December 2001 - main

Re: [Alug] Burning CDs
by Edenyard 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 21:06:38 +0000, Andrew Bayliss wrote: > Main Menu -> Create CD -> Write Tracks -> Blank CD-RW (bottom right corner) > It's not exactly in the most obvious place I'll admit. This is in > 0.98alpha9. > Many thanks for that. In my rather flimsy defence, I tend to try all menu options and examine what they do, but I'm generally rather reluctant to go pressing a button labelled 'write' without having a good reason for doing so. Anyway - thanks again. It worked a treat! Gerald.

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Re: [Alug] Netscape 4.77 cache question
by Edenyard 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 11:30:40 +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > Come on. A dead stoat can beat certain aspects of Netscape 4.77. Why not > compare it with Mozilla or Netscape 6 which has a little "offline browsing" > toggle? > Fair enough! You know that a lot of what I do is based either on laziness or ignorance and that's how I come to be using 4.77 - it came with slackware 8! I did install the Mozilla that came with same, but that seemed to take forever to load up and about the same time to actually do anything. If a Netscape 6 should come floating by, I'll have a go at that, but isn't it true to say that the higher a version number is, the slower it runs on old hardware? Don't forget I'm on an ex-skip P166MMX. before you groan and give up on me totally, let me tell you that this is quite an upgrade from my trusty 486DX4100 which I use for my work. I know, I know - there's really no hope for some of us, is there! Gerald.

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Re: [Alug] Mounting Devices as a user in Slackware (KDE)
by MJ Ray 16 Dec '01

16 Dec '01

> It worked nicely, emboldened by this success, and with my over confidence > fueled by prescription pain-killers, I extrapolated this from the above: > /dev/fd0 /home/john/fd0 ext2 noauto,user,ro 1 1 I have: /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 00 Maybe you meant "auto" or "msdos" instead of ext2? ext2 can be used on floppies, but isn't very often. I think I usually run autofs to access the floppy, but this particular machine has avfs making floppies appear at /#a... I don't really recommend avfs for the masses yet. -- MJR

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Mounting Devices as a user in Slackware (KDE)
by John Seago 16 Dec '01

16 Dec '01

On Friday I wrote this into my /etc/fstab file: /dev/cdrom /home/john/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0 It worked nicely, emboldened by this success, and with my over confidence fueled by prescription pain-killers, I extrapolated this from the above: /dev/fd0 /home/john/fd0 ext2 noauto,user,ro 1 1 (this latter 1 1 as access was denied otherwise), this succeeded in damaging the filesystem beyond what I could do to repair it. Is there an /etc/fstab entry which will enable me to access both the cd and the floppy as a user in KDE? Is this a question I need to ask on a specialist Slackware list? Many thanks for any advice you may wish to give. -- John Seago `change and progress are not necessarily the same things'

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Re: [Alug] Netscape 4.77 cache question
by MJ Ray 16 Dec '01

16 Dec '01

Edenyard: > A rare case of one up to the DOS browser, I suppose! Come on. A dead stoat can beat certain aspects of Netscape 4.77. Why not compare it with Mozilla or Netscape 6 which has a little "offline browsing" toggle? -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] ipchains replacement
by Richard Kettlewell 16 Dec '01

16 Dec '01

Laurie Brown <laurie(a)brownowl.com> writes: > Ian Douglas wrote: >> Thanks for the advice and offer of help. Unfortunately, as I >> mentioned, I am a bit of a newbie and have not fully found my way >> around the ALUG website, nor its terminology, yet. What exactly is >> the "ALUG lists passim" you refer to? > > Hi, Ian: my pleasure. "Passim" is old-fashioned shorthand (Latin, > actually) for "in the past" or "previous/ly". It means: look in the > archives! It means "here and there" or "throughout", nothing to do with the past. -- http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/

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Mounting Devices as user in Slackware 8
by John Seago 16 Dec '01

16 Dec '01

Yesterday I wrote this into my /etc/fsatb file: /dev/cdrom /home/john/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0 It worked nicely, emboldened by this success, and with my over confidence fueled by prescription pain-killers, I extrapolated this from the above: /dev/fd0 /home/john/fd0 ext2 noauto,user,ro 1 1 (this latter 1 1 as access was denied otherwise), this succeeded in damaging the filesystem beyond what I could do to repair it. Is there an /etc/fstab entry which will enable me to access both the cd and the floppy as a user? Is this a question I need to ask on a specialist Slackware list? Many thanks for any advice you may wish to give. -- John Seago `change and progress are not necessarily the same things'

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Re: [Alug] redirecting into a command...
by MJ Ray 16 Dec '01

16 Dec '01

Simon: > rsh -l<login-name> <router-ip> sh ver "rsh -l login ip" on its own should get you a login shell. rcp is the usual way to copy files across, but "cat srcfile | rsh -l login ip 'sh cat >destfile'" should work if you have to. Hope that helps. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Netscape 4.77 cache question
by Edenyard 16 Dec '01

16 Dec '01

Many thanks to Ricardo and Ian for suggesting to set "Compare pages = NEVER". This seems to improve the situation but not cure it in all cases. It still seems as though it doesn't know where to look when it finds the modem not connected. A rare case of one up to the DOS browser, I suppose! Gerald.

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Burning CDs
by Edenyard 15 Dec '01

15 Dec '01

Having now managed to install my CD-RW drive and load up cdrecord 1.10 in Slackware, I've started to fiddle with actually making CDs. I downloaded Xcdroast and managed to get it to run, but I can't find any buttons at all that erase a previously recorded CD-RW disk and it seems that Xcdroast won't just simply write the new files to a previously recorded CD-RW disk. Am I missing something obvious? Is Xcdroast the best front-end for the CD-writing process? I picked it because I could get a .TGZ file already to install in Slackware. (Alright - call me chicken!) As always, all advice very gratefully received! Gerald.

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