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More MS silliness, from The Register...
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

Some co-workers of mine pointed me to a couple different articles from The Register, showing MS up to its usual tricks. Enjoy!... http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/23348.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22770.html -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

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mouse failure on bootup
by S/C Conway 05 Jan '02

05 Jan '02

G'Day, Summary: Mouse does not function in KDE or Gnome after reboot. Configuration: RedHat 7.2 Kernel 2.4.9-13 Xconfigurator-4.9.39-1 mouseconfig-4.23-1 microsoft serial mouse com1 Description: In order to enable the mouse in either KDE or Gnome mouseconfig and Xconfigurator where used after a workstation installation of RedHat 7.2. Everything functions normally. When the system is rebooted, Xconfigurator must be run in order to enable the mouse. This same problem existed with RedHat 7.1 installation. I am open to suggestions. Sean

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PATH problem
by author 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

How do I make an entry to the Red Hat 7.1 system wide PATH ? I've looked up /etc/profile and it doesn't look like something that should be edited. Besides, I can't see a typical PATH line to edit. So I took a look at /root/.bash_profile and it looks more like what I'm used to. But that's only good for loggin in root and I don't always do that. I'm used to Slackware where all you have to do is edit the /etc/profile file to add a program to the system wide PATH. What do I have to do in Red Hat 7.1 to add something like /usr/local/Slab/effects to the PATH ? And what file records the PATH? Any hints would be appreciated.

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MUUG Meeting, Jan 8, 7:30PM -- Mac OS X
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 02 Jan '02

02 Jan '02

[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <a0vv07$ie2$1(a)canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> ------ From gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux) The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, January 8. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Mac OS X - A UNIX Operating System? This presentation will describe the BSD-UNIX underpinnings (Darwin) which comprise Apple's latest operating system, and the differences between Apple's GUI (Quartz & Aqua) running on UNIX and X-Windows. The presenter for this month will be Douglas Hamilton, Apple Product Professional at the University of Manitoba. The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. ********************************************************************** Please note our new meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15 PM, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30 PM. Don't be late, or you may not get in. Limited parking is available for free on the street, or in a lot across Ellice from IBM, for $1.00 for the evening. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $2.00 for the evening. ********************************************************************** For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web server: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Also note that MUUG maintains two mailing lists, called "muug-announce" and "roundtable". If you're not already on these lists, we encourage you to subscribe now: http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/ The "muug-announce" list is used for monthly meeting announcements (such as this one) as well as other important announcements of interest to MUUG members. The "rountable" list is meant to be a forum for follow-ups to topics discussed at the meetings, or for round-table-style discussion on other topics that come up between meetings. Of course, for this to be effective, we need to reach a certain critical mass. So, please subscribe, and stay involved! -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609 ------ End of Forwarded Article

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Kguitar installs. Thanks!
by author 25 Dec '01

25 Dec '01

I must have had too much 'egg-nog' when last I tried to install Kquitar, because today, December 23, it installed with no trouble after I made the soft link: /usr/lib/ln -s qt-2.3.0 qt2 Thanks for all the help.

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Application installation problem
by author 21 Dec '01

21 Dec '01

Thanks for all the help but I've given up on Kguitar for now. Kguitar didn't like /configure with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt-2.3.0 or a variety of other attempts like the above. So I made a soft link for qt. Kquitar then found some other problem to complain about. I gave up on the .tar.gz and got the .rpm. It didn't install either. Some library was missing. I'll send them a detailed error report. But I've learned some stuff, thanks to you guys, so it wasn't a waste. Thanks again.

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power filter
by author 21 Dec '01

21 Dec '01

Could someone advise me on a good power line filter to filter out electical spikes? A couple weeks back the electric motor on my furnace fan died. Since then, whenever the furnace fan starts, there's some disturbance on the computer monitor screen. I'm not sure how serious this is, but I'd like to put a stop to it. I've got a cheap Magnavox ($35) surge protector with a 15 amp circuit breaker, but its obviously not doing anything for this problem. First thing in January ( when I've got the money) I'll have someone qualified take a good look at that furnace fan.

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Authors?
by Sean A. Walberg 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

Is there anyone interested in writing a condensed study guide for the LPI level 2 certification? The list of topics is here: http://www.lpi.org/p-L2-obj-pre.html An example of what the end product looks like is here: http://studyguides.cramsession.com/cramsession/comptia/Linux/ Please contact me privately for more info. Thanks, Sean -- Sean A. Walberg <sean(a)ertw.com> http://www.ertw.com Join the weekly cramsession.com Linux newsletter for news and resources! Archives and more info at http://www.ertw.com/~sean/newsletter

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application installation problem
by author 19 Dec '01

19 Dec '01

I was wondering if anyone knew a way around this installation problem that happened during ./configure. I was trying to install an application called Kguitar in /usr/local/Kguitar-0.4 The installation can not find the necessary QT files even though my system does have them. Kguitar looks for these files in a series of directories, but none of these directories is correct. My QT is in: /usr/lib/qt-2.3.0/include All the QT files that Kguitar says are missing are in this directory. How do I get Kguitar to find the necessary QT files to install? Should I move all the QT files into one of the directories Kguitar is searching? Or is there a way to point Kguitar towards the correct directory? I send in bug-report a couple weeks ago, go a reply saying this was 'strange' but otherwise no answer. I can't blame them. It's free software and I'm sure they all have jobs and families to tend too, especially so near Christmas. And Happy Christmass to you all! Here are some details: > My system is.. Red Hat 7.1 kernel 2.4.2-2 > KDE 2.1.1 QT 2.3.0 > error during ./configure stated in config.log > if ! ( QT_VERSION >= 2.2.1 ) > error 1 > #endif Here is the end of the Kguitar 0.4 config.log configure:5273: checking for Qt tried NO tried /usr/local/qt/lib tried /usr/local/qt tried /usr/lib/qt2/lib tried /usr/lib/qt2 tried /usr/lib/qt/lib tried /usr/lib/qt tried /usr/X11R6/lib tried /usr/lib tried /usr/local/qt/lib tried /usr/X11R6/lib configure:5434: rm -rf SunWS_cache; g++ -o conftest -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -Wall -pedantic -W -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -Wno-long-long -Wnon-virtual-dtor -fno-builtin -INO -I/usr/X11R6/include -LNONE -L/usr/X11R6/lib conftest.C -lqt -lpng -lz -lm -ljpeg -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE 1>&5 conftest.C:2:21: qglobal.h: No such file or directory conftest.C:3:26: qapplication.h: No such file or directory conftest.C:4:18: qapp.h: No such file or directory conftest.C:5:22: qobjcoll.h: No such file or directory conftest.C:6:20: qevent.h: No such file or directory conftest.C:7:21: qstring.h: No such file or directory conftest.C:8:20: qstyle.h: No such file or directory conftest.C:8:20: qstyle.h: No such file or directory conftest.C:9:23: qiconview.h: No such file or directory conftest.C:11:2: #error 1 #endif int main() { QStringList *t = new QStringList(); QIconView iv(0); iv.setWordWrapIconText(false); QString s; s.setLatin1("Elvis is alive", 14); int magnolia = QEvent::Speech; /* new in 2.2 beta2 */ return 0; } #include <qapp.h> #include <qobjcoll.h> #include <qevent.h> #include <qstring.h> #include <qstyle.h> #include <qiconview.h> #if ! (QT_VERSION >= 222) #error 1

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ftp server
by Brock Wolfe 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

Recently I have been getting an error message "Error 502, Illegal Port Command" when I try to connect to ftp.muug.mb.ca using gFTP. Any thoughts on cause of problem and/or fix. I have connected many times successfully in the past. Brock

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