Re: Should I upgrade from 2.4.22 to 2.6.0-test11?

2003-12-17 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:49:10 -0700, "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 at 02:10 GMT, tripolar penned: > > I just posted about compiling error with 2.6.0-test11 which got me > > thinking if 2.4.22 is working well ( not perfect) shou

Re: HOWTO paste to dos

2003-12-17 Thread Kent West
Carl Fink wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:32:25PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: AFAIK/CT the copying happens automatically out of every app. I've had reason to try (except pdf's, images, and the like, of course). Okay, I just checked with the only graphical app I had open, Mozilla-Fireb

Re: Mouse moves FUNNY

2003-12-17 Thread Kent West
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:43:08AM -0600, Kent West wrote: This is nearly always a protocol problem. Yes. The answer depends on if you're running gpm or not; I'll assume you're not. No. To see what I mean, set your

RE: xtree for Linux

2003-12-17 Thread Gruessle
> From: Paul Johnson > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:52:20AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > Somebody told me about a software like xtree gold (msdos software) > > I used it before but I don't recall it's name or how to install it. > > Holy cow! Someone else has heard of that! I thought I was the only >

Re: HOWTO paste to dos

2003-12-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:32:25PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > >> AFAIK/CT the copying happens automatically out of every app. I've had >> reason to try (except pdf's, images, and the like, of course). > > Okay, I just checked with the only graphical app

Re: HOWTO paste to dos

2003-12-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:32:25PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > AFAIK/CT the copying happens automatically out of every app. I've had > reason to try (except pdf's, images, and the like, of course). Okay, I just checked with the only graphical app I had open, Mozilla-Firebird. Highlighted tex

Re: Mainline journalist finds success with old Debian Install

2003-12-17 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 at 04:30 GMT, Paul Johnson penned: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:58:30AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: >> Today, in the Wall Street Journal, Charles Forelle reports on his >> experience installing Debian on a used computer. It is

[PLUG] 2.6.0 is here

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So when do we get to see debian packages? - - Forwarded message from AthlonRob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: AthlonRob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Virus-Scanned: at axpr.net with ClamAV Subject: [PLUG] 2.6.0 is here X-BeenThere:

Re: PDF & cut-&-paste ???

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:46:46PM -0600, Michael D Schleif wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:12:17:19:35:49-0800] scribed: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:05:44AM -0600, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > > Which PDF readers allow blocking and

Re: USB Device mounting

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 07:52:59PM +, Tom Badran wrote: > Is there anyway i can get usb (and firewire if possible) mass > storage devices to automount and put an icon on the users kde > desktop when a device is plugged in? Yeah. Create device ico

Re: PDF & cut-&-paste ???

2003-12-17 Thread Michael D Schleif
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:12:17:19:35:49-0800] scribed: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:05:44AM -0600, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > Which PDF readers allow blocking and cut-&-paste? > > kpdf does, but unfortunately, most PDF creators are idiots and scan > documents without OCR or anythin

Re: install debian woody over serial console

2003-12-17 Thread Alexey Koptsevich
Hello, I am trying to follow the instructions at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200311/msg04005.html Rescue floppy loads OK, but when I insert root floppy, the drive makes noisy read attempts and then fails with the following messages: VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loa

Re: soundless in kazaa

2003-12-17 Thread Johann Koenig
On Thursday December 18 at 03:10am Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wouldn't bother upgrading to 2.4 unless you _need_ to - especially > as you hardware isn't the most powerful. The only way I managed to get my old computer working (also AMD 400mhz) with a ISA SoundBlaster card was t

Re: HOWTO paste to dos

2003-12-17 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:16:59PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:49:57PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > > Generally, you don't have to to copy. As soon as you highlight > > the text, it is available for pasting. > > This is false for every graphical X application I use. I

Initrd - cramfs image is not being recognized by 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-17 Thread Keith Goettert
I have a kernel built from kernel.org source.  I have included support for ramdisk, initial ramdisk, and cramfs.   I built a ram disk image using mkinitrd   I can mount the image and list directories and files in it by using mount -o loop rdimage mntpnt   So, it looks like it is functional

Re: Mainline journalist finds success with old Debian Install

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:58:30AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > Today, in the Wall Street Journal, Charles Forelle reports on his > experience installing Debian on a used computer. It is interesting > reading. And, generally positive towards Debian.

Re: CDs misplaced

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 06:18:01PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > My device table file has entries for CDrom and CDrom1 among others that are > simply not tied to any real mountable device. The hard disks and the floppy > are correct but the CDs are not.

