apt-get mutt ?????

2002-01-21 Thread Theo Bierman
Hi All I have been struggling to get mutt installed on my 2.2r3 poptato system. When I run apt-get install mutt it works fine however when I go into it the cursor just flashes and nothing else works. I then read somewhere that the followingf needs to be installed: ncurses and slang A normal

Re: apropos does nothing

2002-01-21 Thread Joshua Goodall
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:05:26PM -0700, Vector wrote: > It is a waste of a command in the first place. Use which, locate, and find > instead. If locate gives you nothing run updatedb to build the file > location database, then put in cron every night and you're all set. None of those suggestio

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread nate
> Have you ever tried ftp.redhat.com? Commercial... 0 bandwidth. > > 10-20 is still not bad - remember the days when it cost per hour > and you got 3 kb/s and disconnected all the time? redhat. ugh. their mirror system is so broken and their bandwidth so out of whack its not funny. though they

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread Paul E Condon
martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Aaron Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.21.2159 +0100]: > > Why don't we borrow an old tradition: voluntary tithe. For Debian users, > > a suggested donation schedule could be made, such as $2.00 USD per > > month, per Debian box if apt-get (or deselect, etc

Re: persistent storage hardware: recommendations, comments, and opinions please

2002-01-21 Thread nate
> Western Digital WD400BBRTL >40GB, 7200 rpm, Ultra ATA 100, 8.9 ms seek time, 2MB buffer, >$130 > > Western Digital WD180ABRTL-120 >18GB, 5400 rpm, Ultra ATA 100, 12.0 ms seek time, 2MB buffer, >$80 > > Samsung SV4002H (looks like a used disk) >40GB, 54000 rpm, ATA 100, $110

Re: apropos does nothing

2002-01-21 Thread Gary Turner
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 19:29:11 -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: >Somehow I have an unstable installation where apropos doesn't do a damn >thing: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ apropos ls >ls: nothing appropriate. >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ apropos apropos >apropos: nothing appropriate. >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/v

Re: apropos does nothing

2002-01-21 Thread Vector
man -k pthread heheh - Original Message - From: "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 9:28 PM Subject: Re: apropos does nothing > On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 20:05, Vector wrote: > > It is a waste of a command in the first place. Use which, locate, and fi

Re: apropos does nothing

2002-01-21 Thread Brian Clark
* Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Jan 21. 2002 23:30]: > Okay fine. But on slackware I can do 'man -K pthread' and get every > manual page on the whole system that mentions pthread. What is the > equivalent funtion on Debian? If you _have_ to have `apropos` why not just alias `man -k` to

Re: Re: Sendmail and Dynamic IP (apologize)

2002-01-21 Thread tim_
i apologize. i didn't mean to do it, my webmail service sucks. sorry all - You wrote: >plz don't post more than once ... > >On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:26:11PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> i have seen articles pertaining to >> Sendmail with a dynamic ip. i

Re: apropos does nothing

2002-01-21 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 20:05, Vector wrote: > It is a waste of a command in the first place. Use which, locate, and find > instead. If locate gives you nothing run updatedb to build the file > location database, then put in cron every night and you're all set. Okay fine. But on slackware I can d

Re: more on apt -- what preferences?

2002-01-21 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:49:24AM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote: | However, if a package is on them, will it be installed from that | very source or will apt almost always switch to ftp? Merely because | of a newer version? Can one set the preferences for that? If there is a newer version, apt wil

Re: more on apt -- what preferences?

2002-01-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:49:24AM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote: > Lately I've added some cds (woody from linuxiso.org) to my > sources.list. I'm running woody installed from the net; the ftp ... read "man apt_preferences" and read "apt-howto" Also my qref.sf.net page may be some help. -- ~\^o^/~~

Re: Woody flavors

2002-01-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 07:42:17AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:23:27AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > > Glen Snyder wrote: ... > > Not sure what do you mean by woody flavor. Trying to guess by the rest > > of the paragraph, you call each kernel image a flavor. > > Yes, tha

Re: apropos does nothing

2002-01-21 Thread Vector
It is a waste of a command in the first place. Use which, locate, and find instead. If locate gives you nothing run updatedb to build the file location database, then put in cron every night and you're all set. vec - Original Message - From: "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: S

how to enable chinese viewing

2002-01-21 Thread Neo Sze Wee
thank you.

