Re: Netscape 6.2

2001-12-07 Thread DvB
Alec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is Netscape 6.2 any good? Is it worth installing? Any reason to prefer it to > Netscape 4.77? How is it different from Mozilla? > Personally, I suggest using mozilla instead... NS6.2 is an older version of Mozilla with netscape commercial stuff included. I wou

Re: Manager for software in /usr/local

2001-12-07 Thread Lance Simmons
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:45:25PM +0100, Michael Wagner wrote: > I also use stow for my software in /usr/local. But you can also try > checkinstall. [...]I didn't find a deb from this program, but at > freshmeat.net you can get it. The author says you should install it, then use it to make a d

Netscape 6.2

2001-12-07 Thread Alec
Is Netscape 6.2 any good? Is it worth installing? Any reason to prefer it to Netscape 4.77? How is it different from Mozilla? Alec _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: Debian ethernet networking

2001-12-07 Thread Matt Chipman
On 7 Dec 2001, at 19:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am having the darnest time getting my first Debian > machine(s) / ethernet network set up...Debian > Potato... I cannot figure out what script or > configuration file to put the 'route -add ...' > commands in? > You can put them at t

Re: ifconfig curiosity

2001-12-07 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > Of course, my answer _was_ helpful... you'll find that tossing "MiB > standard" into google will get you the right answer. Tried it, didn't get useful responses. :o/ -- Baloo

Is it possible to convert a debian source package to a tar ball?

2001-12-07 Thread scott worley
Hi, I've been reading the man pages on dpkg & dpkg-deb to find out if it's possible to covert the deb source directory: foo-x.y.z.orig debian-dir with all the patches upstream-source-dir to a source tar ball with all patches applied? dpkg & dpkg-deb man pages talk about build ru

Re: ifconfig curiosity

2001-12-07 Thread Craig Dickson
Karsten M. Self wrote: > Digging a bit deeper: advertisers and marketers stole the traditional > measures of storage: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, by imposing the > interpretation of these as powers of ten, rather than powers of two. True, but only the computer industry ever used kilo-, mega-,

Re: Debian ethernet networking

2001-12-07 Thread San Segkhoonthod
look at /etc/network/interfaces. This is the file that control how you can setup network (eth*, lo, etc). see man interfaces. san On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 10:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am having the darnest time getting my first Debian > machine(s) / ethernet network set up...Debian > Potato

Re: pipe mutt message into vim

2001-12-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:31:26PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm unclear about pipes! I frequently wish to pipe the contents of a > message I'm reading in mutt into vim, edit the contents to a saved file > and then return to mutt. > > I have simplistically tried from

Re: ifconfig curiosity

2001-12-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:41:14PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 12:44, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > > > > > > uhm, what are "MiB"'s? > > > > > > One of the more stupid sounding standards to be foisted on the

gdm & woody/sid

2001-12-07 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I had to define the following in /etc/gmd/gdm.conf before gdm works properly: HaltCommand=/usr/bin/sudo /sbin/poweroff RebootCommand=/usr/bin/sudo /sbin/reboot I don't think that I had to do the same when my machine was not woody/sid; gdm just needed to be installed, and that was it. Interest

Re: Key words, please [was: Newbie comments & queries]

2001-12-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:21:44AM -0800, Wendell Cochran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 23:13:33 +0200 > >From: "Ian Balchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Hello, all, > >I am, after all, still alive. > > > Please use a Subject line appropriate to the immediate problem. > > `

Re: Where can I find documentation for kdm (2.2.1.0-6) ?

2001-12-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 02:40:51PM -0700, Jeff Vincent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am trying to find documentation to explain how to enable XDMCP in kdm. > Using gdm, I modified gdm.conf and enabled all the correct fields and > it worked first time around. Doing the same thing in kdmrc gets m

Re: wine and fonts

2001-12-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 02:08:07PM -0300, Sergio E. Schvezov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi there, I'm trying to emulate dotComic (from www.marvel.com) and I'm > having font problems, they all appear as those funny faces and > diamonds and stuff. I'm running an updated sid, and i don't have > win

