How to configure the realplayer so that it can see the .rm files?

Hi, I have downloaded the bt in Windows XP, so that i have downloaded some video files. But I cannot see it in linux "Some components are not available to provide playback of this presentation on your system". How to deal with this problem, so that I can read the .rm? Regards, James Ng -- To U

Re: 2.4.18 pcmcia troubles

ScruLoose wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:23:40PM +, Andrew McGuinness wrote: ScruLoose wrote: Try the i82092 module. It lists support for the CL 6729. I think it probably won't work, however... Hm. I don't *think* that worked, but I'm not entirely sure. The i82092 module loads, but su

Re: overstaop op W2K

A. Loonstra wrote: He Laurens, Ik zou nog een document van het het hele verhaal van w2k uitrollen sturen. Ik leg er nu de laatste hand aan maar de eerste versie is al te downloaden. http://matilda.sphaero.org/~arnaud/w2k-pdc-02.pdf Ben nu bezig om mensen feedback te vragen, misschien heb je no

Re: kernel 2.6.0-test2 and mii-tool

Hello Francois! On Tuesday 05 August 2003 14:40, François Chenais wrote: > I just have built kernel 2.6.0-test2 from kernel.org sources but I > have a problem using mii-tool and alsamixer. > >mii-tool says > SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Operation not supported According to http://www

Re: CD access probs

On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:40:06 +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Sunday 10 August 2003 3:13 pm, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: [...prob > mounting CD...] >> /dev/cdrom is a symlink to what? > > ouch. That was simple enough, then. Point it at the right place... OK, > that works. Problem 1 SOLVED. Good.

Re: how NOT to work with debian

You're just running WindowMaker. Check to see if KDE is installed correctly, first. If it is, then simply type "ln -sf /usr/bin/startkde /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager" and jab at the Enter key. I'm not sure whether or not this might break something with Debian's alternatives system (or simply

Re: how NOT to work with debian

On Monday 11 August 2003 3:36 am, Antony Gelberg wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:25:48AM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: [...general description snipped...] > Give more technical detail. How are you trying to start X? Most > importantly of all, what do the error messages say? Yes. I do 'startx'

Re: Obnoxious autoresponders was:Re: Out of Office AutoReply: how NOT to work with debian

* iain d broadfoot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030811 04:12]: > * Petrisor Marian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > [an entirely blank message with a semi-informative subject line] > > This pisses me off majorly There's more important things in life... My "d" key deals with messages like his auto-response ju

Re: how NOT to work with debian

Also sprach Richard Lyons (Mon 11 Aug 02003 at 01:25:48AM +0200): > I previously today posted my problem with KDE breaking. Not getting any quick > help, I tried to use aptitude to update, thinking that if the KDE supplied > with Knoppix were to be updated, it would be reconfigured and solve my

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re:Look at

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 22:33:06 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't get protection from spam. If humans can decode it, so can > the spammers. If humans can't decode it, you're voiding functionality > needlessly. That's just it, while a human *can* decode it a harvester cann

Re: Harassment

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:06:59PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > Here's the Person who's been harassing me: Like we care. Take it through the proper channels. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `.

Re: Probelms with apt-proxy

Hi Roberto, On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:29:14PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > This is the error I get when I run apt-get update: > > (from the Woody box) > Err http://localhost stable/updates/main Packages > Connection failed > > (from the Unstable box) > Err http://P-Pro-200 unstable/main Pa

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:31:12PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:00:02PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > Because CR hinders legitimate mail almost as effectively as it hinders > > spam for about the same false-positive rate as bayesian filtering. > > Also, you're

Re: Helping the newbie

Kent West wrote: Michael D. Schleif wrote: I take it that this address is working for everyone except me? Hmmm. I just ssh'd into another network, and it works there. How interesting. I'm on Cox Cable at home, and there it does not work. Well, I thought it w

Re: Obnoxious autoresponders was:Re: Out of Office AutoReply: howNOT to work with debian

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 03:11:57 +0100 iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Petrisor Marian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > [an entirely blank message with a semi-informative subject line] > > This pisses me off majorly - my message was addressed to the list > only. > > If someone goes on ho

Re: Anyone installed sarge?

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:31:30 +0200 (MEST), Jens Wannenmacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > anyone out there who installed sarge from the unofficial isos dated > 2003/07/27? > If so: Are there any problems? Are those the images of the new debian-installer, or the former boot-floppies set?

