Lo, on Monday, August 16, Rthoreau did write:
> > Date: Yesterday 14:49:47
>
> > Lo, on Sunday, August 15, Richard Cobbe did write:
>
> >> The computer did come with a PCI IDE controller card (the "unknown mass
> >> storage controller" line above)
Lo, on Sunday, August 15, Rthoreau did write:
> I have used ext3, and assume you are using ext2, what kernel
> parameters are you pasing to the kernel?
Yes, ext2, although I'd be surprised if that makes a difference. As far
as kernel parameters, the only one I'm using that looks at all relevant
Lo, on Sunday, August 15, Richard Cobbe did write:
> The computer did come with a PCI IDE controller card (the "unknown mass
> storage controller" line above) that has another two controllers on it.
> I haven't yet tried switching controllers to see if that helps at a
Lo, on Sunday, August 15, James Vahn did write:
> Richard wrote:
> > I'm running Debian stable, and I've been running the 2.2 kernel series
> > for some time now, because I've never had very good luck getting DMA to
> > work for my hard drive under the 2.4 series.
> >
> > The hard drive is a Seaga
Greetings, all.
I'm running Debian stable, and I've been running the 2.2 kernel series
for some time now, because I've never had very good luck getting DMA to
work for my hard drive under the 2.4 series. However, with sarge's
release appearing increasingly imminent, I need to try to get this
reso
Greetings, all.
I'm current running stable. I understand that sarge is likely to be
released fairly soon now. Even if it's not, external pressures (access
to svn, gcc 3.3) will likely force me to upgrade in any case.
In light of that, could someone comment on how well sarge works with a
2.2 ker
Lo, on Sunday, June 13, Dan Jacobson did write:
> How does one get ssh to not wait?
>
> ssh somewhere < touch file
> sleep 333 && rm file&
> !
> echo I want control to arrive at this line without waiting 333!
>
> I tried (...)&, disown, etc.
> Must I resort to batch(1)?
> Perhaps one could use n
Lo, on Tuesday, June 1, Thomas Adam did write:
> --- James Sinnamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I am running 'testing' and am considering changing to 'unstable'.
> >
> > In any case, does this site give me any clues about how to go about
> > building non-Debian applications from source
Greetings, all.
I'm having a little difficulty with exim configuration. Debian stable,
exim 3.35-1woody2.
This is a home system, set up to deliver all outgoing mail through a
smarthost. I ran eximconfig, selected the smarthost option, and entered
the relevant data to get my basic exim.conf file
Greetings, all.
I've just switched to CUPS from lprng. I've been quite happy with it;
the web configuration interface is particularly nice.
Only one minor question: the best .ppd for my particular printer is not,
so far as I can tell, included in any of the cups-related packages (at
least in woo
Greetings, all.
I'm having serious trouble printing postscript files from my Woody
system. I've got a HPDJ 670c, and I'm running gs 6.53-3 and magicfilter
1.2-53. (This, of course, applies to printing anything that goes
through PostScript, like PDF.) I'm using lprng 3.8.10-1.
The actual behavi
Lo, on Saturday, January 18, Eric G. Miller did write:
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 12:07:24PM +0100, Achton N. Netherclift wrote:
> [snip]
> > According to packages.debian.org, the file that is missing according to
> > the config.logs (crt1.o) is contained in the libc6-dev package. The file is
> > m
Lo, on Wednesday, January 15, Adam did write:
> On my ISP shell account I can set my email address in Emacs when using
> RMAIL but this doesn't work on my Debian box, is this exim's doing?
I don't think so; I'm able to configure my outgoing email address
successfully using VM, XEmacs, and Debia
Lo, on Saturday, January 11, Bob Proulx did write:
> Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-10 22:28:14 -0800]:
> > In the current stable release of debian, GNU Emacs uses the Windows key
> > as Meta instead of Alt. I am told this is not true for other linux
> > distributions or other releases of de
Lo, on Monday, January 6, nate did write:
> Abdul Latip said:
>
> > IT WORKS! Thank you very much! May I know for what is
> > "-nolisten tcp" in xserverrc?
>
> sure, glad to help. the nolisten tcp is to prevent the X server
> from listening for connections on TCP ports.
... which is a good thin
Lo, on Tuesday, January 7, will trillich did write:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 06:21:07PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> > What does `hideous' mean here, specifically? I commented these same
> > lines out back when I upgraded to woody, and now my xterm menus look
> >
Lo, on Monday, January 6, will trillich did write:
>From /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color:
> > ! The following two sections take advantage of new features in version 7
> > ! of the Athena widget library. Comment them out if you have a shallow
> > ! color depth.
