Re: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 21:55:27 -0500 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] bemusedly noted: new ibm linux ad, based on basketball: how can anybody that good play for peanuts? loves the game. just now on of all places the weather channel. === Yeah, ibm has done a pretty fair job lately of

Re: ssh and how do you do things

2002-02-07 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thursday 07 February 2002 01:35 am, Federico Voges warbled: Keith, Short answer: man scp Read that as I said but you need to be psychic to understand what its saying as with most man pages. Not-so-short answer: You don't need to ssh first. File xfer (remote to local) scp

Remove and Reinstall KDE 2.2

2002-02-07 Thread kbb0927
Hi Lists, I have a situation where I somehow have both KDE 2.2.1 and KDE 2.2.2 run ning on my box. I am using SuSE 7.3 Pro and have updated KDE only using SuSE's rpms. I am having trouble with Kapital installing due apparently to being confused about the two KDE's. What is the safest way,

Re: More ELX ramblings

2002-02-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:50:58 -0700 Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the other strong points for ELX (IMHO) is that they include OpenOffice. Have you run AbiWord in elx? If so... Do you get a font error message about being unable to add it's fonts to the X font path? (elx rc2) -- Ken

Fw: ELX Linux Interview

2002-02-07 Thread Ken Moffat
FYI Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 12:39:54 -0800 From: TApologist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: (none) Newsgroups: borland.public.kylix.non-technical Subject: ELX Linux Interview Paul and others have mentioned how much they like ELX Linux. Here's a link to an interview with the

Re: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread dep
begin Michael Scottaline's quote: | Yeah, ibm has done a pretty fair job lately of putting linux before | the public and using sports analogies (especially during sports | shows). I certainly doesn't hurt the public's perception of | Linux to have ibm in such a supportive role (regardless of

Re: Thanks Douglas Hunley

2002-02-07 Thread dep
begin Michael Hipp's quote: | I was under the assumption that it was a 75dpi vs 100dpi thing | related entirely to which font set to choose (or how to display the | font perhaps). no, that's determined (well, *was* -- with anti-aliasing and so on now, typeface handling is known only to three

Re: Where to get libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3

2002-02-07 Thread kurt . wall
Typing furiously on February 06, Michael Hipp managed to emit: On Wednesday 06 February 2002 03:09 pm, Net Llama wrote: rpm --rebuild whatever-foo.src.rpm If all goes well, you end up with a binary RPM in /usr/src/OpenLinux/RPM/ [snip] After I did that would I have

Re: NO $#@^*% MAIL!

2002-02-07 Thread Glenn Williams
Hey, Bruce: Great idea! g Glenn Williams - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User # 135678 - since 1994 Amateur radio packeteer - since 1988 - Original Message - From: Bruce Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 1:41 PM Subject: Re: NO

hey dep

2002-02-07 Thread Douglas J Hunley
just read your article on kde3. nice! how in the fsck did you kill that stupid alarm deamon? thanks -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://linux.nf panic(sun_82072_fd_inb: How did I get here?); 2.2.16

Re: ssh and how do you do things

2002-02-07 Thread stayler
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 21:28:59 -0500, Keith Antoine wrote: File xfer (remote to local) scp user@host:/path/source_file /local/path/[new_filename] Can you use a 'directory name' for remote and use -r ? I've had some difficulty with that since 3.02p1 came out. Anyone found a fix for this?

Re: WAY OT NO MAIL!

2002-02-07 Thread Glenn Williams
- Original Message - From: Jay Nugent [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 3:06 PM Subject: Re: NO $#@^*% MAIL! [snip] Glenn (et al), The Internet was clearly the ruination of Packet Radio. [snip] I was proud to have donated my time

Re: hey dep

2002-02-07 Thread dep
begin Douglas J Hunley's quote: | just read your article on kde3. nice! | how in the fsck did you kill that stupid alarm deamon? thanks i shot it. silver bullet.g actually, there is a setting in the configuration settings, launch daemon at startup or words to that effect. you need to uncheck

Re: Elx Linux

2002-02-07 Thread rplummer
Thanks Ken, I'll try that. Ray On 6 Feb 2002, at 20:53, Ken Moffat wrote: On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:38:33 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still having issues with the CD-RW and CD-R and Floppy drive and the locks. Once in a while I can get to them but then cannot unmount them as it

another new site feature for Linux SxS

2002-02-07 Thread Linux StepByStep
Morning all: The past couple of months, I've had to deal with a lot of emails from people complaining about broken links. Why? Well, a while back we converted from .htm to .html (like it should be) and a lot of places (Caldera, Google, etc) still maintain pointers to the old pages. I've

A Fat-Finger Fixer

2002-02-07 Thread Bruce Marshall
I don't think I got this tip off this list but if I did I apologize. I think I got it off the Unix Daily Tip line which is something everyone should subsribe to. Put this line at the bottom of your ~/.bashrcfile and you'll be amazed of the fat-finger mistakes it can correct. shopt -s

