A couple more strange "sound" probs...

1999-02-18 Thread rich
First let me thank everybody that helped me to get my kernel recompiled and support for sound! I am now running 2.2.1 and everything seems to work a little more smoothly (maybe?)... anyway, I got my SB Awe64 Gold working for playing CDs - I added myself to the "audio" group and "disk" group. A coup

Re: [RfS] Request for Submissions: Upcoming Debian Logo

1999-02-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
Martin Schulze wrote: > I'd like *everybody* think about a possible logo. Please notice the > following simple rules: > ··· > . A logo is NOT a set of letters. Thus the string "Debian" rendered > very nice is ... a picture but not a logo. Forget that. No, no! Think of Mars. Every

Re: KDEDIR and Debian packages

1999-02-18 Thread Navindra Umanee
Montreal Thu Feb 18 18:30:36 1999 Kirk Hogenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Navindra Umanee wrote: > > > > > > > Does Debian 2.1 come with a Window Maker deb compiled with > > > --enable-kde? > > > > Probably not. Debian is lame. > > > > 2.1, No. That's because the WindowMaker version in

netscape and mozilla just stop

1999-02-18 Thread Matthew Cocker
With either kernel 2.0.34 (debian install) or 2.2.1 (my own little baby) I am having troble with netscape 4.5 and mozilla (.deb packages in slink). Netscape 4.5 often cuts out (xload goes from lots of green to nothing) when reloading pages. The following two pages always crash netscape http://wxne

PCI MODEM

1999-02-18 Thread Alex
Hi, I had an ISA modem. I've recently bought another mothem, but it's PCI. The problem is that the system doesn't recognize it. Windows 98 recognizes it as a modem on COM3, using IRQ 9. I reconfigured pppd (using pppconfig) to use ttyS2 (= MSDOS COM 3). Then I used setserial to change the

Kernel 2.2.1

1999-02-18 Thread Matthew Cocker
I finally got up enough courage to upgrade to 2.2.1 and compile my own kernel. Well compiling the kernel was actually pretty painless, except that I tried to compile everything into the kernel the first time and made a huge kernel. The second time I took my time and moved lots of stuff to modules.

Re: KDEDIR and Debian packages

1999-02-18 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Navindra Umanee wrote: > > > > Does Debian 2.1 come with a Window Maker deb compiled with > > --enable-kde? > > Probably not. Debian is lame. > 2.1, No. That's because the WindowMaker version in 2.1 is 0.20, which didn't yet support KDE. Presumably, the support was added after the 2.1 fre

Re: KDEDIR and Debian packages

1999-02-18 Thread Navindra Umanee
Montreal Thu Feb 18 17:21:22 1999 George Richard Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Navindra Umanee wrote: > > > Personally, I recommend that you don't use the .debs because you won't > > find debs for any of the many other KDE applications available. I > > think it is better that you keep KDE

Re: Sentry and /sbin/setup.sh

1999-02-18 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I need to start Abacus Sentry when my machine boots, but unlike other apps | that will start from /sbin/setup.sh Sentry just crashes when I do it that way. | | Is there a way to start sentry after every other process has finished? | Perhaps by using an 'at' comm

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Free Willy!)

1999-02-18 Thread homega
Andreas Tille dixit: > > (Disappointer: I do not have anything in common with the author but like > this site since I was searching for "real" information about orca whales > after my son was looking Free Willy.) "Free Willy" is nice, and it's suggesting... never mind the animal! Sorry, I couldn

Re: qmail vs. exim

1999-02-18 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > I have been using qmail for quite some time now and have been very pleased > with it. Haven't had any problems. I noticed that the debian site plans on > moving to exim. Why? Are there some significant features that exim has? Primarily because qmail

Re: CD-RW - how to erase ?

1999-02-18 Thread vaidhy
man cdrecord :) Regards, Vaidhy > From: Pierfrancesco Caci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Now I've got this brand new Yamaha 4416 writer > how do I erase a rewritable disk ? > > Pf ** Alike for those who for Today prepare And those that after a Tomorr

Re: Root Exploit in Eterm

1999-02-18 Thread Brian Almeida
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 02:25:33PM -0600, Michael Jennings wrote: > Find the patches for this attached, one for 0.8.8, and one for 0.8.9. A fixed version of the Debian package now resides in Incoming, it will be installed into the main archive tomorrow. In the meantime, you can find these fixed .d

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Chris Waters wrote: > Actually, I tried to start with that. Look in the debian-devel archives > for a thread entitled "Mascot for Debian" (or something like that). I'm really happy to know, that my image of the Debian project is right and there are everytime people who think

the rest of argh

1999-02-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
[hmm, i'm telnetted in and mailing from the command line; vi commands don't work :) ] findsuper won't dump to standard output for some reason. It reveals, thisoffblock fs_blk_sz blk_sz lastmount 33280 32 1048577 0

CD-RW - how to erase ?

