Re: [OT] Open Portable Document Format?

2002-01-02 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 06:29:31PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > I'd strongly encourage you to use tools other than Adobe's proprietary > > products, fortunately there are many which can be used to produce PDFs. > > > > Hi >Can

Re: Can't access aliased ip address

2002-01-02 Thread Jor-el
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Chad Morgan wrote: > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:23:A3:AC > inet addr:216.86.213.93 Bcast:216.86.213.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:241367 errors:0 dropped:0 overru

Re: [OT] Open Portable Document Format?

2002-01-02 Thread Andras Simonyi
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 06:29:31PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > PDF of itself is open and standard. It's a reasonable document > presentation format (though I tend to prefer postscript). > > I'd strongly encourage you to use tools other than Adobe's proprietary > products, fortunately there ar

Re: [OT] Open Portable Document Format?

2002-01-02 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 06:29:31PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'd strongly encourage you to use tools other than Adobe's proprietary > products, fortunately there are many which can be used to produce PDFs. > Hi Can you point us a few ones (in debian) Sunil

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-02 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote: > I'll agree that the two are related; in fact, I'd go so far as to say > that if a language supports dynamic memory allocation and type-safety, > it *has* to have some sort of automatic storage management system. I don't think that necessarily follows; a

Re: KDE - lpr clash

2002-01-02 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:11:07AM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: > > On my system, KDE applications that use the "centralized KDE printing > facilities" cannot print. Printing from Konqueror, for instance, > generates an error saying "/usr/bin/lpr -P 'lp' '-#1' somefile failed ...". > > I've manag

good video mpeg encoder library

2002-01-02 Thread Michael O'Brien
Hola~ I was curious if anyone knows of a good video mpeg library that allows for encoding? I'm looking for something with a C interface that's on par with libtiff or libquicktime4linux. I have an application that takes a set of images and generates a movie from them. MO -- Michael O'Brien

Re: Pause

2002-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:26:13PM -0800, Paul A. Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Searching reveals ways to pause help files if you don't wish to use a > pipe command... is there a keyboard stroke which corresponds to the > 'pause' key when the initial boot takes place? The commands ^S ^Q or

Re: KDE i386 binary debs

2002-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:05:05AM +1000, Penguin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have seen KDE debs on the Debian site, but I was hoping for > something more along the lines of one huge deb to make it a whole lot > easier. Search for 'task' debs. It's a deb which consists of nothing but dependenc

Re: printing problem with lpr on new Potato installation

2002-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:26:14PM -0800, Abner Gershon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am using Potato with Lexmark 312 postscript laser printer. I have > successfully been able to print latex documents using dvips which > automatically pipes to lpr. However when I try to use lpr directly for > in

Re: printing stopped working--any ideas?

2002-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 11:00:12AM -0700, Luke Call ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When I try to print directly to /dev/lp0 from the command line ("cat > filename.txt > /dev/lp0") nothing happens; printing from applications > like gimp doesn't work either. It did work until recently, and I've > trie

Re: bash ?

2002-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 06:48:40PM -0800, Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Jijo Jose A wrote: > > > I had a bash script and it have the line > > > > #- script begins > > cd /usr/share/doc > > pwd > > exit 0 > > #-- ends > > > > when i run the code withi

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-02 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, January 2, Erik Steffl did write: > Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > > Lo, on Monday, December 31, Erik Steffl did write: > > > > Perl does have strong types, but they don't really correspond to the > > types that most people are used to thinking of. Perl's types are > > > > *

Re: resuming apt-get downloads

2002-01-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:08:13PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I don't know about the masquerading part but apt-get can certainly > > > resume an interupted download using HTTP. > > > > Resume in 2 sense: > > APT ... > > This isn't true. APT's HTTP method has always used the HTTP/1.1 Range:

Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

2002-01-02 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, January 2, Ben Collins did write: > Just because in C it can cause a segfault doesn't mean the other > languages are any better. No, it doesn't. However, IMNSHO, the fact that C and C++ have many *more* undefined constructs that other languages does mean that the other language

Re: upgrading from potato

2002-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 10:55:52PM -0600, Deva Seetharam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi All, > i am a debian newbie. i recently installed 2.2r4 potato. > i custom built a kernel with some required options. > > now, i am thinking of upgrading to woody. See list archives, this is a frequently cov

Re: how to reset the video mode?

