Re: Netscape 6.2

On Saturday 08 December 2001 07:56 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:55:12PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) spake thusly: > > > on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Is

Re: Network config problem

On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 23:14, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > On Saturday 08 December 2001 16:58, ben wrote: > > > Right now I get the external interface be assigned the valid IP > > > address as before, configuring it as 'static dhcp - hostname pump' > > > in /etc/interfaces. But when I try _any_ ping (an

Re: Fw: HELP ! After 1st kernel compilation, the /lib/modules subd don't appear !

spear wrote: Hi there ! Yesterday, i compiled the kernel, following the instructions ... Here's the matter : once i type "make modules_install" , it justs creates the /lib/modules/2.2.19 folder with a /net subfolder including just two modules ... ALL the ip_masq, ppp, ipchains, ALL the fol

Re: Can't make xconfig on 2.4.* series kernels

On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 04:16, THE CROW wrote: > I've tried a lot of time to give the command: > > #make xconfig > > first with the 2.4.14 kernel and then with the 2.4.16 one. > The output I received has been always the following: > > # make xconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-

Re: how to disable gnome panel

On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 11:21, dman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:23:29AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > | on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 07:38:39PM +1100, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > | > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:18:53PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > | > > My problem

Where is dselect-install's error log?

I installed debian from linux central's 3CD set. The install went fine until it started installing packages. I used the simple selection method, and dselect picked up ~400 packages from the CD's and began installing them. During the install there were a number of failures due to missing prerequi

Re: Fw: HELP ! After 1st kernel compilation, the /lib/modules subd don't appear !

On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 02:13, spear wrote: > > Hi there ! > > > > Yesterday, i compiled the kernel, following the instructions ... > > > > Here's the matter : > > once i type "make modules_install" , it justs creates the > > /lib/modules/2.2.19 folder with a /net subfolder including just two > modul

Re: Network config problem

On Saturday 08 December 2001 16:58, ben wrote: > > Right now I get the external interface be assigned the valid IP > > address as before, configuring it as 'static dhcp - hostname pump' > > in /etc/interfaces. But when I try _any_ ping (any but my own > > address and localhost, of course), it fails

Razor is working fine so far

Vipul's Razor (apt-get install razor), a nifty distributed spam filter, is easy to set up, and so far has been working fine for me. If a spam makes it through, reporting can be done with a single keystroke, and you have an incentive to make the report because that insures that others who use the ra

to get https in galeon???

Hi all. How can I get galeon to do https again? I swear it used to work... I have the openssl packages, etc etc but it gives me no love. btw this is debian/sid. thanks, andy

Re: how to save my setting of window maker

"Karsten M. Self" writes: > on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:07:19PM -0800, Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Theoretically, that should work, but wmaker rarely seems to save the > > window positions and attributes correctly for me. It completely > > ignores emacs windows, doesn't save th

pon bug: scp -p --> lost connection

It appears that if I attempt to transfer a file, preserving the file mode and time stamp, using scp -p filename remote_machine:. from my machine to my account at a remote machine, the ppp connection consistently hangs. If I leave out the -p flag, I have no problem. I use pon to connect with ppp.

Re: bzip2 is absolutly Amazing!

Benjamin Pharr wrote: > 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

Re: ipmasq rules and other conf lost...

Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > As only a true newbie could... > I screwed up the configs for ipmasq. To start > fresh I > 'apt-get remove ipmasq' and 'rm -r /etc/ipmasq'. > > Of course, now when I reinstall it via apt-get, it does not give me > any of the config files -> the rules . How do I ge

ipmasq: DENY internet to gateway

Thank you Tobias, Karsten, and all other debians, I have me ipmasq pkg and confs back on my potato 2.2r3 machine, and have been reading ... I am a little overwhelmed by how ipmasq works -- previously someone suggested it would work "out of box" *harhar* the default rules are blocking my @home d

alsa snd module

I've "converted" from Windows 98 to Linux 16 months ago, and to Debian about 8 months ago.  I've been quite pleased with Debian.  However, I have never been able to get my sound card to work with this distribution.  I have tried 2 or 3 times, and each time have been sadly frustrated. I just

