Re: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-27 Thread Nathan Poznick
ore question, should I go for C or C++? Which will benefit me more with > GNU/Linux? It sort of depends on what you want to do. The Linux kernel, most system libraries, and GNOME/GTK+ applications use C. KDE/Qt applications use C++. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The only wa

Re: debootstrap

2003-12-13 Thread Nathan Poznick
ve people.debian.org is back yet (following the compromise). You might try searching for the filename, and seeing if google is nice enough to turn up someone else's local copy of it. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life tha

Re: Convert ext2 to ext3?

2003-11-28 Thread Nathan Poznick
t2. If you're converting your root partition, a reboot will be in order, since you won't be able to umount/mount it to make the change take effect. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good cha

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-26 Thread Nathan Poznick
g the -v option as well, since it lists things in a psuedo-ps format: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fuser -vm / USERPID ACCESS COMMAND /root 1 m init root157 ....m portmap ... -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Nathan Poznick
'll have to copy the data somewhere else, format it as ext3, and then copy it back. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> So the former ruffian picked up and tiny faerie and... signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian MSN clients can't connect

2003-10-28 Thread Nathan Poznick
ast the 0.70-2 that's in unstable. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A zebra does not despise its stripes signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: installing oracle9i

2003-10-07 Thread Nathan Poznick
ng), the Oracle installer must have an X display to run (It's a java gui). -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. - Ralph Waldo Emerson signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Graphing/Charting software

2003-10-07 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Ian Melnick: > What'd be nice is just a simple text-based program that outputs a nice > postscript-type graph. Does such a program exist? And if so, does it do > anything close to what I need? Have you tried gnuplot? -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: sudden vim problem in mutt

2003-10-01 Thread Nathan Poznick
ated. Try using something like this in your .muttrc : set editor="vim -c 'set notitle ft=mail tw=72 expandtab noautoindent'" -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "This is the part where the Zagnut is fertilized by the salted nut roll..." -Joel. #413 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Package update

2003-09-24 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Vivek Kumar: > Hi all, > > How can I update only one package rather then updating all the packages > ?? apt-get update; apt-get install package -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most

Re: Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-20 Thread Nathan Poznick
> > `mv $file $newname`; > oops that should be: > `mv "$file" "$newname"`; > So that files with spaces won't screw up. Of course, if you're going to use perl... rename "y/a-z/A-Z/" * -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Improved responsiveness: Galeon over remote X11

2003-09-15 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Karsten M. Self: > I am, I think. Where would I check? Unfortunately, I don't know how you would change that in Galeon...I haven't used it in quite a while. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I conside

Re: Improved responsiveness: Galeon over remote X11

2003-09-15 Thread Nathan Poznick
e you tried disabling them? It very well may not give you any difference in performance, but if I'm thinking properly the antialiasing will be happening on the client end (i.e., the slow machine), which could in theory cause some icky slowness. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "

Re: Disk I/O stalling whole system ..

2003-09-08 Thread Nathan Poznick
o wait for the new IO scheduling code in the 2.6 tree. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "She feels for me, and I feel for her, and we're free to express it.." "--*naked*." -Cabot/Crow (as Cabot). #519 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: syntax highlighting in vim

2003-09-02 Thread Nathan Poznick
(The only place I've seen it is on a Redhat 6.2 machine). It could possibly be a bug in the PHP syntax highlighting... Next time it happens, try: :syntax off :syntax on If it happens regularly, you might even want to bind a key combination to those. (Or file a bug report) -- Natha

Re: Howto get one (1) file from an rpm ???

