Re: anon ftp problems

1998-11-12 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > : > Hmm, there isn't even a lib or bin directory! I'm using ProFTP (just > : > noticed that the subject makes it look like I'm running anonftp). I can > : > copy these over from an old install, but what

Re: HELP slink upgrade: netscape: locale `C' not supported

1998-11-12 Thread Jeff Noxon
Re-install xlib6g and it should work. Now if only I could get Acrobat working again... Regards, Jeff

/dev/cdrom problem

1998-11-12 Thread Vincent Murphy
i can't use xplaycd or any other cd playing program as a normal user. the message i get from xplaycd is that permission is denied to use /dev/cdrom. i can make the program work using sudo though. any way i can fix this? i will supply diagnostics if someone shows me how to get them. regards, vinny

SIOCADDRT error message

1998-11-12 Thread wb4mle
I also get this error message on boot. The route command seems to be broken, as the route manpage syntax will not add the loopback route and generates this message. Don't know enough about it to tell exactly what is broken (package-wise). -- Eddie Seymour, WB4MLE E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP KE

HELP slink upgrade: netscape: locale `C' not supported

1998-11-12 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i did just managed to get a working (almost ;) slink distrib, but now netscpae (not installed through dpkg tho, but the version installed with dpkg has the same problem) tells me: /usr/local/netscape/netscape netscape: locale `C' not supported. Perhaps the $XNLSPATH environment

ssh and X11 question: tcp_wrappers?

1998-11-12 Thread Colin Telmer
Hi, when I ssh to another sshd machine, I can't forward X11 connections back to the machine where I am logged into the console. I always get the following error message: bertha:~$ netscape telmer.com: Remote: Fwd X11 connection from BERTHA.GSIA.CMU.EDU refused by tcp_wrappers. X connection to ber

Where is makeinfo?

1998-11-12 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Is makeinfo available in the unstable tree yet? If so, what package is it in? I couldn't find one. Thanks, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08

iBCS: how to get function key support

1998-11-12 Thread Steve Hsieh
Are there any iCBS users out there? Does anyone know if it's possible to get function key support for SCO binaries? Only F1-F4 seem to work. Thanks.

Re: building maxima problem

1998-11-12 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
What about "autoconf" utility? From man autoconf: NAME autoconf - creates scripts to configure source code pack­ ages using templates SYNOPSIS autoconf [ --help | -h ] [ --localdir=dir | -l dir ] [ --macrodir=dir | -m dir ] [ --version ] DESCRIPTION To crea

Re: Ptolemy in debian?

1998-11-12 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
I have downloaded it a few days ago, so I suppose it was the second version. After running pigi I get something like this: PI initialization error (I don't remember the exact message, because I've purged the deb package and started to experiment with rebuilding from original sources)

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #1271

1998-11-12 Thread Jeff Katcher
"J.L.M." wrote: > 2940. I installed Redhat and Turbolinux on it just fine. I > am using it now, X, IP Networking, everything is fine. I want > to whack this system and install debian now. I really do want to > do this. Yes I have a backup. > > When I try to install Debian, either booting f

dselect listing

1998-11-12 Thread Daniel E. Hollis
I mucked up my package list. I'm trying to install kde and xfree86, the stable versions. One of the 2 required, so I thought, a xlibc _unstable_ version. I connected to the local debian distribution ftp site and got the unstable directory listings. Now, dselect wants to upgrade _everything_ t

Apache errors

1998-11-12 Thread Gossamer
Every time somebody views a page off my webserver I get a line like this in the error log: [Fri Nov 13 08:22:26 1998] [warn] handler "server-parsed" not found, using default handler for: /home/gossamer/public_html/vim/index.html And, not surprisingly, it's not processing inline CGI stuff. I'v

