Re: Repost (Re: lyx (was Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel))

2001-05-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:20:52PM +1000, Matthew Dalton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sorry about the last post... my fingers slipped on the 'send mail' kb > shortcut. That's what I get for using Netscape messenger... > > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > - What happened to Klyx? The homepage is 40

Problems using IPMASQ with PPPOE

2001-05-20 Thread Philip Bubel
Title: Message I am having problems using IPMASQ with PPPOE.  I'm running kernel 2.4.3 with the latest potato packages of IPMASQ and PPPOE, and the kernel is complied correctly (I think).  I am able to use PPPOE no problem, as the Linux box can connect to the internet, however none of the ma

Gimp 1.2 and perl scripts problems.

2001-05-20 Thread Iain
Hi, This is the second time I have been burnt by the scripting API changing in Gimp. When I went from Gimp 1.0 to 1.1 I had to change all my script-fu scripts. Now I can't get my old (1.1) perl scripts working with Gimp 1.2. This sucks. I have installed Debian packages for gimp1.2 gimp1.2-perl

Re: Novice mail project

2001-05-20 Thread Keith O'Connell
Mark > Well, Debian ships with exim instead of sendmail as its out of the box > mta. I've kept a link to a Linux Gazette article that you might find > useful, if only to server as a springboard: > > http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue43/stumpel.html I'll start here and see how it goes - Thank

Re: Novice mail project

2001-05-20 Thread ktb
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 05:00:16AM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > I believe it was in this list within the last week or so that someone > made the point that the best way to learn Linux was to have goals, or > better still a project. To these ends I have set my self a project. > > We hav

Re: Novice mail project

2001-05-20 Thread Chris Spencer
On Sunday 20 May 2001 22:00, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Am I right in thinking that I need something like "sendmail" and > "procmail" on the server and any old mail client on the Windows/Linux > machines in order to get this done? Do I need to be setting up any other > software specifically to make

Repost (Re: lyx (was Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel))

2001-05-20 Thread Matthew Dalton
Sorry about the last post... my fingers slipped on the 'send mail' kb shortcut. That's what I get for using Netscape messenger... "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > - What happened to Klyx? The homepage is 404 > http://www.lyx.org/~ettrich/klyx.html, and its parent suggest it > won't come back

Re: lyx (was Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel)

2001-05-20 Thread Matthew Dalton
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > - What happened to Klyx? The homepage is 404 > http://www.lyx.org/~ettrich/klyx.html, and its parent suggest it > won't come back any time soon http://www.lyx.org/~ettrich/ > (K'mon, people: > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html). Luc

Re: Novice mail project

2001-05-20 Thread John Griffiths
>Am I right in thinking that I need something like "sendmail" and >"procmail" on the server and any old mail client on the Windows/Linux >machines in order to get this done? Do I need to be setting up any other >software specifically to make this work? > I'm pretty sure u've already got exim runni

Re: Novice mail project

2001-05-20 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 05/21/01 05:00:16 +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > I believe it was in this list within the last week or so that someone > made the point that the best way to learn Linux was to have goals, or > better still a project. To these ends I have set my self a project. I agree. I've made a lis

Re: cups and deskjet 840c

2001-05-20 Thread Joel Mayes
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 09:26:06PM +0200, Mao's Br?derle wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 09:15:27PM +1000, Joel Mayes wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 02:03:09PM +0200, Mao's Br?derle wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > Has anyone had any experience with cups and the deskjet 840c?! As I > > > underst

Novice mail project

2001-05-20 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I believe it was in this list within the last week or so that someone made the point that the best way to learn Linux was to have goals, or better still a project. To these ends I have set my self a project. We have a PC each here. My wife and two daughters each run WinMe and I have Debian on

lyx (was Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel)

2001-05-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:42:01PM +1000, Joel Mayes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 08:35:50PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:11:04PM -0400, Sean Morgan wrote: > > > StarOffice, neither of these are as stable as Office on NT4. The > >

Re: ecoding

2001-05-20 Thread ha shao
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:19:34AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have my apache server to 1.3.19. Everything works fine before, however if > a page contain traditional chinese or simplified charcter, IE doesnt load > the correct ecoding, do u know what setting I have in apache? > > Every ht