1999-02-18 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
Now I've got this brand new Yamaha 4416 writer how do I erase a rewritable disk ? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geoc

Re: Where is emacs and vi command line editing set?

1999-02-18 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 02:22:05PM +0100, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > -> A long long time ago my root account mysteriously switched to using vi > -> command-line editing instead of the default emacs, and I've been too > -> lazy to get around to fixing it until now I guess. Where is this > -> beha

help! dd wiped out source partition

1999-02-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Augh This one is *really* bad Several months ago, when i repartitioned, I fooollishly left half the disk after the last partition. Today, I printed out the partition table from fdisk, deleted the extended partion, placed a new one, and reentered the locations of the logical partitions. I t

qmail vs. exim

1999-02-18 Thread Wayne Cuddy
I have been using qmail for quite some time now and have been very pleased with it. Haven't had any problems. I noticed that the debian site plans on moving to exim. Why? Are there some significant features that exim has? Thanks, Wayne

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-18 Thread Chris Waters
Andreas Tille wrote: > So let us define first, *what* we want to show on our logo. > This is always the first step in software related things. Wy did > we step over it?? Actually, I tried to start with that. Look in the debian-devel archives for a thread entitled "Mascot for Debian" (or somethi

RE: Which Kernel for 3c905B Network Cards?

1999-02-18 Thread David Zanetti
Sorry, I've not yet had sufficient caffiene for the day yet :) You were after 3c905 not 3c509, as I've ranted about below. The 3c905's are supported in .36, unless you've got good reason not to upgrade, I'd suggest you do so. I've had no problems with the one 3c905 (aka Vortex) card I've played wi

Re: Which Kernel for 3c905B Network Cards?

1999-02-18 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
I have a machine here with two 3c509's in it, there's a standard driver for them named as 3c509 in the kernel. (might even be as a module, in which case try `modprobe 3c509`) wrong, read the message again... Card is 905B, module name is 3c59x Good Luck! OK -- David Zanetti,

Re: KDEDIR and Debian packages

1999-02-18 Thread George Richard Russell
Navindra Umanee wrote: > Personally, I recommend that you don't use the .debs because you won't > find debs for any of the many other KDE applications available. I > think it is better that you keep KDE separate in /opt/kde or > /usr/local/kde and use a program such as Smart Install to keep track

Re: How to import pub keys with gnupg

1999-02-18 Thread Christian Kurz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been experimenting with gpg and have hit a little snag. [some stuff deleted] > So, where am I going wrong? It has to be a stupid error in the export or > import. But where? You should try the option -a. So you should use the following command to extract a key "gp

RE: Which Kernel for 3c905B Network Cards?

1999-02-18 Thread David Zanetti
I have a machine here with two 3c509's in it, there's a standard driver for them named as 3c509 in the kernel. (might even be as a module, in which case try `modprobe 3c509`) Good Luck! -- David Zanetti, Unix System Administrator, Information Technology Group Wellington City Council, New Zealand

Re: Bug#33558: [SECURITY] Trivial root exploit with eterm (fwd)

1999-02-18 Thread Brian Almeida
> As I've already responded, this is not true. D'oh! I've just heard from the author differently, saying an exploit is possible with a little coding. I'll have a fixed version up by tonight. *sigh* Sorry for the confusion. pgpBa2Fq5ceEM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Web email packages question

1999-02-18 Thread Bill Bell
Hello, What packages are available that would allow me to get to my email from the web server on my system? This is for a single user or two and a dedicated Internet connection. I am running- Debian 2.1 (2.2.1 kernel:) fetchmail exim Apache Thanks, Bill Bell

Re: parallel port scanner under 2.2.0?

