Re: ping script

2004-01-16 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:23:57PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Has anyone written a script that they're willing to share that pings a > host and when the ping fails it send out an email message? #!/bin/sh while :; do # Allow for intermittent network failures ping -c 120 "$1" && LAST="`date

Re: ping script

2004-01-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Curtis Vaughan said: > Has anyone written a script that they're willing to share that pings a > host and when the ping fails it send out an email message? > > Could you share it with me? Here's a quick one: #!/bin/bash if ping -c 1 $1; then echo "success"; else echo "ping failed for $1" | mail -s

Re: EXT3 at install..no more?

2004-01-16 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-01-17T02:38:32Z, Joseph Guida MD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sometimes I think that "open source" geeks intentionally complicate things > to keep the borderline geeks (like me) from experimenting with and > learning about O/Ses like Debian. Uh-huh. > The install menus USED TO ALLOW A C

Re: problem with dns/network

2004-01-16 Thread enantiomer
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > On 2004-01-15, enantiomer penned: > > > > --resolv.conf > > search eggnog > > nameserver 204.127.198.4 > > ---end > > resolv.conf--

ping script

2004-01-16 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Has anyone written a script that they're willing to share that pings a host and when the ping fails it send out an email message? Could you share it with me? Curtis Vaughan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

2004-01-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:43:20PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > Actually, there is also a reason to teach 'vi' in classes like that. We > > all have our own personal preferences when it comes to editors, but the > > reality still is that quite often when a system is half broken in single > >

Re: Debian and Knoppix.

2004-01-16 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:10:07 +0100, Bob Hentges wrote: > Yes, Knoppix will allow you, as far as I know, to use apt-get and all of > its features. > > Thought i don't know how it will behave if you try an apt-get > dist-upgrade, as their are some Knoppix-only packages, as for instance > knx-als

Re: No Java on Thunderbird and Sid ?

2004-01-16 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 03:50:06 +0100, Rafael Alexandre Schmitt wrote: > Wich is wrong , you need gcc32 libjava , otherwise java will not work > under mozilla firebird. > That's the reason blackdown java doesn't make any effect. Okay, does that mean that Blackdown does *not* work ? I did make my hom

Re: debian and Interactivebastille

2004-01-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:06:58PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > Hi, > I've just installed bastille on Debian using the > 'apt-get install bastille' command. > It looks like there is an 'InteractiveBastille' > command that can be entered from the commandline. > When I type it, I get: > *

Re: fetchmail skips messages even if ~/.fetchids is truncated

2004-01-16 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:22:48PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > Gotta love the stupidities people will go to just to avoid actually > learning something. No, Marc. I /do/ want to learn. That's why I linger here. And I do read the documentation. Usually it helps, but sometimes I obviate somethin

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

2004-01-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
> Actually, there is also a reason to teach 'vi' in classes like that. We > all have our own personal preferences when it comes to editors, but the > reality still is that quite often when a system is half broken in single > user mode and one needs to edit this or that file to bring it back to lif

Re: Problem_with_usb-ethernet_adapter

2004-01-16 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 02:24:25AM +0100, David Wretman wrote: > I'm having trouble getting my usb-ethernet adapter (D-link DU-E100) > running. I've tried to enable the pegasus driver with xconfig but the > desiret option isn't available. > > My kernel version is 2.2.20-idepci. Since Pegasus-base

Re: fetchmail skips messages even if ~/.fetchids is truncated

2004-01-16 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:44:35AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > No thanks, I'm not interested in a non-reliable workaround. Or in actually reading documentation, apparently: (from man fetchmail) Disposal Options -a | --all (Keyword: fetchall) Retrieve both old (seen) and

Re: debian pwd

2004-01-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 06:47:49PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:37:57 +0100, Arkel wrote: > > > hello guys > > > > does anybody know how to get super user privilege when a normal user not > > supposed to > > > > You could try buying the SA a hooker. > Is that a question

Re: EXT3 at install..no more?

2004-01-16 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Joseph Guida MD wrote: Sometimes I think that "open source" geeks intentionally complicate things to keep the borderline geeks (like me) from experimenting with and learning about O/Ses like Debian. The install menus USED TO ALLOW A CHOICE BETWEEN EXT2 and EXT3...before you loaded up the HD

Re: Debian and Knoppix.

