Re: SSH permits root-Logins with wrong password

2004-06-16 Thread Patrick Lane
I tried to duplicate this on a sid box and a sarge box (that hasn't been upgraded for awhile). I couldn't duplicate your results. The sid box has ii ssh3.8.1p1-4 Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement (OpenSSH and the sarge box has ii ssh3.6.1p2-3 Secure rlogin/r

Re: gnome 2.6 and keybindings

2004-06-15 Thread Patrick Lane
Menu/Applications/Desktop Preferences/Keyboard On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 14:02, Paul Yeatman wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for such a basic question but can't seem to find (what seems > should be) a quick answer. > > How do I switch key bindings in Gnome 2.6 (for Sarge)? I like to > switch Caps Lock and C

Re: Please advise me...

2004-06-12 Thread Patrick Lane
Since when is a personal computer a good investment that holds it's value? Computers are like cars, the day you buy it, it drops in value 20%!!! Now, IBM's might keep value RELATIVELY better than OTHER laptops, but it hardly makes them a "good investment" that "keeps it's value". --Patrick On Sat

Re: Shutdown

2004-06-11 Thread Patrick Lane
It's equivalent to typing "poweroff" at a command line. I've been shutting off this way for a couple months, no side effects that I've seen/noticed. On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 14:40, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 04:12, Patrick Lane wrote: > > I a

Re: Partition sizes

2004-06-11 Thread Patrick Lane
everything looks reasonable to me except that / is definitely too small and I generally allocate a lot more space to /tmp. Any reason in particular you're keeping it so small? I also usually have a /boot partition. btw, my box is named blue also, damned biter! =) On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 12:55, Davi

Re: Shutdown

2004-06-11 Thread Patrick Lane
I am probably coming in the middle of this thread and don't know exactly what's going on (just re-subscribed to the list). But are you trying to get a "shutdown" button in gnome without having to log out and do it via gdm? Simply make a new launcher that runs 'gksu poweroff'. When you press it, yo

Re: Fixed libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package

2002-11-14 Thread Patrick Lane
he more people using unstable, the more bugs that are found, reported, and eventually fixed for future stable releases. Just my pair of lincolns. Patrick -- Patrick Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SonicBlue Rio S50

2002-11-13 Thread Patrick Lane
I recently bought a Rio S50 w/ the impression that it would easily work with linux (I see Rio 500 support everywhere). However, I can't for the life of me get this thing to work. Has anyone had any experience with this, or any other newer Rio model, and linux? (sorry for the duplicate to those on

Re: mac-binhex translation

2002-10-30 Thread Patrick Lane
What about .sit.hqx files? I can't seem to find any way to get those useable. On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 06:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried some of the programs like mcvert, but never really liked them. > Then just by chance one day I tried Xdeview which I found on my Debian > menus (in windowma

Re: Newbie & Debian 3.0 & GeForce4 MX 440

2002-10-25 Thread Patrick Lane
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 12:33, Aedificator wrote: > Recently i've installed DEbian 3.0 on my PC (512 mb ram, P4 1.6 GHz, GF4 MX 440). > > When trying to run X i get the "no screens found" error. No matter which driver >(svga, nv) i choose during the installation process the Xserver fails. Show us

Re: OT - Power Supply 300w or 400w?

2002-10-25 Thread Patrick Lane
tomshardware.com had a review of 20 some-odd different power supplies. check it out: http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/02q4/021021/index.html --Patrick On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 10:40, John Hasler wrote: > Chip writes: > > I'm buying a new computer - upgrade option available to get 400w power > > sup

Re: CUPS + Epson480 don't work!!

2002-10-24 Thread Patrick Lane
Check your logs (located in /var/log/cups/) for any clues as to what happened. On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 09:02, Gustavo Rahal wrote: > Hi > > I'm having problems with cups and epson480. I think I installed all the > packages and properly configured the printer using the cups web interface > (port 6

Re: OpenOffice

2002-10-16 Thread Patrick Lane
I tried installing fonts as root with the oopadmin tool. Before I even started root had fonts in all the openoffice programs. After installing the fonts, my user still does not have any fonts. I don't know what gives =( --Patrick On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 22:39, Jeff wrote: > Patrick Lane,

OpenOffice

2002-10-16 Thread Patrick Lane
Hello All, Recently, all of my OpenOffice applications seem to have lost their fonts. What I mean by this, is that all text in the applications is missing. Menu text, text typed in by a user...ALL TEXT. It's odd. This happened a couple of days ago and I'm just now getting around to trying to fix

Re: IRC

2002-10-16 Thread Patrick Lane
I use ScrollZ myself. I used to use BitchX, but a BSD buddy got me to try out ScrollZ a couple years ago. At first I struggled with it, being so used to BitchX, but now I struggle with BitchX being so used to ScrollZ =) It's all preference and what you know --Patrick On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 02:34

Re: Soundblaster Live! Card Not Working

2002-05-20 Thread Patrick Lane
I compile support for the sblive directly into the kernel and it works grand. --Patrick On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 15:48, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > No, the card doesn't show up when I do a "lspci". Does that mean I've > got a bad card? > > Thanks, > Ben > > > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:15:08AM -040

gFTP

2002-05-12 Thread Patrick Lane
Is it just me, or does anyone else have stability problems with gFTP? It crashes on me often. I'm using testing, kernel 2.4.18, nvidia X driver, everything up-to-date. --Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

CUPS: client-error-not-possible

2002-05-05 Thread Patrick Lane
I'm getting this error: client-error-not-possible when trying to print a test page via the cups web based admin tool. I'm using sid, completely updated. I have no experience with CUPS, can anyone give me a hand? --Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: getting CUPS to work.

