Re: How long is linux going to be free ?

2003-03-28 Thread Derek Gladding
On Friday 28 March 2003 16:47, John Hasler wrote: > Shyamal writes: > > Most of the software is already copyrighted. > > _All_ of it is copyrighted. There is no software old enough to have > entered into the public domain. http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html - Derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: i always end-up in frame buffer mode

2002-11-23 Thread Derek Gladding
On Saturday 23 November 2002 05:29 am, Derek Gladding wrote: [snip] > Hi Sandip > > IIRC, the "vga=" parameter only affects the settings for VGA text mode. As > you're using a framebuffer this parameter will be ignored. > > The control parameter for the fr

Re: i always end-up in frame buffer mode

2002-11-23 Thread Derek Gladding
On Saturday 23 November 2002 04:29 am, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 01:23:34PM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > Am Sam, 2002-11-23 um 11.32 schrieb Sandip P Deshmukh: > > > hello all > > > > > > when i boot in linux, i always end up in frame buffer mode - despite > > > setti

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)

2002-11-17 Thread Derek Gladding
On Sunday 17 November 2002 02:29 pm, Bill Moseley wrote: Hi Bill The full answer is "it depends" - chipset behaviour, NIC behaviour, all those sorts of things. A rough back-of-the-envelope answer is: - You can NAT fine through a P75 (or less) with 16MB. - You can burn CDs fine with a P90 with

Re: Version To Use? (2)

2002-11-17 Thread Derek Gladding
Hi John On Sunday 17 November 2002 10:57 am, John Floren wrote: [snip] > You seem to miss the point, or so I understand it. I want to download > the distribution on a DIFFERENT computer, burn a installation CD, http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ Explains how to build ISO images for the vario

Re: Kernel Memory, Poss. Errors (Debian Woody 2.4.18-bf2.4)

2002-11-11 Thread Derek Gladding
On Monday 11 November 2002 08:35 pm, David Lloyd wrote: > Hi There, > > > I am experiencing some strange behaviour with Debian Woody. I have > attached a log as plain text and the output of dmesg. > > I suspect it may be faulty RAM. > > This occurs ONLY when I am in a KDE kdm managed X session and

Re: CHM and WMV files on debian ?

2002-11-11 Thread Derek Gladding
On Monday 11 November 2002 08:05 pm, B T wrote: > Hi, > > Could you please tell me how I may view windows html help files (with > .chm extension) and windows media video files (with .wmv extension) on > my debian linux. > > sincerely > B Thomas Hi BT I can't help with the ".chm" files but I can r

Re: SCSI card & DAT tape drive

2002-11-09 Thread Derek Gladding
On Friday 08 November 2002 10:07 pm, Johan van der Walt wrote: > I installed Woody yesterday on my PC. Everything seems okay except for > the fact that I can't access my DAT tape drive. On Potato it was seen > immediately and I expected the same with Woody but it does not see it. > All my work stuf

Re: multi-TB diskarrays ???

2002-11-07 Thread Derek Gladding
On Thursday 07 November 2002 06:58 pm, Michael D. Schleif wrote: [snip] > > -- you would obviously need ext3 or reiserfs ... > > > > Yes, which filesystem is a good question; but, which one? > There's a useful overview of the different JFSes including links to benchmarks and the suchlike at:

Re: Booting Linux from windows 2000

2002-11-07 Thread Derek Gladding
On Thursday 07 November 2002 10:02 am, Levi Waldron wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On November 7, 2002 11:49 am, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 03:56:48PM +0100, Bruno BEAUFILS wrote: > > > I know that this question is not specially relevant to debian, but

Re: New Debian User - Totally Impressed

2002-10-10 Thread Derek Gladding
On Thursday 10 October 2002 04:44 pm, Chip Rose wrote: > Greetings, > > I just switched to deb3.0 from Mandrake8.0. [snip] > LINUX IS UNBELIEVABLY POWERFUL AND STABLE! > Debian Linux that is! > "Gabba gabba, we accept you, we accept you, one of us !" - Derek > Thanks again for listening, >

Re: Athlon MP boards that work with woody

2002-10-09 Thread Derek Gladding
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 08:00 am, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > What MB's have people used with Woody successfully, unsuccessfully? > > Thanks I'm running dual MP1800s on a Tyan Tiger MP S2460. Pretty much everything works fine except for slight stability problems when running with 3 512M DIMMs (I

