Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:35:06PM +0800, Dasn Cups ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:09:08AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > > If you use GPL'd code and distribute the results and refuse to hand out > > the source code, the copyright holder of the GPL'd code can sue you for > > co

Re: NPTL (was: NGPT for/in Debian?)

2003-10-22 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 01:26:20PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Subject: Re: NPTL (was: NGPT for/in Debian?) > > > thanks for the information on NPTL and NGPT. Are the > > packages already available to test it? I'm not afraid > > of crashing my machine, but... > > They're in experimental; see a

make-kpkg: need clues

2003-10-22 Thread Abdul Latip
Hi, This is NOT urgent, since Debian provides working kernels. However, I am just wondering on where to find clues on how to solve problems while compiling the kernels. I tried google with not much luck. The problem is, whenever I recompile a newer kernel using "make-kpkg"; most likely, it fails

OT: US War Powers (was Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL)

2003-10-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:24:24PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sissy Boy George declared war on 9/11/2001. The Congress, not the President, has the power to declare war in the United States of America. US Constitution, Article I, Section 8. ObDebian: apt-get install

Re: Nvidia video card not recognized

2003-10-22 Thread Robert William Hutton
John Yurcik wrote: Hello, I believe that the headers and kernel are the same yet the nvidia driver installer doesn't see it that way. The error message from the installer(which is posted in this thread basically says the headers are not correct for the kernel) Is there anything I can do to get this

RE: Wolfenstein ET on debian?

2003-10-22 Thread Dennis van Turnhout
Since no one replied: http://tjw.org/etded/ The so far in this article is missing: "sh et-linux-2.55.x86.run" to start installation -Original Message- From: Dennis van Turnhout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 22 oktober 2003 22:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Wolfenstein ET o

Re: stairstep printing on an HP Deskjet

2003-10-22 Thread Robert William Hutton
Corey Hickey wrote: [snip] Currently, if I try to print a text file by using: $ lpr text.txt I get a stairstep effect - the first line is good, the next line is tabbed over, the next line even farther, etc. From searching google, I've determined that this is to be expected in HP printers, and must

Re: new to debian

2003-10-22 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Scott Hansen wrote: Greetings, I downloaded iso disks of Debian and did an install. I am new to Debian, and Linux as a whole. The question I have is thatI do not know how to get a gui login or to activate a gui like kde. Could you help me with this. As soon as I can get a gui up and test dr

Re: scsi emulation: atapi reset irq timeout and other nasties...

2003-10-22 Thread Lukas Ruf
> TR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-22 20:52]: > > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:27:02 -0700 (PDT) > Garrett Patrick McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > if anybody has any clue or ANY suggestion i haven't tried yet i'd > > gladly take itleft my computer off over night to be sure it wasn't > > over

stairstep printing on an HP Deskjet

2003-10-22 Thread Corey Hickey
I'm trying to set up printing for an HP Deskjet 3820, and having some trouble. Because I have _no_ experience in the world of Unix printing, I'm trying to start with the simple stuff and first get text file printing working. Currently, if I try to print a text file by using: $ lpr text.txt I get a

Re: lilo and winblows

2003-10-22 Thread techlists
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:46, Andrés Roldán wrote: > See the boot-as= option on lilo.conf(5) > > Moreover, I'd like to hear what happened with your lilo.conf file after > the dist-upgrade. > > Thanks. > it seemed to install ok, but when I rebooted, the machine would show LI and start beeping

new to debian

2003-10-22 Thread Scott Hansen
Greetings, I downloaded iso disks of Debian and did an install. I am new to Debian, and Linux as a whole. The question I have is thatI do not know how to get a gui login or to activate a gui like kde. Could you help me with this. As soon as I can get a gui up and test drive Debian I will g

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 October 2003 09:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi James, > this might be a little OT but people in my local lugs met with the > OO.org guy (sam heiser) and mentioned that folks in law offices and > some other would switch to OO.o

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:32 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:02, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:38:15PM -0400, James D. Freels > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [snip] > > > Frankly, I'd recommend WP5.1 u

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread kmark
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, James D. Freels wrote: > I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered > that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because > it requires the previous version of the libc package (woody). I have > copied these files (found by ldd

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread kmark
y On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:38:15PM -0400, James D. Freels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered > > that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because > > it requires

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update-modules, sound on boot-up

