On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 06:57:43PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote
> Can someone point me to some sites that explain how to get an older
> computer working as a remote x-term/workstation.
>
> Here is what I currently have:
> 1 486DX/2 50 laptop w/ 20 megs - This has a "complete" potato install
> with a
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 06:17:09PM -0700, Jeff Roediger wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Any one have an opinion, good or bad, re: Corel Linux?
> I have just obtained a copy and don't know much about it. I have been
> using freeBSD and Slack for a desktop only box.
> It appears to be targeted at peopl
I'm trying to get my Intellimouse Explorer working with XFree 4.0 My
XF86Config
file has this:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Opt
David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Quoting Christopher Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > As an ex Rred Hat user, my midnight commander left me in the current working
> > directory when I F10 out of it. The Debian version dumps me back to
> > the original directory. Is there any way to conve
Why Corel when you have Debian?
Corel is based on Debian, but not at all good like it.
> Hi all
>
> Any one have an opinion, good or bad, re: Corel Linux?
>
Marko
Hi all
Any one have an opinion, good or bad, re: Corel Linux?
I have just obtained a copy and don't know much about it. I have been
using freeBSD and Slack for a desktop only box.
It appears to be targeted at people like me, who only have one
system as a desktop unit.
TIA,
Jeff
On Aug 03, 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:13:04PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
> >
> > Help, PLEASE HELP
> >
> >
> > I've done somethig very bad.. I did:
> >
> > rm * /var/spool/fax/outgoing
> >
> > I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot
Paul Seelig wrote:
>
> kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
>
> > And that GNU Midnight Commander (aka mc
> > aka gmc) had a similar functionality. This is a tool which, as I
> > understand, was adapted from Novell's "Midnight Commander" file browsing
> > utility.
> >
> It escapes me why you seem to be
Can someone point me to some sites that explain how to get an older
computer working as a remote x-term/workstation.
Here is what I currently have:
1 486DX/2 50 laptop w/ 20 megs - This has a "complete" potato install
with a working X server. I would like to convert this laptop into a
remote X wo
File would work..if only users would try to "file" something first before
trying to display it with that accursed CAT command...
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first make sure you lesspipe on your system run 'which lesspipe'. then
put "eval $(lesspipe)" in your .bash_profile or in the appropriate login
script for your shell.
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 09:19:05PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/08/2000 (03:58) :
> > add this to
On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, john smith wrote:
> Thanks Sven. But I was hoping for a script that would ask some sort of a
> question like "this file is in binary form..would you like to see it anyway?
> y/n" something in that regard...and it should be global too.
>
>
> >From: Sven Burgener <[EMAIL
Hi John
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 08:56:41PM +, john smith wrote:
> Thanks Sven. But I was hoping for a script that would ask some sort of a
> question like "this file is in binary form..would you like to see it anyway?
> y/n" something in that regard...and it should be global too.
In that
How about 'file finlename'?
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From: "john smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: displaying binary files
> Thanks Sven. But I was hoping for a script that would ask some sort of
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 08:56:41PM +, john smith wrote:
> Thanks Sven. But I was hoping for a script that would ask some sort of
> a question like "this file is in binary form..would you like to see it
> anyway? y/n" something in that regard...and it should be global too.
You might be interes
Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have you tried 'fetchall'? Worked for me.
I tried it and it didn't solve the problem but that's not
surprising when I tell you why.
Realisation suddenly dawned! I had been editing my user copy of
.fetchmailrc and although these had an effect if I ran F
Thanks Sven. But I was hoping for a script that would ask some sort of a
question like "this file is in binary form..would you like to see it anyway?
y/n" something in that regard...and it should be global too.
From: Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: john smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: de
:: On Sat, 5 Aug 2000 13:15:22 -0700 (PDT), "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> said:
> pelleg >Yes. I'll try a few things:
> pelleg >
> pelleg >- switch from xmms to freemp;
> pelleg >- then, from ps/2 to serial;
> pelleg >- then, from X 3.3.6 to 4.0.1...
