Re: uk.debian.org

2001-07-04 Thread Paul Wright
On Wed, 04 Jul 2001 21:39:38 BST, Saqib wrote: > > fair enough, don't understand ms either. why does it contain chinese > characters by the way? > saqib > So persons who read Chinese can find the link. IMHO, Not using native characters for the language links would be insensitive and show a lac

Birth of KDE

2001-07-04 Thread Lambrecht Joris
While digging thru a google queryresult on Mailclients i stumbled across this archived mail . . . the birth of KDE ? It's pretty old Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 15:19:00 +0100 (MET) http://www.via.ecp.fr/lyx/archive/9610/msg00368.html Anyway, thought it was kinda cool. Forgive me, i'm getting muc

Re: passing "mem=???" to the kernel

2001-07-04 Thread Matthew Garman
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:43:24PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > When is it necessary to pass the "mem" parameter to the kernel? I was > under the impression that it should no longer be necessary; that newer > kernels would always find whatever memory was available. However, I > recently doubled

Re: uudecode files with multiple encoded files

2001-07-04 Thread Matthew Garman
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:16:39PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have a few files that contain multiple uuencoded files inside of > > them. > > uudeview will handle those. Yup, another vote for uudeview. For a uu/mime decoder, it's pretty fancy, wi

Re: passing "mem=???" to the kernel

2001-07-04 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:43:24PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > When is it necessary to pass the "mem" parameter to the kernel? I was > under the impression that it should no longer be necessary; that newer > kernels would always find whatever memory was available. However, I > recently doubled

passing "mem=???" to the kernel

2001-07-04 Thread Noah Meyerhans
When is it necessary to pass the "mem" parameter to the kernel? I was under the impression that it should no longer be necessary; that newer kernels would always find whatever memory was available. However, I recently doubled the RAM on one of my systems (from 128 to 256 MB) but the new RAM is no

Re: uudecode files with multiple encoded files

2001-07-04 Thread Alan Shutko
Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a few files that contain multiple uuencoded files inside of > them. uudeview will handle those. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Be prepared to accept sacrifices. Vestal virgins aren't all that bad.

Re: buying a computer

2001-07-04 Thread Alan Shutko
"Martin F. Krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > okay. that makes sense. although i'd recommend setting up unstable > within a chroot in stable... that way you don't have to reboot, you > can use both systems simultaneously. Well, with some limitations. You won't be able to run two Xs without so

Re: Kernel Rebuild

2001-07-04 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:45:17PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: > I believe you need to apply a patch in the 2.2.x series kernel for > UDMA-66 support. Did you get your kernel source from the "official" > site (kernel.org or some mirror) or from a Debian mirror with 'apt-get > kernel-source-2.2.18'

figured out: Re: exim and outbound domain name

2001-07-04 Thread Xucaen
I am such an idiot, I missed the "re-start" part. it works now. thank you!! --- Raghavendra Bhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:10:39PM -0700] Xucaen > : > > > changed all the appropriate files when I > changed > > the hostname, but it would seem that I missed > > one. Doe

Re: Kernel Rebuild

2001-07-04 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:09:34PM -0500, Jeremy wrote: > I'm new to the idea of rebuilding my kernel for including or excluding things > in my configuration, but I decided to brave it today and was (fairly) > successful. I'm having a little bit of a problem, though. I need both the > UMDA66 and

Re: exim and outbound domain name

2001-07-04 Thread Xucaen
Hi! exim.conf has "whitestar" defines in the rewrite section. I've searched thru every file that has to do with hostnames, I'm stumped. Thanks for replying!! xucaen --- Raghavendra Bhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:10:39PM -0700] Xucaen > : > > > changed all the appropr

Aptrex C3252A X-terminal

2001-07-04 Thread David Orman
I've gotten my hands on two Aptrex Xterms. There is no documentation whatsoever, and no software. I have absolutely no clue how these terminals work, etc. I connected one to a fairly recent 17" monitor, and it's getting stuck in a half on/half power save mode. Is there some key to press to switch a

