Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-24 Thread Number Six
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 06:31:23PM +1100, Rebecca Dridan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 06:10:56PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > Any women out there? Have you found debian and/or other OSS or > > technical groups to be difficult, possibly because you're female? > I've never found any probl

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-24 Thread Rebecca Dridan
(sorry about the direct reply Monique) On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 06:10:56PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I just saw this in Debian Weekly News issue ten: > > > > I guess I just wonder. > > I've never found any sort o

Re: switching window managers and session managers - update-alternatives ?

2004-03-24 Thread Kai Grossjohann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have a question about switching between kde and other window managers > (blackbox, fluxbox, ion, etc). > I am interested in learning what is the preferred or intended method of > switching between kde and other 'more traditional' window managers in Debian. Maybe the

[OT] Can't find on Google: How can I determine path to binary in gcc?

2004-03-24 Thread Number Six
What is the canonical way to determine *my* application's truepath in Posix? Bash's $0 seems to do it, but after reading the sourcecode for coreutils all I can see is: (1) If argv[0] starts with a "/", use that. (2) If not, search the path for argv[0]. If found, use that. (3) Otherwise, use "c

Фигура и Вес

2004-03-24 Thread Врач Ольга
Стройная фигура – путь к успеху! Новый подход в коррекции фигуры и снижении веса! Высокоэффективная программа! "ПЛОСКИЙ ЖИВОТ" Природный состав ЭЛИТНОЙ ФРАНЦУЗСКОЙ SPA- косметики THALAC, с благодарностью подарит Вам прекрасное ощущение легкой прохлады, повысит тонус ко

Re: [OT] Microsoft's teeny punishment by the EU

2004-03-24 Thread Number Six
> The headline was "War on Windows"! As a sociological phenomenon, the whole "let's sue Microsoft" gestalt smacks of petulance: far and away the Internet primarily serves humanity as a provider of jerk-off material. Oh! Myrtle! Save us! We simply *must* fix this horror of horrors! The big b

Re: magnifier

2004-03-24 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
El Wednesday 24 March 2004 08:22, Rob Weir escribió: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:11:44PM +0100, Luis Fernando Llana D?az said > > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to install gnopernicus. I have a problem with the > > magnifier. I get the following error: > > > > Activation error: during magnifier ac

Re: weather reporting program in debian

2004-03-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 04:53:35PM -0500, Lorenzo Prince wrote: > Thus spake Kevin Mark: > # So, why do you want to install a program that is already available as a > # debian package? > # If you can provide a reasonable answer, then install it. > > The weather program is a demo stript that gives

Unidentified subject!

2004-03-24 Thread Mabel Sabogal
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Re: SVG display in Debian

2004-03-24 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 24, 2004 09:22 pm, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > Hi everyone, > I just read an interesting article about Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) > support in Linux and started visiting a few websites with SVG content to > try it out. I'm running KDE 3.2.1 from unstable which should have SVG > support th

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-24 Thread Katipo
Monique Y. Herman wrote: I just saw this in Debian Weekly News issue ten: I guess I just wonder. I've never found any sort of hostility or difficulty in dealing with any technically-oriented online forum; if anything, I

Re: Debian (Woody) bf2.4 network card problem

2004-03-24 Thread Nate Duehr
Andrew Gilberto wrote: Hi, Thanks for the reply. So, I'm not entirely sure what I should do with this information! Should I be able to find the tulip driver listed in modconf then? If so, that confuses me a little since the 3c59x driver is in modconf too, but fails to load. If I shouldn't use

SVG display in Debian

2004-03-24 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Hi everyone, I just read an interesting article about Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) support in Linux and started visiting a few websites with SVG content to try it out. I'm running KDE 3.2.1 from unstable which should have SVG support through ksvg (which I have installed) but Konqueror just di

Re: weather reporting program in debian

2004-03-24 Thread Nate Duehr
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:32:15AM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: Hi Kamaraju and Paul, If its a console program, I'd try 'alien' to convert the package and install it. What's the worst that can happen? -Kev I got the rpm from http://r

Attachment Blocked - PacifiCare policy

2004-03-24 Thread MMS
PacifiCare policy prohibits the sending of certain attachments. The attachment that you were attempting to send at 03/24/04, 20:59:24 is currently on the blocked list. Blocked attachment: data.pif --- Begin Message --- --- End Message ---

mailto protocol in firefox (OT?)

