Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?

2004-02-08 Thread Cristian Gutierrez
Dave Thorn wrote: >On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:34:32AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >>It seems to me that, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I had a >>window manager that supported maximize-vertical (as opposed to >>maximizing in both directions). > >windowmaker does this too. Ctrl-(double-cli

Re: Booting from 2nd HD with raid1

2004-02-08 Thread Frédéric Dreier
Hi, Thanks for your support. Now it works! I just don't know why. I try your suggestions many many times, with different parameters but without success.. Then I installed the system again using ext3 instead reiserfs, and try again, and install it again back to reiserfs... And somehow, som

Re: [OT] Taking notes

2004-02-08 Thread Cristian Gutierrez
Jonathan Matthews wrote: >Fairly OT for d-u, but I'm wondering what people use to take notes for >courses. > >I'm studying T171 with the Open University (it's a compulsory course on >the way to their BSc in PeeCees), and a lot of the assessment is >writing up what you thought about various resourc

Re: problem with X

2004-02-08 Thread Bytor the Destroyer
hey just want to say that X is working now. Wanted to thank eveyone who helped me. Thanks again. Clyde -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dselect and glib troubles.

2004-02-08 Thread Peter Samuelson
[NaNu] > I want to install the latest version of XMMS that requires glib >= > 1.2.2 Using dselect, I found out that I have 2 versions of glib > installed: 1.2.10.4 and 2.2.3-0jds. I suspect that the ./configure > script of XMMS detects the older version instead of the newest one. It does. glib 1

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Nate Duehr
On Feb 8, 2004, at 9:04 PM, Jeff Elkins wrote: Cut out the "stupid/cluebie" nonsense. You hurt Debian, Linux, and OSS in general with this elitist attitude. What's to "hurt"? In the purest sense, F/OSS software is still F/OSS software at the end of the day. Whether or not anyone cares to use i

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-08 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * s. keeling wrote (2004-02-09 06:44): >Incoming from Thorsten Haude: >> * Paul E Condon wrote (2004-02-08 05:15): >> >Start with Kernighan and Pike, The UNIX Programming Environment. >> >> Please don't. This might have been a good book twenty years ago but >> now it's obsolete. > >I imagine

Re: Better program than Putty?

2004-02-08 Thread Cristian Gutierrez
Colin Watson wrote: >On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:21:22PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >>On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:26:48AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >>>Speaking of which, does anyone know how I can get some form of linux >>>terminal to look the most like putty? /duck >> >>A friend of mine recen

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-08 Thread Nate Duehr
On Feb 8, 2004, at 8:30 PM, Jack Carroll wrote: I took a run down to the bookstore tonight to look at "Debian GNU/Linux Bible", on the strength of the recommendation on this thread. I found it rather dated, and I didn't think it went into as much useful detail as "Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashe

Debian, Knoppix, and other varients

2004-02-08 Thread Krikket
I'm fairly new to the world of Debian, and it's varients. To get to the point where I'm at, I've been playing around and installed a number of distributions. (SuSE, Fedora Core 1, Red Hat 9, Debian, Knoppix, Gentoo, Mandrake, FreeBSD, and probably one or two others that I'm forgetting.) I've been

Re: Better program than Putty?

2004-02-08 Thread Cristian Gutierrez
Monique Y. Herman wrote: >On 2004-02-08, Colin Watson penned: >>On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:26:48AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >>>Speaking of which, does anyone know how I can get some form of linux >>>terminal to look the most like putty? /duck >> >>You could use PuTTY itself. :) Simon has do

Re: laptop HW detection Q (isa/video/cpu)

2004-02-08 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Micha Feigin: > I ran several hardware detection programs on my laptop and I seen to > have some indiscrepancies that I was wondering about and hoping some > can give me more info about or point me at a better direction. > > (the tools where lspci -vv, lshw and dmi-decode) Others ha

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-08 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Thorsten Haude: > > * Paul E Condon wrote (2004-02-08 05:15): > >Start with Kernighan and Pike, The UNIX Programming Environment. > > Please don't. This might have been a good book twenty years ago but > now it's obsolete. I imagine you have the same opinion of Shakespeare? Cicer

Re: Better program than Putty?

