Re: couple of quick stupid questions

2002-02-13 Thread Bill Day
Yes, I founf the same thing that kvirc 2.1.1 does not list all channels that are open, likely due to to few people for the service to recognize it. On Wednesday 13 February 2002 01:48, you were heard blurting out: On Tuesday 12 February 2002 11:21 am, Federico Voges wrote: Doug, The

couple of quick stupid questions

2002-02-12 Thread Douglas J Hunley
1. what's the linux-users channel on IRC? I forget... 2. can one create a hyperlink in HTML to an irc channel? if so, how? 3. anyone know of an irc-html forum (and vice-versa) gateway? -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://linux.nf

Re: couple of quick stupid questions

2002-02-12 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug, 1. Channel: #linux-users Server: irc.openprojects.net 2. irc://irc.openprojects.net/#linux-users ?? 3. Er, what do you mean?? A web frontend for IRC?? If so, have a look at http://www.phpwizard.net/projects/phpChat/

Re: couple of quick stupid questions

2002-02-12 Thread Tim Wunder
Douglas J Hunley wrote: 1. what's the linux-users channel on IRC? I forget... On irc.openprojects.net, channel #linux-users 2. can one create a hyperlink in HTML to an irc channel? if so, how? 3. anyone know of an irc-html forum (and vice-versa) gateway? dunno either :-(

Re: couple of quick stupid questions

2002-02-12 Thread Net Llama
--- Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. what's the linux-users channel on IRC? I forget... 2. can one create a hyperlink in HTML to an irc channel? if so, how? 3. anyone know of an irc-html forum (and vice-versa) gateway? Sorry, i don't have answers to these questions, although i do

Re: couple of quick stupid questions

2002-02-12 Thread Bill Day
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 14:05, you were heard blurting out: 1. what's the linux-users channel on IRC? I forget... #linux-users on irc.openprojects.net:6667 2. can one create a hyperlink in HTML to an irc channel? if so, how? There is something for this that works with win clients, mIRC,

Re: couple of quick stupid questions

2002-02-12 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Federico Voges babbled on about: Doug, 1. Channel: #linux-users Server: irc.openprojects.net 2. irc://irc.openprojects.net/#linux-users ?? 3. Er, what do you mean?? A web frontend for IRC?? If so, have a look at http://www.phpwizard.net/projects/phpChat/

Re: couple of quick stupid questions

2002-02-12 Thread Tim Wunder
Federico Voges wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug, The correct URL form is: irc://irc.openprojects.net/linux-users :) Clicking that link with Mozilla will open a ChatZilla window and connect to the #linux-users channel on irc.openprojects.net. Haven't tried

Re: couple of quick stupid questions

2002-02-12 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 11:21 am, Federico Voges wrote: Doug, The correct URL form is: irc://irc.openprojects.net/linux-users :) On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:16:16 -0300, Federico Voges wrote: Doug, 1. Channel: #linux-users Server: irc.openprojects.net 2.

Questions about moving from Win2k to SUSE 7.3 Pro (Long)

2002-01-07 Thread Shane Broomhall
. I have replaced the hard disk with one of 30M and it has 512M of ram, so I am expecting it to really scream. It has an internal DVD, and a Win Modem. I have an Iomega USB Zip CDR. My last usage of Suse was on this laptop with 7.0. I have purchased 7.3 pro. My questions are as follows

Re: Questions about moving from Win2k to SUSE 7.3 Pro (Long)

2002-01-07 Thread Mike Andrew
, for AUD50 why bother? I have an Iomega USB Zip Bulk-Storage-Zip-USB USB CDR. USB - General info (answer is yes, but I'm not 100% on the cd burn) My last usage of Suse was on this laptop with 7.0. I have purchased 7.3 pro. My questions are as follows.: This mail-server runs SuSE 7.3 (when Dougie

Re: [SLE] Questions about moving from Win2k to SUSE 7.3 Pro (Long)

2002-01-07 Thread Tim Prince
Shane Broomhall wrote: Hi All, My computer is an IBM thinkpad A20m. I have replaced the hard disk with one of 30M and it has 512M of ram, so I am expecting it to really scream. It has an internal DVD, and a Win Modem. I have an Iomega USB Zip CDR. I have heard that Winmodems are now

