[REPOST] Kernel-Update

2003-02-04 Thread Jaque Moreau
still getting MODPROBE, MTAB and also MODULES.CONF MORE RECENT errors after installing a kernel-image with dselect. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Selby
When using X, you can highlight text and copy it to another area via the middle mouse button. Is there a buffer file that holds the highlighted text ? This would be very usefull for passing URLs etc to the ctrl-alt-f1 command line. Sometimes Xterm is not ideal because it ceases when the user is

apache, mod_perl, apt-get php4

2003-02-04 Thread cmustard
I run apache 1.3.26 and mod_perl, i recently did 'apt-get install php4', which installed fine and ran apachectl when finished which i assumed meant that it set up apache and php to work together and loaded php4 as a DSO, so i edited the httpd.conf and uncommented all the #php4 lines like the LoadM

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Selby
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 1:53 am, Seneca wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:48:45PM +, Dave Selby wrote: > > wget looks good to me, it even resets the modem and re-dials if it is not > > getting the file > > > > Probarbly asking the earth ... There isn't a GUI wrapper for it ??? > >

Re: iconv and UTF-8 encoding

2003-02-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 08:45:29PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i'm trying to read a file that i'm told is encoded in UTF-8. the > output of "file" on it says "Non-ISO extended-ASCII English text" > (it's not actually english, but that doesn't matter). I can't read it > as is, so i'm trying to

Re: lm_sensors

2003-02-04 Thread karrottop
worked like a charm, thanks a bunch. On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 11:42, Hugo Graumann wrote: > * On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 02:19:45PM -0500, karrottop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I am re-posting this because I was made aware I sent it as a reply to > > another post. Sorry about that, so without f

Re: Printing Problem

2003-02-04 Thread Russell
Roberto Sanchez wrote: I am desperately in need of some help here. Over the past week I have been completely unsuccesful in getting my printer to cooperate. I have an Epson Stylus Color 400 connected to a Pentium Pro 200 running Debian Woody. Ultimately I need this printer available over my

Re: simple (non-technial) software question

2003-02-04 Thread Kent West
Phil wrote: I'm setting -up linux machines at a school and the teachers are interested in Mavis Beacon teaches typing and Mathblaster type programs. They want programs that are fun for the kids and teach them things at the same time. Does anyone have any suggestions? Article today on www.l

Re: Need help: tar and huge files

2003-02-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 19:52, Steve Lamb wrote: > Over the past weekend I had a meltdown on my server's only HD. The best > I could do was nab some tars from the filesystems using LNX-BBC, move > them over the network to a Windows box, reformat and reinstall. Shame, shame, shame!!! Why didn't

Re: apt-get: Reading Package Lists... Error!

2003-02-04 Thread Russell
Joel Alexandre wrote: can someone please tell me why this is happening? apt-get update; Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing courier-ssl (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/list

Re: columbia -- what really happened

2003-02-04 Thread David P James
Brooks R. Robinson wrote: | How the US can justify spending so much money on Space while 33 million US | citizens live below the poverty line amazes me. The ideology of capitalism puts people with money into power. Benevolent as the may want to be, power corrupts, and they are corrupted by power

Re: knowledge

2003-02-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 22:10, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Ron" == Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ron> I'm inherently(sp?) suspicious of any theory which is only > Ron> really understood by a half-dozen people. Many parts of > Ron> Quantum Theory meet that criteria. > > H

Re: UDMA 66

2003-02-04 Thread Eric Nelson
> > manually). The other issue is...how do I enable UDMA > > or UDMA 66 for that matter? I use hdparm interactively, then once I feel I have a good setup going (after a week or two of uptime and good usage) I'll add the string to /etc/init.d/bootmisc hdparm is the way to go if you want to optimiz

Re: out of space in /var/cache/apt/archives

2003-02-04 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 04 Feb 2003 11:13:02PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin insinuated: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:36:38AM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: > > To safely remove old/obsolete packages from the cache: apt-get > > autoclean > > Yes, do this first! great, just what i needed. thanks. > > If this still doesn

Re: columbia -- what really happened

2003-02-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 19:49, Russell wrote: > Vikki Roemer wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 06:02:21PM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > > ... > > OTOH, space exploration and research improves everyone's lives-- new > > medicines and medical techniques, etc. So how is it a waste? How is > > it

