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Intel to cut Linux out of the content market 4264
Michael Heiming One hundred million is actually almost 10% of the population there, and I'd bet Xinhua would be aggressively pushing the fact if there was a hundred millions of...
SCO How long
Dan I was selling and supporting SCO back when it ran on 8086 hardware (now *there's a treat!). One thing most of the younger generation fails to appreciate is just how...
Dual head, equalize color difference
Michael Heiming The ATI drivers only support the 8500 and higher cards, so it's no surprise they didn't work. But it doesn't matter: the older Radeon cards...
Running X app from script
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:35:03 GMT, Robert M. Riches Jr. staggered into the Black Sun and said: I doubt it...
CHM to PDF
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:13:36 GMT, Felix Rawlings staggered into the Black Sun and said: For Microsoft's Compiled HTML (.CHM) format, there's a library called chmlib that can read and extract the HTML and...
Hard drive parbreastion question
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 18:40:16 -0700, Kyle staggered into the Black Sun and said: comp.os.linux.x is for questions about the X Window System ("graphics card driver") running on Linux. Questions like...
How to tell an application to use a custom tcpip stack instead of tcpip stack
David Schwartz The problem is I want to make my tftp source I have with me to use lwip and not the tcp...
How to tell an application to use a custom tcpip stack instead of tcpip stack
Hi Jonathan , Yes I exported the library using LDPRELOAD using bash# export LDPRELOAD= path to my library and then started my tftp to your second point , yes...
Bash completion 'cd' and 'make
Here are the latest version of 'cd' and 'make' completion: 1. 'cd' completion: # 'cd' is redefined to use...
Good morning or good evening
A more reasonable question would be: Is there anything to be saved from? This is the cheapest and most transparent of con jobs: Invent an...
Checksum OT 4274
If you check the thread, you will find that everyone is responding to your second post (apart from the one person, whoever he was, who saw the original). I...
Checksum OT 4275
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:33:56 +0200, Peter T. Breuer No, you responded to my first post. I suggest you check the thread. Some advice : Either learn how to use scare quotes, or stop...
VPN and Fedora serverWin client 4276
In researching the issue, I found this site: Which helps explain and set up OpenVPN using the bridged, as opposed to tunneled method. This sounds like the method I need to use, since...
VPN and Fedora serverWin client 4277
For successful setting up of a VPN, you need pretty good understanding of IP network addressing and routing principles. You could start with Rusty's Guides from Don't let the names mislead you...
VPN and Fedora serverWin client 4278
Tauno Voipio understanding Thanks, I'll give it a read! I see the other fellow's endorsing reply, so I look forward to taking the time to...
VPN and Fedora serverWin client 4279
clip clip --- The main inefficiency in bridged configuration is the overhead of broadcasts shipped over the bridge, but it's just that which makes basic MS...
Installation Questions
Hello All, I am trying to install Debian Sarge on an Atari clone, the Hades060. I bought a 9-gig SCSI-3 drive just for that. I also have a...
Installation Questions 4281
Whan you ask a question, try to be concise. Many people will be reluctant to read a long paragraph and...
Installation Questions 4282
Agreed. Yes and no. The new hard works great with my machine. It is just for some reason in the installation process, the...
Installation Questions 4283
No, not at this time. I need to install it first. Hello Laurenz, Basically it is this way. I boot my computer up first in an...
Installation Questions 4284
Correct... I downloaded the Ram disk from the Debian site along with the program that boots from Ram disk (bootstra.prg). I can see just...
Why I don't use Linux
It all boils down to being a square peg in a round hole, which is what Linux really is. I bought a Dell system...
Why I don't use Linux! 4286
Tomas Bicsak You do realize that fitting a square peg into a round hole is a useful...
Why I don't use Linux! 4287
Nico Kadel-Garcia I wonder. In about 1997 a couple I knew bought a Dell Dimension 200 (or something like that) and ran Windows 95 on it for a year or so...
Why I don't use Linux! 4288
Snip Its a shame 'Linux' didn't work for, I say its a shame because all the core things you mention you...
Why I use Linux 4289
Larry Qualig As someone who is a fairly recent convert to Linux, (dual-booting XP and Kubuntu 5.04 at the moment) and also as a Systems Accountant, there isn't really a problem...
Why I use Linux
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:07:30 -0400, Larry Qualig I don't dislike windows because of its...
Why I use Linux 4291
Well, yes. But that's not a difference between Linux and Windows. If Linux is going to...
Why I use Linux 4292
TuxSux schrieb: Did you read the description, that came with the CD? It probably reads...
