On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:58:18PM +0100, marc wrote:
> Sorry for the cheesy question.
>
> Until now, I've retained Gravity on XP for my usenet use. Now, I'm after
> a Linux replacement. I use multiple servers, but I'm only interested in
> text-based ngs, so threading and tracking threads that
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 09:09:37AM +0200, Werner Mahr wrote:
> People spam the list with requests for AOL Art-files, because they find
> it with google for this list. They subscribe and ask the same dumb
> question again. If they would read the threads they found, the wouldn't
> read. I am no e
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 09:50:28PM +, Sam Rosenfeld wrote:
> Precisely what information do I need to get a working mutt for
> Debian 3.1? Once I get it working I think I can tailor it for my
> needs.
You need a properly configured Mail Transport Agent and (probably)
Mail Delivery Agent. Conf
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:52:28AM +0100, Peter J Ross wrote:
> Drifting further off-topic, I notice that Mozilla Thunderbird defaults
> to sending html email.
No it doesn't, as I've learned after too hastily submitting a wishlist
bug (#327011). The default is to *compose* as HT
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:43:39PM +1000, Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote:
> Kim Adil wrote (Tuesday 06 September 2005 4:56 pm):
> > Subject says it all I think. I and many others had to roll back, and I
> > was advised to hold back. How will I know when to proceed?
>
> From my experience, the answe
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 06:44:21AM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 05:06:22PM -0700, James Vahn wrote:
> > David Jardine wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:09:31PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> > >> On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 16:36 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote:
> >
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:55:40PM +, Daniel McBrearty wrote:
> Any idea what the essential differences are betwen installing these 2 debian
> packages? I have used apache-perl without too many hitches on my home machine,
> my new server came with apache2 preinstalled.
>
> I'm wondering wheth
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 06:55:09AM -0700, James Haskell wrote:
> hello all,
>
> i just upgraded from woody to sarge, and it *seems*
> that in the process, my pager has changed from
> /usr/bin/less to /bin/more.
> e.g. if i type:
> cd /usr/include/
> bash displays:
> Display all 370 possibilitie
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:07:44AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> For some reason (maybe a lock of some kind) Thunderbird is not
> running on my system so I have taken this opportunity to get
> more familiar with mutt, exim and fetchmail.
>
> I seem to have gotten most important things to wor
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 01:00:40AM +0200, Juraj Fedel wrote:
> I am trying to install Debian Sarge from 14 CD to my brothers
> computer. Installation is OK but there is no sound. When I try
> to play some sound with 'play sound.wav' nothing happend. No
> error reported - no sound on speakers. It d
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
1) What is genkernel?
It's a Gentoo script for automated kernel generation from source
during the original Gentoo installation. It's distantly comparable to
the scripts in kernel-package, but doesn't require a manual "make
oldconfig" to produce the same effect.
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:15:18AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:54:57AM +0100, Peter J Ross wrote:
>
> > If a package in testing is the same version as in stable, the security
> > updates ought to work for it ...
>
> ... right up until there are
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:01:20AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I could upgrade Firefox to the version that's in unstable, but there
> are two problems:
If a package in testing is the same version as in stable, the security
updates ought to work for it. Try adding security.debian.org to your
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 08:28:17PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote:
> Is the following entry in /etc/inetd.conf:
>
> nntp stream tcp nowait news/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/leafnode
Earlier versions of the leafnode package modified /etc/inetd.conf, but
1.11.3.rel doesn't - though an upgrade from an e
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 03:19:23AM -0400, Steve Å wrote:
> Need help please.
>
> I've Google'ed for the entire evening for hints on how to enable
> procmail to fetch from GMail. Unfortunately I haven't been able to
> find anything Debian specific.
>
> What I've done so far is tell procmail to fe
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 03:28:53PM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote:
> I have KDE and firefox.
> I configured the fonts for KDE (using the msttcorefonts).
> I noticed that firefox is not affected by the font configuration of
> KDE, and moreover has not the standard KDE aspect, while with xfce
> firefox
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:11:27AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> >
> > I has been a long time since I have been actively reading
> > newsgroups. Long ago I have used tin and gnus to do that. I would not
> > recoommend gnus for newbie
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 03:54:48PM +0200, roberto wrote:
> --- Colin Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto:
>
> > aptitude install debian-reference-en
>
> thanks, it works, but how to use lynx to display this
> debian-reference-en instead of konqueror, which is automatically
> started in my sys
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 01:38:25PM -0400, [KS] wrote:
> Peter J Ross wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 12:21:09PM -0400, [KS] wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>My system is an unstable Debian box and was running sound (with ALSA)
> >>unde
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 12:21:09PM -0400, [KS] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My system is an unstable Debian box and was running sound (with ALSA)
> under KDE(and sometimes GNOME) without any problem till a few weeks ago.
