On Friday 12 January 2007 08:46 am, Robin Turner wrote:
I was about to make history by agreeing with LX, then I remembered all
those right-wing peeps who were offended by Janet Jackson's nipple a
while back. Looks like people of all persuasions enjoy being offended.
Sir Robin
I was
On Friday 12 January 2007 12:03 pm, Merlin Zener wrote:
See, this is what puzzles me about that whole affair:
Your children have never seen a nipple before???
No, I don't routinely make a habit of showing my children
naked adults.
Are there no beaches near where you live???
Yes, women
On Thursday 07 December 2006 03:50 am, stuart bell wrote:
All,
It's time to end the philosophical discussion and get back to business.
I tried clam av, avg, f-secure and norton- without success. I then did
a format and complete reinstall- no good. It's still in my Gmail
inbox.
Agreed!
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 10:31 am, stuart bell wrote:
ps. the word Duval indicates a frenchman, this is not an invitation
to send lots of ethno-gallic jokes. ( even if you are a Yank) Amen.
Nor should it be construed as an opportunity to dig at a yank.
Even if you are not one... Amen.
I was mailed, without permission offlist by this person. I felt that the
answers I needed to give should be seen in the public arena.
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Subject: Oh, Please
Date: Tuesday 05 December 2006 04:31 pm
From: xx
To: Ronald J
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 various people wrote:
snip
Stick around Dood, if only to make sure that the 'anally retentive'
don't win this one.
Dan Labine
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On Wednesday 06 December 2006 05:53 pm, Margot wrote:
Ron,
Hi Margot - miss you on the OT list! :)
The joke that you posted was offensive, and really had no place on a
tech list
Its a matter of degrees and opinion, but overall, I'm going to come down on
your side on this one - if I had
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 08:21 am, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
Why is it that when people are caught doing something stupid they
think they can use the words politically correct like a Get Out Of
Jail Free card?
I think its funny these days... I'm from Kentucky and proud of it. I know who
I
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 04:10 am, JoeHill wrote:
Hi,
I'm a Jew Hacker, and I'm too arrogant, cheap and spoiled to put any effort
into actually doing any hard work, so I exploit others to do it for me.
Therefore, I demand that you immediately erase all the files on your hard
drive, or I
BUENOS DIAS!!
JOU HAVE YUST RECEIB A MEHICAN BIRUS! SEENCE WE NOT SO TECHNOLOGICALLY
ADBANCED IN MEHICO, DIS IS A MANUAL BIRUS. PLEASE DELETE ALL THE FILES ON
JOUR HARD DRIVE JOURSELF AND SEND THIS E-MAIL TO EBERYONE JOU KNOW. TAN JOU
POR YELPING ME.
JULIO MANUEL JOSE RODRIGUEZ GARCIA
http://www.star28.net/snow.html
This is cool. Just follow the instructions... :)
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Gang, is there an XMMS plugin that will let you strip out vocals from an
MP3/OGG while playing it (and save it that way)?
Thanks.
PS It seems like I had something like this before, but I can't find it now.
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On Monday 27 November 2006 09:21 am, Ian wrote:
On Monday 27 November 2006 14:06, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
Gang, is there an XMMS plugin that will let you strip out vocals from an
MP3/OGG while playing it (and save it that way)?
Thanks.
PS It seems like I had something like this before
On Sunday 26 November 2006 10:28 am, JoeHill wrote:
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:32:09 -0500
ET got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
speaking of that, even the cooker list has slowed to a crawl seems like
all the mail lists I am on have decide to take a/the holiday.
Time for a good
On Thursday 02 November 2006 09:39 am, JoeHill wrote:
Okay, I've given up on Cedega. I should have listened to the people at
linuxgamers.net, it's a piece of crap.
Can't help you with Wine/WineX, but here, Cedega has performed well on my comp
and my sons/stepson.
WITH the notable exception of
On Saturday 14 October 2006 09:36 am, Bill W wrote:
Hi,
I have installed Limewire and it doesn't render under the new fancy
desktop. An application window opens but it is blank. If I login to the
standard desktop, no problem. I know that Limewire is a java application so
perhaps that is a
On Saturday 14 October 2006 01:28 pm, CJ Kelley wrote:
CJ's Reply
Did you download the stable version?
note: Sometimes the unstable copies are just that UNSTABLE!.
end of reply
I'm pretty sure I did, as I don't usually install unstable here, because my
wife uses this comp
On Saturday 09 September 2006 04:44 am, ET wrote:
and he (Ronald J. Hall) is assuming you have setup the 'plf-free' and
'plf non-free' sources as well as main and contrib urpmi sources, I do
believe...
