Re: adding title to mpg files.

2003-10-14 Thread Vidiot
I am sorry if my question is far off topic. I do not know exactly which mailinglist I should post this question to. I have a bunch of mpg files. I would like to add/overlay a simple title (e.g., 1 second long of 'in backyard') to each file. I thought this is easy but I found nothing after

Re: Using RJ45 crimp tool

2003-10-03 Thread Vidiot
This might be nitpicky, but as I understand it, color order does matter due to the use of the twisted pairs. The pairs are twisted to compensate for the spin of the energy moving through the cables, lessening the occurrence of cross talk. The popular standards consider the use of the pairs in

Re: Using RJ45 crimp tool

2003-10-03 Thread Vidiot
I think I understand the ordering of the wires now, but I still have two questions: 1. How to actually *use* the tool itself There should have been instructions with the tool and or connectors. Trial and error works great :-) After a while, one develops their method for cutting, trimming, wire

DHCP appears not to be working

2003-09-22 Thread Vidiot
I have a W2K laptop that I am attempting to connect to my internal LAN, but DHCP appears to not be working. THe daemon is running: ps -eaf | grep dhcp root 26358 1 0 Sep03 ?00:00:03 /usr/sbin/dhcpd eth1 The dhcp config file is as follows: cat dhcpd.conf

Re: DHCP appears not to be working

2003-09-22 Thread Vidiot
Try this: On the Win2K machine (while it is hooked up to your home network), open a command prompt and type: ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew Your dhcp client on the win2k machine is probably thinking that it already has a lease that hasn't expired, and doesn't need a new one. Ben Nope.

Re: DHCP appears not to be working

2003-09-22 Thread Vidiot
Firewall? OK, that was it, but I am confused as to why. I use firestarter to configure the firewall for me (RH7.1). When running the wizard, I told it eth0, which is the internet. The internal lan is on eth1. So, why is the internal lan affected by the firewall? I'm not worried about outside

Re: DHCP appears not to be working

2003-09-22 Thread Vidiot
Did the firestarter open the dhcp ports? I think it broadcasts on port 68 TCP/UDP When I ran the firestarter wizard, I added DHCP to the list of stuff I run. After that it worked. Here are the $64,000 questions: 1) Why is firestarter setting up the firewall to block stuff from eth1, my

Re: DHCP appears not to be working

2003-09-22 Thread Vidiot
That's why I stay away from the starter scripts. Learning how to hand code your tables works much better. I tried a while ago to use the shorewall scripts and the RH firewall tools both really screwed up the rules I wanted set. It seems like they expect eth0 to be external and eth1 to be internal

Re: vim question - comment multiple lines

2003-09-10 Thread Vidiot
* Marc Adler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-09 19:46]: * Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-09-09 17:21]: ctrl-I ^^ (Oops, that was supposed to be 'capital I') Marc Adler Since when is there a difference between ^i and ^I? If it must be a I, then it is written as

Re: getting dhcpd started

2003-09-03 Thread Vidiot
At 22:39 9/2/2003 -0500, you wrote: I'm running RH7.1 and now need to get DHCP running over the 2nd NIC (internal network). I tried installing the dhcpd RPM, but was told it was already installed, yet there are no man pages, no way to start dhcp in init.d and chkconfig doesn't list it either.

Re: getting dhcpd started

2003-09-03 Thread Vidiot
Sorry, you didn't - there is no dhcpd package. There is a dhcp and a dhcpcd for RH7.1, though. rpm -Uvh dhcpcd-1.3.18pl8-10.i386.rpm Preparing...### [100%] package dhcpcd-1.3.18pl8-10 is already installed ... and this is the wrong one.

dhcpd catch-22

2003-09-03 Thread Vidiot
There is a catch-22 situation while attempting to start dhcpd. The following test is on the init.d script: [ -f /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases ] || exit 0 But wait, this is a first time install/run, so there won't be a leases file. Until the daemon is run, the leases file won't be created

Re: putting a title on the xterm window

2003-09-03 Thread Vidiot
What string do i use to put a title in the xterm window from the command line? Marvin Blackburn I have the following configured for zsh: if [[ xterm == $TERM || vt102 == $TERM ]] then chpwd() echo -n ^[]2;${PWD}^G fi if [[ xterm == $TERM || vt102 == $TERM ]] then chpwd fi The

getting dhcpd started

2003-09-02 Thread Vidiot
I'm running RH7.1 and now need to get DHCP running over the 2nd NIC (internal network). I tried installing the dhcpd RPM, but was told it was already installed, yet there are no man pages, no way to start dhcp in init.d and chkconfig doesn't list it either. Anyone know what gives? MB --