Re: Install: Need Help iso9660

2001-05-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 09:23:30PM -0400, Mel Herndon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten, > > I tried insmod and it could not find the module. Is there a command line > that I can use when I boot to the cd to force it to install(override) > the selection option to make sure iso9660 gets installe

Re: Re. Two Problems

2001-05-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re. Two Problems Date: Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:18:40PM -0700 In reply to:Sidney Brooks Quoting Sidney Brooks([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I do have the package lpr. > > I am sure that I do not have minicom nor lpd. I used two methods to verify > this, apt-get and reading the

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-20 Thread Sean Morgan
OK, the two messages previous posts kind of play off eachother so I'm going to reply to them in one go. First off ext2, it has a really bad habit of losing files in hard crashes and power outages, this isn't a problem for someone like you or I as we know how to recover them, for a student with no

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-20 Thread Joel Mayes
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 08:35:50PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:11:04PM -0400, Sean Morgan wrote: > > StarOffice, neither of these are as stable as Office on NT4. The > > From my experience, t

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-20 Thread Cameron Matheson
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:11:04PM -0400, Sean Morgan wrote: > StarOffice, neither of these are as stable as Office on NT4. The From my experience, that is *completely* untrue. I have never had either of th

ecoding

2001-05-20 Thread Keneth
Hi everybody, I have my apache server to 1.3.19. Everything works fine before, however if a page contain traditional chinese or simplified charcter, IE doesnt load the correct ecoding, do u know what setting I have in apache? Every html files contain this header: I think I should have do som

Re: [users] Re: geldverschenker

2001-05-20 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "Bob" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bob> On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 07:55:49PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: >> also sprach Kurt Stege (on Sat, 19 May 2001 06:20:13AM +0200): >> > Nach der ganzen Diskussion, ob man würfeln soll oder auf jeden Fall >> > antworten: Ich würde

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-20 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:11:04PM -0400, Sean Morgan wrote: > . . . WordPerfect or StarOffice, neither of these are as stable as > Office on NT4. I've never had SO or WP8 crash on me since I set up this system. Granted, WP9 is incredibly unstable. > The stability of the filesystem is also a ma

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
John Hasler wrote: > > Viktor Rosenfeld writes: > > ...my suggestion of improved readability is also valid and therefore one > > could argue that Spaces In Filenames(tm) is a Good Thing(tm). > > > Now, how is that for a compromise, eh? Damn, am I good. Peace brothers, > > peace! > Nah. Let's

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-20 Thread Sean Morgan
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:53:19PM +, joe golden wrote: > I am trying to switch our small (12 machine) NT network over to Linux. Some > of the main computer applications at our school are web browsing , word > processing and spreadsheets (MS Internet Explorer, Word and Excel). > > I am runn

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:06:00PM -0700, D. Hoyem wrote: > For Word Processing what about Word Perfect 8? There > is a Linux version and it is free, I'm not sure that > it will work on Debian though. Its a tar.gz file, not > sure about the depends. It will work on Debian, if you install pac

Install: iso9660 support (was Re: Help needed please)

2001-05-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 05:50:16PM -0500, Mel Herndon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello everyone. I have tried via IRC to get help from both #debian and > #linuxhelp, on several servers to no avail > > I am installing Debian 2.1...the initial install goes fine. I reboot > and then it runs the sc

Re: apt-get won't install package

2001-05-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 08:05:36PM -0500, Timmy Douglas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > (please CC me replys if possible) > > root:~# apt-get install gnome-guile > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

Re: Best way to move to 2.4 kernel?

2001-05-20 Thread mdevin
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:23:44PM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I am running an ASUS P2B-DS based MB with dual Pentium III 500 and 512 Meg > RAM. > > I switched from RedHat to Debian about two months ago (on this and all > of my other machines). I have been very pleased with Debian (2.2r3).