Re: [ltp] Re: [SLE] Questions about moving from Win2k to SUSE 7.3 Pro (Long)

2002-01-07 Thread Dr. Edmund Weitz
Tim Prince [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shane Broomhall wrote: Hi All, My computer is an IBM thinkpad A20m. I have replaced the hard disk with one of 30M and it has 512M of ram, so I am expecting it to really scream. It has an internal DVD, and a Win Modem. I have an Iomega USB Zip

Re: Questions about moving from Win2k to SUSE 7.3 Pro (Long)

2002-01-07 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Monday 07 January 2002 5:37 am, Shane Broomhall wrote: I have heard that Winmodems are now useable, has anyone had experiences with making these work with 7.3 and could you please give me hint on where to find the instructions. ??? I have a Thinkpad A20m and you can find a driver for the

RE: Questions about moving from Win2k to SUSE 7.3 Pro (Long)

2002-01-07 Thread Schmeits, Roger
I have a winmodem in this laptop and it works -- the performance is sucky at best. My advice ist to build a firewall (www.smoothwall.org) with an dialup modem and use an ethernet card on your laptop. You might want to check out the winmodem listserv best on that one. I also looked at Vmware on

RE: Questions about moving from Win2k to SUSE 7.3 Pro (Long)

2002-01-07 Thread Schmeits, Roger
And vmware is very easy to set up. Just out of curosity was that a laptop or a desktop? Did you create a virtual OS (if I recollect correctly) or did you use a preinstalled OS system? How is the performance? I looked at putting it on a laptop and it turned into a of work. Mabye I will have

Re: Questions about moving from Win2k to SUSE 7.3 Pro (Long)

2002-01-07 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Monday 07 January 2002 10:10 am, Schmeits, Roger wrote: And vmware is very easy to set up. Just out of curosity was that a laptop or a desktop? Did you create a virtual OS (if I recollect correctly) or did you use a preinstalled OS system? How is the performance? I looked at

Re: [ltp] Re: [SLE] Questions about moving from Win2k to SUSE 7.3 Pro (Long)

2002-01-07 Thread Tim Prince
Dr. Edmund Weitz wrote: Tim Prince [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shane Broomhall wrote: Hi All, My computer is an IBM thinkpad A20m. I have replaced the hard disk with one of 30M and it has 512M of ram, so I am expecting it to really scream. It has an internal DVD, and a Win Modem. I have

Re: [ltp] Re: [SLE] Questions about moving from Win2k to SUSE 7.3Pro (Long)

2002-01-07 Thread Ken Firestone
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Tim Prince wrote: The LT WinModem driver for SuSE 7.3 (from the sfu site to which the SuSE hints point) works fine. I'm sure there are WinModems which don't work. I can't find anything on the SuSE site for the Lt WinModem. could you tell us where the sfu site

Re: [ltp] Re: [SLE] Questions about moving from Win2k to SUSE 7.3Pro (Long)

2002-01-07 Thread Jacques Goldberg
Winmodems with Lucent chipsets Requested material at http://www.heby.de/ltmodem Additional background and post-install issues at: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at

Re: Questions about moving from Win2k to SUSE 7.3 Pro (Long)

2002-01-07 Thread Keith Antoine
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 20:37,Shane Broomhall scribed: Hi All, My name is Shane Broomhall from Brisbane Australia. Damd, there are two of us now... I have migrated once Migrated , yep been there done that from Pommie Land, 1960. the 2.4 Kernal has support for USB devices, would

Re: [ltp] Re: [SLE] Questions about moving from Win2k to SUSE 7.3 Pro (Long)

2002-01-07 Thread Tim Prince
Ken Firestone wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Tim Prince wrote: The LT WinModem driver for SuSE 7.3 (from the sfu site to which the SuSE hints point) works fine. I'm sure there are WinModems which don't work. I can't find anything on the SuSE site for the Lt WinModem. could you tell

Re: questions

2001-12-28 Thread Lee
I wouldn't worry too much about it. Most of the list isn't offended by mention of that other OS. Matter-of-fact, a lot of us run dual boot with it and have asked more than a few questions regarding how to get Gates' wingreed to run smoothly with our Linux systems not to mention Wine questions. I

