Re: Debian on Thinkpad 560x...

1998-03-18 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
em :P). I wonder why the same configuration on built on the boot floppy didn't work. Will update the list when I get more results... Just me, Wire ... -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] For PGP public key : finger -l [EMAIL

Re: Debian on Thinkpad 560x...

1998-03-17 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
advance to beyond the scroll of kernel boot messages until I got a kernel panick (due to no root device). Any idea?? If possible, can anyone advise on how I can get the configuration of the bo-tecra boot-disk... or has anyone successfully installed hamm on the thinkpad (esp 560x). Thanks

Debian on Thinkpad 560x...

1998-03-16 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Just me, Wire ... -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] For PGP public key : finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = EC A6 98 25 5B D9 38 40 74 BC 0C C9 0F 81 BE 92 -- The configuration of the tp is: P233MMX + 64 MB RAM + 4 GB Harddisk

Re: Book for writing shell scripts.

1997-11-07 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Wire ... -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] For PGP public key : finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = EC A6 98 25 5B D9 38 40 74 BC 0C C9 0F 81 BE 92 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: Unidentified subject!

1997-11-01 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
should be enabled thru misc->psaux This should enable the support for ps/2 mouse without the need to reboot your system (cool!! :-). Just me, Wire ... -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] For PGP public key : finger -l [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Auto Responder

1997-09-05 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Alex Yukhimets wrote, :Well, may be I did not understand the original meaning, but I meant the :piece of software able to answer your e-mails automatically. : Check out "vacation" on the bsdmainutils pacakge. Just me, Wire ... -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config & Performance

1997-09-02 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Tan Wee Yeh wrote, :Bad news, this does not seem to be running. I checked the :process and the guy is kinda stalled. Anybody successfully :ran the client for an OSF?? Turned out to be my own mistake :P I had some wrapper around this so I have to resort to the telnet port before it works

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config & Performance

1997-09-02 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Tan Wee Yeh wrote, :Indeed it does but we have a lot of catching up to do... Apple's :rate is currently 6 time that of ours... pls refer to: : http://rc5stats.distributed.net/emtop100.idc :I'm pumping in 1 alpha500 + 2 PPro 200 + 1 P200mmx. Bad news, thi

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config & Performance

1997-09-01 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
of catching up to do... Apple's rate is currently 6 time that of ours... pls refer to: http://rc5stats.distributed.net/emtop100.idc I'm pumping in 1 alpha500 + 2 PPro 200 + 1 P200mmx. Just me, Wire ... -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Linux in Wired

1997-08-28 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
st me, Wire ... -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] For PGP public key : finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = EC A6 98 25 5B D9 38 40 74 BC 0C C9 0F 81 BE 92 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe&

Re: Debian-lite

1997-08-01 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
UI (additional work??) and at the same time can cater for beginners as well. We just have to ensure that the questions are not excessively complicated (like IP-masquarading??) that they will stump the starters and our suggested setup works. Comments?? :) Just me, Wire ... -- T

Re: bash: make: command not found

1997-07-09 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
, Wire ... -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] For PGP public key : finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = 63 8A 9B 78 3B 1C C2 15 55 EA 2D 42 FF 68 B4 50 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Re: Cron and dying disk

1997-07-09 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
ommercial bloatware. They are switching to NTs but I doubt they are very much too secure. NUS, like most other organisations, seems to like MS and loves to PAY (literally) for their mistakes. Just me, Wire ... -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Security hole in Debian's /bin/false?

1997-07-06 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Jesse Goldman wrote, :true or false. Maybe it's an executable on an Alpha? Yep, it is on a DIGITAL Unix. In fact it is a binary file that returns false (1). Just me, Wire ... -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] For PGP publi

Re: X display mode setting.

1997-05-18 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
r prefered option (ie the correct 800x600 settings) above that should achieve what you want :) Just me, Wire ... -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] For PGP public key : finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = 63 8A 9B 78 3B 1C C2 15

Re: Run 2 startx with different .xsessions?

1997-05-15 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
BPP Then, just store the initrc file for the respective color depth in the respective .xinitrc files. Just me, Wire ... -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] For PGP public key : finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = 63 8A 9B 78 3B

Re: Xwindows running finally!! what's next?

1997-05-15 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
od practice. Just me, Wire ... -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] For PGP public key : finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = 63 8A 9B 78 3B 1C C2 15 55 EA 2D 42 FF 68 B4 50 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail t

Re: /home, /usr/local, / and /whatelse?

