Re: Earthlink and Swen

2003-12-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:56:48PM -0800, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 04:15:45PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > ... > > > > Earthlink have implemented virus and spam filtering within the past > > month or so, early November, if time serves. > > That explains

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-12 Thread David Baron
< That reminds me of the reaction of a coworker of Ashkenazic origin upon first encountering `chmod' year ago: ``Khmad? WTF is a khmad? I've got an uncle called Khmad!'' It can be enlightening at times to see things through new eyes... << So vould you vant to make a Hebrew shell ;

Re: OT: Lindows based on Debian? (Re: Linux is not for consumers!)

2003-12-12 Thread David Baron
That is exactly how I started! Knoppix--installation was painless and reasonably complete and they include a good part of the OS and GNU stuff in the Lindows "Warehouse". > * David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031211 13:48]: > >>Actually, Michael Robertson is trying to sell his Debian based linux >>

fun stuff - dvd - 802.11g

2003-12-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya i've been playing with various new toys/widgets for next year i've just gotten the distro to recognize the Netgear WG311 pci 802.11g card ( have a linksys card too but havent tested it yet ) - note that its "g" 54Mbps ... vs the slower 802.11[a/b] - i got it working wi

Re: Site packages

2003-12-12 Thread Gaëtan CAPOU
Gaëtan CAPOU wrote: Please help me , My server is down until 3 weeks, because i need kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 Have you a debian install with a drivers broacom BC5700 ??? Bests REgards. Gaëtan CAPOU wrote: Hi, thank for you rely, but, i need of this files to build the drivers of my LAN card t

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-12 Thread Adam
On Friday 12 December 2003 01:50, Antonio Rodr wrote: > Please do post an example. I think I need one. Thanks. This example is from an Exim 4 config file, but I think it will work in Exim 3 too. (Could someone please correct this if it's wrong?) The following stanza goes in the ROUTERS sectio

Re: Portable Ogg Vorbis player

2003-12-12 Thread Stephan Seitz
Hi! On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 07:15:10PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: I have just got home with an iRiver iHP-120. Plays ogg out of the box. Thanks for the infos. I'm interested in the iHP-120, too. Maybe you could answer some questions I have: a) Can I change the hard disk if I need a bigger one

exec-shield patch and alsa

2003-12-12 Thread Alexei Chetroi
Hi All, Have anybody tried exec-shield patch by Ingo Molnar? I've built it with 2.4.23 kernel and it works fine, but apparently there're some problems with alsa mixer. When I'm trying to launch amixer or alsamixer it dies with Segmentation Fault. Anything using OSS emulation mixer works fine. An

Re: weird problem: X restarts if I click in an ssd'ed xterm

2003-12-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 05:01:45PM -0500, H. S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Last night I tried to work from home on my university's network. First > the command "ssh -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] xterm -sl 2048 -fg beige" didn't work. > I got "can't open display" error message. So I did some goo

Re: cannot uninstall nedit

2003-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:40:34PM -0700, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: > And thus we see that Harshwardhan Nagaonkar said, : > > I am having the same problems as the bugs: > >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=213325 > >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=214808 > > >I

Re: ide DMA on Intel 865PE

2003-12-12 Thread Dobai-Pataky Balint
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 22:27, Rune Maagensen wrote: > using_dma= 0 (off) try hdparm -i device, to see what modes are suported by hdd and a cat /proc/ide/piix for more info, my optinion is you can safely turn on simple dma(hdparm -d1 device), you can only worry about udma modes (-X66 ->-X69)

Re: Switch to Sarge lost browser link in Mutt

2003-12-12 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Thanasis Kinias wrote: >> Which locale is this? I tried with Norwegian, and I don't see the >> Norwegian letters. (this is konsole v1.2.3) > > en_US.UTF-8 and fr_FR.UTF-8 Thanks. The reason I had problems is I used to test with LANG no_NO, instead of no_NO.UTF-8. I had this problems for month

Impacte a sus Clientes con Regalos Corporativos y mucho más...

