Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-09 Thread Damon Muller
(ie, all the relevant variables are passed to the module, rather the hard-coded into the kernel), it should be quite easy to make an automatic configuration program for it... -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the bas

GTK Engine Themes

1999-06-11 Thread Damon Muller
of the theme, and not any of the widgets (GTKStep, for eg., is supposed to put a little indented circle in the scroll bar). So I presume that they are using the gtkrc for the theme, but are not loading in any of the library. Anyone got these themes to work? Any suggestions? Cheers, damon -- Damon

Re: Auto Shut-off

1999-06-18 Thread Damon Muller
down. That is the case with a lot of ATX systems, I believe. HTH, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on

Re: Frontpage extensions?

1999-06-21 Thread Damon Muller
counter etc? The extentions provide all of the webbot things, but they don't always work perfectly (for eg., the hit counter never worked for me on the netscape server). -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Secure Phone?

1999-07-02 Thread Damon Muller
one if you can't find it yourself using a web search. Cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the casket... EmpireNET

IP Usage Accounting

1999-07-15 Thread Damon Muller
more cluey that RedHatters :) Cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the casket... EmpireNET | - TBMG, "Dead"

Re: M$CHAP with PPP

1999-07-16 Thread Damon Muller
pd[28567]: Remote message: E=691 R=1 Jul 15 13:05:14 rei pppd[28567]: CHAP authentication failed It looks like it responded to the chap challenge, yet it still failed to authenticate. This is with the default pppd included with slink. Any thought anyone? damon -- Damon Muller | Did a

A4 in LaTeX

1999-07-24 Thread Damon Muller
don't think that's what I want. Cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the casket... EmpireNET | - TBMG, "Dead"

Re: A4 in LaTeX

1999-07-24 Thread Damon Muller
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999 20:46:21 +1000 Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shouldn't it be \documentstyle[a4paper]{article} ?? Well, the tutorial I was reading said [a4], but I tried [a4paper] and got the same error (that a4paper.sty wasn't found). Thanks anyway, dam

Re: Debian install problem

1998-08-01 Thread Damon Muller
Greets, > If you've got an ftp server on your Win95 machine (and some way of > connecting to it like TCP/IP), you can start up dselect, select "Access", > "Ftp", and give it the information it asks for, starting with the > location of your win95 machine. Otherwise, you can install via ftp fr

GNOMEish Window Manager

1998-08-11 Thread Damon Muller
d as KDE. Thanks, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the casket... EmpireNET | - TBMG, "Dead"

resolv.conf, PPP and multiple providers

1998-08-11 Thread Damon Muller
ISP, but that's a bit of a pain. I also run BIND as a caching-only namesever on my Debian box, if that's any help. Thanks, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator

Re: HELP! emufs doesn't work with FreeDos under dosemu in Debian

1998-08-19 Thread Damon Muller
#x27; as we debian ppl. tend to think of free...) and can be downloaded from their FTP site. Quite a nice DOS, IMHO. HTH, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrat

Re: qmail package for debian?

1998-08-19 Thread Damon Muller
ery easy to compile and install. The instructions are pretty detailed, and have lots of tests to ensure it's all working. I haven't had any trouble getting it working on my debian (Hamm) system (actually, my qmail predates Hamm, but upgrading to hamm didn't seem to break anything...)

Re: newest distribution?

1998-08-19 Thread Damon Muller
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998 06:45:58 -0400 (EDT) Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... I'm looking for qmail-src 1.03 ... version 1.03 has been around for > quite awhile... has the author released an update? 1.03 is the latest version of qmail. damon -- Damon Muller

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

1998-08-19 Thread Damon Muller
ers it all (Becky), but I guess you're not really interested in any of that :) damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the cask

Need some software advice.