Re: Notebook for Debian

1998-11-12 Thread Joey Hess
David Welton wrote: > Don't want to spend a fortune > Don't need anything fantastic > Do want something that works well with Debian > Don't want to have to use proprietary X servers. Hm, my toshiba 445cdx (p-133, 16 mb ram, 2 mb vram, sb, 1 gb disk, cd drive, floppy, 2 pcmcia) cost about $1100, an

Re: X window problem

1998-11-12 Thread lead
Hi! }-> I have a Dell Optiplex Gxa that I am attempting to install X windows on. }-> }-> I can get XF86Setup to run , can setup the mouse properly, than comes the [...] }-> window the following happens i´ve got an rage pro, too, but the "II"-type }-> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect Can't Connect erro

Sendmail 8.9.1 upgrade database problem

1998-11-12 Thread Stuart Trusty
hi Guys. While trying to fix some other problems on my Alpha, I upgraded to Sendmail 8.9.1-15 and saw the message: "The format of sendmails databases has changed (now using libdb2)." "You *MUST* update your databases (newaliases, users, etc.)" "before allowing sendmail to restart." i use virtuse

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-12 Thread Adam Shand
> I am running on a Pentium 233 with 64 Meg and installing StarOffice > crashes my machine too. It crashes everytime I try. I think it damaged > my partition somehow. Now its time to get gwp working. which x server are you using? i'm in the process of converting from s3v to svga, and if it still

'Cannot perform malloc' error

1998-11-12 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi, after installing the new slink netscape binaries (4.5-1) I get this error messages when starting the program: ERROR: /usr/lib/netscape/45/communicator/plugins/libnullplugin.so: undefined symbol: FE_GetToplevelWidget Cant load plugin /usr/lib/netscape/45/communicator/plugins/libnullplugin.so.

Staroffice 5

1998-11-12 Thread alexander.schwartz
Hi, I run Staroffice 5 on my linux (2.0.34, hamm, updated libc6 to 2.0.7u-4, 128 MB RAM, Mach64) and it runs ok. Nice viewer for M$ Files, but I still stick to TeX. The Palmpilot support seems to work only on windows platform, I didn't find it on linux yet. The only thing that doesn't seem to wor

Notebook for Debian

1998-11-12 Thread David Welton
Right, the usual question... basically, I: Don't want to spend a fortune Don't need anything fantastic Do want something that works well with Debian Don't want to have to use proprietary X servers. This is for work, so I don't want to have to dick around with it much, and especially don't want my

Re: source code for /bin/login?

1998-11-12 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 02:09:33PM -0500, John B. Fink wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Due to an extreme amount of idiocy at the place where I work, I have need > to modify the /bin/login program so that instead of displaying this -- > > adler login: > > it will display this -- > > login: > > [snipp

source code for /bin/login?

1998-11-12 Thread John B. Fink
Hi folks, Due to an extreme amount of idiocy at the place where I work, I have need to modify the /bin/login program so that instead of displaying this -- adler login: it will display this -- login: I have looked through the /etc/login.defs file but can see no options to eliminate displaying

Re: Bay Area debian meeting

1998-11-12 Thread Tom Lear
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Joey Hess wrote: > Tom Lear wrote: > > Are you planning a key signing? I've wanted to have a key signing > > party/whatever in the bay area for a while now. > > I think a key signing would be a good thing. Everyone who wants to, just > bring about 10 copies of a paper with

Re: Debian and AMI MegaRAID

1998-11-12 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On another list, Alan Cox pointed out that the kernel 2.0.36pre series includes the latest Megaraid driver. To install this kernel to a Debian system, get a pristine 2.0.35 source and unpack it in the usual manner. Dont use the Debian source package, I think it is patched already. Go to Alan's

Re: Debian and AMI MegaRAID

1998-11-12 Thread John B. Fink
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Fabio Belletti wrote: > > We have a dual Pentium II server with AMI Mega RAID Controller but > we don't know if it works with Debian Linux 2.0 because the 'recently > released' Linux driver from AMI seems to work only with the latest Red Hat > version (5.2) or the p

