Re: locales and accented charaters

hey nori, On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 02:00:36AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > thanks ... it's already commented out, though. > > any further ideas? > > maybe it's a dumb question, but do you have $LANG set appropriately for your shell? --sean msg09198/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signatur

Re: Newbie Questions

On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 02:19, Hugh Saunders wrote: > 26/10/2002 07:11:14, "C. Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I found the a few site on setting up te true-type windows fonts, but this > >covers only .ttf. Is it any different to do .fon fonts? > i thought .fon werent true type? could be wrong

Re: Newbie Questions

26/10/2002 07:11:14, "C. Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found the a few site on setting up te true-type windows fonts, but this >covers only .ttf. Is it any different to do .fon fonts? i thought .fon werent true type? could be wrong, -- hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Newbie Questions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I found the a few site on setting up te true-type windows fonts, but this covers only .ttf. Is it any different to do .fon fonts? Anti-aliasing fonts and icons (through KDE), do I need it? What is the purpose? And if it's a good thing,where to fin

pgp not verifying sigs

since upgrading to woody last night, pgp in mutt doesn't want to verify signatures. i get this with every signed email i get -- even from my own key, or people whose keys i've signed: [-- PGP output follows (current time: Fri Oct 25 16:27:47 2002) --] gpg: Signature made Fri Oct 25 16:26:47 2002

Re: locales and accented charaters

on Sat, 26 Oct 2002 01:01:56AM +0200, Oliver Fuchs insinuated: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > i upgraded to woody last night, and my locales appear to be completely > > borked. messages in mutt with accented characters in them show up > > in ascii codes like this: > > > > D

Re: "shutting off" broken keys in X

sean finney wrote: > ... > so, what i'm wondering is: is there any way > to completely turn off/No-op the key in question, so that X just won't > pay any attention to it at all? > > any help would be greatly appreciated I'd try spraying inside the keyboard with engine degreaser using a tube att

Apache and Port 192

Just a beginner and everything working fine until I found that Apache wasn't starting properly and the error in the message file was:- [crit] (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 192 Cannot find any reference to Port 192 in anything, httpd.conf, services et al. Anybody h

Re: How to pronounce "Debian"?

On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 08:32:07AM +0330, Arash Bijanzadeh wrote: > Could anybody make an official audio file for Debian pronounciation and maybe > put it in the Debian.org for those who are interesting in pronounciation? I'll do it, but I will need to know where to send it. -- Baloo msg0919

"shutting off" broken keys in X

hey all, so this is a rather odd situation. a little background: about 8 months ago, some unknown party spilled some kind of liquid on my laptop keyboard. the liquid didn't make it any deeper than the contact sheet that is under the keys, so all the guts of the system were ok. however, the sys

Re: how do I change the startup settings so that the GUI desktop does not automatically start

EasyStreet said: > That solved the problem. However I read the > manpage and I am unsure how to restore them. Now > I am more interested in learning how to start > them separitely and to configure them. Right now > they don't work (hence the blinking screen), I > would like to look at the config

Re: How to pronounce "Debian"?

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Re: how do I change the startup settings so that the GUI desktop does not automatically start

EasyStreet said: > The last text printed before the login is: > -- > Starting Gnome Display Manager. gdm. > Not Starting the K Desktop Manager (kdm); it is > not the default display manager. > Not starting the X Display Manager (xdm); it is > not the default dis

how do I change the startup settings so that the GUI desktop does not automatically start

Hello, I have been performing an installation on a Dell xpi latitude, Pentium 133. I have a problem with the GUI. I believe there is something wrong with the X window manager. Before installing the base installation files I was able to login using the terminal. Now, after completing the base i

oggenc doesn't run in testing

When I try to run the Vorbis encoder, I get the following error: oggenc: error while loading shared libraries: libvorbisenc.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory In /usr/lib, I do have a libvorbisenc.so.2, which is from the libvorbisenc2 package. The oggenc program is fr

Re: cron run as someone and mailto another

Patrick Hsieh said: > Hello list, > > I'd like to put some cron in /etc/cron.d/ and have them run as "www-data" > but send the cron log mail to another user. Is it possible? Seems the > cron syntax does not support this. Any work-around? i've never really played with the email stuff on cron what

Re: Easy way to compile loop.o?

