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I hosed my rpm database
Posted on December 2nd, 2003 | 8 Comments

"Z. M. Wu" <noemail@none.com1> wrote in message news:yy6zb.44781$ZV6.2538@nwrddc02.gnilink.net... Well that sucks doesnt it. You can reinstall all the packages. Actually you can install the...

A new reader? Welcome to comp.os.linux.misc, read this first if you're new here (FAQ)
Posted on December 2nd, 2003 | 0 Comments

ATTENTION NEW READERS New reader? Great! Welcome! Here's how to make best use of this newsgroup, effectively getting yourself a slice of the best help available. Now read on ... TESTING YOUR...

Archos Recorder 20, Redhat 7.2, mknod.
Posted on December 2nd, 2003 | 2 Comments

Hognoxious wrote: Use, for example, 'ls -la /dev/sda1'. You will see the major and minor numbers listed, eg. root@localhost:/dev# ls -la /dev/sda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Apr 15...

KDE 3.1 Screenblanker doesn't recognize password
Posted on December 2nd, 2003 | 1 Comments

Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: This was reported a long time ago, I can`t remember the fix ( a "YOU" might help ) I have tried to find it in the SDB but keep getting a blank. If you do a search on...

transcoding a dvd into an audio CD
Posted on December 2nd, 2003 | 1 Comments

"Hactar" <ebenONE@tampabay.ARE-ARE.com.unmunge> wrote in message news:bqisrj$a0u$1@pc.tampabay.rr.com... and that provided me with enough keywords to google for USEFUL...

Radeon 9800 XT 3D Accelleration
Posted on December 2nd, 2003 | 9 Comments

Share the same Mail und News directories in two differnt Linux...
Posted on December 2nd, 2003 | 6 Comments

ebenONE@tampabay.ARE-ARE.com.unmunge (Hactar) writes: Thank you very much for your answer :-) -- Josef Oswald linux.os@chello.at registered-linux-user # 134.818 at http://counter.li.org

Downloading Suse 9.0
Posted on December 2nd, 2003 | 15 Comments

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 21:52:34 GMT, mjt wrote: Don't you think it's possible that this person has downloaded an entire mirror of suse 9.0 and just burned it and the ftp install iso to a couple of...

Strange Tape Drive Problem
Posted on December 2nd, 2003 | 4 Comments

kbass wrote: I notice aic7xxx is loaded here but not in the other listing. When you get the error message, try 'modprobe aic7xxx', then retry the 'mt' command. You may need to edit...

Please Help
Posted on December 2nd, 2003 | 1 Comments

Sekhar Hari wrote: www.dell.com Malke -- "I have a cunning plan..." (remove 3's to reply)

What distributed net to join?
Posted on December 2nd, 2003 | 3 Comments

Richard Körber <shred@despammed.com> wrote in message news:<bqfmd1$i1k$00$1@news.t-online.com>... There are loads of projects listed...

SILO Fun in a Sparc IPX
Posted on December 2nd, 2003 | 1 Comments

"Mauricio" <uce@ftc.gov> wrote in message news:33e47f6d9d824385e827b531f3b3f6c3@news.teranews.com... Just a shot in the dark: The Sparc firmware is not able to boot (at least on my SS 20) if you do...

<ENTER> in a script
Posted on December 2nd, 2003 | 6 Comments

Vilmos Soti <vilmos@vilmos.org> wrote: This won't work, as the read is forked into a temporary subshell - which then can't pass its result ($envvar) back to the parent. For this example it would...

/usr/X11R86/include/X11/*.h files?
Posted on December 2nd, 2003 | 3 Comments

John Thompson wrote: is XFree86-devel-4.3-5mdk. As root try urpmi XFree86-devel. Doug. -- The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. - Robert M. Persig

Fetchmail error 451 4.1.8 in slack9
Posted on December 2nd, 2003 | 25 Comments

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 22:37:44 -0900, Floyd Davidson wrote: No problem. It's been fine so far. (Unless the system has cached the old contents or something, but I'm not particularly interested in...

scsi scanner problem
Posted on December 2nd, 2003 | 0 Comments

Hi all, I am running SuSE 8.2 and am having problems getting SANE to work. When I try to find the scanner with # sane-find-scanner I get the message # No SCSI scanners found.....

X freezes in user mode. Need help, please.
Posted on December 2nd, 2003 | 2 Comments

Dances With Crows <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@usa.net> wrote in message news:<slrnbsn23n.ipv.danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@samantha.crow202.dyndns.org>... You have definitely given me a lot of good advice,...

Windows XP or Linux for scientific programming?
Posted on December 1st, 2003 | 6 Comments

Harald Grossauer wrote: seriously io-limited database population job. That is why the system time is so high. Even so, there is plenty of CPU time available to run two instances of setiathome. When...

modify/tune max.num. of semaphores SEMMNI
Posted on December 1st, 2003 | 1 Comments

peter pilsl wrote: I always change it before I compile my kernel and haven't had any problems with it. I also change kernel/printk.c #define LOG_BUF_LEN (16???) /* This must be a power of two...

lost cdrom?#
Posted on December 1st, 2003 | 2 Comments

On 1 Dec 2003 15:22:32 GMT, Dances With Crows <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@usa.net> wrote: flash drive might be). jumpers to make sure they don't conflict?