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Linux uptime in msec
Posted on August 11th, 2003 | 0 Comments

rasayani wrote: Multiply it by 1000. alexd -- (http://alexd.mine.nu/) (AIM:troffasky) (gebssnfxl@ubgznvy.pbz) 21:08:09 up 58 days, 22:56, 1 user, load average: 0.21, 0.20, 0.12

detect network card driver?
Posted on August 11th, 2003 | 2 Comments

Lew Pitcher <Lew.Pitcher@td.com> wrote: ;) Perhaps he wants something like this: # hwinfo --pci 13: PCI 11.0: 0200 Ethernet controller

bash scripting question
Posted on August 11th, 2003 | 17 Comments

Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> wrote: Well, probably the fifth iteration at writing his script handles most of those cases. Peter

Question about the Color in Linux
Posted on August 11th, 2003 | 0 Comments

On Wednesday 06 August 2003 22:56, Fano (fano_yang@yahoo.co.uk) held forth in comp.os.linux.misc (<679bff4e.0308061856.651e5edf@posting.google.com>): showrgb

Free MP3 to WAV converter?
Posted on August 11th, 2003 | 2 Comments

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 12:21:16 GMT, Jørn Dahl-Stamnes <jorn.dahl-stamnes@nospam.novit.no> wrote: Both mpg123 and madplay will convert from .mp3 to .wav and a variety of other formats. Bladeenc and...

How to setup a USB mass storage device
Posted on August 11th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Thank you very much, that makes it work mnt /dev/sda1 /mnt/archos Carlos Christophe Le Gal wrote:

Problems by using 320x240 with a Chips and Tech 69030 acelerator...
Posted on August 11th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Hi all I had big problems by setting up the 320x240 resolution on an embedded CPU (MSMP3SEV from www.digitallogic.com) with a Chips and Tech CT69030 grafics controller. I use the Chips and Tech...

Basic 2D graphics card for linux?
Posted on August 11th, 2003 | 4 Comments

In article <66oajv8bj4rd6dbbnmuh511bggk77h8m9s@4ax.com>, Rich Piotrowski wrote: Thanks to everyone for helpful comments. Matrox seems to get most people's votes. AC -- Using Linux GNU/Debian -...

Question about the Color in Linux
Posted on August 11th, 2003 | 0 Comments

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 06:21:30 +0000, Jørn Dahl-Stamnes wrote: 'man colors' is specific to tk, which specifies 8-bit colors. This requires reducing 752 colors down to 256, so about two-thirds of...

Toshiba laptop VESA - no X11
Posted on August 11th, 2003 | 0 Comments

On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 18:54:14 +0000, Dances With Crows wrote: Out of curiosity, why'd you omit Debian and Slackware? Those and yours seem to be the Big Six lately.

PCI Bus Error
Posted on August 11th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I just moved my P4 m/b to a new case, and now I'm encountering an error at bootup (2.4.18). The bootup seems to go OK (no obvious errors) almost to completion, but before I see the login prompt I...

epson scanner and RH9
Posted on August 11th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Perhaps this recent posting can give you some ideas? From: Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Success: EPSON Perfection 1260/Photo USB flatbed...

Samba problem with W2k
Posted on August 10th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I have a problem wherein I can't list W2K shares from the Linux machine using Samba 2.2.2. After searching the web I realize this is a very common problem - but no one seems to have any...

Can not rebuild RPMs
Posted on August 10th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Hello, while being root (on my MDK 9.1 system), I get the following strange error message when I want to rebuild packages: # dir avm-c4l-1.5.1-1mdk.src.rpm ...

LILO version 22.5.7 released
Posted on August 10th, 2003 | 0 Comments

LILO release 22.5.7 is based upon Werner Almesberger's LILO version 21. Version 22.5.7 is a minor update to version 22.5.6 o Include several accumulated updates to prior version. o New first...

Introductory Book on Operating Systems for Non-Programmer
Posted on August 10th, 2003 | 1 Comments

On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 14:12:21 +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. Before I make any post to a newsgroup, I try to do a few general web searches via Google and a few...

speakfreely voip makes noise like cat > /dev/audio
Posted on August 10th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Hi NG! I'm trying to bring speakfree to work. when I speak into the microphone, or when I try to make it play a sound with 'sfmic somefile.wav' it spits out lots of noise to the speakers. I...

Gnome terminal works as root but not as user
Posted on August 10th, 2003 | 4 Comments

Ed Murphy wrote: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 2 18:15 /dev/pts /etc/fstab has: none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 though mount isn't reporting anything about it.

Date-time conversion from "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS" to unix epoch
Posted on August 10th, 2003 | 4 Comments

In article <3br4hb.ril.ln@news.it.uc3m.es>, Peter T. Breuer wrote: It sounded to me like a test question. ...or homework, maybe-- some diabolical instructor trying to trap some unsuspecting...

tar and --remove-files
Posted on August 10th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Bernie McDonnell <bernie@islands.vi> wrote: Hi, The --remove-files option kills files but leaves directories standing. Try this instead: tar -r -f ./tarball/billing.tar ./ama/$adate && rm -rf...