On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 05:29:23AM +0200, Q. Gong wrote: > Is it possible to only compile and add a module loop.o without recompiling > the whole kernel? Thanks in advance. Yes it is. The way that I've done it is (with appropriate permissions): 0) cd /usr/src/$KERNEL_SOURCE 1) make clean 2)

Easy way to compile loop.o?

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cron run as someone and mailto another

Hello list, I'd like to put some cron in /etc/cron.d/ and have them run as "www-data" but send the cron log mail to another user. Is it possible? Seems the cron syntax does not support this. Any work-around? -- Patrick Hsieh<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Pubilc Key at http://www.ezplay.tv/~pahud/pah

Re: programs to run at X startup

This one time, at band camp, Lance Hoffmeyer said: > I don't think using ~/.Xsession will work with kdm. I put the items > in ~/.Xsession and things worked fine with startx. Nothing happens > when I start kdm. There is a /etc/kde2/kdm/Xsession file and I put a > line in it to see if the program

Re: I broke apt and dpkg - need help

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:20:31PM -0400, Robert wrote: > On Friday 25 October 01:06, nate wrote: > > Robert said: > > > Help. I just did a major patition reshuffle and I've wiped out > > > /var/lib/apt and also /var/cache/apt -- and now dpkg and apt are > > > broken, Can't reinstall them either

Re: Xine

From: lameth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Xine Date: 25 Oct 2002 20:03:55 -0400 Has anyone managed to get Xine 0.9.8 to play dvd's in Woody? I mount the cd and start xine, when I click the play button and I get the following error; There is no available input plug

Re: printer troubles

This one time, at band camp, Donn Shaffer said: > After a new Woody install on my Dell Latitude I can't get my HP6L > Laserjet printer to work with some apps. I am trying to use CUPS. I have > installed > cupsys > cupsysclient > cupsomatic-ppd > cupsys-driver-gimpprint > kdelibs3-cups > > I went

Re: printer ejects a blank page after job

This one time, at band camp, Nicos Gollan said: > On Friday 25 October 2002 12:29, Adam Galant wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I have a problem with a printer. It's connected to a samba box which > > shares the printer with a win9x network. And after _each_ job the > > printer ejects a blank page, Config

Re: using lilo to boot from floppy image?

This one time, at band camp, martin f krafft said: > also sprach Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.24.2359 +0200]: > > Can you scp the file onto the box, and then point lilo or grub to the > > file? That's the only obvious thing I can think of, if you don't want > > to throw in a floppy dr

Re: mail in linux

This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > i am new to linux. > > i have been using mail 'windows' way. use some program like popcheck > to download headers from various pop3 accounts. delete headers i dont > want to download off the server. finally, use mozilla to download the > remai

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 23:41:49 +1000, Russell wrote: > > After doing echo -ne "\e[?1h", does Home still give ^[[H ? > > No, ^[OH as expected. > > > For a bash-specific fix, you could try: set enable-keypad on. > > Maybe zsh has a similar setting. > > No, I think I

Re: programs to run at X startup

I don't think using ~/.Xsession will work with kdm. I put the items in ~/.Xsession and things worked fine with startx. Nothing happens when I start kdm. There is a /etc/kde2/kdm/Xsession file and I put a line in it to see if the program would start. Still no luck. Any ideas? Lance > > On

RE: OT: Reasons why few takers on MS "Open Source"

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry said on 25 October 2002 4:39 AM >The executive summary goes like this: > >Programmer A sees the code to MS foo. A year later while working on a project >(open or not) he ends up implementing something resembling foo. MS now >claims copyright/trademark on the code. > >This s

postfix 101

I would like to be able to set up some accounts that are accessable by POP only, yet have a HOME directory so that they can have a procmail/bogofilter configuration for each. But I guess I need to have something like: User, shell=/bin/false, password - disabled. (I'll manage what they need to o

Re: kernel: Warning only 896MB will be used.

