Re: Suggestions for a USB Webcam

2002-05-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 12:03:28AM +0200, Christoph Schaefer wrote: > Can you recommend a good program to use the camera within kde as well? I > have a Webcam USB myself, but didn't yet manage to get it up and running. Your desktop environment has nothing to do with hardware support. Please do

Re: Comparing squid cache versus nothing

2002-05-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 03:03:26PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'd activate cache, flush it then run an automated pull of a slew of > sites tried against both a proxied and unproxied session. You can get a > list of sites (if you want to mirror your own behavior) from the squid > cache logs t

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-25 Thread Scott Henson
On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 23:29, Paul Johnson wrote: > As much as US action was admirable during World War II, I've noticed > that pretty much every American accomplishment mentioned in casual > conversation is extremely violent, and yet Americans still refer to > America as a peace-loving nation. Ri

Re: Netiquette: crossposting, followup-to (was Re: 1:1 mirror for an entire hd)

2002-05-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 08:16:27PM -0500, dman wrote: > Baloo just switched from pine to mutt :-). I like mutt too. # apt-get install jesus Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependancy Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: mutt The following NEW packages will be ins

capture parallel data

2002-05-25 Thread Bud Rogers
I've been handed an interesting problem at work. We have a new microwave system going live. Alarm processor is a PC acting essentially as a dumb terminal, logging all alarms to the screen and dumping them to a parallel printer. While the techs are in the process of bringing stations on line,

persistent cookies

2002-05-25 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I am trying to set up persistent cookies with lynx. I am accepting all cookes and have persistent_cookies set to true and mycookie file is supposed to be ~/.lynx_cookies. I've also done a search for any such file on my system. I can't find a cookie file anywhere and persistent_cookies isn't working

Re: Menus not updating

2002-05-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 07:41:08PM +0100, Martin Rowe wrote: > I've recently installed Debian sid on my kids' box and it's running fine, > except that the menus (in Blackbox) don't get updated after an apt-get > install or dist-upgrade. A manual update-menus does the trick, but I'm > wondering

Re: Debian laptop (vendors)

2002-05-25 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 07:17:02AM -0700, Walter Reed wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 06:26:01AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > On 23/05/02 Bill Wohler did speaketh: > > > > > No idea on whether IBM will install Debian for you. I installed Debian > > > on my Thinkpad T20 without much fu

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 11:12:37AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > It's not a "bizarre" superiority complex. May not be valid, > but certainly not "bizarre". I can list 1,000 US accomplish- > ments, not the least of which is making sure that Aussies aren't > not speaking Japanese, and the Brits now

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 01:00:51PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > Not only that, nobody even DARED to post complaining "stay on topic, > please !"... :) My only real disappointment is the subject line I put on when the topic changed didn't stick... apt-get install debian-beer -- Baloo pg

Re: how to confirm mod_perl is functioning with apache? to run mason

2002-05-25 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.23 20:42 justin cunningham wrote: hey list, I wanted to check out mason which requires mod_perl but it's not show as a loadable module in /etc/apache/httpd.conf I just installed libapache-mod-perl but wasn't prompted to load mod_perl.c as a loadable module like say, php4. how do I co

Re: Netiquette: crossposting, followup-to (was Re: 1:1 mirror for an entire hd)

2002-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 03:05:42PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, May 25, 2002, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 12:19:00PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > - Don't put _my_ name in _your_ follow-up-to headers. > > > > How are mutt users supposed to

Re: Netiquette: crossposting, followup-to (was Re: 1:1 mirror for an entire hd)

2002-05-25 Thread dman
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 05:43:15PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: | I don't use mutt, so I don't know about follow-up-to gnus also obeys the Mail-Followup-To: header. The purpose of it is to indicate where followup posts should go. The most common usage is to indicate the followups should only go t

Re: Mail setup on new Debian desktop

2002-05-25 Thread Kent West
Robert Ian Smit wrote: Hi, A couple of days ago I asked this group how well Debian can perform as a desktop. Encouraged by the answers, I am currently building a Debian system from mainly the testing and a bit from the unstable dists. Most of it went well. I am yet undecided how to do mail