Re: Re: rtl8139 vs. 8139 too

On Saturday 08 December 2001 11:56, Eduard Bloch wrote: >Hello, > >I would like to know which of these drivers works better for people >in kernel >2.2.x. > > Reason: one of them may be enabled as the default driver in the > next woody installation system (boot floppies). Both are fine, as it st

Galeon browsing habits (was Re: Netscape 6.2)

on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 10:27:51PM -0500, Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) [011208 20:02]: > > > > ...Considering a session can go over 100 tabs (really!), and rarely > > tops 120 MB, it's reasonably OK... > > I'd suggest that when you're done

Re: XFree86 problem, with output

Seneca Cunningham, 2001-Dec-08 20:45 -0500: > I tried # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, but it just gave me the message > debconf: package "xserver-xfree86" is not installed or does not use debconf Are you sure you have install "xserver-xfree86", and are not running a different xserver? Are you

Re: mutt and urlview oddity

* Raghavendra Bhat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Dec 08. 2001 21:42]: > > macro index \Cb "|urlview\n" > > macro index \cb |urlview\n > > > > macro pager \Cb "|urlview\n" > > Please comment out this line. Why comment out that line? Straight from the manual, it lists both:

gpm config difficulties

Try as I might I cannot seem to get gpm to configure properly on my box. I have tried a lot of configurations using the gpmconfig program, and none of them have worked. gpm is starting and running, with no output to the syslog, and no cursor on the screen when I move the mouse. I know the mouse w

Re: Netscape 6.2

* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) [011208 20:02]: > > ...Considering a session can go over 100 tabs (really!), and rarely > tops 120 MB, it's reasonably OK... I'd suggest that when you're done reading a page, that you close it's tab !! Hall

Re: Debian ethernet networking

On 8 Dec 2001, at 16:59, Karsten M. Self wrote: > up...Debian Potato... I cannot figure out > > > > what script or > configuration file to put the 'route -add ...' > > > > commands in? > > > > > > > You can put them at the bottom of bootmisc.sh in /etc/init.d > > > Hello Matt and all, > > Thank

Emacs related.

Hello all, It is said that emacs is single threaded. * Why is it so ? * Is there any work in progress to make it multithreaded ? * Is there any disadvantage or disadvantages if it is multithreaded. -- Jeffrin Jose T. www.msservices.org GPG:1024D/F5726A1B

Re: Automatic pruning of unused libs

on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:55:38AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On 08-Dec-2001 dman wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:23:03AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > ... > >| deborphan combined with cruft (another package) can lead to a very clean > >| system. > >

Re: mutt and urlview oddity

[Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 07:34:21PM -0500] Brian Clark : > macro index \Cb "|urlview\n" macro index \cb |urlview\n > macro pager \Cb "|urlview\n" Please comment out this line. > Ideas? Anyone experienced this problem? I had. Now, I have solved it. Pressing 'Ctrl-B' shows me the URLs emb

Re: how to save my setting of window maker

on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:07:19PM -0800, Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" writes: > > > on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:57:39PM +0800, Yu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I set an icon of mozilla and rxvt on the right dock of my desktop on my > > > woody box and then I dis

Re: Question marks instead of apostrophes

on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 02:37:44PM -0600, Curt Daugaard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Can anyone explain why Netscape (4.78, running on Sid) displays some > pages with question marks substituted for apostrophes (and maybe for one > or two other characters)? E.g. > > >You?ll want to start

Re: rtl8139 vs. 8139 too

On Saturday 08 December 2001 11:56, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know which of these drivers works better for people in > kernel 2.2.x. > > Reason: one of them may be enabled as the default driver in the next > woody installation system (boot floppies). > > Gruss/Regards, > Edua

RE: XFree86 problem, with output

-Original Message- From: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: December 8, 2001 19:50 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: XFree86 problem > Seneca Cunningham, 2001-Dec-08 09:24 -0500: >> I have just installed XFree86 onto my computer, tried it with a few >> configurations that

Re: Netscape 6.2

on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:16:14AM -0600, DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Paolo Falcone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec wrote: > > > > >Is Netscape 6.2 any good? Is it worth installing? Any reason to >prefer it > > >to Netscape 4.77? How is it

Re: XFree86 problem

Seneca Cunningham, 2001-Dec-08 09:24 -0500: > I have just installed XFree86 onto my computer, tried it with a few > configurations that look like what should work, and "Fatal server error: No > valid modes found" and "X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server > shutdown" keeps coming up.

