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change chinese font in KDE and GNOME
Posted on February 18th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Hi all, I use Mandrake 9.2 and Redhat 9.0 in my office. However, I find that the default chinese font used in Redhat 9.0 is much better than that in Mandrake in KDE and GNOME environment. Would...

Help - what is the command line command to launch file explorer?
Posted on February 18th, 2004 | 2 Comments

L a écrit: Which file explorer? Linux has many of them. -- mv sco /dev/null # Marc Nadeau # La Pagerie # http://www.pagerie.com

Newbi Question - what is the command line command for launching the file explorer on RH Linux?
Posted on February 18th, 2004 | 6 Comments

On 2004-02-17, L <L_X2828@yahoo.com> wrote: Have you tried mc, the command for Midnight Commander, a command line file manager? nb

The two second dirty scriptie lines i use yadda yadda..
Posted on February 18th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I received some email what i use, here's the dirty 2 second snippets: for those who may like i have this that does the changes under linux: (i called this executable script after sshing and going...

Remote Rebooting To Other Operating Systems
Posted on February 18th, 2004 | 2 Comments

"joseph philip" <joseph@nntp.will.suffice> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.02.17.06.53.25.496259@nntp.will.suffice>... My reply: Thanks for replying to me.. Unfortunately i have had some mishaps...

gnu make: any way to auto-"touch" prior dependencies?
Posted on February 18th, 2004 | 2 Comments

Bob Hauck <postmaster@localhost.localdomain> wrote in message news:<slrnc2j15n.75t.postmaster@cardinal.haucks.org>... Ah yes, thanks. Missed it in the man page.

How to add user 'root' on new installed system (LFS)
Posted on February 18th, 2004 | 3 Comments

In article <8f0a8dae.0402171556.57451c70@posting.google.com>, newton <mahorney@naver.com> wrote: I'm guessing that login and the other user-management programs have been configured to use shadow...

kernel 2.6.2 opl3sa2 soundcard
Posted on February 17th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I have an ISA soundcard with Yamaha chip YMF719 (OPL3-SAx). I compiled kernel 2.6.2 with apropriate ALSA module (snd-opl3sa2). While I'm trying to install the module: modprobe snd-opl3sa2 I...

A new reader? Welcome to comp.os.linux.misc, read this first if you're new here (FAQ)
Posted on February 17th, 2004 | 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...

time-lapse phoography / images into video
Posted on February 17th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I'm looking into time-lapse photography and the tools required to assemble a bunch of images into video format. What Open Source tools are out there (ideally command-line scriptable or programmable...

/tmp is full - but how?
Posted on February 17th, 2004 | 7 Comments

Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: Big disks are cheap... -- Floyd L. Davidson <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson> Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) ...

sparse files
Posted on February 17th, 2004 | 1 Comments

enjoylife_95135@hotmail.com (enjoylife_95135) writes: Indeed, it may depend on the allocation block of each file system. If you create two files on two different file system and in each...

xine crashes on netflix's DVDs
Posted on February 17th, 2004 | 1 Comments

In article <c0p9vg$h9n$1@reader2.panix.com>, J Krugman wrote: I can't imagine what this has to do with Netflix. Are you saying that your xine plays all your other DVDs, but cannot play any DVDs...

(DRAFT) HOWTO for RT2400-based 802.11b Wireless PCI/PCMCIA Adaptors
Posted on February 17th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I've got this card going on my Linux system. The HOWTO referenced by the URL draws together several separate pieces of information scattered around the support...

installing perl module (Tk) on RH 9
Posted on February 17th, 2004 | 3 Comments

In article <slrnc33c60.1o8.keeling@infidel.spots.ab.ca>, s. keeling wrote: Umm--isn't the correct syntax "... -e 'install Tk' "? Anyhow, using the CPAN module was my initial approach, although I...

Kernel hang troubleshooting
Posted on February 17th, 2004 | 0 Comments

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Gnerd <gnerd@localhost.localdomain> wrote: Who knows, you'd be probably the first one to diagnose that from some 'click' through PC speaker. ;)

IP address of remote end of telnet session
Posted on February 17th, 2004 | 7 Comments

Thanks for the advice. No I do not have a reliable and portable way to get the resolved name either. Anyhow, unless anyone else has a better (more portable) solution, I will just stick to the...

rivafb
Posted on February 17th, 2004 | 0 Comments

When trying to use rivafb on my GF4-MX440, all I see is a black screen! Here's my lilo.conf lines: vga=0x317 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.2 append="video=rivafb:1024x768-16@60"

Mozilla and Thunderbird
Posted on February 17th, 2004 | 2 Comments

young_child enlightened us with: It's a known problem. Use Mozilla Firefox instead of Mozilla. Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for...

Admit I'm the best MIDI output
Posted on February 17th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Admit I'm the best MIDI output