2004-02-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:49:38AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > I wonder why they felt the need to reimplement it? PuTTY is free > software ... Some people want to be able to use putty in KDE. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Lance Simmons
* Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040208 22:13]: > > I call people stupid when they ARE. For the sake of your social life, I sure hope you meant "only when". -- Lance Simmons signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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Re: mymail worm

2004-02-08 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Mike Fedyk: > On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 10:07:22AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > ># Put A TAB Character Between [] Brackets Below. > > * 1^0 ^[ ]charset=.?Windows-1252.? > > Can't you use "\t" or "$'\t'" there instead of using an actual tab character? Son of a gun. Apparently y

Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:42:17PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: > Enlightenment. Right click to maximize vertically, middle click to > maximize horizontally. > > Have not used with Gnome, so I can't comment. Enlightenment v17 CVS will, as it supports EWMH. You can forget about E v16. -- Marc W

Re: Evolution: Strange things happen

2004-02-08 Thread Ken Bloom
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 05:30:11 +0100, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > > >> Its not the computer that shut down but the gnome configuration manager >> that was sent the kill signal probably because X died for some reason >> and gdm shut it down on logout. >> Are you running a firewall? (very recommended

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:04:57PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: > On Sunday 08 February 2004 7:18 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: > I just have to say that I find this cluebie/stupid nonsense you keep spouting > very offputting and childish. Then take steps to ensure that they're NOT cluebies, instead of fac

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-09, Nano Nano penned: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 08:05:15PM -0800, Dale Welch wrote: >> >> ---dale ---it is ok to have no rules... so long as everyone follows >> the rules > > Evey asks: "All this riot and uproar, V...is this anarchy? Is this the > land of do-as-you-please?" He responds

Re: xmms bug handling streams?

2004-02-08 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-09, Greg Folkert penned: > > --=-AAUryrHMwWaxqfwjlRrt Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 16:50, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> I'm wondering if anyone else has observed this behavior ... >>I'm running slimp3 and playing the strea

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 08 February 2004 11:13 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: > Well, let's see. I was born in 1964. I've been doing computers since 1980 > or so. The first machine I owned was an 8080A-based machine called an > Interact-1 that used an integrated tape drive and an absolutely horrid > chicklet keyboar

Re: Evolution: Strange things happen

2004-02-08 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
> > Its not the computer that shut down but the gnome configuration manager > that was sent the kill signal probably because X died for some reason > and gdm shut it down on logout. > Are you running a firewall? (very recommended if your computer is always > connected, although it doesn't look li

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 06:32:54PM -0800, Dale Welch wrote: > And i was probably building computers when your mama was changing your > diapers... Well, let's see. I was born in 1964. I've been doing computers since 1980 or so. The first machine I owned was an 8080A-based machine called an Inte

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 08:05:15PM -0800, Dale Welch wrote: > > ---dale > ---it is ok to have no rules... >so long as everyone follows the rules Evey asks: "All this riot and uproar, V...is this anarchy? Is this the land of do-as-you-please?" He responds: "No. This is only the land of take

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 08 February 2004 7:18 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:16:33PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > Well a lot of new users like Knoppix and would like to have it on > > the hard disk. Is it ok for them to use it, or will the secret police > > come and shoot them for not u

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Dale Welch
I apologize to my elder... it was not to you though i realize i quoted you. :-) It was to Marc i spoke and perhaps others... that particular attitude while strong in my generation... is even stronger in a younger crowd. ;-) But perhaps marc has fooled me and is older than either of us. But hey

Re: pterm + .XResources

2004-02-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:50:59AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman said > On 2004-02-08, Colin Watson penned: > >> > >> The font setting is working. The geometry settings seem to be > >> ignored. Is this a bug, or am I being braindead? > > > > When you change .Xresources, you need to reload it with 'xr

Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?