1999-02-18 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I have an HP ScanJet 5100C parallel port scanner. I would love to make > this thing work. Does anyone run a parallel port scanner? Please give > me your war stories... =) Check out http://www2.prestel.co.uk/hex/scanners.html Hope this helps, Nels

Sentry and /sbin/setup.sh

1999-02-18 Thread Pollywog
I need to start Abacus Sentry when my machine boots, but unlike other apps that will start from /sbin/setup.sh Sentry just crashes when I do it that way. Is there a way to start sentry after every other process has finished? Perhaps by using an 'at' command to start Sentry one minute after everyt

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-18 Thread John Galt
There DOES exist, however, an animal called a Gnu--I always thought GNU/Hurd was actually a pun on that idea: so why not do the simple task and use a gnu head for the icon? Or mabye a word-picture of a gnu side view with "debian" spelled out in the fur? Or better, a simple herd of gnus. Why do

Re: How to give users certain privileges?

1999-02-18 Thread servis
*- On 18 Feb, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "How to give users certain privileges?" > I have set up Debian on four lab computers and would like the students using > them to be able to access our Novell system via ncpmount, etc., as well as > floppies. Additionally, it would be nice if they could

Re: Bug#33558: [SECURITY] Trivial root exploit with eterm (fwd)

1999-02-18 Thread Brian Almeida
To hopefully allay any fears, here: > any title command in .Eterm/themes/Eterm/MAIN will be executed > with rootprivileges: As I've already responded, this is not true. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]: ls -l /tmp/foo.txt ls: /tmp/foo.txt: No such file or directory In the MAIN file: title `touch /t

Re: Modem Commands

1999-02-18 Thread servis
*- On 18 Feb, Chris Hoover wrote about "Modem Commands" > Does anyone know the command to tell a modem to turn the sound off? atm0 > Also, is there a page somewhere that lists the hayes/at modem commands? > I've been looking for one, but no luck so far. > Your modem has this info built into i

Re: testing video ram?

1999-02-18 Thread Alan Su
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:54:37 EST ): |> |>> does anyone know of a a utility to test memory on the video card? |>> kinda like a memtest for the video memory? thanks! |>> |> |>You can see how much video memory you have with SuperProbe - if you have X |>installed, you have Sup

Re: testing video ram?

1999-02-18 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/18/99 12:29:46 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > does anyone know of a a utility to test memory on the video card? > kinda like a memtest for the video memory? thanks! > You can see how much video memory you have with SuperProbe - if you have X install

Bootable CD?

1999-02-18 Thread LEJEUNE STEPHANE
Hi, How can I make a bootable cd. I've found lots of info about how to make bootable floppy's, but couldn't find any info about bootable cd. I presume there are some differences as you can't write any info on the cd at boottime, whereas if I'm correct, that seems to be required. Could anybody poin

How to give users certain privileges?

1999-02-18 Thread kvaughan
I have set up Debian on four lab computers and would like the students using them to be able to access our Novell system via ncpmount, etc., as well as floppies. Additionally, it would be nice if they could shut down without my intervention. Can I simply add them to specific groups which would

Re: Gnome-Panel - Return Of The Living Dead

1999-02-18 Thread Eric
I have the same problem. In fact, I have a _lot_ of problems with gnome. Ever since I started using it my X server inevitably crashes after a fair amount of use. No error messages or anything...It just bails. Also, the panel continually forgets which applets I want in it and sometime it just fr

testing video ram?

1999-02-18 Thread Alan Su
does anyone know of a a utility to test memory on the video card? kinda like a memtest for the video memory? thanks! -alan

Re: Bootdisk / syslinux Problems

1999-02-18 Thread James D. Brenton
Hi I have had the same problems as Hans-Peter (see below). I am trying to install Debian 2.0 on an old Dell 466/Le with 24Mb of main memory and a 1.7Gb disk. However the boot image fails on loading root.bin (or initrd.img on other systems). One period is emmitted and then the system hangs or th

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #288

1999-02-18 Thread Gianni Ciolli
unsubscribe

Re: latex

1999-02-18 Thread William Park
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 10:45:18PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, William Park wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 07:38:25PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am having trouble to use footnote in a paragraph mode. > > > > > > This is what I have done. > > >

Re: Qt compilation

1999-02-18 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Daniel Elenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | What command-line options should I use to compile a qt program, | e.g. the "Hello World!" example from the qt homepage. I get a lot of | errors concerning qpushbutton.h, qapplication.h, etc. I tried | gcc qttut.c -I/usr/X11R6/include/qt | and other things bu

Re: entry #2 [was: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest!]