... or if you use a dark backg
Lo, on Saturday, June 29, Sam Varghese did write:
[ wrapped to 72 cols ]
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 05:33:17PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> > Not correct. In woody, both packages support both versions. OpenSSH
> > defaults to protocol v1; for v2, supply the `-2' switch t
(Snipped all the cross-posts.)
Lo, on Friday, June 28, Sam Varghese did write:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:25:52PM +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I have a problem with my ssh, when i try to connect to our server using
>
Lo, on Wednesday, June 26, Colin Watson did write:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 05:25:16PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> > Lo, on Wednesday, June 26, Colin Watson did write:
> > > If you're running 3.3 with privilege separation enabled (as it is by
> > > default),
Lo, on Wednesday, June 26, Colin Watson did write:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 03:39:49PM -0400, Reid Gilman wrote:
> > 3.4 contains bugfixes for a few problems I don't completely understand
> > but I believe that there was a bug that could allow root access.
>
> If you're running 3.3 with privile
Lo, on Thursday, June 20, Colin Watson did write:
> If you care about dpkg's available file being up-to-date, you need to
> run 'dselect update', which runs 'apt-get update' for you. You don't
> need to run 'apt-get update' as well.
Pardon the somewhat elementary question, but what is dpkg's avai
Lo, on Wednesday, June 5, Paul Johnson did write:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 02:32:00PM -0400, tvn1981 wrote:
>
> > 9/tcp opendiscard
>
> Not sure myself...
Standard TCP service; routes everything written to that
Lo, on Wednesday, June 5, Jeronimo Pellegrini did write:
> > > To me, the best solution to this would be to customize the tagline on
> > > each outgoing message, so that it would read something like "you are
> > > subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED], to remove send a message _from that
> > > address_
Greetings, all.
eximconfig, when asking where to route mail for root and postmaster,
prints the following warning:
Note that postmaster-mail should usually be read on the system it is
directed to, rather than being forwarded elsewhere, so (at least one
of) the users you choose should
Greetings, all.
I've got a server that's currently running Debian/stable. I've also
installed bugzilla from source in /usr/local.
When woody is released, I'd like to move to the version of bugzilla
that's in woody. However, I'd really like to keep my existing bug
database intact during the upgr
Lo, on Thursday, May 23, Glen Lee Edwards did write:
> I installed xemacs 21 from Woody. I run fvwm as my window manager. I'm using
> the same configuration files as I did with Red Hat for both. Xemacs is
> ignoring
> the font information I have in my configuration files, and when it loads in
Lo, on Thursday, May 23, Michael Jinks did write:
> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 06:21:27PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> >
> > I can't tell from the parts of your X log that you included, but what
> > color depth are you running on these machines? In my experience,
> &
Lo, on Wednesday, May 22, Michael Jinks did write:
> Hi, all. I'm mostly looking for tips on where to seek more info, since
> at this point I'm completely puzzled and lack the background to really
> dig into this issue.
>
> I've just set up the first of a batch of new Dell Optiplex GX240's,
> ru
Lo, on Wednesday, May 22, Stefan Bellon did write:
> Dave Carrigan wrote:
> > Stefan Bellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [snip]
>
> > > gdm, but without the rest of GNOME, only gdm.
>
> > gdm won't evaluate your .bashrc to set the environment variables. The
> > idomatic solution is to create
Lo, on Wednesday, May 22, Tom Cook did write:
> On 0, Stefan Bellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Felix Natter wrote:
> > > Stefan Bellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > > When using Emacs to start a compilation (e.g. with C-c C-c from C++
> > > > mode) you get "make -k" as default. The p
Lo, on Tuesday, May 21, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry did write:
Where's the attribution? Who was the OP?
> > Why the sam hell is there not, by default, no questions asked, it's
> > installed because it's *right*, a statically linked /sbin/sh as
> > roots default shell?
> because the days of
Lo, on Sunday, May 19, Michael C Alonzo did write:
> Osamu Aoki wrote this message last Sun, May 19, 2002 at 06:17:29AM -0700:
> > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 08:56:32PM +0800, Michael C Alonzo wrote:
> > # blackhole for autoresponders
> > :0
> > * 1^0 ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > * 1^0 ^Subject: Auto
Lo, on Saturday, May 18, Hans Ekbrand did write:
> On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:40:47PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> > The reason most people suggest 72 is that traditionally, terminals
> > are 80 characters wide, and 72 leaves enough room to be quoted with
> > "> " four times.