2002-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 10:46:46PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hey people. > > Sometimes when I'm experimenting with one of the Loki games that draws > straight to the framebuffer, and it crashes, the screen is locked with > the last image in screen memory. I can lo

Re: how to print to a printer connected to win2000prof

2002-01-02 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:02:59PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: | I know of one such a way and would be interested in finding out more. I | use CUPS (cupsys). There are fairly straightforward instructions on | using smbclient to set up a "smb" queue in cupsys in the SAM (Software | Administr

Pause

2002-01-02 Thread Paul A. Thomas
Searching reveals ways to pause help files if you don't wish to use a pipe command... is there a keyboard stroke which corresponds to the 'pause' key when the initial boot takes place? The commands ^S ^Q or Left Shift PgUp & PgDn would seem to be made for browsing help files or other text display

Re: /dev/dsp?

2002-01-02 Thread Michael Jinks
Okay, thanks. I did notice that, but since we have some machines which are used by lots of people I had hoped for a way to restrict usage to whomever happens to be at the console. Anyhow. Thanks again, at least I'm not missing something. Cheers, -m On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 09:35:51PM -0500, Mic

Re: Can't access aliased ip address

2002-01-02 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hi chad, yes, ipmasqadm should work for the port forwarding. actually, i know someone else who uses ipmasqadm to forward telnet traffic from his external ip to another pc with a private ip. having other users who may/will want pcanywhere may definitly be an issue for you to consider! i've never us

Re: how to print to a printer connected to win2000prof

2002-01-02 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Hans Steinraht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi all, > > The thing I try to figure out is how I can print from my Debian sid to a > printer that's connected to a windows 2000 proffesional machine. > > I have read something about it and saw that there are different ways that > might > work. > Ma

Re: Can't access aliased ip address

2002-01-02 Thread Chad Morgan
On 2002.01.02 18:29 Jason M. Harvey wrote: > hello, > > if this person wants to use pcanywhere from home... which ip address is > he using for pcanywhere to connect to? unless he's using some sort of > vpn setup between home and work, he won't get to his office pc. > are you running masquerading o

Re: LNX-BBC (was Re: emergency shutdown?)

2002-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:28:58PM -0800, Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > For a rescue disk, I'd strongly recommend LNX-BBC: > > http://www.lnxbbc.org/. Tom's Root/Boot is good, but the 2.0.x kernel > > series misses features needed on many current systems

Re: Squirrelmail with uw-imapd

2002-01-02 Thread Christopher Wolf
At 01:24 PM 01/02/02 -0800, nate wrote: > Hi, > Anyone else run into this.. Most of the versions of SM have a problem with the newer PHPs, i reccomend downgrading to php 4.0.5 or lower and trying again(i have debs if you need, from may 10 2001), or upgrading to the latest 1.2.2 version of SM w

Re: /dev/dsp?

2002-01-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 02/01/02 Michael Jinks did speaketh: > New to Debian, I probably just need to RTFM somewhere, please point me to > it if you know... > > I'm used to Red Hat's trick of chown'ing certain /dev files, notable > /dev/dsp and the CDROM devices, so that the user at the console can use > them. Is th

Re: emergency shutdown?

