Re: network visibility

2003-10-11 Thread Jacob Anawalt
ataraxia2500 wrote: I've just upgraded to sid, everything is working fine except my winxp box does not find my debian box on the network anymore though it used to find it before the dist-upgrade, maybe it installed stuffz that changed some confz on my debian machine. any idea what it might be? than

Re: install

2003-10-11 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Sidney Brooks wrote: I followed the instructions below. When I entered "linux single" at the boot prompt, I ended up with a blank screen and frozen computer. I might add, Debian "potato" didn't work for me in the graphical mode because it only accepted the lowest resolution, 640x400 (I think), and

Struggling with rootstrap (uml networking)

2003-10-11 Thread Alan Chandler
I am trying to use rootstrap to build a uml image. Unfortunately it has got to the point where its trying to fetch packages from the debian mirror and the network is hanging. I have set it up to use the uml_switch daemon. The switch daemon is connected to a tap device (tap0) which itself is c

Re: Illegal Instructions

2003-10-11 Thread Brian Nelson
"Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > on Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:52:48AM -0500, Doug MacFarlane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Team: >> >> I'm at a loss about what is causing these, or how to fix it . . >> >> It's a Debian Sparc Stable system, Sparc 20 with 256 mb of RAM. >> >> >> ra

Re: reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

2003-10-11 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 11:09 GMT, Tim Connors penned: Not a case of ext3 being crap, a case of ext3 with journalled *data* being crap. Quite a nice allrounder with the other two ext3 options set. And you get the same problems with all other fses when their equivalent of jo

Re: problems with rsa authentication (for use with mpich)

2003-10-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Faheem Mitha wrote: The only file in that directory is known_hosts. I'm not sure why keys would enter into this at all anyway. As I understand it, the whole idea is to just stick the trusted hosts into .rhosts, and you're away. You want the key placed into the file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. For exa

Re: problems with rsa authentication (for use with mpich)

2003-10-11 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 06:13:34PM +, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > Dear People, > > > > I am trying to enable rsa authentication for use with mpich. However, > > I am having some problems. > > > > Let us say I have two hosts, foo and bar. I'm trying to log in

Re: freedom of debian

2003-10-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Jacob Anawalt wrote: With debian, the files come to you whereas the old rpm system required you to find packages and fix things yourself. And isn't it just better this way? Thanks goes to all the hard working package mantainers! :) One of the beauties of open source: http://apt4rpm.sourcefor

Re: problems with rsa authentication (for use with mpich)

2003-10-11 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 06:13:34PM +, Faheem Mitha wrote: > Dear People, > > I am trying to enable rsa authentication for use with mpich. However, > I am having some problems. > > Let us say I have two hosts, foo and bar. I'm trying to log in from > foo to bar using rsh passwordless authentic

Re: 2nd try? fontconfig? autohinter? anyone?

2003-10-11 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 03:40:12PM -0700, Tom wrote: > > Well, then, I'll stick with the decision I made six months ago: > the autohinter looks worse than the bytecode interpreter. > > You know, this is the first slipup in the Matrix I've experienced > since I switch to Linux. They've happened

Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-11 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 04:52:28PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 11:51, Pigeon wrote: > > A dead-tree advert I have suggests > > http://www.ObservantWorld.com , who make a thing called a "Data > > Station" that gives you a bunch of analogue and digital inputs and > > outputs and

Re: freedom of debian

2003-10-11 Thread Jacob Anawalt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Jason Housewright wrote: [snip] Using Debian, is it fair to say that one has more freedom regarding the software installed...specifically, I mean that my experience with GNU/Linux thus far has been that if you want to install an upgraded version of some

Media: Icons, Backgrounds, Clip art, and other media distributed in debian packages.

