Stefan Nobis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I installed Kernel 2.4 on Debian Potato (2.2.r2). Some packages from unstable
> are needed to do so and i compiled all from source for a Debian 2.2r2
> system. Here are the recompiled packages (apt-get-able):
>
> deb http://www.sn
Hi.
I installed Kernel 2.4 on Debian Potato (2.2.r2). Some packages from unstable
are needed to do so and i compiled all from source for a Debian 2.2r2
system. Here are the recompiled packages (apt-get-able):
deb http://www.snobis.de/debian extras/kernel24/
Have fun with it.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Can you give us a rundown on how to get this to work? I followed the
> instructions in the README but the permissions and owner/group bits never
> stayed the way I wanted them. (eg: root.audio for all of /dev/sound,
If you use devfsd from unstable then there is a fil
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> very funny, im sure you would like it if someone FORCED you to use
> *only* KDE or *only* gnome. the Free software movement is about
> freedom and choices and *options* i should have the *option* to turn
> that `feature' off.
>
> don't force your pref
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > "Andreas" == Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Andreas> 2.) boot. fsck will fail. do manual fsck, remount / rw,
> Andreas> edit /etc/fstab: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
> Andreas> /boot ext2 defaults 0 2
> A
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> instead of /dev/hda1 or /dev/wd0a whenever i need to do anything
> related to raw devices is a performance improvment. nor is writing
> huge kludgy initscripts or bloated daemons just so i can do:
I can't see why a daemon about 30k in size is bloated.
Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> /etc/adduser.conf
>
> When running useradd, though, I get the following:
adduser and useradd are two quite different programs. Try using adduser and
you will get what you want.
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Until the next mail...,
Stefan.
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, first of all, you want to assign the user an address via DHCP,
> or else it's an administrative nightmare.
You can use Radius, LDAP-based solutions and surley much more. With
PPPoE there are even more possibilities to hack IP-addresses then
with
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Smart people *can* get IPs that haven't been assigned to them, and
> it's a PITA to root them out. PPPoE, while a hack, addresses this
> concern for providers. I wish we used it.
Tell me more about this. What about configuring the routers only to
ro
Linux Newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This may sound like a silly question, but what is the
> use/purpose of PPP over Ethernet? Why is it better than setting up a
> connection with ifconfig eth0?
It's not better, it's very silly. But there are reasons. The one used
here in germany: Mos
"John L. Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> it doesn't matter if you have it compiled/installed. modprobe will
> automagically load it into memory when you need it. Not sure why
> the installation said you could damage(?)/mess up the installation
> if you installed a module for a hardware
Bill Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Missing files in the compile.
> The log follows. Snipped out all the good makes. This was a second run.
If you got postgresql with apt-get source... then there are 3 files:
*.orig.tar.gz
*.diff.gz
*.dsc
The last one, postgresql_7.0.2-2.dsc, contains s
Bill Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 2% [2 potato/main 4344/821kB 0%] [1 unstable/main 27145/380kB 7%]
> Err ftp://ftp.debian.org potato/main Packages
> Data socket timed out
apt could not get the new list from the server so you can't do
anything with apt for this server. First get a *comp
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jason Wright
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JW> Also, I spend a lot of time in my job working on servers on the
JW> other side of the world, hidden behind slow, overloaded WAN links.
JW> Sure I *can* (and sometimes do) use ssh to run GUI apps on these
I kn
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Simon
> Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SM> dialogs are ok, this is not the issue. The real issue is not to
SM> fall into the Microsoft or RedHat paradigm. This is a flavour of
Hmmm... don't think so.
SM> Unix, Unix is not trivial, Unix is a fairly
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Laing
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ML> \documentclass[10pt,letterpaper]{letter}
ML> \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
Try using
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
ML> \usepackage{times}
You are using times, which is postscript, which uses T1 encoding. So
th
I think most people miss some important points:
- A text or graphic mode UI is some times the most effective user
interface, some times a command line driven interface is more
effective.
- Even the best of the experts is very happy if a good tool is easy to
use, so it costs less time to do
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Keith G. Murphy"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
KGM> If the Amiga folks are not going to use any of the GNU tools, or
KGM> dpkg/apt especially, that would be a perverse decision. In fact,
KGM> not making it based on/compatible with m68k Debian would be
KG
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Brown
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I gather I need a HUB or a switch for anything more than two hosts?
Mark> If you're using cat5. If you're just using coax cable, you
Mark> don't need a hub or switch and can just hang everything off the
Uh? Wh
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hamish Moffatt
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hamish> What is your point? I never claimed unsolicited attachments
Hamish> were acceptable, only that solicited ones of any size should
Hamish> work.
Then pay for it.
The problem is not the transport but at y
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hamish Moffatt
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> The problem of (huge) attachments or huge mails in general is, that
>>> the recipient often never asked to get it, but the sender sended it
>>> without being asked to do.
Hamish> In the case of mailing list
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hamish Moffatt
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hamish> Wrong solution. Users should not have to adapt to technology
Hamish> (within reason); the technology should allow users to send
Hamish> huge email attachments if they need to. Otherwise it should be
Hami
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hamish Moffatt
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hamish> reason); the technology should allow users to send huge email
Hamish> attachments if they need to. Otherwise it should be fixed.
OK, but then the user should be prepared to pay for it!
And often people
Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can't tell the difference between 16bpp and 24bpp 24 colour JPEG
> files, viewed with xv.
OK, i'm no profi on this matter, but i'll try to explain:
First, your eyes can't differentiate between more than some thounds
colors (IIRC about 2.000 - 4.000
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Easy... as suggested, change the `apt-get clean && ...` line from
> /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/install to something thus - `true && ...`
OK - i know how to change it now, but nevertheless i think the default
should be to ask the user when something is
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Cant say I have seen this one, but I imagine that dselect is wise to only
> delete _installed_ packages.. so there is no need to keep them anyway.
> (Unless you actually need them)
apt is very *bad* in this place - if you use apt as method in dselect,
Dave McFadden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If MS is successful at 'embracing and extending' Java, then HTML, TCP/IP
> and the OSS world will soon feel the suffocating arms of MS wrapped around
> them.
Hey, don't forget some people even managed to decode SMB for NT in the
SAMBA project. If MS re
Carl Vilbrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there a replacement for Quicken/Quickbooks ?
There are some clones for Quicken like gnucash or cbb, but i found
nothing like Quickbooks. But i tried to run Quickbooks with wine and
it works quite well... it's not as stable as i would wish, but i wor
Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Also, one other question. Is it possible to start two seperate X
> sessions, so that you could say have one X session running WindowMaker
> and the other one running E or something else, and switch between them
> via control-alt-fn or whatever?
If y
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Could Braden not simply try Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch to a non-X virtual console?
> I'm too new at Linux to know, but I'd at least try it.
No. If the X-Server isn't configured yet and you start xdm, xdm starts
the X-Server. The Server exits at once and returns
Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Every time I start X (with windowmaker) it opens a xterm session ! ;(
> How can I disable it !?
Look in /etc/X11/Xsession and maybe /etc/X11/wdm/Xsession. At the end
of these files there is the line which starts xterm.
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Ste
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