2004-01-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:46:08AM -, Geoff Bagley wrote: > I understand that Knoppix is based on Debian GNU/Linux. > Will Knoppix allow apt-get, aptitude, and synaptic to be used ? > > Can Knoppix "import" packages from a Debian Distro ? > > TIA > > Geoff. Hi Geoff, Mr. Knopper took a de

Re: sound card

2004-01-16 Thread Stephen Liu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: help i have an onboard sound card ac97 Hi, We are on the same boat. I also encountered problem in config this card using 'sndconfig' as ROOT. Always popup following warning; An error occurred while writing the config file. I am prepared to config it from source. P

excuse me help me please

2004-01-16 Thread SoMe1boy
i would like to get a direction from jamaica station (long island rail road) i would like to go to long island at this address from jamaica station to  Sunrise Mall   (1sunrise mall massapequa,ny 11758)   Im MTA's customer  please    i dont have a car      can u help me?   i would like t

Re: editors (was: Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian)

2004-01-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:33:18AM +, Pigeon wrote: > My first exposure to a full-screen editor other than vi or emacs was the > Borland Turbo C 1.0 IDE. It wasn't modal, and the cursor keys worked. It > was more or less love at first keystroke. (For those who haven't come > across it: DOS's E

sound card

2004-01-16 Thread Jagowayne
help i have an onboard sound card ac97

EXT3 at install..no more?

2004-01-16 Thread Joseph Guida MD
Sometimes I think that "open source" geeks intentionally complicate things to keep the borderline geeks (like me) from experimenting with and learning about O/Ses like Debian. The install menus USED TO ALLOW A CHOICE BETWEEN EXT2 and EXT3...before you loaded up the HD with the O/S. Now, you

Re: scsi-ide-cdrw

2004-01-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 02:05:36AM +, Thomas Sommer wrote: > Hi, > > after reading a lot of howtos, newsgroups, etc. i constandly have the > following problem with my cdrw-drive (when i try to mount it): > > dusk:/# mount /dev/cdrw > mount: /dev/scd0 ist kein gültiges blockorientiertes Gerät

Re: scsi-ide-cdrw

2004-01-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Thomas Sommer wrote: > Hi, > > after reading a lot of howtos, newsgroups, etc. i constandly have the > following problem with my cdrw-drive (when i try to mount it): > > dusk:/# mount /dev/cdrw > mount: /dev/scd0 ist kein gültiges blockorientiertes Gerät > (english: is not

Re: No Java on Thunderbird and Sid ?

2004-01-16 Thread Rafael Alexandre Schmitt
* Uwe Dippel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 00:20:08 +0100, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > Put the link here > > /usr/lib/mozilla-firebird/plugins > > > > libjavaplugin_oji.so -> > > /usr/local/j2re1.4.2/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so > > Don't understand. If I look at m

Re: No Java on Thunderbird and Sid ?

2004-01-16 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 00:20:08 +0100, Wayne Topa wrote: > Put the link here > /usr/lib/mozilla-firebird/plugins > > libjavaplugin_oji.so -> > /usr/local/j2re1.4.2/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so Don't understand. If I look at my OP, this is what I'm doing; as far as I can see. Except

Re: scsi-ide-cdrw

2004-01-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Thomas Sommer wrote: Hi, after reading a lot of howtos, newsgroups, etc. i constandly have the following problem with my cdrw-drive (when i try to mount it): dusk:/# mount /dev/cdrw mount: /dev/scd0 ist kein gültiges blockorientiertes Gerät (english: is not a valid block device) scsi-ide-module is

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-16 Thread Nano Nano
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 05:30:18PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Ah, then we have another type of redneck: South by Northwest. > Southern drawl white trailer trash that somehow made it to the > northwest. Most famous example would be Tanya Harding's most recent > ex-husband. Well, this statement i

