ecc, error correcting code insertion

2002-06-11 Thread James Cameron
Is there a Debian package that contains code that will add error correcting codes to a data stream (e.g. a pipe) so that loss of a segment of the stream can be recovered from? (tried apt-cache search ecc, and a few other keywords) -- James Cameron ([EMAIL PROT

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11 Thread Peter Whysall
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 03:51, Oleg wrote: > On Tuesday 11 June 2002 10:12 pm, John Griffiths wrote: > > >My theory is that others experience the same (after all, it's just ones > > > and zeros, not weather forcasting), but everyone is afraid to speak up > > > for political reasons, since Mozilla is

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11 Thread Peter Whysall
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 03:51, Oleg wrote: > On Tuesday 11 June 2002 10:12 pm, John Griffiths wrote: > > >My theory is that others experience the same (after all, it's just ones > > > and zeros, not weather forcasting), but everyone is afraid to speak up > > > for political reasons, since Mozilla is

MOZILLA 0.9.9 vs NETSCAPE 4.77 (Re: Mozilla 1.0)

2002-06-11 Thread Oleg
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 10:58 pm, John Griffiths wrote: > lynx beats them all for straight text. try nested tables, javascript, > anigifs, and flash plugins on the same page. > > Thats when you find out what your browser's worth > > YMMV yourself, but my job takes me to these monstrosities all the

Re: please unsubscribe jcunningham@engine8.com

2002-06-11 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Oleg wrote: > Does lists.debian.org use procmail? If so, it must be easy to redirect all > messages with ^"Subject: unsubscribe" to /dev/null or elsewhere. To debian-user-request perhaps? Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 03:53 schrieb Richard Beri: > Interesting, you are right. If I kill the artsd sound server > mozilla clears itself up and that page will load without a > problem when I reload mozilla, if I disable the artsd (kde sound > server). So the dpkg -reconfigure doesn't help?

Re: question about Debian

2002-06-11 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > Now, I developed the habit of updating at least once a week, and admittedly > never even > wondered why, until I saw Sean's lines above... > Why is Debian a 'changing' distribution? Don't get me wrong: I got used to > it, it's > alright for me, but: why?

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11 Thread Richard Beri
Thanks, this seems to work! . > > You can try to dpkg-reconfigure mozilla-browser to stop Mozilla > from grabbing esd. > > Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: please unsubscribe jcunningham@engine8.com

2002-06-11 Thread Oleg
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 10:58 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 09:30:35AM -0700, justin cunningham wrote: > > Thanks. Trying that now. I don't know why debian doesn't use ezmlm. > > justin > > Most of *us* don't know why people can't be bothered to read the text at > the bottom of

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11 Thread John Griffiths
>(I repeated the whole experiment twice for each browser, starting them before >and shutting them down after the experiment) > >HW: K6-2 550 w/ 256 MB (Java disabled in Netscape. Don't know about Mozilla - >whichever way it comes on Woody) first problem, woody's version isn't close to the 1.0 re

Re: please unsubscribe jcunningham@engine8.com

2002-06-11 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 09:30:35AM -0700, justin cunningham wrote: > Thanks. Trying that now. I don't know why debian doesn't use ezmlm. > justin Most of *us* don't know why people can't be bothered to read the text at the bottom of every mail that comes from the list. You know, the "how to un

Re: Unidentified subject!

2002-06-11 Thread John
Kent West wrote: Antonio Mu?oz-Flores wrote: Hello everybody, I'm new to Debian and I just forgotten the root password so I can do many administrative task. Does anybody know how to recover the root password? Antony If you have sudo installed (you *do* have it installed, don't you?) and

Samba with WinXP

2002-06-11 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
Hello, I have problem with connecting to the samba server on my Debian box from a WinXP machine. I can connect to the samba server from all my other Linux box but I just can't connect to it from an XP machine. I can see the Debian Samba server listing in the XP's WorkGroup place. I got a me

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11 Thread Oleg
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 10:12 pm, John Griffiths wrote: > >My theory is that others experience the same (after all, it's just ones > > and zeros, not weather forcasting), but everyone is afraid to speak up > > for political reasons, since Mozilla is thought of as IE's competitor on > > Windows. > >

question about Debian

2002-06-11 Thread schnobs
Hi, at the risk of starting yet another uncontrollable thread... On 5 Jun 2002 at 8:37, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > Debian will never make it to perfect 6 month release cycles. To > use Debian you must acclimate to apt-get and the "we release > every day" credo. Although we call it "unstable"

Re: Unidentified subject!