Re: Debian and AMI MegaRAID

1998-11-12 Thread John B. Fink
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Fabio Belletti wrote: > > We have a dual Pentium II server with AMI Mega RAID Controller but > we don't know if it works with Debian Linux 2.0 because the 'recently > released' Linux driver from AMI seems to work only with the latest Red Hat > version (5.2) or the p

Debian and AMI MegaRAID

1998-11-12 Thread Fabio Belletti
We have a dual Pentium II server with AMI Mega RAID Controller but we don't know if it works with Debian Linux 2.0 because the 'recently released' Linux driver from AMI seems to work only with the latest Red Hat version (5.2) or the previous Red Hat version (5.0/5.1) with the driver v 0.92

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-12 Thread Jens Ritter
Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > has anyone else managed to get star office 5 to work? i've been eagerly > awaiting the official release of star office 5 because everytime i ran the > pre-release it would get to the welcome screen and then lock my entire X > display and i had to reboot to

Re: Printing Error

1998-11-12 Thread Martin Schulze
This is better asked in debian-user. Regards, Joey Carmen Correia wrote: > > I work at a public hospital in Portugal. The hospital has a LAN of > almost 300 personal computers. The vertical distribution is made > through a FDDI ring and the horizontal distribution is made through > Ethe

Re: Debian on Notebooks

1998-11-12 Thread Ian Lynagh
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, D'jinnie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >:> The Acer notebook uses a very nice Neo magic video card. The only thing >:> that is not nice about this video card is that it is not supported by >:> Xfree 3.3.2. >:> >:> The Neo magic card is supported by Xfree 3.3.3 but t

Re: sound in new 2.1.x kernels

1998-11-12 Thread Eric Jacoboni
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How did you get the irq options? Did you edit it by hand? Yep, i just read the card documentation. Then i've put these values during the 'make xconfig' step. -- --- Éric Jacoboni « J'

Re: emacs font lock

1998-11-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Vincent Murphy wrote: > i want emacs to do font locking on my java code, but i don't want to use > cc-mode. how do i do this? > > The following > > M-x fundamental-mode > M-x font-lock-mode > > does not work. Have you tried M-x java-

Setting gateway

1998-11-12 Thread Tomas Petersson
Hello, I have just reinstalled debian 2.0 on my computer. For some reason the network has not been configured correctly. The netcard seems to work ok, and have a ipaddress assigned. Which commands do I have to issue to set up an default route so I can access the Internet or other computers on my

building maxima problem

1998-11-12 Thread Jan Krupa
I use debian2.0. I could not find binary .deb package for maxima so I would like to build maxima from resources but I do not know how to edit properly the ./configure file. Could someone please give me a hand ? >From README BUILDING: For GCL (GNU Common Lisp) version 2.0 a

building maxima problem

1998-11-12 Thread Jan Krupa
I use debian2.0. I could not find binary .deb package for maxima so I would like to build maxima from resources but I do not know how to edit properly the ./configure file. Could someone please give me a hand ? >From README BUILDING: For GCL (GNU Common Lisp) version 2.0 an

Re: dselect problems

1998-11-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "G" == Gossamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: G> Also, there are a few files that show up in the package list under G> the "Up to date" section like this: G> *** Req base base-files 2.0.3 2.0.3 Debian Base System Miscel G> Why does it want to update the file (the *'s, I assum

emacs font lock

1998-11-12 Thread Vincent Murphy
i want emacs to do font locking on my java code, but i don't want to use cc-mode. how do i do this? The following M-x fundamental-mode M-x font-lock-mode does not work. --vinny -- Vincent Murphy | UCC CompSci Student | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +353 (086) 8397405

Re: How much RAM do I need?