Re: Translating Debian web pages

2003-02-04 Thread Radek [Debian] Z
On 2/4/03 10:55 PM, "Radek [Debian] Z" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Found one on the doc pages > Looking for a person coordinating translations of Debian website and docs. I > can begin translation into Polish from English, but need a little guidance. > I am not completely new to Linux, but I never

Re: out of space in /var/cache/apt/archives

2003-02-04 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:36:38AM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: > To safely remove old/obsolete packages from the cache: > apt-get autoclean Yes, do this first! > If this still doesn't give you enough space you can tell apt to put > the cache somewhere other than /var, however I can't remember how

Re: knowledge

2003-02-04 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Ron" == Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ron> I'm inherently(sp?) suspicious of any theory which is only Ron> really understood by a half-dozen people. Many parts of Ron> Quantum Theory meet that criteria. Hmmm...could you name some? Being an ex-grad student who did some

Re: Translating Debian web pages

2003-02-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:55:04PM -0500, Radek [Debian] Z wrote: > Looking for a person coordinating translations of Debian website and docs. I > can begin translation into Polish from English, but need a little guidance. > I am not completely new to Linux, but I never volunteered for open source.

Re: Newsreaders - newsx 0r suggestion

2003-02-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Sid Blackley said: > ie. small in stature, tremdously powerfull and fast as > lightning! Admirable, to be sure, but when the best tool for the job is slightly larger than a far inferior and slightly smaller tool I'd say that a little chubbiness is ok. > Same problem as b4. leafnode is not fin

Translating Debian web pages

2003-02-04 Thread Radek [Debian] Z
Looking for a person coordinating translations of Debian website and docs. I can begin translation into Polish from English, but need a little guidance. I am not completely new to Linux, but I never volunteered for open source. R> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: h

2003-02-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:01:33PM +0100, Alex Polite wrote: > I short I want the users browsing experience be smooth, even during > the office rush hour. I know of "Wonder shaper" and the debian shaper > package. Any other alternatives? Something that will make the "smoothness" increase dramatica

Re: out of space in /var/cache/apt/archives

2003-02-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:19:11PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > Need to get 69.0MB/109MB of archives. After unpacking 39.1MB will be > used. > E: Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ > to hold all the .debs. apt-get autoclean to clear just out of date packages (if

Re: fstab entry for NTFS formatted drive

2003-02-04 Thread Sid Blackley
--- David Turetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a hard drive running Windows XP Professional > under NTFS format > > I'd like to access that drive from my Woody system > but I can't locate a > suitable file type for an /etc/fstab entry > > -- > David google using vfat etc/fstab as keywo

lwresd and named together

2003-02-04 Thread Xavier Barnabe-Theriault
hi. Looking at processes on my server, i see named and lwresd. Of what i've read about lwreasd, a small name resol..., it looks like unuseful to have both, when moreover: - in syslog i see conflicts: named starts first and listen to many places, then lwresd drop by and conplain that 127.0.0.1#9

sSMTP & time

2003-02-04 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
sSMTP is setting the timezone to +4200. How can I tell it to use CST? TIA, Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HP Jetadmin printer tools fro Debian?

2003-02-04 Thread stan
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:08:18AM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > HP do a RedHat and a Suse version of the webjetadmin. > > http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?prodNum= > WBJASW&prodName=hp+web+jetadmin+software&locale=en_US&taskId=135&prodTypeId= > 18972&prodSeries

Re: HP Jetadmin printer tools fro Debian?

2003-02-04 Thread stan
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 05:34:54PM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 06:17:44PM -0500, stan wrote: > > Trying to get the last of my porprietory systems out of service. I'm in > > pretty good shape, except for the JetAdmin printer managment tools. > > > > Any sugestions her

Re: Printing Problem

2003-02-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya roberto on your print server... d/l and install magicfilter to make life 10x easier vi /etc/printcap # # http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Downloads/LPR/printcap # lp|Epson800:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd:\ :pw:132:\ :

Re: Disk Corruption SOLVED

2003-02-04 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 21:00, Anita Lewis wrote: --snip-- > I still think you could just put boot=/dev/hda in > lilo.conf and run it happily. If windows will boot with other=/dev/hda1 > using the floppy, then I see no reason why you could not install it LILO > into the mbr of that first drive. Hav

