GTK2.x fonts appeared as grayed box

2003-10-26 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
- I sent this msg yesterday but seems like it doesn't get up to the ML yet so just resend it again, sorry if it gets posted twice. I use Sarge, and have the MScorefonts loaded with xfs, everything (e.g viewing webpage with foreign language) so far has worked perfectly on gtk1.2.x and other apps l

Re: Kernel 2.6 and framebuffer

2003-10-26 Thread Stephen Cormier
On October 24, 2003 01:32 pm, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > I am currently trying out 2.6-test8. I am able to compile and install > it. There are apparently no problems in running the same. I could even > get the nvidia driver working after applying the patches from minion.de. > In all, I have a fully fun

Re: X Windom System will not start

2003-10-26 Thread Stephen Cormier
On October 26, 2003 08:59 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > I dont know what it all means but I'm betting on the video card. Or > I suppose the motherboard could be involved. > Regards; > Hoyt This may solve part of the problem a working XF86Config-4 file from my computer. I used the defaults when reconf

Debian ISO Images

2003-10-26 Thread archie
To Whom It may Concerned: I have downloaded the ISO images of Woody and there are seven from it. It is categorized as BOOT(Non-US)GENERIC, BOOT(US)GENERIC, VANILLA, COMPACT, IDEPCI and BF2.4 BOOT. When to use these different ISO's. Archie DOST7-COSPO, Philippines -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: palm on debian

2003-10-26 Thread Erinn
One time on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:51:52PM +1300 this person named Paul William wrote: > Hi, > > I am getting a new palm (tunsten E) tomorrow. My last palm m105 was sold > before I switched to Debian and worked fine in mdk. > > Is there any tip /things-i-need-todo to get a usb palm working in de

Re: [OT] Internet time (Biel Mean Time)

2003-10-26 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:24:10 +0800, "David Palmer." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If it was commonly adopted, they would then turn round and copywrite > it, and charge us by the second for access. We could really screw them > up by running internet time on the basis of the Buddhist/Quantum > theor

unsubscribe debian-user@lists.debian.org

2003-10-26 Thread Kim, William
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Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

2003-10-26 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:27:11PM -0600, Will Trillich wrote: > another, better, reason, is that ^W is already used for something > else. i tried your mappings for a while last night (i've been > using vi since about 1987, so there wasn't much hope) and darn > near went mad. Now you know how I fe

GTK2.x apps trouble with UTF8 , foreign language fonts

2003-10-26 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
- I sent this msg yesterday but seems like it doesn't get up to the ML yet so just resend it again, sorry if it gets posted twice. I use Sarge, and have the MScorefonts loaded with xfs, everything (e.g viewing webpage with foreign language) so far has worked perfectly on gtk1.2.x and other apps li

GTK2.x apps trouble with UTF8 , foreign language fonts

2003-10-26 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
- I sent this msg yesterday but seems like it doesn't get up to the ML yet so just resend it again, sorry if it gets posted twice. I use Sarge, and have the MScorefonts loaded with xfs, everything (e.g viewing webpage with foreign language) so far has worked perfectly on gtk1.2.x and other apps li

Re: Fonts to big in gtk1 programs

2003-10-26 Thread Marshal Wong
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 19:06, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Hi, > > For a long while now fonts in gtk1 applications (gimp, gnucash, ...) are > broken. Basically they are too large. I've looked on google and setup > some defoma and fontconfig stuff and while the appearance is better now, > they are st

What does Aliant Telecom use for DSL?

2003-10-26 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I'm considering subscribing to Aliant Telecom's DSL service: http://productsandservice.aliant.net/PS/ns/english/productsandservices/ps_3.jsp?section=51&bodycont=productsandservices%2f56%2fproductdetail.jsp&curbody=51 (sorry for the arcane URL). Aliant is a telephone company and ISP in Nova Scot

Re: [OT] Internet time (Biel Mean Time)

2003-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 20:21, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:39:21PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What's the point of it? > > > > According to http://www.luvit.se/stefanp/lec_35_manual/swatch.html , > > "As a result Internet Time is the same all over the world." > >

Re: why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?