2003-08-31 Thread Nathan Poznick
stalled file belongs to: rpm -qf /some/file To find out what files an installed package contains: rpm -ql package To find out which files an rpm contains: rpm -qlp file.rpm 2) To extract the files from an rpm: rpm2cpio file.rpm | cpio -id -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PR

Re: let's remove fortran from my system

2003-08-10 Thread Nathan Poznick
I believe the gimp-perl package depends on it, for instance. But, if nothing is depending upon it, you can safely remove it. I don't have it installed on several of my machines, I believe. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a l

Re: Mozilla Firebird

2003-08-01 Thread Nathan Poznick
t gives you a fair bit more control over tabs. I think you can > setup the above behaviour with it. > > see http://texturizer.net/firebird/extensions.html You can also apt-get install mozilla-tabextensions -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solitude, though it may be silent

Re: sshd stop working

2003-08-01 Thread Nathan Poznick
ted? If you do, and your machine does not reverse-resolve to the same name (i.e., foo.bar.com returns 10.3.5.7, but a lookup on 10.3.5.7 returns bar.foobar.com), then I believe sshd will exhibit behavior similar to what you're seeing. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> When a true

Re: PDF viewing and such

2003-07-26 Thread Nathan Poznick
t/source.list (depending on what you're running), and then apt-get update; apt-get install acroread (There's also an acroread-plugin package so you can view PDF's in Mozilla / Konq / Old Netscape) deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main deb http://marillat.free.fr/ testing main d

Re: Toolchain to run 2.6 kernel?

2003-07-26 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Viktor Rosenfeld: > Since the module code has changed (once again) in 2.6, I guess I need > new utils to accompany the new kernel. Is that in unstable already? module-init-tools -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Buying on trust is the way to pay double. - Anonymous

Re: x-pstn header?

2003-07-24 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Steve Lamb: > Does anyone know what puts the x-pstn header into mail I believe it's Trend Micro Spam Prevention Service -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment. - Edwin Percy Whipple pgp0.pgp De

Re: Obscure Perl modules

2003-07-21 Thread Nathan Poznick
for dozens of random packages in the hope that you might need one, I would submit that you're going about it wrong. If your intent is to browse the documentation for dozens of packages in order to determine if one will meet your needs, I would submit that you should instead use a searc

Re: Obscure Perl modules

2003-07-21 Thread Nathan Poznick
ple, just a link to > http://search.cpan.org/author/JANPAZ/DBD-XBase-0.234/lib/XBase.pm would > have gone a long way. Ideally, any documentation following the original > package should be directly accessible from packages.debian.org. Install the package and read the documentation. -- Nathan P

Re: mplayer problem

2003-07-21 Thread Nathan Poznick
Please see my earlier message in reply to your first mail. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200307/msg02915.html -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost pgp000

Re: mplayer problem

2003-07-21 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake J. Smith: > VO: [fbdev] 352x288 => 384x288 Planar YV12 > fbdev: Can't put VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument > init_vo failed I think that's fairly explanatory. It's trying to use the framebuffer for video output. Are you using a framebuffer console? Tr

Re: SSL on Apache

2003-07-19 Thread Nathan Poznick
already installed php4? You likely want to install libapache-mod-ssl, and modify your Apache configuration to load the module. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's. - William Penn pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gaim: keyboard shortcut for switching between tabbed IM/Chat tabs?

2003-07-17 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Mike Fedyk: > Hi, > > Is there a keyboard shortcut in gaim to switch between IM/Chat tabs when > they're in one window with seperate tabs? Alt-N, where N is one of the numeric keys, such as 1, 2, 3, etc... will jump you to tab N -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Why mozilla always starts five instances??

2003-07-13 Thread Nathan Poznick
eality they share memory space. Thus, what you see in 'ps' or 'top' may *appear* to be 5 processes, each taking up 58M memory, but is in reality 1 process (with multiple threads), which takes up a *total* of 58M memory. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nature encou

Re: Eject problem

2003-07-11 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Jerry Van Brimmer: > /dev/hdc/cdromiso9660 ro,users,noauto 0 0 > /dev/hdd/mnt/plextor iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 line those up a bit more, and you should see your problem. try changing 'users' to 'user&