2002-06-11 Thread Kent West
Antonio Mu?oz-Flores wrote: Hello everybody, I'm new to Debian and I just forgotten the root password so I can do many administrative task. Does anybody know how to recover the root password? Antony If you have sudo installed (you *do* have it installed, don't you?) and have your user con

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11 Thread John Griffiths
>My theory is that others experience the same (after all, it's just ones and >zeros, not weather forcasting), but everyone is afraid to speak up for >political reasons, since Mozilla is thought of as IE's competitor on Windows. > >End of troll. Dictated, but not read. YMMV IFF you are a lying SOB

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11 Thread Oleg
People keep claiming that they are improving Mozilla and that it's not Slow-zilla any more, but it has always been my experience, regardless of Mozilla's version or hardware, that it is at least 2 or 3 times slower than other browsers (Netscape 4.7 on Linux and IE on Windows) My theory is that

Re: routing problem

2002-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:11:57PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: | hi wizards! | | any clue on this one: | | gw2:~# route -n | Kernel IP routing table | Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface | xx.xxx.239.144 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.240 U 0 0

fonts in Star Office (RESOLVED) [kind of]

2002-06-11 Thread user list
I posted a problem on this list roghly 1.5 weeks ago about missing fonts in Star Office. To recap, I am running XF86 4.2.0 compiled from source on a testing box. Star office was missing many fonts. I was given some advice to add fonts using spadmin. I tried that with no results. I have now used t

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 09:05:02PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: | On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:39:40PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: | > Reminds me of vigor of user friendly fame | > | > "You just pressed the tab key. Are you sure you wish to | > continue?" | | You *do* know it's in Debian, righ

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11 Thread Richard Beri
Interesting, you are right. If I kill the artsd sound server mozilla clears itself up and that page will load without a problem when I reload mozilla, if I disable the artsd (kde sound server). So the dpkg -reconfigure doesn't help? On June 11, 2002 03:30 pm, gerhard wrote: > Hi Dave, Hi fol

Re: Changing the Severity of a Bug

2002-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:34:22PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: | On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 04:09:37PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: | > Is there a "preferred" way for an end-user to increase/decrease the | > severity of a particular bug? Or are these at discretion of the package | > maintainer? | U

Re: Handspring Visor (PalmOS, USB) sync'ing w/ Evolution?

2002-06-11 Thread jennyw
Wow. It sounds like there's a lot to learn between this post and the other two. I guess I'll start reading stuff ... Maybe I'll upgrade my kernel while I'm at it. Thanks! Jen On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 12:46:00AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "jennyw" == jennyw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writ

Re: Debian is not GNU [at least current GNU]

2002-06-11 Thread synthespian
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 07:01:47AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 11-Jun-2002 Dan Jacobson wrote: > > [Debian's default installation gives 2 year old emacs and 6 year old > > non-GNU awk, while sporting the "GNU/Linux" branding] > > > > Summary: Dan says the debian install process shoul

Re: Palm Pilot

2002-06-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
I use jpilot and have been very happy with it. I'm a little old-fashioned so my desktop is fvwm2, not gnome or kde, and jpilot is a nice, stand-alone, reliable interface to the palm. -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperri

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11 Thread John Griffiths
At 07:53 PM 6/11/02 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: >On 11/06/02 John Griffiths did speaketh: > >> on the subject of moz, does anyone know of any debs for 1.0 suitable for >> potato? > >You might want to just grab the binary tarball from the Mozilla website. > >Mike Thanks Mike, I used t