2003-10-22 Thread Michael Bonert
I have a frustrating little problem with sound on boot-up. Sound works if I manually load the required sound module: - $ su # modprobe emu10k1 Result: Get great sound. :) Then I try to make it permanent: - # update-modules - Then a re-boot to test... Result: To my surprise on l

Re: debian

2003-10-22 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: David Lorenzo wrote: Hello, I am trying to install debian from a cd i got from a magazine but i am not very good at linux so i dont know if it is me who is not installing it properly. Not know[ing] what CD this is (potato? woody? sid? knoppix with hd install? something else)

Re: debian

2003-10-22 Thread Kent West
David Lorenzo wrote: Hello, I am trying to install debian from a cd i got from a magazine but i am not very good at linux so i dont know if it is me who is not installing it properly. Not know what CD this is (potato? woody? sid? knoppix with hd install? something else), it's not likely that an

atapi reset, irq timeout and other nasties...

2003-10-22 Thread Garrett P. McLean
ok, so i thought maybe i'd try out kernel 2.4.21 but get this: i copied the EXACT same config that i was getting the ATAPI reset messages with in 2.4.22 but with 2.4.21 i get a kernel panic...so i'm guessing it must be because of the gcc i'm using...or the driver isn't written correctly (i know

RE: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. e nglish [was: ])

2003-10-22 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 23 October 2003 1:55 PM > To: Debian-User > Subject: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of > german v. english [was: ]) > > > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:47, Erik Steffl wrote: > > Nori Heikkin

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Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-22 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:42:31PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: [ Snip autoresponding idea to C/R ] > What is the downside of doing this? Am I crazy? http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/challenge-response.html Points 0 and 8 should answer your question though the entire essay is worth a read.

Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: ])

2003-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:47, Erik Steffl wrote: > Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: > ... > >> of course, you can create various complex and ambiguous sentences in > >>english, the point is that you can take few forms of sentences and > >>have

liborbit2-dev/liblinc-dev problem

2003-10-22 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=215019 suggests a recent liborbit2-dev should include linc stuff, but it doesn't actually seem to include /usr/lib/liblinc.la ... am i missing something? Please CC me in replies. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =- "You know,

What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-22 Thread Paul E Condon
I've been looking at a lot of options for dealing with Swen and the next Sobig, soon to arrive. In the discussions here, I learned that some people use tmda as a part of their spam defense, and looking into it I soon learned that TMDA == C/R I had already heard that C/R is a bad thing, but I didn

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:02, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:38:15PM -0400, James D. Freels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] > > Frankly, I'd recommend WP5.1 under dosemu. Do you know where it's possible to get WP5.1 or WP6.0 disks, except on Ebay? -- --

Nvidia video card not recognized

2003-10-22 Thread John Yurcik
Hello, I believe that the headers and kernel are the same yet the nvidia driver installer doesn't see it that way. The error message from the installer(which is posted in this thread basically says the headers are not correct for the kernel) Is there anything I can do to get this card recognized?

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Greg Madden wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 02:38 pm, James D. Freels wrote: I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because it requires the previous version of the libc package (woody). I have copied

Re: Using apt-get/dselect to download from a un-official repository.

2003-10-22 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi again, * Joseph Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031023 03:57]: > Nick Hastings wrote: > >* Joseph Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031022 10:31]: > > > > > >>I'd like to download xfree86 4.3.0 from this repository: > >>http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/ > >> > >>I found it whilst Googl

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 October 2003 02:38 pm, James D. Freels wrote: > I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered > that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is > because it requires the previous version of the lib

Re: More on spam

2003-10-22 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:14:28PM -0700, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:11:37PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > > Um. Can't speak for everyone else, but I think that being dead would be > > somewhat more disruptive to my "normal course of events" than having my > > mailbox flooded.

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-22 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: ... of course, you can create various complex and ambiguous sentences in english, the point is that you can take few forms of sentences and have a working language (that's pretty much what BASIC (talking about pro

Re: scsi emulation: atapi reset irq timeout and other nasties...