Re: (Suggestion) A centralized Nameserver for users to use resolv.conf

2001-12-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 08:53:44PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dear Linux-users, >I have a suggestion , which I guess all of us should be taking > seriously > > Why don't we have a 'centralised' Nameserver , that > will do the IP-to-name-resolution for th

Debian ethernet networking

2001-12-07 Thread lloyder
I am having the darnest time getting my first Debian machine(s) / ethernet network set up...Debian Potato... I cannot figure out what script or configuration file to put the 'route -add ...' commands in? Best regards, Lloyd __ Get y

IPMasq questions ... not clear in docs

2001-12-07 Thread cmasters
Greetings, I didn't receive a response to yesterday's query about ~killing~ ipmasq. However, I imagine that my post was lost in the ruch of repeat messages sent via the list today. To sum up my previous post ... I installed apt-get install'd 'ipmasq' in a knee jerk response to all the recent sec

Re: Was: OpenOffice with debian testing and Mandrake 8.1

2001-12-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 07:42:07PM +1100, Steve Kieu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > I just want to notice that the problem I have before with installing > openoffice 641b did not happen with Mandrake 8.1 as I try to test it. > There certainly be something wrong or missing in debian woody

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-12-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:29:19PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I was getting no reaction from the modem with a command sent as an > > echo. Neither did I succeed in either sending anything from > > minicom, what I mean is that I could not even type an AT command > > t

Re: xterm background color

2001-12-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:34:55PM -0500, Titus Barik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Romuald DELAVERGNE wrote: > > > Le 2001.12.04 22:37, Titus Barik a écrit : > > Create or append in your '~/.Xresources' file these lines: > > XTerm*background: black > > XTerm*foreground: whea

OpenGL file(s)

2001-12-07 Thread Otis Ward
I recently tried installing a GUI front end for C++ using a package called Fox. While installing (the usual ./configure, make, and make install; the latter 2 generated the error "/usr/lib/1d: cannot fine lMesaGL") there were errors relating to "missing" OpenGL and or MESA files. I confess to

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Preben Randhol wrote: > > DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/12/2001 (21:31) : > > > > xmms seems pretty user friendly to me... if you really want something > > else, though, you might check out linuxberg's listing: > > Yes for a power user, but not for newbies. One point is that XMMS uses a > c

Does anyone know a good X windows documentation

2001-12-07 Thread der der
For example setting up the video card, monitor and the differences between the different window managers... would like to hear from someone.

Re: Power off at Shutdown

2001-12-07 Thread Peter Good
*chuckle*, I still haven't completely worked that one out, on my Epox board, with VIA kt133a chipset, that setup reboots my machine, doesn't shut it down heh. Haven't found a viable workaround yet apart from taking the options out and manually switching off. Peter On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 10:15, Pau

SMTP Server... Allowing remote users to send mail...

2001-12-07 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there! I would like to be an SMTP server for some friends that are in different domains, and prefferably with authentication required... What do I need to do??? Thanks! I already have SMTP server working for local users, the standard one installed by woody Thanks in advance!

Printing...

2001-12-07 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hi there, I need help... Trying to get my printer to work... I have an Epson Action Laser, it's HP4 compatible I don't thing the lp0 is even working... I recompiled the kernel with support for all the parallel stuf (as modules) and loaded parport_pc... But if I run printtool it says that th

Re: login + passwd for 30 users

2001-12-07 Thread Linda Laubenheimer
Gerard Robin wrote: > > Hello, > does any script exist, which creates 30 users automaticaly, > with the list of 30 persons containing their name, christian name, etc... > instead of using 30 times "adduser" ? Some people may have custom scripts, but the best way would be to create a file (or fil

Re: Power off at Shutdown

2001-12-07 Thread Paul Mackinney
With a generic kernel (I installed Potato, used apt to upgrade to Woody), adding append="apm=on" to /etc/lilo.conf did the trick. When I compiled my own 2.4.12 kernel, I had to enable both CONFIG_APM=y and CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y to get it to work, I no longer need the line in li

Re: 2.4.16 kernel crashed

2001-12-07 Thread George Dancheff
--- Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After compiling and installing 2.4.16 things seemed > to work nice until i > looked at the computer again a bit later and saw > that my screensaver had > stopped (I had the GL text screesaver on). I tried > to login but no > dialog box noting. Then I

Re: exmh (tcl? sh?) quoting question.