2004-02-08 Thread Johann Koenig
On Sunday February 8 at 11:34am "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems to me that, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I had a > window manager that supported maximize-vertical (as opposed to > maximizing in both directions). > > Anyone using a window manager right now that do

Re: Corrupt Packages.gz while attempting network install

2004-02-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 01:56:30PM -0800, John Christian said > Hello, > > I'm trying to install 'woody' on a i386 machine, booting and otherwise > prepping from the "compact-3.0.23-netinst.iso" image. Now, I've tried > the standard woody install as well with the same problem, leading me to >

Re: Securing it properly

2004-02-08 Thread David
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:37:12AM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: > On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 00:12:32 -0600 > "David Dyer-Bennet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The apt-get tool, from what little I've seen so far, is quite nice. I > > didn't find dependencies especially hard to manage in RedHat, though,

Re: software raid

2004-02-08 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Wednesday, 28 January 2004, Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: >hi ya harland > >On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:20:24PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: >> i am trying to configure raid-1 via software. my kernel is 2.4.18- >> 1-586tsc. i do not have /etc/raidtools or /proc/mdstat. am i sa

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-08 Thread Jack Carroll
I took a run down to the bookstore tonight to look at "Debian GNU/Linux Bible", on the strength of the recommendation on this thread. I found it rather dated, and I didn't think it went into as much useful detail as "Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed". Admittedly, that's dated too, but I did

Re: xmms bug handling streams?

2004-02-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 16:50, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone else has observed this behavior ... > > I'm running slimp3 and playing the stream on xmms. XMMS seems to be > flakey about updating the playlist display, which slimp3 updates to be > the current song title. Sometimes

Re: Floppy installer fails to load modules

2004-02-08 Thread Jack Carroll
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 04:15:07PM -0500, David Clymer wrote: > > This sounds like a problem with the installation instructions. Has > > anybody successfully done an install from floppies on a system that needs > > modules to be loaded? Do I need to build a custom kernel and install that > >

Re: X4.3 (Again)

2004-02-08 Thread Josh Metzler
On Sunday 08 February 2004 06:21 pm, Hank Marquardt wrote: > I really don't want to spend hours putting my machine back together > again if this doesn't work, so I figured I'd bounce this here ... > > I've added experimental to list.sources, I've update and even upgraded > today so the system is cu

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Kent West
Dale Welch wrote: And i was probably building computers when your mama was changing your diapers . . . To whom does "your" refer? If to Kent, then "Nope." after all i was born a few months after Kennedy was shot... Kent was born a few months before Kennedy was shot. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSC

AUTOMATIC REPLY

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Re: Better program than Putty?

2004-02-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:21:22PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:26:48AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > Speaking of which, does anyone know how I can get some form of linux > > terminal to look the most like putty? /duck > > A friend of mine recently found exactly w

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Dale Welch
And i was probably building computers when your mama was changing your diapers... since i learned basic on a trash-80 model-1 when i was barely a teenager (ok so some would say i am just as bad calling the trs-80 by the popular term of trash-80 --- i knew some guys who ran a good bbs on a trs-80

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Re: Software RAID on a single partition?

2004-02-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jon On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Jonathan Melhuish wrote: > Say I've got the following files: > > * Some small files that I want to keep safe, eg. document backups, > databases, etc. > * Some big files that I don't care much about losing but need to read > quickly, eg. video > > Can I use sof

Re: X4.3 (Again)

2004-02-08 Thread Sam Halliday
Hank Marquardt wrote: > > you should _really_ ask yourself why you are going to X4.3: unless > > it has better support (or in my case... the only support of my > > card), there really isn't much benefit in the upgrade. > Well, I've had this darned Radeon 8500DV for over a year now without > really

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".

