RE: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii

of Notetab out, but Notetab Pro is shareware. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/ L.J.R. Engineering, P.C. http://www.ljreng.com

Other KDE apt sources?

Hello, Once again, the kde.tdyc.com apt source is having problems. Can anyone suggest an alternative one for KDE? Gnome has a TON of them. There can't be just one for KDE, can there? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com PHP Interest Group

Re: explorer under linux?

> I'f you have access to a HP-UX or a Solaris machine you can install IE there. > But it doesn't present the pages as it does under Windows. This is due to the > different ways X/Windows shows graphics and fonts. Is there an HP-UX/Solaris emulator that works in Debian? --

Re: Netscape and its cache

r in KDE's K File Manager. It displays sites pretty well. Opera might soon get into beta with Linux. The Windows version supports the various HTML/CSS standards much better than NSN4 and equal to or a little better than MSIE5 so I'm getting exited about what we might have with the Linux versio

Re: Asking to delete downloaded debs

> I think you do an "apt-get clean". Don't know how to automate it; try > apt.conf(5). Isn't there a command like 'apt-get autoclean' ? Does that automate it? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineerin

Re: ipupload

e for the Windows version (and I think Mac and a Java version) is at: http://www.icq.com/ For Linux-based ICQ programs, go to: http://www.portup.com/~gyandl/icq/ I also found this a second ago: http://www.portup.com/~gyandl/icq/chart.html I'm not sure how complete or accurate it is yet. -

Re: just curious about Debian vs Redhat

gram for Red Hat that performs the same functions that apt does. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

Re: just curious about Debian vs Redhat

debian apt-get any day. Isn't there a command-line version of update-agent/up2date, though? And the server can be changed in the configuration from what I have heard about it. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng

Seperate DEB package for pico

Hello, I could have sworn that a few weeks back someone posted about a DEB package for just pico (the text editor that comes with pine) that was separate from pine, but I can't find that post in the archives. Am I imagining things? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx

Re: apt mirror list for Debian KDE packages?

> Can someone point me to a list of working mirrors for the slink and potato > kde distributions? http://kde.tdyc.com/Debian/ That page has a list of a little over a dozen mirrors. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineerin

apt-get kernel-update?

Hi, I was wondering if there are any plans from the Debian folks to allow something like "apt-get kernel-update", which would automatically update the kernel. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PH

PIM for Linux w/ KDE called Merlin or Marvin?

from KDE and it looked A LOT like MS Outlook 9x/2k. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

Re: PIM for Linux w/ KDE called Merlin or Marvin?

ugh. I'd be nice if I could request that the developers add newsgroup functionality to the program. Then it'd totally kick MS Outlook's behind. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

depmod: /lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia SOMETHING.o is not owned by root

/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia SOMETHING.o is not owned by root and then a bunch of other stuff including my network card get disabled so I can't connect to RoadRunner. Any ideas? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.co

depmod: /lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia SOMETHING.o is not owned by root

/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia SOMETHING.o is not owned by root and then a bunch of other stuff including my network card get disabled so I can't connect to RoadRunner. Any ideas? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.co

Re: apt-get kernel-update?

Will that automatically update my kernel? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

Linux names (Re: Strange file names)

> ps: just kidding folks. don't take me seriously on this one. Tux (my > server) is safe. Would it be off-topic of me to ask if anyone else has named their Linux systems? Mine was called Debby Anne and now I've shortened it to Debby. : ) -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:

Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

ave: Pentium 233 w/ MMX 128MB RAM NE2000 compatible network card Again, I haven't had problems with upgrading until the last three times that I tried it in the past week or so. Before that, the last time I had installed Debian was at least a month away from now. Probably closer to two mo

Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

had setup slink, I didn't notice anything about it during the startup. > Sorry that I can't be of much more help. At least I replied to your > message ;) At least replying makes all the difference. Thanks. : ) -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

(getting closer) Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

l goes, it's what I've always used and it had always worked before this past week or so. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

What's gone in Corel Linux

upgrade Corel's or will Corel be behind Debian in that it will need to wait for it to come out before they can make their own changes? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

