Robert Tilley wrote:
I am moving some documents from M$ Word to my home computer that uses Debian
Linux. The document in question was saved in the RTF format from Word and
then re-opened in OOo Writer. The issue with the document is margin-spacing.
I used the .DOC directly without problems. You
Tom wrote:
[...]
Or, thinking a bit, why not alloc 1440 bits, and once a day process
all the files, setting a bit for which minute to wake up, and when I
wake up, walk forward for the next set bit, and sleep that many minutes?
Do it all again if the files change...
So you have to monitor file-cha
Howell Evans wrote:
You can not make cron more granuler(sp?) then ever 5 mins.
Quote from 'man cron':
"cron then wakes up every minute, examining all stored crontabs, check-
ing each command to see if it should be run in the current minute."
So cron's granularity (++sp?) is one minute.
Chee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:03:41AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
I've just received one with what looks like all the debian-powerpc list
addresses in the "To" header. So it does look as though they are
harvesting the Debian lists.
[...]
To be cynical, a Windows virus would
Tommy McCabe wrote:
I have a direct ethernet connection (no visible card, wire just plugs
into computer)
That is just like a 'card'. It is just built into your PC and you can
not 'tear it out' like a regular card.
But you access it like it was one. Even windows thinks it is a
ehternet-card. If
Alfredo Valles wrote:
Hi people.
I'm receiving more and more emails with M$ trojan crap.
I want to get ride of them, but the problem is that I download my emails from
a pop3 server that I don't configure.
My question is: Is there a mail client that aloud me to use SpamAssassin or
Don't use KM
Colin Watson wrote:
[...]
You can hit Ctrl-S as messages are scrolling up the screen to pause
them. Hit Ctrl-Q to resume when you're ready.
Thank you so much.
You just solved my problem:
I hit Ctrl-S quite often accidently. Either missing the Ctrl-D by just
one key to the left, or by hitting emac
Joachim Förster wrote:
> [...]
> Does anybody know, why squid uses the harddisk although its (empty
> disk cache, logs and other status files are on the tmpfs)?
You might try running squid chrooted to a directory on a ramdisk...
Just a quess,
Stefan
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Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:
[...]
I suppose, in the worst case, I could install both bind and bind9,
hoping they don't conflict.
You could use UserModeLinux UML and have two virtual machines running
bind. They would have two different IP addresses, so you could set up
the clients to ask the r
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, im not sure about this.
Potato is stable
woody is unstable
sid is testing
sarge is ?
This info is one generation too old.
I tried to download woody , but my laptop does not even boot form it.
I have a pc which wast installed with "stable" and the downgraded to
Victory wrote:
[...]
I just installed rsh-server and don't know how to set it up so that
I can do "rlogin temp1 -l root" from remote machine.
rsh (along with the other r-commands) should not be used for security
reasons. (Except rsync over a ssh-connection)
Why don't you use ssh?.
If you cannot
Rus Foster wrote:
[...]
I would like something more realtime the rsync every 30 minutes
http://www.it.uc3m.es/~ptb/nbd/
looks promissing. But I have not tried it myself yet.
Stefan
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Alexander Mikhailian wrote:
I recently upgraded to testing and found out that netscape 4 is missing
in the list of packages. Where can I get a working version of netscape 4
for testing?
Well, first I ask myself: Why would anyone use Netscape 4?
Numbers have arrived at 7.1 and there is Mozilla as a
Mario Vukelic wrote:
On Sam, 2003-09-06 at 08:35, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote:
Mario Vukelic wrote:
[...]
Avoid testing!! Testing is for testing /the distribution/ and is quite
fd most of the time, as packages trickle in from unstable in a quite
random manner.
[...]
Unstable is ok, it'
Mario Vukelic wrote:
[...]
Avoid testing!! Testing is for testing /the distribution/ and is quite
fd most of the time, as packages trickle in from unstable in a quite
random manner.
[...]
Unstable is ok, it's not so much the packages that are unstable, but the
package list changes frequently.
Christophe Courtois wrote:
I can't umount a SD card from my drive, famd uses it.
I don't really know what is this famd,
Fam monitors files & directories for changes.
I guess that some application told fam to watch /mnt/carte and
a) did not tell fam to stop watching when it finished or
b) is stil
alex wrote:
I opted for a separate partition (hda2) for /home during the
installation of Debian and it was duly formatted. However, the
partition doesn't seem to be as performing as a /home directory.
Instead, the regular /home directory under / seems to be doing
the job.
So something went wrong
Paul Johnson wrote:
[...]
First, since you're on AOL, I'm going to assume you're American, so
act like you know English.
Not quite.
AOL is pretty worldwide, and IIRC german AOL-subscribers also have
@aol.com e-mail.
I agree with the rest of your post.
But hey, its september... :)
Stefan
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J Y wrote:
> Hi I am new to debian, but have used those big commercial distros. I
> installed 3.0 but am not having any luck getting X to start.
> [...]
> This is happening on a athlon (900mhz) homebuilt. I haven't had any
> display/X server problems with SuSe or Mandrake.
I was successful using a
Josh Rehman wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if it is possible to grep through the output of bash
command line completion. If you type "k" and then tab twice, you'll be
asked to show all 398,499 entries on your path, y or n. Hit y and a big
list comes up. Seems like it would be nice to search through
Ken Raeburn wrote:
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
OK, but I'm not entirely convinced he's sending a host, which is why
everybody's local mail server is adding in the host part.
I've seen some hints of "@localhost" in the email I got. I sent email
to Kevin about two weeks ago asking him t
Hi Eric,
eric lin wrote:
> one side connect to phone line, the other side connect to my pc's lan
> port, so it seem is modem
>
> but it print gateway on the device,
>
> so it is a complicated device(actiontec dsl-modem-gateway R1524).