1997-05-12 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
27;t want to > combine stuff that is hard to sort out later. For my case, I have partitions for / /home/ /usr/local/ These was remants from my previous slackware experience. With debian, I dun think I should need /usr/local/ anymore since upgrading is simply dpkg'ing the new package. -- Ta

Re: ET6000

1997-05-11 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
.2). Just make sure you have the Option "linear" in your device section. The machine is currently running 1024x768x16 with no obvious problems. -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 63 8A 9B 78 3B 1C

Where to put debian-non-US

1997-05-10 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
ll it ./local/ ) -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 63 8A 9B 78 3B 1C C2 15 55 EA 2D 42 FF 68 B4 50 __ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e

kernel: recognising >64Mb RAM

1997-05-07 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Hi, I'm terribly sorry as I understand this question has been answer just a few days before but I lost the mail. Thanks a million. -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 63 8A 9B 78 3B 1C C2 15 55 EA 2D 42 FF 68

Re: dselect/dpkg daydreams

1997-04-19 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
mnot sure how great performance hit the optimised codes will make but the costs may not justify it... -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 63 8A 9B 78 3B 1C C2 15 55 EA 2D 42 FF 68 B4 50 __ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

Re: Debian on the shuttle

1997-02-24 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
> Why does everyone keep saying that X should look like Win 95. I don't want This I totally disagree!!! I'd rather prefer X to work more like OS/2 :P. AFAIK, win95's interface is not as Object- Oriented (OO) as M$ has claimed. OS/2 users should know. I particularly find win95 difficult to us

nfs setup

1996-12-13 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Hi, This is a problem I tried to solve for about 3 weeks without much progress. My intended system setup has a dependency graph as follows... Sys-A <-+--: Sys-B <---: Sys-C | | +-+ Where both Sys-C and Sys-B depends

problems with ftp-sites

1996-12-10 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Hi, seems like problems with the ftp sites recurring... master.debian.org:/debian/ is empty again. uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu:/pub/systems/linux/distributions/debian is outdated.. the rex/disks-i386 has only 1996-11-28 Seems like only ftp.debian.org is still up and running. I don't know about th

debian pre1.2

1996-12-03 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Hi, I have just tried debain pre1.2 and have the following comments. 1) Overall, the installation is very smooth with very few hiccups. 2) It seems that most of the kernel options have been compiled-in. This is opposed to the previous version when users are free to configure the ker

Re: NFS installation

1996-12-01 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
I got the first part right *lucky me :) * > The systems mounting your nfs volumes do need to have the nfs module > loaded though. I couldn't quite understand why that failed. During the 'configure kernel' phase, loading nfs module never worked for me. However, I am able to get the debian-system

What happened to master.debian.org?

1996-12-01 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Hi, Think there are some problems with the mirror at master.debian.org:/pub/Linux/Debian. Its empty... I understand that there were some problems with the main site ftp.debian.org a few days ago... is this some side-effects of that? Also, it seems that the mirror at ftp.

NFS installation

1996-11-29 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
hi, I am using debian 1.1. i am mirroring the whole debian site... hopefully, with that, I can export nfs to all of my U's workstation so they can install debian linux on the fly. I was unable to get the installation kernel to recognise nfs. The option to load nfs support module is given in

Re: [NFS] UDP Socket?

1996-11-29 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Hi, Sorry about the previous posting... I solved the problem already.. :) Reason is that the nfs support is not properly initiated for the server resulting in the udp socket not found. Just me, Wire ... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECT

[NFS] UDP Socket?

1996-11-29 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Hi, when I tried to start rpc.nfsd, I get the error nfsd: could not make a UDP socket My /etc/exports and /etc/fstab are ok. System setup: Both server and client are running on debian linux 1.1 (kernel 2.0.6). and are meant to share data. Setup is default but I have since edited the

Re: Mailing lists back up

1996-11-28 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Bruce Wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tan Wee Yeh) > [the $1000 charge for advertising] > > I love and support this scheme :) > > > Maybe it should be extended to things like those > > get-rich-fast pyramid schemes. > > What? They're not spammers? I do

Re: Mailing lists back up

1996-11-28 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Bruce Wrote: > > The $1000 charge for advertising (it's not really a fine) is a donation to > Debian's still-in-formation corporation, "Software in the Public Interest". > I doubt I'll be collecting it any time soon, it's mostly a strategy to put > off spammers. I love and support this scheme :

Re: ulimit problem

1996-11-26 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
> Normally, limits are not set (ie they're set as the maximum available). If > the limits are lower than normal: > 1) either you have lshell installed, and there's a configuration file in etc > which tells you which are the limits, yep.. got it.. Thanks a lot. That's my first encounter with lshe

ulimit problem

1996-11-22 Thread Tan Wee Yeh
Hi, I'm trying to raise the ulimit as an ordinary user. I don't seem to be able to raise any limit above some ceiling, except when I'm root. bash$ ulimit -a ... cpu time (seconds) 3600 ... bash$ ulimit -t 3601 ulimit: cannot