On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 02:44:23AM +0200, Emil H?gerlund wrote: > Hi, > > I run testing (2.4.18-k7) on a box with 1024 mb ram. > But while booting into Debian I get only 896 mb. How do I fix this? > > The "xconsole" prints out some stuff like: > .. > Oct 25 17:54:24 w1 kernel: Warning only 896MB

Re: Network card drivers on floppy disk

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 04:32:54PM -0700, EasyStreet wrote: > I am running Debian 3 on a laptop PC. A Dell > Latitude XPi, Pentium 133. > > This laptop does not have a network card. > > I have this device on a PCMCIA card. What happens when you put it into its slot? (I quickly googled for infor

kernel: Warning only 896MB will be used.

Hi, I run testing (2.4.18-k7) on a box with 1024 mb ram. But while booting into Debian I get only 896 mb. How do I fix this? The "xconsole" prints out some stuff like: ... Oct 25 17:54:24 w1 kernel: Warning only 896MB will be used. Oct 25 17:54:24 w1 kernel: Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel. ... Wha

Re: PCMCIA CD-ROM drive

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 04:25:22PM -0700, EasyStreet wrote: > I am running Debian 3 on a laptop PC. A Dell > Latitude XPi, Pentium 133. > > This laptop does not have a network card or a CD > drive. > > I have both of these devices on PCMCIA cards. > > I think the CD-ROM drive works, but I can't

Re: NFS/Apache Permissions

Paul M Foster said: > > Mounting goes fine, and I can see the directories from rocky. I want to > copy files from /var/www/mywebsite on rocky to /var/www/mywebsite on > rocky to /var/www/mywebsite on spaceghost. However, when I try to do > this, I cannot, and I get a permissions problem. what I

Re: ftp 500 Illegal PORT command

"Dennis" == Dennis Krinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dennis> I used to use ftp upload.attbi.com to update my web page, Dennis> and it worked fine. I can use this method from RedHat7.3 Dennis> on my desktop but not from debain testing on my laptop. Dennis> (They both sit behin

Re: Xine

lameth said: > Has anyone managed to get Xine 0.9.8 to play dvd's in Woody? I mount the > cd and start xine, when I click the play button and I get the following > error; > There is no available input plugin available to handle 'xine-ui version > 0.9.8'. > I've tried using ogle to and neither seems

Re: ssh broadcasts package name???

"imasu" == imasu writes: imasu> Isn't this a potential security issue? A co-worker imasu> recently portscanned my Debian box with the "windows imasu> network scanner," or something like that. One thing I imasu> noticed was that the scanner appeared to somehow come up im

NFS/Apache Permissions

Two machines running Debian 3.0. spaceghost is a file/webserver on the local network (behind a firewall). Permissions/ownership on some directories: drwxrwxr-x /var/www root web drwxrwxr-x /var/www/mywebsite root web User on this machine is paulf, which belongs to group web. rocky is a desktop

Xine

Has anyone managed to get Xine 0.9.8 to play dvd's in Woody? I mount the cd and start xine, when I click the play button and I get the following error; There is no available input plugin available to handle 'xine-ui version 0.9.8'. I've tried using ogle to and neither seems to work. And yes, I

Re: Xnest and fonts

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 07:10:35AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:25:05AM +0100, Rupert wrote.. > > > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:49:07 -0400 > > Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > But in trying Xnest, I ran into a problem ... as per the man, I tried >

Re: ssh broadcasts package name???