2003-10-11 Thread Mike Mestnik
I was looking for a(the) netscape icon. I found several packages that included such an Icon, however I was not intersted in installing any of them. I also have a Background I use provided by the WindowMaker package. It was easy enuff for me to backup the Background befour I purged WM, however

Re: windows NT

2003-10-11 Thread Cam Ellison
* Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 01:15:46AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 01:04:53AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > its appearance. I'd suggest applying Occam's razor: the simplest > > > > For those who don't know Occam's Razor, it's sometime

Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-11 Thread kmark
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:39:13PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > > > Actually, there's two parts. First we need a machine to collect > > > data from an inexpensive weather station and then copy (ftp/scp) t

Re: get rid of unstable and testing packages

2003-10-11 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Malte Negendank wrote: Hi all, I have, after unsuccessfully downgrading my system, just reinstalled my system, using apt-pinning. This, however, turned out to be less brilliant as it sounded at first, it just gave me loads of dependeny problems with some packages. I tried it too once, with xserver

Re: Illegal Instructions

2003-10-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:52:48AM -0500, Doug MacFarlane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Team: > > I'm at a loss about what is causing these, or how to fix it . . > > It's a Debian Sparc Stable system, Sparc 20 with 256 mb of RAM. > > > ranum:/home/madmac# ps > > > Signal 4 caught by ps (procp

Use of apt-proxy with net install of sarge

2003-10-11 Thread Paul E Condon
I have a recently downloaded and burnt sarge net install CD. I would like to test it in my environment. My internet access is ppp on one of my debian boxes. I have apt-proxy running on that box and I have done a dist-upgrage to sarge on one of my computers, so the apt-proxy should have cached copie

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-11 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 02:56:49PM +1300, cr wrote: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 05:17, Pigeon wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:49:26PM +1300, cr wrote: > > > On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 03:49, Pigeon wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:11:53PM +1300, cr wrote: > > (snip) > > > > > > > > > > > Are th

Re: aptitude install problem(s)

2003-10-11 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 20:23:31 -0400 "Jerome R. Acks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 02:45:42PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > For some reason, when I attempt to install any package, > > powermgmt-base wants to be installed, but it quits and complains; > > > > Error: the cu

Mail server

2003-10-11 Thread ralph bacolod
I just read the header of an email from this list and I saw that murphy.Debian.Org uses Postfix. Why is this so? Why not Exim,which is suppose to be the default in debian. Does this mean that Postfix is better than Exim? Salamat! Ralph ps. Please cc me. Im not yet subscribed. __

Re: Grub, now booting debian from grub

2003-10-11 Thread J Y
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. GRUB version 0.92 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of

Re: Licensing requirements ?

2003-10-11 Thread John Hasler
Karsten M. Self writes: > Please consult counsel experienced in free software matters. This is an important point. There seem to be many copyright attorneys who, while no doubt competent with the usual copyright stuff, can't seem to get their heads around Free Software concepts. -- John Hasler [

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 12:06:02PM -0500, Michael D Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > OK, this is my first foray into a sale-able product, based on `free' > software. > > I am working with a company that is writing software that is to be > sold to their customers. I have specified Debian as th

Re: Tool to bounce mails

2003-10-11 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 12:47:05AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:46:01PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > > Pretty low to nil. Spammers can't tell a teergrube from a really, > > > really slow mail server connected by carrier pigeon from northern > > > Siberia. > > > > See RFC 11

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-11 Thread Michael D Schleif
Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:11:18:26:01-0500] scribed: > "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Joey> Chris Spencer wrote: > >> That's correct. You must purchase a MySQL license to use it in > >> this fashion. Apache, PHP, and Debian are all fine. No

installing fonts manually for tex

2003-10-11 Thread Ian Melnick
Hello all, I went through a lot of trouble trying to get the computer modern fonts installed correctly for dvips, etc, when I finally came across the tetex-extra package, which solved all my problems. My question is, using the downloadable cmps-unix.tar.gz file from ctan, how would I have installe

Re: ProFTPd over NAT

2003-10-11 Thread Greg Bolshaw
Christian Jaeger wrote: > At 0:23 Uhr +0200 11.10.2003, Greg Bolshaw wrote: > >Yeah. Surely there must be something I can do with ProFTPd to force it to > > use my public IP? > > MasqueradeAddress 1.2.3.4 Fantastic, works great, thanks for your help. -- Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Mail for root being delivered to user mail

2003-10-11 Thread Lee Elliott
On Sunday 12 October 2003 00:54, you wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 10:48:42PM +0100, Lee Elliott wrote: > > Since doing an 'unstable' update a couple of days ago mail for root is > > being delivered to user 'mail' i.e. /var/mail/mail instead of /var/ mail/ > > root. I've intentionally set root

Re: 2nd try? fontconfig? autohinter? anyone?