Re: Abiword and ttf

2001-05-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:59:46PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:45:47PM +0200, Hans wrote: Incidentally, I tried the trick of copying over files from my truetype fonts directory, but found that the fonts were sorted in an arbitrary order. This

apt-get won't install package

2001-05-20 Thread Timmy Douglas
(please CC me replys if possible) root:~# apt-get install gnome-guile Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required

Re: How to use debian lists

2001-05-20 Thread mikepolniak
Thomas H. George wrote: > I have gotten some excellent answers to my questions and picked up > useful information from other user's questions and answers but > > I'm swamped! > > Often I am away from my computer for several days and return to find > 1,000+ messages. It takes a long time to down

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread John Hasler
Viktor Rosenfeld writes: > ...my suggestion of improved readability is also valid and therefore one > could argue that Spaces In Filenames(tm) is a Good Thing(tm). > Now, how is that for a compromise, eh? Damn, am I good. Peace brothers, > peace! Nah. Let's argue some more. If you can't name

Re: X, Matrox G450 and Matrox-Driver

2001-05-20 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:41:13AM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Hi all, > > now I'm trying to get a Matrox Millenium G450 up and running under X > (4.0.3). So far I have a more or less working solution with the > framebuffer device, but it's far from being satisfactory. > > When trying the m

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Aem, D-Man wrote: > | On Sun, 20 May 2001, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > | > > And-I-have-yet-to-see-somebody-who-replaces-all-spaces-with-dashes-or-dots. > > Check the archives for python-list@python.org (aka comp.lang.python). > Tim Peters (and others) routinely close their posts with a long > se

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Bruce Sass wrote: > > But, this trouble is easily avoided with double quotes and on the flip > > side, spaces make things much more readable. > > IMeanIt'SNotLikeWeDon'tUseSpacesInNormalWriting. > > And-I-have-yet-to-see-somebody-who-replaces-all-spaces-with-dashes-or-dots. > > See.what.I.mean? >

Re: Language

2001-05-20 Thread Edward Craig
Is English "the official language" (formally), or merely the most widely accepted on Debian? Why not explore setting up non-English debian-user lists? It's not the case that every Debian user reads English, and if it makes Debian accessable to more users (whether German, Japanese,

/proc/bus/usb permissions in Linux 2.4.4 (OT?)

2001-05-20 Thread David Steinberg
Hi debian-user readers, I'm not sure that this question is appropriate for debian-user, since it's about Linux and not anything Debian-specific. Still, I first sent it to the linux-usb-users mailing list, but that list is very low-traffic, and I haven't heard anything back. So, I thought I'd t

Help needed please

2001-05-20 Thread Mel Herndon
Hello everyone. I have tried via IRC to get help from both #debian and #linuxhelp, on several servers to no avail   I am installing Debian 2.1...the initial install goes fine. I reboot and then it runs the script to setup a connection, and then dselect to allow the packages to be installed. H

X, Matrox G450 and Matrox-Driver

2001-05-20 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi all, now I'm trying to get a Matrox Millenium G450 up and running under X (4.0.3). So far I have a more or less working solution with the framebuffer device, but it's far from being satisfactory. When trying the mga driver, X complains: (WW) Warning, couldn't open module mga_hal (EE) MGA: Fail

apt-get --print-uris in NoLocking mode

2001-05-20 Thread Santi Béjar
Hi *, I have a problem with apt-get. I try to get a list of all the .deb to be installed (with --print-uris), but I have to do it like root. I thought that if I add a "-o Debug::NoLocking=yes" would make it possible to run it like user. But I get this: bash$ apt-get --print-uris -o Debu

Re: New ... please help

2001-05-20 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sunday 20 May 2001 17:39, mr matsui wrote: > > From: "Vivek Dasmohapatra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 3. does Debian support USB mouse ... if yes ... how could i > > configure it ... ? > I would appreciate any advice I can get > > I've just done this, but I'm running 2.4.2, cant say if it will

Re: modprobe / modutils problems...

