Re: asf format

2002-09-03 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
out mplayer or xine as well > > I can confirm that xine happily plays these > And so does mplayer. -- Note that I use Debian version testing/unstable Linux mus 2.4.17mvz5 #1 Sun Jun 2 15:16:44 CEST 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux Matijs van Zuijlen ... designed to fill

Re: What is happening to testing/unstable?

2002-06-20 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
many months ago, but my /var/lib/dpkg/available file is up-to-date. I just use apt-get update/apt-get dist-upgrade. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz5 #1 Sun Jun 2 15:16:44 CEST 2002 i686 unknown Matijs van Zuijlen ... designed to fill holes or c

Re: touchpad on laptop

2002-06-20 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
ote that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz5 #1 Sun Jun 2 15:16:44 CEST 2002 i686 unknown Matijs van Zuijlen ... designed to fill holes or cracks of not more than two cubic vims. -- Robert Sheckley, Untouched by Human Hands pgpYrV2kjLHIc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: UML Modeling w/o Rational Rose

2002-06-03 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
ontal or vertical. Took me a while to figure this out, though. It's definitely less than intuitive. HTH, Matijs. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs van Zuijlen ... designed to fil

Re: decode base64 encoded partial files with mutt?

2002-05-31 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 09:05:15PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:41:55PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > | On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 08:01:57PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > | > Hello! > | > i have a guy who doesn't stop to send me the info i need

Re: decode base64 encoded partial files with mutt?

2002-05-30 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
an version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs van Zuijlen ... designed to fill holes or cracks of not more than two cubic vims. -- Robert Sheckley, Untouched by Human Hands pgpHqGSXx4WtK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cashbook program

2002-05-30 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
does gnucash have that you don't want? Just wondering, since I have no experience using MS money. Can't you just not use the overkill parts? -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs van Zuijlen ... designed to fill

Re: non-gui battery app?

2002-05-26 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
ill put a meter in the mode line. > > The apm bin from the apmd package with something like: > $ while(true);do apm; sleep 10; clear;done; apm has this built-in: Just do: $ apm -M -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown

Re: Netiquette: crossposting, followup-to (was Re: 1:1 mirror for an entire hd)

2002-05-26 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
en set > > this > > Is there a way to jump back over to the spool file without having to > type it out longhand or make a symlink someplace handy? It's called ! So just type c! -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 un

Re: latex->xpdf

2002-05-22 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
it follows the standard "source -> dvi -> something" path. Anyways, it works well for me. And if you want both a dvi file and a pdf file it's a lot faster than running pdflatex and latex separately. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:1

Re: Directory sizes in mc

2002-05-20 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
oading some.file in Your Favorite Editor? Works great for me, and will tell me where pruning can make the biggest difference. You can then do nice things with grep as well. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs van Zuijlen

Re: wchar_t , when should one use ?

2002-05-18 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
us 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs van Zuijlen ... designed to fill holes or cracks of not more than two cubic vims. -- Robert Sheckley, Untouched by Human Hands pgpLNBTHSL60Q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cfingerd always hangs

2002-05-18 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
lic key back. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs van Zuijlen ... designed to fill holes or cracks of not more than two cubic vims. -- Robert Sheckley, Untouched by Human Hands pgpG7

Re: word format

2002-05-17 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
like authoring in rtf directly. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs van Zuijlen ... designed to fill holes or cracks of not more than two cubic vims. -- Robert Sheckley, Untouched by Human Hands

Re: word format

2002-05-17 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
27;Word format', latex2pdf won't produce it. Did you mean another format (PDF), or another program? -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs van Zuijlen ... designed to fill holes or cracks of not more than

Re: C's pointer arithmetic (Was Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script)

2002-05-16 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
t; But I think that I learnt that A long long time ago, on a compiler far > far away... All this reminds me why I try to avoid pointer arithmetic except in its simplest forms. I would just use &(argv[]) so that later on, I can understand what I meant, and why it says what I meant.