Re: Mondo Archive

2002-06-11 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I used Mondo 3 or 4 (or more) months back. Everything backed up fine. One dark and lousy day I lost a harddrive. Tried to restore with Mondo but to no avail. I ended up searching list files on the CD's for the files I needed, uncompressing them (not straightforward at all), and copying back t

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 11/06/02 John Griffiths did speaketh: > on the subject of moz, does anyone know of any debs for 1.0 suitable for > potato? You might want to just grab the binary tarball from the Mozilla website. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HA

Re: sylpheed and woody

2002-06-11 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:50:04 -0300 Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to give sylpheed a try in an Athlon machine which runs > woody. I would like to hear about the experience of other users of > this list. Actually I've installed sylpheed but since the installation > I a

Re: Unidentified subject!

2002-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 05:26:47PM -0600, Antonio Mu?oz-Flores wrote: > I'm new to Debian and I just forgotten the root password so I can do > many administrative task. Does anybody know how to recover the root > password? You can't easily recover the existing password, but, if you have physical a

Re: Palm Pilot

2002-06-11 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 15:02, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > I'm running woody and have just been handed a Palm Pilot at work. I'm not > really sure I want the thing, but thought I would check it out. I was > going to install a syncing application with my woody desktop, but found > there were several pal

Unidentified subject!

2002-06-11 Thread Antonio Mu?oz-Flores
Hello everybody, I'm new to Debian and I just forgotten the root password so I can do many administrative task. Does anybody know how to recover the root password? Antony   -- Obtén tu correo gratuito en más de 100 direcciones distintas y con 25 megas de espacio en http://www.m3xico.com Power

Re: Palm Pilot

2002-06-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Stephen A. Witt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running woody and have just been handed a Palm Pilot at work. I'm not > really sure I want the thing, but thought I would check it out. I was > going to install a syncing application with my woody desktop, but found > there were several palm pilot

Re: Time(zone) problems

2002-06-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Mike Mimic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Do you have any environment variables set that > > relate to the timezone? > > No. I haven't any. > > > Also, make sure the file /etc/timezone contains the > > correct setting for your system > > Yes, it have. And I have tryed some different cities >

Re: how to kill obsolete pts/n processes was 'how to kill old screen sessions'

2002-06-11 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
justin cunningham wrote: > Hi, I need to reclaim some of my pts/... that aren't showing up using > ps -lots-of-different-options but are showing up with who. How do I do > this? How about, # killall `ps ax | grep pts | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1};'` Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfel

Re: Palm Pilot

2002-06-11 Thread Grant Edwards
In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: > I'm running woody and have just been handed a Palm Pilot at work. I'm not > really sure I want the thing, but thought I would check it out. I was > going to install a syncing application with my woody desktop, but found > there were several palm pilot apps in

Re: apt-get problem

2002-06-11 Thread Paul Scott
Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 04:37:11PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: I am setting up a new box and I had woody and KDE installed from a CD I got several months ago. I was installing some more stuff and somehow ended up with the error output below. A step that occurred before this

how to kill obsolete pts/n processes was 'how to kill old screen sessions'

2002-06-11 Thread justin cunningham
Hi, I need to reclaim some of my pts/... that aren't showing up using ps -lots-of-different-options but are showing up with who. How do I do this? Thanks, Justin ps: please reply to my email since I'm currently not subscribed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Time(zone) problems

2002-06-11 Thread Mike Mimic
Hi! > Do you have any environment variables set that > relate to the timezone? No. I haven't any. > Also, make sure the file /etc/timezone contains the > correct setting for your system Yes, it have. And I have tryed some different cities (in the same timzone) and it's the same. > and make sur

Re: Changing the Severity of a Bug

2002-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 04:09:37PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > Is there a "preferred" way for an end-user to increase/decrease the > severity of a particular bug? Or are these at discretion of the package > maintainer? It is technically possible for anyone to change a bug's severity as docum

Palm Pilot

2002-06-11 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I'm running woody and have just been handed a Palm Pilot at work. I'm not really sure I want the thing, but thought I would check it out. I was going to install a syncing application with my woody desktop, but found there were several palm pilot apps in the distribution. Is a question like 'which i

Re: sudden problems with masqueraded connections over a t-dsl line

2002-06-11 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 22:07, Peter Lieven wrote: > since friday my isp german telekom changed some configuration in > their routers. > everytime when i connect to remote host through my firewall who is > masquerading > internal connections the connection to the remote host freezes after > a certa

RE: howto kill old screen sessions?

