Re: Is everyone seeing double?

2001-01-03 Thread Kit Cosper
> I'm getting them also, sometimes triple copies > > > > Is everyone getting double copies of each post, or is it a problem on my > > end? > > procmail is your friend. Here's the first entry in my .procmailrc file. Works like a charm. # Remove Duplicate messages :0 Wh: Mail/msgid.loc

Re: Anybody heard ...

2001-01-03 Thread Kit Cosper
> True but the "odd" numbered point releases are beta, some folks prefer > production code. > > Tom Curl > Enertex Systems > Not true. Odd releases aren't beta, that is. Odd minor numbers on the kernel (1.3, 2.1, 2.3, etc.) indicate development releases. Red Hat 5.1 just happens to be the

Re: Powerpoint viewer

2001-01-02 Thread Kit Cosper
> I was afraid of that. I am not a fan of StatOffice. > I'm not aware of any other package that will do anything with PowerPoint presentations. Your only other option may be an MS Office license to run under an emulator or dual-boot system. :-/ --Kit __

Re: Powerpoint viewer

2001-01-02 Thread Kit Cosper
StarOffice has done a respectable job for me when I've used it to open PowerPoint presentations. --Kit > Dose anybody know of a power point viewer for Linux? > > > david ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/

Re: nVidia RIVA TNT2 drivers on RH7.0 fail compilation

2001-01-01 Thread Kit Cosper
The patch is to fix things so the compile will work properly. Let me know if you need me to round it up for you. --Kit > Hi Kit, > > > Are you on a single processor system? If so, it's a known bug and > > one of our guys has sent a patch to Red Hat to fix it. If you've > > got an SMP system

Re: File Size Limit?

2001-01-01 Thread Kit Cosper
> Yea, I just finallly deep-sixed 7.0 after 2 months of trying to get crap to > work (as I deep-sixed RH 5.0, and 6.0). I think I have finally had my fill > of Red Hat. I have to support a few VA-Linux boxes however, and need to do > large Oracle exports. I have been fading Red Hat out and using S

Re: File Size Limit?

2001-01-01 Thread Kit Cosper
> > Is the size of a file under RH still 2G? I really have a need to support > large files in order to perform large Oracle exports w/o messing with pipes > and etc... > If the file size is bigger in 7.0 you're in for a haul to get it working properly. Oracle is one of the things brok

Re: GET ME OFF THIS *@$!^ LIST

2001-01-01 Thread Kit Cosper
I haven't looked at the Red Hat pages, but for most mailman setups you can get your password mailed to you in case you forgot it. As far as monthly reminders, mine would probably get caught by procmail and /dev/nulled before I ever saw them. --Kit ___

Re: nVidia RIVA TNT2 drivers on RH7.0 fail compilation

2000-12-31 Thread Kit Cosper
Are you on a single processor system? If so, it's a known bug and one of our guys has sent a patch to Red Hat to fix it. If you've got an SMP system then I'm not sure. If you need the patch and can't track it down let me know and I'll send it out. --Kit > Since they didn't have RH7 RPMS for

Re: VMware (Was: WINE) [OT: ram]

2000-12-27 Thread Kit Cosper
> > So, more RAM isn't always better, especially if you're dealing > > with an older chipset on the motherboard. IIRC most P-II boards > > should be OK, and all P-III boards should be. Pentium based > > systems are a toss-up. > > Would you believe ALi Alladin5 be one of the chipset that would h

Re: VMware (Was: WINE)

2000-12-27 Thread Kit Cosper
It is possible, depending upon the chipset on your motherboard, to see a slowdown with additional RAM due to caching issues. The Sony VAIO 505TR is an example of a system exhibiting this behavior. So, more RAM isn't always better, especially if you're dealing with an older chipset on the mothe

Re: Root telnet from another host?

