On 11/30/05, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> >From what I read on the lists it seems that Ubuntu's unstable is
> generally more broken than Debian's, making me feel safer using Sid.
> Could anyone confirm this.
> Thanks...
>
That may be so, but why are you using dapper i
On 11/7/05, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> My curiosity says: which of FLOSS projects is the most active --
> numerous patches? Is there any data out there that tries to
> approximate this? Perhaps a among the tops is Linux, Mono, Wine,
> mozilla-firefox, openoffice... w
I am trying to install on an abit AN7 and I cant get the network card to
work. I think I remember having it working before on this computer, but
I think that was on a custom kernel that I dont have. And I dont have a
way to get any kernel sources or anything without the network.
Anyone have any
s, as I have a huge aversion to
English classes.
> Thanks!
No, the thanks are all mine :)
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On Sat, 15 May 1999, David B.Teague wrote:
> perhaps from whence you are down loading)
^^
Sorry about the excess bandwidth killer, but is it whence or whom?
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IRQ=-1
DSP_BUFFSIZE=65536
# CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND is not set
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Windows: t
per for this?
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Drive nail here ( )
ate help (otherwise I may be stuck with Mr Gate's water
> torture!).
> Incidentally, to check if some machine fault has developed, I've again booted
> SuSE
> from the CD-ROM Drive and I got direct to the installation program.
> John.
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I come home from
University, and I sit down to read email, and I quite often have to wait
for the drives to spin up before pine is started.
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e mail queue every 20 minutes.
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CPU's dont tend to work very well a
try to use the mouse, the keyboard locks. And yes I'm sure I put the
> adpter in the right way (I checked the manual) and I hvae tried it the
> other way around to.
>
> The mouse work on other computers..
> Any ideas?
Try a kernel recompile.
ff.
Yeah... it was an enjoyable thread to read too.. :)
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If NT is t
eft. The only hope is this IRQ12
> business.
I changed to PS/2 to free up a serial IRQ... lets me use my terminal when
I am connected to the net now :)
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wn"
which kinda makes it easy.
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no problems when I start pine manually.
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asking on behalf of a friend, so I can get more information if
required, but it will take time. I dont really know why he is using this
setup, but, its not my decision.
TIA,
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ty to access them?
one option, using your .xsession file, or the like, test the DISPLAY
variable. should be :0 for local machine, and laptop:0 for your laptop
(where laptop is your laptop's hostname) then start a windowmanager from
.xsession depending on that criteria.
[snip]
> Using wildcards can dangerous when used with the rm command. From
> experience, I know it is all too easy to type
> rm -rf * ~ instead of rm -rf *~
I get jittery even thinking about typing that in email
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scape.exe... Bad file name...
> May we suggest M/S Internet Explorer? (Y/y)
I think this one was already in Win95. NS never worked right for me...
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speed in X? gpm was easy.
> --
> run gpmconfig from the consol ( this will set it globally)
> or
> run xmseconfig from your xterminal.
what package is xmseconfig in?
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On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, John Foster wrote:
>
> > Michael Beattie wrote:
> > >
> > > Sorry, stupid question, I just decided to change to a PS/2 mouse, but I
> > > dont have the faintest a
Sorry, stupid question, I just decided to change to a PS/2 mouse, but I
dont have the faintest about how to set it up. kernel recompile?
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ust realised I have no idea what I am talking about.
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If it
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 23:11:56 +1200, Michael Beattie wrote:
> > In a configure script, this is the outcome:
>
> > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler
> > cannot create executables.
>
&
executables.
although I have the necessary libs and things installed...
libstdc++2.9 etc...
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There were problems with KFM, that I and Burkhard both had, and he found a
solution... here it is.
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> > Is ftp.debian.org down? is there a mailing list for the ftp admins?
> > I do a mirror of slink and potato i386.
>
> Yes, it seems so. I've been unable to connect since last night.
>
It's in the process of moving to a new server.
