Bill Bennett wrote:
I'd like to install RH 7.0 on my laptop.
The problem is that, at the moment, the laptop is infested with
Windows 2000. I'd like to go completely over to Linux (ie, no
partitioning.
I assume that I should with a clean slate, ie., an empty hard
disk, but I'm not sure
I thought that might get your attention.
Could someone briefly explain WITHOUT prejudice what is Debian as
opposed to what is not Debian? Please be objective.
Further what difference would that mean if I wanted to load an
application, say, Real Player 8 for *nix?
Richard
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quote who="DaZZa"
So why did I upgrade from CPM then?
CP/M wasn't broke?
CP/M didn't have decent 3D accelerator support!
obFreeSoftware: Now, if nVidia wrote Free Software drivers, you could have
your Quake and CP/M it too.
(Sorry.)
- Jeff
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Delphi Kylix was released Jan 31.
C++ Kylix is real soon now ( oh well ).
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-01-31-001-27-OP-CY-SW
or community.borland.com
There are stripped down free versions available. By the sounds of it more
complete than the windoze free versions though.
I have a Sony SDT-7000 tape drive to be used to back up a Linux server.
Everything was fine until I tried to back up a large amount of data on a
20gb drive. I have tried using both dump and tar and with each got a message
at the end of the first volume that it was time to change volumes. When I
There's going to be some long answers to this one. I'll focus mine on
the RealPlayer:
Nothing.
Don't download the RPM, down load the Tarball which has an installer in
it and you are off and running (worked fine on my Debian system).
:)
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 19:46:12 Richard Blackburn wrote:
I
Jeff Waugh wrote:
CP/M didn't have decent 3D accelerator support!
We didn't need 3D to play games then - we knew how to PLAY. {:-)
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WOA Computer Services lan/wan,
At 09:04 AM 5/02/01 +1100, Jamie Honan wrote:
transfer Fidonet packets {if you don't know, don't ask - you're probably
too young anyway!} via the internet/IP.
Eeee;... flashback time
Wasn't there a C version of this (written, as I recall, by a Minister
from Manly) ??
Let me
Jon Biddell wrote:
Now, if anyone can tell me how to get my DDS3 drive to back up more than
4Gb (it's a 12/24 Gb drive !!) on DDS3 tapes...:-)
It is in the archives somewhere, but
60M = 1Gb
90M = 4Gb?
120M = 8Gb
125M = 12Gb
Probably incorrect, but someone will know for sure.
Either you
Yes...I am using tape, not disk. "Volume" can refer to any medium in this
context.
I am using the -M option with tar. The end-of-volume seems to be sensed
correctly. The I/O error occurs after mounting the new tape.
Dennis
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Jon Biddell wrote:
I have a Sony SDT-7000 tape
At 11:51 AM 5/02/01 +1100, David Kempe wrote:
How about we put a voting thingy on the website? :)
yaya voting thingy!
Seconded - the voting things, that is
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Jon Biddell was once rumoured to have said:
Now, if anyone can tell me how to get my DDS3 drive to back up more than
4Gb (it's a 12/24 Gb drive !!) on DDS3 tapes...:-)
Sounds like you're using DDS2 tapes in a DDS3 drive.
Also, don't bother quoting the "compressed" capacity figures - They're
quote who="Richard Blackburn"
I thought that might get your attention.
Have a look at 'alien' sometime... RPMs for Debian (and vice versa, and
others). RPM is also packaged in the official Debian repositories.
Could someone briefly explain WITHOUT prejudice what is Debian as
opposed to what
Interesting message received on our internal linux mailing list here at
Canon...
Strange, no?
Original Message
Subject: those who live in glasshouses ..
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 01 15:05:50 +1100
linuxjournal were crowing about microsoft's dnses running linux :
AUUG (the Australian Unix Users Group) is holding their next annual
conference in Sydney in September. It should be fun, they tend to
cover a fairly wide range of topics and it is a good chance to compare
Linux to what is going on in the BSD and proprietary Unix worlds.
The announcement below
You're a legend!! /etc/lilo.conf had the 'i' attribute on making it
read-only (and various other things).
Thanks, and thanks to the others that responded to the soundcard mail.
Jin
Luke Szymanski wrote:
lsattr /etc/lilo.conf
/etc/lilo.conf
If you don't get '' man chattr
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 07:46:12PM +1100, Richard Blackburn wrote:
I thought that might get your attention.