That's one of the r
Lo, on Thursday, May 16, Cam Ellison did write:
> * Gary Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> >
> > And, *please*, for the love of God and country, can you wrap your
> > lines at 70 characters or so?!
> >
>
> I would love to, but every attempt seems to go nowhere. Not everyone
> complains,
Lo, on Tuesday, May 14, Arthur H. Johnson II did write:
>
> My bank's online account program only works with netscape classic, but
> recently they decided to only allow Red Hat 6.1 machines to access the
> program because they can "support" that version of Linux. In other words,
> instead of sup
Lo, on Wednesday, May 8, Glen Lee Edwards did write:
> Hi,
>
> I've been a loyal Red Hat user for the last 4 or 5 years. Their recent
> distributions will no longer install on all my computers because they now
> require more than 16 Meg RAM. I have a few questions:
> How well does FVWM run o
Lo, on Saturday, May 4, AE Roy did write:
> I've set up my system with 15 computers and 60 users so that they have a
> directory where they all can share files, under /home/staff, I have
> them belongign to the group teacher who is the owner of /home/staff, and
> the GUID is set on /home/staff.
>
Lo, on Thursday, May 2, Mike Fontenot did write:
>
> Actually, the more I look at the advice to patch up
> mozilla so that it can handle java applets, the less
> I understand the advice:
>
> "unzip jre.xpi -d $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/plugins 'jre-image-i386/*'
> ln -s jre-image-i386/plugin/i386/ns60
Evening, all.
I just noticed some odd behavior from the xdvi in woody; it doesn't seem
to display small caps from postscript fonts correctly. The following
LaTeX file demonstrates the problem nicely:
%
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{palatino}
\begin{document}
THIS IS ALL
Lo, on Sunday, April 21, Andy Saxena did write:
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 01:46:31AM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> > * Sridhar M.A. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Just today when apt-get upgrade installed the new version of
> > > xfree86-xserver in testing (4.1.0-16), I
Lo, on Sunday, April 14, Lars Jensen did write:
> Robin,
>
> How do I place the module on the initrd?
On woody, at least, make sure it's listed in /etc/mkinitrd/modules.
Richard
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Lo, on Friday, April 12, Craig Duncan did write:
> I just recently dumped Netscape mail in favor of vm (in emacs). I'm a
> _long_ time emacs user and although i've heard a lot of good things
> about mutt, when i was trying to figure out what to replace Netscape
> mail with, i decided upon vm beca
Wow! Lots of responses. Thanks to all for your comments. Rather than
write about 15 separate replys, I'm going to address most of the points
in this one mail.
Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Two programs that from a user perspective cause workarounds are
> xcdroast/cdrecord/mkisofs &
Greetings, all.
I'm happily running woody with kernel 2.2.20, and I'm thinking of
upgrading to kernel 2.4.18. Before I do this, though, I'd like to know
more about this process -- it's been a long time since I upgraded across
minor version numbers.
First question: what are the major differences
Lo, on Wednesday, April 10, The Doctor What did write:
> I saw Anthony Towns's message about Galeon not being in Woody.
>
> Is this true even for galeon 1.0?
Not sure about this. However, it's pretty straightforward to install
Galeon from Sid on top of a Woody system; I've been doing that here
Lo, on Tuesday, April 9, Daniel Toffetti did write:
> > > How can I use rpl (or any other suitable command) to transform the
> > > "\n" character between Unix and Msdos formats ?? rpl seems to be
> > > the right tool, but I can't figure out how to specify that strings.
> >
> > In the sysutils pack
Lo, on Monday, April 8, j y did write:
[reformatted for 70 columns]
> Hi I'm using Suse 7.3 right now and I want to put debian on my hard
> drive. Is there an easy way to do this. I'm into easy if
> possible. thanks
I'm assuming you want to install the two distributions in parallel,
right?
It's
Lo, on Saturday, April 6, Bob Thibodeau did write:
> On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:16:35PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> > First step: see what keysym your alt keys are generating. Run xev (from
> > the xbase-clients package), make sure the new window has focus, and hit
> > b
Lo, on Saturday, April 6, Bob Thibodeau did write:
> On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:32:59PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:09:00AM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote:
> > > I just went back through the archives to questions I thought
> > > would help. They did, but for a differen
Lo, on Thursday, April 4, Alan Poulton did write:
> Thursday, April 04, 2002, 7:35:53 PM, Richard Cobbe wrote:
>
> > First question: do you want your FQDN to be
> > hotstuff.bc.hsia.telus.net? With exim, I ran into some problems with
> > that (mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED
Lo, on Thursday, April 4, Alan Poulton did write:
> I'm slowly isolating my problems with sendmail and variants. It seems
> they're asking me for my Fully Qualified Domain Name.