Mi
inch of salt]
I must ask, What is with the Linux community when most apps are created
from the back end to the front end? I REALLY miss the good old third-party
windoze apps that never worked :) always had that "Not implemented yet"
window.
[/take with a pinch of salt]
Anyone else having trouble with kfm? I cant get it to display directories,
nor can I delete things on the desktop?
ANY clues?
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ng 'www' to sell a product similar to the one
> they are using it for. A trademark is not a copyright.
Dont ya hate timezones? Poor John here is behind the times.... :)
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n slink as "x11amp" otherwise, http://www.x11amp.bz.nu/
> In answering your question, Winamp is well written, well-supported, and
> there's no "maturing nicely" excuse :).
Well, it isnt made by nullsoft, but It's few and far between problems are
slowly bein
me. Any mail I send while online (such as this one) goes straight
away, as exim tries to send before it queues the mail..
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On 24 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote:
> Michael Beattie writes:
> > In windows, the DNS server's address can be requested from the peer
> > during PPP negotiation, (you dont need to enter DNS address's for most
> > ISP's anymore) whereas in linux, that particul
the
address. At the moment, I just have it printed to the ppp log to prove
that it works. I think I also have it output to the file /tmp/DNS.addr
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> and gnome-apt is in the staging area above, so this is the only
> location needed.
Thanks.. thats what I am after.. Oh, what about E 0.15?
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yip yip yip yip yip yip yap yap yip *BANG*
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Pere Camps wrote:
> Hi!
>
> What do I change in order to prohibit running X programs in any
> place except the console? ie: no export DISPLAY=...
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
`xhost -`
Michael Beattie
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Graham Ashton wrote:
[snip]
> > Dont you have to use "\\" instead of "//"???
>
> no.
Hmm.. You are right.. I used it yesterday for the first time in 3 months..
My apologies.
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I have searched the web for hours and cant find one! you guys might be my
> last resort.
>
> any help is appreciated, I dont even know what exactly to look for!
Theres a nice small one used in one of the examples on www.mp3car.com.
Bought from england, but quite expensive.
have to use "\\" instead of "//"??? I think I set mine up as:
smbmount "\\[host]\[share]" /mnt
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gram will unpack a Macintosh StuffIt file into separate files.
> [snip]
Unfortunately, the program itself is not in the package.
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I got a file sent to me from a friend that has been compressed with
Stuffit... I cannot find a program that will successfully decompress this
file. any ideas?
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On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Vincent Murphy wrote:
> please let this thread DIE!
I'd agree with that too.
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On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 09:00:57AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote:
> > Agreed... where do these threads come from? lack of linux related
> > problems to stimulate your minds... Sorry, I just read the whole thread
> > with amusement
e is not related to the current time, i.e.
12:01PM does not mean 12 hours and 1 minute after noon to me, it means
that it is 12:01 in the second half of the day.
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> I have to admit, there were several times even *I*
> was ready to delete everything Linux on my PC - but my continual displeasure
> with everything MicroSoft kept me going.
Hear Hear I was the same.
Michael Beatti
ing S-Quake, not X-Quake (for
> those who can't figure it out), and I don't really have the resources to
> run X-Quake properly, I use quake to do something while my machine is
> downloading lots of megabytes of the internet/compiling a kernel whatever,
> and I would rather _NOT_ ru
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> >
[snip]
>
> Linux quake does not have native support for the joystick. The only
> way to get the joystick to work in quake is to use the joy2key program
> at http:
patch is
available for 2.0.36. It works fine on the debianised 2.0.35.
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ames/squake.real` will fix it.
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Jump through hoops? I don'
On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> Dear all,
> Has anyone got .bsps to work with squake? I just get
> Findfile: can't find file maps/try2.bsp
They have to be in ~/.quake/id1/maps/ , as the wrapper script does not
link .bsp's, only .pak files.
rminal Emulation. :)))
Ick... so only 5 and 0 give the correct tones. I'd send it back for a
replacement.