2004-03-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
This may be OT, but I've experienced the mailto frustration in firefox as a debian user, and so offer a solution to other debian users. The script reproduced below is an adaptation from thunderbird-helper.sh which I found at http://www.wlug.org.nz/MozillaFirefoxNotes You may want the kind of fun

[OT] buying keyboards

2004-03-24 Thread Shaun ONeil
I know it's wildly off-topic, but whatever I come across, someone here has beat me to it - and I can't for the life of my figure out how to query google to get specific results for such a generic question .. so: short story: I'm trying to find somewhere in the US (or canada) where I can purchase a

Re: weather reporting program in debian

2004-03-24 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Lorenzo Prince wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Kevin Mark: # So, why do you want to install a program that is already available as a # debian package? # If you can provide a reasonable answer, then install it. The weather program is a demo stript that gives an examp

Re: mail setup for debian-user

2004-03-24 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Oliver, > I dont have that file. What does it do? > BTW I fixed it with a muttrc setting... > -Kev Hi, see the cf.README: [...] genericstable This feature will cause unqualified addresses (i.e., without a domain) and addresses with a

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 06:10:56PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I just saw this in Debian Weekly News issue ten: > > > > I guess I just wonder. > > I've never found any sort of hostility or difficulty in dealing wit

Bf24 Install (2.4.20 Kernel?)

2004-03-24 Thread Michael Bellears
Is there a list of supported hardware for the 2.4.20 kernel? Regards, MB

RE: GUI for nvidia4620

2004-03-24 Thread Matthew Joyce
> -Original Message- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hugo Vanwoerkom > Sent: Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:44 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: GUI for nvidia4620 > > > Hi Debian: > > It is reported that the 4620 version of the nvidia closed-source > installer a GUI

Re: First Time Install Problems

2004-03-24 Thread Kent West
Tony Anderson wrote: I'm still having trouble getting my SIS 7018 onboard sound to work, i've tried googling which suggested adduser 'myaccount' audio then running modconf and selecting the i810 option. On selecting the i810 all i get is installation failed. Any suggestions ? You'll need to l

Re: Text console corruption

2004-03-24 Thread Jorge Santos
"Per Olofsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 15:58 -0600, Jorge Santos wrote: >> Well, after a lot of playing arround with fbset, recompiling the >> kernel, passing the kernel boot options and the like, I haven't fixed >> this yet, and I intend to file a bug report about it

Re: Ann: gpm-X guide

2004-03-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 06:53:07AM +, Peter Samuelson wrote: | | [Derrick 'dman' Hudson] | > http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/gpm-X/ | | One comment. Using repeat_type=raw is the *wrong* thing to do. [snip correction] Peter, Thank you for correcting a couple misunderstandings her

Re: AW: [OT] Microsoft's teeny punishment by the EU

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Erik Steffl wrote: >> what about us who learned how to drive outside of california? >> would there be a possiblility to get a not-a-moron certificate? > > Nope. And it isn't California, it's everywhere. If you've only > driven vehicles w/4 wheels t

Re: memory of video card

2004-03-24 Thread Tom Allison
Colin wrote: Tom Allison wrote: A warning would have been nice. But now I'm left with something one notch up from non-bootable. Don't you have an old kernel that you can still boot from? The kernel-package automatically creates a link to the old kernel that you can boot from. Yes I do. Bu

Re: AW: [OT] Microsoft's teeny punishment by the EU

2004-03-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Erik Steffl wrote: what about us who learned how to drive outside of california? would there be a possiblility to get a not-a-moron certificate? Nope. And it isn't California, it's everywhere. If you've only driven vehicles w/4 wheels then the moron clause applies. -- Steve C. L

