Re: Latest woody upgrade to causes fonts in X to disappear

2001-09-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:13:04AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I did an 'apt-get upgrade' to my testing system yesterday and got > 50 > MB of upgraded packages(!) > > This upgrade included version 4.10 of X. I notice now that on a large > number of applications, such as the Gnome desktop and appli

Re: VIM Behavior Modification

2001-09-11 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> > I am using vim and am having problems pasting content into a file while > > using vim. vim is "auto-indenting" based on the previous line, so the > > pasted text is quickly mauled and tabbed out more and more every line > > (for large chunks of text, this is completely unmanageable). > > > > H

Netgear FA311 driver from Scyld

2001-09-11 Thread Rob Hudson
Hi, I recently got the natsemi.c driver for my Netgear FA-311 card working. I compiled the .o files for both natsemi and pci_scan separately and inserted them and brought up my network card. I'd like to compile this driver into the kernel. I've done this with a Linksys LNE-100TX card, which is

kernel 2.2.17 -> 2.2.19

2001-09-11 Thread Maciej Bobrowski
Hi, I have debian potato with kernel 2.2.17. there is a kernel-image-2.2.19 at http://packages.debian.org/ and some mirrors. I have the deb file. Can I simply upgrade my kernel image to 2.2.19 by dpkg program ??. I mean: dpkg -i kernel-image-2.2.19_2.2.19-2.deb ?? Or I can use apt-get install k

Re: "Webwasher" alternatives (was Re: Web banner blocker)

2001-09-11 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 00:48:32 EDT, Jason Boxman writes: <...> >> As far as tracking your surfing, I'm chatting with a guy who's pointed >> me to a site that gets direct logs from ISPs, on claim was they had >> about 35% of the market in their service area. Ties full demographics >> (they've got yo

Re: X-windows hosed! Solved

2001-09-11 Thread Erik Steffl
Dale Morris wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > Dale Morris wrote: > > > > > > Yesterday I built the 2.4-9 kernel. The box crashed for no apparent > > > reason and now I just did an apt-get upgrade and destroyed Xwindows. > > > Here's what I think is wrong. I was trying to ge

Re: kernel 2.2.17 -> 2.2.19

2001-09-11 Thread Susumu Takuwa
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 07:15:48 +0200 (CEST) Maciej Bobrowski writes: MB> Can I simply upgrade my kernel image to 2.2.19 by dpkg program ??. I mean: MB> dpkg -i kernel-image-2.2.19_2.2.19-2.deb ?? MB> MB> Or I can use apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19 or something like that MB> after

Re: kernel 2.2.17 -> 2.2.19

2001-09-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 07:15:48AM +0200, Maciej Bobrowski wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have debian potato with kernel 2.2.17. there is a kernel-image-2.2.19 at > http://packages.debian.org/ and some mirrors. I have the deb file. > Can I simply upgrade my kernel image to 2.2.19 by dpkg program ??. I m

Re: seeing umlauts in mutt (works okay in vim, not mutt)

2001-09-11 Thread Danie Roux
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:29:12PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > i was referring to vim operations ^K-keystroke-keystroke and :dig > (:digraph). very cool. i could learn a new feature about vim > every hour and i bet it'd take ten years to finish. Did you know about :set digraph? To type ê, you th

Re: Super slow NFS

2001-09-11 Thread Anthony Lau
Thanks to those that responded. I didn't realize that my router was not passing packet fragments. Updating the firmware has got NFS working much faster now. Still not as fast as FTP or SSH, but not too bad. -- Anthony

Re: VIM Behavior Modification

2001-09-11 Thread Danie Roux
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:27:07PM -0700, Nick Jennings wrote: > I am using vim and am having problems pasting content into a file while > using vim. vim is "auto-indenting" based on the previous line, so the > pasted text is quickly mauled and tabbed out more and more every line > (for large chunk

[cls@truffula.sj.ca.us: xlibs vs xlib6g ?]

