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A newbie? Welcome to comp.os.linux.misc, read this first if you're new here (FAQ)
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 0 Comments

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DVD-R that plays fine in Windoze won't even mount under Linux
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 1 Comments

Dances With Crows wrote: It's a normal DVD but I doin't have any standalone DVD player, let alone a recent one. 2.4.20 right now on slackware 8.01

"Directory: <pwd>" output for every 'cd' in tcsh shell
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 5 Comments

Ted Weatherly <tbonemp3@yahoo.com> wrote: Please DO NOT TOP POST! Fixed. To get rid of an alias you unalias it!

samba log with accessed files
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 4 Comments

tudor <tudor.tatar@tin.it> wrote: WHAT? It's not clear. It could be a flea with something equally important missing. Or a rifle missing more. He needs to flog the log and put a flea in the ear of...

DVD-R that plays fine in Windoze won't even mount under Linux
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 1 Comments

On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 13:50:16 -0500, a user staggered into the Black Sun and said: Did you read the message morden posted? It's not a module loading problem; DVD-R 0 mounts and plays fine through...

ANSWERED How does redhat do it (turn off the computer on shutdown)
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 0 Comments

cpw@rahul.net (C. P. Weidling) writes: Thanks to the people who responded. Building a kernel with acpi enabled did the trick.

Possible glibc issue in using Intel's IFC
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 5 Comments

On Monday 30 June 2003 21:34, Tim Prince (timothyprince@sbcglobal.net) held forth in comp.os.linux.misc (<3F00E52D.8020007@sbcglobal.net>): Thanks for your response. I guess I will have to wait...

No-password SMB mounts
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 0 Comments

Slav Inger <slavinger@yahoo.-nospam-.com> wrote in message news:<3EE772F0.4DB6B172@yahoo.-nospam-.com>... I would indeed find this very useful. I have been trying to do this myself for sometime...

PCMCIA Network card working with kernel 2.5.xx
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 0 Comments

:) Yes, of course. I compiled 2.4.xx with support for this and it works. But 2.5.xx does not work :( Pawel

a concieited intollerant linux prat posts !!!!
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 32 Comments

Bob Eager wrote: ? -- Bruce Munro <brucemunro@XYZZY.blueyonder.co.uk> Remove the "XYZZY." from address in order to reply.

NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 2 July 2003 DeLUGE Meeting
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 0 Comments

<blockquote from="official DeLUGE announcement" what="DeLUGE is the Desktop GNU/Linux User Group for Endusers" edit-level="only header stuff suppressed"> ---------- Forwarded message...

Login message lost...
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 1 Comments

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:34:18 +0800, Relax.it <donwritetome@non.org> wrote: Does the "last" command work? -- It is often the case that the man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of...

Reiserfs root partition resize
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 6 Comments

I just wanted to provide a URL: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

how to hide files in dos ( not seen in windows)
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 1 Comments

karthikeyan graced us by uttering: "I tell my Windows machine to do something and it *does* it. What's wrong?" Heh. IAC, it sounds like your trying to cruft up some "security" with a Win98 box,...

Disable screen blanking in redhat 7.3
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 4 Comments

unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) writes: He didn't specify, so I suppose he is using the console. Maybe "setterm -blank 0" will do the trick. Vilmos

Subprocesses can't use over 4GB total?
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 0 Comments

Is there a limit on the total memory of all the processes in a group? My program forks off 4 subprocesses. When their total memory gets over about 4GB, then the last one goes into D...

Difference between modules and shared-objects
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 3 Comments

k v wrote: .... no .. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Michael J. Tobler: motorcyclist, surfer, # Black holes result skydiver, and author: "Inside...

Device-driver for a beginner?
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 2 Comments

k v wrote: .... #define MODULE #include <linux/module.h> int init_module(void) { printk( "howdy from the module world\n" ) ; return( 0 ) ;

GAIM segfaults with MSN
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 1 Comments

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:24:00 +0000, Ken Bloom wrote: Sorry about the `dch -i` and `dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot`suggestion. I thought I was in linux.debian.user - those are debian packaging...

GAIM segfaults with MSN
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 1 Comments

Grant Edwards wrote: ..... doesnt surprise me ... typical m$ tactics .. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Michael J. Tobler: motorcyclist, surfer, # ...