1998-11-12 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On 11 Nov 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > "Henry Kingman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > On the other hand, if your chipset can't cache more than 64MB, going to > | > 80MB might actually make some things slower. I'm not sure if telling the > | > kernel "mem=64M" on an 80MB machine would be eno

Netscape doesn't load

1998-11-12 Thread Roberto Ripio
Hi all, Previous problems with Netscape lend me to reinstall it from fresh. I downloaded the following packets from slink: libc6_2.0.7u-4.deb dpkg-awk_0.7.1.deb netscape-base-4_5.deb netscape-base-407_4.07-1.deb navigator-base-407_4.07-1.deb navigator-smotif-407_4.07-1.deb I installed them all w

exim and local_part

1998-11-12 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi debian community, I have sone problem using exim on my system. I have this setup: fetchmail to get mail, exim to send mail via SMTP, netscape/emacs/elm as mail reader of various users. so everytime a send a message to any user, let say joe.user exim correctly change the 'to:' field to "[EMAIL P

Re: [webmaster@weitzmann.it: debian 2.0 problems (hamm release)]

1998-11-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
> XFree86 Version 3.3.2.3 / X Window System > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) > Release Date: July 15 1998 > If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer > than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting > problems. (s

Re: some Debian problems

1998-11-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Javier Velasco wrote: > Second: I am also trying to install Debian on a PII 450 Seattle Motherboard > and I cannot have XF86config detect my mouse (PS2 of course). I have tried > all different configurations. Doesn´t Debian support ATX motherboard? Is > there any specific pack

Re: .deb package maxima

1998-11-12 Thread Yu Zhao
Hello, everybody; When I upgrade from debian 1.3 to 2.0 using autoup.sh, error occurs; Please tell me why, thank you in advance: emacs-install emacs20 emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs20 emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs20 Loading 00debian-vars... Loading 50dpkg-

.deb package maxima

1998-11-12 Thread Jan Krupa
Is there a .deb package for maxima the program for symbolical math calculations or do I have to compile it from resources ? Could you please send the answer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because the mailing list too busy for me (I read the archives). Jan Krupa

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Crash]

1998-11-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "RAI" == Raymond A Ingles writes: RAI> I don't know if it's debianized, but theres "jsrd" (joy stick RAI> reset demon) whith lets you use a joystick button to perform RAI> arbitrary actions. You can configure it to kill X on one RAI> keypress and reboot on two presses, etc. Sorry, I don't ha

Re: Window Maker 0.20.2 with latest slink

1998-11-12 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 07:51:13AM -0500, Vaibhav Goel wrote: > wmaker: error in loading shared libraries > : undefined symbol: _Xsetlocale Since you compiled WM yourself, you should recompile it again. there was *one* instance of xlib6g that had this function, current xlib6g doesn't. WM's config

Re: XEmacs shell garbage

1998-11-12 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:09:20 +0100 Marcus Geiger writes: > > XEmacs-Shell-mode doesn't seem to work correctly. I get some > [ldksjf] <- control-codes in braces. My machine is setup for > german-keymaps and I installed the german-package. I have no strange output while executing normal command li

Re: The Future of Linux: 'real' Locale support from X libs or no?

1998-11-12 Thread Alan Cox
> Glibc is good, but what about wide char, unicode etc.. etc.. etc.. ad biggum. Glibc does wide char, ncurses seems to imply it does (I've not checked yet). > toward. Is there any interest in what we have thus far at Xi? Well I know the currnt KDE doesnt handle 16bit Glyphs, Im not sure about

Window Maker 0.20.2 with latest slink

1998-11-12 Thread Vaibhav Goel
Hello; I am running the latest slink (updated with the apt-get command). I have the -8 X packages. Window Maker stopped working on this system when i updated from hamm to slink. I compiled Window Maker 0.20.2 from source and it used to work just fine before the update. Now I get the following

Re: Setting up My Modem

1998-11-12 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Larry McKenny wrote: > I am unsure how to set up my modem under Debian. > It is attached to COM 2 in DOS (WIN98 actually) and is a 56K V.90 and > K56Flex dual-mode modem running on a P2 system. When installing, wvdial > was unable to detect the modem, although it has run perfec

RE: Exim as default mailer

1998-11-12 Thread Moore, Paul
Thanks to all who offered help and comments. I now have exim as my MTA, and I'm very pleased with the results. The filtering facilities are nice - replaced what I previously used procmail for. I don't think there's anything I needed to do but couldn't with smail/procmail, which I can now do with ex

Telling apt where my files are...