2001-09-11 Thread Branden Robinson
-- G. Branden Robinson|The basic test of freedom is Debian GNU/Linux |perhaps less in what we are free to [EMAIL PROTECTED] |do than in what we are free not to http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |do. -- Eric Hoffer

DHCP over cable

2001-09-11 Thread G. Crimp
Hi, I need help setting up a dhcp client. I have recently been told by [EMAIL PROTECTED], my cable ISP, that they will be moving to an entirely dynamic setup from a hybrid dynamic/static one. I tried setting up dhcpcd once several months ago when I suddenly found myself with no DNS. They

Re: Anyone ever printed RECTANGLES under GNOME?

2001-09-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:31:28 +1200, Adam Warner wrote: > I tried a number of the recommendations without success (e.g. rearranging > XF86Config-4, checking out locales, locales-gen). I hope what appears to > be a bug in gnome-print is resolved. Have a look at http://bugs.debian.org/111782 . Gr

Re: multiple monitors, i810 & ???

2001-09-11 Thread Emil Pedersen
Adam McDaniel wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:40:07PM +0200, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > Adam McDaniel wrote: > > > > > > My personal experience in having a dual-headed system is that you must mix > > > the types. IE, One AGP and one PCI, or one PCI and one MDA, etc... When > > > you > >

Re: eth0 doesn't work under 2.4.9

2001-09-11 Thread Vittorio
Marc Becher [debian-user] <10/09/01 20:34 +0200>: > hum, appears a little strange, as I do not have any problem with > the eepro100, but with the 8139too (I used rtl8139 with 2.2.19) I have exactly > the same problem, but ifconfig does not really bring the interface up. It is > shown, but I can't p

Re: Evolution

2001-09-11 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 21:24, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > Is anyone working with Evolution and IMAP? I'm trying to get mine > working with an exchange server. Windows admin says IMAP is up and on > but I'm not having much luck. I say to check mail, it asks for a pass > but doesn't show me my

Re: ide-smart and proactive drive monitoring

2001-09-11 Thread Andrew Pollock
To answer my own question, the ucsc-smartutils package provides a SMART monitoring daemon and another tool for also retrieving SMART statistics. I guess I just need to employ one of the log watching tools to look for errors from the daemon. I still wouldn't mind a better understanding of the actua

RE: Network unreachable....

2001-09-11 Thread Andy Laurence
> First, try 'ifconfig eth0'. If you get something then the > device is at least present. 'eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found' > If you don't get anything, then next step is > to check that > you have the correct modules loaded. Try a 'lsmod' command and see if > anyth

Hanging cron.daily

2001-09-11 Thread BeerBong
Hello all! Please help to understand where can be a problem. I had a following process list at the morning. Such things happened from time to time. 22799 ?SW 0:00 \_ /USR/SBIN/CRON 22801 ?S 0:00

Re: moving '/' to a new disk

2001-09-11 Thread George Karaolides
Easy. First mount /dev/md0 somewhere remporary like /mnt, then do root# tar cplf - -C / . | tar xvpf - -C /mnt the "l" option will make sure tar only archives the local root filesystem, not mounted filesystems. This takes care of /proc as well. Check that the /tmp permissions are 1777, which

Re: Latest woody upgrade to causes fonts in X to disappear

2001-09-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:07:35PM -0700, Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:13:04AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > I did an 'apt-get upgrade' to my testing system yesterday and got > 50 > > MB of upgraded packages(!) > > > > This upgrade included version 4.10 of X.