> thats good, what kind of soundcar
> "Jonas" == Jonas Moberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jonas> I've (after many years of use..) been looking up what my
Jonas> shell actually can do for me to make my life easier. I've
Jonas> been going thru the features of tcsh (first shell I ever
Jonas> used, but I'm determined
On 5 Aug 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
pelleg >> pelleg >Motherboard DFI PA61 ATX (VIA Apollo Pro 133 chipset -
693/596b)
pelleg >> my current board has that chipset i believe (asus cuv4x)
pelleg >
pelleg >I think I heard some not so nice things about VIA chipsets...
pelleg >Like, poor CPU p
On 5 August 2000 at 17:06, "Jonas Moberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I got emacs running and type "emacs somefile", I'd like the emacs I
> already got running to open the file, not start a new emacs (atleast if I'm
> not in X). How?
You want to use emacsserver. Try the info system or the web
Sorry.. I found it. Got it working just fine now.
Have a good day,
Jack
On 05-Aug-2000 Alberto wrote:
>
> ipchains will be support on 2.4 and 2.3 series (with is going to 2.4)
> anyway netfilter like be the future.
>
> Just take a look at: http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/
I used the ipchains kernel module with the 2.3 series, while I got iptables
working. I comp
Hi,
I'm having a hard time even getting Mysql to change the root password the way
that debian recommends.
when I type :
mysql -u root mysql
I get the response :
ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: NO)
Now, this happens when I am the normal user or root... same
ipchains will be support on 2.4 and 2.3 series (with is going to 2.4)
anyway netfilter like be the future.
Just take a look at: http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/
At 15:44 04/08/00 +, Joseph de los Santos wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for some documentation on how to compile kernels 2.3
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/08/2000 (03:58) :
> add this to /etc/profile: eval `/usr/bin/lesspipe` , source it,
> and then less whateveryouwant.deb. Cool, isn't it? Works with .rpm,
> .tar.gz, .zip too.
Doesn't work for me. Odd.
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I want to run the latest gkrellm from potato. What's the best
way to upgrade libgtk1.2? Can you put woody in sources.list,
upgrade libgtk1.2, then reedit sources.list?
In short, how do you run the latest gkrellm (and thus use the
latest themes) from frozen?
--
David S. Jackson
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 11:57:36AM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote:
>
> > Note that out of all of these, only reiserfs has been ported to the
> > 2.4.0-testX series.
>
> Actually, xfs has been ported too. I just saw on freshmeat an
> announ
Wow! You guys have been extremely helpful. Thank-you everyone who
responded. From what I gather, it would be best to get another NIC and use
my Debian box as a gateway. Since I only have one computer to attach to it
(for now), I'll first try without a hub. If this doesn't work, I'll get a
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:: On Sat, 5 Aug 2000 11:11:39 -0700 (PDT), "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> said:
Hi Nate...
> pelleg >Motherboard DFI PA61 ATX (VIA Apollo Pro 133 chipset - 693/596b)
> my current board has that chipset i believe (asus cuv4x)
I think I heard some not so nice things about VIA chipset
:: On Sat, 5 Aug 2000 14:30:35 +0200, David Reviejo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Two weeks ago I tried xmms with the same result: a locked system; I
> think this app is broken. Don't use it (try freeamp), and see what
> happen.
Hmmm... I'll begin using FreeAmp.
But I think the system locked once w
runnin it just fine, on 2.2.16
nate
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote:
rickma >
rickma >I'm just about to try VMware on my potato system to run Win 95 or 98.
rickma >
rickma >Are there any problems to know about?
rickma >
rickma >...RickM...
rickma >
rickma >
rickma >--
rickma >Unsubscri
On 5 Aug 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
pelleg >Pentium II 400 Mhz,
pelleg >Motherboard DFI PA61 ATX (VIA Apollo Pro 133 chipset - 693/596b)
my current board has that chipset i believe (asus cuv4x)
pelleg >(Absolutely nothing on-board)
good
pelleg >Award BIOS
pelleg >64 Mb RAM (no ECC...)
p
It's a start! :)
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 12:42:01PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> Dave Sherohman said:
> > I actually managed to get Home/End working by installing the latest
> > ncurses-base (which includes updated terminfo files), but haven't managed to
> > find anything to fix the menus or th
Dear debianists,
I want to purchase some hardware for my computers. Because all
perihperals
need to run under Debian, I downloaded the latest Hardware-compatibility
HOWTO and I checked the Open Hardware section in Debian's site.