Could someone briefly explain WITHOUT prejudice what is Debian as
opposed to what is not Debian? Please be objective.
best thing, read the "Debian Social Contract"
Crossfire was once rumoured to have said:
[SNIP]
My apologies - mutt and sendmail were being flaky - and I didn't work
out what was going on before I suddenly discovered I'd sent this 6
times. :(
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Meeting - Friday, 23nd February, 2001
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* Linux News Discussion
He's Bck!
-
Conrad has returned from New York
quote who="Matthew Dalton"
Strange, no?
http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=store.linuxjournal.com
They've been defending it on their letters page ever since. :)
Some say this is 'religion' getting in the way of everything else, but...
It's a bit slack given the options out there.
Don't
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Matthew Dalton wrote:
Original Message
Subject: those who live in glasshouses ..
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 01 15:05:50 +1100
linuxjournal were crowing about microsoft's dnses running linux :
http://www2.linuxjournal.com/articles/buzz/0044.html
fair
Hi,
This may sound like a stupid question, but, do any of you out there know how
to restrict access to an index but not the files in it via .htaccess for
Apache? That would allow the user to get the data (images) with the HTML
document but not be able to see the folder index with it's entire
Interesting message received on our internal linux mailing list here at
Canon...
Strange, no?
No really you'll find they probably out source that chuck of the web site,
so as to get secure credit facilites?
Jason
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More
If you wana hook into credit cards and debit systems and the like
quite often your not given alot of options. Only their store is
using NT, its not like its mission critical stuff.
Dean
Jason Rennie wrote:
Interesting message received on our internal linux mailing list here at
Canon...
quote who="Ben Babich"
This may sound like a stupid question, but, do any of you out there know how
to restrict access to an index but not the files in it via .htaccess for
Apache?
.htaccess:
Options -Indexes
I often have a .htaccess file in my top level web directory, and have these
lines
This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins said:
Jeff Waugh wrote:
CP/M didn't have decent 3D accelerator support!
We didn't need 3D to play games then - we knew how to PLAY. {:-)
"space invaders, and that other boring game." :)
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This one time, at band camp, Bill Bennett said:
[I have a problem with logic here. It seems to me that I cannot
order an operating system to destroy/remove itself, because what
carries out this operation, ie., what's left after completion, is
part of the operating system. Am I right?]
Aha, you
With linux as the server, what is the best way to set up centralised
network authentication (domain logon, so to speak) for windows
95/98/NT and linux clients? I'd like to avoid putting in an NT server.
Regards,
Matthias
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This one time, at band camp, Ian Tester said:
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Craige McWhirter wrote:
There's going to be some long answers to this one. I'll focus mine on
the RealPlayer:
Nothing.
Don't download the RPM, down load the Tarball which has an installer in
it and you are off and running
Matthew Dalton wrote:
Interesting message received on our internal linux mailing list here at
Canon...
Strange, no?
http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=store.linuxjournal.com
beautiful.
which reports:
"The site store.linuxjournal.com runs Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98"
IIS as
Jeff Waugh wrote:
Meeting - Friday, 23nd February, 2001
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The Usual Suspects
--
* QA - "What has Linux done for/to me lately?"
* Linux News Discussion
What happened to the Kylix
Hello Everyone,
Want to break of of the Lintel (wintel) monopoly? Well here is your
chance! ComputerBank-NSW currently has Sun boxen and a SGI
workstation that need good homes.
Last Saturday (3rd Feb) we held a workshop in Terry's garage to sort
through the equipment ... even tried a Linux
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 07:46:12PM +1100, Richard Blackburn uttered:
Could someone briefly explain WITHOUT prejudice what is Debian as
opposed to what is not Debian? Please be objective.
What you're really asking is why Debian is cool. I can answer that.
1) Strong policy
Debian has a
hi all
I am just playing w/ 2.4 and have relised that it does not seem to
have any masqurading modules. is this right.. nothing to the effect
shows up in xconfig..
i then tried to compile 2.2.18 again but i am getting a strage error.
init/main.c: In function `start_kernel':
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Mark Willis wrote:
We also decided to split the packages of monitor and
computer so you can now just buy the monitor or vice versa.