2001-05-20 Thread vester
> ii modutils 2.4.6-3 Linux module utilities. > :) in woody but i think 2.4.2 should be OK. ooops... after apt-get update i downloaded version 2.4.6-3 too. > Check outputs of: > > # depmod -av > (Have you ever done? On Debian it should be automatic but you may have a > b

Re: Netscape and Flash

2001-05-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Timeboy wrote: > > Hi! > > What can i do to use Netscape with a flash module? Is there any package > in potato? Need this to read a for me important webpage. > > I hafe also konqueror of kde installed. If Netscape can't support flash, > do i need an other tool for konqueror? > > Or what else i

Re: New ... please help

2001-05-20 Thread mr matsui
> From: "Vivek Dasmohapatra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 3. does Debian support USB mouse ... if yes ... how could i > configure it ... ? > I would appreciate any advice I can get I've just done this, but I'm running 2.4.2, cant say if it will work with a debian kernel 2.2.19, give it a try ! Rec

Locales

2001-05-20 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
Hey list, i'm looking for some way to display all 256 chars on the monitor, the closest locale to that i could find was uk_UA .. is there any locale that can display all the chars or any tool where i can create such a translation table ? Thanks,

Re: Suitability of USRobotics Message Modem ?

2001-05-20 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 20 May 2001 22:39:22 BST, Darren Wyn Rees writes: >Would some people give me an opinion on the US Robotics external >56k Message Modem ? Is it suitable for use with Linux. Yes, it runs just fine, no tweaking necessary. cheers, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ \

Netscape and Flash

2001-05-20 Thread Timeboy
Hi! What can i do to use Netscape with a flash module? Is there any package in potato? Need this to read a for me important webpage. I hafe also konqueror of kde installed. If Netscape can't support flash, do i need an other tool for konqueror? Or what else i can do to use flash on debian? THX

Re: pam_condev.so

2001-05-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:36:02PM +0200, Mao's Brüderle wrote: > PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_condev.so : cannot open shared object > file: No such file or directory] > > PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_condev.so If you're using wdm as your desktop login manager then the problem

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-20 Thread John Galt
On Sun, 20 May 2001, D. Hoyem wrote: >For Word Processing what about Word Perfect 8? There >is a Linux version and it is free, I'm not sure that >it will work on Debian though. Its a tar.gz file, not >sure about the depends. When they came out with Corel Linux, they made a .deb file for WP8. I

Re: Language

2001-05-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:17:11PM +0600, V.Suresh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Once upon a time, Stefano Canepa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard. And > typed: > > what is the official language of debian-user? I thought it was english. > English of course, and the German &*)(&**^ thing has

Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (release 13)

2001-05-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
I have prepared the packages needed to run kernels up to 2.4.4 on a Debian 2.2r3 (potato) system. Please read [1] for more information. Changes since the last release: + added: varmon + updated: modutils (2.4.2-1 -> 2.4.6-3) + fixed the problem that isdnutils shipp

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:53:19PM +, joe golden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am trying to switch our small (12 machine) NT network over to Linux. > Some of the main computer applications at our school are web browsing, > word processing and spreadsheets (MS Internet Explorer, Word and > Exce

Suitability of USRobotics Message Modem ?

2001-05-20 Thread Darren Wyn Rees
Would some people give me an opinion on the US Robotics external 56k Message Modem ? Is it suitable for use with Linux. I've read a few Linux modem resource pages, but a lot of the stuff is way above my head. I haven't bought a new modem in a few years, and it's an investment. I'd *appreciate*

Display problem with 2.2r3 just installed

2001-05-20 Thread Abner Gershon
I have been attempting to install Potato 2.2r3 from CD-ROMS onto my Dell 4100 pentium III with 32MB NVIDIA GeForce2 video card and 8 year old CrystalScan 1572 monitor. Using apt-get I intended to install X-windows packages with several window managers and gave best guesses for my monitor maximum re

Re: error in newaliases

2001-05-20 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 20 May 2001 22:04:19 +0200, Erik van der Meulen writes: >I cannot seem to get sendmail running on my laptop. If I run >sendmailconfig I get some errors. First thing that goes wrong seems to >be newaliases. If I run that manually i get: > > Cannot open hash database /etc/mail/aliases.db: I

idetool

2001-05-20 Thread Robin Gerard
hello, when I use idetool instead of df, which is runing fine, I have got some errors messages. I get errors as well if I do "man idetool" or "man gnome-utils" I give you the error messages displayed on the screen in two attached files. Is there someone was experienced the same problem who can gi

Re: Two Problems

2001-05-20 Thread Stefan Srdic
Sidney Brooks wrote: > So far no luck. > > Neither lpd nor minicom is present on my official three disk set of Potato. > > I tried replacing ATZ with ATX3, they both dial and connect but never get > on the internet. > > I have the same problem of not getting connected with gnome-ppp and kpp. > > -

Re. Two Problems

2001-05-20 Thread Sidney Brooks
I do have the package lpr. I am sure that I do not have minicom nor lpd. I used two methods to verify this, apt-get and reading the disks in Windows.