1998-08-20 Thread Damon Muller
e never used them personally. It's for a SCSI 4x/6x, with an adaptec PCI SCSI card, so I'm sure the Kernel will have no problem with it. Any recomendations about easy to use (or at least learn) CD Burning programs? Thanks, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave

Re: linuxpress rumors

1998-09-10 Thread Damon Muller
, and yes, they mention the book, and thank Linux Press for a preview copy. It doesn't specifically state that it's for Debian 2.0, but it makes sense that it is. It also says that the guide is available free in HTML on the web at www.linuxpress.com damon -- Damon Muller | Di

Re: Wordperfect + Debian 2.0

1998-09-24 Thread Damon Muller
tually had a copy of it in RPM format on the RedHat 5.1 CD, which I converted to .deb with Alien. Worked quite nicely, except it didn't give me some info after installation like the RPM did on RH51 - still works fine tho... BTW, this was the demo of WP 7. damon -- Damon Muller

Re: Can I read NTFS from Linux?

1998-05-28 Thread Damon Muller
e moment, so I don't need it any more... A *great* way to get around NT's wonderful security tho :) damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator |

Re: Is there any program like ICQ ? Thanks ! ;)

1998-05-28 Thread Damon Muller
f conjecture and hearsay there, eh? :) But I think, all up, it should be very possible for someone to make a very unofficial ICQ client for linux. damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Netwo

Re: Is there any program like ICQ ? Thanks ! ;)

1998-05-28 Thread Damon Muller
unofficial and *very* beta. I haven't personally used any of them yet, but I'll try one out before much longer. If you check out http://www.xtrophy.dk/xicq/ there is an GPL'd ICQ clone with Linux source and binaries. Cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large processi

Drive proving stubbornly unmountable

1998-06-01 Thread Damon Muller
Free Space0.50 /dev/hdc1 PrimaryWin95 Extended (LBA) 1221.12 Anyone have any suggestions? What am I missing? Thanks, damon ==== Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Page: www.sub.net.au/~tr It's not a sense of humor. It&#

Re: Drive proving stubbornly unmountable

1998-06-02 Thread Damon Muller
the kernel, why does it say it isn't supported by the kernel... Confusing! Or maybe I'm just stupid today... damon Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Page: www.sub.net.au/~tr It's not a sense of humor. It's ICQ UIN:2920281 a sense of irony

Re: Debian vs. W95 (was: Money where mouth...)

1998-06-12 Thread Damon Muller
ow what I mean...) But to actually do anything, you need to be able to look under the hood... Cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Systems Administrator EmpireNET Melbourne, Australia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Swapping Hard Drives on the fly

1998-06-25 Thread Damon Muller
ldn't I just be able to unmount or mount the drive at will? Would that damage or confuse anything? Or possibly put in the drive once I have booted without it? Anyone have a similar setup? damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Swapping Hard Drives on the fly

1998-06-27 Thread Damon Muller
ide devices, rmmod the driver and maybe have a chance. Maybe I neglected to mention that it isn't actually the boot device. I have /dev/hdc1 mounted as /usr/local/rem, set as 'noauto' in /etc/fstab, so it's not as if it should actually be trying to read or write to it anyw

Debian saves the day... again.

1998-06-30 Thread Damon Muller
of the story: Don't leave home without your rescue disk and Debain will probably save your day too! damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone

Re: Hamm in Australia?

1998-06-30 Thread Damon Muller
n Australia, a quick note to the list would be really appreciated! Thank, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the caske

Re: Stopping and restarting mgetty.

1998-07-05 Thread Damon Muller
Greets, > I have the following line in /etc/inittab: > > S1:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1 > > How can I stop it whenever I need to, do something (like changing some > parameter) and restart it again ? Try 'kill -HUP' init damon -- Damon Muller

Re: Package to list all other packages in distribution?

1998-07-07 Thread Damon Muller
really* horrible!) Is the intention to make APT something like that, or allow other ppl to write interfaces for it? damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was ever

Downloading Hamm bits at a time

1998-07-10 Thread Damon Muller
on doing an FTP-install, I'll download it all to a local HD and install it from there. thanks, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the

Re: Looking for a counting (x)biff

1998-07-10 Thread Damon Muller
il is so much sexier) and I couldn't get it to sit in the AfterStep Wharf. damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the casket... EmpireN

Re: Moving a life to a dos box

1998-07-20 Thread Damon Muller
yourself), and AFAIK, all of the standard kernels have DOS file system support. Put your floppy disk in the disk drive and make sure you are root type: mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy cd to the directory where ppp.log is (prolly /usr/log) type: cp ppp.log /floppy umount /floppy and y

Re: passwords at Debian's FTP site

1998-07-20 Thread Damon Muller
to an anonymous FTP site. Then again, I'm a paranoid sort of person, and I don't use Netscape for mail, so I never enter an email address into Netscape's email entry. It's never stopped me from getting into an anonymous FTP site (wonder what it sends when it's blank?). da

Re: using NTFS partitions under linux?

