Re: Proposal - non-free software removal

2002-11-15 Thread Brian White
> > Pursuant to Appendix A of the Debian Constitution and the guidelines > > offered at http://www.debian.org/vote/howto_proposal, I hereby offer > > the following draft proposal as the beginning of a General Resolution > > process to decide this issue. > > i do NOT second this proposal. > > if,

C-_ on the console

2003-08-14 Thread Brian White
When I hit C-_ ("undo") in an X window, it works fine. If I hit it from a console window, it does nothing and I have to hit C-- (no shift) for it to work. I tried "M-x describe-key C-_" but it doesn't even seem to notice when I try to press C-_. Any ideas? I did a search on Google, but couldn't

Re: UPS anyone?

1999-06-18 Thread Brian White
> APC general comments (http://www.apcc.com/) > > - Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has a Back-UPS Pro and it works with > the genpower Debian package and the apc-pnp cable. He doesn't think > the Back-UPS works with apcd (no smart signalling) or wi

Automatic Unzipping?

1998-09-08 Thread Brian White
Can apache automatically decompress files ending in ".gz" and send the uncompressed stream (along with the correct mime-type) over the HTTP connection? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --

Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Brian White
Is there any way to make a program dump core and then continue execution? Sorta like taking a snap-shot of the current program state. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Brian White
> Yes. use CTRL-\ I've never heard of that. Actually, though... I was looking for the program to dump core when it wanted (rather than at user request) and then be able to keep executing. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ---

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Brian White
> Assuming that forking a "kamakazi" child is not an acceptable > solution, is there some way of capturing the image of the process from > the kernal? Hmmm... That's interesting. Assuming there is no library/system call to force a core dump, I could fork a child and then make the child access me

telnetd can't get ttys

1999-11-24 Thread Brian White
I installed the new telnetd (v0.14-8) in an upgrade from Slink, but every connection attempt failed until I modified /etc/inetd.conf to say "root.root" instead of "telnetd.telnetd". The user and group telnetd exist, and telnetd belongs to the utmp group. Is there something else that needs to be se

php4 isn't finding mysql routines

1999-11-25 Thread Brian White
I've just finished installing PHP4 and PHP4-MySQL. I added the module in to apache... LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so And now php files seem to get executed correctly. However, as soon as they try to access a MySQL database, it appears the functions are not found: Fat

Re: php4 isn't finding mysql routines

1999-11-25 Thread Brian White
The surest way to solve any problem is to ask a question about it... Apparently it doesn't matter how long you sit on the question, either. I waited over an hour, working on things, but 30 mins after I send the question, I find that I need a 'dl("mysql.so")' in the code (found by installing the php

Re: php4 isn't finding mysql routines

1999-11-25 Thread Brian White
> read /usr/share/doc/php4/README.Debian (you need to load the mysql module > into php4) Oh believe me, I read everything trying to find this. THe "README.Debian" is far from helpful here... == php4 for Debian --

Alt Key no longer functions

1998-11-08 Thread Brian White
I just upgraded to X 3.3.2.3a-7 and now the Alt key no longer has any effect. Neither emacs or tcsh (under xterm) recognize that it has been pressed. Looking at xkeycaps, pressing Alt does register but doesn't affect the KeyCode, KeySym, or ASCII in any way. Fvwm still recognizes it, though. An

Re: Alt Key no longer functions

1998-11-09 Thread Brian White
Just as a follow-up... If I put back my original /etc/X11/Xmodmap file (which has settings to make keyboards with the "Windows" keys work), then emacs recognizes the Alt keys (emacs wants the Meta keysym). Tcsh still doesn't recognize it properly, though... Alt-Backspace prints a garbage charact

Re: Signify and Pine

1998-02-28 Thread Brian White
> My signify signature's, when used with pine sometimes die completely, and > I am completely frustrated :) And to top it all off, I only sometimes get: > > [1]+ Broken pipe signify --fifo=$HOME/.signature > > I suppose I should mention that I use the fifo option... > Has anyone had

Re: APC UPS'es

1998-02-28 Thread Brian White
> I am just trying to find out a quikly if the APC UPS is compatible with > Linux. I am not to sure and I don't want to purchase the wrong one for a > client. Sure is! We have 6 APC BackUPS-Pro 650's here (4 workstations and 2 servers) under "genpower" using the "apc-pnp" cable supported by the v

Re: lynx play sound files

1998-03-09 Thread Brian White
> > hello everyone, I was wondering how to get lynx to play sound files ie > > ..wav and .au? I know it can be done. I think it has to do with a > > ..mailcap file. but i'm not sure. Thanks in advance. > > Paul > > You have to install the mime-support package and of course some audio-player. T

fvwm2: can I make transients have focus?