Re: persistent storage hardware: recommendations, comments, and opinions please

2002-01-21 Thread Neal Lippman
On Monday 21 January 2002 22:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "dman" == dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > dman> First my current setup: > dman> 10GB Maxtor IDE disk > dman> Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > dman> 5.6G 5.1G 271M 96% / > dman> 4.0G 2

Re: how to get a precompiled dpkg for manual installation

2002-01-21 Thread Neo Sze Wee
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:47:44AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:53:55PM +, Neo Sze Wee wrote: > > Without installing the base. I intend to use root.bin as my base and start > > installing debian packages but there is no dekg in the root.bin. > > There's a .tar.gz of

Re: how to get a precompiled dpkg for manual installation

2002-01-21 Thread Neo Sze Wee
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:02:14PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 21:53:55 +, Neo Sze Wee wrote: > > Or is there another way to convert the deb format to tgz format? > > ar(1) is your friend. See deb(5). But there is no ar in the 1.44 floppy root.bin. So the same

Re: Hello......

2002-01-21 Thread Neo Sze Wee
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 01:35:45AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > and feel free to post questions you may have with the installation > and/or usage of you Debian system. however, in your own interest, we There are mailing lists for debian big5 and gb, are they to do with installiing and configur

Re: small network setup tools

2002-01-21 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Thomas Halahan: > > Hi, > > Looking for a few pointers as how to best set up a small > office network. Basically can install debian on the > machines but don't really know how to join them in the > simplest way (4 machines). I want the server to be the > gateway to the internet.

Re: Sendmail and Dynamic IP

2002-01-21 Thread Adam Majer
plz don't post more than once ... On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:26:11PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i have seen articles pertaining to > Sendmail with a dynamic ip. i'm quite > new to sendmail, but i am certainly > willing to read about it. neither my > current host or isp provides me with > an

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread Aaron Traas
martin f krafft wrote: > > This would make it simple/automatic to periodically donate small > > amounts of cash, for anyone who is too forgetful to do so on a > > regular basis. At the same time, it would be an entirely opt-in > > thing, so people who do not have the money/do not wish to donat

apropos does nothing

2002-01-21 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
Somehow I have an unstable installation where apropos doesn't do a damn thing: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ apropos ls ls: nothing appropriate. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ apropos apropos apropos: nothing appropriate. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ ls /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz [EMAIL

Re: Printing speed

2002-01-21 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 06:54:44PM +0100, Dominique Deleris wrote: > I've had no answer until now, so here it is again :-) Ok, I'll try and guess :) > Hello everybody, > > I wonder why it takes so long to print anything under Linux. I > have a HP 959C, that works under W2K and Linux. Under W2K i

persistent storage hardware: recommendations, comments, and opinions please

2002-01-21 Thread briand
> "dman" == dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dman> First my current setup: dman> 10GB Maxtor IDE disk dman> Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on dman> 5.6G 5.1G 271M 96% / dman> 4.0G 2.5G 1.3G 64% /home dman> 125M 40k 124M 1% /tmp (tmpfs

Re: some unfamiliar software registration act???

