Re: Acrobat Reader as mozilla plugin

2002-12-30 Thread xio
ed to use acroread as a mozilla plugin. ( I mean I looked over the whole system, but there is no such file). Try: $ dpkg -L acroread | grep nppdf Cheers, xio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome battery applet for acpi on sony grx

2002-12-30 Thread xio
Henry Hollenberg wrote: Hello, I have tried to run the gnome battery applet without much success on a sony grx500 laptop. At first it was locking the system tight requiring holding down the power button for 4 seconds to reboot. [...] Any ideas? THanks, Which battery applet are you using?

Re: Fsck problem

2002-12-29 Thread xio
matt wrote: (woody, 2.4.18) I have a ext2 fs which I converted to ext3, I'm not sure how relavent that is but when I try to fsck the drive I get an error fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-bl

Building i686 optimized packages from source

2002-12-28 Thread xio
install packages. 2. Use apt-build. Which method do you recommend? In your opinion, is the performance gain really worth the effort of compiling from source? TIA, xio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Desktop Performance Issue

2002-12-27 Thread xio
Frank Gevaerts wrote: Probably not needed. Try running hdparm to enable DMA. I agree. First thing after a Debian install I always put the following line into /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh: /sbin/hdparm -d 1 /dev/hd[abc] Works like a treat! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: RCS/CVS for /etc

2001-11-13 Thread xio
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 06:55:58PM +0100, Andras BALI wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:47:00AM +0000, xio wrote: > > > I have been playing around first with RCS and then CVS for /etc. > > Maybe you could check out `changetrack' before trying to implement it > on you

RCS/CVS for /etc

2001-11-12 Thread xio
nters/information on how to do this? Any other comments/suggestions? TIA xio -- GPG Keyid 0x0FCD0EE2 GPG Fingerprint C2FF 6147 0ADB 1674 4096 2339 370F CBDF 0FCD 0EE2 fortune - print a random, hopefully interesting, adage: As crazy as hauling timbe

Re: 2 doubts

2001-11-09 Thread xio
# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hda3 bs=512 count=1 # dd if=bootactv.bin of=/dev/hda3 bs=446 count=1 _WARNING:_ Whenever the disk is re-partitioned, the merged boot sector on that "spare" Linux partition has to be updated too. [...] Cheers xio -- GPG Keyid 0x0FCD0EE2 GPG Fingerprint C2F

Re: setting ultra DMA for hdd at boot time?

2001-11-09 Thread xio
und with module parameters, but without success. So, > can someone describe exactly what I have to do? > Have a look at Documentation/ide.txt in the kernel-source tree. "idex=dma" might do what you want. You shold be able to use it both as a kernel parameter and a module option

Re: The old story - backspace in xterms

2001-10-24 Thread xio
case -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ To type in the  you need to press  first, and then either the backspace key or . Cheers, xio -- GPG Keyid 0x0FCD0EE2 GPG Fingerprint C2FF 6147 0ADB 1674 4096 2339 370F CBDF 0FCD 0EE2 fortune - print a random, hopefully interesting, a

Re: mutt doesn't know about procmail actions

2001-10-03 Thread xio
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:10:49AM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > I've got a procmail rc file redirecting my mail either to one or other > mailbox or otherwise to my /Mail/mbox mailbox. > > Mutt by default views the contents of my mail spool > (/var/spool/mail/myname) rather than my mbox. >

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-03 Thread xio
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Peter Christensen wrote: > > > Oh my. You're going to get a lot of responses telling you to > upgrade; but my guess is that you're problems stems from low RAM. On > 32 MB of RAM, you're going to start running deep into virtual memory > because of Mozilla's big footpr

Re: how to configure a sound card

2001-10-02 Thread xio
What soundcard are you using? What's the error that was reported? On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:27:41PM +0200, fouad HENNI wrote: > >Hello > >I installed Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 (potato) on my PC > and > >I have no idea on how to get my sound card working. > >I tried the commands: > >sndconfig > >sound

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread xio
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:10:38PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a > > server into /var/www. /var isn't made for stuff that's persistens like > > a homepage! in add

Re: virtual hosting in apache and file locations

2001-10-02 Thread xio
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a > server into /var/www. /var isn't made for stuff that's persistens like > a homepage! in addition, where do virtual hosts go? in general, once > a virtual host is

OT: html or text to rtf conversion tool?