2001-12-07 Thread Shaul Karl
> Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > The following is an bad attempt to use exmh `Apply command to body' > > feature. > > However I believe it boils down to a tcl or a sh quoting question. > > > > What I am trying to do is to filter a message by applying a filter to > > its body. > > > > Now this filter

Can't compile sodipodi

2001-12-07 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, I am trying to compile sodipodi-0.24.1 on woody. I get the following error message: Making all in svg make[3]: Entering directory `/home/mas/junk/sodipodi-0.24.1/src/svg' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/usr/include -DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_H \ -I/usr/lib/gnome-libs/include -

Re: how to disable gnome panel

2001-12-07 Thread Yu
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 06:02:59PM +0800, Yu wrote: > > I want to use window maker as my window manager and I also install gnome > > on my woody box > > but it's to crowded with window maker dock and gnome panel together . > > So I want to disable my gnome panel. > > but I read the help documen

Re: how to save my setting of window maker

2001-12-07 Thread Yu
> I set an icon of mozilla and rxvt on the right dock of my desktop on my > woody box > and then I disable the "keep on top" option > but when I reboot ,window maker didn't remenber my setting and return to > the origin setting > What's wrong with my debian box , > is there any suggestion > thanks

Kabelmodem unter Debian

2001-12-07 Thread Leitwarte
Ich habe folgendes Problem. Ich wohne in den Niederlanden und habe dort einen Kabelanschluss als Internetanbindung. Ich habe zwei Netzwerkkarten von 3com ,die beide installiert sind und auch funktionieren. Eine Karte (eth0)ist für das Intranet die andere (eth1) als Internetanschluss an ein com21

Re: HELPME

2001-12-07 Thread David Teague
Hi Esteban I have a couple of systems that sound like yours. 486 66 with Adaptec Scsi and some 1/2 Gig drives. On motherboards of this vintage, if you have any ide drives installed and the bios setup knows about them, they want to boot. If you are fortunate, you bios is smarter than mine. See

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel 2.4.14

2001-12-07 Thread Matt Fair
I have an nvidia GeForce 2 and I just installed these linux drivers, followed the instructions, and everything went smooth. http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux Matt On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 17:40, David Teague wrote: > Hi > > Ijust bought a 32MB nVidia TNT 2 card, and I run Woody with a > fai

login + passwd for 30 users

2001-12-07 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, does any script exist, which creates 30 users automaticaly, with the list of 30 persons containing their name, christian name, etc... instead of using 30 times "adduser" ? tia -- Gerard

Re: UPS software

2001-12-07 Thread David Teague
Mark a quick correction on the price of hteCyberposer UPS I mentioned in an earlier message I paid about $190, considerably less than I said.Sorry. David On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am looking at purchasing a UPS and trying to decide between APC and > Best (Invensys). Best

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel 2.4.14

2001-12-07 Thread David Teague
Hi Ijust bought a 32MB nVidia TNT 2 card, and I run Woody with a fairly late 2.4 kernel. Am I going to have trouble? Xfree claims to support this card in X 4.0 Am I in for it, as Mother used to say? Am I smoking somethin'? Or should I be? David On 15 Nov 2001, Kyle Girard wrote: > On Thu

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-07 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Fri, 07 Dec 2001 15:30:56 -0600 DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gnome also has a mp3 player called Gnomp3 but the web page has been > "locked" and it's development status is listed on gnome.org as "N" so it > looks like you're out of luck when it comes to a native gtk mp3 > player... you can a

Re: procmail recipe not working

2001-12-07 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Klaus, > > SPAM=SPAM > > SPAMMERS=$HOME/procmail/spammers > > > > # Anti-spam > > :0: > > * ? (formail -x From: -x Sender: -x Reply-To: -x Received: -x > > Subject: | fgrep - iqf $SPAMMERS) . > > $SPAM /|\ > >

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 06:41:48PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: | XMMS is a great program, but it is interface is hopelessly bad when it | comes to user friendlyness for people that are not used to computers. i | use it. But I need a program for my father and sister who have just | started to use c