Why I don't use Linux! 4293
Actually, Linux is the round peg. It's Windows that has all of those awkward corners that stick, jam, and break. But Microsoft has gotten everyone so used to breakage that they hardly notice...
Why I don't use Linux! 4294
Charlie Gibbs Interestingly enough, my ISP does support Linux. They happen to run FreeBSD themselves. When I asked them about a minor configuration problem so I could log into their servers, they e...
cdrecord "on the fly
Black Sun and said: attempt to mount CD burned in this way This won't work right. You didn't do mkisofs, so the CD-R was...
CLI: System Monitoring
CLI - Command Line Interface System Monitoring. The watch command (man watch) is useful for this. Here's an example script, which I run in a seperate screen window (man screen: a networking textmode window...
MAKE LOADS OF MONEY FOR FREE
MAKE THOUSANDS!!! I found this on a bulletin board and decided to try it: I don't care about the useless pre-fabricated crap this message usually says. All I say...
Frozen mouse on new SUSE v9.3 AFTER several successful sessions
As the subject line says, I've installed v9.3 -- a fresh install, on a newly parbreastioned HD. I have gone on...
First time I've needed fsck.reiserfs 4299
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:29:16 +1200, Lawrence D’Oliveiro staggered into the Black Sun and said: This is the root cause of the problem. Flaky hardware, inadequate cooling, cases that haven't been cleaned in years...
First time I've needed fsck.reiserfs 4300
The client has two Shuttle SN95G5s. The crash-prone one is only a few months old. The other...
Inetd question
Knoppix 3.8 HD install and apt-get upgraded I have been pounding on making SWAT work but it would only give...
Fedora Core 4 mouse problem
I just installed fedora core 4 (actually upgraded from existing FC 1). But now my...
Fedora Core 4 nVidia driver problem
I just installed fedora core 4 (actually upgraded from existing FC 1). I wanted to install nVidia's graphic card driver for my...
installation problems
I have an old machine running RH 7. For a long time, whenever I mention any problem whatsoever on an old machine running RH 7, everyone tells me...
installation problems 4305
The good ideas you are talking about came from Lenard, not from me. I'll take a look at it. I've been thinking it over and I'm starting to think that the main thing I...
installation problems 4306
Mark Hobley provided some confirmation of my theory that the CDROM drive is flaky and that is contributing to my...
installation problems 4307
Since my last posting on this topic, I've continued along the lines I described last time, which were: I tried a few more times...
installation problems 4308
I've made a little more progress. (1) I've tried a few times more to install from the RH7.1 boot disk and CDs. I'd been going...
installation problems 4309
I'm still confused on a few points. Thanks. Since I'm not absolutely sure whether it is the CD or the drive (and there have been two drives used for this, with both of which installation...
installation problems 4310
Since my last posting in this thread, I've been studying the files anaconda and anaconda.real contained in hdstg1.img in the...
installation problems 4311
I made some progress with that approach and discussed it in another thread, but basically I gave up on it...
installation problems 4312
somewhat delusional theory about how RH 6.2 got installed deleted Although RH 6.2 is installed on the machine, my theory of how I managed to...
installation problems 4313
Allan Adler Why are you upgrading from an old *unsupported* version to another that is in *legacy* support??? (Something to think about) Newer versions of Linux distributions like Fedora Core 2...
installation problems 4314
In an earlier message, I explained that attempting to upgrade from RH 7 to RH 9 had trashed my Linux parbreastion and rendered my PC unbootable...
installation problems 4315
This is just a progress report on my attempts to revive my PC that was rendered unbootable by trying to...
Unresolved symbols with Debian openafs module compilation
Hi I am trying to compile openafs on Debian Sarge (kernel 2.4.27-1-386) using instructions at : (with -appendtoversion = -1-386) Version of openafs-modules-source : apt-cache...
Auitomounter and NIS on Linux
I have had significant difficulties getting my RedHat linux clients(EL 3.0) to automount home directories that are specified in NIS maps in a NIS domain...
cdrecord multisession not working
I'm trying to burn multisession CDs. It doesn't appear that gnomebaker supports it, so I'm trying to do it using mkisofs and cdrecord. I started...
cdrecord multisession not working 4319
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:35:03 -0400, Steven Feinstein staggered into the Black Sun and said: k3b does. No. You used ''s when you needed ``s. When you put a command within ``s, your...
cdrecord multisession not working 4320
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:44:52 -0400, Steven Feinstein staggered into the Black Sun and said: When you use both the -M and -C options to mkisofs, an ISO image that isn't...