Re: Web server

2001-05-20 Thread Matthew Sackman
Depends dramatically on what you want to do with it, how many clients you've expecting to have and the general design of your site. If you arn't running much on that machine (no X) then you should be able to get away with 64MB of RAM for even very popular sites. However, if your site uses a lot o

Re: Abiword and ttf

2001-05-20 Thread matlads
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:45:47PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Could you please explain what aspects of xfs you had to tweak? I have xfs > installed. --Hans http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/ Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Network printing HP 840C over Samba

2001-05-20 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hay all. I've been setting up a linux gateway for a friend who has got a DSL connection and three windows me boxes in a home network. Everything has gone smoothly with Debian Woody and a freshly compiled 2.4.4 kernel and data transfer rates have risen by three fold due to having a linux gateway in

Re: Best way to move to 2.4 kernel?

2001-05-20 Thread David Steinberg
On 20 May 2001, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > My question to the group is this. Which Debian release should I use - > Potato with modification for 2.4 or Woody? I want as stable a machine > configuration as I can get while settling on the 2.4 kernel. I just upgraded from 2.2.18 to 2.4.4 a couple of d

Re: Two Problems

2001-05-20 Thread D-Man
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:00:34PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: | Neither lpd nor minicom is present on my official three disk set of Potato. !? Are you sure? http://packages.debian.org/stable/comm/minicom.html For print spooling there is a choice: http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/lpr.htm

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-20 Thread D. Hoyem
For Word Processing what about Word Perfect 8? There is a Linux version and it is free, I'm not sure that it will work on Debian though. Its a tar.gz file, not sure about the depends. --- joe golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to switch our small (12 machine) NT > network over to Lin

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread D-Man
| On Sun, 20 May 2001, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: | > And-I-have-yet-to-see-somebody-who-replaces-all-spaces-with-dashes-or-dots. Check the archives for python-list@python.org (aka comp.lang.python). Tim Peters (and others) routinely close their posts with a long sentence using dashes instead of spac

error in newaliases

2001-05-20 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I cannot seem to get sendmail running on my laptop. If I run sendmailconfig I get some errors. First thing that goes wrong seems to be newaliases. If I run that manually i get: Cannot open hash database /etc/mail/aliases.db: Invalid argument WARNING: cannot open alias database /etc/mail/aliase

Re: Two Problems

2001-05-20 Thread Sidney Brooks
So far no luck. Neither lpd nor minicom is present on my official three disk set of Potato. I tried replacing ATZ with ATX3, they both dial and connect but never get on the internet. I have the same problem of not getting connected with gnome-ppp and kpp.

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Martin Fluch wrote: > > > > Of course, some people argue, that spaces in filenames is a Bad > > > Thing(tm), but I fail to see why. > > > > Could exactly this be the reason, why spaces in filenames are considered > > as a bad thing, since they easily l

Re: Best way to move to 2.4 kernel?

2001-05-20 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:23:44PM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I am running an ASUS P2B-DS based MB with dual Pentium III 500 and 512 Meg > RAM. > > I switched from RedHat to Debian about two months ago (on this and all > of my other machines). I have been very pleased with Debian (2.2r3).

Re: How to use debian lists

2001-05-20 Thread D-Man
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:10:58PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: | it is much easier to handle it when you thread the articles. some | mailreader enable you to 'kill the thread' so you'll never see messages | in threads that do not interest you. I've heard that this works really | well in gnus. netsc

Best way to move to 2.4 kernel?

2001-05-20 Thread S.
I am running an ASUS P2B-DS based MB with dual Pentium III 500 and 512 Meg RAM. I switched from RedHat to Debian about two months ago (on this and all of my other machines). I have been very pleased with Debian (2.2r3). It is becoming apparent that I should switch to the 2.4 kernel for better SMP

how to recover damaged tar files?