Yep, that was another assumption that went along with Mandriva... :D
On Saturday 09 September 2006 12:13 am, CJ Kelley wrote:
Neill Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all,
Does anyone know what I need to download/urpmi to see Windows Media
Player 9 files
and where I need to put the files?
Regards
Neill
I'm assuming you're using Mandriva, so as root:
urpmi
On Saturday 26 August 2006 08:20 pm, RickS wrote:
Has anyone got 256 colors with DIR_COLORS ?
Seems like a lot of work when you can just use eterm to do background
pics...or was there something more than just eye-candy that you were
trying to do? :)
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On Wednesday 09 August 2006 05:23 pm, Lonny Selinger wrote:
Screaming at tech supportless is a waste of breath. I
strongly recommend drinking a scotch and soda instead.
That's terrible and inappropriate advice: there's no need for the
soda.
Exactly what I was thinking!! No wasting a
Okay, I'm behind as usual. :)
I just installed the 4 CD Official version of 2006 on a 2nd comp here, and I
can't find how/where to get rid of the cursor image that follows the mouse
pointer after you click it on anything. I'm talking about the image thats a
small duplicate of whatever it was
On Monday 07 August 2006 10:13 am, Dan LaBine wrote:
In Kde, check in the KDE control center/look 'n' feel/feedback section
and look for passive or bouncing mouse cursor.
DL
Got it. Thanks Dan. Its actually:
Configure your desktop (KDE Control Center)
Look 'N Feel
Launch Feedback
Busy
On Thursday 22 June 2006 11:46 am, JRH wrote:
On Thursday 22 Jun 2006 16:27, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
For processes that won't die with a regular kill, go to the command line
and do:
kill -9 pid...
A regular kill asks the process to shut itself down, but if it's hung, it
wont'
On Friday 02 June 2006 02:58 pm, Bill W. wrote:
Hi Tom,
That did it..I actually thought I would do it the harder way.that
is save a copy of the newer file with the older filename
I just don't use soft links very much and I forgot about them.
Many thanks,
Bill W.
Copying the
On Friday 02 June 2006 12:10 pm, Bill W. wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to get a program running.called Smartboard. It errors out
complaining about a missing file libXaw3d.so.6 .
I run 2006 on an Inspiron laptop and my research tells me that I have
libXaw3d.so.7 .
I have been unable to find the
On Saturday 20 May 2006 10:29 am, Aron Smith wrote:
Hardest thing was getting that Designed for Micro$ux sticker off
I did, and stuck a Linux penguin case badge over it. :-)
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On Saturday 20 May 2006 10:45 pm, Mark Wallace wrote:
My daughter and I are talking about buying a couple of new computers.
The first thing she wants me to do is take Windows out of them. Where
can I get a Penguin sticker to undeface the designed for Windows thing
on the box?
Google linux
On Saturday 20 May 2006 03:51 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote:
H...
Why would anyone want to ruin a perfectly good laptop by loading Xp on it?
;-)
When I got my Dell laptop a couple of years ago, the first thing I did was to
wipe XP off the face of the Earoh sorry, got ambitious there -
I just switched out a 4600 GT for a 6600 GT that I bought off my brother. He'd
had it for less than a year and had just upgraded to something newer.
As root, with X not running I ran the installer for the latest driver (8756)
and all went well. Reboot, everything fine except for 2 annoying
On Thursday 11 May 2006 06:03 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
2. Kmail - in kmail, the font size in the message body is now very small.
Too small for these tired old eyes. :)
Never mind, I got this one - I had the wrong part of the message to adjust
picked
Just to update - I dropped down from the newest drivers (8756), to the last
ones I had downloaded (8178), and all is well again.