2003-10-11 Thread Tom
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 07:54:43PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Tom wrote: > > >You know, this is the first slipup in the Matrix I've experienced > >since I switch to Linux. (I hope you get that: 9 months ago I was > >a MS-employee. I mean to say: taboo subject about which we are > >embaresse

Re: aptitude install problem(s)

2003-10-11 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 02:45:42PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > For some reason, when I attempt to install any package, powermgmt-base > wants to be installed, but it quits and complains; > > Error: the current /etc/modules.conf is not automatically generated. > > I haven't, knowingly, touch t

rsh authentication (Re: problems with rsa authentication (for use with mpich))

2003-10-11 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 18:13:34 + (UTC), Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear People, > > I am trying to enable rsa authentication for use with mpich. However, > I am having some problems. Sorry. That should have been rsh authentication.

Re: Fw: openoffice.org1.1-bin: Depends: libfreetype6 (< 2.1.0) but 2.1.4-5 is to be installed +++ E: Sorry, broken packages - LONG

2003-10-11 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 October 2003 03:51 pm, Peter N. Vargo (LTS) wrote: > Noone know howto help me? > > thank you > > - Original Message - > Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 4:05 PM > Subject: openoffice.org1.1-bin: Depends: libfreetype6 (< 2.1.0) bu

Re: Fw: openoffice.org1.1-bin

2003-10-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Peter N. Vargo (LTS) wrote: Noone know howto help me? thank you I would just download the binary tarball from openoffice.org. It is fairly slow moving (especially now that they have achieved a 1.1 release, I would imagine). If you were running unstable, that would probably cure your problem, bu

Re: 2nd try? fontconfig? autohinter? anyone?

2003-10-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Tom wrote: You know, this is the first slipup in the Matrix I've experienced since I switch to Linux. (I hope you get that: 9 months ago I was a MS-employee. I mean to say: taboo subject about which we are embaressed so we'll pretend it isn't worth discussing... Less than complete intellectual f

Fw: openoffice.org1.1-bin: Depends: libfreetype6 (< 2.1.0) but 2.1.4-5 is to be installed +++ E: Sorry, broken packages - LONG

2003-10-11 Thread Peter N. Vargo (LTS)
Noone know howto help me? thank you - Original Message - Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 4:05 PM Subject: openoffice.org1.1-bin: Depends: libfreetype6 (< 2.1.0) but 2.1.4-5 is to be installed +++ E: Sorry, broken packages - LONG > Hello (huge) mailing list, hello world :) > > I'm usin

Re: via-rhine.o

2003-10-11 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Nicolas" == Nicolas Godzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nicolas> it is saying /lib/modules/2.2.20/net/via-rhine.o: Nicolas> init_module: Device or ressource busy ... Most likely via-rhine is built into the 2.2.20 kernel. Check the output of dmesg to see if your card is already up (or

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-11 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> Chris Spencer wrote: >> That's correct. You must purchase a MySQL license to use it in >> this fashion. Apache, PHP, and Debian are all fine. No >> purchase is required. >> >> > What are the repercussions to my c

[tb.31009.nospam@comcast.net: Re: 2nd try? fontconfig? autohinter? anyone?]

2003-10-11 Thread Tom
Okay, that's the second slipup in the Matrix :-). Why did Mutt and Nano freak out on me? - Forwarded message from Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 2nd try? fontconfig? autohinter? anyone? Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 15:40:12 -0700 Use

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-11 Thread Geordie Birch
cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07 Oct 2003 04:10 +1300]: > Anyway, *now*, Ctrl-Alt-BS does indeed just kill X and leave me in Linux as > it should.However, whether it'll still work if X 'siezes' I'll only know > if and when I have a sieze. Check out the magic sysreq key. With its secure access

Re: 2nd try? fontconfig? autohinter? anyone?