2002-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 03:24:20PM -0800, Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" writes: > > > on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 12:38:34PM +, Simon R Tod ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > Don't cross-post. Reply sent to debian-user only. > > > > > My laptop's been left o

Re: Hardware advice needed

2002-01-02 Thread Matthew Dalton
Penguin wrote: > Potato fails to recognise my video card and I am lost and confused about my > modem, since I can't get the packages with my Internet connection (not one of > them) because when I specify HTTP or FTP as a source for packages, it fails > to dial my ISP. Also, once I had setup wvdial,

Re: [OT] Open Portable Document Format?

2002-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:27:54PM +0100, Andras Simonyi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > (sorry for asking this here, but I'm curious about the opinions/infos) > > In the good old times I advocated using pdf against other proprietary > document-formats, because it is more-or less really por

Re: Can't access aliased ip address

2002-01-02 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hello, if this person wants to use pcanywhere from home... which ip address is he using for pcanywhere to connect to? unless he's using some sort of vpn setup between home and work, he won't get to his office pc. are you running masquerading on the pc 216.86.213.93? if the 196.168 network is trans

Re: OpenGL header files: as .deb?

2002-01-02 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 06:19:26AM +0100, Timo --Blazko-- Boewing wrote (1.00): > Actually, the files above are okay for OpenGL development, but I am > looking for the very common glu.h glut.h files. Is there a debian > package or that? http://packages.debian.org Search for glut.h reveals: glutg

Can't access aliased ip address

2002-01-02 Thread Chad Morgan
I have a gateway to share a dsl line with about 20 users that all use win 9x or a more recent windows product. One of the users wants to be able to setup pcanywhere so he can access his office computer using his cable modem at home instead of the phone line. This is the output of ifconfig: eth0

/dev/dsp?

2002-01-02 Thread Michael Jinks
New to Debian, I probably just need to RTFM somewhere, please point me to it if you know... I'm used to Red Hat's trick of chown'ing certain /dev files, notable /dev/dsp and the CDROM devices, so that the user at the console can use them. Is there a "Debian way" to pull off the same functionality

Re: kernel complaint

2002-01-02 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002, dman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:01:43PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | I've tried recompiling the kernel, > > This error has nothing to do with SMP. You have probably done one (or > more) of the following : > > o not included your disk driver in the kerne

Re: Bring up ppp link on shell

2002-01-02 Thread William Burrow
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:46:44PM -0500, Jeremy L. Gaddis wrote: > In a shell script, the easiest way to find out if the link > is up or down is to check for the presence of /var/run/ppp0.pid. I just put scripts in ip-up.d and ip-down.d that sent a one line message to a tty indicating the status

how to print to a printer connected to win2000prof

2002-01-02 Thread Hans Steinraht
hi all, The thing I try to figure out is how I can print from my Debian sid to a printer that's connected to a windows 2000 proffesional machine. I have read something about it and saw that there are different ways that might work. Maybe someone has already experience with it and can point me to

Re: Securing bind..

2002-01-02 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 12:52:23AM -0500, P Prince wrote: > > there are two major problems with all of bernstein's software. the > > first is that it requires you to throw away your existing > > configuration...no big deal for a caching only name-server or if you > > only have one or two domains t

Re: where's the ieee 1394 option in menuconfig

2002-01-02 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 03:56 pm, Tony Green wrote: > Ensure you've turned on the 'Prompt for development and/or incomplete > code/drivers' option. That solved it -- thanks for the help. --kurt

Re: Change number of characters displayed on line in text mode (tty0)?

2002-01-02 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:59:29AM -0800, Abner Gershon wrote: > Is it possible and how to change to smaller font so > higher number of characters are displayed on on line > of my screen? I am not using a gui. Is this > application specific or will this change all > applications on my console? I a

RE: Bring up ppp link on shell

2002-01-02 Thread Jeremy L. Gaddis
Use "pppconfig" to configure your dial-up connection. Subsequently, you use "pon" and "poff" to bring the connection up and down, respectively. In a shell script, the easiest way to find out if the link is up or down is to check for the presence of /var/run/ppp0.pid. HTH. j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis

Re: Securing bind..

