Re: [Sarge] XFree86 does not start

Hi, * Thorsten Haude wrote (2006-11-27 16:33): >* Sven Arvidsson wrote (2006-11-27 15:54): >>You can use "dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o" to find >>out which package a file belongs to, and reinstall it. > >Thanks for the hint! It's xserver-xfr

Re: [Sarge] XFree86 does not start

Hi, * Sven Arvidsson wrote (2006-11-27 15:54): >You can use "dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o" to find >out which package a file belongs to, and reinstall it. Thanks for the hint! It's xserver-xfree86, one of the packages I already reinstalled. But now I also removed three files l

Re: [Sarge] XFree86 does not start

Hi, * Thorsten Haude wrote (2006-11-27 15:24): >after a recent upgrade, my X server will not start up. Log entries seem >to indicate that X chokes on the Matrox drivers for my G550 DH AGP. Forgot something: A logfile can be found here: http://www.vranx.de/XFree86.0.log.gz Thorsten

[Sarge] XFree86 does not start

Hi, after a recent upgrade, my X server will not start up. Log entries seem to indicate that X chokes on the Matrox drivers for my G550 DH AGP. Installing the Matrox drivers was pretty easy, so I figured I'll just throw away my old stuff and do it again. My question is: How do I get rid of my ol

Re: Stumped with a Posix/Perl Question

Moin, * William Ballard wrote (2004-04-02 00:10): >Given: > >A - 1 >A - 2 >B - 1 >B - 2 > >what's the simplest command or perl script to print it as: > >A (1, 2) >B (1, 2) > >or something equivalent. Is that an array? Depending on the size and whether it's fixed I would use either printf or somet

Re: Debian on a SUSE computer

Hi, * Colin Watson wrote (2004-02-18 10:45): >On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:13:25AM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: >> * Colin Watson wrote (2004-02-18 01:59): >> >On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:33:38PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 05:17:23PM -0500

Re: Debian on a SUSE computer

Hi, * Colin Watson wrote (2004-02-18 01:59): >On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:33:38PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 05:17:23PM -0500, . wrote: >> > What is the likelyhood that the hardware in these computers is 100% >> > compatible with Debian and all it takes is the regular De

Re: Debian on a SUSE computer

Hi, * . wrote (2004-02-17 23:17): >What is the likelyhood that the hardware in these computers is 100% >compatible with Debian Very high. >and all it takes is the regular Debian installation procedure ? Quite high. Thorsten -- Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous? -

Re: recommended reading?

Moin, * Rob Weir wrote (2004-02-16 15:20): >On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:17:09PM +0100, Thorsten Haude said >> Hi, >> >> * Rob Weir wrote (2004-02-15 07:44): >> >On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:16:54AM +0100, Thorsten Haude said >> >> * s. keeling wrote

Re: recommended reading?

Hi, * Rob Weir wrote (2004-02-15 07:44): >On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:16:54AM +0100, Thorsten Haude said >> * s. keeling wrote (2004-02-09 06:44): >> >Just because it doesn't mention kde 3.x doesn't mean it's obsolete. >> >> The book is 20 years o

Re: recommended reading?

Hi, * s. keeling wrote (2004-02-09 06:44): >Incoming from Thorsten Haude: >> * Paul E Condon wrote (2004-02-08 05:15): >> >Start with Kernighan and Pike, The UNIX Programming Environment. >> >> Please don't. This might have been a good book twenty years

Re: recommended reading?

Hi, * Paul Morgan wrote (2004-02-08 16:37): >On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 13:38:57 +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: >> I use Linux for a couple of years now, and usually know my way around on >> various Unix systems. Most of the tools described in the book were unknown >> to me because th

Re: OT: list-etiquette and cross-posting

Hi, * Josh Robinson wrote (2004-02-08 15:29): >indeed, can anyone explain why cross-posting is such a bad idea? The people visiting one of the two lists do not see the other list. So you will get your answer twice, wasting the time of the people trying to help you. There is one best place (list

Re: watching DVD movies on Linux

Hi, Please send me every mail only once. Please don't use tofu mails. http://www.vranx.de/mail/tofu.html * TTH wrote (2004-02-08 14:40): >Sorry, I already have xine installed; I am watching VCDs with no problems. > So I am inquiring about additional packages that I need to install for > DVDs.