Re: question on burning iso's

2003-09-01 Thread Vidiot
I am flailing about trying to figure out how to burn an iso in RedHat 9. I've used the Gnome toaster and it write's the CD but doesn't make it bootable (more like a big text file). There is an option to make the CD bootable but it appears it needs an image name, which I thought was the name of

Re: Two ethernet cards and IPs

2003-08-27 Thread Vidiot
I'm running RH 7.3 on a machine on which I started with a single ethernet card and a single IP address. The machine is on a small home network with 4 other machines. I have added a second card, and want to configure a second IP address (in the same subnet of a class C) for the new card. You

Re: using two NIC's

2003-08-25 Thread Vidiot
Question, i have a server that i would like to use two nics. i have two ips that are on the same subnet and they both have the same default route. how do i tell traffic that comes to one ip that is assigned to eth0 to go back through eth0 and one ip that is assigned to eth1 to go back trhoug

Simple AWK question

2003-06-11 Thread Vidiot
In all my years of using awk, this is the first time I've ever had to output a character to a file. For example, I have the following: sprintf(%s,%s\n, SiteVal, CustomerID) outputfile I need the line in the output file to look like: SiteVal,CustomerID I've tried

Re: Simple AWK question

2003-06-11 Thread Vidiot
I suppose you could try sprintf(%c%s%c,%c%s%c\n, '', SiteVal, '', '', CustomerID, '') outputfile awk: syntax error near line 13 awk: illegal statement near line 13 awk: newline in string near line 13 It is definatly baffling. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Simple AWK question5

2003-06-11 Thread Vidiot
Try using sprintf(%c, 042 ) and whatever else you need to complete this. Yep, that works as well as doing: SiteVal = \ substr(\$0,index(\$0,:)+2) \ and not having to do the sprintf part. Using print and just letting it string concat also works. At least I know the tricks.

Re: Simple AWK question

2003-06-11 Thread Vidiot
I dont have my GAWK manual handy, but I think your problem may be that you are using SPRINTF which is a print to string function as in str = sprintf() rather than something like fprintf() or printf() Not using gawk, using the original awk. Don't know if the original awk even supports fprintf()

Re: Simple AWK question

2003-06-11 Thread Vidiot
Your syntax error is that sprintf prints to a string buffer, not a file. Now, p'rhaps he wants fprintf, 'e does, Precious It is interesting how sprintf() filename has been working all the years. Probably for the wrong reason. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: increasing size of file system

2003-06-04 Thread Vidiot
Dana Holland wrote: In order to install one of the kernel fixes that are available for my 7.3 system, I would need to increase the size of the / file system. I've done a search on google for instuctions on increasing the size - all I seem to find is instructions to move things out of the file

Re: increasing size of file system

2003-06-04 Thread Vidiot
it's had LVM for a while, and LVM will let you do just what you're asking about. Can you point me to some documentation? I must be using the wrong search terms or something, because I just can't find it. Can't help you with the docs, as I don't use LVM. But, if you are currently not using

Re: Restrict output of ps

2003-05-30 Thread Vidiot
Please, do not send HTML e-mail to this list, or any list for that matter. Look at the amount of net bandwidth that was wasted sending this e-mail and the amount of space wasted in the in boxes of list members. Also, read the original question carefully. The poster wants to limit ps so that when

Re: Restrict output of ps

2003-05-30 Thread Vidiot
Rob Day responded: Well, in theory, you could patch the ps program... redo some of the code so that it ONLY allows the process owned by the user to be displayed... then move the original ps to psall or something, change perms on psall to be executable only by root but, that would nto stop

Re: Viewing Partitions

2003-04-04 Thread Vidiot
I've forgotten the command line for viewing all the partitions and their sizes. To see what is mounted, use: df To see all partitions, use: fdisk Warning, fdisk is used to modify partitions, so don't use the wrong options :-) MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/~\

Re: Viewing Partitions

2003-04-04 Thread Vidiot
/ shouldn't really be bigger than 500mb, imho. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I disagree. I'm currently using 423292, so 500 doesn't leave much head room. The extra space is used with logs, etc. Especially when running a server. So, IMHO, YMMV :-) MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Burning DVD-Rs

