Re: a pair of questions

On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 05:45, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 01:01:51PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > > I'd like to see some software to manage and track devices and associate > > them with a fixed fstab entry. It would probably work in conjunction w/ > > hotplug. > > Th

Re: local/controllable causes of packet loss?

Silvan wrote: > I'm having annoying problems with my cable internet. At least once a day, > sometimes several times, I'll try to do something, and whatever I'm doing > either times out or goes like molasses. > In this state, if I take eth0 down and then attempt to take it back up, I > seldom man

Re: Unidentified subject!

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Re: Please advise me...

Cecil wrote: On Saturday 12 June 2004 08:33 pm, dircha wrote: > But how does OS X perform for the following things: Coding(various languages and sorts of apps) Can I run linux apps on it? I will be mainly coding on this little thing, email, and the usual things(research, research papers, etc) Does

Re:Cannot re-config xfree86

Hi folks,   The PC I am having is built from scratch. I buy the Intel 865GBFmotherboard w a 2.6GHz HT CPU, a 256MB single module memory, the storage peripherals, a chassis w a 450W PSU and assemble them up. The BIOS is fr Intel, the original was rev P10 but I had upgraded it to P14 a couple of mont

Re: System Reinstall Setup

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:53:24PM -0500, David wrote: ... > Actually, I'm not so concerned about making the backups as just having > something that I can boot up and then remove the CD. To be able to do > this, I believe one would need a boot image that would build a ramdisk > and then put needed

local/controllable causes of packet loss?

I'm having annoying problems with my cable internet. At least once a day, sometimes several times, I'll try to do something, and whatever I'm doing either times out or goes like molasses. When things get boggy, my standard diagnostic is to ping google. Here is an example of such a ping: ->pi

Re: MicroWhat Winwhat???

On Saturday 12 June 2004 06:51 pm, Cecil wrote: > up. Why does debian get this weird rap where folks treat users of that > didtro like they are a cult? I've read some almost offensive material on Try it for awhile and you'll see why. We really *are* a cult. ;) apt-get ap-get

Re: Please advise me...

On Saturday 12 June 2004 11:05 pm, Kent West wrote: > Cecil wrote: > >But how does OS X perform for the following things: > > > >Coding(various languages and sorts of apps) > > Not being a coder, I can't speak to this. > > >Can I run linux apps on it? > > Yes, no, sort of. Many Linux apps have OS/X

Re: ccing

Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree with and do a most of what you and others say. The *only* place > I think T-bird is more efficient is for my case of a large number of > mail folders with three levels of structure visible simultaneously on > the screen. After I choose the folder

Re: Please advise me...

Cecil wrote: But how does OS X perform for the following things: Coding(various languages and sorts of apps) Not being a coder, I can't speak to this. Can I run linux apps on it? Yes, no, sort of. Many Linux apps have OS/X versions; some apps run on the X11 server that can be installed on OS

Re: Please advise me...

On Saturday 12 June 2004 08:33 pm, dircha wrote: > Cecil wrote: > > I will be buying a new laptop for school. I would like to wipe windows > > off and put just debian on. I need a laptop that linux has full support > > for. I plan to make this purchase within the next 2 months. Can anyone > > advis

Re: ccing

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 09:41:20PM -0400 or thereabouts, Travis Crump wrote: > S.D.A. wrote: > > > >There are some cool tools available for archiving, that (as far as I know) > >won't work with Thunderbird mail. I can search my '*.tar.gz' archives, at > >the > >same time as searching the active on

Re: ccing

Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 08:16:32AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: >>> >>> I much prefer the way gnus does it--a "followup" function that figures >>> out if you're replying to a list or not and does the right

Re: Re-run Grub???

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 08:31:40PM -0500, MillTek wrote: > Now that I have Sarge loaded on one of my partitions, I would like to > re-run Grub so that it will re-scan the partitions to make the boot menu > (where you pick the OS you want to load). Is there a way to do this?? > If you know can

Re: ccing

Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 08:16:32AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: >> >> I much prefer the way gnus does it--a "followup" function that figures >> out if you're replying to a list or not and does the right thing, >> i.e. either a reply-to-list or a reply

Re: random performance problems in X

also sprach Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.06.12.1658 +0200]: > From : > > "Debian users who encounter effects such as skips in mp3 > playback, jerky mouse movement may want to stop the > X server from renicing itself to -1

Re: ccing

S.D.A. wrote: There are some cool tools available for archiving, that (as far as I know) won't work with Thunderbird mail. I can search my '*.tar.gz' archives, at the same time as searching the active ones, via mboxgrep. So yes, Mutt is definitely the superior tool, as far as I'm concerned. Umm, wh

Re: Please advise me...

