Re: Good Open Source Web Development software

2003-06-11 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Wednesday 11 June 2003 08:11, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > To sum it up, yes, it is possible to easily design a fully W3C > > compliant web page, which IE is not able to handle correctly. Two > > years ago, I would have ignored this problem, arguing that many > > people are using NS. But, nowadays

Re: Good Open Source Web Development software

2003-06-11 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 19:18, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 06:15:13PM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > On Tuesday 10 June 2003 11:42, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:10:45AM -0400, lists1 wrote: > > > > It works heavily toward w3c standard compliant code (and

Re: What is the best Xfree Setup Program?

2003-06-11 Thread Geordie Birch
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 06:00:00PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 07:54:41PM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: > > I imagined so, but I was trying to understand why dpkg-reconfigure > > wouldn't be enough to fully perform the neces

Re: Good Open Source Web Development software

2003-06-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 11 June 2003 03:01, Paul Johnson wrote: > I've yet to see it do that, but if that's the case, that's IE's > problem, go file a bug report with Microsoft instead of coding to > thier stupidity. C:\Windows\> reportbug The command "reportbug" is either misspelled or could not be found.

Re: [OT] Printer recommendations

2003-06-11 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:28:42AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Greetings list, > > It's official: my Epson Stylus Color 400 is dead after 6 years of faithful > service. > > I'm in the market for a new printer and I would like some suggestions. > Here are my parameters: > > - Laser printer (t

RE: Doubling 100MBit ethernet by splitting the cable <-- bad idea

2003-06-11 Thread Paul Matuszewski
Fluke has some great testers... But, they're expensive.. and for anyones use, unless you're running cabling professionally.. it's a waste of a time. My company owns a nice one, but it cost a few grand.. but that's because we run cabling quite frequently. We have a bunch of microscanner pro's whi

Re: [OT] Printer recommendations

2003-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jun 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Greetings list, > > It's official: my Epson Stylus Color 400 is dead after 6 years of faithful > service. > > I'm in the market for a new printer and I would like some suggestions. [snip] Be careful about Brother. I have an HL-1040 for which I recently

Running GTK Apps in Enlightenment

2003-06-11 Thread SYNeR
Hi all, probably a very easy question. But i don't know the answer. Anyways..I installed Debian 3.0r1 base system on my box. Then from there, i built itupas i liked (started by upgrading to 2.4.20, then Xfree86 4.2.0)... I'mcurrentlyrunning Enlightenment.. Enlightenment menus and windows ar

re: Installing Debian from Red Hat (without a CD or floppy drive)

2003-06-11 Thread Steve Grabowsku
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On (10/06/03 02:15), Steve Grabowsku wrote: > >> Thanks to this list, I was able to get good instructions on how to do >> a cross-install using a chroot jail. I tried them, and things went >> well, up to the point were I

re: Installing Debian from Red Hat (without a CD or floppy drive)

2003-06-11 Thread Steve Grabowsku
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 02:15:02 -0700 > Steve Grabowsku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I was using GRUB as the bootloader, and I pointed it at the /boot >> directory on the Debian partition. It seemed to locate the kernel I

Re: Amaya

2003-06-11 Thread Dave Howorth
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: I just installed the debian package that's distributed from the W3C with much better luck! I used: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/Distribution/amaya_gtk-8.0-1_i386.deb dpkg -i amaya_gtk-8.0-1_i386.deb I did the same and it installed with no broken dependencies (I have some Perl

Re: Good Open Source Web Development software

2003-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:00:06AM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote: > On Wednesday 11 June 2003 08:11, Kevin Mark wrote: > > So contrary to popular belief, we should not design web pages to be > > IE compliant, since they do not meet OPEN standards. Is this > > surprising? > > Well, the problem is, the o

Re: Good Open Source Web Development software

2003-06-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:43:05AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > C:\Windows\> reportbug > The command "reportbug" is either misspelled or could not be found. Try emailing them. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debi

Re: fstab Mystery

2003-06-11 Thread Rodrigo Agerri
That remarkable Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 22:05, Mark Annandale wrote: > Hi Guys > > This is an extract from my /etc/fstab - > "/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs,ro,noauto,users,exec,uid=mark,gid=mark 0 0". it should be /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs ro,noauto,exec,uid=1000,gid=10000 0 where uid

