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Seeking help for C++ programming in linux
Posted on October 18th, 2003 | 7 Comments

I agree, it's a good book to get started.

icewm-1.2.6 mouse button swap
Posted on October 18th, 2003 | 3 Comments

Didn't work Stephan. I didn't have a .xsession file, so I just made one. Was that a mistake? Only other thing: Perhaps in XF86Config(there was no XF86Config-4) I used tabs when I should have used...

mkisofs question
Posted on October 18th, 2003 | 2 Comments

Roberto Sacchetti <rsacco@nospam.libero.it> writes: You may need a little extra help. have a look at http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ Jack --

Got "ls: .: Stale NFS file handle" But I am NOT using NFS at all
Posted on October 18th, 2003 | 2 Comments

Shi Jin wrote: That shows you are not *exporting* any file systems. I am not sure if it should contain entries for file systems you *import*. What does your /etc/fstab say? I used to get that. I...

Cron and Root
Posted on October 18th, 2003 | 8 Comments

Thanks. One more question if I may: What is the significance of the underscore in the "_*/15" syntax? I know that */15 means every 15 minutes, but I can't find the underscore documented. Thanks...

apt-get on Mandrake?
Posted on October 18th, 2003 | 2 Comments

On 17 Oct 2003 11:52:50 -0700, Steve <stevesusenet@yahoo.com> wrote: Mandrake is pretty much it's own thing now. They are still similar enough that now and then a RedHat rpm will work on Mandrake,...

how to read postscript files in linux?
Posted on October 18th, 2003 | 16 Comments

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 23:04 GMT, Dances With Crows wrote: Until recently, all the PostScript generators I had seen produced readable (in varying degrees) PostScript. And Windows is more popular...

installing linux on a hand built scanner
Posted on October 18th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I'd really appreciate some help with a project I am about to embark on. I want to build a scanner with an LCD monitor that will hopefully scan an image and then maybe manipulate it and display it on...

MozillaFirebird extensions directory?
Posted on October 18th, 2003 | 6 Comments

Wes Gray a écrit: There is a chrome directory under ~/.phoenix You dig into it to find all the stuff. Example path for user bidon: /home/bidon/.phoenix/default/ggxvu480.slt/chrome Where default...

Need comparison between Afterstep and WindowsMaker
Posted on October 17th, 2003 | 1 Comments

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:02:32 -0700, sdieselil wrote: The only thing I know for sure is that WIndowmaker runs GNUStep programs properly, and afterstep doesn't. (There aren't that many of these,...

NYC LOCAL: Sunday 19 October 2003 GNUbies Install Fest and Refund Action Organizing
Posted on October 17th, 2003 | 0 Comments

<blockquote from="official GNUbies announcement" edits="zero" GNUbies-site="http://www.gnubies.org" Refund-Action-site="http://www.windowsrefund.net" uncertain-lagniappe="lambda calculus and Scheme...

postscript printing problem.
Posted on October 17th, 2003 | 4 Comments

uem@mycroft.cmhnet.org (Sean G Gilley) writes: ]Paul Lutus <nospam@nosite.zzz> wrote in message news:<votuulfvhe6a1f@corp.supernews.com>... ]> Sean G Gilley wrote: ]> ]> > Using RedHat 8 (I think,...

Bob's Utility Software (funny)
Posted on October 17th, 2003 | 2 Comments

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Chipper <clocks@hotmail.com> wrote on 16 Oct 2003 15:25:50 -0700 <3f8f1aee$1_1@tiktok.org>: *grin* It's a good thing this is a webpage describing Bob's Utility...

Power Options Properies in Linux
Posted on October 17th, 2003 | 3 Comments

mjt wrote: .... never mind, i didnt pay attention to the gnome 2.2 .. -- /// Michael J. Tobler: motorcyclist, surfer, skydiver, \\\ \\\ and author: "Inside Linux", "C++ HowTo", "C++...

Ximian Evolution: automatically expunge?
Posted on October 17th, 2003 | 5 Comments

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:13:05 +0000, Kyler Laird wrote: Ah okay, sorry I can't really help, though maybe adding a feature request to the evolution development might help. Well, good luck then.

Vim Colour highlighting
Posted on October 17th, 2003 | 3 Comments

In article <20031017105539.GA5376@zakalwe>, "A. S. Budden" <newsreader.mail@NOSPAM.southparade.vispa.com> writes: I think you mean :colorscheme...

Moving from Redhat to Debian
Posted on October 17th, 2003 | 3 Comments

"Dave" <shuvit@127.0.0.1> writes: I moved to debian from redhat a little over a year ago. I used redhat versions 4.1 through 7.3 but i didn't really like the direction they were going with the...

scsi emulation - duplicated hardware
Posted on October 17th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Hi, I have an IDE CD writer and DVD drive. I already had the CD writer working using scsi emulation on /dev/scd0. However, some programs require both drives to use scsi emulation to copy from one...

Multiple soundcards
Posted on October 17th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Hi, I am working on an acoustic tomography project which need multiple soundcards. I use Redhat linux 9.0 ( PIII processor). I did some C programming with IOCTL and used /dev/dsp device to read and...

upgrade glic
Posted on October 17th, 2003 | 4 Comments

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:39:25 -0400, Frank staggered into the Black Sun and said: Probably. glibc is supposed to be backwards-combatible across minor versions, so upgrading from glibc-2.3.1 to...