Cecil wrote: I will be buying a new laptop for school. I would like to wipe windows off and put just debian on. I need a laptop that linux has full support for. I plan to make this purchase within the next 2 months. Can anyone advise me? The only other alternative is buying an apple ibook and th

Re-run Grub???

Now that I have Sarge loaded on one of my partitions, I would like to re-run Grub so that it will re-scan the partitions to make the boot menu (where you pick the OS you want to load). Is there a way to do this?? If you know can you show me the commands. (I did go to the grub website but they

Re: Re: Problems upgrading to Gnome2.6

Well, although its name, the package libgtk2.0 is the package with GTK 2.4 libraries. -- __ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze -- To UNSUBS

sarge installer and status of text install with brltty and/or speakup

Maybe there's a more appropriate list on which to post this but I and several other people have posted this to debian-accessibility and gotten no information. I've also gone through the debian-accessibility archives and the information there didn't answer my questions. 1. Is there built-in provi

Re: ccing

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 01:12:07PM -0700 or thereabouts, Paul Scott wrote: > S.D.A. wrote: > > > >I can however understand the argument that a GUI client is prettier, and > >easier to operate for the less-skilled term user, or that someone simply > >prefers Thunderbird to Mutt. It is a personal pre

Re: Problems upgrading to Gnome2.6

On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 00:12, Thomas Beresford wrote: > Hello there, > > I've tried to upgrade to gnome 2.6 but I'm getting this error message when I try to > run gnome-session: > > gnome-session: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: > g_type_class_add_private > > I

Problems upgrading to Gnome2.6

Hello there, I've tried to upgrade to gnome 2.6 but I'm getting this error message when I try to run gnome-session: gnome-session: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_type_class_add_private I'm running a woody system with some testing and unstable packages. To u

Network install fails on reboot

I am trying to do a network install of Woody on an old p2 so that I can turn it into a glorified mp3 player for my company’s on hold music and messages.  I can get as far as rebooting the machine through setting up the system clock and such.  But it seems that when it reboots it loses its n

Re: OT wordprocessing anyone?

On Saturday 12 June 2004 12:25, Brad Sims wrote: [...] > Hrm, I played yesterday with texmacs and while the keybindings are > those of EMACS (Esc Meta Alt Ctrl Shift) it /is/ usable with a > mouse and I liked it better than kile for some reason. Well... I have just had a quick look too. Texmacs d

Re: MicroWhat Winwhat???

Incoming from Cecil: > I just gotta say that debian is giving me all the functionality I had in > windows. Is that all?!? :-) > Is it just me? Or does everyone love their lin boxes this much? Can't speak for others, but you're not alone. You know that cliche about "... pry it from my

Re: Please advise me...

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 the mental interface of Cecil told: > On Saturday 12 June 2004 03:20 pm, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 the mental interface of > > Cecil told: > > > I will be buying a new laptop for school. I would like to wipe windows > > > off and put just debian on. I ne

MicroWhat Winwhat???

I just gotta say that debian is giving me all the functionality I had in windows. Slack didn't. Redhat didn't. Gentoo was just a pain to get installed. I got my mp3s playing, KMail up, gaim up, several browsers going. And get this: I had multiple copy and pastes with files flying all over my dr

Re: ccing

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Re: Please advise me...

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 03:08:08PM -0500, Cecil wrote: > I will be buying a new laptop for school. I would like to wipe windows off and > put just debian on. I need a laptop that linux has full support for. I plan > to make this purchase within the next 2 months. Can anyone advise me? The > only

Re: [SPAM] Re: ccing

s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Paul Scott: Faster as far as processor time, etc. is not relevant *if the machine is fast enough* since the machine still has to wait for the user to do something. I couldn't care less whether the machine is waiting for me to do something. That's its job.

Re: Please advise me...

