Re: Google Earth display problem

2006-07-09 Thread Dale Hair
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 00:31 +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: > > > > -- the display behaves weirdly. This is difficult to describe, > >but the "earth" image does not stay put in its proper place > >inside the window; it often "jumps" to the left, becoming > >invisible, or sometimes half-o

Re: Google Earth display problem

2006-06-18 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 08:19 -0500, Dale Hair wrote: > On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 11:55 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > > Google Earth is now available for Linux at http://earth.google.com. > > > > I tried it on my Sid system and found (so far) two problems: > > > >

Re: Google Earth display problem

2006-06-17 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 11:55 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Google Earth is now available for Linux at http://earth.google.com. > > I tried it on my Sid system and found (so far) two problems: > > -- when the programs starts, it complains it cannot find the >Bitstream Vera Sans font, altho

Re: MP3s from an analog signal ?

2006-06-14 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 17:16 -0500, Dale Hair wrote: > > > > > > Is there anything in Debian that can take a raw samples > > > file and turn it into an MP3? > > > Has some other form of documentation replaced the collection > > > of HOWTOs at T

Re: MP3s from an analog signal ?

2006-06-14 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 16:36 -0500, Dale Hair wrote: > On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 13:46 -0700, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > > > > A friend of mine uses a "user friendly" Windoze box > > to record (with

Re: MP3s from an analog signal ?

2006-06-14 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 13:46 -0700, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > > A friend of mine uses a "user friendly" Windoze box > to record (with permission) radio shows in background, > on a predetermined schedule. It's the last thing he still > n

Re: eterm / gnome window position

2006-05-25 Thread Dale Hair
> The string I have for my Eterm icon is: > > /usr/bin/Eterm -L 1 --colorBD yellow --select-line -g 101x25 --shade > 100 --buttonbar 0 --scrollbar-type next > > So, I am using the geometry option, but I can only set the dimensions of > the terminal, since they are the same. If I set also t

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-13 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 13:50 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > I don't know what the problem is, every song uses the same codec - MS > > Windows Media Audio 2 (ffmpeg audio) according to xine. So if the first > > song plays the others should also. > > > > I just run > > > > xine http://200.43.1

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-13 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 17:39 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > But, How ??? In my case when I run xine ( > xine > http://200.43.193.192/radio3/soft.wsx) I also hear just the first song, > how do you run Xine. Did do pass some especial option ?? >Thank you, > Gustavo Halperin > > I

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-13 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 13:22 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > gustavo halperin wrote: > > > >> Hello > >> > >> There some address for audio stream that work only for windows, for > >> example the next one: > >> http://200.43.193.192/radio3/soft.wsx > >> If you put the

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-12 Thread Dale Hair
> >>>I listened to it for about an hour. > >>> > >>>Runing most recent sid and xine. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> Are you kidding me ? I also try Xine, right now I was, and I see the > >>same problem. I only hear the first song, "Mind Trick" from Jamie Cullum > >>and after it

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-12 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 02:04 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > Dale Hair wrote: > > >On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 23:43 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > > > > > >>Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-12 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 23:43 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > >On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:12:41PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > > > > > >>Hello > >> > >>There some address for audio stream that work only for windows, for > >>example the next one: > >> http://2

Re: All-in-One flash card reader.

2003-08-03 Thread Dale Hair
> > Try /dev/sda2-5 > > That did not work, besides a flash card can have multiple > partitions on it, I have a flash card with a win and linux > partition. Does anyone know how scsi cd changers work, I > have a ide cd changer and I use eject -c[0-3] to change it, > but I believe that's only for

Re: All-in-One flash card reader.