>
> I've given the name of my box: hotstuff
>
> My ISP is telus.net, but they give me: bc.hsia.telus.net .. so I know
Lo, on Sunday, March 31, Alan Su did write:
> i've got an installation of testing on my laptop, but i wanted to
> upgrade a few packages (notably galeon) to the unstable version. i'd
> rather not just point apt to the unstable distribution, as i'm pretty
> happy with the way testing is working ou
Lo, on Sunday, March 31, Simon Hepburn did write:
> dman wrote:
>
> > The reason is that KMail is not a proper SMTP client. The RFCs (821,
> > 2821) state that if a message can't be delivered to the next server in
> > charge, then it must keep the message and retry later. It can't just
> > say
Lo, on Sunday, March 31, Simon Hepburn did write:
> Richard Cobbe wrote:
>
> > On a related note, how come /var/lib/dpkg/available keeps getting hosed?
> > It's happened to me twice now. The first time, I figured I was SOL and
> > re-installed from scratch (fortuna
Lo, on Saturday, March 30, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry did write:
>
> On 30-Mar-2002 John Lord wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> >
> > Just a simple question realy, why should I use sendmail in
> > conjunction with KMail, rather than let KMail do the job?
> >
> > I'm sorry but I can't see the reason why, but
Lo, on Saturday, March 30, dman did write:
> If root doesn't put the plugin in the global plugin folder, and you
> use the local plugin folder instead, then you don't need root
> permissions. Only a marginal improvement, I know.
Where is the local plugin folder? I've tried installing into
~/.mo
Lo, on Saturday, March 30, Simon Hepburn did write:
> Richard Cobbe wrote:
>
> > No, the three slashes are in fact correct.
>
> Hrmm.. just to add to the confusion. I just checked my sources.list
> and saw I was using single slash. I did man sources.list to see if I
>
Lo, on Saturday, March 30, Simon Hepburn did write:
> Richard Cobbe wrote:
>
> > I've added the local mirror to sources.list, but neither apt-get nor
> > dselect appears to see these files. What step have I missed?
>
> It's a simple typo. Change deb file://
Lo, on Friday, March 29, Richard Cobbe did write:
> Greetings, all.
>
> I know this is a FAQ, but I can't find the answer anywhere.
>
> So, I'm in the process of upgrading from stable to testing (again---the
> first time, somebody crapped on /var/lib/dpkg/available
Greetings, all.
I know this is a FAQ, but I can't find the answer anywhere.
So, I'm in the process of upgrading from stable to testing (again---the
first time, somebody crapped on /var/lib/dpkg/available, and I couldn't
repair it. There was a large chunk missing out of the middle, so far as
I co
Lo, on Thursday, March 28, Markus Grunwald did write:
> Hello !
Please don't delete the attributions.
> > > Besides, do most Windows apps (Word,
> > > WordPerfect) allow saving to this format?
> >
> > Not saving as such, but it is possible to convert a Word document to
> > postscript [...descr
Lo, on Wednesday, March 27, Kent West did write:
> .PDF and postscript are great display formats, but they're not very
> useful for actual editting. Besides, do most Windows apps (Word,
> WordPerfect) allow saving to this format?
Not saving as such, but it is possible to convert a Word docume
Lo, on Thursday, March 7, Dimitri Maziuk did write:
> * Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> > begin Dimitri Maziuk quotation:
> >
> > > Does anyone know about a school that teaches people to use
> > > vector<>, auto_ptr<>, basic_string and references?
> >
> > I have no idea what
Lo, on , March 4, O Polite did write:
> >
> > a. keep hitting "alt +" until it is no longer virtual
> >
>
> I never got this trick to work. Is this behaviour controlled from
> XF86Config-4? I can't see anything in there that indicates that. I'm
> using KDE. Might standard KDE key settings be h
Lo, on Sunday, March 3, Rick Macdonald did write:
> On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote:
>
> > Greetings, all.
> >
> > New sound card (actually, new computer). It's a SoundBlaster Live!, so
> > I've compiled in support for the emu10k1 module.
> &
Lo, on Monday, March 4, dave mallery did write:
> On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote:
>
> > Greetings, all.