2004-02-08 Thread Joseph Jones
Anyone have a clue as to how to fix that? This is what happens when I try to run a game called Legends: http://hosted.tribalwar.com/legends/ Many thanks Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: watching DVD movies on Linux

2004-02-08 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Thorsten Haude wrote: > Hi, > > Please send me every mail only once. > > Please don't use tofu mails. http://www.vranx.de/mail/tofu.html > > * TTH wrote (2004-02-08 14:40): > >Sorry, I already have xine installed; I am watching VCDs with no problems. > > So I am inquiring

KDE3.1 strangeness

2004-02-08 Thread Deryk Barker
I did a dist-upgrade the other night - I was running testing - and (it was the first time I'd persuaded my dekstop to boot since before moving house 2 months ago) there were 500+ packages upgrade. Fair enough, but the KDE portion has somehow broken. Although everything seems to be there, obviously

Re: X4.3 (Again)

2004-02-08 Thread Hank Marquardt
> you should _really_ ask yourself why you are going to X4.3: unless it > has better support (or in my case... the only support of my card), there > really isn't much benefit in the upgrade. > Well, I've had this darned Radeon 8500DV for over a year now without really being able to use it as inten

Re: where are drmlib and radeon_dri?

2004-02-08 Thread Tom Vier
i have two cards. one is an agp 9200, but i don't think it's supported. right now, i have a pci 7500 installed. i changed some stuff in the config and now it almost works. the only problem is, the kbd and mouse buttons don't work! the mouse cursor moves just fine, though. weird. here's my config:

Re: erased all XWindows

2004-02-08 Thread Sam Rosenfeld
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > I erased all my X-related bin files (that is, including apps running > on X) > and did not have them backed up. I could reinstall them one at a time > but > that seems very laborious -- is there some bette

Re: a bit (asus!) confused about i2c and lm-sensors

2004-02-08 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 15:04:21 -0800, Nano Nano wrote: [snip] Nano, I don't know anything about compiling the 2.6 kernel, I'm sticking with 2.4 series for now. The only problem I had with compiling the lmsensors modules was that there were two author-related macros which needed fixing for the stri

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-08 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 17:23:37 +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: > Hi, > > * Paul Morgan wrote (2004-02-08 16:37): >>On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 13:38:57 +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: >>> I use Linux for a couple of years now, and usually know my way around on >>> various Unix systems. Most of the tools describe

Re: Rsync completely hangs machine

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Nozell
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 12:01:53AM +, Jonathan Melhuish wrote: > Jonathan Melhuish wrote: > > >Jonathan Melhuish wrote: > > > >>I have a headless network server at home on which I am running > >>Debian stable and the latest "stable" release of rsync. It was > >>previously working fine, but

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 14:16:33 -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 08:44:28AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: >> Feh. While it may well work for you, who has clue, anyone who suggests to >> a cluebie that using Knoppix is a way to get Debian should be shot. > > Well a lot of new user

Re: X4.3 (Again)

2004-02-08 Thread Sam Halliday
Hank Marquardt wrote: > I've added experimental to list.sources, I've update and even upgraded > today so the system is current, here's my current X inventory: [ snip lots of 4.2.1-16 stuff ] > What I'm concerned with is that if I enumerate all those in a 'apt-get > --simulate install' statement

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:16:33PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Well a lot of new users like Knoppix and would like to have it on > the hard disk. Is it ok for them to use it, or will the secret police > come and shoot them for not using pure Debian instead too. Then they should use it. I coul

Re: Can't boot: "hda: lost interrupt" after possibly screwing up kernel.

2004-02-08 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hallo Adam (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am (was) running Debian testing on an Athlon 1100. Since I last > successfully booted, I added the hotplug package and the line > usb-storage > to /etc/modules. I was trying to get sensors to work, which > downgraded my > kernel (from 2.4.23) to 2.4.2

Re: Rsync completely hangs machine

2004-02-08 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Jonathan Melhuish wrote: Jonathan Melhuish wrote: I have a headless network server at home on which I am running Debian stable and the latest "stable" release of rsync. It was previously working fine, but now hangs the machine (or at least, it disappears from the network) as soon as my rsync

Re: Rsync completely hangs machine

2004-02-08 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Jonathan Melhuish wrote: I have a headless network server at home on which I am running Debian stable and the latest "stable" release of rsync. It was previously working fine, but now hangs the machine (or at least, it disappears from the network) as soon as my rsync client attempts to send th

Philips webcam pcvc 720k support??

