How stable is SiD ?

2003-09-05 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hi, Can anyone advise on starting to use SiD as resource for my Debian Workstation ? Doesn't it have to many issues left open, broken dependencies etc. -- Mvg, Joris - - - http://cyber.angels.be -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Dependency issue : resolving them, how ?

2003-09-04 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hi People, I'd like to know about some good tips to fix dependencies wich are broken because of more up-to-date libraries etc. Any help would be welcome, it is quite confusing as to why newer versions are obsoleted by older version dependency's. Thanks allready people. -- Mvg, Joris - - - htt

Some odd comments and questions for all

2003-08-31 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hello, I've been re-installing Debian after an over-courages attempt at getting used to Windows, again. I'm really pleased with what has changed in the meantime. The 2.4.21 kernel is really something to keep a good eye one and Gnome2.2, slurp. Mozilla-xft package ! Greaaat! It surely won't be lo

Broken packages [again::complete]

2003-02-04 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hi, Now i've finaly have my debian system up and running with full audio/video etc (pfew, happy) I ran into this issue with packages not being able to install ... Below is my output : mypc:/home/user# apt-get install xmms freetype2 freetype2-dev nautilus nautilus-extra nautilus-suggested --rei

Broken packages

2003-02-04 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hi, Now i've finaly have my debian system up and running with full audio/video etc (pfew, happy) I ran into this issue with packages not being able to install ... Below is my output : -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Woody broken (mozilla-galeon)

2002-11-26 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hello, I've been making up my personal killer sources.list file and it turned out to have some issues. Galeon cannot be installed because of some weird dependency issue with mozilla. Mozilla in turn will no longer execute, it get's stuck in memory-space. Someone who can help me out ? Regards,

eth0 is not found after recompile of 2.4.19 kernel

2002-11-08 Thread Joris Lambrecht
// Please reply to all ... Hello people and experts :-) Some issues while trying to get an it-is-all-on the motherboard solution to work with linux. The board in question is an Abit AT7 MAX (not a MAX2) wich uses the KT333 chipset together with some Realtek-chips to make an all-in solution. The

welcome to the Virtual Terrain Project

2002-09-09 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Might be worth adding to the debian packages list ? http://www.vterrain.org/ Regards, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux and legacy-free motherboards

2002-06-07 Thread Joris Lambrecht
d out. regards, joris On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 22:02, Jeff wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson, 2002-Jun-06 10:35 -0500: > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:56:22PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > > > | I've recently purchased a spanking Athlon motherboard (Abit AT7Max) w

Linux and legacy-free motherboards

2002-06-06 Thread Joris Lambrecht
// Please reply-to-all, i'm not on the list for now // Hello communitycontributors, I've recently purchased a spanking Athlon motherboard (Abit AT7Max) wich is to be installed with Linux, preferably Debian. Who can tell me if it's possible to install Debian on a system wich can only handle usb

United Linux,the rest, and Debian ? (oh no not again!!!)

2002-06-06 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hi, Today i've read that here http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25587.html that Dell and Oracle are joining Red Hat for an Enterprise version of Linux. Since this is only shortly after the 'United Linux' announcement i felt some sweat breaking in various places. Someone please tell me this i

TrueType Fonts

2001-07-31 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hi All, I've been looking to install the msttcorefonts package but although i've downloaded all of the files into a directory and give the script the right path the TT fonts won't install. I've tried this on both .exe-archives and expanded archives. Someone got a good/quick hint for me on what

Re: Microsoft Reader... argh!

2001-07-09 Thread Joris Lambrecht
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:26:34AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Greetings folks- > Hello Andy, Just read your mail below. IMHO the Microsoft Reader format has been licensed from Adobe and is thus very likely to be read-able by Acrobat Reader or any of it's clones. Since they're talking about

Re: Birth of KDE

2001-07-07 Thread Joris Lambrecht
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:02:19AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Friday 06 July 2001 02:30, Lambrecht Joris wrote: > > While digging thru a google queryresult on Mailclients i stumbled > > across this archived mail . . . the birth of KDE ? It's pretty old > > Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 15:19:00 +0100 (MET) >