Re: questions

2001-12-28 Thread kwall
On December 27, zohar enlightened our ignorance thusly: CALDERA says that it providing a solution of UNIX and LINUX integrating it. What other than networking is the same between this two OS. Runs Linux on Unixware using LKP, Linux Kernel Personality. Essentially, you can use all those great

Re: questions

2001-12-28 Thread Dave Anselmi
zohar wrote: snipped 4 unrelated questions You might consider sending only one question per post. Then your subject line can identify the topic and the thread of responses won't be schizophrenic. Just a suggestion. Dave ___ Linux-users mailing

Re: questions

2001-12-28 Thread zohar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 8:45 PM Subject: Re: questions I wouldn't worry too much about it. Most of the list isn't offended by mention of that other OS. Matter-of-fact, a lot of us run dual boot with it and have asked more than a few questions

Re: questions

2001-12-28 Thread zohar
thank you for throwing the light on my problems and helped me to feel better (regarding firewalls) - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 9:44 PM Subject: Re: questions On December 27, zohar enlightened our ignorance thusly

questions

2001-12-27 Thread zohar
CALDERA says that it providing a solution of UNIX and LINUX integrating it. What other than networking is the same between this two OS. I have heard many times in last few days that normal firewall can only blocks the packets that come from Windows while they are not effective on the packets

Re: questions

2001-12-27 Thread Net Llama
produces it. A firewall analyzes packets, and blocks specific packets based on the criteria that you specify when configuring the firewall. Visual Basic questions are M$ specific, and have no place on this list. --- zohar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CALDERA says that it providing a solution of UNIX

Re: questions

2001-12-27 Thread Mike Andrew
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 04:28, zohar wrote: What is UPX file compressor of Visual Basic. What's Visual Basic? -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: questions

2001-12-27 Thread David A. Bandel
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 22:28:38 +0530 zohar [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream: CALDERA says that it providing a solution of UNIX and LINUX integrating it. What other than networking is the same between this two OS. Shorter list would be what's different. Let's see, what's the same

Re: questions

2001-12-27 Thread zohar
mail me(even offlist will do) so from further I will only put here linux specific questions. - Original Message - From: Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 11:22 PM Subject: Re: questions I think you may have wandered onto the wrong mailing

more kernel questions

2001-11-30 Thread Collins Richey
If you comiple everything built into the kernel, is there any need to run make modules and make modules_install? For the last few 2.4.x releases there's been a broken agp-sis function (compile errors). The config always seems to turn on CONFIG_AGP_SIS=y. Is there any way to avoid this config

Re: more kernel questions

2001-11-30 Thread Joel Hammer
Make modules install hasn't worked on my machine in many months. You don't have to make modules if you don't have any to make. In fact, even if you do have some modules chosen, if you don't use the, it doesn't matter either way. Joel On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 08:22:24PM -0700, Collins Richey wrote:

Re: more kernel questions

2001-11-30 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 22:35:10 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make modules install hasn't worked on my machine in many months. You don't have to make modules if you don't have any to make. In fact, even if you do have some modules chosen, if you don't use the, it doesn't matter

Re: A couple of Questions about Debian Linux/Storm Linux

2001-09-26 Thread Randy Donohoe
BTW On my systems Caldera's GRUB is the bootloader. I start Libranet with chainload. It is very simple to configure. I've never heard of chainload. Because of a problem with LILO I had with eDesktop I use a boot floppy on my Win98/Libranet box. It also is easier for my two seven-year olds

Re: A couple of Questions about Debian Linux/Storm Linux

2001-09-26 Thread David Aikema
On September 26, 2001 12:36 pm, Randy Donohoe wrote: BTW On my systems Caldera's GRUB is the bootloader. I start Libranet with chainload. It is very simple to configure. I've never heard of chainload. Because of a problem with LILO I had It's a grub command. Reads the boot sector of a

Re: A couple of Questions about Debian Linux/Storm Linux

2001-09-25 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Randy Donohoe wrote: Sorry for the mis-characterization, I still think of this list as the Caldera refugee list. I'm still subscribed to the Caldera list, hoping one day they'll start maintaining eDesktop, again. I think eDesktop and Libra are somehow very similar, but I can't put my