1998-03-09 Thread Brian White
Is there any way under fvwm2 to make all transient windows automatically get focus when they appear? It would be much more convienient than having to move the mouse to that window. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

libtiff usage (RGBAImageGet problem)

1998-03-18 Thread Brian White
Does anybody have any experience with the inner workings of libtiff? I'm trying to use the libtiff library, but am having some problems and was wondering if anybody could clarify something... I have a small image with the following information: Image #0: TIFF Directory at offset 0x8 Subfile Ty

fvwm question: can I make transients take focus?

1998-03-19 Thread Brian White
Is there any way under fvwm2 to make all transient windows automatically get focus when they appear? It would be much more convienient than having to move the mouse to that window. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

Re: netscape install

1998-03-19 Thread Brian White
> I am ready to install netscape on my system, but have a problem. The netscape > loader is for version 3.01. "ftp.netscape.com" only has version 3.04 or the > newer communicator 4.0x versions. Version 3.01 is not available. My system is > a bo (1.3.1) system. What can I do to get netscape installe

Re: netscape install

1998-03-19 Thread Brian White
> > I am ready to install netscape on my system, but have a problem. The > > netscape > > loader is for version 3.01. "ftp.netscape.com" only has version 3.04 or the > > newer communicator 4.0x versions. Version 3.01 is not available. My system > > is > > a bo (1.3.1) system. What can I do to get

Re: fvwm question: can I make transients take focus?

1998-03-19 Thread Brian White
> > Is there any way under fvwm2 to make all transient windows automatically get > > focus when they appear? It would be much more convienient than having to > > move the mouse to that window. > > I don't think so. > > You can give focus to any window easily, but the command has to be run > from

Re: fvwm question: can I make transients take focus?

1998-03-19 Thread Brian White
> > Is there any way under fvwm2 to make all transient windows automatically get > > focus when they appear? It would be much more convienient than having to > > move the mouse to that window. Perhaps for you, but for me, it's just the opposite. I hate touching the mouse. When I do a "search" i

Re: fvwm question: can I make transients take focus?

1998-03-19 Thread Brian White
> Brian> Perhaps it would be best if the transient only automatically > Brian> got focus if its parent already had focus? Perhaps this option > Brian> could be tri-state: never, always, if-parent-has-focus. > > Couls you see if the Next [*] Focus bound to, say, F12 would > solve it for y

Turning on NumLock with X

1998-03-19 Thread Brian White
Is there any way to get X to turn on NumLock when it starts up? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- According to my calculations, that prob

Re: Turning on NumLock with X

1998-04-03 Thread Brian White
> > Is there any way to get X to turn on NumLock when it starts up? > > According to the manpage "xset led " should do that. But I > tried it and couldn't get it work. Someone any idea? It was my impression that that simply turned on the led -- it doesn't actually enable NumLock.

Re: Files in 2 or more packages

1998-04-03 Thread Brian White
> > To make people report these duplications. A lot of bugs have been > > submitted and many of those have been fixed now. The result will be that > > there will be a lot less of these imperfections in hamm when it is > > released. When it is released, --force-overwrite is supposed to be turned > >

ld.so.conf question

1998-04-07 Thread Brian White
I have the following ld.so.conf file: /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw95 /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d /usr/local/lib /usr/lib/libc5-compat /lib/libc5-compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/X11R6/lib Question: Shouldn't /usr/X11R6/lib be before the libc5-compat directory and shouldn't there only be one of them?