Re: Should I upgrade from 2.4.22 to 2.6.0-test11?

2003-12-17 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 at 02:10 GMT, tripolar penned: > I just posted about compiling error with 2.6.0-test11 which got me > thinking if 2.4.22 is working well ( not perfect) should I even update > to 2.6? Currently almost all USB devices work the exception being a > linksys wireless network adaptor.

Re: Americas army

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 06:45:08AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:20:31PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > > > > > There's your problem. Looks like you're using nvidia-glx, but not the > > > kernel module. Double-check your driv

Re: xcdroast

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:17:20PM +, Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hi, > This is what I get. > > 1# uname -r > 2.2.20-idepci Hi, This is your magic fix. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: How to shutdown GNOME without mouse

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:12:55AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > I need to shutdown GNOME without mouse > but not the whole system just want to go back > to text based linux window. left control + left alt + F1. Left alt + F7 takes you back to X. > BTW

Re: email client

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:26:17AM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > > http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/#offlist > > (You sent a private-mail reply to my attempt to help you on a mailing > > list, and failed to mention having done so.) > > No, I sent you

Re: Gimp 1.3 and the latest GAIM

2003-12-17 Thread Johann Koenig
On Wednesday December 17 at 12:03pm "Joseph A. Nagy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #potato > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main non-free > contrib deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian experimental main > non-free contrib Heh, didn't realize that potato was considered 'experi

Re: Mouse moves FUNNY

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:43:08AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > This is nearly always a protocol problem. Yes. > The answer depends on if you're running gpm or not; I'll assume > you're not. No. To see what I mean, set your mouse to aome arbitrary and

Re: Mouse moves FUNNY

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:42:06AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > My mouse is acting funny, jumping not doing what it supposed to do at > all. > Something with the install is wrong I guess, where should I start to > look Sounds like wrong protocol. Be m

Re: xtree for Linux

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:52:20AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > Somebody told me about a software like xtree gold (msdos software) > I used it before but I don't recall it's name or how to install it. Holy cow! Someone else has heard of that! I thought

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:16:12AM -0700, Abhay Watwe wrote: > Any help with dual booting XP and Linux with XP boot loader will be much > appreciated. Have you tried the HOWTOs? http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/dwww?type=html&location=/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en

Re: Trustworthiness of unaccounted Debian packages

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:43:59PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > what is the trustworthiness generally expected from packages that are > not in the main-line of the Debian distribution? Do you know and trust the person who created and is distributing the

Re: right kernal for AMD

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:56:15AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > How do I find out what the right image is for a AMD 700? > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 > > 386, 586, k6 and k7 systems Try k7, if

Re: PDF & cut-&-paste ???

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:05:44AM -0600, Michael D Schleif wrote: > Which PDF readers allow blocking and cut-&-paste? kpdf does, but unfortunately, most PDF creators are idiots and scan documents without OCR or anything like that to make selectable t

Re: Logbook - RCS

2003-12-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:41:11PM -0800, Gruessle said > > From: Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:06:52PM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > > > > > arch comes up as "print machine architecture" > > > what is the arch you are taking about? > > > > apt-cache show arch says loo

Re: web browser

2003-12-17 Thread Kent West
Paul Morgan wrote: One thing to watch out for, which is a petty annoyance with Firebird: if you are using Mozilla Mail for email, start Firebird before you start Mozilla Mail, otherwise you'll get Mozilla, not Firebird, when you execute mozilla-firebird. Until you shut down Mozilla Mail, when sa

Re: GPM for mouse

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:06:16PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy wrote: > What about USB Logitech mice? It still speaks ImPS2 if it's got three buttons and three axis (the wheel is Z). - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'`

Re: Logbook - RCS

2003-12-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:08:08PM -0800, Nunya said > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:06:52PM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > > > arch comes up as "print machine architecture" > > what is the arch you are taking about? > > apt-cache show arch says look for larch Arch is the name for the...concept, sort o

OT: Trusting Ebay

2003-12-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:07:44PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > i dont see how people can do biz on "ebay" .. never having met the > others ... ( guess if its dont care items and garage sale stuff, > it wont matter if they paid up or not ) For important/expensive items some sellers require the user

Re: soundless in kazaa

2003-12-17 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 03:11:26PM -0500, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > I installed Debian Woody about 6 months ago and to my knowledge have > not experienced sound since then, with one exception: In using either > isapnptools or ALSA a test responded with a sound. I have tried from > time to time to re

