Re: Security trough paranoia

2001-03-30 Thread Joseph Carter
sy, we wouldn't be considering MD5 as very useful. :) > > The install does ask if MD5 is preferred, IIRC. It does, and it has the (IMO preferred) default of yes. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Free software developer [regarding measures to prevent chea

Re: [Quake-user] Re: IO permission problem

2000-08-15 Thread Joseph Carter
svgalib into some pathetic VGA mode and > > it will cooperate with gpm just fine! > > Making it suddenly /require/ root to function? > Uh, no. +set vid_svgalibgfx 1 -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.deb

Re: [Quake-user] Re: IO permission problem

2000-08-14 Thread Joseph Carter
Mercury oughtta fix that with another hack.. =p Put svgalib into some pathetic VGA mode and it will cooperate with gpm just fine! -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The Quak

ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-03-30 Thread Joseph Carter
nd once only to reach you via the lists. I will not attempt to do so in the future. Mail me from an ISP with a clue in the future if you'd like a reply. Regarding your problem, epic4 pre2.507 (uploaded today) should fix it. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key

Re: how to setup default.kmap.gz

2000-03-17 Thread Joseph Carter
n up for adoption quite some time now. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/) 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 -include ../../debian/

Re: new "toy story" release names

1999-12-30 Thread Joseph Carter
Bizazan > Glumanda > Goldini > e.t.c. > ;) You know we have to kill you now, right? --=20 Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian Linux developer http://tank.debian.net GnuPG key pub 1024D/DCF9DAB3 sub 2048g/3F9C2A43 http://www.debian.o

Re: your mail

1999-12-29 Thread Joseph Carter
only desktop machines and we have a _LOT_ of lists!) debian-user might be able to help. Good luck with Debian! --=20 Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian Linux developer http://tank.debian.net GnuPG key pub 1024D/DCF9DAB3 sub 2048g/3F9C2A43 http://www.debian.org

Re: Quake in Germany - not illegal?

1999-12-28 Thread Joseph Carter
from the original CD (that you have to bye on some > legal way) it is completetely useless.=20 quake-lib. --=20 Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian Linux developer http://tank.debian.net GnuPG key pub 1024D/DCF9DAB3 sub 2048g/3F9C2A43 http://www.debian.org20F6

Re: Quake is GPL

1999-12-26 Thread Joseph Carter
l shut down my mirror because I don't have time to make sure my mirror is legal and I want you to do it for me." If that's how it has to be, that's how it has to be. You're better to stop mirroring. --=20 Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian Linux d

Re: Quake is GPL

1999-12-26 Thread Joseph Carter
which is located > in a location where it's not illegal. I will NOT do that for a piece of GPL code. I flatly refuse, and it's my package. --=20 Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian Linux developer http://tank.debian.net GnuPG key pub 1024D/DCF9DAB3 sub

Re: upgrading from corel linux to potato

1999-11-19 Thread Joseph Carter
age configured and tried to restart it. > All in all, a rougher upgrade than you'd expect to see from any debian > version to any other. Possibly someone will post information on how to do this cleanly as we get closer to a potato release. -- - Joseph Carter GnuPG public key: 1

Re: replacing the standard mta with qmail (Re: Question about dselect)

1999-11-10 Thread Joseph Carter
mail.deb (perhaps also ucspi-tcp*deb): > > dpkg --install qmail*deb That should do it, yes. And it'll remove exim for you, safely. You could do exim purge above, but you are gonna want to keep a working mail config around just in case... -- - Joseph Carter GnuPG pu

Re: [PHILADELPHIA] MIME Solutions: Using Debian's mime-support Package

1999-11-08 Thread Joseph Carter
ght or live halfway around the world) especially if there's some technical how-to information presented. Also archives of this kind of stuff would be great for new maintainers. -- - Joseph Carter GnuPG public key: 1024D/DCF9DAB3, 2048g/3F9C2A43 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20F6 2261

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails

1999-07-30 Thread Joseph Carter
e, but is more > secure than most ad hoc key signing sessions I have attended ;-) It also deals with all the paranoia issues we've seen in this thread related to possible theft of identity. If the person has the key, has ID in