2003-12-12 Thread ForGroups
Title: Impacte a sus Cliente con Regalos Corporativos y mucho más...        

Re: locales and coding systems

2003-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 06:50:47AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales > ... locales not fully installed > > This may explain why the return from a # locales command does not > include a character set. So it seems I must reinstall locales to > define a character set (en_US

Re: Site packages

2003-12-12 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 08:07, Gaëtan CAPOU wrote: > Gaëtan CAPOU wrote: > > Please help me , > My server is down until 3 weeks, because i need kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 > > Have you a debian install with a drivers broacom BC5700 ??? > you can get them from http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downlo

need help on IP accounting - ipac-ng

2003-12-12 Thread Christian Schnobrich
Hello, We're several people sharing the same DSL link. Currently, there are no volume limitations (so noone ever bothered) but this is going to change three months from now. Until then, I'd like to know how much traffic we generate so that we may choose pick the right offer. Furthermore, it might

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-12 Thread Richard Kimber
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:24:39 -0700 "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Linux is a kernel. I can almost guarantee that you've never, for > example, discussed an implementation bug with a microsoft or apple > kernel developer. > > The gripe is about "linux" as though all of the thousa

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 10:43:28AM +, Richard Kimber wrote: > You must be aware, surely, that there are two usages of 'Linux'. One is > the one you have given, which is the original meaning. But there is also > the general evolved man-or-woman-in-the-street usage that applies to the > distrib

Can't get jabber to start on installation

2003-12-12 Thread Doctorcam
I have managed to get jabber installed, and running it from the command line seems to work fine, following the instructions in the 1.4.x administration guide. Trying to get dpkg to finish installing it, however, or (more specifically) trying to run it from the init.d script is another matter. The

Re: dissapearing sound

2003-12-12 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:53:36 -0600 techlists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and if not, how do I re-initialize sound without restarting KDE or > rebooting? If it's just an arts problem, it might help to open the "Sound System" control panel, set the Sound I/O method (Sound I/O tab) to "no audio", a

Spam? (was: Nyhedsbrevet Erhverv & Fritid (uge 50))

2003-12-12 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 06:24:21 +0100 "Nyhedsbasen.dk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kære bruger! > > Der er netop udsendt en ny udgave af nyhedsbrevet ERHVERV & FRITID. > > Da du har valgt ikke at modtage det i HTML-format, sendes i stedet en > henvisning til hvor du kan se nyhedsbrevet i sin fulde

Re: Portable Ogg Vorbis player

2003-12-12 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:06:07PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 13:15, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've been looking for a portable MP3 player for a while. That is to > > say, one that plays .ogg files. I have about 750 CD's, of which about > > 200 are ripp

Re: need help on IP accounting - ipac-ng

2003-12-12 Thread Dobai-Pataky Balint
what you need is a mysql server and a mysqclient, and cron set up to burst the gathered data to into the mysqserver. On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 11:39, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > However, I'm looking for an application that will gather the data, sum > it up nicely and just keeps track, even if the c

Dell TrueMobile Router and Debian

2003-12-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, currently I have a Dell TrueMobile 1184 router which runs with modified Linux kernel provided by Dell: I wonder if there is a way to install Debian on such a machine in order to update the kernel and install personnlized stuff rather than useless documentations: any idea ? Thanks, Jero

Re: Portable Ogg Vorbis player

2003-12-12 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:52:18AM +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote: > Hi! > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 07:15:10PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > >I have just got home with an iRiver iHP-120. Plays ogg out of the box. > > Thanks for the infos. I'm interested in the iHP-120, too. > > Maybe you could an

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-12 Thread TR
My isp killed me again, when I tried to email to my self a test after changing exim.conf as indicated So, let me ask a couple of questions: > * Thanasis Kinias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031211 13:03]: > > # For AOL... > > > > aol: > > driver = domainlist > > domains = aol.com >

Problem with lxdialog (make menuconfig) and ncurses

2003-12-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
I wanted to compile a kernel, but when doing "make menuconfig", I got: There seems to be a problem with the lxdialog companion utility which is built prior to running Menuconfig. Usually this is an indicator that you have upgraded/downgraded your ncurses libraries and did not remove the old ncur

Re: Dumb question (was: LSI Fusion MPT ?)