Re: Newsreaders - newsx 0r suggestion

2003-02-04 Thread Sid Blackley
re: pan whilst its tempting to stick with semi-familiar ground, the payload needed is not in line with the philosphy I came to Debian with. ie. small in stature, tremdously powerfull and fast as lightning! prolly (for me) I need something between a trimmed pan and rn re: slrn I had checked out t

Re: X whacking monitor

2003-02-04 Thread Mike M
On Monday 03 February 2003 17:30, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:51:53PM -0500, Mike M wrote: > [snip] > > > This is also known as the Trident 9880 chip. It is on a Jaton 107AGP > > card. > > [snip] > > > I might be swapping out the Trident video cards for something else if

Re: Disk Corruption: SOLVED

2003-02-04 Thread Sid Blackley
--- Jonathan Brandmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And permanantly broken. > > A detailed read of /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt > reveales this telling > entry: > --quote-- > Two disks, Linux on second disk, first disk has no > extended partition > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: out of space in /var/cache/apt/archives

2003-02-04 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 04 Feb 2003 09:43:25PM -0500, Seneca insinuated: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:19:11PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > so, it's pretty full. 288M of that is in /var/cache/apt/archives, > > and are a lot of debs. can i safely delete these all to make room > > for the new ones? there's not

fstab entry for NTFS formatted drive

2003-02-04 Thread David Turetsky
I have a hard drive running Windows XP Professional under NTFS format I'd like to access that drive from my Woody system but I can't locate a suitable file type for an /etc/fstab entry -- David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: Add software RAID to woody box with ext3 fs

2003-02-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Steve Wollkind wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:03:16PM +0100, Alex Polite wrote: > > > > A hard drive on a firewall I maintain crashed. I just built a new > > firewall using the bf2.4 woody installation floppies. I selected ext3 > > as my file system. > > > > I wo

Re: out of space in /var/cache/apt/archives

2003-02-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:19:11PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > my /var is 465M. i'm trying to do and apt-get upgrade, which i > haven't in a while, and got the following message: > > Need to get 69.0MB/109MB of archives. After unpacking 39.1MB will be > used. > E: Sorry, you don't have enough

Printing Problem

2003-02-04 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I am desperately in need of some help here. Over the past week I have been completely unsuccesful in getting my printer to cooperate. I have an Epson Stylus Color 400 connected to a Pentium Pro 200 running Debian Woody. Ultimately I need this printer available over my small home network. I h

Re: out of space in /var/cache/apt/archives

2003-02-04 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:19:11PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > so, it's pretty full. 288M of that is in /var/cache/apt/archives, and > are a lot of debs. can i safely delete these all to make room for the > new ones? there's nothing here that i need for these packages to run, > right? You do

Re: out of space in /var/cache/apt/archives

2003-02-04 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030205 11:31]: > my /var is 465M. i'm trying to do and apt-get upgrade, which i > haven't in a while, and got the following message: > > Need to get 69.0MB/109MB of archives. After unpacking 39.1MB will be > used. > E: Sorry, you don't have enough free s

Re: out of space in /var/cache/apt/archives

2003-02-04 Thread CaT
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:19:11PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > so, it's pretty full. 288M of that is in /var/cache/apt/archives, and > are a lot of debs. can i safely delete these all to make room for the > new ones? there's nothing here that i need for these packages to run, > right? Right.

Re: out of space in /var/cache/apt/archives

2003-02-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:19:11PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > so, it's pretty full. 288M of that is in /var/cache/apt/archives, and > are a lot of debs. can i safely delete these all to make room for the > new ones? there's nothing here that i need for these packages to run, > right? That's

Re: out of space in /var/cache/apt/archives

2003-02-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Nori Heikkinen said: > so, it's pretty full. 288M of that is in /var/cache/apt/archives, and > are a lot of debs. can i safely delete these all to make room for the > new ones? there's nothing here that i need for these packages to run, > right? Should be able to. Easiest way to do it is a

