Re: j2se 1.3.1 for debian sid
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 12:56 pm, Francois Chenais wrote: > Hello, > > Where can I find j2se 1.3.1 for debian sid ? > I have downloaded one but it needs a wrong library. > Can I installed this library ?? You cant, the glibc upgrade means you need a jdk >= 1.4.1 Suns should work, but blackdown provide apt-getable packages, which imo are better than suns (bug fixes, gnome/kde integration for javaws). Add to you /etc/apt/sources.list (all one line): #Blackdown Java deb ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.blackdown.org/java-linux/debian/ unstable main non-free Then run: apt-get update apt-get install j2sdk1.4 j2re1.4 And bobs your uncle Tom msg25290/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: j2se 1.3.1 for debian sid
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 4:10 pm, Francois Chenais wrote: > Thanks a lot But I have an error :-| > > > Setting up j2re1.4 (1.4.0.99beta-1) ... > update-alternatives: unable to make > /usr/lib/mozilla-cvs/plugins/javaplugin_oji.so.dpkg-tmp a symlink to > /etc/alternatives/javaplugin_oji-mozilla-cvs.so: No such file or directory > dpkg: error processing j2re1.4 (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > j2re1.4 > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > tanna:/etc/init.d# Forgot about that :) Its a bug in the packages. You just have to make the directory /usr/lib/mozilla-cvs/plugins (which normally means you have to make /usr/lib/mozilla-cvs as well) and then it will work Tom msg25356/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: j2se 1.3.1 for debian sid
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 11:55 pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > The blackdown people fixed the stupidity in 1.3. The latest release > of it works with glibc 2.3. I didnt realise this, good for them. Why do people (sun, codeweavers ...) feel they have to interface glibc 'their own way'(tm). It really annoys me when glibc has a nice set of well defined interfaces and some idiot thinks he has to use private symbols to get around some problem. Rant mode off. Tom msg25403/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: getting time from timeserver on a dial-up
--Boundary-02=_BRUM+D5lEvfSYKN Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 24 Jan 2003 12:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, >I'm using Debian 3.0r1 stable on a dialup in the UK. I'm using PAP > authentication that CHAT's to the modem then launches pppd and away we go. > What I'd like is for the machine to check and set (if necessary) the syst= em > clock based on the time from one of the many timeservers on the internet. > > What package do I need to do this? > > How do I make it autorun once pppd has got the ppp connection up and > running (I use the pon script) ntp-simple: daemon that saves you having to worry about anything (works fin= e=20 when offline too). I use this on dial up fine. ntp-date: Tool for doing one of checks against a server. Id recommend ntp-simple just cos its so damn easy. Tom --Boundary-02=_BRUM+D5lEvfSYKN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+MURBXCpWOla2mCcRAltoAJ9NyX0qJTSzYO4cyMuQzsCnVlEviQCfWP8Y hfm10qaWpCP7zthiukhiqVU= =1Van -END PGP SIGNATURE- --Boundary-02=_BRUM+D5lEvfSYKN-- msg25918/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: PGP Signatures
On Monday 27 Jan 2003 2:51 pm, debian parisc wrote: > It maybe because I receive most of the emails from this list in windows95 > (I'm at work), that they have no significance. If you are using pgp you can verify the authenticity of the message - i.e. it comes from who the 'from' line says, rather than someone else. It also verifies that the message hasnt been altered during transmission. (This is a simplistic explanation, see www.gnupg.org for more). Tom msg26591/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: Can not get UDMA-100 working...
On Monday 27 Jan 2003 9:55 pm, Dominique Deleris wrote: > Yeah, > > my problem is that it shows *udma2 (udma-33), with using_dma > on... hdparm -X69 /dev/hda (or whatever is your disk) This needs to be run every time you put so put a script in /etc/rcS.d Tom msg26849/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: devfs with 2.6.0-test4 kernel
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 15:39, Harry Brueckner wrote: > Hello, > > I just switched to a self compiled 2.6.0-test4 kernel with devfs support > turned on and devfsd is running nicely. > On my old 2.4.20 kernel I did not use devfs. > Any ideas what might be wrong? Prehaps you need devfsd? Tom -- ^__^ | Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID Linux 2.6.0-test5 #5 Tue Sep 9 14:46:35 BST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: devfs with 2.6.0-test4 kernel
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 15:43, Tom Badran wrote: > On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 15:39, Harry Brueckner wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I just switched to a self compiled 2.6.0-test4 kernel with devfs support > > turned on and devfsd is running nicely. > > On my old 2.4.20 kernel I did not use devfs. > > Any ideas what might be wrong? > > Prehaps you need devfsd? Sorry, my brain melted and i didnt read your original post properly. Bad tom, bad tom... Tom -- ^__^| Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID Linux 2.6.0-test5 #5 Tue Sep 9 14:46:35 BST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Internet connections on windows machines
Im a long time linux user with barely any experience of windows at all (shocking i know). At home, my housemate has a adsl connection on a winxp machine that i would like to share to a variety of hosts (amiga, debian linux and some other version of windows which is possibly 98). On linux this is trivially easy to do using ip masquerading and is a set up i have used many times with much success. Does anyone know how to do this using winxp and even better if i can use the same great port forwarding that iptables provides so i can have an sshd daemon accessible from outside the network. btw, the adsl connection is provided by bt, but for some reason windows has to "dial" it and provide a username/password (it is a business connection) so i dont think i can just drop a debian box in the way and use ipmasq from that. Thanks Tom -- ^__^ | Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID Linux 2.6.0-test5 #5 Tue Sep 9 14:46:35 BST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: Internet connections on windows machines
On Tuesday 16 Sep 2003 15:04, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: > instead of making that XP box a router, you should consider getting a > cheapo Router/Firewall/NAT-Device a la Netgear or Linksys. That would leave > the 'bad guys' out there much less opportunity for attacks as the IMHO > full-featured (and -used) Windoze machine... > > The cheapest of these no-no-name-devices start at approx. 35 Euro here, so > that wouldn't be too much to invest, no? That sounds much better, Do these work with services that need username/ password combos to get access? I really didnt want to have to administer a windows box if possible and this sounds like a good plan. Thanks Tom -- ^__^| Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID Linux 2.6.0-test5 #5 Tue Sep 9 14:46:35 BST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: Internet connections on windows machines
On Tuesday 16 Sep 2003 16:40, Torsten Reuss wrote: > The username and password sounds like pppoe (PPP over Ethernet), so you > could put a debian box instead of the xp box there. Another opportunity > which I can recommend is fli4l, a floppy-disk size linux router > distribution which you can run on an old 386 without hdd (shame on me > promoting other distros on a debian list). fli4l is pretty modular and > supports pppoe as well. Shame on you indeed ;) But thanks, thats definately an option ill be looking into. Tom -- ^__^ | Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID Linux 2.6.0-test5 #5 Tue Sep 9 14:46:35 BST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: Internet connections on windows machines
On Tuesday 16 Sep 2003 18:26, Darryl Barlow wrote: > Tom, > > Setting up connection sharing is very easy in Windows. Just look at the > help topic internet connection sharing which should take you through it. I > haven't used it since an early version of Windows 2000. Generally windows > will set up the gateway machine on 192.168.0.1 and the gateway will > function as a dhcp server for the network. Thanks, hopefully ill get to play with this over the weekend. Tom -- ^__^| Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID Linux 2.6.0-test5 #5 Tue Sep 9 14:46:35 BST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: Which FS to use ?