Problem_with_usb-ethernet_adapter

2004-01-16 Thread David Wretman
Hi, I'm having trouble getting my usb-ethernet adapter (D-link DU-E100) running. I've tried to enable the pegasus driver with xconfig but the desiret option isn't available. Since I haven't got any network connection I cannot download anyting that doesn't fit on a floppy. Can ayone help me? My

scsi-ide-cdrw

2004-01-16 Thread Thomas Sommer
Hi, after reading a lot of howtos, newsgroups, etc. i constandly have the following problem with my cdrw-drive (when i try to mount it): dusk:/# mount /dev/cdrw mount: /dev/scd0 ist kein gültiges blockorientiertes Gerät (english: is not a valid block device) scsi-ide-module is installed proper,

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 02:25:08PM +, Pigeon wrote: > Same here. Especially given that the Lake District is *made* for walking, > and trying to drive there in the tourist season is a painful experience - > very narrow roads, flanked by drystone wal

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:23:48AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Coeur d?Alene, that is... ;-) It's French... The Pacific Northwest and southwestern Canada don't claim French as a major language (even if it is an official language for southwestern C

Re: editors (was: Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian)

2004-01-16 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:21:09PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-01-16, Pigeon penned: > > I hate both of 'em. If all I've got is the "standard tools", I use ed. > > I find it *much* less painful than using vi. Or emacs. Seriously. > > > What's your preferred choice? My first exposure

Re: My system has Flashbacks?

2004-01-16 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:20:09PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 02:52:31PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:39:40PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > > It's a feature. The ATX PCs are mostly on, even when ``off'' (think > > > standby), too. > > > > Which is a mis

Re: Berried Question

2004-01-16 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 03:19:20PM -0800, Dennis Kaplan wrote: > On Friday 16 January 2004 11:49 am, Pigeon wrote: > > I'm guessing a bit here, but these figures look very slow for a 100MHz > > system bus. Some BIOSes allow you to change various settings to do with bus > > speed, DRAM timings and t

Re: decompressing lzw stream in pdf file

2004-01-16 Thread Shweta Bhandare
Hi, I'm planning to decode the lzwdecided LZW decoded data in pdf files. Can you help me? Thanks, Shweta. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: decompressing lzw stream in pdf file

2004-01-16 Thread Shweta Bhandare
Hi, Did you manage to figure this problem out? I'm planning to decode the LZW decoded data. Can you help? Thanks, Shweta. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:14:56PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > The "wife-beater" white undershirt is not a phenotype I saw much of -- > that's more of a New York Italian stereotype. In the South it's usually > a black t-shirt with a picture of a wolf

Re: diagnosing system crash (hardware failure?)

2004-01-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 07:09:23PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > Hi everyone, > > my work machine has been crashing spontaneously: X freezes, sshd goes > down, and I can't use the keyboard. This only happens > when Im in the office, so I think it likely has something to do with > my physical presenc

Re: changing fonts from cm* in plain tex

2004-01-16 Thread Micha Feigin
If you mean latex and not tex (I am not sure what tetex refers to as its the package name and not the format) then you can use \usepackage{times} for times font (there are several others but I don't remember them). This will use type 1 times fonts. Otherwise you can make your own package for true t

Re: Good experience with radio tuner cards?

2004-01-16 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:02:18PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2004-01-16T17:51:24Z, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Unless you have an application where you must control the tuner of the > > radio from the PC, why not just use a cheap radio and a cable to the LINE > > IN port of

Re: debian pwd

2004-01-16 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:37:57 +0100, Arkel wrote: > hello guys > > does anybody know how to get super user privilege when a normal user not > supposed to > You could try buying the SA a hooker. -- paul It is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big enoug

Re: diagnosing system crash (hardware failure?)