Re: use udev

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:18:59PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > | "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | > The thing with udev is it is all userspace, therefore it works with

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just saw this in Debian Weekly News issue ten: > > > > I guess I just wonder. > > I've never found any sort of hostility or

Re: email signatures

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Matthew Joyce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what the polite way off appending a largish sig or disclaimer to an > email, is it '--' before the appendage ? For any signature, it's generally considered polite to put in a "-- " (that is, dash dash spa

Re: email signatures

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2004-03-25, Matthew Joyce penned: >> >> Hi, >> >> what the polite way off appending a largish sig or disclaimer to an >> email, is it '--' before the appendage ? >> >> thanks >> > > The polite way t

Re: email signatures

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Hoeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 25 March 2004 01:20, Matthew Joyce wrote: > >> what the polite way off appending a largish sig or disclaimer to an >> email, is it '--' before the appendage ? > > no, it's "-- " (dash-dash-space

Re: nbtstat -S

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
You sent a private response to a public attempt to help you on debian-user. Re-including the list (which you shouldn't have excluded to start with)... bassem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-24 13:57]: >> "Nathan Kidd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >

Re: AW: [OT] Microsoft's teeny punishment by the EU

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what about us who learned how to drive outside of california? would > there be a possiblility to get a not-a-moron certificate? Yeah, it's called a non-Californian driver's license. Even the guys with total

Re: increasing screen resolution

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brad Camroux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wonder how to increase the screen resolution in X. I'm currently at > 1024x768, but would like to go to 1280x1024. I love having the > larger desktop space so I can get everything I need on one screen i

Re: Can you run 2 X/KDE sessions at once?

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to run two different X sessions at the same time as two > different users? Yes. Lock the screen, click start new session in KDE. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :'

Re: Maybe ... I don't now

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 =?Windows-1250?B?TWljaGGzIE15c3prbw==?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello debian-user, > > I have a problem to install debian on my computer a have GF4MX and > NForce2. When a install debian woody 3.0r1 every think (99%) goes ok > but a can't

Re: how to install X

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> >>"mehdi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>>( I know I can download the RPM and install them. But I thought it >>>might be already in one of these disks). >> >>No, Debian doesn't use RPMs

Re: [OT] Microsoft's teeny punishment by the EU

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 07:28:31PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 07:37:10AM -0800, Number Six wrote: >> > Even though I still have a bunch of stock, and I'm a linux lover now, so >> > I cheer

ieee1394 hotplug patch for 2.4.xx

2004-03-24 Thread tjm3
Hello. Has anyone used the scsi add/remove patch from http://www.linux1394.org/sbp2.html to patch their 2.4.xx kernel to enable better hotplugging for ieee1394 disk drives? If so, were there any adverse effects to any other hardwired scsi disks or cdrom's that you noticed? It's the 'use at you

Change of address

2004-03-24 Thread Nili Kaplan-Myrth
This is an automated response to let you kow that, as of April 1st, this e-mail address will no longer be valid. My new address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please update my address in your records. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Text console corruption

2004-03-24 Thread Johann Koenig
On Wednesday March 24 at 06:13pm Brad Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 24 March 2004 4:30 pm, Per Olofsson wrote: > > I think you're having a problem with hotplug. I have the same > > problem. The problem is that hotplug automatically loads a > > framebuffer driver for your video car

debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-24 Thread Monique Y. Herman
I just saw this in Debian Weekly News issue ten: I guess I just wonder. I've never found any sort of hostility or difficulty in dealing with any technically-oriented online forum; if anything, I've found that some people

Re: First Time Install Problems

2004-03-24 Thread Tony Anderson
Paul Johnson wrote: Tony Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm new to Linux and keen to experience the stability of Debian particularly. Welcome to the brave GNU world, my friend! I had a limited amount of experience of Red Hat 7 a couple of years back and have recently installed Lindows 4