On Wednesday 17 Sep 2003 14:47, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > What kind of application is it that is "way too slow" with ext2? I use > ext3 with an 80G drive and it is never slow. ext2 should've been > faster. I can recommend ext3 as a good choice, it works great for me. > > Perhaps you don't have DMA turned on? If you have an application that needs to pull lots of data really fast (using directio) for long periods of time, you really should be using XFS. We tested a load of filesystems where i am working and only xfs got the throuput we needed (~430MB/s off a raid array) whereas the best ext3 and reiser (might not have been reiser4 though) could get was about 350MB/s Tom -- ^__^| Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID Linux 2.6.0-test5 #5 Tue Sep 9 14:46:35 BST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: Newbie woes: Deleted Internet menu in taskbar
On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 14:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I should ad that I am running KDE. To restore menus to their defaults, go into the ".kde/share" directroy in your home directory. The delete the "applnk" directory and then run kbuildsycoca to restore back to default. Tom -- ^__^ | Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID Linux 2.6.0-test5 #5 Tue Sep 9 14:46:35 BST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: re-installation snag wrong mouse selected
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 16:28, J Y wrote: > I re-installed deb3.0 and it looked great only two pkgs broke. > BUT I screwed up and selected the wrong mouse type. Now I can > login to a great looking desktop but I can't use it! :( > There's a dialog box open at start up ( no big deal) but I can't > alt+function key to a terminal/shell. If I could open a shell I > could just run xconfig again. Does anyone know if there's some > easy way out of this?? Thanks dpkg-reconfigure xfree86-common (might be xfree86-server) Tom -- ^__^| Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID Linux 2.6.0-test5-mm4 #6 Mon Sep 22 12:50:10 BST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: Gnu pgp
On Monday 06 October 2003 14:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > I've been wondering how GNU PGP(encrypted mail) is, and also if it works > good with a fetchmail, procmail, spamassassin, mutt based e-mail > system... It works great with mutt, see the aegypten project at http://www.gnupg.org/aegypten/development.en.html for more information and install instructions. Tom -- ^__^ | Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID Linux 2.6.0-test5-mm4 #6 Mon Sep 22 12:50:10 BST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux 14:24:02 up 1 day, 35 min, 1 user, load average: 7.23, 7.17, 7.06 pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: java executable for konqueror
On Monday 06 October 2003 16:03, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > What package provides the java executable for konqueror or KDE3 in general? > I enabled java globally in konqueror's settings but when trying to access a > web site that requires java (eg yahoo chat), I get the Java executable not > found error. There is no package that provides a fully compatible jvm. You need to install one from sun, ibm or blackdown.org. I would reccomend the blackdown one for debian. Tom -- ^__^ | Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID Linux 2.6.0-test5-mm4 #6 Mon Sep 22 12:50:10 BST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux 16:26:49 up 1:59, 1 user, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 1.98 pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Helvetica Font replacement
Is there anyway with X i can make it use the Bitstream Vera font instead of Helvetica, and the Vera Mono font instead of Courier for all X applications? Thanks Tom -- ^__^| Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 20:28, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I believe there are WYSIWYG editors for laTeX (or however you capitalize > it.) I don't recall their names offhand, though. LyX is very good, and the QT interface for it is very nice. Ive just done a full 30 page report with it and was nothing but happy throughout. It doesn't however work on latex files directly, you have to import/export them as LyX uses it's own format. > Some clarification of OpenOffice. Their fileformat is actually > compressed XML -- you can open it up in winzip and look at it yourself. > So, if needed, you could convert it by script to some other format -- > though I wouldn't envy the task. It also exports as standard MS types. Its also not really a semantic xml format. It is just a mark up language that describes formating rather than what something actually is, which is where latex really shines i think. > OpenOffice provides a word processor, a spreadsheet app, and a slideshow > app (and probably more stuff I haven't noticed). It's about 95% on > importing/exporting to MS formats; the fewer crazy features you use, the > closer it will be, of course. Most of the problems are to do with which fonts are installed. If you install msttcorefonts then then the documents would look the same as on windows. I personally think your better off installing the bitstream fonts on your windows machines and using them as they are much nicer on the eyes than microsoft ones. Also, i think the presentation app is outstanding. Ive just used it for the first time to do a presentation for uni and it really rocks. > I also have heard that OO.org is working on Reveal Codes for their next > release -- which, if true, has me drooling. That's the biggest thing I > miss about WordPerfect. No idea what these are so cant comment ;) Tom -- ^__^| Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: can i trust you with this project
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 04 Oct 2002 5:50 pm, " Angles " Puglisi wrote: > ok, I know people are stupid, but to operate an email program, to read that > scam mail, and reply to it, and I guess give up info or money, DAMN are > people really THAT DUMB! o - the pain! People are greedy, they think they will get free easy money. Oddly enough, almost anyone ive heard of falling for this sort of crap has a gambling habit (problem?) as well. Guess they must just be stupid. - -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~tb100 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQE9npNpXCpWOla2mCcRAtZ0AJUbeK2uXwZE8aHLDBWIaX4lZvJMAKCrzWPr JiIn+LB20vgv6Lwv0m9DJw== =OVT5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Fake" USB mouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a usb mouse that works nicely on my thinkpad. However, as it is a laptop i dont always have it plugged in. If i start X (4.2.1) with the mouse plugged in, it works fine, and i can unplug it and plug it in again and all works perfectly. However if X is started without the mouse plugged in, when i plug the mouse in it doesnt work. Is there some way i can make X think the mouse is there when it isnt? Or some command i can add to the hotplug scripts to tell X to check the mice again? Thanks Tom - -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~tb100 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9pATZXCpWOla2mCcRAiCYAKCeZIvNFeai5ZY5YtlPmXm0QtSx6gCgm0wP lcZv/PW8Mt9TFzIFxwXNhTw= =2zMt -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .NET [OT]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 Oct 2002 1:08 pm, Price, Erik wrote: > "Web Services"... such an ephemeral concept. No one can say what they are. Yep, i spent the summer writing web services, and