2003-12-12 Thread Adam Garside
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:57:10AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks, it works great. > > BTW, why doesn't Debian include all this stuff in its install ? > It's not like we're short of space on the CD, right ? True, but Debian keeps the stable installer static, only backporting security pa

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-12 Thread Richard Kimber
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:55:32 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The proper name for the distribution we release is not "Debian Linux", > but "Debian GNU/Linux". This is all over our web site so it's not as if > people can easily be confused. Indeed. But I wasn't intending to use the

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-12 Thread Wendell Cochran
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:59:15 -0700 From: Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [SNIP] >I started to compose a long diatribe on the need for more action in >documentation when I thought to look to see whether there is a Debian >list on documentation. There is such a list. I am subscribing to it.

Re: Problem with lxdialog (make menuconfig) and ncurses

2003-12-12 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Vincent Lefevre (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I wanted to compile a kernel, but when doing "make menuconfig", I got: > > There seems to be a problem with the lxdialog companion utility which > is > built prior to running Menuconfig. Usually this is an indicator that > you have upgraded/d

Re: nagios

2003-12-12 Thread Bill Goudie
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:50:53PM -, Lee, Keith wrote: > I have setup everything for just a ping to a wireless connection only > (I think) The configuration passes the sanity test. > > The log file says that nagios has started and gives a pid. > > when I use ps -A the pid is not there. In

Re: Spam? (was: Nyhedsbrevet Erhverv & Fritid (uge 50))

2003-12-12 Thread Björn Lindström
Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 06:24:21 +0100 > "Nyhedsbasen.dk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Kære bruger! >> >> Der er netop udsendt en ny udgave af nyhedsbrevet ERHVERV & FRITID. >> >> Da du har valgt ikke at modtage det i HTML-format, sendes i stedet en >> h

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-12 Thread John Peter
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:24:14PM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and for that occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after upgrading, X wouldn't start (

How to read package change logs before install

2003-12-12 Thread Lou Losee
Ok - another elementary (I hope) apt question: 1)Is there any way to read the change-log associated with a package without either downloading the package or installing the package? Typically to see the change log, readme, etc, I download the package and install it and if it isn't correct then rem

documentation Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Wendell Cochran wrote: > This thread concerns both (a) proper documentation of programs -- & > also (b) translation into clear English for the notional Aunt Tilly. > > That suggests need for a list on finding the right words & putting > them in the right order, but even Debi

Re: Spam? (was: Nyhedsbrevet Erhverv & Fritid (uge 50))

2003-12-12 Thread Henrik Christian Grove
Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 06:24:21 +0100 > "Nyhedsbasen.dk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Kære bruger! > > > > Der er netop udsendt en ny udgave af nyhedsbrevet ERHVERV & FRITID. > > > > Da du har valgt ikke at modtage det i HTML-format, sendes i stedet e

Re: Switch to Sarge lost browser link in Mutt

2003-12-12 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit John L. Fjellstad: > Thanasis Kinias wrote: > > >> Which locale is this? I tried with Norwegian, and I don't see the > >> Norwegian letters. (this is konsole v1.2.3) > > > > en_US.UTF-8 and fr_FR.UTF-8 > > Thanks. > > The reason I had problems is I used to test with LANG no_NO, instea

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-12 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit TR: > > * Thanasis Kinias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031211 13:03]: > > > # For AOL... > > > > > > aol: > > > driver = domainlist > > > domains = aol.com > > > transport = remote_smtp > > > route_list = * smtp.west.cox.net > > Is there a space between

OT: Letter to TigerDirect

2003-12-12 Thread Kent West
OFF-TOPIC Perhaps I have no business posting this here . . . . I've done business with TigerDirect in the past, but recently they've added a pro-MS banner to their home page. I wrote this note to them, and would encourage other Debianistas who have done business with them to make your feelings

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-12 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 10:43 GMT, Richard Kimber penned: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:24:39 -0700 "Monique Y. Herman" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Linux is a kernel. I can almost guarantee that you've never, for >> example, discussed an implementation bug with a microsoft or apple >> kernel deve

kde 3.1 panel - Where is it?