But I became astonished when I saw just four
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 09:50:00AM +, steve doerr wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a workable journaling file system for
> Debian yet?
>
> Thanks for any input.
> Steve
A good source of info for all Linux High-Availability projects is
www.linux-ha.org ... hope it helps.
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On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 12:25:34PM -0500, Warren A. Layton wrote:
[Journaling FileSystems under Linux...]
> There is also GFS (Global File System) from the University of Michigan (I
> think...I could be some other university).
>
> Of all of these, I think ReiserFS is the most mature but (IMHO) E
Dave Sherohman said:
> I actually managed to get Home/End working by installing the latest
> ncurses-base (which includes updated terminfo files), but haven't managed to
> find anything to fix the menus or the cursor oddness. I think I'll have to
> try the purge-and-reinstall to see if it cleans t
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 11:57:36AM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> Note that out of all of these, only reiserfs has been ported to the
> 2.4.0-testX series.
Actually, xfs has been ported too. I just saw on freshmeat an
announcement of xfs for linux-2.4.0-test5.
The website for the project is here:
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 11:31:02AM -0500, Philip C Mendelsohn wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote:
>
> > I suggest going to comp.lang.c and checking the C FAQ. Specifically look
> > for the inherent problem of putting the same variable on both sides of a
> > relational operator: (x+
Nate Duehr said:
> I've noticed that the "Save Current Settings" in Potato's Eterm version
> is horribly broken,
And I've never even noticed that there was a "Save Current Settings"...
> In your case the whole package seems broken. Have you attempted a
> complete removal of the Eterm package wit
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 09:47:54AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> I just updated from eterm_0.8.10-10 to eterm_0.9.0-7 last night. Although
> the new version plays much more nicely with WindowMaker, the process has been
> somewhat less than pleasant, what with changes to configuration options and
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> Does anyone know if there is a workable journaling file system for
> Debian yet?
* reiserfs - it's a mostly-journalling file system, and should be quite
stable (can't quite bring myself to use it on my own systems. Some on
debia
Rick Macdonald wrote:
>
> I'm just about to try VMware on my potato system to run Win 95 or 98.
>
> Are there any problems to know about?
>
> ...RickM...
>
If you have managed to get Quicken 2000 running under wine (I bow), you
should have no problems getting VMware to run on Debian potato. Yo
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 08:54:05PM +0100, Lee Elliott wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I noticed a curious thing this evening - when I load the fetchmail man
> page in the Gnome help browser, it grabs all my memory - 256MB and ramps
> up swap usage until all that's gone too - another 256MB - previously
>
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> I suggest going to comp.lang.c and checking the C FAQ. Specifically look
> for the inherent problem of putting the same variable on both sides of a
> relational operator: (x+y) > x
In this case, a little algebra shows that all you need to check is y >
On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:59:10PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> >
> > I'm just about to try VMware on my potato system to run Win 95 or 98.
> >
> > Are there any problems to know about?
>
> It works like a charm.
Good to hear! It would be nice to see
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 05:06:42PM +0200, Jonas Moberg wrote:
> If I got emacs running and type "emacs somefile", I'd like the emacs I
> already got running to open the file, not start a new emacs (atleast if I'm
> not in X). How?
info -f /usr/share/info/emacs-e20.gz
and search for 'server'...
or
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 09:50:00AM +, steve doerr wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a workable journaling file system for
> Debian yet?
there are Journaling FileSystems for Linux, yes. but, all are still
beta or alpha..
o ReiserFS: a JFS, which uses a B-Tree (afaik beta),
o Ext3: it
> lp1 at 0x0378, (polling)
Maybe it should be lp0?
John
Maybe that's the problem?