basically came up with the definition that they were basically application level protocols that transfer information (mostly XML) with the http protocol. Then i had to use a web services library that used an extension (and non compatible) http based protocol, so i currently have no specific defination. It just seems that everyone is using the term to make their product buzzword compliant, and as no one really knows what it means, a 'web services product' can do pretty much anything. Oh the fun of marketing. Tom - -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~tb100 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9qxD2XCpWOla2mCcRArZCAJ4k+ZRMmPp1S6pEvJ3HkTiIYvXA0ACePi7a wuEyqnzzTOXYDs26CF7a+0k= =U7ne -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: msttcorefonts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 6:16 pm, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:27:05AM -0700, Michael West wrote: > > I thought this didn't work anymore since microsoft pulled their > > fonts. > > I don't know if the package has been fixed, but you can still get the > fonts from http://corefonts.sf.net/ It has. Tom - -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~tb100 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9uDC9XCpWOla2mCcRAmIaAJ0bnUyYYRZ1MkUl2yqZa+p8fBr51ACfWcy4 tEuCP67Jm8ihz9X8GR9Aejc= =Gi8A -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless networking question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 29 Oct 2002 8:25 pm, Ray wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:44:57PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've recently bought a notebook, and I'm planning to buy > > a wireless network card (PCMCIA) for it as well. > > > > My question is, that the notebook also contains a built in > > 100 MBit NIC, and I'm not sure whether I'd need to do anything > > special to make the two work together... No, what youll probably find (true with me) is that inserting the wireless card will cause that to become the default network interface. > > Presuming that installing the wireless NIC goes well, > > if I assign it the next available IP on the same subnet than > > the 100 MBit is on, would it work automatically? For a start, the wireless and cabled network should NOT be on the same subnet, they are physically 2 different networks. Also, you cant use 2 nics in the same machine on the same subnet, unless you are trying to do bridging (or am i thinking of bonding?) to increase the bandwidth. It sounds like you need to read up some more on general ip networking. > > If I then disconnect the fixed ethernet cable to move around, > > would all trafic then automatically be routed through the > > other NIC? Most cards (i belive) have no idea that youve unplugged the cable, so no actual settings will change, but if your wireless card has the default route anyway it wont matter. On another note, may i reccomend the netgear MA401 wireless card, ive been using it now for a little over a month and it is a brilliant bit of kit. Tom - -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~tb100 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9vwNPXCpWOla2mCcRAt0EAKCoeRKevMKCwDBAAJWlwIV4JgdRlQCeMbM4 mR1+sitytv+F1F3x3xSRWnU= =eOyA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printing - simple way out?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 08 Nov 2002 10:57 am, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all! > > ever since i shfted to linux from windows, the printer has only been a > paper weight on my desk. > > i use a fine hp deskjet 710c printer and i could not set it up while > installing linux. > > i will surely like to install it now and start using it right away. i read > through linux printing .o rg and it was beyond my comprehension. is it so > complicated, after all, to set-up a printer? > > are there any simple utilities that will do the trick? like add printer > wizard in windows? > > thanx in advance for help if you apt-get install cuspsys, foomatic-db and cupsomatic-ppd you will be able to set up printers in the kde control center very easily. Tom - -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~tb100 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9y5rtXCpWOla2mCcRAv3iAJ9mp3TW+jNxbArYTc0DvlOkAYjBqACghbF3 okSwCm1EUKHCZ+hT0GOqqTc= =7Vg4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to install cups?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 08 Nov 2002 1:28 pm, infotechsys wrote: > Hi, > I'm still confuse as to how to install cups. > I purchase a set of cd for woody stable and > after all the reading I did I'm not sure what > I do next. I assume that I use "apt-get", but > how do I tell apt-get what cd to use? Also, > is there a way of using a debian command > to see what packages I have on the cd? > Later- > Wayne apt-get install cupsys foomatic-db cupsomatic-ppd fomatic-bin Tom - -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~tb100 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9y8TYXCpWOla2mCcRAg8eAJ48z4SVRm4yuKwdJLoZ5HjBHQBpfACgplwD QS+dVEj4NbNrchJ80UlTSTs= =LmCZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins
On Friday 29 Nov 2002 10:04 am, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Why not create a wrapper script that would download all those plug-ins > (Flash+Java+Real Player...). > Is this allowed ? > > I think it would be a good idea to include this in Debian, so you could > apt-get the plugins without violating the distribution licence. Flash and realplayer are already in debian, and you can get java debs from blackdown. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what's everyone's favorite audio setup?
On Sunday 01 Dec 2002 9:07 pm, sean finney wrote: > hi all, > > i'm getting tired by my many audio-wanting apps not getting along > with one another, and i'm looking to switch to some kind of audio > environment that allows multiple programs access to the soundcard > at the same time. i know there are a few programs out there > that do this (libarts, esd, ...?), but i'd like to hear from other > folks and get their opinions for the better or worse before starting > experimenting myself. This feature seems to have quietly slipped in to ALSA 0.9 without much fanfare. I can use a variety of apps (not more than one oss one mind you) at the same time, and this isnt a sound blaster live :) If your apps dont have alsa and only oss support though, i would reccomend arts. Ive been using it for a while. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: blackdown java
On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 9:43 pm, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > On 2002.12.03 16:35 Bruce Park wrote: > > Just exactly what is blackdown java? Is this java2 from sun? I > > installed j2sdk1.3 when I was in Redhat but since I converted, I'll > > need to install the appropriate software. > > Any help or suggestion is greatly appreciated. > > Sun has their implementation of the JDK/JRE for Linux. In addition, > there's an implementation available from blackdown.org which was > available before Sun's. Its also based on suns source code, with some linux specific enhancements, bug fixes and comes in debian installable form by adding this to you /etc/apt/sources.lst: deb ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.blackdown.org/java-linux/debian/ unstable main non-free Then install : j2re1.3 j2sdk1.3 if using woody, or j2re1.4, j2sdk1.4 if using unstable. 1.3 wont work on stable, although it will probably install, and i dont know whether or not 1.4 works on woody. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail Server (LINUX)!
