Re: Long route delay after PPP connection

2001-08-05 Thread James Preston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 05:29:27PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: > Anyway, I've just solved it, and the same may work for you. Terrific - I'll give that a go. - -- James Preston[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multimedia Dat

Re: Internet Connection Sharing [was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-02 Thread James Preston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:05:11PM +1000, Ian Perry wrote: > With Debian you have much greater control of input/output/forwarding access > than you do with windows (does windows actualy have any real security ?) Sure it does: "ATTRIB +R". If a h4

Re: Internet Connection Sharing [was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-02 Thread James Preston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 10:03:13PM -0400, dman wrote: > You also need to specify a DNS server or you will need to type IP > addresses instead of names in, ex, a web browser. To do this find out > the IP of your ISP's DNS server (you should have this in > /etc/re

Re: using convert to batch convert

2001-08-02 Thread James Preston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:24:41PM +1000, James Preston wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:00:07PM -0700, Miaoling Chiu wrote: > > $ for i in *.gif > do > convert -sample 50% $i ${i%.gif}.png > done > > ... careful. That assumes

Re: using convert to batch convert

2001-08-02 Thread James Preston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:00:07PM -0700, Miaoling Chiu wrote: $ for i in *.gif do convert -sample 50% $i ${i%.gif}.png done ... careful. That assumes that the source image is completely read and closed before the output file is produced. Look up "Paramete

Re: How to startx as normal user?

2001-08-02 Thread James Preston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:31:37PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > Remember, unquoted wildcards on the command line are interpreted by > the shell for file globs. .. and by default when ls is passed the name of a directory, it will how you its name, followed by a

Re: Numeric Keypad in X

2001-08-02 Thread James Preston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:12:13AM -0700, Brad Rhodes wrote: > Nothing ever appeared in the xev window. Just to clarify, xev dumps the X events to the stdout that started the xev instance. Try running it from a shell to make sure that your window manager isn't s

Re: xdm & login problems

2001-08-01 Thread James Preston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, When xdm exits straight back to the login prompt again, it usually indicate a problem with the configuration scripts and/or your window manager. One rough fumble-blindly solution would be to reinstall xdm and your window manager (perhaps with a purge'd remo

Re: stalling ppp

2001-07-31 Thread James Preston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, Slaven Peles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems like windoze somehow reinitiates data transfer > when flow control fails, while ppp (or modem, or whatever is > responsible for the flow control) under linux does nothing and the > transfer simply stalls. H

Long route delay after PPP connection

2001-07-31 Thread James Preston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, This is almost certainly not a specific Debian problem, but my potato installation always exhibits a strange pause in updating routing information after dial-up. After successful handshake and allocation of an IP and and nameserver entries (from