Slackware

AOLS
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:41:37 +0000, Realto Margarino wrote: The worst of your breed have been driven off, thankfully, by those of us who care about linux more than our own egos. </modquote> ... 8 Apr 2008 07:15

Makepkg Ratpoison-1.4.0.tgz
Tom N <tom(a)somewhere.com> wrote: ratpoison-1.4.0-i686-tmn.tgz Does this mean I have a 686? root(a)darkstar:/proc# less cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 <==== Look at that: family 6, aka 686 (PS: the Pentium-4 still counts as 686, even though ... 8 Apr 2008 07:15

Screwy bookmarks
notbob <notbob(a)nothome.com> wrote in news:G1iKj.1191$Ul.904(a)fe097.usenetserver.com: I copy a firefox bookmarks.html file to a 4G vfat flash drive and take it to my slack 12 box for viewing/copying. I mount the flash drive no problem. I open the file with firefox. 200+ links have vanished and I have 2... 8 Apr 2008 16:28

slrnpull/scripting question
On 2008-04-08, Realto Margarino <rm(a)justlinux.ca> wrote: There is absolutely no reason in the world for anyone to continue using slrn. Not only is it the most user-unfriendly program in the history of unix (and that is really, really, saying something) but but being included with the list of lusers who c... 8 Apr 2008 22:54

2.6.24.4 problems with urandom
Anybody here having problems getting a 2.6.24.4 kernel to boot? mine gets stuck for about on udevtrigger then gets stuck indefinitely with the following message: Using /etc/random-seed to initialize /dev/urandom. I've tried adding and removing the hardware based random number generator and it does nothing. I'v... 7 Apr 2008 04:17

need bash-line: find files containing "string" ?
I often need to do: search the current dir-tree, for all files of *.Mod, containing <a text string> These *.Mod files are 'text' except for containing some non-ascii strings and all lines are terminated by Char(13) instead of Char(10). Normally mc can find strings in a dir-tree, of proper linux text... 7 Apr 2008 02:42

What Gnome in Slack 12.0?
Bought a new printer. 10.0 couldn't handle it. Massive upgrade necessary. Arg... Been running 10.0 on an ASUS CUBX and Cel 500 w/ 512 meg RAM. A comfy and mature install years old now. And now I've got it all to do over again. The bloom of exploration and multiple distros and kernels and all that stuff die... 16 Apr 2008 18:52

google down?
I can not get google to load past 20 hours or so? is it my isp? tried with firefox, konq, seamonkey, lynx, etc.? any ideas? thanks ... 7 Apr 2008 16:13

KDE Menus?
I removed kde from slackware 12, and built kde from source. The kde menus are empty. Any thoughts as how to fix this? John. -- Using the Blue Box. ... 5 Apr 2008 15:27

slack 12.1...{sigh}
KVM's open doors servers serviced must be but psmouse must load ... 8 Apr 2008 13:14