Re: How

2001-09-11 Thread F Zimmermann
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, rg2k1 wrote: > Hi > > Have been trying my darndest to download Debian from the net. But evidently I > don't understand how to do it. And can't find any "How to" references. I go to > download with FTP/ USA and get the Parent list. ?? I'm a newbi to Linux, with > a great in

fetchmail

2001-09-11 Thread F Zimmermann
Hi, I have a strange problem with fetchmail. It worked all fine but I was wondering why i was not getting any mails in the past weeks. So I sent a messeage from my account at university and I didn't recieve it. I usually run fetchmail automatically when I go online with pon. this is my fetchmail

Re: fetchmail

2001-09-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 10:41:17AM +0100, F Zimmermann wrote: > > I copied it to ~/.fetchmailrc and run the test option in fetchmailconf > (after sending a mail to an echo server). everything looks fine. Fetchmail > says it fetching the mail and the deleting it from the server. But i can't > find

Question about "screen"

2001-09-11 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
Hi, I'm using screen on 1 machine with 2 windows, 1 of the windows is used to ssh to another machine. Now I would like to start a new screen session on that other machine, and be able to create new virtual windows in that session (normally ctrl-a ctrl-c). Unfortunately, I can start that new scree

Re: GUI in Debian 2.2r3

2001-09-11 Thread Timeboy
On Monday Sep 10 22:40 Helmut Trinkl wrote: > ** Now, Timo, why confuse it all here?! The user originally requesting > ** help, "recently installed Debian" on his/her computer. He/she "can't > ** seem to get the GUI to show up", t h e GUI, not some GUI. Yes! And that's the fact cause i sugg

gmc: fonts for desktop

2001-09-11 Thread Timeboy
Hi! My font on desktop is very small. I found no file of gmc where i could change this font. What can i do to get an other font on desktop? Timo -- Wer Käse mag, der futtert auch Füsse! :-)

Re: Evolution

2001-09-11 Thread Adam Warner
On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 19:45, Ross Burton wrote: > On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 21:24, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > > Is anyone working with Evolution and IMAP? I'm trying to get mine > > working with an exchange server. Windows admin says IMAP is up and on > > but I'm not having much luck. I say t

Re: Anyone ever printed RECTANGLES under GNOME?

2001-09-11 Thread Adam Warner
On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 18:59, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:31:28 +1200, Adam Warner wrote: > > I tried a number of the recommendations without success (e.g. rearranging > > XF86Config-4, checking out locales, locales-gen). I hope what appears to > > be a bug in gnome-print

Re: seeing umlauts in mutt (works okay in vim, not mutt)

2001-09-11 Thread dman
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:29:12PM -0500, will trillich wrote: | On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:08:48PM -0400, dman wrote: | > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 03:01:41PM -0500, will trillich wrote: | > | > on Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 06:28:19PM +0100, Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk) wrote: | > | > > Using vim as

Re: kernel 2.2.17 -> 2.2.19

2001-09-11 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 07:15:48AM +0200, Maciej Bobrowski wrote: | | | Hi, | | I have debian potato with kernel 2.2.17. there is a kernel-image-2.2.19 at | http://packages.debian.org/ and some mirrors. I have the deb file. | Can I simply upgrade my kernel image to 2.2.19 by dpkg program ??. I m

Exim questions, inc. use Exchange Server?

2001-09-11 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I'm trying to send mail from my linux box to the outside world. Our office's mail server is MS Exchange on NT4 on address 10.0.0.6. My linux user name is 'rory' whereas my office mail address is 'rory.cl'. Previously I had Exim sending mail out to the web, but the headers showed that the mail came

Re: fetchmail

2001-09-11 Thread F Zimmermann
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 10:41:17AM +0100, F Zimmermann wrote: > > > > I copied it to ~/.fetchmailrc and run the test option in fetchmailconf > > (after sending a mail to an echo server). everything looks fine. Fetchmail > > says it fetching the ma

Re: moving '/' to a new disk

2001-09-11 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 12:16:52PM +0300 or thereabouts, George Karaolides wrote: > > Easy. First mount /dev/md0 somewhere remporary like /mnt, then do > > root# tar cplf - -C / . | tar xvpf - -C /mnt > > the "l" option will make sure tar only archives the local root filesystem, > not mounted

Re: VIM Behavior Modification

2001-09-11 Thread Rino Mardo
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:12:13PM -0800 or thereabouts, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > > > I am using vim and am having problems pasting content into a file while > > > using vim. vim is "auto-indenting" based on the previous line, so the > > > pasted text is quickly mauled and tabbed out more