2003-07-24 Thread Dale Hair
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 11:38, Loren M Lang wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have a flash card reader which is designed to read > from 5 different types of flash cards that I'm trying > to get working with debian. I plugged it into my > linux box with a flash card with

Re: mondo/mindi restore fails

2003-07-16 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 14:04, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > Well, i tried using the latest mindi and latest mondo source code and the > kernel listed for debian users at the mondo said and it still failed > horribly. With the last setup writing to the CDRW even made my kernel > panic so now afte

Re: mondo/mindi restore fails

2003-07-16 Thread Dale Hair
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 18:12, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Op di 15-07-2003, om 17:16 schreef Benedict Verheyen: > > Hi, > > > > i tested mondo mindi for a full backup of my system and i ran into some > > problems. The creation of the cd's works, as does the booting of the > > recovery cd (after add

Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-->> kernel went crazy. Help

2003-07-04 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:49, Antonio Rodr wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 11:39:28 -0400 > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: > > > Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, > > > testing in hdb. Then hda died, s

Re: finding an iso for net-install w/ reiserfs disk support

2003-07-04 Thread Dale Hair
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 22:48, Justin Bauer wrote: > I'm setting up a new computer, and thought it would be nice to use a minimal > cd rather than the normal disks. I'll be running sid, but I don't care > whether the cd is for stable or testing, just as long as it will > format/install onto reiserfs

Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-->> kernel went crazy. Help

2003-07-04 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:39, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: > > Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, testing in hdb. > > Then hda died, > > so I removed it, and put hdb as hda. So now the kernel goes into panick, somewhere

Re: What has happened to glim(pse)

2003-06-25 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 09:33, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:16:34PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:00:30PM +0100, Andrew Ingram wrote: > > > E: Package glimpse has no installation candidate > > > > > > Has it been obsoleted or removed for some reason? >

Re: CD-burning

2003-06-25 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 02:18, David Fokkema wrote: > Hi group, > > I waded through the how-to-burn-knoppix-iso-700Mb-etc thread from a > while back, but could not find anything solid to help me... > > I burned a Knoppix iso on a 700Mb CD-RW on my HP CD-Writer 8100 running > Debian Woody using cdre

Re: Sort by Thread in Evolution?

2003-06-11 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 18:19, Kent West wrote: > Playing with Evolution; hopefully this goes out as plain text. > > > Anyone know how to sort messages by thread in Evolution? I've really > gotten spoiled to that feature in Mozilla Mail. > > Thanks! > > -- > Kent Select View then choose threade

Re: Rezound deb?

2003-06-08 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 13:01, stan wrote: > I saw a reference to an application called Rezound in an aritcle about > gramofile this week. Looked prety neat, and I think I would like to compare > it to audacity, which is what I'm curently using for a visual audiofile > editor. > > I looked at the ho

Re: dpkg-reconfigure ntp-simple not working?

2003-06-06 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 13:30, cfactor wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 19:40:05 +0200, Dale Hair wrote: > > > I think you would have to apt-get remove --purge ntp-simple for the > > install to create a new ntp.conf file > > Yup, done that as well. :p I'm really stump

Re: dpkg-reconfigure ntp-simple not working?

2003-06-06 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 11:09, cfactor wrote: > I've done that as well. It seems to be something specific about the > ntp-simple package. I've tried "dpkg-reconfigure" on couple of other > packages, and they seemed to work. > > John > > On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 05:50:06 +0200, Jake Johnson wrote: > >

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-06-06 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 08:48, tt tt wrote: > Has anyone used a RealTek 8100 LAN chip with Debian Woody Stable? Yes. Use the 8139too module. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Help with XMMS radio, specifically KPFB

2003-05-31 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 12:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Silly question 3 of 3: XMMS used to come up with KPFB in the playlist, > and it would work! Now after tweaking and geeking and getting XMMS to > actually play CD ROMs for the first time, I've lost the radion station. > I've tried searching for

Re: Mondo Problem

2003-02-03 Thread Dale Hair
can pick them up from my other computer that has the CDR (I can't > swap the CDR). Everything works except mondo makes a 1.4GB iso as opposed > to 2 or 3 seprate ones. Any ideas. > > Thanks in advance. > > R> It's in the man page mondoarchive. Try -s 700m or -s 650m

Re: AMD processor

2003-01-26 Thread Dale Hair
bout the only thing I > > have found that would cause the new kernel-image package not to work. > > > > Cheers, > > -Don Spoon- > > > > > > > I have done the apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-K7 and added the > initrd=/initrd.img (see below) > but when I login the systel displays 2.4.18-bf24 > is there a way to check which kernel I am running? > Thanks > Raymond > > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > read-only > initrd=/initrd.img > # restricted > # alias=1 > uname -r or uname-a for more info -- Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is there a way to force apt/dpkg to rebuild the menu in X ?