2004-01-16 Thread Mac McCaskie
sounds very much like static electricity to me. are you getting shocks when you touch doorknobs? if you have a "joe's garage" pc then it may not be handling static very well. You can build up plently of static (enough anyway) while rolling around in your chair. another item might be voltage l

Re: [Fwd: Preliminary investigation were started]

2004-01-16 Thread Scarletdown
Wayne Topa wrote: Monique Y. Herman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On 2004-01-14, Joseph Jones penned: Anybody else got this crap? Joe It was sent to the list; presumably it wasn't sent to you personally. I got one addressed to me. I too received one addressed directly to me

Re: 2.6.0 + ALSA sound quality

2004-01-16 Thread Richard Heycock
On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 21:29, Bjorn Johansson wrote: > Hello! > > I've recently compiled a 2.6.0 kernel with ALSA built in. > But the sound doesn't sound to good, in fact, the sound > sounds worse than OSS! So how do I fix the problem? > It's like a clipping sound, the OSS emulation works > great,

Re: Cobol for linux

2004-01-16 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:26:16 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 06:16, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra > wrote: >> Em Sex, 2004-01-16 às 10:21, Tiji Thomas escreveu: >> > does any one know about cobol for linux >> >> http://google.com./search?q=tinycobol >> >>

Re: fetchmail skips messages even if ~/.fetchids is truncated

2004-01-16 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:14:43AM +0100, Oliver Fuchs wrote: > As far as I understand it you want to poll all the 162 messages from your > server - but why are you setting the single-poll-limit to 2 messages? Try > 160 if you want to use the fetchlimit option. No thanks, I'm not interested in a n

Re: HELP: new to debian 3.0

2004-01-16 Thread Hercinger Viktor
> Hi, > I've just installed Debian 3.0...pretty much without a hitch. Now I'm trying to > get everything in working order. There's a few things I'm unsure of: I'm an enthusiastic newbie too, but I think I can help in some points. > 2) I have a scroll mouse...but the 'scrolling' part isn't w

Re: Lists of commands

2004-01-16 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am looking for a list of commands that are only to debian. I want to > learn debian but it would be nice if there was a list of commands that are > specific to debian and a description of what these commands do. If it > exists, please let me k

Re: fetchmail skips messages even if ~/.fetchids is truncated

2004-01-16 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Jan Minar wrote: > Hi everybody. > > I want fetchmail(1) to fetch all the messages left on the server. But > even removing/truncating ~/.fetchids doesn't help. (I assured there was > no fetchmail running when I removed/truncated it.) > > With ``fetchmail --verbose --nodeta

Re: Cobol for linux

2004-01-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 06:16, Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > Em Sex, 2004-01-16 Ãs 10:21, Tiji Thomas escreveu: > > does any one know about cobol for linux > > http://google.com./search?q=tinycobol > > MicroFocus might have something, or even IBM perhaps. Tiny Cobol is

Re: Berried Question

2004-01-16 Thread Dennis Kaplan
On Friday 16 January 2004 11:49 am, Pigeon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:32:41PM -0800, Dennis Kaplan wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I think my question got berried in the list so I like to add some more > > info and ask again. > > > > One of my two Debian installations is very slow. > > On the b

Re: No Java on Thunderbird and Sid ?

2004-01-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Uwe Dippel([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:20:10 +0100, Sanjay Chigurupati wrote: > > > had to do this for Mozilla. > > In the user's home directory there is a directory called .mozilla and if I > > am not mistaken, there is a directory called plugins in that.

Re: [Fwd: Preliminary investigation were started]

2004-01-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Monique Y. Herman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 2004-01-14, Joseph Jones penned: > > > > Anybody else got this crap? > > > > Joe > > > > It was sent to the list; presumably it wasn't sent to you personally. > I got one addressed to me. As I pointed out to someone on this l

diagnosing system crash (hardware failure?)

2004-01-16 Thread Matt Price
Hi everyone, my work machine has been crashing spontaneously: X freezes, sshd goes down, and I can't use the keyboard. This only happens when Im in the office, so I think it likely has something to do with my physical presence... In particular, we have a USB-kvm switch that I use to switch bet

Re: HELP: new to debian 3.0

2004-01-16 Thread Nano Nano
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 06:00:39PM -0500, r o b wrote: > > 3) the sound driver was either not installed, or not configured properly on > installation. I get the error: > "error initializing sound driver: > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (permission denied)" > ...when logging in. adduser aud

HELP: new to debian 3.0

2004-01-16 Thread r o b
Hi, I've just installed Debian 3.0...pretty much without a hitch. Now I'm trying to get everything in working order. There's a few things I'm unsure of: 1) upon installing the system, I set the clock time to GTM, rather than local time. Now when it displays the time, it's -5 hours behind my l