Re: What's gone in Corel Linux

n packages installable in Corel Linux anyway? I always just do a base install of Debian and just do an apt-get for everything that I need. One of the reasons why I don't plan on going back to Red Hat. : ) -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgraf

Re: Fw: Well, Corel is out

and Corel sounds like the next best thing. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

Re: Fw: Well, Corel is out

> try www.winimage.com it can open isos Too bad it crashes a minute after I get it to start doing something. It looks like I'll just need to burn Corel on a CD, although I wish there would be some way for me to open ISOs in case I might need to do that in the future. -- Bart Szyszk

Freezing a package on Debian installation

before I get a chance to install the packages for the man command (why isn't it included in the base installation of Debian?!?) so I don't have that yet. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

Re: What's gone in Corel Linux

entirely clear, though. It could be saying Debian 2.2's Kernel or Debian, 2.2 Kernel . Shouldn't that be 2.2.x anyway if it is the kernel version? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

Base slink without pcmcia-cs

prevent it from being installed? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

Removing all SCSI drivers except mine from potato images

SOMETHING.o is not owned by root while doing the dist-upgrade/upgrade, but when I restart that still comes up during the bootup process. Going straight to potato sounds like my last hope. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering

Re: apt-get is holding back messages

k, I usually will do an apt-get install for it individually. Have you tried just doing an apt-get install mutt? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

Debian up, now what about Corel's sndconfig?

n Windows) of the CD, but what do I do with it? It doesn't have a file extension so I can't tell what format it's in. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=ARD582

egcs?

Hi, I'm having trouble finding the apt-get package name for egcs. Are there any packages that have that? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=ARD582

Screen vibrates while using mouse or keyboard

I installed the packages for X11 from the potato tree. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=ARD582

Packages for compiling programs?

Hi, I'm looking for a straight answer about a general set of packages that I should get if I want to compile programs myself. Aren't there several packages I should get that would take care of just about most of my compiling needs? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B G

Re: Screen vibrates while using mouse or keyboard

27;ll be sure to look into your suggestion (and everyone else's) if I ever run into this problem again. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=ARD582

Boot disk for kernel-image-2.2.13 not working

), so I still have access to Debian (potato). -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=ARD582

Re: rpm's

to do it? The 'alien' program has worked pretty well for me although lately it just hasn't come in handy that much since people have been doing a good job of making DEBs (especially the Helix GNOME people). -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://w

Building KDE2 from CVS

lse to make DEBs for me. Anyone on Jabber/ICQ (or some other IM system?)? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com

kdelibs3 in latest KDE2 builds working?

turning an error... 1. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Get paid for using Netscape or Internet Explorer: http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=ARD582

Re: Outlook conversion

> I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that converted a .pst Outlook > file into something that a Linux email program like Kmail or Evolution can > read. I want to totally convert over to Linux, but this is a big thing > because I don't want to lose my hundreds of saved messages from the pa

Install Debian 2.2 from one floppy and one harddrive folder

Is that possible with Debian potato? Or what about woody? (please CC: me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] since I'm subbed to the digest... I'm visiting home for three weeks from college and need to use web-based e-mail) -- Bart Szyszka ICQ:4982727 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Can't get X server working in unstable with Ati All-In-Wonder 128 Pro

(( If you've gotten this message twice, reply to this one. I had accidentally sent this from my dad's account. Please send replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Thanks! )) I'm trying to setup my X server on a different computer and am having trouble getting it to work. I have an

Mouse freezes in KDE 2.1 under unstable

Hello, I've finally gotten my X server working on this computer with an Ati Rage 128 All-InWonder Pro graphics card, but am having trouble with the mouse. It's a generic two-button mouse hooked up to the PS/2 port. When I get into KDE 2.1 under Debian unstable, the mouse jumps around to a few plac

Configuring PS/2 mouse in XF86Config-4

Hello, I'm having trouble getting my PS/2 two-button mouse to work under XF86 4.0.2 (or whatever is the latest in Debian unstable). I'd appreciate it if people could send me some examples of how they have theirs setup. Mine jumps to the upper-right corner during KDE2's startup and then it freezes