2003-01-26 Thread Dale Hair
t; galeon to > link to the binary, but everything on my Sun seems static, nothing is getting > updated anymore, is there a way to rebuild these menu's ? (It's system wide > for all users and in all windowmanagers). > man update-menus -- Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROT

Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

2003-01-23 Thread Dale Hair
r the comments -- or both of them. > > hmm. if that's the case, it looks like you might be able to ADD > a has to one of the blank lines, to accomplish the same trick. > > no? That would work. Remember that white space does has a meaning. -- Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Verification of apt-get config for mixed system.

2003-01-23 Thread Dale Hair
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 10:57, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 06:32, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > >> > >> [ ... ] > >> > >> Do I have it right? > >> > >> [ ... ] >

Re: Verification of apt-get config for mixed system.

2003-01-23 Thread Dale Hair
ow testing. My preferences file contains Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 550 I always use the -s option for apt-get dist-upgrade to show me what will happen before I actually perform the upgrade. I use gnome from unstable and for the past week dist-upgrade wants to remove gnome and a few others so I used apt-get upgrade. -- Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

2003-01-23 Thread Dale Hair
hash mark is not considered to be a proper > comment character in /etc/apt/preferences. > > > -- > Lloyd Zusman > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave a space between # and the line you're commenting out. -- Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Brute force reinstall

2003-01-23 Thread Dale Hair
kage management to reinstall? "reinstall" > doesn't work and the manpage doesn't really help either. > > -- > Got Backup? If you wish to reinstall all installed packages use aptitude. Go to the line --- Installed Packages and press L. This will mark every install

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't downgrade to stable

2003-01-22 Thread Dale Hair
table";' would prevent that. > > Thanks. > > -- > Lloyd Zusman > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just tried exactly what Mohammed said he did and my testing/unstable machine wanted to remove 176 packages and downgrade 586 to stable. I also tried it with apt.conf set to testing with the same results. The preferences file seems to have priority over the apt.conf file. -- Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-19 Thread Dale Hair
nks for your help. > > -- > Lloyd Zusman > [EMAIL PROTECTED] You must have stopped the upgrade before all the packages were downloaded and before the installation began. You probably have some packages from unstable in /var/cache/apt/archives. -- Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-19 Thread Dale Hair
a=testing Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 550 -- Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-18 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 13:04, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 12:03, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > >> Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > [ ... ] > >> >

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-18 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 12:03, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [ ... ] > > > > Giving testing a priority of 1001 will downgrade to testing. > > Thank you. I just did that. And now, which `apt-get' or `aptitude'

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-18 Thread Dale Hair
uding many from this mailing list. > > Thanks in advance for any pointers and suggestions you can offer. > > > Current /etc/apt/preferences > > Package: * > Pin: release a=stable > Pin-Priority: 500 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing > Pi

Re: upgrade to gnome2 lost truetype fonts in galeon

2003-01-12 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 13:37, Dale Hair wrote: > I upgraded to gnome2 yesterday and the fonts look great, except now > galeon and mozilla no longer see any truetype fonts. I had nice anti > aliased truetype fonts before when I was running testing with galeon & > evolution, and d

upgrade to gnome2 lost truetype fonts in galeon

2003-01-12 Thread Dale Hair
ot;); //pref("font.name.serif.x-western", "misc-fixed-iso8859-1"); //pref("font.name.monospace.x-western", "misc-fixed-iso8859-1"); //pref("font.name.sans-serif.x-western", "misc-fixed-iso8859-1"); Any idea what might be the problem? -- Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Open Office under testing

2002-12-22 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 21:14, Deryk Barker wrote: > Thus spake Dale Hair ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 14:35, Deryk Barker wrote: > > > As a P.S. to my previous exchange: unfortunately the package I found > > > at various mirrors requires late