Re: infomagic

1999-07-24 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 01:48:29AM -0700, Jonathan Walther wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > > To everyone expecting a September release, WAKE UP! It's NOT going to > > happen. It's NOT possible, not that soon. I think if we shoot for having >

Re: infomagic

1999-07-23 Thread Joseph Carter
ing a September release, WAKE UP! It's NOT going to happen. It's NOT possible, not that soon. I think if we shoot for having it out by the holidays it could be done, however we've seen what happens if it's not done by December---everyone goes on vacation and nothing gets d

Re: ADSL

1999-07-13 Thread Joseph Carter
hey're not helping > with Linux config. Is there any way you could give me some kind of > step-by-step as to how you did it? Or to help me out somehow? If you need > any more information, let me know. What you're after is the file /etc/resolv.conf, here's what you want i

epic4 pre2.004-19990618-[12] are BROKEN (Was: Uploaded epic4 pre2.004-19990618-3 (source i386) to master)

1999-06-29 Thread Joseph Carter
sn't have a prerm script, this message does not apply to you. On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 12:01:07AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > Format: 1.6 > Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 23:19:55 -0700 > Source: epic4 > Binary: epic4 epic4-dbg > Architecture: source i386 > Version: pre2.00

Re: non-us.debian.org having problems???

1999-03-30 Thread Joseph Carter
table non-US", > which I believe to be correct. Fair reply: non-us is _ALWAYS_ broken. It's being addressed, but the end result is almost certainly going to be that Debian will end up with a new non-us server in a new location and the ftpmasters will actually have access to the n

Re: Missing ldd? Have libc6 on hold? Get ldso from slink...

1999-03-15 Thread Joseph Carter
reaks prcs breaks jdk breaks I'm told uhh, there was a list on #debian in the topic, someone removed it. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBEThe Source Comes First! -

Re: Intent to Party like its 1999

1999-02-27 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 12:37:13PM -0600, David Welton wrote: > Ok, so the consensus seems to be that everyone wants to meet near > where they live;-) It might be nice to carpool a bit further south, so > as to accomodate the people closer to san jose... Urk, I don't know > if I want to drive with

Re: Intent to Party like its 1999

1999-02-27 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 07:15:55PM -0600, David Welton wrote: > > > Anyway, 4 PM is a bit early for me on Monday (have to work), but if > > > people would like to meet somewhere that evening, it could be fun. > > > > > > How about it? > > > > I'd recommend getting together with Joey Hess ([EMAIL

Re: Intent to Party like its 1999

1999-02-27 Thread Joseph Carter
* Knghtbrd bops netgod for the subject line -- "Do you think she's the sincere type? ... Yeah, I was afraid of that." -- Richie Ryan, Highlander: The Series

Re: stuff someone should package (Re: Audio CD & MP3)

1999-02-07 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 04:45:12PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > BladeEnc (http://home8.swipnet.se/~w-82625) is a wonderful encoder if > > you're interested in producing high-quality MP3's. > I think bladenc is binary-only, but LAME is free though it has some assembly > required. I believe source

Re: mailing list archives

1998-12-29 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 06:05:38PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > You'll find an up-to-date archive of both lists at > > ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/usenet/mailing-lists/debian-{devel,user}/ > > It's splitted by months and gzipped for older months. Noteworthy is that this unlike the HTML arc

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-10-22 Thread Joseph Carter
Please forgive me for the crossposted reply, I've trimmed some addresses out. On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:11:40PM -0400, Clemmitt Sigler wrote: > Development of USB and FireWire support is crucial to the future > of Linux IMHO. I2O also springs to mind, and Intel may help with > this. We've seen

Re: /tmp permissions

1998-09-15 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 04:57:08PM -0600, Phil Humpherys wrote: > > Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It's a "good policy" for /tmp directory to have 777 > > permissions !? With such permissions any user could write on > > that directory until even > there's no more space on dev

Re: working minicom - gets stuck on initielizing modem

1998-07-05 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 04:45:44AM -0700, Micha Feigin wrote: > I tried to set up minicom. But as a start it would only start up as > root and then tell me that i shouldn't run it as root. > Then it gets stuck on the line initielizing modem. > The same modem works when i start it from win95 crw-rw