2003-10-26 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 12:21:33AM +0100, Wilko Fokken wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 12:23:45PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Moin Wilko! > > Wilko Fokken schrieb am Sunday, den 26. October 2003: > > > > ... > > Ehm, you realize that your case is somehow constructed? ET4000 is about > > 10 yea

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-26 Thread Robert Storey
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:01:43 -0600 Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > To be more specific, Xemacs has more beautiful fonts and lets you > > change default font size. > > I don't see why you can't change the default font size in > Emacs... you

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-26 Thread Robert Storey
> > But even for non-root users of the same system, all they'd have to > > do is do 'cat ~/.muttrc', unless .muttrc is only owner- > > readable(like .fetchmailrc). > > > > Sure, but that can be fixed, as you say, with permissions changes. > You can't fix the fact that superusers can read your

Pathetic Writer (or siagoffice)

2003-10-26 Thread Ken Caldwell
Are there any subscribers to this list that use siagoffice? I was looking for a small word processor and spreadsheet to be used on some old computers (Pentium 75 with 32MB RAM and 520MB HDD) and tried to use Pathetic Writer which is part of siagoffice but it seems to crash. For example if you sele

Re: [OT] - problem with java

2003-10-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I tried replacing the internal java matlab is using (either 1.1.8 or > 1.3.1) since it is causing problems with window sizes. > I installed j2re 1.4.1 from blackdown in the right place, pointed to it > and add a link in /lib/i386/hotspot -> /li

Fonts to big in gtk1 programs

2003-10-26 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, For a long while now fonts in gtk1 applications (gimp, gnucash, ...) are broken. Basically they are too large. I've looked on google and setup some defoma and fontconfig stuff and while the appearance is better now, they are still the same size. I'm running up-to-date unstable on powerpc.

Re: Re: printer icon

2003-10-26 Thread Betsyandon
Where did you find it?

Re: [OT] Internet time (Biel Mean Time)

2003-10-26 Thread David Palmer.
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 19:21:22 -0700 Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:39:21PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What's the point of it? > > > > According to http://www.luvit.se/stefanp/lec_35_manual/swatch.html , > > "As a result Internet Time is the sa

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-26 Thread David Jardine
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 04:50:35AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 04:37, Andre Kalus wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 23:33:30 +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:28:26PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > >> On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 02:39:43AM +0100, Pigeon wrot

[OT] - problem with java

2003-10-26 Thread Micha Feigin
Hello, I tried replacing the internal java matlab is using (either 1.1.8 or 1.3.1) since it is causing problems with window sizes. I installed j2re 1.4.1 from blackdown in the right place, pointed to it and add a link in /lib/i386/hotspot -> /lib/i386/client. This causes matlab to start but it loc

Framebuffer problems

2003-10-26 Thread stan
I'm putting an older machine back in service. I'm having a problem with the framebuffer. I see teh penguin on startup, so frambuffer is starting, but when I try to use, say fbi (and other framebuffer apps), I get: can handle only packed pixel frame buffers Here's dmesg, if it helps: Script star

Re: A newbies confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-26 Thread David Palmer.
Pigeon scratched with his claw: "I think we've crossed wires a bit here; I was talking about the modern State of Israel having been established after WW2 by the military strength of the victors, mainly the USA, and maintained similarly. The Isaiah passages basically say "don't rely on military al

Re: unavailable apt sources

2003-10-26 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:27:14AM +1100, glenn wrote: > Hi All > Apt is holding back quite a few packages from upgrade, when I look into > these I find that depedencies are broken due to the package being > 'UNAVAILABLE'. I figured perhaps the specific mirror I've been using > just didn't have the

Re: [OT] Internet time (Biel Mean Time)

2003-10-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:39:21PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > What's the point of it? > > According to http://www.luvit.se/stefanp/lec_35_manual/swatch.html , > "As a result Internet Time is the same all over the world." > > Well, gee, since Internet Time is equivalent to BMT, what's th

Looking for Squid How-To

2003-10-26 Thread Trey Sizemore
Anyone have a good starting point for a Squid newbie. The website left a little to be desired and google didn't turn up much of use. Thanks -- Cheers, Trey --- "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly di