On Saturday 12 June 2004 04:01 pm, Alan Shutko wrote: > Patrick Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Now, IBM's might keep value RELATIVELY better than OTHER laptops, > > but it hardly makes them a "good investment" that "keeps it's > > value". > > In at least one way, Thinkpads keep their value be

Re: saving iptables rules?

Darryl Luff wrote: Ralph Crongeyer wrote: How does one save iptables rules in Debian "Unstable/SID"? I've tried iptables-save and get some output with no errors, but when I reboot all my rules are gone? Is there a "Debian way" of doing this? Rather than write my own startup script I want to find

Re: saving iptables rules?

Thanks Adam, but there is no "/etc/init.d/iptables" file on SID? Any other suggestions? Ralph Adam Aube wrote: Ralph Crongeyer wrote: How does one save iptables rules in Debian "Unstable/SID"? I've tried iptables-save and get some output with no errors, but when I reboot all my

Re: ccing

Matthias Czapla wrote: On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 01:12:07PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: The *only* place I think T-bird is more efficient is for my case of a large number of mail folders with three levels of structure visible simultaneously on the screen. After I choose the folder with the mouse

Re: Please advise me...

That's true, maybe I have then choosen the worng words. More what I wanted to say is, that the value the ThinkPads had to me was never decreasing much. They are good working tools and they stay it. Battery lifetime usually sucks at some point, but that is more or less all. On the other hand, bo

Re: ccing

Incoming from Paul Scott: > > Faster as far as processor time, etc. is not relevant *if the machine is > fast enough* since the machine still has to wait for the user to do > something. I couldn't care less whether the machine is waiting for me to do something. That's its job. :-) However, c

Re: Please advise me...

Cecil wrote: How do the 2 OS's compare? Anyone have real-world experience on both? If you just want to do work (or play), Mac OS/X is pretty sweet. Things like iMovie and iTunes are pretty awesome. USB devices "just work". Plug in an external firewire drive, and poof!; there it shows up on the d

Re: gnu assembler

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 15:01:06 -0500, Rob Benton wrote: > Is there a package somewhere with gas in it? The binutils-doc has info > pages for it but I don't see it in the binutils package. Look again. It's /usr/bin/as. HTH, Ray -- Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? I think so Brain,

Re: Please advise me...

Patrick Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now, IBM's might keep value RELATIVELY better than OTHER laptops, > but it hardly makes them a "good investment" that "keeps it's > value". In at least one way, Thinkpads keep their value better than other laptops. My A20p is almost 4 years old and goin

Re: System Reinstall Setup

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:53:24PM -0500, David wrote: > Actually, I'm not so concerned about making the backups as just having > something that I can boot up and then remove the CD. My backup strategy is similar to yours. I regularly create tars of my file systems and put them on CD-RW. I dont ha

Re: fonts are ugly in some gtk apps

2004. június 12. 22:55, LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > I can't find that package, I'm using sarge. > Also after installing the `ttf-freefont' package, I can not select those fonts from any gtk app. I did: fc-cache -fv xset fp rehash defoma-user reconfigure (and even restarted

Re: Please advise me...

On Saturday 12 June 2004 03:20 pm, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 the mental interface of > > Cecil told: > > I will be buying a new laptop for school. I would like to wipe windows > > off and put just debian on. I need a laptop that linux has full support > > for. I plan to make t

Re: ccing

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 01:12:07PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > I agree with and do a most of what you and others say. The *only* place > I think T-bird is more efficient is for my case of a large number of > mail folders with three levels of structure visible simultaneously on > the screen. Aft

Re: fonts are ugly in some gtk apps

2004. június 12. 20:34, Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 04:13, LeVA wrote: > > I noticed that after an upgrade from woody to sarge, some gtk apps > > turned to very ugly (their fonts). Ie.: xmms, easytag... > > But after I've compiled gtkf

Re: Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panel

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 the mental interface of Elimar Riesebieter told: > On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 the mental interface of > Mark Roach told: > > > On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 14:06, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I regognized some screenshots of Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panels. > > > H

Re: mutt

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 09:05:11PM +0200, László 'GCS' Böszörményi wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a command line based program, which can grep the email > address/domain from the 'From:' field of a mail message; and based on the > invokation it can write the address into separate files like >

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Re: Please advise me...