Re: More help with mixed versions

2003-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:51:30PM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > I'm running Woody, and adding sources with Woody backports, so I can run > GnomeMeeting (>0.93), OpenOffice.org, etc. > > I have Gnome 2 up, and most packages with it, but gaim won't load. It > claims missing dependencies. >

Re: Good Open Source Web Development software

2003-06-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 11 June 2003 11:18, Paul Johnson wrote: > > C:\Windows\> reportbug > > The command "reportbug" is either misspelled or could not be found. > > Try emailing them. > Sorry, I should have included \begin{humor} and \end{humor} joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: secure kernel

2003-06-11 Thread Shamot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Why shouldn't I use kernel-image-2.4.18-1-386 insted of kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4. It provides a better performence to me i586 computer ? kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 works fine on my machine ;) On Wednesday 11 of June 2003 03:24, Hubert Chan wrote

Re: [OT] IBM clicky keyboards (was Re: ergonomic setups)

2003-06-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:51:47AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > The IBM clicky keyboards (Model M) comes in several versions. They are > readily available on eBay for under $10, including shipping. I'm told that Wacky Willy's in Hillsboro, OR has the

can't find numbered character xxx

2003-06-11 Thread Johann Spies
When I do a "man iso_8859_1" I get a lot of the following messages on the screen and the char-column is empty: ... /tmp/zmanACOH9U:113: warning: can't find numbered character 198 /tmp/zmanACOH9U:114: warning: can't find numbered character 199 ... /tmp/zmanYvpd9M:170: warning: can't find numbered ch

Updating to new kernel from 2.4.18-bf2.4

2003-06-11 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is one of the doh! type questions but please bear with me. I have a box running Woody with the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. After the advisory yesterday, I downloaded the recommended kernel-image. Then I realised that I can't use this because it would no

Re: can't find numbered character xxx

2003-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:06:13PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > When I do a "man iso_8859_1" I get a lot of the following messages on > the screen and the char-column is empty: > ... > /tmp/zmanACOH9U:113: warning: can't find numbered character 198 > /tmp/zmanACOH9U:114: warning: can't find numbere

Re: play mp3 files on xmms

2003-06-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:30:57PM +0200, Marino Fernandez wrote: > Or right click on the mp3 file, choose open with XMMS (or other if > it is not listed, then go to multimedia, audio, and choose XMMS, the > check the box that says remember application

Re: Updating to new kernel from 2.4.18-bf2.4

2003-06-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > The only source I can find in the cache for my Woody box is 2.4.18 which > is source for the kernel currently being used on that box. > > Can I use either the 2.4.19 source or the 2.4.20 source instead (both of > which are available in testing)

Re: Debian KDE problem ...

2003-06-11 Thread David selby
David selby wrote: OK Ive hit something in konqueror. When I used knoqueror I used to get a list of text options along the top that I used all the time, eg view, show hidden files etc. Its gone I have tried right click, confgure toolbars but can't get my text menus back ! any Ideas Dave Sort

Re: can't find numbered character xxx

2003-06-11 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
> > When I do a "man iso_8859_1" I get a lot of the following messages on > > the screen and the char-column is empty: > > ... > > /tmp/zmanACOH9U:113: warning: can't find numbered character 198 > What is your locale? I have the same problem with LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R. With ru_RU.UTF-8 it works norma

can anyone reccomend an app to ..

2003-06-11 Thread David selby
I have been given 2xcdroms of photoes in jpeg format from australia. I would like to view them full screen scaled to the screen size and idealy flick through them. I have tried various apps xzgv,gphoto, konqueror etc but I need an app that can select the 200 photoes at once then let me view the

can anyone reccomend an app to ..

2003-06-11 Thread David selby
I have been given 2xcdroms of photoes in jpeg format from australia. I would like to view them full screen scaled to the screen size and idealy flick through them. I have tried various apps xzgv,gphoto, konqueror etc but I need an app that can select the 200 photoes at once then let me view them sc

Re: can't find numbered character xxx

2003-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 02:35:30PM +0300, Alexey Vyskubov wrote: > > > When I do a "man iso_8859_1" I get a lot of the following messages on > > > the screen and the char-column is empty: > > > ... > > > /tmp/zmanACOH9U:113: warning: can't find numbered character 198 > > > What is your locale? >

Re: can anyone reccomend an app to ..

