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3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 1038
I've never understood the attraction of dual boot systems. I've never understood the attraction of important information existing in only one place...
3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 1039
it isn't a holy grail, but it is darn nice! really? 3 days? how did you go about searching for answers? what forums did you visit...
3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 1040
wrote on 27 Apr 2006 16:28:07 -0700 You may want to file a bug on that one. Apparently the Fedora installer did...
3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 1041
on Fri April 28 2006 07:28: I remember my first Linux install. When I was...
3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 1042
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, iforone wrote on 28 Apr 2006 11:57:19 -0700 Depends on one's viewpoint. For...
3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 1043
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ivan Marsh wrote on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:08:39 -0500 Unproven but probable. Certainly trolls can be users too...
3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 1044
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:00:09 +0000, The Ghost In The Machine ...and probably shouldn't try it for the first time on the drive that has all their data on it... with no...
3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 1045
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:43:46 -0500, flatfish+++ People learn more by losing, not from winning. If people just click through dialog boxes and screens without reading them and are burned as a result...
echo command
Hi, what I'd like to do is to get some input with read commands and then put them all inside a .txt file, each entry in a new line, to create something like a...
Replace one version of Linux with another 1047
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:16:16 -0700, Dan Q.1. Do you need access to what is on that system...
Replace one version of Linux with another 1048
Dan I ran Red Hat Linux 9 on a 160 MHZ Pentium with 64 MBytes RAM and a 4.3 GByte hard drive. It did not...
need help with root hack 1049
Don't trust your box anymore. Apparantly some program has been installed to take the place of bash. Hard to tell from here which version you are using yourself right...
need help with root hack 1050
Schraalhans Keukenmeester ..snip.. Yeah, I'm going to rebuild the box. =Think Slackware is any more secure out-of-the-box? FC4? To be honest, I have no recolection of if I created it or...
Is Linux Being Funded By the Left Wing Homoloveual Agenda
I read your little web site voting thing. You do understand that Social Security IS NOT a retirement fund, but rather a "supplemental" income source, right? It was never designed to be your retirement...
NIC problems in FC5 upgrade
Michael Heiming Spescious hyperbole. Cute. =) You were born with all the knowledge in the world, weren't you, and never have had...
ShutdownReboot Problem
Hi Schraalhans, Yes you're right. I checked the man pages for halt & shutdown and found that unless the...
What kind of motherboard do I have how to find out remotely
Thanks Stan. Great idea. Here's my dmidecode result: # dmidecode 2.2 SMBIOS 2.3 present. 43 structures occupying 1783 bytes. Table at...
Are you sick of "BORING SCARY SICK" Dreams at night
Load of really wacked out manic stuff clipped to save bandwidth at 60 bauds while using...
On LAN, but can't get to Internet on FC5 box
The Natural Philosopher I have absolutely no idea. The first two octets don't look familiar. How can I find out more? I did an...
linux cisco vpn client
While the VPN is up, then all your network traffic goes through that VPN, the exception being...
Problem with ls on home directory
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:14:18 -0400, Geico Caveman staggered into the Black Sun and said: How many files-dirs are in your ~? ls has to...
USB errors with 2.6.16.5 kernel and iPod
I have an Apple iPod shuffle which I've quite happily been using for over a year with my 6-year-old PC running Linux 2.6.1...
OS programming
Yes, writing web markup is not programming (not to a programmer ;) Difficult? Depends on background and formal training and your natural talent. The formal...
Linux single Floppy
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:09:37 -0600, Douglas Mayne staggered into the Black Sun and said: Don't bother. There's no point...
Having Trouble with Protools and Linux
04-30-2006 Linux is Linux and windoze is1 windoze; they don't run the same programs, although some, e.g., OpenOffice, are available for both...
Having Trouble with Protools and Linux. 1063
wrote on 30 Apr 2006 15:20:45 -0700 Hmm..."Pro Tools" shows up on Google as "the...
Having Trouble with Protools and Linux. 1065
I disagree. Linux is useful for a subset of audio-video engineers that need a very open architecture for...
Having Trouble with Protools and Linux. 1066
On Wed, 03 May 2006 19:37:09 -0500, Linonut So basically you accuse me of bullpooting...
Having Trouble with Protools and Linux. 1067
After takin' a swig o' grog, flatfish+++ belched out this bit o' wisdom: I called...
Having Trouble with Protools and Linux. 1068
On Thu, 04 May 2006 06:39:36 -0500, Linonut You're dancing now Linonut. The breastle says Protools, which is a...
Having Trouble with Protools and Linux. 1069
This is not what you were saying earlier... you essentially said Linux could not be used in this capacity at all. Yes, Linux requires more work up front. The question is, do you gain...