Re: svgatextmode fails with 2.1.108

1998-07-04 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 01:23:27PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wouldn't worry too much about VGA-related stuff not working in > 2.1.107 and 2.1.108. The VGA Console is completely broken in these two > kernels. Shift-PgUp/PgDn does not work and God knows what else is > broken. As far as I kn

Re: [Debian] Running Linux from CD

1998-07-03 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 05:34:06PM +0200, Brederlow wrote: > > They didn't have space for it anymore. It'd be an interesting thing to set > > up to give people at LUG meetings. It's kinda what I wanted to do with a > > Zip disk.. Bring me a Zip disk and I'll give you a working Linux system > > t

Re: [Debian] Running Linux from CD

1998-07-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 03:21:33PM +0200, Niklas Höglund wrote: > > is it possible to run Linux completely from CD. We have created > > I think older versions of Red Hat supported this. I remember reading > something about it on Red Hat 4.2. RH4.2 was said to no longer support > this. They didn

Re: Directory Colors

1998-07-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 03:53:17AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > and the line 'source ~/bash_functions' in both .bash_profile and .bashrc. I was using . ~/... I like that better, it seems more Right. pgpQzbJMYTwtD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Stupid question

1998-07-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 02:24:48AM -0500, Eric wrote: > I'm trying to decide how much of my hard drive to give to the three > partitions I plan on making for /, /usr, and /home. I'm sure this is a really > silly question, but I've been reading the ls and tree manpages and can't > figure > it out.

Re: Directory Colors

1998-07-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 12:51:33AM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > The ls that comes w/ Debian supports colors. However it is off by > default (do not ask why). You need to add a line to /etc/profile that > says "alias ls="ls --color=auto". This wll make ls give colored > output. You can also put that l

Re: Iomega ZIP Drive(100Meg)

1998-07-01 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 11:38:06AM -0700, Syed Huq wrote: > I have a Iomega ZIP Drive(100Meg, parallel port). How do I make > Linux see all the files there ? > > Do I need to mount that drive somehow ? Can you tell me the commands > to use ? This really belongs in debian-user, so the To: header h

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-07-01 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 03:36:57AM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > Instead of all this futzing around, why not use a getty designed for > what you are doing?? I use mingetty. Not only is it smaller than > agetty, and a hair faster -- it also clears term. I have it display > linux_logo above my login prom

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-07-01 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 09:57:41PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: > > I was trying to do a clear screen after I logout from the console before > > the login > > prompt appears. > > > > Any idea how this can be done? I tried some escape sequence but doesn't > > work. > > > > TIA. > > Many folks

fun with mgetty

1998-06-30 Thread Joseph Carter
I was going to try and set up mgetty to allow me to call my machine from elsewhere for either ppp or shell access so I could connect from pretty much any machine with a modem. I need to also be able to locally initiate an outgoing call from this machine on the same modem for ppp or dialup access t

Re: connect to Samba from DOS

1998-06-30 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 04:48:43PM -0700, Steve Mayer wrote: > Paul, > > Try ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/Clients/LANMAN/ > > There should be four disk images there that give you a the DOS > LanManager client. This should work. > > You can also use Lantastic 7.0 with the encapsulated NetBIOS

[off-topic] SCSI cables

1998-06-28 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
[Story part, you can skip this if you want] I'd like to start working on some packages that relate to Zip drives (ie, Zip rescue/install) however I've discovered a problem.. My external SCSI connector seems to have been damaged. The damage doesn't affect the card'

Re: Apt problems

1998-06-26 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 08:36:09AM -0700, Steve Mayer wrote: > I ran into this same problem after updating to the lastest > libc6_2.0.7r-2. The dependency in the latest apt is looking for > something >= 2.0.7pre1-0. I guess that it doesn't see 2.0.7r-2 as being > "greaterthan or equal to". > >

Re: Story: How Linux Could Kill Windows NT

1998-06-23 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 02:07:37PM -0400, Brian Morgan wrote: > Below is a story by ZDnet about Linux that just came out today. Thought > you might be interested in reading it. Coincidentally, another story > came out from ZDnet today about Microsoft "winning one" in the DOJ > battle. Sounds lik

Re: Afterstep?