Guess they need to do some work on that latest driver, sure seems to not like
my setup. :-)
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On Tuesday 11 April 2006 10:23 am, Miark wrote:
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:12:00 -0400, JoeHill wrote:
HalfLife2, though, I'm returning. Apparently running it on
Windows is even a hassle, register this, register that, can't
even play unless yer online and connect with some server to
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:14 am, JoeHill wrote:
Ah, so I'm not the only one. Did you ever try installing it through the
Cedega 'gui' (if you can call it that)? Turns out you have do download and
install some Windows installer file...to be able to install stuff...and
then it still doesn't
On Monday 20 March 2006 11:21 am, Paul wrote:
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060320#1
That is a definite 'ouch'...
pauL
Yep. Not pretty, not pretty at all...
Paul, I can remember you from when I joined the newbie list back about v7.0 or
so...(if I've got the right Paul).
Things
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 05:58 am, Duncan Anderson wrote:
On Monday, 13 March 2006 17:05, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
On Monday 13 March 2006 01:36 am, Heikki Pesonen wrote:
You need to experiment with this, but, in general, you can delete all
the contents of any directory labelled tmp
On Monday 13 March 2006 01:36 am, Heikki Pesonen wrote:
You need to experiment with this, but, in general, you can delete all the
contents of any directory labelled tmp and its subdirectories before
rebooting.
During the install, you can set an option so that tmp gets cleaned out
On Saturday 11 March 2006 05:12 pm, rikona wrote:
That's what I thought.
Thanks much for the reply. Any ideas much appreciated
How about this, launch xmms from a shell (you may have to be root. Its odd but
while I can run XMMS from a menu or icon as user, I can't launch it from a
shell.
On Saturday 11 March 2006 07:35 pm, rikona wrote:
Really appreciate the help..
Just glad you got it fixed, and keep another 'Nix believer in the fold... :-)
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On Friday 03 March 2006 12:23 am, Joseph DelVecchio wrote:
No i didn't. I just double clicked the rpm file i downloaded and it
went through a little install process before saying it was
installed. But i don't think it was. and I think my linux
installation is messed up because i don't even
On Thursday 02 March 2006 10:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have just installed Mandriva 2006 DVD on my Dell Dimension 8100. It
does not come with Kmymoney preinstalled. So I downloaded the newest
version and installed it. It installed fine but it is not in the
applications menu or any
On Friday 03 March 2006 12:04 am, Joseph DelVecchio wrote:
I tried running the command but it doesn't create the finances folder
in the menu. I believe I'm missing other folders as well. Might I
not have installed everything correctly?
Not sure. Hard to tell sometimes. Here, I installed it
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 04:10 pm, matt . wrote:
Hey Folks,
First time using Mandrake here. I come from a *BSD background.
Welcome!
I'm doing some work helping out a friend of mine who has installed Mandriva
2006. The MySQL client/server/libmysqldevel packages are installed,
however a
On Sunday 19 February 2006 11:21 am, Dennis Myers wrote:
Yes, a fun time, I wonder how civileme is doing, he moved back to Alaska
and was still on the expert list for a while, but I don't use that list
much. Anyone seen that sig for a while. I wish him well.
Absolutely a great time. Civileme
On Thursday 16 February 2006 08:34 am, Trevor Rhodes wrote:
Hi,
It is a linux game that came with M2006. It used to work on 9.2 no
probs. I did a clean install so I have no idea as to why it would seg
fault out.
I tried a download directly off their site to no avail.
There was a
On Thursday 16 February 2006 10:17 pm, Trevor Rhodes wrote:
I hope so. I need my tux fix. :)
I just looked through the sdl list that you guys posted. I didn't see a lot of
the devel packages.
Try installing those and see if it helps.
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On Thursday 16 February 2006 11:59 pm, Trevor Rhodes wrote:
Rick,
glxgears framerates are good:
5754 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1150.498 FPS
5734 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1146.781 FPS
5737 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1147.344 FPS
5907 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1181.315 FPS
hmm.. what does
On Friday 17 February 2006 01:00 am, Trevor Rhodes wrote:
Had to use the ATI stuff to get dual head.
Ah, rules that out then.