On Thursday 05 Dec 2002 3:05 pm, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > are there processes that run on a stand-alone system that need/use an email > server? Some daemons report errors through email, i think cron does too. They will work okay without one though normally. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: acroread and anti-aliased text
On Tuesday 10 Dec 2002 4:36 pm, Brian Stults wrote: > Hello, > > When I generate pdf's and view them in acroread (5.0.5) the fonts are > very fuzzy. For example... I create a file in OpenOffice using the > Arial font which is anti-aliased. I then print it to a postscript file. > If I view it through gv, it looks just as fuzzy at first, but then I > choose to antialias it, and it looks great. Then I convert it to a pdf > using ps2pdf. When I view it in gv, it still looks great. When I view > it in acroread, it looks very fuzzy. Even when I view it in acroread > under MS Windows, it looks very bad. This problem is to do with openoffice's printer font replacement. To fix it, run oopadmin, click on the properties buttin for your printer, and make sure you have "enable font replacement" turned on, and there should be about 8 replacements including "Arial -> Helvetica" and "Times New Roman -> Times". If you turn this off, your pdfs will be very poor quality under anything but ghostscript viewers (gv, ggv, kghostview etc). Hope this helps Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: default fonts for java applications?
On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 20:13, Michael A. Miller wrote: > I'm running ImageJ (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/) using Sun's J2SE > v 1.4.2, installed from j2sdk-1.4.2-nb-3.5-bin-linux.bin. When I > start the application, the font used for the menu bar is big > enough that the menu items don't all fit in the window. Can > anyone suggest a way to change the default font in this case. > The application itself doesn't specify a font - it just uses the > system default. look at the font.properties file for your jvm. Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)
On Thursday 14 Aug 2003 17:14, David Z Maze wrote: > Testing is still a comparatively young concept for Debian. For the > woody release, it seemed to work fairly well. At this point, the > canonical problem we've run into looks something like this: package A > depends on package base (= 1). Base is upgraded to version 2. > Packages B through Z update and now require base (>= 2), but A > doesn't. The way the testing rules work, base can't be updated, since > that would break A's dependency, but that means that none of B through > Z can be updated either. The solutions are either "wait forever" or > "intentionally break A", and the testing czars have gone with the > latter option as of late, with the result that testing is closer to > current but not necessarily useful on its own. For me personally, testing holds no appeal. You arent getting security updates like you are with stable, and you arent on the cutting edge because of glibc/gcc/whatever it is today holding it up. Personally i have never found unstable to be such, but then again im a fairly compotent user and if my machine becomes unuseable i know how to get it back the way it was. I recon you cant beet a good bit of debian unstable with a linux BBC rescue disk. How many people can say they have linux in their wallet ;) Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: What this error mean?
On Monday 11 Aug 2003 15:51, Johann Koenig wrote: > > /dev/hda: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 268 MB in 2.02 seconds = 132.67 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 100 MB in 3.02 seconds = 33.11 MB/sec > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > It's a little low right now, I've gotten close to 200 buffer-cache and > 45 buffered disk (I have a lot of disk activity right now) Seems a little slow for the buffer cache, i have a slow laptop hard disk and i get: /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 624 MB in 2.01 seconds = 311.11 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 52 MB in 3.01 seconds = 17.26 MB/sec Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: system reboots before booting
On Thursday 14 Aug 2003 16:40, David Fokkema wrote: > I'm sorry this was necessary... The fourth or seventh time? You > reinstall debian quite a lot, then. Ive installed debian all of _once_ and never looked back. That was over a year ago. Even when i was on mandrake i would reinstall with each new major release. This week, i would be mostly using ... apt Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Converting ext3->XFS
I would like to convert my disks to use the XFS filesystem (im writing software at work that uses features only xfs provides). They are currently ext3 (two large partitions with decent amount of free space). How can i back up a partitions data so that i dont lose file permissions etc, so that i can reformat them as xfs, and then restore the data on to them? Thanks Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: Converting ext3->XFS
On Friday 22 Aug 2003 11:15, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..the good old way is tarball your data, 'mkfs.xfs $dev' or > somesuch, and thenafter drop in your tarballed data. Which is exactly what i was saying, except i dont know how to make a tarball that retains all file permissions/attributes etc.. Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: Converting ext3->XFS
On Friday 22 Aug 2003 12:37, Johann Koenig wrote: > > Which is exactly what i was saying, except i dont know how to make a > > tarball that retains all file permissions/attributes etc.. > > Those should be retained by default. Make a directory with a few files > with odd permissions, tar it, untar it, and see what happens. Ahh, i had tried this already, but i just did the untar as root and it works. If you extract a tarball as user it seems to set all file ownerships to user.user instead of owner.group Nice, xfs here i come Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: OT: Why is C so popular?
On Wednesday 27 Aug 2003 14:32, Ron Johnson wrote: > Give me a better reason, like "I need to touch the hardware", or > "the scripting language I use only allows binary extensions to be > written in C". Very true, i use C for embedded work because i need direct control over the hardware, and being able to see the exact asm code generated and tweak when necessary is a huge bonus in this situation. However, if I'm writing something that isn't either performance critical or very low level platform specific code, i would always use either Java or Python (others will have their preferences here - i hear great things about ruby for instance), Ive even been known to prototype certain code in Haskell when that language seems appropriate. Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: OT: Why is C so popular?
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lets take my MUA, Evolution, for example. It's not processor > intensive. Why couldn't it be written in Python? And even processor intensive applications have few critical code paths, which can be written in some other language thats more appropriate. Python for instance makes it _very_ easier to call modules written in c, so you write any performance critical loops in c (in the case of evolution the gtk stuff is in c, and you just use a python wrapper) and write the overall program and logic in python. This way you get the best of both worlds, and is my personal preference for writing general purpose applications (especially gui apps). You even get the advantages of prototyping stuff in python first, and then just recode the performance critical pieces in c, even with recoding stuff i find this method quicker than just assuming as you need high performance you should use c/c++. As python interperetors improve even cases where you need to do this will be less and less frequent, especially as more and more high performance libraries become available and improve. C and its ilk are, in my opinion becoming less and less appropriate for user interactive applications in recent years, obviously they are many cases where C would be the ideal choice of language, but for low latency (in terms of input/output) applications, there are just Better Ways (tm) of spending programming time. Im sure many will disagree with this statement, but in my experience this is very much the case. Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: more OT: search-and-replace commands (was Re: OT: Why is C so popular?)
