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2003-02-27 Thread Pat Colbeck
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Galeon snapshot and file download

2003-01-22 Thread Pat Colbeck
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Re: Do debian-users get spammed a lot?

2002-10-15 Thread Pat Colbeck
Strangley allthough I use my private address for all mailing lists and usenet stuff I get far more spam via my work E-mail address that is omly used for business related stuff. Pat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: xemacs21

2002-10-15 Thread Pat Colbeck
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:13:15PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 07:34:27PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 01:31:47PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I upgraded from xemacs21-nomule version 21.1.10-4 to version 21.1.4-8 and > > > evrything w

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-14 Thread Pat Colbeck
I think what you really need is fetchmail and procmail I am afraid. But not to worry a basic setup is not too difficult. Fetchmail To get your mail from a pop3 account create a .fetchmailrc in your home directory that looks like this defaults proto pop3 set daemon 120 poll somemailserver.bigis

Re: Debian Linux Compatability

2002-10-14 Thread Pat Colbeck
So long as you have some free disk space to creat a couple of new partitions (a small one say 256Mb for swap and a larger one for the OS itself) then you should be OK. The current version of Debian (3.0 aka Woody) will automatically creat a boot menu that lets you choose wether to boot Debian or W

Re: Why is apt trying to install packages from Sarge ?

2002-10-11 Thread Pat Colbeck
Arrgh I should have RTFM suddenly its all clear, the numbers used when pinning are not just sequential ie just giving stabel testing and unstable numbers in the order higher -> lower will not work. They are in bands or ranges and different ranges meean different things, for eample one range means

Re: Why is apt trying to install packages from Sarge ?

2002-10-11 Thread Pat Colbeck
Thanks Thad did it. Maybe it was the fact that i didn't have a space between Pin: and release ? All works fine now. Thanks again Pat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla (Galeon) and gtk themes?

2002-10-11 Thread Pat Colbeck
Not sure about Mozilla but Galeon has a Next like theme. You can get it from the Galeon homepage. Pat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why is apt trying to install packages from Sarge ?

2002-10-10 Thread Pat Colbeck
This is getting stranger. I have simplified my preferences so it looks like this: Package: * Pin:release a=stable Pin-Priority: 900 My sources look like this: # Stable which is Woody at the moment deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable mai

Why is apt trying to install packages from Sarge ?

2002-10-10 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi I have just installed Woody from scratch and want to get some packaged form unstable (latest Xwindows). I have edited my apt sources and prefernces to pin the machine to Woody but if I do a an apt-get -s to test what it would do it always wants to install packages from Sarge rather than Woody

Re: Dictionary app recommendation

2002-10-04 Thread Pat Colbeck
There is tkdict which should be able to look like a NextStep app if you use some of the tk tweaks. http://search-dev.cpan.org/src/NEILB/Net-Dict-2.06/tkdict Pat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Emacs and ALT Key in New Debian Installation

2002-10-03 Thread Pat Colbeck
Meta is mapped to the Windows key (the one with a MS flying windows logo" on it by default in Woody running X-Windows. I suppose irt stops issue where the Alt key is used for Window Cylcing (Alt TAB). On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:58:48AM -0700, Mark Seven Smith wrote: > > Any ideas on why my ALT k

Re: GTK AA fonts in WindowMaker

2002-09-30 Thread Pat Colbeck
Weird I just did some playing and Galeon will still do AA using the MS-Core fonts its just stuff like Nimbus that no longer display in AA. Pat On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 09:40:48AM +0100, Pat Colbeck wrote: > Hi > > I am running Woody and have got AA fonts working fine in Gnome with

GTK AA fonts in WindowMaker

2002-09-30 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi I am running Woody and have got AA fonts working fine in Gnome with Sawfish using the gdkfxt GTK theme. The weird thing is that when I run WindowMaker instead and change to using the Nexstaep like GTK theme most of my GTK apps (including control center and gedit) still run as AA. Galeon howeve

Re: (no subject)