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

2003-10-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
"Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I will resubscribe for the xyz mailbox this morning. If you know of > any other preventative measures I should taked, please let me know. A very nice way to use this list is through gmane. Gmane is a news gateway to this group. It gives you access

Re: X Windows System will not start

2003-10-26 Thread Hoyt Bailey
I have gathered some additional information. The following is the output of lspci: File: lspci-out 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3189 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device b168 00:0b.0 Communication controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1040 00:

Re: rm -rf .* alternatives

2003-10-26 Thread Isaac To
> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Karsten> on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 03:28:36PM +0100, Colin Watson Karsten> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:36:25PM +0930, David Purton wrote: >> > Sadly no, I neglected to say that I could not get

Re: Debian bug-squashing party, Sunday November 9th 2003, Ecublens, Switzerland

2003-10-26 Thread Paul William
> ..combine all this; pizzas in their edges makes fine sails for swimmers > and a polar bear will have you swim, er, sail faster than dodgy south > american beverages. ;-) lol > ..ah, and you did run off with SCO's Pizza Hut business? > Used to be the bulk of Caldera/SCO's business, now

Re: Debian bug-squashing party, Sunday November 9th 2003, Ecublens, Switzerland

2003-10-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:54:49 +1300, Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 11:28, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:22:45 +1300, > > Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Mon

palm on debian

2003-10-26 Thread Paul William
Hi, I am getting a new palm (tunsten E) tomorrow. My last palm m105 was sold before I switched to Debian and worked fine in mdk. Is there any tip /things-i-need-todo to get a usb palm working in debian (apart from installing the right software)? Cheers Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :

"connection closed by foreign host" can't telnet or pop a foreign server

2003-10-26 Thread Shawn Lindsay
I can reach it on the web. It can be reached by telnet and pop from another machine (an ibook). My firewall (guarddog) allows telnet. Other servers can be telneted into and popped. The server I can't reach is a polaris. I'm new to dsl and have a new box and I'm rather ignorant of Debian and

Re: USB subsystem Problems?!

2003-10-26 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 26 October 2003 16:38, Lorenzo Rossi wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a new Debian user, and I have a strange problem with USB subsystem. > I have a Logitech mouse mx700, and when I connect it to one of my usb > ports, a message appear in console: > > Oct 26 15:43:53 europa kernel: hub.c: new USB dev

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-26 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 04:41:05PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 03:58:14 +0100, > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:38:33PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:18:03 -0700, > > > Tom <[EMAI

humble request

2003-10-26 Thread naomi sadiq
   My Beloved brother & sisters in the Christ Many greetings from bread for Pakistan. All the ministry work doing well. Dear brother & sister I just want to say you humbly that I am running the organization by name  Bread for Pakistan. I am doing all the work with my own help. Now the charismas is

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-26 Thread Robert Storey
Try Animail. I don't see it on the list of Debian packages, but you can download it from Sourceforge as a .deb binary or source tarball. It is much easier to use than Fetchmail, and it can delete spam from the mail server without having to download. Another option (which I haven't tried yet) is Ma

Re: rm -rf .* alternatives (was: Re: I broke gnome2 *snff*)

2003-10-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 07:46:05PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 10:12:18AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 02:10:01PM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 03:28:36PM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > On F

Re: rm -rf .* alternatives

2003-10-26 Thread Travis Crump
Jason Lunz wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Other tips? use zsh: [orr](0) % zsh [orr](0) % touch .foo [orr](0) % echo .* .foo [orr](0) % bash bash-2.05b$ echo .* . .. .foo Jason or just use a recent version of coreutils[>5.0-5 tested] $rm

Rx: VICODIN is Here - Just Pennies per Tablet...cianna

2003-10-26 Thread August Morgan
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Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-26 Thread Tom
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:52:23PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 07:47:43 -0800, > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Basically in "X-vs.-Jew", anybody Jewish gets a pass from me for the > > next couple of generations. I was riding a train

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

2003-10-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 at 04:43 GMT, Bill Moseley penned: > > I could not agree more. I just need to become efficient enough with > vim to feel like it's not more work than using another editor. With > nano when I add some text to a paragraph and need to re-justify I just > hit ^J. In Vim I'm hitt

Re: Looking for Squid How-To

2003-10-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 03:43:27PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > Anyone have a good starting point for a Squid newbie. The website left > a little to be desired and google didn't turn up much of use. /etc/squid.conf has lots of good pointers. - --

Re: xmms-mplayer can't find glib-config?(Don't think the server accepted this last time).