Re: ld.so.conf question

1998-04-07 Thread Brian White
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw95 > > /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d > > /usr/local/lib > > /usr/lib/libc5-compat > > /lib/libc5-compat > > /usr/X11R6/lib > > /usr/X11R6/lib > > /usr/X11R6/lib > > > > Question: Shouldn't /usr/X11R6/lib be before the libc5-compat directory > > Not necessarily. As long as you don't h

Re: (RFD) New list proposal - debian-unstable@lists.debian.org

1998-04-11 Thread Brian White
> Currently it seems to me that debian-devel is serving two unrelated > purposes. On the one hand it is a forum for developers to pick each > others brains, and ask opinions of interested debian users. > > On the other hand, it also serves to monitor the status of the frozen and > unstable distri

Re: GPC

1997-12-09 Thread Brian White
> > This is a request for some feedback from current and potential users of > GPC. > > I have GPC 2.0 compiled for hamm, built using GCC 2.7.2.3. The next > > version of GPC (currently 971001) is in beta, but is already more stable > > than GPC 2.0. There seems to be a few possibilities avai

Re: Removal of debian usenet gateway

1997-12-10 Thread Brian White
> > Just ask and the gateway will be gone. I did this because I thought this > > would be of benefit to the project. If you want to make Debian smaller and > > make it difficult for people to access information about the project then > > that is your problem. > > > > The gateway was set up after ap

Re: Next release of Debian - when?

1997-12-16 Thread Brian White
> > Hamm (Debian 2.0) will be released when we're finished with it. > > what is this "deity" project that i have heard of? i assume it will be > a part of debian 2. Deity is the code-name of the improved package interface. Brian

Re: UPS again

1998-02-06 Thread Brian White
> Like a dummy, I bought a UPS without bothering to check if genpowerd > supports it (I don't think it does). But before taking it back (I > believe I have a week to do so and it's real stormy now, so I'm glad > to have it anyway), I wanted to ask if anyone knew if I could do > anything with it. >

Missing Mouse Drivers

1998-02-19 Thread Brian White
( The following was filed as a bug, but doesn't really belong there since it isn't specific to any package (except possibly kernel-image). Thus, I'm forwarding it to debian-user to see if anybody can help this person. ) Dear Folks, We have just loaded the most recent available versio

Installation writing to Hard Drive error

1998-02-19 Thread Brian White
( This was originally a bug report. I'm forwarding it to debian-user. ) Package: Debian Installation Version: 1.3 When I try to install Debian GNU/Linux to my machine, every time Debian tries to write to my hard drive, I get an error. For example, when I am following the installation program,

Re: How to track hard drive seeks?(more info/questions)

1998-02-24 Thread Brian White
> I attached strace to the update process and it is doing as it says, > sleeps for 5 seconds and then calls bdflush(). I can't watch bdflush > because it is a new process everytime. Have you tried strace with the "-f" option and friends (-o, -ff)? Brian

Re: netscape won't use disk cache?!

1997-04-19 Thread Brian White
> Some details: > Debian 1.2 (based on Infomagic Dec'96, various upgrades) > netscape_3.01-4.deb used as installer for: > netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz > > It's configured (under options etc) to use disk cache; it creates the > directory ~/.netscape/cache if necessary, and the f

Re: netscape won't use disk cache?!

1997-04-21 Thread Brian White
> Wrong : the cache is under ~/.netscape/cache On my machine, it is actually under ~/.netscape-cache. I haven't bothered to investigate why. > Thank you Brian. While you're at it, is it normal that nescape continaly > complains : 'cannot convert string 'FALSE' to type boolean' ? > Does anyone e

Deity Status

1997-04-23 Thread Brian White
The Deity team has put together an initial proposal. If you'd like to see it, please visit: http://www.pisys.com/deity/ As usual, the deity team welcomes all ideas and _constructive_ criticism at "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or on this list.

Re: Critical "Times" article on Linux

1997-04-25 Thread Brian White
> Just thought I'd kick in my two cents on this. Well said! That's the type of response that gets results. I just hope it doesn't get lost in the myriad of flames that I'm sure were also sent. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

Re: "pg" command for linux?

1997-05-02 Thread Brian White
> Something of note -- it's odd that "less" doesn't allow you to use > control-C to abort it, nor does it allow you to use ENTER or SPACE > to get out of it when you're at the end of the file. This was > driving my students crazy since they are in the pg-rut -- I had to > keep reminding them to us

Re: Another Netscape Question

1997-05-09 Thread Brian White
> Does Netscape (4.0b3) hog the colormap on everyone's system or just > mine? Have they not heard of sharing? Is there a fix for this, I would > like to see colored screensavers when netscape is running among other > things. > I'm running X11R6 in 1024 x 768 24bpp, Linux 2.0.30, Cirrus clgd5426. T

Re: dselect X-front-end?