2003-03-20 Thread Vidiot
I haven't been paying too much attention to this, but the topic has come up at work. What is being used these days to burn DVD-Rs under Linux? Thanks. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/~\ The ASCII [I'm just the one who beat him off... Repelled him] \ /

Re: Burning DVD-Rs

2003-03-20 Thread Vidiot
CDRecord(despite the name) is a common app that can burn DVDs. http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html Cdrecord supports DVD-R and DVD-RW with all known DVD-writers on all UNIX-like OS and on Win32. DVD writing support is implemented in cdrecord

Re: Can't mount floppy drive

2003-03-16 Thread Vidiot
Please no HTML e-mail to this mail list, or any mail list for that matter. i was trying to copy a file from a floppy drive but cant mount my = floppy. I issue mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy but it gave an error /dev/fd0: Input/Output error mount: you must specify the file system type I issued mount

Re: View pictures from command line

2003-03-07 Thread Vidiot
Is there a program that I can use to quickly view the content of a jpg or gif picture, from the command line, (without x-windows)? No. Think about it. A picture requires 8-bit color depth (as a minumim). How do you expect to display a color image on a TEXT screen? You wanna see images, you

Re: View pictures from command line

2003-03-07 Thread Vidiot
I was thinking that if redhat can show pretty pictures at boot time, it's at least theoreticaly possible to render the pixils onto the black screen. Center it... spit it out left aligned and then give back the command prompt... whatever. But if it can't be done, it can't be done. Sure would be

Re: View pictures from command line

2003-03-07 Thread Vidiot
Vidiot == Vidiot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a program that I can use to quickly view the content of a jpg or gif picture, from the command line, (without x-windows)? Vidiot No. Think about it. A picture requires 8-bit color depth Vidiot (as a minumim). How do

Re: View pictures from command line

2003-03-07 Thread Vidiot
switching to graphic card mode != X I didn't say that, or impy it. You don't have to run X to see images. That's what SVGAlib buys you. You're technically correct that in text mode you don't get graphics, but you can get graphics on the console without X. Changing graphics mode in order to do

Re: ls operation changed

2003-03-01 Thread Vidiot
Well sure. -L turns _on_ the behaviour you see. Thought I'd try it anyway :-) Sure you're running the real ls, and not some evil presupplied alias? Does /bin/ls behave the same as ls? What does the alias command recite? As far as I know, the real deal. Yes. alias ls reports nothing. Me too.

Re: ls operation changed

2003-03-01 Thread Vidiot
And plain alias? Nothing dealing with ls. This problem happens with root and another user that I became by using su - username (as root). What does: ln -s /foo bah set -vx;ls -l bah; /bin/ls -l bah;set +vx + ls -l bah total 3211932 lrwxrwxrwx1 brownusers 4 Mar

Re: ls operation changed

2003-03-01 Thread Vidiot
Weirder and weirder. I've tried this on RH7 and RH8 and it behaves sanely (i.e. does NOT follow the symlink) for me. Most definately weird. What disto are you running, and what version of ls (or fileutils)? RH 7.1 ls (GNU fileutils) 4.0.36 MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ls operation changed

2003-02-28 Thread Vidiot
I've been noticing this for a while now and it is damn annoying. The ls command traverses symbolic links if the symbolic link is used as the filename given to ls. For example, if I do: ls -laG sym_filename and sym_filename points to a directory named /usr/symlinkname, the contents of

Re: ls operation changed

2003-02-28 Thread Vidiot
I've got the Gnu fileutils version 4.1 (or so ls --version says). ls --version ls (GNU fileutils) 4.0.36 Do you know about the -d flag? You might try ls -laGd, that might get you the behavior you want. Yep, neither that or -L made any difference. There must be something in my environment

Re: Quicktime to Mpeg conversion

2003-02-27 Thread Vidiot
I'm not sure the Divx;) format is playable on a DVD player, as it's (losely) MPEG-4, not MPEG-2 It won't. Actually, DVD players won't play raw MPEG-2 files either. Everything has to be in DVD format, i.e., once you have the MPEG-2 video file and a separate audio file, preferably AC3 (Dolby

Re: Quicktime to Mpeg conversion

2003-02-27 Thread Vidiot
Actually, I think some of the newer DVD's will play some of that junk, but you are correct for older ones - you need to generate the files you mentioned, and apply the encryption to them. I've heard that there are starting to appear players that will play the raw DIVX files. I suspect that if