On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 13:24, Al Davis wrote: > On Thursday 28 August 2003 03:08 am, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > As much as I hate to admit that MS can do some things right, > > their 'ren' command (rename, instead of doing a mv from name > > to name like we do) is actually quite intelligent. > > Wasn't that part of QDOS? unix 'rename' is also pretty useful, especially when renaming sequenced files (for instance images from a digital film reel) Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: OT: Why is C so popular?
On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 14:36, Mike Mueller wrote: > On Thursday 28 August 2003 05:18, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > The One True Editor > > vi - for C, C++, Python, DocBook, HTML, whatever... that be smelling like petrol to me . Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: FW: OT: Why is C so popular?
On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 15:06, Ron Johnson wrote: > Or the poster doesn't know much about Java. Having used Java, I'd > say that Java isn't good for small programs/quick hacks. True, ive personally found java very good for two situations; 1) writing a fast (as in programmer time) multiplatform gui app 2) writing complex web applications where php/perl/whatever scripting just becomes to difficult to manage. Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: OT: Why is C so popular?
On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 20:16, Ron Johnson wrote: > The SDLC and corporate politics are independent. Academics should > take corporate politics into consideration when coming up with these > theories. Why? The SDLC (as defined in academia) is nothing to do with corporate software development, it is about applying common engineering practises to _any_ software development, commercial or otherwise. Academia is not supposed to be about providing for coporations (although often it actually is nowadays), it is about generating new and interesting (obviously not to everyone) knowledge and ideas regardless of whether they have the potential for future practical application. If they do, thats a bug bonus, if they don't they will often at least inspire some other person to follow an interesting an idea and generate some more knowledge. Look at how much pure research goes on today in many branches of science (physics and maths are good examples of this), things like research super gravity and such don't help me grow better food to feed the family, or build a nicer house, or make my day _easier_ but thats not the point. phew, drinking till the wee hours seems like a great to activate my rant mode. Ill have to find the switch that turns that off ;) Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: OT: Why is C so popular?
On Friday 29 Aug 2003 11:09, Tom Badran wrote: > If they do, thats a bug bonus Before anyone jumps on this i obviously meant 'big' but im very hungover and cant be arsed to proof read my emails. Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: /dev/lp0
On Tuesday 02 Sep 2003 10:39, Russell Shaw wrote: > Hi, > When i do: cp test.txt /dev/lp0 > shouldn't it blindly copy the text > to the port and return immediately? > (it hangs) Its a character device so it will block while it is processing each charcter. If there is no device responding it will therfore block forever i believe. Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Embedded Linux PDA
On Wednesday 11 Dec 2002 10:50 pm, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > Anyhow, really the main reason I would want one is not just for > > addresses and some scheduling, but really, I would like to be certain > > that I could ssh in to servers as necessary. > > That's a very good question... anyone with a Zaurus or similar that can > confirm or deny the ability to run a shell and shell utils? Id did some java devleopment on for the zaurus over the summer. It is trivially simple to install bash from the sharp zaurus developers site, and from the console i was able to ssh into machines. On a side note it appeared to use a packaging system based on apt :) Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Procmail attachment filtering
Can someone give me a rule to filter out .exe attachments, or any of the other kind sent by lookout viruses. I seem to get 2 or 3 of these a day and i dont even run bloody windows. Thanks Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Procmail attachment pruning (was Procmail attachment filtering)
On Friday 20 Dec 2002 6:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For some reason I read Tom's problem differently. Does somebody > have a rule to remove the attachment and retain the text of an > email? Or how do you disentangle the text from an email that has > both text and html parts (as if there are mail readers that can't > handle pure text mail)? I didnt mean to filter out attachments and leave text, i did mean just to dump all messages that contain potentially viral attachments, as there is 0 chance that someone would send me a valid email containing such an attachment. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Procmail attachment filtering
On Friday 20 Dec 2002 10:14 am, Oliver Fuchs wrote:
> I found this:
> :0
>
> * [ ]*(Content|(file)?name=).*\.(scr|exe|p(if|as)|v(bs|xd)|ba[kt]|\
> wab|cp(p|l)|asp|xls|mpe?g|reg|ini|d(iz|ll)|sys)
> { do stuff }
I tried this but it seems to filter out _all_ messages. Any chance you
possibly made a typo? I dont know enough about procmail to spot any mistakes
in your filter.
Tom
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Xnest problems
I have managed to get an Xnest session running as different user to work, and i can open gnome-session on in by giving gnome-session the --display parameter. However i would like to be able to just start Xnest and have a set of commands run automatically, the default Xnest runs empty. Ive tries using my .xinitrc but this does nothing, how can i do this? Thanks Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Interesting for artist types ...
I was just browsing the web at random, and discovered that Corel make photo paint freely avaiable (and provide debian packages). I just intsalled it on unstable and it woks well. Thought some of you guys might be interested. linux.corel.com Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Heres a dpkg challenge ..