Re: how NOT to work with debian

* Richard Lyons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Monday 11 August 2003 3:36 am, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:25:48AM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > [...general description snipped...] > > Give more technical detail. How are you trying to start X? Most > > importantly of all,

Re: dpkg -i does not install all files in a package

Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have had some problems with a package, so I tried to remove some off > the files and reinstall with dpkg -i to regenrate the files. Are they configuration files (to a first approximation, "files in /etc")? If so, dpkg considers deleting the file as a

Re: Basic 2D graphics card for Linux?

David selby írta: Anthony Campbell wrote: My Riva TNT2 AGP card has just packed up and I'm looking for a replacement that will work reliably on Linux with a 19" monitor. I don't play games so I need something fairly basic but with good 2D performance and AGP. Any recommendations please? AC I r

Re: /dev/dsp

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 12:39:03AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 07:22:51PM -0400, Nyc0n wrote: > > I normally do a chmod 777 /dev/dsp and it works fine, might be a > > security violation though...not sure... > > A friend of min

nvidia & gcc version

Hi all. I've trying to install the nvidia driver in my knoppix 3.2 but the installer complaing about the version of the gcc. This was the content of /var/log/nvidia-installer.log: -- You appear to be compiling the NVIDIA

Re: Who owns /dev/dsp?

On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 04:24:48PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 10:40:05PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 05:21:40PM -0400, Nyc0n wrote: > > >> From: Ross Boylan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 4:13 PM > > >> To: [EMAI

How do I configure iptables to allow DNS lookups?

I'm trying to configure iptables as strictly as possible, however, I'm having problems with DNS. If I understand correctly how DNS works, the client sends a UDP packet from a high number port to port 53 on the name server. The name server responds with a UDP packet back to that high number po

Re: One Last Note

On Thu, 07 Aug 2003, Alan Connor wrote: > You have 3 spammers on the list, that I have been able to identify for > sure. First of all, whoever wants to hit me with a cluebat for replying can - I probably deserve it. The debian-user mailing list does get spammed - I believe that you don't have t

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:39:27 -0700 Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > He does. In fact he perports that C-R is a better defense than PGP. > No. I didn't ever say anything like that. Alan, there's one thing I absolutely cannot stand and that is a liar. Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: cdrecord suddenly doesn't allow burning

Sridhar M.A. wrote: >> On my system, everything works if I chmod +r /usr/bin/cdrecord >> > Do it the debian way. Add yourself to the cdrom group. /dev/scd0 has > root.cdrom as owner. That will solve the OP's problem. Actually, I did it the Debian way with dpkg-statovveride. I am in the

Re: dpkg -i does not install all files in a package

On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 06:00:10PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have had some problems with a package, so I tried to remove some off > > the files and reinstall with dpkg -i to regenrate the files. > > Are they configuration files (to a first approxim

Re: debian mutt questions

On (05/08/03 07:52), Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 07:52:14 -0500 (CDT) > From: Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: debian mutt questions > > can anybody tell me whether the debian mutt package is configured to enable > fetching from one's pop serv

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:59:52AM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > Please point me to the rfc for netiquette. There is no "one true > netiquette" You mean RFC 1855, right? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and

Re: Interesting Mail setup

* mustafa taha al-shawaf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030809 16:31]: > Hi group. > > I've got an interesting Mail setup that I want to configure for my system, > but I don't even know where to start. > > First a little about my system. I'm running woody on a computer that is > connected to the internet

Re: Mouse Pointer Problem

Hi Jonathan, Yes, I'm using a Trident graphics card... I didnt have the option "swcursor" or "hwcursor" configured in XF86Config. I added the "swcursor" there..now I need to wait a little to see if the problem happen again. Thanks for helping me. GMEndes. On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 19:33, Jonathan M

Re: Helping the newbie

On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 09:35:35PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 08:49:49AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Looking up learn.to > > learn.to > > Unable to locate remote host learn.to. > > Alert!: Unable to connect to remote hos

Re: XFS in the kernel-source

* Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030810 14:51]: > I got the kernel-source-2.4.21 package (wich is the debian patched version of > the official kernel). I also got the XFS patch from SGI for the 2.4.21 kernel > (ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches/2.4.21/xfs-2.4.21-all-i386.bz

Re: CD access probs

On Sunday 10 August 2003 7:30 pm, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: [...] > > Oh dear, found it. Missed a module at configure time when installing > > the Knoppix: > > $ /sbin/insmod ide-scsi > > insmod: ide-scsi: no module by that name found [...] > It depends. Where did you get your kernel from? If you co

Re: configuring xwindows?