Re: Bug in crontab? Won't work here

2001-09-11 Thread christophe barbé
How is set your visual editor ? If you use vim, you need to use the -f option (no fork) otherwise crontab will ever seen empty file. Christophe Le lun, 10 sep 2001 20:47:58, Anthony Campbell a écrit : > On 10 Sep 2001, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:

Re: XML Tool Server problem

2001-09-11 Thread Hamma Scott
--- Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the quick answer! > > But ... :-( > Danie Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Wild shot in the dark. Do you have a jdk > installed? If not, put a line > > like this in your sources.list > > > > # Blackdown Java > > deb > http://

Re: Question about "screen"

2001-09-11 Thread Marc Becher
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 12:10:30PM +0200, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using screen on 1 machine with 2 windows, 1 of the windows is used to > ssh to another machine. Now I would like to start a new screen session on > that other machine, and be able to create new virtual windows in

[OT] Re: Evolution

2001-09-11 Thread oivvio polite
This is in no way a debian specific question, but since we're talking about Evolution I wonder how it's doing these days. I tried it some six months ago and found it a bit to shaky. What's the status today? Is the Palm Pilot sync working yet? Does is handle very large folders (like the one for t

mozilla support for Java?

2001-09-11 Thread Brian May
Hello, Does Mozilla support Java or does it not? >From the description: Mozilla is a sophisticated graphical World-Wide-Web browser, with a large number of various browser features like support for HTML 4.0, CSS 2, JavaScript and Java. Of course, besides the network option, it can also be us

Re: Exim questions, inc. use Exchange Server?

2001-09-11 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:53:10AM +0100 or thereabouts, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > I'm trying to send mail from my linux box to the outside world. Our > office's mail server is MS Exchange on NT4 on address 10.0.0.6. My linux > user name is 'rory' whereas my office mail address is 'rory.cl'. >

Re: mozilla support for Java?

2001-09-11 Thread Marc Becher
ho, you can download j2sdk1.3 (for example) at blackdown.org. For me this works fine and also the plugin for mozilla (depends on mozilla-version, some like java and some do not). You should have java-common and gsfonts-X11 installed for the .deb. Just make a link from /usr/lib/j2sdk1.3/jre/plugins

Mutt Unread Mail

2001-09-11 Thread Paul Clark
I am learning to use Mutt. I cannot find a way to jump to unread messages across my many mail folders. I know works within folders but that means I have to try every folder to find unread messages. Is there an easier way? -- Paul Clark

exim

2001-09-11 Thread Timeboy
Does anybody knows what i have to do, to deliver a local written mail to exim? Timo -- Wer Käse mag, der futtert auch Füsse! :-)

Re: mozilla support for Java?

2001-09-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Mozilla is a sophisticated graphical World-Wide-Web > browser, with a large number of various browser features > like support for HTML 4.0, CSS 2, JavaScript and Java... It has *support* for Java, it just doesn't include it with the package. As someone's already mentioned, you have to download

Re: XML Tool Server problem

2001-09-11 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi Hamma, I think j2sdk1.3 is correctly installed. % java -version java version "1.3.1" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build Blackdown-1.3.1-FCS) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build Blackdown-1.3.1-FCS, mixed mode) But I've discovered some strange pathes in xae.el For example i

Re: procmail syntax problem

2001-09-11 Thread John Ericson
Thank you! That solved it and thanks again for the profound help. -- * John Ericson [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ICQ: 7325429 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * web: http://john.pp.se

Re: Mutt Unread Mail

2001-09-11 Thread ktb
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 01:37:28PM +0100, Paul Clark wrote: > I am learning to use Mutt. I cannot find a way to jump to unread > messages across my many mail folders. I know works > within folders but that means I have to try every folder to find > unread messages. > > Is there an easier way? I