2004-02-08 Thread tamer karaarslan
We cannot operate camera (pcvc720k) by using MS XP.Why?

X4.3 (Again)

2004-02-08 Thread Hank Marquardt
I really don't want to spend hours putting my machine back together again if this doesn't work, so I figured I'd bounce this here ... I've added experimental to list.sources, I've update and even upgraded today so the system is current, here's my current X inventory: wizard:/home/hmarq/packages#

Re: [OT] ABI vs. API

2004-02-08 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-08, Alan Chandler penned: > On Sunday 08 February 2004 20:49, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> On 2004-02-08, Alan Chandler penned: > On the other hand, it is also possible for two different >> > languages to be used to write the implementation and the using code >> > such that the two comp

Re: [OT] Taking notes

2004-02-08 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:59:57PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > Any suggestions? Would a custom (v.v.v.v. simple) DTD be an idea? What > emacs packages let me input the notes into a valid XML file adhering to > my simple DTD in a pointy-clicky sort of way? Is this not the way > forwar

Re: a bit (asus!) confused about i2c and lm-sensors

2004-02-08 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 06:40:26AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 01:08:40 -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > > I have an ASUS P4C800. I have 2.6.2 kernel. I wish to see my CPU and > > Mobo temps (and ideally fan speeds) like Asus PC Probe shows in Windows. [snip] > The first thing you

[OT] Taking notes

2004-02-08 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Fairly OT for d-u, but I'm wondering what people use to take notes for courses. I'm studying T171 with the Open University (it's a compulsory course on the way to their BSc in PeeCees), and a lot of the assessment is writing up what you thought about various resources (websites, reports, etc)

Re: good mailers (was "Re: Has anyone ever thought ...")

2004-02-08 Thread David T-G
David, et al -- ...and then David P James said... % ... % As an aside, are there any mailers for Windows that have a reply-list % button/function? Eudora? Pegasus? The Bat? I've not used them so I % really don't know but to my knowledge none of them do. Why, there's always mutt :-) HTH & HAN

Re: sed trouble: "\'a to á" etc

2004-02-08 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 05:14:36PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > HTH, > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you Collin and Clive for your help. I got it working fine now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: video card compatibility

2004-02-08 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 08 February 2004 12:14 pm, Ashley Mervyn Graham wrote: > hello, > > im in the mood for another video card, my current is buggy with the > current release of debian, i can't get video playback, well, i'm sure > i can, but it's a lot of work, a

Can't boot: "hda: lost interrupt" after possibly screwing up kernel.

2004-02-08 Thread Adam
I am (was) running Debian testing on an Athlon 1100. Since I last successfully booted, I added the hotplug package and the line usb-storage to /etc/modules. I was trying to get sensors to work, which downgraded my kernel (from 2.4.23) to 2.4.20. I then removed kernel-image-2.4.20 and added kerne

xmms bug handling streams?

2004-02-08 Thread Monique Y. Herman
I'm wondering if anyone else has observed this behavior ... I'm running slimp3 and playing the stream on xmms. XMMS seems to be flakey about updating the playlist display, which slimp3 updates to be the current song title. Sometimes it updates the title for a few songs, then sticks on a particul

Re: Better program than Putty?

2004-02-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 12:11, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:26:48AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > Speaking of which, does anyone know how I can get some form of linux > > terminal to look the most like putty? /duck > > You could use PuTTY itself. :) Simon has done a Unix p

Re: how to tell if anything evil lurking in an .xls file?

