Re: boot problems

2003-01-11 Thread sean finney
could you post your lilo.conf and fstab? sean On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 12:14:34AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I can boot from a floppy but not from the HD. > The boot process stops at "L" with no error. > I have tried adding "Linear" to lilo.conf > and I have also run liloconfig. Any

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-11 Thread Eduardo Rocha Costa
Have you met dillo ?? This is the fastest browser that I know. But it is not full implemented. Eduardo On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 06:05:47 + "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:32:12PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > one of the th

Re: 2.2 kernel vs 2.4 kernel

2003-01-11 Thread Sam Rosenfeld
Thanks for all the responses to my query. s. On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 01:55:13PM +0100, Urs Thuermann wrote: > Sam Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What are the advantages (and disadvantages ) of Linux 2.4 compared > > with Linux 2.2? References will suffice. > > * netfilter/iptables

boot problems

2003-01-11 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I can boot from a floppy but not from the HD. The boot process stops at "L" with no error. I have tried adding "Linear" to lilo.conf and I have also run liloconfig. Any suggestion? Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: [apt] Disabling upgrade to insecure packages

2003-01-11 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:04:37 +0100, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:36:27 -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: >> There is nothing (that I know of) in the packaging system to know which >> packages are secure and which are not. You would need to put the >> package

Infected E-Mail

2003-01-11 Thread isgcs
>> In an E-Mail send from you <<< Recipient / Subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] / A new website we detected a Virus in the Attachment. Thus, the E-Mail will not be delivered to the recipient. Virus informat

Re: network print server

2003-01-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Mike Dresser wrote: > Yes, that's what I have in my printcap here. His comment was that > sometimes he's doing thingson his debian machine, and it's > unreachable/unusable for his wife to use, therefore he wants dedicated > hardware. a print server should never go do

Re: sas fileserver

2003-01-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:34:55PM -0800, Michael West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:45:51AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 06:21:17PM -0800, Michael West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I have been asked to help with getting a server for SAS.

can exim try other route if first is rejected or down?

2003-01-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
Dear Sirs [great spam phrase, actually. Thought I was really renaissance, but just added to my SpamAssassin score by using it, probably.] Anyway, Dear Sirs, I have an officially approved "great question", i.e. I wouldn't send a normal question to the list, only great ones > "M" == Mark Symo

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:32:12PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > one of the things that bother me in my set-up is browser. mozilla is > what i use currently and i have to wait for ages before it loads. for > text login, i have tried lynx and links. both are decent and quic

do I really need to be in all those /etc/groups?

2003-01-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
Just look at me, $ id uid=1000(jidanni) gid=1000(jidanni) groups=1000(jidanni),20(dialout),24(cdrom),29(audio),1004(scanner) My latest addgroup was disk, so I wouldn't get error messages when eject(1)ing USBs. However $ find /dev |wc -l 5142 $ find /dev -group disk -perm -20|wc -l 4006 th

Re: Re-configuring after an install

2003-01-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 08:51:45PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: > "gkdebconf" that is nice & I use it quite a bit. You have to be running > X for it to work, and since it is a "root" application you have to mess > around with permissions, etc. to get it running from a user account. No, you don't.

Re: network print server

2003-01-11 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Mike Dresser wrote: > > > On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Michael West wrote: > > > > > I have been using samba as a print server at home, but > > > I am often mucking around on my debian box, and sometimes this > > > results in my w

Re: network print server

2003-01-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya michael On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Michael West wrote: > I did not mean that I am having trouble configuring samba/lpd. I > enjoy configuring printcap files myself, and like to make physical > printer appear as as many logical printers as possible. yupp... ( or network printer

Re: Mounting USB devices

2003-01-11 Thread Trey Sizemore
Now it appears that I have the drives identified correctly and setup in /etc/fstab, but when I try to mount I get the following: root@salmander:/home/trey# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 mount: No medium found I know the card is good, and I even tried another card and got the same result. Any