Re: reposts from yesterday

2001-12-07 Thread csj
On Saturday 08 December 2001 03:40, Alec wrote: > On Friday 07 December 2001 02:05 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > > The following procmail recipe can keep your inbox clear of it: > > :0 > > > > * ^X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > /dev/null > > > > > > Craig > > Craig, can't you do it on the ser

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-12-07 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:07:52AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: | I am running mutt (what does that stand for?) as suggested by Brenda. Mutt is a "mutt" -- a mix of other mailers. Really it is a separate code base, but it borrows much of its interface (keybindings at least) from elm and features an

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-07 Thread csj
On Saturday 08 December 2001 01:41, Preben Randhol wrote: > XMMS is a great program, but it is interface is hopelessly bad when > it comes to user friendlyness for people that are not used to > computers. i use it. But I need a program for my father and sister > who have just started to use compute

Re: how to disable gnome panel

2001-12-07 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 02:08:20PM +0100, Michael Wagner wrote: > I don't think this is the right way. I think that the calling of the > windowmanager must be the last argument in ~/.xsession. Like this: > PS: If this is not right, can somebody correct me? I am the king of idiots. You are indee

Re: procmail recipe not working

2001-12-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:21:57AM -0900, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: | > I've been thinking of making a similar thing, just so I can list each | > spammer on one line instead of 4. | | FYI, if you do something like this in your procmail recipe file: | | SPAM=SPAM | SPAMMERS=$HOME/proc

Solved: upgrading a single program

2001-12-07 Thread Brian Kerhin
Not to bad a solution, just grab the libc dependency given in another email message and install them both. Worked just fine. New problem though. Lilo in Debian doesn't seem to support the table option. Does anyone have a dual boot system with the following type of entry? image=/dev/hda1

Terratec 512i Digital

2001-12-07 Thread Gregory Soyez
Hello, does anyone know if "Terratec 512i Digital" soundcards are recognized by 2.2 or 2.4 kernels ? As is seems to be written on the ALSA project website, it seems to work with the fm801 driver ?!? Can anyone confirm this ? Thanks in advance Gregor -- Grégory Soyez Université de Liège Institu

Re: ifconfig curiosity

2001-12-07 Thread Craig Dickson
Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > A MiB is a mibibyte, and a KiB is a kibibyte. Almost, except for spelling. It's "mebibyte", not "mibibyte". But "kibibyte" is correct. > MiB == 2^20 bytes, KiB == 2^10 bytes. By contrast, a MB, or > megabyte, == 10^6 bytes and a KB, or kilobyte, == 10^3 bytes. > This m

Re: Is Intel 810 Chipset supported? - xfree-3.3.x

2001-12-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya my itty bitty "how to patch debian manually for i810-based svga" http://www.Linux-1U.net/MotherBoard/Intel.X11.Patches/Intel.X11.patch.debian.txt - you can download the stuff from intel too - you need to install the XFCom_i810 svga server and the agpgart modules and devices c y

Re: procmail recipe not working

2001-12-07 Thread Klaus Ade Johnstad
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > > I've been thinking of making a similar thing, just so I can list each > > spammer on one line instead of 4. > > FYI, if you do something like this in your procmail recipe file: > > SPAM=SPAM > SPAMMERS=$HOME/procmail/spammers > > #

RE: ifconfig curiosity

2001-12-07 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| > uhm, what are "MiB"'s? and here I thought they were "Men In Black"

Newbie comments & queries

2001-12-07 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, Brenda at al., In the end with the aid of the loopback connector, the old dos standby 'Checkit' and some sweat, I got the microcom modem up and running for 2 out of 3 on an old multi i/o board dated 1991. It runs in dos Bitcom It runs in linux Minicom Wvdial reports modem not responding.

Newbie comments & queries

2001-12-07 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, I note a line on bootup 152 ? S< 0.00 /usr/sbin/diald Just thought I should mention this. Ian Ian Balchin Grahamstown, South Africa.