On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 01:51:29PM -0400, Jake Johnson wrote: > Hello, > I have seen that redhat does a great job with configuring the xserver and > I was hoping that Debian has something comparable. Please let me know so > I don't have to try and play with xf86config! > > -- > Regards, > Jake

Re: Alsa Install, VIA VT8235 and ASUS A7V8X-X

Daniel Reginald Hunt wrote: >Installed the 2.4.21 kernel from kernel.org source >used the "The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your >Debian >Kernel" >Picked up everything from this apt-get.org backport source. >deb http://prometheus.psico.unimib.it/debian/ . >However this source a

Re: NNTP to email?

*Blush* I sent this to Paul and I meant to send it to the list so I am forwarding it. I should take my own advice and subscribe to the list. Sorry for the noise, Paul. Tony --- Begin Message --- On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:55:03AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > I just tried slrn...two big conce

Re: Alsa Install, VIA VT8235 and ASUS A7V8X-X

On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 08:43:10PM -0600, Daniel Reginald Hunt wrote: > Re-installing Stable to make this on board sound work. You shouldn't have to re-install the whole system.. > Installed the 2.4.21 kernel from kernel.org source > > Picked up everything from this apt-get.org backport source.

Re: Unusual idea..

On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 03:30, Joe Emenaker wrote: > Craig Tinson wrote: > > >Can anyone come up with a theory on how to "convert an mp3 into a > >number"? > > > Well, whatever you're going to use it for, it has probably already been > done, or it's not going to work out like you hope. Let me touch

Re: Strange net problem (MAC-adress?)

Hello ZekeVarg (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > When I log out from X to install nvidia-driver I get a very strange > problem,this lines keep appering over and over again: > > IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC="my ipnumber" DST="my ipnumber" LEN=140 T > OS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TIL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=138 DTP=1

Re: Upgrade from potato to debian

Hello Shashank Bhide (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > [Upgrade from potato to woody] > I have been reading the mailing lists for related problems and the > upgrade manual as well > (http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html). > However, at the end of this docum

Howto force X using the same resolution as the framebuffer

How can I force X to use the screen resolution of the configured framebuffer driver "fbdev" when I start it with startx? O. Wyss -- See "http://wxguide.sourceforge.net/"; for ideas how to design your app. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: let's remove fortran from my system

Thus spake Dan Jacobson: > # apt-cache show pdl > Description: The perl data language. Perl extensions for numerics. > looks threatening to the system. Ok, better quit while I'm ahead. You can likely do without it. It's used mainly for very numerically intensive things... I believe the gimp-p

Re: hdparm / DMA problems

Hello Nyc0n (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > To use hdparm to boost DMA speed, does DMA have to be enabled in the > kernel? i have the DMA enabled in the kernel, but some of my drives > that should use it don't, so I used hdparm to help that out, before > hdparm I was getting 3megs a second after

upgrade from potato to woody

How do I upgrade from Potato to woody? What do I need to change in the sources.list file? My sources.list file looks something like this: # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work #deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb-src http://non-us.deb

Re: Good Debian-based distro

On Sunday 10 August 2003 8:48 am, Loren M Lang wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm looking for a good debian-based distro with a good and user friendly > install program. I love debian much better than redhat based distros > mostly for the packaging system, especially

Re: configuring xwindows?

Hello Jake Johnson (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have seen that redhat does a great job with configuring the xserver > and > I was hoping that Debian has something comparable. Please let me know > so I don't have to try and play with xf86config! The way I prefer is to configure X with debcon

Re: cdrecord suddenly doesn't allow burning

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:43:14AM +, Danilo Raineri wrote: > Joris Huizer wrote: > > > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Permission denied > > It seems that /usr/bin/cdrecord has been replaced by a script, which calls > the appropriate executable depending on the kernel version: >

Re: XFS in the kernel-source

* Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030810 17:52]: > > If you use Debians Kernel-Sources, why don't you use Debian xfs-patch, > > too? > OOPS is there one? :-) Yes it ist: $ apt-cache search xfs patch kernel-patch-xfs - XFS Filesystem support for Linux 2.4.20 and 2.4.21 Works grate, if y

Debian Woody, KDE startup does not go past "Peripherals" phase

Hello all, This problem has me perplexed. I have a machine which I have run in the past with Debian Testing (Sarge). Everything is great. With the progression to libc6.3 in Testing, one very important application broke (CAD software). Hence, I now have to go back to Stable (or Woody, more co