2002-01-02 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 03:23:01PM +0200, George Karaolides wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Craig Sanders wrote: > > someday soon, someone's going to take the good ideas from djbdns, > > combine it with the good stuff from bind (including backwards > > compatibility with bind config & zonefile formats

Re: (Fwd) Re: Lost in apt-get

2002-01-02 Thread Hélio
> I dont quite get it, lets say i apt-get install a package... so it > fetches the necessary files, downloads, and installs them.. but, > where does apt-get leaves the binaries? i mean for example, i apt- > get'ed xmms , and it downloaded and installed.. but i have no clue > on how to launch it. M

Re: 2 network cards; one not recognized

2002-01-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Petre Daniel wrote: > > yeah,like all new releases of mandrake,redhat autoconfigure 2 network > cards,but with our beautiful debian we gotta work it out,and feel the taste > of manual settings and confugiration.. > perrsonally,i like this way best.. > call me old fashion,i'll call you click&pointe

soundcard not detected (after moving of NIC)

2002-01-02 Thread Erik Steffl
I get the error from alsa that soundcard is not detected, it worked fine before I moved NIC to another PCI slot. I have ABIT VH6-II motherboard. here's the HW side (1 isa slot, 4 pci slots altogether): ISA 1 soundblaster awe 64 irq 5 PCI 1 voodoo 3irq 9 PCI 2 NIC RTL

RE: problem with NIC

2002-01-02 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! I've just installed a minimal potato sytem (no GUI) in order to continue installing the rest of the stuff I need via the web. The machine uses a 3c905c tx NIC. Following the advices from this list I intalled the 3c59x driver for it. I disable

Re: kernel complaint

2002-01-02 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:01:43PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have an Intellistation Z Pro which is a few years old with two Pentium | II Xeon 450MHz processors. ... | I've tried recompiling the kernel, ... | intent of activating SMP support. Upon attempting to boot the new | kernel, I

Re: 2 network cards; one not recognized

2002-01-02 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:39:46PM -0500, Bob Underwood wrote: | On Wednesday 02 January 2002 13:23, Pauwel Demeyer wrote: | > hi, | > | > I'm going from a Mandrake 8.1 system to debian. I've had there (some | > weeks ago, not working anymore) internet sharing enabled. When | > switching, I also

Re: Just wondering...

2002-01-02 Thread Craig Dickson
J.A.Serralheiro wrote: > there is no reason for alarm. I have posted several messages in the > past that also > were disregarded for some reason. Later I realized they all were silly > questions. I dont think your posts were silly ( as a matter of fact I have > no idea about its contents ) but, su

kernel complaint

2002-01-02 Thread btrichter
Excuse my newbie-ness; I'm not even sure this is a good place to post this question. If anyone could even point me in a direction where I could get some information on my problem I'd appreciate it, though. I have an Intellistation Z Pro which is a few years old with two Pentium II Xeon 450MHz

Re: Hardware advice needed

2002-01-02 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:53:02AM +1000, Penguin wrote: | Hello all, | | I would like to buy some new hardware so I can get rid of my stupid RedHat | bloatware with its buggy latest betas and alphas and get Potato 2.2r4 on my | box here. | | The problems I have so far is: video card (I have an

Re: Bring up ppp link on shell

2002-01-02 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
u can use wvdial or pon, both make the use of pppd. check wvdial man pages, and the ppp howto. You must configure several things before u can use dial up connections. On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Penguin wrote: > How do I bring a dialup PPP link with a shell? It's `ifup ' or > something? Is that all? How

Re: where's the ieee 1394 option in menuconfig

2002-01-02 Thread Tony Green
* This one time, at band camp, Kurt Lieber said: > I'm trying to compile a new 2.4.17 kernel with ieee 1394 support. Only > problem is I can't the kernel options to enable it using menuconfig. It used > to be (IIRC) a top level option, right under the SCSI option. > > I verified the 2.4.17 deb