Re: CF & MemoryStick Reader

2003-01-11 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Kevin Coyner said: > > > I've got a 4-in-1 USB card reader that can accomodate Sony MemoryStick > and CF. > > To get started, I used directions from > > http://vic.dyndns.org/linux-UsbMassStorage/ > > and > > http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/personal/cf-linux > > Using sg_scan -i and sg_map, it was f

Sylpheed + gpgme

2003-01-11 Thread Jacob S .
Well, I've been playin' with things today and it looks like I broke somethin'. I've been following the latest tar ball releases of Sylpheed main for a while, and didn't have any problems compiling it with --enable-gpgme and--enable-ssl. Their latest release (0.8.8) requires gnupg and gpgme to be

Re: network print server

2003-01-11 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Michael West wrote: > > > I have been using samba as a print server at home, but > > I am often mucking around on my debian box, and sometimes this > > results in my wife not being able to print. i assume the machin

Re: iptables+dialup

2003-01-11 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Debian User said: > I thought that it might go in there but I wanted to make sure that was > the correct way. Plus I am doing ipmasq for internal network. I have a > script that I am using. It works for me so far. Thanks for yours > though. I plan on putting the fi

CF & MemoryStick Reader

2003-01-11 Thread Kevin Coyner
I've got a 4-in-1 USB card reader that can accomodate Sony MemoryStick and CF. To get started, I used directions from http://vic.dyndns.org/linux-UsbMassStorage/ and http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/personal/cf-linux Using sg_scan -i and sg_map, it was fairly easy to figure out things out. So

Re: permissions on a mounted windows fat32 drive

2003-01-11 Thread sean finney
hiya, out of curiosity, if you su to root, and then su to your username, do you still get the problem? i know that if you add yourself to a group, it isn't immediately inherited by all your current processes (including your x windows session and all the terminals that it spawns), so maybe that's

Re: network print server

2003-01-11 Thread Neal Lippman
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 21:21, Michael West wrote: > I have been using samba as a print server at home, but > I am often mucking around on my debian box, and sometimes this > results in my wife not being able to print. > > To increase user satisfaction I am considering purchasin

Re: iptables+dialup

2003-01-11 Thread Debian User
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 02:46:17PM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote: > On January 11, 2003 12:29 pm, the fabulous Debian User wrote: > > > Can someone point me to some docs for where to put the iptables firewall > > scripts for a dialup accnt. I am running testing/unstable w/2.4.18-686. > > This has

SOLVED: permissions on a mounted windows fat32 drive

2003-01-11 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op zo 12-01-2003, om 03:25 schreef Benedict Verheyen: > Hello, > > i have a problem accessing my windows drive as a normal user. > My mp3 collection is stored there and i want some sound in linux :) > This is the relevant entry from my fstab file. The drive is fat32 > and i want to make it accessi

Re: Re-configuring after an install

2003-01-11 Thread Donald Spoon
Chris Owen wrote: Hi, I'm doing an install of Debian 3.0 and have a probably dumb question. After the installation, how do I re-configure some of the things that I set up right at the start of the installation: specifically, the keyboard map and the network setup? I presume there are scripts

Re: network print server

2003-01-11 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Michael West wrote: > I have been using samba as a print server at home, but > I am often mucking around on my debian box, and sometimes this > results in my wife not being able to print. > > To increase user satisfaction I am considering purchasing one of

Re: Question for PPP Users

2003-01-11 Thread Paul E Condon
John Hasler wrote: Pppconfig creates a resolv.conf file in /etc/ppp/resolv for each provider. The /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/0dns-up script moves /etc/resolv.conf out of the way and the appropriate file from /etc/ppp/resolv in when a ppp connection comes up. /etc/ppp/ip-down.d moves the original resolv.con

Re: Security concerns on stable/unstable

2003-01-11 Thread nate
Bruno Diniz de Paula said: > the unstable version. This would mean that, in terms of solved bugs in the > *sofware* that could cause a security flaw, both woody and sid are exactly > equal. Is it that? in an ideal situation yes. sometimes even sid is updated before woody is. but there are package

Re: openoffice.org slow?