Re: CD access prob

On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 15:00:12 +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > My CD says >Could not mount device. >The reported error was: >mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device /dev/cdrom is a symlink to what? (Hint: ls -l /dev/cdrom to find out. It might also be interesting to know w

Re: AA fonts and galeon

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 21:19, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > I am currently using galeon from the unstable branch. Gnome is also from > the unstable branch. > > Mozilla-firebird renders the text in aa fonts, but galeon does > not. How can I set anti-aliasing in galeon? apt-get install mozilla-xft Jamie -

Re: cdrecord suddenly doesn't allow burning

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:14:06PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Joris Huizer (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > ?? now what should I do ? Should I change /dev/sg0 to > > the cdrom group too ? :-s > > Yes, you should change that Set them to cdrom group and make them > read-writable f

Re: Basic 2D graphics card for Linux?

On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 12:47:19PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > My Riva TNT2 AGP card has just packed up and I'm looking for a > replacement that will work reliably on Linux with a 19" monitor. I don't > play games so I need something fairly basic but with good 2D > performance and AGP. A

Re: Animate png images.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:18:40PM +0300, Egor Tur wrote: > Is there any programme for manipulate png images, for example > animate *.png from many frames? Nope. You're thinking of png's obnoxious, animated twin, mng. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson

Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

On Friday 08 August 2003 7:53 am, Dave Carrigan wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 07:38:55AM -0600, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > I have always had really great luck with subversion. It has > > customizable transports, and comes built in with support for > > working over http, which is wonderful for

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at

Thanks very much for the very informative post. We also use postfix here. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should note that there are a number of emails that are bounced as undeliverable from "real people" because of my UCE controls being so strict. Generally these are few and can easily be corrected

Re: calendar and contact server

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 02:49:15PM -0400, gerard wrote: > I was wondering if anyone knows of a server where I can have all my > contacts, tasks, and calendar. I was thinking about something where I > can have evolution or a program like it interact so that I can sync with > my palm and also have my

let's remove fortran from my system

I never use fortran, so # apt-cache show libg2c0 Description: Runtime library for GNU Fortran 77 applications # apt-get --purge remove libg2c0 The following packages will be REMOVED: atlas2-3dnow* libg2c0* pdl* r-base* r-base-core* r-base-html* r-base-latex* After unpacking 56.1MB di

Re: [OT] C++ question re. dyn. mem.

* Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030805 12:52]: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:40:42AM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > > On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 05:00:12 +0200, MJM wrote: > > > I think the free store will be maintained properly because there is a > > > control block attached to the allocated block of stor

ssh is slow

Wheen ssh'ing to and from my Debian 3.0r1, ssh acts dead slow when connecting, even when all keys are installed and no passwords are used. Could this be solved in some way? Best regards, David List -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Getting a Zip Drive to Work

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:27:41AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Having just installed Debian (as a new Linux user) I am > having problems getting my internal zip-drive to work. Mainly as I > cannot figure out which device it is and becuase

Re: kernel-2.6.0 says no /dev/dsp - no sound

OSS API emulation needs to be enabled in the ALSA section of the kernel options, (the mixer and digital sections. If it still doesn't work, try man MAKEDEV ~Tom White On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:31:59PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Just trying out kernel 2.6.0-test2 (from source). > > Everyth

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:27:34AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > Ignore it. I don't control the server so I can't really do anything about > it. That's why you need to report, so the people who *can* do something about it know about it. > I am not goi

after upgrade man-db seg faults

Hi. After upgrading to 2.4.1-12 of man-db it seg faults in the cron.daily script at the start-stop-daemon line. I am using kernel 2.4.21 vanilla if it makes any difference. Thanks. -- John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look

On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 08:10:30 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > Carlos Sousa writes: > > Do you also have an account at my service provider? Or is it that > > you're just incapable of setting up your mail system to show the > > real origin of your emails? Anyway, you're incurring in mail > > forgery. > >

[OT] Debian compatible GPS time receiver

Hello, I am planning to have a GPS time receiver as time source for our time server in data center. Any recommendation for any brands? Any horror stories? Time server will be a debian woody. Thanks in advance, raj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Reporting Spam (Was: That C-R crap)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 10:54:09PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Did you check out the new autoreporting features for subscribers? > > For subscribers... I don't like spam. I'm not going to buy anything from > spam. Conversely I'm not going to g

Re: squid problems with DNS resolution

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:40:16PM -0500, Greg Norris wrote: > > I've recently setup squid for a small home network (2 boxes, not > > counting the proxy server itself). Unfortunately, I instantly get the > > error text below when I try to access a non-cached site. If I do a > > shift-reload, the

Re: GCC for kernel compilation

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 08:27:20PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > I just upgraded to the current Sarge and also got GCC 3.3. It seems this > version can't compile all the drivers in kernel 2.4.21. Which version > should I use? And how do I set this version (Environment variable?) > without deinstalling

Any VOIP or something like Netmeeting(tm) or voice applications for debian?