2003-06-11 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, David selby wrote: > I have been given 2xcdroms of photoes in jpeg format from australia. I > would like to view them full screen scaled to the screen size and idealy > flick through them. > > I have tried various apps xzgv,gphoto, konqueror etc but I need an app > that can se

get cdrom information

2003-06-11 Thread LeVA
Hi! Is there any way to get some information about the cd inserted in the cd-rom drive? I want to know the creation date, and the volume label etc... That would be nice if it could display the sessions too, but this is not very important. Thanks! -- LeVA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

apt-get upgrade advice

2003-06-11 Thread Richard Kimber
I have 50 or so testing packages in line for upgrade. Some of these have grave bugs open. Some have grave bugs I can live with. Some I don't know about. Is there a way of telling apt to upgrade all _except_ a given package? I'm not keen on dealing with packages one by one. Also, am I right in a

Re: can anyone reccomend an app to ..

2003-06-11 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 07:41, David selby wrote: > I have been given 2xcdroms of photoes in jpeg format from australia. I > would like to view them full screen scaled to the screen size and idealy > flick through them. > > I have tried various apps xzgv,gphoto, konqueror etc but I need an app >

RE: Good Open Source Web Development software

2003-06-11 Thread matt
I haven't seen any real discussion on compliance, but MS Critical Update 813489 (MS03-15) for IE breaks some CSS functionality as a trade off for security. MS Knowledge Base 820575 discusses problems with Outlook also > -Original Message- > From: Aryan Ameri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

drivers for a Motorola mobile phone

2003-06-11 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi I have a laptop (HP Xe3 with Debian 2.4.18) and I want to use my Motorola C330 to connect to the Internet. I have the USB <-> mini-USB cable. I already have a driver for the WIN-XP but ... I want a driver for Linux (its a dual boot machine but I prefer the Linux). Can you help me? Thank you.

Re: can anyone reccomend an app to ..

2003-06-11 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:44:04PM +0100, David selby wrote: > I have been given 2xcdroms of photoes in jpeg format from australia. I > would like to view them full screen scaled to the screen size and idealy > flick through them. > > I have tried various apps xzgv,gphoto, konqueror etc but I need

Re: Updating to new kernel from 2.4.18-bf2.4

2003-06-11 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Roberto" == Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Roberto> They will work just fine. I simply downloaded the 2.4.20 Roberto> source from the Debian website, configured, and compiled. BTW, Roberto> I had never compiled a kernel before and did not find it to be Roberto> too difficult.

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2003-06-11 Thread mikulas
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Re: Inserting Init script

2003-06-11 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:36:46AM +0200, Marino Fernandez wrote: > On Tuesday 10 June 2003 06:37 am, Kevin McKinley wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 22:45:30 +0200 > > > > Marino Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Once I placed a bash script in /etc/init.d, how do I create a link so it > > >

Re: apt-get upgrade advice

2003-06-11 Thread Wolfgang Fischer
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:50:10 +0200, Richard Kimber wrote: > I have 50 or so testing packages in line for upgrade. Some of these have > grave bugs open. Some have grave bugs I can live with. Some I don't know > about. > > Is there a way of telling apt to upgrade all _except_ a given package? I'm

2troubles

2003-06-11 Thread george roman
- i can't make anny users (i can create them, but i can't grant access whith users other than root) they exist in /etc/password anh in /home - when i want to turn off my computer i usally use the comand "poweroff". most of the times it works but sometimes my sistem crashes(the screen t

Re: Running GTK Apps in Enlightenment

2003-06-11 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- SYNeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 10 June 2003, 05:33 PM +1000): > probably a very easy question. But i don't know the answer. Anyways.. > I installed Debian 3.0r1 base system on my box. Then from there, i > built it up as i liked (started by upgrading to 2.4.20, then Xfree86 > 4.2.0)

Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-11 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
This has got to be the longest time without a working system since I started using Debian in november 1995. Of course, when I say 'working' I mean 'with a working desktop' - I still have FTP and all non X-related stuff working, and my system thinks it has completely upgraded OK. Normally I would ha

Re: can anyone reccomend an app to ..