Re: watching DVD movies on Linux

Hi, * TTH wrote (2004-02-08 14:18): >am I right to say that all I need to watch movies on Linux regardless of >region is to use libdvdcss? You should use a player application. >Also, if the DVD drive is of RPC-1 type, libdvdcss is not needed? Nope, the DVD is scrambled in any case. Thorsten

Re: recommended reading?

Hi, * Paul Morgan wrote (2004-02-08 12:50): >On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 11:28:58 +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: >> * Paul E Condon wrote (2004-02-08 05:15): >>>Start with Kernighan and Pike, The UNIX Programming Environment. >> >> Please don't. This might have been a

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Moin, * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-08 12:04): >Thorsten Haude wrote: >>Do you suffer from cognitive dissonance? Don't you see how many people >>use Mutt and are quite happy with it? Do you think they get money to >>say so? > >No. But they suffer from cognitiv

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Hi, * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-08 11:57): >Thorsten Haude wrote: >>* Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-08 11:29): >>>1: The person has access to install a decent MDA on said machine. >>>2: The person has access at ALL to configure said MDA in the first place. > >>I

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Hi, * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-08 11:44): >Nano Nano wrote: >>You're making tons of statements that just apply to you. I like mutt. >>I can make it think like me. It doesn't feel like a box. > >Oh, I can get mutt to work but only with a few hours of work. The same >amount of work that w

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Hi, * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-08 11:32): >Thorsten Haude wrote: >I said clearly No you didn't. >getting mail from a system that does not have procmail. You know, >that whole POP and IMAP thing? I see. As soon as I *get* mail, I may filter it, don't I? Why would f

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Hi, * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-08 11:34): >Thorsten Haude wrote: >>Funny you see it that way. For years Mutt's feature list was copied to >>the other clients todo list almost verbatim. > >Funny? That would kind of be the definition of a tech. demo. "Look,

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Hi, * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-08 11:29): >Thorsten Haude wrote: >>Nope, you could also use a *good* MDA instead of Procmail. Which shows >>why the modular Unix approach is much more powerful than any catch-all >>application. > >You're presuming 2 things

Re: recommended reading?

Hi, * Paul E Condon wrote (2004-02-08 05:15): >Start with Kernighan and Pike, The UNIX Programming Environment. Please don't. This might have been a good book twenty years ago but now it's obsolete. Thorsten -- People who thinks quotes are witty are fucking morons. - turmeric pgp0.p

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Hi, * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-08 00:33): >Paul Johnson wrote: >>OK, then why does TB still have more in common than OE than a real >>mail client? > >Depends on what you call a real mail client. I see TB having far more >in commong with Sylpheed-claws and kmail than lookout. Mutt, on t

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Moin, * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-08 10:52): >Paul Johnson wrote: >>That's what I'm saying...why limit yourself when you can make a simple >>move that makes it way easier to switch MUAs when your tastes change? > >And when you're getting mail from a source that doesn't have procmail? Why wou

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Hi, * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-08 00:35): >Paul Johnson wrote: >>That's what procmail is for, though. > >No, procmail is what the tech demo mutt needs to act like a real mail >client. That's a deficiency in mutt. Nope, you could also use a *good* MDA instead of Procmail. Which shows why th

Re: references

Hi, * Paul Johnson wrote (2004-02-07 04:55): >On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:07:47PM -0500, David T-G wrote: >> % * David T-G wrote (2004-02-07 00:03): >> % >Basically, any affirming superlative describes mutt accurately and well. >> % >> % Your $indent_string still sucks, but this is now sigged. >>

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Hi, * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-07 04:47): >Paul Johnson wrote: >>Many portable text communications devices can't set the From header >>for themselves but can set reply-to. My cellphone is an example. > >That's stretching it mighty thin. And I'd consider it broken. Well whatever, but it's a

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Hi, * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-07 01:34): >Thorsten Haude wrote: >>* Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-07 00:12): >>> IE, name me one case where someone would set reply-to where they would >>>not be able to also set From:. > >>Well, don't think inside a box.