2001-05-20 Thread Erik Alvarez
Hi, when trying to decompress a tar file I get this error. Can someone tell if there is a way to fix it or is the file lost? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -ixvf backup.tar BACKUP/ BACKUP/Rik/ BACKUP/Rik/Rogelio.doc tar: Skipping to next header BACKUP/Rik/xp-50/5,svq tar: Skipping to next header tar:

Re: cups and deskjet 840c

2001-05-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Mao's Brüderle wrote: > > Hi! > > Has anyone had any experience with cups and the deskjet 840c?! As I > understood from cups.org, this printer is supported, although "mostly". > When I open "http://localhost:631/admin";, I get "this file > contains no data". The other secti

Re: HELP!!! Installing Debian

2001-05-20 Thread Jan Enning
Well I've got a 'solution' :-) The reason I didn't use any floppy is simple because they are most of the time broken, old, etc...not very reliable. But if you don't have any bandwidth, stick with the floppy :-) I downloaded the complete Debian ISO and burned it on a CD, then bought a crappy ATA 50

Re: How to use debian lists

2001-05-20 Thread Erik Steffl
"Thomas H. George" wrote: > > I have gotten some excellent answers to my questions and picked up > useful information from other user's questions and answers but > > I'm swamped! > > Often I am away from my computer for several days and return to find > 1,000+ messages. It takes a long time to

Re: My favorite German post

2001-05-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sat, 19 May 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > actually I think it's a combined english german message, it starts > > with english then drifts into german, here's the same message divided > > into english and german parts (using !): > > > > Re: Outlook, d

Re: cups and deskjet 840c

2001-05-20 Thread Mao's Brüderle
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 09:15:27PM +1000, Joel Mayes wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 02:03:09PM +0200, Mao's Br?derle wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Has anyone had any experience with cups and the deskjet 840c?! As I > > understood from cups.org, this printer is supported, although "mostly". > >

Re: Two Problems

2001-05-20 Thread D-Man
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:12:02AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: | 2) My second problem is one that my ISP administrator cannot solve. | Until last summer, I could get onto the internet with any version of | linux that I tried. Typical of what I get now is what I get with | wvdial (same thing happen

Two Problems

2001-05-20 Thread Sidney Brooks
I have just installed Potato and have two problems. 1) I have configured my printer with magicfilterconfig. When I try to print,as I did with an earlier version of Debian, e.g. pr /etc/printcap |lpr, it does not work. I get: lpr:connect: Connection refused jobs queued; but cannot start daemon

Fwd: Re: Configuring Networking - Newbie - solved

2001-05-20 Thread Bob Underwood
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Configuring Networking - Newbie - solved Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 11:52:43 -0400 From: Bob Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> this turned out to be a compatibility problem. originally, i had cards using the rtl8139 and tulip modules. i replaced

Re: Multi-platform software development

2001-05-20 Thread George Dancheff
http://gcc.gnu.org --- Karl Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > >I'm in the need of developing a multi-platform > system. > >Can anyone give me a hint of which tool's > (libraries) to use? I'd like to > >develop applications for linux(es), unix(es) and > windows. > >I'm even about to pay

Re: My favorite German post

2001-05-20 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Sat, 19 May 2001, John Willey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think I learned something from the recent German crossover on this >list. This message was especially useful: > >Re: Outlook, die Schweinepest des Internets > >My German is terrible/nonexistent, but I like to think that this translat

Re: Language

2001-05-20 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hello, "V.Suresh" wrote: > > English of course, and the German &*)(&**^ thing has obviously > frustrated you as well as many of the listers. Now it's fixed, and > everybody is :-). The moral is, when there is something in the line > of spam, it's better to remain silent, and let the thin

Re: [users] Re: opera

2001-05-20 Thread Forrest English
On 21 May 2001 01:14:59 +0800, csj whispered to the router: !! Maybe you should just follow the Debian motto. When in doubt, recompile. i thought that was slackware's motto -- Forrest English http://truffula.net/~forrest "America is at that akward stage, it is too late to work within the

Web server

2001-05-20 Thread N. Raghavendra
Hi, We are moving our web server to a new machine. How much memory do people advise for a web server? Also I'd be happy to get information and pointers on security. Many thanks, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra| GnuPG signed/encrypted mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]| w

List broken?