Re: Debian ethernet networking

on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 04:06:15AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Saturday, December 08, 2001 "Matt Chipman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 7 Dec 2001, at 19:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > I am having the darnest time getting my first Debian machine(s

Re: Netscape 6.2

on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:55:12PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) spake thusly: > > on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > Is Netscape 6.2 any good? Is it worth installing? Any reason to pref

Re: program balks at 3.9GB file

on Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 06:48:46AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Saturday 08 December 2001 17:28, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:27:48PM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > lav2wav +p /xb/base/input-20011207-1948.avi | mp2enc -o audio.mp2 > > >INFO

Re: 2.4.16 kernel crashed

On 2001.12.09 00:35 Balazs Javor wrote: I had this problem once with 2.2.19pre17, so it's probably not the kernels fault. I would bet on the X screensaver as I think I've read somewhere that has some stability problems. I might of course be wrong ... Unfortunatly I newer found the reason :( I a

Re: how to disable gnome panel

on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 09:57:03PM +1100, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:23:29AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > ...though that does suggest maybe I want to look at > > gnome-gnoteswhich doesn't exist. > > Bad news, gnotes is actually anothe

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

On 8 Dec 2001, at 11:46, Brian Nelson wrote: > Alexander Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello there! I would like to be an SMTP server for some friends that > Put/change this in your /etc/exim/exim.conf > > host_auth_accept_relay = * > I think maybe you should only add the domai

Re: 2.4.16 kernel crashed

I had this problem once with 2.2.19pre17, so it's probably not the kernels fault. I would bet on the X screensaver as I think I've read somewhere that has some stability problems. I might of course be wrong ... Unfortunatly I newer found the reason :( regards, Balazs On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:49

mutt and urlview oddity

Howdy, I posed this question to the mutt-users list and several users say that they don't have a problem with this. If I set this in my .muttrc: macro index \Cb "|urlview\n" macro pager \Cb "|urlview\n" (the key combination doesn't matter) I _always_ get "Key not bound. Press ? for help." I h

Re: pipe mutt message into vim

on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 08:40:28PM -0800, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > 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, e

Re: Does anyone know a good X windows documentation

on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:26:09PM -0500, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 02:46:10AM +0100, der der wrote: > | the differences between the different window managers... > > Karsten menitoned GNOME and KDE. I'd like to point out that GNOME and > KDE are not window managers

Re: ifconfig curiosity

> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: Karsten> Digging a bit deeper: advertisers and marketers stole the Karsten> traditional measures of storage: kilobyte, megabyte, Karsten> gigabyte, by imposing the interpretation of these as Karsten> powers of ten, rather than powers of tw

ipmasq rules and other conf lost...

As only a true newbie could... I screwed up the configs for ipmasq. To start fresh I 'apt-get remove ipmasq' and 'rm -r /etc/ipmasq'. Of course, now when I reinstall it via apt-get, it does not give me any of the config files -> the rules . How do I get them back?! How can I reset apt-get or w

Re: Make a deb package from the running system?

Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > I once found it when running dselect ; but now I need > it and completely forget its name, poor me, pls > remind. I need to make several deb packages from the > running woody apt-get install dpkg-repack Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robe

/etc/init.d/rc: 2: command not found

this is still happening on every boot and telinit runlevel change... also shutdown -r 0 doesnt work... i tried the debug=echo in /etc/init.d/rc and all that does is echo the correct start messages to the screen... i checked and rechecked inittab... maybe the rc script is in error... can someone s

Re: mail2.secnoc.de spewing yesterdays mail back to list

Jaakko Niemi wrote: > On Fri, 07 Dec 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > Mail is being spewed back onto d-user from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". > > Several hundred so far ... > > I don't see any evidence of that and there are no subscriptions > from that domain. You are the only one reporting this. There

Re: program balks at 3.9GB file

On Saturday 08 December 2001 17:28, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:27:48PM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > lav2wav +p /xb/base/input-20011207-1948.avi | mp2enc -o audio.mp2 > >INFO: Norm set to PAL > > **ERROR: Error opening /xb/base/input-20011207-1948.avi: File

Re: Any GOOD bttv grabbers ?