Re: your mail

2001-07-04 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:20:29PM +0200, C?dric Hugon wrote: >I have problem with installing Debian 2.2. He doesn't see my hard disk >(ATA100). What may I do ? Make a UDMA-66 boot disk. Check out this part of the installation guide: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-

Re: Re: Mail from OE to linux and more

2001-07-04 Thread Lambrecht Joris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Wednesday 04 July 2001 10:30, Lambrecht Joris wrote: >> Anyone looking to buy a scanner > >Really, read about 'sane'. Google search it and you will get some good info. > I know about sane, i know about Cano

Re: exim and outbound domain name

2001-07-04 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
[Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:10:39PM -0700] Xucaen : > changed all the appropriate files when I changed > the hostname, but it would seem that I missed > one. Does anyone have any ideas? In either /etc/exim.conf or /etc/exim/exim.conf, what does the hostname in the rewrite section say ? Change the h

Re: Sound configuration

2001-07-04 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:08:48PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:19:18AM -0500, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > | This has probably been much discussed before but I am new here. > | How the heck do you configure the sound card under potato? > > Step 1 : figure out what your sou

Re: exim and outbound domain name

2001-07-04 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:10:39PM -0700, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all, >When I first installed Debian, I kept the > default hostname of "debian" > I have since re-named my system as "whitestar" > I reconfigured exim to use "whitestar" as the > name it appends to the sender name after the @ in > the

DMA Problem

2001-07-04 Thread Debian GNU
Hi all, In my Potato/2.2.19pre17 I am getting the following message in the console occationally. hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy} hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE ide0: unexpected interrupt, status 0x80, count=4 ide0: reset success How can I fix it ? Tnx in advance Deb __

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Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:43:56PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: [snip] | I would believe the ethical way to deal with [disagreements] is to | contact [the other party] first Agreed (with obvious editorial license taken ;-)). On a better note, a while ago some company contacted John Harper (auth

exim and outbound domain name

2001-07-04 Thread Xucaen
Hi all, When I first installed Debian, I kept the default hostname of "debian" I have since re-named my system as "whitestar" I reconfigured exim to use "whitestar" as the name it appends to the sender name after the @ in the from field, but when I send a message, it somehow is still using "debi

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:26:07PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > It seems to me that from certain perspective it is plain ridiculous that a > group of humans can claim a word, group of words or phrase as theri personal > or corporate property. The laws may support it, but the it does not deny i

Kernel Rebuild

2001-07-04 Thread Jeremy
I'm new to the idea of rebuilding my kernel for including or excluding things in my configuration, but I decided to brave it today and was (fairly) successful. I'm having a little bit of a problem, though. I need both the UMDA66 and the SMP features. I have the potato 2.2r2 installation CD set (

Re: wavtools

2001-07-04 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 06:39:48PM -0700, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all, > does anyone know anything about wavtools? I > used apt-get wavtools and it installed, but where > are the executables? the desc. says wavtools has > utilities to play, record and compress wav files, > but what and where are the

Re: uk.debian.org

2001-07-04 Thread Colin Watson
"Saqib Shaikh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >recently a friend of mine wanted to get into linux. i gave him the >address of www.uk.debian.org. he phoned me back later and told me that >microsoft internet explorer said it contained chinese characters. i also >booted windows and had the same problem. i

Re: woody yadex is 2 years behind the times?

2001-07-04 Thread Colin Watson
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >is the woody version of yadex REALLY 2 years behind the upstream version? >i can't believe this. someone please tell me what's going on! File a wishlist bug report against yadex using 'reportbug'. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: Text file busy

2001-07-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:53:57AM -0500, ktb wrote: > > I don't know the answer myself as I have never experienced this but a > quick search with http://www.google.com/linux netted this - > http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/net/9611.3/0052.html That looks like it, yup. That seems kind

wavtools

2001-07-04 Thread Xucaen
Hi all, does anyone know anything about wavtools? I used apt-get wavtools and it installed, but where are the executables? the desc. says wavtools has utilities to play, record and compress wav files, but what and where are they? there's no docs anywhere. (man wavtools doesn't work either.) th

lilypond fails (error: latex: command exited with value 256)