Re: reminders via cron

2003-02-27 Thread Vidiot
Okay, I need to send myself a reminder via email. I would think that a script using /usr/bin/mail would work but mail seems to want too much interaction. Any ideas? JAV Read the mail man page. You can put everything on the command line, so that interaction is not required. It is done all the

Re: filename with space

2003-02-21 Thread Vidiot
I am trying to rename a bunch of files to another name. For example, picture 1 to picture1 picture 2 to picture2 ... May I know how you can take out the space in old filename? Thank you. mv picture?1 picture1 mv picture?2 picture2 MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Screwed up e-mail from list

2003-01-29 Thread Vidiot
Why am I getting e-mail from the list dated Jan 18th and 19th? MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ The ASCII \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against Visit - URL:

Re: Trouble reading floppy on linux / winnt

2003-01-12 Thread Vidiot
I'm a new Linux user who has just recently installed RedHat 7.2 and I've run into what I'm sure is a simle problem. I'd like to transfer a small text file from my linux box to an NT box via floppy. I've created the directory '/mnt/msdosfloppy' and mounted my floppy drive as follows: mount -t

Re: Burning a Music CD

2003-01-06 Thread Vidiot
Ric responded: You don't own the CD's, records, nor tapes. You own a copy of them. That copy gives you the right to play them, from their original media. It expressly, does not, give you the right to copy them. Period. BZZZT!!! Wrong. Thanks for playing our copyright game. Look at the

Re: http download/open files..

2003-01-06 Thread Vidiot
OK. But, I want to make a link where the mime type is not considered, to force download. Do you know how to do it? As far as I know, you can't. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ The ASCII \ / Ribbon Campaign

Re: Interesting Time Tidbit

2003-01-02 Thread Vidiot
Just for your info, later this afternoon just after 4:05 pm, an interesting time sheme will occur that I'm not sure will happen again. At five minutes and six seconds after four o'clock it will be 01-02-03-04-05-06. I guess it all depends on how you want to format your dates :) Bret

Re: Help with sed

2002-12-16 Thread Vidiot
I have some files that I want to replace USERNAME with something like joe.somebody the files are in multiple locations: /location1/file1 /location2/file2 /location3/*.xml I have tried to figure out how to do this with sed but I'm not having any luck. Any sed people out there that can point me

Re: pdf viewer with text search?

2002-12-14 Thread Vidiot
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 11:48, gregory mott wrote: is there no pdf viewer with text search? seems to be missing from ghostview and kghostview (rh7.3). i even downloaded Acrobat 5.0.6 Reader with Search and was surprised that Edit-Find.. does nothing. Acroread works great for me. I can search

Re: This is plain text

2002-12-11 Thread Vidiot
Wrong bucko. MB This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_=_NextPart_001_01C2A151.C7F13D6E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Plain text Regards, --_=_NextPart_001_01C2A151.C7F13D6E Content-Type: text/html;

Re: Extracting Data From a Web Site

2002-12-09 Thread Vidiot
I have been tasked with grabbing various internal websites that have basic text data on them and grabbing and storing that data in another text file without opening up the web page itself. Make sense? Example. www.myinternalwebsite.com has a location called deployment_packages.htm. I want to

Re: Extracting Data From a Web Site

2002-12-09 Thread Vidiot
Any examples you could give for extracting the data? I'm not that savvy on programming :-P Joe That question is SO open ended. I have no idea what the web pages look like. It is probably going to require that you do get savvy with scripting, be it sed, awk, sh or perl. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: fuck you all again!!!!!

2002-12-04 Thread Vidiot
OK, why hasn't this address been removed from the list? Also, has this address been reported to hotmail abuse? MB fuck you all again! fuck you all again! fuck you all again! fuck you all again! fuck you all again! fuck you all again! fuck you all again! fuck you

ls not working correctly

2002-12-04 Thread Vidiot
Let me start out by saying that I think that ls is not working the way I expect it. If I do a ls -la in the directory that contains symbolic links, the links are displayed, such as: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 16 Dec 4 11:01 mysql - /usr/local/mysql But, if I do a ls -al on mysql,

Re: ls not working correctly

2002-12-04 Thread Vidiot
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 11:12, Vidiot wrote: Let me start out by saying that I think that ls is not working the way I expect it. Sorry, not the expected behaviour. I do not want it to traverse the link. So, to the man page I went. I see a -L option. so I try it: total 0 drwxrwxr-x