Since when is a personal computer a good investment that holds it's value? Computers are like cars, the day you buy it, it drops in value 20%!!! Now, IBM's might keep value RELATIVELY better than OTHER laptops, but it hardly makes them a "good investment" that "keeps it's value". --Patrick On Sat

Re: Please advise me...

Had so far three IBM laptops (Thinkpad 770, Thinkpad 600, Thinkpad T20) of which I bought the last two used at e-Bay. All worked great with Linux and anyways they are an good investment, great working machines which keep their value. - Martin On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Cecil wrote: > I will be buy

Re: ccing

Matthias Czapla wrote: On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 12:05:36PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Matthias Czapla wrote: In the index view of mutt hit 'o' to sort by date, sender, size etc. True but the thread sort doesn't use a tree view. Mmmh, must be something with your configuration. I get

Re: Please advise me...

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 the mental interface of Cecil told: > I will be buying a new laptop for school. I would like to wipe windows off and > put just debian on. I need a laptop that linux has full support for. I plan > to make this purchase within the next 2 months. Can anyone advise me? The > on

Re: Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panel

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 the mental interface of Mark Roach told: > On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 14:06, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I regognized some screenshots of Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panels. > > How to configure that? Is it with enlargement like in OS X as well? > > Check out gdes

Re: ccing

S.D.A. wrote: On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 12:22:07AM -0700 or thereabouts, Paul Scott wrote: be a case where a quite good GUI email client like Thunderbird is going to win out overall over mutt at least on a larger sized screen. Maybe if mutt could simultaneously show more of it's views for X's sake

Please advise me...

I will be buying a new laptop for school. I would like to wipe windows off and put just debian on. I need a laptop that linux has full support for. I plan to make this purchase within the next 2 months. Can anyone advise me? The only other alternative is buying an apple ibook and they are pretty

Re: ccing

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 12:05:36PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Matthias Czapla wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 12:22:07AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > >>>I tell mutt to show me a few index lines at the top of the pager > >>>window. > >> > >>That gets the right two T-bird panes. I can sort the head

Re: System Reinstall Setup

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 12:34:48PM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > > However, even before I got the CD's constructed, it occurred to me that > > Knoppix has the CD mounted, and I have only one CD. This wouldn't work > > as I originally intended. And sure enough, this is the case -- my > > single CD i

Re: System Reinstall Setup

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 01:38:49PM -0400, Adam Aube wrote: > David wrote: > > > I'm trying to set up a backup system using CD's. > > > The idea was to, in the event of a total drive loss, to boot up a > > Knoppix CD, manually fdisk ( or whatever), the partitions, and untar the > > respective part

Re: mutt

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 the mental interface of László 'GCS' Böszörményi told: > Hi, > > I am looking for a command line based program, which can grep the email > address/domain from the 'From:' field of a mail message; and based on the > invokation it can write the address into separate files like

Re: Compile kernel on sid -> dependency problem on woody

On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 06:48, Pablo Santiago Blum de Aguiar wrote: > I compiled a new kernel (2.4.18) for a woody box (a 233MHz pc) on my sid > box (an Athlon 800MHz pc). On sid, I did an 'apt-get install > kernel-source-2.4.26', configured the kernel for my needs, ran > 'make-kpkg clean' and used

Re: mutt

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 09:05:11PM +0200, László 'GCS' Böszörményi wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a command line based program, which can grep the email > address/domain from the 'From:' field of a mail message; and based on the > invokation it can write the address into separate files like >

Re: Warning: Sid upgrade loses most KDE Styles

> > I had no problems, neither on ppc nor on i386 ;-) > > Now close your KDE session and log back in. Welcome to our world. :) ...happened to me the same way, didn't read the thread to closely, was wondering what the problem was and "sudenly" after a re-login I was puzzled. But installing an o

gnu assembler

Is there a package somewhere with gas in it? The binutils-doc has info pages for it but I don't see it in the binutils package. Is it out there somewhere in a package? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mutt

Hi, I am looking for a command line based program, which can grep the email address/domain from the 'From:' field of a mail message; and based on the invokation it can write the address into separate files like whitelist/greylist/blacklist. I would like to filter based on that file, so it should

Re: Warning: Sid upgrade loses most KDE Styles

At 2004-06-12T16:01:16Z, Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had no problems, neither on ppc nor on i386 ;-) Now close your KDE session and log back in. Welcome to our world. :) -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgpcFJHKuskRG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ccing

Matthias Czapla wrote: On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 12:22:07AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: I tell mutt to show me a few index lines at the top of the pager window. That gets the right two T-bird panes. I can sort the headers by any column with a click and reorganize the indexes. In the in

never a mail with no 2nd appended newline?

