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Lost configure after live update
Posted on February 5th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Can any one help, I have just installed Mandrake 9.2 and all was ok until I did some updates from the live update now I have menus in KDE or Gnome, if I click on the Mandrake open dialog box I get...

IBM Linux ad review on slate.msn.com
Posted on February 5th, 2004 | 1 Comments

i enjoyed this part of it: "So that answers my biggest questions. But I'm left with a couple more. Like: Why is little Linux so sullen? Did someone steal Linux's lunch money? Also: In later ads,...

How to setup RSHD and start it for use with MPICH
Posted on February 4th, 2004 | 8 Comments

Hi, Many thanks for your help, I was able to solve the problem. The problem was in the /etc/hosts file with the line: # # Your first IP interface (if you are connected to any kind of...

Building on Linux using g++
Posted on February 4th, 2004 | 2 Comments

Ravi <rg27@cse.buffalo.edu>, In a message on Wed, 04 Feb 2004 11:15:37 -0500, wrote : R> Hi All: R> I am not sure if this is the right newsgroup for such a post but I did R> not know of any...

tar: incremental/differential "backup" possible?
Posted on February 4th, 2004 | 3 Comments

linux55@bluemail.ch (john), In a message on 4 Feb 2004 06:04:26 -0800, wrote : j> Hello, j> j> does tar support the classic incremental and differential j> "backup" based on comparing of already...

What's this mean?
Posted on February 4th, 2004 | 0 Comments

john wrote: Hey, at least it's faster than fatfist---'s brain. -- Kadaitcha Man: Registered Linux User #344402 Akhenaten: Registered Linux Machine #235500 -- Your Free Insult: Thou poulticing,...

xmms equalizer doesn't
Posted on February 4th, 2004 | 3 Comments

joseph philip wrote: it does give this message when the song changes. mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding

how to replace RH7.1 with VectorLinux 4.0
Posted on February 4th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I would like to replace RH7.1 with VectorrLinux4.0 on my older Pentium 133, 32MB ram notebook. This is currently a dual boot machine with Win 95 on hda1, /boot on hda2 and / on hda5. How can I easily...

Problem when compiling OCRchie (Optical Character Recognition) application
Posted on February 4th, 2004 | 0 Comments

The compilation notes states that we need to view the Makefile and specify certain things. The Makefile is like this...

mplayer export to jpegs
Posted on February 4th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I want to export a short Quicktime .mov to jpegs. The original is 30 seconds at 30fps, but I want to export at 15fps, which I guess means every other frame. Is there an option to do this in...

MICROS~1 front company trashes Red Hat
Posted on February 4th, 2004 | 8 Comments

Michael Heiming wrote: thanks

Authentication failed (publickey,password)
Posted on February 4th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Trying to run a remote desktop from Win98 into a SuSE Linux system Logging in with putty using SSH mode and it works fine. Putty puts a key in the local c:\.ssh directory. Attempting with the NX...

Midnight Commander FTP Link Problem <Please Help>
Posted on February 4th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Hello, I've got a strange problem. If I connect to a remote FTP site via FTP link in Midnight Commander and try to modify files (via Edit), the changes do not get stored(no error message). 1)I've...

Which text editor is better for writing scientific papers?
Posted on February 4th, 2004 | 61 Comments

David L. Johnson <david.johnson@lehigh.edu> wrote: KLyX is completely dead (and has been like that for four years or so). LyX proper now even has a Qt frontend if you wish. Andre'

su for the environment
Posted on February 4th, 2004 | 4 Comments

Jhuola Hoptire <JH@nothere.com> wrote: Environment variables can vary depending on what the user is doing at the time. To see the environment of a running process: Locate the process ID. (using...

Linux Text editors.
Posted on February 4th, 2004 | 59 Comments

thumb_42@yahoo.com wrote: Nedit ( gui ) http://wwww.nedit.org NE ( shell, cua key bindings, drop down menus, easier then pico ) http://ne.dsi.unimi.it/ FTE ( light, made for programming...

Looking for font-programs
Posted on February 4th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Baard Ove Kopperud a écrit: gfontview is a nice font viewer that also shows all relevant informations about the font file (authors, kerning pairs, angles, etc...) The nautilus file browser also...

Adobe Acrobat Reader
Posted on February 4th, 2004 | 3 Comments

Herman Hellenbrand wrote: try this: open /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread in vi (or similar). add lines: LANG=C

vi clones...
Posted on February 4th, 2004 | 0 Comments

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 09:39:01 -0800, ano wrote: When I have my GUI available, my first choice is nedit. Apart from that, I occasionaly have to edit /etc/inittab or maybe /etc/X11/XF86Config, so...

vi clones...
Posted on February 4th, 2004 | 0 Comments

anon@anon.anon wrote: What's wrong with vi? Well, the elvis binary is 60KB larger. I've tried it. It was fine. But I still use vi.