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On Thursday 09 February 2006 02:23 am, David wrote:
Hi All, I was a big dummie and changed cdrom on which I played my CD's
because the drive I was using was skipping. I then changed back to the
first drive (DVD) because the RW would not play CD's. The problem now
being that somewhere along the
On Thursday 09 February 2006 04:24 pm, David wrote:
Don't know if this has any bearing on the matter but I notice that /mnt
shows the drives as cdrom (for hdb) and cdrom2 (for hdc) whilst /dev
shows (in Konqueror) for hdc cdrom and cdrom1 and for hdb cdrom0, and
in mc cdrom1 for hdc and
On Saturday 04 February 2006 06:31 pm, David wrote:
Ronald, from the following I presume that the files required are:
liblame0
liblame0-devel
I believe it was the devel package that had the file you needed in it. Of
course, you have to install the main package. :-)
Glad you got it sorted
On Saturday 04 February 2006 05:16 pm, David wrote:
I'm in the process of transferring my LP's to HD and to make them MP3
files audacity requires 'libmp3lame.so'. I've urpmq, uprmf etc and get
either no answer or 'no package named libmp3lame.so'.
My sources are all set up.
Any pointers as
On Monday 30 January 2006 06:05 am, Paul wrote:
M.Schild wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm
maryse
You must be, Maryse - I'm sure that the kind and benevolent USA under
the wonderful, caring leadership of GWB has only our best interests at
heart.
All pigs cleared for
On Monday 30 January 2006 01:59 am, M.Schild wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm
maryse
Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva?
Go to http://store.mandriva.com
Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com
On Monday 30 January 2006 12:06 pm, JoeHill wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:53:29 -0500
Ronald J. Hall got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
This belongs on the OT list.
Why, because it's critical of the US? If it was France you'd be all over
it.
Wow Joe, when did you crawl back
On Sunday 29 January 2006 11:21 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
I think it started with 10.1, but I am not sure. In any case,
it is a function of udev. Once udev starts, it mounts a virtual
file system on /dev, and all device entries are created on the
fly. If you run cat /proc/mounts, you
On Saturday 28 January 2006 11:04 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Just so you know that without creating a udev rule, the symlink will
be gone the next time you reboot.
Mikkel
Mikkel, is that something new in 2006? I mean, I've created quite a few
symlinks in v9.2 (last version I had before
On Friday 27 January 2006 11:06 am, Mike Adolf wrote:
I am running a dual boot XP/mandriva 2006. I want to fax, but linux can't
see my (hardward controlled) modem. (Windows can). However, I also have a
TV wonder card which linux can see and Windows can't. Could these devices
have
On Friday 27 January 2006 07:39 pm, ET wrote:
if it truly an isa modem, you might just have to configer it as a serial
port modem. but you might want to disable the bios controlled second
serial port on the box. are there jumpers or switches to set an IRQ on
the modem?
Also, some BIOSs will
On Friday 27 January 2006 05:27 pm, Mike Adolf wrote:
I did as you said and got
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On Monday 23 January 2006 06:36 pm, WauloK wrote:
I keep getting this error when I send emails:
I've gotten a couple of those in the last few days. Not all e-mails, just
every now and then.
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On Thursday 19 January 2006 11:36 am, Miark wrote:
They're all like this on the client:
server.miark.net:/var/shared/music /mnt/music nfs
rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nosuid,soft 0 0
And the server:
/var/shared/music 192.168.0.0/24(ro,sync)
Miark
Thanks, I'll add that to others replies
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 03:41 pm, Dan LaBine wrote:
Bryan Phinney wrote:
People just want computers that work. Linux will never attract enough
users unless it is more simple to use. ... If you cringe as I do
everytime you read one of these statements you might be interested in
this
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 05:52 pm, Miark wrote:
Because fstab works a little different in 2006, I opted not to
add entries manually. Instead, I let MCC take care of it for me:
MCC Mount Points Set NFS mount points
Works for me.
Miark
Hi Miark. Thanks for the reply.
How does it work
On Monday 16 January 2006 04:14 pm, Derek Jennings wrote:
I'm using NFS with 2006. It works just like in earlier releases.
My fstab entries look like this
myth.localdomain:/home/rosie/music /mymusic nfs
rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nosuid,soft 0 0
And on the server the /etc/exports file is
Guys, I know this has been discussed (and probably cussed) before but I can't
find it by googling...
How do you *permanently* get rid of the Welcome e-mail in Kmail?
Thanks.
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Anybody else using NFS with 2006? Usually, NFS is a snap to install and use on
a home LAN.
The server is still running Mandrake v9.2 and the client is running 2006.