Blemishing my spartan image, for i in mail nail; do echo $i|mail $USER;done seems to append an extra newline to the end of each message. Why again is this newline invisible when doing $ mail #[nail doesn't have the following problem] p or even | cat but shows up when one does s file q $ cat fil

Re: cant ssh in from outside world

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 17:25, Nick Smith wrote: > i recently just ran into this problem when i moved my mail server from > cable to dsl, (comcast to bellsouth). i didnt change any of the settings, > that i know of. i can ftp, send/receive mail, but i cant ssh in. its very > frustrating because tha

Re: fonts are ugly in some gtk apps

On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 04:13, LeVA wrote: > I noticed that after an upgrade from woody to sarge, some gtk apps > turned to very ugly (their fonts). Ie.: xmms, easytag... > But after I've compiled gtkfxp, its fonts are nice. [...] > Any ideas how to fix the fonts? hmm, they all look pretty bad to

Re: Volume control broken after Gnome 2.6 Upgrade

On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 06:38, josh wrote: > After upgrading to Gnome 2.6 in unstable, the volume control applet no > longer works. if I click on the slider, it just jumps back to the > original position. If I open the volume applet's preferences dialog, the > text area supposedly containing the ava

Re: Can some one please help me.

On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 12:00, John Williams wrote: > Hi, > My name is Maxwell and a student. I have heard a lot about linux and I > would like to switch from windows to linux. I have asked some question > about it and and I have also read the tutorials at www.aboutdebian.com > (I would want to pract

Re: Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panel

On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 14:06, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Hi all, > > I regognized some screenshots of Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panels. > How to configure that? Is it with enlargement like in OS X as well? Check out gdesklets. That's probably what you've seen. -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

alsaconf fails to detect sound/wrong driver module?

I am trying to get alsa working under kernel 2.6.6 with the integrated sound from my motherboard (an AC97 chip). I'm not sure which driver module I should use (I have tried the intel 8x10, the VIA 826c868 and the generic modules) and so far alsaconf returns an unable to detect PnP or PCI sound car

Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panel

Hi all, I regognized some screenshots of Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panels. How to configure that? Is it with enlargement like in OS X as well? Thanks for hints Elimar -- It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: System Reinstall Setup

David wrote: > I'm trying to set up a backup system using CD's. > The idea was to, in the event of a total drive loss, to boot up a > Knoppix CD, manually fdisk ( or whatever), the partitions, and untar the > respective partitions back onto the HD. > However, even before I got the CD's construct

Help ipchains and Firestarter

Thanks to those that answered my earlier questions about firewalls with 2.6 kernel and Sarge! I am now running Firestarter. However, when I try to use "Save" following the Wizard, or after manually trying to open a port, I get the message "No chain/target/match by that name". I assume something

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Re: Console only box?

Micha Feigin wrote: > You may also want to take a look at elinks. Takes care of slashdot > quite nicely (although the results of lynx aren't that bad either). elinks is a branch of links. I chose /. and installed lynx just to test. Go to /., have to scroll down past all the left side static

Re: Warning: Sid upgrade loses most KDE Styles

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 the mental interface of Adam Aube told: > Did an apt-get upgrade today, and almost all of the KDE Styles disappeared. > The only ones left are CDE, MS Windows 95, Motif, Motif Plus, Platinum, and > SGI. The only KDE-related package that was upgraded was libqt3c102-mt, > which I

Re: OT wordprocessing anyone?

On Saturday 12 June 2004 4:42 am, richard lyons wrote: >  I do use scribus, and like it > for what it does.  But you very much have to lay out each page > individually, so it is great for display work but less good for more > wordprocessing type of use.  Kile, I am trying to get used to, and to

Can some one please help me.