Re: Mozilla Very Very slow in rendering

2003-07-11 Thread Nathan Poznick
ith an > ata 100 hdd. Out of curiosity, are you running an NVidia card? If so, you can use: Option "RenderAccel" "on" In the device section of your X configuration. I've found that it gives a noticable boost in the rendering speeds with an XFT build of mozilla

Re: Games thru SSH

2003-07-10 Thread Nathan Poznick
a very low framerate), but there's no way you're going to be able to: - shove 30fps or so across an ssh connection - do any sort of serious graphics over the connection You might be able to get away with a very-very low framerate aalib-rendered game, but that's about all I can think of

Re: apt-get update gives an error message

2003-07-08 Thread Nathan Poznick
1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (URI) Well... what does your sources.list look like? -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Your conscience never stops you from doing anything. It just stops you from enjoying it. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian rpm

2003-07-08 Thread Nathan Poznick
ld install the 'rpm' package is to use rpm2cpio to extract files, or when you also install 'alien' to convert an RPM to a Debian package. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. - Carl Sandburg pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RedHat support of Debian packages

2003-07-08 Thread Nathan Poznick
likely not have) the same versions of dependancies, or the same package names, and thus the dependancies could become hosed. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. - Harry Emerson Fosdick pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: deb http://people forbidden

2003-06-30 Thread Nathan Poznick
can use the builds from other maintainers, eg. from Adrian Bunk: deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free deb-src http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free For more apt-Sources, visit http://www.apt-get.org . -- Nathan Poznick <[EMA

Re: Kernel 2.5.44

2003-06-29 Thread Nathan Poznick
u'll need to install module-init-tools -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "No self-respecting scientist would have his shirt unbuttoned that far." -Tom Servo. #106 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mozilla 1.3.1 java plugin

2003-06-27 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Where? > > I couldn't find it. > That or I think I already installed it and the > 'update-alternatives --auto java' didn't do anything helpful ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/JDK-1.4.1/i386/01/j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin -

Re: mozilla 1.3.1 java plugin

2003-06-25 Thread Nathan Poznick
ng mozilla installation that had a working > java plug-in. > > Now what? Get the version of the Java plugin from Blackdown that's compiled with gcc 3.2. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A book might be written on the injustice of the just. - Anthony Hope pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'make menuconfig'

2003-06-25 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > However, I *do* have libncurses5 installed, as well as every other packages > which matched a search for ncurses on my dselect. My sources for apt are set as libncurses5-dev -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be consistent. -- Larry Wall in the p

Re: Correct Java for the Firebird package?

2003-06-25 Thread Nathan Poznick
rror messages if I start Firebird from a terminal, and > from what I can understand of the ldd output, both Mozilla-Firebird-bin > and mozilla-bin are compiled against the same libraries. What am I > missing here? You need to get the version from Blackdown specifically compiled with gcc 3.

Re: Where's modversions.h ?

2003-06-24 Thread Nathan Poznick
hers have had the same > trouble compiling > drivers against this kernel, but couldn't find an answer. Anyone know where > modversions.h is? modversions.h is created during the make dep stage of a kernel compile. I believe you'll need to have a proper kernel source tree, conf

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Nathan Poznick
s does not mean that it is "out of memory", since the memory used by cache and buffers can (and will) be reclaimed by the kernel as it is needed. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perver

Re: telnet: could not resolve

2003-06-23 Thread Nathan Poznick
localhost when you mean localhost? I wasn't aware that '0' was valid shorthand for localhost. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know" --Ralph Waldo Emerson pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: your mail

2003-06-18 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Royer Kerwin: > hello; > > please can someone tell me how tu unsuscribe ? > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See above. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We

Re: "cut" command not working as expected

2003-06-17 Thread Nathan Poznick
some sort of loop, for file in $(/bin/ls -1 | tail -2); do # do something with each file here done -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "This is wild! I've never killed a guy like *this* before. Neat!" -Joel (as Hercules). #410 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: C programming: Is there an exec (with no additional letters) call?