2003-12-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After having messed up something in my testing installation I had to reinstall many (mainly graphical libraries and the likes) packages. Among them I found the kde 3.1 release which I installed together with kdmUnfortunately, the kde panel doesn't show up but only a very poor menu bar at the top of

Quickie question before reinstall

2003-12-12 Thread Paul Schwartz
I found reference to the other installation kernel flavors on the Woody CD. Is there a way to install another one of those kernels [vanilla, bf2.4] without doing a reinstall? Does anyone know which is likely to include the agpgart module that supports the i810 video chipset? Thanks Paul Schwa

My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-12 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, My Debian box can't connect Internet, Broadband connected. # ifconfig showed connecting ISP I played around with following files without a solution; # cat /etc/network/ifstate lo=lo eth0=eth0 # cat /etc/network/interfaces # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8

Re: a modest proposal (was: Linux is not for consumers!)

2003-12-12 Thread csj
On 11. December 2003 at 5:28PM -0600, Lucas Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > This may be true of some; but even reasonably intelligent > > users with quite a lot of experience can come unstuck in > > those areas with which they are not fam

Re: fun stuff - dvd - 802.11g

2003-12-12 Thread David Z Maze
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i've just gotten the distro to recognize the Netgear WG311 pci > 802.11g card ( have a linksys card too but havent tested it yet ) > > - note that its "g" 54Mbps ... vs the slower 802.11[a/b] Nitpicking, 802.11a is also advertised as 54mbps, but ru

How to login as ROOT as start

2003-12-12 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, How can I login as ROOT after booting at 'Desktop Manager" popup. I am only allowed to login as USER both KDE and GNOME. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with lxdialog (make menuconfig) and ncurses

2003-12-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2003-12-12 13:54:19 +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Check if the ncurses and ncurses-dev packages have the same version > number. There is no ncurses package. The libraries (/usr/lib/libncurses.a, /usr/lib/libncurses.so) come from libncurses5-dev too. Otherwise: greux:~> dpkg -l | grep ncurses

Re: Bootup Freezes

2003-12-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 04:27:53PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 at 19:11 GMT, Thomas H. George penned: > >> > >> You might try booting a few times from a Knoppix CD, just to > >> eliminate hardware problems. > >> > >> I started having similar problems a few weeks ago. I f

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Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-12 Thread Nate Duehr
David Palmer. wrote: Or the assumption by the more experienced, who know that that your problem was far enough advanced that if you skipped the "basics" like filesystem manipulation you'd better be ready to fire up "man chown" yourself and back up and ask THAT question first? :-) Sorry, Nat

Re: kde 3.1 panel - Where is it?

2003-12-12 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > After having messed up something in my testing installation I had to > reinstall many (mainly graphical libraries and the likes) packages. > Among them I found the kde 3.1 release which I installed together with > kdmUnfortunately, the kde pa

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Monique Y. Herman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I understand that you're trying to better the list, and I appreciate > that, but your attitude is a total turnoff. Have you ever heard the > saying, "You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar"? i > > If you > want to infl

official testing jigdo files

2003-12-12 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hi, where have the official jigdo files for sarge gone? They used to be on http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/jigdo-area/ (they are linked from http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ ("Available images")), but I get HTTP 404... Jukka -- bashian roulette: $ ((RANDOM%6)) || rm -rf ~ -- To UNS

Re: official testing jigdo files

2003-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 05:58:57PM +0100, Jukka Salmi wrote: > Hi, > > where have the official jigdo files for sarge gone? They used to be on > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/jigdo-area/ (they are linked > from http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ ("Available images")), but I get > HTTP 404

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:15:17AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Monique Y. Herman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I understand that you're trying to better the list, and I appreciate > > that, but your attitude is a total turnoff. Have you ever heard the > > saying, "You catch more

