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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...