Exim Maildir "Sample"

2004-03-24 Thread Support
Hi! I`m currently running exim at my server with default configuration. All my incoming will be at /var/spool/mail/ I would like to configure my exim to be Maildir format. What should I configure ? Is there any sample ? I would like all my incoming mail to be at /home/ Thank Q Regards, Suppo

Re: use udev (was Re: Max number of ide disk atteched)

2004-03-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 10:07:41PM +, Pigeon wrote: | On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 03:25:27PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 07:12:43PM +, Pigeon wrote: [...] | > | Is this automatic with Debian kernel packages? With a DIY 2.6 I had to | > | create /sys and mount

Re: Question on sysvinit/initscripts (semi-urgent)

2004-03-24 Thread Brad Sims
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 6:48 pm, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Todays' will work, as far as I can tell.  I verified it the hard way an hour > ago. LOL, I like that answer... wanna wee nip of scotch? ya sound like you could use it -- The real fun of living wisely is that you get to feel

Re: Question on sysvinit/initscripts (semi-urgent)

2004-03-24 Thread Brad Sims
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 6:46 pm, Brad Sims wrote: > As I understand it several versions are screaming about not > actually booting.. what is the last known good Sid version? It looks like one can pass rw to the kernel at boot to fix this.. is the syntax "linux rw"? -- The real fun of living w

Re: email signatures

2004-03-24 Thread Brad Sims
Signatures are delimited by dash dash space newline ie "-- " and should be, properly speaking, no more than four lines of not more than eighty characters per line -- The real fun of living wisely is that you get to feel smug about it -- Hobbes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: email signatures

2004-03-24 Thread Martin Hoeller
On Thursday 25 March 2004 01:20, Matthew Joyce wrote: > what the polite way off appending a largish sig or disclaimer to an > email, is it '--' before the appendage ? no, it's "-- " (dash-dash-space) -- === Martin Hoeller

GUI for nvidia4620

2004-03-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian: It is reported that the 4620 version of the nvidia closed-source installer a GUI interface has. Anybody knows about that? How to get to it? Thanks. Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: email signatures

2004-03-24 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, Matthew Joyce penned: > > Hi, > > what the polite way off appending a largish sig or disclaimer to an > email, is it '--' before the appendage ? > > thanks > The polite way to do it is not at all. I've yet to see a huge honkin' signature that was actually necessary/productive. The

Re: email signatures

2004-03-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 11:20:11AM +1100, Matthew Joyce wrote: | Hi, | | what the polite way off appending a largish sig or disclaimer to an | email, is it '--' before the appendage ? The delimiter for signatures is '\n-- \n'. In other words, a blank line followed by two dasshes and a space on a

Re: Question on sysvinit/initscripts (semi-urgent)

2004-03-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Brad Sims wrote: > As I understand it several versions are screaming about not > actually booting.. what is the last known good Sid version? Todays' will work, as far as I can tell. I verified it the hard way an hour ago. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find th

Re: memory of video card

2004-03-24 Thread Colin
Tom Allison wrote: A warning would have been nice. But now I'm left with something one notch up from non-bootable. Don't you have an old kernel that you can still boot from? The kernel-package automatically creates a link to the old kernel that you can boot from. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Question on sysvinit/initscripts (semi-urgent)

2004-03-24 Thread Brad Sims
As I understand it several versions are screaming about not actually booting.. what is the last known good Sid version? -- The real fun of living wisely is that you get to feel smug about it -- Hobbes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

unable to increase process ulimit

2004-03-24 Thread Jonathan Rockway
Hello, everyone. I'm having a problem with eclipse spawning many processes, causing me to go over my process limit. Since this is normal behavior, I would like to increase my process limit. I have edited /etc/security/limits.conf, and uncommented the appropriate lines in /etc/pam.d/* (the lines