2003-10-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Joseph Jones (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > How do I know if I have glib installed? I've installed libglib1.2, > libglib2.0.0 and libglib2.0-data, but it says it can't find > glib-config. > > Can anyone help? I really wanna use mplayer in XMMS :) I think the server did accept your message

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:41:12PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > One problem I had with it is that it gave the message lengths as > zero, which didn't aid swen-spotting. I do get the message lengths so this may be a problem with how mutt interfaces with your particular pop server. It also might b

USB subsystem Problems?!

2003-10-26 Thread Lorenzo Rossi
Hi, I'm a new Debian user, and I have a strange problem with USB subsystem. I have a Logitech mouse mx700, and when I connect it to one of my usb ports, a message appear in console: Oct 26 15:43:53 europa kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:0f.2-1, assigned address 5 Oct 26 15:43:53 europa kernel: i

Re: vim and french accents

2003-10-26 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:18:03PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:07:52PM -0400, Luc Lefebvre wrote: > > I have been using vim on woody without any trouble > control-k ^ e gives the circonflexe accent on the e for > > example>. I now also have Libranet installed on anothe

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-26 Thread Tom
Basically in "X-vs.-Jew", anybody Jewish gets a pass from me for the next couple of generations. I was riding a train in Germany and I couldn't help thinking how it would feel like bugs crawling up under my skin to think about how fucked in the head my parents and grandparents were. I'm from

What do I need to to be abe to buld Gnome apps from source?

2003-10-26 Thread stan
I've got a "testing" machine that I'm setting up for work, and I'm probably going to need to make some mods to one of the apps I plan on using "gspy". It's a Gnome app, and I'm having troubel building it. here's how it's failing: checking for gnomeConf.sh file in /usr/local/lib... not found conf

Re: fc-cache error: Cannot load default config file

2003-10-26 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
On 03-10-26 08:30 +0100, LeVA wrote: > Hello! > > This is my third post on this list with this problem, hope that now > someone notice it :) > So my first question is what does fc-cache do? > My second is, why does it write "Fontconfig error: Cannot load default > config file" when I run it. > W

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-26 Thread Haines Brown
> Haines Brown([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > prompt and setterm) can go in either place. User has a .bashrc and > > .bash_profile (there's no .profile), and the configuration must go > > into the latter. It does not work for me if put into .bashrc. > > Do you have > > source

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-26 Thread Robert Storey
Try Animail. I don't see it on the list of Debian packages, but you can download it from Sourceforge as a .deb binary or source tarball. It is much easier to use than Fetchmail, and it can delete spam from the mail server without having to download. Another option (which I haven't tried yet) is Ma

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 at 23:48 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: > On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 13:31, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 at 14:11 GMT, Wayne Topa penned: >> > >> > If you add set pop_host=pop.gmx.net, set pop_user=xxx and set >> > pop_pass= to your .muttrc then mutt -f pop:/

[OT] Internet time (Biel Mean Time)

2003-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, What's the point of it? According to http://www.luvit.se/stefanp/lec_35_manual/swatch.html , "As a result Internet Time is the same all over the world." Well, gee, since Internet Time is equivalent to BMT, what's the big deal about "same all over the world" and "the era of time zones has dis

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 03:58:14 +0100, Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:38:33PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:18:03 -0700, > > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Thu,

Re: Black Holes.