Re: Mouse freezes in KDE 2.1 under unstable

> All you have to do os stop gpm, the console pointer > /etc/init.d/gpm stop Each time the mouse freezes or altogether? You mean I should just dpkg --purge gpm? Come to think of it I don't remember having used it before. - Bart

Re: Mouse freezes in KDE 2.1 under unstable

> > > All you have to do os stop gpm, the console pointer > > > /etc/init.d/gpm stop > > Each time the mouse freezes or altogether? You mean I should just > > dpkg --purge gpm? Come to think of it I don't remember having used > > it before. > > Each time the mouse freezes or altogether? You mean I

https:// sites don't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1)

Hi, Are https:// sites still not supposed to work in Konqueror under Debian unstable? Is there any way to turn on https:// support? I'm confused as to why it has been this long and netscape does https:// without a problem and other distros do https://, but not Debian. - Bart

Non-KDE2 programs aren't taking on color scheme

Hi, I have KDE2.1 installed and am having trouble with the color scheme being applied to other programs. This is how my computer currently looks: http://gigabee.com/linuxextras/kde2.1-koverse.png , but when I run GImp, for example, it is showing up as light gray with large fonts. Before, it was

Re: Installing KDE 2 using apt-get

> > Please, do someone know how to install KDE 2 using apt-get? >If you go to you'll find details on adding a > line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file which will allow you to install > KDE2 in *.deb format. You only need kde.tdyc.com if you use potato or something older

Konfucious (KDE2 beta1)?

Hello, Any word yet on DEBs of Konfucious (KDE2 beta1)? When is something going to be done about the fact that there are always RPMs of something released before there are DEBs? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com PayPal - Securely send

Re: Konfucious (KDE2 beta1)?

gt; what they use. Of all the GNOME and KDE programs I've kept track of, I can't personally name any where the DEBs were made before RPM. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com PayPal - Securely send money to an e-mail user! https://secure.paypal.com/refer/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

KDE2 in tree or not?

k to a web site with info on that?)? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com PayPal - Securely send money to an e-mail user! https://secure.paypal.com/refer/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE2 in tree or not?

t: > http://kde.tdyc.com/Debian/ Right. I know about the KLPP portion that deals with Debian. The "officialness" (i.e. a final OK from the Debian project for KDE2) and the mirroring (the entire Debian distributions obviously has more mirrors than KLPP does) are more important to m

Re: Kernel Config

ip2 and tar -xvf into. Mine's usually /usr/src/kernel-source-... -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com PayPal - Securely send money to an e-mail user! https://secure.paypal.com/refer/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel Config

o symlink /usr/src/linux to the actual location of > your kernel sources. Why? > If you use a .deb of the source, then you'd end up with > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.15 > or similar. Or if you get the source, bunzip2 it and the tar -xvf it. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTE

Closing Kasbar in KDE2

't like Kasbar. It's evil. I'd appreciate getting help with removing it. : ) Thanks. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com PayPal - Securely send money to an e-mail user! https://secure.paypal.com/refer/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Best hardware?

Hello, Can anyone recommend some sites with good reviews of hardware for Linux? I'm looking for something like www.computers.com , except that they'd recommend the best graphics cards, monitors, etc. for Linux instead of for Windows. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:49827

Re: Best hardware?

t the best hardware for Linux just like CNet's Computers.com attempts to seek out the best hardware for Windows. I'd rather not have to sign up to a mailing list for each type of hardware just to find out what my best buying options are. Of course it's very possible that I'm just dre

Re: Best hardware?

er. I'm sure someone reviewing Linux hardware would be much less superficial than people like CNet's reviewers who do Windows hardware. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com PayPal - Securely send money to an e-mail user! https://secure.paypal.com/refer/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: naming kernel images (potato)

and ended up putting the kernel-image... package on hold using dselect. Now I'll just get new versions of kernel-source-... -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com PayPal - Securely send money to an e-mail user! https://secure.paypal.com/refer/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: yahoo messenger

> Has anybody tried the java version offered by the yahoo site? Do we have > any similar clone debianised? No particularly Yahoo Messenger-specific, but you might want to look into a Jabber client like Gabber: http://gabber.sourceforge.net -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 G

Re: Downloadable archive of the list?

a couple others and they all let you view posts from there. I'm not sure how far back they go, but your newsgroup reader should have the option to download the messages for offline viewing. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com PayPal - Sec

Licq from KDE2?

m the looks of things, of Licq, but when I run Licq without it, I get: 23:41:39: [ERR] Unable to load plugin (qt-gui): /usr/lib/licq/licq_qt-gui.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com

Non-OpenGL online games for Linux?