2002-06-11 Thread justin cunningham
Screen -list reports there are no sockets found though I can see old sessions with 'who' me, my ip:S.0 <-screen attached. ls -l /var/run/screen/S-me returns 0 files so I don't know. thanks, justin -Original Message- From: Jonathan Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, J

syslogd-listfiles

2002-06-11 Thread Mike Mueller
I see syslogd-listfiles and savelog at heart of /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd. Are these methods unique to Debian? I use RH6.1 and Mandrake 8.1 and they do not have syslogd-listfiles or savelog commands. On my RH6.1 systems (slated for migration to Debian) the logrotate facility is used to in the

Changing the Severity of a Bug

2002-06-11 Thread Jamin W . Collins
Is there a "preferred" way for an end-user to increase/decrease the severity of a particular bug? Or are these at discretion of the package maintainer? -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: howto kill old screen sessions?

2002-06-11 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 02:04:07PM -0700, justin cunningham wrote: > Hello, who shows some old screen sessions but ps aux doesn't show the > associated pts/x so I can't simply kill them. Screendump will show the > output but depends on the session name for further use. I know I can > reboot but t

routing problem

2002-06-11 Thread martin f krafft
hi wizards! any clue on this one: gw2:~# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface xx.xxx.239.144 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.240 U 0 00 eth0 xx.xxx.239.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00

Re: sudden problems with masqueraded connections over a t-dsl line

2002-06-11 Thread Waldemar Gorus
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 22:07:59 +0200 "Peter Lieven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > since friday my isp german telekom changed some configuration in their > routers. My english is bad, I'm sorry. I hope you can understand it. My network showed the same behaviour some weeks ago. The problem is your mtu

howto kill old screen sessions?

2002-06-11 Thread justin cunningham
Hello, who shows some old screen sessions but ps aux doesn't show the associated pts/x so I can't simply kill them. Screendump will show the output but depends on the session name for further use. I know I can reboot but there must be a better way. Please reply to the email address since I'm not

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Helgi Örn
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 20:33, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Different parts of the world have slightly different conventions for > representing for various types of data. As an example, take the date > 04/01/2002. To a brit, this is January 4th, 2002. To an american, it > is April 1st, 2002. For me

Re: sudden problems with masqueraded connections over a t-dsl line

2002-06-11 Thread martin f krafft
> > since friday my isp german telekom changed some configuration in their > > routers. > > > > everytime when i connect to remote host through my firewall who is > > masquerading internal connections the connection to the remote host > > freezes after a certain number of bytes has been transferred

Re: sudden problems with masqueraded connections over a t-dsl line

2002-06-11 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
You got to fix those linebreaks; they were so bad I *had* to reformat things... And the odd uppercase letter wouldn't hurt either... Disclaimer: I'm not familiar with ADSL; I'm on dialup. On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:07:59PM +0200, Peter Lieven wrote: > since friday my isp german telekom changed so

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.11 16:05 Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:39:40PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Reminds me of vigor of user friendly fame > >"You just pressed the tab key. Are you sure you wish to > continue?" You *do* know it's in Debian, right? :) Oh no! Say it's not so. I j

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Helgi Örn
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 20:16, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > the locale "C" is meant to be the default, it always works, safe locale. The > name "C" comes from the programming language C. Basically the default locale > should allow you to code a C app without causing issues when given to someone > e

Re: OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....