2003-10-26 Thread Will Trillich
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 06:04:56AM -0700, D. wrote: > > --- "David Palmer." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > O.K., I'm trying to get on top of a few things here, > > and am struggling > > to find directions that make sense. > I'm a quasi newbie to Debian also. I would reccommend > that you learn

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

2003-10-26 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Monique Y. Herman on Saturday, 2003-10-25 at 10:35:06 -0600: > > Tech support folks are generally overworked and underpaid -- > unfortunately, that results in a lot of "maybe he doesn't really know > what he's talking about -- I'll send him this stuff and maybe he'll go > away." And apparen

GTK2.x apps trouble with UTF8 , foreign language fonts

2003-10-26 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
Hi, I use Sarge, and have the MScorefonts loaded with xfs, everything (e.g viewing webpage with foreign language) so far has worked perfectly on gtk1.2.x and other apps like Mozilla. But the GTK2.x apps like Firebired compiled with xft / gtk2.x will all display some of those characters as a square

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

2003-10-26 Thread Will Trillich
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 12:24:34PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 at 04:43 GMT, Bill Moseley penned: > > just need to become efficient enough with vim to feel like > > it's not more work than using another editor. > > I love vim, but for the most basic tasks, it *is* more w

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Monique Y. Herman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Of course, your password will then be in plain-text in a file. If you > are the only person with root access, this probably isn't a big deal > until your box gets hacked, but this sort of thing always gives me the > willies. You

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

2003-10-26 Thread Will Trillich
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 09:43:44PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:58:43PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > > > | Control-W to toggle wrap mode (which would be toggle > > > | paste mode in Vim) > > > > another approach could be > > :set pastetoggle= > > and use F9 whether

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-26 Thread Kent West
David Jardine wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:26:29PM -0500, Kent West wrote: Haines Brown wrote: In moving from RedHat to debian, I'm left with some simple little basic configuration questions. They all relate to a situation in which I operate at this point from console. 1. Where do

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-26 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 09:11:44AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > If you add set pop_host=pop.gmx.net, set pop_user=xxx and set pop_pass= > to your .muttrc then mutt -f pop:// > will connect without typeing so much. :-) Additionally, within a running mutt, you could choose to activate a

xmms-mplayer can't find glib-config?(Don't think the server accepted this last time).

2003-10-26 Thread Joseph Jones
How do I know if I have glib installed? I've installed libglib1.2, libglib2.0.0 and libglib2.0-data, but it says it can't find glib-config. Can anyone help? I really wanna use mplayer in XMMS :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: rm -rf .* alternatives (was: Re: I broke gnome2 *snff*)

2003-10-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 02:10:01PM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 03:28:36PM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:36:25PM +0930, David Purton wrote: > > > > Sadly no, I neglected to say that I could not get things to work even > > >

RE: hi

2003-10-26 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Most Toshibas have a small pinhole reset button. Try pressing this button while holding down the left shift key, keep the left shift key pressed while it boots up. This does not work for all tosh laptops. Matt -- -Original Message- From: michael stephens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Haines Brown([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Do you have > > > > source .bashrc > > > > As the last line of your .bash_profile? That might help. > > No, the default (debian3.0r.1) is to comment that in .bash_profile: > > # if [ -f ~/.bashrc]; then > # source ~./bashrc

Re: Debconf complains of database corruption; apt system wedged

2003-10-26 Thread Joey Hess
Joseph Barillari wrote: > > "JDB" == Joseph Barillari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JDB> Hi. After a nasty crash during a dist-upgrade, I discovered > JDB> that /var/lib/dpkg/status was missing (fsck must not have > JDB> been able to save it). I restored a copy form /var/backups

Re: how can I set up a "testing" machine to be able to compile Gnome apps

2003-10-26 Thread stan
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 12:39:46PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 at 17:55 GMT, stan penned: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 02:55:11PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > >> On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 13:47, stan wrote: > >> > I'm going to build a machine to use for some video camera work. I

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 at 14:11 GMT, Wayne Topa penned: > > If you add set pop_host=pop.gmx.net, set pop_user=xxx and set > pop_pass= to your .muttrc then mutt -f pop:// will connect > without typeing so much. :-) > > This works in version 1.5.4-1 (testing) as well > > Isn't linux

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Haines Brown([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > As for setting up basic bash configuration, a little experimentation > shows that this is what I've got (debian 3.0r1). > > Root has both .bashrc and .profile, and the configuations (custom bash > prompt and setterm) can go in either pla