1999-02-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 09:12:49AM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > > Andreas Tille writes: > > AT> So let us define first, *what* we want to show on our logo. This > AT> is always the first step in software related things. Wy did we > AT> step over it?? > > I'd like to see the black si

Help - Ethernet on my Zenith Z-Note 425Lnp ???

1999-02-18 Thread dave oswald
Help - I need Ethernet on my Zenith Z-Note 425Lnp ... Got a Zenith Z-Note 425Lnp and I am trying to find out if I can get Debian to talk to my IBM SP2's over the builtin ethernet thats on the laptop. Can anyone out there tell me if its possible. What module do I need to select to make this hap

Re: Modem Commands

1999-02-18 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/18/99 11:00:24 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi Chris: > > AT&M0 > > Um, I believe the command is ATM0 - the ampersand M0 tells the modem about error control. -Jay

Re: GUI stuff

1999-02-18 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Havoc Pennington wrote: > What's really needed for that is wxGnome and wxKDE, which don't exist; > there's a reasonably large difference between a vanilla Gtk app and a > full-blown Gnome-o-rific app. I hope the wxGtk guy will expand to > Gnome once Gnome is 1.0, and hopefully Roberto will provide

Re: Modem Commands

1999-02-18 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hi Chris: AT&M0 Chris Hoover wrote: > > Does anyone know the command to tell a modem to turn the sound off? > Also, is there a page somewhere that lists the hayes/at modem commands? > I've been looking for one, but no luck so far. > > Thanks, > > Chris > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscr

Modem Commands

1999-02-18 Thread Chris Hoover
Does anyone know the command to tell a modem to turn the sound off? Also, is there a page somewhere that lists the hayes/at modem commands? I've been looking for one, but no luck so far. Thanks, Chris

Re: Wordperfect fails to run

1999-02-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Kelly Corbin wrote: > Wordperfect fails with the message: > can't load library 'libXt.so.6' > > Any ideas? You probably don't have the libXt.so.6 (libc5) installed. Go to the directory containing WP binaries and do 'ldd xwp'. This should identify the shared library depende

RE: Win32 utilities for Debian - Teraterm for telnet

1999-02-18 Thread simonst
To replace the WIn95 telnet, I highly recommend Teraterm - you can download it from hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html -- From: Randy Edwards To: Debian Users Cc: recipient list not shown Subject: Win32 utilities for Debian Date: Wednesday, February 17, 1999 6:53PM I was wonde

Wordperfect fails to run

1999-02-18 Thread Kelly Corbin
Wordperfect fails with the message: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' Any ideas? Kelly Corbin

Re: any tools to convert to pdf format?

1999-02-18 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Frederic Parain wrote: > Aaron Stromas writes: > > hi, > > > > are there any linux tools that convert documents to the pdf format? > > and what format should be input to those tools? i know that on win32 the > > acrobat > > writer converts m$ word and postscript to pdf.

Re: It's Time to Talk About Free Software Again

1999-02-18 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Bruce Perens wrote: > Sadly, as I've tended toward promotion of Free Software rather than Open > Source, Eric Raymond seems to be losing his free software focus. The Open > Source certification mark has already been abused in ways I find > unconscionable and that I will not abide. Are we talking

Re: GUI stuff

1999-02-18 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Kirk Hogenson wrote: > > good. Someone (in fact, it is the same person who wrote QtC (Roberto > Alsina, who I quoted above)) is starting wxQt, a wrapper around Qt for > the wxWindows library. This would allow developers to sit on the fence > in the gnome-kde wars -- compil

Netscape 'movemail'

1999-02-18 Thread Richard Harran
Could anyone please tell me how the 'internal movemail' / 'external movemail' options in netscape mail/news preferences work? I (still) want to use fetchmail+exim to get my mail, but netscape mail to read it, and I was hoping finding out how to use these options might be the first step along the w

thanks Was: any tools to convert to pdf format?

1999-02-18 Thread Aaron Stromas
thanks for the pointers, i'll get busy -- Aaron Stromas | "Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg" Oracle Corp.| BRTN commentator, L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France +1 703 917 48 72 |

Re: Which Kernel for 3c905B Network Cards?