Re: A Fat-Finger Fixer

2002-02-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Okay, I'll bite. What is it? There's no man page for 'shopt', nor any mention of it in the bash manpage as a builtin, so I'm mystified. That's on eD2.4, anyway. ++kevin On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 12:20:21PM -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote: I don't think I got this tip off this list but if I did I

Re: Thanks Douglas Hunley

2002-02-07 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 07 Feb 2002 03:11, Michael Hipp wrote: Not sure I followed this. 1280 pixels across 301 mm = ~108 dpi. But does this cause X to change something about how it displays things? I was under the assumption that it was a 75dpi vs 100dpi thing related entirely to which font set to

Re: A Fat-Finger Fixer

2002-02-07 Thread kurt . wall
Typing furiously on February 07, Kevin O'Gorman managed to emit: Okay, I'll bite. What is it? There's no man page for 'shopt', nor any mention of it in the bash manpage as a builtin, so I'm mystified. That's on eD2.4, anyway. I don't recall which bash version was the default in eD 2.4, but

Re: A Fat-Finger Fixer

2002-02-07 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Thursday 07 February 2002 12:39 pm, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Okay, I'll bite. What is it? There's no man page for 'shopt', nor any mention of it in the bash manpage as a builtin, so I'm mystified. That's on eD2.4, anyway. ++kevin Beats me but it works like a charm! On Thu, Feb 07,

Re: Hidden directory contents in fstab-mounted Windows partition

2002-02-07 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 28 Jan 2002 23:46, Peter Ruskin wrote: I multiboot: Win98, Mandrake 8.1, Mandrake Cooker, Redmond and sometimes ELX. I recently had to reinstall Win98 because of disk corruption following a lightning strike. Since then an old problem has resurfaced: I mount my Win partitions in

Re: Thanks Douglas Hunley

2002-02-07 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Peter Ruskin babbled on about: I have to say I haven't studied any manuals about this (because it works for meĀ®) - it came from a tip by a guru on kde-linux list. I don't use that. I just run startx with the --dpi 100 option you should be able to edit /etc/X11/kdm/something or other as well --

Re: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:55:27PM -0500, dep wrote: new ibm linux ad, based on basketball: how can anybody that good play for peanuts? loves the game. just now on of all places the weather channel. Anybody else see yesterday's Silicon Spin show on techtv? Dvorak was talking to people from

Re: A Fat-Finger Fixer (for bash 2)

2002-02-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 01:10:55PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Typing furiously on February 07, Kevin O'Gorman managed to emit: Okay, I'll bite. What is it? There's no man page for 'shopt', nor any mention of it in the bash manpage as a builtin, so I'm mystified. That's on eD2.4,

Re: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:13:02 -0800 Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:55:27PM -0500, dep wrote: new ibm linux ad, based on basketball: how can anybody that good play for peanuts? loves the game. just now on of all places the weather channel. Anybody else

Re: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread dep
begin Bill Campbell's quote: | Anybody else see yesterday's Silicon Spin show on techtv? Dvorak | was talking to people from IBM, HP, and an open standards guy | about Linux in the Enterprise. I found it pretty interesting. yeah, i saw it. the voices of those of us screaming linux on the

Re: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread Michael Hipp
These things remind why I always admired IBM (even when I despised them) - they're one of the few companies that will build stuff like this just to see if they can. RIP: private sector RD. Michael dep pontificated eloquently: [snip] hey -- you see *this*?

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: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Speaking of all this I just read a good article from NetworkWorld on Linux in the Enterprise, and I have to give you this quote: On Windows NT/2000 servers, we wind up just prophylactically rebooting servers and scheduling downtime once a week. - Joe Inzerillo United Center of Chicago

Re: Fw: gandalf.eisnet 02/06/02:15.45 system check

2002-02-07 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Thanks, Llama. The reason for 2.4.2 is because I attempt to stick with Caldera-stock kernels. Granted, I have not done any updates to this box since install... the reason is the reason for the last install (say that 10 times fast and it'll STILL sound impressively confusing). It's a long

Re: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread dep
begin Michael Hipp's quote: | These things remind why I always admired IBM (even when I despised | them) - they're one of the few companies that will build stuff like | this just to see if they can. RIP: private sector RD. yeah, though it annoys me that i can't have one. -- dep There is

Re: Fw: gandalf.eisnet 02/06/02:15.45 system check

2002-02-07 Thread Net Llama
--- Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Llama. The reason for 2.4.2 is because I attempt to stick with Caldera-stock kernels. Granted, I have not done any updates to this box since install... the reason is the reason for the last install (say that 10 times fast and it'll

RE: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
new ibm linux ad, based on basketball: how can anybody that good play for peanuts? loves the game. I think this is a *very* subtle ad for SuSE. The player wearing the Linux jersey is Detlef Schrempf, former NBA player (Portland last year, Seattle several years before that and Dallas

Re: ssh and how do you do things

2002-02-07 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thursday 07 February 2002 02:22 pm, Federico Voges warbled: Can you use a 'directory name' for remote and use -r ? Yes, you can. IIRC, if you include the last / (eg: /home/fvoges/docs/) it will create the directory: scp -r user@host:~/docs . will copy everything in the docs dir