RE: XFree86 with i810 onboard graphics (Newbie)

2003-12-17 Thread Allan Cairns
That did it! Thanks all for your advice. Cheers, Allan Original Message Follows From: Ricky Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Allan Cairns' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: XFree86 with i810 onboard graphics (Newbie) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:05:56 -0500 When you starte

Re: Problems with Debian merchandise vendors

2003-12-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya phil On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Phil Edwards wrote: > > I'm trying to buy some simple Debian stickers for a laptop, and going > down the list of vendors on http://www.debian.org/misc/merchandise has > been a disappointing experience. You should consider removing three of > these vendors. if

Re: right kernal for AMD

2003-12-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 09:30:04AM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Andreas Janssen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, 17 December 2003 1:33 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: right kernal for AMD > > > > > > Hello > > > > Gruess

Re: man files to text editor

2003-12-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:14:54PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:07:35PM -0500, Lou Losee wrote: > > * Gruessle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-17 12:21]: > > > > > > Is there a way I can open man files in a text editor. > > > I like to print one but have not configured my prin

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot

2003-12-17 Thread Roberto Hernandez
Once upon a time that problem happens to me. The solution was pretty easy indeed: 1. Boot from a rescue floppy or CD with rescue root=/dev/hd## 2. remount /dev/hd## to admite write 3. edit lilo.conf to meet your needs 4. Write LILO to /dev/hda, do this regardles of where is your linux system AND

Re: Logbook - RCS

2003-12-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:11:02AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > > I found following in the "Configuration HOWTO" manual. > My question is what software do U use as Logbook and what in RCS? Regarding keeping a log book - I would highly recommend buying a real, physical notebook and keeping notes ab

Re: HOWTO paste to dos

2003-12-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:49:57PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > Generally, you don't have to to copy. As soon as you highlight > the text, it is available for pasting. This is false for every graphical X application I use. It's true for console, xterm, and so forth. -- Carl Fink

Re: GPM for mouse

2003-12-17 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from James Miller: > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Kent West wrote: > > > James Miller wrote: > > > > >normal behavior under X was killall gpm. So, what was I doing wrong? I'd > > >be delighted if I could get gpm to cooperate with the mouse cursor under > > >X. > > > > and your /etc/X11/XFConfig

Re: make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:01:16PM -0600, tripolar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am compiling linux-2.6.0-test11 kernel (patched with patches from > kernel.org) > unpacked in /home/user/ > cd ~/linux-2.6.0-test11 > $make menuconfig > $fakeroot make-kpkg clean > $fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-vers

Re: DynIP mail blocking considered harmful (was: Re: My email is rejected by some sites)

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:37:09PM +0100, Joerg Rossdeutscher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your useful mail. This thread started to fill my killfile... > :-) > > Am Mi, den 17.12.2003 schrieb Karsten M. Self um 01:21: > > - There are highly specific filters and methods which

Re: rcs help

2003-12-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:41:02PM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > > I been trying my self on RCS > I read the "man rcs" file > created an rcs file with "rcs -i rebel" rebel is the name of my Debian > box > But I can't figure how this is supposed to work. > Isn't there a way to opening the file and ed

Re: GPM for mouse

2003-12-17 Thread James Miller
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Kent West wrote: > James Miller wrote: > > >normal behavior under X was killall gpm. So, what was I doing wrong? I'd > >be delighted if I could get gpm to cooperate with the mouse cursor under > >X. > > and your /etc/X11/XFConfig-4 file, Input Device section will look > some

Should I upgrade from 2.4.22 to 2.6.0-test11?

2003-12-17 Thread tripolar
I just posted about compiling error with 2.6.0-test11 which got me thinking if 2.4.22 is working well ( not perfect) should I even update to 2.6? Currently almost all USB devices work the exception being a linksys wireless network adaptor. Though because the system picks it up with a vendor & produ

make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2

2003-12-17 Thread tripolar
I am compiling linux-2.6.0-test11 kernel (patched with patches from kernel.org) unpacked in /home/user/ cd ~/linux-2.6.0-test11 $make menuconfig $fakeroot make-kpkg clean $fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=.261217 kernel_image at the end of that process I get these errrors drivers/built-in.o(

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:39:51PM +0100, Magnus von Koeller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Content-Description: signed data > On Wednesday 17 December 2003 21:36, ScruLoose wrote: > > And, given the popularity of online blacklists that track IPs that > > are _actually__used_ by spammers, how does it m