> But now I get no sound what soever. There is no sound if I do $cat
> /dev/urandom > /d
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:41:02AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
> > I'm in America (USA to be specific), and I avoid math whenever I can.
> > It's calculators for me, whenever possible. :-)
>
> Is it bad of me that I avoid calculators whenever possible and instead go
> for a P
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 05:52:12PM +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Just wondering, anyone running Etch, what are your experiences so far?
So far it's been very similar to Sarge. I've noticed a change in the
default version of bash, a minor upgrade for ALSA, and the inclusion
of gcc4.0
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 05:48:48PM +, Pariah Dog wrote:
<...>
> Can anyone offer me any further advice.
> I know that since this *is* an integrated audio controller, there
> really is no soundcard, but I figure that since WiNdOwS/MSDOG can see
> the thing, I should be able to convince Linux t
Tom Waits.
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 06:22:27PM -0500, John Carline wrote:
> What a crock of snobbish BS!
>
> snobbish
> adj : befitting or characteristic of those who inclined to social
>exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people
>considered inferior [syn: {
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 10:06:11PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote:
> Lech Karol Paw?aszek wrote:
> >On Thursday 09 of June 2005 22:13, Mike Ward wrote:
> >[...]
> >
> >>Afterall, I honestly never had heard of 'top-posting' before until
> >>now, but just this gentle reminder means that at least one occa
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 03:44:04PM -0400, Jin Juku wrote:
Answer: Because it makes conversations difficult to follow.
> I guess I really am a newbie, because I have no idea what this
> top-posting business is supposed to mean ... we're not supposed to
> send new, clean messages to the list ...?
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 07:01:50PM +0800, Lian Liming wrote:
> Now the problem is that, everytime I boot into the system, I must
> run "alsaconf" first which is not very convenient. I want to know
> if there is any solution for my laptop to make a good configuration
> of ALSA which doesn't need
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:25:28PM -0500, Jim Hall wrote:
> Replies are inline.
>
> Jim
>
> Nicos Gollan wrote:
> >On Saturday May 14 2005 05:02, Jim Hall wrote:
> >
> >>A user needs MIDI to work in Firefox. I installed
> >>kernel-image-2.6.8-686, then ALSA. Ran alsaconf. Everything seemed fine,
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 06:38:11PM -0500, Ian Cottrell wrote:
> Is it possible to subscribe to the list, yet no receive it via e-mail? I'd
> much prefer to read it via Usenet, but if I'm not subscribed, I can't post.
> The URL below seems to only offer subscribe/unsubscribe options.
> Thanks
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 03:41:33PM -0400, Michael Z Daryabeygi wrote:
> there's just no stopping a mail's massive now is there?
Headers suggest that the massives originate in the Massif Central.
> not trying to make fun of anyone's english, I just have a sophomoric
> sense of humor. I am a mis
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 04:41:47PM +0100, Adam Funk wrote:
> I've just installed Debian testing on a new computer but I can't get the
> sound to work. I think the problem is that /dev/dsp doesn't exist,
> although when I did "modprobe snd-intel8x0" it created /dev/snd/controlC0
> and /dev/snd/ti
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 11:13:35AM -0400, Thomas Chadwick wrote:
> I have kind of a unique situation, and googling for help hasn't really
> turned up anything that's applicable, so I'm turning to the mailing list
> for some help. Here's the run-down:
>
> Installed Debian (Woody stable) on a fa
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 12:52:37PM +, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> This request for help is being reposted as no one offered any help.
> Please, would someone respond with some help, even if its just a link
> offering a solution that a relative newbie can implement.
>
>
> After Purging udev
On Sunday 24 Oct 2004 01:03, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> I am trying to play MIDI files on my Debian box. I have installed
> playmidi, but can not get it to work. It gives me the following
> error:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/daisy$ playmidi FirstNoel.mid
> Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. L
On Monday 18 Oct 2004 22:49, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
>
> Loz (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
<...>
> > Which file do I need to edit, and which setting do I need to set
> > it to to change this?
>
> The config file should be called /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> or /etc/X11/XF86Config. From my confi
On Saturday 25 Sep 2004 01:43, Prashant Kumar wrote:
> Hi
> First of sorry for my previous query as a reply for a unrelated
> thread, this time I am initiating a new thread.
>
> I need to chnage font and font size in Eterm, Shift Right click
> brings a menu for font(1-4), but that does not ser
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