Re: fetchmail

2001-09-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I copied it to ~/.fetchmailrc and run the test option in > fetchmailconf (after sending a mail to an echo server). > everything looks fine. Fetchmail says it fetching the > mail and the deleting it from the server. But i can't find > them on my system, neither in /var/spool/mail/frank > nor in m

Re: Mutt Unread Mail

2001-09-11 Thread Danie Roux
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 01:37:28PM +0100, Paul Clark wrote: > I am learning to use Mutt. I cannot find a way to jump to unread > messages across my many mail folders. I know works > within folders but that means I have to try every folder to find > unread messages. > > Is there an easier way? >

Re: exim

2001-09-11 Thread Marc Becher
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 02:19:19PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > > Does anybody knows what i have to do, to deliver a local written mail > to exim? > > Timo hum, nothing than configuring exim (have a look at eximconfig) and writing emails (you should try mailx or mutt or whatever you did not configure

Re: printing

2001-09-11 Thread Brian Stults
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: Firstly, is there a recommended way of doing printing with Debian? I see various mentions of LPD, LPRng, CUPS, PDQ and printtool, and there are a large number of printer-related packages in the archive, many of which conflict with one another, but I can't find a docum

Re: Mutt Unread Mail

2001-09-11 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Paul Clark (on Tue, 11 Sep 2001 01:37:28PM +0100): > I am learning to use Mutt. I cannot find a way to jump to unread > messages across my many mail folders. I know works > within folders but that means I have to try every folder to find > unread messages. list your mailboxes in .mutt

Re: Mutt Unread Mail

2001-09-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I am learning to use Mutt. I cannot find a way to jump to unread > messages across my many mail folders. I know works > within folders but that means I have to try every folder to find > unread messages. > > Is there an easier way? Look into mutt's 'mailbox' setting. When properly setup, you ca

AW: mail server

2001-09-11 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Martin F Krafft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 10. September 2001 17:44 An: Christian Schoenebeck Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: mail server > also sprach Christian Schoenebeck (on Mon, 10 Sep 2001 04:32:37PM +0200): :)) verrüc

Network Printer

2001-09-11 Thread Olivier Billet
Hi, I'm trying to configure a printer (parallel device) on a box (say box1) connected to another box via ethernet (say box2). Now, I would like to print from box2 ! I added the hostname of box2 in the /etc/allow.lpd and have IP accounting in the kernel. By the way, I'm using apsfilter on box2 an

Re: moving '/' to a new disk

2001-09-11 Thread George Karaolides
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Rino Mardo wrote: > i see. i've been using the "--exclude-from FILE" option of tar to avoid > copying /proc and /mnt itself. No, way too much trouble and too easy to get wrong. The "l" option is what you want. > > With /boot on one disk and everything else on RAID1, your

Galeon problem solved!

2001-09-11 Thread Richard Cobbe
First, I'd like to thank Karsten Self & Steven Yap for their help in getting Galeon up and running. I must say, I'm quite impressed with this particular browser. Also, apologies for the length of time between last posting and this message, and apologies that I didn't follow up in-thread. A coupl

Re: mail server

2001-09-11 Thread 'Martin F Krafft'
also sprach Christian Schoenebeck (on Tue, 11 Sep 2001 02:51:19PM +0200): > Ok, I can configure postfix to send all outgoing users' mails to one > smtp relay host of an ISP, but I can't see a way to get postfix to > fetch mails from several ISPs or have I overseen something? > Again, do I have to u

RE: fetchmail

2001-09-11 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> Hi, > > I have a strange problem with fetchmail. It worked all fine but I was > wondering why i was not getting any mails in the past weeks. So I sent a > messeage from my account at university and I didn't recieve it. I usually > run fetchmail automatically when I go online with pon. this is my

Re: Bug in crontab? Won't work here

2001-09-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Sep 2001, christophe barb? wrote: > How is set your visual editor ? > If you use vim, you need to use the -f option (no fork) > otherwise crontab will ever seen empty file. > > Christophe > No, that isn't it. What I have found is that if vim has a .vimrc file crontab -e doesn't work. Even

Re: Galeon problem solved!

