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2003-02-12 Thread Sid Blackley
= cheers SiD "unstable yet breathing" http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings - Send some online love this Valentine's Day. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newsreaders - newsx 0r suggestion

2003-02-06 Thread Sid Blackley
--- Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 19:32:24 +1100 (EST) snipt > bit miffed. Had a HD meltdown over the weekend that took out half >my home directory. One of the directories I lost was my slrn >directory. More importantly the score file that was in it. several >hu

Re: Newsreaders - newsx 0r suggestion

2003-02-06 Thread Sid Blackley
--- Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sid Blackley said: > > ie. small in stature, tremdously powerfull and > fast as > > lightning! > > Admirable, to be sure, but when the best tool > for the job is slightly > larger than a far inferior and sl

Re: Disk Corruption: SOLVED

2003-02-05 Thread Sid Blackley
On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 03:20:07 +0100, "Jonathan Brandmeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip >What if I am going about this the wrong way? Suppose that MBR(s) is/are >damaged? Will fsck(8) detect this type of damage? My reading of the man >page says that it doesn't. > >Thanks, >Jonathan ASFAIK .

Re: fstab entry for NTFS formatted drive

2003-02-04 Thread Sid Blackley
--- David Turetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a hard drive running Windows XP Professional > under NTFS format > > I'd like to access that drive from my Woody system > but I can't locate a > suitable file type for an /etc/fstab entry > > -- > David google using vfat etc/fstab as keywo

Re: Newsreaders - newsx 0r suggestion

2003-02-04 Thread Sid Blackley
re: pan whilst its tempting to stick with semi-familiar ground, the payload needed is not in line with the philosphy I came to Debian with. ie. small in stature, tremdously powerfull and fast as lightning! prolly (for me) I need something between a trimmed pan and rn re: slrn I had checked out t

Re: Disk Corruption: SOLVED

2003-02-04 Thread Sid Blackley
--- Jonathan Brandmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And permanantly broken. > > A detailed read of /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt > reveales this telling > entry: > --quote-- > Two disks, Linux on second disk, first disk has no > extended partition > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Icon identifiers on the Desktop

2003-02-04 Thread Sid Blackley
hello list,, something small but annoying. Using Opera611 under wmaker - how can one identify the icons for each window opened. Win95B usually shows part of the url in the icon - be handy to have something similar available. is it? cheers SiD "unstable yet breathing" http://movies.yahoo.com.au

Newsreaders - newsx 0r suggestion

2003-02-04 Thread Sid Blackley
helloo list,, I am looking at newsx . At first glance it appears to have features I know and would use. In getting it onto my system the dpkg install whinges for inn and cnews. apt-get then tells me those packages are "obsolete" and/or require a version of installed deps that are older than those

Re: Problems with mouse + X

2003-02-03 Thread Sid Blackley
--- "Chris M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some reason, X won't startup, saying "Screens > found; none usable." > When Debian prompts me to configure X, my mouse > refuses to work. If I > select anything from "Mouse Configuration", it exits > out and leaves me > at a blank screen, unable to g

Re: Migrate from RedHat to Debian

2003-02-03 Thread Sid Blackley
I guess somehow my story needs to be told. heh, have to vent somewhere! I bought QUE's "IdiotGuide" in 1998, QuE;s "Using Linux" in 2000, ACP's 'PocketBook' in 2001 and ACP's "Advanced PocketBook" in 2002. All of these came with various distros of Caldera,Redhat,OpenLinux,Mandrake,SuSe and Debian

kernel 2.4.8k-6 consoles inaccessible

2003-02-02 Thread Sid Blackley
hello list, having apt-get installed this kernel + needing to use level 1 boot to sort out a problem with X I am now not able to access 4 of the consoles. F1 has the dialog of the first screens of an install. ^C just sends it into a loop. F4;F5;F6 do not respond at all. F7 is running wmaker and ope

XF86Config and Gidday

2003-02-01 Thread Sid Blackley
hello list, The mail I recieved on subscribing said "submissions by you will be returned" so I am testing yet another ambiguity discovered on the Debian Highway. To actually use the BW,, Having used to upgrade a Debian 2r2 floppy boot,, I am left with a 10mm/.5"sq graphic in Windowmaker that mov