DvB said: > You're probably right about it being security through obscurity. I was > thinking in terms of someone looking for "exploitable" machines but, on > second thought, I suppose that instead of probing each computer for > vulnerability, one could just go ahead and test the exploit... in mos

antispam - postfix+cyrus+spamassassin+sanitizer

greetings that recent thread about 'best anti spam thing' got me thinkin again about trying spamassassin. I've been wanting to try it for a while but haven't gotten around to it. So today i dove in! I followed the directions loosly here: http://advosys.ca/papers/postfix-filtering.html I am not

How to change screen-blanking time

Hi: Recently my machine (pentium, linux kernel 2.4.18, sarge), used used to blank after 5 min, suddenly stopped blanking. I looked around and found that I could set it with setterm -blank time. This presumable would have to be done everytime one booted. In any case, I found that when I r

Re: Newbie & Debian 3.0 & GeForce4 MX 440

"catore" == catore writes: catore> When trying to run X i get the "no screens found" catore> error. No matter which driver (svga, nv) i choose during catore> the installation process the Xserver fails. Hmmm...this is usually because your "ServerLayout" section has a Screen name

Re: ssh broadcasts package name???

"Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 05:19:18PM -0500, DvB wrote: > > Isn't this a potential security issue? > > > As for the "how" bit, try: > $ telnet localhost ssh > > and your sshd should respond with its banner. That's probably what the > scanner pi

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Network card drivers on floppy disk

Hello, I am new to linux and debian, I hope my questions aren't tooo obtooose. I am working on installation problems. I am running Debian 3 on a laptop PC. A Dell Latitude XPi, Pentium 133. This laptop does not have a network card. I have this device on a PCMCIA card. I have downloaded the d

Re: which anti-spam tool? - dynamic ip

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:42:16PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > but that(dns) is all you want from them or other similar services.. > mail, ftp, ssh is all local to your own server Right. > including dns files ?? No, they do the DNS. -- Baloo msg09150/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP s

Re: ssh broadcasts package name???

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 05:19:18PM -0500, DvB wrote: > Isn't this a potential security issue? > > A co-worker recently portscanned my Debian box with the "windows network > scanner," or something like that. One thing I noticed was that the > scanner appeared to somehow come up with the full debian

PCMCIA CD-ROM drive

Hello, I am new to linux and debian, I hope my questions aren't tooo obtooose. I am working on installation problems. I am running Debian 3 on a laptop PC. A Dell Latitude XPi, Pentium 133. This laptop does not have a network card or a CD drive. I have both of these devices on PCMCIA cards.

Re: programs to run at X startup

On Fri Oct 25, 2002 at 06:15:52PM -0500, the boisterous Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote to me: > Does it matter if I am running a startup manager like > KDM? I'm not aware of this, but maybe man Xsession will give you some hints. Oh, and yes, I forgot to reply to debian-user, so here is

Re: ftp 500 Illegal PORT command

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Re: locales and accented charaters

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i upgraded to woody last night, and my locales appear to be completely > borked. messages in mutt with accented characters in them show up > in ascii codes like this: > > Die Aufnahmepr\374fung dient uns und Ihnen: Zur Kl\344rung Ihrer > Kenntniss

Running giFT from boot scripts

Hi, What is the recommended debian way of running the giFT daemon automatically on each boot? I know that I should create a shell script in /etc/init.d/ and use update-rc.d to add the symlinks, but ... - Where do the config files go? It seems to insist on the home directory of the user starti

ftp 500 Illegal PORT command

I used to use ftp upload.attbi.com to update my web page, and it worked fine. I can use this method from RedHat7.3 on my desktop but not from debain testing on my laptop. (They both sit behind the same firewall.) When I login and type ls or any other command, I get: ftp> ls 500 Illegal PORT co

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ALSA & ESD

Hi,   I compiled Alsa Driver on a laptop with Intel 82801CAM sound card. It works perfectly. But ESD don't want to start... So, I've no multiplexed sound... I install libalsa-esd package but it don't work... My system is a debian unstable with 2.4.19 kernel.   If someone can help me ! thanks.