2003-10-22 Thread TR
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:30:56 -0700 "Garrett P. McLean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how's about cdrdao? i'd like to not have gaps between tracks on my > audio cds... I believe that cdrdao uses cdrecord in the background, not sure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:24, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031018 03:22]: > > At Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:28:44 -0600, > > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 22:37 GMT, Erik Steffl penned: [snip] > ASCII. I'd predict just the opposite of your "probably": I t

Re: exim4-daemon-heavy and exiscan virus/spam filtering

2003-10-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:35:09PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > If I use this -u flag as you suggest, will spamc use that user's > bayes databases? (And if that's possible, do I need to edit that user's > ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file or somesuch to do

RE: More on spam

2003-10-22 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:28:57AM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > Spam is just marketing. > > SWEN isn't marketing. Part of this is about SWEN (and > other similar viruses/worms). > SWEN is about propogating a spam delivery system. > > Marketing is about making people buy stuff. >

Re: How to find out the largest IDE drive I can install

2003-10-22 Thread Darik Horn
> 1. What are the various size limits for IDE33/66/100 & 133 ? Read the History of BIOS and IDE limits at: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-4.html The maximum disk size for Pentium II computers is likely to be 137 gigabytes. If the BIOS has a size limit, then you must install the boot

Re: exim4-daemon-heavy and exiscan virus/spam filtering

2003-10-22 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 01:04:50PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/exim-spamassassin/ works > well, one minor adjustment I would make (and I hope dman sees this) > would be to change is when you're setting up the spamcheck transport, > instead of... > > tra

Re: More on spam

2003-10-22 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:28:57AM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > Spam is just marketing. SWEN isn't marketing. Part of this is about SWEN (and other similar viruses/worms). > Marketing is about making people buy stuff. > Terrorism is about scaring people. > imo we need to move towards a '

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-22 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:53:34AM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: the two are apples and oranges, my friend, especially when you're dealing with something that no one can have an objective point of view on, given different native languages. ??? you can me

Re: More on spam

2003-10-22 Thread John Hasler
Joyce, Matthew writes: > Marketing is about making people buy stuff. Marketing is about _convincing_ people to buy stuff. > If it were allowed, some tv stations would use picture-in-picture to > always have ads running while you watch tv. AFAIK that is entirely legal in the US, and yet it isn't

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:38:15PM -0400, James D. Freels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered > that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because > it requires the previous version of the libc package (woody). I ha

Re: debian

2003-10-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 01:05:53PM +0100, David Lorenzo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, I am trying to install debian from a cd i got from a magazine > but i am not very good at linux so i dont know if it is me who is not > installing it properly. > > The problem is that i get to install it a

Re: k3b and cdrecord/cdrdao problem

2003-10-22 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Martin Wegmann wrote: Hello, I installed k3b 0.9-4 and all dependencies seemed to be ok. setting up k3b works fine as well, it recognized my writer and cdredord and cdrdao but when starting k3b i get the error message: Unable to find cdrecord executable You need to actually have permissions

Re: What's rc.local in debian?

2003-10-22 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Dennis van Turnhout wrote: I want to set some hdparm parameters at boot for my system. According to a tweak guide this has to be set in rc.local for a redhat system. What's the file name for a debian server? Please don't start a new thread by replying to someone else's message. It messes up peopl

Re: [OT] Cracked website at sf.net

2003-10-22 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Bob Proulx wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: Can someone here who has a sourceforge account please let the admins know that the Crystalspace Wiki site has been cracked. http://crystal.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php Well, it is a wiki, so cracking it is not really the right word to use. More like

Re: More on spam

2003-10-22 Thread Tom
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:11:37PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > I'm left wondering what kind of person could seriously claim that > there's no significant difference between the deliberate killing of > civilians and junk mail. Granted, it's a stretch. That's why I said "yet" -- not what's coming ou

Re: scsi emulation: atapi reset irq timeout and other nasties...

2003-10-22 Thread Garrett P. McLean
how's about cdrdao? i'd like to not have gaps between tracks on my audio cds... thanks -garrett On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 01:48:34PM -0400, TR wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:27:02 -0700 (PDT) > Garrett Patrick McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > if anybody has any clue or ANY suggestion i h

RE: More on spam

2003-10-22 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Arnt Karlsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 23 October 2003 1:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: More on spam > > > On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:58:16 -0400, > Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > O

Re: More on spam

2003-10-22 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:11:37PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > Um. Can't speak for everyone else, but I think that being dead would be > somewhat more disruptive to my "normal course of events" than having my > mailbox flooded. You're focusing on the thousands that died in the towers and at the

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:44:25PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 01:13:08AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > I know of a couple of Debian developers who are blind, or close to it. > > I've met one of them. Those that I know of all make tremendously useful > > contributions, mor

