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Ogg Vs Mp3 with Linux. 4493
Tomas Dietz Not for me. Does everything I want. Games, multimedia, networking, web. Even plays ever-so-nicely with my WinPC. So you had Windows sussed out the first day you used it? MCSE...
Ogg Vs Mp3 with Linux. 4494
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:53:56 -0500, I use my iPod daily, for up to 10 hours a day. (well, less now...
pureftpd with mySQL Support ERROR
On 17 Aug 2005 12:36:49 -0700, Nicholas staggered into the Black Sun and said: This is really, really inefficient and will take forever. Use "locate*libmysqlclient-*" instead; it'll run much...
Tool for custom log analysis
On 18 Aug 2005 05:39:16 -0700, Chris staggered into the Black Sun and said: This is not a mailing...
audio player
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:04:09 +0200, Thomas J. staggered into the Black Sun and...
Automutating fstab plugging USB device 4498
Sigh. I'm sorry... I usually aim to be polite when I post, but I'm going to depart from that policy here. Patronising, unhelpful replies like this one burn me up...
Automutating fstab plugging USB device 4499
Then unburn yourself up and learn to distinguish help from hurt. Of course not! You HAVEN'T said it...
Automutating fstab plugging USB device 4500
On 19 Aug 2005 10:31:35 -0700, Pete staggered into the Black Sun and said: Peter T. Breuer is not exactly the most tactful of people. groups.google him...
Automutating fstab plugging USB device 4501
Matt -- *Thank you!* This is the sort of answer I was hoping for! (:-)) I figured... (:--) I gather that this 'kudzu' thing (which...
looking for equiv. of BSDetclogin.conf file to supress login timeouts
Black Sun and said: This happens. AFAICT, it's because of keepalive packets not going through, or possibly the cablemodem dropping...
A newbie's question about tools
Now that I have my file server running (well, it boots and stays up until I shut it down), I'd like to find tools equivalent to the ones I use...
A newbie's question about tools 4504
You might like "mc", the Midnight Commander aka Mouseless Commander program, which was originally inspired by (if memory serves) one of the MS-DOS...
A newbie's question about tools 4505
Marten Kemp said the following, on 08-20-05 16:14: It's been quite a few years since I used VM (then VM-SP), but I recognize the tools you've mentioned, so I'll give it...
Editing a select few lines remotely
Hiya Jeff. I am a student and am currently working from home as my research at this stage is mostly computational. My home PC is a dual boot system with Win XP and SuSE...
showing NIC as dev609 and not as eth1
On 21 Aug 2005 21:27:24 -0700, Harshal staggered into the Black Sun and said: That's...
3rd party kernel modulesegfault
I am using a 3rd party kernel module that has some glaring deficiencies, but I don't really have enough experience to be confident in my buttertion that the deficiencies...
Future direction for Linux
This is a post from an intermediate level Linux user, who is in his final year of Computer Engineering.*** Name : Ksheerasagar Akella Location : Mumbai...
Future direction for Linux 4510
At the risk of sounding irritable, what's in it for us? If you have a staggeringly valuable idea, step away from Usenet, get funding, and, well... shut...
Future direction for Linux
08-21-2005 ITYM urban legends. That has not been my experience. Untrue. BAT files are not generally where configuration data are...
Future direction for Linux 4512
Not all of the Linux community wants to achieve this - some are happy that it works...
Sound configuration Sender: Linux
You can get cheap plugs to go to Line-in, by going to a dollar store and getting...
laptop suspend 4514
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:54:05 GMT, CBFalconer So many greenhorn phules have stumbled onto usenet via Google -- thinking that it is some sort of Google-hosted, real-time chat room...
laptop suspend 4515
Luca Pireddu Suspend on acpi and linux is non-trivial ... actually, it usually was no...
Almost Impossible To Sell A Pre_loaded Linux Desktop Computer
This past summer holiday I work at small computer store who sell custom built computer system. We also sell refurbished units that we purchase...
Almost Impossible To Sell A Pre_loaded Linux Desktop Computer 4517
Franz Fripplfrappl That is fine for the likes of Novell but it doesn't work well with desktop systems sold mostly to small businesses and consumers. What services are...
Almost Impossible To Sell A Pre_loaded Linux Desktop Computer 4518
Dear Sirs, I find that these sort of posts raise important questions. 1. How much does Microsoft pay trolls to trash talk their compebreastion...
Almost Impossible To Sell A Pre_loaded Linux Desktop Computer 4519
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 16:32, Postmaster stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes...: From what I've heard - and what has already been proven - a number...
Almost Impossible To Sell A Pre_loaded Linux Desktop Computer 4520
I dual boot Linux and Windows... and use Linux about 90% of the time for the internet... and use...
