Slackware

What's the point?
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:11:13 +0000, 'rm' trolled: We have been fiddling with<SNIP><SLAP> ___________________ /| /| | | ||__|| | Please do | / O O\__ NOT | ... 29 Mar 2010 02:35

slackware-friendly netbook
Hi all, I am thinking of getting a netbook and would like to hear your recommendations. Has anyone got a netbook that works fine with Slackware? I would definitely remove whatever OS it ships with and install slack 13 on it. I'd probably stick with fluxbox. The main reason would probably be getting everything do... 6 Apr 2010 10:45

Slack 13 breaks ss
Hi Gang, Recently upgraded to slack 13.0 and just discovered that a spread sheet that we have used for a long time is now broken. It's called ss. the error we are getting when we try to run it is -- pogo:~$ ss ss: relocation error: ss: symbol errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file li bc.so.6 with lin... 24 Mar 2010 03:18

booting from dvd
Does anybody know how to get an Acer Aspire AX1301-U1312 to boot from a DVD or CD? It's not one of the choices in the CMOS setup and the Acer website basically says "we don't want you to do it so we're not going to tell you how." ... 24 Mar 2010 09:57

dhcpd: route to 169.254.0.0/16??
Hi all, I've got dhcpd running on a local machine. In all other workstations, which get their IP correctly in a 192.168.1.0/24 subnet, I find this entries in /var/log/messages, at each lease renewal: Mar 20 08:54:49 workstation6 dhcpcd[2499]: eth0: renewing lease of 192.168.1.6 Mar 20 08:54:49 workstation6 dh... 21 Mar 2010 19:41

What's the state of bluetooth?
I was toying with the idea of getting a bluetooth keyboard, mouse and earphones. The scenarios I am considering using them are: * Slackware 13 booted normally from a partition * VirtualBox Win 7 hosted with Slackware 13 guest. So, what's the score? (I realise that I'm asking the question in a broad sense). ... 21 Mar 2010 16:10

Large log.nmbd
How do I keep my log.nmbd from getting so big and bringing my web server to a grinding halt? Thanks, s ... 21 Mar 2010 03:48

Domain Thief Lew Pitcher
Who Lew Pitcher Domain Thief? http://www.lewpitcher.ca ... 17 Mar 2010 00:17

gtkpod slackbuild fail
I'm trying to install gtkpod from slackbuilds. I've installed libmp4v2 and try to get gtkpod slackbuild to install: that's what I get: 0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lcurl -pthread -lgnomevfs-2 -lgconf-2 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lgmodule-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lhal -ldbus-1 -lpthread -lrt mp4file.o: In... 25 Mar 2010 19:42

EPI score for ICELAND is overrated.
# 4 United Kingdom: 2.76 thousand metric tons/squ # 8 Germany: 1.82 thousand metric tons/squ # 10 Netherlands: 1.51 thousand metric tons/squ # 13 United States: 1.29 thousand metric tons/squ # 17 Canada: 1.15 thousand metric tons/squ = 20 Australia: 1 thousand metric tons/squ # 22 France: 0... 16 Mar 2010 00:03