Re: Netiquette: crossposting, followup-to (was Re: 1:1 mirror for an entire hd)

2002-05-25 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I don't use mutt, so I don't know about follow-up-to (though am considering mutt). However, I do know that i have to be careful when replying to messages from this list. the default behavior when I reply to this list, but not to most of my lists, is for the message usually to be sent to the person

Re: Menus not updating

2002-05-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Can it be that it does not happen automagically because there is a > ~/.menu directory? Maybe Blackbox handles the menus in some way that > requires it to be manually updated? > no blackbox watches the menu and updates on a timer so updates will get noticed. I suspect your first question

Re: lilo and OpenBSD

2002-05-25 Thread ben
On Saturday 25 May 2002 02:07 pm, Rogerio Acquadro wrote: > On Fri, 24 May 2002, Kang-Ling Weng wrote: > > Hello debian-user, > > > > I have got 2 harddrives > > hda with Debian > > hdb with OpenBSD > > > > now I am trying to config lilo > > so that I am to boot into OpenBSD > > but whe

Re: Netiquette: crossposting, followup-to (was Re: 1:1 mirror for an entire hd)

2002-05-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 25, 2002, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 12:19:00PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > - Don't put _my_ name in _your_ follow-up-to headers. > > How are mutt users supposed to control the contents of Mail-Followup-To: > in any way, beyond the simple

Re: Suggestions for a USB Webcam

2002-05-25 Thread Christoph Schaefer
Hi David, I'm looking into getting a USB Webcam I have a Logitech QuickCam Pro ($85) which I use with gnomemeeting and with which I am quite happy. Getting the driver for it was easy... it comes with the Debian stock kernel. Getting usb to work and setting up /dev/video was more of a pain,

Re: Comparing squid cache versus nothing

2002-05-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 22, 2002, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Is there a good way to benchmark performance on web surfing with squid > doing caching and without on a small household network? What are you hoping to compare? The cache s

Re: Menus not updating

2002-05-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-May-2002 Martin Rowe wrote: > Hi all > > I've recently installed Debian sid on my kids' box and it's running fine, > except that the menus (in Blackbox) don't get updated after an apt-get > install or dist-upgrade. A manual update-menus does the trick, but I'm > wondering what is missing

Re: Menus not updating

2002-05-25 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi all > > I've recently installed Debian sid on my kids' box and it's running fine, > except that the menus (in Blackbox) don't get updated after an apt-get > install or dist-upgrade. A manual update-menus does the trick, but I'm > wondering what is missing for it not to happen automagically

Re: newbie: Set and read time

2002-05-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 25, 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "Peter" == Peter Holm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Peter> Hi how do i set the clock and read the same ? /ph > > 'man date' or 'date --help' Actually, that's not fully sufficient here. The 'date' manpage doesn't a

Re: lilo and OpenBSD

2002-05-25 Thread Rogerio Acquadro
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Kang-Ling Weng wrote: > Hello debian-user, > > I have got 2 harddrives > hda with Debian > hdb with OpenBSD > > now I am trying to config lilo > so that I am to boot into OpenBSD > but when adding: > > other=/dev/hdb1 > label=OpenBSD > read-onl

Re: can't install php4-cgi-mysql woody

2002-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 10:24:11AM -0700, justin cunningham wrote: > What is the recommended way for obtaining php4-cgi-mysql; and getting > apt to let me install it and *not* php4-cgi? You don't. Install php4-mysql instead, like I said. If for some reason that doesn't provide what you need, file

Re: Netiquette: crossposting, followup-to (was Re: 1:1 mirror for an entire hd)

2002-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 12:19:00PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > - Don't put _my_ name in _your_ follow-up-to headers. How are mutt users supposed to control the contents of Mail-Followup-To: in any way, beyond the simple binary alternative of "subscribed to this list" or "not subscribed to th

Re: Galeon submits empty forms

2002-05-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 25, 2002, James Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 05:15:10PM +0200, Matthias Papesch wrote: > > I'm running a woody system with galeon (and mozilla) pulled in from > > unstable. So far I've been quite happy with this setup. However, > > lately I noticed that g

ddt-client

2002-05-25 Thread Scott Henson
I am trying to get a ddt acount up and running, but I am running into some problems. I have this D-link cable router (DI-704) that I have between me and the internet. I was wondering if anyone had experience setting up ddt-client to update my ddt account through this router. I have tried both se

Re: GCJ and C/C++ applications how is it possible ?