2001-07-04 Thread Erik Steffl
(debian unstable, 2.4.3 kernel) I tried the example from info lilypond tutorial: \score { \notes { c'4 e' g' } } then ran command: ly2dvi -P test.ly and here's what I've got: jojda:~/tmp>ly2dvi -P p

Re: problem with ATA100

2001-07-04 Thread Erik Steffl
> Cédric Hugon wrote: > > to erik steffl from cedric hugon > > I have the problem when linux tries to create partitions : he doesn't > recognize harddisk (it's the only drive). It's just after configuring > keyboard and network. I tried to launch cfdisk(linux) but it stops > immediately with an e

Re: [users] buying a computer

2001-07-04 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Faheem Mitha (on Wed, 04 Jul 2001 12:57:57PM -0400): > The point of getting a preinstalled machine is to check that Debian works > Ok with the hardware. It is strictly a hardware issue. As I indicated > later in the message, I would probably reinstall at some point. Actually, > I was co

Re: soundblaster 16/ adding new group

2001-07-04 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:10:13AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > > My confusion is regarding adding my user name to > > a new group and changing the group of the sound > > device. between usermod, chgrp, chown, I'm > > confused. what do I need to do to get my user > > name to access the sound device?

woody yadex is 2 years behind the times?

2001-07-04 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, this is from dpkg: ii yadex 1.0.1-1.1 WAD file editor for doom-style WADs this is from the yadex website: 2001-06-30 - Yadex 1.5.2 is out 2000-12-12 - Yadex 1.5.1 is out 2000-09-25 - The mailing lists have moved 2000-08-27 - Yadex

Re: soundblaster 16/ adding new group

2001-07-04 Thread Xucaen
Thank you so much! I am now added to the audio group and I have sound! :-) --- Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 04:57:22PM -0700, > Xucaen wrote: > >I have searched thru the Debian user > archives > > and read alot about soundblaster PnP cards, > but I > > ha

Re: Reinstall a package

2001-07-04 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:59:15PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I have lost several files due to an fs inconsistency on ext2 fs, I would > therefore like to just reinstall certain packages, to replace the lost files. > Is there an easy was how this can be done? I checked the dpkg man

Re: soundblaster 16/ adding new group

2001-07-04 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 04:57:22PM -0700, Xucaen wrote: >I have searched thru the Debian user archives > and read alot about soundblaster PnP cards, but I > have an old sb16 with jumpers. I know all my > card's settings and I have already installed sb. > My confusion is regarding adding my user

soundblaster 16/ adding new group

2001-07-04 Thread Xucaen
Hi all. I have searched thru the Debian user archives and read alot about soundblaster PnP cards, but I have an old sb16 with jumpers. I know all my card's settings and I have already installed sb. My confusion is regarding adding my user name to a new group and changing the group of the sound d

Re: Nvidia, GL and root

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:13:57PM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote: > nvidia.com and I saw mention of those devices, so that was going to be > my next suggestion... looks like you beat me to it :) > I didn't, somebody else ( named Matti Airas, who wrote me in private ) suggested this. I could have gues

Re: Kernel 2.4.6 won't boot

2001-07-04 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.6 won't boot Date: Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:58:37AM +0200 In reply to:Viktor Rosenfeld Quoting Viktor Rosenfeld([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Bostjan Muller wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > I have just found out that kernel 2.4.6 won't boot on my pentium 200 MMX > > ma

Re: uk.debian.org

2001-07-04 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: uk.debian.org Date: Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:12:08PM -0700 In reply to:Craig Dickson Quoting Craig Dickson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Complain to Microsoft. > > The page DOES contain Chinese characters, as does www.debian.org, of > which it is a mirror. Down at the bottom

Re: upgrading to kernel 2.4.5

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:43:43PM -0400, Jeld The Dark Elf wrote: > Supposedly I/O and memory handling is a bit better in 2.4 series than in > 2.2 in server environment. And you get stateful inspection firewall code :) > And the 2.4.6 is already out :) -- Consciousness: that annoying time betwe