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Hi, sorry, I accidently replied to your private mail. Please sent me every mail only once. Thorsten -- Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

Hi, * Steve Lamb wrote (2004-02-07 00:12): >IE, name me one case where someone would set reply-to where they would >not be able to also set From:. I can't think of a single modern email >client out of early development where this isn't the case. I can't think >of one in the past decade go

Re: references (was "Re: Has anyone ever ...")

Hi, * David T-G wrote (2004-02-07 00:03): >Basically, any affirming superlative describes mutt accurately and well. Your $indent_string still sucks, but this is now sigged. Thorsten -- Das Briefgeheimnis sowie das Post- und Fernmeldegeheimnis sind unverletzlich. - Grundgesetz, Artikel 10,

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

Hi, * Alex Fitterling wrote (2004-02-01 07:18): >I like to use my debian system as one would use M$ windows (they >can!) exept the crashes or nowadays worms... Maybe that is the root of the problem: Debian is not Windows without blue screens, it is an entirely different operating system. Don't ac

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

Hi, * Alex Fitterling wrote (2004-02-01 07:30): >Am Sonntag, 1. Februar 2004 02:04 schrieb Thorsten Haude: >> My advice: If you have to ask, don't try it at all. Logging ist an > >except my english - what else would matter... I don't understand. >(couldn't you

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

Hi, * Nano Nano wrote (2004-02-01 07:42): ># aptitude purge cron >Reading Package Lists... Done >Building Dependency Tree >Reading extended state information... Done >The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: > logcheck logrotate >The following packages will be REMOVED: > cron logche

Re: Email client programs

Hi, * Day Brown wrote (2004-01-31 18:50): >Thorsten Haude wrote: >> * Day Brown wrote (2004-01-31 06:00): >> >Well, now thatcha mention it, I am somewhat bemused by the loss of email >> >functionality since I quit using QWKMAIL and the BBS nets, and went on >> &g

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

Hi, * Alexander Fitterling wrote (2004-02-01 01:44): >/var/log amounts around 400MB of size - this is way huge! I want to >get rid of those files - could that be done without any problems if >considering to run the system without logging capabilities? My advice: If you have to ask, don't try it a

Re: Email client programs

Hi, * Day Brown wrote (2004-01-31 06:00): >Well, now thatcha mention it, I am somewhat bemused by the loss of email >functionality since I quit using QWKMAIL and the BBS nets, and went on >the internet. I had similar thoughts. I used Crosspoint on Fido, and still miss some features from both. >

Re: Exim vs Procmail (was: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others)

Moin, * Adam Aube wrote (2004-01-31 04:18): >On Friday 30 January 2004 07:09 pm, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> However, procmail isn't perfect. The main problem is that it isn't >> very powerful and may need other tools (mainly formail, but also >> perl for the most complicated filters). A 100% perl-b

Re: Exim vs Procmail (was: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others)

Hi, * Vincent Lefevre wrote (2004-01-31 01:09): >However, procmail isn't perfect. The main problem is that it isn't >very powerful and may need other tools (mainly formail, but also >perl for the most complicated filters). A 100% perl-based solution >(with primitives for MIME decoding) would proba

Re: postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

Hi, * Nano Nano wrote (2004-01-30 09:16): >Jan 29 21:54:37 desk postfix/pickup[1851]: E6A93145E1: uid=[removed] from=<[removed]> >Jan 29 21:54:37 desk postfix/cleanup[1856]: E6A93145E1: message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Jan 29 21:54:37 desk postfix/qmgr[1852]: E6A93145E1: from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

MDA (was: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others)

Moin, * Katipo wrote (2004-01-30 09:00): >Procmail is definitely worth looking at. If you like Sendmail, you'll *love* Procmail. For other people, try a software which looks less like line noise. I started using Maildrop for real a couple of weeks ago and I am quite impressed. Nothing from my pr