Re: [SOLVED] Re: lost configuration after reboot

2004-01-16 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:09:13PM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote: > For parameters changed via /proc fs, changes across reboots can also be > "saved" in /etc/sysctl.conf Oh, nice :-) Thank you, Erich. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 9 pgp0.pgp Descriptio

Re: [SOLVED] Re: lost configuration after reboot

2004-01-16 Thread Erich Waelde
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 08:54:50AM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: > > At Thursday, 15 January 2004, Jan Minar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 05:49:46PM -0500, Debian User wrote: > > >> packets were not being forwarded from

Re: My system has Flashbacks?

2004-01-16 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 02:52:31PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:39:40PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > It's a feature. The ATX PCs are mostly on, even when ``off'' (think > > standby), too. > > Which is a misfeature. Sometimes on a dual-boot system "ATX-off" isn't > enough to re

fetchmail skips messages even if ~/.fetchids is truncated

2004-01-16 Thread Jan Minar
Hi everybody. I want fetchmail(1) to fetch all the messages left on the server. But even removing/truncating ~/.fetchids doesn't help. (I assured there was no fetchmail running when I removed/truncated it.) With ``fetchmail --verbose --nodetach --fetchlimit 2'', fetchmail fetches two messages,

Re: debian and Interactivebastille

2004-01-16 Thread Rick Weinbender
Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:06:58PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > > I've just installed bastille on Debian using the > > 'apt-get install bastille' command. > > It looks like there is an 'InteractiveBastille' > > command that can be entered from the commandline. > > When I

Re: debian pwd

2004-01-16 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:37:57PM +0100, Arkel wrote: > hello guys > > does anybody know how to get super user privilege when a normal user not > supposed to > > thx a lot > Arkel > man su; man sudo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

changing fonts from cm* in plain tex

2004-01-16 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Does anyone know of a url where it is explained simple and fast how to use different fonts in tetex (for plain)? There are several docs in http://localhost/doc/tetex-base/texmf/index.html, but none seems to be fast enough for the little time I have to find out. I just tried things like \font\myfon

Re: debian and Interactivebastille

2004-01-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:06:58PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > I've just installed bastille on Debian using the > 'apt-get install bastille' command. > It looks like there is an 'InteractiveBastille' > command that can be entered from the commandline. > When I type it, I get: > ***

Unable to update and upgrade 'sid'

2004-01-16 Thread Davi Leal
I am unable to update and upgrade Debian unstable 'sid', after being 20 days without updating, upgrading. The error output is the same using dselect or aptitude. Any comment will be appreciated. Regards, Davi # apt-get -f remove Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done

Re: esd, artsd

2004-01-16 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 03:08:01PM -0500, Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote: > I notice that when esd (runs under gnome) or artsd (kde) are running I > cannot play mp3s. > I guess they take an exclusive lock on /dev/dsp? Does anyone know a Exactly. OSS can't accept more that one thing writing to /dev/ds

Lists of commands

2004-01-16 Thread David . Grudek
I am looking for a list of commands that are only to debian. I want to learn debian but it would be nice if there was a list of commands that are specific to debian and a description of what these commands do. If it exists, please let me know. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: editors (was: Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian)

2004-01-16 Thread Matt Perry
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > What's your preferred choice? I use both vim and XEmacs daily. Been using vi/vim for 7+ years and XEmacs for the last 14 months or so. There was some annoyance for about four or five weeks as I'd use vi commands in emacs and emacs commands in vi

Re: Berried Question

2004-01-16 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:32:41PM -0800, Dennis Kaplan wrote: > > Hi all, > > I think my question got berried in the list so I like to add some more info > and ask again. > > One of my two Debian installations is very slow. > On the bottom I have added the output of top & the output of hdparm.