1998-06-21 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 04:22:55AM +1000, Chris wrote: > > Hi all, > > What happened to afterstep? I just installed afterstep for my newly > upgraded hamm box, expecting to see my setup just as normal, however it > appears that afterstep has been replaced with something else - GNUStep. > To be h

Re: Debian and Afterstep1.4.5.3-1

1998-06-18 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 11:15:01PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > dpk wrote: > > I,... what are people switching to? Any recommendations for a fast, > > slick, and easily configurable wm? > > WindowMaker. As a bonus, it's similar to afterstep in look & feel. > > To be fair, the config file for wmake

Re: Apple II Emulator

1998-06-16 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 08:22:33PM -0400, Carlos Figueroa wrote: > Do you have a Apple IIgs emulator? E-Mailme at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . There is one, xgs. At this time, there is not a .deb of it and you need a ROM image for it. It will take 00, 01, and 03 ROMs which can be found places you would

Re: Debian and Afterstep1.4.5.3-1

1998-06-10 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 05:19:45AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > >I,... what are people switching to? Any recommendations for a fast, > >slick, and easily configurable wm? > > Why not just stick with the 1.0 series? Upstream bugs, no libc6 version, the package was upgraded kinda by accident (wa

Re: Debian and Afterstep1.4.5.3-1

1998-06-09 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 02:31:59PM -0700, Phlip wrote: > I got this version ooff your site and installed it but had problems > making it the default manager. Also, is the file .steprc included in the > package? I can't seem to locate it on my system and would really > appreciate knowing where it is

Re: procmail woes

1998-06-09 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 03:01:32PM -0400, Paul McDermott wrote: > hello my debian user friends, I have just upgraded my hardware and was > doing a new install of slink. When it came to configure procmail is where > I ran into trouble. > These are the versions of procmail and smail > > smail

Re: umsdos run on fat32 ?

1998-06-09 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 01:33:40PM -0400, R. Chris Ross wrote: > I have recently gotten a laptop at work that I need to run Win95 > and later, likely NT. It would be great to also load Linux in the same > partition. Can Debian be installed using an umsdos file system in a fat32 > partition?

Re: Linuxconf

1998-06-08 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 09:21:02AM +0100, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: > I friend of mine is running RedHat 5.1 (i have tried to convert him, but > without any luck) and he was telling me that RedHat is now using the Linuxconf > package, and I was wondering how compatiable Linuxconf is wit

Re: Afterstep

1998-06-07 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 06:30:55PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > I read on the list a while ago (I may have misinterpreted) that there was > a configuration utility written in tk or tcl for afterstep. is this true? > where can i get it? For 1.0, yes. For 1.4, not yet. =< pgpf32IdMH2rK.pgp De

Re: PS/2 mouse device

1998-06-05 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 10:07:41PM -0500, Nick Gillam wrote: > I have successfully installed Debian 1.3.1 onto several PS/2s thanks to > help from users on this list. > > However, I have not been able to determine the device name for the PS/2 > mouse. /dev/psaux > Also, what Debian package is r

Re: Red Hat 5.1

1998-06-03 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 01:59:02PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > So Red Hat 5.1 (their second libc6 version) is out before Debian 2.0... > Not that there's a competition between Debian and Red Hat. Just a > comment... Have you been watching the erratas mentioned on Freshmeat? THAT bothers me

Re: How to make X fonts Bigger

1998-06-03 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 05:36:49AM -0400, John Kloss wrote: > > > Is there any way to make all X fonts say 1.5 times bigger than they are > > > now? > > > > If you find a solution to X fonts being too small and not scaling properly, > > LET ME KNOW! I cannot use X till I find a solution to this o

Re: How to make X fonts Bigger

1998-06-03 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 10:22:34PM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > Is there any way to make all X fonts say 1.5 times bigger than they are > now? If you find a solution to X fonts being too small and not scaling properly, LET ME KNOW! I cannot use X till I find a solution to this or get a bigger m

Re: smail vs sendmail, fetchmail, K6 processor

1998-06-02 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 12:07:36AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > I think I heard at some point that you can't have two K6's on the same > > board is that true? > > This is my understanding [could be wrong]: > > K6 IS supported in multiprocessor, but it is using an SMP scheme called > OpenPIC o

Re: Can't recognize com port

1998-06-01 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 02:33:07PM -0700, Alan D. Post wrote: > > >ANy suggestions on how I can get PPP to recognize my com port? I just > > installed linux on my > > >system. I set pgm to tty1 (com2) (it was orignally on tty0) which is > > where my mouse is. It > > >it working. Neither PPP nor

Re: SWAP or swap

1998-05-30 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 04:42:01PM -0500, Matthew D. Myers wrote: > Can anyone verify this.. I don't wanna waste disk space if it's not gonna be > used. Thanks to you George. It was at one point 16 megs, but it's been 128 for some time now. pgpoBHI2L0xXP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: HELP!!! BASH IS FSCKED!!