1999-02-18 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
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Re: GUI stuff

1999-02-18 Thread Kirk Hogenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > *-Kirk Hogenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | Qt is a C++ library. (No wrappers that I know of -- it is much > | harder to "wrap" an OO-library, unless you're wrapping in another > | OO language...) > > There are many wrappers for Qt. Since there is a C wrapper you > c

Re: any tools to convert to pdf format?

1999-02-18 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > hi, > > are there any linux tools that convert documents to the pdf format? > and what format should be input to those tools? i know that on win32 the > acrobat > writer converts m$ word and postscript to pdf. i'd prefer not to use any > m$ products. > i could use latex to generate postscript

Re: any tools to convert to pdf format?

1999-02-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 10:18:22 -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: > are there any linux tools that convert documents to the pdf format? and > what format should be input to those tools? > i could use latex to generate postscript, and if there a tool to convert > postscript to pdf i'd be all set. There

any tools to convert to pdf format?

1999-02-18 Thread Frederic Parain
Aaron Stromas writes: > hi, > > are there any linux tools that convert documents to the pdf format? > and what format should be input to those tools? i know that on win32 the > acrobat > writer converts m$ word and postscript to pdf. i'd prefer not to use any > m$ products. > i could use l

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-18 Thread Richard Harran
I kind of fancied chucking some stuff in on this one: the plan is we all spout out all sorts of ideas, until someone comes up with the perfect solution incorporating the best bits from everywhere, right? I like the orca idea (it's the black and white one that eats seal, isn't it?). I also like th

Re: pausing or machine going dead for 15 seconds

1999-02-18 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Have you done any upgrades to your system lately hardware-wise? I've had a problem with system locking down for 30 sec-1 minute whenever ppp was working. Solved with a kernel recompile and a little bit of time. (It was a time when I put in a new motherboard and didnt recompile the kernel for it.) A

Re: entry #2 [was: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest!]

1999-02-18 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > > Andreas Tille writes: > > AT> So let us define first, *what* we want to show on our logo. This > AT> is always the first step in software related things. Wy did we > AT> step over it?? > > I'd like to see the black silhouette of a realistic gnu, trotting > towards the future. > >

any tools to convert to pdf format?

1999-02-18 Thread Aaron Stromas
hi, are there any linux tools that convert documents to the pdf format? and what format should be input to those tools? i know that on win32 the acrobat writer converts m$ word and postscript to pdf. i'd prefer not to use any m$ products. i could use latex to generate postscript, and if there a to

Re: Lost libc5 stuff after upgrade from hamm to slink

1999-02-18 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Athanasius wrote: > > Hi, saw your message on the debian list, just have a question, hope you > don't mind. Did Netscape also have problems after you removed libc5? When > I got libc6, it took out both wordperfect and netscape. Unlike yours, > however, mine said that it couldn't find libXt.so.5

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-18 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Brandon said: > Last time I asked what a good open source logo would look like (or some > related question) irc got pretty quiet. This seems to be the thing no one > knows. Wasn't there an open source logo contest? I think of things like > an open box or open book. I also like this poster of a

Re: Managing /usr/local

1999-02-18 Thread Daniel Elenius
Gary L. Hennigan writes: >What's the name of the software that helps you keep track of what's >getting installed in /usr/local when you install a non-Debianized >piece of software yourself? Something akin to the Win98 uninstall >utility. I believe you simply run it after doing a "make install", or

entry #2 [was: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest!]

1999-02-18 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
> Andreas Tille writes: AT> So let us define first, *what* we want to show on our logo. This AT> is always the first step in software related things. Wy did we AT> step over it?? I'd like to see the black silhouette of a realistic gnu, trotting towards the future. Cartoonish, stylized G

Re: [debian] 3Com Megahertz 10 Mbps LAN PC Card (PCMCIA) supported?

1999-02-18 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 03:34:52PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > I need to buy a new PCMCIA network but unfortunately > the type I normaly buy (3COM 3C589D-TP) is not available > anymore. I never had problems with cheap NE-2000 compatible clones. And the performance is the same (1000+ kByte/s on

Sound working almost...

