love it

sorry to spout, just very happy.

apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.24-1-586tsc

and it "just worked".  Impressed.

The rest is just me waxing lyrical.  But this list has
helped out a couple of times with questions regarding
this setup, and I would like to say THANKS :)

It's taken me about 6 months of tinkering and playing,
but I have a 166Mhz Pentium 1 (Tosh Libretto 100ct),
64Mb ram and 2G disk, running a modern kernel,
wireless networking, kde 3.1.4, translucent menu's and
console, opera, mozilla and instant messenging to
almost any network (gaim).  It's not lightening fast,
but it happily works.  It plays mpegs (but can't quite
handle their soundtracks).  Can't quite get open
office on the disk, but hey ho.  It does run apache
and mysql without issue mind.

It has no internal floppy disk (and an external one
that doesn't play nice with the multi-floppy
boot/install disks), no cd-rom, and no usb.  So
upgrading kernels is kinda scary ;)

Just a couple of pcmcia slots.  No proprietry OS was
used during the making of this machine.  Nor did I
have to rip out the harddisk or perform any other

Re: love it

Murray KDE (kdeuser234 <at> yahoo.com) wrote:
> sorry to spout, just very happy.
> apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.24-1-586tsc
> and it "just worked".  Impressed.

Although there isn't a 586 version, give kernel-image-2.6.0-1-386 a
whirl!

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RE: love it

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Bromberger
> 
> Although there isn't a 586 version, give kernel-image-2.6.0-1-386 a
> whirl!

You might be referring to stable?  586tsc existed for me, using testing.

(what's the tsc mean?)
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mpeg was Re: love it

Just thought I mention this and I hope I am not totally off at a tangent
here. I noticed a few people mentioning in unrelated message  slight or bigger  problems with playing mpeg.
I played various video file formats on a linux machine with no problems
whatsoever, be it avi, mpeg or whatever. I used VideoLan which worked
very well.

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 06:45:48AM -0800, Murray KDE wrote:
> 
> sorry to spout, just very happy.
> 
> apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.24-1-586tsc
> 
> and it "just worked".  Impressed.
> 
> The rest is just me waxing lyrical.  But this list has
> helped out a couple of times with questions regarding
> this setup, and I would like to say THANKS :)
> 
> It's taken me about 6 months of tinkering and playing,
> but I have a 166Mhz Pentium 1 (Tosh Libretto 100ct),
> 64Mb ram and 2G disk, running a modern kernel,
> wireless networking, kde 3.1.4, translucent menu's and
> console, opera, mozilla and instant messenging to
> almost any network (gaim).  It's not lightening fast,
> but it happily works.  It plays mpegs (but can't quite
> handle their soundtracks).  Can't quite get open
> office on the disk, but hey ho.  It does run apache
> and mysql without issue mind.
> 
> It has no internal floppy disk (and an external one

Re: Accessing local web server from WAN

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 20:17, Dylan wrote:
> Is squid the best option? Any comments as to the security implications?

Yes, squid in reverse proxy mode will do what you expect. As for
security, I not sure what you mean.  Any time you allow a service to be
accessed by someone you don't know and trust you have security
implications to consider.

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Re: NFS mount permissions

> It's not wise to export the whole root fs like this - all sorts of 
> things can go wrong. If it's only the home directory you want to use
on 
> the other machine then try:

> /home/≤user> popcorn(rw,no_all_squash)

> The no_all_squash option ensures the UID and GID of the user are
applied 
> rather than mapped to 'nobody'.

thanks - once I got the uids in line I could mount each user's home
directory.

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Re: Gnome Question

Thread stucture error...

what string?

Ian 

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> Did as you suggested, but nothing found containing that
> string.  It did find a couple of symbolic link cycles in my
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OTF (OpenType Fonts) on Debian?

Does anyone know if it's possible to install/use OTF fonts on Debian?

I'm using xfs, and don't have freetype installed.  I lost the plot
with all the various different font rendering options on Linux a while
back ...

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Re: Gnome Question

Dear Ian,

It was the string "www.hoovers.com" that was loaded when my
mouse hovered over a URL...

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Symbolic links and relative paths

Is it possible to use symbolic links in such a way that relative paths
are relative to where the symlink is, not to where it points to?
ie

ln -s /tmp /home/tom/sandpit
ls /home/tom/sandpit/../Mail

won't work because there is no /tmp/../Mail. There is /home/tom/Mail,
however, and that's what I want. Well, for the purposes of explanation
anyway.

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