1998-05-29 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 10:24:33AM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: > The last thing I remember doing as root is fiddling with the sysclock > (hence a previous posting here yesterday afternoon). At about 7pm (BST) I > logged in from the console, read news and mail and logged out again. > I then got back h

Re: Getting ttyx

1998-05-29 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 02:55:22PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > What is the best way to get the current console's tty? I know tty does the > > > job, but how do I find the name WITHOUT the /dev/ ? > > > > basename `tty` > > [etc] > > Thanks to all for replies... I have lots of options

Re: Getting ttyx

1998-05-29 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 06:49:38PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > What is the best way to get the current console's tty? I know tty does the > job, but how do I find the name WITHOUT the /dev/ ? i.e. tty1, tty2, tty3 > etc? I want to use it with bl in a script. Whelp, here's a thought: ~$ tty /d

Re: Does Debian support...

1998-05-28 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 05:19:16PM +1000, Rafal Gasiorek wrote: > I need to be able to access data from Linux, Win95 and NT running on > the same machine. Currently I can only do this with Slackware... > I tried RED HAT, very nice - good installation and easy setup of X, > however no support for UM

Re: mutt not in color

1998-05-28 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 02:02:51AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just installed mutt on my computer and it is not in color. Here is > an output of "mutt -v": Did you install the debian package mutt? pgp8yu1E2iEm4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Stronghold Apache

1998-05-28 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 02:10:30AM -0400, John Kloss wrote: Your name seems familliar to me from the days when I used DOS to access the net more frequently than anything else.. Admittedly that was long ago so I could be wrong. > so I'm thinking about hosting a web site to do e-commerce (selling

Re: DSELECT

1998-05-27 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 11:19:22PM +0200, Karl Laping wrote: > I still have some fights with DSELECT. When I call SELECT I am told: Since > you do not hve the privilegy necessary to update package you are in the > read-only mode. Thus, I cannot use '+' or '-' to select. dselect must be run as root

Re: creating simple interface for low-power users

1998-05-27 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 08:14:39AM -0500, Tim O'Brien wrote: > > Impatience, lazyness and hubris. Always remember these three great virtues > > (© Larry Wall) > > > > Do not program something which has already been programmed several times. > > You have the choices to do what you want without an

Re: off-topic - netscape

1998-05-26 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 01:50:36AM +0200, Chris Zander wrote: > Yes, I know what you mean - at the time that I though Linux was some sort > of light bulb (you laugh, it's not that long ago though) I was using win95 > with a 14" monitor @1024x768 with 60Hz. It turned out that my eyes would > fatigue

Re: off-topic - netscape

1998-05-26 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 09:36:57PM +0200, Chris Zander wrote: > >> but anyway...once it has fonts...Netscape looks GREAT! > > > >Netscape won't let you use a TT font for fixed stuff though.. xfstt doesn't > >bother to report that fixed width fonts are I think. This is prolly an > >upstream issue.

Re: Xwindows not working

1998-05-26 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 02:42:44PM -0400, Keith Alen Vance wrote: [..] > Mystique 220 and I am trying to get it work with Xfree86 and AfterStep. I > downloaded the files for Xfree86 3.3.1 and installed them and then setup [..] You need 3.3.2 for the the Mystique 220. That means hamm or finding bo

Re: changing default screen manger in x

1998-05-26 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 10:04:38PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > MF> I am tring to change my default screen manager under X. > MF> It s on a server and i am using it throuh a terminal (on a PC), > MF> so i need to change it only for me. > > Make sure you have "allow-user-xsession" in /etc/X11

Re: off-topic - netscape

1998-05-26 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 01:05:12AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As it stands with the latest version, it installs, and it adds scripts et al > to start and stop through init (ie it starts on boot now) but, if there are no > fonts, it is all for naught - it will fail to run at startup et al bec