Re: Galeon takes two tries to start

2002-05-02 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
; > > > Ditto here. Seems like a bug. Don't know why.. Yes, same here. Circumstances may differ. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77278 and http://bugs.debian.org/141478 -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002

[Heading OT] Re: Wrong characters in man pages

2002-04-29 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 03:36:54PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 10:35:54PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > will just display EUR instead of either the euro sign or the > > ring-with-four-dashes sign (what is that anyway?) in different places. > >

Re: Wrong characters in man pages

2002-04-28 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:41:37PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 01:10:10PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 06:44:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > This wasn't my problem, it was that of Matijs van Zuijlen. I hope

Re: $netstat -a

2002-04-23 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
t;lsof | grep raw" and post what you find. Have you tried netstat -ap ? It'll show you process id and program name of the corresponding process. You may need to be root to see all of them. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unk

Re: Finding unused packages

2002-04-19 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:46:30AM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:59:34 -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > >On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > >> > Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find inst

Re: Finding unused packages

2002-04-19 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:59:34AM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > > Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find installed > > > debian packages that are not used, based on ati

Re: Finding unused packages

2002-04-19 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
ease point me to this tool ? I think you're looking for popularity-contest -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs van Zuijlen ... designed to fill holes or cracks of not more than two cubic vims.

Re: mutt and my email address

2002-04-17 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
t setting/changing it seems to make no difference. I've also put "set > use_domain=yes" and "set hostname = domainthatiwant.org" in my .muttrc, but > those don't seem to help either. What am I missing? I have this in my .muttrc: set realname="Matijs va

Re: Eth0 issue

2002-04-17 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs van Zuijlen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wrong characters in man pages

2002-04-17 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
your applications. In netscape, for example, edit > > preferences, and then your first option->second choice is "fonts". > > This wasn't my problem, it was that of Matijs van Zuijlen. I hope you > don't mind me cc'ing your message back to the list s

Re: Wrong characters in man pages

2002-04-16 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 12:40:09PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > >In many different man pages characters that should probably be some form > >of quote are displayed as a Z with an inverted caret on top. > > Can you give me an example page where y

Re: Wrong characters in man pages

2002-04-15 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 02:36:57PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 14:13, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In many different man pages characters that should probably be some form > > of quote are displayed as a Z with an inverted caret on

Wrong characters in man pages

2002-04-15 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
ED]" LC_TELEPHONE="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" LC_MEASUREMENT="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" LC_IDENTIFICATION="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" LC_ALL= In console mode the same characters are displayed as small squares. Anyone know what's going on? -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4

Re: upgrade to ext3 ?

2002-04-14 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
27;s done, but you have to list the module in one of mkinitrd's configfiles, IIRC. [looks] Yes, it's in /etc/mkinitrd/modules. It's comments are pretty clear. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs van Zuij

Re: pcmcia

2002-04-13 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
se dhcp myself, so what follows is an (educated) guess: In /etc/pcmcia there should be a file network.opts. In there, there is probably a line saying DHCP="n" Change the n to y. Restart pcmcia. HTH, Matijs. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:

Re: OT: vm vs mutt (was Re: Someone tell me the secret of mutt)

2002-04-13 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
very well. I don't see how that would be a problem. You can tell mutt which editor to use. Maybe I'm missing something emacs-specific here, as I don't use it myself. Oh, and you can edit the message itself as well, not just your replies. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2

Re: OT: Etymology of a clue

2002-04-12 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
quot;a modicum of clue", not "a modicum of a clue", and by expressions like "more clue". OTOH, if a break a piece of evidence, are the parts not halves (or thirds, or whatever) of a clue ;-)? -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs van Zuijlen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to *not* restore screen after viewing man pages in X

2002-04-11 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
s? Well, after some more digging and finally looking at the files in /etc/gdm/Sessions, I found that those sessions want me to put the stuff in ~/.Xresources. And lo! it works. I think this should be documented somewhere, e.g., in man gdm. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz

Re: Mutt GnuPG and Null

2002-04-11 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
this, since it's already in /etc/Muttrc HTH, -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs van Zuijlen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to *not* restore screen after viewing man pages in X

2002-04-10 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
en't tried that yet. Ok, that makes xrdb -query actually return what's in my .Xdefaults. Shouldn't this happen automatically when I login to X? -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs van Zuijlen --