Re: lilo and winblows

2003-10-22 Thread Andrés Roldán
See the boot-as= option on lilo.conf(5) Moreover, I'd like to hear what happened with your lilo.conf file after the dist-upgrade. Thanks. techlists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, I use to have a setup where Linux was on my primary HD, and windows > was on a 2nd slave HD. I had once found so

Re: [Waaaaaay OT] Grammer

2003-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:59:35PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:15:30AM -0700, Tom wrote: > > My personal pet peeve is: > > http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=octopi > > oc?to?pus( P ) Pronunciation Key (kt-ps) > > n. pl. oc?to?pus?es or oc?to?pi (-p) > > > > Octop

Lost Fonts again in unstable

2003-10-22 Thread Robert Rati
I'm running unstable, and I haven't been able to log in the last few days because of a recent update. I was finally able to log in and found that most of my fonts are gone. Most notably was Helvetica. I checked my fonts.conf and it looked alright, so I tried to make sure the font still existed o

Re: Setting hostname with DHCP

2003-10-22 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Michael Ash said on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:52:09PM -0400: > Dear list, > > I have scoured the web and even read the generally helpful > Chapter 10 - Network Configuration from Debian Reference > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html, > but I cannot figure out how to set h

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031018 03:22]: > At Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:28:44 -0600, > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 22:37 GMT, Erik Steffl penned: > > > > > >english has a fairly simple a regular grammar so it's > > >fairly easy to create english based programming la

Re: [OT] Cracked website at sf.net

2003-10-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Can someone here who has a sourceforge account please let the admins > know that the Crystalspace Wiki site has been cracked. > > http://crystal.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php Well, it is a wiki, so cracking it is not really the right word to use. More like putting up

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya rolf On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, [loonyx | rolf joho] wrote: > dmesg gives me that: > Oct 22 23:37:05 looney kernel: hdc: Hewlett-Packard DVD Writer 300, > ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > Oct 22 23:37:05 looney kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 > Oct 22 23:37:05 looney kernel: hdc: ATAPI 40X

Re: Setting hostname with DHCP

2003-10-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Michael Ash ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031022 15:57]: > Dear list, > > I have scoured the web and even read the generally helpful > Chapter 10 - Network Configuration from Debian Reference > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html, > but I cannot figure out how to set hostname a

Re: Where to announce?

2003-10-22 Thread Johann Koenig
On Wednesday October 22 at 11:13pm smurfd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > name : apt-state > what it does : apt-state gives you the possibillity to 'save' or > 'apply' a "state" of packages installed. ie. lets say you have gone > through the process to finaly get all the packages you want installed,

Mail setup for new user in Debian

2003-10-22 Thread Jason Binder
Title: Message Hi userlist,   First time here and even unsure if this is a mailing list so my apologies to all.   We have just recently taken over a clients computer support that has a debian unix box running squid and mail.   My problem is this; I dont know unix that well and unsure how t

Re: More on spam

2003-10-22 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:12:24PM -0700, Tom Ballard wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:22:23PM -0200, klaus imgrund wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:39, Tom wrote: > > > > > > it's becoming a distinction without a difference > > > > > WTF is this supposed to mean? > > > > Starting t

libctk question

2003-10-22 Thread Paul M Foster
Anyone using libctk? I'm having a hard time getting the examples from the source tarball to compile. Moreover, I can't find any docs or tutorial. I don't even know what apps built with this library look like. Any guidance available? Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-22 Thread [loonyx | rolf joho]
Alexei Chetroi wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:28:56AM +0300, Alexei Chetroi wrote: From: Alexei Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > lsmod-output: Module Size Used byNot tainted nls_iso8859-1 2880 0 (autoclean) ide-cd 26176 0 (autoclean) Have you

WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread James D. Freels
I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because it requires the previous version of the libc package (woody). I have copied these files (found by ldd on wordperfect executable) form a working Woody system,

Re: disable boot logo from LILO (kernel boot command line)?