2002-05-25 Thread dman
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:25:34AM +0200, Pac wrote: | Le 23/05/02 à 22:09, dman a écrit: | dman> On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 07:15:34PM +0200, Pac wrote: | dman> | why ? | dman> | dman> Layers upon layers upon layers of indirection. The JVM interprets | dman> java bytecode. It then delegates the "n

Re: xemacs problems

2002-05-25 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, May 23, Glen Lee Edwards did write: > I installed xemacs 21 from Woody. I run fvwm as my window manager. I'm using > the same configuration files as I did with Red Hat for both. Xemacs is > ignoring > the font information I have in my configuration files, and when it loads in

Re: Maildir use with Mutt

2002-05-25 Thread dman
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 03:05:21PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: | begin dman quotation: ^ I like your tactics here. If a critical mass of people with something useful to say agree to tickle some of Outhouse's bugs, then maybe the outhouse will begin to die :-). | > In an mbox, messages mu

Re: Acroread segfault

2002-05-25 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, May 23, Michael Jinks did write: > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 06:21:27PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > > I can't tell from the parts of your X log that you included, but what > > color depth are you running on these machines? In my experience, > > Acroread really doesn't like 2

Re: Mail setup on new Debian desktop

2002-05-25 Thread dman
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 07:48:28PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: | Hi, | | A couple of days ago I asked this group how well Debian can perform as a | desktop. Encouraged by the answers, I am currently building a Debian system | from mainly the testing and a bit from the unstable dists. Most of i

Re: Safe, secure mail relay

2002-05-25 Thread dman
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 01:19:21PM -0300, Carlos A P Gomes wrote: | * dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [25-05-2002 13:03]: | > It's possible. What are you trying? | > | > I think there are 2 ways of doing this : | > 1) ssh to the box and run a mua there. This is no different from | > sittin

Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?

2002-05-25 Thread ben
On Saturday 25 May 2002 05:52 am, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:46:37PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: [snip] > > > > You are probably not seeing it before because many rpms are build as > > root and so the rpm2cpio shows the file as root. But since many build > > rpms as a non-root u

Netiquette: crossposting, followup-to (was Re: 1:1 mirror for an entire hd)

2002-05-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 25, 2002, Christian J?nsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 12:50:32AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Thu, May 23, 2002, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 07:29:11PM -0700, Angus D Madden wrote: > > > > Karsten M. Self, Mon, May 20

Re: problem to install Oracle9i

2002-05-25 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Konstantin A. Loktev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello , > > I'm trying to install the 9i release of Oracle and i get the following > errors when run "runInstall" : Hmmm... I was hoping someone else would reply to this, so that I could gain wisdom from someone less ignorant about these things

Re: hangs on boot

2002-05-25 Thread Carson Chittom
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 08:45:39PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > I followed Neal Walfield's installation guide to try and get the Hurd on > > my laptop. When I actually tried to boot it, though, everything seemed > > fine until it printed out "2 of 2 modules executed" or something like > > t

struggling with mysql perms (woody)

2002-05-25 Thread justin cunningham
I created two users with grant; obdba with select,insert,index,file and other privileges and obdbu with select only privileges. Flushed privileges. Mysqlaccess shows the correct perms for database 'properties' (the only database) for each user although when I try logging in as either user to test

Menus not updating

2002-05-25 Thread Martin Rowe
Hi all I've recently installed Debian sid on my kids' box and it's running fine, except that the menus (in Blackbox) don't get updated after an apt-get install or dist-upgrade. A manual update-menus does the trick, but I'm wondering what is missing for it not to happen automagically. It runs f