Using Linux
If I got emacs running and type "emacs somefile", I'd like the emacs I
already got running to open the file, not start a new emacs (atleast if I'm
not in X). How?
Thanks!
Does anyone know if there is a workable journaling file system for
Debian yet?
Thanks for any input.
Steve
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:59:10PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
>
> I'm just about to try VMware on my potato system to run Win 95 or 98.
>
> Are there any problems to know about?
It works like a charm. Win4Lin also works (less features, but faster),
but was a bit more of a hassle to set up (ym
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As far as I can tell it doesn't recognize my Ethernet
card. It gives error messages when booting that
scrol
* Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000805 11:57]:
> To see what could be the problem, I left the system with xmms running
> while I was out for 4 hours. When I came back, the keyboard was
> non-functionl, and nothing worked... Since it's a standalone box, I
> hadto reset it. I was sort of e
* Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000805 11:57]:
>
> > When I get to the step of configuring device drivers, I can't
> > install module lp.
> > ...
>
> Here's something else I noticed:
>
> When the system boots, right before the first installation program
> dialog comes up, a number of repe
Hi
When I boot my box, I get this message:
"rpc.statd forgot to set AF_INET in udp sendmsg. Fix it!"
After that, the following message is repeated about 25 times with about a 12
second interval:
"RPC: sendmsg returned error 101"
Then the boot process i continued. Please help me fix this!
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At 01:02 PM 8/4/00 +0100, Wilson Yau wrote:
Can lilo installed on MBR of the 2nd HD handle dual boot at boot time?
If yes, how?
I'm not an expert, but I couldn't get that configuration to work. It
really seems best to have LILO on the first drive - I made a /boot
partition on hda, and edited
On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Jared Johnson wrote:
>
> > screen and briefly displaying popup menus eventhough I'm not pressing any
> > buttons. I can use the mouse just fine in terminal mode to highlight
> > text and paste the text using the middle button, so I think my hardware
> > is
> > ok. Any clues?
>
Bonjour,
I try to configure my /etc/wvdial.conf file to have a better modem
connexion .
potato i386 and modem Olitec speedcomm2000
It's strange,
with a single line like :
Init1 = ATZ
The result is nearly the same than with for exemple :
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 S11=55 +FCLAS
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> screen and briefly displaying popup menus eventhough I'm not pressing any
> buttons. I can use the mouse just fine in terminal mode to highlight
> text and paste the text using the middle button, so I think my hardware
> is
> ok. Any clues?
A very easy way to fix this would be to use the mouse
Hello,
Just finished installing my first debian system (potato) by the floppy
method. Everything is great except trying to use my mouse in X. The
slightest touch of the mouse causes it to go berserk - flying all over the
screen and briefly displaying popup menus eventhough I'm not pressing any
but
The third number in each of the addresses below should be 1, not 10. Sorry
about the typos.
> ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.10.0/24 -d ! 192.168.10.0/24 -j MASQ
>
> Configure the machines A, B and C with their gateway set to 192.168.10.1 and
> setup their DNS, and your should be set.
Yes, there is... apt-get install isapnptools.
Basically what you need to do is type (as root) "pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf" and
then edit that isapnp.conf file to comment out the correct settings for your
sound card. Refer to the documentation in /usr/share/doc/isapnptools.
Take my advice with a
I just got an @home cablemodem last weekend and I've been running ipmasq for
quite some time over a normal dialup. The short answer is that you can
connect as many computers through your service as you like, using only one
IP address, and you don't really need two ethernet cards in any of the
comp
Jaron Abbott wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering if anybody can help me figure out how to connect two computers
> to one net connection (@home network). The computer I want to add is a
> Debian box (potato), the currently connected computer is a Windoze box. I'd
> like to be able to run stuff l
Is there a deb isapnptools package? I'm trying to set up kernel 2.2.16 to
autoconfig my soundcard and it's not showing anything about isapnp in dmesg. I
think I've got all the swithces right, and I've gotten it to autoload the
modules for my yamaha oplsax soundcard before. any help or suggestion
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