Re: Books on Debian

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:06:09AM -0900, Andy wrote: > > New to debian, more of freebsd and other OS users (except MS, although > > not by choice at work), anyways, any good reading on using debian that > > anybody could recommend... > > I am just finishing up Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed. > >

Eterm and mouse

Hi all, This maybe a litle off topic but, since I'm running debian and this is The mailing list for debian users... Anyway, feel free to flame me (once is enough though :) ). As I wrote in the subject, I usually use Eterm to acess mutt, epic, vim, bash shell,... The problem is that if I happen to

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 11:24:52PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > P.S. Does anyone knows how do I put a result from command line into > > mutt/vi when sending mail? > > could use the gpm buffer? [select the text then when in insert mode in > vi, middle click to 'paste'] -this works in vim, haven

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:42:12AM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > 16.11.2002 00:12:53, Ricardo Diz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > P.S. Does anyone knows how do I put a result from command line into > > mutt/vi when sending mail? > > In vi you can read

Re: [OT] Moving away from KDE to what?

I've been following this thread and, since I haven't 'played' with this before, I just ran a 'hdparm -tT /dev/hda5 >hdparm' so I can compare my values with those shown here. My results are in the attach. I was very suprised to see that, even that for buffer-cache I got 130.61 MB/sec, I got 2.10 MB

RE: Repeated keys in X

they seem fine. Ricardo Diz -Original Message- From: christophe barbe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: segunda-feira, 14 de Outubro de 2002 2:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Repeated keys in X If you use gnome2 have a look at the accessibility setings. Otherwise have a look a

ADSL using pppoe & pppoeconfig

looks really bad. "ipconfig" shows that the packets I sent don't go from eth0 to ppp0... "route -n" seems normal Any advices? Regards, Ricardo Diz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dpkg and apt questions :)

package on hold using dpkg --force-hold, but I do not know how (or if it is possible) to see which packages are on hold and how to remove the hold option. Thanks in advance, Ricardo Diz pgpAdvGVNwXUq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian books

o books in amazon. Regards, Ricardo Diz P.S. Since I'm no longer need GNU/Debian Bible, I'm selling it (it's like new). If you happen to be interested just send me a private email. On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 01:09:09PM +0100, Nigel Pauli wrote: > On Sunday 14 October 2001 16:5

Enlightenment theme Customization...

self-HOWTO" for enlightenment? Thanks in advance, Ricardo Diz pgptuP5o59y8c.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: PDF viewer...

ok, then. I think I'm going to stick with Acrobat Reader. Thanks for the help, Ricardo Diz On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 05:52:39PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Ricardo Diz wrote: > > > Hi there! > > > > I wanted to know what is the

PDF viewer...

Hi there! I wanted to know what is the best PDF viewer around. I installed Acrobat Reader, but I found it not being as good as I hoped. Is gnome-gv a better solution? Regards, Ricardo Diz P.S. I'm looking for an pleasent viewer to go with my Enlightenment wm :))

Re: gnuchess (player vs. computer)

You have to pass some parameters to gnuchess when you start xboard (i can't remember the parameters). Try check the manpage of gnuchess ('man gnuchess'). I had the same problem before and I read the solution from the mapage. Regards, Ricardo Diz - Original Message - Fro

Re: deadlock

d resource first. Now process A is waiting for the access of the second resource and process B is waiting for the first resource. So they both enter a block state called deadlock. To handle deadlock there is no efficient solution, only prevention. Regards, Ricardo Diz > > Thanks

Problem with ncurses when making "make menuconfig"

;make xconfig" in a X environment but I rather do it in a console.   I tried to reinstall ncurses (ncurses-base, ncurses-term and libncurses5)  with no sucess in my next attempt. What should be the problem?   Thanks in advance, Ricardo Diz    

Re: Wrong cpu speed detection... FIXED!!

Thank you for the tip. The cpu speed was in low power in BIOS settings. Turning it to high power did the trick. Thanks again, Ricardo Diz - Original Message - From: "Mike Alborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ricardo Diz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday,

Wrong cpu speed detection...

Hi,   I have a Pentium II 266MHz in a laptop and everytime I start linux it thinks the cpu is a Pentium II 182.0MHz?!!   Does anyone know why?   Regards, Ricardo Diz