Re: How to login as ROOT as start

2003-12-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Stephen Liu: > > How can I login as ROOT after booting at 'Desktop Manager" popup. I am > only allowed to login as USER both KDE and GNOME. "Hi. I bought this really neat gun yesterday, and now I'd like to try it out. Problem is, I can't get the ammunition into the thing. Can so

Re: Quickie question before reinstall

2003-12-12 Thread Kent West
Paul Schwartz wrote: I found reference to the other installation kernel flavors on the Woody CD. Is there a way to install another one of those kernels [vanilla, bf2.4] without doing a reinstall? Does anyone know which is likely to include the agpgart module that supports the i810 video chipset

Re: Quickie question before reinstall

2003-12-12 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Paul Schwartz (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I found reference to the other installation kernel flavors on the > Woody CD. > > Is there a way to install another one of those kernels [vanilla, > bf2.4] without doing a reinstall? Does anyone know which is likely to > include the agpgart mod

Re: fun stuff - dvd - 802.11g

2003-12-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya david On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, David Z Maze wrote: > Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i've just gotten the distro to recognize the Netgear WG311 pci > > 802.11g card ( have a linksys card too but havent tested it yet ) > > > > - note that its "g" 54Mbps ... vs the slower 802

Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-12 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Hi! The Debian mailing lists produce big trafic of email. If I want to follow them regularly I have to use a slow and expensive connection to Internet (low quality phone line or mobile phone). I tried to use offlineimap but this was only to realise that I can afford it. May be other people have

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-12 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:52:32AM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: >> I originaly thought about bying radeon (9500, or 9700) but when I've >> searched the mailing list I saw there were a lot of problems with the ATI >> drivers

Re: Dell TrueMobile Router and Debian

2003-12-12 Thread Jason Lunz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > currently I have a Dell TrueMobile 1184 router which runs with > modified Linux kernel provided by Dell: I wonder if there is a way to > install Debian on such a machine in order to update the kernel and > install personnlized stuff rather than useless documentations: any

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

2003-12-12 Thread David Gaudine
On Friday, December 12, 2003, at 10:46 AM, Kent West wrote: I've done business with TigerDirect in the past, but recently they've added a pro-MS banner to their home page. I wrote this note to them, and would encourage other Debianistas who have done business with them to make your feelings kno

Re: locales and coding systems

2003-12-12 Thread Haines Brown
Colin, Thanks for the clarification of some of the jargon. I suspected I knew what the terms meant, but when confronted with a complex situation in which many terms are shakey, guessing won't do. > > Suspecting locales needs a different version of glibc, and knowing > > that one can install multi

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Anton Zinoviev: > > It would be nice however to find a solution that will not require to > install anything on the server. Got a web browser or newsreader? Debian mailinglists are gatewayed to Usenet (linux.debian.user & etc.). That's read only though. If you want to be able to p

Re: How to login as ROOT as start

2003-12-12 Thread David Gaudine
On Friday, December 12, 2003, at 11:33 AM, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, How can I login as ROOT after booting at 'Desktop Manager" popup. I am only allowed to login as USER both KDE and GNOME. Although the person who said you shouldn't is probably right, with Gnome try (at the login screen) syst

Re: Bootup Freezes

2003-12-12 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 15:42 GMT, Thomas H. George penned: >> > OK, I downloaded Knoppis and will try it for a few days. And yes, I > did mean 2.6, not 0.6. I understood the implication of "test" and had > already reverted to 2.4.22 and the problems continued. In fact, last > night the shutdown

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-12 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 16:15 GMT, Wayne Topa penned: > Monique Y. Herman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> >> I understand that you're trying to better the list, and I appreciate >> that, but your attitude is a total turnoff. Have you ever heard the >> saying, "You catch more flies

Re: locales and coding systems

2003-12-12 Thread John Hasler
Haines Brown writes: > Aha! However, it's legit as far as linux is concerned, isn't it? I > believe I've done this before successfully. You can install multiple major versions of libc with the Debian package management system: see libc5. You should not need multiple minor versions. -- John Hasle