Re: How to *not* restore screen after viewing man pages in X

2002-04-10 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown Matijs van Zuijlen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Procmail Rules for Debian lists

2002-04-10 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 12:59:16PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Apr 09, 2002, Matijs van Zuijlen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 03:50:54AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > :0: > > > * ^X-Mailing-List: <\/[^@<>]+ &g

Re: How to *not* restore screen after viewing man pages in X

2002-04-10 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:11:31AM -0500, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > When I view a man page or run vi or nano from xterm or Konsole and then > > exit, the screen is restored to the way it was before I started the > > program. > > > > This doesn't happ

Re: module: xfree or kernel?

2002-04-09 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:55:57AM -0600, dave mallery wrote: > this message is at the end of my dmesg: > [drm] The mga drm module requires the agpgart module to function correctly > Please load the agpgart module before you load the mga module > [drm] The mga drm module requires the agpgart module

Re: Procmail Rules for Debian lists

2002-04-09 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 03:50:54AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > :0: > * ^X-Mailing-List: <\/[^@<>]+ > $LISTDIR/$MATCH/ As has been noted[1] in another thread on the same subject on debian-devel: this is dangerous. Someone could just send an email with X-Mailing-List: <../someth

Re: grep question

2002-04-08 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 04:41:08PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > In the grep's info page I find the following which works as said. But > I want to know why. What does the [c] do in this case? Simple: The regexp '[c]ron' matches the string 'cron', but not the string '[c]ron'. > --

Re: Mutt and From: line

2002-04-07 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:54:36PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I have been messing with mutt and trying to make it display my name > currectly for FAR too long, and I have gotten no where. > > I have tried every combination of set realname, set from, my_hdr From: > with every combination o

Re: PS/2 mouse erratic in X and more

2002-04-03 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 09:43:35PM -0800, Brian W. Carver wrote: > [snip] > MY PROBLEM: I got the PS/2 mouse to work in the XFree86 setup by > choosing dev/psaux instead of dev/mouse, and it worked perfectly during > THAT setup routine. BUT, when I now boot into X (man was that an > accomplishment

Re: Kernel idle interference??

2002-04-03 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 09:29:06PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: > [Please Cc: replies to me, I'm not subscribed due to high volume.] > > Recently, I noticed this very odd phenomenon with my sound card. I'm > using an SB16 with the OSS drivers, and there is this persistent > background static hum, whi

Re: testing + some unstable packages

2002-03-31 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 12:38:28PM -0800, Alan Su wrote: > i've got an installation of testing on my laptop, but i wanted to > upgrade a few packages (notably galeon) to the unstable version. i'd > rather not just point apt to the unstable distribution, as i'm pretty > happy with the way testing i

Re: Help with window manager now window sizing

2002-03-30 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 01:07:25PM +1200, Alan Shrimpton wrote: > I still come up with large window sizes. An example is: > Control Center open and click on the Screensaver option and the window goes > beyond the boundaries of my monitor. I have to drag it around to get to the > ok and cancel but

Reading .pdf.gz files

2002-03-25 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
Hi, I just noticed that all pdf documentation for the tex packages in compressed using gzip. Although I found out how to read these (use gv, in stead of xpdf), I'm wondering why these files are compressed. They don't seem to get much smaller that way, and gv seems to be slower in displaying at lea

Re: GMT-Bug solved ... BUT

2002-03-22 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:42:23AM +0100, Malte Thoma wrote: > It's not a GMT bug but a Bug in 'gv' > > gv -v > gv 3.5.8 (debian) > > ghostview shows the correct output. > > The same gv version (without the 'debian') on a SuSE Linux works correct > , any Ideas? No idea what's going on. But th

Re: configuring ext3

2002-03-22 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:33:43AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 03:32:45PM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > Should I have done symlink??? Any comment? I thought I made > > > /sbin/fsck.ext3,ext2 as the same size as /sbin/f

Re: exim getting the from addresses right

2002-03-18 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 01:13:37PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> Apparently I've given exim bad info, but not at all clear how to > >> tell exim to address my mail with newsguy but I'm not really > >> it... hehe. > >> > > > > exim uses ad

Re: noise when using esd

2002-03-16 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:56:07PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > I have set up esd on a machine that has a via868 soundcard. I compiled > the latest alsa driver. The sound works nicely without any problem. Even > having several programs playing sound at the same time works (which was > the reason

Re: Radio buttons in Gnome

2002-03-13 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 11:44:19AM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to change the default button in Gnome so that instead of > raising or depressing it has a crossed x in a box when its selected > and a blank box when its not. > > If I use xfce, that happens by default. How

Re: CVS Server on SSL?