Re: Bring up ppp link on shell

2002-01-02 Thread John Hasler
James writes: > How do I bring a dialup PPP link with a shell? pon. > How do I tell when the link is down if I have a shell script for example > downloading the latest Debian dist? ping. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

where's the ieee 1394 option in menuconfig

2002-01-02 Thread Kurt Lieber
I'm trying to compile a new 2.4.17 kernel with ieee 1394 support. Only problem is I can't the kernel options to enable it using menuconfig. It used to be (IIRC) a top level option, right under the SCSI option. I verified the 2.4.17 deb package has the drivers: /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.17/dr

RE: Sound newbie ... what is OSS, ALSA, etc all about?

2002-01-02 Thread Donald R. Spoon
"Randolph S. Kahle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --snip-- < Thank you. If I want to focus on learning one thing related to sound (that will be valid now and for the future), I should focus on ALSA, even if it means a little extra work right now. Thank you -- Randy Randy, I am afraid it wo

Re: Bring up ppp link on shell

2002-01-02 Thread Brian Clark
* Penguin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Jan 02. 2002 18:25]: > How do I bring a dialup PPP link with a shell? It's > `ifup ' or something? Is that all? I use pon after I've configured ppp with pppconfig. man pppconfig pon > How do I tell when the link is down if I have a shell > script for example do

Re: My xfree died when upgrading some packages...

2002-01-02 Thread William Burrow
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:14:11PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > login prompt (this is nice), but when i try to startx, heres what i get: > > camilux#:startx > X:cannot stat /etc/X11/X (no such file or directory), aborting > giving up The file /etc/X11/X is a symlink to your X server. If you

Re: emergency shutdown?

2002-01-02 Thread Brian Nelson
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 12:38:34PM +, Simon R Tod ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Don't cross-post. Reply sent to debian-user only. > > > My laptop's been left on for the past 48 hours. > > Six days here. Uptimes of up to 22 days. > > > When I came back to

OpenGL header files: as .deb?

2002-01-02 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello, while - after a long time - being back in OpenGL devel, i was wondering where the include files are. From the nVidia modules, i have these files: /usr/include/GL/gl.h(main header?) /usr/include/GL/glx.h (extensions?) /usr/include/GL/glxtokens.h (???) I remember t

Re: Just wondering...

2002-01-02 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
there is no reason for alarm. I have posted several messages in the past that also were disregarded for some reason. Later I realized they all were silly questions. I dont think your posts were silly ( as a matter of fact I have no idea about its contents ) but, surelly either people of this list d

Bring up ppp link on shell

2002-01-02 Thread Penguin
How do I bring a dialup PPP link with a shell? It's `ifup ' or something? Is that all? How do I tell when the link is down if I have a shell script for example downloading the latest Debian dist? Can I poll/interrogate something which will tell me? Cheers James

KDE i386 binary debs

2002-01-02 Thread Penguin
I have seen KDE debs on the Debian site, but I was hoping for something more along the lines of one huge deb to make it a whole lot easier. Which debs do I need for KDE on my Potato 2.2r4? I would like a complete KDE 2.2 or so, the KDE as it is when it is installed on RedHat 7.1/2. All those pa

ISDN on Potato

2002-01-02 Thread Penguin
Does it work? I would like to hook up a PCI ISDN-S card for a 128k dialup ISDN connection. I will be using Potato 2.2r4. Cheers James

Re: 2 network cards; one not recognized

2002-01-02 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 13:23, Pauwel Demeyer wrote: > hi, > > I'm going from a Mandrake 8.1 system to debian. I've had there (some > weeks ago, not working anymore) internet sharing enabled. When > switching, I also want it to be correct again. The problem is My debian > does not recognize

My xfree died when upgrading some packages...

