Re: Euro-sign

2003-04-02 Thread Ronald van Engelen
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 16:15, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Hello all, > > Is there a possibility to use the euro-sign? Of yes -> what do I have to > install? Have a look at the Debian Euro HOWTO at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-euro-support/ Good luck, Ronald > HTH, > Willem-Jan Meijer

Can't install plugins for mozilla-snapshot 2003013023

2003-02-18 Thread Ronald van Engelen
$ 1:application/futuresplash:FutureSplash Player:spl:$ This makes me wonder if there are additional steps for installing plugins to mozilla aside from copying them to the appropriate directory. Help would be appreciated. Ronald van Engelen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

APM doesn't work

2001-04-23 Thread Arnout Engelen
ing PCMCIA cards before going into sleep mode, but at least it'd work again... -- Arnout Engelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Did you know... that the gzipped DeCSS algorithm is rumoured to be the first known illegal prime number?

command for closing windowmaker

2001-04-11 Thread Arnout Engelen
Hello, Right now I use a combination of WindowMaker and the gnome 'panel' application as my environment. When I want to log out, it takes 4 clicks. (rightclick, WindowManagers, Exit, OK). Is there a command for closing WindowMaker, so I can put a button on the panel to log off? (like 'click-enter'

reiserfs install

2001-03-22 Thread Arnout Engelen
ay to partition it? 7 gig for Linux and 2x5 gig for games and big stuff to mount on /mnt or so? -- Arnout Engelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gelezen in de Debian Packaging Manual: It is assumed that the reader is reasonable familiar with the dpkg System Administrators' manual. Unfortunately this manual does not yet exist.

Re: apache: no permission to access netsaint cgi's?

2001-01-23 Thread Arnout Engelen
uld a) remove the symlink b) move the actual directory to where the symlink first was c) make a symlink so that it 'seems' nothing has happened (I could be mistaken about the names of th

Re: php4 will not handle *.php3 files? (potato)

2001-01-23 Thread Arnout Engelen
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Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-19 Thread Arnout Engelen
t Debian just seems to make more sense every time. I use it almost exclusively now (I use windows for tools we need to use for university projects, and Delta Force :) -- __ /

using exim? check /etc/exim.conf!

2001-01-19 Thread Arnout Engelen
EMAIL PROTECTED] (sci.kun.nl is my ISP's domain) I just found out I have been nagging my ISP's sysadmin for some time now :) I don't know how that line got there, but it never hurts to check what's in your exim.conf! -- __ /____

wierd log entries

2001-01-19 Thread Arnout Engelen
d average: 3.16, 1.59, 0.71 -- __ /__| Arnout Engelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_ /| | _ _ | | |___|_| | - = | |/__

Re: gnome-name-service

2000-11-26 Thread Arnout Engelen
> Every web browser I use will lock up X hard and requires hitting reset. > They lock up not all the time, but enough to be annoying. I may > have stumbled into the problem, but not certain. Can you browse with a text-mode browser like lynx in console-mode? Arnout Engelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: En snabb fr?ga...

2000-10-31 Thread Engelen
ed to rot13 this? |> |> Well, if that doesn't work, you can always try double-rot13 encoding ;-) |> |> I believe that's Dutch, though I won't swear to it. Looks more like Finnish or Norwegian to me. It surely isn't Dutch (I am Dutch). -- Arnout Engelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux - when code matters, not commercials

Nvi mails me

2000-10-11 Thread Engelen
+s'-ing the executable owned by root doesn't seem to work). Why? How do I prevent this? -- Arnout Engelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux - when code matters, not commercials

nvi/ex keeps mailing me....

2000-10-05 Thread Engelen
4 21:59:23 sirach kernel: eth0: index 0x05: Vcc 5.0, Vpp 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f 2) Anyway, my biggest problem is that every once in a while I get lots of email messages telling me that on (date,time) root was editing the Config file, Nvi saved it and I can recover it with 'ex -r'

ex/nvi keeps mailing me...

2000-10-05 Thread Engelen
:59:23 sirach kernel: eth0: index 0x05: Vcc 5.0, Vpp 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f 2) Anyway, my biggest problem is that every once in a while I get lots of email messages telling me that on (date,time) root was editing the Config file, Nvi saved it and I can recover it with 'ex -r'

Re: Blinkenlights?

2000-06-16 Thread Engelen
> I cobbled together a kernel module to do this on the parallel port, > and a python module to drive the driver, plus a python program to > test it. Why do you want a kernel module? Can't I just use the 'outb' command in c (#include "asm/io.h" or so)? of course this requires root priviliges, but

Blinkenlights?

2000-06-15 Thread Engelen
Hello, I had this cool idea the other night: wouldn't it be (fairly easily) possible to create a little component with som LED's which shows the status of some serial port, so you could write some programs to do the following: ~$ ledoff green; someprogramthattakeslong; ledon green (switch the gre

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-20 Thread Engelen
> >Because Univ of Washington doesn't allow modified tarballs to be > >distributed, and you have to modify the tarball's paths to be Debian > >compliant. > It's not too hard to find pine*.deb. Use Fast FTP Search. Pine _is_ semi-officially available as a (contrib/non-free) part of debian. The pa

Re: debian logo

2000-05-20 Thread Engelen
> >I'm sure it's been answered before, but could someone tell me where > >the debian > >logo comes from?... > There are quite a few in various resolutions on the debian site. Check > www.debian.org and find it. This _will_ be hard. There is a page 'www.debian.org/logos' but it's very poorly main

Re: more real runlevels?

