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wget: Download files after certain date
Posted on February 2nd, 2004 | 8 Comments

Kevin <nobody@tex.kom> wrote: Yes. rsh, ssh, and rsync are not available on the remote server. -- Steve <news@teiresias.net>

How do I change the login message?
Posted on February 2nd, 2004 | 2 Comments

Hactar wrote: grep -r "etc/issue" /etc/init.d What's wrong with that ? As for betting that the setup script is not in init.d - it always is. --

TuxRacer slow and jerky
Posted on February 2nd, 2004 | 2 Comments

LRW wrote: Sounds like the ATI drivers aren't setup correctly. What is the output of 'glxinfo | grep renderer'? (FWIW, the original Radeon card can handle Tuxracer without having to lower settings...

traffic monitor
Posted on February 2nd, 2004 | 0 Comments

doob wrote: Download & burn Knoppix, boot it up on the machine you want to use. Set up an Ethernet bridge on it - the NICs will not have IP addresses and all traffic will pass through it...

Writing a Boot Procedure
Posted on February 2nd, 2004 | 3 Comments

abhik_ST wrote: No, that's already been done for you. Then read the kernel source code - it's free, remember? You won't get any more step-by-step than that. But you might want to start with...

Program for finding what drivers to add in new kernel?
Posted on February 2nd, 2004 | 2 Comments

Lenard wrote: Erm.. no. make oldconfig just compiles a new kernel with an old .config file; this may or may not have anything to do with your hardware. It also doesn't in any way *create* a .config...

Driver for HP-pavillion 3D AGP-graphics?
Posted on February 2nd, 2004 | 1 Comments

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 08:23:26 +0100, Baard Ove Kopperud staggered into the Black Sun and said: Don't believe the hype. Your machine may come with "3D graphics", but many cheaper machines with...

Piracy attempts?
Posted on February 2nd, 2004 | 17 Comments

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:42:18 +0000 (UTC), nobody@nowhere.com wrote: Factually incorrect for Windows98 as well. Microsoft(R) Windows 98 (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1999. C:\WINDOWS>telnet -?

How to access XP file comment properties
Posted on February 2nd, 2004 | 7 Comments

Bash script fails to change permissions: no such file or directory
Posted on February 2nd, 2004 | 6 Comments

Phil Powell wrote: Bash expands alternatives in {} chmod 0770 /var/www/html/{db_backup,image_catalog}/* chmod 0755...

Linux desktop; Is segusoland going to change everything?
Posted on February 2nd, 2004 | 1 Comments

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 09:50:11 +0000, SuperDaemon wrote: It certainly looks ...... different! Actually the idea is quite intriguing, and unlike the ¨file browsers" I've seen before. Is this genuine...

Maxtor "OneTouch" External HardDrive
Posted on February 2nd, 2004 | 1 Comments

baard.kopperud@bigfoot.com (Baard Ove Kopperud) writes: Yep, I've got several Maxtor drives running (with firewire). I'm using 5000DV (160G, 7200rpm), 5000XT (250G, 5400rpm). Compile a recent...

Sound Card Problems
Posted on February 2nd, 2004 | 2 Comments

Thus spake Bill Unruh: Yes, it's what I want. If I am listening to music and I browse to a website with (say) a flash animation with sound, at the moment I have to stop the music completely (not...

Minor Mandrake 9.2 problems (Nedit and Icewm)
Posted on February 2nd, 2004 | 0 Comments

I recently installed Mandrake 9.2 and am mostly happy with it. There are a few irritations I would like to remedy, however and one is that nedit will not use any window colors other than black on...

mini-dvd problem
Posted on February 2nd, 2004 | 1 Comments

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 01:55:17 GMT, Mike Ballard staggered into the Black Sun and said: Not quite. miniDVD apparently uses CD-R* media with MPEG-2 streams (VCDs use MPEG-1) that are mastered using...

NFS won't work (RH9, simple LAN)
Posted on February 2nd, 2004 | 2 Comments

John-Paul Stewart wrote: Well I've fixed hosts.allow and re-booted several times, but still no joy. I can still ssh just fine from Desktop to server. I did have "server" named as "Server" in a...

Linux: MSN voice, video, Yahoo! voice, or other voice or video applications... ???
Posted on February 2nd, 2004 | 0 Comments

Hello, I would like to know whether there are any Linux applications out there that are compatible with MSN voice and/or video. I ask because I know gaim is out there but supports only text it seems...

How to truncate log files.
Posted on February 2nd, 2004 | 12 Comments

ynotssor <"ynotssor">: y> y> > tail --bytes=1000 wtmp > wtmp y> y> How are you going to get the last 1000 bytes of a zero-sized file? You are right. The fact that the source and destination file...

kppp problem?
Posted on February 2nd, 2004 | 1 Comments

The message <20040201102045.45e3b05c@imperl.com> from Yvan <nevazeca-invalid@address-a.com> contains these words: That line comes from a script...

Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
Posted on February 1st, 2004 | 2 Comments

Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: # du -sk /var/spool/news 114584 /var/spool/news Well.. Sure.