Re: weather reporting program in debian

2004-03-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Lorenzo Prince wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The weather program is a demo stript that gives an example of how to use expect. In Red Hat and Fedora, this example program is either placed or linked in /usr/bin. Careful examination of my system which has expect installed sho

email signatures

2004-03-24 Thread Matthew Joyce
Hi, what the polite way off appending a largish sig or disclaimer to an email, is it '--' before the appendage ? thanks Matt Children's Cancer Institute Australia http://www.ccia.org.au

RE: nbtstat -S

2004-03-24 Thread Matthew Joyce
> -Original Message- > From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 25 March 2004 8:55 AM > To: Nathan Kidd > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: nbtstat -S > > > "Nathan Kidd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a newbie question - whats the Linux CLI equivalen

Re: Text console corruption

2004-03-24 Thread Brad Sims
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 4:30 pm, Per Olofsson wrote: > I think you're having a problem with hotplug. I have the same > problem. The problem is that hotplug automatically loads a framebuffer > driver for your video card, which apparently doesn't work very > well. > > The solution is to add the n

Re: AW: [OT] Microsoft's teeny punishment by the EU

2004-03-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Paul Johnson wrote: "Simmel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LOL I like that one! But both of you forget one thing! repeat offenders get higher fines! So next time MS isn't watching their "speed" and they get caught, the fine will get bigger, everytime that is.. Me think, Me likes that :-) actu

Re: Mathematica 5.0 and Debian Linux

2004-03-24 Thread Victor Munoz
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:07:39PM +0100, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > > Hi: > > Has anybody been successful in converting Mathematica (,nb) files with > Save as SPecial to latex and then running latex on the file? I get lot > error messages, though at the end a dvi file is produced. There i

Re: post-nuke available?

2004-03-24 Thread mike
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:15:21 -0800 (PST), MJ Inabnit wrote > Greetings: > > I have been looking for a replacement to php-nuke since this package > doesn't meet the Debian licensing requirements. I found references > via google that post-nuke is available and is GPL'd. However, using > debian's s

Re: KDE Mouse Failure

2004-03-24 Thread Kent West
Clyde Wilson wrote: [KDE dies when starting; Gnome works fine]. Yep, I've tried as other users. I've reinstalled the entire system, reinstalled kde. I've used startx, kdm and gdm, all with the same results. KDE comes up, starts the initialization and then comes down. Seems to blow on my

Re: post-nuke available?

2004-03-24 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:15:21 -0800 (PST) MJ Inabnit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings: > > I have been looking for a replacement to php-nuke since this package > doesn't meet the Debian licensing requirements. I found references > via google that post-nuke is available and is GPL'd. Howev

Re: Debian (Woody) bf2.4 network card problem

2004-03-24 Thread Kent West
Andrew Gilberto wrote: From: Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 05:53:30PM +, Andrew Gilberto wrote: > So, I've installed bf2.4 on my machine, but it's having problems seeing my 3c59x > network card. > 1. dmesg shows: > eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0xe800, 00:A0:CC:

post-nuke available?

2004-03-24 Thread MJ Inabnit
Greetings: I have been looking for a replacement to php-nuke since this package doesn't meet the Debian licensing requirements. I found references via google that post-nuke is available and is GPL'd. However, using debian's search tool, I have been unable to locate post-nuke in any of the distri

Re: Can you run 2 X/KDE sessions at once?

2004-03-24 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Justin Guerin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... > One word of caution, though. I've heard KDE doesn't like it if you log in > twice as the same user at the same time. You don't say you're attempting > that, and that's good. That certainly used to be the case, however while seting up my deskt

Re: Can you run 2 X/KDE sessions at once?

2004-03-24 Thread Justin Guerin
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 15:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it possible to run two different X sessions at the same time as two > different users? > > In other words, I want to hit ctrl-alt-F3 (for example), login as > another user, and run X and KDE while having my regular X/Kde session > runn

Re: Little Exim question (permission to create lockfile...)