2003-10-11 Thread Tom
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 08:52:59AM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Tom wrote: > >Since I didn't get an answer yet, I'll ask again: > > > >(To anyone) Do you prefer fontconfig with the autohinter > >or bytecode interpreter? I'm trying to decide how to > >set it up. > > > >Thanks. > > > > > > Just

Re: What is the difference between `Sid' and `unstable' ?

2003-10-11 Thread Travis Crump
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Thanks for the reply. Ok, forget the capital `S' (I do use `sid' in my data file) Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 12:42:23PM +0300, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Note that my `/etc/apt/sources.list' data file reaches both `Si

Re: Do-all computer?

2003-10-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 14:20, alex wrote: > My current computer is an old Quantex that works very well with > a variety of installed Linux systems (Debian, Progeny, Knoppix, > Lycoris, Mandrake, and Libranet) as well as Windows 98SE. > The only fault is that it is quite slow compared to the newer

Re: via-rhine.o

2003-10-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 13:16, Nicolas Godzik wrote: > Hello, > > I have the DFE-530 TX ethernet card > > On Knoppix this card works very well, and it uses the via-rhine module, > > when I try to add this module at the installation of debian 3.0 > > it is saying /lib/modules/2.2.20/net/via-rhine.

Re: windows NT

2003-10-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 11:02, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 01:15:46AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 01:04:53AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > its appearance. I'd suggest applying Occam's razor: the simplest > > > > For those who don't know Occam's Razor, it's s

Mail for root being delivered to user mail

2003-10-11 Thread Lee Elliott
Since doing an 'unstable' update a couple of days ago mail for root is being delivered to user 'mail' i.e. /var/mail/mail instead of /var/mail/ root. I've intentionally set root's mail to be delivered to root and this hasn't been changed in /etc/aliases - infact there is an alias entry for user

Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 11:51, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:39:13PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > > > Actually, there's two parts. First we need a machine to collect > > > data from an inexpensive weather station and then copy (ftp/

aptitude install problem(s)

2003-10-11 Thread Rodney D. Myers
For some reason, when I attempt to install any package, powermgmt-base wants to be installed, but it quits and complains; Error: the current /etc/modules.conf is not automatically generated. I haven't, knowingly, touch this file. How do I fix this? Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Akár havi pár ezer dollár kereset!

2003-10-11 Thread Peter Kaali
Könnyû internetes munkával akár havi 3000$-t is kereshet. Bõvebb info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multi-headed X servers for multiple local users

2003-10-11 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:30:06 +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > I have only one computer, and I'm usually stuck to it always. But then, > my girlfriend needs to get some work done every now and then too... The > appartment is small, and I have the hardware for a thin client, but > another mini-towe

DNS Firewall Rules

2003-10-11 Thread James W. Thompson, II
What sort of rules should I use for DNS under iptables, I have 3 NS I need to transfer to, then of course I also need to resolve names... But I want to lock down the ports beyond that... -Dubbs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: windows NT

2003-10-11 Thread cr
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 17:01, Pigeon wrote: > > I am used to conversations that start like this: > > "My TV's not working, can you fix it?" > "Er... what's wrong with it?" > "It doesn't work." > > ...and carry on in the same vein for far too long. IMO the idiocy of > the questions is a good sign that

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-11 Thread cr
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 05:17, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:49:26PM +1300, cr wrote: > > On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 03:49, Pigeon wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:11:53PM +1300, cr wrote: (snip) > > > > > > > > Are there any downsides to ext3? > > > > > > If you have a filesystem with a

Re: To be safe don't use shift key...

2003-10-11 Thread cr
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:43, csj wrote: > On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 18:57:50 -0400, > > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Erik Steffl wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > ...or else the riaa might sue you. > > > > > > > > http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/10/08/bmg.protection.reut/index.ht > > > >ml > >

Re: Switching from RH 7.3 to Debian 3.0r1

2003-10-11 Thread cr
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 11:40, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Curtis (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > I've downloaded the debian isos, burning them afterwards, but before I > > take the plunge into switching, is there anything to prepare? > > This is my first time switching distros on a computer.