Re: Proble - XFree86 4.2 and ATI 3D Rage LT Pro

2002-05-25 Thread Bob Underwood
On Saturday 25 May 2002 10:07, Russ Cook wrote: > Another respondent suggested I run XFree86 -configure to get a starting > config file. I did, and it worked - although low res and distorted. I > then restored my original guess at synch rates, and got my original > symptons, which confirms your s

Mail setup on new Debian desktop

2002-05-25 Thread Robert Ian Smit
Hi, A couple of days ago I asked this group how well Debian can perform as a desktop. Encouraged by the answers, I am currently building a Debian system from mainly the testing and a bit from the unstable dists. Most of it went well. I am yet undecided how to do mail to and from my system. I

Re: newbie: Set and read time

2002-05-25 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Saturday 25 May 2002 14:14, Peter Holm wrote: > Hi how do i set the clock and read the same ? > > /ph Try "man hwclock" for the more direct approach and especially read the section about the adjtime before using it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Eterm background

2002-05-25 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Friday 24 May 2002 23:16, Tim Moss wrote: > I believe Eterm transparency only works with Enlightenment. You could > try gnome-terminal. I think that does transparency also. I don't really think so. A friend of mine has eterm running with transparency under WindowMaker. BTW, one more terminal

Elsa QuickStep 1000 w/kernel 2.4.18

2002-05-25 Thread Nicos Gollan
Hello all... Since I've upgraded my ISDN dialup box from a 2.2 kernel to a 2.4 kernel, I can't get the card to work without some not-so-pretty tricks. According to the documentation, the 2.4 kernels do ISA Plug'n'pray on their own without the isapnp tools. But if I try to load the hisax module,

RE: can't install php4-cgi-mysql woody

2002-05-25 Thread justin cunningham
What is the recommended way for obtaining php4-cgi-mysql; and getting apt to let me install it and *not* php4-cgi? Shall I pin the package at say, 900 and * testing at 500 or; purge php4-cgi (assuming apt will complain conflict) and grab the package with wget and dpkg -i to install; then, apt-get

Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?

2002-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 09:46:07AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > That sounds mostly like a bug in the .rpm packages to me. Avoiding this > > is exactly why all Debian packages are built with either real root or > > fakeroot; in fact, I think it's why fakeroot was written in the

Re: Problem with kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp_2.4.18-5_i386 from testing

2002-05-25 Thread Ken Causey
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 18:58, Petro wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:50:29AM -0500, Ken Causey wrote: > > > On 05/24 05:07 Ken Causey wrote: > > > > VFS: Cannot open root device "802" or 08:02 > > > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs o

Re: Safe, secure mail relay

2002-05-25 Thread Carlos A P Gomes
* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [25-05-2002 13:03]: > It's possible. What are you trying? > > I think there are 2 ways of doing this : > 1) ssh to the box and run a mua there. This is no different from > sitting at the machine's console. (this is what I do since I > use a curses

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 08:37, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 04:46:29AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: [snip] > To make an observation, Americans have this bizarre superiority complex. > Oregonians, and to a lesser degree, Idahoans, tend to look in from the It's not a "bizarre" superio

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-25 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> > If you want to spend less than US $30, then unless you find a real > > bargain somewhere, you're stuck with California sparkling wines, in > > which case Domain Chandon is a reasonable choice. > > We've sampled Gloria Ferrer Fridays at work, it's passable dry > bubbly. I should ask around for s

Re: Safe, secure mail relay

2002-05-25 Thread dman
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 12:30:12PM -0300, Carlos A P Gomes wrote: | * dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [25-05-2002 11:56]: | > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 07:46:16PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: | > | I can receive mail just fine but, since I certainly don't want to | > | host an open relay, I can't send mail

Re: Maildir use with Mutt

2002-05-25 Thread dman
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 09:29:32AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.05.24.2359 +0200]: | > They're usable, it's just an mbox folder instead of maildir. Mutt can | > read it just as well. | | no. it's single messages delivered to the directory MH style | i

Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?