Re: Open Office under testing

2002-12-22 Thread Dale Hair
office/ testing main contrib -- Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Openoffice upgrade no menu fonts (it works now)

2002-12-13 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 11:46, Chris Halls wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:46:25AM -0600, Dale Hair wrote: > > I read this and everything else I found on google, everything on my > > system seems to be correct. I also reinstalled msttcorefonts and > > x-ttcidfont-conf. &

Re: Openoffice upgrade no menu fonts

2002-12-13 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 03:41, Chris Halls wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:21:03PM -0600, Dale Hair wrote: > > After upgrading openoffice I have no fonts in the menus but I do in the > > document. My XF86Config-4 is correct and I am using the defoma TrueType > > fonts. &g

Openoffice upgrade no menu fonts

2002-12-12 Thread Dale Hair
After upgrading openoffice I have no fonts in the menus but I do in the document. My XF86Config-4 is correct and I am using the defoma TrueType fonts. If I run it as su everything is fine. If I run it as sudo it is the same as running as user. What's wrong and how can I fix this? -- To UNSUBS

Re: Cheap CDs

2002-11-30 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 12:06, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Maybe I've just read past this several times in the package list without > my brain catching what was being said, but what is a good program for > cloning bootable data CDs? I want to make a couple extra copies of the > Woody CDs, and with both a

Re: APT pinning and downgrading

2002-11-14 Thread Dale Hair
#x27;t exist until I created it): > > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing > Priority: 1001 This should be Pin-Priority: 1001 -- Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: choice of software

2002-11-05 Thread Dale Hair
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 10:14, Levi Waldron wrote: > On November 4, 2002 04:19 pm, Johannes Zarl wrote: > > +xmms -- a winamp lookalike > > I find xmms impossibly hard to read with its blue-on-black and small font, so > have been using noatun instead. Has anyone found a way to make xmms a little

Re: KDE still won't load completly

2002-10-29 Thread Dale Hair
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 07:04, Daniel Fabian wrote: > Hi List, > > Sorry if I'm a pain in the neck, but on my laptop, KDE still won't load > completly. I have removed the .kde directory and tried to login both as root > and as not priviledged user, but it just won't work. Whenever it's at the > keyb

Re: digitising cd collection with ogg vorbis

2002-10-24 Thread Dale Hair
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 15:53, Ole Sebastian Stein wrote: > Hi > > I was wondering if anybody had any good suggestion as to how to > digitise a cd collection into ogg vorbis. > > - What software to use (ripping, coding) > - How to name the ogg files (using a online cd database? which?) > - What har

RE: gdm, log in as root?

2002-10-15 Thread Dale Hair
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 21:30, David Pastern wrote: > Mark said: > > Subject: RE: gdm, log in as root? > > understand that sudo or fakeroot would be an even better solution, as > sudo use is logged as security concerns. > > Dave : I know that Mark. It more annoys me not having the ability there.

Re: KDE3?

2002-10-13 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 21:26, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > > I'm trying to convert my debian-unstable kde2 system to kde3. Can > anyone give a list of packages to make sure are installed? So far all > I've found are kdelibs3. I followed the instructions at http://mypage.bluewin.ch/kde3-deb

Re: cdparanoia & cdrom as user

2002-10-10 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 22:50, Hubert Chan wrote: > >>>>> "Dale" == Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dale> I forgot to list that one. > > Dale> dale@meridian:~$ ls -l /dev/sg0 > Dale> crwxrwxrwx 1 root cdrom 21, 0 Mar 14 2002 /de

Re: cdparanoia & cdrom as user

2002-10-09 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 20:53, Hubert Chan wrote: > I found that cdparanoia wants to access /dev/sg0 as well as /dev/scd0, > so make sure that you have permissions for that too. I forgot to list that one. dale@meridian:~$ ls -l /dev/sg0 crwxrwxrwx1 root cdrom 21, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev

cdparanoia & cdrom as user

2002-10-09 Thread Dale Hair
I have a problem on a new installation trying to use abcde or XMMS. It seems that cdparanoia cannot access cdrom as user but can as root. I'm baffled because I can mount a data cdrom OK. My device is a scsi CDRW. I installed with 2.4.18bf2.4 and network install. dale@meridian:~$ cdparanoia 1