2002-01-21 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 12:49:42AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > we, the developers, put hours on end into this project because we trust > it (oh, and use it, and enjoy it), if that ridiculous bullshit act about > cryptographic registration of every computer component and software > piece would a

Re: adding all users to group

2002-01-21 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 06:59:21PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi, | I'm trying to find a way to | add all my users to a group. | Is there a simple command to do this? # for USER in `cat /etc/passwd | sed "s,:.*$,,"` ; do adduser $USER ; done Unfortunately this method will catch all syst

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:52:19PM -0800, nate wrote: > but i too wouldn't mind a pay download service ..seems > in recent months most of the fast U.S. debian mirrors > have gone away. or maybe its just my providers.. usually > 10-20kb/s once or twice i can get a site that can give > 100+kb/s. Hav

Re: .config file upgrader

2002-01-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 09:38:45AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: | Hi, | | Have you ever encountered a situation where you are about to upgrade the | kernel and then noticing that you can't just copy your | /usr/src/linux/.config due to the fact that the new kernel version has | some new module settings so

Re: Are you spam?

2002-01-21 Thread Dmitriy
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:05:44PM -0500, alex wrote: [snip] > > If an ISP doesn't use a SPAM blocker service, the message passes but > then a filter that directs the mail to a Debian > mailbox may instead treat it as general mail, depending on how the > filter is profiled.for Debian mail. >

Re: Are you spam?

2002-01-21 Thread dvanbalen
alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I monitor several Linux forums and have noticed that Debian mail far > outnumbers the mail on other Linux forums. > I also notice that, percentagewise, more Debian mail is blocked by my > ISP's SPAM blocker (Postini) > than any other and if does get through, s

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:02:09AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.22.0251 +0100]: | > No, no, no. Not "one out of thirty", "thirty out of one" :-). | | shit, you got me ::hides under table::. now you may call me dyslexic. | now it's 3am. i can't beli

Help with mailbox deletion

2002-01-21 Thread Brian Schramm
I am having a problem with my mailbox.  I am using sendmail with imap on my main email server.  I can send, recieve and read email on the system.  But I cannot delete, copy or move the messages anywhere.  This includes the trash folder.  I am using netscape 4 for a email program.  I have tried ma

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 05:00:12PM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > And people who download ISO's to sell should be paying a LOT. > > I'm not sure about this one. The ISO's that I have spotted for sale (in > the UK) are quite cheap: About ?5 - ?20 for the full set, where the > more expensive on

adding all users to group

2002-01-21 Thread mike
Hi, I'm trying to find a way to add all my users to a group. Is there a simple command to do this? Thanks Mike

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:35:35AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Debian fans, > > I have the following modest proposal : > > Debian should start charging for high-speed apt-get/dselect/whatever > downloads from it's sites. 56k is free, anything faster you pay for. > Then we can pay people

Re: .config file upgrader

2002-01-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Jan-2002 Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > Have you ever encountered a situation where you are about to upgrade the > kernel and then noticing that you can't just copy your > /usr/src/linux/.config due to the fact that the new kernel version has > some new module settings so that plain copying of .co

.config file upgrader

2002-01-21 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, Have you ever encountered a situation where you are about to upgrade the kernel and then noticing that you can't just copy your /usr/src/linux/.config due to the fact that the new kernel version has some new module settings so that plain copying of .config file would make kernel compilation no

Re: Help me

2002-01-21 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 05:00:53AM -0800, amir isf. wrote: > Hello > I used and programmed opti931 sound card in dos (ISA). > My program need to 3000Hz frequency (ISA), but card > not supported this frequency. > I think frequncy of card is 600~700 Hz. > Do I use PCI card ? > How do I use ISA card i

Re: Are you spam?

2002-01-21 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:05:44PM -0500, alex wrote: | I monitor several Linux forums and have noticed that Debian mail far | outnumbers the mail on other Linux forums. | I also notice that, percentagewise, more Debian mail is blocked by my | ISP's SPAM blocker (Postini) | than any other and i

persistent storage hardware: recommendations, comments, and opinions please

2002-01-21 Thread dman
First my current setup: 10GB Maxtor IDE disk Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on 5.6G 5.1G 271M 96% / 4.0G 2.5G 1.3G 64% /home 125M 40k 124M 1% /tmp (tmpfs, not on-disk) I want to buy another disk to augment this. There's not enough room on this one f

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.22.0251 +0100]: > No, no, no. Not "one out of thirty", "thirty out of one" :-). shit, you got me ::hides under table::. now you may call me dyslexic. now it's 3am. i can't believe i fell for this one. and all because i tried hard to be funny. dman, i

Re: SB Live! 5.1 problems

2002-01-21 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:55:42AM -0800, David Wright wrote: > > > But anyways, you should make sure that the card is not muted. > > Thanks for the tip; I'll try it when I get home. But... what is "muted"? (I > know what the word means, I just don't know why one would do such a thing to > a so

Are you spam?