1999-02-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I have got my OPL-3AX sound working under kernel 2.2.1 It plays CDs, windowmanager sounds, and quake(II) noises fine. Unfortunatly, if I cat foo.au > /dev/audio, or use something like saytime, the speech comes out very low and slow (sounds like it's 1/2 speed or something). DoeS

pausing or machine going dead for 15 seconds

1999-02-18 Thread Geoff R Deasey
This problem is driving me batty. However I wonder if this is a network problem. I log into the console and i get the pauses, however if I run pine, I do not get pauses until i leave pine. any ideas ? Regards, | Debian GNU/ __ o .| R L

[debian] 3Com Megahertz 10 Mbps LAN PC Card (PCMCIA) supported?

1999-02-18 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I need to buy a new PCMCIA network but unfortunately the type I normaly buy (3COM 3C589D-TP) is not available anymore. Does anybody have any experience with a 3Com 3CCE589ET (at least I think that't the model number) Megahertz 10 Mbps LAN PC Card. Or is this just the same card with anot

Re: Kanji characters?

1999-02-18 Thread Fumitoshi UKAI
At Wed, 17 Feb 1999 23:10:16 +0100, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > P.D. is there any substantial difference between the various characters > (Auto Detect, Shift-JIS, and EUCP-JP)? For Japanese characters, there are three major encoding methods (in Internet world): - ISO-2022-JP (or so called J

Re: deb. kernel patch

1999-02-18 Thread cooking
On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 12:07:16PM -0600, ktb wrote: > Hi, I'm looking for debinized kernel patches for my 2.0.34 kernel. I've > been looking at the Debian ftp site and can't find anything. Maybe what > I'm looking for isn't there. Where can I find them? In general how do > you ever find anythi

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-18 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Andreas Tille wrote: > So let us define first, *what* we want to show on our logo. > This is always the first step in software related things. Wy did > we step over it?? Last time I asked what a good open source logo would look like (or some related question) irc got pretty

Re: proftpd + virtual hosts

1999-02-18 Thread Remco van de Meent
Graham Ashton wrote: > is it possible to do name based virtual hosting with proftpd? > > the documentation on the web site suggests not, and that you need to do > IP address based virtual hosting instead. :( Name-based virtual hosting in Apache is done by reading the headers of a HTTP request:

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-18 Thread Martin Schulze
E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > First Andreas Tille writes: > > > Once more: let us delay the painting work. Its time for thinking > > first. If we could cope with this (or any better idea) then we > > have one aim -- as well as we have one aim in developing the > > operating system. > > Next he say

Re: latex

1999-02-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Shao Zhang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, William Park wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 07:38:25PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: [...] > > > I am having trouble to use footnote in a paragraph mode. [...] > > > \paragraph { hello world\footnotemark } > > > \footnotetext{hello

proftpd + virtual hosts

1999-02-18 Thread Graham Ashton
is it possible to do name based virtual hosting with proftpd? the documentation on the web site suggests not, and that you need to do IP address based virtual hosting instead. :( -- Graham

Re: list archive

1999-02-18 Thread Navindra Umanee
Montreal Thu Feb 18 08:42:46 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *- On 18 Feb, Navindra Umanee wrote about "list archive" > > Montreal Thu Feb 18 07:48:14 1999 > > > > Is it just me or is the archive for this list dead? > > > > -N. > > > > > > It must be you. > > http://www.

Re: list archive

1999-02-18 Thread servis
*- On 18 Feb, Navindra Umanee wrote about "list archive" > Montreal Thu Feb 18 07:48:14 1999 > > Is it just me or is the archive for this list dead? > > -N. > > It must be you. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9902/threads.html says: debian-user Feb 99 Messages are listed b

Re: Where is emacs and vi command line editing set?

1999-02-18 Thread Matus fantomas Uhlar
-> A long long time ago my root account mysteriously switched to using vi -> command-line editing instead of the default emacs, and I've been too -> lazy to get around to fixing it until now I guess. Where is this -> behavior configured? hmmm use bash or tcsh as your shell -- Matus "fantomas" U

Re: [Fwd: StarOffice Question]

1999-02-18 Thread Serge Gavrilov
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 03:48:19PM +0300, MAG wrote: > Hello! > > Excuse me, please, if this message is off topic. > > I have registered StarOffice for personal use. > I have one problem with Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 (or with StarOffice - I > don't know): > > - I use cyrillic (KOI8-R) fonts in X

[Fwd: StarOffice Question]