2002-03-11 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:48:01AM -0600, hanasaki wrote: > I have heard that pserver is not secure. Is this due to plaintext > passwd on the net or exploits? How can it be secured? How can the > client and server be configured to run over SSL (Win and Lin)? Use ssh: Use ext instead of pserve

Fwd: [Re: Vim in mutt (was: Re: Compiling from source)]

2002-03-11 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
This may be what you're looking for. - Forwarded message from Nick Croft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:53:14 +1100 Subject: Re: Vim in mutt (was: Re: Compiling from source) From: Nick Croft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Matijs van Zuijlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: another potato/woody X3/4 question

2002-03-11 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 07:14:46PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:24:01AM -0600, Remy Indebetouw wrote: > > I've got a potato/woody pinned hybrid, and my main reluctance to just > > dist-upgrade is related to this: > > > > I appear to have both Xfree 3 and 4 (see apt-cac

Vim in mutt (was: Re: Compiling from source)

2002-03-11 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 10:47:01PM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > [big snip] > > PS - off topic here but vim is not text wrapping within mutt. sorry > its all over the place - would someone using vim with mutt please be > so kind as to send me the relevant line from .muttrc to get the tw

Re: Truly stupid menu seting

2002-03-11 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:56:08AM +0100, Bjarne S. Næss wrote: > > also, xhost + is probably not the safest thing to do if untrusted machines > > have network access to your machine > > xhost +localhost is better. > > But if xforwarding is enabled in ssh I prefer ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Takes ca

Re: segfault with postponed and mutt_1.3.27-4_i386

2002-03-10 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 01:25:09PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:12:13AM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 06:04:02PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > Maybe the subject change will make more eyes look at the message... > >

Re: Primer needed on modconf and friends.

2002-03-10 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 05:38:42PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > Is there a good summary document that explains modconf and /etc/modules.conf > in Debian? > > [snip about modules] Sorry, I'm working in the blind there myself ... but: > My wife just gave me a blank stare when I discussed this wit

Re: Charset problem

2002-03-09 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 05:24:23PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a woody user and I'm having problems with the ISO8859-1 charset, > characters like áéíóúçàèèìòù doesn't work in many programs, specially > gnome programs. Follow a list of programs that have this problem: It depends on th

Re: Incorporating testing or unstable

2002-03-09 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:16:54PM -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me the process by which I might incorporate > [...] > > specific- instances of testing packages but on the whole remain > > at stable. > > First, create an /etc/apt/preferences file, and put something li

Re: segfault with postponed and mutt_1.3.27-4_i386

2002-03-09 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 06:04:02PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Maybe the subject change will make more eyes look at the message... > > If you *haven't* seen this problem yourself, I'd like to know, as well > if you have. > > Mike > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:20:54PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > >

Re: From apt-move to apt-proxy

2002-03-08 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:54:49AM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 04:41:15PM +0100, Chris Halls wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:45:41PM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:51:17PM +0100, Chris Halls wrote:

Re: From apt-move to apt-proxy

2002-03-08 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 04:41:15PM +0100, Chris Halls wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:45:41PM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:51:17PM +0100, Chris Halls wrote: > > > http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net/apt-proxy/unstable > > > I would

Re: From apt-move to apt-proxy

2002-03-07 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:51:17PM +0100, Chris Halls wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 01:19:11PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 06-Mar-2002 Markus Grunwald wrote: > > > Now I do have a lot of files on the apt-move mirrors, wich I would like > > > to reuse for apt-proxy. Is this possible?