1998-11-12 Thread Moore, Paul
Hi, I've just started using apt for installing and upgrading packages. I'm very impressed with it (at least as far as getting stuff off the web is concerned). What I'd like to do is use it for *all* my setup. But I can't get it to see the stuff on my (CheapBytes) Hamm CDs - which I'd like to use fo

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Crash]

1998-11-12 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On 11 Nov 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 04:46:29PM +, Rich Harran. wrote: > > > > > My Debian system just crashed. > > and is there anything I could have done to bin X > > without restarting? > > Well, if you`re the lucky owner of a dump ascii terminal, you could

Re: Linux program = dos debug ?

1998-11-12 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > There is a program called ppc on sunsite somewhere. You can watch the bits > > on the parallel port, and change it bit-by-bit with it. It describes itself > > as

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list (fwd)

1998-11-12 Thread john
Zack Brown writes: > Someone said 'apt' does. But 'apt' also deletes the package files once they > are installed (it doesn't even ask if that's what I want), which is another > wish I raised below. hasler/~ ll /var/cache/apt/archives/ total 335 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 318440 Oct 16 13:

How do I keep copies of outgoing mail?

1998-11-12 Thread Helge Hafting
I would like to keep a copy of every outgoing message I send from work, (using exmh, nmh & smail). Is there a simple way of achieving this so I won't have to cc everything to myself? Helge Hafting

Re: Netscape upgrade

1998-11-12 Thread Helge Hafting
The install .deb from slink installed the standalone communicator (glibc2) just fine for me. There was a small problem when the filename of the tar.gz file didn't match what the installer expected, there was a missing digit somewhere. Fortunately the installer write the expected filename mask in

"SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument" nit

1998-11-12 Thread Leon Breedt
hi i keep on getting the message "SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument" on bootup since i started using 2.1.x. i traced the message to this line in /etc/init.d/network: route add -net 127.0.0.0 now, will commenting out this line have any untoward effects? if so, can i upgrade to a later version of netb

Netscape upgrade

1998-11-12 Thread Andrew
Right, I think it's time I installed Netscape using the debian installer script (my current version I installed using netscape's one). I also think I'll upgrade to 4.5 or whatever the latest is (unless people have better ideas). I don't particularly want Collabra and Messenger, does the install .d

Re: saving font size in xemacs 20.4

1998-11-12 Thread Jan Vroonhof
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Garman) writes: > Whenever I change the font size in xemacs 20.4, and do a "save > options" my font change is always lost. I checked the faq, and made > sure that Options->Frame Appearance->Frame-Local Font menu is not > checked. I also have the following line included in

Re: Future of Linux (.so contracts)

1998-11-12 Thread Davide Bolcioni
Alan Cox wrote: > ... > This is so that every app doesnt install their own version of python > "just in case". That could be extended to all interpreters and some > libraries probably and a farmed out approach would IMHO be good. This is a notion of "software contract", if I understand correctly

Re: Problems with StarOffice 5.0 Registration

1998-11-12 Thread Åsmund Ødegård
Hi, Steve! If the registration button is ghosted, I think the registration is OK. Maybe this is doen automagically if you do an online registration. You get the reg. key by email in fact you need to reinstall for some reason. Maybe? just my 2¢... Wed, 11 Nov Steve Beitzel wrote: > Hello all, >

Re: [webmaster@weitzmann.it: debian 2.0 problems (hamm release)]

1998-11-12 Thread webmaster
On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 07:37:10PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > Use superformat in package fdutils Tnx! > w> 2) I tried to setup X with XF86setup and xf86config, but when I launch X I > w> get some fast writings and a black screen and the system hangs up (I reset > w> it with ctrl-alt-del)

Re: Ptolemy in debian?