2002-01-21 Thread alex
I monitor several Linux forums and have noticed that Debian mail far outnumbers the mail on other Linux forums. I also notice that, percentagewise, more Debian mail is blocked by my ISP's SPAM blocker (Postini) than any other and if does get through, some of it appears as general mail instea

Re: Custom deb packages?

2002-01-21 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:55:22PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got a few debian machines here that I'd like to update with a custom > w3m .deb package. Ideally, what I'd like to do is download the source .deb > for w3m, extract it, apply debian specific patches from the package > maintai

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:42:39AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.22.0232 +0100]: | > | trouble Debian did shield from you, | > | > Not quite what you meant here :-). How much damage would I have done | > to the trouble? (correct phrase "trouble Deb

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.22.0232 +0100]: > | trouble Debian did shield from you, > > Not quite what you meant here :-). How much damage would I have done > to the trouble? (correct phrase "trouble Debian did shield you > from"). It's ok, dyslexia strikes 30 out of 1, or so

Re: Red Carpet vs Apt-Get

2002-01-21 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 03:35:48PM -0800, Camilux wrote: | Hi! | | Just a quick question... is red carpet and apt-get more or less the | same? i mean, from the little knowledge i have, i understand that | RC is a software designed to handle package | management/installation/updates automaticall

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:07:21PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > "dman" == dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | dman> | So I pay - then we immediately get into the tar-pit of why should I | dman> | pay and no one else does. | | dman> 'cause you have extra dough to throw around and

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 12:49:42AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.21.2352 +0100]: | > but i too wouldn't mind a pay download service ..seems | > in recent months most of the fast U.S. debian mirrors | > have gone away. or maybe its just my providers..

insmod bttv does not find TV card--says no such device???

2002-01-21 Thread mikepolniak
My Pinnacle studio PCTV pro card shows up in /proc/pci and i can load all the required modules (tuner, videodev,i2c)...but when i #insmod bttv card=52 ...it says no such device. Syslog shows : ... bttv: driver version 0.7.83 loaded ... bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for capture ..

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread John Hasler
Brian writes: > And if they sell Debian CD's why aren't they _required_ to have a donation > checkbox ? How do you propose to go about "requiring" them? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.22.0126 +0100]: > Yep - I suppose. Time will tell. Still going to use Debian. Still > going to file bug reports. Still going to write checks (or use a > credit card). Hope it's enough... i'll accept credit card and relay to the debian

Fwd: Re: Hello......

2002-01-21 Thread martin f krafft
dork that i am. not i CC'd him. bruce, this is the message i sent to the list, shortly before realizing that it doesn't make sense to explain to you how to subscribe via the list. - Forwarded message from martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 01:35:45 +0100 From: m

Re: Hello......

2002-01-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bruce Burhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.22.0124 +0100]: > My primary purpose here is to introduce myself, and I > couldn't find a more suitable e-mail address, although I would > appreciate being put on the mailing list. welcome to the world of debian-user, your collect

Re: NO ANSWER, trying again...annoying console message: lp0: compatibility mode

2002-01-21 Thread Greg Norris
Edit /etc/init.d/klogd and add "-c 6" to the commandline. This will prevent kernel messages of priority 6 and 7 (KERN_INFO and KERN_DEBUG) from going to the console, without affecting higher-priority messages. On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:25:37AM -0500, James D. Freels wrote: > I got no response.