I did like I always did, put this line in /etc/fstab on the client machine:
darkforce:/home/darklord/Public
On Saturday 14 January 2006 08:51 am, Lee Wiggers wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 07:11:06 -0500
ET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would be honored to do so.
ET
And, with sorrow, I would have to follow. I have
missed all of the greats who moved along, from Civileme
on, and if you all go, the
On Friday 13 January 2006 02:49 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
In either case, it is looking more and more like it is time to
say goodbye to Mandriva, and find another distribution to play
with. At this point, I will not bother to re-subscribe if I do
get unsubscribed! So if you don't see any
On Friday 06 January 2006 11:35 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
I can't remember chapter and verse, but a Mandrake employee some time
ago wrote on the lists that running the fscheck on boot is not only
unnecessary with journalled systems, but can sometimes be harmful.
I've never given it a 'y' since
On Thursday 05 January 2006 05:57 am, ET wrote:
there is a script (jigl) in contrib I use to make thumbnails and slides
for a webpage, you just put all the jpgs in one folder and run jigl.pl
on that folder you get thumbs, slides and the originals and info
webpages created for each picture. I
On Thursday 05 January 2006 08:31 am, ET wrote:
Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Thursday 05 January 2006 01:44, RickSisler wrote:
Hi All,
I have 2 strange problems, maybe similar
1. My server a Pentium III all of a sudden started to shut down.
Turns out it was a hard drive failure .. OK removed
On Thursday 05 January 2006 10:43 am, ET wrote:
Really, I don't know when it got included as an rpm, I downloaded the
tar.gz years ago and just keep using the same version.
http://xome.net/projects/jigl/download.html
Okay, I grabbed it. I looked at your page, and the results sure seem nice.
On Thursday 29 December 2005 02:01 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote:
Bryan, I just thought I'd update you and let you know that I now have sound
with this game (as well as Doom 3 which uses the same engine) on my sons Soyo
KT880 with onboard audio.
I'd like to tell you one specific thing I did but it
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 04:58 pm, Ian wrote:
Just had a really good freeze on my computer earlier in the day when I
tried to start Limewire from the menu. Nothing would work on the computer
although the mouse could still move. ctrl +esc, ctrl+alt+backspace,
ctrl+alt+delete did nothing. I
On Sunday 01 January 2006 11:16 pm, Miark wrote:
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:49:43 -0500, Ronald wrote:
That might be it then, you're still using the stock driver and
I had updated, allowing the NVidia installer to make changes
to xorg.conf. I'd be curious if that link is missing for
anyone
On Thursday 29 December 2005 04:17 am, WauloK wrote:
Okay. I did some minor testing. Removing my Miro PCTV card let it boot. I
moved it to a different PCI slot and that also works. For some reason it no
longer likes the slot it has been in for the last month or so.
I should have mentioned it
On Thursday 29 December 2005 02:01 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote:
When you copy the files over from CD, it maintains permissions which make
them read-only. Also, for whatever reason, I think that the binary
requires write access on some of the files even if it doesn't actually
write to them. I
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 04:15 pm, John Schneiderman wrote:
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 14:37, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 03:16 pm, John Schneiderman wrote:
Most of the basic games run just fine on my comptuer, only three didn't
work Civil, Boson, and Knights
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 04:07 pm, WauloK wrote:
Does anyone know what could cause this?
I turned on the Mandrivalinux 2006 computer today and it kernel panic's
here.
I disabled the LPT port in the BIOS but it made no difference.
I tried booting in failsafe mode which is the only reason
Anyone using the full commercial version of Quake 4 yet? I was just wondering
if you managed to get it installed and working, with sound.
I've got it installed on my sons' computer. You have to copy game files from
all 4 CDs, then run the Linux installer. Installing it to my sons /home
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 03:16 pm, John Schneiderman wrote:
Most of the basic games run just fine on my comptuer, only three didn't
work Civil, Boson, and Knights.
John
Hi John. Just curious, is that still using the stock NVidia driver that came
with 2006, or had you upgraded to a newer
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 03:35 pm, RickSisler wrote:
Hi Ron,
I haven't had any problems with any so far with the std nVidia
packages from mdv2006. Even with the new kernel update, dkms built
the module with no-errors.