Hello, I'm having trouble finding some action/adventure games for Linux that don't require an OpenGL-able graphics card where I could play against at least one other person online. Can anyone recommend any? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interac

Re: My Netscape Woes

. I don't think there's any other solution except to go to 16-bit or 32-bit. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=ARD582

Re: printers

perfectly. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=ARD582

Re: Colour changes in Netscape/Motif

the frame where web sites are loaded? If it's the former I'd like to know how you did it so that I could make NSN more uniform with my other programs too. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join AllAdvantage.com and g

Pronounciation of Linux that important?

people to bicker about that. Some people pronounce GIF with a soft G and others with a hard one. Why is this bothering people? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=ARD582

Re: Pronounciation of Linux that important?

ommunity in general because the article I posted an URL for made it sound that way. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=ARD582

K-Jofol plugin for XMMS?

Hello, Has anyone been able to get the K-Jofol plugin for XMMS working? I downloaded the 0.94 verson from: http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~timf/xmms/ , but the directions are just about useless. Very incomplete and vague. I would appreciate some advice, aprticularly just step-by-step directions on

Re: K-Jofol plugin for XMMS?

> Has anyone been able to get the K-Jofol plugin for XMMS working? I > downloaded the 0.94 verson from: > http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~timf/xmms/ > , but the directions are just about useless. Very incomplete and vague. > I would appreciate some advice, aprticularly just step-by-step directions >

Getting xfs-xtt to work

Hello, Someone here suggested getting xfs-xtt to add True Type font support to Linux. I did that and am getting trouble setting it up. Here are the steps I've followed so far after installing xfs-xtt and also fttools: mkdir /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype cp /mnt/c/windows/fonts/*.ttf /usr/local/s

Re: Getting xfs-xtt to work

> Try xset +fp unix/:7100 or something similar. xfs-xtt use port 7100, same as > xfs. I really have no idea what I'm doing so I'd appreciate it if you guys would be more specific. What's "similar" What should I do same as xfs? Like I said, I installed xfs-xtt. I don't have xfs (it asks me to remov

Fonts too big after getting xfs-xtt to work

Hello, I got xfs-xtt working (thanks!), but I'm having some related problems. Now in some programs, the fonts are too big and I can't change them. My Kpanel's taskbar and menu text fontsize is too big. Changing it to some huge size or some small size or even a completely different font does nothin

libc6 broken?

and gets in the way when I try to install something completely unrelated. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Get paid to surf the web (it really works!): http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=ARD582

Re: Installing KDE in unstable using apt?

> what do I put in sources.list to be able to install KDE using > apt/dselect? Take a look at this site: http://kde.tdyc.com -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvanta

Re: pronunciation of daemon

w up in the same city can't agree on how to say 'bagel'. : ) -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=ARD582

Re: pronunciation of daemon

> ahhh, it's humour I believe: > "Day-bee-enne" is spelled GNU/Debian. I called my Debian system "Debby Anne". : ) I do pronounce it as debby-in, though. : ) -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join A

Re: graphical login

> The graphical login in run by xdm. Either remove /etc/rc2.d/xdm, > or edit the xdm conf to turn off xdm for the local host > (comment out the final line in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers) A couple people have suggested that, but isn't it just easier to do a dpkg --purge xdm? -- Bart S

Re: Ned pointers in using KDE with Potato/Enlightenment

s like you want nothing from KDE, then, except to possibly be able to run KDE programs? What happens when you try to run them? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=ARD582

Palm/Visor handheld support from Debian?