2003-06-11 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
gqview can do it. choose "leave zoom at previous setting" in the image options, "fullscreen" and " fit image to window" on the image right click menu. then use space and and backspace to go through the images. -- Torquil Macdonald Sørensen, http://folk.uio.no/tmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Good Open Source Web Development software

2003-06-11 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 10 June 2003, 01:42 AM -0700): > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:10:45AM -0400, lists1 wrote: > > It works heavily toward w3c standard compliant code (and if you look at the > > top 100 sites, I doubt 10% of them are 100% standards compliant, and i

font selection errors

2003-06-11 Thread Dave Howorth
I have noticed what seems to be a problem with many applications when using fonts on my Debian Woody box. The applications ask for fonts that are installed on the system, but fail to find them. The applications handle it more or less gracefully, many revert to some default font while others ref

evms during installation

2003-06-11 Thread Mauro
Hi. Do you konw EVMS? Is like LVM ma more versatile. I want to use EVMS during installation process. So, for this purpose, I nedd a kernel patched for EVMS and XFS, because I want to use XFS too. After that I nedd evms tools to create EVMS volumes in the hard disk. There is a way to installa debia

Re: [OT] Printer Recommendations

2003-06-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
[Sorry for the broken thread!] Allan Wind wrote: >The psonly-1200 filter does something; otherwise jobs are not terminated >and >the printer will kill some jobs after a timeout of 2 min (if I recall >correctly). Not a big deal, it just surprised me that I needed a filter >in the >first place.

Re: Updating to new kernel from 2.4.18-bf2.4

2003-06-11 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 08:46:38 -0400 Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The config for your currently installed kernels can be found in > /boot/config-*. Copy that into your kernel tree as .config, and that > should give you reasonable defaults for everything. Then make a "make > oldconfig"

Re: Updating to new kernel from 2.4.18-bf2.4

2003-06-11 Thread David Sudjiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry the error is (please refer to my previous email) LILO 22.2 Loading Linux Uncompression Linux... Ok, Booting the kernel thx .dave Virtue is a relative term. -- Spock, "Friday's Child", stardate 3499.1 -BEGIN

Re: Updating to new kernel from 2.4.18-bf2.4

2003-06-11 Thread David Sudjiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chan, I this is my first time to use debian. Well, at least this is the first time I try to get my hands dirty with debian. I was (am) a RedHat-er. I did the `suggested' way to upgrade kernel by these way (this is my log) * Install debian (no update

Re: can't find numbered character xxx

2003-06-11 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:38:12AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:06:13PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > When I do a "man iso_8859_1" I get a lot of the following messages on > > the screen and the char-column is empty: > > ... > > /tmp/zmanACOH9U:113: warning: can't find n

Re: 2troubles

2003-06-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 01:08 pm, george roman wrote: - i can't make anny users (i can create them, but i can't grant access whith users other than root) they exist in /etc/password anh in /home Are you using useradd? adduser works much better in debian - when i want to turn off my comp

lufs kernel module

2003-06-11 Thread Michael Montagne
Really excited about this lufs program! But apparently I need to load the proper kernel modules befire use. This happens: # insmod /usr/lib/lufs/liblufs-sshfs.so /usr/lib/lufs/liblufs-sshfs.so: ELF file /usr/lib/lufs/liblufs-sshfs.so not a relocatable object Kind of a new thing to me. What do

Re: Amaya

2003-06-11 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:54:34AM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: > I did the same and it installed with no broken dependencies (I have some > Perl packages that needed up to date gtk). It now gets a little bit further: > > Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkfont.c: line 220 (gdk_font_ref): assertion > `font

Re: [OT] Printer Languages

2003-06-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-06-11T04:07:01Z, Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 45 TrueType, 35 PostScript®, 4 international > No - a postscript document will send its own as needed. Out of curiosity, why can't I print non-western pages from Mozilla to my 1200SE in Postscript mode? Since I've never

Re: [OT] Printer recommendations

2003-06-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-06-11T02:44:41Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allan Wind) writes: > It surprised me that you still need to run a driver in the form of a ppd > to get things going perfectly (otherwise jobs would terminate abnormally > elsewise, never had that problem with the Texas Instrument aka Sharp > PostScript

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-11 Thread Rodrigo Agerri
That remarkable Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 15:11, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > What happens now is that the screen blanks for about a second, then the > greeter comes back again, without logging in. When I look in > ~/.gnome-errors, there are a couple of warnings, but one fatal error > which seems to

Mozilla 1.3 and Java

2003-06-11 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
Hello all, I have installed the unstable version of mozilla (vers. 1.3) and j2sdk 1.4 from blackdown, I think that the links are right: - In '/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/': javaplugin_oji.so -> /etc/alternatives/javaplugin_oji.so - In /etc/alternatives/: javaplugin_oji-mozilla-cvs.so -> /u

Re: What is the best Xfree Setup Program?