2002-05-25 Thread Bob Proulx
> > > > alien does not respect rpm owner, group, mode on [rpm] files. > > > > So you might alien an rpm and find the files are all owned by > > > > 'bob' instead of 'root' because 'bob' created the rpm. > > > > Whereas if you had installed the file as an rpm the files > > > > would all be correctly

Re: Safe, secure mail relay

2002-05-25 Thread Carlos A P Gomes
* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [25-05-2002 11:56]: > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 07:46:16PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > | I can receive mail just fine but, since I certainly don't want to > | host an open relay, I can't send mail from my laptop. > > Solutions are : > o remote-login to the system

SV: newbie: Set and read time

2002-05-25 Thread Paul Fischer
Hi Peter, saw you've got lots of 'man date' here come more... /etc/timezone /// GMT on my box # date /// shows you date + time + timezone # export TZ=PST /// change timezone # tzconfig (y) /// To set the time zone # date --set 2001-10-24 /// setting date # date --set 21:45:0 /// setting time # ti

Re: Debian laptop (vendors)

2002-05-25 Thread Robert Rakowicz
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > to the S3 chipset, so I'm waiting for someone to package X 4.2. deb ftp://hauteuchdrum.informatik.uni-siegen.de/pub/local/xfree4.2 ./ Pozdrawiam/Gruß/Regards Robert Rakowicz -- Robert Rakowicz E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:www.rjap.de

tin: Always sort alphabetically

2002-05-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Is there a way to get tin to always sort newsgroups alphabetically unless you move a group by hand in the list? -- Baloo pgpSX4whRKLDr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Proble - XFree86 4.2 and ATI 3D Rage LT Pro

2002-05-25 Thread Russ Cook
Another respondent suggested I run XFree86 -configure to get a starting config file. I did, and it worked - although low res and distorted. I then restored my original guess at synch rates, and got my original symptons, which confirms your suggestion that my problem is related to sync rates. I h

Re: Proble - XFree86 4.2 and ATI 3D Rage LT Pro

2002-05-25 Thread Russ Cook
I did at your suggestion. And it worked - thanks. I now have a display, although low res and distorted. Another person suggested it was probably sync rates - so, my monitor is a Compaq Presario MV500. I've been to their web page and can find no specifics on horizontal and verticle refresh rates.

Re: video devices on firewire, anyone?

2002-05-25 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Fri, 24 May 2002 08:56:10 -0500 "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 24 May 2002 08:42:21 -0500 > "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Many thanks. What's the card's brand name and company, so > > I can go get one? > > I'll post the information when I get home this ev

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 04:46:29AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > Actually, the amazing thing is that it hasn't been a flamewar at all, > aside from a few mildly inflammatory remarks from Australians and > Canadians (two countries whose inhabitants are well-known for their > inferiority complexes).

Re: get XFree on one screen

2002-05-25 Thread Seneca
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:34:13PM -0400, Phil wrote: > I have Debian on an antique machine and have Xfree86 and gnome > running. However the only device I could get to run was the VGA16 and it > seems to recognize the 640x480 modeline configuration but repors thatit is > running in virtual 800

Re: OT: debian-beer and Scots Whisky

2002-05-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 07:05:16AM -0400, Thomas Good wrote: > function as a diuretic. Perhaps it was spawned from the same mentality > that produced such wonders as "naugahyde" and fake leather (leatherette?) > jackets. In fact I easily envision a bar full of vinyl clad patrons > sipping Bud li

Re: not sure if i've really upgraded to unstable/sid

2002-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 07:55:40AM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > When I did the dist-upgrade, I couldn't find a link to the unstable > distribution at debian.org to find out what to put in apt-get. So I > just changed all the testing lines to unstable. Yes, that's all you need. > this apparently

Re: can't install php4-cgi-mysql woody

2002-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 02:46:46PM -0700, justin cunningham wrote: > oba:~# apt-get install php4-cgi-mysql php4-cgi-mysql is not in testing - you're actually trying to install it from stable. http://bugs.debian.org/81669 was the bug report that requested that it be removed. According to php4-cgi'

Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla

2002-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 03:43:21PM -0400, Quenten Griffith wrote: > I know this doesn't really have much to do with Debain, but I thought I > would warn some people just in case. I went ahead and d/l the new > Netscape 7 RC1 and installed it in my home dir. I had heard there was > some problem wi

Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?