How can i get a list of all the 'suggested' packages for those the packages i have installed, without the 'suggested' packages i already have. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GTK2 apps and kde
I run kde (3.1rc) as my desktop environment, but also use 2 gtk apps (gimp 1.3 and synaptic) both of which use GTK 2. Gimp picks up the theme settings and uses the xft libraries to do antialiased fonts just fine. However synaptic neither picks up the theme settings or uses xft unless i run one of the gnome control center dialogs, or the control center itself. I dont know if this is a bug or the proper behaviour of the new gtk. Any pointers would be a bonus. Thanks Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ArgoUML
On Thursday 02 January 2003 6:05 am, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > ArgoUML-0.12 Runs fine on this: > Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.1-b21) > Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.1-b21, mixed mode) > > downloaded and installed directly from java.sun.com Also works fine with the blackdown debian packages. You might need to edit /usr/bin/argouml to set which jvm to use if you have things like gij or kaffe installed. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Heretic2 install-trouble
On Friday 17 Jan 2003 7:46 pm, Claus Christian Larsen wrote: > >Do anyone knows how to install heretic2 on debian 3.0 geforce2 ? > > clalar@debian:~$ su > Password: > debian:/home/clalar# cd /cdrom > debian:/cdrom# sh setup.sh > Unable to find file 'bin/x86/heretic2' > > > debian:/cdrom# ls > Manual.html autorun.inf bin-x86-glibc-2.1.tar.gz icon.bmpsetup.sh > README base data.tar.gz icon.xpmwin32 > README.more bin help setup.data > debian:/cdrom# cd /cdrom/bin/x86 > debian:/cdrom/bin/x86# ls > glibc-2.1 > debian:/cdrom/bin/x86# cd /cdrom/bin/x86/glibc-2.1 > debian:/cdrom/bin/x86/glibc-2.1# ls > heretic2 > debian:/cdrom/bin/x86/glibc-2.1# > To install with glibc > 2.1 you need to use the updated installer from loki. There are mirrors of their updates if you search on goodle. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ATI rage Mobility M1 and 3D accerelation
On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 12:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > perhaps glx gears is designed to run in software No it isnt. If you X is in anything other thatn 16bpp then you 3d acceleration will be shite with this card. The simple test is to run glxinfo and see if you have the line: Direct Rendering: Yes If it is this then everything is fine, if it is 'No' then you havent set something up properly. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPP asks my ISP for password
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 Sep 2002 10:25 pm, Anna Lawless wrote: > Having finally got what I thought was a working box, I can't dial > out. Whichever method I use, I either can't connect to my ISP or > the connection is refused by my box. > I type 'pon', having set up ppp in the normal Debian way. Nothing > happens. I'll go back into it to try to find the log message. > I can dial out with kppp, but as soon as I'm connected pppd dies, > with the message 'cannot obtain a password for this IP address'. > Obviously I can't get a password from my ISP and I've searched > everywhere to try to find out which file it's in. You need to edit your /etc/ppp/options file an have the option noauth (i think it is commented out by default). Also make sure there is no 'auth' option somewhere else in the file. Tom - -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~tb100 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9cookXCpWOla2mCcRAlvUAJ9REm6VlmzgvgFmHsSWXxXapBd4/gCg2h6P Vd4SnUuydNJhk0/1SLft7dQ= =pHeR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: asf format
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 02 Sep 2002 11:17 am, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hello Andrei > > apt-cache search asf turns up > avifile-player - Video player for AVI/ASF/WMF files > > You may want to try out mplayer or xine as well I can confirm that xine happily plays these - -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~tb100 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9c0xeXCpWOla2mCcRAhb+AKCZ+45iAStfkyILJCaAKKdN2jhEywCdEuwt ikYUZjfPuDCehPJf+zCT2TI= =zl2Y -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB EZ-Link network on Linux-to-Win98?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 Sep 2002 3:44 am, Jeff Maxson wrote: > Awhile back I got myself an EZ-Link cable from Anchor Chips. Not > exactly sure how they work, but it makes the computer at each end of > the cable think it is talking to a slave somehow so that they > communicate using (I think) ethernet protocol of somekind. > > Of course, this came with Windows drivers. Of course they seem to have > ceased making this now. and of course I am now a linux convert. Now, > given that, it sure is nice to have the two computers that our family > has all hooked up very easy-like: I mean, 20 mins, popping in the > driver CD and plugging in the USB cables and they are talking in > Win98. I am expecting this to be much more non-easy in Linux, but has > anyone got a step-by-step method on how to make this work in Linux so > I can talk to my wife's Win98 laptop? > > I googled and there was one thread sort of about this last December on > some newsgroup somewhere, but it was just discussing some things about > it in general. I can bet I will need to get something new going with > the USB 1.0(1.1?) ports I've got on the Linux box, and I would bet I > need to get samba up and going as well. That would all be new to me, > but first off, do I need a special linux driver for the thing, and if > so, is there one out there You will have to build your own kernel, but there are experimental drivers for this in the USB section. Apart from that i cant help, but thats somewhere to start looking. If by talk to your wifes laptop you mean file sharing, you need to use samba, as windows is very limited in its network filesystem support (no NFS, sftp etc). Tom - -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~tb100 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9fPbNXCpWOla2mCcRAl4EAJ9az+trGqkpOw8hzxEJCJNu+/4mbgCcCpTK Fa+d4LlSv2JVrDdX4mzBtK8= =yiyg -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: latest msttcorefonts broken?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 Sep 2002 11:23 pm, DvB wrote: > I ran an apt-get upgrade a while back, which upgraded my msttcorefonts > package. Ever since then mozilla, which I had configured to use the > monotype-arial-iso8859-1 fontset from that package keeps printing the > following error message over and over (but doesn't appear to be causing > any other problems), even after I reset the fonts to the default values: > Any ideas as to how I might fix this? The problem is it that debian installs all its fonts into a different location that X expects, and then makes a symbolic link to the font files. The latest msttcorefonts doesnt create the proper links. The directories you need to examine are /usr/share/fonts/truetype and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType Tom - -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~tb100 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9h8sJXCpWOla2mCcRAkuJAJ98UZCr+rVjRnVLCiF4tyIhD5ZiRQCgyawq fyfaQDHXPZASYUxflGGe2vo= =xxvc -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A Good FTP Client.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 Sep 2002 1:09 am, Gord Berta wrote: > The default gFTP client always gives me a headache, in any distro. > The one I found the most user friendly is kBear. Drag and drop from hard > drive to your web site and vice versa. > The problem is when I apt-get kbear in 2.7, I get the following files will > be removed, kdebase, kdenetwork, konqueror, kxmirpc...all of which will > hose the kde desktop that I primarily use. > Is there a kde3 freindly version of another ftp client that someone could > point me in the right direction. You could just use konqueror. It supports ftp and sftp. Tom - -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~tb100 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9k7spXCpWOla2mCcRAiy3AJ9m9vonPerTjs/gNoMMR7xp2ZkytQCgg0NV m1GQlj4QSmgrbRtOpZ7UH0Q= =jdgr -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shopping
On Friday 28 November 2003 13:02, Rus Foster wrote: > On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Richard Kimber wrote: > > All I can think of:- > > > > 2 boxes Tesco 3-ply paper hankies > > Radio Times > > 1 tin Crapso Olives > > Peregrino Water > > 1 box tonic > > Grab a pack of 12 guiness whilst there :) To continue with this random thread, my shopping from yesterday was: Large bottle cider bag chestnuts cauliflower Rich tea biscuits Fairly bizarre Tom -- ^__^| Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\| Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
USB Device mounting
Is there anyway i can get usb (and firewire if possible) mass storage devices to automount and put an icon on the users kde desktop when a device is plugged in? If i could do this without some prior knowlege in the fstab about the devices that would be even better. I believe i read somewhere that mandrake does this and it would be really nice if i could just apt-get something that does this for me. Thanks Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB Device mounting
On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 05:13, Paul Johnson wrote: > > If i could do this without some prior knowlege in the fstab about > > the devices that would be even better. > > The above should work that way, but if you want it to work that easy > on the command line, just edit the fstab. Besides, learning is good > for you. Don't actively avoid learning, ignorance isn't what brought > you to Debian. Im perfectly familiar with fstab, thats not why i wanted to avoid it. The reason was simply that depending on the number, type and order of usb devices plugged in, the actual device names can be different, hence i wanted it to use the model id's and so on to generate say /mnt/camera or /mnt/ usbstick rather than sdb/sdc etc which may be different depending on whether the stick or the camera was plugged in first. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian, 2.6 kernel and WIFI card on laptop ?