Having Trouble with Protools and Linux. 1070
A highly suspect, possibly nym-shifting WinTroll called Low latency kernels and audio apps can be built (or downloaded from Planet...
Having Trouble with Protools and Linux. 1071
It appears the very basic nature of some of the buttumptions you may have made have led...
System freezes while running OpenGL applications
In comp.os.linux.misc, on Tue 02 May 2006 09:26, Chandru WTF is the "that" that did not work out. We are not mind readers. Please learn to quote. Now comes the "canned" speech about what's...
How to write udev rules for ttyUSBn devices
This bit of misinformation is what seems to have caused all of my problems. Accordign to the page mentioned: Using multiple SYMLINK style rules Another recent feature is the ability to write rules that do...
Disk Drive LED via Software
linnix An ide-mib (Management Information Base) patch for disk read-write counters and some useful-useless information is available here: We use them for benchmarking flash drives. --- catproc-ide-hda-driver...
change hard drive to IDE 3 using Promise 20276 controller
On Thursday 27 April 2006 23:24, Kooner stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes inalt.os.linux.mandrake...: More precisely, if every IDE channel has a...
Mount a remote filesystem using SFTP
Here's the scenario (a very common one, I think): I have some code I am testing on a unix system at work, but I am editing it from my Linux PC...
cannot finddevconsole error 432 1078
On 05-04-06 13:46, Trixx Try mounting the initrd image somewhere else like $ sudo mkdir -p $HOME-tmp-initrd $ sudo mount -o loopboot-initrd.img-2.6.x.y $HOME-tmp-initrd $ cd $HOME-tmp-initrd Now...
cannot finddevconsole error 432 1079
On 05-05-06 08:21, David L. Johnson Please behave like a gentle man, I'm much more rude to all those people who talk nonsense and, or are stupid...
cannot finddevconsole error 432 1080
On Fri, 05 May 2006 09:42:49 +0200, Dr Balwinder S Dheeman I was less concerned about any possible offense you might take than I was about getting...
cannot finddevconsole error 432 1081
On Wed, 03 May 2006 21:35:06 -0400, Trixx I presume that your default kernel is a 2.4 kernel. Are you saying that you cannot install, using a debian package, a newer 2.4 kernel and have...
cannot finddevconsole error 432 1082
On Fri, 05 May 2006 00:02:04 -0400, Trixx OK, this explains it all. The suggestions others are making about...
work flow language 1083
Here is an example of a wfl program and all it really is doing is running a job taking the information and renaming it at the end and...
work flow language 1084
Black Sun and said: When using that miserable "G2" excuse for a real newsreader, follow the...
stick it to paypal so far, this is working for me
OK... this is crazy but seems to really freakin work... so do it! This was...
disk parbreastions not showing up
Hi, I have 13 parbreastions on the hda drive. When I try to see underdev, I can see only 10 of them. Any pointer how can I...
Newbie loop device question
Hello, I did the following: 1. losetupdev-loop0foo-bar 2. rmfoo-bar 3. mountdev-loop0foo-dummy 4. cdfoo-dummy 5. touch toto 6. cd 7. umountdev-loop0 If I remountdev-loop0 again...
Problem with Mozilla Firefox in Linux
Hi All, I am using the following Linux version (obtained via 'uname -s'): Linux firestone...
Problem with Mozilla Firefox in Linux. 1089
I see you have since received good advice for finding the lock files under your $HOME-.mozilla tree. Their recommendations looked reasonable. I would have tried find $HOME...
Problem with Mozilla Firefox in Linux. 1090
Hi Robert, I shall now post the outputs of the commands that you have suggested. Here is the first one's: 127.0.0.1:26881 Next: rm: remove symbolic link `-home-amit-.mozilla-amit...
Problem with Mozilla Firefox in Linux. 1091
Dan Espen Hi again Dan, First of all, please accept my sincerest apologies for goofing...
Trauma Survivors You don't have to go it alone any more
Almost to a person, those who have suffered serious physical trauma, whether by car accident, work related trauma injury, shooting and stabbing victims and other...
Using multiple NICs 1093
Robert Heller Actually, given that modern Ethernet NICs and switches are generally full duplex devices, I would wager...
Using multiple NICs 1094
In a message on Tue, 2 May 2006 16:04:10 -0500, wrote : On re-reading it *sounds* like you might be thinking of having two networks, one with...
Segfault in sqlite
Hi, I try to run the same (statically linked) sqlite executable on Debian and SuSE. In Debian it...
how do you do this
On Wed, 03 May 2006 17:35:02 -0700, Coffeehouse Schmuck But it has a hard disk, right? Your question could be clearer. There is no such thing as a SuSE...
