CUPS problem

2001-02-15 Thread David Grill Watson
I am having a very odd problem with CUPS under sid. It works fine on two computers, but on another (with the same version of CUPS, installed at the same time, and with nothing particularly odd about the system config) I can only use the IPP backend. When I try to add a printer from the web inte

Looking for a backup tool...

2000-05-17 Thread David Grill Watson
Does anyone know of a program that will give you a list of files changed since a certain date? It would be extremely useful for backups, because you could just back up files that were changed since your last backup... I suppose I could write something like this in Perl, but if anyone knows of

[x]emacs & c-mode auto-newline

2000-05-05 Thread David Grill Watson
I've been trying to figure out how to get either GNU or X Emacs to insert a newline when I add a semicolon. It used to work for me, but has stopped for some reason. I'm using the latest woody. Is there something special I need to do? I seem to recall that when I was using RH5.2, it automati

IP Masq'ing problem

2000-03-19 Thread David Grill Watson
I have a very strange problem with IP masquerading. If I just set it up for basic access (nothing unusual, just masquerading for the in-house LAN thru my box which has a RoadRunner connection), everything is peacy - except that my brother can't play Jedi Knight over the 'net. I know how to se

Netscape & Streaming MP3s

2000-03-15 Thread David Grill Watson
I want to be able to play my music from my.mp3.com ('beamed' using beam-it) without having to save the playlist and then run an mp3 player - I want to be able to just click on the link, and it should download the .m3u file and start up xmms with that playlist. The problem is this: Netscape won

Problem with ZAngband

2000-01-01 Thread David Grill Watson
Is anyone else having this problem with the latest zangband from potato, or is it just my computer? Here's what I do to get this problem: Start up a new game of zangband Choose a sex (doesn't matter which) Pick a half-ogre High-mage Any realm Nothing special for the min stats Default number of que

A small "problem" with IP Masq'ing

1999-12-30 Thread David Grill Watson
I have a small home network (4 computers, will be 5 when I get a dedicated machine for IP Masq'ing), with mainly Linux clients and a few on-off Windoze boxes (i.e. for games :). It all works fairly well for getting email, ICQ, browsing the web, and such... but playing internet games (or at least J