1997-05-13 Thread Brian White
> Is there a xwindows-front-end of dselect? I just wondered because > Redhat has such a cute tool for setting up/installing the system made > with Tcl/tk. Something like that is in the works as part of the "deity" project. Brian

Location of "sc" spreadsheet

1997-05-16 Thread Brian White
Does anybody know if the "sc" spreadsheet is available for Debian? I cannot find it anywhere. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Frie

Re: HTML in email

1997-05-22 Thread Brian White
> >I read my mail with pine. Occasionally I get mail from this list and > >from others that has HTML markup embedded within it. What causes this? > > Netscape, for one. It sends mail/news as html by default (and of course it > won't tell you that.) Actually, it's communicator 4.0 (beta) th

Re: signify keeps dying on me

1997-05-24 Thread Brian White
> I start signify with the following command: > signify --fifo=$HOME/.signature & > > This allows me to at least get to the "compose" screen in pine. Oddly > there is no sig presented, and signify then dies with the following error > to the tty that I started it from. > > [1]+ Broken pipe

Re: alien, xfree86, and other bugs

1997-06-01 Thread Brian White
> And this is not only you who are used to doing this. In my opinion, this > is WRONG. All bug fixes MUST also go to stable (and this is especailly > true for frozen). What this means to me is that I have look through all > those debian-installer messages and make a note what packages in unstable >

Re: alien, xfree86, and other bugs

1997-06-02 Thread Brian White
> > If only bug fixes could be allowed in, this would be a good idea. > > Unfortunately, this isn't a practical possibility. Every time a new > > package is uploaded to fix a bug, there is the possibility of introducing > > new bugs either in the "patch" code, other code that got added for some >

Re: Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry

1997-06-03 Thread Brian White
> > > Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "#C0C0C0" > > > Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background > > Probably running on an 8-bit display. Netscape trys to > get lots of colors and quickly runs out with only 8-bit display. > > Try > > netscape -install >

Re: Netscape problem

1997-06-03 Thread Brian White
> All of which brings me to my question: Once X and Netscape were up, I > could run netscape, only I got the error message listed here. > > Would someone please tell me WHY I get this, and more to the point, > what I can do to make Netscape work? What does it mean, cannot allocate > colormap entry

Re: Netscape 3.01 128bit version ?

1997-06-03 Thread Brian White
> Does the installer for Netscape/gold 3.01 work with the 128bit version ? > I'll have to rename promise.cgi to what the installer wants. I've never tried it. If the filenames within the archive are the same, then it should. Brian

Re: Netscape 3.01 128bit

1997-06-06 Thread Brian White
> > For the record and mailing list archive; > > The 128bit versions of Netscape 3.01 and 3.01Gold do work with > > the currect Debian install package. > >Would you happen to know if the latest beta (communicator-v40b5*) will > work with the *.deb install shell? Apparently not. It's on my li

Re: netscape

1997-06-12 Thread Brian White
> I have just upgraded my netscape and I seem to have a problem, which I > hope you may help me resolve. I seemed to have a problem with my > java_301 therefore I purged the old package. Downloaded new one and now > I seem to have pa problem (I think it still relates to java problem). I > get this

Re: why so many broken links when installing 1.3?

1997-06-12 Thread Brian White
> ./ns-install: line 289: 15565 Broken pipe tar -cf - ${i} > 15566 Done| ( cd ${TARGET}/java/classes; tar > -xf - ) This is a bug in the tar available in Bo. It's supposedly been fixed in the version in Hamm. > I also found that netscape 4.0 installer have a

Background NFS Mounts

1997-09-10 Thread Brian White
I'm having a problem with my computer hanging for large amounts of time when it is not connected to the network because of some NFS mounts it does. I've tried adding options so it would try this in the background instead of holding up the boot, but no luck. Here is what I have now... ###

Using the X with ATI Pro Turbo

1997-09-10 Thread Brian White
Has anybody had any success in running X with an "ATI 3D Graphics Pro Turbo" video card? I'm having great difficulty getting it to display on my monitor. - 1600x1200 mode isn't available (too low dot-clock), - 1280x1024 doesn't display (screen stays black) - 1024x768 runs (doesn't sync) - 80

Re: Using the X with ATI Pro Turbo

1997-09-10 Thread Brian White
> Has anybody had any success in running X with an "ATI 3D Graphics Pro Turbo" > video card? I'm having great difficulty getting it to display on my > monitor. > > - 1600x1200 mode isn't available (too low dot-clock), > - 1280x1024 doesn't display (screen stays black) > - 1024x768 runs (doesn