Incremental CDR backups

2003-10-26 Thread Paul M Foster
I'm having difficulty burning incremental CDR backups. (Using Debian 3.0r1/testing.) They burn fine, but when I mount the CD after the second and subsequent backups, all I can see is the original session. Here are the commands I give Linux: (First burn) mkisofs -r -o /tmp/cdimage /home/paulf/cdr

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Andre Kalus([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > It is very simple - you do not need any config. I just installed mutt > (from unstable). Then I call: > > mutt -f pop://[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > where xxx is my customer number from GMX (you can use both e-Mail > address and customer

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

2003-10-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 at 19:06 GMT, Conrad Newton penned: > From Monique Y. Herman on Saturday, 2003-10-25 at 10:35:06 -0600: >> >> Tech support folks are generally overworked and underpaid -- >> unfortunately, that results in a lot of "maybe he doesn't really know >> what he's talking about -- I'll

[Linux 2.6] racoon questions

2003-10-26 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi This is a little OT for debian-user but i hope here are some with the native kernel 2.5/2.6 implementation of IPSec Im not sure if i got the real purpose of racoon. I have here debian unstable with kernel 2.6.0-test8 and ipsec-tools 0.2.2 installed. I'd like to establish a VPN connection to

Re: WinTV driver docs?

2003-10-26 Thread Albert Dengg
I think you will need the bttv driver, thich is included in the kernel source... for more information have a look at the homepage: http://bytesex.org/bttv/ I'm using mine whithout any problems (only one card & from tv though) yours Albert On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:30:29 -0500 stan <[EMAIL PROTE

Asus P4P800 Deluxe + Enhanced SATA/P-ATA finally working

2003-10-26 Thread Matthias Hentges
Hello all! To everyone out there having problems getting full SATA and PATA support working on the Asus P4P800 i have good news. It works! The trick is to configure Enhanced-Mode, SATA *only* and *not* PATA+SATA support in your BIOS. Yes i know that stinks. I discovered that by pure luck *sigh*

Re: how can I set up a "testing" machine to be able to compile Gnome apps

2003-10-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 at 17:55 GMT, stan penned: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 02:55:11PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: >> On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 13:47, stan wrote: >> > I'm going to build a machine to use for some video camera work. I >> > will probably be using the gspy package. >> > >> > But, I will most

Re: Problem w/ raid1, reiserfs & mkinitrd/linuxrc

2003-10-26 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:28:49PM +0200, W. Borgert wrote: > Hi, > > the combination of raid1, reiserfs, and mkinitrd works sort of. > An admin and me have still two problems: > > - a lot of modules are loaded unnecessarily > > - on boot (it seems) the devices are probed for different file syst

Re: WinTV driver docs?

2003-10-26 Thread Albert Dengg
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 16:02:13 -0500 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Any idea how to set the driver to use the composite video input, > rather thna the tuner? ... normaly you do that in your aplication.. but there is an aplication in the xawtv debian package (v4lctl) that alows you to change th

Re: Spamassassin Configuration

2003-10-26 Thread Will Trillich
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 08:44:52PM -0700, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:24:26PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > > where's the list of all the tests, and what they do? man > > Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf tells about customization directives, > > but not the tests themselves... > >

Re: What do I need to to be abe to buld Gnome apps from source?

2003-10-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 at 17:40 GMT, stan penned: > I've got a "testing" machine that I'm setting up for work, and I'm > probably going to need to make some mods to one of the apps I plan on > using "gspy". > > It's a Gnome app, and I'm having troubel building it. here's how it's > failing: > > che

Re: Setting hostname with DHCP

2003-10-26 Thread Michael Ash
> > > The dhclient script is broken; it doesn't do the > > > hostname [or domain] properly. It is probably > > > fixable, but that script is a big mess. > > > > Should I move to a different DHCP-client program? > > Your message indicated that you were using dhcp-client. Let me > recommend dhcp3-

Re: xmms-mplayer can't find glib-config?(Don't think the server accepted this last time).