Hello, I was wondering if anyone has come up with any tools for Debian to be able to sync with a Palm or Handspring Visor handheld. Are there any handhelds that Linux is able to work with? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join

Re: Palm/Visor handheld support from Debian?

'm assuming that they work in the same way. I'm pretty sure most of the software in the Visor is the same too. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=ARD582

Re: [*] rpm to deb

rogram not working out of a buttload is nothing. Alien is very good. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=ARD582

/opt ?

/usr equivalents, but I think that the backup will probably come in handy. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=ARD582

Re: how to mark package "hold"

> How to I mark an already installed package "hold"? (using some other tool > than dselect) > Can it be done using dpkg? You can probably use gnome-apt for doing that (does anyone know if a KDE equivalent is being worked on?), but other than that I've been wondering t

Re: /opt ?

when you're > finished. What about something like the --prefix=/usr switch for ./configure? Is there something like that for alien? I'll look up -g as soon as I get man working. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join AllAdv

Mustek 1200 LS scanner working in Debian?

ent support in Linux (perfect, partial, beta, paperweight, etc...)? I haven't been able to find any info on my Mustek 12000 LS scanner's support in Linux. I might try the mustek driver for sane if I can figure out how to setup sane-gimp1.1 (it doesn't have a manpage). -- Bart Szyszka [EM

Re: Mustek 1200 LS scanner working in Debian?

> First question: is this a parallel port scanner? Nope. SCSI. The 'S' in 1200 LS stands for that. The Parallel Port version would be (is?) called 1200 LP. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get pai

Re: Mustek 1200 LS scanner working in Debian?

there doesn't seem to be enough info there. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=ARD582

Re: Scanners in Debian

that comes with their one of them? An X-based one? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=ARD582

Re: creating a bootdisk

Would that work? I do it whenever I finish compiling a new kernel. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com LinuxArena.org available at eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=267247582

Gnome 1.1.14 DEBs?

Hello, Does anyone know of any DEBs of development versions of Gnome like 1.1.14 or something around here? - Bart

RE: KDE (was Re: alternatives to gnotepad+)

oe kde.tdyc.com is where you can get KDE1 from. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com PayPal - Securely send money to an e-mail user! https://secure.paypal.com/refer/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Deploying Hotmail-like service with crazy requirementsy

> Ok, how about server-side web-to-mail gateway software? If you want to create something like Hotmail, have you tried IMP: http://www.horde.org/imp/ -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com PayPal - Securely send money to an e-mail user! ht

RE: Su && Development Packages

f the times that I try to compile a program (*any* program), it'll work. Don't people on this list compile programs?!? Geesh! > All of a sudden, su has starting to behave very strange. > When I login with my normal user account then try to su to root, I get: > % su > su: Auth

RE: Su && Development Packages

much about development, do you? At least not if you mean > "any program" as opposed to "any Debian source package". I meant *most* programs. Just like the boxed sets of Linux will install the packages you need for compiling most programs. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com PayPal - Securely send money to an e-mail user! https://secure.paypal.com/refer/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: new computer ??

> It is hard to find Debian pre-installed. I know Dell will not sell certain > hardware configurations with Linux (Red Hat only). VALinux sells their own > version based on Red Hat. Doesn't VALinux sell their machines with Debian on them? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4

RE: new computer ??

> > Doesn't VALinux sell their machines with Debian on them? > They did a year or more ago but not anymore. They went to Red Hat only and > then to their own RPM based distro. Why are they still advertising Debian on their site, then? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] IC

Re: [off-topic] MS Outlook

significantly better (as is the Office 2k suite entirely, IMO) in performance and features. The only reason I don't use it is because I don't have any use for the reminder/calendar/etc. stuff in Windows because of ICQ99b. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www

Re: Why

so incapable of having these same problems? I've never heard of anyone having trouble running the Win95 installer on a system that just had DOS because of video hardware. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to s

Re: Why

s exactly what I was thinking. The windows installer uses a generic 16-color, 640x480 mode ("Standard SVGA" or just "Standard VGA"?) and I've never heard of anyone having graphic-card related problems with it. Why can't someone do something similar with Linux? Is that what

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