I had the same problem. In vanilla 2.6.0 there is a bug with irq assignment so isa devices (16bit pcmcia cards use the isa bus) will not work. You need to get the mm1 (or newer if there is one) patch that contains the fix for this. Tom > zeDek > > On 6 Jan 2004, Xavier Maillard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mused: > > Hi, > > > > I have asked everywhere I could about that. Nobody until now could > > find a solution. So I am trying as a last resort here ;) > > > > Here I have an ACER TM803 laptop running perfectly except one thing: > > PCMCIA. > > > > This is not that important but I prefer to be free and get rid of my > > wired ethernet connection when at home. > > > > I use a Debian SID GNU/Linux with a vanilla 2.6.0 kernel. All has been > > done accordingly to advice I receive here and there. It has support > > for PCMCIA devices, Wireless and orinoco support. So I am using a > > wireless driver from the kernel since it worked pretty well under > > 2.4.x for me. > > > > I also have the wireless tools suite installed and all is done in the > > interface files (ie /etc/network/interface). > > > > The Wireless card is Linksys WPC11 running in managed mode. > > > > I think my setup is good since it is the one that used to run under > > the 2.4.x kernel series. > > > > Problem is that when inserting the card, first I don't ear any 'bip' > > sound as it used to do. Then the card is no longer able to connect to > > the AP (also by linksys). > > > > I remember that not that far ago, it worked but as I faced problem > > keeping the connection up, I gave up and went back at my fidèle wire > > > > :) > > > > Now it just doesn't want to connect. > > > > Have anyone any clue I could follow to (at last) have this working ? > > > > Thank you. > > > > P.S: my /etc/init.d/pcmcia script file contains now a 'exit 0' at the > > top since I was told that PCMCIA and kernel 2.6.0 was no good. I only > > now use hotplug stuff as recommended. > > > > zeDek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Looking for bleeding edge distro
On Thursday 22 January 2004 20:37, Brad Cramer wrote: > Are there any Debian based distros that use KDE 3.2rc1, kernel 2.6.x, > XFree4.3.0 all of that bleeding edge type stuff. I am willing to give > anything a try as long as it is deb based (don't like RPM's) > Thanks There are packages available for kde 3.2, check out the kde-debian mailing list archive on lists.debian.org, there was a thread about 2 days ago. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: more or less
On Friday 11 Jul 2003 8:08 pm, Piero wrote: > When I attempt to read a man page, the reading takes place through > "more", not through "less"; which shell variable do I have to modifie, > and how (.profile?)? You need to use update-alternatives to set 'pager' to be less instead of more. Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: help with configuring PCMCIA modem
On Tuesday 15 Jul 2003 10:02 am, Andreas Fromm wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to configure a Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet/Modem card. The > Ethernet seems to be working OK, but I need more the Modem then the > Ethernet adapter. Here is the relevant section of /var/log/syslog. Is > there any way to deptermine which IRQ is the xirc2ps_cs module trying to > use, and maybe to specify another? Modules look fine, just try dialing on serial ports until one works (probably ttyS3). Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: installation and set up
On Tuesday 15 Jul 2003 4:20 pm, Jesse Meyer wrote: > If you want to be ambitious, learn vim/emacs and latex. Perfect for all > typesetting needs, but it has a huge learning curve. Ive just been getting into lyx which abstracts from the latex and is really easy to use. Ive been very impressed and cant really see myself opening any other word processor for a while. It has an xforms interface which should be _reasonably_fast on the system we are talking about. Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: LaTeX vs. lout
On Tuesday 15 Jul 2003 7:12 pm, Vittorio wrote: > Has anyone of you debianists used the two typesetting systems? > > What are your impressions? Used the LyX frontend to latex and i think it is great. Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: selective apt-get upgrade options
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 4:31 pm, wsykes.lists wrote: > Hello , > I am would like to use apt-get upgrade, but with the ability to choose > which packages i can upgrade. For example when i type apt-get upgrade i get > a huge list of packages most of which i dont care to upgrade. > > Is there a way to do a selective apt-get upgrade? apt-get install or you can pin the packages you dont want to upgrade Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: Blackdown Java Install Issue
On Friday 25 Jul 2003 15:31, Ed Lawson wrote: > Just went to install the 1.4 Java debs from Blackdown for my unstable box. > When doing so I get a message requiring that I accpt the Sun license, but > there seems to be no way to do this and certainly cannot click on any > options as sugested. This hangs the install. > > Anyone else encountered this problem? Solutions? press 'q' to quit more (the pager) and then type 'accept' and press enter Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: Blackdown Java Install Issue
On Friday 25 Jul 2003 17:32, Florian Ernst wrote: > Actually it is 'yes' ;) but it should by obvious what to type once Ed > gets there... OK, OK, its been a while. > Sorry for nitpicking, You're forgiven ;) Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: rpms and dependencies-SOLVED
On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 17:42, J. Zidar wrote: > Thanks. I did as both have written and now the program is automagically > installed! One question: What is the point of the rpm command if it is > unsafe to install RPMs directly? Its needed for LSB compliance, and i think alien uses it or its libraries to produce rpms (alien converts both ways) Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: pointing device on thinkpad
On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 11:31, Richard Lyons wrote: > Woody bf2.4 on Thinkpad570. I have "mouse" (that red nipple in the > middle of the keyboard) working normally in X, but nothing when in > text mode. I can't see anything obviously relevant on google. Can > anyone point me in the right direction? I am particularly keen to > have middle button cut-and-paste active - I hate copying long paths > and filenames. you need gpm running to get a mouse on the console. (apt-get install gpm) And you will then want to reconfigure x to read from the gpm device rather than directly from the mouse -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: pointing device on thinkpad
On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 12:23, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Thursday 31 July 2003 11:30, Tom Badran wrote: > [...] > > > you need gpm running to get a mouse on the console. (apt-get > > install gpm) > > > > And you will then want to reconfigure x to read from the gpm device > > rather than directly from the mouse > > Aah. You don't happen to know exactly how that configuration should > look? On installing gpm, it does Sorry mate, i dont use it so i cant be exactly sure. The gpm configuration looked fine, then do a dpkg-reconfigure xfree86-common (or is it xserver-xfree86) and on the question about the mouse there you use /dev/gpmdata (or something similiar, its in the list of available options) Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Using exim4 and fetchmail with imap and authenticated smtp
Im using exim4 and fetchmail to recieve email from an imap server using tls, and send using authenticated smtp on an smtp host at the same site. However, when i look over the headers of emails i send, i see lots of them contain [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is my local username, rather than the email address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this normal and am i being paranoid? I set up all the packages making as little modification as possible to what debconf produced. I made a few changes to get authenticated smtp working, and did my fetchmail by hand and it all seems to work, i just worry about things ;) Thanks Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: accessing a fuji digital camera
On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 22:17 +0200, LeVA wrote: > And after I try to mount it (mount /dev/sda /mnt/fuji): > > Jun 14 20:43:49 leva kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 > Jun 14 20:43:49 leva kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on > dev 08:00. > > What could be the problem? /dev/sda is the physical drive, to mount the disk it will likely be sda1 or sda2 you need to mount. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 3 gigs enough?
