World: r3wp

Also Iknow the nics work because I booted up in UBCD and was able 
to browse

Usually just the hardare clock. NTP must be configured later

One is a Via Rhine and the other a Realtek chipset

Sounds like it finds them on installation, but not afterwards. Odd

Yes exactly

Is the ip command available? That's the modern replacement for ifconfig

dunno

have no problems installing JeOS under vmware

Here's another JeOS annoyance .. I installed on a  Compaq PC with 
USB keyboard. It asked me about keyboard type etc ... and I think 
I manually selected USA.

But when it boots up, it doesn't recognize the keyboard anymore :(

So, I am going to have to reinstall, give it a fixed ip address so 
that I can ssh into it

As far as I know, there is no USB module in JeOS. JeOS is designed 
to be run inside a Virtual Machine, not as a Virtual Machine Host.

So, big oops .. should not have used JeOS.

It probably only works with virtual network cards too.

Or the real network cards that VM hosts emulate - that's how all 
of the VM hosts work.

Sad ...

I swapped for ubuntu server and that's fine.  No glitches.

What was the installed footprint of JeOS?

Can't remember .. wiped it now.

Anyone using Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy ?

I'm not having nice networking experiences since upgrading from Feisty 
to Gutsy.

Lots of timeouts, flaky domain name resolution seems to work only 
half the time...
(AltME is fine - it probably caches the ip address).

Connecting and using certain sites has often been really difficult, 
like ubuntu updates, ubuntuforums, my bank's online banking, and 
rebol.org, to name a few. Rebol.org I've noticed has been really 
slow.

Wait a minute, before the upgrade, I did a *hardware* upgrade, replacing 
the motherboard and 32-bit cpu for a 64-bit one. This is when 'eth0' 
changed to 'eth1' and I had to muck about to fix it.  <--- This is 
probably related to the network problems.
(So much happened since then, I keep forgetting about this.)
My solution is probably to do a fresh 64-bit install.

Anton, Rebol will not run on 64-bit Linux without some hacking.

Also, are you using wireless networking? I have a machine running 
Hardy and ended up needing ndiswrapper to get wireless working well. 
The following instructions worked for me: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766560

kcollins, ahh... you mean: "Rebol runs on 64-bit Linux, with some 
hacking."  ;)  So what's the hacking ?

I haven't done it myself, but someone posted about it a while back...let 
me find the thread...

I'm not using wireless on my main machine, but my wireless networking 
experiences in linux have been abysmal ones so far. I didn't devote 
myself to it, though.

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/ml-topic-detail.r?l=0&topic={308227A880B92F1C4D34586C4B0C4BDEDFF1A8DA}

Yeah, Linux still has work to do on wireless networking.

Thanks for the link. I remember seeing the original announcement. 
So it looks like a pretty easy hack.

(Once some hard working individual has already figured it out, of 
course.)

Is there any description out there, which describes how to add missing 
libraries to Linux, when you want to run Rebview? My friend is running 
some small linux distro, and can't start View, so he asked me to 
help him to get it running ....

If it's Debian: apt-get install <libname>

and libname is something you must guess ;-)

I'm sure the Cheyenne website explains which libs are required.

ldd    will list dependencies for any object or binary.
Tracking which package (as Robert mentions can be a pain, but)

after  apt-get install apt-file   and  apt-file update   it gets 
easier.

If he has yum,   yum whatprovides

http://www.cheyenne-server.org/blog.rsp?view=14&cmt=on

Perhaps you could amend that page to include vista users < 1024

kcollins:  I have Rebol 2.7.6 running with zero problems on 64-bit 
Ubuntu Hardy fresh install, with no hackery...

old post..  x_x   I need to visit more often

And you can search with: apt-cache search <lib name fragment> to 
see what the packagename might be. Or use atptitude and press / to 
search and than N for next hit. Than + to install.

Anybody see what is wrong with this script? It is supposed to call 
ImageMagick to reduce the size of specific jpeg files in a directory. 
 It processes a few files, then locks up my computer.

rebol []
files: sort read %.
num: length? files
print ["Number of files in directory: " num newline]
count: 0
foreach file files [
	if all [find file ".JPG" not find file "Nain-"][
		newfile:  join "Nain-" file
		call/console reduce ["convert" file "-resize 25%" newfile]
		count: count + 1
		prin [count " "]
	]
]
print "DONE"

Never mind. It work now.

What was the problem ?

I was going to suggest putting a short wait after the call.

I think it will call imagemagick a lot of times without wait, like 
Anton suggests.

Either the /console refinement fixed it (I should have tested one 
more time before posting), or else using trace fixed it by slowing 
it down (kind of a wait substitute).  :>)

I've got mail for root ending up in /var/mail/root ... is there any 
way I can get this mail redirected to my gmail account?

I looked at the etc/aliases but you can't seem to alias to outside

the most simple way is to create a file /root/.forward with your 
email address in it