1998-11-12 Thread Bostjan JERKO
On 11.11.98 10:12:00 PM wzab wrote: > Hi! >Has anybody managed to compile the Ptolemy in debian? >I know, that there is a deb package available at Vigo university >(Spain), but it didn't work for me, and there was no source version of >package to check what is wrong... >The original sources

Re: anon ftp problems

1998-11-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
[ snip ] : > Hmm, there isn't even a lib or bin directory! I'm using ProFTP (just : > noticed that the subject makes it look like I'm running anonftp). I can : > copy these over from an old install, but what's a better way to fix this? ProFTP doesn't need a lib or bin directory, which is trul

some Debian problems

1998-11-12 Thread Javier Velasco
Hi there! I have a couple of questions about Debian, and let me advance that I am pretty new to it. First: I downloaded netscape browser latest version (I guess it is 4.3) and can´t get it working (Segmentation fault) Any idea? (I have an official Debian 2.0) Second: I am also trying to install

Re: Is there any FREE alternative for l

1998-11-12 Thread Polacco Fabrizio \(NTC/He\)
> From: Leandro GFC Dutra > > Not necessarily... for example, take the KDE case. It is GPLd, ... No, it is not, even if there is written so. It is not GPL because GPL ensures that all GPLed program can be ported to Windoze and sold as a statically linked binary file, without paying *any*

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-12 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Adam Shand wrote: > > > I runs fine here. I am running slink and have tried three different > > kernels, 2.0.32, 2.0.35, and 2.1.127, all work fine. Maybe you need > > more video RAM? That thing is a resource pig. > > damn, i'm running 2.0.35 with a diamond stealth 3d 2000 (

Re: Problems with StarOffice 5.0 Registration

1998-11-12 Thread Steve Beitzel
I did realize that the key is a hash of the name/email, and I was careful about that, but that *part* of the registration process isn't the problem. Maybe I wasn't clear enough, sorry about that. My problem, specifically, is that after I successfully obtain a registration key from StarDivision, bo

Re: S/N

1998-11-12 Thread Csaba Csoma - sysadm
> > > (IMHO, maybe CPU, but BIOS for the sake of discussion). LINUX should > > > read (and not "soft" read) a serial number out of the BIOS, and not hold > > > it in software to be hacked. BIOS manufacture might be easier to > > > > Any scheme like this can be hacked. Especially -- but certainly

Re: anon ftp problems

1998-11-12 Thread Eric
Oh, I thought you were talking about using just the standard in.ftpd that comes with whatever standard Debian network package. I don't know anything about any other daemons, but I would guess that they too probably need ls and it's libs or a statically linked ls. Just create the directories. T

Re: bogomips

1998-11-12 Thread Oz Dror
> On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Oz Dror wrote: > > > Hi > > I have a pentium-II 400Mhz and a pentium MMX 200Mhz > > both have 400.59 bogomips > > Why? > > SWAG (Silly Wild-Assed Guess): > > The memory is the same speed? Since Intel guesses wrong in the branch > prediction, it must refetch the instruction

DAMN the reply button (two beers later)

1998-11-12 Thread BadlandZ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > (IMHO, maybe CPU, but BIOS for the sake of discussion). LINUX should > > read (and not "soft" read) a serial number out of the BIOS, and not hold > > it in software to be hacked. BIOS manufacture might be easier to > > Any scheme like this can be hacked. Especiall

Re: Debian Crash

1998-11-12 Thread Paul Miller
Ed Cogburn wrote: > Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > > > > what version of Netscape were you using ? The latest 4.5 or the older 4.0. > > > > I recently installed the 4.5 on my SMP system and have been having system > > freezes happening at least once a day. > > > Netscape occaisionly crashs on me to

Re: Using sound on Debian?

