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Problem using "RPM"
Posted on January 30th, 2004 | 2 Comments

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 01:01:30 -0800, H wrote: Go to your /var/lib/rpm directory and delete the __db.00* files. Then do a rpm --rebuilddb. That should take care of the problem.

kernels
Posted on January 30th, 2004 | 9 Comments

On 2004-01-22, Zenin <zenin@rhps.org> wrote: Yes, but Linux has all these journalled filesystems. There were times when background fsck failed me, because it was stuck in snaplk indefinitely. ...

SCO: strange case of the non existant DDOS attack
Posted on January 30th, 2004 | 2 Comments

With the irony being that the complicated contracts that they claim give SCO group the rights to some linux code makes it clear that to determine if SCO group have the rights to *anything* is also...

build kdelibs
Posted on January 30th, 2004 | 1 Comments

roadster896@hotmail.com (roadster) wrote in message news:<205f3dfe.0401291332.23a82b4b@posting.google.com>... Oeps, typed something wrong here, the errors are the result of issuing the rpmbuild -ba...

Gates forecasts victory over spam [NOT]
Posted on January 30th, 2004 | 3 Comments

Jean-David Beyer wrote: Personally, I don't believe ANYTHING little Billy Gate$ has to say...nor do I use any of his crappy, bloated, crash-prone products if I can help it. (I admit to keeping XP...

Good binary news poster for Linux
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Hi, Please suggest a good binary news poster for Linux. I've been looking for such thing for a while, and seem there is no good answer to it. Searching the google, seems someone is also looking...

Mike releases the "handjob" command under GPL
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 8 Comments

Kaiser Bun wrote: Huh? Keep off the drugs, son.

making lpr use CUPS
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I'm looking for a way to have MozillaFirebird use CUPS; I'm guessing the only way to do this is to make lpr use CUPS?? Also, is there a setting to not print for the blind? The default print font...

How much drive space for Linux?
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 16 Comments

In article <2113.523T320T9733393@kltpzyxm.invalid>, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: That sounds about right for Slack 9.1 - I think mine took about 2.2GB with the default full...

how can I stop this msg??
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 5 Comments

Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de>, In a message on Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:37:02 +0100, wrote : MH> Garry Knight <garryknight@gmx.net> wrote: MH> > Michael Heiming wrote: MH> MH> > > sam...

Problem installing mozilla theme
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 5 Comments

Nedavno Yvan pise: | I already tried that and after I could not install theme I wrote first | post. Clicking on "Install It" or "Download" does nothing. For few | seconds RD and SD LEDs on my modem...

start program instead of login prompt
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 7 Comments

In comp.os.linux.misc, Alan Connor <xxxx@yyy.zzz> wrote: Heh. I like your choice of login replacement. Elijah ------ sure beats emacs as a shell

KDE & MozillaFirebird & Printer choice
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Using SuSe 9.0 Pro, KDE 3, I have 2 printers set up , From KDE-aware apps, I am offered 'kprinter' as my printer which then will pop-up a dialog letting me choose which printer. However,...

Linux distributions statistics
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 4 Comments

www.distrowatch.com does it's best. And it's a very good source of general information about any distro.

Mike releases the "home" command under the GPL
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 47 Comments

The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@sirius.athghost7038suus.net> writes: Yes, it should read setenv("HOME", dir, 1); :-)

procmail recipe question
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 6 Comments

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 05:45:39 +0000, Ed Murphy wrote: Thanks very much for the help. - Richard Kimber

KDE 3.1.95
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 2 Comments

Wild Wizard wrote: There are red, green, orange and yellow boxes around some letters. E.g. the shortcut letter in labels (which are also underlined) are green. Seems to be some kind of help for...

[xpost] Alternative window managers (was My celeron machine slo down)
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 0 Comments

"EM" == Ed Murphy <emurphy42@socal.rr.com>: EM> http://docs.sun.com/source/806-6873/images/ EM> workspace_switcher_applet.tiff.gif EM> EM> (put those together into one long URL) Next time...

pgp question
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 0 Comments

dear all, I m using linux (redhat 9.0) to add pgp keys after created RSA keys using the command "pgp -kg". But the following msg appeared when I typed the pgp -ka keys.asc command: root@redhat #...

Virus Attacks SCO
Posted on January 29th, 2004 | 52 Comments

On 2004-01-28, Floyd Davidson <floyd@barrow.com> blubbered: Somebody wake me when he gets to the electron level. I could use a few yuks. For now I'll keep him in the filters. I like *good* laughs....