Re: tiny mouse howto update - console gpm, X and mouse wheel

2002-10-07 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 20:03, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > I am going over ML for the next "Debian Reference" over the mouse > configuration. > > I found a thread with your names quite interesting. In order to refresh > all, I put all participants in TO list. Excuse me. > > I have 3 questions:

Re: getting Sawfish

2002-10-03 Thread Dale Hair
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 08:51, Phil wrote: > I updated and now have problems with Gnome. It seems I don't have a Gnome > compliant window manager. is there an apt-get method to get sawfish? try sawfish-gnome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Backing up system using mondo ?

2002-10-02 Thread Dale Hair
HOWTO-9.html If you back up to nfs like I do, make the boot floppies at backup time. Once you understand it, it's pretty slick. Attached is a copy of en email I sent someone else about my one restore experience. >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jun 22 16:22:49 2002 Subject: Re: Mondo From: D

Re: Letting users look at a read-only FS

2002-06-18 Thread Dale Hair
> Wouldn't umask=007 be better? Otherwise the gid part is redundant since > the group really doesn't matter if other has the same permissions as > group... I don't remember how I came up with this line, it was several months ago, looking at it now what you say makes sense. I think I tried umas

Re: Letting users look at a read-only FS

2002-06-18 Thread Dale Hair
I use this line but there may be a better way. /dev/sda1/win2k ntfsdefaults,users,ro,umask=0,gid=6 0 0 On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 16:39, Steve Juranich wrote: > I have the following /etc/fstab: > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > #

Re: OGG wont do

2002-06-18 Thread Dale Hair
> Yep did that allready but i cant figure out yet how to name that file i tried > to put it into my home dir with the names .abcde and .abcde.config and both > times it used the default configs so i always start it with the -c option. When I first tried it I would get an error message and it wo

Re: OGG wont do

2002-06-18 Thread Dale Hair
I'm generally a GUI person but I found abcde much easier. You might want to edit etc/abcde.config to suit your preferences or copy it to your home directory and modify it. > Hi yep no problem anymore my latest problem was that i lost my xmms config > and > i forgot that i need to use /dev/dsp1

Re: OGG wont do

2002-06-17 Thread Dale Hair
Does lame even encode in ogg format, I believe it only does mp3. Try abcde, it's a debian package and encodes ogg by default. On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 15:39, Florian Struck wrote: > Hi i have just tried grip using cdparanoia ripps ok encodes with lame (from > merillat) or gogo but oggs that result

Re: Nasty X + Mozilla bug...

2002-06-15 Thread Dale Hair
> That may stops mozilla from crashing x by rendering huge fonts, but > I'm wondering if it breaks the page layout. I think the latest mozilla from unstable fixed this problem with huge fonts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: Can I "downgrade" from unstable to woody?

2002-06-10 Thread Dale Hair
> Thanks - that worked, but for a dependency problem with groff which was > solved (as apt-get advised) by apt-get -f install. > > Can I now safely remove the preferences file and put 'stable' in my > sources.list in anticipation of woody's becoming stable? Yes and you can use 'woody' instead o

Re: Can I "downgrade" from unstable to woody?

2002-06-09 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 10:19, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hi, all: > > I think I may have made something of a mistake! > > I needed to upgrade from potato, having need of a more recent lib. So I > replaced 'stable' with 'unstable' in sources.list and upgraded. I really > don't need to be on the ble

Re: Force password change on first logon on Debian Box

2002-06-08 Thread Dale Hair
> Is there a PAM module that enforces good passwords? ie. won't allow > passwords easily crackable by john the ripper? > > Mike Install cracklib2 and uncomment this line in /etc/pam.d/passwd password required pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=6 difok=3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: GNOME 2.x debs?