2003-06-17 Thread Nathan Poznick
ell that person that he is > definitely confusing the C system calls with shell or another > interpreted language? If not, what arguments does exec takes, what is > the return code and where is it documented? As far as I know, 'exec' is a shell command, execl, execv, execle, execlp

Re: vfat and ordinary users

2003-06-16 Thread Nathan Poznick
d) with no success. I also tried adding user to the options > column in the fstab file but also with no success. /dev/hda1 /mnt/cdrivevfat defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 2 or, mount -t vfat -o uid=1000,gid=1000 /dev/hda1 /mnt/cdrive -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nobody

Re: Pb using mii.o and eepro100

2003-06-15 Thread Nathan Poznick
ulename itself. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens. - Benjamin Disraeli pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: compiling with g++ 3.3

2003-06-15 Thread Nathan Poznick
sr/local/include /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/include /usr/include The /usr/include/c++/3.3 is what is used by the 3.x series, it appears. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge. - Benjamin Jowett pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: compiling with g++ 3.3

2003-06-15 Thread Nathan Poznick
to your namespace only the things you want using std::cout; using std::endl; // always qualify the things you're using which exist // in the std namespace std::cout << "foobar" << std::endl; > P.S. - which libraries are best to use; /usr/include/g++-3/ or >

Re: qiv usage question

2003-06-13 Thread Nathan Poznick
s'. The key bindings are listed in the qiv man page. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model. - Charles F. Kettering pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: qiv usage question

2003-06-13 Thread Nathan Poznick
Randomize slideshow. -S, --shuffle Shuffle images (random order with next/previous functionality). -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I still miss you honey, but my aim is getting better. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: is it correct to specific a path name like this

2003-06-12 Thread Nathan Poznick
correctly. PDB="~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Cool Joe/AddressDB.pdb" export PDB or export PDB="~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Cool Joe/AddressDB.pdb" Should both work fine. You should use quotes when dealing with filenames with spaces in them. -- Nathan Poznick &

Re: How does Linux shutdown?'

2003-06-11 Thread Nathan Poznick
ms and reboots the machine. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla 1.3 and Java

2003-06-11 Thread Nathan Poznick
nux-i586-gcc3.2.bin or ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/JDK-1.4.1/i386/01/j2sdk-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dissent, Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: KDM won't start

2003-06-09 Thread Nathan Poznick
bugs filed about this on bugs.debian.org: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196554 -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. - Thomas A. Edison -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recent upgrade of unstable - xserver problems

2003-06-09 Thread Nathan Poznick
orization'. It appears that this is fixed in today's upload of 4.2.1-8, which should be propagated out by now... Try updating and upgrading again. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Today's been a long week." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Password discrepancies

2003-06-07 Thread Nathan Poznick
ppear to be some sort of problem specific to Gnome. No, Gnome does not have its "own" password. The root password is the root password... there must be some sort of other problem causing it. Try looking at the .gnome-errors file in your home directory, to see if there's anyth

Re: is there any difference in upgrade and dist-upgrade on unstable?

2003-06-07 Thread Nathan Poznick
uires another package to be removed, upgrade will not do it, but dist-upgrade will. I typically use dist-upgrade on all my unstable machines. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!" --

Re: [Alsa-user] Re: bizarre ALSA problems with SBLive... -- SOLVED

2003-06-06 Thread Nathan Poznick
wever. It's neither Free nor free. http://www.opensound.com/readme/README.EMU10K1X.html for a little information on that specific card. A co-worker of mine purchased the drivers from them, but has not been satisfied with the sound quality. Last I'd heard, he was going to purchase a sepa

Re: ALSA/SBLive problem

2003-06-06 Thread Nathan Poznick
S or the ALSA emu10k1 drivers. It's actually a slightly different chipset. There's a driver available (neither free nor Free) from www.opensound.com. A co-worker purchased that driver, but hasn't been very satisfied with the quality of sound from it. You might want to poke around a bit

Re: sylpheed-claws won't compile - glibc is incorrect version

2003-06-06 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Rodney D. Myers: > it's looking for a file called gtk-config, which appears NOT to be > installed; You will also need libgtk1.2-dev. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it