2002-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:46:37PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > One thing that my limited experience with alien has shown me, and perhaps > > > someone can correct me, is that alien does not respect rpm owner, group, > > > mode on files. So you might alie

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

2002-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 12:32:02AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, May 22, 2002, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > So it has been brought up before, over 2 years ago, and it's still > > wrong? > > The point was that the answer to your question ("Is this the first...") > is read

not sure if i've really upgraded to unstable/sid

2002-05-25 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hi. When I did the dist-upgrade, I couldn't find a link to the unstable distribution at debian.org to find out what to put in apt-get. So I just changed all the testing lines to unstable. this apparently worked, as it upgraded over 100 packages, with the exception of the python-extclass which won't

Re: libgtk1.2 & libgtkxmhtml1

2002-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:09:09AM +, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > After getting this message : > > express: Depends: libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.6-1) but it is not going to be installed >Depends: libgtkxmhtml1 (>= 1.0.54-1) but it is not going to be > installed > > I don't find

Re: newbie: Set and read time

2002-05-25 Thread ben
On Saturday 25 May 2002 05:14 am, Peter Holm wrote: > Hi how do i set the clock and read the same ? > > /ph man date ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbie: Set and read time

2002-05-25 Thread marshal
> "Peter" == Peter Holm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Hi how do i set the clock and read the same ? /ph 'man date' or 'date --help' good luck! Marshal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbie: Set and read time

2002-05-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 14:14:45 +0200, Peter Holm wrote: > Hi how do i set the clock and read the same ? Have a look at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/TimePrecision-HOWTO/index.html HTH, Ray -- I think the most important thing about Linux is that it gives people the ability to do what they w

newbie: Set and read time

2002-05-25 Thread Peter Holm
Hi how do i set the clock and read the same ? /ph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Galeon submits empty forms

2002-05-25 Thread James Hughes
Hi, I was having this problem. The solution I found was to delete ~/.galeon/mozilla/galeon/prefs.js. Don't ask me why, I have no idea. It just worked. James On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 05:15:10PM +0200, Matthias Papesch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running a woody system with galeon (and mozilla) pulled

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-25 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Karsten M. Self quotation: > I'm coming up with another reason to recommend Debian: what _other_ > distro has 100+ post flamewars on beer? Actually, the amazing thing is that it hasn't been a flamewar at all, aside from a few mildly inflammatory remarks from Australians and Canadians (tw

Re: OT: debian-beer and Scots Whisky

2002-05-25 Thread Thomas Good
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Paul Johnson wrote: > There's just not a lot you can do with an American standard or a lager > beer to make it better. Canadians just manage to do a little better > than Americans do at both, though. But then again, there's very little > that Canada doesn't do better than th

Re: mutt: equiv to Pine's "Forward as MIME digest?"

2002-05-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020523 20:54]: > In pine, you can tag a bunch of articles and group-forward them as a > mime-digest. Is this possible in mutt? If so, how? the function 'attach-message' (bound by default to 'A') is available from the Compose screen. It will prompt you for a fo

Re: OT: Paul "Baloo" Johnson, please email me

2002-05-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 09:56:02AM +0100, Peter Whysall wrote: > Let me know where I can otherwise contact you to send you the details. [EMAIL PROTECTED] will get it to me. If you read the bounce message, most likely your mail was sent or routed through a server known for spamming or an open rel

beach towel

2002-05-25 Thread linda
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Re: 1:1 mirror for an entire hd

2002-05-25 Thread Christian Jönsson
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 12:50:32AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, May 23, 2002, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 07:29:11PM -0700, Angus D Madden wrote: > > > Karsten M. Self, Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:09:32AM -0700: > > > > on Mon, May 20, 2002, R. Lockhart ([EM

Re: Suggestions for a USB Webcam

2002-05-25 Thread David Wright
I'm looking into getting a USB Webcam I have a Logitech QuickCam Pro ($85) which I use with gnomemeeting and with which I am quite happy. Getting the driver for it was easy... it comes with the Debian stock kernel. Getting usb to work and setting up /dev/video was more of a pain, but that w