Re: HD size limit ?

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:09:26AM -0700, nate wrote: >Kevin Coyner said: >> >> Is there a limit to the size of a IDE hard drive that Debian/Linux can >> accomodate? >> >> I.e. there are some pretty good deals now on 120GB IDE hard drives. I >> just want to make sure I'm not buying something that

ssh broadcasts package name???

Isn't this a potential security issue? A co-worker recently portscanned my Debian box with the "windows network scanner," or something like that. One thing I noticed was that the scanner appeared to somehow come up with the full debian package name of ssh on my box... if you moused over "ssh" in t

programs to run at X startup

I have some programs I wish to run when X starts up. I tried putting these in my .xinitrc but I guess that is the wrong place since they are not being run. Where do I need to put these? I would rather not put them in autostart because I want them to be run no matter which window manager I am

Re: X 4.1.0 - is there gatos code?

X4.1 does not support the 7500 at all, you need 4.2. The gatos drivers for 4.2 are superior to those included with X, esp if you need to do any Xv. Mike Just out of curiosity, do they plan to merge this code into the Xfree tree? Is there any reason why one has to go looking for thi

Re: 386 or 486 machine

Andrei Smirnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How you made it? The root.bin disk dosent load RAM disk image as for > me. And i got 3 different machines - one 386 and two 486. no one > loads RAM disk Oh. The one that worked for me is the idepci potato version, see:

Re: which anti-spam tool? - error message

hi paul On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:37:56AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > -- i use errror message 553 for these > > -- if they send me prescription spam... > > -- if they send me credit repair scheme... > > -- if they send me get rich quick scheme... > > -

Re: HD size limit ?

On Friday 25 October 2002 09:09 am, Shawn Lamson wrote: > As long as your bios supports it i think you are ok with 120 Gigs, I am > sure you will get plenty of testimony off the list, though! I have > about 95 Gigs on 2 different drives right now. > I'm running an 80 that my bios doesn't support.

Re: Who is ghostscript maintainer?

Philippe Marzouk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a 7.05 version available in Sid. > Maybe you should try it. Derek Noonburg has confirmed that my problem is solved by the 7.04 version. I think the problem is that the fonts have either been put in the wrong place, or else ghostscript isn't

Re: which anti-spam tool? - dynamic ip

hi ya paul On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:20:31AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > that server should allow everybody to have control of their mta > > and eliminate most spams .. way before it even hits the > > fetchmail/exim/procmail/mutt process > > Uuuh, no

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Re: which anti-spam tool? - return recipt

hi ya mark On 25 Oct 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 04:37, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > since most spammers use open relays those open relays are hopefully > > getting all my bounce emails ... and if the spammer used their legit > > email addy, than i know they are gettin

/sbin/ifconfig shows eth0, but not "RUNNING"?

I am trying to run a piece of software that apparently depends on a "RUNNING" message in ifconfig. dh3:/etc/tss2# /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:18:2A:00:59 inet addr:128.12.19.34 Bcast:128.12.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:150

Re: Newbie & Debian 3.0 & GeForce4 MX 440

Aedificator wrote: Recently i've installed DEbian 3.0 on my PC (512 mb ram, P4 1.6 GHz, GF4 MX 440). When trying to run X i get the "no screens found" error. No matter which driver (svga, nv) i choose during the installation process the Xserver fails. My system worked fine under Red Hat 7.3

Re: Limiting user's space in /home?

Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am setting up a server and want to limit the size of users' home > directories. Where do I find info on how to do this? > apt-get install quota ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: [Semi-OT]: Dual Head Laptop?

nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gary Hennigan said: > > > I know the G400 AGP works fine in a workstation using X in Xinerama, > > which is my current setup, but I'd like to be more confident it'd work > > with a G450 PCI in a docking-station application before I recommend. > > how about gett

Re: Limiting user's space in /home?

hey Take a look at this url, I've no experience myself but everything sould be there. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Quota.html cheers bkw On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:38:21 -0400 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am setting up a server and want to limit the size of users' home > directori

Re: Newbie & Debian 3.0 & GeForce4 MX 440

On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 12:33, Aedificator wrote: > Recently i've installed DEbian 3.0 on my PC (512 mb ram, P4 1.6 GHz, GF4 MX 440). > > When trying to run X i get the "no screens found" error. No matter which driver >(svga, nv) i choose during the installation process the Xserver fails. Show us

Re: Limiting user's space in /home?

Marc Shapiro said: > I am setting up a server and want to limit the size of users' home > directories. Where do I find info on how to do this? look for info on Quotas.. its usually not a foolproof way but its probably the most commonly used method(and easiest to impliment) nate -- To UNSUB

[solved]Re: kernel config from kernel_image

iain d broadfoot wrote: arse. i backed up my kernel_image.deb, and my ~, but i forgot about my kernel config file... :( is there ANY way to get it from the image I have? it'd really really suck if i had to go through all the guesswork again. will hunt alone for now... ;-) love, iain dpkg

Re: OT - Power Supply 300w or 400w?

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Hugh Saunders wrote: > Only thing i can think of is possibly better stabillity when overclocking > but you will only notice the differnce if the alternative is seriously insufficient. > > I have a 250w psu powering 2x500mhzCeles which works fine. I've got a 300w Enermax(swipe

kernel config from kernel_image

arse. i backed up my kernel_image.deb, and my ~, but i forgot about my kernel config file... :( is there ANY way to get it from the image I have? it'd really really suck if i had to go through all the guesswork again. will hunt alone for now... ;-) love, iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: sparc mouse

At 09:47 PM 10/25/2002 +0400, Andrei Smirnov wrote: Anyone know if sparc station 1 has PS/2 mouse? (it is an optical 3-button mouse, plugged into keyboard) As I recall, they are PS/2-shaped connectors, but that may be where the similarity ends. Did a PS/2 "spec" exist back in Sparc1 days ?? H

Re: Limiting user's space in /home?

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am setting up a server and want to limit the size of users' home > directories. Where do I find info on how to do this? > apt-cache show quota You can install that, and then read the documentation on that. Haven't used them myself(no users on the se

Re: OT: Reasons why few takers on MS 'Open Source'

Kent West said: > I understand that one of the the reasons that Microsoft's "Open Source" > program has had few takers is because Microsoft's license is "viral" (to > borrow MS's term for the GPL); once you see their code, there's a risk > that any code you develop thereafter could be "tainted". >

Re: Newbie & Debian 3.0 & GeForce4 MX 440

Can you post your XFree86Config-4 file? I've got a GF2 card running just fine under debian 3.0. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECT

locales and accented charaters

i upgraded to woody last night, and my locales appear to be completely borked. messages in mutt with accented characters in them show up in ascii codes like this: Die Aufnahmepr\374fung dient uns und Ihnen: Zur Kl\344rung Ihrer Kenntnisse, zur Beratung. Nur wenn wir sicher sind, dass Sie das

Re: keeping pppd alive?

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 04:29:45PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 04:21:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Not what your friend told you but might be helpful: > > Depending on the reasons for the disconnections you might want to explore > > pppd persistent option. > a

Re: OT - Power Supply 300w or 400w?

tomshardware.com had a review of 20 some-odd different power supplies. check it out: http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/02q4/021021/index.html --Patrick On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 10:40, John Hasler wrote: > Chip writes: > > I'm buying a new computer - upgrade option available to get 400w power > > sup

Re: OT - Power Supply 300w or 400w?

