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Sympathy for a guy over his head
by Colin Novick Sept. 4, 2001

Sept. 4, 2001

Thoughts from wisened pros? Now more than ever I need to migrate to Linux. I am using a dual boot system MS/Linux and I desperately want to cut the cord. Previously the difficulty was an inability to print. Newest guess on that is that there is a possible conflict with lpd and CUPS running at the same time? I have yet to unpack how one goes about fixing that. Most recent challenge was to get a network connection established between two machines on 3Com cards on a 3Com box. Didn't quite get my hands around that, though many different angles were tried. Current thinking on this one is to look around and see if SAMBA might let me configure things. And then I really messed things up. While trying to establish a network I saw this neat option that lets machines share an internet connection, and I pursued it.... After playing around for a while I disabled it and now the Internet connection will not properly execute the ppp. I can manually get all the way through the logon in a Terminal session and when I get to: Entering PPP Session IP address is 216.164.248.83 MTU is 1500 There is nowhere to go from here. Leave it alone and it disconnects. Try to do anything, any key, and gobbledygook shows up killing any prospect of a PPP session completing. Possible that the system "enabling IPv4 packet forwarding" on startup is some leftover from my messing around with sharing an internet connection? No idea on that one. Allright. It is necessary to screw around and make mistakes to learn. I am excelling at that, and probably do now know more. The difficulty is that I have never seen this up and working anywhere before, and when trying to solve a problem I am working without an image in my head of what is or isn't supposed to be there. Thought to reload the Mandrake 7.2 system and hope to wipe the settings I created return to where I was originally pursuing different paths. Trick there is that "Reload" keeps all the settings. Shouldah done a reinstall. Learned that too. Any thoughts, or maybe even just a weak hearted consoling word or two. My deepest and sincerest thanks to the learned who had to endure hear a young fool trying to find his feet. Colin

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Re: [Wlug] kde22 problems...
by Wesley Allen Sept. 3, 2001

Sept. 3, 2001

Andy, The desktop has got 128mb ram (pc100), my laptop has got 196mb. I think that is the problem with the load times when AA is turned on, because it doesn't seem to affect my laptop at all. It's the font problem that irks me. I've figured out that it is tied to AA, with it turned off the fonts don't show up on my desktop either. And my laptop doesn't support AA yet so I'm plum out of luck as they say. Have you heard of any work-arounds to trick kde into thinking I've got AA support? I've had problems printing with cups and libkdeprint. The only hadk I can figure out (until cups supports it) is to use lpd to print anythign with ttf's. Then it works fine, but you lose the advanced features of cups...it's all a balancing act. Mandrake 8.1 is out soon, perhaps they will fix some of these problems. Wes Andy Stewart (andystewart(a)mediaone.net) wrote: > > > >HI Wes, > >How much memory do you have in this machine? I've seen KDE take forever >when it is memory limited, hence my question. Also, are you running >anything which is CPU intensive when you're trying to start KDE? > >I am also running KDE 2.2, and I downloaded those MS truetype fonts using >the script supplied by SuSE 7.2. I like the look! Although I haven't >tried anything funky like Greek or Hebrew, what I have tried seems to work >pretty well. However, I have infinite memory (256 MB), and my processor >is dual PIII/450. > >I did try printing a mail message directly from KMail, but that didn't >work for some reason (not sure if the problem was KDE or CUPS). >File...SaveAs and then print did work. > >Later, > >Andy > > > > > >On Saturday 01 September 2001 10:15 am, you wrote: >> Well, I've finally gotten kde 2.2 installed and I love the new >> libkdeprint. I'm a pastor by trade and have been stuck in windows >> because I need some pretty funky Greek and Hebrew fonts for my weekly >> research; fonts which I can only find in .ttf format and couldn't be >> printed at any rate (yes, I know there were fixes, I never got one to >> work for me). Now with kde 2.2 I can at last use these fonts in Linux, >> with one major glitche... >> >> 1) They only show up in my "usable fonts" combo box in koffice when >> anti-aliasing is turned on. This would not be a problem except for the >> fact that... a) My pitifully Celeron 366 take FOREVER to load kde >> programs with anti-aliasing turned on (ever waited 30 seconds for a >> shell to open up, it's not fun...) >> >> b) My laptop's display isn't supported by kde's anti-aliasing yet >> (Inspiron 3800). So my primary research tool can't be used. >> >> >> Any ideas/workarounds/hacks to overcome this glitch? >> >> Also, with anti-aliasing turned on, my desktop machine won't allow me to >> submit forms (like e-mail), in konqueror. Any ideas? (I'm going to >> submit a bug report). >> >> Wes >> _______________________________________________ >> Wlug mailing list >> Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > >

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kde22 problems...
by Wesley Allen Sept. 2, 2001

Sept. 2, 2001

Well, I've finally gotten kde 2.2 installed and I love the new libkdeprint. I'm a pastor by trade and have been stuck in windows because I need some pretty funky Greek and Hebrew fonts for my weekly research; fonts which I can only find in .ttf format and couldn't be printed at any rate (yes, I know there were fixes, I never got one to work for me). Now with kde 2.2 I can at last use these fonts in Linux, with one major glitche... 1) They only show up in my "usable fonts" combo box in koffice when anti-aliasing is turned on. This would not be a problem except for the fact that... a) My pitifully Celeron 366 take FOREVER to load kde programs with anti-aliasing turned on (ever waited 30 seconds for a shell to open up, it's not fun...) b) My laptop's display isn't supported by kde's anti-aliasing yet (Inspiron 3800). So my primary research tool can't be used. Any ideas/workarounds/hacks to overcome this glitch? Also, with anti-aliasing turned on, my desktop machine won't allow me to submit forms (like e-mail), in konqueror. Any ideas? (I'm going to submit a bug report). Wes

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Speakdifficult
by Sands Fish Aug. 31, 2001

Aug. 31, 2001

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RE: [Wlug] anyone using DSL in Worcester? is it working?
by Kingsbury, Michael Aug. 31, 2001

Aug. 31, 2001

I'll echo this one, I'm pretty happy with Speakeasy, also a little uneasy about the Covad issue... Can't say I had any complaints, service is fine. -beaker -----Original Message----- From: wlug-admin(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org]On Behalf Of Charles R . Anderson Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 9:37 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] anyone using DSL in Worcester? is it working? On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:24:39PM -0400, Matt Pease wrote: matt> I'm wondering now, is anyone on this list in Worcester using matt> DSL? If so, with who & is it working fully now? I use Speakeasy. They are an excellent DSL company. My DSL only went down two or three times in the 8 months since I've had it. One time was to move my connection from the NYC POP to the Boston POP (providing much better connectivity in the process), and the most recent time was due to lightning blowing out my modem. They replaced it for free. I am a little worried about Covad, though. That's why I did not go for the "save $10 by paying for a year in advance" deal. _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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VPN Question
by Michael Long Aug. 30, 2001

Aug. 30, 2001

Hi all, I have only connected to a network via a VPN using windows software in the past. How do I go about establishing a VPN connection using linux. Do I need to get any software and what other information will I need besides my login, password, and server IP address? Thanks, Mike

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Meeting topics for Sept. 12th
by Andy Stewart Aug. 29, 2001

Aug. 29, 2001

HI gang, I'm looking for a speaker for the Sept. 12th WLUG meeting. If you have a desire to speak on a topic, please bounce your ideas off of me and we'll see if something can be worked out. If you know somebody who'd be a good speaker, please let me know that as well. Finally, I'd like to put out an APB on Rob Bellville. He is our former webmaster, and I"m trying to get in touch with him. His e-mail address doesn't exist any more. If anybody knows Rob or how I can get in touch with him, please contact me ASAP. Thanks in advance, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

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apache and SetOutputFilter
by Brad Noyes Aug. 27, 2001

Aug. 27, 2001

Hi Fellas, I'm trying to configure apache to handle .shtml files. I don't know much about apache configuration, so i got some info from apache.org about this. i ended up with this config chunck # put in so we can use .shtml files in /home/httpd/includes <Directory "/home/httpd/includes"> Options +Includes # (took from http://www.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_include.html) <IfModule mod_include.c> AddType text/html .shtml <FilesMatch "\.shtml(\..+)?$"> SetOutputFilter INCLUDES </FilesMatch> </IfModule> </Directory> When i parse the config file i get this # httpd -t Syntax error on line 408 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Invalid command 'SetOutputFilter', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration any suggestions here? i'm using the apache that came with red hat 7.0 Thanks, --Brad

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gettin' the Sparc Classic on the network...
by Sands Fish Aug. 24, 2001

Aug. 24, 2001

Hello all, Settin' up the box I won at the last WLUG meeting. I wanna get it on the network here at work. When I watch the boot messages, I see "eth0 LANCE <mac address>" and "eth0 using auto-carrier-detection", but i don't see an entry for /dev/eth0 when i look there. I can ping the local loopback, but when I try to use DHCP in linuxconf to let it grab an address, but in ifconfig, i still only see the entry for the local loopback. Is there a different location for the eth0 device? Any hints? Anything would be appreciated. Thanx everyone. - Sands Fish - eCommerce - telecomNOW - sands(a)telecomnow.com

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Embedded Systems Conference in Boston Sept 5-7
by Skip Gaede Aug. 23, 2001

Aug. 23, 2001

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