Re: Hints for notebook users

2002-03-06 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:12:16AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > Some time ago, I wrote a small list of hints for people using > Debian/Linux on noteboks. > > During that time I, I was more or less focused on hints > regarding low memory, HD space and power (battery) > consumption. > > [...] > >

Re: OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-04 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:10:43PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Chris Jenks wrote: > > > > I thought that the book said the book said that the ultimate question > > is, "what is 6 * 9?" > > That was 6 * 7 (!), No, it _is_ 6 * 9, extracted from arthur's head using scrabble letters. The full que

Re: user xsession or how to start ssh-add

2002-03-03 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 07:44:46PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote: > Hi, > > How do I start ssh-add when X starts to add my key to the agent? > (Agent is already running?) Well, if you're using Gnome, you can just add ssh-add to the list of programs to run at startup. It's in the gnome control center,

Re: dpkg - the letter prefixes.. what do they mean

2002-03-03 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 09:00:26PM -0600, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: > On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 08:02:39PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > dman wrote: > > > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > > > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed > > > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/R

Re: Avoid booting direct to X.. I want my starx back

2002-03-02 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 07:25:51PM +, Lee Braiden wrote: > Don't want to nit-pick, but it seems worth clarifying, given the > confusion this often causes... :-) Feel free ... > > From: Matijs van Zuijlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [...] > > KDE and Gnome are n

Re: Package of a file in debian?

2002-03-02 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 09:36:10AM -0800, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > Is there a similar command in apt or dpkg to this thing with rpm that > allows you to figure out the package of a file? That really would have > helped me recently. Yes, use: dpkg -S See man dpkg. Matijs.

Re: Terminfo and emacs

2002-03-02 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 02:56:02AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > People have told me the debian package manager is more sophisticated > yet, and can pull up more detailed info. What do I need to read to get > on top of those kind of commands? I've found http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ch-package

Re: Avoid booting direct to X.. I want my starx back

2002-03-02 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:29:00AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > Mark Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > One (of several) ways to do this is (as root): > > > > update-alternatives --config x-window-manager > > > > [...] > > That doesn't seem to do the job here. Running that command gives

Re: fetchmail? screwed up

2002-03-01 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 09:40:46AM -0500, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > Cannot fetch my mail from my dial-up internet provider. After running > Fetchmail, the only reponse is something like "Faulty authorization: > Query error 3." (A few weeks ago I switched from potato to woody.) > My .fetchmailrc file

Re: Where do the plugins for galeon live?

2002-03-01 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:15:44AM -0500, stan wrote: > I'm getting really fond of Galeon, and want to make it my default browser > (testting machine). > > Where do teh plugins for thsi get put? I need to check and see how it's set > up, and add any plugins that I'm missing. > It uses the plugin

Re: Mtools questions.

2002-02-28 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:01:37PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All. > I want to use the mtools, but I don't have the documentations about > mtools (and connot get it now). When I use mtool from user (not root) I > show: Can't open /dev/fd0: Permossion denied Cannot initialize 'A:'. > Need

Re: Howto change ownership of device under devfs

2002-02-25 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On 2002.02.26 01:02:03 +0100 Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 03:08:02PM -0500, dman wrote: > I don't know anything about flushd, but This is all I got. I'm trying to figure out which part of mail system messed up (spamassassin, procmail, or exim), and I'

Re: Howto change ownership of device under devfs

2002-02-25 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 03:08:02PM -0500, dman wrote: > I don't know anything about flushd, but This is all I got. I'm trying to figure out which part of mail system messed up (spamassassin, procmail, or exim), and I'm waiting for this message to show op in the archives, so I can actually read it

Re: gnome-error

2002-02-25 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:37:50PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > I ha installed woody in a fresh machine. I have installed the gnome stuff > plus > sawfish wm too. Now, when I point with the mouse the border, buttons or title > bar of any window in the desktop I hear a "beep". Looking a

Re: Howto change ownership of device under devfs

2002-02-25 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 11:47:28PM +1000, mdevin wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 01:12:22PM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > Umm.. this actually brings me to a question: I upgraded my kernel to > > 2.4.17 from 2.2.something, and after a while found a complaint from > >

Re: How to resize mouse pointer in X ?