Re: Add software RAID to woody box with ext3 fs

2003-02-04 Thread Steve Wollkind
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:03:16PM +0100, Alex Polite wrote: > > A hard drive on a firewall I maintain crashed. I just built a new > firewall using the bf2.4 woody installation floppies. I selected ext3 > as my file system. > > I would like to add RAID-1 to this setup. How do I add RAID-1 without

out of space in /var/cache/apt/archives

2003-02-04 Thread Nori Heikkinen
my /var is 465M. i'm trying to do and apt-get upgrade, which i haven't in a while, and got the following message: Need to get 69.0MB/109MB of archives. After unpacking 39.1MB will be used. E: Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ to hold all the .debs. ... which is

simple (non-technial) software question

2003-02-04 Thread Phil
I'm setting -up linux machines at a school and the teachers are interested in Mavis Beacon teaches typing and Mathblaster type programs. They want programs that are fun for the kids and teach them things at the same time. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Reasons for removing packages from Debian

2003-02-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:19:06AM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: > gnotepad+-help 1.2.0-3.1 Purged by the release manager due to bugs, see #137928. > kfilereplace 0.6.1-8 It had been orphaned for ages so it was removed, see #116554. > libjsw1.2 1:1.2.0-1.2 Removed because its source package didn'

Need help: tar and huge files

2003-02-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Over the past weekend I had a meltdown on my server's only HD. The best I could do was nab some tars from the filesystems using LNX-BBC, move them over the network to a Windows box, reformat and reinstall. The reformat and reinstall portion went rather smoothly once I was able to get the

apt-get: Reading Package Lists... Error!

2003-02-04 Thread Joel Alexandre
can someone please tell me why this is happening? apt-get update; Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing courier-ssl (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/tux.cprm.net_debian_n

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-04 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:48:45PM +, Dave Selby wrote: > wget looks good to me, it even resets the modem and re-dials if it is not > getting the file > > Probarbly asking the earth ... There isn't a GUI wrapper for it ??? Just do a reverse-depends check on wget in aptitude, I found two

Re: columbia -- what really happened

2003-02-04 Thread Russell
Vikki Roemer wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 06:02:21PM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: ... OTOH, space exploration and research improves everyone's lives-- new medicines and medical techniques, etc. So how is it a waste? How is it anymore of a waste than welfare and socialized medicine? Not try

iconv and UTF-8 encoding

2003-02-04 Thread Nori Heikkinen
i'm trying to read a file that i'm told is encoded in UTF-8. the output of "file" on it says "Non-ISO extended-ASCII English text" (it's not actually english, but that doesn't matter). I can't read it as is, so i'm trying to convert it to ISO-8859-1 or whatever the standard is that i'm used to wi

Re: columbia -- what really happened

2003-02-04 Thread Dave W
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 20:18, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > I feel sorry for their families, kinda hard to feel sorry for astronauts. > > As for bravery, no I don't think they are brave either. > > Why not? There's always a chance that the shuttle will blow up at > some point (Challenger and Columbia)

Re: columbia -- what really happened

2003-02-04 Thread donw
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 08:18:42PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > > I feel sorry for their families, kinda hard to feel sorry for astronauts. > > As for bravery, no I don't think they are brave either. > > Why not? There's always a chance that the shuttle will blow up at > some point (Challe

Re: HP Jetadmin printer tools fro Debian?

2003-02-04 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, stan wrote: > Trying to get the last of my porprietory systems out of service. I'm in > pretty good shape, except for the JetAdmin printer managment tools. > > Any sugestions here? Well, depends on what you want to do? You can telnet to jet direct printer servers, and the ne

Reasons for removing packages from Debian

2003-02-04 Thread Carlos Sousa
After running a few scripts of my own, I've discovered quite a few packages I have installed that are now completely absent from all Debian distributions. Further processing of the Packages files showed that some of the vanished packages were from unstable and got replaced by newer versions, and o

Re: columbia -- what really happened

2003-02-04 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 06:02:21PM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > > > Guys...it's a bit sad when some very brave people died in > > Columbia to be talking stuff like this...i agree with Vincent > > that comments like this are not necessary. Spare a moments > > thought (or longer if possible

Re: knowledge

2003-02-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Quotes: System is thought's way of orienting itself. Facts are largely useless until reason can fit them into their correct contexts (historical, logical, psychological, or causal ones). All rational thinking is based on principles and systems. Every thinking man has made his own system, whether h