Setting X mouse responsiveness

1997-09-11 Thread Brian White
How can I adjust the responsiveness of the mouse under X? Right now I almost have to move the mouse half way across the room to cross the screen? It's a PS/2 mouse. I've adjusted (lowered) the resposiveness under GPM. Could that be affecting things in X? X is accessing the mouse directly, not

Re: vacation program

1997-09-11 Thread Brian White
> I think there was recently a discussion about this, but I > deleted it as I wasn't interested at the time. > > I'm looking to provide a simple system generated Email reply to > a specific address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I wish to send a > simple message :- Thankyou for your enquiry I'm available in

Re: Setting X mouse responsiveness

1997-09-15 Thread Brian White
> >How can I adjust the responsiveness of the mouse under X? Right now I > >almost have to move the mouse half way across the room to cross the > >screen? It's a PS/2 mouse. > > > >I've adjusted (lowered) the resposiveness under GPM. Could that be affecting > >things in X? X is accessing the mo

SMP CMP Usage?

1997-09-16 Thread Brian White
Is there any way I can tell how each CPU on a multi-processor system is being used? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Generated by Signify v1.02.

top doesn't understand multiple processors

1997-09-17 Thread Brian White
When running top on my 2 cpu machine, I get some interesting states: 12:12pm up 18:03h, 5 users, load average: 1.52, 0.76, 0.49 65 processes: 61 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 90.2% user, 107.5% system, 0.9% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 128044K av, 110520K used, 17524K

'tell' is missing from libc6

1997-09-17 Thread Brian White
It appears the "tell(path)" command is missing from libc6. What should I be using instead? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- the difference betwee

Re: HELP: problems compiling wine

1997-09-18 Thread Brian White
> I tried it with MS-Word 6.0c, MS-Excel and Matlab > 4.2c (all 16bit applications) and they run to my satisfaction. > I have not tested them thorougly but I am quite impressed already. You got Word-6 to run under it? Wow! I never been able to get it to run ever under the 9708xx versions. Excel

Re: 'tell' is missing from libc6

1997-09-19 Thread Brian White
> > It appears the "tell(path)" command is missing from libc6. What > > should I be using instead? > > The only "tell" that I could find in libc-5.4.33 is the following one: > > file sysdeps/linux/tell.c: > > off_t > tell (int fildes) > { > return __lseek (fildes, 0, SEEK_CUR); > } That's th

Re: Stable means not-changing?

1997-09-24 Thread Brian White
> Please tell me: Does stable mean not-changing or not-segfaulting? For the most part, it means "non-changing". While it would be nice to fix each package with a problem, doing so always runs the risk of breaking other packages on the system. Verifying the integrity of the system as a whole is f

Deity Access

1997-10-01 Thread Brian White
Thanks to Jason building a libc5 verison of the new CVS (with read-only patches), I've now made the Deity source archive available to everyone. To get it, go to the directory you want to place the source and do the following: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs login (password: anonymo

New Deity Members

1997-11-17 Thread Brian White
The Deity team is still looking for a couple more members to help with implementation. If you'd like to help, please send me some mail with your experience and qualifications. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) -

ld.so linking conflict

1997-11-24 Thread Brian White
When trying to link using libc6 and tcl8, I can no longer include "-ldl" on the link line without getting an error. If I have [...] -ltcl8.0 -lm -lnsl then it links okay. If I have [...] -ltcl8.0 -lm -lnsl -ldl then I get the warning: ld: warning: libdl.so.2, needed by /usr/l

Re: ld.so linking conflict

1997-11-25 Thread Brian White
> > then I get the warning: > > > > ld: warning: libdl.so.2, needed by /usr/lib/libtk8.0.so, may conflict with > > libdl.so.1 > > > > I have been unable to find where this "libdl.so.1" is coming from since the > > "dl" libraries are: > > You probably have a left over link in /lib. Perhaps you 'f

Re: how to get apple2 deb package working?

1997-06-20 Thread Brian White
> Has anybody got this emulator working? All i get when i try and > boot something is a bunch of '@' signs filling up the screen and nothing > after that. I'm running 1.3, kernel 2.0.29, and have a matrox if it's > pertinent. I use it without any problems. What apple disk are you using?