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-17 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Magnus von Koeller: Content-Description: signed data > On Wednesday 17 December 2003 21:36, ScruLoose wrote: > > And, given the popularity of online blacklists that track IPs that > > are _actually__used_ by spammers, how does it make any sense to > > move backwards from something tha

Re: man files to text editor

2003-12-17 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:50:54AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:41:41AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:14:54PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > > Now we want the lines narrower than the default 80 characters (I guess > > > this won't work if man(1) i

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-17 Thread Magnus von Koeller
On Wednesday 17 December 2003 21:36, ScruLoose wrote: > And, given the popularity of online blacklists that track IPs that > are _actually__used_ by spammers, how does it make any sense to > move backwards from something that's more accurate, in favour of > something that's much, MUCH less accurate

Re: man files to text editor

2003-12-17 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:41:41AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:14:54PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > > Try man xxx | col -b > text-filename > > > > This actually should not work, you have to tell man(1) it should send the > > formatted manpage to stdout, instead of messin

Re: debconf frontend / perl error

2003-12-17 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
Hello again, Writing back to provide some more info on this, snipped a lot of stuff below... On 03-12-16 01:02 -0500, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > > It's debian unstable, kernel: > Linux enlil 2.4.20-2003-03-03 #1 Mon Mar 3 14:38:11 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux > > package versions involved: > ii

Re: ssh & X11 Authentication Issue - Advice Please

2003-12-17 Thread Cristian Gutierrez
Anonymous coward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Chris, > >I went out and removed my .ssh directory on the mounted file system. > >Setup keys again. I have the same results.. no X11 issues though, I >guess I did not need to actually have it forwarding via the config >file. > >Anyhow, > >A few servers

Re: rcs help

2003-12-17 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 at 21:41 GMT, Gruessle penned: > > > I been trying my self on RCS I read the "man rcs" file created an rcs > file with "rcs -i rebel" rebel is the name of my Debian box But I > can't figure how this is supposed to work. Isn't there a way to > opening the file and editing it?

Re: duplicating servers - remote backup to HD

2003-12-17 Thread Sturla Holm Hansen
Somebody sent me this message, but not with a working reply address... So if you sent it give me your e-mail address and I'll reply.. sturla -Forwarded Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Sturla Holm Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: duplicating servers - remote backup to HD

Re: rcs help

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:41:02PM -0800, Gruessle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I been trying my self on RCS > I read the "man rcs" file > created an rcs file with "rcs -i rebel" rebel is the name of my Debian > box > But I can't figure how this is supposed to work. > Isn't there a way to ope

Re: xtree for Linux

2003-12-17 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:31:40AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Haines Brown wrote: > >>Somebody told me about a software like xtree gold (msdos software) > >>I used it before but I don't recall it's name or how to install it. > >> > >>xTree Gold is a dos based program where you c

Re: man files to text editor

2003-12-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:41:41AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:14:54PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > Now we want the lines narrower than the default 80 characters (I guess > > this won't work if man(1) is connected to the terminal, so the pipe is > > vital here (that's why

Re: Gimp 1.3 and the latest GAIM

2003-12-17 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:03:25PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy wrote: > > Attached is my sources.list, preferences, and conf files. > #sid > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib ^^^ Change this to unstable and c

Re: deb files archive

2003-12-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:11:27PM +0100, GCS wrote: > I have seen an archive, where _all_ the deb files since Woody is stored. > So it contains broken packages as well, but where can I find this? http://snapshot.debian.net/ Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROT

Re: man files to text editor

2003-12-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:14:09AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That will work for small manpages. But you will not like > what it does for big ones. Here is a better way. > > 1. Find the manpage source. > > $ whereis bash > bash: /bin/bash /etc/bash.bashrc /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz >

Re: man files to text editor

2003-12-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:14:54PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:07:35PM -0500, Lou Losee wrote: > > * Gruessle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-17 12:21]: > > > Is there a way I can open man files in a text editor. > > > I like to print one but have not configured my printer jet

Re: soundless in kazaa

2003-12-17 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 15:11:26 -0500, Sam Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I installed Debian Woody about 6 months ago and to my knowledge have > not experienced sound since then, with one exception: In using either > isapnptools or ALSA a test responded with

Re: Web server Partitions - swap

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:46:38AM +0100, Magnus von Koeller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Content-Description: signed data > On Wednesday 17 December 2003 00:55, Alvin Oga wrote: > > in the old days ?memory was say 4K total ... > > Yeah, I was just wondering because on my laptop, complete with