That might be it then, you're still using the stock driver and I had
Anyone else had any trouble running games under 2006? I've got it installed
now on my 15 year olds computer, and for awhile, it was touch and go. Games
like Rune wouldn't run longer than 10-15 seconds without crashing or locking
up.
I installed the latest NVidia driver right after I installed
On Thursday 22 December 2005 04:39 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
I could see not being able to use a USB keyboard if the settings
were wrong, but not being able to use a standard keyboard is a new
one on me. At this point, I would contact the people that made the
MB, and see what they say.
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 02:49 pm, James M0TJC wrote:
On Wednesday 21 Dec 2005 19:39, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
2. Don't use ext2. Use a journalling file system like ReiserFS or ext3.
Hi Kaj,
I've always used ext2
Is there any advantage to running Reiser or ext3 over ext2?
Cheers,
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 05:35 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Hi Mikkel. Thanks for the reply.
At this point, I would try a different power supply. (If I remember
right, you have already tried different keyboards.) It is a long
shot, but it could be that the PS is marginal for your
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 05:50 pm, Paul wrote:
Possibly fan?
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=63type=expertpid=6
No Fan. No Service.
Thought about that. I've got the CPU fan plugged directly into that header. I
can see how someone might miss it the first time - there are a couple
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 05:52 pm, Paul wrote:
What BIOS does it use (AMI, Phoenix, etc)? Google for beep codes for
whichever it is - might be a lead.
Well, I plugged the USB/PS2 adapter back in, went back into BIOS, set
everything to Failsafe defaults (again) and the beeps went away.
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 02:33 am, Peter Mann wrote:
Tried running updatedb, and got smacked for trying to make a database
without permission.
Sorry, I should have told you that you need to be root/su to run that.
Tried running slocate, downloading slocate, installing slocate : nuffin
On Monday 19 December 2005 07:04 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Monday 19 December 2005 12:18, Peter Mann wrote:
Gah !
Would someone please tell how to bypass the blast of music
by which Mandriva 2006 announces to the world
that it is once more resurrected from the oblivion of Log Out
If
On Monday 19 December 2005 01:22 pm, Aron Smith wrote:
Mine says Aw Crap in an Aussie accent followed by the sound of a toilet
flushing
[ain't audacity great] :-)
You need to get a sample of YankDownUnder's voice for that. :-)
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On Monday 19 December 2005 11:23 pm, Peter Mann wrote:
Having found that Kat don't hunt,
and kfind cannot be found, neither on DVD nor via urpmi,
I ask to be led in non-geek-speak to a program that will reliably do
searches for files and keywords.
You should be able to install slocate or just
On Thursday 08 December 2005 05:42 pm, Marc wrote:
The other odd thing is that to access files in the new machine from
across the network I have to use fish://192.168.0.3 If I use
fish://newmachine it will not work, but that is just a minor inconvenience
that I can live with.
On Thursday 08 December 2005 08:01 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
I think you are missing something here. He is using
fish://192.168.0.3 or fish://newmachine in Konqueror to make a
connection using ssh to another machine. fish: is used like http:
or ftp: when specifying an URL. It works about
On Monday 05 December 2005 08:27 pm, Marc wrote:
What is a Nix box? Would NFS work with less network setup or hassle than
fish? At any rate I will give it a try next.
Thanks
Marc
I meant are they both Linux based computers. I've never used Fish so I really
can't comment on it. NFS
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 01:19 pm, SOTL wrote:
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 08:53 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
On Monday 05 December 2005 08:27 pm, Marc wrote:
What is a Nix box? Would NFS work with less network setup or hassle
than fish? At any rate I will give it a try next
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 12:06 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 06 Dec 2005 13:53, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
On Monday 05 December 2005 08:27 pm, Marc wrote:
What is a Nix box? Would NFS work with less network setup or
hassle than fish? At any rate I will give it a try next
On Sunday 04 December 2005 06:16 pm, Marc wrote:
I know that this should be simple but I must have gone wrong somewhere.
I now have 2 computers connected to my router and the router connected to a
DSL modem. Both computers connect to the internet perfectly, But I still
can not share files
Used to be some gamers on this list... grin
Just thought I'd mention that I downloaded the Quake 4 demo (322 megs) for
Linux, which uses the Doom 3 engine, and it runs well. I got it from
3DGamers.
Doom 3 often slows my machine down considerably, but the Q4 demo seems to run
pretty good. It
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