2003-01-11 Thread Donald Spoon
Pieter Laeremans wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 20:34, pasha wrote: Hello, I have compared the experience using openoffice.org when installed from debs (via apt) and when installed with the installation system provided by openoffice.org. For some strange reasons, in the former case, openoffice ta

Re: Re-configuring after an install

2003-01-11 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 01:42:41AM +, Chris Owen wrote: > After the installation, how do I re-configure some of the things that I > set up right at the start of the installation: specifically, the > keyboard map and the network setup? I presume there are scripts > available for this, but I

permissions on a mounted windows fat32 drive

2003-01-11 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hello, i have a problem accessing my windows drive as a normal user. My mp3 collection is stored there and i want some sound in linux :) This is the relevant entry from my fstab file. The drive is fat32 and i want to make it accessible for my user: /dev/hda5 /mnt/windata vfat defaults,gid=windo

network print server

2003-01-11 Thread Michael West
I have been using samba as a print server at home, but I am often mucking around on my debian box, and sometimes this results in my wife not being able to print. To increase user satisfaction I am considering purchasing one of these dedicated print server appliances which

Question for PPP Users

2003-01-11 Thread John Hasler
Pppconfig creates a resolv.conf file in /etc/ppp/resolv for each provider. The /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/0dns-up script moves /etc/resolv.conf out of the way and the appropriate file from /etc/ppp/resolv in when a ppp connection comes up. /etc/ppp/ip-down.d moves the original resolv.conf back when ppp goes

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-11 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 04:59:08PM -0800, nate wrote: > Hugh Saunders said: > > > if you added some swap, maybe browser mem leaks would be such a prob as > > rubbish would be swapped out? [obv still annoying but maybe not as much!] > > probably be just as bad if not worse. when the leak gets that

Re: openoffice.org slow?

2003-01-11 Thread Pieter Laeremans
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 20:34, pasha wrote: > Hello, > > I have compared the experience using openoffice.org when installed from debs > (via apt) and when installed with the installation system provided by > openoffice.org. For some strange reasons, in the former > case, openoffice takes a very long

Re: Big difference in antialiasing

2003-01-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 07:29:38PM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > After updating from unstable today I noticed a MAJOR upgrade in the > antialiasing > > Anybody else or am I just hallucinating? You're right, gtk 2.2 brings in Xft2. It's very pretty. -- Colin Watson

Re-configuring after an install

2003-01-11 Thread Chris Owen
Hi, I'm doing an install of Debian 3.0 and have a probably dumb question. After the installation, how do I re-configure some of the things that I set up right at the start of the installation: specifically, the keyboard map and the network setup? I presume there are scripts available for this,

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-11 Thread nate
Hugh Saunders said: > if you added some swap, maybe browser mem leaks would be such a prob as > rubbish would be swapped out? [obv still annoying but maybe not as much!] probably be just as bad if not worse. when the leak gets that bad it can take several seconds to do anything in the browser, an

Re: Mounting USB devices

2003-01-11 Thread Trey Sizemore
This is the output of my /etc/fstab file. When booting, I noticed that the screen said I had an error on line 15 (which is the line I just added for the camera). Can you see what might be wrong? What is the correct way to edit this file? I have noticed, based on line length that columns don't l

Re: kernel update and nvidia drivers

2003-01-11 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op vr 10-01-2003, om 23:03 schreef Gregory Seidman: > Benedict Verheyen sez: > } i compiled my own 2.4.20 kernel and it works great. > } Then sometime later i compiled the nvidia module via > } the 2 nvidia packages in the distribution. > } When i upgrade the kernel soemtime in the future and thus

Re: Mounting USB devices

2003-01-11 Thread sean finney
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 06:26:32PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > One more dumb question...how do I know my user ID? here are a few ways: echo $UID or id -u or grep ^username: /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{print $3}' :) sean msg23625/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Security concerns on stable/unstable