Re: How to find out why python-apt is broken in testing

2003-10-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 03:21:47PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > I want to install mini-dhinstall in my "testing" environment, but can't > because it is dependent on python-apt. > > python-apt wont install because it depends on a version of python, whose > version number is 2.3 . However python

Re: ..cute prompts in debian and knoppix?

2003-10-11 Thread Naitik Shah
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 09:49:28PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > Hi, > > ..with Red Hat-7.3 thru -9, in /etc/bashrc, I used: > PS1='\[\033[1;33m\]\u\[\033[1;[EMAIL PROTECTED];32m\]\H\[\033[1;37m\]:\ > \[\033[1;31m\]\w \[\033[1;36m\]\$ \[\033[0m\]' > to get "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/red/path/ # ", with "

Re: woody bf24 problem

2003-10-11 Thread Paul William
Install with the 2.2 kernel and then install another kernel when debian is install. You could install a nice new 2.4.22 kernel which might fix your problems. On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 00:41, LeVA wrote: > Hello! > > I have a little problem with the woody cd's bf24 kernel image: > When the 'bf24' kern

Re: Do-all computer?

2003-10-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
alex wrote: My current computer is an old Quantex that works very well with a variety of installed Linux systems (Debian, Progeny, Knoppix, Lycoris, Mandrake, and Libranet) as well as Windows 98SE. The only fault is that it is quite slow compared to the newer computers. So, I would like to know

..cute prompts in debian and knoppix?

2003-10-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
Hi, ..with Red Hat-7.3 thru -9, in /etc/bashrc, I used: PS1='\[\033[1;33m\]\u\[\033[1;[EMAIL PROTECTED];32m\]\H\[\033[1;37m\]:\ \[\033[1;31m\]\w \[\033[1;36m\]\$ \[\033[0m\]' to get "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/red/path/ # ", with "#" or "$" in cyan, and ":" and "@" in white, which I like a lot. Knoppix u

Re: windows NT

2003-10-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 05:59:13 -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 08:50:31AM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > There was more after that, but I couldn't bring myself to keep >

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-11 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 02:15:32PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Proprietary app --> --> database which complies with > SQL standard The problem is that it more likely goes Proprietary app + database library --> --> database There is no such thing as an SQL standard protocol. There is only t

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-11 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 02:15:32PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > This is not OK, because Adobe would be distributing XFree86 (is GPL) as > an embeded (or vice versa) component of their product. XFree86 is not GPL'd software. It is released under a non-copylefted license, the MIT or X11 license.

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-11T18:15:32Z, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe it is all about how it is distrubited. But, IANAL. That would be contrary to my understanding; I believe that distribution doesn't matter, but linking does. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0

problems with rsa authentication (for use with mpich)

2003-10-11 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I am trying to enable rsa authentication for use with mpich. However, I am having some problems. Let us say I have two hosts, foo and bar. I'm trying to log in from foo to bar using rsh passwordless authentication. I added foo to the file .rhosts in my home directory on bar. I also

Do-all computer?

2003-10-11 Thread alex
My current computer is an old Quantex that works very well with a variety of installed Linux systems (Debian, Progeny, Knoppix, Lycoris, Mandrake, and Libranet) as well as Windows 98SE. The only fault is that it is quite slow compared to the newer computers. So, I would like to know if there are

via-rhine.o

2003-10-11 Thread Nicolas Godzik
Hello, I have the DFE-530 TX ethernet card On Knoppix this card works very well, and it uses the via-rhine module, when I try to add this module at the installation of debian 3.0 it is saying /lib/modules/2.2.20/net/via-rhine.o: init_module: Device or ressource busy ... apparently some option

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-10-11T16:57:51Z, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I just looked at the page and it seems as though they just elaborate on the GPL. Basically, you use MySQL in a GPL app, and you are OK. But what does that mean? Clearly, if I embed the MySQL engine into

Re: upgrading postgres on unstable

2003-10-11 Thread Monique Y. Herman
First of all, thanks so much for replying! I would never have known to try these things. Secondly, unfortunately, I still haven't isolated the problem =/ On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 at 07:12 GMT, Oliver Elphick penned: > > First, try installing after doing: > > # export DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer > > b