2003-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 07:54:41PM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: > > I imagined so, but I was trying to understand why dpkg-reconfigure > > wouldn't be enough to fully perform the necessary hardware detection and > > server reconfiguration. > > The X installer does not do hardwa

Re: OT: The Hurd

2003-06-11 Thread Kent West
Carel Fellinger wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:14:44PM -0500, Kent West wrote: ... I've wiped the drive and started over, and started a new, much cleaner document. It can be found at http://faculty.acu.edu/~westk/A_Beginners_Second_Attempt_to_Install_the_Hurd.html looking at your scri

Re: [OT] Printer Recommendations

2003-06-11 Thread Allan Wind
On 2003-06-11 09:27:41, Andrew Perrin wrote: > perrin:~# /etc/init.d/lpd stop > Stopping printer spooler: lpd. > perrin:~# cat ~aperrin/ka.ps > /dev/usblp0 Nice! > produces a fine printout. This is postscript sent directly to /dev/usblp0, > bypassing both lpd and (therefore) the psonly-1200 filte

Re: What is the best Xfree Setup Program?

2003-06-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:51:28PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > It does if you have read-edit, mdetect, and discover installed. ^ What package? I can't seem to find this. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: can anyone reccomend an app to ..

2003-06-11 Thread Corey Donohoe
feh, http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/feh/ * David selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have been given 2xcdroms of photoes in jpeg format from australia. I > would like to view them full screen scaled to the screen size and idealy > flick through them. > > I have tried various apps xzgv,gphoto, kon

cannot start snort ???

2003-06-11 Thread Michael D. Schleif
I just upgraded snort the other day: # sudo snort -V -*> Snort! <*- Version 2.0.0 (Build 72) By Martin Roesch ([EMAIL PROTECTED], www.snort.org) It appeared to startup OK; but, I never got any log activity nor daily report. So, I checked: ps aux | grep s

Re: Mozilla 1.3 and Java

2003-06-11 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Luis Fernando Llana D?az: > Hello all, > I have installed the unstable version of mozilla (vers. 1.3) and j2sdk 1.4 > from blackdown, I think that the links are right: Did you specifically get the version of the j2sdk that was compiled with gcc 3.2? I don't believe that the debs

Re: can anyone reccomend an app to ..

2003-06-11 Thread Jeremy Brooks
feh might be what you are looking for: http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/feh/ It will scale images down to screen size, but I don't think it will scale them up. On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 04:44, David selby wrote: > I have been given 2xcdroms of photoes in jpeg format from australia. I > would like to view

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-11 Thread Kevin Mark
> /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome calls for the execution of another script > /usr/bin/gnome-session, which is sadly missing from my system. Despite I did dpkg -s /usr/bin/gnome-session. Its in package 'gnome-session'. > looking through the update instructions, I found no mention of this > script or whe

Re: apt-get upgrade advice

2003-06-11 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:04:01 +0200 Wolfgang Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:50:10 +0200, Richard Kimber wrote: > > > I have 50 or so testing packages in line for upgrade. Some of these > > have grave bugs open. Some have grave bugs I can live with. Some I > > don't k

Re: What is the best Xfree Setup Program?

2003-06-11 Thread John Hasler
Joey Hess writes: > It does if you have read-edit, mdetect, and discover installed. I assume that "read-edit" above should be "read-edid"? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-11 Thread eamon-roque
Hi! On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:11:53PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: snip [...] > Anyhow, with a simple apt-get, I now have X working, and can move on to > the next problem. Gnome won't start. > > I have gdm installed, giving me a login dialog (greeter) in which I > enter a user id and pass

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-11 Thread Kent West
Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: Anyhow, with a simple apt-get, I now have X working, and can move on to the next problem. Gnome won't start. I have gdm installed, giving me a login dialog (greeter) in which I enter a user id and password. Pressing OK would then normally take me to the Gnome desktop f

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-11 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Rodrigo Agerri wrote: That remarkable Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 15:11, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: What happens now is that the screen blanks for about a second, then the greeter comes back again, without logging in. When I look in ~/.gnome-errors, there are a couple of warnings, but one fatal error

Codepage for Konsole

2003-06-11 Thread Mike Herzog
Hello ! I'm using Debain Unstable with KDE. In my Konsole ASCII-lines and other special characters, as used e.g. in Midnight Commander etc., are always displayed as sqares. How may I fix this? thanks Mike [;-) -- +---+ | Mike Herzog

Re: can anyone reccomend an app to ..

