Linuxers July 2005

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Re: When connected icons freeze.
by Sachin 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

Hi > Can you describe the actual method and programs that > you use to connect > to the net, from the time you log into your desktop > as a user? I have > used debian sarge with firestarter 0.9 and it worked > well. I used kppp > on my desktop. You _may_ have to add gksu - kppp in > your shortcut > properties to be able to use it as a user. It will > ask you for the root > password. I connect using this pppd /dev/modem 115200 debug usepeerdns defaultroute noauth connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v "" at+crm=1 OK "atdt#777" CONNECT' 8030935906 8030935906. Everything goes fine but when i am online the desktops icons just vanish. I got a pcq on the other partition and it runs gracefully. -- Sachin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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opening attachments with pine
by Philip Tellis 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

I've recently upgraded from FC2 to FC3 and am now having trouble opening attachments through pine. This is the flow of events after asking pine to display an attachment: 1. pine saves attachment to /tmp 2. pine spawns attachment viewer 3. pine deletes attachment from /tmp 4. attachment viewer finally shows up and cannot find the attachment Current version of pine - 4.63. A lot of articles on the net talking about opening attachments in pine, but none of them address this issue. Ideas on what I can try? My current solution is to have a shell script copy the file out of /tmp and then spawn the attachment viewer with the new filename. Philip

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Connected Online Icons freeze.
by Sachin 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

Hi All I am working on Debian sarge 2.6.11,When I connent to internet, through my Reliance Landline Connection, all the desktop shortcuts stop responding whereas the task bar Icons respond mostly though sometimes they to turn obstinate. Initially i thought it could be because of the Firestarter as when i tried to log in through Terminal 1 or any other tty i get characters like this running that i cannot run any command. IN=PP0 OUT= MAC= SRC=220.226.9.18 DST=220.226.6.188 LEN=48 TOS=0X00 TTL=45 ID=41026 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=265 1 DPT=445 WINDOW=16384 As soon as i killl pppd after sometime the system may work. I neither see any heavy disk activity during all this. Tried google but could not locate the same error somebody facing too. Any help would be appreci -ated. -- Sachin ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com

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A project idea
by Nikhil Marathe 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

This is a quite simple and basic idea i had today. Some of you may have noticed that when oss developers are releasing it they have to put in a lot of time to design a proper website for it. So if we could have a bunch of php scripts together that would do the following things(more if you have suggestions): - Automatically generate common links like Screenshots, About, Features, Download, Help. - The developer just has to put download files in a directory called downloads or something and then the install script will parse the directory contents and generate links for download. Overtime it could be modified to recognise extensions such as deb & rpm & tar.gz and put 'source', or 'debian woody' - The install script will generate html files so that the developer can add more program specific html - It will be modular using include() - Other directories like faq or help or screenshots will also be passed Please tell me what you think about it. Nikhil -- ******************************************** * do u want to learn web programming? * * Visit http://pagetutor.superihost.com * ********************************************

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Re: Concept of Copy/Paste.
by Roshan 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Concept of Copy/Paste. Hello All, What is the concept of copy paste in linux as compared to windows? In windows I can save highlighted text or links in the clipboard and close the source program or editor. In linux, if the source program/editor is closed, it does not highlight the 'paste' option in the destination program or editor. Case: As a safety measure links from emails are never clicked directly, instead they are copied and then pasted in the addres bar of the browser. In this process if the email client is closed, the 'paste' option is not highlighted. Same thing happens when saving parts of a web page text from a browser to a text editor. So in linux is the concept of copy based on the an active link only as compared to windows, where a seperate memory pad is used to store the text? Regards, Rony. I am not sure of the concept. But the incident experienced here is applicable to windows XP specifically. (as far as I have experienced!) Secondly, I use, KDE 3.1-10 as my desktop environment under Redhat Linux 9.0 and I have a utility called Klipper This is a good utility which store the previous copied text and enables a number of entries (which can be customized). Also, hopefully, it even store after closing the source program/editor. Sir, Can I know which distro are u using? This question is also applicable to people who would like to state it! _____________________________ www.geocities.com/d_rosh2001 --------------------------------- Too much spam in your inbox? Yahoo! Mail gives you the best spam protection for FREE! http://in.mail.yahoo.com

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Connected Online Icons freeze
by Sachin 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

Hi > >From this log it appears that someone is bombarding > your machine > with MS directory server queries. Are you running > samba on your > machine? Also try enabling firewall to block all > incoming > connections. NO samba on this machine, Firestarter is up. The same connection works clean on the pcq 2004 version on the other partition. -- Sachin ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com

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Floppy Linux
by Rony Bill 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

Came across some links for linux in a floppy or two. http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Floppy/ http://users.sunet.com.au/~tsn/floppy_linux.html Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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Fwd: [ILUG-BOM] Inquiry about training institutes regarding Linux (Manoj Bohara)
by Svaksh 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Manoj Bohara <manoj_boharaforever(a)yahoo.co.in> Date: Jul 2, 2005 1:50 PM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Inquiry about training institutes regarding Linux (Manoj Bohara) To: Svaksh <svaksh(a)gmail.com> Dear Svakashji , I thanks for the personal reply u send to me other than on the mailing list . Your email has been very informative to me . I have studied linux how to operate it and simple things . I want to study it more not because of an alternative to windows since i dont have a machine at my home , :-) . I want to study to work on it . I liked that in the end u said " comeback with linux related questions or anything specific like "i have this os and i want to dual-boot it with linux", etc.. . " the kind u enthusiasm and pain u took to reply me back was to its peak . With such an enthu i would definitely mail u back if any queries . I am working in wipro BPO for Dell Computers as tech support agent so if i can be any assistance to plz free to mail be back , :-) . Best wishes Manoj ************** ********* did you mean to send this to the list ? if not please send all questions to the mailing list so that everyone can benefit. also i dont have all the answers so this is where others with more knowledge can help and the raison d'entre for the existence of this and other mailing-lists. -- svaksh

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] linux kernel not starting
by sherlock＠vsnl.com 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

On Saturday 02 July 2005 19:27, Guntupalli Karunakar wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 18:37:50 +0500 > > sherlock(a)vsnl.com wrote: > > > the machine is a 486 with 40MB ram, 4.3GB HDD. (dos/windows too > > > are unable to start up apart from the initial messages.) > > > just curious typically which part of hardware could have gone > > > wrong? > > > > 4.3GB?? afaik these machines cant detect a harddisk > 2gb. > > this one had a pci bus & LBA thing so could take the 4.3GB. Doubt that. You can sling a pci bus onto almost anything. The 2GB limit is because of the bios. Once you boot with a floppy linux will work with any disk. Also memtest will fail if the bios settings are not suitable for the ram. Afaik linux will not interfere with the mem timings. The old rams do not have a serial eeprom for timing params and the mobos do not have an i2c bus to read the params. > i will try that. > well just planning to take a new machine, but dont want to junk > this out completely, but seeing if i can still get it working, the > old beast can still do a lot!! :-). rgds jtd

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Link on Live CD Creation Resources
by Sriram N 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

All: A resouce link on creating Live CDs http://www.livecdlist.com/wiki/index.php/LiveCD_Creation_Resources -- Sriram ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com

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