2004-02-08 Thread Adam Aube
On Sunday 08 February 2004 04:13 pm, Dan Jacobson wrote: > How can one tell if anything evil is lurking in an .xls file? Safest way: Convert it to CSV before sending it along. However, if the XLS file has no macros, then it is probably safe. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: saving .debs to their original name

2004-02-08 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:36:50AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Say, apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris makes lines with URL FILE SIZE MD5. > What are the bad things that might happen if I just use wget to get > the URLs, without using the FILEname? I intend to use > dpkg-scanpackages later. > > H

Re: [OT] ABI vs. API

2004-02-08 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 08 February 2004 20:49, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-02-08, Alan Chandler penned: On the other hand, it is also possible for two different > > languages to be used to write the implementation and the using code > > such that the two compilers produce a compatible interface. > > Ye

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Adam Aube
On Sunday 08 February 2004 03:19 pm, Sneferu wrote: > I'd say that the solutions to all this problems is mepis.org ;-) Agreed - MEPIS is the Linux distro I would recommend to a newbie. In a "Spawn of Debian" faceoff, it beat Lindows, Xandros, and Libranet. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/

lost cd for epson 670

2004-02-08 Thread FrankieFAP

Corrupt Packages.gz while attempting network install

2004-02-08 Thread John Christian
Hello, I'm trying to install 'woody' on a i386 machine, booting and otherwise prepping from the "compact-3.0.23-netinst.iso" image. Now, I've tried the standard woody install as well with the same problem, leading me to believe it's not something with my network config. So ... I can't seem to

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Lance Simmons
* Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040208 10:44]: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:15:38AM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote: > > When an old laptop falls into your hands, and you don't have any > > documentation on it, it's easier to use Knoppix and then upgrade to > > Debian than it is to do the work needed

how to tell if anything evil lurking in an .xls file?

2004-02-08 Thread Dan Jacobson
How can one tell if anything evil is lurking in an .xls file? Gnumeric, openoffice, etc. have selections to show properties, but that doesn't give me confidence about all the mess that less(1) shows exists. I wouldn't want to pass an evil .xls along to my MS buddies. Also how can one reduce the b

saving .debs to their original name

2004-02-08 Thread Dan Jacobson
Say, apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris makes lines with URL FILE SIZE MD5. What are the bad things that might happen if I just use wget to get the URLs, without using the FILEname? I intend to use dpkg-scanpackages later. Hopefully the URLs are OK on Windows and CDROMs too, which I might need to

Rsync completely hangs machine

2004-02-08 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
I have a headless network server at home on which I am running Debian stable and the latest "stable" release of rsync. It was previously working fine, but now hangs the machine (or at least, it disappears from the network) as soon as my rsync client attempts to send the first file. Anybody got

Software RAID problems (bad filesystem type)

2004-02-08 Thread Timo Railo
Hi! I'm having problems getting software raid to work with my IDE drives. I had Redhat9 installed previously on the same machine (with working software raid setup), but I'm now moving to Debian. My kernel is 2.4.18-bf2.4 and has support for RAID1, which I'm trying to create. I'm following t

Re: video card compatibility

2004-02-08 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Sunday 08 February 2004 22:14, Ashley Mervyn Graham wrote: > so, i'm asking for suggestions of video cards under debian/linux, i > would like it to work out of the box, i would like it to be > relatively cheap ($75-$150), it doesnt have to be new, or handle > games, as i use consoles for that. b

Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?

2004-02-08 Thread James Tappin
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 11:59:36 -0700 "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2004-02-08, Monique Y. Herman penned: > > It seems to me that, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I had a > > window manager that supported maximize-vertical (as opposed to > > maximizing in both directions). >

Re: video card compatibility

2004-02-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Ashley Mervyn Graham wrote: hello, im in the mood for another video card, my current is buggy with the current release of debian, i can't get video playback, well, i'm sure i can, but it's a lot of work, and i would have to use closed drivers, or whatever they're called. so, i'm asking for sugg