Re: A couple of Questions about Debian Linux/Storm Linux

2001-09-25 Thread Randy Donohoe
I have to agree on this: after running Libranet for several months and getting used to the irritating Debian anal retentive security policies, I am comfortable with this distro, the way I am comfortable with eDesk 2.4. Perhaps the common quality is both distros give one a sense of

Re: A couple of Questions about Debian Linux/Storm Linux

2001-09-24 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Randy Donohoe wrote: Another Caldera refugee on this list that runs Libranet is Leon Goldstein. I see him sometimes on the Libranet list. Libra is a good distrib, besides Mandrake betas, it's all I run. Randy Donohoe No, I am not another Caldera refugee. I still participate in the

Re: A couple of Questions about Debian Linux/Storm Linux

2001-09-24 Thread Randy Donohoe
No, I am not another Caldera refugee. I still participate in the Caldera list, and have installed WS 3.1 on my recently upgraded lab rat. I am in no hurry to adopt WS 3.1 - or any other bleeding edge distribution for that matter, since eDesk 2.4 still does everything I need reliably.

RE: A couple of Questions about Debian Linux/Storm Linux

2001-09-23 Thread Shane Broomhall
2001 2:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A couple of Questions about Debian Linux/Storm Linux Hi Shane, Yes, you can use software compiled for Debian 'Potato' 2.2r3. In fact, with the correct lines in /etc/apt/sources.list you can continue upgrading and updating to your hearts content

Re: A couple of Questions about Debian Linux/Storm Linux

2001-09-23 Thread rplummer
I had a 3com nic and didn't have any problem with Progeny or with Libranet. I installed Libranet later on another machine with a linksys nic and didn't have any problem either. Ray On 23 Sep 2001, at 10:33, Ken Moffat wrote: Did your Progeny recognize your NIC no problem? I installed and

Re: A couple of Questions about Debian Linux/Storm Linux

2001-09-23 Thread rplummer
On 23 Sep 2001, at 12:10, Collins Richey wrote: Ray, I keep looking for A Debian distribution that is up to date. Progeny is still using 2.2.x kernels. Even LibraNet is using 2.4.3 with reiserfs (which sounds like inviting trouble to me). Have you done much with either of these? How

A couple of Questions about Debian Linux/Storm Linux

2001-09-22 Thread Shane Broomhall
Hi All, I have serveral boxed copies of Linux at home. I am planning on spending some time with all of them. I have heard that Debian is one of the most stable Dists. I have purchased 4-6 months ago a boxed set of storm, it is based on Debian. I have heard Storm have ceased trading. As Storm

Re: A couple of Questions about Debian Linux/Storm Linux

2001-09-22 Thread Myles Green
Hi Shane, Yes, you can use software compiled for Debian 'Potato' 2.2r3. In fact, with the correct lines in /etc/apt/sources.list you can continue upgrading and updating to your hearts content. The apt utility is quite handy ( see man apt ). You'll need to comment out or remove any/all lines in

RE: Questions about Mandrake

2001-09-12 Thread Tom Wilson
Shane Broomhall wrote: Hi All, [snip] Does Anyone know if my USB ZIP CDR Drive can be used under Mandrake to burn CD's from Linux ? Does anyone know if the use of USB Hubs is supported under Linux, and again in particular Mandrake Linux ? USB support has improved drastically with the

OT: Windows 98 Questions

2001-07-06 Thread Taplin, Simon S
I know its off topic and I know I'm about to get shot for this but this seems like a list where I might actually get some help. 1. Our students have this nasty habbit of changing backgrounds, screensavers and installing themes on their machines. Is there any freeware software/registery hack that

Re: Windows 98 Questions

2001-07-06 Thread Auyeung at Technet
With Win98 they can hack the system no matter what you use on the server side. All they need to do is to reboot into safe mode, change your settings and do things they like afterwards. Suggest that you change the desktop OS to Linux. :-) Auyeung - Original Message - From: Taplin,

Re: Windows 98 Questions

2001-07-06 Thread Alan Jackson
On Fri, 6 Jul 2001 15:58:02 +0800 Auyeung at Technet wrote: With Win98 they can hack the system no matter what you use on the server side. All they need to do is to reboot into safe mode, change your settings and do things they like afterwards. Suggest that you change the desktop OS to