Re: Install X and Lilo

2001-07-05 Thread Joris Lambrecht
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 04:25:29PM -0700, Thomas Merritt Draney wrote: > I did very well I must say for a new user to linux. I got debian installed > to the point i am sitting there with a command prompt. > Congratulations ;) > But i am now lost. Where is Gnome or how do I start up in

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Joris Lambrecht
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/browsers.html - Original Message - From: "Karsten M. Self" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 8:45 AM Subject: Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

NB : unsubscribing

2001-04-19 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Dear all, Since this must be the first time i unsubscribe from debian-user (change o jobs) i post a newbie question. I've unsubscribed by posting to the adres mentioned at the bottom of each mail. I've even posted my adres on the webserver for unsubscribing and received the proper confirmation ma

RE: 320X240

2001-04-18 Thread Joris Lambrecht
i missed the start of this thread but i've had a similar problem with the Matrox G200 Millenium 8MB Card. This was resolved in two ways. - configuring the resolution in the X driver config file. It took some figuring out to understand it doesn't have to do with the XF86Config file - upgrading to

RE: opera browser

2001-04-17 Thread Joris Lambrecht
i think it can, check out www.opera.com -Original Message- From: csj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zaterdag 14 april 2001 4:11 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: opera browser On Saturday 14 April 2001 07:34, Wayne Topa wrote: > A rabbit compared to that tortoise Mozilla. C

RE: what i've learned, and explanation.

2001-04-13 Thread Joris Lambrecht
i'm pro ! great teamwork people :) -Original Message- From: Carl Fink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 13 april 2001 19:26 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: what i've learned, and explanation. On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:05:43AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > What mi

RE: How to partition hard drive?

2001-04-13 Thread Joris Lambrecht
I'd suggest you'd read this recently posted link, that's the way it's supposed to be done or at LEAST very close to it :) http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html That kind of setup of yours could endager an entire system if something went wrong ... never use it on production syst

RE: Thanks For the Assistance

2001-04-13 Thread Joris Lambrecht
try www.progeny.com -Original Message- From: Dan Hutchinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 13 april 2001 16:28 To: Andrew D Dixon Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Thanks For the Assistance I have software that specifically runs on Red Hat here at work. I thank everyone

RE: corel photopaint

2001-04-13 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Does anyone know of a vector based drawin program for linux ? I've been using flash at work but want to do similar things at home ... -Original Message- From: Robert Voigt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 13 april 2001 11:33 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: corel photop

Source Formatting

2001-04-13 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hi, Is there a package available in the debian distro or in the .deb format that supplies one with a source formatting tool ? I've been using dreamweaver to do so on a page per page basis for a small website but i want to do it on a linux system where i have a somewhat more extensive content. It w

While we were arguing

2001-04-13 Thread Joris Lambrecht
An open-source website had to close down, boehoe, stating to have been ahead of their time http://www.computerworld.com/rckey72/story/0,1199,NAV63_STO59419,00.html

Re: Should arrogant, self-important people be encouraged to use L inux?

2001-04-12 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Since we're all getting VERY serious on this, THIS AINT REAL LIFE YOU KNOW, i'm attempting to defuse this ridiculous thread with some slightly baked joke "Emma come first. Den I come. Den two asses come together. come once-a-more. Two asses, they come together again. I come again and pee twi

This ain't funny no more (Re: Should arrogant, self-important peo ple be encouraged to use Linux?)

2001-04-12 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Maybe we should open up a [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailinglist ? or even publish a manual on how to REALLY piss someone off by sending stupid, childish or even insulting mails to a PUBLIC list. I bet this list even has people attached to it who're getting annoyed by the amount of bullshit they have receiv

RE: Installing Windows2K and Red Hat

2001-04-12 Thread Joris Lambrecht
It always baffles me when people start talking about this 'procedure' when installing windows 2000 with a Linux system. You should simply include the partition in your bootloader and instruct your bootloader to halt at bootup. The only reason i can think of to install win2k first is that it z

Newbie : Debian (also for newbies)

2001-04-12 Thread Joris Lambrecht
since this seems to be an issue for quite some time now ... I do not promote this software because of any experience i had but it just seemed to fit into the discussion. To all those newbies who decided that linux ain't the way to go because they don't have the time to delve into documentation and