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-12 Thread H. S.
Isaac To wrote: "H" == H S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Right, Human Genome is not written by programmers. Genes are evolved, not designed. In contrast, a good programmer write code that will make sense when it is being read, because they are the ones who need to read them the most, and when they

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-12 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:21:20PM -0600, Terry Hancock wrote: > > The people who know a program best are the ones who work > on its internals. No one else can write documentation like the > guy who built the thing in the first place. Failing that, you can > have someone step in and write it, ye

Re: Dell TrueMobile Router and Debian

2003-12-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, thank for the reply: what about LEAF ? http://leaf.sourceforge.net Jason Lunz wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: currently I have a Dell TrueMobile 1184 router which runs with modified Linux kernel provided by Dell: I wonder if there is a way to install Debian on such a machine in order to upd

Re: OT: Lindows based on Debian? (Re: Linux is not for consumers!)

2003-12-12 Thread Lance Simmons
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Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-12 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 17:14 GMT, Anton Zinoviev penned: > Hi! > > The Debian mailing lists produce big trafic of email. If I want to > follow them regularly I have to use a slow and expensive connection to > Internet (low quality phone line or mobile phone). I tried to use > offlineimap but thi

Re: How to read package change logs before install

2003-12-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:53:02AM -0500, Lou Losee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ok - another elementary (I hope) apt question: > > 1)Is there any way to read the change-log associated with a package > without either downloading the package or installing the package? apt-get install apt-listc

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Monique Y. Herman: > > There is absolutely a learning curve to every community, and > long-standing members deservedly get more respect and slack. I do think > that I've been lurking and posting long enough to have a sense of the > community. I don't think that's possible. Between

disabling inetd

2003-12-12 Thread Rick Weinbender
I've heard that the inetd process is not very secure. Also, my email server runs fine even if I kill the inetd process. * Is there a way to remove it or disable it permanently. Would this be a good thing to do? Or will it just cause me problems down the road. Thanks, -Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Can't get jabber to start on installation

2003-12-12 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:02:24AM -0800, Doctorcam wrote: > I have managed to get jabber installed, and running it from the command > line seems to work fine, following the instructions in the 1.4.x > administration guide. Which user did you run it as? > Trying to get dpkg to finish installing i

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-12 Thread Vineet Kumar
* TR ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031212 04:02]: > Somebody whose attribution has been removed wrote: > > Well, really you'll just need one such router, with the bad domains > > listed on that "domains = " line. Me, I'd use a filename there and > > that way be able to just edit the file whenever I felt li

[OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-12 Thread Aryan Ameri
Hi There: I am a first year CS student, learning C. A while ago I was asked this question from a fellow friend of mine: "Write a program, which promts the uset to enter some numbers. The user should terminate the sequence of numbers by entering EOF character. The program should put numbers ent

Re: Re: problem updating postgresql package

2003-12-12 Thread Martin Hofheinz
Hi, i am encountering the same problems as described in this thread. following your advice to alter the preinst script, i receive this output: (my locale settings are german) # dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/postgresql_7.3.2r1-5_i386.deb (Lese Datenbank ... 17012 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind

tetex in unstable, tcrm1000 not found

2003-12-12 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- I was getting the error message: font tcrm1000 not found, leaving blank when creating a pdf file from LaTeX using the following sequence: latex microcultures dvipdf microcultures After some digging around, I found that the problem was that dvipdf attempted to run mf to create the fo

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-12 Thread David Palmer.
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:20:07 -0700 "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Incoming from Monique Y. Herman: > > > > There is absolutely a learning curve to every community, and > > long-standing members deservedly get more respect and slack. I do > > think that I've been lurking and posting lo

Re: OT: Lindows based on Debian? (Re: Linux is not for consumers!)