Re: off-topic - netscape

1998-05-24 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 09:51:56PM +0200, Chris Zander wrote: > I've been using the Netscape Communicator for Linux for quite some time now > and > have always wondered if there is some way to make it use dynamic fonts - or at > least make its fonts look better. I always figured there was no offic

Re: Reinstalling required packages with dselect

1998-05-24 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 10:22:15AM -0700, Darren Benham wrote: > Unless you don't like "less" for some reason, I'd just copy /usr/bin/less > ontop > of /bin/more and use less, instead. Nononononono... more works on ANY terminal. less does not. pgpK1l8xdoAvT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian 2.0 FAQ

1998-05-24 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 01:02:43PM +0200, Wolfgang Gernot Bauer wrote: > Im looking for the Debian2.0 upgrade-FAQ. Does anyone know where it is? Attached to email. > Btw. Is upgrading better than reinstalling? Unless you have a reason to reinstall, ie I plan to reinstall at some point so I can

Re: !!! URGENT !!! Can't boot back to Win95

1998-05-23 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 05:40:59PM -0700, Brian Weiss wrote: > I would really suggest not using .deb kernels. The reason they have FAT32 > support is because they are just the standard default bins. They are not > configured to run on your system. They therefore are not very high > performance. The

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-23 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 03:37:44PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > George> It is a lot easier to follow a high-traffic list with a > George> newsreader than it is a mail reader. > > Yes. I agree. What does this have to do with gateways, though? > Why *don't* people just read mailing list

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-23 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 03:28:43PM -0400, Bonard B. Timmons III wrote: > > The .deb is proprietary to Debian. =3Dp The installation and removal scri= > > pts > > "Proprietary" -- what in the heck could possibly be proprietary about > Debian? We need to clear this confusing mess up NOW!!! As I m

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-23 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 12:33:15PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > >The .deb is proprietary to Debian. =3Dp The installation and removal scri= > > Any particular reason you have Quoted Printable on? Not really. Other than that it's the default and is more or less considered standard so I left i

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-23 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 12:14:34AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > >The "other data" in Debian's case is stuff like dependency information, > >installation and removal scripts, and the maintainer's contact address. > > Proprietary to Debian... The .deb is proprietary to Debian. =p The install

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-23 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 09:52:51PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 1998 14:10:40 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > >(Oh, and the nice thing about having an ar of two tar's rather than a > >tar with some extra stuff tacked on the end is that you can get to *all* > >the information in the fo

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 12:14:21PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > >I'm down to < 10 spam a day now. I don't want 30 again. > > Get some real filters in place, then. Excuse me, but I have filters. The < 10 spam I get sli[p by the filters because of forged headers manipulated to get by filters.

Re: Unknown PCI Ethernet card

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 08:25:27PM +0200, Peter Paluch wrote: > in my school I want to install a PCI ethernet card into my Linux server > box. I am not sure about it's type although I've read all manuals to it. > It just says it is a Genius / KYE Corp. Ethernet Card which is NE2000 > compatible, I

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 08:35:53AM -0500, Goetzke, Christopher L wrote: > My local news server does indeed have linux.debian.user; I'm headed that > way now. Those of you staying email can argue about whether you want > posts gatewayed back to the list. ;-) I don't want news posts gateway'd back

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 10:15:54PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > Given the volume of traffic on this list, I would certainly find a > newsgroup more convenient. > > 1) it maintains threads, and thus has MUCH better organization and access. Mutt does this with mail. > 2) the linear, header and

Re: X windows, Dselect, and then some...

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 02:10:29PM -0500, Goetzke, Christopher L wrote: > > (1) What is the graphical configuration utility for Xfree86 > > called ( and > > where is it)? > > It's "XF86Setup". I don't recall where it lives offhand (and my > computer is in an odd state at the moment, needing re-i

Re: PGP 262

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 11:44:47AM -0700, The Gecko wrote: > > On 21-May-98 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > Is there a specific reason that you need to build PGP yourself? It's > > available in .deb format at > > ftp://nonus.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US/bo/binary-i386/pgp-us_2.6.3a-1.deb > None, exc

