Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-22 Thread Wayne Gemmell
> >>>"Walt L. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails > that look like there from M$? The rate at which their coming > is increasing exponentially. I recieved 10Mb of mail over the weekend, and I the last 12 hours I recieved

Re: Problems after moving root partition

2003-09-14 Thread Wayne Gemmell
Problem solved, so far.. it turns out I didn't have write permissions to /dev/null. *shrug* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what is password to set mysql root user password?

2003-09-13 Thread Wayne Gemmell
By default root is set to have no password on the local machine. On Sunday 14 September 2003 06:01, Daniel B. wrote: > The mysql-server package says (e.g., in > /usr/share/doc/mysql-server/README.Debian) to set the MySQL root user > password using: > > /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-

Problems after moving root partition

2003-09-13 Thread Wayne Gemmell
No readable database directory for postgresql I have also just noticed that I can't su to root, I can login as root but not su. Have I broke it, I've found some answers on Google but none fix the problems. Regards Wayne Gemmell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Wayne Gemmell
> This doesn't look as if soffice.bin (StarOffice?) was the culprit, it's > rather a problem with CUPS (close to 60% memory used by this process > alone). Are you trying to print some color pictures on an inkjet printer? > That's a pretty memory consuming task since the picture would be rasterized

Re: Command line printing [resolved]

2003-09-02 Thread Wayne Gemmell
Thanks for the help, you pointed me in the right direction, funny thing is that the Hostname lookup field in the cupsd.conf file was set to on when it should default to off --> that took a while!! Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Wayne Gemmell
Excuse my ignorance but couldn't the problem (at least in some part) lie in the fact that everything is coded/compiled for a 386? Surely code could at least run more efficiently with code that is compiled to use things like MMX, MMX2 and 3Dnow technology? I find it insane that I'm gonna have to

Re: Command line printing

2003-08-28 Thread Wayne Gemmell
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? > > > Oo seems to need a commandline

Re: Linux - CDR

2003-08-28 Thread Wayne Gemmell
> > > > -rws--x---1 root cdrecord 142 Jul 10 14:16 > > /usr/bin/cdrecord so I'm back where I started. > > Also whats the s in the perms(above)? i.e. rws and how is it set? > > The "s" means that if executed, the cdrecord program will not run with > your user id, but with the user id of

Command line printing

2003-08-27 Thread Wayne Gemmell
Hi all Now that I've got printing in KDE to work I need to get Openoffice and network(Samba) printing to work. Oo seems to need a commandline input and this is what I'm starting with and also where my confusion begins. A few questions, Which package is lp part of? Should I use lp or lpr? I seem

Re: Linux - CDR

2003-08-27 Thread Wayne Gemmell
> both of the tools mentioned above are command line tools. if you use kde > you might prefer k3b (for burning) and kaudiocreater (for ripping). Hi Have you gotten K3B to work for regular users? I get the error Unable to find cdrecord executable K3b uses cdrecord to actually write cds. Without

Re: Setting up the parport

2003-08-25 Thread Wayne Gemmell
On Friday 22 August 2003 02:10, Wayne Gemmell wrote: > > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2] > > lp0: using parport0 (polling). > > hmmm pity, I was hoping that I'd missed another easy fix that is hard to > find that would put me out of my missery *yawn* I'l

Re: money/quicken/?

2003-08-24 Thread Wayne Gemmell
On Sunday 24 August 2003 19:00, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 11:05, Torrin wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 12:33:32AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Package: gnucash > > > Depends: bonobo (>= 1.0.22), gdk-imlib1, guile-1.6-libs, libart2 (>= > > > 1.2.13-5), libaudiofile0 (>= 0.2.