> >
> > New sound card (actually, new computer). It's a SoundBlaster Live!, so
> > I've compiled in support for the emu10k1 module.
> &
Lo, on Monday, March 4, Dave Sherohman did write:
> On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 01:22:38PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> > In general, everything works fine, except that sending .au files to
> > /dev/audio has really lousy sound quality. You can hear the sound, but
> > ther
Greetings, all.
New sound card (actually, new computer). It's a SoundBlaster Live!, so
I've compiled in support for the emu10k1 module.
Up-to-date potato, kernel 2.2.20, SMP.
In general, everything works fine, except that sending .au files to
/dev/audio has really lousy sound quality. You can
Lo, on Friday, March 1, Jeff did write:
> Ulf Rompe, 2002-Mar-01 10:25 +0100:
> >
> > alias rm = 'mv --backup=numbered --target-directory=/tmp/Trashcan'
> >
>
> This is nice, and I'm starting to use this from my root and user
> account on my laptop.
>
> However, how would I delete from the T
Lo, on Monday, February 25, Arthur Buijs did write:
> Baloo,
>
> if you tell me how to make a dd image, (I'm almost new to Linux) I will
> send it to you as soon as I'm back in the office. (Aproximately 4 hours
> from now.)
Assuming the disk is in your first drive (what Microsoft calls A:), then
Lo, on Monday, February 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] did write:
> Just wondering if Debian had any specific place to put ipchains stuff for
> initialising the rules on bootup.
See the ipmasq package.
Richard
Lo, on Sunday, February 24, Charles Baker did write:
> I'm about to install sid, using unoffical iso's, on a
> machine w/ 384MB of RAM. Old rule of thumb was
> 2*RAM-SIZE = SWAP-SIZE . Do I really need 768MB of
> swap space?!?!?! Plus, since the install uses 2.2.20
> kernel, will it be able to han
Lo, on Saturday, February 23, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry did write:
>
> On 23-Feb-2002 Richard Cobbe wrote:
> > Hello, all.
> >
> > I've done a fair amount of searching on this topic, but a search key of
> > -j confuses a lot of the search engines, so I
Hello, all.
I've done a fair amount of searching on this topic, but a search key of
-j confuses a lot of the search engines, so I've not been able to find a
conclusive answer here.
Is it possible to have make-kpkg supply the -j switch to make? I've got
a dual-processor machine, and I'd love to b
Lo, on Friday, February 22, Paul E Condon did write:
> I saved a cvs repository of personal programs in RedHat some time ago,
> before I discovered Debian. Now I'm trying install it and access the
> files in it. I used tar to save the whole repository as cvs.tgz. When
> I untar it, I discover that
Lo, on Sunday, February 17, will trillich did write:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 09:35:01AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > Galeon should work with no problems on a Potato system. I had it running
> > for a couple of weeks on my desktop before I upgraded to sid. I've run
> > it on a P133 with 40 m
Lo, on Tuesday, February 12, Erik van der Meulen did write:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 13:36:46 -0600, Jordan Evatt wrote:
>
> > A quick search using apt on #debian gave me this: (/usr/include/db1/ndbm.h)
> > in devel/libc6-dev
> > Maybe you don't have libc6-dev installed? Check for that first. I
Lo, on Monday, February 11, John Cichy did write:
> Hello all,
>
> It seems the dselect ignores the host file when updating it's lists. I have a
> debian mirror in my DMZ and have added an entry in my hosts file to use an
> internal address to access the mirror, but it seems that dselect is ign
Lo, on Monday, February 4, Ryan Claycamp did write:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:08:52PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> > Lo, on Sunday, February 3, Ryan Claycamp did write:
> >
> > > I have lost the color markings in xemacs when I edit a LaTeX file. I
> > >
Lo, on Sunday, February 3, Ryan Claycamp did write:
> I have lost the color markings in xemacs when I edit a LaTeX file. I
> am running woody and I think it happened after I updated to the new
> version of auctex. I noticed that when auctex installed, it said
> something like emacsen ignoring fl
Greetings, all.
My PII-233MHz is beginning to show its age (already?!), so I'm looking
for a replacement. The idea of saving a few bucks by building my own
system from components has its appeal, but frankly, I'd really rather
not bother with the effort of trying to make sure that all of the piece
Lo, on Saturday, January 26, Kapil Khosla did write:
> 2) I used apt-get install xemacs and got the editor but am not able
> to open it from console (xemacs &),I get the follwing error
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
>
> Initialization error: X server not responding
> : ":
Lo, on Tuesday, January 22, Elizabeth Barham did write:
> Hi,
>
> I've been receiving MIME encoded messages in the mail from
> someone. These are base64 encoded and I'm having trouble extracting
> them. Is there a good command-line tool for doing this (please don't
> menion mutt)?