RE: alert : water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-12 Thread Joris Lambrecht
rom: David Raleigh Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 11 april 2001 17:53 To: Joris Lambrecht; 'Kevin Stokes'; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To really start a

RE: Funny Story

2001-04-12 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Well, i have another one related to ISS Some time ago there was an article over at theregister.co.uk showing a picture of an astronaut with a portable behind him. The weirdo's over at the register magnified the screen and there it was c:\> Incredible huh ? First thought it was a hoax but they had

RE: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-12 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Thanks, i'll look into that so i won't be the dumb ass i'm now -Original Message- From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 12 april 2001 1:44 To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 a

RE: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-12 Thread Joris Lambrecht
at 09:42:30PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: woensdag 11 april 2001 20:31 > To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' > Subject: Re: OT : GUI Interfaces > > > > >

RE: macosX : water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-12 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Linus himself was flaming MacOsX not that long ago ... said the kernel (mach?) was a *total* piece of crap -Original Message- From: csj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 12 april 2001 1:23 To: Debian User List Subject: Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. On Wed

DROPPED: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-12 Thread Joris Lambrecht
oh well, i'll DROP this subject, apparently there is NO reasoning possible on this subject -Original Message- From: Alan Shutko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 11 april 2001 22:07 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: OT : GUI Interfaces Joris Lambrecht &l

Fujitsu lifebook

2001-04-12 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Does anyone know if this mini-portable is supported with debian ? I'm looking forward to use it for some admin-tasks ... Joris

RE: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread Joris Lambrecht
t this is a long day -Original Message- From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 11 april 2001 20:31 To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: OT : GUI Interfaces on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:20:45PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > D

FW: OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread Joris Lambrecht
ave to manually configure your menu's, that's a plus in the windows os desktop you know maybe i just need a good read on X and gui's ? any resource would be welcome ... -Original Message- From: robert bronsing [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 11 april 2001 16:44 T

SSL : RE: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Joris Lambrecht
I have posted a google search result wich DOES return ssl telnet clients for non-unix platforms. Don't have that link at hand anymore, search the archives. -Original Message- From: Dave Sherohman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 11 april 2001 16:05 To: Debian User List Subject: Re:

OT : GUI Interfaces

2001-04-11 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Does anyone know of a non X GUI interface wich has a number of applications ported to it ? I keep wondering if X is the answer to Gui's for linux, it is after all a hefty piece of software to run ... This question comes from reading up on AtheOS wich uses a proprietary interface wich is reportedly

RE: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Joris Lambrecht
:: If the point of Linux is to develop a little club of elite members who :: have this great software, then the Linux development community is doing :: great. If the point of Linux is to become the dominant OS in the world, :: and show everybody how free software is superior, then they have some

OT : RE: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Joris Lambrecht
To really start a fire here ... I personally think that this has to do with Debian more then with Linux itself. Other linuxdistro's like RedHat, Mandrake, Corel are focusing on the usability. Debian is more like a sysadmin tool. Maybe it simply lacks an introduction wich is easy to find. Most of t

RE: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-11 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Since you're asking for non-unix platforms try this search on google returned good results http://www.google.com/search?hl=nl&safe=off&q=ssl+windows+telnet+freeware&lr = I would advise TeraTerm if you're living in an English native country. There are some issues with international keyboards wich co

RE: >2Gb files

2001-04-11 Thread Joris Lambrecht
1 10:25 To: Joris Lambrecht; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: >2Gb files /dev/zero just provides a source of data eg cat -A < /dev/zero | head -c 20 I was using dd as a quick way of trying to create a large (>2GB) file. On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:00:59AM +0200, Joris Lambrech

Buerk : newbie-debian-user@lists.debian.org

2001-04-11 Thread Joris Lambrecht
If i'm out of line someone please let me know, don't want to offend any moderators. I kept thinking about some post talking about a debian newbie mailinglist. Why would we want that ? I think it's a rather fascist thing to do, i've encountered this kind of nonsense on several other mailinglists an

RE: [OT] jumper for CPU Host Clock

2001-04-10 Thread Joris Lambrecht
001 18:24 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: [OT] jumper for CPU Host Clock On Tuesday 10 April 2001 17:42, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > This settings refers to the Front Side Bus, that's a the highway for your > computer's mainboard where all other b