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

2004-01-16 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 03:07:48 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > See above reference to proper usage of the 'find' command. It really > comes in handy in situations like this. :) <- Once again. Smiley. Joke. > Ha ha. Funny. Etc, etc, etc, ad nauseaum. Need I go on? :) I owe you an apology. I shou

esd, artsd

2004-01-16 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
I notice that when esd (runs under gnome) or artsd (kde) are running I cannot play mp3s. I guess they take an exclusive lock on /dev/dsp? Does anyone know a decent workaround? It is annoying. Rohit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: debian pwd

2004-01-16 Thread Enrico Zini
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:37:57PM +0100, Arkel wrote: > does anybody know how to get super user privilege when a normal user not > supposed to If you find out how, please report it as a bug with severity "critical" against the involved package. Thank you. :) Ciao, Enrico -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

debian pwd

2004-01-16 Thread Arkel
hello guys does anybody know how to get super user privilege when a normal user not supposed to thx a lot Arkel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good experience with radio tuner cards?

2004-01-16 Thread Nate Duehr
On Friday 16 January 2004 11:02 am, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2004-01-16T17:51:24Z, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Unless you have an application where you must control the tuner of > > the radio from the PC, why not just use a cheap radio and a cable to > > the LINE IN port of your sou

Re: Linux compatability for IBM desktop machines

2004-01-16 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 06:56:56AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > PS. What's will all these web vendors all of a sudden putting on their > sites messages like "* IBM recommends Microsoft ? Windows ? XP > Professional" and "**TigerDirect recommends Microsoft? Windows? XP" and > "* Dell recommends Mic

Re: complete vs. detached GPG signatures

2004-01-16 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:17:30AM -0700, Rob Sims wrote: > On Wednesday 14 January 2004 01:41 pm, Pigeon wrote: > ... > > "Make a signature": > > original-file.txt, 13021 bytes > > -- signing process --> > > original-file.txt + separate signature file, length 5105 bytes, named >

Re: debian and Interactivebastille

2004-01-16 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-01-16, Rick Weinbender penned: > Hi, > I've just installed bastille on Debian using the > 'apt-get install bastille' command. > It looks like there is an 'InteractiveBastille' > command that can be entered from the commandline. > When I type it, I get: > ***

Re: 2.6.0 + ALSA sound quality

2004-01-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:29:36AM +0100, Bjorn Johansson wrote: | I've recently compiled a 2.6.0 kernel with ALSA built in. | But the sound doesn't sound to good, in fact, the sound | sounds worse than OSS! So how do I fix the problem? | It's like a clipping sound, the OSS emulation works | great

ieee1394 on boot?

2004-01-16 Thread Paul Jack
Hi, I'm running x86 Sid (2.4.22 kernel), most everything "just works" after installing discover and hotplug. However, I use Kino to do digital video editing, and to import/export video to my MiniDV camcorder. The import/export won't work unless as root I do a manual modprobe for the video1394

Re: debian and Interactivebastille

2004-01-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Rick Weinbender (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've just installed bastille on Debian using the > 'apt-get install bastille' command. > It looks like there is an 'InteractiveBastille' > command that can be entered from the commandline. > When I type it, I get: > ***

editors (was: Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian)

2004-01-16 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-01-16, Pigeon penned: > > > I hate both of 'em. If all I've got is the "standard tools", I use ed. > I find it *much* less painful than using vi. Or emacs. Seriously. > > What's your preferred choice? I'm just now reading the chapter comparing editors (A Tale of Five Editors) in ESR's new

Re: IDE-SCSI lost after boot up!

2004-01-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Raiz_mpx (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > [...] > > Wow followed your suggestions about removing the modules in questions > and then modprobing them back into the kernel. I thought that > modules support was supposed to be smart and take care of problems > like this? Well, CD writers and CD

Re: building ATI Radeon Drives for Sarge on Kernel 2.6

2004-01-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
hanasaki wrote: Anyone know the trick to this? I followed the ATI directions.. no luck Are you using a stock kernel or a self-built kernel? If self-built, how was it built? (kernel-package, make *config && make && make install, some sther method) -Roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP di

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

2004-01-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Micha Feigin wrote: ... advantages. vi (not vim) I haven't fully figured out yet. Mostly the part about deleting text (the backspace functionality), and while I am ... just check any vi quick reference, in command mode us x (backspace), X (delete), d and move command etc. In insert mode backs

What do pex5 + xft X extensions do?