Any VOIP or something like Netmeeting(tm of Microsoft, Inc) or voice applications for debian? I would like to talk to my friend over the internet using debian. Any recommended applications? THanks JF ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Alsa-utils make error

I am having a problem installing the alsa-utils package: dhunt:/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-0.9.6# ./configure;make;make install checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets ${MAKE}..

Re: Reason for so many questions

* Jacob Tennant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030808 23:00]: > Is because I have to switch hard drives physically to do any linux activity > which I don't have internet connectivity till I can get the ethernet card > running. > > Sorry to be a pain but I am new to linux by 6 hours! No worries, Jake. We'r

Re: Any VOIP or something like Netmeeting(tm) or voice applications for debian?

On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 10:01:48PM -0400, J F wrote: > > Any VOIP or something like Netmeeting(tm of Microsoft, Inc) or voice applications > for debian? > > I would like to talk to my friend over the internet using > debian. > Any recommended applications? speak-freely is an internet telephone

Re: /dev/dsp

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:52:39PM -0500, mustafa taha al-shawaf wrote: > Hey group. > > I get an error when starting up kde that says that sound cannot be > initialized because it cannot open /dev/dsp. I tried looking for a man > page on dsp but there wasn't any. I assume that it has something

Re: Helping the newbie

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:51:04PM -0400, Jeremy Davis wrote: > Are the debian packages not kept up-to-date? Let me try to put this in perspective for you: When you upgrade a commercial distro, you have to spend the next two weeks figuring out why everything stopped working (even though it was

Re: Newbie Modem Q

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 03:21:48PM +1000, Chris Share wrote: > The PC runs Windows98/2000 and has an internal SwannSmart II modem (on a > PCI card). Ditch it, get an external modem. Way less troublesome. If it's a winmodem (if it doesn't work if yo

Unusual idea..

Guys... I've had an idea for a "play project" I can work on at home in my spare time.. but before I start on it I need a few ideas.. Can anyone come up with a theory on how to "convert an mp3 into a number"? I know that sounds weird so I'll explain what I mean... Imagine converting an mp3 into a

Re: www.apt-get.org down?

Hi! Thanks for your quick reply! On Tue, 05 Aug 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > [...] > Read before posting. There is already a thread about this running. Well, I followed your advice and according to http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200308/msg00822.html it seems to be an IS

Re : problems with using dpkg on new installation

Hi Alasso, you wrote : > Seem to get a lot of circular dependencies that won't resolve. apt depends on libc6, libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2, libdb2 libc6 depends on dpkg you didnt post a try to install dpkg apt is smarter than dpkg, but it uses dpkg to do the install work. if you do run int

overstaop op W2K

He Laurens, Ik zou nog een document van het het hele verhaal van w2k uitrollen sturen. Ik leg er nu de laatste hand aan maar de eerste versie is al te downloaden. http://matilda.sphaero.org/~arnaud/w2k-pdc-02.pdf Ben nu bezig om mensen feedback te vragen, misschien heb je nog op/aanmerkingen.

Re: Reliably transferring a large amount of data from one machine to another over DSL

On 9 Aug 2003, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > Hi, > > I have two machines connected to the internet using DSL. What I would > like to do is backup one machine to the other. The files are compressed > and encrypted and then transferred usinc SCP. Atleast, thats what its > supposed to do. It does the fi

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I should have noted that the password would be stripped from the mail > before it was posted. Could do that with SED! Actually, I meant, what do you do when someone spams debian-user? You let debian-user, through, right? -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:23:15 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:26:36AM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > > Game, set, and match. > I gather this is a sports analogy. But I don't seem to be familiar > with the sport. Could you tell me what "Game, set, and match" means? Tenn

Re: How do I configure iptables to allow DNS lookups?

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Malcolm Ferguson wrote: > If I understand what I've just read from a Google search, TCP is used > when the data exceeds 512 bytes (or as you say, for zone transfers). Is > this always to TCP port 53 on the server, or can the server indicate an > alternative port in it's initia