Re: Demand PPP

2003-02-04 Thread Michael Wardle
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003 03:47, David Raeker-Jordan wrote: > I know that this question has been asked recently, but I obviously must be > missing something because I cannot get PPP to work on demand. I recently set up something similar on my home firewall box. Are you able to dial out using

Re: Disk Corruption: SOLVED

2003-02-04 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
And permanantly broken. A detailed read of /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt reveales this telling entry: --quote-- Two disks, Linux on second disk, first disk has no extended partition - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - If there is neither a Linux partition nor an

Re: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-04 Thread nate
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh said: > Use my *official* debs. Duh. The ones for woody are official, they just > are not shipped with woody :-P sid includes cyrus 1.5 (deprecated > upstream) and cyrus 2.1. 2.2 is comming in one month or so. Woody > (debian 3.0) has official debs of 1.5 (shipped

Re: Disk Corruption

2003-02-04 Thread Anita Lewis
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 06:30:05PM -0500, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote: > /boot/boot-menu.b: no such file or directory. Hmm... > > > > + > > I have other things under that, and when I boot, I get a red menu with the > > list to choose from. It waits a while and then goes off to l

Re: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-04 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 04 Feb 2003, Hans Wilmer wrote: > delete folders. My first impression is that cyrus is considerably > faster than courier. It is. The whole indexes pain with Cyrus is to get that speed... > But to get a decent number of mails into the testusers mailbox for > testing, I'd like to copy ove

RE: HP Jetadmin printer tools fro Debian?

2003-02-04 Thread Joyce, Matthew
HP do a RedHat and a Suse version of the webjetadmin. http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?prodNum= WBJASW&prodName=hp+web+jetadmin+software&locale=en_US&taskId=135&prodTypeId= 18972&prodSeriesId=27905 Can either of those be persuaded to work on deb ? Matt >

Re: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-04 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 04 Feb 2003, nate wrote: > to use, flexible etc. That said, I took a look at possibly replacing > my cyrus 1.5 with a new cyrus 2.0 or 2.1?? from the unofficial debs Use my *official* debs. Duh. The ones for woody are official, they just are not shipped with woody :-P sid includes cyrus

Re: Newsreaders - newsx 0r suggestion

2003-02-04 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Sid Blackley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What is similiar and current? > Ideally I am looking at something similiar to > Fortenics Agent-v18. Pan is, I believe, similar to Agent. It used to require lots of Gnome libs, but I think recent versions cut back to mostly just GTK stuff, though I could

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Selby
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 11:08 pm, Seneca wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:34:04PM +, Dave Selby wrote: > > 1. Is there a downloader for debian that will handle broken downloads ? > > If not can anyone recommend one ? > > Take a look at wget (I'm thinking of its options "-c" (continue a >

Re: knowledge

2003-02-04 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 17:52, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 16:02, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] > > My favorite quote from Stephen Hawking is one where he was contrasting > > his view of quantum theory with that of Roger Penrose in a Scientific > > American artic

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-04 Thread Nick Hastings
* Dave Selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030205 07:52]: > OK Ive had a brainstorming session on how to do this, what I need to know is, > > 1. Is there a downloader for debian that will handle broken downloads ? If > not can anyone recommend one ? apt-get install wget wget -c http://whatever.you.want

Re: what is /dev/??? for the parellel port ? escputil

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Selby
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 11:27 pm, you wrote: > Dave Selby wrote: > > - SNIP - < > > > > Hi mate, Under windows 98, yuk !!, the pucker epson driver gets the info > > on ink levels etc AOK, so I guess the cable is AOK > > > > The computer is 3 yr old, ie obsolete !!, the printer 1 year old. > >

Re: Subtle text problem in pine

2003-02-04 Thread Michael Jinks
Replying to my own post: while we haven't solved this, we have narrowed it down enough to make it a non-issue for us. Turns out that gnome-terminal from GNOME-1, at least under certain configurations, chokes on certain non-english characters (Euro, e's with accents, probably others), and rather th

Re: Disk Corruption

2003-02-04 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 17:40, Anita Lewis wrote: > Ok, that's a step in the right direction. We know that the lilo.conf is > working. If you hit TAB during the LILO startup before it goes off into > Linux, You will probably see windows as a choice and you could type that in > and go to xp. >

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-04 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Thorsten Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-05 00:08]: >>2. How do I sent an 'ATZ' reset string to my modem from the command line ? > >Just guessing, untested: >cat 'ATZ' > /dev/modem Doh. Not cat(1), it's echo(1). Thorsten -- Is there a suspect in your family? - Contact the Ministry

Re: HP Jetadmin printer tools fro Debian?