Re: GPM for mouse

2003-12-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:46:21AM -0600, James Miller wrote: > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:55:50PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > | On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:41:05PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > | > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:07:0

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bijan Soleymani writes: >> Many programs are huge but only small parts of them need to be in memory >> the rest can be maintained in swap. > > Executables are not swapped out. They don't need to be because they are > not altered and so can just be read ba

Re: web server

2003-12-17 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 21:25, Gruessle wrote: > How about apache is it installed too? > How can I html in to my Debian with my win2000 PC use "apachectl start" on debian and then on a windows box go to "http://ipaddress"; where "ipaddress" is the IP of your debian box -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: hard disk access on every keystroke in console mode!

2003-12-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:06:02AM -0500, michelle wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > > > What CPU? How much memory? What speed memory? What sort of disks > > (bus type, speed, etc.)? What does 'hdparm /dev/hda' report? > > > > It sounds like you're hitting a bottleneck in the hardware

Re: hard disk access on every keystroke in console mode!

2003-12-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:06:02AM -0500, michelle wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > > > What CPU? How much memory? What speed memory? What sort of disks > > (bus type, speed, etc.)? What does 'hdparm /dev/hda' report? > > > > It sounds like you're hitting a bottleneck in the hardware

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:23:50PM +0100, Magnus von Koeller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Content-Description: signed data > On Tuesday 16 December 2003 22:12, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > SWAP - 1.5GB > > > > Rule of thumb: ?1-2x RAM. > > I never understood that rule... In what way does it make sen

Problems with Debian merchandise vendors

2003-12-17 Thread Phil Edwards
I'm trying to buy some simple Debian stickers for a laptop, and going down the list of vendors on http://www.debian.org/misc/merchandise has been a disappointing experience. You should consider removing three of these vendors. DebianShop: page is completely blank. CopyLeft: accepts orders,

RE: right kernal for AMD

2003-12-17 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Gruessle (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I made all those changes. > On top of the lilo.conf file is a reminder to run lilo before reboot. > So I tyled in "lilo" > And got following > Fatal: open /initrd.img: No such file or directory There should be a symlink /initrd.img pointing to the re

soundless in kazaa

2003-12-17 Thread Sam Rosenfeld
I installed Debian Woody about 6 months ago and to my knowledge have not experienced sound since then, with one exception: In using either isapnptools or ALSA a test responded with a sound. I have tried from time to time to resurrect sound so that I could listen to music CDs on my CD-Rom etc. but

Re: ssh & X11 Authentication Issue - Advice Please

2003-12-17 Thread Cristian Gutierrez
Anonymous coward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Anonymous coward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have to admit that is >>funny =) > >>I would first check /etc/ssh/sshd_config in `aspen', and see if >>"ChallengeResponseAuthentication" is enabled. > >I made this change in my $home/.ssh/config file. If

Re: HOWTO paste to dos

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:41:16 -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > I find something in the INet browser > The select and copy that. > Now I pess Ctrl+Alt+F1 > How can I paste it? Copy/paste works differently in Linux than in Microsoft OSes. Generally, you don't have to to copy. As soon as you highligh

Re: How to get a newer Mozilla (1.5) in Sarge

2003-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark Roach wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 12:23, Rich B wrote: Howdy, I'm running Sarge (Testing) and want to update Mozilla to 1.5. I've looked at apt-get.org and only see backports to Woody, not Sarge. Where can I find Mozilla .deb's for Sarge? Have you tried the ones from unstable? or see my re

Re: web browser

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 18:45:46 +, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hello > I have a new user on Kde after my previous account crashed. I can no longer > use Mozilla, no matter. Can anyone suggest a better (best) browser that will > open all graphics and doesn't keep giving a 'jigsaw'? > > Gavin In

Re: printer setup

2003-12-17 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:00:31PM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > > My printer man says following. Is there a HOWTO on this? $ apt-get install doc-linux-html $ dpkg -S doc-linux-html | grep -i print > Unix Systems > Follow the traditional configuration procedure on Unix platforms to set > up the Sp

Re: right kernal for AMD

2003-12-17 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:16:32 -0800, "Gruessle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I made all those changes. > On top of the lilo.conf file is a reminder to run lilo before reboot. > So I tyled in "lilo" > And got following > Fatal: open /initrd.img: No such file or d

Re: GPM for mouse

2003-12-17 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:46:21AM -0600, James Miller wrote: | On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:55:50PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: | > | On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:41:05PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > | > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:07:00PM

Re: How to get pretty fonts?

