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December 2004 (#109):

     * [1]The Mailbag
     * [2]More 2 Cent Tips!
     * [3]The Answer Gang
     * [4]News Bytes, by Michael Conry
     * [5]Virtual Filesystem: Building A Linux Filesystem From An Ordinary
       File, by Mike Chirico
     * [6]SQLite Tutorial: Common Commands and Triggers, by Mike Chirico
     * [7]SuSE Linux 9.2 - An Early Evaluation, by Edgar Howell
     * [8]Discover the hidden 8 bit Sound card in your PC, by Maxin B. John and
       Rajith R.
     * [9]The Linux Laundrette Strikes Back, by Jimmy O'Regan
     * [10]Return of the Linux Laundrette, by Jimmy O'Regan
     * [11]History of visited directories in BASH, by Petar Marinov
     * [12]GNU Octave - An Introduction, by Barry O'Donovan
     * [13]Generating other feed types with Perl, by Jimmy O'Regan
     * [14]Software for Kids, by Jimmy O'Regan
     * [15]Accessing a Bluetooth phone, by Jimmy O'Regan
     * [16]Bash Shell and Beyond, by William Park
     * [17]Functional Programming with Python, by Pramode C.E.
     * [18]Design Awareness, by Mark Seymour
     * [19]Emacs and Email: The VM Mail Package, by V. L. Simpson
     * [20]Ecol, by Javier Malonda
     * [21]The Linux Laundrette, by Jimmy O'Regan
     * [22]The Foolish Things We Do With Our Computers, by Ben Okopnik

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     * [26]GTK in Mandrake, Theme change?
     * [27]problem in sendmail.cf
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GTK in Mandrake, Theme change?

   Fri Nov 26 02:43:41 PST 2004
   Jimmy O'Regan ([28]The LG Answer Gang)

   Mandrake sucks. I get a mess of warnings any time I start a Gtk app because
   of the weird stuff they've done with their theme. 

     [Heather] I can give you my DarkGems gtk theme, would you like it? I
     carefully mucked with it till it looked good on gimp and some other gtk
     apps that eluded correct behavior under some themes.

   I have plenty of themes, it's that Mandrake is set up to look for their own
   theme,   and   I   can't   get   it   to   stop.  My  GTK  package  is
   libgtk+-x11-2.0_0-2.5.2-0.1gpw. 

     [Heather] ohhh. I might be able to help you with that sometime. If we do,
     then we can make a nice tip out of it.

     Or if one of you readers knows the right answer, we'll cheerfully pub what
     you send us after Jimmy improves his life with GTK :) -- Heather

   I think it's compiled in. 

   I've been through the fscking mess of a config layout they have several
   times and can't get it to stop looking for that bloody theme. 

     [Heather] You cant just move their theme to another name and copy your
     theme into the name it's reaching for? </hack type=cheap>

   No. :( 

   I'm waiting for my Ubuntu cds to arrive :) 
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problem in sendmail.cf

   Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:20:38 +0530
   vignesh ([29]vignesh.raj from samsung.com)

   Hai

   I have seen ur page for the sendmail configuaration and goes fine ,

   And i have tried to configure the sendmail as u said , but i have some
   problem regarding the configuration .

   Iam trying to configure it as SMTP AUTH client for the mailserver,But its
   giving error msg as DNS:service unavailable , i don't understand what is
   missing in the configuration.and one more things is its not alaising the
   username to the mailid .

   can u pls help me regarding in this

   warm regards