2003-02-04 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 06:17:44PM -0500, stan wrote: > Trying to get the last of my porprietory systems out of service. I'm in > pretty good shape, except for the JetAdmin printer managment tools. > > Any sugestions here? What exactly do you need from those tools? I've used JetAdmin printers mor

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Re: what is /dev/??? for the parellel port ? escputil

2003-02-04 Thread Donald Spoon
Dave Selby wrote: > - SNIP - < Hi mate, Under windows 98, yuk !!, the pucker epson driver gets the info on ink levels etc AOK, so I guess the cable is AOK The computer is 3 yr old, ie obsolete !!, the printer 1 year old. ls -al /dev/lp0 gives debian:/home/test# ls -al /dev/lp0 crw-rw1

Re: Newsreaders - newsx 0r suggestion

2003-02-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Sid Blackley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.04.2358 +0100]: > Easiest is possibly to move to another client. > What is similiar and current? slrn is very cool. It's text-based though. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists that I read! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Dave Selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.04.2334 +0100]: > 1. Is there a downloader for debian that will handle broken downloads ? If > not can anyone recommend one ? What kind of download? Regular HTTP? wget can resume HTTP and FTP. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists that

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Dave Selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.04.2334 +0100]: > 2. How do I sent an 'ATZ' reset string to my modem from the command line ? echo -e "ATZ\n" > /dev/modem -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists that I read! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :pr

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-04 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:34:04PM +, Dave Selby wrote: > OK Ive had a brainstorming session on how to do this, what I need to know is, > > 1. Is there a downloader for debian that will handle broken downloads ? If > not can anyone recommend one ? apt-get ;-) > 2. How do I sent an 'ATZ' rese

Anyone have any experience with ASL?

2003-02-04 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I am considering purchasing a laptop from ASL (www.aslab.com). I was wondering if anyone out there has any firsthand experience with them. I.e., how is their customer service, product quality, etc. So far, from what I have seen of their website and from corresponding with a couple of sales p

Re: list delay

2003-02-04 Thread Michael Wardle
On Friday, January 31, 2003 11:15, Michael Wardle wrote: > I've only recently subscribed to debian-user, and I notice that I > receive messages sent to the list 4 or 5 hours after they have been > sent. As Nathan and others pointed out, there was an unusually high amount of Internet traffic aroun

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-04 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:34:04PM +, Dave Selby wrote: > 1. Is there a downloader for debian that will handle broken downloads ? If > not can anyone recommend one ? Take a look at wget (I'm thinking of its options "-c" (continue a previous partial download) and "-t" (retries)). > 2. How do

Re: fups2 mouse in X

2003-02-04 Thread Kent West
Ruediger Noack wrote: Hi Kent Kent West wrote: [fups2 and X] IIRC - long time ago... ;-) Try this: Use gpm with settings fups2 and repeat_type=raw. In your X-config set Option "Device""/dev/gpmdata" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-04 Thread Kent West
Dave Selby wrote: OK Ive had a brainstorming session on how to do this, what I need to know is, 1. Is there a downloader for debian that will handle broken downloads ? If not can anyone recommend one ? Not sure what you mean? wget? 2. How do I sent an 'ATZ' reset string to my modem from th

HP Jetadmin printer tools fro Debian?