2002-09-20 Thread Pat Colbeck
?? > > I am only using this for further UNIX development at home, rather at work, > but am > uneasy about installing it, if it means I lose my Windows O/S. > -- --- Pat Colbeck E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:I'm not telling -

Re: IP datagram analyzer

2002-09-20 Thread Pat Colbeck
it's more than that. Play around with it a bit. > > noah -- --- Pat Colbeck E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:I'm not telling --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Encrypted Partition

2002-09-17 Thread Pat Colbeck
ng to work out what you had actually enetered for the password. Pat -- ------- Pat Colbeck E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:I'm not telling --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Gnome and printing and CUPS

2002-09-13 Thread Pat Colbeck
forward in Linux desktop usabilty. Pat -- --- Pat Colbeck E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:I'm not telling --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian 3.0 and AIRONET PCI4800 (Aironet PCI350) ?

2002-09-12 Thread Pat Colbeck
t; your problem? Have you tried the drivers from Cisco? Have you enabled > the kernel modules for the aironets? Have you loaded them? > > Nacho -- --- Pat Colbeck E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:I'm not telling ---

Re: Installing from a floppy disk

2002-09-10 Thread Pat Colbeck
__ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes > http://finance.yahoo.com -- --- Pat Colbeck E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:I'm not telling --- -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Emergency lost my mail !

2002-09-06 Thread Pat Colbeck
Forget it panic over. The missing three days had decided to jump into a completely unrelated folder on the exchange server. No idea why but I got them back. Pat -- --- Pat Colbeck E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:I'm not te

Emergency lost my mail !

2002-09-05 Thread Pat Colbeck
? This is the first time in 10 years I have actually lost any mail as normally I use fetchmail and procmail and backup all incoming mail before leting the MUA at it and its not a pleasent thing to happen ! Thanks Pat -- --- Pat Colbeck E-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Speller

2002-09-05 Thread Pat Colbeck
a window with the word looked up for you. Pat On Thursday 05 September 2002 4:46 pm, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > What would be absolutely awesome is having a pluggin for my browsers and > editors that could be a right click option! > > hth -- ------- P

Re: PCMCIA ethernet and Woody with 2.4.x kernel

2002-09-05 Thread Pat Colbeck
/etc/default/pcmcia. > > /usr/share/doc/pcmcia-cs/notes.Debian.gz > > I hope this helps. > > -Andre -- --- Pat Colbeck E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:I'm not telling --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

PCMCIA ethernet and Woody with 2.4.x kernel

2002-09-05 Thread Pat Colbeck
doesnt work and I have to go through the whole rigmarole again. Can anyone point me at some docs about how to set this up the Debian way so it works on boot ? Thanks Pat -- --- Pat Colbeck E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:I'm not te

Re: Lilo boot splash on Woody

2002-09-03 Thread Pat Colbeck
Thanks all It works fine now after following Olivers instructions and putting the bmp in /boot and changing lilo.conf to reflect this. Regards Pat On Friday 30 August 2002 2:34 pm, Oliver Fuchs wrote: > On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Pat Colbeck wrote: > > Hi > > > > Last night I

Re: Applications not using hosts file for name resolution

2002-05-28 Thread Pat Colbeck
Oh how annoying. Is there a way to disable IPv6 without recompiling the kernel ? Thanks Pat On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 00:38, John wrote: > Pat Colbeck wrote: > > >Hi > > > >I have noticed something starnge about my Woody system. I have to > >maintain a hosts file due

Re: Applications not using hosts file for name resolution

2002-05-28 Thread Pat Colbeck
formatted as "order hosts,bind". This line is followed (in my > > /etc/host.conf file) with the single line "multi on". > > > > The remainder looks fine to me. > > > > Dean > > - > > On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 02:13:17PM +0100, Pat Colb

Applications not using hosts file for name resolution

2002-05-27 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi I have noticed something starnge about my Woody system. I have to maintain a hosts file due to some firewall and external DNS weirdness for some of the hosts in the office. If I ping them then they resolve via the hosts file but applications like telnet and postfix seem to be using DNS (thus ge