2001-09-11 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 14:18, Richard Cobbe wrote: > 1) Galeon tends to be quite sensitive to your Mozilla install. Upgrading >mozilla will likely break Galeon, requiring at the least a rebuild. Correction - Galeon is extremely sensitive to Mozilla versions. Mozilla change the embed API frequ

Re: exim

2001-09-11 Thread Marc Becher
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 03:47:06PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > > On Tuesday Sep 11 14:42 Marc Becher wrote: > > > ** On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 02:19:19PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > > ** > > > ** > Does anybody knows what i have to do, to deliver a local written mail > > ** > to exim? > > ** > > > ** > T

exim II

2001-09-11 Thread Timeboy
Hi! While i'm trying to deliver any mail file to exim i get the idea that # exim -bS could do this. but after some minutes i only get this error message: 421 SMTP command timeout Transaction started in line 0 Error detected in line 0 What does this mean? And which line 0 of which file or wha

Re: exim

2001-09-11 Thread Timeboy
On Tuesday Sep 11 14:42 Marc Becher wrote: > ** On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 02:19:19PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > ** > > ** > Does anybody knows what i have to do, to deliver a local written mail > ** > to exim? > ** > > ** > Timo > ** > ** hum, nothing than configuring exim (have a look at eximconfi

Trying to install on Sparc

2001-09-11 Thread mark damerell
Sparcstation 2 ROM rev 2.0, 2nd hand, 2 disks & no root PW. I downloaded from ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-sparc /current/sun4cdm/images-1.44 First try: downloaded rescue.bin and rawrite2 (from /debian/tools) to a PC, unpacked rawrite, ran rawrite2 rescue.bin A: no visible

Re: fetchmail

2001-09-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 08:29:48AM -0500, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > > Greetings, > I had a similar problem and could not work out a resolution, so I > deleted > the daemon reference in my .fetchmailrc and used a crontab to run it. It's > not the best thing to do, but it's practical.

bad adverts (was Re: Web banner blocker)

2001-09-11 Thread Wendell Cochran
Karsten M. Self wrote: > My PoV isn't that all advertising is evil (though the vast majority is), but that *evil* advertising is evil. Much advertising nowadays meets the definition of _spam_. Advertising can sell. Alas, most Web advertising UNsells.

Re: fetchmail

2001-09-11 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 08:29:48AM -0500, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > I had a similar problem and could not work out a resolution, so > I deleted > > the daemon reference in my .fetchmailrc and used a crontab to run it. > It's > > not the be

Re: PPC Problems

2001-09-11 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Jamie McLaughlin wrote: > I have a question regarding the installation of Linux on an Apple > PowerBook running a G3. > > I read through the "Installing on a PowerPC" but did not find any > information on how to make Linux the ONLY OS on the computer. I do not > wan

RE: Web banner blocker

2001-09-11 Thread Wayne Brown
Check out Adzapper, there is an extension for squid too. you can use a web browser to configure or hack the config files yourself, sorry I dont have the url with me. (Not a Deb though) You could also look at Junkbuster. Regards Wayne. -Original Message- From: Ross Burton [mailto:[EMAIL P

of the Business Objects, how can the si\-mi\-larity (at the

2001-09-11 Thread Bas van Gils
Hi everyone, just recently I installed gpg on my machine (that is, after reading the article in Linux Journal). It works together with mutt brilliantly. No problem there. Now, I read a lot of debian mailinglists and noticed that a lot (all ?) of people in the Debian-organization post with a PGP

Re: DHCP over cable

2001-09-11 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi G, I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well, When I did my Debian install, the network config part asked if I wanted a static or dynamic IP. I said dynamic and it worked fine. I believe at this point, pump gets installed. I don't know for sure. Anyway, My /etc/network/interfaces looks like this: iface

