Re: What happens if run out of HD space during apt-get update?

> dpkg --configure --pending Tried this today, and nothing happened. Could this be because I did an 'apt-get clean', just to recover some space (probably not the best thing to do)? Or does the silence imply that everything wen OK, even though my HD was 100% full? -- Pa

Re: jigdo question

y PPC box. Neither worked.I can't remember the problems I had (it should be in the list archives). jigdo sounds really cool, b/c it took *hours* to download an iso; I believe it would've taken < 1 hour if I'd used jigdo. -- Paul F. Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://home.hiwaay.

Re: UPDATE: when using XDM, lose mouse/kbd when logout

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, craigw wrote: > On Fri Apr 19, 2002 at 07:02:39PM -0500, Paul F. Pearson wrote: > > (cross-posting to debian-powerpc, since this *may* be Mac specific) > > > > update below, to provide context. > > > > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Paul F. Pearso

UPDATE: when using XDM, lose mouse/kbd when logout

(cross-posting to debian-powerpc, since this *may* be Mac specific) update below, to provide context. On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Paul F. Pearson wrote: > Configuration: > Woody, Macintosh 7500 w/G3 card, flwm window manager > > Problem: > When I use XDM to log in, everything seems

when using XDM, lose mouse/kbd when logout

l help. SOme of them are pretty large, so tell me which sections you need ;-) Thanks. -- Paul F. Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://home.hiwaay.net/~ppearson/ "Lord heal our land. Father heal our land. Hear our cry and turn our nation back to You" - Heal Our Land, _Magnify The L

Re: Linux Universal Instant Messaging Client?

> > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- Paul F. Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://home.hiwaay.net/~ppearson/ "Lord heal our land

Re: java

st. Make sure the *entire* line (starting at 'deb' and ending with 'non-free' is on one line in your sources.list. Email programs like to add newlines which don't belong in the sources.list Hope this helps. -- Paul F. Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://home.h

Re: opera and java plugins

e: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:05:41 -0700 > | Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > | > | On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 18:52, Paul F. Pearson wrote: > | > On 11 Apr 2002, Dale Hair wrote: > | > > | > > Installing blackdown java setup java plugins automatically for opera, > | > >

Re: opera and java plugins

nable java" button > > is gray and nothing works !:-| > > > > Any idea ? > > > > > > François > > > > > > > > -- > > Woody 3.0 > > Linux tanna 2.4.14 #3 SMP Thu Dec 6 14:04:03 CET 2001 i686 unknown > >

Re: keyboard friendly browser (was alternative to Netscap)

the button bar, address window, etc. and probably be able to just use the keyboard for most things. I haven't tried this, but I just may to be geeky :-) -- Paul F. Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://home.hiwaay.net/~ppearson/ "Lord heal our land. Father heal our land. Hear our cr

Re: alternative web browser to netscape

ion) I presume someone's mentioned Opera? It's not open source, but it's pretty darn good. -- Paul F. Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://home.hiwaay.net/~ppearson/ "Lord heal our land. Father heal our land. Hear our cry and turn our nation back to You" - Heal O

Debian optimized for Pentium-class CPUs?

iling (on my new machine) Woody optimized for that processor? Same question for a laptop - genuine Intel 90MHz Pentium with (I think) 16 MB RAM and 800 MB HD. -- Paul F. Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://home.hiwaay.net/~ppearson/ "Lord heal our land. Father heal our land. Hear our cr

Re: maintenance mode in woody

. This isn't Debian specific, BTW, so you should get a *lot* of hits on Google for this info. -- Paul F. Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://home.hiwaay.net/~ppearson/ "Lord heal our land. Father heal our land. Hear our cry and turn our nation back to You" - Heal Our Lan

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

rd of sorts. I think it's proprietary, but well defined and "open for use." Many good tools exist on most major OSes to produce PDF. You won't want to edit in postscript or PDF, but will want to produe it from another format (e.g. Word, StarOffice, etc.). -- Paul F. Pearson

Installing Woody from CD-8

;apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' and then 'apt-get install' any other packages I might need. I looked through http://www.debian.org/ and just didn't see (or recognize ;-) any helpful info. -- Paul F. Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://home.hiwaay.net/~ppearson

Re: xlib and woody

server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > I just did a clean install of woody. Everything is up to date. Any > ideas? You've probably already thought of this but ... Are you running as root? Root can't connect to as X server (without some minimal effort

Re: bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

B" > C='$A $B' > C=$A\ $B > C=`echo $A $B` > > What works is > someprog --greeting "Hello Karsten" > but that's no solution. try someprot --greeting "$A $B" There's an excelleng bash scripting HOWTO (don't know the URL right of t

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

gt; placement. I use flwm on my Debian PowerPC Woody distro. Runs nice. You have to click on the desktop to bring up a menu for running programs. Of course, the title bar in on the left, not on top. Takes some getting used to, but I really like it. -- Paul F. Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

temporary ethernet card

e to just get a network card, even though it won't be connected to anything? (3) This one is probably in a FAQ or HOW-TO, I haven't looked yet: if I connect the two computers via a crossover cable, how would I set up the Linux boxes? -- Paul F. Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://

Re: unsubscribe accts@tlmbangladesh.org

understand correctly (*lots* of presumption on my part about what the above code does) - this whole thread would be scored as bad! -- Paul F. Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://home.hiwaay.net/~ppearson/ "Lord heal our land. Father heal our land. Hear our cry and turn our nation back to You" - Heal Our Land, _Magnify The Lord_ (Integrity Music)

Re: unsubscribe accts@tlmbangladesh.org

On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 07:55:26AM +, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Its guys like this that led me to add this to my .forward. > > # NUISANCE POSTS TO DEBIAN USER > if ${lc:$h_to:} matches "debian-user" > and $h_subject contains "subscribe" > then add 100 to n

Re: REMOVE ME FROM ALL MAIL LISTS

Debian to continue. > If someone could tell us why it is so hard to do a simple sub/unsub, or > correct this I would be very gratefull. > On another list, I had to configure my mail client's 'From:' header to my *old* address. This way when I replied to the 'confirm canc

Re: Woody ISO's ?

eing (literally) `'! That's including the back-tick and tick mark and exclamation point. I'm trying a different jigdo URL to see if I get better results. -- Paul F. Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://home.hiwaay.net/~ppearson/ "Lord heal our land. Father heal our land. Hear our cry and turn our nation back to You" - Heal Our Land, _Magnify The Lord_ (Integrity Music)

A couple of general Debian questions

ess to the net is at approx. 30Kb/sec - not a good option for doing an internet install. I don't see any iso's of Woody (b/c it's not released yet) out for me to download and burn to take home. What are my options? Thanks in advance. -- Paul F. Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: MS WORD format (and customizable telnet client)

32 bit versions and is free. > >It also rarely dies in the way EWAN, TrumpTel and many other windows telnet >programs do. I use NetTerm for my Windows terminal stuff. It supports WinSock and dialup. It's got all the features I've ever needed, and seems *very* configurable. -- P