1999-02-18 Thread MAG
--- Begin Message --- I have the same problem with ApplixWare. --  Malinin A. G.   --- Begin Message --- Hello! Excuse me, please, if this message is off topic. I have registered StarOffice for personal use. I have one problem with Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 (or with StarOffice - I don't know):    

Re: latex

1999-02-18 Thread Michael Stenner
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: >> > >> >Also, how do I break text into paragraphs without any white >> > spaces at the beginning of each paragraph. I am using paragraph within >> > section, but even if I use \noindent, it still put some white spaces at >> > the beginning of each paragr

Re: anonymous ftp in Debian2.0

1999-02-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JK" == Jan Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JK> I use debian2.0 and I do not have the directory /home/ftp so there JK> is no access to the machine via anonymous ftp. What debian JK> package should I install to get the directory /home/ftp and access JK> to machine via anonymous ftp. You nee

[Fwd: StarOffice Question]

1999-02-18 Thread MAG
I have the same problem with ApplixWare. --  Malinin A. G.   --- Begin Message --- Hello! Excuse me, please, if this message is off topic. I have registered StarOffice for personal use. I have one problem with Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 (or with StarOffice - I don't know):     - I use cyrillic (KOI8-

list archive

1999-02-18 Thread Navindra Umanee
Montreal Thu Feb 18 07:48:14 1999 Is it just me or is the archive for this list dead? -N.

Re: KDEDIR and Debian packages

1999-02-18 Thread Navindra Umanee
Montreal Thu Feb 18 07:43:30 1999 MacKenzie, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is my understanding that on Debian, the KDEDIR variable > does not have to be set. I could be wrong but I think I read that > somewhere. > > I just installed KDE1.1 Debs from KDE.org an

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-18 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
First Andreas Tille writes: > Once more: let us delay the painting work. Its time for thinking > first. If we could cope with this (or any better idea) then we > have one aim -- as well as we have one aim in developing the > operating system. Next he says: > to support my idea of "Orca for Deb

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, to support my idea of "Orca for Debian" I would like to point to some very nice pictures which can be found under http://members.aol.com/stejacorca/index.html (Disappointer: I do not have anything in common with the author but like this site since I was searching for "real" informatio

Re: latex

1999-02-18 Thread Shao Zhang
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, William Park wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 07:38:25PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > > Hi, > > I am having trouble to use footnote in a paragraph mode. > > > > This is what I have done. > > > > > > \paragraph { hello world\footnotemark } > > \footnotetext{h

Re: [RfS] Request for Submissions: Upcoming Debian Logo

1999-02-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Chris Waters wrote: > Um, IBM's logo is just letters. Sun's logo is, well, just letters, > technically. I wouldn't rule out a logo based on letters, but it should > *be* a logo, which most of the entries in the GIMP contest aren't. The >>should *be* a logo<< question in my o

Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello Debian deveolopers and friends, this day is the first I started thinking about the importance of a Debian logo. Someone will say it is to late for a maintainer who maintaines seven packages, but I concentraited my brain on other topics. Some alarming postings lead me to the right path now.

Re: [RfS] Request for Submissions: Upcoming Debian Logo

1999-02-18 Thread Chris Waters
Martin Schulze wrote: [a bunch of stuff I agree with, except] > . A logo is NOT a set of letters. Thus the string "Debian" rendered >very nice is ... a picture but not a logo. Forget that. Um, IBM's logo is just letters. Sun's logo is, well, just letters, technically. I wouldn't rule ou

Improved debcat program

1999-02-18 Thread Patrik Rak
Hi! I had some spare time so I decided to add support for dependency links into my debcat indexing program. It now generates links for all pre-depends, depends, recommends, suggests, conflicts, replaces and provides fields. Of course it also understands virtual packages. I find it very useful, as

Qt compilation

1999-02-18 Thread Daniel Elenius
What command-line options should I use to compile a qt program, e.g. the "Hello World!" example from the qt homepage. I get a lot of errors concerning qpushbutton.h, qapplication.h, etc. I tried gcc qttut.c -I/usr/X11R6/include/qt and other things but I couldn't get it to work. -- -~* Daniel Elen

anonymous ftp in Debian2.0

1999-02-18 Thread Jan Krupa
I use debian2.0 and I do not have the directory /home/ftp so there is no access to the machine via anonymous ftp. What debian package should I install to get the directory /home/ftp and access to machine via anonymous ftp. Jan Please send the answer to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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