2003-12-12 Thread John Hasler
Lance Simmons writes: > Probably, but if I have a friend who is thinking of buying a machine with > Lindows installed on it, I can tell him to go ahead, and I can teach him > how to maintain it as a Debian machine. Or you can tell him to go ahead and then install Libranet. -- John Hasler [EMAIL P

Re: locales and coding systems

2003-12-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 01:19:17PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > > Suspecting locales needs a different version of glibc, and knowing > > > that one can install multiple versions of glibc, I try: > > > > One cannot install multiple versions of glibc, at least not using the > > Debian package man

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-12 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Friday 12 December 2003 11:38 am, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Hi There: > > I am a first year CS student, learning C. A while ago I was asked > this question from a fellow friend of mine: > > "Write a program, which promts the uset to enter some numbers. The > user should terminate the sequence of numb

libapache-mod-perl install breaks

2003-12-12 Thread Nori Heikkinen
for some time now, whenever i apt-get install anything, dpkg has been trying to configure libapache-mod-perl, and failing. it'l present me with the config screen: Setting up libapache-mod-perl (1.28-1) ... Configuring 1. mod_vhost_alias 22. mod_access43. mod_auth_dig

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 14:04, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > On Friday 12 December 2003 11:38 am, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > Hi There: > > > > I am a first year CS student, learning C. A while ago I was asked > > this question from a fellow friend of mine: > > > > "Write a program, which promts the uset to

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Wesley J Landaker: Content-Description: signed data > On Friday 12 December 2003 11:38 am, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > > > I am a first year CS student, learning C. A while ago I was asked > > this question from a fellow friend of mine: > > Hmmm... sounds a lot like a homework problem...

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-12 Thread Debian User
if you really have to do it in a low-level language, do it in assembly native to that processor. you can even write them inline within your C code. asm(" mnemonic_instruction operand, operand"); At Friday, 12 December 2003, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED] shack.net> wrote: >On Fri, 2003-12

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-12 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Friday 12 December 2003 1:42 pm, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Wesley J Landaker: > Content-Description: signed data > > > On Friday 12 December 2003 11:38 am, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > > I am a first year CS student, learning C. A while ago I was asked > > > this question from a fellow friend

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-12 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Friday 12 December 2003 1:46 pm, Debian User wrote: > if you really have to do it in a low-level language, do it in > assembly native to that processor. you can even write them inline > within your C code. > > asm(" mnemonic_instruction operand, operand"); > Hey, I wouldn't be surprised if some

Re: libGL and DRM error with Matrox card

2003-12-12 Thread Graeme Tank
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 01:00:58PM +, Richard Kimber wrote: > > Some apps give an error when started saying: > > libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted > libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering > > XFree86.0.log says:- > MGA(0): Direct rendering enabled > > Is

Re: Debian installation trouble on server

2003-12-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:22:13 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to install Debian (latest) on a 1U rack-server. > Specs: P4, Raid (hot spare), no floppy, no cdrom, no PS/2 ports, 2 USB > ports. > > My problem is the following: > I cannot con

Re: How to login as ROOT as start

2003-12-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, How can I login as ROOT after booting at 'Desktop Manager" popup. I am only allowed to login as USER both KDE and GNOME. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu Why on God's green earth would you log in to ANY GUI as root? -Roberto pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signa

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-12 Thread John Smith
#include int main ( int nNumberofArguments, char* apszArgument [] ) { int nReturncode = 0 ; int* pnStorage = NULL ; int* pnTmp = NULL ; int nNumberofelements = 0 ; int nNumberofreadfields = 0 ; int nCounter = 0 ; int nInput = 0 ; while ((nReturncode == 0) && ((nN

Re: How to login as ROOT as start

2003-12-12 Thread Debian User
why not log in to your gui as a common user and su as root from a shell? anyway, i cannot anything in /etc/gnome that would limit who has access to the gui. At Friday, 12 December 2003, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Stephen Liu wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> How can I login as ROO

installmanual

2003-12-12 Thread Joseph MICHEL
Hello,       I would like to install debian. But when I read the installation manual http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual, I feel lost because it addresses expert people.       Please, is there an automated installation program like that of Red Hat ?

Re: disabling inetd

2003-12-12 Thread Initech
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 01:20:42PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > I've heard that the inetd process is not very secure. > Also, my email server runs fine even if I kill the inetd process. Because it runs standalone :-) > Is there a way to remove it or disable it permanently. > Would this be a go

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