On Sunday 09 December 2001 01:51, Volker Schlecht wrote: > > Does anyone know any _good_ bttv grabbers ? Up to now I know only > > bad ones: > > On woody and unstable: > > apt-get install vcr Maybe what he (the original poster) really needs is a good $$$ card. My Leadtek Winfast -something is jus

Re: mail2.secnoc.de spewing yesterdays mail back to list

On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 15:51:09 -0600, Jaakko Niemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 07 Dec 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > Mail is being spewed back onto d-user from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". > > Several hundred so far ... > > I don't see any evidence of that and there are no subscriptions > from

Re: mail2.secnoc.de spewing yesterdays mail back to list

On Fri, 07 Dec 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Mail is being spewed back onto d-user from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". > Several hundred so far ... I don't see any evidence of that and there are no subscriptions from that domain. You are the only one reporting this. When reporting issues like this, pl

Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian

Did you try the Linux hardware database? It is something like lhd.datapower.com. Good luck. Brian

Re: suppressing "TERM: Undefined variable" in csh

* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > The Solaris boxes at school default to /bin/csh as the shell, and this > can't be changed. In my .cshrc I have lines like > > if ( "$TERM" == "linux" ) then > setenv TERM vt100 > exec bash > endif > > if ( "$TERM" == "PuTTY" ) then > sete

Re: crc error after uncompressing the kernel

I was using the kernel. For a while. After I upgraded my potato to progeny my xserver got changed and has been misbehaving for a while. So I would boot and I would not have access to keyboard; mouse would work. So I had to contantly power down the machine. I think that some parts of the filesy

scsi card compatibility under Debian

I'm trying to get a scsi card (for an old HP ScanJet 4p scanner), though eBay; and in trying to determine if a card advertised will work with Linux, I went to the Debian homepage, and was told that Debian has no hardware requirements beyond those that come with Linux. Then there was a link to

USB printer port (HP PSC 750)

Hi I am trying to use my HP PSC 750 connected via USB. My kernel is "Linux Fenix 2.2.18pre21" The dmesg command gives ... usb.c: registered new driver usblp usb.c: registered new driver usbscanner scanner.c: USB Scanner support registered. usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic

Re: Netscape 6.2

"Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 12:37, Christoph Simon wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 13:55:12 -0600 > > Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > All browsers suck. Konqueror on my woody box is incapable > > > of displaying GIF89a's, Netscape 6.x

[root@natas.g0thead.com: Qt and kde]

Reminder, posts from root or daemons do not get to the lists. - Forwarded message from root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 11820 invoked by uid 38); 7 Dec 2001 09:40:59 - Received: (qmail 11796 invoked by uid 38

Re: looping symlink = reboot ?

> im not sure who to mail on this, so i figure best to > start with a general mailing list for some pointers. ive narrowed it down to interaction between 3ware raid10 arrays and reiserfs. the crash doesn't happen on 3ware raid5 or 3ware raid1 or non 3ware or non raid systems. or ext2 on 3ware rai

Re: Netscape 6.2

On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 12:37, Christoph Simon wrote: > On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 13:55:12 -0600 > Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All browsers suck. Konqueror on my woody box is incapable > > of displaying GIF89a's, Netscape 6.x has problems displaying some > > CSS + tables pages (as in "

Re: Question marks instead of apostrophes

Curt Daugaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone explain why Netscape (4.78, running on Sid) displays some > pages with question marks substituted for apostrophes (and maybe for one > or two other characters)? E.g. Because the author of the web page used a proprietary charset from a large

Question marks instead of apostrophes

Can anyone explain why Netscape (4.78, running on Sid) displays some pages with question marks substituted for apostrophes (and maybe for one or two other characters)? E.g. You?ll want to start by assembling three rows of planks together. Since the flooring "floats" ? it?s attached only

Re: Netscape 6.2

On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 13:55:12 -0600 Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All browsers suck. Konqueror on my woody box is incapable > of displaying GIF89a's, Netscape 6.x has problems displaying some > CSS + tables pages (as in "some parts of the page are simply not > there"). Anything derive

Re: Automatic pruning of unused libs

dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:05:00AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > | Is there a program to remove libraries which were pulled in by apt-get > | as prerequisites, but are no longer needed by anything? For example, my > | system has libgtkhtml17, 18, 19, and 20.