Re: postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

Moin, * Nano Nano wrote (2004-01-30 08:52): >On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:19:36AM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: >> What's in the log for this message? > >from /var/log/mail.log: > >Jan 29 23:42:00 desk postfix/smtp[4117]: 8AEF514756: >to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, re

Re: postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

Moin, * Nano Nano wrote (2004-01-30 08:52): >On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:19:36AM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: >> What's in the log for this message? > >from /var/log/mail.log: > >Jan 29 23:42:00 desk postfix/smtp[4117]: 8AEF514756: >to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, re

Re: postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

Hi, * Nano Nano wrote (2004-01-30 07:01): >My first test message to the outside world bounced with: > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host smtp.comcast.net[216.148.227.125] said: >550 >[PERMFAIL] comcast.net requires valid sender (in reply to RCPT TO >command) > >exim always added my "Sender" header f

Re: Email client programs

Hi, * Curtis Vaughan wrote (2004-01-28 06:44): >I know this is not a windows list and I have never yet asked a question >like this on here before, but perhaps there is someone who knows the >answer to this question. How about asking Microsoft support about it? Thorsten -- Jede Glorifizierung

Re: Installation

Hi, * Nick Kirchner wrote (2004-01-25 17:58): >During install I partition the 6GB hard drive into a 100 MB swap at the end >of the disk the rest as the Linux partition. I would've put it at the beginning to gain a little extra speed, but that shouldn't matter much. >When I try to install kerne

Re: libs

Hi, Could you please stop using tofu? http://www.vranx.de/mail/tofu.html * Dr Gavin Seddon wrote (2004-01-25 14:59): >Can you tell me of a repository that contains lbs, since apt-get finds >nothing? You are asking all the wrong questions. What repository you are looking for? What packages do you

Re: libs

Hi, Please don't disturb the threading. * Dr Gavin Seddon wrote (2004-01-25 14:32): >The prob. is, it may not find a so file that I apt-get. What are you trying to do? Thorsten -- There is no drug known to man which becomes safer when its production and distribution are handed over to crimina

Re: libs

Moin, * Dr Gavin Seddon wrote (2004-01-25 13:21): >Recently I have been troubled with missing libs. Is there a repository >for Debian libs? What's wrong with Apt? What are you missing? Thorsten -- I fear that Digital Rights Management today is Political Rights Management tomorrow. That embedd

Re: Derivative effects.

Hi, * Haines Brown wrote (2004-01-25 13:21): >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:43:56PM -0800, Day Brown wrote: >> > Linux comes from Unix, which was designed for mainframes. >> > windows comes from dos, which was designed for personal desktops. >> >> Well technically Unix was designed for mid-sized c

Re: Erm, is this spam?

Hi, * Nathan Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-24 03:11]: >In the Reference code: #14715, are all files, that we found on your >computer. My guess is that it's a worm, and something stripped off its dangerous content. Something working like that was pretty successful in Germany. Thorsten --

Re: Future of Linux Question

Hi, * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-22 23:04]: >Why doesn't someone develop a similar protocol to Microsoft's network >neighborhood and smb for Linux. So when you join a NIS like system that >it will automatically authenticate you on your Linux network with your >currently lo

Re: Changing language

Moin, * Pär Lidén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-21 01:06]: >Hello! Anyone there knows how change your default language on the system? >I want all my other setting (sorting,date format and such things) to be my >native language (swedish) but I want all messages to be in english. Is >this possible to

Re: Newbie Install

Hi, * John G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-19 20:12]: >I am about to put up my first server. I hope to make it dual boot to >get experience on both linux and windows 2003. That would be a workstation then, not a server? >1. Which os do I load first. Everything I have read so far assumes I >ha

Re: ssh-askpass ?!