>
>> If it is a router
...or another kind of complicated devic
Antonio Rodr wrote:
> I have some unpopulated partitions.
> [...]
> So, at
> this point, all is in /dev/hdb1. What is the best way to move /home;
> /usr; to some of these partitions,
http://stefan.waidele.info/Re_My_partition_is_full_Do_I_need_to_reinstall.html
Section 2 is the one that applies mo
Yu Sun wrote:
Hi, everyone,
Maybe this question is easy. However I cannot find answers from
manuals.
I have installed Debain with Windows 98 on my notebook. Now I want to
remove Debian, make this notebook dedicated to Windows. How should I
do it?
Use debian's fdisk or cfdisk to remove the partitio
Piers Kittel wrote:
Hello all
Is it possible at all for X on a computer to log in another computer
remotely? I.e. one computer has XDM and WMaker on it, but without an
XFree86 server, another computer has a XFree86 server, the computer with
WMaker on, logs on to the XFree86 and shows the XDM l
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 00:17:47 +0200,
"Stefan Waidele jun." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:09:10 -0500,
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECT
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 00:17:47 +0200,
"Stefan Waidele jun." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:09:10 -0500,
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECT
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:09:10 -0500,
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[...]
I have a few dozen small programs that I've tacked a GPL notice onto
just in case, yet that have never ventured off of my hard disk because
they are one half st
Wathen, Metherion wrote:
[...]
So my question is
1) what do I use to 'see' the 2nd harddrive
You need to
a) partition it (fdisk or cfdisk)
b) format it (mkXYZfs, where XYZ is the filesystem-type of your choice)
c) mount it (mount and/or fstab)
2) how do I format it for use w/o messing up my 1st dr
Russell Shaw wrote:
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
[...]
If you sell the product to just one person, then you only need to
distribute any GPL source code to that *one* person (IIRC).
But that means that there are already two persons who have the code...
If you develop a program that is based on GPL-comp
Wayne Gemmell wrote:
Hi
You seem to be tackling many problems at once.
First get the network printing to work, and then OOo.
Also, from what you wrote below, I assume you use CUPS instead of Samba
for network printing.
Can you use cups to print from a win$ computer?
Ah, that way around. So the pr
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:38:56 +0300,
"Melih Evcimen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I want to transform an image in cdr into jpg format. Do you know of
any program that will do it? Thanks a lot
.._many_, 'apropos jpg' or 'man -k jpg' for suggestions
Hi Wayne,
Wayne Gemmell wrote:
Hi all
Now that I've got printing in KDE to work I need to get Openoffice and
network(Samba) printing to work.
You seem to be tackling many problems at once.
First get the network printing to work, and then OOo.
Also, from what you wrote below, I assume you use CU
Jianan Huang wrote:
[...]
Renaming all the files to ones without spaces would be too tedious.
I know this does not solve the problem, but if you ever need to rename a
lot of files, you might want to look up 'mmv' - Multiple Move.
Excelent program.
HTH sometimes,
Stefan
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Stefan Waidele jun. wrote:
Since there is no reaction to my private mail, I have to do this publicly.
And since I have stepped into the public, I have to do this publicly, too:
Sorry, Kevin.
I shot to soon and too hard.
Now comming to think about it... Why should anybody pick (of all
Would you please change your header:
From: Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
to a valid E-Mail adress?
I don't mind if you use fake adresses, but please DO NOT USE MY DOMAINS
for whatever reasons you might have.
Stefan Waidele jun.
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Hi all,
I have woody installed and had good readable fonts in X11/KDE. Only
Mozilla would us a font that was too big, but nice.
Than I installed a set of packages required for a debian-course, and the
fonts were just perfect! Even in mozilla. Just the right size and real
sharp!
After a dist-u
David Crane wrote:
[mozilla-firebird]
I am unsure what I should be moving toward:
(1) Go back to the "stable" distribution, and find backports at
www.apt-get.org?
I am on stable and tried to do this.
Apt also tried to remove much of KDE.
(Someone told me this was because firebird depends on
somet
amg wrote:
> recently switched to debian after years with windows, i am enjoying
> the experience, although at times i get frustrated - i know that is
> my fault and not my computer (or operating system - or linux - or
> debian - or yours)
>
> my current dilemma is with ports:
>
> understanding the
Robert Storey wrote:
> [...]
> I know that most Debian users disdain the idea of ever logging in as
> root, but there are a few times when I've found it useful (I'll
> probably get flamed to a crisp for saying that). The best way I know
> of to log in as root is to kill gdm and log in using text mo
Wayne Gemmell wrote:
Hi all
[...]
the last thing I
need to do is to get printing to work. I've been battling to get cups working
for a while now and I came across something on the net that makes me think
that I'm looking in the wron places.
Have you been to:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_pr
John Stevenson wrote:
[...]
In my experience this is normal for debian packages of Netscape and
Mozilla packages under debian. It can be useful, but it can also be a
right pain. I would like to run Mozilla (for email) and Mozilla
firebird (web browsing),
Thunderbird is for E-Mail, and Firebir
François Chenais wrote:
Hello,
what's the difference between mozilla and mozilla-firebird under SID ?
mozilla: Webbrowser, E-mail client, Composer, IRC client, ...
--> Does many things, is big and slow
firebird: Webbrowser.
--> One thing, small & fast
See http://mozilla.org
HTH,
Stefan
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Hi Jared,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for documentation about Samba on Debian Linux.
I cannot seem to find on debian.org specific documentation, and the LDP
has Samba docs, but I'm looking for specific Debian related materials.
I am quite new to Debian (and thus to this list), b
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