Re: Ghostvie won't read recent .pdf files

2000-06-07 Thread Radim Gelner
I have these problems too. So I start using Acrobat Reader for viewing PDFs. Nice thing about it is, that you can use it also in noninteractive way as a part of pipe for PDF->PS conversion. Then you may continue with GS. Regards, Radim On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 01:02:38PM -0400, David Teague wrote

Re: SMB Printing

2000-05-26 Thread Radim Gelner
00dpi-letter-auto-mono|PS_800dpi auto mono:\ > :lp=/dev/null:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/PS_800dpi-letter-auto-mono:\ > :if=/bin/smb-printredir-auto:\ > :af=/var/spool/lpd/PS_800dpi-letter-auto-mono/acct:\ > :mx#0:\ > :sh: > > im ru

Re: permssions

2000-05-22 Thread Radim Gelner
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 04:29:23PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > I am new at this, so this may be a simple question. I recently > > installed potato on my home computer, and have sound working. However I > > am only able to listen to cds when I am logged in as root. When I try > > to list

Doublesided printing using apsfilter

2000-05-17 Thread Radim Gelner
I'm probably not asking on the right list, but anyway: I've installed the apsfilter and everything works fine except of one thing. The filter prints automatically doublesided on our LJ 4000N, which is nothing wrong about, just that the second side is shifted several centimenters to the right and th

Re: hypenation in tetex

2000-05-17 Thread Radim Gelner
I may be wrong, bu it seems to me, that there are no russian hyphenation patterns in /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen. Rather they are stored in /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/ruhyphen. From there you must select one, depending on the encoding you use and copy it to hyphen/ruhyphen.tex. Regards

Re: receiving emial

2000-04-12 Thread Radim Gelner
The delivery into /var/spool/mail/username is done by local delivery service of your MTA (Sendmail, Exim, etc.). First, you should check, if this is running. For example by: mail user -s Test < /etc/lilo.conf If the message doesn't appear in /var/spool/mail/user then you have something wrong with

Re: Choosing private domain name

2000-04-11 Thread Radim Gelner
When I set up a small masqueraded private network, that is connected to Internet only by ppp link, I set up the domain for this network like 'whatever.loc'. Usually, I also build a DNS server, that is a master for whatever.loc, but also points to root servers on Internet. Sendmail is configured to

Great work Xmame team!

2000-04-10 Thread Radim Gelner
I just couldn't keep myself from installing new release of xmame from woody. Although I have to install few new sound libraries, the result is worth it! Sound is incredibbly crisp, few games that segfaulted in a previous version (e.g. Robocop) now run without the flaw. Those who do not know what I

Re: boot from rescue floppy, install from cd?

2000-04-04 Thread Radim Gelner
In short: you will not to do anything about the CDROM as far as it is a SCSI or IDE one. If you have a proprietary card for it (no very likely), you'll have to insert a proper module for it during the installation. Longer, but MUCH better: Read Debian Installation Manual located on the first CD of

Re: Wrapping lines in VI

2000-04-04 Thread Radim Gelner
Thanks! That is exactly what I needed. Radim On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 05:54:36PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Radim Gelner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >This is a newbie question to vi: > > > >I want the text at the vi to wrap nicely a the end of the line so > >

Wrapping lines in VI

2000-04-03 Thread Radim Gelner
This is a newbie question to vi: I want the text at the vi to wrap nicely a the end of the line so that I do not have to press Enter after every line. I set up the wrapmargin variable in vim. But what do I do, when I rearrange the text and want to wrap it again paragraph after paragraph to get ri

More network setups

2000-04-03 Thread Radim Gelner
I'm moving from network to network quite often and I carry my notebook with me. This leads to the need of more network setups (IP addresses, DNS, hostname, SMTP/POP server, etc). I thought, I can solve this easilly by introducing shell script, that will prompt me for a configuration and according

Re: neomagic

2000-03-29 Thread Radim Gelner
Hi, concerning a NeoMagic cards, I would like to share my own observations. I own a Siemens Scenic Mobile 510 AGP notebook, that is equipped with video+sound combo called NeoMagic 256 AV. This card is not very well supported by the Linux as of time because the manufacturer does not release any spe

Group for /dev/cdrom

2000-03-21 Thread Radim Gelner
On my system, the symlink /dev/cdrom is pointing to /dev/hdb. /dev/hdb is owned by root, group disk. When I want to allow users to play CDs using cdcd, can I change the group for /dev/hdb to cdrom or is there some security threat? Thanks Radim

Re: Mobile phone with Linux?