2004-03-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
* ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040324 05:44]: > Hey, > > I'm not sure anymore why I needed to (have had to rearrange quite a few > things), but I've been fiddling with KMail's lockfile settings. And > with my system mailbox, too. :-/ I'm left with one little problem:

Re: increasing screen resolution

2004-03-24 Thread Mark C
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 22:20, Brad Camroux wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder how to increase the screen resolution in X. I'm currently at > 1024x768, but would like to go to 1280x1024. I love having the > larger desktop space so I can get everything I need on one screen if Just edit your /etc/X11/

Re: Debian (Woody) bf2.4 network card problem

2004-03-24 Thread Andrew Gilberto
Hi, Thanks for the reply. So, I'm not entirely sure what I should do with this information! Should I be able to find the tulip driver listed in modconf then? If so, that confuses me a little since the 3c59x driver is in modconf too, but fails to load. If I shouldn't use modconf to use the tuli

Re: Text console corruption

2004-03-24 Thread Per Olofsson
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 15:58 -0600, Jorge Santos wrote: > Well, after a lot of playing arround with fbset, recompiling the > kernel, passing the kernel boot options and the like, I haven't fixed > this yet, and I intend to file a bug report about it, the question is: > > against which package sho

Re: exim - spamassassin? - msexchange

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
"Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 10:49:49AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > | Incoming from Michael Kahle: > | > I would like to setup a intermediary mail server that will filter email > | > coming in for spam and then reroute the "good" mail to my msexchang

Re: exim - spamassassin? - msexchange

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Michael Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to setup a intermediary mail server that will filter email > coming in for spam and then reroute the "good" mail to my msexchange server. > Any suggestions on what I should use to do this? Ditch exchange, deploy a real MUA to your users. >

Re: use udev (was Re: Max number of ide disk atteched)

2004-03-24 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 03:25:27PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 07:12:43PM +, Pigeon wrote: > | On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:48:43PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:18:59PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > | > | "Derrick 'dman' Hud

Re: Can you run 2 X/KDE sessions at once?

2004-03-24 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to run two different X sessions at the same time as two different users? In other words, I want to hit ctrl-alt-F3 (for example), login as another user, and run X and KDE while having my regular X/Kde session running on ctrl-alt-F7. Yes. Log into X as the f

increasing screen resolution

2004-03-24 Thread Brad Camroux
Hello, I wonder how to increase the screen resolution in X. I'm currently at 1024x768, but would like to go to 1280x1024. I love having the larger desktop space so I can get everything I need on one screen if possible. Thanks, -- +--+---+

Re: Can you run 2 X/KDE sessions at once?

2004-03-24 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello 'Moe'! On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 05:04:26PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it possible to run two different X sessions at the same time as two > different users? Sure. > In other words, I want to hit ctrl-alt-F3 (for example), login as > another user, and run X and KDE while having my

Can you run 2 X/KDE sessions at once?

2004-03-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it possible to run two different X sessions at the same time as two different users? In other words, I want to hit ctrl-alt-F3 (for example), login as another user, and run X and KDE while having my regular X/Kde session running on ctrl-alt-F7. When I try to do that now, I end up with an X error

Re: Text console corruption

2004-03-24 Thread Jorge Santos
Jorge Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, as of today I have been having some text console corruption > issues, basically, the console comes up with nothing but colorful > vertical lines and it doesn't change no mather what I do, well > actually I can get different useless patterns after b

Re: nbtstat -S

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
"Nathan Kidd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a newbie question - whats the Linux CLI equivalent of nbtstat > -S from the command line? For those of us who haven't used Windows beyond what is absolutely necessary in a desktop situation for work in almost a decade, just what the heck is nbtst

Re: weather reporting program in debian

2004-03-24 Thread Lorenzo Prince
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Kevin Mark: # So, why do you want to install a program that is already available as a # debian package? # If you can provide a reasonable answer, then install it. The weather program is a demo stript that gives an example of how to use expe

Re: KDE Mouse Failure

2004-03-24 Thread Clyde Wilson
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 3:35 PM Subject: Re: KDE Mouse Failure > Clyde Wilson wrote: > > >[KDE dies when starting; Gnome works fine]. Yep, I've tried as other users. I've reinstalled the entire syst

Re: Promise or 3Ware?