2003-02-04 Thread stan
Trying to get the last of my porprietory systems out of service. I'm in pretty good shape, except for the JetAdmin printer managment tools. Any sugestions here? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-04 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Dave Selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-04 23:34]: >1. Is there a downloader for debian that will handle broken downloads ? If >not can anyone recommend one ? The thing usually recommended is wget(1). >2. How do I sent an 'ATZ' reset string to my modem from the command line ? Just guess

Icon identifiers on the Desktop

2003-02-04 Thread Sid Blackley
hello list,, something small but annoying. Using Opera611 under wmaker - how can one identify the icons for each window opened. Win95B usually shows part of the url in the icon - be handy to have something similar available. is it? cheers SiD "unstable yet breathing" http://movies.yahoo.com.au

Workaround: Debian install failure: gettext-base was corrupt

2003-02-04 Thread glen martin
Thought I'd post the way I got through this problem, not that I'd call it a fix, as such. I eventually used the Woody CD 1 to get the bootstrap up, then removed the CD. When time came to install bootdisks, base etc I used the Network method, and ftp protocol. http didn't work. I've got to figur

Re: modem / pon / serial problems

2003-02-04 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:44:37AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Ah, a reply from the master, thank you! > > With this arrangement, pppconfig can't autodetect the modem... > > Pppconfig uses pppd to "autodetect", but why do you care? You know what > port to use. Just select it manually in pppconfi

Newsreaders - newsx 0r suggestion

2003-02-04 Thread Sid Blackley
helloo list,, I am looking at newsx . At first glance it appears to have features I know and would use. In getting it onto my system the dpkg install whinges for inn and cnews. apt-get then tells me those packages are "obsolete" and/or require a version of installed deps that are older than those

Re: knowledge

2003-02-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 16:02, Craig Dickson wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > My favorite quote from Stephen Hawking is one where he was contrasting > his view of quantum theory with that of Roger Penrose in a Scientific > American article several years ago. He wrote (this may not be word > perfe

Re: Disk Corruption

2003-02-04 Thread Anita Lewis
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 05:02:23PM -0500, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote: > > > > boot=/dev/fd0 > > > > in place of boot=/dev/hda > > Actually, I have been using /dev/hdb1 without problems until recently. > > > Then put a floppy in and run /sbin/lilo. Leave the floppy in and boot. > If > > that works

Re: [OT] Capitalism (was Re: columbia -- what really happened)

2003-02-04 Thread Jack Nguy
Why is this on this mailing list again? -Jack - Original Message - From: "Sean Burlington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [OT] Capitalism (was Re: columbia -- what really happened) > Charlie Reiman wrote: >

Re: exim and relaying -- for ONE user

2003-02-04 Thread Joey Hess
will trillich wrote: > could you be a little less specific? (just kidding. ;) > > "You set up your server to support TLS"... at which point i > start slamming the oven door on my head again. Really, it's not that hard. apt-get install -tls. They set up certs for you. I went the extra mile to set

Re: Problems downloading Knoppix

2003-02-04 Thread Levi Waldron
On February 4, 2003 08:13 am, bob parker wrote: > Well I just completed downloading Knoppix using my steam powered dial up > connection. > > I started on 27 January. That's such a sad story, if you have a hard time fixing the download let me know and I'll mail a KNOPPIX cd to you. -Levi -- To

Re: what is /dev/??? for the parellel port ? escputil

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Selby
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 9:41 pm, Donald Spoon wrote: > Dave Selby wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 February 2003 8:47 pm, you wrote: > >>Thus spake Dave Selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >>>Hi, Ive started using escputil to check and clean my print heads, it > >>>works great but I also need to check the ink

More detailed post ...

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Selby
OK Ive had a brainstorming session on how to do this, what I need to know is, 1. Is there a downloader for debian that will handle broken downloads ? If not can anyone recommend one ? 2. How do I sent an 'ATZ' reset string to my modem from the command line ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Starting KDM

2003-02-04 Thread Jerry Van Brimmer
On 02/04/03 11:26, Kent West wrote: Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: Hello, I have Woody installed. I wanted to have X support for an ATI Radeon 7500 card so I upgraded to XFree86 version 4.2.0. I downloaded all of the files from the XFree86 website and installed them according to their instructions

RE: bash brace expansion question SOLVED

2003-02-04 Thread drew cohan
>On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 01:10:45PM -0500, Drew Cohan wrote: >> Why is >> >> >> >> echo /path/to/dir/*.{jpg,JPG,jpeg,JPEG} >> >> >> >> illegal? > >It's not, merely not portable to POSIX shells other than bash. However, >you may want to 'shopt -s nullglob' in case some of the parts of that >wildcard

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