Changes in mutt (was Re: Evolution depends libgtkhtml20)

2001-12-07 Thread Cam Ellison
* DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On a side note, when asking a new question, please refrain from replying > to an already posted message since this screws up threaded views in mail > clients that support them. > It also screws up web archives that attempt to keep up with threads and > makes find

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-07 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 12:55, Preben Randhol wrote: > DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/12/2001 (21:31) : > > > > xmms seems pretty user friendly to me... if you really want something > > else, though, you might check out linuxberg's listing: > > Yes for a power user, but not for newbies. One po

Re: CUPS

2001-12-07 Thread Mike Fontenot
Jens Luedicke, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Furthermore, how can I set wider margins when printing > text-only using the CUPS lpr? You can't with lpr, but you can with lp, and CUPS allows you to use either (or both) commands. Read the CUPS user's manual for all the options for lp. (On an old red

Re: 2.4.16 kernel crashed

2001-12-07 Thread Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy
I have been using 2.4.16 since it came out and hadn't had a single problem. On the other hand xscreensaver and xlock has always been trouble. A crashed GL application sometimes will leave your video card in such a mess that even kiling X right from under it will not reinitialize it. Generally this

Re: 2.4.16 kernel crashed

2001-12-07 Thread Timo Boewing
Preben Randhol wrote: [...] Do somebody know of particular problems with 2.4.16? Well, for the first time i had a similar problem with GNOME/screensaver under 2.1.16 (custom), bot only once and do not really know if this is related with the kernel. just my two eurocents, Timo

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-07 Thread DvB
BTW, here's a screenshot of gnomp3: http://cgiweb.hig.no/~oey_kola/sw/gnomp3.png

Re: ifconfig curiosity

2001-12-07 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 12:44, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > > > > uhm, what are "MiB"'s? > > > > One of the more stupid sounding standards to be foisted on the public. > > That's great. How bout a helpful answer? A MiB is a mibibyte, and a KiB is a kibiby

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-07 Thread DvB
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/12/2001 (21:31) : > > > > xmms seems pretty user friendly to me... if you really want something > > else, though, you might check out linuxberg's listing: > > Yes for a power user, but not for newbies. One point is

Re: procmail recipe not working

2001-12-07 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:40:18 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I did this yesterday, but had to abandon it. I got quite a few errors and > | messages sent back to the originator of the emails. This is part of my > | /var/log/exim/mainlog: > > I think this might be relevant - > http://

Re: Partial APT mirroring...

2001-12-07 Thread Aaron Traas
There is a package that sorta does what you want... it's called apt-proxy. You set up a box as your apt-proxy, and point all of your machines to that box. Every time someone downloads a package, it is cached on the apt-proxy; thus the first time you download, it will be slow, but subsequent downloa

HPT370 and other errors :-(

2001-12-07 Thread Josef Oswald
Hi :-) This is the problem: Installation on a mixture of Woody and sid :-( I installed a IDE Controller Card with HPT370 chip from http://www.highpoint-tech.com sold as Davicontrol DC-100 Raid My PC: Hardware: Bios Version: ASUS P5A-B ACPI BIOS Revision 1010 02/24/00-ALADDIN5-PA5A-B-00 If

Re: Evolution depends libgtkhtml20

2001-12-07 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 December 2001 10:20 am, Greg Madden wrote: > On a Sid install Evolution doesn't install because of a missing > depends, libgtkhtml20 => 1.0.0. I don't see such a package on Debians > site or Google. This seems new as I just installed Evol

Solved: OpenOffice641 can not install :-)

2001-12-07 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, I am back again, just want to say it is solved after doing the last 'dselect / update / upgrade' Even I dont know which package caused the problem before but it is a good job that thing are getting improved in Debian. Cheers to all debian team = S.KIEU http://shopping.yahoo.com.au -

Re: bzip2 is absolutly Amazing!