2002-06-11 Thread Grant Edwards
> The issue, IIRC, has to do with the minimum size of an Ethernet frame, > the speed at which the frame propagates down the physical wire, and the > need for all devices to be properly able to sense a collision. [...] Exactly. A switch divides the collision domain. The max edge-to-edge latency w

sudden problems with masqueraded connections over a t-dsl line

2002-06-11 Thread Peter Lieven
since friday my isp german telekom changed some configuration in their routers. everytime when i connect to remote host through my firewall who is masquerading internal connections the connection to the remote host freezes after a certain number of bytes has been transferred. i changed not

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:39:40PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Reminds me of vigor of user friendly fame > > "You just pressed the tab key. Are you sure you wish to > continue?" You *do* know it's in Debian, right? :) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....

2002-06-11 Thread Rich Puhek
Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > I'm not saying that this is an ideal solution, but could > > you install a cheap 4-port switch (not hub!) every 100 > > meters? > > > > Anyone care to tell me if or why this is a bad idea? > > A device is a device, right ?? Whether it's a network card, > hub, or switch

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.11 15:54 Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 06:25:57AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote: | > Do I have to re-boot for a change to take effect? Your mouse has moved. You must restart Windows for your

Re: Debian is not GNU [at least current GNU]

2002-06-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-06-11T19:39:15Z, "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well put, Kirk. There is no problem (other than length of a release > cycle, but this isn't the place to fix that). Thanks. I suspect the OP was a troll, but I just couldn't resist. :) -- Kirk Strauser The Strause

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 06:25:57AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote: | > Do I have to re-boot for a change to take effect? Your mouse has moved. You must restart Windows for your changes to take effect. | en_US ISO-8859-1 | en_

Re: OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....

2002-06-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-06-11T18:41:56Z, Rich Puhek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You are correct about switches regenerating the signal, but why not just > connect the two networks with fiber. See also: his mention of living in a technologically depressed area. Switches *may* be easier to come by than fiber, e

Re: OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....

2002-06-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
No, I don't think you're right. Hubs are effectively passive, so they don't "count" as a termination point (IIRC). Switches -- or, for that matter, repeaters -- do, since they are active devices. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://w

Re: ps broke!?

2002-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 01:05:46PM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote: | Hello, | suddenly -- after a kernel upgrade, it's 2.4.18 with atyfb now -- ps | stopped working. This is the output: | | Signal 7 caught by ps (procps version 2.0.7). SIGBUS ... that's bad. Run memtest86 and see if you have any ba

Re: sylpheed and woody

2002-06-11 Thread Pollywog
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 21:13:21 +0200 "Waldemar Gorus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using sylpheed since some month, and I like it. Can't remeber a real > problem. And dont worry about the among of mails, you have in your > mailbox. > I am using Sylpheed-claws, and even that is very st

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11 Thread gerhard
Hi Dave, Hi folks, Am Dienstag, 11. Juni 2002 06:09 schrieb Dave Thayer: > This page has a flash plugin in it. There are several mentions of > problems with flash problems in the moz release notes. In > particular, the flash plugin doesn't seem to share the audio > device nicely. You're right, M

Re: Debian is not GNU [at least current GNU]

2002-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 09:04:50AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: | At 2002-06-11T12:24:09Z, Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > I'm talking about the most basic of user. All these names are foreign. | > He has just inserted the 8 woody CD's given to him by a friend and is | > following ins

Re: ps broke!?

2002-06-11 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 01:05:46PM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote: > suddenly -- after a kernel upgrade, it's 2.4.18 with atyfb now -- ps > stopped working. This is the output: > > Signal 7 caught by ps (procps version 2.0.7). > Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > But top still works.

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.11 15:09 Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 02:33:27PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Different parts of the world have slightly different conventions for > representing for various types of data. As an example, take the date > 04/01/2002. To a brit, this is January 4th, 20

Re: GCC 3.1 depends and BinUtils - safe to updrade?