Re: ls not working correctly

2002-12-04 Thread Vidiot
I have never noticed a link traversal difference execpt for directories. That being said, your machine does appear sort of different as you are complaining about. [bhughes@bretsony bhughes]$ ln -s /usr/local mylocal [bhughes@bretsony bhughes]$ ls -d mylocal mylocal [bhughes@bretsony bhughes]$ ls

Re: CD burning as normal user

2002-12-04 Thread Vidiot
In Redhat 8.0, is there a relatively simple way, short of giving out the root password to all, of allowing regular users to use the CD burner (in particular using one of the GUI apps)? Jon Do you have the permissions on the actual CD-ROM device set to 666? MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CD burning as normal user

2002-12-04 Thread Vidiot
I'm not using RH 8.0 yet but in 6.X and 7.X you could set permissions and ownership on devices using the file /etc/security/console.perms My 7.3 system is configured to change ownership of the sg device files to the user logged into the console. This is a much better solution than making the

Re: CD burning as normal user

2002-12-04 Thread Vidiot
In order to get normal users to burn CDs, mount CDs, etc. I needed to add users to the line corresponding to my burner in my /etc/fstab file. /dev/cdrw /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,users,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 Try that. Good Luck! Richard Tricoche / Systems Engineer / RPA Wireless TURN OFF

RedHat FTP server problems

2002-12-01 Thread Vidiot
Observations about the RH ftp server: 1) Slower than a snail. Doing a simple cd takes a minute to perform: ncftp / cd pub/redhat/linux/7.1 2) Getting a directory listing from a large directory always times out: ncftp ...en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS dir perl* Data

Re: RedHat FTP server problems

2002-12-01 Thread Vidiot
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 01:07:48AM -0600, Vidiot wrote: 1) Slower than a snail. Doing a simple cd takes a minute to perform: Use a mirror. http://www.redhat.com/mirror.html Emmanuel Thanks. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ The ASCII

Re: Netscape 7.0 micro fonts

2002-11-04 Thread Vidiot
in its dialog boxes. Something tripped it so that each new window that is created used an extremely small font. On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Vidiot wrote: For some reason, when a link brings up a new Netscape window, all of the fonts for the Netscape menu bars and dislog boxes is micro in size, around 6-7

Netscape 7.0 micro fonts

2002-11-03 Thread Vidiot
For some reason, when a link brings up a new Netscape window, all of the fonts for the Netscape menu bars and dislog boxes is micro in size, around 6-7 point. This even happens with File-New Navigator Window (Ctrl-N). Anyone know what is causing Netscape to screw this up? I don't have any X

Font problems

2002-10-31 Thread Vidiot
Consider the following two images: http://vidiot.com/Browser-Linux.jpg http://vidiot.com/Browser-Windoze.jpg Both images are using Netscape 7.0. Both are of the same web page. Both are on a screen resolution of 1280x1024. You can read the Windoze version. It is eye strain

Re: Font problems

2002-10-31 Thread Vidiot
Consider the following two images: http://vidiot.com/Browser-Linux.jpg http://vidiot.com/Browser-Windoze.jpg Both images are using Netscape 7.0. Both are of the same web page. Both are on a screen resolution of 1280x1024. [...] Nevermind, I found the problem. I saved the

When is Netscape 7 not Netscape 7?

2002-10-27 Thread Vidiot
When you download Netscape 7 but Netscape 6.2 starts. Anyone know why that is the case? I'm running RH 7.2. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ The ASCII \ / Ribbon Campaign

Re: When is Netscape 7 not Netscape 7?

2002-10-27 Thread Vidiot
Do a `which netscape`, or whatever the binary name is. Depending on where it's installed, you may have the old Netscape directory ahead of the new one in your path. I can't say for sure, since I use Opera these days (although I keep the other default-installed browsers on the system for the odd

Re: When is Netscape 7 not Netscape 7?