2004-01-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, For some reason I have in my XF86Config-4: Load "pex5" ... Load"xft" ... and the log says the modules are not found, which is true. But what do they do? I have Xft enabled in Mozilla, but this must be something else. Thanks! Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

debian and Interactivebastille

2004-01-16 Thread Rick Weinbender
Hi, I've just installed bastille on Debian using the 'apt-get install bastille' command. It looks like there is an 'InteractiveBastille' command that can be entered from the commandline. When I type it, I get: RAW ERROR: Can't locate

Re: My system has Flashbacks?

2004-01-16 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:39:40PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:34:02PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Vaguely ? propos, I notice that modern printers keep a mass of memory > > alive, even when you switch them off. > > Interesting... thank for the info. Is that the prin

Re: [Fwd: Preliminary investigation were started]

2004-01-16 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:48:52PM +0100, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:41:25PM +, Joseph Jones wrote: > > Original Message > > Subject: Preliminary investigation were started ^^ > > Ladies and Gentlemen, > > Dow

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-16 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:17:09PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 07:27:06PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > > (the average distance a tourist moves > > > from their car is 300 yds or some such number). > > > > Just far enough to

Re: If a computer is sold with preinstalled SUSE, shouldn't it work with Debian?

2004-01-16 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:34:08PM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > It would seem ridiculous to sell a computer that has a modem that can't > > be used with the operating system that came preinstalled. > > The winmodem may be built into the motherboard. The

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

2004-01-16 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:47:34PM -0600, Nitebirdz wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:24:17AM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Thursday 15 January 2004 09:19, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > I'm taking a class this semester which is all about installing and > > > using Linux. After talking with th

Re: paper orientation - cups - mozilla

2004-01-16 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:26:24PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > When I try to print from Mozilla, I get the image turned 270 deg (90 deg > clockwise) so that the top third or so is off the long side of the > sheet. Most other apps print normally - and most give access to setup > options (I thi

Re: no response from the most generic 3-button mouses

2004-01-16 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 07:47:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > In XF86Config-4, these work fine for my Trackman Marble+: > Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS1" > Option "Protocol" "IntelliMouse" > But when I instead attach the most common simplest 3 button mouses, > I get no response from the mouses at al

Re: HELP

2004-01-16 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 05:19:55PM -0800, Harold Backer wrote: > Hi I am new to Dedian list to get a list of the I am > guestiong it is called the command prompt function > name and what does it do this is an example "Cfdisk" > please help I think this one make a new disk thank you I have a certai

Re: OT: Why the net Sucks: Stonehenge

2004-01-16 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:24:27 -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:53:03PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: >> >> You can get that. You could research at the British Museum, for example. >> What you really want is everything for free, and you can't reasonably >> expect people to give awa

Re: Red Hat and Debian differences (ignore previous thread)

2004-01-16 Thread Arkel
apt-get in an option fedora is heavier and bugged if you want to use redhat prefer shrike (redhat 9) Ark Kent West wrote: > Alex Malinovich wrote: > >>Ok, it seems that my previous thread was broadly misunderstood on this >>topic, so my apologies for not expressing myself more clearly. >> > Don

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

2004-01-16 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:08:33 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:11:55PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > >> Firstly, you are not going to make many friends by dissing what many >> long-time Unix programmers regard as the best test editor going. So you >> can pretty much assume, as

Re: problem with network configurations

2004-01-16 Thread enantiomer
Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:50:11 +0100, enantiomer wrote: > > > I tried doing some diagnostics by running > > ifconfig and route, but they dont return any values at all. > > What do you mean with 'not at all' ?? > I'd expec

Re: HELP

2004-01-16 Thread Arkel
you ll find that on google or in a book "Linux in a nutshell" with more than 600 pages about commands Ark Harold Backer wrote: > Hi I am new to Dedian list to get a list of the I am > guestiong it is called the command prompt function > name and what does it do this is an example "Cfdisk" > ple

Re: No Java on Thunderbird and Sid ?

2004-01-16 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 18:30:11 +0100, Kent West wrote: > You wrote that you're " > using the recommended jdk from Blackdown", but I'm not sure which one > that might be. You'll need to get the one that matches the version of > gcc that you're using. There are two sdk files, one for gcc2, and one > f

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