Re: Debian, FHS & /floppy

2002-01-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.22.0121 +0100]: > You know, MS isn't the only one that does this... the Linux SCSI > implementation would assign /dev/sda to the lowest SCSI ID on the chain, > so if you went back and added a new drive who's ID was lower than the > drives you'v

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread John Hasler
Brian writes: > I find it annoying that I can buy a Debian CD for $3.00 + shipping. It > should be more. Nothing is stopping you from paying as much as you want to. > Plus you just made my point - more will get done if we can hire people to > work full time. Who do you plan to hire? > Why not

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread briand
> "dman" == dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dman> When I first saw your subject in my log (before I looked at the dman> mailbox itself) I was expecting a really funny and outrageous story dman> containing a real suggestion buried in it. The subject reminds me of Ouch - that hurt. So

Re: CUPs printing, and local parallel port?

2002-01-21 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:10:06PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote (1.00): > However whne I go into the web admin page, and try to set up this printer, > the local parallel port is not offered as a choice! The model for this > printer exists, and as far as I know it's only capable of working off of > a par

Hello......

2002-01-21 Thread Bruce Burhans
Greetings, I'm new to computers and even newer to Linux, (running XP) and was going to install RH until further research led me here. Currently I'm reading through your website and have established contact with Hopefully, I will be ready to install the latest

Splitting traffic

2002-01-21 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, Several days ago I asked about splitting the traffic to the Net. I have gotten it working, at least for splitting it according to the destination. All it needs was the iproute2 package. I have two servers that serving the Internet users; one is connected to the Net via a wireless link, and the

Re: Debian, FHS & /floppy

2002-01-21 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:21:26PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote (1.00): > - Drive letters (yes you can map around them) restrict you to 26 disks. > Including remote maps. Driveletters move (often arbitrarially) when > devices are added and removed. You know, MS isn't the only one that d

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread John Hasler
Brian writes: > I find it annoying that I can download an ISO and turn around and sell it > and not have to give 1 monetary unit to Debian. I don't, and I wrote some of the stuff in that ISO. > I don't think it's reasonable. I do. It costs me nothing when you download that ISO, and no one was a

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.21.1946 +0100]: > >> apt-get -u dist-upgrade, we aren't going to object. if you start > >> charging, i am leaving, and i guarantee you that most every other > >> developer will too. > > I'm still not clear on why you would. Please e

apt-move & apt-proxy: a mini-HOWTO?

2002-01-21 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, Is there such a thing? I'm having some troubles knowing which directory/directories are important if I want to share .debs across a small LAN. Is apt-move's LOCALDIR supposed to be the same as apt-proxy's APT_PROXY_CACHE? Also, what about apt-move's FILECACHE, which is where .debs are put b

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.21.2352 +0100]: > but i too wouldn't mind a pay download service ..seems > in recent months most of the fast U.S. debian mirrors > have gone away. or maybe its just my providers.. usually > 10-20kb/s once or twice i can get a site that can give > 100+kb

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Aaron Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.21.2159 +0100]: > Why don't we borrow an old tradition: voluntary tithe. For Debian users, > a suggested donation schedule could be made, such as $2.00 USD per > month, per Debian box if apt-get (or deselect, etc.) was used in that > month. We co

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.21.1944 +0100]: > So I pay - then we immediately get into the tar-pit of why should I > pay and no one else does. Something of a "tragedy of the commons" > argument. because you feel like Debian is worth paying for. it doesn't matter what

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread nate
> > And people who download ISO's to sell should be paying a LOT. i'd like to see ISO images that have nothing more then boot/root+base. they'd be maybe 20-30MB a piece ... i download the ISOs soley to install without floppies i rarely install files other then the base off CD. but i too wouldn't

Re: Initrd kernel and small /boot

2002-01-21 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:53:24PM +0100, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > I'm experiencing problems apt-getting the latest 2.4 kernel on a sid > system which I have set up with a /boot partition of 5MB. The partition > gets filled up, and installation fails. > > Any thoughts on how I could install