2003-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
James Hosken wrote: Alf Werder wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 20:41, Joris Huizer wrote: Hello everybody, I did a downgrade to debian/stable - after a knoppix harddisc a few weeks ago (which is a mix of stable and testing) However, right now the fonts in mozilla are ugly - they used to be muc

Re: Configuring Shorewall

2003-12-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:16:17PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > I just intalled this. > > I do not know what to do with it. > Try getting webmin-shorewall makes setting it up quite a lot easier (nat can be a bit tricky tough, but unless you are running a server behind a router you don't need it.)

Re: GPM for mouse

2003-12-17 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:20:06PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: | On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:14:21AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:23:31PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: | > | On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:41:05PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > | > On Mon, Dec 1

Re: man files to text editor

2003-12-17 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:26:27PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:55:29PM -0500, Lou Losee wrote: > > > > Try man xxx | col -b > text-filename > > > > > > This actually should not work, you have to tell man(1) it should send the > > > formatted manpage to stdout, instead of m

Re: Sreelal Chandrasenan

2003-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
ScruLoose wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Ricky Taylor wrote: I second this. Getting tired of seeing his inter-company mail. Just my .02. 1) Please don't top-post. It screws up the readability of threads. 2) I think you mean "intra-company mail". 3) Unless my .forward logging

Re: Similar question was: Change password from shellscript

2003-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Nunya wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:48:10PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: We'll leave it as an exercise for the students to discover why xsane only works well under su. Neither my Epson 1650U nor my HP PSC 750 requires root under xsane. IJW. My Epson 1250 doesn't either on Sarge, but on Wo

Re: man files to text editor

2003-12-17 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lou Losee wrote: > * Gruessle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-17 12:21]: >> >> Is there a way I can open man files in a text editor. >> I like to print one but have not configured my printer jet. >> So I will em

Re: man files to text editor

2003-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Lou Losee wrote: * Gruessle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-17 12:21]: Is there a way I can open man files in a text editor. I like to print one but have not configured my printer jet. So I will email it to my other pc. Try man xxx | col -b > text-filename it will give you a text version of the man

Re: Logbook - RCS

2003-12-17 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 at 17:11 GMT, Gruessle penned: > > > I found following in the "Configuration HOWTO" manual. My question is > what software do U use as Logbook and what in RCS? Assuming you mean "what *is* RCS?" ... RCS is "Revision Control System". It's a tool that lets you track changes

Re: web browser

2003-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: Hello I have a new user on Kde after my previous account crashed. I can no longer use Mozilla, no matter. Can anyone suggest a better (best) browser that will open all graphics and doesn't keep giving a 'jigsaw'? Gavin Mozilla has so many versions that you could be run

Postfix SASL/PAM/MySQL fails on Sarge

2003-12-17 Thread Christoph Haas
Hi, list... I'm the author of the Postfix/MySQL/SASL/Courier/virtual tutorial at workaround.org. As a preparation for the next Debian release (sarge) I'm preparing/testing the setup for the current versions of the appropriate packages in testing. So far everything works with one frustrating except

Re: Logbook - RCS

2003-12-17 Thread Nunya
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:41:11PM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > From: Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:06:52PM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > > > > > arch comes up as "print machine architecture" > > > what is the arch you are taking about? > > > > apt-cache show arch says l

RE: right kernal for AMD

2003-12-17 Thread Gruessle
> From: Joyce, Matthew > > From: Andreas Janssen > > Hello > > > > Gruessle (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > > > How do I find out what the right image is for a AMD 700? > > > > > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 > > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 > > > > > > 386, 586,

RE: Logbook - RCS

2003-12-17 Thread Gruessle
> From: Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:06:52PM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > > > arch comes up as "print machine architecture" > > what is the arch you are taking about? > > apt-cache show arch says look for larch > apt-cache show larch says you should really use tla > >

Re: CDs misplaced

2003-12-17 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello David Baron (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > My device table file has entries for CDrom and CDrom1 among others > that are simply not tied to any real mountable device. The hard disks > and the floppy are correct but the CDs are not. How do I fix this? Are you talkong about /etc/fstab? Eithe

Re: Compromised? (Was Re: hard disk access on every keystroke in console mode!)

2003-12-17 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 00:44:47 -0500, michelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Tim Connors wrote: > > > > When did it start happening for you? > > > > The disks I used were from sarge iso images I got during the > compromise. I also got some more a few days ago and t

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