2003-10-26 Thread Joseph Jones
Thanks :) I must admit, whilst I new it was possible to search packages, I never really considered it in relation to sorting problems like this. I'm sure your advice will come in handy in the future :) Now I'm thinking about writing a new xmms-mplayer plugin, since the one I've installed is so

Re: Migrated to debian; aliases stopped working

2003-10-26 Thread Haines Brown
> BTW I use exim and exim.conf contains the following lines about aliases > > # This director handles aliasing using a traditional /etc/aliases file. > # If any of your aliases expand to pipes or files, you will need to set > # up a user and a group for these deliveries to run under. You can do >

Re: WinTV driver docs?

2003-10-26 Thread Albert Dengg
have you tried accessing the device? the dmesg seems ok it looks like for some reason modprobe trys to load tuner.o twice... Albert On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 11:03:46 -0500 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > And then I run into troubles :-( > > cogenvs:~# modprobe bttv > Using /lib/modules/2.4.

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-26 Thread Tom
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 10:05:46PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..in our case, whenever you start by reporting that "PsysOp" > storyteller you met on that plane to, was it Cali? None of this is secret http://inquirer.philly.com/packages/somalia/nov16/rang16.asp : ...18 Americans were dead and 7

Re: Looking for Squid How-To

2003-10-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 at 20:43 GMT, Trey Sizemore penned: > Thanks --=20 Cheers, Trey --- > > "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly > what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly > disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and > inexpl

Re: Debian bug-squashing party, Sunday November 9th 2003, Ecublens, Switzerland

2003-10-26 Thread Paul William
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 11:28, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:22:45 +1300, > Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 03:47, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 22:24:02 +1300, > > > Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: rm -rf .* alternatives

2003-10-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 01:29:44PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-10-26T15:12:18Z, Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You could always do: > > rm -r `ls -A` > > If you have good backups, consider the ramifications of: > >$ touch 'a .. b' >$ rm -r `ls -A` Oops... My

Log watching program for central loghost

2003-10-26 Thread Alex
I've been trying to find a nice log watcher for a syslog-ng central loghost. Those I've found, ie. logwatcher, was more suited for looking through local logfiles. But when running a syslog-ng which puts everything in /var/log/HOSTS/MACHINE/YEAR/MONTH/DATE/ this isn't very nice (I may have missed so

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

2003-10-26 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-25T17:07:36Z, Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gah, I didn't think of that. So I've still eaten a stupid amount of > traffic this week. Does anyone have any neat scripts for automaticaly > blacklisting Swen-sending ips for a period of time with Postfix? This may or may not be o

Re: WinTV driver docs?

2003-10-26 Thread stan
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 08:53:20PM +0100, Albert Dengg wrote: > have you tried accessing the device? > the dmesg seems ok > it looks like for some reason modprobe trys to load tuner.o twice... > I changed /etc/modules.conf so that the post-install did not try to load the tuner module, since th

Re: rm -rf .* alternatives

2003-10-26 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-26T15:12:18Z, Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You could always do: > rm -r `ls -A` If you have good backups, consider the ramifications of: $ touch 'a .. b' $ rm -r `ls -A` -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signatu

Re: Debian bug-squashing party, Sunday November 9th 2003, Ecublens, Switzerland

2003-10-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 at 09:24 GMT, Paul William penned: > what a kool idea. Pity I live on the other side of the world (New > Zealand). Enjoy the party. > > Cheers > > Paul > I was thinking the same. Actually, I'm not sure I'm qualified to be a huge help in such a party, but it's an awesome con

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:58:10 -0800, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:52:23PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 07:47:43 -0800, > > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Basically i

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 13:31, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 at 14:11 GMT, Wayne Topa penned: > > > > If you add set pop_host=pop.gmx.net, set pop_user=xxx and set > > pop_pass= to your .muttrc then mutt -f pop:// will connect > > without typeing so much. :-) > > > > T

Re: rm -rf .* alternatives

2003-10-26 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-26T18:46:05Z, David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then wouldn't > > rm -r `ls` > > do the trick? No; it wouldn't list files starting with '.'. That whole line of experimentation also fails on any filename with a space in it. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est.

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