Re: Config PCMCIA card

2002-01-21 Thread BURLET Frederic
> Fred, > > have you tried forcing the 10 Mb configuration? Maybe there is > something going wrong with auto-negotiation. When I make: ifport eth0, I have the following result: eth01 (10baseT) The card is well configured in 10BaseT mode. I think there is a problem with the driver but I'm no

ESD is acting ornery under kernel 2.2.19

2002-01-21 Thread Terence Sheridan
Hello everyone, I sat like a fly on the wall through the recent discussions on compiling the kernel the "Debian way." Thanks to you, I managed to get some information, find my way to some HOWTOS, went off and compiled 2.2.19 in place of my old 2.2.l0 kernel. Everything is up and running, inc

Re: REGEX question

2002-01-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 21/01/02 Alec did speaketh: > Hi > > How can I match the same character repeated n times? > ".{n}" matches any n characters. How about this: /(.)\1{n-1}/ I'm assuming perl syntax, so adjust accordingly. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word

REGEX question

2002-01-21 Thread Alec
Hi How can I match the same character repeated n times? ".{n}" matches any n characters. Thanks Alec

Re: DTP Programs for Linux [Was Re: OT: Rant]

2002-01-21 Thread csj
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:17:45 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 09:43:12 +0800 csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:45:39 -0600 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:39:26 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

Re: sources.list--where to point?

2002-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 03:32:57PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:37:14 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ># testing > >deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > >deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib > >non-free > >

Sendmail and Dynamic IP

2002-01-21 Thread tim_
i have seen articles pertaining to Sendmail with a dynamic ip. i'm quite new to sendmail, but i am certainly willing to read about it. neither my current host or isp provides me with an smtp address, so i want to make my own. my questions are: 1) can i use sendmail as an smtp server which i could

Sendmail and Dynamic IP

2002-01-21 Thread tim_
i have seen articles pertaining to Sendmail with a dynamic ip. i'm quite new to sendmail, but i am certainly willing to read about it. neither my current host or isp provides me with an smtp address, so i want to make my own. my questions are: 1) can i use sendmail as an smtp server which i could

Sendmail and Dynamic IP

2002-01-21 Thread tim_
i have seen articles pertaining to Sendmail with a dynamic ip. i'm quite new to sendmail, but i am certainly willing to read about it. neither my current host or isp provides me with an smtp address, so i want to make my own. my questions are: 1) can i use sendmail as an smtp server which i could

Sendmail and Dynamic IP

2002-01-21 Thread tim_
i have seen articles pertaining to Sendmail with a dynamic ip. i'm quite new to sendmail, but i am certainly willing to read about it. neither my current host or isp provides me with an smtp address, so i want to make my own. my questions are: 1) can i use sendmail as an smtp server which i could

Initrd kernel and small /boot

2002-01-21 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
Hi, I'm experiencing problems apt-getting the latest 2.4 kernel on a sid system which I have set up with a /boot partition of 5MB. The partition gets filled up, and installation fails. Any thoughts on how I could install this kernel, without rolling my own? Thanks, Frederik

Red Carpet vs Apt-Get

2002-01-21 Thread Camilux
Hi! Just a quick question... is red carpet and apt-get more or less the same? i mean, from the little knowledge i have, i understand that RC is a software designed to handle package management/installation/updates automatically, finding dependencies and getting them, etc. much like apt-get...

Re: sources.list--where to point?

2002-01-21 Thread Gary Turner
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:37:14 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ># testing >deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free >deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free OK, so I should enable both addresses. Since I'm thick, what is on one th

Re: What is "OT:"

2002-01-21 Thread Karsten Heymann
* Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020121 22:07]: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:34:17AM -0800, Charles Baker wrote: > > I use wtf when I don't understand an acronym...like so > > ``wtf wtf`` on a cl ;-) > > wtf's vocabulary seems a little limited: > > $ wtf ot > Gee... I don't know what ot mea

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread Aaron Traas
I have an interesting counter-proposal. Everyone on this list probably uses debian in one way or another. A few of us, myself included, have a little extra cash which we could give the project. Why don't we borrow an old tradition: voluntary tithe. For Debian users, a suggested donation schedule

sources.list--where to point?