2004-03-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 07:42:00PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: | On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:58:16 -0500 | "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > I now need to buy some hardware to set up a 2-disk RAID-1 array for a | > server. The server will run debian with kernel 2.6. The cost | >

Re: Some sox questions.

2004-03-24 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 19:30, Travis Crump wrote: > Ogg Vorbis has vorbisgain which does the same thing as normalize and I > know that vorbisgain doesn't do any reencoding, it just adds meta-data > to the file that players use to adjust the volume. Indeed I would go > so far as to say that re

Re: Question.....unsubscribe

2004-03-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Pigeon: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:10:11PM +0100, Simmel wrote: > > > > Seems like most people can't read? s/can\'t/won\'t/ > > Isn't it possible to do an autoreply only to all mails which have the > > Subject "unsubscribe" > > Most of them can't type either... you'd have to fil

Re: Promise or 3Ware?

2004-03-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 08:18:00PM +, Pigeon wrote: | On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:58:16PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > Say, what's the difference between a 32-bit/66MHz and a 64-bit/66MHz | > PCI card? Are there limitations as to what motherboards they will | > work on? This particu

Re: Maybe ... I don't now

2004-03-24 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Micha? Myszko (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have a problem to install debian on my computer a have GF4MX and > NForce2. When a install debian woody 3.0r1 every think (99%) goes ok > but a can't start X a just see information error what shell a do? Go to .

Anyone using win32-x11?

2004-03-24 Thread nomad
Howzit, I've been trying to get win32-x11 working against my Woody box, but I've not managed to get anything more than a blank X root window and cursor. Has anyone here used win32-x11 successfully yet, or should I leave it to mature for a little while longer? I was starting a simple X session

Virus was detected in the message

2004-03-24 Thread VirusChecker
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debian-user@lists.debian.org

2004-03-24 Thread Joost De Cock
Quoting Justin Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 24 March 2004 02:58, Mirko Scurk wrote: > > I'm running unstable on DELL optiplex gx270 (nvidia geforce4 mx 440, > > 256MB RAM, P4 ) > > Linux xyz 2.6.2-1-386 > > xserver-xfree8 4.3.0-7 > > gnome-core 47 (???) (2.4.) > > kdebase

Fwd: Re: exim - spamassassin? - msexchange

2004-03-24 Thread Joost De Cock
Forgot about the list :( - Forwarded message from Joost De Cock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 21:20:30 +0100 From: Joost De Cock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Joost De Cock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: exim - spamassassin? - msexchange To: Michael Kahle <[

Re: how to install X

2004-03-24 Thread Kent West
Paul Johnson wrote: "mehdi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ( I know I can download the RPM and install them. But I thought it might be already in one of these disks). No, Debian doesn't use RPMs. RPMs suffer from dependency hell and other stupidity that makes them have something in common wi

Re: weather reporting program in debian

2004-03-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:13:20AM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > >Hi Kamaraju and Paul, > >If its a console program, I'd try 'alien' to convert the package and > >install it. What's the worst that can happen? > >-Kev > > > > > I got the rpm from > http://rpmfind.redir

Re: mail setup for debian-user

2004-03-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 05:09:51AM +0100, Oliver Fuchs wrote: > On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > Hi d-u's, I have found why I can not send mail > > What says your /etc/mail/genericstable: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > #user [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: use udev (was Re: Max number of ide disk atteched)

2004-03-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 07:12:43PM +, Pigeon wrote: | On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:48:43PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:18:59PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: | > | "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | | > | > The thing with udev is it is al

Re: Debian (Woody) bf2.4 network card problem

2004-03-24 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 05:53:30PM +, Andrew Gilberto wrote: > So, > I've installed bf2.4 on my machine, but it's having problems seeing my 3c59x > network card. > There's nothing wrong with the network card as this worked on this machine > with an idepci flavour of debian. In that idepci fla

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