Re: from casette tape to computer?

2002-01-27 Thread Pete Ryland
hat? Also gramofile only > detected 2 tracks and i think that there should be more like 15. You shouldn't attach amplified output to line in connections. The impedances required are very different and you will end up with a very bad quality frequency response. hth, Pete -- Pete Ry

Re: root password forgotten

2002-01-26 Thread Pete Ryland
f john where to use only minutes > to crack a reasonable root password. I interpreted 2) above as: 2a) Write down (or scp or whatever) encrypted passwd 2b) Go home 2c) Then run john Pete -- Pete Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XMLDB: http://xmldb.sf.net/ Industrial design knows of no article more useful than the milk crate.

Re: HOWTO->dd an MBR onto a HD

2002-01-26 Thread Pete Ryland
use the various options to lilo to make sure it writes to the right drive and knows where that drive will end up being booted at. Check the man page for lilo, especially the -b -C -r -t and -v options. If you can't get this to work, boot from a floppy after swapping the disks and run lilo t

Re: Instalaçã o do Debian

2002-01-26 Thread Pete Ryland
Bom dia Elisângela, Este "mailing-list" é uma lista só Inglesa. Seria melhor para fazer a pergunta para debian-user-portuguese. Estou enviando este email para eles também. Eles são capaz de te ajudar para obter e instalar linux. Desculpe o meu português ruim. :) []s, Pete Ryland

Re: Xine & DVD's

2002-01-20 Thread Pete Ryland
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:36:40AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I finnally got Xine running on my laptop, but it plays everything except > DVD's. Any one know what package I have to add for this? I downloaded a rpm for xine-lib-d4d (version 0.9.7 in my case) and used alien to convert to deb.

Re: What is "OT:"

2002-01-19 Thread Pete Ryland
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:56:56PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:47:39AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > What "OT:" means seems to be known to many, but I haven't a > > > clue. Please enlighten me. > > > > OT = Off Topic > > > > :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-) > > > > The

Re: euro char on US keyboard

2002-01-18 Thread Pete Ryland
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 06:08:32PM +0100, Andreas Leitner wrote: > Hi, > > I live in Austria, but for convenience use a keyboard with the standard > US layout. It actually got a Euro symbol printed on the "5" key (to the > right of the five, just like @ on the german keyboard is right to "2" > iir

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-18 Thread Pete Ryland
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:19:12AM -0500, dman wrote: > (FWIW UNIX had the first IM called 'talk', too bad I never see it used > anymore (in fact, I can't get it to work at school)) What about write(1)? That came before talk didn't it? And is more similar to an IM IMO. :) Pete

Re: problem removing a file

2002-01-14 Thread Pete Ryland
rm -- --absolute-paths The rm man page says: To remove a file whose name starts with a `-', for example `-foo', use one of these commands: rm -- -foo rm ./-foo hth, Pete On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:24:11PM +1000, Adrian Bolzan wrote: > Hi, > > I have

Re: Exim Adding "Sender" Header

2002-01-10 Thread Pete Ryland
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:25:57PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:13:13PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > | When I send e-mail from my Debian box, Exim is adding a Sender header on > | the way out. > > You're not trusted, so exim reports who you "really" are and allows > you to for

Re: Problems using Logitech Cordless Desktop Optical

2002-01-09 Thread Pete Ryland
I also have a problem with my logitech gear. I have a cordless kb/mouse for my laptop, and the (2-button) touchpad does not work if I don't have the other mouse plugged in (with the imps2 proto that I have to use to get the scroll thing working that is - with ps2 proto it works ok, but no scrolly

Re: OT: performance problems.

2002-01-07 Thread Pete Ryland
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:25:45PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Graham/Aniartia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.0231 +0100]: > > Well it might not be the CPU that's at fault, what's your soundcard & > > mobo, even with the most sorted latency on VIA chipsets I'm still > > getting pro