2001-10-01 Thread xio
Hi, I am trying to find a common denominator with recruitment agencies who don't want to accept my cv either in html or text. Most of them keep insisting in asking for a cv in Word format. Does anybody know if there is conversion tools from html or text to rtf? (they'd have to run on Debian) Th

Security Auditing Tool for Analysing Networks?

2001-09-29 Thread xio
Hi there, I have recently installed my new Debian system, running testing/unstable. It is permanently connected to the Internet and running apache, apache-ssl, exim and ssh. I think I have disabled everything else, like telnetd, fingerd from remote, etc... Still, I would like to run a Security

Re: Bug in mutt?

2001-09-26 Thread xio
That's standard terminal behaviour: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ stty -a speed 38400 baud; rows 24; columns 80; line = 144; intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = ; eol2 = ; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0; -parenb

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-26 Thread xio
This is OT for this thread, but I would like to know: Is there a deb package for staroffice? Thanks On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:42:57PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:58:59PM -0400, Rob Ransbottom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > > > I hear that Staroffice is go

Re: 2.4.10, problems?

2001-09-25 Thread xio
Thanks for the answers! :) On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:09:34PM +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:56:37 +0200, Bostjan Muller wrote: > > >No problem, do not have to patch, you can use the plain vanilla 2.4.10 and > >than > >use kernel-package tools to create .deb with the ker

Re: 2.4.10, problems?

2001-09-25 Thread xio
Do you know if it is possible to patch the standard debian 2.4.9 kernel-source package to 2.4.10? I would like to use the standard debian mechanism of compiling and installing a kernel but I am not sure if that's possible for 2.4.10 at this time. Thanks for your time! On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 06:

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-25 Thread xio
I second this. Also, I bet you any O'Reilly book that quite a few people on this list can write a more flexible solution than Norton Ghost with just the standard UNIX tools (and Perl maybe) :) P.S. even 'cp /dev/hda ' works great On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 08:25:59PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Su

Re: ReiserFS in Debian 2.2 r0

2001-09-23 Thread xio
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:37:00PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > A.R. (Tom) Peters([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Does Debian 2.2 r0 support the ReiserFS? How can i do it? I can't find > > > this option in fdisk, but kernel 2.4.

Re: IMAP server?

2001-09-22 Thread xio
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:09:09PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake Craig Dickson: > > Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > > I keep having silently dropped emails to some servers and I can't quite > > > figure out why. My ISP (Comcast - god bless 'em for the speed, but tech > > > support, well, ne

Re: Mutt Unread Mail

2001-09-22 Thread xio
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 01:25:25AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > also sprach Danie Roux (on Tue, 11 Sep 2001 02:22:43PM +0200): > > Anyone know how to make that little delay between folders changing > > dissapear? > > it needs to parse the new mailbox. that takes time. you can't > deactivate it,

Re: Solidarity

2001-09-12 Thread xio
I am at work right now in UK. And I can't stop thinking about what happened, either. This feels like a nightmare we all are struggling to wake up from ... All my compassion goes out to all the people who have been affected by this tragedy. :( On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 06:17:46PM +, gerard rob

Re: how to run commands automaticly when boot up?

2001-09-07 Thread xio
if it's only for running commands, you might want to use /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh. Looks like it's meant for "Miscellaneous things to be done during bootup." Cheers, Andreas -- fortune - print a random, hopefully interesting, adage: The last vestiges of the old Republic have been swept away.