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sing the fat files.
In that case, give mount the "noexec" option. that makes everything not
have the "x" bit. As for case, using "vfat" supports win9x's long
filenames, and will show the case used when they were named.
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e. Has many good examples. I use this for
my pgp reply script:
:0
* ^Subject:.*pgpkey
* ! ^FROM_DAEMON
* $ ! ^X-Loop: $MY_ADDR
{
# Save a copy just in case
:0 c:
pgp.requests
:0 fhw
| formail -rI"Subject: PGP Key Request: Michael Beattie <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>" \
I have
mgetty too. (with the agetty man page)
> Q3: Is there something that I'm overlooking in trying to connect
> a serial terminal?
Check the settings within the terminal. specifically if you are using a
direct or null modem cable.
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On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, David Stern wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Dec 1998 04:09:47 PST, Steve Lamb wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 12:06:10AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote:
> > > Sorry for the dig, but "Only in America"
> >
> > America has nothing
; /tmp50MB
I'd leave it on /
> -
> Sum.1428MB -> rest: 270MB for ???
/home or /usr
Mine is so:
/ - 200MB
/usr- 800MB
works like a charm.
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users have a fondness for sending emails with >50MB
> movies attached of Santa and his deer dancing around.
Sorry for the dig, but "Only in America"
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me I rarely reboot and I leave root logged in for months
> on vt1, so root's shell could have been changed long ago. I guess I'll
> never know how it happened.
Ouch, careful where you say that, someone will bite your head off.
(re: root logged in for months)
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
>
> > Okay, It has now REALLY gotten to me. I like pine, but my only gripe is
> > that I cannot get rid of those annoying pauses when you go to open another
> > folder. Can anyone
here, including libstdc++-2.8 and 2.9.
There is a thread in -devel about this, a problem with a link not
extisting or something, check the recent archive for something on it.
Michael Beat
:-)
Yep... neko95 exists somewhere out there.
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has no problems with ICQ, It worked out of the box.
Except for clients trying to initiate connections to him of course.
I have got a VERY basic set of ipfwadm rules though..
#! /bin/sh
ipfwadm -F -p deny
ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.0.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
Simple enough?
Mic
,
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CONNECT 300... Connect 300?!?!?! #%^#
d 1.2 disc drives, 500M
> hd, 33.6 modem. No CDROM. Thanks alot.
I see no problems with that, although a 4x CDROM drive would be helpful,
if you got yourself a Debian CD.
HTH,
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e best for linux, and the DOS
utils are best for DOS. I never use a third party program to create
partitions.
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gpm and X at same;
> especially if using a serial mouse, and kernel 2.0.35
> please try using 'gpm -k' before start the X-Server; mostly it help's
> >
> please note: this problem don't occurs if You use a PS/2-mouse, ;-)
Strange, I have no problems with a se
reas /cdrom is the mount point by tradition.
You are right though, A cdrom can be mounted anywhere.
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wrapper script in Debian, which calls the Server itself. As
mentioned, check that the absolute path to your Server is on the first
line of /etc/X11/Xserver. All that the wrapper script does, is setup some
security bits and pieces.
M
dpkg the absolute path to
the file on your CD. `dpkg -i` is for installing .deb files, and the way
you put it, the .deb file "xpm4.7" in the current directory.
HTH,
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> 3) it doesnt promise to be something it aint
> 4) i enjoy using it :)
> etc
>
> Thanx all
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p file somewhere safe if you need it.
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Trees moving back and forth ma
definition. I know that Meta is alt (right?), I just dont know the ins and
outs of this stuff.
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On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, A. M. Varon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to selectively backup my config files on a Debian 2.0.
> Anybody can suggest what subdirectory or files to backup?
>
> /etc and /var/www pops up. Any suggestions?
>
Maybe ~/ too??
Mi
I looked, about 3
months ago. If it isnt fixed, It should still be there.