OT : KVM : RE: TNT2 and Potato XF86 3.3

2001-04-10 Thread Joris Lambrecht
t also helps if xres * yres * refresh rate is under 50 million unless you've got a really high end switch. --- Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bummer, maybe my previous soundcard was really bad and i was > too impressed > :) > > I'm experiencing the sam

OT : RE: TNT2 and Potato XF86 3.3

2001-04-10 Thread Joris Lambrecht
S Galbraith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 10 april 2001 17:45 To: Joris Lambrecht Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: TNT2 and Potato XF86 3.3 Joris Lambrecht wrote: > i wasn't impressed until i started playing with the apperture size > and some other

RE: TNT2 and Potato XF86 3.3

2001-04-10 Thread Joris Lambrecht
about it if the combination don't mix. Good to hear it might be videocard based. Greets, Joris -Original Message- From: Brandon High [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 10 april 2001 17:41 To: Joris Lambrecht Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: TNT2 and Potato XF86 3.

RE: [OT] jumper for CPU Host Clock

2001-04-10 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hi Jeff, This settings refers to the Front Side Bus, that's a the highway for your computer's mainboard where all other buses are relating to. If you this FSB to 133Mhz you'll NEED that PC133 mhz Ram. You'll also get substantial speed improvements. BUT some equipment might fail to work, although t

RE: TNT2 and Potato XF86 3.3

2001-04-10 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Quittin' on Matrox ? I'd understand if it were for anything else then a TNT2. If you're looking to play games you're making a good point but still. i have a matrox g200 millenium with 8MB ram and found it to be a very very nice card, if you're not satisfied with it's 3d accell. speeds you should kn

RE: PC soft collection.

2001-04-09 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Easiest thing to do would be to order an archive cd from cheapbytes or any other archive. There are RedHat powertool cd's and other resources. i'm not aware of exact names but look into it, you'll find something you can use -Original Message- From: dim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: maa

RE: windows password

2001-04-06 Thread Joris Lambrecht
You're probably asked for an IPC$ password of some sort ? This means that you're machine was not added correctly to the domain. Check this first if that's the case. regards, joris -]-Original Message- -]From: Hall Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -]Sent: vrijdag 6 april 2001 19:41 -]T

RE: (OT) Donating old hardware...

2001-04-06 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hmm, since linux runs on system beginning with 386 i'd suggest you donate those to a Museum :) -Original Message- From: Daniel Freedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 6 april 2001 2:23 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Daniel Freedman Subject: (OT) Donating old hardware... H

RE: netcfg

2001-04-03 Thread Joris Lambrecht
you should consider installing the linuxconf tool, this provides you with a graphical or even textbased interface (nice ansi graphics) to configure your network (among other things, it's a handy tool). Regards, joris -Original Message- From: Alson van der Meulen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: mail client that works through proxy

2001-04-02 Thread Joris Lambrecht
My apologies to alson for the confusion, just started typo-ing away. Should've been Matthew ... -Original Message- From: Joris Lambrecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: maandag 2 april 2001 17:36 To: 'Alson van der Meulen'; Debian User List Subject: RE: mail client tha

RE: mail client that works through proxy

2001-04-02 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Alson, -might be all wrong, let me know- Since you mention AnalogX you "MUST" be using a windows machine as a proxy. Tss Tss. I think that if you want to keep using this proxy you should download the Analogx portmapper also to redirect these ports to your proxy port. To be honest, don't use thos

RE: OT : Anti Virus Software for Linux

2001-04-02 Thread Joris Lambrecht
i did try to apologise, my only defence is i'm working in a MS oriented company because i have to, darned hard to find a Linux job over here in belgium -Original Message- From: Roberto Diaz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zaterdag 31 maart 2001 20:13 To: Joris Lambrecht Cc: 'd

RE: reinstalling all packages

2001-03-30 Thread Joris Lambrecht
if you wouldn't >>NEED<< any of these you wouldn't be asking what they are for either -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 30 maart 2001 16:19 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: reinstalling all packages "Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar"

RE: need help with ncurses...