Re: windows NT

2003-10-11 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 01:15:46AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 01:04:53AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > its appearance. I'd suggest applying Occam's razor: the simplest > > For those who don't know Occam's Razor, it's sometimes also called > Bob's Motto (Bob being the nam

Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-11 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:39:13PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > Actually, there's two parts. First we need a machine to collect > > data from an inexpensive weather station and then copy (ftp/scp) the > > data to some location every so often. >

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-11T16:57:51Z, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just looked at the page and it seems as though they just elaborate on > the GPL. Basically, you use MySQL in a GPL app, and you are OK. But what does that mean? Clearly, if I embed the MySQL engine into an application, the

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-11 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 at 16:03 GMT, Joey Hess penned: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 19:12 GMT, Chris Spencer penned: >> >=20 This is to say if your client makes changes to apache or PHP >> >they *MUST* make those changes available at no cost to everyone.=20 >> >=20 >>=20 Nitpic

Gnome2 program requirements

2003-10-11 Thread Michael Montagne
I run IceWM as my window manager and also Rox-Session. I'm recently running into issues with certain gnome2 apps (maybe all) installed from unstable (specifically gnumeric). I get an error that says an error occurred when saving my configuration information... The details portion of the dialogue

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-10-11T15:56:08Z, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The situation you describe would mean that mysql would be non-free, and thus not part of Debian. The license of mysql 4.0.14 is a mixture of the GPL, LGPL and BSD licenses, with nothing prohibiting commercial use.

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-11T15:56:08Z, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The situation you describe would mean that mysql would be non-free, and > thus not part of Debian. > > The license of mysql 4.0.14 is a mixture of the GPL, LGPL and BSD > licenses, with nothing prohibiting commercial use. I see nothi

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-11 Thread Michael D Schleif
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:11:11:56:08-0400] scribed: > Chris Spencer wrote: > > That's correct. You must purchase a MySQL license to use it in this > > fashion. Apache, PHP, and Debian are all fine. No purchase is > > required. > > > > > What are the repercussions to my client, as

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-11 Thread Joey Hess
Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 19:12 GMT, Chris Spencer penned: > > > > This is to say if your client makes changes to apache or PHP they > > *MUST* make those changes available at no cost to everyone. > > > > Nitpick (though I think it was implied by the rest of your post):

Re: ProFTPd over NAT

2003-10-11 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 0:23 Uhr +0200 11.10.2003, Greg Bolshaw wrote: Yeah. Surely there must be something I can do with ProFTPd to force it to use my public IP? MasqueradeAddress 1.2.3.4 - Chj. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-11 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Spencer wrote: > That's correct. You must purchase a MySQL license to use it in this > fashion. Apache, PHP, and Debian are all fine. No purchase is > required. > > > What are the repercussions to my client, as a result of this model? > > Buy MySQL. Make the product. Sell the product.

HELP!Problems with 160GB SATA drive

2003-10-11 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
I recently got a 700X Gateway computer which comes with a 160 GB 6Y160M0 Maxtor hard drive. In the BIOS it is configured thus: ATA/IDE Enhalnced (all SATA and PATA resources enabled Harddisk Pre-delay diabld LBA supported Block Mode 16 PIO Mode Mode 4 Ultra DMA 5 Cable detected Serial The SATA

Weird dependency problems installing mplayer...

2003-10-11 Thread Neal Lippman
I posted this once before, but figured it was worth another shot to see if anyone could help, as I am still stuck... I'm running testing. I was using mplayer and the mplayer-plugin for mozilla just fine on my prior (athlon) system - I had mplayer-k7 installed. I upgraded that system to a new mb a

Apt error message

2003-10-11 Thread Michael Montagne
I'm getting a new apt error message that seems to be harmless yet i'd like to understand and fix it. W: No priority (or zero) specified for pin What is the meaning of this? -- Michael Montagne [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.themontagnes.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: windows NT

2003-10-11 Thread Johannes Raspe
Am Sat, 11 Oct 2003 00:30:22 +0200 schrieb Ef Reb: > Hi, > > > > Will Debian run on Windows NT 4? I've an intel 233 processor. If so > which version. > > > > thanks > > > > > > > > > > >