Almost Impossible To Sell A Pre_loaded Linux Desktop Computer 4521
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Highland Ham wrote on Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:20:00 +0100 If Microsoft is going...
Almost Impossible To Sell A Pre_loaded Linux Desktop Computer 4522
Lionel Lionel I would agree,(on several items) 1st the op probably was a troll,and also that the people...
Almost Impossible To Sell A Pre_loaded Linux Desktop Computer 4523
This was a poor worded comment to make to a guy I don't even know. Sorry Andrew. My point was, of course, that there are...
Almost Impossible To Sell A Pre_loaded Linux Desktop Computer 4524
Josh Because of your tone I think your story is serious. Most of these problems the shop had could however be prevented by tweeking KDE to look like windows or MacOS. Most people...
Almost Impossible To Sell A Pre_loaded Linux Desktop Computer 4525
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 21:26, Josh stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes...: The boy would have a much better chance to learning about information technology when...
Almost Impossible To Sell A Pre_loaded Linux Desktop Computer 4526
Patrick Grimbergen It has nothing to do with what the interface looks like it has to do with customers...
Rescue Disk and XFS Filesystems 4527
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 02:37:21 GMT, Josh Birnbaum staggered into the Black Sun and said: What? Floppies are dead; forget 'em. Everything worth using has been able to boot from CD-R...
Rescue Disk and XFS Filesystems 4528
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:33:54 GMT, Josh Birnbaum staggered into the Black Sun and said...
Rescue Disk and XFS Filesystems 4529
Dances With Crows Hi, True enough. This'd be for home use. This is what I have...
Weird Apache virtual host problem
Hi everybody. I have a very weird problem with Apache. I use VirtualHosts to put...
Connecting multiple large USB drives
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:38:18 +0100, Anna Langley staggered into the Black Sun and said: Yep, this probably happens within hubportinit() in the USB hub code. I...
Pan news reader orphaned
I switched from Thunderbird myself after also using KNode for a while - I still use the bird as a...
Is messages showing a hack attempt
I just can't seem to make sense of myvar-log-messages. Investigating why our production server went down and restarted last night, I'm finding weird...
Is messages showing a hack attempt 4534
Black Sun and said: a program like WSFTP can figure WinSCP out in less than 5 minutes. This does sort of require...
Is messages showing a hack attempt 4535
When you notify all your customers that their pbuttwords were all sniffed, and that their data is all comprimised and...
using regular expressions in shell script conditional statements
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:23:24 -0400, William Park staggered into the Black Sun and said: ...the sed manpage used to say something like "there isn't a regex manpage, but someone really should write...
My SuSE Security Icon Is Red Again. Is Linux really secure
I seem to be getting an awful many lot of Suse Security Advices. These are...
Mouse dead after reboot loading YaST magically fixes it
Greetings. I have the following strange problem with my system. It's occurred on two different machines (with the same mouse) running SuSE 9.0 and SuSE 9.3. I have a Logitech MouseMan Optical USB mouse. According...
Redhat AS 3 or SuSE enterprise 9
Bruce I have used only Red Hat (since RHL 5.0), so I cannot speak about SuSE Enterprise...
Going to one HD
Hey guys, I am always appreciative of the advice you've given here in the past. I saved the entire threads about moving from hdb to...
Going to one HD 4541
CWO4 Dave Mann Good to do every few years, at least. Mouse droppings, taco chips, and dead bugs have no significant...
Going to one HD 4542
Jean-David Beyer Mainly because it simplifies duct design. Air blown out of a duct has some directionality, so it merely has to be directed toward the heatsink. Air sucked...
Going to one HD 4543
Then why does Intel suggest blowing cool air horizontally over the heat sinks? Blowing down (allowing air to leak out at the sides, with the air leaking forward...
Going to one HD 4544
Jean-David Beyer Huh? That only makes sense if the heat sink is of a "tower" heat pipe design. Note that almost all normal heat sinks have a fan on top of it...
Going to one HD 4545
Not at all. If you blow down instead of parallel to the heat sink fins, you need...
Going to one HD 4546
Jean-David Beyer Put bluntly, you don't know what you're talking about. There are reasons why the overwhelming majority of heatsink fans are designed with fans blowing...
Going to one HD 4547
Peter T. Breuer Actually, with the Intel-supplied heat sinks for the Xeon processors, the...
Going to one HD 4548
Peter T. Breuer Bah, physics. If you REALLY want this discussion, then I can explain in detail the physics of why the traditional HSF layout generally provides better...
Going to one HD 4549
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:59:46 -0700, mechdan Hi Isaac! Thanks for the good tips. As you can tell from my list...