Re: Mail from OE to linux and more

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:42:01PM -0400, Jeld The Dark Elf wrote: > > I love mutt. Well, I suppose it is not for everybody. Out of text clients I > would > suggest PINE, since it is very user friendly on one side and still text on > the other. > Out of X based things a few to try would be Nets

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:28:01PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 03-Jul-01, 17:50 (CDT), Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:40:05PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > > > the benifit is leaving what all 4 of those runlevels do solely up to > > YOU not some

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
It seems to me that from certain perspective it is plain ridiculous that a group of humans can claim a word, group of words or phrase as theri personal or corporate property. The laws may support it, but the it does not deny its stupidity, nor the blindness of the fact.

Re: changing the keybord-installation

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:50:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I?m a new user of debian--linux and searching for a way to > change the installation of my keybord. Could someone help? > What exactly do you mean? -- Okay, who stopped the payment on my reality check?

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:39:33PM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: > At 994279436s since epoch (07/04/01 16:43:56 -0400 UTC), Balbir Thomas wrote: > > After all what kind of a person or company would want to levy a financial > > burden on a man who has contributed his time and resources, for a community

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:39:33PM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: > Probably because if you don't protect your trademarks in this country, > they fall into the public domain. That's why you can say "asprin" > when you want to cure a headache (because Bayer didn't defend its > trademark) . . . Urban m

Re: uudecode files with multiple encoded files

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:44:38PM -0700, Aaron Brashears wrote: > I have a few files that contain multiple uuencoded files inside of > them. As it stands uudecode will only decode the first one in the > file, so I load up the file in an editor and delete the first encoded > file, and uudecode the

Re: Kernel 2.4.6 won't boot

2001-07-04 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Bostjan Muller wrote: > > Hi! > > I have just found out that kernel 2.4.6 won't boot on my pentium 200 MMX > machine. The same has allready happened with kernel 2.4.6-pre8, but I thought > it will be fixed later when stable release comes out. The same kernel boots > just ok on my toshiba p75 lapt

Re: Can't init font path element

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 04:12:50PM -0400, Ken Januski wrote: > Okay, > > I've buried myself in X arcana for 2-3 days. and now have what looks > like legit fonts.dir, fonts.alias and fonts.dir files for truetype > fonts. But everytime I start X I get the above message: "Cam't init font > path eleme

Re: install isdnutils depends on xfree86-common

2001-07-04 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:17:58PM +0200, Georg Wei? wrote: > hello list. > > why depends the package isdnutils on xfree86 ? > > yes i know there is a program (xisdnload?) in isdnutils > that requires a xfree installation. > > but why is this program in the package? > > i think it should be o

Re: Reinstall a package

2001-07-04 Thread neonatus
* On 05-07-01 at 00:18 Moritz Schulte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I have lost several files due to an fs inconsistency on ext2 fs, I > > would therefore like to just reinstall certain packages, to replace > > the lost files. Is th

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-04 Thread Steve Greenland
On 03-Jul-01, 17:50 (CDT), Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:40:05PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > the benifit is leaving what all 4 of those runlevels do solely up to > YOU not some so called standards body. So we should get rid of the FHS as well? Perha

Re: uk.debian.org

2001-07-04 Thread Cameron Matheson
On 04 Jul 2001 21:39:38 +0100, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > fair enough, don't understand ms either. why does it contain chinese > characters by the way? > saqib I believe it's a link to the Chinese Debian mirror/site Cameron Matheson _ Do You Ya

Re: Reinstall a package

2001-07-04 Thread Moritz Schulte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have lost several files due to an fs inconsistency on ext2 fs, I > would therefore like to just reinstall certain packages, to replace > the lost files. Is there an easy was how this can be done? I > checked the dpkg man page and did not find anything like reinstall.