2003-01-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 07:37:55PM -0500, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: > On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 15:20, nate wrote: > > official security updates are ONLY available for stable and potato(at the > > moment). unstable gets updates like normal, they include security updates > > but are not specifically a

Re: linux dsl router firewall

2003-01-11 Thread Hendrik Sattler
T.Maguin wrote: > Hallo, > > ich suche Leute, die mir KONSTRUKTIV bei meiner Seite helfen. Es geht im > wesentlichen um eine Anleitung zum Aufsetzen eines vernünftigen linux > Routers mit firewall für normal Sterbliche. > Wenn Ihr Verbesserungsvorschläge habt, dann kotzt mir nicht einfach vor > d

Re: Mounting USB devices

2003-01-11 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Trey Sizemore said: > This is the output of my /etc/fstab file. When booting, I noticed > that > the screen said I had an error on line 15 (which is the line I just > added for the camera). Can you see what might be wrong? What is the > correct way to edit this file? I have noticed, based on

Re: Mounting USB devices

2003-01-11 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 07:57:06PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > /dev/camera /mnt/camera vfat user,no auto 0 > 0 did you mean for this to say user,noauto? as for what to edit it with, i don't think there's a "right" editor to use, so long as it doesn't do stupid

Re: openoffice.org slow?

2003-01-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:34:14AM -0800, pasha wrote: > I have compared the experience using openoffice.org when installed from debs > (via apt) and when installed with the installation system provided by > openoffice.org. For some strange reasons, in the former > case, openoffice takes a very lon

Big difference in antialiasing

2003-01-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
After updating from unstable today I noticed a MAJOR upgrade in the antialiasing Anybody else or am I just hallucinating? -- Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Security concerns on stable/unstable

2003-01-11 Thread sean finney
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 07:37:55PM -0500, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: > So what you mean is that if someone finds a security flaw on any > package, the security team of Debian is informed and consequently the > maintainer of that package is informed. Then the maintainer updates the > package at woo

linux dsl router firewall

2003-01-11 Thread T.Maguin
Hallo, ich suche Leute, die mir KONSTRUKTIV bei meiner Seite helfen. Es geht im wesentlichen um eine Anleitung zum Aufsetzen eines vernünftigen linux Routers mit firewall für normal Sterbliche. Wenn Ihr Verbesserungsvorschläge habt, dann kotzt mir nicht einfach vor die Haustüre, sondern sagt m

Re: Security concerns on stable/unstable

2003-01-11 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 15:20, nate wrote: > official security updates are ONLY available for stable and potato(at the > moment). unstable gets updates like normal, they include security updates > but are not specifically advertised as so. It's up to the user to manage the > security. So what you m

Re: Mounting USB devices

2003-01-11 Thread Tom Hoover
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 06:26:32PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > One more dumb question...how do I know my user ID? grep trey /etc/passwd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Disable Anti-aliased fonts

2003-01-11 Thread Bill Moseley
So, after messing with thing a lot and receiving a lot of help (thanks!), I've got fonts looking better. My video card/monitor setup is not perfect - that one issue. Also, mozilla and opera are showing anti-aliased fonts and that just doens't work on my small fonts. Anyone know how to disable th

Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-11 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 05:51:59PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Martin" == Martin Strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Martin> Try typing "apt-get moo" at the prompt. (on an apt with Super > Martin> Cow Powers, that is) > > You can also try "aptitude moo", and see what a non-Super Cow P

Re: sas fileserver

2003-01-11 Thread Michael West
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:45:51AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 06:21:17PM -0800, Michael West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have been asked to help with getting a server for SAS. One of the > > large expenses of this is the 200Gb+ RAID-5 disk on the EMC frame. > > Wh

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-11 Thread David P James
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was roused into action on 2003-01-11 17:36 and wrote: On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 18:49:17 +0800, Sukanta Kumar Hazra wrote: For GUI based browser I use phoenix (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/) [...] Where's the source? All I see is a binary. This Phoenix forum thread