1998-11-12 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > Milan Durovic wrote: > > > This may sound as a stupid question, but I cannot figure out > > how to use sound on debian 2.0 system. I never used debian > > before and I installed it only recently. > > > > If you do not want to compile the kernel for so

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list (fwd)

1998-11-12 Thread Gossamer
Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... > > 3) At the end of the "install" phase, dselect asks if it should delete > > installed packages. I suggest that either the default be changed to 'no', or > > else it be made possible to change the default via a config file. I really > > hate having a s

Re: DAMN the reply button

1998-11-12 Thread mattdm
> (IMHO, maybe CPU, but BIOS for the sake of discussion). LINUX should > read (and not "soft" read) a serial number out of the BIOS, and not hold > it in software to be hacked. BIOS manufacture might be easier to Any scheme like this can be hacked. Especially -- but certainly not limited to -- w

The Future of Linux: 'real' Locale support from X libs or no?

1998-11-12 Thread Christopher Hassell
You can guess what I'll say I suppose? Glibc is good, but what about wide char, unicode etc.. etc.. etc.. ad biggum. X is the main site where that is being taken care of (i.e. fonts, keymaps, input managers for asia etc..).. and that is not now standard in any great and good way, very annoyingly

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list (fwd)

1998-11-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > Bottom line: this is a very small and easy-to-grant wish, but for those who > want it, it's a big, hard-to-get-around problem. i.e. it prevents me from > using apt, since apt deletes installed packages automatically; and with > dselect, I have to be *

Re: Problems with StarOffice 5.0 Registration

1998-11-12 Thread Bruce Jackson
Steve Beitzel wrote: > > Hello all, > > I know that people are always asking questions about how to > install StarOffice, but I couldn't find an answer in the archives about > this. I recently downloaded and successfully installed StarOffice 5.0, > except when I try to do the online regi

DAMN the reply button

1998-11-12 Thread BadlandZ
I guess I am use to BeroList. ;-) Anyhow I will try not to do it again...--- Begin Message --- Alan Cox wrote: OK, you got me on the previous. I'll look into it more, and take your word for it now. > > therefore if: Linux/hardware allowed Serial number on hardware, > > accessable in OS then: IS

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list

1998-11-12 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Jiri Baum wrote: [snip] > > I can think of a good one that really bugs me. Using the apt method from > > dselect, if a single package fails to download the none of the packages > > are installed. > > Why wouldn't they be installed? (I don't use apt.) I would've thought > the

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list (fwd)

1998-11-12 Thread Michael Beattie
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 09:23:05 -0500 (EST) From: Zack Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: dselect (or apt) wish list I'll try to respond to several people's responses in this one message, to save space. Sorry for

RE: Moving Files from Windows

1998-11-12 Thread David Karlin
> On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 08:42:55AM -0500, Costa, Michael J. wrote: > > I have just installed LINUX on another machine in my office. > The powers that > > be are reluctant at this moment to let me put in on the network. I have > > loaded some items down to my NT machine and now need to ship them

Re: anon ftp problems

1998-11-12 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Eric wrote: > The most frequent problem that causes this is that you need to have ls > in the /home/ftp/bin directory (or whatever directory you use for > anonymous ftp) and you also need ld-linux.so.2 and libc6.so.6 in > /home/f

Re: Future of Linux

1998-11-12 Thread Alan Cox
Badlandz wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > I think it is unwize at this point to make LSB conserned with X11R6 > standards. Of course it should/could comply with what X11R6, but I libX11.so.* is Xlib is X11, as are the X packages. Other stuff like themed widget sets sit on X11 (ie another library that y

RE: Future of Linux

1998-11-12 Thread BadlandZ
--- Begin Message --- Alan Cox wrote: > > > What else will the lsb cover? Or has there been a decision about that > > yet? > > The only other stuff covered at the meeting was X11. The good work XFree > does is a big help there as their binary interfaces and the X specification > API's are