Do these Suns use non-PC connections/cables? i.e R/G/B/sync on seperate
BNC connectors or something similar?
Will I be able to use these
Ian Tester was once rumoured to have said:
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Mark Willis wrote:
We also decided to split the packages of monitor and
computer so you can now just buy the monitor or vice versa.
Do these Suns use non-PC connections/cables? i.e R/G/B/sync on seperate
BNC connectors or
2.4 uses a different firewalling and masquerading system to 2.2 - one which
is _much_ nicer to use... in the networking options part of x/menuconfig,
see IP: Netfilter Configuration sub menu.
-Thom
* Alex Salmon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on Sat Feb 03, 2001 at 09:06:53PM +1100:
hi all
I am
Crossfire wrote:
Do these Suns use non-PC connections/cables? i.e R/G/B/sync on seperate
BNC connectors or something similar?
Will I be able to use these machines with a normal VGA monitor?
These model suns traditionally use a 13W3 connector on the back - the
standard Sun badged
HI,
Can someone tell me what
.U.. /dev/vcs1
.U.. /dev/vcsa1
are and why they might change (in other words what did I do to change them!)
These popped up from a 'check-packages' script I acquired from somewhere,
which usually shows no changes or at least ones I know about.
Simon
Dear Sluggers,
I'm using RH 6.2 and want to upgrade??? to the newer RPM format used in
RH 7.0
I have searched with Google and at the RedHat site, any pointers please.
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I've got a strange routing problem on my system:
3 boxes in a network plus a router, one system is a dialin server.
If I dial in and try to ping another box on the lan there is no reply
coming back to the ppp connection but if I ssh onto the server, I can
ping, access the other systems. Using
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 10:43:00PM +1100, Mehmet Ozdemir wrote:
Jeff Waugh wrote:
Meeting - Friday, 23nd February, 2001
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The Usual Suspects
--
* QA - "What has Linux done for/to me
Hi all,
ok well for people who like to know how things turned
out...
I picked up (another) new cpu fan, and some goo
that joins the heatsink to cpu, yesterday and put it
all together and cleaned all the dust and crap out of
the PC and fired it up. The video seemed to work ok
but the bios was
They've been defending it on their letters page ever since. :)
Some say this is 'religion' getting in the way of everything else, but...
It's a bit slack given the options out there.
the company it is outsourced to wrote back and explained that the NT setup
was legacy and they were
Mark Willis wrote:
Hello Everyone,
Want to break of of the Lintel (wintel) monopoly? Well here is your
chance! ComputerBank-NSW currently has Sun boxen and a SGI
workstation that need good homes.
...snip...
$50 2 half-height external disk boxes (various sizes)
Hi
people,
I am experiencing
some difficulty in getting mail to be sent from apache. I currently have a
couple of sites that were on another linux box. The sites use the standard
mailto command through a php script to mail some information etc.
However, the mail
does not appear to be
I am experiencing some difficulty in getting mail to be sent from apache. I
currently have a couple of sites that were on another linux box. The sites
use the standard mailto command through a php script to mail some
information etc.
php has a function to do this without having to invoke an
I am experiencing some difficulty in getting mail to be sent from apache.
I
currently have a couple of sites that were on another linux box. The sites
use the standard mailto command through a php script to mail some
information etc.
php has a function to do this without having to invoke an
G'day all,
I recently got a diskless-root via nfs system working and now would like
to see if I can get it to boot using etherboot.
This is soley for the sake of convienience.
At the moment I am stuck.
the ROM image loads from the floppy, it gets an IP address and starts
downloading the
|At the moment I am stuck.
|the ROM image loads from the floppy, it gets an IP address and starts
|downloading the the kernel via tftp then it reboots.
|
|I have run mknbi on a kernel I am already using to boot from floppy and
|mount root via nfs so I am pretty sure the kernels ok.
|
|Any
quote who="Shannon Doyle"
I am asuming that it is a permissions problem, however I am not getting any
errors that I can tell.
Have you had a sift through /var/log/mail(log|.log) to see if there are any
errors there?
- Jeff
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Have you had a sift through /var/log/mail(log|.log) to see if there are any
errors there?
I sure have. The weird part was that the mail logs were under their own
directory in the /var/log/ directory. Split into error, info and warning
files. Something I have never seen before.
Nothing in the
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