2002-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 07:45:20PM +0200, Balazs Javor wrote: | Hi, | | I'm currently tracking testing with the /etc/apt/preferences set to: | testing - 800 | unstable - 700 | stable - 600 | | Recently after doing an update in dselect/apt-get it automatically | selected GCC 3.1 and several relate

Re: Lite-ON LTR-32123S cdrw - any successes?

2002-06-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Hi - just wondering if anyone has had any luck using > a Lite-ON LTR-32123S CD rewriter. > > (snip) If it's an ATAPI-compliant (or is it MMC-compliant) drive, there's very little reason that it won't work. According to this page, http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq05.html#S5-1-43, that drive works with t

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:09:11PM -0400, Oleg wrote: > Please keep debian-user@lists.debian.org in "Cc" or "To" headers, so we can > sort mail efficiently. Sorting mail on either of those is unreliable anyway. Using the X-Mailing-List: header works better for Debian lists. -- Colin Watson

Re: sylpheed and woody

2002-06-11 Thread Waldemar Gorus
Hi, I'm using sylpheed since some month, and I like it. Can't remeber a real problem. And dont worry about the among of mails, you have in your mailbox. Sylpheed works great and stable on my Athlon machine using the woody distribution. I just have about 12003 mails in my debian-user-group Folder

Re: gpg-idea missing in potato

2002-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 08:50:20PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > Hi, > > apparently gpg-idea was removed from the archives at some point (stable). > Can someone confirm/explain this ? http://non-us.debian.org/~troup/removals.txt explains all. (The equivalent for the US archive is http://ftp-mast

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 02:33:27PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Different parts of the world have slightly different conventions for > representing for various types of data. As an example, take the date > 04/01/2002. To a brit, this is January 4th, 2002. *ahem* To a Brit, this is "4th Janua

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11 Thread Oleg
Please keep debian-user@lists.debian.org in "Cc" or "To" headers, so we can sort mail efficiently. Oleg On Tuesday 11 June 2002 02:16 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Lite-ON LTR-32123S cdrw - any successes?

2002-06-11 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Hi - just wondering if anyone has had any luck using a Lite-ON LTR-32123S CD rewriter. I've only found one reference to it in a linux context, and that was on linux-kernel - where no-one replied to a mail asking about how to deal with some errors when booting/using it. Sorry - not online as I wr

gpg-idea missing in potato

2002-06-11 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hi, apparently gpg-idea was removed from the archives at some point (stable). Can someone confirm/explain this ? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....

2002-06-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I'm not saying that this is an ideal solution, but could > you install a cheap 4-port switch (not hub!) every 100 > meters? > > Anyone care to tell me if or why this is a bad idea? A device is a device, right ?? Whether it's a network card, hub, or switch, keep the distance between them under 10

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 02:16:48PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i'm not positive how to reproduce it, but i did figure out that > mozilla was blocking while trying to talk to esd. killing esd freed > it up and let it run. i've had trouble with esd blocking things up > before, especially gqmp

Re: XFree 4.2 issues with locale

2002-06-11 Thread Shaya Potter
dont use my xlibs see what I wrote months ago http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2002/debian-x-200204/msg00054.html On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 18:28, Jeff Johnson wrote: > So... Being one of those who has an unsupported video card in wody I > somewhat boldly installed the unofficial debs from: > > deb

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.11 14:16 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote: > On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 19:42, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> > Wouldn't "C" be a more appropriate default locale for non-US users? >> > >> >> sure, but you are assuming competency in coders (-: C should work by >> de

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.11 14:00 Helgi Örn wrote: On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 19:42, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > Wouldn't "C" be a more appropriate default locale for non-US users? > > > > sure, but you are assuming competency in coders (-: C should work by default > without editing or enabling anything . Could

Re: X 4.2 problem

2002-06-11 Thread Shaya Potter
Don't use my xlibs If you would have researched the email where I actually posted about this, you would have seen that I said this exact same thing. shaya On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 06:23, José Manuel Pérez wrote: > Hi all. > I've recently installed unofficial Debian X 4.2 packages and now i can't

Re: apt-get problem

2002-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 04:37:11PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > I am setting up a new box and I had woody and KDE installed from a CD I > got several months ago. I was installing some more stuff and somehow > ended up with the error output below. A step that occurred before this > was to start a

Re: OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....