Acroread

1998-11-12 Thread Tamas Nyitrai
Hello! I have upgraded my system to slink and installed some new packages as well. Generally slink works fine for me, but some of the programmes have an eerie kind of behaviour. Acroread's window - for example - is a complete mess-up. The pull-down menus are ok, but if I open any .pdf files (even

Re: anon ftp problems

1998-11-12 Thread Eric
The most frequent problem that causes this is that you need to have ls in the /home/ftp/bin directory (or whatever directory you use for anonymous ftp) and you also need ld-linux.so.2 and libc6.so.6 in /home/ftp/lib because ls depends on them...that is, unless you have a statically linked ls. On

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-12 Thread Eric
Does the S3V one really perform better? I used to use it a long time ago, but I switched to SVGA because I heard that the S3V project was simply going to be incorporated into SVGA. On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 04:58:11PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: > > hmm you're running svga not the s3v server? i wond

Re: Whatever happenend to the apsfilter package?

1998-11-12 Thread Peter Berlau
On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 11:09:15PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: > I want to use an apsfilter instead of magicfilter and I cannot find this > package. Anyone know why it is no longer in the Debian packages? [..] Look at hte contrib non-us CD package text -- Cheers Peter

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-12 Thread Adam Shand
> I've got it working with my Diamond Stealth 2000 with 4MB of RAM under > the SVGA X server. I doubt your problem has to do with lack of > hardware. hmm you're running svga not the s3v server? i wonder if that's it. i use the s3v one so i can get better resolution (i believe anyway), and now

anon ftp problems

1998-11-12 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running hamm and when a user logs in as anonymous into my ftp box, they can't see what's in the directories; they can cd into them and grab files if they know the filenames, but can't see anything through ls. Everything in ~ftp/ is owned by root, a

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-12 Thread Adam Shand
> I runs fine here. I am running slink and have tried three different > kernels, 2.0.32, 2.0.35, and 2.1.127, all work fine. Maybe you need > more video RAM? That thing is a resource pig. damn, i'm running 2.0.35 with a diamond stealth 3d 2000 (4mb ram), on a pentium 200 with 96mb ram... so while

Re: Bandwidth monitor

1998-11-12 Thread A. M. Varon
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Paul Reavis wrote: > I just set up the atlanta java users' group site at www.ajug.org; it's > running hamm. It's hung off a member's cable modem, though, and he has a > monthly bandwidth limit. Are there any handy utilities to measure > bandwidth usage so we can keep tabs on i

star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-12 Thread Adam Shand
has anyone else managed to get star office 5 to work? i've been eagerly awaiting the official release of star office 5 because everytime i ran the pre-release it would get to the welcome screen and then lock my entire X display and i had to reboot to get things back under control (i could telnet

Re: Debian Crash

1998-11-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > > what version of Netscape were you using ? The latest 4.5 or the older 4.0. > > I recently installed the 4.5 on my SMP system and have been having system > freezes happening at least once a day. > > On 11-Nov-98 Rich Harran. wrote: > > My Debian system just crashed

Re: Moving Files from Windows

1998-11-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jeff Katcher wrote: > > "Costa, Michael J." wrote: > > > > I have just installed LINUX on another machine in my office. The powers that > > be are reluctant at this moment to let me put in on the network. I have > > loaded some items down to my NT machine and now need to ship them to my > > LINUX

Re: First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > > At 08:06 PM 11/11/98 -0500, you wrote: > >Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > >> > >> At 10:26 PM 11/10/98 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > >> >Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > >> >> Ah Ha! So, the usual package dependancies that apt takes care of > >> >> is not applicable to X? (star

Re: One more convinced Linux newbie.

1998-11-12 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Kent West wrote: > > > > On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Robert Cloud wrote: ... > > > If you don't mind I've got another problem. ... > > > I've got all the Linux files on the c: Win98/dos drive. You need to "mount" them. To do this, you: * create an empty directory

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