2002-04-17 Thread Patrick Lane
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 05:19, dman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:25:38PM -0700, Patrick Lane wrote: > | I have a HP DeskJet 880C. I installed CUPS, configured the printer. The > | CUPS server shows all test pages as being printed, however, the printer > | receives no data. &

getting CUPS to work.

2002-04-17 Thread Patrick Lane
I have a HP DeskJet 880C. I installed CUPS, configured the printer. The CUPS server shows all test pages as being printed, however, the printer receives no data. The output of 'lpinfo -v' is as follows: blacktop:/home/mandingo# lpinfo -v network socket network http network ipp network lpd direct

Re: Apache && libphp4.so

2002-04-17 Thread Patrick Lane
Did you give that file a .php extension? And if you did, did you point your browser directly at the file? Apache won't recognize index.php unless you tell it to. On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 12:00, Roy Pluschke wrote: > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 08:19:57 -0400 > "Kurc, Marcin A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: MPEG Player?

2002-04-14 Thread Patrick Lane
I suggest MPlayer. It's not a debian package, nor will it be, so you have to compile it yourself. It does have a lot of supported file formats though (divx, mpeg, avi, dvd, etc...). www.mplayerhq.hu --Patrick On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 22:23, Dennis Krinke wrote: > It seems like smpeg-gtv is no long

Re: PS/2 mouse lagging

2002-03-21 Thread Patrick Lane
) blacktop:/home/mandingo# It won't let me. Do I have to enable something in the kernel? On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 00:09, Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 15:57, Patrick Lane wrote: > > Any time there is any hard drive activity, my mouse will freeze up until > > the ha

PS/2 mouse lagging

2002-03-21 Thread Patrick Lane
Any time there is any hard drive activity, my mouse will freeze up until the hard drive stops being accessed. This has only happened since I've downgraded to woody (reformatted). I do not have a slow computer. I'm running a Athlon 1200, 1 GB of RAM, and UDMA 100 HDDs. I'm also using kernel 2.4.17.

xlib and woody

2002-03-20 Thread Patrick Lane
After an indeterminate amount of time (not too terribly long however) I can no longer open new x applications. This is the error emssage I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ galeon Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server I just did a clean install

Java Virtual Machine

2001-10-24 Thread Patrick Lane
What do I need to do to get java working in Galeon and/or Mozilla? I'm using unstable with current packages (not cvs). Thanks in advance. --Patrick

php4-mysql package

2001-10-17 Thread Patrick Lane
Which packages do I need to install to be able to use mysql and php4 together? There are more mysql packages than just php4-mysql I'm assuming. I currently have apache, php4, and php4-mysql installed. --Patrick

Re: galeon bugs -- crashing

2001-10-17 Thread Patrick Lane
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:33:21PM -0500, Rohan Deshpande ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greetings, I have just updated to galeon, and everytime I try to use any plugin Version? Java VM? I'm was having the same problem trying to get the flash plugin installed. I jus

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-16 Thread Patrick Lane
Jim McCloskey wrote: David Harrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> Therefore, I'm asking this esteemed group which combo of DVD Player |> software does it for you..plus what limitations does your chosen bit |> of software have? Xine is now very mature and very stable. The Debian packages (even

Galeon in unstable

2001-10-15 Thread Patrick Lane
I'm trying to apt-get install galeon in unstable. It's telling me that it needs mozilla-browser 0.9.5 and that mozilla-browser 0.9.5-2 is to be installed. Anything I can do? --Patrick

Re: Looking for console IRC client with DCC auto-get and auto-accept

2001-10-13 Thread Patrick Lane
I believe BitchX will do that, ScrollZ will too. --Patrick Morbo wrote: Hi, Could anyone please suggest a good console based IRC client with the possibility to download files from mIRC Fserve fileservers, and the possiblility to set auto-accept and auto-get for DCC transfers. Many thanks in

Re: Software DVD players

2001-10-12 Thread Patrick Lane
no. I forget the library it needs, it's in the documentation. you CAN use win32 dlls for divx, but it's not required, and is actually being phased out of the project all together Craig Dickson wrote: Patrick Lane wrote: I use MPlayer, it now has a GUI! =] www.mplayerhq.hu Y

Re: Software DVD players

2001-10-12 Thread Patrick Lane
I use MPlayer, it now has a GUI! =] www.mplayerhq.hu You have to compile it from source, but it's worth it. The best media solution around in my opinion. Plays mpegs, avis, divx files as well --Patrick Ross Burton wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a good software DVD player for Debian unstab