Re: More ELX ramblings

2002-02-07 Thread Collins
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 04:23:56 -0800 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:50:58 -0700 Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the other strong points for ELX (IMHO) is that they include OpenOffice. Have you run AbiWord in elx? If so... Do you get a font error

Re: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread Ian
dep wrote: begin Bill Campbell's quote: | Anybody else see yesterday's Silicon Spin show on techtv? Dvorak | was talking to people from IBM, HP, and an open standards guy | about Linux in the Enterprise. I found it pretty interesting. yeah, i saw it. the voices of those of us

Re: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 07:23:09PM -0500, Ian wrote: ... I've not watched Silicon Spin in a long time...from the site it looks like you have to watch it at specific times...the only thing I see in the archives are a month old. Am I not seeing a link or something? The main broadcast daily is

Printing question

2002-02-07 Thread Collins
Is the following action a) typical of unix printing in general b) typical of cups c) typical of ghostscript interpreting ps for a laserjet d) result of screwed up config options Whenever I print something that is longer that a page or two, the printing trickles to the printer in page bursts, ie

Re: ssh and how do you do things

2002-02-07 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thursday 07 February 2002 02:22 pm, Federico Voges warbled: Read that as I said but you need to be psychic to understand what its saying as with most man pages. Not-so-short answer: You don't need to ssh first. File xfer (remote to local) scp user@host:/path/source_file

Re: ssh and how do you do things

2002-02-07 Thread Net Llama
--- Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 07 February 2002 02:22 pm, Federico Voges warbled: Read that as I said but you need to be psychic to understand what its saying as with most man pages. Not-so-short answer: You don't need to ssh first. File xfer

Re: Printing question

2002-02-07 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thursday 07 February 2002 08:39 pm, Collins warbled: Is the following action a) typical of unix printing in general b) typical of cups c) typical of ghostscript interpreting ps for a laserjet d) result of screwed up config options Whenever I print something that is longer that a page

Re: Printing question

2002-02-07 Thread Michael Hipp
Same for me. CUPS works great. Michael Keith Antoine pontificated eloquently: On Thursday 07 February 2002 08:39 pm, Collins warbled: Is the following action a) typical of unix printing in general b) typical of cups c) typical of ghostscript interpreting ps for a laserjet d) result

Re: Printing question

2002-02-07 Thread Collins
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 21:41:44 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This sort of sounds like a memory problem. Knowing nothing, I would venture that there may be a misunderstanding between your printer and your server over how much memory is available on the printer (making most of this up.)

Re: ssh and how do you do things

2002-02-07 Thread Andrew Mathews
Keith Antoine wrote: snip I ssh in and then cd to /home/webroot/eastwind/docs; at this point i can call scp, but from that point I have had no success. What do I use in the user@host: position my login on the remote machine and my hostname here or what ? Sorry I have no idea what user@host:

Re: kernel recommendations

2002-02-07 Thread Net Llama
--- Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been off the linux lists for a couple of weeks. Is 2.4.17 a safe kernel for upgrading? Its what i've been using on all of my boxes. Not a single problem. = Lonni J. Friedman

Re: ssh and how do you do things

2002-02-07 Thread Net Llama
--- Andrew Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. Remember that you invoke scp from the machine you want to transfer FROM not the machine you're transferring TO. This is not true. You can do it either way, although to reduce the amount of confusion for Keith, its prolly best to follow that

Re: ssh and how do you do things

2002-02-07 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thursday 07 February 2002 08:54 pm, Net Llama warbled: It stands for the remote box's domain name. If you're looking to xfer files from your box to the server, then user@host is the remote server, where user is your username on that server. Arrgggh!! There I was trying my host name

Re: kernel recommendations

2002-02-07 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thursday 07 February 2002 09:44 pm, Collins warbled: I've been off the linux lists for a couple of weeks. Is 2.4.17 a safe kernel for upgrading? Yes it is. -- Keith Antoine aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime

Re: ssh and how do you do things

2002-02-07 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thursday 07 February 2002 10:01 pm, Andrew Mathews warbled: Maybe an easier method for you (you be the judge) is to (on your local machine) do it like this: 1. cd to the directory of the files you want to transfer e.g. cd /home/kantoine/pics 2. scp yourfilenamehere

Anyone played with socks servers?

2002-02-07 Thread David Aikema
I've already given up once more on doing a Debian ftp install... seems to be the buggiest install on the planet. This time it refused to recognize my root disk, and when I tried to do an ftp install half a year ago it told me that the file size of base.tgz was incorrect. Bill Day pointed me

Re: kernel recommendations

2002-02-07 Thread stayler
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 19:44:58 -0700, Collins wrote: I've been off the linux lists for a couple of weeks. Is 2.4.17 a safe kernel for upgrading? Seems so. Its my base kernel anymore stayler ___ Linux-users mailing list -

Re: Anyone played with socks servers?

2002-02-07 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've been using NEC's reference implementation of socks5 for over a year without problems. Easy to install, easy to configure, it works, I'm happy with it :) You can download from http://www.socks.nec.com/reference/socks5.html The con: