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Skriven 2009-08-07 00:27:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MAURICE KINAL
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-=> MAURICE KINAL wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 MK> Hey Wayne!

 > I want dhcpcd off on boot.

 MK> I used to do that.  I thought at the time it was the best way to
 MK> control the connection and probably would still be doing it that way
 MK> today if I were still connecting that way and it was the only
 MK> connection.

 > That brings forth the message DHCP_DISCOVER or some such.

 MK> Okay.  It seemed to me that it took care of resolv.conf but it has been
 MK> awhile since I've tried it.  I still have dhcpcd as a package and have
 MK> since way back then.  After I take care of the Atom's new fangled
 MK> booting scheme with the ide flash disk I'll make sure it still works
 MK> here.

 > Everything leads to new learning.

 MK> For sure.  I doubt it ever really ends.

 > Thanks for the tip on killing gpm, I can always reinvoke it
 > afterwards.

 MK> That isn't what I meant.  I meant instead that when I built links and
 MK> vim I made sure that gpm wasn't a dependency.  Same with ncurses but
 MK> that is slightly a different issue.

 MK> Building links the configure line looks like this;

 MK>   ./configure --prefix=/usr --without-gpm

 MK> For vim;

 MK>   ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-multibyte --disable-gpm \
 MK>     --without-x --disable-gui  --disable-nls

Yeah, I'm familiar with this sort of syntax but in my case
links came compiled though I had the foresight to spring for the source
disks as well.

 MK> Slight difference between the two but the end result is that you won't
 MK> have to kill gpm and cutting and pasting from either links and/or vim
 MK> will work 100% to a different console.  You could even cut and paste
 MK> the above configure lines to a commandline that resides in the source
 MK> for links (or vim) and it would work. :-)

Wow, to another console you say?
I've got a way to go about this but your system seems slicker.
BTW, saved to my text directory.

This I like about MultiMail, you can save to any text file
anywhere you provide the absolute path and in the case of
an existing file, for instance my /home/text/url.txt it appends to the 
existing file.

When I got the firewall program to reject ping I just cat ping >> 
to the existing firewall and commment out a couple of lines. 
After making it owner root and executable first.

Way cool how that worked right off the bat.

 > You couldn't pay me to go back to Microsoft!

 MK> I'd have to be paid to use that stuff.  Never did do their stuff
 MK> willingly.  I used to install other people's for them but long ago
 MK> dropped that since if anything went wrong, which it would eventually,
 MK> then it had nothing to do with me.  Far too many people using MS
 MK> products who are absolutely clueless and are content to remain that
 MK> way.  Also none of them can afford to stay clueless which is the REAL
 MK> problem methinks.

It's crap.
Sorry to be so direct but it's truth.
Of course like Ray at RAC Computers said, he makes most of his money
fixing Windows software though he said if he had his way he'd
only work on Linux boxes.

Well, it's half past midnight and the system is set to halt soon.
Night.



... Now using  Linux Slackware 12.2
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