Re: Evolution

2001-09-11 Thread Robert L. Harris
Bingo. I installed the ssl version and I can see my mail, contacts and calendar entries. Now if I can figure out how to get contacts and calendar in contact/calendar format... Thus spake Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "Robert L. Harris" wrote: > > > > I start it up, do the 'subscribe t

Voodoo3 on potato with X 3.3.6

2001-09-11 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I've searched the archives, and elsewhere, but all the useful info seems to be about installing with X 4 (which isn't in potato(?)), or on redhat, or occasionally on Debian by using redhat packages. Is there no way to get 3d from this card using standard debian packages on a stable instal

Solidarity

2001-09-11 Thread gerard robin
Excuse me ,I am of topic with linux but all my thoughts are with the americains, specially the innocent victims. -- Gerard

Re: mail server

2001-09-11 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 03:26:58PM +0200 or thereabouts, 'Martin F Krafft' wrote: > sorry if i missed your question about that... the only mailserver i > know that can do this is MDaemon for windoze. with any of exim, > postfix, qmail, sendmail, fetchmail is what you'll need to use to get > mail f

Re: mail server

2001-09-11 Thread 'Martin F Krafft'
also sprach Rino Mardo (on Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:50:07PM +0800): > i've heard people talk about how IMAP and how IMAP works even with the > broken POP3 of exchange. would IMAP be a better alternative to > fetchmail? you still need fetchmail unless you are fine with only using IMAP mail while connec

Re: Good mail management techniques?

2001-09-11 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
An interesting approach might be remembrance agents, from http://www.media.mit.edu/~rhodes/RA/ Remembrance Agents are a set of applications that watch over a user's shoulder and suggest information relevant to the current situation. While query-based memory aids help with

RE: Solidarity

2001-09-11 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> Excuse me ,I am of topic with linux but > all my thoughts are with the americains, > specially the innocent victims. > -- > Gerard Thanks. We will be in mourning for some time.

Finger Command

2001-09-11 Thread Nick Furman
Can someone tell me where finger gets it's information on the system, when it displays when the user last checked their email. I guess it reads /var/spool/mail/(user) for the date of mail last received, but I am unclear where it gets the information for when the user last checked mail. Thanks in

Re: Question about "screen"

2001-09-11 Thread Alan Shutko
Frederik Vanrenterghem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using screen on 1 machine with 2 windows, 1 of the windows is used to > ssh to another machine. Now I would like to start a new screen session on > that other machine, and be able to create new virtual windows in that > session (normally ctr

PGP

2001-09-11 Thread Bas van Gils
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 05:43:34PM +0200, Bas van Gils wrote: > [cut] sorry everyone ... I used the wrong subject-line for my previous Email... I cut'n'pasted it and something went wrong there... Bas -- Bas van Gils <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP-key on demand Build a syst

Re: Finger Command

2001-09-11 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Nick Furman (on Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:50:30PM -0400): > Can someone tell me where finger gets it's information on the system, when > it displays when the user last checked their email. I guess it reads > /var/spool/mail/(user) for the date of mail last received, but I am > unclear where

Re: exim

2001-09-11 Thread Timeboy
On Tuesday Sep 11 16:11 Marc Becher wrote: > ** Excuse me for being so stupid. > ** You mean an exim option to deliver a local written mail to exim? > ** ^^ > ** Sorry, that seems a little hard to understand. H... Don't know how i coul

Re: exim

2001-09-11 Thread Timeboy
On Tuesday Sep 11 16:11 Marc Becher wrote: > ** On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 03:47:06PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > ** > > ** > On Tuesday Sep 11 14:42 Marc Becher wrote: > ** > > ** > > ** On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 02:19:19PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > ** > > ** > > ** > > ** > Does anybody knows what i hav

Re: Latest woody upgrade to causes fonts in X to disappear

2001-09-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 02:27:18AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:07:35PM -0700, Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:13:04AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > I did an 'apt-get upgrade' to my testing system yesterday and got > 50 > > >

alsa-modules with 2.4.9 kernel

2001-09-11 Thread Martin F Krafft
some major weirdness. i compile my own kernel, flavour "piper", so i get kernel-image-2.4.9+piper (this is woody), which installs its modules in /lib/modules/2.4.9/ when i compile alsa-source or pcmcia-source, the modules get placed into /lib/modules/2.4.9+piper/{pcmcia,alsa}, which is neither the

Re: mozilla support for Java?