2002-06-07 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 21:56, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 06:42:53PM -0400, Mike Frisch wrote: > > | I have been running GNOME 2.x on RedHat for a few weeks now and it seems > | to work pretty well. > > Huh. Is that like gcc 2.96 -- grab a cvs snapshot and call it stabl

Re: Mondo Archive

2002-06-07 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 16:40, Brian Rose wrote: > Has anyone gotten the mondoarchive to work in Debian? I tried it before > it was added as a package, but it didn't restore correctly. Problems > with Lilo is all I remember now though. I've backed up two systems to a nfs partition but I haven't tr

Re: Calendar/scheduling softwae fro debain?

2002-06-02 Thread Dale Hair
There is a web based calendar called WebCal, GPL license, there is a demo on their site. It has public and private calendars. I've been meaning to try it out. http://bulldog.tzo.org/webcal/webcal.html > The issue with calendaring seems to be less finding single-user > calendar software (there's

Re: Abiword

2002-06-02 Thread Dale Hair
> Reading the hint, it seems to indicate all that's needed are the > two files (fonts.dir and fonts.scale) be in /usr/share/Abisuite/fonts > and it should fly. They are already in place. > > But Abi complains that it can't add its fonts to the X fontpath. Which > is strange, because I'd expect X

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-06-01 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 23:38, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:03:25PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > My co-workers and I have seen (or actually "heard") a lot of this over > > the past four or five years. The Gateway computers we purchased came > > with Western Digital drives. Acc

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 23:35, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:38:22PM -0500, Dale Hair wrote: > > > I once had a power problem, called the power co. to tell them the > > transformer on the pole had a red light glowing, they told me that meant > > the trans

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 23:10, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 07:18:49PM -0700, ben wrote: > > > location throughout the history of the equipment failure. also check for > > cell > > phone antennas in the immediate surrounding area. > > So on top of the computer behind the fan hum

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 20:59, Frank Brodbeck wrote: > I really do like my PC. And I never hit but sometimes hug her :) > > Later on I will go and check my box power supply. I doubt the power supply is the culprit. Most machines with one hard drive and one cdrom should work fine on 250w supply, do

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Dale Hair
> are you buying all this equipment from the same vendor? maybe the drives are > being stressed in some prior environment. even if different vendors are > involved, they might use the same wholesale supplier. My second thought on this. > what version(s) of linux are you using? the only other t

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-27 Thread Dale Hair
You're right, I forgot how I got into this thread, I think it was the beer. I just poured myself a shot of Bushmills, an Irish whisky. Memorial Day weekend is over and I'm facing the alligators again in the morning. > I've pointed this out off-list to several participants. > > This discussion i

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-27 Thread Dale Hair
> This contradiction is only apparent. > While it's perhaps true that most citizen of the USA (*) are pacifist, > most of them are also unaware of what their government _actually_ do in > the matter of foriegn affairs. This is true, but I think most US citizens prefer to not know these things,

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-26 Thread Dale Hair
> Actually, the USA was asked to help Australia in 1939. We had the crap > bombed out of us. After Pearl Harbour the USA decided that Oz was a > great place to base a lot of Operations. Most Americans tend to be isolationists and pacifists, it took Pearl Harbor to "awaken the sleeping giant".

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?])

2002-05-24 Thread Dale Hair
> > There's just not a lot you can do with an American standard or a lager > beer to make it better. Agreed on the American lager, but are you throwing German lagers in there also. I really enjoy ales, especially dark ales, I'm in unison with Craig Dickson's opinions posted on his site. Howeve

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?])

2002-05-22 Thread Dale Hair
> I'm told by natives that Fosters isn't Australian for "Beer", it's > Australian for "Budwiser". After a hard day in the Texas heat the first budweiser actually tastes good, probably the same goes for Fosters in Australia. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?])