2002-01-02 Thread camilo
Hi ... I used apt-get to install gnome-games (well, they really were many diff. packages in the end), it worked well, downloaded and installed stuff, i went thru some configurations, and in the end, when i rebooted my machine, now it does not leave me at the graphical login prompt (this is nice),

Re: resuming apt-get downloads

2002-01-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 07:30:38PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 02:07:27AM +, Brian Potkin wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 11:59:35AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > FTP can resume partialy downloaded file transfer. > > > > > > HTTP can not resume partialy downloaded fi

Re: OT: Type safety (was: Language War (Re: "C" Manual))

2002-01-02 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > In my experience, a lot of C/C++ programmers know only C/C++ really > well. They often also have experience with some form of Basic or Pascal, > or perhaps an assembly language or two, and a scripting language like > Perl. Nowadays some Java

Re: [OT] Open Portable Document Format?

2002-01-02 Thread Jason Healy
At 1010004408s since epoch (01/02/02 15:46:48 -0500 UTC), dman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:35:25AM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > > | I'm not sure on this, but pdf is just compressed Postscript (.ps) which > > Not quite, but PDF is based on Postscript. PDF files tend to be > smalle

Hardware advice needed

2002-01-02 Thread Penguin
Hello all, I would like to buy some new hardware so I can get rid of my stupid RedHat bloatware with its buggy latest betas and alphas and get Potato 2.2r4 on my box here. The problems I have so far is: video card (I have an NVIDIA GeForce II MX400 AGP card 64MB), modem (I have an external Net

Re: firewall script and port 389,1002,1720..

2002-01-02 Thread nate
> Hi, > My questions, > Why are those last 3 ports open? use lsof or fuser to determine what PID has that port open. fuser -n udp PORT_NUMBER fuser -n tcp PORT_NUMBER lsof | grep LISTEN (shows TCP listening processes) lsof | grep UDP (shows UDP listening processes) > i've looked around in the r

Re: Squirrelmail with uw-imapd

2002-01-02 Thread nate
> Hi, > Anyone else run into this.. Most of the versions of SM have a problem with the newer PHPs, i reccomend downgrading to php 4.0.5 or lower and trying again(i have debs if you need, from may 10 2001), or upgrading to the latest 1.2.2 version of SM which has some fixes for the newer version

Incorrect version number reported for mutt 1.2.5.1

2002-01-02 Thread Walt Mankowski
I just updated mutt on two of my boxes, one debian potato and one redhat. On the red hat box I installed from source, and when I run mutt -v, it reports "Mutt 1.2.5.1i (2000-07-28)". On potato I just installed the new .deb package. When I run mutt -v on that box, it says "Mutt 1.2.5i (2000-07-28

Re: LNX-BBC (was Re: emergency shutdown?)

2002-01-02 Thread Craig Dickson
Karsten M. Self wrote: > For a rescue disk, I'd strongly recommend LNX-BBC: > http://www.lnxbbc.org/. Tom's Root/Boot is good, but the 2.0.x kernel > series misses features needed on many current systems (ext2fs has > changed, ext3fs or reiserfs are unsupported). I checked out the LNX-BBC web si

printing problem with lpr on new Potato installation

2002-01-02 Thread Abner Gershon
I am using Potato with Lexmark 312 postscript laser printer. I have successfully been able to print latex documents using dvips which automatically pipes to lpr. However when I try to use lpr directly for instance to pipe result of ls or print a text file I get the following message: parport0:dete

Re: emergency shutdown?

2002-01-02 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 13:38, Simon R Tod wrote: > My laptop's been left on for the past 48 hours. When I came back to it > this morning it was very hot, the fan was kicking in evert minute or two > and everything was working really slowly It's now just ceased up > completely. The text has disappea

Re: No color from my hpdj 690c after recent magicfilter upgrade (testing)

2002-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 01:36:10PM +, Carlos Sousa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've searched the archived lists and found nothing on this. The > dj690c-filter mentions -sColourMode=CMYK but all jobs still come out in > black and white. It was printing OK under the old filter (cdj670), an

Re: Change number of characters displayed on line in text mode (tty0)?

