opening a directory for samba, netatalk, www all at once.

2002-03-12 Thread O Polite
I'm running this distro http://www.e-smith.org/ on a box for my colleagues. The only feature that I use is the "Ibay", this lets me create a directory that is accessible through samba (windows), netatalk (apple), www and ftp. It will also let me treat user home directories as Ibays. Any package t

Re: Samba and CUPS

2002-03-12 Thread O Polite
On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 23:21, Bill Wohler wrote: > This has been a painful day. I've got printing working nicely now. > However, Samba is another story. > > My Win2k clients could see the new printer during the create printer > phase. However, I'm getting the message "Access denied, unable

Re: Still looking to replace Eudora

2002-03-12 Thread O Polite
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 17:30, Brian Stults wrote: > Did you install all the dependencies (e.g. aspell, pspell) and a > dictionary? Thanks. That did the trick. op -- http://plusseven.com/gpg/

Re: Still looking to replace Eudora

2002-03-08 Thread O Polite
sely. And is allso a reel eggo boster, kause it didnt finnd a cingle speling eror in this dockument! Am I missing something? Some hidden setting somewhere? o polite

Re: Still looking to replace Eudora

2002-03-08 Thread O Polite
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 04:01, Eric G. Miller wrote: > The window(s) within a containing window paradigm is generally not found > in X programs. I don't think it's even part of most (any?) toolkits. > When I first moved to linux I tried out StarOffice, which put all it's windows in one "desktop" wi

Re: eepro100 with P4 (Gateway E-3600)

2002-03-04 Thread O Polite
On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 19:46, Thedore Knab wrote: > I think that I may have compiled in SMP for the uni-processor (a bad > habit maybe?) . Maybe. I accidentaly did that some time ago. It caused all sort of strange problems with different kernel modules. Not with the eepro100 though. I've never had

debian box as digital VCR?

2002-03-04 Thread O Polite
I decided to go for some ATA RAID solution, probably from www.promise.com, for my new home box. While reading around I find that one popular deployment for IDE RAID is video editing. I'm not into that, but I would like to have something like Tivo or ReplayTV. Is anyone on the list using a linux b

Re: How do I turn off the Virtual Desktop?

2002-03-04 Thread O Polite
> > a. keep hitting "alt +" until it is no longer virtual > I never got this trick to work. Is this behaviour controlled from XF86Config-4? I can't see anything in there that indicates that. I'm using KDE. Might standard KDE key settings be hiding this behaviour? op

top for kernel

2002-03-01 Thread O Polite
Is there anything like top for monitoring what the kernel is up? op

Re: [OT] How to run procmail on Maildir or mbox

2002-02-26 Thread O Polite
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 15:22, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > Yes. How?

[OT] How to run procmail on Maildir or mbox

2002-02-26 Thread O Polite
I spent the morning moving to fetchmail/procmail for mail retrieval and filtering. I think I will be very happy with it indeed. Kmail and Evolution will let the user "apply filters" on already filtered messages so as to put them in some other folder. This is great when you realize that some filte

Re: [OT] Price / performance & Software RAID / Hardware RAID / IDE / SCSI

2002-02-22 Thread O Polite
On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 02:16, Alvin Oga wrote: > if you can write data to /dev/hda1 in 5 seconds... > writing to striped raid0 will be say 7-10 seconds... Why is this? I thoght the point of raid0 was to write to all drives in parallell. op

[OT] Price / performance & Software RAID / Hardware RAID / IDE / SCSI

2002-02-21 Thread O Polite
I/O than I have today. So for the first time ever I'm considering some RAID solution. In your experience what will get the best price / speed performance ratio? Software IDE/RAID Software SCSI/RAID IDE RAID controller card SCSI RAID controller card Or maybe just having diffrent partitions on

recommendations for portable mp3 player

2002-02-16 Thread O Polite
rt. Any suggestions? Battery life is a very important factor to me. o polite

Re: sgml or latex?

2002-02-12 Thread O Polite
As you might have noticed a lot of people are moving to XML. I don't know much about technological superiority of the diffrent options but XML has a lot of momentum. This means that xml has lots of tools ,libraries, books, knowledgeble users on usenet etc. I think that both DocBook and Linuxdoc ha

Installing the other OS by cp -ax

2001-12-18 Thread o polite
ic flag when partitioning the drive? Did I get the cp wrong? Did HAL think I was trying to replace him permanently? -- o polite