2002-10-27 Thread Vidiot
Got it. The previous xpi directory is there and the installer script doesn't appear to have a version attached to it, so it doesn't know I want to install the newest version. Once I got rid of the xpi directory, it went out to the net to get the version. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: html mail

2002-10-25 Thread Vidiot
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:48:11PM +0200, Ernest E Vogelsinger wrote: [...] -- O Ernest E. Vogelsinger/~\ The ASCII (\)ICQ #13394035\ / Ribbon Campaign ^ X Against

Re: html mail

2002-10-25 Thread Vidiot
At 09:07 25.10.2002, Thomas Ribbrock said: [snip] On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:48:11PM +0200, Ernest E Vogelsinger wrote: [...] -- So now you only have to fix your signature delimiter: It's -- (note the space!) on a line of its own, not just --... ;-)

Re: html mail

2002-10-24 Thread Vidiot
David Wheeler is a self-professed Linux newbie, attempting to install Redhat for the first time. Singling him out--however gently--seems to me a bigger breach of etiquette than sending email in html form. Not the kind of welcome one would hope to get from an open-source community. I believe that

Re: html mail

2002-10-24 Thread Vidiot
You need to put some stuff in your mailcap file and in your .muttrc. If you're interested I could send you my settings. Replying works as though you're replying to text, if you set things up right. Yes please. Thanks. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is God's job to forgive bin Laden.

Re: html mail

2002-10-24 Thread Vidiot
I used to do that, but the few HTML-only messages that I want to read are not completely rendered by character mode browsers. Instead, I configured my GUI browser as the text/html viewer. Tony During the week day, I read my mail from work, via a telnet connection. No X available. MB -- e-mail:

Re: the ^ symbol

2002-10-23 Thread Vidiot
Actually the tilde symbol is to be found on the right of the keyboard above the # hash key. At least on a proper keyboard it is ;-) I don't what keyboard you have, but the tilde is to the far left, next to the 1 key. The hash (#) is on the number 3 key. Your keyboard layout is incorrect. At

Re: Firestarter: Linux as a firewall

2002-10-18 Thread Vidiot
Does firestarter use IPTables as the underlying software to do its work ? By default, yes. It stores it's IPTables in it's own directory. Anthony Firestarter is a perfect thing to use to set up your firewall, as it also turns on masquerading to allow internnal boxes talk to the outside. That

Re: recovering deleted file

2002-10-18 Thread Vidiot
* and then Spanke, Alexander declared Hi, You can use the midnight commander, it has a function to undelete Yes, but I've already deleted it Nick Wilson // www.tioka.com You can pretty much kiss it goodbye, especially after all this time. The inode, and/or space, has probably

Re: recovering deleted file

2002-10-18 Thread Vidiot
On Friday 18 October 2002 09:52, Vidiot wrote: * and then Spanke, Alexander declared Hi, You can use the midnight commander, it has a function to undelete Yes, but I've already deleted it Nick Wilson // www.tioka.com You can pretty much kiss it goodbye, especially after

Re: Adobe Premier like program for Linux?

2002-10-13 Thread Vidiot
He asked about Premiere, not Photoshop. The Gimp. On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 18:17, Kim Allbritain wrote: Adobe Premier is a high end digital photo editor package. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of fred smith Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Communication between 7.2 boxes problem

2002-10-10 Thread Vidiot
I have two 7.2 boxes, one a server, one a database that I have setup. They were both setup identically with the server installation. The server box can communicate to the database box but for some reason the database box cannot communicate back to the server box. Any suggestions? Mark Not enough

Re: Reading DVD from CD drive

2002-10-07 Thread Vidiot
Is there any software which can read a DVD from a CD drive? Manoj There isn't any kind of software that will do that. It is a physical limitaion of the CD-ROM drive. The lasers are different. You want to read DVDs, you MUST use a DVD drive. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is God's

Re: (no subject)

2002-10-06 Thread Vidiot
Repost your message. No HTML posting here, please. MB htmldiv style='background-color:'DIVHi /DIV DIV/DIVI installed Linux 7.2 yesterday. I have a Com21 USB cable modem (750k). I don't have a clue about how to install it. I tried the internet settings but that only has dial-up modems. I

Re: (no subject)

2002-10-06 Thread Vidiot
Message - From: Vidiot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 10:36 AM Subject: Re: (no subject) Repost your message. No HTML posting here, please. MB htmldiv style='background-color:'DIVHi /DIV DIV/DIVI installed Linux 7.2 yesterday. I have a Com21 USB

Re: HTML Mail / Netiquette

2002-10-06 Thread Vidiot
The majority of email clients today however are HTML aware, and the percentage of people using such HTML-aware clients is only increasing. The reasons are simple - it is easier to read (typically), and more information can be conveyed effectively. Other lists that I'm subscribed to have made

Re: change directory name

2002-09-24 Thread Vidiot
PLease turn off HTML e-mail when sending to this list, or any mail list for that matter. This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --_=_NextPart_001_01C2643C.B13FF7D0 Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: Looking for an image editor