Reinstall a package

2001-07-04 Thread neonatus
Hi! I have lost several files due to an fs inconsistency on ext2 fs, I would therefore like to just reinstall certain packages, to replace the lost files. Is there an easy was how this can be done? I checked the dpkg man page and did not find anything like reinstall. THX in advance! Bostjan --

Re: install isdnutils depends on xfree86-common

2001-07-04 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:17:58PM +0200, =?iso-8859-1?Q? Georg=20Wei=DF ?= wrote: > why depends the package isdnutils on xfree86 ? > > yes i know there is a program (xisdnload?) in isdnutils > that requires a xfree installation. > > but why is this program in the package? > > i think it should

Re: your mail

2001-07-04 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:20:29PM +0200, C?dric Hugon wrote: > I have problem with installing Debian 2.2. He doesn't see my hard disk > (ATA100). What may I do ? Hit enter after +/- 70 characters, to start. Then tell us what motherboard your system has. What type of ide controller is the disk

problem with ATA100

2001-07-04 Thread Cédric Hugon
to erik steffl from cedric hugon   I have the problem when linux tries to create partitions : he doesn't recognize harddisk (it's the only drive). It's just after configuring keyboard and network. I tried to launch cfdisk(linux) but it stops immediately with an error message that tells me the

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Jason Healy
At 994279436s since epoch (07/04/01 16:43:56 -0400 UTC), Balbir Thomas wrote: > After all what kind of a person or company would want to levy a financial > burden on a man who has contributed his time and resources, for a community > benifit. [Obligitory IANAL] Probably because if you don't prot

Handheld scanner/OCR Shop questions

2001-07-04 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
Hello everybody, I've considered buying a hand-held scanner that I could use for quick text scans of journal article abstracts. However, after looking around the Web (Google mainly + sane website) I still have my doubts as to which one would present a good price/usability ratio. Please share yo

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:43:56PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > I would believe the ethical way to deal with an opensource developer, > who doesn't profit from his products is to contact him first, rather > than throw a bunch of law dogs at him. After all what kind of a person > or company would w

Re: initrd problem: not yet fixed

2001-07-04 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:25:01PM +0200, Guy Geens wrote: > Google gave me this page: > http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/unofficial/index200107.html > > Which points to the patch I need. (And some other interesting things.) Good luck. :-) Cheers, Joost

Re: uudecode files with multiple encoded files

2001-07-04 Thread tempsch
On 4 Jul, Aaron Brashears wrote: > I have a few files that contain multiple uuencoded files inside of > them. As it stands uudecode will only decode the first one in the > file, so I load up the file in an editor and delete the first encoded > file, and uudecode the larger file again to extract th

Re: Linux substitue for Origin

2001-07-04 Thread Brendan O'Connor
On Tuesday 03 July 2001 18:48, Nikolai Hlubek wrote: > Hi there fellow Debian'a'holics, > > does anybody know of a linux programm which can > compete with Origin. > (Origin is similar to Excel but with more advanced > features, which are important for me.) > > Read you, > Nikolai. There's also KS

Re: Debconf failing on libpgsql2.1

2001-07-04 Thread Joey Hess
Damon Muller wrote: > debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't modify goto in lvalue subroutine > return at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Base.pm line 24, near "}" > Compilation failed in require at (eval 4) line 3. Upgrade debconf. -- see shy jo

Unidentified subject!

2001-07-04 Thread Rich Derr
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disk quota

2001-07-04 Thread Mike Egglestone
HI... Hopefully someone could help me set this up I have a directory in my filesystem. /var/www/user_data The directory is owned by www-data I would like to setup a quota so that every directory that gets written to (created) under /var/www/user_data will never be allowed to exceed

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Balbir Thomas
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:05:14PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:00:38PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > > Hi, > > Yet another case of open source developers being harassed. Adobe > > lawyers ask developer of killustrator to pay fines for using a name > > that abuses their

Re: uk.debian.org

2001-07-04 Thread Saqib Shaikh
fair enough, don't understand ms either. why does it contain chinese characters by the way? saqib - Original Message - From: "Craig Dickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 9:12 PM Subject: Re: uk.debian.org > Saqib Shaikh wrote: > > > recently a friend of mine wa

install isdnutils depends on xfree86-common

2001-07-04 Thread Georg Weiß
hello list. why depends the package isdnutils on xfree86 ? yes i know there is a program (xisdnload?) in isdnutils that requires a xfree installation. but why is this program in the package? i think it should be optional. (or is it required for some reason i missed?) i just want to get my debi