Hi, * Roberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-19 18:08]: >I always used to use ssh with a command line like this: >$ ssh -l user hostname.domain.name >If I do it now, it tells me that file /usr/bin/ssh-askpass is missing. Dou you use a key to log into that host? I only use ssh-askpass to enter my ke

Re: Ctrl - s, s key problem

Hi, Please send me every mail only once. * Yan Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-18 21:48]: >Thorsten Haude wrote: >>I don't know about EmacsOS, but the terminal is locked with Ctrl-s. >>Just press Ctrl-q to unlock it. >> >Many thanks for the reply. However, i

Re: Ctrl - s, s key problem

Hi, * Yan Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-18 21:28]: >I am new to debian and linux. I installed Debian last week. Now, I have >a problem. If I press Ctrl - s in a terminal or in Emacs, the s key will >not reponse anymore no matter how I press it. That's annoying. I have to >reboot the machine t

Re: Debian -> Windows | Windows -> Debian

Hi, * Mike Bentzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-11 00:57]: >I'd like to host my & my dad's web page on a server. I would like it to be a linux >box with debian as the OS. >It will handle the internet connection won't it? Sure, as long as you don't have especially exotic hardware for this. >and

Re: Kernel 2.6.0 Cannot Mount Root FS

Hi, * Björn Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-06 01:36]: >I had the same problem. >You must do: make mrproper >Then: make menuconfig I see, so that one worked for you! Someone just gave me the tip that I forgot something which was always included in previous kernel: The MS-DOS partition t

Kernel 2.6.0 Cannot Mount Root FS

Hi, I just installed Sarge and made a new Kernel (2.6.0) for it. However, the new Kernel cannot find the root file system: - - - Schnipp - - - VFS: Cannot open root device "2246" or hdh6 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on hdh6 - - - Schnapp -

Re: XF86Config-4 option for a Wide screen notebook

Hi, * Hooman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-29 08:12]: >The first problem that I have is that the my computer's native >resoloution is 1280x854, but Xserver boots the system with 1024x780. >How can I fix this problem. The graphic card is NVidia GeForce420 >32MB and the driver in XF86Config is "nv".

Re: Rethinking mail

Hi, * David Turetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-16 22:33]: [mutt and exim] >Now that I'm up in a graphical environment, do these two still make the >same sense? Is mutt available for my notebook, running under Windows XP? I think that Mutt makes a lot of sense in a graphical environment. Mut is

Editors (was: editing a text file in a tar.gz file without decompressing)

Hi, * Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-11 11:22]: >I've been learning emacs (gone to far to go back to vi at this point) >and kind of sneering at all-in-one IDE's, but Jedit is worth a >look. Auto-formats nicely, prints nicely (better than emacs, IMO), >sophisticated plugin manager (you

Re: More detailed post ...

Hi, * Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-10 22:10]: >In any case now I am deleting the author's e-mail address from the >To:/Cc: list (unless I forget). Thanks. I have rarely a problem with things happening accidently on mailing lists, so this is fine by me. Thorsten -- He who receive

Re: More detailed post ...

Hi, * Fred Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-10 08:13]: >On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 01:46, Thorsten Haude wrote: >> I'm not intimate with the datails of Netscape's usage; you arbitrary >> send the mail to two addresses where one is enough to do the work. >> &g

Re: More detailed post ...

Hi, * Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-10 03:47]: >Is there any chance that elimination of duplicate messages can be >done (relatively easily) with procmail? Procmail can even delete spam; that's no reason to send some. Thorsten -- The best leaders are those barely known to their fo

Re: More detailed post ...

Hi, * Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-10 03:44]: >If I use Netscape Communicator's Reply function (which I think >implements the standard Reply-to-author function), it only goes to the >author and doesn't get back to the mailing list. > >So instead I use its Reply All function (which I

Re: Shells

Hi, * Radek Zajkowski [Deb] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-09 22:42]: >I'm using the bash shell, but in the package list in dselect it lists korn >and zsh as loaded as well. Can I just unistall them or does my system needs >them anyway? I doubt you would need either one, but I recommend Zsh over th

Re: More detailed post ...

Hi, * Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-09 19:02]: >Thorsten Haude wrote: >> However, I think the better >> approach is to lean back a moment and think about it: Why would anyone >> want to have the reply twice? > >Well, someone could want list messages

Re: [~OT:] reply-to triggers different address?

Hi, * Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-09 17:27]: >is there a way i can tell mutt to automatically use the different >address when i'm writing to that list? or do i have to remember >myself? subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] send-hook '~t [EMAIL PROTECTED]' 'my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]'

Re: More detailed post ...

