- NYC LOCAL: Sunday 1 February 2004 Three Jewels Workshop: Installing Free Operating Systems on Apple and Other Power PC Hardware
- Posted on February 1st, 2004 | 0 Comments
At 1:00 pm Sunday 1 February 2004 some folks will attempt to install free operating systems on Apple and other Power PC machines at the Three Jewels Refuge at 211 East Fifth Street, near Astor Place...
- how to make a VOB file?
- Posted on February 1st, 2004 | 2 Comments
James McIninch wrote: how well does this stuff work for you (disc compatibility on different standalone dvd players, for example)? what device do you use to capture video on your linux box? thanks...
- Linux Counter: 138809 registered Linux users
- Posted on February 1st, 2004 | 0 Comments
This is the monthly report from the Linux Usage Counter. It is posted on the 1st of every month on the newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, and on the Linux Counter "announce" list. Registration and...
- gpg
- Posted on February 1st, 2004 | 8 Comments
Markku Kolkka typed: ok - cheers. -- - Linux: the choice of a GNU generation - free; as in free speech and free beer remove '.eh' to email
- Linux RedHat and openBSD in the same hard drive setup.
- Posted on February 1st, 2004 | 2 Comments
First of all, I apologize for the messed up listings I provided. * I followed the suggestion to have a primary partition dedicated to the openBSD OS. * So I created the following setup: Drive...
- can't set bitrate for divx ;) low motion in vcr 1.10
- Posted on January 31st, 2004 | 0 Comments
i have just downloaded and installed vcr-1.10-1, avifile-0.7.39-1, avifile-devel-0.7.39-1, avifile-utils-0.7.39-1, divx4linux-20030428-1 avifile-codecs-20020516-1 - creates and writes codecs...
- Fedora Linux: Switching languages from taskbar?
- Posted on January 31st, 2004 | 1 Comments
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:01:34 -0800, Neil Zanella wrote: Really? Where? AFAIK, you have to buy localized versions of Windows. Well, you can switch keyboards (redhat-switch-keyboard or something...
- Changing the current working directory of the parent shell.
- Posted on January 31st, 2004 | 51 Comments
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Vic Abell <abe@purdue.edu> wrote on 31 Jan 2004 04:45:11 -0800 <825ee26b.0401310445.4ce12d@posting.google.com>: Makes sense as far as it goes. Oh yes, I recognize that,...
- Chinese input question
- Posted on January 31st, 2004 | 9 Comments
Sun Tong, thank you for your reply... * Tong * <sun_tong@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message news:<91e13c3245fd45f0b51cc1eab70b1803@news.teranews.com>... What exactly do you mean when you say...
- graphical and command interfaces
- Posted on January 31st, 2004 | 0 Comments
Andy> i was thinking along the lines of - translate the man pages Andy> to xml, with tags that could be parsed either as a flat-file Andy> traditional man page, my thought is that nroff is a page...
- PolyServ custering file system experiences ?
- Posted on January 31st, 2004 | 0 Comments
Hello, I'm looking for a clustering capable file system and PolyServ Matrix Servers CFS looks very promising on the paper, I'm still waiting answer from them about possibility to evaluate their...
- xfs problem
- Posted on January 31st, 2004 | 1 Comments
Patryk Bobak wrote: I recently saw similar complaints from fsck for a JFS filesystem. The problem in my case was hardware failure. Check your syslogs, use SMART, etc., to verify the integrity of...
- [Programming] kernel level grab packet
- Posted on January 31st, 2004 | 3 Comments
Shin wrote: Would you please read the previous response and check the Linux packet filtering documentation? It' exactly doing what you're trying to describe, and much more. Some good tutorial...
- getting eth0 to work
- Posted on January 31st, 2004 | 4 Comments
Jean-David Beyer wrote: They usually do. However, sometimes my Intel 10/100/1000 NICs will select 100Mbit/sec even when the switch supports full gigabit speeds. To the OP: your card should...
- Retrieving data from tapes created on VMS system
- Posted on January 31st, 2004 | 2 Comments
Ian Linwood wrote: Done that. There is a Linux utility called 'vmsbackup' but it only works with *very* old versions of VMS backup (pre-v5 at a guess). There is also a commercial product called...
- ftp wants passive ?
- Posted on January 31st, 2004 | 1 Comments
Okay.. the 'passive' command in ftp did it.. If anybody knows about another way, I'd be glad to know it :-) Joël Joël Bourquard wrote:
- acpid
- Posted on January 31st, 2004 | 1 Comments
Silviu> I'm trying to configure more acpi events, besides the Silviu> power down example in /etc/acpi/events/sample.conf. The Silviu> acpid man page says: Silviu> The event value is a regular...
- GUI front-end archiver
- Posted on January 31st, 2004 | 11 Comments
ynotssor> I will say that any GUI necessary during a cron job can ynotssor> be dealt with using an X Virtual Frame Buffer (such as ynotssor> xvfb) assuming one can successfully provide any ynotssor>...
- getting rid of filenames with whitespaces
- Posted on January 31st, 2004 | 14 Comments
In article <4019fe80$0$264$f4da8220@news.eplus-online.de>, KR <huh@what.edu> wrote: I would really advise against this. Linux/UNIX commands are just as happy with spaces as Windows ones are. ...
- capture directv/vcr
- Posted on January 31st, 2004 | 3 Comments
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:17:24 -0800, Jayson Garrell wrote: I just wanted to add that the PVR250 does not have TV out. So if you are interested in outputing to your tv then you will be more...