2003-10-22 Thread Andrés Roldán
Wrong file :) This is the patch. Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to disable the boot logo from LILO (e.g., via a kernel > boot parameter)? > > With vga=ask in lilo.conf, when I boot and select a video mode, it seems > LILO changes the video mode but the kernel immedia

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-22 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:53:34AM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: > Nori Heikkinen wrote: > >the two are apples and oranges, my friend, especially when you're > >dealing with something that no one can have an objective point of > >view on, given different native languages. > > ??? you can measure h

lilo and winblows

2003-10-22 Thread techlists
Ok, I use to have a setup where Linux was on my primary HD, and windows was on a 2nd slave HD. I had once found some options to put into lilo, that made it possible for winXP to boot off the slave, which it won't do with a standard dual-boot setup. I think the option made winxp think it was on th

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-22 Thread [loonyx | rolf joho]
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello [loonyx | rolf joho] (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: even though i load the ide-scsi module at boottime, i can not mount my ide-dvd-writer. since i was perfectly able to do that on earlier installations, i am asking for hints. through /etc/modules i successfully load th

Re: gnome-terminal corupting utmp

2003-10-22 Thread David Purton
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 03:57:39PM +0200, JG wrote: > > Known problem, > > http://bugs.debian.org/183035 > http://bugs.debian.org/190378 > > Latest gnome-terminal from unstable (version 2.4.1-2) seems to behave > better (maybe fixed the bug?), but I still did not have to test it > thoroughly (t

Re: Where to announce?

2003-10-22 Thread smurfd
Hmm after reading most of the documentation, what it takes to become a official Debian developer, i think i may start by posting a .tar file somewhere First! About the application in question : --- name : apt-state what it does : apt-state gives you the possibillity to 'save' or 'apply'

Re: [OT] Cracked website at sf.net

2003-10-22 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Can someone here who has a sourceforge account please let the admins > know that the Crystalspace Wiki site has been cracked. > > http://crystal.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php > I thought the whole point of a wiki was that anyone could edit it? >F

Setting hostname with DHCP

2003-10-22 Thread Michael Ash
Dear list, I have scoured the web and even read the generally helpful Chapter 10 - Network Configuration from Debian Reference http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html, but I cannot figure out how to set hostname and domain using dhcp. On my box, "Linux debian 2.4.18-bf2.4 #

k3b and cdrecord/cdrdao problem

2003-10-22 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hello, I installed k3b 0.9-4 and all dependencies seemed to be ok. setting up k3b works fine as well, it recognized my writer and cdredord and cdrdao but when starting k3b i get the error message: Unable to find cdrecord executable K3b uses cdrecord to actually write cds. Without cdrecord K3b

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-22 Thread [loonyx | rolf joho]
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya loonyx if your dvd writer is on /dev/hdc try using /dev/hdc instead of /dev/scd0 if it works .. link /dev/sg0 to /dev/hdc and fix fstab also stick a boot (real) cdrom into the dvd drive, and see if it boots the cdrom to eliminate any hardware/bios/cable issues c y

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-22 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: > Nori Heikkinen wrote: > >on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 04:10:38AM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: > > > >>Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> > >>>On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 22:37 GMT, Erik Steffl penned: > >>> > >>> > english has a fairly simple a re

Re: scsi emulation: atapi reset irq timeout and other nasties...

2003-10-22 Thread Egor Tur
Hi folk. > scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 In > quiry 00 00 00 ff 00 hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } > hdc: DMA disabled > hdc: ATAPI reset complete > hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } > hdc: ATAPI reset complete > hdc: irq timeout: status=

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-22 Thread [loonyx | rolf joho]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Rolf, does /dev/scd0, /dev/sr0 and /dev/sg0 exist? any info from dmesg or from /var/log/messages? -Kev yes they do exist: brw-rw1 root cdrom 11, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/scd0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Aug 22 11:08 /dev/sr0 -> scd0 crwSrwS

Re: scsi emulation: atapi reset irq timeout and other nasties...

2003-10-22 Thread Garrett Patrick McLean
i'm running kernel 2.4.22 as well. i read somewhere that it could also be because i'm using the latest gcc in sid to compile my kernel, but that was a forum on test releases of the kernel and (2.4.22 is at least in theory stable). thoughts? i really would rather downgrade my gcc than my kernel. >

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-22 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 at 19:24 GMT, Andrew Borland penned: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> For a lot of machines, X is not at all fundamental =) >> > > I would beg to differ :) It is certainly not fundamental to server > operation, but when the first item you are allowed to select in > tasksel is "

Re: What's rc.local in debian?

2003-10-22 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Dennis van Turnhout said on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:53:07PM +0200: > I want to set some hdparm parameters at boot for my system. > According to a tweak guide this has to be set in rc.local for a redhat > system. > > What's the file name for a debian server? Debian doesn't have one by default. To

Re: Where to announce?