2000-03-15 Thread Radim Gelner
I'm using Siemens S25 (no ad, I just got it from my company :-)), and I'm quite happy with it. It contains a modem with an IR connector. Supports standard AT commands plus some more, all the specs are downloadable from the Siemens site. But beware, mobile data transfer is REALLY slow. Radim On

Re: PostgreSQL client not connecting - SOLVED

2000-02-29 Thread Radim Gelner
hick wrote: > Radim Gelner wrote: > > > >I have 128 buffers defined in postmaster.init. But maybe the problem is > >not related to PostgreSQL at all, because I've found out, that I got the > >same error (neighbour table overflow) when I try telnetting on the port

PostgreSQL client not connecting

2000-02-23 Thread Radim Gelner
I've upgraded to the newest version of PostgreSQL from frozen and when I try to connect to a database backend using psql through inet port i get a following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ psql -h pc8343 -d testdb neighbour table overflow Connection to database 'testdb' failed. connectDB() -- connect

Re: New netbase, with ifup/ifdown!

2000-02-22 Thread Radim Gelner
I've installed the new netbase right now. One question: in /etc/rc.S there's still one link pointing to /etc/init.d/network. Can I delete it? Radim On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Adam Goode wrote: > Looks like woody and potato got the new netbase, adding use to the > /etc/network/interfaces file (and tak

Re: Recording cd's with cdrecord or xcdroast

2000-02-18 Thread Radim Gelner
I'm using cdrdao-1.1.3 with Philips IDE writer running in SCSI compatible mode (all information on this subject in CDWriting-HOWTO) and I'm really satisfied with its performance. Reads and writes audio, data, bootable and mixed CDs and supports on-the-fly copying (not tested) - I recommend it as a

Re: Apt-get through proxy

2000-02-16 Thread Radim Gelner
t; server up. Once that was running I set these three lines in my profile: > > ftp_proxy=http://proxy.rnd-consulting.com:3128 > http_proxy=http://proxy.rnd-consulting.com:3128 > gopher_proxy=http://proxy.rnd-consulting.com:3128 > > And now it appears to be using it nicely. >

Apt-get through proxy

2000-02-16 Thread Radim Gelner
How do I instruct apt-get to use a proxy server instead of directly contacting the host? Thanks Radim

Re: sharing mailbox with win98

1999-12-09 Thread Radim Gelner
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Michelle Konzack wrote: > The other thing is Netscape and put the mailfolder > on a Fat16/VFAT partition which is readable for > Linux AND Windows. > > > Webmistress Michelle Quite clever! ;-) Radim

Re: Samba and Windows 98

1999-12-02 Thread Radim Gelner
I would recommend the included documentation that comes with Samba. There is a nice step-by-step document describing testing of a new Samba configuration. Also check the texts dealing with smbpasswd and encrypted passwords. Radim On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How could I use S

Re: How to savely copy a disk?

1999-11-18 Thread Radim Gelner
Depending on what type of harddrive you have. For example Seagate and Quantum have a utility to transfer content of a whole harddrive to another one (even bigger). But the free versions available work only with their hardware. Also, I've tested it with fat32, not with ext2fs :-(. Radim G

Re: Cobalt Qube 2 Internet server?

1999-11-18 Thread Radim Gelner
I personally do not own CQ but what I know from debian-mips, they're using their own, modified version of a Linux kernel. It should be available in a source form from their homesite. They also run some mailing lists (as mentioned at www.linux.sgi.com), maybe you should better ask there.