2002-09-17 Thread Vidiot
I need a command-line driven image editor that will resize GIF and JPG images. I found GIMP on the net, but it seems like way overkill and am hesitant to install it and invest vast amounts of time learning how to use the scripting language. There has to be a better way! Todd Merriman

Audio Question for Blind user

2002-09-11 Thread Vidiot
A person who visits my web site to download promos is blind. He is running Linux, but not 7.x. The promos that I have are MPEG-1 VideoCD compatible. Obviously he does not run X and uses a player to play the promos. He would like to extract the audio from the MPEG-1 file, in order to save

Re: Creating a tgz, what's the problem? TGZ better than ZIP?

2002-09-06 Thread Vidiot
Now I know this is basic but ...as you may realize from my questions, I am at the basic level in this stuff man tar isn't too revealing, as is all or most man pages, which are sometimes cryptic, provides little or no examples, is outdated.. but it's FREE! Man is great. Obviously you didn't

Re: Netiquette

2002-09-05 Thread Vidiot
Mark posted: I've now been on the list for a couple of weeks, and I get the digest, and it seems as though there are a lot of newbies, so, as a public service to make the list easier to read, and more comprehensible, here's some standard email netiquette: 1) delete the messages other than

Firewall and passive ftp

2002-09-03 Thread Vidiot
I suspect that the RH 7.1 firewall that I set up with firestarter turned off ftp passive access. What do I need to set in the configuration to allow passive ftp? Thanks. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is God's job to forgive bin Laden. It is our job

Re: Symbolic linking - Question

2002-09-03 Thread Vidiot
I'm clear on the concept of symbolic linking, but in practice I seem to be having a problem ... I've got a client that screwed up some print advertising and listed the wrong directory name. Instead of /abc, they called it /ABC (all caps). My fix is to create a new (all caps)

Re: Symbolic linking - Question

2002-09-03 Thread Vidiot
... but I couldn't figure out HOW to get there. Thanks very much for helping me twist my brain the correct direction. ;-) Patrick Beart Consider yourself twisted :-) MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is God's job to forgive bin Laden. It is our

Looking for a text/binary mixed sed

2002-08-27 Thread Vidiot
I need to be able to stream edit a mixed mode file, i.e., files that are mostly text, but some that contain both text and binary. The text portion will be edited, with the rest passed through the stream editor. Is the a gnu-type sed that works on text/binary files? I need the source so that I

Re: Screenshots

2002-08-19 Thread Vidiot
I have a basic install of rh7.3, and I'm just starting out so have ...can some kind person tell me how I can take screenshots, or if there's another package I need to do this. Nige XV will allow you to take screen shots. Gimp might as well. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is God's

Re: Newbie: Iomega Zip drive (IomegaWare) and kernel modules

2002-08-18 Thread Vidiot
I just downloaded the Iomega Zip drive (IomegaWare Software) and the readme told me to built the file they gave me (iw) into the kernel as a module. and I was wondering if someone could walk me through it step by step. If it wasn't too much trouble, I'd really, really appreciate it What

Re: Newbie: Iomega Zip drive (IomegaWare) and kernel modules

2002-08-18 Thread Vidiot
A quick look at www.iomega.com gives me the impression that the main benefit is being able to write protect disks, if needed, drivers, if needed, and tools to get information about the disks. The built-in support for the EIDE drives and the use of the mtools suite of programs pretty much will

Re: Newbie: help with Iomega....

2002-08-18 Thread Vidiot
You are right, I can do without the iomegaware tools but among the things that I would like to have is format, read/write protection.. But I don't know if it's too hard for a newbie to install a kernel module, I can't seem to find any information on howto online and probably not one that'll

Re: What format to burn ISO images to?

2002-07-24 Thread Vidiot
There has been alot of talk on the list about burning RedHat ISO images, and I've been reading up on it, but what do I want to burn the ISO images to? CD-R or CD-RW? CD-R media is cheaper. MB I've gone googling and have found conflicting info. thanks -Chris =

Re: audio cd fs

2002-07-17 Thread Vidiot
hi friends i am using RH7.2 all going smooth ,but it is not able to mount audiovideo cds it gives error wrong fs type, it can mount data cds,i have tried iso9660 is there any other idea any help is precious with regards shyam Audio CDs are not mountable, as they are not filesystems. MB --

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