OT: Paul "Baloo" Johnson, please email me

2002-05-25 Thread Peter Whysall
Paul, my ISP is blocking mail from your dyndns.org domain. Let me know where I can otherwise contact you to send you the details. Take care, Peter. -- Peter Whysall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The TLD in my email address is sdrawkcab. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 sid -- kernel 2.4.18 signature.asc Description:

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-25 Thread Peter Whysall
On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 09:49, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 01:40:07AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > Pity there's nobody on the list living in Napa serving the wine > > industry > > Or Oregon, for those of us who avoid sending money to California. > > > I'm coming up wit

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 01:40:07AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Pity there's nobody on the list living in Napa serving the wine > industry Or Oregon, for those of us who avoid sending money to California. > I'm coming up with another reason to recommend Debian: what _other_ > distro has

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 23, 2002, Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Glyn Millington wrote: > > > When woody emerges, what's the best champagne? > > By definition, one from Champagne, France -- anything else is not > champagne, only sparkling wine (not that that can't be good; I'm just > being picky

Re: ATI Radeon 7000

2002-05-25 Thread James Kahn
On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 02:28, user list wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:48:30PM +1200, James Kahn wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 14:02, user list wrote: > > > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:55:32AM +1200, James Kahn wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 08:52, Mike Frisch wrote: > > > > > On Thu, M

Re: Proble - XFree86 4.2 and ATI 3D Rage LT Pro

2002-05-25 Thread Peter Whysall
On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 02:35, Russ Cook wrote: > I have a Compaq Presario that I'm promoting from my kid's > windows machine to my Linux machine (he got a new, faster machine). > I tried installing the Debian X packages for version 4.1, but > could not get it to run. I'm using a 3D Rage LT Pro. >

Re: 1:1 mirror for an entire hd

2002-05-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 23, 2002, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 07:29:11PM -0700, Angus D Madden wrote: > > Karsten M. Self, Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:09:32AM -0700: > > > on Mon, May 20, 2002, R. Lockhart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I need to transfer all my data, os, partit

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

2002-05-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 22, 2002, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:16:57AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Tue, May 21, 2002, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: <...> > > > Is this the first time someone has brought this up? > > Puhleaze: > > There's a bunch of peopl

Re: Safe, secure mail relay

2002-05-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.05.25.0513 +0200]: > Solutions are : add: o TLS encryption and authentication. it's similar to SMTP-AUTH except that your system uses a certificate to identify itself, and it also encrypts the traffic. -- martin;

Re: Maildir use with Mutt

2002-05-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.05.24.2359 +0200]: > They're usable, it's just an mbox folder instead of maildir. Mutt can > read it just as well. no. it's single messages delivered to the directory MH style i believe. fact is, they are one-message-per-file and so you need my for loop,

Re: Where are teh Debian Gnome menus stored?

2002-05-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 21, 2002, stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In woody, where are the default Debian Gnome menus stored? man (5) menufile ...you'll find them in the usual places. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? GNU/

Re: modem problem

2002-05-25 Thread Paul Scott
curtis wrote: When I try to connect to my ISP using a modem I get the attached error message. It would seem that my user name or password is wrong. But I assure everyone that they are correct. Any other reasons this might be happening? The attached file is zero length. It should be just as

Debian is Google's lucky distro

2002-05-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Go to google.com, type in "linux distribution" and hit "I'm feeling lucky." You'll get Debian's page. -- Baloo pgp7lOBWcnBDR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: get XFree on one screen

2002-05-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-May-2002 Phil wrote: > I have Debian on an antique machine and have Xfree86 and gnome > running. However the only device I could get to run was the VGA16 and it > seems to recognize the 640x480 modeline configuration but repors thatit is > running in virtual 800x600 mode.In the mode the

upgrade to unstable: python-extclass

2002-05-25 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hi. I just upgraded to sid. Everything seemed to go fine except that python-extclass won't fully install or uninstall. I get an error code 1 from subprocess /usr/bin/dpkg. I tried removing, reinstalling, etc. When I tried with --fix-missing, I got a more verbose explanation: Setting up python-extc