2001-03-30 Thread Joris Lambrecht
maybe i'm off into the great wide open here but dselect recognises vi like searches pressing / and then typing what it is you're looking for will take you there, pressing / again will start the search all over correct me if i'm wrong -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMA

RE: How to save a image to GIF by GIMP?

2001-03-30 Thread Joris Lambrecht
I'm not aware of graphics and it's specific pro's and con's, since adobe support .jpb for webgraphics i thought i didn't matter that much PNG tends to be rather 'heavy' for a website to use, No ? It's possible the non-free package will get you what you need. Greets, Joris -Original Message-

RE: How to save a image to GIF by GIMP?

2001-03-30 Thread Joris Lambrecht
this .gif file format is no longer publicly available since some company (by sudden insanity) decided to start earning money on it's patents, i'd advise you to use .jpg or any other format wich will get you similar results in size AND quality :: side note :: i think it's possible to save as a Gif

RE: Commercial Antivirus for Linux

2001-03-29 Thread Joris Lambrecht
nice one, i've posted on www.fsecure.com a few hours ago also check sophos avp and mcafee like someone else suggested cya -Original Message- From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 29 maart 2001 19:13 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: [EMAIL

RE: OT : Anti Virus Software for Linux

2001-03-29 Thread Joris Lambrecht
sage- From: Nate Amsden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 29 maart 2001 18:57 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: OT : Anti Virus Software for Linux Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > To those concerned www.fsecure.com has a Linux an

RE: pyton & perl

2001-03-29 Thread Joris Lambrecht
when there is a spark one might get -Original Message- From: Alexis Roda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 29 maart 2001 18:32 To: debian Subject: Re: pyton & perl D-Man wrote: > > Perl uses lots of operators and allows one to write code that is > _very_ compact, to the poin

RE: old debian with libc5

2001-03-29 Thread Joris Lambrecht
I think you'll simply need to apt-get libc5 to get this working ... not ? -Original Message- From: Andreas Rath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 29 maart 2001 17:23 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: old debian with libc5 hi, I need an old debian based in libv5, i don't

OT : Anti Virus Software for Linux

2001-03-29 Thread Joris Lambrecht
To those concerned www.fsecure.com has a Linux anti-virus solution http://www.fsecure.com/v-descs/lindose.shtml they finally added it to their knowledgebase (wasn't there yesterday), little late for them >> Didn't know about any GPL anti-virus software or other commercial offering

RE: My printer prints blank pages all the time

2001-03-29 Thread Joris Lambrecht
in my experience this might have something to do with bad printer steering or even simply the parallell cable not being connected properly. if windows does it you just used the wrong driver, on linux that might be the wrong filter or using postscript on a non postscript device greets, joris

RE: Linux Virus

2001-03-29 Thread Joris Lambrecht
This article might point out some things http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/17938.html -Original Message- From: John Griffiths [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 29 maart 2001 5:08 To: Ben Collins Cc: Mark Devin; Debian-user Subject: Re: Linux Virus At 10:00 PM 3/28/2001 -0500

OT : Pentium 4 : Article on AMD upgrade

2001-03-28 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Nice article to give you and idea ... To point out what you can 'gain' by choosing for an Athlon based system have a read http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardware/tbirdproject/default.asp Just change the components with P4 material and you'll (don't forget the RDRAM) see

USB 2.0

2001-03-28 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hi all, Is there support underway, or allready here, for USB 2.0 and will it support the peer-to-peer networking that might be possible with this version of USB ? > It adapted some firewire feature ... < thank you, joris

OT : Carefull people : read those security advisory's

2001-03-28 Thread Joris Lambrecht
I know this is rather rude to those who're aware of the threat for some time now but ... there is a Linux BIND (DNS) worm spreading and it's NASTY. Since some major sites don't post on this i'd thought it would be worth mentioning. Basically the safest thing to do is update the version of BIND you

RE: Pentium 4

2001-03-28 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Yesterday i've read that the next-gen AMD cpu will support FULL sse, the end of PIV ? Also, since there ARE Athlon optimized gcc compiler you might get a real performance boost from recompiling. I don't know about 3DNOW support in linux but it should also provide some substantial performance boost