Re: Permissions on a vfat partition

2003-08-23 Thread Wayne Gemmell
Hi I use /dev/hda7 /data vfatrw,users,auto,gid=106,umask=003 0 0 with any other users in the 106 group. You still have a bit of control but its not such a pain in the ass. Wayne On Saturday 23 August 2003 15:14, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > --- kenneth dombrowski

Re: Setting up the parport

2003-08-21 Thread Wayne Gemmell
> > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2] > lp0: using parport0 (polling). hmmm pity, I was hoping that I'd missed another easy fix that is hard to find that would put me out of my missery *yawn* I'll try again tomorrow.. Thanks for the input. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting up the parport

2003-08-21 Thread Wayne Gemmell
> Have you been to: > http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_710C > > It www.linuxprinting.org should always be the first stop when > buying/installing a printer. Yup, i've been there but I didn't see anything dealing this close to the hardware. Its all about CUPS and GS

Setting up the parport

2003-08-21 Thread Wayne Gemmell
Hi all I've been setting up the important things for a while but now I'm getting to the wants. I want to break away from windows for good and 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 tha

Re: INVESTMENT

2003-08-17 Thread Wayne Gemmell
I seem to get one of these everyday these days. I think its an epidemic!! Wayne On Sunday 17 August 2003 18:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Attn: Sir/Madam, > > My name is Mr. Richard Cole chairman of contract award and monitoring > committee of the ministry of industry and international trade >

Re: Error when setting path

2003-08-17 Thread Wayne Gemmell
Hmmm, last thing on my mind... thanks, it works now Wayne On Sunday 17 August 2003 14:15, Isaac To wrote: > >>>>> "Wayne" == Wayne Gemmell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Wayne> Any ideas?? These are just two of my many attempts, the second >

Error when setting path

2003-08-17 Thread Wayne Gemmell
Hi all, When I try to append to my current path I get the following output [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ export $PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2/bin/ bash: export: `/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2/bin/': not a valid identifie

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

2003-08-17 Thread Wayne Gemmell
I might be way off track here but isn't the point of pdfs that you can't edit them? On Saturday 16 August 2003 22:32, David Monarres wrote: > On Friday 15 August 2003 06:43 pm, John Foster wrote: > > I want to locate an editor that will run on Linux that will handle .pdf > > flie format. I reall

Re: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)

2003-08-14 Thread Wayne Gemmell
I've taken another route that doesn't work for everything, for things like kde and gnome I 've done a search on apt-get.org or just on the applicable site and found stable sources. After adding these sources to the sources list you get the most recent copies of almost everything without the whol

Re: configuring xwindows?

2003-08-14 Thread Wayne Gemmell
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86] Wayne On Sunday 10 August 2003 20:21, Antony Gelberg wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 01:51:29PM -0400, Jake Johnson wrote: > > Hello, > > I have seen that redhat does a great job with configuring the xserver and > > I was hoping that Debian has something comparab

Kernel recompile ends in disaster, help...

2003-08-14 Thread Wayne Gemmell
t takes me about a week to reinstall necessary packages!! Regards Wayne Gemmell == Download ringtones, logos and picture messages at Ananzi Mobile Fun. http://www.ananzi.co.za/cgi-bin/goto.pl?mobile --- End Message ---

Re: Debian Woody, KDE startup does not go past "Peripherals"phase

2003-08-12 Thread Wayne Gemmell
e KDE packages and installing from the Debian site because Gnome works and Gnome was installed from Debian site and then upgraded through the gnome site. If you installed from Debians official site then I'll write this off my list of options as it could take 2 nights to complete.. Regards Wayne

make-kpkg detects wrong processor type

2003-08-12 Thread Wayne Gemmell
Hi, I'm trying to make my own kernel useing make-kpkg to solve my earlier problems with DMA etc. When I start the first processor family gets answered for me as i386. I run an AMD K7 chip and I would like to compile accordingly. How do I change this default and what possible implications ,if any

Re: Permissions denied when enabling DMA

2003-08-03 Thread Wayne Gemmell
Hi > > The kernel you're using doesn't have support for your IDE chipset. This > is why the kernel didn't enable DMA on its own. How would you recomend that I get support? apt-get *new-kernel*, or apt-get source? Are there maybe modules that I should be looking for? > > Using hdparm to force DMA

Re: Permissions denied when enabling DMA

2003-08-02 Thread Wayne Gemmell
On Saturday 02 August 2003 12:28, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi wayn > > > > you need to make sure the the ide chipset > > swupported by the kernel you're using > > My output for "lspci -v | more" is 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06)

Permissions denied when enabling DMA

2003-08-02 Thread Wayne Gemmell
dparm -d1 /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) Has anybody got any ideas? Regards Wayne Gemmell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su