2002-05-22 Thread Dale Hair
> Oh boy, here comes a flame war... > > > The Irish, without a shadow of a doubt, make the best beer in the > world. They are just damn good at it. After them, and I am trying to > be impartial here, we Australians do a damn good beer. It's not > exotic, it doesn't have bits floating in it, it

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-19 Thread Dale Hair
> > I've removed xfs, xfstt and xfs-xtt, all three of which were running. > I've verified that the correct path is in XF86Config-4, checked > /var/log/XFree86.0.log to ensure that the path is not being barfed out > and that the freetype module is being loaded, verified the presence of > fonts.di

Re: Galeon quit working

2002-05-19 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 13:05, Dale Hair wrote: > After last dist-upgrade on two machines Galeon quit working. One is > running testing with galeon from unstable, the other is testing only. > When I try to run it from xterm I get > > /usr/bin/galeon-bin: relocation

Re: GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R?

2002-05-17 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 09:36, Matthew Reath, CCNA wrote: > I have found that ecliptRoaster has worked out great for me. The deb package is eroaster. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xscreensaver

2002-05-15 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 04:22, Tom Allison wrote: > I think this is prevelant on all my machines, but certainly on my > notebook. I have xscreensaver installed, but it never goes off. > > Could someone please give me a quick rundown on how to: > --enable xscreensaver (w/ & w/o password) > --set my

Re: Evolution has no help or email properties

2002-05-12 Thread Dale Hair
> Under KDE Control Center/File Browsing/File Associations I don't find > any mention of ghelp. It does list HTML files, which are associated > with my browser. I've looked through the list and compared it to my > laptop, which is also running Debian testing, and I find no difference. > Am I l

Re: Galeon quit working

2002-05-12 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 13:14, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 20:05, Dale Hair wrote: > > > /usr/bin/galeon-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgtkembedmoz.so: > > undefined symbol: GetFlatBufferHandle__C10nsACString > > Did you upgrade mozilla? I relied on

Galeon quit working

2002-05-12 Thread Dale Hair
After last dist-upgrade on two machines Galeon quit working. One is running testing with galeon from unstable, the other is testing only. When I try to run it from xterm I get /usr/bin/galeon-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgtkembedmoz.so: undefined symbol: GetFlatBufferHandle__C10nsACString

Re: Evolution has no help or email properties

2002-05-12 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 07:17, Daniel D Jones wrote: > Running Evolution 1.0.3 on Debian testing. Whenever I click on any of > the "Help" topics, nothing is happens. I can go to > /usr/share/gnome/help/evolution/C/index.html and > the file is present. I can double click it in a file manager or en

openoffice lib

2002-05-09 Thread Dale Hair
I tried running spadmin after installing the latest openoffice 1.0.0-3 with apt-get. It seems the library path needed to be added to /etc/ld.so.conf for it to run. Could this be done in the installation process. Now I think I had my HP LaserJet 1100 installed with openoffice641d but it is not an

Re: OpenOffice.org & Woody

2002-05-07 Thread Dale Hair
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 12:07, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 12:45, Tinus Kotze wrote: > > Hi > > > > On the OpenOffice 1.0 topic, I used the binary to install OpenOffice > > 1.0 on my Debian(3.0)(kernel 2.4.18). I installed as root and would > > just like to know how I can install

Re: RealPlayer

2002-05-05 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 22:39, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya dennis > > you probably need to do something like > > root# mv rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.rpm > note the *.rpm extension > > root# rpm -ivh --test --force --nodeps rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.rpm > >

Re: help request with XF86Config

2002-05-04 Thread Dale Hair
In XF86Config-4 Section "InputDevice" # Identifier and driver Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol""Microsoft" try changing this to PS/2 Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Change this to /dev/psaux unless you are using gpm, then change it to /dev/gpmdat

Re: OpenOffice 1.0 ,debs?

2002-05-03 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 09:04, Addis Perez wrote: > -- Original Message -- > >Which java version? > >Where can I get those .debs ? > > There are no *.deb's for the recent versions of Java. I have yet to install > OpenOffice, so I do not know which Java versi

Re: gdm login problem

2002-05-03 Thread Dale Hair
rd.so is a link to pam_unix.so It's puzzling why gdm is doing this, but now the user has a better password. On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 00:34, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Dale Hair ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020502 17:54]: > > On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 17:01, Dale Hair wrote: > > > I have

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