2002-02-22 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On 2002.02.21 22:53:26 +0100 Martin Emrich wrote: Hi ! Some time ago, after doing my weekly apt-get dist-upgrade, I started X and my mouse pointer was much bigger than usual. Since then, I'm trying to make it normal again. I already made sure my X server (>= 4.1.0) runs with 75 dpi. I do not use

Re: Howto change ownership of device under devfs

2002-02-21 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On 2002.02.21 11:47:01 +0100 mdevin wrote: OK, I will do that for now. But there must be a way to tell devfs the ownership directly rather than have devfsd fudge them the way you want after. What if you don't run devfsd. devfs is supposed to work without devfsd. It's possible, apparantly. Y

Re: Bridge + IPChains missing

2002-02-20 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On 2002.02.20 22:30:18 +0100 Nick Stone wrote: Hi I am trying to set up the "brctl" utils to be used to create a firewall. When I compile the utils a message is displayed indicating that the "if_bridge.h" file cannot be found which is fare enough as I can't find it on the disc either. I am usin

Re: A question about LCD flat panel displays

2002-02-18 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On 2002.02.18 15:12:42 +0100 stan wrote: However, I still don't have an answer to one of my most important questiosn. Will the flat panel display be limited to just one resolution (eg 1024x768)? If my 800x600 laptop screen is any indication, no. It will also work at lower resolutions. Visual

Re: Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-17 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On 2002.02.17 16:50:32 +0100 Wendell Cochran wrote: Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 03:52:42 +0100 Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > > > > and here is really no interest in ridiculing anyone and less someone who would formulate constructively his criticism and suggestions ... >> i really really do

Re: Gnome problem

2002-02-15 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On 2002.02.15 15:13:07 +0100 Kapil Khosla wrote: Hi, I recently swithced to gnome as my desktop from icewm and I am having a problem that my title bar is missing in all my applications..netscape,xterm, etc I am thus not able to move any window and the only way to close them is File--exit I had no

Re: Sound

2002-02-15 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On 2002.02.15 00:35:45 +0100 Tom Cook wrote: Alan Shrimpton wrote: > > Terribly sorry! I just found the cable into the speaker was in the sub out > and not the line in. Wife wont admit it but I don't know how it changed. I > checked they were in but not that they were in the wrong place. > > C

Fwd: Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection) [gwizard@aplicall.com]

2002-02-14 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
ction running varios services and masq-nat. all works like charm. just remember to use crossover cable between adsl modem and hub on uplink port. if you have any more question feel free to ask. gw. - Original Message - From: "Matijs van Zuijlen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; Sent:

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On 2002.02.14 17:35:55 +0100 John Cichy wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2002 11:27, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > The > > reason I don't have it masquerading the DSL connection is I don't want > > to buy a second ISA NIC. > > If your DSL is anything like mine

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
I have potato on a 486SX, 25MHz, 300MB hard drive, 8MB RAM. It tends to drag because it swaps a lot, but otherwise is fully functional. I had it masquerading the dial-up connection with no problems. The reason I don't have it masquerading the DSL connection is I don't want to buy a second ISA

Re: PPTP-Linux

2002-02-14 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On 2002.02.13 22:57:45 +0100 Charlie Grosvenor wrote: Hi I have installed the PPTP-linux package and am not sure how to configure it from there. I have a Alcatel Apeed Touch Pro ADSL router which you can use PPTP to connect to the internet though it, it works fine with windows, but i would li

custom locale creation

2002-02-13 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
Hi, I've been playing around with my locale settings lately, and was happy to get gnucash to display the euro symbol, but now I have a problem: If I want the euro symbol, I must set (at least) LC_MONETARY to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but this also means I have to use the comma (,), not the period (.)

Re: language and charset settings

2002-02-12 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On 2002.02.12 20:45:19 +0100 Eric G. Miller wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:23:55PM +0100, Steffen Evers wrote: > Hello, > > does anyone know how to have the charset settings differently than the > language? > > I want to have my applications speaking English, but would like to be > able to dis