2001-05-20 Thread csj
Is it just me? I have been receiving an inordinate amount of German language mail.

Re: [users] Re: opera

2001-05-20 Thread csj
On 19 May 2001 13:20:04 -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Stephen E. Hargrove (on Fri, 18 May 2001 07:03:42PM -0500): > > i'm running woody and have it installed: > > that's probably the problem - since i am running woody on one machine > where it works, and potato on the one where it doesn't.

Re: Newbie question - Java install

2001-05-20 Thread V.Suresh
I have copied the Contents-i386 file into my root dir, have uncompressed it. Hence, whenever I want to find which package a specific file belongs to, I just do grep Contents-i386. That will show all packages that contain that file. Hope this helps. Once upon a time, Norman Beresfo

Re: Language

2001-05-20 Thread V.Suresh
English of course, and the German &*)(&**^ thing has obviously frustrated you as well as many of the listers. Now it's fixed, and everybody is :-). The moral is, when there is something in the line of spam, it's better to remain silent, and let the thing die down (it will, soon). Else,

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-20 Thread Forrest English
i think star office is going to be your best bet as far as word proccessing and graphing goes. though, koffice might work, i havn't used it in a long time, and it seemd nice enough then, so it might work for you now. might want to think of using one of the newer mozilla builds. they're fast enou

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-20 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I personally like Mozilla a lot better than Netscape, and if you're looking for something w/ quick load times, use galeon. It uses the gecko rendering engine, and it has a pretty slick interface. StarOffice probably would be the best solution for your office replacement. It also has a brows

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Martin Fluch wrote: > > Of course, some people argue, that spaces in filenames is a Bad > > Thing(tm), but I fail to see why. > > Could exactly this be the reason, why spaces in filenames are considered > as a bad thing, since they easily lead into trouble? But, this trouble is easily avoided wi

small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-20 Thread joe golden
I am trying to switch our small (12 machine) NT network over to Linux. Some of the main computer applications at our school are web browsing , word processing and spreadsheets (MS Internet Explorer, Word and Excel). I am running Linux debian 2.2.18pre21 and just updated last week. Netscape ma

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread mark
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 06:13:07PM +0200, Philipp Lehman wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2001, Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Sun, 20 May 2001, Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I still don't understand the proper syntax for this: I want to process > >>multiple files, e.g. symlink

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 20 May 2001, Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I still don't understand the proper syntax for this: I want to process >>multiple files, e.g. symlinking a bunch or converting graphics. >> >>for i in *;do 'ln -s $i /home/newdi

Re: logging to active console is driving me crazy

2001-05-20 Thread Dana J . Laude
On Fri, 18 May 2001 13:51:03 you wrote: > I have a iptables firewall with 2.4.4 kernel. I have it log packets > that are illegal etc. How do I stop these logs from being displayed > on the active console. I am running potato with Adrian Bunk's stuff > for 2.4 kernel support. > > Here is what

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I still don't understand the proper syntax for this: I want to process >multiple files, e.g. symlinking a bunch or converting graphics. > >for i in *;do 'ln -s $i /home/newdir/$i';done ^^^ ^^^ You need grave

Re: How to use debian lists

2001-05-20 Thread Joel Mayes
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:14:16AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I have gotten some excellent answers to my questions and picked up > useful information from other user's questions and answers but > > I'm swamped! > > Often I am away from my computer for several days and return to find > 1,0

Re: potato question

2001-05-20 Thread V.Suresh
Try the X4. Mostly it works. With kernel 2.4.x, your chances of getting X increase. I didn't do it the proper way, but somehow managed to get it. With 2.2.18, installed X from .tgz files, xf86config. Then booted thru 2.4.0, startx worked. Again booted thru 2.2.18, still startx worked. So,

Re: Multi-platform software development

2001-05-20 Thread Karl Philipp
Hi, I'm in the need of developing a multi-platform system. Can anyone give me a hint of which tool's (libraries) to use? I'd like to develop applications for linux(es), unix(es) and windows. I'm even about to pay a little amount of money for it. Oh, I'm talking about GUI objects ( I think C++ w

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