Can't init font path element

2001-07-04 Thread Ken Januski
Okay, I've buried myself in X arcana for 2-3 days. and now have what looks like legit fonts.dir, fonts.alias and fonts.dir files for truetype fonts. But everytime I start X I get the above message: "Cam't init font path element "/usr/share/fonts/truetype, removing from list"'. Netscape font prefer

Re:

2001-07-04 Thread Erik Steffl
> Cédric Hugon wrote: > > I have problem with installing Debian 2.2. He doesn't see my hard disk > (ATA100). What may I do ? glasses? what exactly is the problem? do you get any error message? at which point of the installation do you have a problem? is it the only drive in the system? when

Re: uk.debian.org

2001-07-04 Thread Craig Dickson
Saqib Shaikh wrote: > recently a friend of mine wanted to get into linux. i gave him the > address of www.uk.debian.org. he phoned me back later and told me that > microsoft internet explorer said it contained chinese characters. i > also booted windows and had the same problem. ie asks if you wan

RE: rescue disk install

2001-07-04 Thread Jeff Conder
Thanks for the ideas Brian. Luckily I had a 6 pin connector on the tower and another keyboard. It got me up an installed - now the moment of truth :o I'm going to reboot and see if the system works. I installed the USB keyboard driver. btw - this is my first install. Thanks Jeff -Origina

RE: rescue disk install

2001-07-04 Thread Jeff Conder
Thanks for the ideas Brian. Luckily I had a 6 pin connector on the tower and another keyboard. It got me up an installed - now the moment of truth :o I'm going to reboot and see if the system works. I installed the USB keyboard driver. btw - this is my first install. Thanks Jeff -Origina

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Erik Steffl
"Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:00:38PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > > Hi, > > Yet another case of open source developers being harassed. Adobe > > lawyers ask developer of killustrator to pay fines for using a name > > that abuses their trade mark illustrator. Go read abou

initrd problem fixed!

2001-07-04 Thread Guy Geens
I finally got it to work. I re-read one of the patches I applied before, and I noticed something at the top of the file. The text said I should add `ramdisk_blocksize=4096' to the boot parameters. I did that, and the system booted flawlessly. (Except for one typo in the initrd image, which I could

uk.debian.org

2001-07-04 Thread Saqib Shaikh
hi,   recently a friend of mine wanted to get into linux. i gave him the address of www.uk.debian.org. he phoned me back later and told me that microsoft internet explorer said it contained chinese characters. i also booted windows and had the same problem. ie asks if you want to install sup

uudecode files with multiple encoded files

2001-07-04 Thread Aaron Brashears
I have a few files that contain multiple uuencoded files inside of them. As it stands uudecode will only decode the first one in the file, so I load up the file in an editor and delete the first encoded file, and uudecode the larger file again to extract the next uuencoded file. This is a pain. I

Re: buying a computer

2001-07-04 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Faheem Mitha wrote: There's also the November 2000 issue of Linux Journal (focus on hardware), part of which is available online. But I like to hear about hardware issues from Real People. For one thing, you can ask questions. Faheem. The Bioin

Re: Nvidia, GL and root

2001-07-04 Thread Sean Quinlan
* Jeld The Dark Elf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-04 19:10): > I seem to have recieved a solution. There are /dev/nvidia* devices which are > only > accessible by root. The permissions on libraries are fine. Didn't try it out > yet. I had a quick browse through the support docs on lokigames.com

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2001-07-04 Thread Cédric Hugon
I have problem with installing Debian 2.2. He doesn't see my hard disk (ATA100). What may I do ?