Re: IPCop on Debian

2002-04-18 Thread Pat Colbeck
chucked on there to manage it. Nice product, no reason why you couldn't do the same thing with Debian but he whole point of IPcop is that its quick and easy to setup even if you know nothing at all about Linux. Pat -- ------- Pat Colbeck E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:

Re: fuzzy fonts in menus

2002-04-15 Thread Pat Colbeck
The Gdkxft theme is a GTK theme (ie for the GTK widgets of applications not the window decoration in Sawmill) that will use AA. Wether you like the effect or not is a personal thing. Pat -- --- Pat Colbeck E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:I'm not te

Re: Help I've deleted everything unde /var/cache/apt

2002-04-08 Thread Pat Colbeck
Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Creating the /var/cache/apt/archives and /var/cache/apt/archives/partial directories then running apt-cache gencaches fixed it all up for me. Thanks again Pat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Help I've deleted everything unde /var/cache/apt

2002-04-05 Thread Pat Colbeck
Thanks, I diodn't intend to delete the thing in the first place ! I was playing with apt-proxy and got interupted by someone and did an rm -Rf in the wrong console. Never mind I know someone who did that in the root directory of the main Dec Alpha for a reasonably large company. Luckily it was Fr

Help I've deleted everything unde /var/cache/apt

2002-04-05 Thread Pat Colbeck
I know I've been dumb but I deleted everytning uder /var/cache/apt. Is there a tool to rebuild my system as apt is now totally broken. Thanks Pat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Alt as Meta

2002-04-03 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi I am running a Woody system and cannot get Alt to work as Meta in Xemacs. I have just installed Xemacs and havent added any config for it yet but have tried modifying the XF86Config-4 file thus: Option "LeftAlt" "Meta" Option "RightAlt" "Meta" This didnt help. I

Re: debian

2002-04-03 Thread Pat Colbeck
I think its deb-ian as it was the names of the people who started it ie Deborah and Ian. Pat On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 01:47:55AM -0600, fti International wrote: > Hello All, > > A basic question, what is the right pronunciation of "Debian"? > dee-bean? da-bean? or something else. > -Cong -- T

Re: Instalation question: Toshiba TECRA 8000

2002-04-02 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi I have a Tecra 8000 and my compamy use loads of these. We all have problems booting CDs. Some seem to work and some don't. The thing to do is top make a boot floppy(s) (number depends on the distribution) and boot from that. You will find once it has booted the kernel from the floppy the rest

Re: chatscript trick to wait for dial tone after 9 is dialed?

2002-03-26 Thread Pat Colbeck
Quick guess A comma "," usually causes a delay in dialing with most modems. If you need a longer delay you can add more commas so for example 9,,,1234567 Pat On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:17:53AM +, Martin Edward John Waller wrote: > Hello, > > I need to get my ppp to wait for a dialtone aft

Re: Installing Debian or Linux

2002-03-20 Thread Pat Colbeck
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 10:41:51PM +1100, John Lynch wrote: > Can you download SuSe for free over the internet? > And also, can u install it in a dual boot system with the linux partition > having 1 gig? Yes you can install it via FTP see: http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/lmuelle_suselinux_interne

Re: Installing Debian or Linux

2002-03-20 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi Personally I would recommend SuSE for a complete Linux/Unix newbie. It has a very easy install with good hardware autodetection and has probably the best manuals I have ever seen with a Linux distribution. Its probably the easiest distro to get you up and running with say KDE, printing and an

Re: Mutt displays my message index all wrong

2002-03-19 Thread Pat Colbeck
Ohh Sorry but I dont use IMAP with Mutt, well not directly I use fetchmail to pull the mail from my IMAP server to local spools. I would go on over to www.mutt.org and join the mutt user mailing list. The helpfull people there will have a more detailed knowledge of mutt and imap and thus should b

Re: Pump and Dhclient

2002-03-18 Thread Pat Colbeck
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 09:11:54PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > pump does not obey the RFC and has been known to not work on all networks. > > Debian is moving away from it. > > This is no longer the case. pump is now useing AF_PACKET to send d

