interlink versapoint rf?

2003-03-05 Thread Cliff Draper
Has anyone gotten this wireless keyboard/mouse combo to work? The base receiver has a single USB connection that handles both the keyboard and mouse data. The keyboard works easily enough, but the mouse refuses to do anything for me. Thanks for any help you can provide. -Cliff Here's some data

how do I get high uid support

2000-05-23 Thread Cliff Draper
(I'm currently using potato), but I'd rather not do that if I don't have to. Is there another way to do this? thanks, Cliff Draper

how do I pick gnome-terminal's meta key?

2000-02-28 Thread Cliff Draper
I got a new machine and am trying to setup the same meta key to work under all of my programs. gnome-terminal seems to want the alt key and ignores the meta key, whereas emacs uses the meta key and ignores the alt key. So, I can't just swap them with an xmodmap. Is there a way to tell gnome-term

Open Source tools

2000-02-04 Thread Cliff Draper
and Tinderbox. Tinderbox is pretty cool. Suggestions, comments? thanks, Cliff Draper [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~cliffwd

Recommendation for best Linux book

1999-04-26 Thread Cliff Draper
I'm looking for a good intro/intermediate Linux book for a friend. Any recommendations? Is the O'Reilly book any good? thanks, -Cliff [EMAIL PROTECTED]

security thru checksums?

1998-11-18 Thread Cliff Draper
Is there an option to dpkg (or it's friends) to verify that what's currently installed is the same as what should be installed? In other words, if random cracker person decides to break into my system and change login, ls, and ps, can I compare from a .deb file that those programs are correct or n

tin charset problem

1998-09-30 Thread Cliff Draper
Has anyone ever seem this error from tin? Error: Bad charset for non-7bit encoding (must not be us-ascii) I consistently get this error and it won't let me post because of it. Thanks for any help. -Cliff [EMAIL PROTECTED]

strange automatic logouts

1998-09-24 Thread Cliff Draper
Has anyone had any problems running KDE (under Debian 2.0) where you'd bring up an xterm, from there log into another machine, run a program that you'd expect to take some time to complete, and when you come back you've been kicked off? I've checked tcsh's $autologout. It was set to 0 (on one mac