RE: kernel question

2001-03-27 Thread Joris Lambrecht
This WON't be easy if you're systemdisk is really damaged. It's pretty hard to explain this in an email because of the variety of conditions, let us know if you're getting somewhere or feeling rather lost. Did you allready boot into single user mode and run efsck2 ? Maybe you're just experiencing

Linux Counter Home Page

2001-03-27 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Spread the word ... http://counter.li.org/ <> Linux Counter Home Page.url Description: Binary data

RE: X Broken After Upgrade

2001-03-26 Thread Joris Lambrecht
You've probably accidently upgraded some part of X or even removed some part of X Try running XF86Setup again, run it from the console to be sure and make sure to use a NEW config file (asked at startup) Greetings, Joris -]-Original Message- -]From: David Densmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

2001-03-26 Thread Joris Lambrecht
You could also make yourself a noise silenced case wich to put your computer into. Would cost you but wouldn't be such a _crazy_ thing to do. What you could also do is get yourself an SMP board and plug in two slower cpu's (333Mhz or so). If you would be running a 2.4 or even 2.2 kernel on that i g

RE: prompt at startup

2001-03-22 Thread Joris Lambrecht
i've been away from linux for some time now (sad story) but ain't it so that xdm is called from /etc/inittab ? -Original Message- From: Nate Amsden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 22 maart 2001 18:31 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: prompt at startup Marcelo Chiapp

RE: coexistence with Windows 2000

2001-03-22 Thread Joris Lambrecht
There is no particular order for installing any windows / linux config. BUT ... (taratatata) If you install Linux first and have installed LILO into the MBR (i believe any) windows installation later on will simply clear the MBR so you'll be unable to boot into Linux but you system will default bo

RE: Pool administration

2001-03-22 Thread Joris Lambrecht
i've posted on this in the past, there is an open-source project that is very good, can't remember the name really. Maybe someone on the list does ? Greetings, Joris -Original Message- From: Dave Whiteley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 22 maart 2001 12:18 To: M G Berberich Cc:

RE: Problem with printer Canon BJC 4300

2001-03-22 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Great, let me know if someone gets the D660U or compatible scanners to work with Linux. -Original Message- From: Robert Voigt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 22 maart 2001 11:28 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Problem with printer Canon BJC 4300 >:-( Canon is NOT

RE: printer setup

2001-03-22 Thread Joris Lambrecht
- this is not a personal remark but a vented frustration - I've mentioned this many times before but it doesn't seem to trickle thru into 'that one thing to do'. Debian Linux has some excellent howto's and readme's wich will get you thru 99.5% of all your installation and configuration trouble. It

RE: Nautilus ?

2001-03-21 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Red Carpet, is that THE icon (soft install at a click is the promise) that doesn't get to work on any X/Ximian config i ever tried ? Why doesn't the linux community adopt something like a Linux Carpet that will work on all kinds of desktops/window managers ? -Original Message- From: Moritz

RE: Problem with printer Canon BJC 4300

2001-03-21 Thread Joris Lambrecht
:-( Canon is NOT linux-friendly, they got me crying for hours when i found out my Brand new D660U scanner is and WILL not be supported by Linux because canon won't support such incredibly ludicrous software -Original Message- From: Robert Voigt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 21 m

RE: 1 linux box: 10 simultaneous telnet sessions

2001-03-21 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Download TeraTerm Pro from any of it's many mirror's, support VT100 emulation etc. as well as an ssh implementation. Download @ http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html Download ssh plugin @ http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html (just for your information) Configure the needed termin

RE: 3com 3c905c question

2001-03-20 Thread Joris Lambrecht
You should use the boomerang or vortex driver, i think it says 3c59x adapter but it works with a 3c905c as well. Otherwise visit the 3com website, for some cards there are linux modules available, could be wrong about this but worth a try   greets,   joris -Original Message-From:

Progress : mail::sendmail

2001-03-19 Thread Joris Lambrecht
seems like impossible. Anyone ? Greets, Joris -Original Message- From: Joris Lambrecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: maandag 19 maart 2001 14:51 To: activePerl (E-mail) Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: mail::sendmail Mail::Sendmail module i'm trying to get th

