive fast with

Re: Really handy but unsolicted tips for vi (vim)

2002-01-07 Thread Joel Hammer
cal ESC!!shRETURN didn't work for me. What did work was: :r ! cal RETURN Joel On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:29:52PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:57:53PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: The more I learn about vi the better it becomes. Another neat vi tricks session

Re: Switching to DHCPDC on Comcast

2002-01-07 Thread Joel Hammer
Still trying to get connected with dhcpcd -d eth1 to the new or old @HOME service. My cable modem is on eth1. This command, dhcpcd -d eth0, talking to my intranet dhcpd linux server, gets assigned an IP address without trouble. Here is what I see with tcpdump -i eth1 -n | grep .67. 0.0.0.0.68

Re: Maxtor 80 meg drive

2002-01-07 Thread Joel Hammer
I am using a 2.4.5 kernel patched for win4lin. The LVM HOWTO calls for 2.4.9. kernels and earlier to be patched. I get real use out of win4lin (gotta be able to run word and excel and nlreg, and my wife uses it for AOL when her windows box goes down) and it is working perfectly, at this time. I

Maxtor 80 meg drive

2002-01-05 Thread Joel Hammer
I just bought a big drive. I was surprised to see they say I should install an Ultra/133 PCI adaptor card. The drive is 80 megs 7200 rpm. Do I need this card with linux? Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at

Re: allowing sinlge-login only?

2002-01-04 Thread Joel Hammer
Since login is run by inetd, you could configure tcpwrappers to run a script to check if the user is already logged on, perhaps. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: Switching to DHCPDC on Comcast

2002-01-04 Thread Joel Hammer
Well, fooling around with dhcpcd: The man page says dhcpcd will try to configure your interface; however, when I run dhcpcd against my intranet dhcp server with dhcpcd -d eth0, the interface isn't changed at all. The lease files are set up on the client computer, but no attempt is made to

Re: opinions on iptables scripts?

2002-01-03 Thread Joel Hammer
I would STRONGLY urge you not to use any script for your security. Scripts are basically black boxes. You can't rely on a black box. You have to know about security. I would learn to set up some ipchains rules, or get a set of rules from somewhere, and then edit them with vi or some simple editor

Re: opinions on iptables scripts?

2002-01-03 Thread Joel Hammer
I still use them, so, they're not entirely dead. You can configure tcpd wrappers with your firewall. Since you can spawn scripts with tcpd wrappers when certain events occur, you can have very tight control over security. I think that changing technologies/software everytime you want a new

Switching to DHCPDC on Comcast

2002-01-03 Thread Joel Hammer
Well, I have enjoyed a static ip number on my cable modem for a year or so from @HOME. But, they are dead, so I seem be forced to get a dynamic ip number. I don't have dhcpdc on my caldera 2.4 box, with a 2.2 kernel patched for win4lin. So, questions: 1. Which dhcpdc is best to use. I will

Re: Switching to DHCPDC on Comcast

2002-01-03 Thread Joel Hammer
Hmm... Looks like you are right. Just a matter of switching a couple of letters around. This command works fine when I run it from my RH 7.1 box against my linux dhcpd server. Joel On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 07:53:55PM -0800, David Aikema wrote: On January 3, 2002 07:33 pm, Joel Hammer wrote

Re: Switching to DHCPDC on Comcast

2002-01-03 Thread Joel Hammer
I get the impression, from reading man dhcpcd, that the client simply tries to extend the lease from time to time. I guess it might depend if the server decides to allow the lease to continue. I do not see how they could change your ip while you are online, since wouldn't that break all your

Re: Will they recommend LINUX????

2002-01-02 Thread Joel Hammer
Just to put things in their proper perspective: Today the Wall Street Journal reports that MS has 36 Billion dollars in cash. They expect a free cash flow of about ? 1 billion dollars per month or so and are expected to have 46 billion (I may be off by a few billion here)in cash assets by the

Re: Will they recommend LINUX????

2002-01-01 Thread Joel Hammer
Perhaps they'll urge Americans to switch to a safer OS ;-) Not likely during the current administration. Or any other. As I recall, the previous administration used Apples in the White House. You did note that Enron shifted its corporate donations to the Democratic party in the last 6

Re: otchristmas and its HOT!

2002-01-01 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks for this wonderful link. It will provide much interesting reading. About the Brave New World of uniform measurements based on units of 10. They tried hard to switch American medicine over to the European units for chemistry values (out with mg/dl, in ng/l or meq/l etc. They stopped when

Re: otchristmas and its HOT!

2002-01-01 Thread Joel Hammer
it. I read my posted version years ago in some book or another. Who knows if the book was right? Joel On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 10:27:48 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream: [snip] Which unit is more convenient for measuring air temperature, Fahrenheit or Centigrade

vi question: mapping a key to esc in insert mode

2002-01-01 Thread Joel Hammer
I use vi. The biggest nuisance I have with it is constantly having to hit the esc button to exit the insert mode. I have remapped my ; key to do this. But, now I have to type cntrl-v59 to insert a semicolon into my document. I have tried to map F2 to insert a ; but that is not possible. Hitting

Kwintv won't save channels anymore

2002-01-01 Thread Joel Hammer
I have been using kwintv without trouble. Suddenly it won't let me save my channels after I scan them. The program reports they are saved, but then seg faults and crashes. The sound keeps playing. I tried upgrading to .84 but no change. 0.85 won't compile on my machine. Any insight appreciated.

Re: Kwintv won't save channels anymore

2002-01-01 Thread Joel Hammer
Not as far as I can recall. This is the only program acting funny. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: Netscape 6.2 Composer

2001-12-31 Thread Joel Hammer
Netscape 6.2 is working fine as a browser. email is not working quite right. I just tried the newest Opera on the SxS web site. It crashed when I tried to search the site. Joel Do you get that far without a crash? ;-) -- Regards, Declan Moriarty

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