Re: Partition size discrepancy df v parted/cfdisk -SOLVED

2004-02-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/01/04 19:55), Paul Morgan wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:57:44 +, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (22/01/04 14:31), Paul Morgan wrote: > >> On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:05:01 +, Clive Menzies wrote: > >> > I've just reorganised the partitions on a second (Seagate) drive in > >> > a dual booti

Re: Floppy installer fails to load modules

2004-02-08 Thread David Clymer
On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 18:21, Jack Carroll wrote: > Didn't find anything about this in the archives. > I want to install Woody or Sarge on two older machines that have > SCSI CD-ROMs and SCSI hard disks. Neither can boot from a CD. I've always > booted installation programs from floppi

video card compatibility

2004-02-08 Thread Ashley Mervyn Graham
hello, im in the mood for another video card, my current is buggy with the current release of debian, i can't get video playback, well, i'm sure i can, but it's a lot of work, and i would have to use closed drivers, or whatever they're called. so, i'm asking for suggestions of video cards under

Re: [OT] ABI vs. API

2004-02-08 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-08, Alan Chandler penned: > On Sunday 08 February 2004 19:12, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> On 2004-02-04, Colin Watson penned: > >> > An ABI is the interface to a library as seen by compiled code. To >> > figure out the ABI for the above, you need to know things like >> > which way round

Re: list installed packages

2004-02-08 Thread Philipp Weis
On 08 Feb 2004, Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i would like to get a listing of all the packages i have installed, with > the branch tag beside it. apt-show-versions should do the trick -- Philipp Weis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freiburg, Germany http://pweis.com/ -- To UNSUBS

Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?

2004-02-08 Thread Dave Thorn
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:34:32AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > It seems to me that, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I had a window > manager that supported maximize-vertical (as opposed to maximizing in > both directions). windowmaker does this too. Ctrl-(double-clicking) on the titleba

Re: [OT] ABI vs. API

2004-02-08 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 08 February 2004 19:12, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-02-04, Colin Watson penned: > > An ABI is the interface to a library as seen by compiled code. To > > figure out the ABI for the above, you need to know things like which > > way round the bytes in an int go, how long a pointer i

Re: Better program than Putty?

2004-02-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:26:48AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Speaking of which, does anyone know how I can get some form of linux > terminal to look the most like putty? /duck A friend of mine recently found exactly what you're looking for...

Re: can't get php in woody to work

2004-02-08 Thread Jacob S.
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 11:01:19 -0500 Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem was simpler than I thought. First, I had to uncomment the > given lines in httpd.config (may be a bug should be filed?, i.e., > after installing some php package, may be at least the option to > modify

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Sneferu
I'd say that the solutions to all this problems is mepis.org ;-) Can still be used as livecd, and if you like what you see just double click pe Install icon on the desktop... I don't think that a debian-like-system can be any easy than this...my 13 years old cousin got it up-n-working in less t

OpenAL stopped recognising artsd...

2004-02-08 Thread Joseph Jones
Sound in UT2003 no longer works when I've got artsd running. It happened with no provocation at all. Can anyone provide any assistance? Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

list installed packages

2004-02-08 Thread Sam Halliday
hi there, there are many ways to list all the packages a system has installed, but unfortunately i cannot find how to get a list the way i want. i would like to get a listing of all the packages i have installed, with the branch tag beside it. dpkg -l seems to come closest, but lists the pack

Re: Securing it properly

2004-02-08 Thread Jacob S.
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 17:20:20 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:37:12AM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: > > dpkg -L - lists the files installed by 'package_name' > > > > dpkg -S - lists the package(s) that contain files > > matching > > the 'file

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 08:40:33PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Using Knoppix on the hard disk means no security updates, a system only > upgradable to unstable, and a lot of possible problems for beginners. It all depends on what kind of beginner. When I was new to Debian my major problems wer

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Bijan Soleymani (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 08:44:28AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: >> Feh. While it may well work for you, who has clue, anyone who >> suggests to a cluebie that using Knoppix is a way to get Debian >> should be shot. > > Well a lot of new users li

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