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:00:38PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: > Hi, > Yet another case of open source developers being harassed. Adobe > lawyers ask developer of killustrator to pay fines for using a name > that abuses their trade mark illustrator. Go read about it at slashdot > , and then give yo

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread der.hans
Am 04. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Balbir Thomas so: > Yet another case of open source developers being harassed. Adobe lawyers > ask developer of killustrator to pay fines for using a name that abuses > their trade mark illustrator. Go read about it at slashdot , and then > give your feedback to Adobe. I

Re: GTK Errors using GNOME in Testing

2001-07-04 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:02:24PM -0400, D-Man uttered: > Yes "Enlightened Sound Daemon". I don't have a sound card in this > box, but I used to have one and it could only play 1 sound at a time. > So if I had WinAmp going, and I was working on a presentation in > PowerPoint, I wouldn't notice th

pcmcia nic confuddelment.

2001-07-04 Thread Keith O'Connell
I had two machines running Debian, not well, but working together and I was learning as I went. For all sorts or reasons I had to give my wife one of the desktop machines and she gave me her laptop. I partitioned a great chunk of it off and started to install potato from the cd set I have here. I

OFFTOPIC: http://lwn.net/2001/0628/ (licensed linux..)

2001-07-04 Thread Walter Tautz
The article describes caldera's recent release and a per seat license..

Re: Mail from OE to linux and more

2001-07-04 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 10:30, Lambrecht Joris wrote: > Anyone looking to buy a scanner Really, read about 'sane'. Google search it and you will get some good info. > > After a lot-of-trial and error i managed to get fetchmail working > correctly. Apparently the example config files aren't all

Re: Nvidia, GL and root

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:45:56PM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote: > On my machine, where you get the signal 11, mine initialises the GL > renderer, so it may be a problem with the GL libraries, or permissions > on them. Here are the permissions on mine: > > $ ls -l /usr/lib/libGL.so > lrwxrwxrwx1

Re: Kernel 2.4.6 won't boot

2001-07-04 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:52:35PM -0500, ktb wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:31:30PM +0200, Bostjan Muller wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I have just found out that kernel 2.4.6 won't boot on my pentium 200 MMX > > machine. The same has allready happened with kernel 2.4.6-pre8, but I > > thought > >

[OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-04 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, Yet another case of open source developers being harassed. Adobe lawyers ask developer of killustrator to pay fines for using a name that abuses their trade mark illustrator. Go read about it at slashdot , and then give your feedback to Adobe. I already did. We can't let such harassment go wi

Re: Kernel 2.4.6 won't boot

2001-07-04 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:31:30PM +0200, Bostjan Muller wrote: > Hi! > > I have just found out that kernel 2.4.6 won't boot on my pentium 200 MMX > machine. The same has allready happened with kernel 2.4.6-pre8, but I thought > it will be fixed later when stable release comes out. The same kernel

changing the keybord-installation

2001-07-04 Thread Chbrunk
Hello, I´m a new user of debian--linux and searching for a way to change the installation of my keybord. Could someone help? Christian

Re: error trying to use XFree86 4.x.x with USB Microsoft Intellimouse....

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:42:16AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > Module Size Used by > usbmouse1648 0 (unused) > input 2752 0 [usbmouse] > usb-uhci 17984 0 (unused) > usbcore44560 1 [usbmouse usb-uhci] > 3c

Re: upgrading to kernel 2.4.5

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 04:03:59PM +, Victor wrote: > I've a wonderful debian 2.2r3 laptop, almost perfectly set up and > working greatly and stable. > > The present kernel is 2.2.19 and I compiled to tailor it (usage of > memory, needless devices, etc.) to my needs. It's all OK! > > My simpl

Re: Mail from OE to linux and more

2001-07-04 Thread Jeld The Dark Elf
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 04:55:24PM +, Lambrecht Joris wrote: > Hi All, > > In a fit of rage (they just shouldn't have said those things out loud) i > moved from win2k to linux for 'almost' everything i do on my computer. > Scanning (canon d660u) is still a problem because Canon refuses to sh

Re: Kernel 2.4.6 won't boot

2001-07-04 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Bostjan Muller wrote: > Hi! > > I have just found out that kernel 2.4.6 won't boot on my pentium 200 MMX > machine. The same has allready happened with kernel 2.4.6-pre8, but I thought > it will be fixed later when stable release comes out. The same kernel boots > just ok on m

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