2000-08-10 Thread Kit Cosper
> Hello, > > I've been through the documentation and it says that to enable a root telnet > session from another host, /etc/securetty needs to be edited. What it > didn't say was what value to edit it to. > If you're not connected to the outside world and don't care where root can login just

Re: Gigabit ethernet NICs

2000-08-09 Thread Kit Cosper
> Greetings all, > > Just wondering if anyone is using any of the Gigabit Ethernet interfaces > supported by the 2.2 kernel on a single server. (Not Beowulf clusters and > the like.) The ones listed are: > > Alteon AceNIC/3Com 3C985/NetGear GA620 Gigabit I'd use the NetGear. I know the 'r

Re: lilo crc error

2000-08-07 Thread Kit Cosper
To really give your system a workover give Cerberus a shot. It can be found at http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=5317 Follow the instructions and use with care. It does have modes that you can activate that will wipe your disk. If you have a real memory problem this ought to find it fo

Re: Iomega IDE Zip Drive Question

1998-06-21 Thread Kit Cosper
[...] > > >> Partition check: > > >> ide-floppy: hdd: I/O error, pc = 5a, key = 5, asc = 24, ascq = 0 > > >> ide-floppy: Can't get drive capabilities > > >> hdd: 98304kB, 32/64/96 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm > > >> hdd: The drive reports both 100663296 and 0 bytes as its capacity

Re: FW: Linux Bigot.

1998-06-16 Thread Kit Cosper
> The problem is still, that I must know that Linux exists and that I want > it, before I can subscribe to a journal to find somewhere that I can get > it from. > WIN95 screams at me from every newspaper advertisment and editorial. > When was the last time you saw an ad in a non-enthusiast publica

Re: What is the difference between xf86config and Xconfigurator?

1998-06-10 Thread Kit Cosper
> > As I understand it, Xconfigurator is a RedHat specific proggy, > whereas xf86config comes with the X distribution. Xconfigurator also seems > to be somewhat limited, comparatively. > Xconfigurator is a newtered version of xf86config that Donnie first put together for Red Hat 4.

Re: Dual Celerons

1998-06-05 Thread Kit Cosper
> Our Linux box does some heavy duty floating point maths, but, like > everyone, we have a limited budget. [...] > We can buy a much faster celeron chip for the price and overclock them [] > to main memory without the cache's. We will be running 100MHz > motherboards so we think the smaller d

Re: Extreme linux

1998-05-19 Thread Kit Cosper
manipulating large data files, breaking them into smaller pieces to send to each node, then assemling the final result on the front-end. --Kit -- -- Kit Cosper Linux Hardware Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] System solutions you can count on, system solutions that work.

Re: RedHat Support????

1998-05-18 Thread Kit Cosper
27;re only human, and we all make mistakes from time to time. Back to the sidelines... --Kit -- -- Kit Cosper Linux Hardware Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] System solutions you can count on, system solutions that work. 1-888-LINUX-HW

Re: Western Digital

1998-05-11 Thread Kit Cosper
ve for anything but a paperweight. :-) --Kit -- -- Kit Cosper Linux Hardware Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] System solutions you can count on, system solutions that work. 1-888-LINUX-HW Now offering Alpha systems at 633MHz with 4 MB SRAM cac

Re: Linux on (Dell) PCs

1998-05-07 Thread Kit Cosper
port to their customers? You > would get the benefit of their advertising, brand name, and sales > channels, while they would increase their product line and hopefully all > involved would make a little money. At this point all I can say is "perhaps". I'd like to sa

Re: Linux on (Dell) PCs

1998-05-07 Thread Kit Cosper
Linux Hardware Solutionswww.linux-hw.com888-546-8949 VA Research www.varesearch.com 888-546-8948 SW Technology www.swt.com Help support Linux by supporting us. --Kit -- -- Kit Cosper Linux Hardware Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Micro$oft "declaring war"?

1998-05-01 Thread Kit Cosper
nd stumble across "Linux Hardware Solutions" on the list of M$ OEM partners. They probably don't have a clue, but it is fun to think of them swallowing their gum over it. :-) --Kit -- -- Kit Cosper Linux Hardware Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sys

Re: Slackware Logo?