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 13:58 -0500, Cecil wrote: > Ok. I just have never gone without an ide. I'm a student and have never > done much programming. I haven't even gotten into programs that require > more than one file to build. If you dont mind which language you use, python would be an excellent choice as you can use any editor you need, and you dont have to deal with a build system as you just run 'python file.py' to run your code. It also has a very good core feature set and libraries making it possible to do anything you need with very little code. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.3 and lsmod
On Thu 26 February 2004 11:47, T. Albert wrote: > Hello debian-user, > > i've just installed kernel 2.6.3. on my pc router. and > it's successfull. everything was fine until i run lsmod and i > found this error: > > shaper:~# lsmod > Module Size Used byNot tainted > lsmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented You probably need to install "module-init-tools". Just as a warning though, as soon as i started using -mm1 instead of vanilla 2.6.3 all hell broke loose with module loading/unloading and it basically all buggered up. It seemed that many system calls related to modules just block forever but i necer looked that much into it. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Southbridge
How can i find out (prefereably from software) which southbridge my motherboard uses. lspci and lshw dont seem to have what i need, and i cant find it anywhere on the net/in documentation. Thanks Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xmms with gtk2? Why did no one tell me about this?
I just discovered the beep-media-player, this little gem has to be the most under advertised bit of software i have ever seen. Basically its xmms but with a gtk2 interface and its really, really nice. And if that was the last gtk1 app you had installed you can finally free up that disk space. Once gnucash is ported that will be great ;) Just thought id share Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Southbridge
On Fri 27 February 2004 01:54, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 13:58, Tom Badran wrote: > > How can i find out (prefereably from software) which southbridge my > > motherboard uses. lspci and lshw dont seem to have what i need, and > > i cant find it anywhere on the net/in documentation. > > DO you know what Model/Brand it is? Is it Pentium/II/III/4/Celeron? > Is it Athlon, AthlonXP? Come on... how are we gonna help? Its a pentium4-M > When you are booting during BIOS, try to get the BIOS String. > > Search using Google on that. Or search on the Model Number/Brand. I have tried, however as it is a laptop its _really_ hard to find any detailed information, and the spec sheets from the manufacturer (i bought it from an oem, and they have no docs either) dont give that information. Thanks Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's the tool to set /ect/rc.* links?
stan wrote: I've forgoten what the tool to set the startup links in teh /etc/rc.* directories is. I was thinking it was update_rc, but that doesn't seem to exist. Can someone refersh my memory? man -k seesm to be failing me here. Its update-rc.d Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Useful new package management tool
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 12:20 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > There is another debian-related script at my site. It simply looks for > > packages you've removed but not purged and gives you the chance to purge > > them. OK; I'm going to brace myself for the news that this has been > > done before too :-). > > Well, if it HAS already been done I don't know about it. It wouldn't be > hard to do it just from a command line, but a script to handle it would > be nice IMO. Just make sure it shows which packages would be purged and > asks for confirmation BEFORE it actually purges them... :) Synaptic already can do it ;) Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Newbie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody. Im a mandrake convert whos fallen in love with debian. Best installer ive used yet :) I just wanted to know what the various 'debians' (SID, woody, potatoe) people refer to. Thanks Tom -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9Gr1ZXCpWOla2mCcRAtQTAJ9/jy2Qoz5ByfPqLstU7VPrsLH7zwCfbYN5 4/eFnMvTHaxo2lHIIzUhWtc= =y1Z0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Newbie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 Jun 2002 8:28 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:23:05AM +0100, Tom Badran wrote: > > Hi everybody. Im a mandrake convert whos fallen in love with debian. > > Best installer ive used yet :) > > A rare compliment for the Debian installer. :) Well i think it is wonderful. Ive never been given so much choice in what (and how) i install. It also explains everything fully and gives me the options of adding little bits of 'obscure' configuration for hardware that might need it. Cant imagine anything better. Tom -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9GsVqXCpWOla2mCcRAq/YAJ9rkBRMwHhkcnQpW665oRVLK2WfRACdHJWL PJcmUKoU3vR9IMK2rUS9vIc= =Jj8C -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
APMD Under Debian Woody
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Using woody, i have apmd installed. But the /etc/init.d/apmd script does nothing regardless of what option (Start|Stop|etc) i pass to it (doesnt even print the warning when you pass no options). The only way i can get apmd to start is by issuing the apmd command. I havent altered the script or any settings, the only difference being i use a custom compiled 2.4.18 kernel, which has working apm (it works fine if i manually run the command). Any ideas on how to fix the script, is it a know problem? Or do you need more info. Tom -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9HnsVXCpWOla2mCcRAppjAJ0XYJ5yqGY8596JsXTvBnh7WydWJACfezpG 9gcCG3nTF7jVs6HAmOyZA9s= =hRvu -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