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Wi
ne
> size does not fit all when it comes to the /etc/ppp/options file. You
> may find that out if you do use two or more ISP's!
Its probably more like one size fits most. Nobody can expect that file to
make everyone happy..
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treat the whole thing as a single string, and it is
> wailting for your ISP to send 'ogin: login_name'.
Hmmm sorry Rodrigo, thats what I was trying to say... Sorry If I confused
you.
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> Michael Beattie writes:
> > This can be put in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets as this (I think its correct)
>
> >*
>
> > then in each /etc/ppp/peers/* file, have an option, "user "
>
> pppconf
the kde libs... just an
offer :)
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Mulder:
log file.
If you had it the way I think you did, your connection script will just
sit around waiting for a string that wont arrive. Either chat, or your
ISP will timeout with no action in a specified time.
Michael Beatti
bal options to every ppp connection that
will be made on your box, which rules out username parameters. I generally
as a rule never touch it. the Debian defaults seem to work okay.
Michael Be
t;1234F:"
and F boots from your Floppy drive.
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Jump thro
then call
>
> talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> (or only `talk user', if you are on the same host). There are more
> talk-clients out there, you can try `ytalk' e.g. included in debian.
There is even a (dare I say it) winblows version... cant remember where I
got it, try wi
t on your Hard Drive.
Insert Disk 1 of 987629872309874
(OK)"
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in/procmail
> > > ``
> I use this line in my .forward file. NOTE this is all 1 line:
>
> "|IFS=' ' && p=/usr/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf- || exit 75
> #your-user-name"
Although this wont w
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 22:26:07 +1300, Michael Beattie wrote:
> > Theres a new version that does fat32: fips15c supports it.
>
> That was an unofficial version; there's now an official version (2.0) which
> support it;
does fat32: fips15c supports it.
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yip yip yi
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> You can do this in a default mode if you use the 'append vga=x'
> in your /etc/lilo.conf where x is the mode you want
>
Or put "vga=x" in the global section of lilo.conf
Mich
x27;t fully understand.
> Maybe it's something like .java_wrapper invokes a library, and the library
> has to
> have the
> permission?? Or that 's' doesn't really mean what I think it means??
>
> Much Thanks,
> I guess until I figure it
they exist. it could also have options for --no-named
--no-resolv. Is ip-up called as root? then the editing program could have
r-x-- root, root
Just an Idea. I'd have a go at it.. Anyone object? I'll have a go at the
new pppd too.
Michael
ht. No telnetting in, no response on my Wyse terminal.
BAM. etc etc...
The problem is with those damned "Sound: Recording Overrun" errors.
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On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Chris Mayes wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
> >
> > I think you are trying to start suse with your debian kernel. what you
> > should do, is mount the suse partition, and have
> > 'image = /suse_root/vmlinuz' in the
/dev/hdd1
> label = suse
> read-only
>
> It looks okay to me... Anyway, on with the questions.
I think you are trying to start suse with your debian kernel. what you
should do, is mount the suse partition, and have
'image = /suse_root/vmlinuz' in the suse secti
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(just below All Packages)
Then you have a chance to clear up any dependencies.
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ds like.
Come on... 4.61 bogomips?? I can see thats why it took 10? hours to
load... I dont think X problems are causing that.
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On 12 Nov 1998, Stefan Nobis wrote:
> Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Cant say I have seen this one, but I imagine that dselect is wise to only
> > delete _installed_ packages.. so there is no need to keep them anyway.
> > (Unless you actually ne
put it in /etc/init.d/network
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If at first you
o not want to compile the kernel for sound support, you can purchase
> Open
> Sound System from http://www.4front-tech.com. I use it, works well. But note,
> that it
> is commercial software.
For some reason, this makes recompiling the kernel childs play.
the package file fails on download, then it wont be installed, let
alone configured, because the file itself is a compressed archive of the
binaries, manpages, and docs. Configuration is a cosmetic part to the
install process.
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