1998-04-27 Thread Kit Cosper
e Subgenius > is Bob, I would have to assume that the Slackware Logo would > be that of Bob. Lotsa links (and lotsa Bobs) can be found here: [...] So the President of Red Hat is the mascot for Slackware? ;-> --Kit -- -- Kit Cosper Linux Hardware Solutions, Inc. [EM

Re: Job Opening

1998-04-23 Thread Kit Cosper
nks! Now if we could just get this frontal system off the coast we might get out in the ocean this weekend... --Kit -- -- Kit Cosper Linux Hardware Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] System solutions you can count on, system solutions that work.

Job Opening

1998-04-22 Thread Kit Cosper
ation, with as much detail as possible, ASAP. Email your resume in confidence TODAY to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resumes in ASCII, LaTeX, Post Script, HTML, ApplixWord. MS Word docs > /dev/null Thanks, --Kit -- -- Kit Cosper Linux Hardware Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Managing multiple machines

1998-04-21 Thread Kit Cosper
lphas? Comments on AutoRPM or any other paradigm are appreciated. Private email is fine, I'll summarize for anyone who is interested. --Kit -- -- Kit Cosper Linux Hardware Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] System solutions you can count on, system solutions

diald any gurus?

1998-04-07 Thread Kit Cosper
ration and can't for the life of me find anything that looks like it could generate a packet that isn't ignored. Anyone with ideas on this? Thanks, --Kit -- -- Kit Cosper Linux Hardware Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] System solutions you can count on, system

Re: RE[2]: Commercial use of Red Hat (was Re: Sorry,,,,,,,,,,,So

1998-03-31 Thread Kit Cosper
*net* on each copy they sell at $50 for the sake of formulating a SWAG at this. So in order to cover the cost of one shot in Byte they must sell (2/25) 800 units of Red Hat *just* to pay for that one ad. -- -- Kit Cosper Linux Hardware Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Kit Cosper
ly get more recognition than longer or harsher messages. Like I tell my teenage son, it's not so much what you say as how you say it. --Kit -- -- Kit Cosper Linux Hardware Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] System solutions you can count on, system solutions that work.

Re: All this talk about 386's...

1998-03-19 Thread Kit Cosper
r nodes (32 nodes at 200 MHz). Yes, there are likely to be administrative issues that differ between the classes of machine, but all in all even 386 systems could be put to good use in such a project. --Kit The Stone SouperComputer homepage can be found at; http://www.esd.ornl.gov/facilities/beow

Re: A Couple Questions.

1998-03-18 Thread Kit Cosper
> Hello, > > I thought I'd throw out a few questions in hopes of getting a quick > answer. > > 1) I'm looking for a tape drive supported by linux. Something that > is either floppy or IDE based. Any suggestions? We like the Seagate TR-4 IDE drives. Aside from the bashing that they too

Major changes... (was Why is libc5 going away)

1998-03-13 Thread Kit Cosper
ve on this topic so perhaps others could better evaluate the current state of affairs. Regards, --Kit -- -- Kit Cosper Linux Hardware Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] System solutions you can count on, system solutions that work. 1-888-LINUX-HW

Re: Anyone have experience getting this to work?

1998-03-06 Thread Kit Cosper
e character device section. Recompile, install the new kernel, and you should have a happy tape drive available at /dev/ht0 --Kit -- -- Kit Cosper Linux Hardware Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] System solutions you can count on, system solution

Re: LILO

1998-03-05 Thread Kit Cosper
> Mount your main Linux partitions off of /mnt. > > Type > > ROOT=/mnt /mnt/sbin/lilo > > There you go. > -Sam Or alternately; /mnt/sbin/lilo -r /mnt preserves a few keystrokes. :-) --Kit -- -- Kit Cosper Linux Hardware Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL P

Re: Conpatable UPS

1998-03-05 Thread Kit Cosper
a point of reference on the Best Power line the Patriot 420 retails for $179 (includes the Check UPS package) and we sell it for $139 plus shipping. Excellent power protection, and Open Source software to go with! --Kit -- -- Kit Cosper Linux Hardware Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PRO