- steve-parkers bourne sh coding tutorial
- Posted on October 8th, 2003 | 4 Comments
Player wrote: .... no worries, mate; it will CONTINUE to happen, as it does to all of us!! :) .. -- /// Michael J. Tobler: motorcyclist, surfer, skydiver, \\\ \\\ and author: "Inside Linux",...
- Why the switch from SuSE to Slackware?
- Posted on October 8th, 2003 | 9 Comments
"Alan Connor" <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote in message news:Ul6gb.26$f%6.24@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net... with nothing useful to do except crunch big numbers for "the met". They could call it...
- A newbie? Welcome to comp.os.linux.misc, read this first if you're new here (FAQ)
- Posted on October 7th, 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...
- Looking for some GNOME desktop help
- Posted on October 7th, 2003 | 1 Comments
On 7 Oct 2003 11:47:01 GMT, lvirden@yahoo.com wrote: AFAIK, the Gnome-2.2 _pager_ doesn't support viewports/virtual desktops, you need Gnome-2.4 with these patches (or xfce4 with an analogous...
- hideous I/O Performance with redhat 2.4.20-20 (IDE)
- Posted on October 7th, 2003 | 0 Comments
Hi Folks: I have a set of four nameservers. Each of these nameservers are running identical kernel's except for a recent nameserver that is running the current redhat errata kernel...
- CF Card Problems
- Posted on October 7th, 2003 | 1 Comments
On 7 Oct, in article <42873bcd.0310070734.3d27a00d@posting.google.com> tt@manx.net "Thomas Tonneson" wrote: Quite simply you treat it like you would any other disk. In my laptop, the CF (in PCMCIA...
- Oldest Linux system still in use?
- Posted on October 7th, 2003 | 8 Comments
On 7 Oct 2003 16:43:16 GMT, Ben Shimmin <bas@monster.buffster.org.uk> wrote: With very few exceptions, I give everyone the second or even third chance that I would wish they would give me. If this...
- How to reduce/shrink the size of the Taskbar icons ?
- Posted on October 7th, 2003 | 0 Comments
Sorry for this simple question. I am new to Linux. I have installed Knoppix and can boot it successully. Now I want to reduce the size/dimension of the icons in the taskbar/program bar an the...
- How to display .files without ls -al
- Posted on October 7th, 2003 | 9 Comments
In article <ev7tlb.bc4.ln@merlin.l6s4x6-4.ca>, Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@sympatico.ca> wrote: Better make that "ls -d .*" or you'll see the contents of the parent directory too. -- Barry Margolin,...
- Java under Linux
- Posted on October 7th, 2003 | 3 Comments
In article <blu22c$kd4$1@phys-news1.kolumbus.fi>, Markku Kolkka wrote: See: http://mozilla.weebeastie.net/java.shtml Very clear explanation and it works! AC -- Using Linux GNU/Debian -...
- sound card doesn't work
- Posted on October 7th, 2003 | 0 Comments
My sound card doesn't play any sound. Play program returns the following message: sox: Sound card appears to only support 2 channels. Overriding format but it doesn't exit at once. It plays the...
- Check that out: THe Bottom Line: Software and copyright
- Posted on October 7th, 2003 | 8 Comments
Here's the one I liked: ungrammatical.
- USB problem, system freezes
- Posted on October 7th, 2003 | 0 Comments
Hi, I am running Mandrake 9.1 and have a USB problem which I cannot overcome. When I am booting the system up and the USB Speaker are connected the system hangs at the message 'finding module...
- Webmin disk quota module reports "No local filesystems can supportquotas."
- Posted on October 7th, 2003 | 0 Comments
OS: Linux 2.4.22 Distribution: Debian/Woody (stable) version of quota package: 3.04-1 version of quotatool package 1.1.3-1 version of webmin package: 1.050-4 version of webmin-quota package:...
- startup script for Suse Linux?
- Posted on October 7th, 2003 | 1 Comments
On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 20:42:37 -0400, Ralph Crawford staggered into the Black Sun and said: On any Unix-like system, the first process that gets started is init, by ancient convention. init's...
- Oldest Linux system still in use?
- Posted on October 7th, 2003 | 1 Comments
On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 06:08:06 GMT, Bob Nelson <bnelson@nelsonbe.com> wrote: Aug 92 beats me -- my system was born in Nov 92 My original hard drive on this system was cannibalized from a much...
- frontend for apt?
- Posted on October 7th, 2003 | 4 Comments
In article <Hvefb.1209$N3.822@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk>, Alex Hunsley wrote: If you looked "real hard" at the freshrpms.net site while you were there, they have rpms for apt-RPM and syntaptic,...
- Oldest Linux system still in use?
- Posted on October 7th, 2003 | 1 Comments
On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 06:09:43 +0200, NN <please@no-spam.de> wrote: A vintage system, to be sure :)
- Weird: rpm -qa hangs
- Posted on October 7th, 2003 | 2 Comments
Lenard <lenard@127.0.0.1> wrote in message news:<pan.2003.10.06.14.24.24.223107@127.0.0.1>... Great! Also I did a rpm -Uvh *.rpm for both libpng and libpng-devel to prevent the hang after fixed the...
- Reading Macintosh HFS+ hard disks on PC
- Posted on October 6th, 2003 | 1 Comments
root@127.0.0.1 writes: There is a HFS+ module in quite recent versions of the kernel (after 2.4.20 at the least). I must admit I have not checked if it has made it into the main tree. On an iBook...

