new computer ??

2000-04-06 Thread Hunter H Marshall
I'm considering a new computer. I was considering 2, but maybe I'll turn my 100MHZ pentium into a dedicated browser for family needs. ANYhoo, does anyone have good/bad experiences with any of the linux hardware vedors, VALinux, etc? Are the newest machines from Gateway, Dell, etc presenting any ha

gnome mimetype and /etc/mailcap

2000-03-31 Thread Hunter H Marshall
My mutt claims no handler for image/jeg. There is no entry for image/jpeg in /etc/mailcap. ok. But gnome control center mimetypes has extensive mime.type/mailcap info and in particular has an eeyes entry for image/jpeg. Where does gnome store its mailcap inforamtion? Or even its information! :-)

flat panels anyone?

2000-03-28 Thread Hunter H Marshall
Anybody using a flat panel display? Are there any special issues regarding their use? I don't know what Dell, etc, are using for their cards, but ATI makes a digital card that I think is a supported chip set (ATI Rage LT Pro). Is that the only thing to worry about? I'm guessing that the "DFP conne

Re: I Screwed up WindowMaker

2000-03-23 Thread Hunter H Marshall
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 06:45:05PM -0700, Matheson wrote: -> I just upgraded WindowMaker on my slink from -> http://www.debian.org/~vincent/, but now it doesn't work. When I start -> X Windows, it starts to display the appicon and stuff, but then it goes -> back to the login screen. Does any one

no /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe ??

2000-03-15 Thread Hunter H Marshall
I have a potato (i386) system (updated today). About a month ago I built myself a 2.2.14 kernel. I just learned today why kerneld keeps getting started, I have no /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe. I finally figured out that the examples directing text into various /proc files relies on the fact that th

not a newbie, still dumb

1999-10-15 Thread Hunter H Marshall
I get left without a working dpkg when I tried to backtrack from libc6 2.1 to 2.0. I couldn't find a non-deb dpkg, so I reinstalled base from CD. Not too bad really. Had to put my account back (my directories were fine). Now my dpkg database is way out of sync with my system. That too is not real

libc 2.0->2.1: apt-get ftp problem

1999-10-11 Thread Hunter H Marshall
I have not been on the list for awhile so forgive any redundancy. I checked the mail archives and found no answers and only one similar complaint. I worked up the nerve to upgrade my slink to libc 2.1 with the goal of playing with gnome. I used (for the first time) apt-get with an ftp entry in t

Moved harddisk

1998-03-03 Thread Hunter H Marshall
I have a 1.2.8 system that I boot from floppy. I moved the harddrive from (effectively) /dev/hda to /dev/hdb. I then used rdev to change the boot device and the swap device to their hdb counterparts. Should that have been sufficient? Is there a primary/secondary IDE issue (if I'm saying that right

Re: Compute Farm

1998-02-10 Thread Hunter H Marshall
Behan Webster wrote: > > Hunter H Marshall wrote: > > > > Tim Sailer wrote: > > > > > > They want to be able > > > to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each machine > > > > See if the recent aricle in Linux Journal might be &g

Re: Compute Farm

1998-02-10 Thread Hunter H Marshall
Tim Sailer wrote: > > They want to be able > to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each machine See if the recent aricle in Linux Journal might be of help. The article concerned the use of 160 Alpha Linux boxes for graphics rendering. I belive it was the Jan '98 issue. http://www.ssc.c