Re: Off-Topic -- Strange files

2001-12-01 Thread Kent Pirkle
I've been getting these too and I'm using reiserfs. I have no idea what they are. On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:01:18PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > I've seen mention of something similar before and I believe it's related > to ext3, but I'll ask to be sure... > > In my / dir, I've got these files

Re: Cox cable modem and debian

2001-08-16 Thread Kent Pirkle
Hmm... I can't say this is true for Cox, but it is true for Adelphia. I'm wondering if what they are calling an Identity setting is the MAC address of the NIC? If so, the problem is that the MAC address you give the cable company is the only one that will be able to obtain an IP address using pump

Re: how stable is the testing branch?

2001-07-06 Thread Kent Pirkle
If you want koffice, you could install it on a system running stable also. see: http://kde.debian.net/ On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:51:25PM +, joe golden wrote: > Debian has koffice in the testing branch>> > this may be the answer to my need for a stable word processor and graphing > spread

Re: Upgrade to 2.4.5

2001-06-29 Thread Kent Pirkle
I just upgraded my Athlon potato system to 2.4.5 (actually ac17 because it has some fixes to sound driver problems for my CM8738) using Adrian Bunk's 2.4 potato packages and compiling my own Athlon optimized kernel. I also have another partition where I have Debian testing installed that I upgraded

Re: GRUB 5.96 for potato

2001-06-23 Thread Kent Pirkle
That worked perfect, thanks! On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 07:32:33PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:44:05AM -0400, Kent Pirkle wrote: > | Does anyone know of GBU Grub version 5.96 packages for potato? > > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub. It isn't a .deb packag

GRUB 5.96 for potato

2001-06-23 Thread Kent Pirkle
Does anyone know of GBU Grub version 5.96 packages for potato? I've tried to compile from unstable, but I get: dh_clean: Sorry, but 2 is the highest compatability level of debhelper currently supported. and it fails. Thanks!

Re: XFree4 for potato?

2001-06-16 Thread Kent Pirkle
Yes, you can find the instructions here: http://people.debian.org/%7Ecpbotha/xf403_potato/READ.THIS On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 01:14:50PM +0200, Attila Csosz wrote: > Hi, > > Is there anywhere (URI) XFree4 for potato? > > Thanks > Attila > > -- > ---

Re: XFree 4, potato and Ximian-gnome

2001-06-10 Thread Kent Pirkle
I'm currently running potato with the unofficial Xfree 4.03 debs available from cpbotha. I'm running Ximian GNOME 1.4. It's the most stable and usable setup I've had so far. On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:28:54PM -0700, MRZ wrote: > Hello again.. > After two weeks of trying to upgrade from X 3.3 to

Re: Optical mice

2001-03-03 Thread Kent Pirkle
I'm using a Logitech Wheel Mouse, which is optical and I paid $29.99 at OfficeMax. Works great under Debian! Kent On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:22:52PM +, Lee Elliott wrote: > Hello List, > > Would anyone care to recommend any optical wheel mice for use with > Debian - that is, optical mice wi

Re: Netscape http://wierdness on startup

2000-09-15 Thread Kent Pirkle
That fixed it! Thanks! On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 02:03:07PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > Not by chance launching that from a GNOME laucher? I found replacing > gnome-moz-remote with communicator (or netscape), made it go away.

Re: Netscape http://wierdness on startup

2000-09-15 Thread Kent Pirkle
I've been having the same problem. No clue how to fix it. I'm running woody btw. Kent On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 10:40:26AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > I recently used the Debian Potato files to install/upgrade Netscape > Communicator 4.75 (not the tar ball installer but several smaller files) > a

debian-user-digest down?

2000-09-10 Thread Kent Pirkle
I've not received the debian-user-digest or debian-devl-digest for the last couple of days. Is anyone else having this problem? Please respond to my email address, as I can't see it otherwise. Thanks

Re: Off-Topic? -> silly mutt question

2000-09-03 Thread Kent Pirkle
I made a symbolic link called inbox in my mutt mail directory that links to my /var/spool/mail inbox. Kent On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 05:49:01PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > After I chance to another folder within mutt the only way I have figured > out to get back to my 'inbox' is to change to th

Re: Directory always defaults to /usr/bin

2000-09-01 Thread Kent Pirkle
> Have a look in your ~/.gnome directory and see if you can find any > configuration files for the panel which have /usr/bin/ in them, this > might be your problem. You could probably start by doing an rgrep for > /usr/bin/ in ~/.gnome and see what you come up with (I have no idea what > file I cha

Re: Directory always defaults to /usr/bin

2000-08-31 Thread Kent Pirkle
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 05:43:31PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > i've only had this happen when i ran 'startx' from somewhere other then > my home dir, in which case all x apps will default to the dir you ran > 'startx' in. I double checked...I am starting X from my home directory.

Directory always defaults to /usr/bin

2000-08-31 Thread Kent Pirkle
I've noticed that all my applications will default to /usr/bin instead of the /home/kmp directory that they should default to. Netscape, Gnome-apps, virtually any application that opens an application to save or load something does this. Any ideas how I can change this? Thanks, Kent

Re: gdk-imlib1 version

2000-08-23 Thread Kent Pirkle
I just filed a bug report for balsa. Someone else had already filed a report for gedit and gdk-imlib1.

Re: gdk-imlib1 version

2000-08-23 Thread Kent Pirkle
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:49:57PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > For the past week at least, I have kept a couple of packages on hold (I > run unstable), as they depend on gdk-imlib1 (>= 1.9.8.1), while on my > mirror the version of gdk-imlib1 is 1.9.8-4. I was tempted to submit a bug > report

Re: setting clock to EDT

2000-08-21 Thread Kent Pirkle
I think tzconfig is what you are looking for. On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 06:32:46PM -0400, John Anderson wrote: > This sounds stupid, but when I installed Debian I selected EST vs. EDT. I > have tried using the date command with no success. Any suggestions? > > > John Ker