Re: sylpheed-claws won't compile - glibc is incorrect version

2003-06-05 Thread Nathan Poznick
Gnome apps. You want a version of libglib... From the looks of things, you'll need at least libglib1.2 and libglib1.2-dev -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. - Francis Beaumont pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Gnome desktop icons are no longer showing

2003-06-05 Thread Nathan Poznick
;s the latter, I would suspect that Nautilus simply crashed, and logging out of X and logging back in would likely restore your desktop. If however you have already done that, and Nautilus doesn't start up automatically, the cause is something else... -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: mutt "can't lock"

2003-06-04 Thread Nathan Poznick
re likely set to be read-only (i.e. chmod 444'd). Check the permissions on the directories and the files themselves to make sure that they have write permissions for your user. Those are the only things that come to mind for me right now... -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "

Re: help: APT - locked

2003-06-04 Thread Nathan Poznick
and 74 not upgraded. > E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11 Resource > temporarily unavailable) > E: Unable to lock the download directory That specific error looks suspiciously like you're running out of file descriptors on the system... What does cat /p

Re: debian switching monitor off ?

2003-06-02 Thread Nathan Poznick
which seems to be the case), there will need to be some setterm usage: setterm -blank 0 -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. - Reinhold Niebuhr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Trouble with Mozilla Java plugin

2003-06-01 Thread Nathan Poznick
ux.org/pub/java/JDK-1.4.1/i386/01/j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin That is a version compiled with gcc 3.2, and it works for me (whereas the version from that apt archive doesn't). -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All modern men are descended from a worm-like creatur

Re: [OT] email standard maximum line length

2003-04-03 Thread Nathan Poznick
e wrapping. Most MUA's that I've encountered have an option _somewhere_ for the equivalent of "Wrap long lines at X characters". Then again... some don't, I'm sure. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Revenge If you attempt to beat a man down and so get his

Re: Mutt select language for ispell

2003-03-31 Thread Nathan Poznick
the default one... In your .muttrc, you can do: set ispell="some command here" Thus, you could tell it to use "ispell -d otherlanguage" -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Correction: You have an hour and 37 minutes to disarm. And, yes, you *are* up

Re: mutt: GPG sign and encrypt

2003-03-29 Thread Nathan Poznick
ix for this? What about the defaults in /etc/Muttrc ? Those work fine for me... -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. - Jean de La Bruyere pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT: VMS / WNT [was: Re: Official Exim 4 package]

2003-03-26 Thread Nathan Poznick
politan legend"?) See http://www.winntmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?IssueID=97&ArticleID=4494 The primary VMS architect went to work for Microsoft, and most of the core NT development team had formerly worked with VMS development. The similarities between the VMS and NT architectures are striking.

Re: Installing Intel compiler RPMs on Debian

2003-03-09 Thread Nathan Poznick
convert the RPMs into debian packages. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. - William James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB not on after install

2003-03-07 Thread Nathan Poznick
d lilo has been run (unless you've switched to grub), you'll obviously need to reboot. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me." -- Ashleigh Brilliant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Phoenix with java ..

2003-02-28 Thread Nathan Poznick
h a gcc 3.2 mozilla/phoenix is available. (I'd suggest doing #1... I believe that the binaries on mozilla.org are compiled with 2.95) -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. - John Dewey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning

2003-02-28 Thread Nathan Poznick
ry wonky and very very slow: for i in `grep-available -F Depends -s Package kdelibs | cut -d' ' -f2`; do dpkg -l $i | grep ^ii done (it would be a lot better to just toss all of the packages that grep-available returns into one long string and invoke dpkg once with that, and grep for

Re: How to redo mp3's

2003-02-27 Thread Nathan Poznick
efer on what I can run from a command line > script. lame will do that. lame --mp3input -b bitrate infile outfile keep in mind that you're going from lossy->lossy, so you'll lose a bit in the re-encoding, as well as the lowering of the bitrate. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL P

Re: Latest MPlayer

2003-02-24 Thread Nathan Poznick
kages for different optimization levels. mplayer-i386, mplayer-i686, etc. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like. Abraham Lincoln -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Latest MPlayer

2003-02-23 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Trey Sizemore: > What do I add to my sources list to get the latest MPlayer? > > Thanks, > > Trey deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main deb-src http://perso.wanadoo.fr/debian/ unstable main -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Life is not lost by dying

Re: Jargon File - where is tuxedo.org?

