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FYI - Nonesense to be shared!!!
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 4 Comments

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 00:41:54 -0800, Keith Keller wrote: No kidding. I expect such a client to reply "Secure web server? So it does e-commerce, right? No? Well, fix it, dummy! And we're not...

how to post attachments with Pan
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 4 Comments

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 08:05:55 -0600, John Hasler wrote: He may wish to post something to a binary newsgroup. But why not just put it up on a web page somewhere, and post its URL?

Sylpheed: Emil AND newsgroups?
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 8 Comments

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 10:38:28 -0500, David L. Johnson wrote: When did this happen? I installed Evolution 1.4 late last November, using the script on their web site, and I don't recall it...

BBC's awful tech/mydoom coverage
Posted on March 4th, 2004 | 72 Comments

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 07:42:22 -0600, Alan Hicks wrote: In comp.os.linux.misc, his signal-to-noise ratio is somewhere in the 20% to 50% range, I think. Do as you see fit.

GnomeMeeting: How can I be sure my Mic works in Linux?
Posted on March 4th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Like the subject says... I was trying to use GnomeMeeting with a friend who has NetMeeting but we couldn't make it work. (However from within Windows XP, NetMeeting to NetMeeting would work. So...

How to support Xbox's FATX file system ?
Posted on March 4th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Arctic Wolf wrote: The X-Box-Linux-Project (on SourceForge) has a kernel-patch. With this you'll get the possibility to mount fatx-volumes. There's also a mkfs.fatx out there but I couldn't find...

rsync of users' .ssh directories only?
Posted on March 4th, 2004 | 2 Comments

<chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> wrote in message news:1h9jh1-gua.ln1@moldev.cmagroup.co.uk... Thanks, but I can't use ssh becuase the host's configured not to allow password auth, and rsh isn't running....

Knoppix/Debian : Trouble resolving package conflicts
Posted on March 4th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Hi; I am a newbie ( via knoppix ) so please don't get pissed for the huge shell dump below, I do not know what is relevent information. Anyway, I went to install something and got told by apt-get...

Mandrake 9.2 source code
Posted on March 4th, 2004 | 2 Comments

fowle@hartford.edu (Dano) writes: ]I downloaded the 3 cd set of 9.2 and the source code is not on the ]cd's, and I can't find it anywhere available for free download on the ]net. Does anyone know...

KDE
Posted on March 4th, 2004 | 7 Comments

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USB Legacy and Mandrake 9.2
Posted on March 4th, 2004 | 2 Comments

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 17:05:27 +0000 (UTC), Bill Unruh staggered into the Black Sun and said: I think Bob Cook meant "ehci-hcd". Speling counts in modules.conf and most config files. Note that...

user editable hosts file
Posted on March 4th, 2004 | 10 Comments

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 09:16:46 +0000, chris-usenet thoughtfully wrote: Yes you are right. My thought was put the hosts file into a directory with ugo=rwx permissions to reduce the number of sudoers....

What filesystem ?
Posted on March 4th, 2004 | 6 Comments

Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro wrote: I would use either reiserfs (very fast and reliable) but problems when you want to use ACLs or quota (personel experience). If you want to use quota and/or ACLs I...

primary vs. extended partions - pros and cons?
Posted on March 4th, 2004 | 17 Comments

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 16:59:20 -0500 John-Paul Stewart <jpstewart@binaryfoundry.ca> wrote: The partition table isn't necessary when you just want one filesystem on the disk. Just do a mkfs.<whatever>...

Linux users have to install by pushing floppy after floppy into drive says MICROS~1
Posted on March 4th, 2004 | 1 Comments

On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 05:05:10 -0800, Daeron wrote: Unfortunately, they did. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/01/1818201&mode=thread

Need ash Script - interesting 'hack'.
Posted on March 4th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Nick Landsberg wrote: As Eric describes there are some times 'hidden' problems Eric wrote:- Yes ! Like I couldn't get a 'Make' to run because the editor was replacing the compulsory <tab> token...

Mandrake v. Radhat
Posted on March 4th, 2004 | 23 Comments

Hello, Just thought I put in my $.02 worth. I set up 5 SLACKWARE servers about 8 years ago to handle such things as database storage, print spoolers (400 users, 50 printers) for three different...

Newsgroup reader
Posted on March 3rd, 2004 | 2 Comments

On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 23:01:07 +0100, Herman Hellenbrand <herman@vebru.demon.nl> wrote: To start with, PLEASE use plain-text on the Usenet. AC

'ls'
Posted on March 3rd, 2004 | 3 Comments

Neil Cherry wrote: ls -F puts a "/" after directories is that good enough? -- Ñ "It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so

Linux Multimedia PC boots in less than ten seconds
Posted on March 3rd, 2004 | 1 Comments

In message <da46811d.0403030734.40886175@posting.google.com>, Daeron wrote: 10 seconds? Where's the fun in that? -- Garry Knight garryknight@gmx.net ICQ 126351135 Linux registered user 182025