Re: "MUD" Game Engines

2002-10-07 Thread Derek Gladding
On Monday 07 October 2002 08:00 am, Soul Computer wrote: > I was wondering if anyone would know where I > could find "MUD" game engines for Linux. > > Please "Reply All" when you reply to make certain > I get any information you send my way. > > Thank you very much for any help you can give me. >

Re: Windows Metafiles

2002-10-06 Thread Derek Gladding
On Thursday 03 October 2002 03:49 am, Tom Cook wrote: > Hi all, > > I have this nasty NT app called ActiveHDL that I use for VHDL > development. Its block diagram editor doesn't export to any > reasonable format. I am trying to put block diagrams from it in a > Latex document, and am having all

Re: apt-get? non stable debs?

2002-06-30 Thread Derek Gladding
On Saturday 29 June 2002 10:36 pm, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi, > What would one do if they were running a "stable" box, and wanted > a package that was only offered in "testing" or "unstable"? > > Would you edit your sources.list to point to "testing"... > apt-get update > apt-get install packagen

Re: multiple tape backup?

2002-06-29 Thread Derek Gladding
On Saturday 29 June 2002 02:59 am, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 02:54, Derek Gladding wrote: > > On Friday 28 June 2002 07:40 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 22:33, Derek Gladding wrote: > > > > On Thursday 27 June 2002 08:

Re: multiple tape backup?

2002-06-29 Thread Derek Gladding
On Friday 28 June 2002 07:40 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 22:33, Derek Gladding wrote: > > On Thursday 27 June 2002 08:25 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > > > I am planing to backup the /home directory which is around 3

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-28 Thread Derek Gladding
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 09:01 pm, Andrew Biggadike wrote: > I have a laptop that's dual booting Windows 2000 and Debian (woody), > and I want to resize my partitions so I can give some of the space on > the Windows partition to Debian's /. Does anyone have any > recommendations as to the best wa

Re: multiple tape backup?

2002-06-27 Thread Derek Gladding
On Thursday 27 June 2002 08:25 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello list, > > I am planing to backup the /home directory which is around 30GB in > size with multiple DDS3 tape--each has 12GB. Is there any tool for > easier multiple tape backup like this? I can switch the tape myself. Afbackup work

Re: Preferred video cards for 3D?

2002-06-27 Thread Derek Gladding
On Thursday 27 June 2002 04:37 pm, nate wrote: > > > > Hi all. > > > > We're in the process of drafting a proposal for upgrading the > > Debian machines in our public computing lab, as well as replacing > > our last remaining SGI machine with a Debian box. The SGI in > > particular is mostly used

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-27 Thread Derek Gladding
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 09:59 pm, Travis Crump wrote: [snip] > > I am in this situation with the exception that my Windows 2000 > partition is NTFS so I assumed off the bat that there wouldn't be a > linux solution. I've resized by NTFS partition twice. My method was > to just shrink the NTFS

Re: How stable is dual head, twin view feature ?

2002-06-23 Thread Derek Gladding
On Saturday 22 June 2002 03:42 pm, tvn1981 wrote: > Hello > > I have a Woody system (kerne 2.4.18) with XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1. I > also have a Radeon 7000ve with twinview, and an Nvidia gforce2 quadro > with twinview. > > However, I just can't get dual monitor run well on this system. For > the

Re: Need advice on best SMP mainboard for Debian

2002-06-19 Thread Derek Gladding
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 08:19 pm, Christopher Swingley wrote: > * Derek Gladding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-Jun-19 15:46 > > * AKDT]: [snip] > Make sure you've got very clean power, excellent cooling, and a good > high-wattage power supply. I've had trouble with

Re: Need advice on best SMP mainboard for Debian

2002-06-19 Thread Derek Gladding
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 10:11 am, John Foster wrote: > I have decided to build a new workstation and am asking for users > input as to the best mainboard for the money available. I can go > pretty much any direction i.e. AMD,Intel or possibly Alpha but I do > not have any experience with Alpha. I

Re: Woody install insists on using Potato packages

2002-06-19 Thread Derek Gladding
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 10:10 pm, Grant Edwards wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been trying to install Woody (using both the vanilla and bf > floppy series downloaded on Saturday 15 June) for several days now. > If I've counted correctly, I'm on my 7th attempt. :) > > The first several failed due to unr