Re: Off-topic? X-Accept-Language: header

s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Mike White: [snip] Point of order: what is the point of that ten mile long "X-Accept-Language:" header of yours? Is there any plausible reason for all of that? Just wondering since I've never seen that done before, and you must be one primo linguis

Re: [Debian] AMD 64 bit architecture

Ron Johnson wrote: One thing that jumps right out is that the w32 codecs needed by mplayer, avifile-win32-plugin, etc are still 32 bit. Documentation for running those 32 bit binaries in a 32 bit chroot system is available. Runs flawlessly on my pure amd 64 ubuntu system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Better program than Putty?

Hi Mark, Mark Maas wrote: I've been using Putty (Windows) to remotely connect to my Debian box as long as I can remember. Recently though i'm getting tired of the way it works... Does anyone use a program that can handle "cut and paste", handle ascii art better etc? SecureCRT[1] is the shizn

what is crontab?

I was trying to setup mgetty from dselect and got an error message that said it could not find crontab. Does anyone know what this file is and where I can get it? I also got an error while trying to setup x-windows. It said package cpp was not installed. I haven't been able to find this package

how to get packages

Can someone point me in the right direction to download packages? I'm not sure how to use ftp because I don't know how to connect to the internet with Debian. I'm not sure what packages I should download first. Thanks for any help. John M. White Waco, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://genealogy.o