Re: bizarre netscape behavior

1997-06-20 Thread Brian White
> I've now had this happen twice. When i install netscape, it works. The > next day, however, i get a message that I have 3.00 resources instead of > 3.01. Do i need a daily install? :)There has never been any other > netscape on this installation; just the *deb file from unstable, and the >

Re: striping, etc.

1997-06-20 Thread Brian White
> They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a poor-man's > server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first controller, and > use the other pair as /usr on the second interface. /usr will be NFS > exported. Or would I be better off putting the two /usr drives on > sep

Re: Netscape bug: Newbies using root

1997-06-23 Thread Brian White
> > It is stated very clearly in documentation all over that you should > > run as root as little as possible... Besides, it is common sense. > > When I first taught myself Unix, this was impressed on me very > > clearly. The Linux NAG and SAG mention it, I'm sure, as do some > > various HOWTOs.

Re: apcupsd, genpower, and PowerShute(TM) "Black" cable.

1997-06-28 Thread Brian White
> I have just tried to get two APC Smart UPS v/s 650s up and running in my > department but unfortunately, genpower does not support the cable, a black > PowerShute(TM) cable with serial number 940-0024C. Genpower 1.0.1-4 does have support for the Win95 "Plug-n-Play" cable (serial number 940-0095

Re: Is there anything more unstable than Netscape??

1997-06-30 Thread Brian White
> Since I get on average about 10 fatal crashes of netscape a > day, when combined with the flaky behavior, I'd say that > Netscape for linux is the most unstable but working application > I've ever seen. I run netscape 3.01 for days at a time without problems. (Hint: never hit "get new mail" whi

Re: apcupsd, genpower, and PowerShute(TM) "Black" cable.

1997-07-02 Thread Brian White
> I choose to run shutdown by itself because I had to assure that the last > action on master is to shut down the ups. Instead I should probably follow > the genpower approach and supply a small program that does this from the > command line. I worked with Miquel about this when building the genpo

Re: Wine and xpm

1997-07-02 Thread Brian White
> I'm trying to compile wine ... we don't seem to have a package for it, > understandable, since it's only in alpha at the moment. There is a package for wine under project/experimental. I maintain it. Brian ( [EMAIL PRO

Re: Wine and xpm

1997-07-02 Thread Brian White
> Wait - you're saying that creating a new "updated" debian package for wine > 1.0 would be to apply win-1.0*.diff to the .deb? The diffs for the Debian source contain nothing but the Debian directory. Thus, you can patch any version of the wine source and probably build it without any changes (ot

Re: Diety contacts? (was Re: Dselect replacement?)

1997-07-07 Thread Brian White
> Next question and then I'll hopefully shut up for a day or two about this > topic :-) > > Does anyone know where I can get in contact with the people and/or the > product of the Diety project? I checked www.debian.org's web site and > didn't find anything, and am not going to even bother with a

Re: Where's the package for netscape communicator

1997-07-07 Thread Brian White
> There used to be a package, netscape-beta, that could be used to install > communicator, it's gone now. Is there a reason it disappeared. I removed it because it doesn't work for beta-5 and above. I have a fixed version I just need to test for a bit before uploading.

Re: /var/log/messages not world-readable anymore?

1997-07-10 Thread Brian White
> Dum> and voila! I could no longer tail -f my logs. Bummer. > > Can't you just add yourself to the log (or whatever) group, then? It's actually "adm", but this seems the best solution. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) -

Re: apcupsd, genpower, and PowerShute(TM) "Black" cable.

1997-07-10 Thread Brian White
> Sorry to ask for a recap, but I missed the beginning of this thread... > So to ask probably already answered questions: What is the correct > genpower (or... dangit can't rememebr the other UPS package) cable-type > for the PowerShute "Black" cable that comes with the APCs? Genpower does not su

Re: Netscape 3.x mail

1997-07-15 Thread Brian White
> Downloaded and installed Netscape, excelent install, I commend > the writer of that package. Thanks! > Anyway, it won't send mail. I get "FCC file not found". > > Not being one to believe too seriously in every conspiricy theory > I run accross in alt.conspiricy.black-helocopters, do tell what

Re: dselect through a firewall?