OT : Powerpoint viewer with Wine

2001-03-19 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Some time ago there was a thread on Powerpoint in Linux. It was suggested (by me) to use the M$ freeware powerpoint viewer. Someone said he'd check it out. Are you still here ? How did it go ? This could prove to be a serieous advantage when trying to make a 'serious' linux desktop config. Since o

mail::sendmail

2001-03-19 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Mail::Sendmail module i'm trying to get this to work using Perl 5.6.x on an NT4.0 system with IIS 4.0 should work fine except i get this error message Cannot send data (550 Unable to relay for [EMAIL PROTECTED]) What is causing this error ? Thank you, Joris

RE: Linux Network Security: POP

2001-03-19 Thread Joris Lambrecht
I asssumed cable modems were encrypting there communications with some simple built-in algorithm -Original Message- From: Ethan Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zondag 18 maart 2001 14:59 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Linux Network Security: POP On Sun, Mar 18, 2001

RE: Intel FW82810 chipset

2001-03-16 Thread Joris Lambrecht
can't you just simply disable the built in vga in your computer's bios ? -Original Message- From: TeknoDragon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 15 maart 2001 21:22 To: Nathan E Norman Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Intel FW82810 chipset On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, TeknoDr

RE: ah1542 scsi CD probs, deb potato

2001-03-15 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Is this the only scsi device attached to the controller ? I remember similar problems when there was a termination problem or a conflict between the assigned scsi id's. Check this first. The 1542 does require you to set the ID on the device and to properly terminate it. Also make sure your cable wo

RE: ppp mystery

2001-03-14 Thread Joris Lambrecht
just replying to the CHAP/PAP remark. To my knowledge that is not true. Windows 9x for sure uses CHAP and will, if i recall correctly, fall back to PAP. There is much to be said about the windows implementation of CHAP/PAP and so on. Running windowsupdates and checking the M$ knowledgebase might su

Download here : RE: Powerpoint player (extreme programming presen tation)

2001-03-12 Thread Joris Lambrecht
http://www.microsoft.com/Office/000/viewers.htm -Original Message- From: Joris Lambrecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: maandag 12 maart 2001 17:54 To: 'Gavin Hamill'; Joris Lambrecht Cc: Carl Greco; Knud Sørensen; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Powerpoint playe

RE: Powerpoint player (extreme programming presentation)

2001-03-12 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Still worked :-) Rather nice eh ! -Original Message- From: Gavin Hamill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: maandag 12 maart 2001 17:52 To: Joris Lambrecht Cc: Carl Greco; Knud Sørensen; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Powerpoint player (extreme programming presentation) On Mon, 12 Mar

RE: Powerpoint player (extreme programming presentation)

2001-03-12 Thread Joris Lambrecht
This might be the way to go, in case you do ... there is a free powerpoint presentation viewer available at the microsoft site. Maybe someone should try to get this to work with WINE. -Original Message- From: Gavin Hamill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: maandag 12 maart 2001 17:06 To: Carl

RE: Strange things happen when reading from

2001-03-08 Thread Joris Lambrecht
-> Check out the Epox website first ... and search the web with a searchengine, i know it might take a long time Very likely, it might be you have a serious IRQ conflict and/or some address conflicts with some devices. Another possible problem is that the serial port on you motherboard is not rea

RE: download

2001-03-07 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hmmm, you're realy new to linux are you not ? You'll need either 3 iso files (about 600MB each), take a look here http://cdimage.debian.org/ or use the BCD of GNU/Debian linux wich you can find at http://open-projects.linuxcare.com/BBC/ Good Luck, joris ps: this must be my top reply day, finger

RE: Testing wants to remove most of my system...

2001-03-07 Thread Joris Lambrecht
i had something > similar < apparently had to do with perl (here too ?), took the risk, machine still works ... had to reinstall a bit. This, of course, is caused by some package wich is set to be removed and causes a cascade of dependencies to be activated. Most of the time this can be caused by a

RE: [ze_mil@club-internet.fr: X error]

2001-03-07 Thread Joris Lambrecht
This person probably installed/upgrade X 4.x on top of an existing X remove the entire X11 dir in /usr/bin/X11 reinstall X is the quickest way to make it work COULD take some reconfiguration for window managers etc. Joris -Original Message- From: mike polniak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

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