Hi, * Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-08 21:46]: >Colin Watson wrote: >> ... >> You could always follow his Mail-Followup-To: header, which is designed >> for exactly this purpose: >> >> Mail-Followup-To: Debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >But how would you propose I do that? Do a "View

Re: editing a text file in a tar.gz file without decompressing

Hi, please don't use tofu mails. http://www.vranx.de/mail/tofu.html * Calber Chainy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-08 12:54]: >Mmmm, I cannot find it in my sources, is it a command line program? No, it's an editor written in Java. I don't know whether there is a debian package available. Thorste

Re: editing a text file in a tar.gz file without decompressing

Hi, * Calber Chainy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-08 11:32]: >I have example.tar.gz, and I know in it there is a file named >document.text, a plain text file that I want to edit. > >So I wondered if there is such an application that I can edit >document.text without having to untar and decompress t

Re: Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?

Hi, * Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-06 02:29]: >- double-click a URL in some text in xterm >- move to mozilla >- click in the Location box >- move hand keyboard to type ^U to clear >- move hand back >- middle click to paste > >I'm sure someone will point out an easier way. - double-cl

Re: Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?

Hi, * Timothy Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-05 18:27]: >Have a read at what a horrible nightmare cut&paste is under X. >http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html I can't find any thing horrible in this text. Thorsten -- A smoking section in a restaurant is like a peeing section in a swim

Re: More detailed post ...

Hi, * Thorsten Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-05 00:08]: >>2. How do I sent an 'ATZ' reset string to my modem from the command line ? > >Just guessing, untested: >cat 'ATZ' > /dev/modem Doh. Not cat(1), it's echo(1). Thorsten --

Re: More detailed post ...

Hi, * Dave Selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-04 23:34]: >1. Is there a downloader for debian that will handle broken downloads ? If >not can anyone recommend one ? The thing usually recommended is wget(1). >2. How do I sent an 'ATZ' reset string to my modem from the command line ? Just guess

Re: [OT] Learning PERL

Moin, * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-31 15:17]: > I know this is slightly off-topic but it's definitely related to >virtually all Un*xen I've ever come across. I have a colleague who has >never used a *real* OS but now as part of his job he has to. A few times >I've come across

Re: How can I control the display output (number of lines)

Moin, * Roland Wegmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-26 11:21]: >How can I control number of lines per 'page'? For example when I use the >command 'aptitude search gnome' the output is a huge list, that 'runs >over' my 'bash window' and I can only read the last search results. Scroll back using

Re: How do I do this in bash ??

Hi, * Dave Selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-19 11:48]: >I know 'date' gives me exactly what I want but I cant figure out how to get >tar to write a file with the value of date as its file name ... Basically, tar czf myFiles.`date`.tar.gz myfiles though that gets you whitespaces in the file

Re: Compressability if ISO images (was Re: ISO image)

Hi, * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-15 01:32]: >Why don't these images compress well? Specifically, I took the >Knoppix V3.1-2002-12-12-EN iso and gzipped it, but only got 1% >compression. I guess the Knoppix guys already try very hard to compress what's on the CD. I hear they have 1.

Re: WTF is popping up that frigging window?

Hi, * Robert L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-12 16:35]: > Recently my machine started popping up a window that I don't remember >telling it to do. When I select a URL in my konqueror or mozilla windows >this pops up asking how I want to open the URL. When I double click a >URL in an Ete

Re: start another X session on remote computer

Hi, * Egor Tur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-07 00:23]: >I start X from xdm. But I have any programme which I run on session of X that I >start form startx from X (use `anybody' parameter for >start X). Question: can I start this X session (from startx) on another computer? How >can I possibly

Re: console messages flit by too fast

Hi, * Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-04 18:57]: >I can't believe this is still not solved. I boot the system. I see >some ominous warnings. They scroll by so fast and are gone. Scroll back. Shift-PgUp/Shift-PgDown Thorsten -- It is exactly because markets are amoral that we canno

Re: Mutt: not to fcc attachments?

