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rdesktop
Posted on October 13th, 2003 | 6 Comments

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:00:27 +0200, Pierre wrote: Sorry but I can't help. I used to use rdesktop client, but I have never used rdesktop-server and it is a long time since I used...

(OT)How to recover text from .pdf files made from scanned pages?
Posted on October 13th, 2003 | 24 Comments

JukkaY wrote: djvu-fileformat. Never heard of it before? ;) http://www.djvuzone.org/wid/index.html tells: "DjVu is a web-centric format and software platform for distributing documents and images....

Linux contacting unknown IP for no reason
Posted on October 13th, 2003 | 8 Comments

Adm 4600cc SFO wrote: Assuming that your netmask is 255.255.255.0, then 192.168.0.255 is the broadcast address of your LAN. Assuming that you mean that you are running Samba, then you are seeing...

Confused about location of /boot
Posted on October 13th, 2003 | 14 Comments

It depends on both BIOS and bootloader. They need support for the interrupt 13h extensions Almost all BIOS-es from the last 5 years will support this. The same goes for lilo, unless you take a...

fetchmail: what's the point?
Posted on October 13th, 2003 | 25 Comments

On Sunday, in article <5552341.9ta62gnFjJ@ID-187157.news.dfncis.de> psychonaut@nothingisreal.com "Tristan Miller" wrote: Most obviously because it does its best to simulate a continuous chain of...

Mandrake not being nice
Posted on October 13th, 2003 | 4 Comments

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 05:31:59 GMT, Kostatus wrote: My hardware: AMD Athlon XP 1600+ processor NVida GeForce2 MX 400 64MB graphics card (don't know which monitor though) Intel V92 HaM Data Fax Voice...

Windows-Linux compatibility
Posted on October 13th, 2003 | 57 Comments

"Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote: That doesn't make me wrong, even if you were trying to claim that the point you suggest excludes the point I pointed to. It...

Request for people with experience migrating to Linux
Posted on October 13th, 2003 | 4 Comments

In <t5pdov4bcegf2ce66fgts0ot4i946veiho@4ax.com>, on 10/10/2003 at 10:06 AM, linuxmig@microi.com said: Why? This is Usenet. The data are not privileged and not OT. If they want to post them...

creating man pages
Posted on October 13th, 2003 | 15 Comments

In <87brspyh1p.fld@barrow.com>, on 10/09/2003 at 06:15 PM, Floyd Davidson <floyd@barrow.com> said: I read what you wrote. If you intended to write something else, that's your problem. -- Shmuel...

Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
Posted on October 12th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days) Top 10 posters for the period: rank posts kbytes name address 1 78 157.3 Paul Lutus nospam@nosite.zzz 2 62 103.1 ...

Linux networking Q
Posted on October 12th, 2003 | 3 Comments

Dances With Crows wrote: Pretty much correct, but it is possible to have more than one MAC address on a single port, for instance if it is connected to a bridge or another switch. Switches...

LINUX on ThinkPad UltraBay - pls HELP
Posted on October 12th, 2003 | 1 Comments

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 16:17:04 GMT, Dave Brown staggered into the Black Sun and said: What are "SM" and "PM" in this context? "Any way" is supposed to be 2 words here. The kernel is looking for /...

kpresenter silently quits on startup already. why?
Posted on October 12th, 2003 | 4 Comments

Georg Schwarz wrote: < snip > You may or may not be sure, but *we* have no idea at all. Why? You didn't post the messages. Without this crucial information, we cannot help you. -- Paul Lutus

Free VMware?
Posted on October 12th, 2003 | 15 Comments

Tristan> For $299 you could probably buy a decent used computer Tristan> with Win98 on it. Provided you don't need to run (or at Tristan> least see) Windows and Linux simultaneously, buy a...

Slackware 9.1 and SMP
Posted on October 12th, 2003 | 6 Comments

Don Jvax <jvax@hotmail.com> wrote: <alt.os.linux.slackware> may be more appropriate. No. Slackware doesn't include SMP in any of its stock kernel. Reason being that it's not needed to install...

How to load video in kino
Posted on October 12th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Every time I try to open a piece of video in kino I get 'invalid file specified' or 'failed to load media file'. This is from a collection of ..mpg and .avi files. Is there something obvious I am...

official ati drivers for r128?
Posted on October 12th, 2003 | 4 Comments

Hi again. After making a few tests, I've found that color depth is quite important. So I changed from 24 bpp to 16 bpp (as in your config) and now I get about 550 fps insted of 250. But I still...

X server crash: to weak power supply?
Posted on October 12th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Hello, I am experiencing frequent crashes of my X Server and I am trying to figure out why. My system was stable for quiet some time, but not anymore. As far as I can tell, everything has begun...

Squeaking Mozilla
Posted on October 12th, 2003 | 3 Comments

On 2003-10-09, Eirik Wixøe Svela <hannibalkannibal@yahoo.no> wrote: Are you using a Microsoft mouse? -- -John (JohnThompson@new.rr.com)

MSN Zone on Linux?
Posted on October 12th, 2003 | 4 Comments

"Juha Siltala" <jsiltala@gmx.net> wrote in message news:Ybshb.43$3u.25@read3.inet.fi... Yeah it will let you browse around some, but if you try to register it'll go back to that "incompat" screen...