2001-09-11 Thread Georges Goncalves
Le -09.11.2001 14:04:48-, « Marc Becher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) » a écrit quelques phrases célèbres sur « Re: mozilla support for Java? » MB> you can download j2sdk1.3 (for example) at blackdown.org. MB> For me this works fine and also the plugin for mozilla MB> (depends on mozilla-version, some like

Woody hangs sometimes! Why?

2001-09-11 Thread Timeboy
Dear Woody users! Do you had seen this too? Sometimes there cames a green line from the left till the right side on top of the screen while working with Gnome and the system hangs absolute. Then a reboot is needed. This system crash not happens by using a determined application. At first time i

Re: Woody hangs sometimes! Why?

2001-09-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
Search the archive for a thread "Gnome freezes". A couple of us had problems of sawfish hanging due to sound effects being turned on for window open/close events. I turned off gnome sounds _and_ sawfish sounds and now I'm OK. My i810 sound in the laptop either isn't configured properly or the soun

Re: Netgear FA311 driver from Scyld

2001-09-11 Thread Noah Meyerhans
One more thing: Note that kernel 2.4.x includes the natsemi driver already. It is the "National Semiconductor DP8381x series PCI Ethernet support" option in the kernel configuration. It's not same as the file from scyld, but is based on it. noah -- ___

Re: Netgear FA311 driver from Scyld

2001-09-11 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:12:27PM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: > How do I get the kernel to 'see' the natsemi.c file and compile this > driver into the kernel? > You will need to do some kernel hacking. Unless you have experience integrating drivers into the kernel, it is likely to be non-trivial.

Re: alsa-modules with 2.4.9 kernel

2001-09-11 Thread Marc Becher
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 05:01:04PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > some major weirdness. i compile my own kernel, flavour "piper", so i > get kernel-image-2.4.9+piper (this is woody), which installs its > modules in /lib/modules/2.4.9/ > > when i compile alsa-source or pcmcia-source, the modules g

xserver-xfree86 won't upgrade

2001-09-11 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi ! Yesterday I upgraded X in Woody from 4.0.3-1 to 4.1.0-5, but for some reason, xserver-xfree86 was not correctly configured and remains in C** state. the other X packages, fonts etc. installed fine. Any idea ? Daniel -- "There is no spoon..." - The Matrix

Re: Mutt Unread Mail

2001-09-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 02:22:43PM +0200, Danie Roux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 01:37:28PM +0100, Paul Clark wrote: > > I am learning to use Mutt. I cannot find a way to jump to unread > > messages across my many mail folders. I know works > > within folders but that mean

apt-get problem workaround... is this a bug?

2001-09-11 Thread Paul D. Smith
Well, I finally fixed, or rather worked around, the problem I've been having with apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade failing with all sorts of obscure, bizarre errors for over two weeks now. Maybe my setup was broken, or maybe something in the latest APT, etc. is broken... can someone with a deeper

Re: xserver-xfree86 won't upgrade

2001-09-11 Thread Timeboy
On Tuesday Sep 11 20:17 Daniel Toffetti wrote: > ** Hi ! > ** > ** Yesterday I upgraded X in Woody from 4.0.3-1 to 4.1.0-5, but for some > ** reason, xserver-xfree86 was not correctly configured and remains in C** > ** state. the other X packages, fonts etc. installed fine. > ** Any idea ? You

Re: Woody hangs sometimes! Why?

2001-09-11 Thread Julio Merino
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 07:44:18PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: > > Dear Woody users! > > Do you had seen this too? Sometimes there cames a green line from the left > till the right side on top of the screen while working with Gnome and the > system hangs absolute. Then a reboot is needed. > > This sys

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