Re: Mutt displays my message index all wrong

2002-03-18 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hmm Try this : mutt -n -f ~/Mail/foobar where foobar is a mail spool This will bypass all the mutt config files un case they are causing the problem. Does the index work then ? Pat

Re: Mutt displays my message index all wrong

2002-03-18 Thread Pat Colbeck
Thats a weird problem. I have used mutt on and off for four years and never seen that. However it is a console app and so its display can get screwed up if the console is weird or chages size (dependant on the console being used). I you running mutt in X ? If so what terminal are you using (rxvt,

Re: Flash and Konqueror

2002-03-15 Thread Pat Colbeck
> konqueror, but some sites just wouldn't load right. If you must use > flash, I am having good results with mozilla/galeon. KDE 3 may have > some improvements though too... Much the same experience here. Galeon renders web pages much better and faster than Konq and the pluggins work better too.

Re: Acroread not displaying menu text 2nd try

2002-03-14 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi James The Acrobat issue has fixed itself today ! Not sure why it has but it has. All I can say is that I have been installingf a few new packages such as Mozilla from unstable and the latest 2.4 kernel I have also done a reboot. All of a sudden it works fine with no error messages. So I guess

Re: Flash and Konqueror

2002-03-14 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi If I remember correctly you havent done anything wrong. You have to delete something in the .kde directory sometimes to make flash work once installed, unfortunately I cant for the life of me remember which file to delete but I am sure someone will tell you :) Pat

Courier IMAP authentication

2002-03-13 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi I think I must be missing something obviose here but here goes:- I have installed courier-imap (this is on Woody) and then point an IMAP client at localhost (in this case Evolution) when it pops up asking for a username and password I type them in and then I fail authentication. The follwoing

Re: Acroread not displaying menu text 2nd try

2002-03-13 Thread Pat Colbeck
James Just done some testing and this proplem only occurs in KDE. It works fine in Gnome (with Sawfish) or in WindowMaker. Still don't know how to fix it in KDE though ... Pat

Re: More leafnode woes

2001-04-13 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi As requested my leafnode config file. I also checked the permisions as you suggested and all directories from / var/spool/news downwards are owned by news.news. Thanks Pat (who is more awake than he was last night due to the fact that is a bank holiday over here in the UK today :) ## Thi

Re: More leafnode woes

2001-04-12 Thread Pat Colbeck
Something else I just noticed, in Gnus I can list the active file but if i do "list groups matching" and try say comp.* instead of loads of group;s being listed I get none at all ! Also in the office when I start Gnus for the first time it autosubscribes to a few news groups such as the Gnus one

More leafnode woes

2001-04-12 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi Well leafnodes running again but it wont get any articles. Its a fresh install so all articles should be new to it. I ran up Gnus and subscribed to comp.editors and then ran leafnode again (initail run just obtained the active file as expected) and no articles were pulled. The -vv output rev

Re: Help - I've broken my leafnode rather badly.

2001-04-12 Thread Pat Colbeck
Thanks Thanks dpkg -P fixed it, well at least it reinstalled and leafnode-conf came back. Now I am going to give it a whirl again. pat On Thursday 12 April 2001 23:43, Robert L. Harris wrote: > did you do a "dpkg -P leafnode"? If you didn't, the system may > think those files are there but not

Help - I've broken my leafnode rather badly.

2001-04-12 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi I was having some problems with leafnode (like it wouldnt dwonload any messages it just considered them ! I figured this must have been a problem with my config so I "apt-get removed " leafnode and then "rm -Rf"'d the /etc/news and /var/spool/news directories just to make sure. Now I cant re

Re: Where is faddrs.h ?

2001-04-09 Thread Pat Colbeck
: > Pat Colbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am trying to compile a sniffer and the configure script gives this > > error:- > > > >checking for ifaddrs.h... (cached) no > > > >Does anyone know what package provides ifaddrs.h ? > >I am

Where is faddrs.h ?

2001-04-09 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi I am trying to compile a sniffer and the configure script gives this error:- checking for ifaddrs.h... (cached) no Does anyone know what package provides ifaddrs.h ?I am using 2.2.r2 I am using 2.2.r2 Thanks Pat