Re: Fetchmail --ssl

Andrew Pritchard, 2001-Dec-07 20:40 +: > 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

Make a deb package from the running system?

Hi, I once found it when running dselect ; but now I need it and completely forget its name, poor me, pls remind. I need to make several deb packages from the running woody Thankx = S.KIEU http://shopping.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Shopping - Free CDs for thousands of Priority Shoppers!

Re: How can i install woody?

"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 08:40:29 -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > > But I don't believe there are any install floppies yet for woody, right? > > Wrong: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/ > > Note though that there are st

Re: Printing...

Alexander Wallace, 2001-Dec-07 19:12 +: > 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 lo

Re: how to save my setting of window maker

"Karsten M. Self" writes: > on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:57:39PM +0800, Yu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 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 sett

Re: Network config problem

On Saturday 08 December 2001 10:41 am, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > Hi all ! > > I've a small diskless proxy booting from a floppy based distro called > Coyote. Now I've got an old HDD and I'm installing Debian Potato, but > I'm failing to get the access to the Net working. > Right now I get the extern

suppressing "TERM: Undefined variable" in csh

The Solaris boxes at school default to /bin/csh as the shell, and this can't be changed. In my .cshrc I have lines like if ( "$TERM" == "linux" ) then setenv TERM vt100 exec bash endif if ( "$TERM" == "PuTTY" ) then setenv TERM xterm exec bash endif (yeah, they have crappy term

Re: Automatic pruning of unused libs

On 08-Dec-2001 dman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:23:03AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > ... >| deborphan combined with cruft (another package) can lead to a very clean >| system. > > Is cruft useful for you? When I tried it on my system, it listed much > of the system as probable c

Re: Netscape 6.2

* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) spake thusly: > on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > 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? > > I'd far and away recommend

Re: Automatic pruning of unused libs

On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:23:03AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: ... | deborphan combined with cruft (another package) can lead to a very clean | system. Is cruft useful for you? When I tried it on my system, it listed much of the system as probable cruft, but it wasn't. About the only hel

Re: Accessing URLs from a MUA

On 08-Dec-2001 Bob Hilliard wrote: > Until recently, I could right-click on a URL in a mail message, > and my running copy of Netscape would access that URL. For some time > now this has failed to work. I'm sure the path to my Netscape must be > shown in some configuratiOn File, but I can't

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

Alexander Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

Accessing URLs from a MUA

Until recently, I could right-click on a URL in a mail message, and my running copy of Netscape would access that URL. For some time now this has failed to work. I'm sure the path to my Netscape must be shown in some configuratiOn File, but I can't locate it. I would appreciate being pointe

Re: Automatic pruning of unused libs

On 08-Dec-2001 dman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:05:00AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: >| Is there a program to remove libraries which were pulled in by apt-get >| as prerequisites, but are no longer needed by anything? For example, my >| system has libgtkhtml17, 18, 19, and 20. The thre

Re: Automatic pruning of unused libs

On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:05:00AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: | Is there a program to remove libraries which were pulled in by apt-get | as prerequisites, but are no longer needed by anything? For example, my | system has libgtkhtml17, 18, 19, and 20. The three former versions are | not requi

Automatic pruning of unused libs

Is there a program to remove libraries which were pulled in by apt-get as prerequisites, but are no longer needed by anything? For example, my system has libgtkhtml17, 18, 19, and 20. The three former versions are not required by any installed package -- they just consume disk space. It would be

Re: /etc/init.d/rc.2 command not found....

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The Problem I run into after I installed a HPT370 driven Card, details >can be found in my other post (HPT370 and other problems), I had to >install a new Kernel with umda-100 patched with A. Hedrick, I got >that Kernel and i

Re: Key words, please [was: Newbie comments & queries]Newbie #61

On Saturday 08 December 2001 09:06 am, dman wrote: [snip] > > I imagine that you can configure mailfilter to delete all messages > from debian-user except for the ones that match your subject (whatever > you make your header to be). Just be sure to update the filter > if/when you change your subje

Network config problem

Hi all ! I've a small diskless proxy booting from a floppy based distro called Coyote. Now I've got an old HDD and I'm installing Debian Potato, but I'm failing to get the access to the Net working. Right now I get the external interface be assigned the valid IP address as before, configuring i

Re: How can i install woody?