2003-10-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:29:25PM +0200, smurfd wrote: > I was wondering, if I had made a program, designed for Debian, and > wanted others to try it out, and give me their opinion/suggestions etc.. > > Would this list be a good place, or perhaps som

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-22 Thread Andrew Borland
Osamu Aoki wrote: > Please read install mamnual and, if you care, Debian Reference :-) > Sorry to disillusion you, but I have read the installation manual, twice, and quite a bit of the other documentation on the Debian site before I even attempted an installation. However, that documentation

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-22 Thread Andrew Borland
Thanks Kent, At present this box is just intended to be a bit of everything while I dabble to toe or two in the waters of Linux. So it's a server with 'X'. I wasn't aware of the Virtual Terminals lurking behind the Desktop. I'd seen mention of them during the installation but had, wrongly,

Re: More on spam

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Ballard
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:22:23PM -0200, klaus imgrund wrote: > On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:39, Tom wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:09:25AM -0500, Shane Hickey wrote: > > > Let's try to keep a little perspective here. SPAM sucks, but it's not > > > lethal (thank God!). > > > -Shane > >

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-22 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:25:47 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joachim Fahnenmueller) wrote: > > > > > $ mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom > > > > > mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device > > > > This may not be the answer, but I find that if I do > > cdrecord -scanbus > > when this happens, and then try the m

Re: More on spam

2003-10-22 Thread Tom
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 01:49:09PM -0500, Shane Hickey wrote: > it's becoming for Tom, sentances without purpose. Aw, you're just mad because in your circles everybody agrees with you about the war, and you met somebody who gave you good arguments. It bugs you, so you attack the person. -- To

What's rc.local in debian?

2003-10-22 Thread Dennis van Turnhout
I want to set some hdparm parameters at boot for my system. According to a tweak guide this has to be set in rc.local for a redhat system. What's the file name for a debian server? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-22 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 02:23:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ... > > One issue I have problems with is solving font problems with specific > > applications. It think that's due to my general lack of understanding > > of fonts, and that there

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-22 Thread Andrew Borland
Andreas Janssen wrote: > > 1) Can anybody suggest any obvious reasons why I was not offered any > > of the X setup screens during the original installation? > > By default, Debian will not install XFree. You can however select it at > the end of the installation via dselect or tasksel. > This se

eciadsl package

2003-10-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
You can find a test eciadsl package at http://www.bofh.it/~md/debian/ . Please try it and report if it works or not, especially the hotplug script. (BTW, I accept votes about which ADSL modem driver I should package next. Right now I'm thinking about the Conexant USB driver.) -- ciao, | Marco |

elpoint - anybody?

2003-10-22 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, I wanted to try out elpoint, as it's description sounds promising. (I especially would like the possibility to make presentations out of outlines). But I'm not able to get it to work under woody. Does anybody use it with success and Latin characters? If so, could you pass the recipe to me, how

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-22 Thread Tom
This is the best thread ever. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Eclipse installation: j2re1.4 has no installation candidate (Debian SID)

2003-10-22 Thread Andre Kalus
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:29:10 +0200, Johannes Zarl wrote: >> apt-get said that eclipse-platform depends on j2re1.4 or j2re1.3 or >> java2-runtime but these packages are not available. How can I install >> eclipse? >> And is there a deb package for Sun's jdk? > > You could look into the equivs pack

Re: Re: Gnome, Nautilus, KDE anomalies

2003-10-22 Thread Edward Murrell
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 03:51, G D Roux wrote: *snip* > This morning, I booted up and tried to run K-Mail. The Gnome desktop > had gone, but my mouse cursor froze, my hard drive light went on full > time, and my whole system went totally sluggish. First message I got > was that Nautilus was searching

Wolfenstein ET on debian?

2003-10-22 Thread Dennis van Turnhout
I'm looking for a how-to? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Waaaaaay OT] Grammer

2003-10-22 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:15:30AM -0700, Tom wrote: > > My personal pet peeve is: > http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=octopi > oc?to?pus( P ) Pronunciation Key (kt-ps) > n. pl. oc?to?pus?es or oc?to?pi (-p) > > Octopus is greek. The correct plural is octopuses damn it! ... so shou

Re: A newbie's confusion about BS

2003-10-22 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:07:41AM -0400, Thomas Pomber wrote: > Okay, I'm out. I got too many weirdos emailing me > about my dick. Who are these people? Leave me alone! Spammers. I get loads of them. They don't seem to realise that pigeons don't have dicks. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get

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