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 01:08:11PM -0700, G John Lapeyre wrote: > > Does the stampede format even SUPPORT dependancies? > > > This is readily available from their web site. > > SLP Version 2.1 int value of 4. (Production release) [..] That is gross and at best hard to use by the end users

Re: Linux AGP and VIA chipsets

1998-05-21 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 12:42:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 1. Does anyone else have a motherboard baised on a VIA Apollo 3 AGP > > chipset with 1Mb cache RAM? Or do I need a Intel 430TX type for > > absolute reliability/compatability? I'm looking at Biostar, DFI, and FIC > > brands. >

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-21 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
[This thread prolly belongs on -user more than -devel] On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 02:54:38AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > This is what I got from the Stampede's FAQ: > > How is Stampede Linux better than Debian Linux? > > + glibc2 in the standard distribution We're closer to standard

[Off Topic] Mail formats (Was: How to convert Microsoft mail to Netscape mail ?)

1998-05-19 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 03:40:37PM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > hmm interesting...I have always used mbox format...I think I looked at maildir > once... I like maildir because I occasionally lost mail with mbox. > I have a much more simple setup :) > I just have ~/mail for all of my incommin

Re: Folders in pine

1998-05-19 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 10:41:16AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Pine does not do this by itself. The docs state that Pine will support > this, by allowing you to define multiple folders for incoming mail, but it > won't do the filtering for you. You need to use something like procmail, > whi

Re: How to convert Microsoft mail to Netscape mail ?

1998-05-19 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 11:10:15AM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > "From" had weird charicters...8 bitters) > anyway..there is then a program on the net somewhere (search for it) > that converts from MSIM to Eudora...which uses the same mailbox format as > Nutscrape > (which is standard maildir f

Re: AfterStep

1998-05-17 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sun, May 17, 1998 at 01:01:50PM +0400, Alexey Vyskubov wrote: > > Where is configuration files for afterstep_1.4.5.3-1??? > > My ~/GNUstep doesn't work now. > Moreover, there is no /usr/share/GNUstep. > > In /usr/doc/afterstep/README.debian : > [..] mkdir ~/GNUstep mkdir ~/GNUstep/Library c

Re: Totally off-subject ( And now for something Completely different)

1998-05-16 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 09:54:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Now I can't remember where I found it and EVERYONE is > > looking for it from Me?!?! > > um well..add me to the list...if you do happen to find it...let me know where! www.linux-howto.com has it. pgpH6gWbhZQ5D.pgp Descripti

Re: 2.0.33 is no good for lic6-dev ?

1998-05-15 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 04:11:46PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hmm. if you use -I/usr/src/linux/include, then as far as I can > see; it should link with those files (as you state further, it is > linked to kernel-source-2.0.33). What toerh files you happen to have > elsewhere should n

Re: DOSEmu 97.7

1998-05-14 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 04:49:07PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to try a 2.1 kernel. Which do you recommend/Which one is the most > stable? At this point, the latest is probably stable. I use 2.1.101 and it's more stable than 2.0.33---which on some systems isn't saying much. p

Re: Leafnode question

1998-05-12 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 11:03:24PM -0300, Jack Kern wrote: > > I was running fetch this afternoon, and noticed it was downloading messages > > for a couple of groups I don't read (my system is single-user)... checking > > the > > "interesting groups" directory found that they were in fact listed.

Re: Sound - permissions on /dev devices

1998-05-11 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 11:46:48PM -0700, G. Crimp wrote: > Hi, > > I finally got my sound enabled in the kernel. On to the next > problem. Whenever I try to use something like workbone, or anything that > needs to use a device such as /dev/audio, or /dev/dsp, or even /dev/hdb (my > cdrom)

Re: Mouse

1998-05-09 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 06:51:02PM -0600, Chris Betz wrote: > My mouse is currently a "Microsoft Serial Mouse with Wheel", at least > according to windows. I have it plugged into the Com1 port on my > computer. I'm a newbie, and I can't seem to get xwindows to recognise my > mouse even if I go thro

Re: Supressing duplicate email

1998-05-07 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 11:21:23AM -0700, Mike Schmitz wrote: > Does anyone have a procmail recipe to supress duplicate email? (Useful when > subscribed to more than one Debian list). man 5 procmailex There is such an animal to be found there. => pgpbfu8QErHbC.pgp Description: PGP signature

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