On Saturday 08 December 2001 05:40 am, Stan Brown wrote: > I have a new machine, on which I wish to isntall woody. > > What's the best way to do this? I have fast network conectivity, and for > potato systems in the past, I have just downloaded the boot, root, and > driver floppies, and done an ins

big-brother alternatives

Hello, Is there any big-brother alternatives available inside the testig distribution. I am using netsaint but need something have the big-brother look. Please advise. (I am not subscribed to this list, please reply to my email address shown above, thank you!) _

/etc/init.d/rc.2 command not found....

HI:-) The Problem I run into after I installed a HPT370 driven Card, details can be found in my other post (HPT370 and other problems), I had to install a new Kernel with umda-100 patched with A. Hedrick, I got that Kernel and installed it without installing the drivers.. Only later did I instal

Re: Any GOOD bttv grabbers ?

> Does anyone know any _good_ bttv grabbers ? Up to now I know only bad ones: On woody and unstable: apt-get install vcr regards, Volker -- "Being against torture ought to be sort of a bipartisan thing." -- Karl Lehenbauer

Re: Netscape 6.2

Karsten M. Self wrote: > Netscape 4.x is a buggy, standards-busting, festering load of crap. It > was one of the worst things to happen to GNU/Linux -- It was pretty bad to the Win32 world too, since it pushed a good number of Netscape users over to IE. Craig

Re: Netscape 6.2

Alec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mozilla0.9.5 is probably the slowest browser I've ever come across. > As an example, on my K6-2 550Mhz & 256Mb RAM box, when I'm in > "Edit/Preferences" and click on "Fonts", it takes 2.5 seconds for the fonts> > menu to actually appear. C'mon! > > Again, in m

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

A fairly primitive solution, this, but it works. Have gkrellm with its "Volume" module installed permanently on the desktop (I use blackbox, so park it in the 'slit'). Then set up MidnightCommander to play the mp3s or whatever with the appropriate player when you hit return over it. I use mpg123

Re: Woody: "packages kept back"

Alec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What does it mean "the following packages have been kept back"? > > When I do apt-get upgrade, I get: > > The following packages have been kept back > libglib1.2 libglib1.2-dev > > What's the meaning of this? They could not be upgraded for some reason? >

Re: Netscape 6.2

"Paolo Falcone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec wrote: > > >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? > > If you're to install to a low-end machine, just go fo

Re: crc error after uncompressing the kernel

On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 10:48:38AM -0500, Guy Durand wrote: | what does it mean when you get a crc error after the lilo prompt and the | kernel start uncompressing. It happened with my laptop and I am able to | boot the original kernel bot not the new kernels I had compiled after. It means the fi

Re: Does anyone know a good X windows documentation

On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 02:46:10AM +0100, der der wrote: | the differences between the different window managers... Karsten menitoned GNOME and KDE. I'd like to point out that GNOME and KDE are not window managers, but rather desktop environments. You still need a window manager to go with it to

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/12/2001 (07:56) : > > Have they ever used WinAMP? Most people I know (who have/use > > computers) use winamp (well, most of them have windows) and don't have > > trouble with it. > > Winamp on Linux? No, they don't

Re: how to disable gnome panel

On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:23:29AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 07:38:39PM +1100, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:18:53PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | > > My problem with numerous GNOME apps (goats comes to mind) is t

passwd segfaults on woody

Hello all, I have a current Woody box with a 2.2.19 kernel. When I run the passwd command I always get a Segmentation fault. I have searched the Deb User archives and bug list for passwd to no help. Please let me know what else I could do on this system to trouble shoot this problem. Thanks, B

Re: 2.4.16 kernel crashed

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 04:44:30PM -0800, George Dancheff wrote: | --- 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 s

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 08:01:18AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/12/2001 (07:56) : | > Have they ever used WinAMP? Most people I know (who have/use | > computers) use winamp (well, most of them have windows) and don't have | > trouble with it. | | Winamp on L

Re: Re: Netscape 6.2

On Saturday 08 December 2001 11:34 am, Paolo Falcone wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec wrote: > >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? > > Compared with 4.77, Netscape 6.2 is light-yea

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