Re: Mounting USB devices

2003-01-11 Thread Trey Sizemore
One more dumb question...how do I know my user ID? On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 16:18:38 -0600, "Tom Hoover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 09:52:05AM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > 1. Are these assignments going to change each time I shut down and then > > start up my machine (a

RE: USB Mouse Problem

2003-01-11 Thread Curtis Spencer
Yeah I defined the ServerLayout section. My XF86Config file is at http://vergil.chemistry.gatech.edu/~park/dellfiles/XF86Config-4 Mr. Park also had an Inspiron 8000 system and I tried following the instructions on this page: http://vergil.chemistry.gatech.edu/~park/dell.html#debian Cheers, Curt

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-11 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:36:54PM -0800, nate wrote: [stuff about browsers...] > for reference, my primary desktop is an athlon 1300 with 768mb ram, a 9gig > ultrawide scsi disk, no swap, home directory is mounted over NFS. Video is > nvidia geforce3 (forgot which model), 2.2.19 kernel with debia

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-11 Thread nate
> On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 18:49:17 +0800, > Where's the source? All I see is a binary. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/phoenix-release-notes.html question 9 --- Okay, so where's the phoenix source? cvs.mozilla.org. Mozilla trunk + mozilla/browser + mozilla/toolkit. looks like

Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-11 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Martin" == Martin Strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> Try typing "apt-get moo" at the prompt. (on an apt with Super Martin> Cow Powers, that is) You can also try "aptitude moo", and see what a non-Super Cow Power program emits. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uho

Re: restricting wireless access

2003-01-11 Thread iain d broadfoot
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.11.0015 +0100]: > > as i understand wireless, there is no solution to blocking clients > > connecting - macs can be faked, ssids are plaintext, wep is crackable > > fairly quickly... > > my phi

Re: Mounting USB devices

2003-01-11 Thread Tom Hoover
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 09:52:05AM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > 1. Are these assignments going to change each time I shut down and then > start up my machine (as far as how they are detected)? I asked because > I am running a rather old machine that I leave on during the day, but > then shut

how launch Aterm 'as' root

2003-01-11 Thread willem
This is something i've been busy with on occasion for 2 weeks now and i can't figure it out...even copying menu settings of other terminal apps didn't get me anywhere. And i did do it the debian way.. with the update-menus command after changing things. What i want is when logged into X as a norma

Re: AC97 onboard Via Apollo Pro, sound not working [SOLVED]

2003-01-11 Thread Elijah
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 04:16, Elijah wrote: > I got sound working!! but there's one problem left, xmms abruptly closes > by itself giving me the same mmap_commit and gdk error. Anyone know > what's causing it?? > > Elijah > got it fixed now :) . looks like a bug or something, but after turning off

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-11 Thread csj
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 18:49:17 +0800, Sukanta Kumar Hazra wrote: > > For GUI based browser I use phoenix > (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/) [...] Where's the source? All I see is a binary. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: how launch Aterm 'as' root

2003-01-11 Thread Jonah Sherman
$ aterm -e su On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 10:59:02PM +0100, willem wrote: > What i want is when logged into X as a normal user...launch Aterm and > have it ask for the root password straight away without me having to type > 'su' firt after Aterm opens. > It's a very small prob...but it's gettin on me

Re: home/end keys in emacs -nw under eterm

2003-01-11 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
Hello Rob, > > I am experiencing problems using gray home/end keys in emacs -nw under > > eterm (all latest versions from sid). When I press them, the screen just > > flashes (as visual bell). > > Hmmm...weird. They just don't do anything for me. They do work in vim > however. On my system, th

Re: How to make Alt GNU Emacs Meta?

2003-01-11 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, January 11, Bob Proulx did write: > Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-10 22:28:14 -0800]: > > In the current stable release of debian, GNU Emacs uses the Windows key > > as Meta instead of Alt. I am told this is not true for other linux > > distributions or other releases of de

RE: Samba and XP Pro

2003-01-11 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Nope. I'm using this configuration with 2 XP Pro machines and this isn't a problem. Just set your shares and there you are. Regards, Willem-Jan Meijer <-- Alle inkomende en uitgaande e-mail worden gescand op virussen --> <-- All incoming and outgoing e-mail is scanned for virusses --> -Oo

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-11 Thread nate
Sandip P Deshmukh said: > > any suggestions? for both console based as well as gui based browsers are > welcome. I'm sure you'll hear a lot about phoenix. I use it, it works well, loads pretty fast. Opera still blows it away in startup time, though opera isn't as standards compliant(v6 anyways).