Hi, My name is Maxwell and a student. I have heard a lot about linux and I would like to switch from windows to linux. I have asked some question about it and and I have also read the tutorials at www.aboutdebian.com (I would want to practice all that). I have finally decided to switch. But I don

System Reinstall Setup

I'm trying to set up a backup system using CD's. I was able to get the system onto two CD's. I have partitions for /, /boot, /usr, /var, and /home. I have a tar.gz for each partition, and saved each relative to . - that is, for example, /boot is save in the fashion: cd /boot; tar -czf blah . as

Re: Warning: Sid upgrade loses most KDE Styles

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 the mental interface of Adam Aube told: > Did an apt-get upgrade today, and almost all of the KDE Styles disappeared. > The only ones left are CDE, MS Windows 95, Motif, Motif Plus, Platinum, and > SGI. The only KDE-related package that was upgraded was libqt3c102-mt, > which I

Re: ccing

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 08:16:32AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > I much prefer the way gnus does it--a "followup" function that figures > out if you're replying to a list or not and does the right thing, > i.e. either a reply-to-list or a reply-to-all. I've heard (seen) several praises to gnus l

Re: ccing

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 12:22:07AM -0700 or thereabouts, Paul Scott wrote: > Thanks for all your input. I've got "The Mutt E-Mail Client" doc open > now and I will read some more and try some of this. I think I am > equally at home in both GUI and text-based worlds and I think this may > be

Re: ccing

Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I agree that it's irritating to get duplicate messages. However, it's >> often not that the person deliberately did a cc. At least in Pine, I >> often get messages from this list where when I go to reply i'm

Re: ccing

Hello. Chris Metzler: > Yeah, googling with an additional qualitifer of "site:lists.debian.org" > or something like that. The disadvantage is that you don't get > the ability to search on date ranges and stuff like that, Well, you can do a search with inurl:/2003/10/ and/or inurl:/debian-user/

Re: Cannot re-config xfree86

jack kinnon wrote: Hi folks, I am able to run my desired settings by manually editing the XF86Config-4 file, selecting i810 controller, color depth of 24. The quality of the display has improved appreciably. I am selecting some warnings, error and information fr the log. Attaching the whole file

Re: Cannot re-config xfree86

jack kinnon wrote: Hi folks, I am able to run my desired settings by manually editing the XF86Config-4 file, selecting i810 controller, color depth of 24. The quality of the display has improved appreciably. I am selecting some warnings, error and information fr the log. Attaching the whole file

Re: Website creating software

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 10:12:21PM -0600 or thereabouts, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2004-06-11, S.D.A. penned: > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:36:52AM -0600 or thereabouts, Monique Y. > > Mudama wrote: > > Seriously, I don't like them myself, and I'm not overly fond of Flash > > personally, eith

Re: random performance problems in X

Hello! On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 04:30:55PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.06.11.2306 +0200]: > > > [...] then the mouse jerks and xmms or ogg123 cuts out [...] > > What is the nice value in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config set to? It should be -10 > > for 2.

Cannot re-config xfree86

Hi folks, I am able to run my desired settings by manually editing the XF86Config-4 file, selecting i810 controller, color depth of 24. The quality of the display has improved appreciably. I am selecting some warnings, error and information fr the log. Attaching the whole file would be wasting

Re: random performance problems in X

also sprach Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.06.11.2306 +0200]: > What is the nice value in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config set to? It should be -10 > for 2.4.x kernels and 0 for 2.6.x kernels. It's 0. I already checked that. A value of -10 would hardly result in the described behaviour though, would

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Problem in seeing web pages behind a DSL modem/router after apt-get upgrade

System: local network is 192.168.1.x; a modem/router DSL which acts as gateway let my local network to browse the internet through address translation. Also it has a very confortable option called "virtual server" that forward to a certain all the traffic to&from a certain port. So I made my De

Re: a pair of questions

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 01:01:51PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Unfortunately with many mass storage devices coming and going (readers, > cameras, memory sticks) the sd letter is not so predictable and a static > entry in fstab won't always work. > > I'd like to see some software to manage an

Re: xmms window behavior

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 12:07:01AM +0300, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > Hi! > > Could someone tell me how to convince xmms' playlist to follow suit, > once I minimize the main player window? > > Right now what happens is that only the player window is minimized, > leaving a "headless" playli

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 02:17:17PM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:31:01AM -0500, James W. Thompson, II wrote: > > Any ideas? I searched the archives and didn't find anything real useful. > > fluxbox, which ironically is also the best WM on the higest end P4 3.2 + > 980

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