2002-01-21 Thread briand
> "Gary" == Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gary> I have finally managed to get my little potato box online and want to Gary> get current from 2.2r0(!). Now the question is, where do I point apt in Gary> /etc/apt/sources.list? <<-- that is the right file? yes it is, here is ho

sources.list--where to point?

2002-01-21 Thread briand

Re: usb/modem irq conflict

2002-01-21 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:35:06PM +, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: My modem is a pci but inspite of this bios put three devices on irq 3. Bios setup allowed reserving an irq for isa. I tried this and all three devices moved to the same new irq. I disassembled the machine and moved the modem card

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread briand
> "dman" == dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dman> | I find it annoying that I can buy a Debian CD for $3.00 + shipping. dman> | It should be more. dman> This is an easy problem to solve! Mail me a (valid) check for $1,000 dman> US and I'll mail you back a CD. :-) LOL. yeah that

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 11:56:19AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here is a somewhat off-topic question : > > You know all those nice CD vendors that have a donation checkbox for > Debian. How do I know they are really donating the money ? And if > they sell Debian CD's why aren't they _requi

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 11:56:19AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | Colin> /usr/share/doc/debian/debian-manifesto is a pretty good | Colin> start. Debian is a distribution free in terms of both speech | Colin> and beer. If we sta

Re: cd-writer question

2002-01-21 Thread Wayne Topa
David Csercsics([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I need some help here. I've just about got my hardware setup but I'm not > sure how to configure a couple things. I put in the SCSI emulaton i my > kernel because you supposedly need it to make an IDE CD-Writer to work. My > CD-Writer i

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread briand
> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> /usr/share/doc/debian/debian-manifesto is a pretty good Colin> start. Debian is a distribution free in terms of both speech Colin> and beer. If we start charging our users for downloading it, Colin> we will be making the live

Upgrading Potato and KDE

2002-01-21 Thread Jatin Golani
Hello, I'm currently using Potato. I want to upgrade to Woody but am a lil confused as to the following : a) Is upgrading to Woody a very risky/bad idea. Is it really very very unstable? or tolerable? b) How do I do a network upgrade to Woody, should I point apt's sources.list to unstable or tes

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread ben
On Monday 21 January 2002 11:28 am, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:44:26AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > "martin" == martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > martin> go and pay. contribute, donate. speak to me if you want to > > martin> know where to tur

lpr: unable to create temporary file

2002-01-21 Thread aor
Been having trouble with email, but think I have that ok now. My question is about CUPS--I have my Epson Stylus C60 configured as the system default, and it works from the command line or from xpdf. When I try to print from other apps, such as Netscape, I get the error message from the subject line

sources.list--where to point?

2002-01-21 Thread Gary Turner
I have finally managed to get my little potato box online and want to get current from 2.2r0(!). Now the question is, where do I point apt in /etc/apt/sources.list? <<-- that is the right file? tnx, gt Yes I fear I am living beyond my mental means--Nash

Re: PDF 1.4 Capable Apps in Debian GNU/Linux?

2002-01-21 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: | Hi! | | Thanks for your quick reply! | | On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: | | > [...] | > xpdf's upstream changelog for 0.93 includes: | > :Implement PDF 1.4 (128-bit) decryption. | > :Bump supported PDF version numb

Re: PDF 1.4 Capable Apps in Debian GNU/Linux?

2002-01-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 20:20:53 +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > > xpdf's upstream changelog for 0.93 includes: > Ok. Does that mean PDF 1.4 is already implemented or that it will be > implemented? It means that xpdf 0.93 (as included in unstable) ca

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