2002-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:59:29AM -0800, Abner Gershon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is it possible and how to change to smaller font so higher number of > characters are displayed on on line of my screen? Yes. > I am not using a gui. Is this application specific or will this change > all appli

Re: [OT] Open Portable Document Format?

2002-01-02 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:35:25AM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: | I'm not sure on this, but pdf is just compressed Postscript (.ps) which Not quite, but PDF is based on Postscript. PDF files tend to be smaller (they're not compressed, just use an editor to open them) and include additional

Re: The right way to power off a computer as non-root

2002-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:10:19PM +0100, Markus Grunwald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > > I use my computer as a workstation and thus I think it would be a good idea > > to be able to switch it of as user without being root. > > [.1).]make it sudo-able > > [.2).]put the executable into a s

Re: Solved: Re: gv: various font errors, "code 1 in findfont"

2002-01-02 Thread Craig Dickson
Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Do you have the GS_LIB environment variable set to these two directories? > > If not, try that and see if it helps. > > Interesting. I've got that in my /etc/profile (I *thought* I'd added > something like it), added Dec 13: > > export GS_LIB=/usr/share/gs/6.51:/u

Re: Python mx.DateTime

2002-01-02 Thread Joel Rosdahl
[CC me on replies, since I don't subscribe to debian-user.] Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The old program now runs on 1.5 and 2.1 but python2.2 comes up with a > bunch of module errors. > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/local/bin/net_time.py", line 19, in ? > o

Re: [OT] Open Portable Document Format?

2002-01-02 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Simonyi Andras wrote: >Hi, > >(sorry for asking this here, but I'm curious about the opinions/infos) > >In the good old times I advocated using pdf against other proprietary >document-formats, because it is more-or less really portable (similar >look everywhere), the viewer is accessible on most

Re: Tarball conversion

2002-01-02 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"Keith G. Murphy" wrote: > > "Paul A. Thomas" wrote: > > > > > Given that you're still in windows (and you want to view the docs > > > on-line) I recommend the HTML format : > > > > > > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/tarballs/newbiedoc-html-0.3.0.tar.gz > > > > > > They also have the HTML

Re: emergency shutdown?

2002-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 12:38:34PM +, Simon R Tod ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Don't cross-post. Reply sent to debian-user only. > My laptop's been left on for the past 48 hours. Six days here. Uptimes of up to 22 days. > When I came back to it this morning it was very hot, the fan was > k

Re: 2 network cards; one not recognized

2002-01-02 Thread Petre Daniel
yeah,like all new releases of mandrake,redhat autoconfigure 2 network cards,but with our beautiful debian we gotta work it out,and feel the taste of manual settings and confugiration.. perrsonally,i like this way best.. call me old fashion,i'll call you click&pointers :))) At 12:03 PM 1/2/02, M

Re: 2 network cards; one not recognized

2002-01-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 02/01/02 Petre Daniel did speaketh: > i think there is an option in lilo.conf ,something with append= ... > to make your system look for the second eth at boot time. > check the www.linuxdocs.org for the boot parameters > good luck. Strange. That's not required on my router using Linksys cards

Re: 2 network cards; one not recognized

2002-01-02 Thread Petre Daniel
dig this, Pauwel http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue36/tag/21.html search inside the page for append,i think is what you were looking for.. once again,good luck.. At 10:23 AM 1/2/02, Pauwel Demeyer wrote: hi, I'm going from a Mandrake 8.1 system to debian. I've had there (some weeks ago, no

Solved: Re: gv: various font errors, "code 1 in findfont"

2002-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 09:03:18AM -0800, Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I'm finding gv is almost unusable under Sid due to font errors, e.g.: > > > > > > Error: /invalidfontGNU Ghostscript 6.51: Unrecoverable error, exit > > code 1 in findfont >