2001-12-07 Thread Benjamin Pharr
I agree with you for the most part, but you should be aware this works the other way in certain situations. I recently compressed a text file full of numbers with both bzip2 and gzip, and the bzip2 file was ~350MB and the gzip file was ~120MB. I surprised me, too, but in some cases gzip works m

logrotate

2001-12-07 Thread Michael Montagne
thanks -- Michael Montagne [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.boora.com

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-07 Thread Preben Randhol
DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/12/2001 (21:31) : > > xmms seems pretty user friendly to me... if you really want something > else, though, you might check out linuxberg's listing: Yes for a power user, but not for newbies. One point is that XMMS uses a completely different layout than normal

Re: reposts from yesterday

2001-12-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 02:40:59PM -0500, Alec wrote: | On Friday 07 December 2001 02:05 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: | | > The following procmail recipe can keep your inbox clear of it: | > :0 | > | > * ^X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > /dev/null | | Craig, can't you do it on the server side

Re: ifconfig curiosity

2001-12-07 Thread Alan Shutko
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > >> > uhm, what are "MiB"'s? >> >> One of the more stupid sounding standards to be foisted on the public. > > That's great. How bout a helpful answer? It's the IEC name for 1024x1024 bytes, also known as

Mindterm Install

2001-12-07 Thread Timothy Grogan
As a linux newbie, I'm having fun setting up my debian server. I'm trying to setup mindterm a ssl enabled telnet which can run from a web page. I cannot get it to run from ie and I can only run it as a standalone program from netscape. Can anyone give me some hints to get it up and running c

2.4.16 kernel crashed

2001-12-07 Thread Preben Randhol
After compiling and installing 2.4.16 things seemed to work nice until i looked at the computer again a bit later and saw that my screensaver had stopped (I had the GL text screesaver on). I tried to login but no dialog box noting. Then I tried to ssh, but this didn't work either so I had to hit re

Re: upgrading a single program

2001-12-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 06:17:59PM +, Brian Kerhin wrote: > I'm using debian potato... > > 1. How can I upgrade a single package (lilo) with out contaminating my > entire box and with out rewriting the entire package to something that > doesn't conflict with 30 other program? Either use th

Re: ifconfig curiosity

2001-12-07 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > > uhm, what are "MiB"'s? > > One of the more stupid sounding standards to be foisted on the public. That's great. How bout a helpful answer? -- Baloo

Re: reposts from yesterday

2001-12-07 Thread Craig Dickson
Alec wrote: > Craig, can't you do it on the server side? If you're the list admin, sure. I'm not. Craig

Fetchmail --ssl

2001-12-07 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I need to connect to a remote IMAPS server, using a stable debian box. The testing tree has fetchmail-ssl as an option, but there isn't a package for it under the stable tree. What would people suggest? Cheers, Andrew "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right

Nautilus/autofs (was Re: [quickly veering OT] Re: File Manager)

2001-12-07 Thread Mental
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:33:43PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > This would indeed be the best way to handle floppies in my opinion, > but last time I looked at Nautilus i found that it ideally should work > so, but really doesn't. Maybe sometimes in the future this will become > reality ... >

Re: Evolution depends libgtkhtml20

2001-12-07 Thread DvB
Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On a Sid install Evolution doesn't install because of a missing > depends, libgtkhtml20 => 1.0.0. I don't see such a package on Debians > site or Google. This seems new as I just installed Evolution on my > Testing box, from Sid, the other day. ? >

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-07 Thread DvB
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > XMMS is a great program, but it is interface is hopelessly bad when it > comes to user friendlyness for people that are not used to computers. i > use it. But I need a program for my father and sister who have just > started to use computers and Linux.

Re: procmail recipe not working

2001-12-07 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> I've been thinking of making a similar thing, just so I can list each > spammer on one line instead of 4. FYI, if you do something like this in your procmail recipe file: SPAM=SPAM SPAMMERS=$HOME/procmail/spammers # Anti-spam :0: * ? (formail -x From: -x Sender: -x Reply-To

Re: BIG xwindow apps

2001-12-07 Thread Mental
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 03:44:43PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > If you have Gnome installed, you can have the Desk Guide applet; and then > you could grab one of the window thumbnails there using the middle button > (both if your mouse emulates), and move it. > At a low resolution that wastes valuable

Partial APT mirroring...