2000-04-30 Thread Engelen
>> > > If so, what _is_ the proper way to do this with Debian? >> >> You can just delete the links you don't want > >I've always felt that it's better to change the link from S to K, >instead of just deleting it. > >Say for example you delete the xdm link from runlevels 2, 3, and 4. So >you change

Re: are there any good free 3d modeling tools?

2000-04-30 Thread Engelen
> I'm looking for good free (as in speech) 3d modeling tools. > > Any and all suggestions are welcome. Ever taken a look at POVRay? I don't know (or care) about licencing, so it might or might not be free as in 'free speech' (however it is as in 'free beer'). I'm not at all an expert, but you can

Locking keyboard & disappearing VT (??)

2000-04-24 Thread Engelen
Hello,   The following strange behavior happened to me twice in a short while: The keyboard would just lock, but everything would continue to work just fine like nothing happened. When I quit X, I'd usually be back in tty1, but this does not happen. The screen just blanks.   I use Debain Sli

Re: no wonder...

2000-04-08 Thread Engelen
> > > My mileage varies. I find that the program simplifies what can be a > > > vastly more difficult process... that of tracking dependencies, versions, > > > file locations, etc, etc... It does it > > > fairly well and it does it accurately. > > Which doesn't explain why there is a project to

Re: Happy Valintines Day!!!

2000-02-15 Thread Fam. Engelen
> PLEASE DO NOT DELETE THIS. JUST READ A LITTLE BIT. > IT REALLY DOES WORK! YOU WILL BE GLAD THAT YOU DID. [ snip ] I suggest we all send a couple of unstamped envelopes to these adresses, just to annoy them like they annoyed us. [ snip ] > REPORT #1 "The Insider's Guide to Advertising for F

Eterm keys

2000-02-07 Thread Fam. Engelen
Hi, I just got myself a 'theme' for wm at themes.org. Looks great, especially with those pseudo-transparent eterm backgrounds. I found it impossible to use the 'home' and 'end' keys in an Eterm, while they do work in an xterm... Why? Can I enable them in any way? I told WM to launch an Eterm on s

'Network unreachable' to the localhost?

2000-02-05 Thread Fam. Engelen
Hi, I use Debian on an old 486. I removed a lot of packages (especially networking) for speed. Now when I decided to install a printer, I installed the 'lprng' package. '~#echo hallo > /dev/lp1' works as expected (staircase, but it works) '~$echo hallo | lpr' gives a message similar to 'network

HP880c printing from (i.e.) GIMP

2000-02-03 Thread Fam. Engelen
Hello, I just installed a new HP Deskjet 880c. I installed 'apsfilter' and chose the 'cdjcolor' driver. I can print from Lyx fine, but I can't seem to get nice output from the GIMP. How exactly does this work? Saving the same image and printing it in Windows (Photoshop 5) does work. Arnout [EMAIL

Installing printer on stripped-down machine

2000-02-03 Thread Fam. Engelen
Hello,   I am trying to install a printer (HP deskjet 510) on an old machine. I have removed a lot of packages here, especially much of the networking. 'echo hallo >/dev/lp1' as root works. I installed the lprng package. 'echo hallo | lpr' gave some confusing error messages (sorry, don't rem

Re: STILL can't install!!!

2000-01-31 Thread Fam. Engelen
>The fist thought that occurs to me is: does dselect know enough to put >files on the usr partition, or did it freeze trying to stuff 400+ megs >onto a 100 meg root partition? How does dselect know which files to put >on which partition? Or does it know? Dselect automagically puts everything where

Re: Broken Debian Installations

2000-01-31 Thread Fam. Engelen
> I'd also recommend staying away from dselect. apt-get upgrade > will allow you to break out in the cases where some new package > decides it wants to remove dozens of conflicting packages. > Dselect seems to just go ahead and do it. Huh? When I de-select something that is depended on, dselect

Menu empty?

2000-01-25 Thread Fam. Engelen
A friend of mine has recently installed Debian (well I did it for him, most of it). Now he's suddenly having trouble with his X Menus: They work fine as Root, but the menu is empty as a user! I couldn't reproduce this here, and have no idea what could cause this behaviour. Any ideas? Arnout [EMAIL

libc.so.4

2000-01-11 Thread Fam. Engelen
I recently came across a program (for which I have not found the source code, though it may be available) which seems to depend on libc4 (it gives the error message 'file libc.so.4 not found' or similar). There is no Debian package for slink containing this library, as there is for libc5. Doe

How to recover from crash (urgent for me)

2000-01-09 Thread Fam. Engelen
e of my windows disks and copy my home directories. They seem to copy all-right, but I am worried about the error messages: a lot of 'permission denied' (but I am root??), and 'attempts to read beyond end of system (or similar)' fail.   Please Help! This is urgent, for me!   Arnout Engelen [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

dselect behaving oddly - package not installed, but no err. msg.

1999-08-25 Thread Fam. Engelen
I do not understand this. Why isn't kanjidic installed? Not that I need this particular package, but this _should_ work, shouldn't it? I use slink, kernel 2.0.36 on a pentium-based system. (the below was cut-n-pasted from an xterm. I only changed the prompt.) # dselect install Get currently ins

Sound volume problems

1999-08-21 Thread Fam. Engelen
%,while in Windoze it works fine at 5-10%. I set the volume to the maximumwith a mixer (aumix, xmix), too, which helped just a little. Has anybody hadthis problem, too? Any possible solutions? Thanks in advance,Arnout Engelen[EMAIL PROTECTED] (since i'm having some trouble with my mail server,p