2003-06-11 Thread Haines Brown
Dave, A program that is simple in that you can show a directory of images full screen either as a slide show of by keyboard flip is qcview. Nothing fancy, but it's a light-weight easy way to view a graphic file or directory of such files files. Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-11 Thread Wolfgang Fischer
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:00:21 +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > Anyhow, with a simple apt-get, I now have X working, and can move on to > the next problem. Gnome won't start. > > I have gdm installed, giving me a login dialog (greeter) in which I > enter a user id and password. Pressing OK wou

How does Linux shutdown?

2003-06-11 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I am curious about how Linux does the shutdown. The kernel send the TERM signal to all processes when the shutdown is initiated. But does the kernel wait for the every process to finish before the kernel halt? If not, will there be data lost then? -- Edwin ERTW Lau --

Forcing gcc to 2.95

2003-06-11 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
I have a laptop with a small hard drive (540MB) running mostly testing (Postfix and emacs21-nox from unstable). The only thing I compile on it is the kernel. I would like to have just gcc-2.95 installed. No gcc-3.2. No gcc-3.3. The disk is a 94% capacity. Not good. I cannot figure out how to

Re: lufs kernel module

2003-06-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Michael Montagne [Wed, Jun 11 2003, 07:21:29AM]: > Really excited about this lufs program! But apparently I need to load > the proper kernel modules befire use. This happens: > > # insmod /usr/lib/lufs/liblufs-sshfs.so > /usr/lib/lufs/liblufs-sshfs.so: ELF file /usr/lib/lufs/liblufs-

Re: cannot start snort ???

2003-06-11 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Michael D. Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > However, I *cannot* start snort! It is not running and I do not know > how to debug this one. > > What do you think? > First check the syslogs for any errors. Some will get logged, some will just quietly kill Snort. If that doesn't help

Re: Running GTK Apps in Enlightenment

2003-06-11 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 15:11, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > Actually, xchat *isn't* GTK -- it uses standard X libs, which are > typically not all that appealing to look at. No way to theme them, > really, without doing a lot of stuff in config files. You must be confusing xchat with some other

Re: What is the best Xfree Setup Program?

2003-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 08:19:02AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:51:28PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > It does if you have read-edit, mdetect, and discover installed. > ^ > What package? I can't seem to find this. read-edid -- Colin Watson

Re: What is the best Xfree Setup Program?

2003-06-11 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 08:19, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:51:28PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > It does if you have read-edit, mdetect, and discover installed. > ^ It's a typo; read-edid is correct

kdm locale problem

2003-06-11 Thread LeVA
Hi! I have a rather complicated problem with kdm, and I am from Hungary, but I will try to be as clear as I can :) Hope that someone could help me. So, let's start. Some background information: I am using Debian with woody (stable) packages. This comes with xfree 4.1.0. I have added an apt source

Re: can anyone reccomend an app to ..

2003-06-11 Thread Mark Janssen
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 13:44, David selby wrote: > I have been given 2xcdroms of photoes in jpeg format from australia. I > would like to view them full screen scaled to the screen size and idealy qiv -f -m -d 3 -s -r -f full screen -m scale -d 3 delay for slideshow -s slideshow -r random order -

Re: Mozilla 1.3 and Java

2003-06-11 Thread Joris
>> I have installed the unstable version of mozilla (vers. 1.3) and j2sdk 1.4 >> from blackdown, I think that the links are right: > > Did you specifically get the version of the j2sdk that was compiled with > gcc 3.2? I don't believe that the debs available of it are compiled > with gcc 3.