2002-06-11 Thread Rich Puhek
Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2002-06-11T18:14:24Z, faisal gillani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > well sorry fro this but i couldent find any other place to ask this > > question & i need the salution very badly this will gratly benift me well > > i have 2 ethernet networks running which i want

Re: please unsubscribe jcunningham@engine8.com

2002-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 09:30:35AM -0700, justin cunningham wrote: > Thanks. Trying that now. I don't know why debian doesn't use ezmlm. Probably mostly because moving away from qmail and its kin is on the to-do list, not adding more non-free software to our dependencies ... after all, it would

Re: OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....

2002-06-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-06-11T18:14:24Z, faisal gillani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > well sorry fro this but i couldent find any other place to ask this > question & i need the salution very badly this will gratly benift me well > i have 2 ethernet networks running which i want to connect but the > distance bet

RE: Woody NVIDIA X Setup

2002-06-11 Thread Bedford, Donald T.
When I upgraded/build a new kernel, I had a problem w/ the nvidia driver and ended up changing back to 'Driver "nv"' (see step 6). Not optimal but it works... -don -Original Message- From: Rusty Minden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 8:19 PM To: DEBIAN-USERS Sub

Re: Mozilla 1.0

2002-06-11 Thread glynis
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:36:40AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 21:57, Richard Beri wrote: > > Am I the only person getting Mozilla 1.0 to crash all the time in Sid? > > So many different pages it just locks up. I was having this problem > > with RC1-3 and thought that 1.

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote: > On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 19:42, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> > Wouldn't "C" be a more appropriate default locale for non-US users? >> > >> >> sure, but you are assuming competency in coders (-: C should work by >> default >> without editing or enabling anything .

OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....

2002-06-11 Thread faisal gillani
well sorry fro this but i couldent find any other place to ask this question & i need the salution very badly this will gratly benift me well i have 2 ethernet networks running which i want to connect but the distance between them is above 400 meters .. so this is way beyond the normal lan hardwar

Re: Debian is not GNU [at least current GNU]

2002-06-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Jun-2002 James Troup wrote: > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> as I said, two years ago I found that random awk scripts worked >> better with mawk than gawk, this has likely changed. > > Err, actually you claimed that this (i.e. 'random awk scripts > work[ing] better'

Debian and Webcam

2002-06-11 Thread Michael C Alonzo
Hi!! im planning to buy a webcam, which one is th "best" for linux? and what software should i use to set it up? is there something like a netmeeting for linux? i heard of gnomemeeting, is it as good as netmeeting and compatible with other netmeeting clients? TIA. -- Jan Michael C Alonzo

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.11 13:42 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > Wouldn't "C" be a more appropriate default locale for non-US users? > sure, but you are assuming competency in coders (-: Gah! Hate it when I do that!! ;) Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Helgi Örn
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 19:42, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > Wouldn't "C" be a more appropriate default locale for non-US users? > > > > sure, but you are assuming competency in coders (-: C should work by default > without editing or enabling anything . Could you guys explain for a non-programme

Re: Debian is not GNU [at least current GNU]

2002-06-11 Thread James Troup
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > as I said, two years ago I found that random awk scripts worked > better with mawk than gawk, this has likely changed. Err, actually you claimed that this (i.e. 'random awk scripts work[ing] better') is why mawk is the default, but that's comple

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> Wouldn't "C" be a more appropriate default locale for non-US users? > sure, but you are assuming competency in coders (-: C should work by default without editing or enabling anything . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: Debian is not GNU [at least current GNU]

2002-06-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Jun-2002 James Troup wrote: > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> As to the specific awk issue, when we made the choice mawk worked better on >> more scripts than gawk did. This may have changed in the last 2 years or so >> but was still valid when potato came out. > >

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