It seems, from
Lo, on Tuesday, January 22, Mark Ferlatte did write:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 01:23:16PM -0800, Camilux wrote (1.00):
> > if i am not root, i can for example open gdmconfig, but it says i
> > need to be root to change things; so i su - myself up to root, but
> > when i type gdmconfig, i get thi
Lo, on Sunday, January 20, Adam Majer did write:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 07:23:27PM -0800, David Csercsics wrote:
> > I had to recompile my kernel today because my sound wasn't working right and
> > a couple other things weren't working. So I recompiled it and everything
> > works but I get a wa
Lo, on Wednesday, January 16, dman did write:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:31:47AM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> | Lo, on Friday, January 11, Craig Dickson did write:
> |
> | > Richard Cobbe wrote:
> | >
> | > > (Just out of curiosity, is the COLUMNS
Lo, on Sunday, January 13, Erik Steffl did write:
> type is a propert of variable.
Not exclusively. Two counter-examples, one in C, and one in Scheme.
C:
int x;
x = "foo";
You'll get a type error here at compile time, for obvious reasons.
Question: how can this be a type error if on
Lo, on Friday, January 11, Craig Dickson did write:
> Richard Cobbe wrote:
>
> > (Just out of curiosity, is the COLUMNS trick documented anywhere? I
> > couldn't find it in any of the obvious manpages: dpkg(8), bash(1),
> > environ(7).)
>
> Yes,
Lo, on Thursday, January 10, dman did write:
One minor nit to pick from an otherwise very good explanation (and I
wouldn't bother, except that I've been bitten by this before).
> This directive tells exim to use that name as the hostname in the SMTP
> greeting (HELO/EHLO) instead of that report
Lo, on Friday, January 11, Paul E Condon did write:
> How can I get a list of all the debian packages that are installed
> on my computer?
>
> I see lots of stuff about getting a list of all the packages that are
> available. But thats not what I'm asking.
>
> I know its there, because dselect s
Lo, on Friday, January 11, Kendall Shaw did write:
> "Brenda J. Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Is this a remote cvs repository? Maybe the remote machine
> > ran out of scratch space.
>
> Yes, it's a remote repository. I'll see if that's it.
That's almost certain to be it. In my ex
Lo, on Monday, January 7, dman did write:
> I've just come up with a good description of what a 'type' is :
> A "type" is the set of all valid values.
*DING*DING*DING*DING*DING*DING*
Got it in one. Types are sets of values. That's all. C, C++, and Java
provide a fairly limited language fo
Greetings, all.
I'm tired of getting bounce messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] every
time I post to this list, so I thought I'd add a recipe to my
.procmailrc to drop these into /dev/null automatically. Unfortunately,
none of my attempts seem to work; the messages are delivered as normal.
I've curr
Lo, on Friday, January 4, David Jardine did write:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 05:34:00PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> >
> > Yes, it *is* types. Remember the definition of type-safety:
> >
> > If an expression E is determined at compile time to have type T,
>
Lo, on Friday, January 4, David Teague did write:
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote:
>
> > Not in the general case, no.
> >
> > std::string *s = new string("foo");
> > std::string *s2 = s;
> >
> > delete s;
> >
&g
Lo, on Thursday, January 3, Erik Steffl did write:
> what's the difference? the point is you can assign almost anything to
> anything, and yet there is no segfault - i.e. the strength of types has
> nothing (sort of) to do with segfaults... the resource allocation is
> crucial...
Type safety (plu
Lo, on Thursday, January 3, William T Wilson did write:
> On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote:
>
> > I'll agree that the two are related; in fact, I'd go so far as to say
> > that if a language supports dynamic memory allocation and type-safety,
> > it *h
Lo, on Wednesday, January 2, Erik Steffl did write:
> Richard Cobbe wrote:
> >
> > Lo, on Monday, December 31, Erik Steffl did write:
> >
> > Perl does have strong types, but they don't really correspond to the
> > types that most people are
Lo, on Wednesday, January 2, Ben Collins did write:
> Just because in C it can cause a segfault doesn't mean the other
> languages are any better.
No, it doesn't. However, IMNSHO, the fact that C and C++ have many
*more* undefined constructs that other languages does mean that the
other language
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