Hi, * Qian Gong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-03 12:50]: >I want to configure mutt not to fcc the attachments of outgoing mails. >Usually it's not necessary and sometimes the attachments are huge. Under >pine there is a option for this purpose. Any idea how to configure this in >mutt? Thanks. unse

Re: bash guru wanted

Hi, * Michael Naumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-02 12:12]: >02.01.2003 00:52:05, Thorsten Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>[Zsh] > >Thanx for your tip, >But this would not help me. As I stated, the warning is also issued by bash >and disowning jobs is also po

Re: bash guru wanted

Hi, * Michael Naumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-02 00:33]: >I want my bash to obey eof (^D) only if there are no jobs in the background. I can't help you with the Bash, but I recommend the Zsh. The Zsh warns you if you have running jobs, and only exits if you give the command a second time. Yo

OT: Can't connect to Keyservers

Hi, I just was reminded that I have still a problem to access the key servers. When I try to send my updated key to one of the servers, I get the following error: - - - Schnipp - - - yooden@eumel> gpg --send-key 4065A1DA

Re: TwinView and workspaces

Hi, * Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-01 22:06]: >Also, I'd love to have a way to have a regular text console on one >screen with X on another, but I don't really know if that's possible nor >where I would possibly begin to look for info. Any info is greatly >appreciated. Well, what

Re: Automatic timeout in enlightenment?

Hi, * Larry Hunsicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-01 18:16]: >I have looked through the enlightenment stuff and I can't find anything >about an automatic log-off for inactivity. Of course, I suppose that >this might come from the login manager rather than from the windowing >system. In any case

Re: Xterm behavior

Hi, Your lines are too long. * Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-20 08:46]: >1) The prompt. Under Debian, the Xterm prompt is: sh-2.05a$ >How can it make it obey this setting: PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ ' You should set this in ~/.bashrc. Don't forget to export it, though I'm not even positive th

Re: my .muttrc is locked (i.e., read-only)

Hi, * p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-20 02:18]: >my .muttrc is "read-only." i need to >modify it, as i've been able to do >in the past. i don't know what i >did to make it r/o. > >(permissions = 666) > >$ ls -la .muttrc > >-rw-rw-rw-1 bt bt 8503 Oct 31 00:13 .muttrc That

Re: Sources.list

Hi, * Joyce, Matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-20 01:46]: >Can someone tell, is there a way of running the bit of the install procedure >which sets up the sources.list ? apt-setup I think, you should check this yourself. Thorsten -- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a littl

Re: Eterm title magic?

Hi, * Robert L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-17 21:02]: >Thus spake Thorsten Haude ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> you should put your key on the public server. > >Should be on keyring.debian.org in the minimum. Uploaded it a month or >more ago. It seems that ww

Re: Eterm title magic?

Hi, you should put your key on the public server. * Robert L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-17 20:09]: > I know with "Eterm -T 'foo'" I can set the title for my Eterm, but is it >possible to have it set to whatever is going on in my Term? A co-worker >using xterm has it set up so the titl

Re: good procmail alternative?

Hi, * Walt Mankowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-12-07 15:23]: >On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 12:04:20PM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: >> Duh. Now that I think of it, what is the reason to use MIME anyway? >The person who added that code wanted to do filtering based on MIME >attac

Re: good procmail alternative?

Hi, * Walt Mankowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-12-07 05:33]: >On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 05:23:53AM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: >> I used Mail::Audit for quite some time, but it probably has a serious >> bug which makes it impossible to verify some signed mails. > >Mai

Re: good procmail alternative?

Hi, * Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-12-07 04:55]: >I've recently been trying to give spamassassin a go, so naturally I ended >up looking at procmail. Then I tried to build procmail, wow it sure does >take me back. Trouble is, I don't want to go back. Can anyone recommend >a more modern progra

Re: Mutt and multiple identities

Hi, * Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-12-01 20:57]: >folder-hook . source ~/.muttrc >folder-hook =INBOX.NWLSDsource ~/.mutt/nwlsd_muttrc > >For testing purposes, the NWLSD setup has a different set of headers >and a different signature. This seems to work when

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