Slackware

Menu editing in KDE 4.2
Does anyone know where they have hidden the menu editor in KDE4.2? Open Office has not been picked up in the menu's correctly but there does not appear to be any way to manually add it or re-scan the system for applications - things you could do in KDE 3.x. Pete -- http://www.petezilla.co.uk ... 11 Dec 2009 03:42

Slack 11.0 postfix from SlackBuilds - problem
When my system got compromised, I asked how to fix it, and everybody told me bare-metal reinstall. I emailed Alan Hicks and asked if I should know anything, and he said what to back up, then use his SlackBuild scripts, and he said, "The SlackBuild scripts at the above web site should make this almost trivial. " ... 11 Dec 2009 15:48

slack 13.0 DVD Burning
Upgrading from 10.2 to 13.0 and have some "burning" questions. 1) Is growisofs still the best method for burning data DVD's? 2) Does it still need the ide-scsi trick? 3) Does the ide-scsi trick work on serial-ata drives? Thanks in advance, Fred ... 15 Dec 2009 20:02

Fixed: help for LILO with "too many" drives
add hard drives Micro HOWTO Original configuration: 4 Seagate 250 gig HDs (/dev/sda through /dev/sdd) 1 Seagate 750 gig HD (/dev/sde) 1 Plextor DVD Each HD has 2 primary partitions. The first partition uses cylinders 1 - 15 and the second consumes the remainder of the drive. /boot is in /dev/sda1 so that ... 7 Dec 2009 15:06

xfce menu editor?
How do I edit the XFCE menu system? Is there a tool for that? Where is the menu information kept? I want to add programs like xv and xload. Thanks for any help you can give. ... 8 Dec 2009 08:35

Help: Samba log file too big
The setting in my smb.conf is 50 kb, but the samba.log will grow to 20 gigs and fill one of the drives. What else should I try? Thanks, s ... 6 Dec 2009 16:07

Alt.OS.Linux.Slackware FAQ pointer
Posted-By: auto-faq 3.3.1 (Perl 5.010) Archive-name: aolsfaq Current-maintainer: aolsfaq-maintainer(a)therockgarden.ca FAQ last updated: Wed Sep 9 00:25:18 EDT 2009 This is a periodic pointer to the Frequently-Asked Questions list (FAQ) for the alt.os.linux.slackware newsgroup. The FAQ which may be frequent... 4 Dec 2009 16:14

UsB thinclient software
Where do can I download the linux software for using a thinclient on USB stick. I found this: http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/thinflash.html I was looking for an easier way to just extract to a USB and install or run from a PC. ... 6 Dec 2009 20:33

how to install common lisp
Hi I downloaded slime and edited .emacs. When I load M-x slime, the message is: Process inferior-lisp not running. I don't think I installed lisp. There's no: /opt/sbcl/bin/sbcl on my system (as specified in .emacs I tried to find sbcl, but sbcl is not present at all. I'm trying to find common lisp online, ... 3 Dec 2009 01:35

New search engine
Search engine http://www.search2.net launched its public beta. ... 1 Dec 2009 11:36