Xwindows on Dell Precision M50

2003-06-11 Thread dhobner
I am stuck. Has anyone successfully installed Xwindows on a Dell Precision M50 laptop? Running xdm or kdm causes the display to flash on/off three times but never brings up windows. Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

[OT] 4-way split screen on Dell laptop 8000

2003-06-11 Thread Nori Heikkinen
Hi all, I know this is OT, and I've posted to the debian-laptop list too, but i know you guys to be a fountain of knowledge, and I though maybe someone here might have an insight, too. I'm trying to install debian on a Dell Inspiron 8000. It's being a little less cooperative than the desktop sys

Re: How does Linux shutdown?

2003-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:03:50PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > I am curious about how Linux does the shutdown. The kernel send > the TERM signal to all processes when the shutdown is initiated. But > does the kernel wait for the every process to finish before the kernel > halt? If n

Re: Lightweight Word Processor

2003-06-11 Thread Stephen Patterson
> On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 17:34, Nick Wilson wrote: >> I'm looking for a lightweight but full featured word processor for a >> very low spec machine. How low spec? The unofficial open office packages for woody/sarge run fairly well on my antique P1 166MHz laptop. Or, if you're not afraid to RTFM, La

Re: get cdrom information

2003-06-11 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 02:12:14PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > Hi! > > Is there any way to get some information about the cd inserted in the > cd-rom drive? > I want to know the creation date, and the volume label etc... # apt-get install mkisofs $ isoinfo -i /dev/cdrom -d will print info from the v

Re: can anyone reccomend an app to ..

2003-06-11 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On June 11, 2003 08:43 am, Corey Donohoe wrote: > feh, http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/feh/ > > * David selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have been given 2xcdroms of photoes in jpeg format from > > australia. I would like to view them full screen scaled to the > > screen size and idealy flick throu

Re: lufs kernel module

2003-06-11 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:00:24 +0200, Michael Montagne wrote: > Really excited about this lufs program! But apparently I need to load > the proper kernel modules befire use. This happens: I'm running lufs on my laptop, and by far the easiest way to get it working is to get the right kernel sources

fstab mystery solved

2003-06-11 Thread Mark Annandale
Many thanks to the numerous replies to my fstab problem. It appears that the tab/space between ntfs and the next item is necessary. Many thanks to the list for the quick response. Regards Mark A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-11 Thread Rodrigo Agerri
That remarkable Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 17:44, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > Anyhow, my second question is this: is there a better way to find those > "--- Obsolete and local packages present on system ---" than by going > into the dreaded dselect? I think that if you get into dependencies proble

Re: How does Linux shutdown?

2003-06-11 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Chun Kit Edwin Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi everyone, > > I am curious about how Linux does the shutdown. The kernel send > the TERM signal to all processes when the shutdown is initiated. But > does the kernel wait for the every process to finish before the kernel > halt? If not

kdm locale problem

2003-06-11 Thread LeVA
Hi! I have a rather complicated problem with kdm, and I am from Hungary, but I will try to be as clear as I can :) Hope that someone could help me. So, let's start. Some background information: I am using Debian with woody (stable) packages. This comes with xfree 4.1.0. I have added an apt sourc

howto extract data from...

2003-06-11 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
Hi, Anyone have an idea how to extract clear text from inbox file (actual file is from m$ entuage on mac called Messages) it got corrupded and mail client does not read it. its quite big 500 Mb so I have to do it at least semi automaticly. main problem are the attachments(I dont need them)- they qu

Re: How does Linux shutdown?'

2003-06-11 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Chun Kit Edwin Lau: > Hi everyone, > > I am curious about how Linux does the shutdown. The kernel send > the TERM signal to all processes when the shutdown is initiated. But > does the kernel wait for the every process to finish before the kernel > halt? If not, will there be d

Re: Running GTK Apps in Enlightenment

2003-06-11 Thread Mark Roach
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 04:11, SYNeR wrote: [...] > How abouts do i go using GTK themes so GTK apps look fine in > Enlightenment? > Is it possible without > having to install and apply themes in GNOME? (This is how i solved the > problem in redhat.. just quickly switched to Gnome, apply a good > them

$LANG and su seems strange

2003-06-11 Thread solo turn
logging in gives as any user: # echo $LANG en_US.ISO-8859-15 but if you do "su - myuser", the user does not have this language set. where does this come from? # apt-show-versions | grep locale localepurge/unstable uptodate 0.0.48 locales/unstable uptodate 2.3.1-17 _

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