2003-02-21 Thread Nathan Poznick
4 (~esh instead of ~esr? :-) but it appears that ESR has moved to http://catb.org/~esr/ Appropriately, the Jargon file is now at http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/ Cheers, -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exac

Re: Loging to Debian Linux via SSH

2003-02-19 Thread Nathan Poznick
ng time to reverse-resolve? Or more likely, does it take a long time to fail the reverse-resolve? I've seen ssh pause significantly when my client machine's IP address takes a long time to fail a reverse-resolve. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Whatever you cannot underst

Re: Best WWW browser..

2003-02-18 Thread Nathan Poznick
27;ve been working great. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All mankind loves a lover. - Ralph Waldo Emerson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla Debian Package 1.2.1-9

2003-02-15 Thread Nathan Poznick
ic font/size. What can I say, I like to be consistent :-) -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Whoah...Did I toss a throne last night?" -Crow (as Hercules). #412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My cup runneth over!

2003-02-13 Thread Nathan Poznick
gdm, then track down that option and turn it off. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to d

Re: how the fuck do I unsubscribe

2003-02-13 Thread Nathan Poznick
n't have anything to do with it. List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe> -- Nathan Pozni

Re: gvim / vim -g WON'T WORK

2003-01-28 Thread Nathan Poznick
l but it's easier to have more than one file > open so I can view them at the same time Do you have the vim-gtk package installed? If not, you won't be able to run gvim. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every

Re: Gaim problems

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan Poznick
im.sf.net/ and running debian/rules) > greetz, Actually, while the yahoo fix missed making it into 0.59.7, the gaim maintainer pulled the fix from CVS and included it in the 0.59.7 Debian package for unstable (according to the changelogs and bug reports) -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Re: Chat servers

2003-01-03 Thread Nathan Poznick
o do the same for debian-user? -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. - Edmond Rostand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Large files support and libc

2002-12-13 Thread Nathan Poznick
way... Have you made any changes to /etc/security/limits.conf with regards to fsize? Also, what does ulimit -f say? -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the American flag, and keep step to the music of the Union. - Rufus Choate -- To UN

Re: cu

2002-12-11 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Rus Foster: > Stoopid question. Which package is cu in as I can't find it for the life > of me uucp apt-file helps out nicely in these situations, I find. apt-file search usr/bin/cu -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They just put a bunch of movies in a b

Re: Yahoo messenger

2001-11-30 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Bill Wohler: > What tool do Debian folks use that interoperates with Yahoo! IM? I've used the Yahoo plugin for gaim, with success. It's included with the gaim distribution. Simply go to the plugins page, load the libyahoo.so plugin, and then you'll be able to add accounts which use

Re: AVI/MPG player

2001-11-29 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake csj: > On Thursday 29 November 2001 20:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, I'm looking for an X11 Mpeg-1/2 and AVI video player, or one > > player for each. Does anyone know where I can get this? > > For a free solution, you can't go wrong with xine. There's even a > debian package fo

Re: dri after upgrade to Xfree 4.1.0 doesn't work

2001-09-21 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Peter De Wachter: > > (EE) MGA(0): [dri] MGADRIScreenInit failed because of a version > > mismatch. > > [dri] mga.o kernel module version is 2.0.1 but version 3.0.x is needed. > > [dri] Disabling DRI. > > > > Seems I've got the wrong mga.o. But why? > > I had the same problem. Compili