2001-12-07 Thread Don Werve
I hope I'm not asking for something that has been re-hashed a few dozen times, but a Google search hasn't turned much up, and this is a bit of an irritant. How would one go about setting up a local partial APT mirror? One that mirrors only specific trees (such as stable and testing), and can excl

Re: anonymous pserver and r/w permissions

2001-12-07 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
> > This might be the solution to your problem, as taken from the URL: > http://www.kitenet.net/programs/sshcvs/ Works perfectly! Thank you! :-) J. --

Re: upgrading a single program

2001-12-07 Thread Paolo Falcone
Brian Kerhin wrote: > 1. How can I upgrade a single package (lilo) with out contaminating >my > entire box and with out rewriting the entire package to something >that doesn't conflict with 30 other program? I haven't tried woody packages with potato on a straightforward basis (though I backpo

Re: Evolution depends libgtkhtml20

2001-12-07 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 11:20, Greg Madden wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On a Sid install Evolution doesn't install because of a missing > depends, libgtkhtml20 => 1.0.0. I don't see such a package on Debians > site or Google. This seems new as I just installed Evol

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Re: reposts from yesterday

2001-12-07 Thread Alec
On Friday 07 December 2001 02:05 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > The following procmail recipe can keep your inbox clear of it: > :0 > > * ^X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > /dev/null > > > Craig Craig, can't you do it on the server side? Alec ___

Re: Repeated sending of old postings

2001-12-07 Thread Craig Dickson
Cam Ellison wrote: > I just got quite a few, but was blaming mutt, because they showed up > subsequent to my doing a woody upgrade, in which a replacement system > Muttrc figured prominently. Nice to know there's something else to > blame. (?) If we knew what it was... It's perfectly simple to fi

Re: Kernel source

2001-12-07 Thread Brian Nelson
Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How different (if at all) are the contents of the debian > kernel-source packages from the tarballs on kernel.org, etc.? Does > debian do any patching or just distribute the official source > unmodified? Minor changes typically. See: zless /usr/shar

Re: Kernel source

2001-12-07 Thread Craig Dickson
Dave Sherohman wrote: > How different (if at all) are the contents of the debian > kernel-source packages from the tarballs on kernel.org, etc.? Does > debian do any patching or just distribute the official source > unmodified? For 2.4 kernels, Debian usually applies some additional patches, mos

Re: Kernel source

2001-12-07 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 December 2001 09:39 am, Dave Sherohman wrote: > How different (if at all) are the contents of the debian > kernel-source packages from the tarballs on kernel.org, etc.? Does > debian do any patching or just distribute the official source

Re: Kernel source

2001-12-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Dec-2001 Dave Sherohman wrote: > How different (if at all) are the contents of the debian > kernel-source packages from the tarballs on kernel.org, etc.? Does > debian do any patching or just distribute the official source > unmodified? > for the most part we are in sync with the kernel.o

Evolution depends libgtkhtml20

2001-12-07 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On a Sid install Evolution doesn't install because of a missing depends, libgtkhtml20 => 1.0.0. I don't see such a package on Debians site or Google. This seems new as I just installed Evolution on my Testing box, from Sid, the other day. ? Greg

Re: Repeated sending of old postings

2001-12-07 Thread Brian Kerhin
Since this procmailrc is the topic of the day: #Turns ON or OFF filtering of exact message duplicates. DOUBLEMESSAGESFILTER=ON :0 Wh: msgid.lock * DOUBLEMESSAGESFILTER ?? ^^ON^^ | formail -D 8192 msgid.cache Can't remember where that comes from, but I've not seen a duplicate :). BK >>

Re: reposts from yesterday

2001-12-07 Thread Craig Dickson
ben wrote: > so far today (10am pacific time), i've received about 50 reposts from > yesterdays mail on this list. it's not coming from anywhere else, so it's not > my pop connection. what's going on with the list server? Nothing's wrong with the list server. Some idiot at mail2.secnoc.de is ec

Re: Sis530 graphics adapter

2001-12-07 Thread Jeff
bootah monsoon, 2001-Dec-06 21:19 -0800: > My PC won't load X windows with debian, I think > because of this asapter the SiS530. > Does anyone know if Debian support this adapter? > OR a workaround? > Graphics cards with pci are 100 buck I'm cheap! That chip is supported by xserver-xfree86 in wood

OT: outlook reply to sanity converter for vim

2001-12-07 Thread Mike Brownlow
I'm feeling random, so I thought I'd share this fun thing I added for messages that are outlook user replies. It works semi-reliably on them after hitting reply in mutt. There's plenty of room for improvement, but it works pretty nicely as a way to free my frustration after seeing outlook replies.

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