Re: Two sound cards? [Solved]

2003-01-11 Thread Qian Gong
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 05:41:58PM +0100, wrote: > On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:17:54PM +0100, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Qian Gong wrote: > > > Yes, aplay works. No idea which /dev/dsp? device it uses. BTW, it's clear VIA > on board sound uses /dev/dsp. Thanks. The key point

Security concerns on stable/unstable

2003-01-11 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
Hi, I have a doubt concerning security issues on stable and unstable branchs of Debian. First question, are the security updates also applied to the unstable packages? If so, is it "secure" to have a 24x7 Debian box running unstable? The point is that I want it to be both a HTTP/NFS/NIS/DB server

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 05:35:36AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > I was at an Apple store yesterday and they were showing off their new > Safari Open Source browser. They sales people said it was nice because > people used to look at IE to compare how fast the machine was (compared to > Windows),

openoffice.org slow?

2003-01-11 Thread pasha
Hello, I have compared the experience using openoffice.org when installed from debs (via apt) and when installed with the installation system provided by openoffice.org. For some strange reasons, in the former case, openoffice takes a very long while to open, while in the latter case - i'd say, th

Re: locale & .bash_profile,.bashrc

2003-01-11 Thread Egor Tur
Hi. May be /etc/invironment I try to put some variables in /etc/bashrc (not /etc/profile - KDE do not use it for me :( ) then this work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: no MTRR

2003-01-11 Thread Stig Are M. Botterli
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Montagne wrote: > > Relatedly I also get this when trying to start ROX, which started this > whole experience: > > (rox:8892): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Can not open pixbuf loader module > file > '/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file or directory >

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locale & .bash_profile,.bashrc

2003-01-11 Thread Dave Selby
I need to set my locale to en_GB so abiword will boot up with its spelling checker in GB english mode. Abiword doc suggests I put export LANG=en_GB unset LC_ALL in either .bashrc or .profile Typing them on the command line then typing abiword works AOK. Putting them in .bashrc, .bash_profile d

webcam

2003-01-11 Thread Florian Struck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello im having a little trouble with webcam/proftpd I get this output from "webcam" when running in debug mode: (dont bother about the first few lines i got to set that up still accept ofcourse if that could be the problem but earlyer i had those t

Re: Dial-up connection for server

2003-01-11 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Willem-Jan Meijer said: > Hello, > > My neigbours wants to set-up a linux-server for backing up important files. > If it's possible he wants to set-up a LAN with the server as firewall. He > uses a dial-up connection so the question is: Is it possible to use the > serv

Re: ppp connection is terminated after 2 hours

2003-01-11 Thread Sven Bornemann
Sorry, I found out that it is the ISP cutting off the ppp connection after two hours. But Gentoo could overcome this somehow. Any ideas how this is done? Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: restricting wireless access

2003-01-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:04:40PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > See my other post. If I then get a friend over who wants to connect > (legitimally) through wireless but doesn't have IPsec, he won't be > able to... Then take a look at http://nocat.net/ should do what your trying. -- Jamin W.

Re: Home LAN email setup. Do you love yours?