Re: 2 network cards; one not recognized

2002-01-02 Thread Petre Daniel
i think there is an option in lilo.conf ,something with append= ... to make your system look for the second eth at boot time. check the www.linuxdocs.org for the boot parameters good luck. At 10:23 AM 1/2/02, Pauwel Demeyer wrote: hi, I'm going from a Mandrake 8.1 system to debian. I've had th

Re: XFree 4.1 on Potato

2002-01-02 Thread Andreas Schmidt
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 03:02:45PM +1000, Penguin wrote: > I have Potato 2.2r0. Unfortunately the unofficial debs for xserver-common > 4.1, etc etc will not install. dpkg complains that xfree(86?)-common is only > at 3.x version, when I need the 4.1 version. Why is this? I thought all those > pa

Re: emergency shutdown?

2002-01-02 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 18:28, Mark Janssen wrote: > From DOS/WIN32 > rawrite rescue.bin a: > > From Unix/Linux > dd if=rescue.bin of=/dev/fd0 Also please note that while dd will behave well if your disk is not broken, rawrite2 under Windows will sometimes fail to create a working disk if the disk

2 network cards; one not recognized

2002-01-02 Thread Pauwel Demeyer
hi, I'm going from a Mandrake 8.1 system to debian. I've had there (some weeks ago, not working anymore) internet sharing enabled. When switching, I also want it to be correct again. The problem is My debian does not recognize the second card (which is going to be the link to the local net

Re: printing stopped working--any ideas?

2002-01-02 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 02 Jan 2002 11:00:12 -0700, Luke Call wrote: >When I try to print directly to /dev/lp0 from the command line ("cat >filename.txt > /dev/lp0") nothing happens; printing from applications >like gimp doesn't work either. It did work until recently, and I've >tried various HOWTOs, searching

Re: OT: Type safety (was: Language War (Re: "C" Manual))

2002-01-02 Thread Preben Randhol
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/01/2002 (18:48) : > > To say that any compiler, for any language, can guarantee that your > program will do that you INTEND it to do is nonsense. I never said that. Of course not. I don't understand why you get so angry about it? > > I didn't mean to

Re: Sound newbie ... what is OSS, ALSA, etc all about?

2002-01-02 Thread Brian Nelson
Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian - > > I suspect that the OSS support for my SB Live isn't very complete. Any > idea if there is OSS vs ALSA comparative information anywhere about > support for particular cards? Not that I know of. The OSS emu10k1 drivers are reasonably up to

Re: The right way to power off a computer as non-root

2002-01-02 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hi, > I use my computer as a workstation and thus I think it would be a good idea > to be able to switch it of as user without being root. > [.1).]make it sudo-able > [.2).]put the executable into a special group AFAIR, putting shutdown in a group will not work. You'll have to add the SUID Bit as

Re:

2002-01-02 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hi ! On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 23:34:39 +0800 "steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello debian my noot book driver d no in said my pc how to do. That's exactly the mail I expect from a Microsoft user ;) SCNR... -- Markus Grunwald Registered Linux User Nr 101577 http://counter.li.org

Cannot configure Network

2002-01-02 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, I switched from SuSE to Debian about three hours ago and already run into a wall. The only way to install Debian here is by CD-ROM, because our boxes are not bootable by floppy. So I'm stuck with this Debian 3.0 Preview CD I have. The problem is that dbootstrap never offers to configure devic

Re: Just wondering...

2002-01-02 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:11:19PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: | | Have I been killfiled by ALL of you guys? No. | :( 'Cause I may well be the only guy that has posted 3 different | questions to this list, since early December, and hasn't received | ANY reaction at all (not even a flame for bein

Re: emergency shutdown?

2002-01-02 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:57:47AM -0500, P Prince wrote: | Simon, | | On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Simon R Tod wrote: | | > My laptop's been left on for the past 48 hours. When I came back to it | > this morning it was very hot, the fan was kicking in evert minute or two Since you were compiling a kerne

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