1997-07-17 Thread Brian White
> I'm trying to get my girlfriend's Debian machine updated to 1.3 but so far > its been a real pain because she is behind a corporate firewall and I have > to manually ftp the files. Is there any way to configure deselect to go > through the firewall? Dftp was able to go through firewalls with FTP

Re: netscape-beta Package

1997-07-21 Thread Brian White
> I'm just curious what happened to the netscape-beta package. I can't seem to > find it tho it is listed in the search at www.debian.org. I removed it because it doesn't work the the latest releases. I have a new package I'll upload as soon as I get a chance to test it.

Re: Netscape 3.01 off-line

1997-07-21 Thread Brian White
> I know that I've used Netscape 3.01 off-line before to read documents... > now whenever I try to run it while not connected to my ISP, it simply > hangs. One time it even locked out my other X apps.. I had to kill the > server. Sounds like the home page is trying to be loaded. The hang-up is ac

Re: apcd -- 3 Cheers!!!

1997-07-29 Thread Brian White
> Just when I thought it was safe to throw away my APC Smart UPS along > comes apcd. Bravo. APC is also supported by the Genpower package. It only does dumb signalling, but can use the Plug-n-Play cable that comes with the APC units these days. Brian

Re: Netscape Navigator doesn't come up unless -iconic

1997-07-30 Thread Brian White
Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > > Something happened to my system so that Netscape Navigator will not > show on the X screen. If I start netscape a second time, I get a > message that it is already running. If I start it as "netscape > -iconic&" it establishes an icon, and I can now open. > > Does t

Re: Re.: Re: Netscape Navigator doesn't come up unless -iconic

1997-07-30 Thread Brian White
> Thank you for your response. It is this: > > Netscape 3.01/export, 20-Oct-96; (c) 1995,1996 Netscape Communications Corp. Did you install this with the Debian package? If so, which revision of the package? Brian ( [

Re: signify

1997-08-19 Thread Brian White
> Does anybody know how to use signify with pine? I've copied one example > as my .signify in my $HOME dir., but I'm clueless on how to make it work > with pine. The easiest way to do this is to add a command like sh -c "signify --fifo=$HOME/.signature &" to your .login file. However,

Re: pine/netscape sharing mail files

1997-08-19 Thread Brian White
> I looked at the pine and netscape mail files and they appear to be in the > same format, except netscape has a summary file for each file. Would it > be safe to have procmail deliving mail to a shared mailbox file that > netscape and pine are reading (and have netscape or pine open)? I use proc

Re: Show me the money Re: Donations to Debian

1997-08-23 Thread Brian White
> >> >my company uses Debian very seriously so I think is very fair to help the > >> >project with donations. I have just bought 2 "Official Debian 1.3.1 CD's" > >> >from LSL and I chose the product that includes a 5 dollar donation to the > >> >Debian project. > >> > >> And since I am in such a pi

Debian Releases (was: Show me the money)

1997-08-23 Thread Brian White
> > And choosing a simple, consistent, and comprehensible release naming scheme > > is such an issue. Hambone, bopeep, 1.3.1, and now revision 2... all > > very confusing. I've been trying to convince the people in the seul > > project to use Debian: they think Debian is flaky. I like Debian.

Re: cfengine question?

1997-08-23 Thread Brian White
> Would some please show me what is wrong with the following > cfengine that is sent to my 'root' every day: Check the log file under /var/log to see if there is more information there. If not, try running cfengine by hand to see if it provides more information that way.

Re: Show me the money Re: Donations to Debian

1997-08-23 Thread Brian White
> > Why change the version numbering scheme? It is a small change, it makes > > sense for marketing reasons, it is easy to do, and there was no reason not > > to do it. We're not holding up releases because of it. > > I suppose all 67 megs in bo-updates is being held there for some other > reason?

Re: [Performance] 386vs486 compilation

1997-08-27 Thread Brian White
> It just dawned on me that all intel packages must be compiled for 386 to > make them intel platform-independant. I am wondering how much of a > performance boost can be had by recompiling them for 486 or pentium. 10% improvement would probably be about the maximum. While 10% is the point where

Re: [Performance] 386vs486 compilation

1997-08-27 Thread Brian White
> > From: Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Have you ever seen numbers for running Pentium code on a 486 and 386 vs > > > native code? > > > > I think the Pentium code generator now uses Pentium-specific instructions. > > Before then, Pentium code on 386 and 486 sometimes ran faster than th

Linux in Wired

1997-08-27 Thread Brian White
There was a decent article about Linux in the latest issue of Wired. It was honest and fair, in my opinion, and Linux came out looking really good. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) -

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