2003-01-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 07:10:46AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > o Can I use IMAP and still have access to my large collection of > email? Yes, I have an on going archive of several lists that date back months. > o Is there a tool that will auto-archive old mail, make it > searchable, and sti

iptables+dialup

2003-01-11 Thread Debian User
Can someone point me to some docs for where to put the iptables firewall scripts for a dialup accnt. I am running testing/unstable w/2.4.18-686. This has to be activated(iptables) with each new dialup? Or does iptables refresh the ip? Sorry for all the ?'s but am new to iptables. Thank-you --

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 05:42:27AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > Try BrowseX. It's quick like a bunny to load, a few seconds on > 733MHz 192MB machine. Has tabs and built in image filtering and other > stuff. The executable is a single 9+MB file. BrowseX looks promising, but does have problem

Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-11 Thread Wendell Cochran
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 02:26:53 + From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 04:45:45AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: >> So what does Super Cow Powers mean? I see it with 'aptitude --help'. > At the risk of spoiling it, it's a long-standing joke. The developer of > apt was

Re: [OT] Woody non-free jigdo

2003-01-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 05:32:59PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Bonjour, > > is there somewhere a JIGDO distribution > for the non-free part of Woody ? I doubt it. AFAIK, there are no CD images at all for non-Free, since there's no guarantee that Debian is allowed to even let/encourage/support

cannot find /dev/fd3 on kernel upgrade

2003-01-11 Thread Robert Sherwood
Pardon me if this is old news, but I've had this problem a couple of times, and I wanted to make sure that the solution was available in the debian archives: The problem occured during a kernel upgrade. The symptom was the following message during package upgrade: mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2

Re: Two sound cards?

2003-01-11 Thread Qian Gong
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:17:54PM +0100, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Qian Gong wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:08:57PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > > > Qian Gong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I have VIA on board sound and an additional Xwave 4000 PCI sound card. >

php 4.3.0 for shell scripting and compiling from source

2003-01-11 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hello, i'm used to work with php for creating dynamic webpages. I want to try to make shell scripts with it too and the 4.3.0 version is able to do this. I know php already a bit and don't want to learn perl script so that's the reason why i want to go with php. That and the fact that i like c++.

Re: Offboard hdd controller.

2003-01-11 Thread Egor Tur
> Hi Folk. > I want to use offboard hdd controller and set up cdrom on it. ^^^ Sorry, ide hard disk controler on isa slot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Home LAN email setup. Do you love yours?

2003-01-11 Thread Bill Moseley
Another in the series of my open-ended quesitons on email setup, and long post that will be hard to respond to, I fear. ;) I'm about to build a new machine that will host my mail server. I'm looking for suggestions on the overall design. This is not a question about mail clients. Here's the ex

ppp connection is terminated after 2 hours

2003-01-11 Thread Sven Bornemann
Hello, I'm using Woody and my ppp connection is always terminated after 2 hours. I just used pppconfig to configure the modem dail-up connection and everything works fine. I did not change anything in /etc/ppp/options, so that the ppp option "maxconnect" should not be set. The problem is probabl

Offboard hdd controller.

2003-01-11 Thread Egor Tur
Hi Folk. I want to use offboard hdd controller and set up cdrom on it. How can I do this? Thanx. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-11 Thread Alaa The Great
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:32:12 +0530 Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > any suggestions? for both console based as well as gui based > browsers are welcome. try links with the graphics mode, it looks great from both the console (framebuffer, or svgalib) and X, renders quickly and has s

Re: Mounting USB devices

2003-01-11 Thread Trey Sizemore
Thanks for the assistance...two follow-up questions: 1. Are these assignments going to change each time I shut down and then start up my machine (as far as how they are detected)? I asked because I am running a rather old machine that I leave on during the day, but then shut down at night. 2.

nur für dich :-)

2003-01-11 Thread Andrea
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2003-01-11 Thread Andrea
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Re: Two sound cards?

2003-01-11 Thread Burkhard Ritter
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Qian Gong wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:08:57PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > > Qian Gong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have VIA on board sound and an additional Xwave 4000 PCI sound card. > > > The first one (VIA) is supported by kernel (built-in) and for xwave 400

Re: Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-11 Thread Bill Moseley
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Marc Wilson wrote: > I run them as two separate screens. The GF4 440 is :0.0 (right monitor), > and the GF4 420 is :0.1 (left monitor). Works just fine. You need to > either be using a window manager that's multiple-screen-aware, or else run > a separate window manager on e

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