25/10/2002 17:03:19, Chip Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 400w power supply versus standard 300w. Benefits? Only thing i can think of is possibly better stabillity when overclocking but you will only notice the differnce if the alternative is seriously insufficient. I have a 250w psu powering 2

Newbie & Debian 3.0 & GeForce4 MX 440

Recently i've installed DEbian 3.0 on my PC (512 mb ram, P4 1.6 GHz, GF4 MX 440).   When trying to run X i get the "no screens found" error. No matter which driver (svga, nv) i choose during the installation process the Xserver fails.   My system worked fine under Red Hat 7.3 so it's a Debia

Limiting user's space in /home?

I am setting up a server and want to limit the size of users' home directories. Where do I find info on how to do this? -- Marc Shapiro "If you drink melomel every day, [EMAIL PROTECTED]you will live to be 150 years old, Please visit "The Meadery" at:

Re: sparc mouse

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:47:13PM +0400, Andrei Smirnov wrote: > > Anyone know if sparc station 1 has PS/2 mouse? (it is an optical 3-button > mouse, plugged into keyboard) No. It is a sun-only thing. Frank > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: sparc mouse

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 21:47:13 +0400 Andrei Smirnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone know if sparc station 1 has PS/2 mouse? (it is an optical > 3-button mouse, plugged into keyboard) Not sure exactly what a sparc-station 1 is, but all pre-blade sparcs I've seen (Sparc 4, 10, 5, Ultra 1, 2 an

Missing readme for icecast

Hi, I wanted to set up an icecast server (icecast-server 1:1.3.11-4.3 in testing) and in the first configuration screen it says: "Icecast has been compiled with encrypted passwords support. Plain text password consequently won't work. Please read the README.Debian file to learn how to generate e

Re: OT: Reasons why few takers on MS "Open Source"

On Friday 25 October 2002 11:06, Kent West wrote: > I understand that one of the the reasons that Microsoft's "Open Source" > program has had few takers is because Microsoft's license is "viral" (to > borrow MS's term for the GPL); once you see their code, there's a risk > that any code you develop

Re: I broke apt and dpkg - need help

On Friday 25 October 01:06, nate wrote: > Robert said: > > Help. I just did a major patition reshuffle and I've wiped out > > /var/lib/apt and also /var/cache/apt -- and now dpkg and apt are > > broken, Can't reinstall them either. Any suggestions or humorous > > comments welcome :( > > does n

OT: Reasons why few takers on MS "Open Source"

I understand that one of the the reasons that Microsoft's "Open Source" program has had few takers is because Microsoft's license is "viral" (to borrow MS's term for the GPL); once you see their code, there's a risk that any code you develop thereafter could be "tainted". Does anyone have any l

Re: Icewm hotkeys to run a program

On 25 Oct 2002, Michael Montagne wrote: > I have a directory called .icewm in my home directory and within that a > file called keys with some already set. I bet there is one in > /etc/X11/icewm too. > > HTH > > >On 25/10/02, from the brain of Mike Dresser tumbled: > > > I've looked a fair amou

Re: OT: Different Embedded Linux question

deFreese, Barry said: > First of all, my apologies for the OT question, we seem to be straying > quite a bit these days. Now for the WAY OT question: > > We are running a lot of Symbol technologies scanners here in the > warehouse and I noticed that they are using DRDOS for the OS, running > Novel

sparc mouse

Anyone know if sparc station 1 has PS/2 mouse? (it is an optical 3-button mouse, plugged into keyboard) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT - Power Supply 300w or 400w?

Chip writes: > I'm buying a new computer - upgrade option available to get 400w power > supply versus standard 300w. Benefits? None, if you don't need it. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: [Semi-OT]: Dual Head Laptop?

Gary Hennigan said: > I know the G400 AGP works fine in a workstation using X in Xinerama, > which is my current setup, but I'd like to be more confident it'd work > with a G450 PCI in a docking-station application before I recommend. how about getting a laptop with a good amount of video memory(

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