1998-07-22 Thread Damon Muller
cate it). It was pretty alpha when I last tried it. Now I have linux on a machine all of it's own, so I don't need it. > LOAD "WIN95",8,1 > RUN > $&*!-#/> NO CARRIER Obscure C64 reference duely noted :) damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession

Re: Enlightenment, Fnlib, and Imlib -> get 'em while they're hot

1998-07-23 Thread Damon Muller
ed it - it's awsome! :) Keep up the good (and fast!) work! Seems to work well, but it took a bit of searching around to get all of the relevant packages. Also interesting fun working out which order they had to be installed in :) Thanks again, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a larg

Big HD problems - How stuffed am I?

1999-03-01 Thread Damon Muller
e that might be contributing to it? Thanks, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the casket... EmpireNET | - TBMG, "Dead"

Re: Shared PPP connection?

1999-03-06 Thread Damon Muller
ave a look at masqdialer (try http://freshmeat.net), which makes it easy for any of the computers to dial up the connection or shut it down. It has clients for windows, java, linux console and X. Very nice little program. damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PR

DOS partitions on a pure-linux box

1999-03-28 Thread Damon Muller
ut to try this qualitative analysis package I have on linux...) Any thoughts (on or off list) are welcome... Cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone

C++ no more...

1998-12-12 Thread Damon Muller
estions? Cheers, damon (PS, cc's of list responses are most welcome!) -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the casket... EmpireNET | - TBMG, "Dead"

/etc/init.d startup file for CFS

1998-12-12 Thread Damon Muller
s that someone already had one they could send me - seems a bit silly reinventing the wheel. I'm not too great at the shell scripting... If I didn't have to worry about the 'start' and 'stop' stuff, I could prolly use the one I already have... Any suggestions greatly appr

Re: C++ no more...

1998-12-12 Thread Damon Muller
ch file or directory configure: failed program was: #line 836 "configure" #include "confdefs.h" main(){return(0);} rei$ -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in

SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux

1999-01-07 Thread Damon Muller
boot disk, and set it up from there. The zip from creative contains it, but it's compressed, and only the install program can uninstall it. If anyone can help, I'd greatly appreciate it. Any suggestions are more than welcome. thanks, damon Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web P

Re: SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux

1999-01-07 Thread Damon Muller
anced windoze system by adding another card, then taking it out and hoping it keeps the same resources. damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was

Re: SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux

1999-01-13 Thread Damon Muller
/s' from an OpenDOS image under dosemu) and installed it from there. I then used the diagnose program to set it up. All seems to work fine. Now, if only I could find a spare pair of spaekers... :) damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Fetchmail not exiting in ip-down

1999-09-03 Thread Damon Muller
all. After I log off, the fetchmail process is still working, and I see fetchmail messages in my xconsole. This isn't a huge problem, but it *should* work, I would have thought. Anyone have any suggestions (yes, the script is executable, and it works if I call it manually from root...)

Re: Fetchmail not exiting in ip-down

1999-09-04 Thread Damon Muller
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 02:18:41AM -, Pollywog was heard to state: > > On 03-Sep-99 Damon Muller wrote: > > I, like many of us here prolly, use fetchmail to grab my mail when I'm > > online. As such, I've set up scripts in ip-up.d to start up fetchmail as > >

KDE .deb libs problem

1999-04-16 Thread Damon Muller
hared libraries : undefined symbol: __pure_virtual Now, I realise that those .debs are probably 'unofficial' and therefore 'unsupported', but I was hoping someone on the list might be able to give me some pointers. Cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large proc

Re: KDE .deb libs problem

1999-04-17 Thread Damon Muller
IL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Damon Muller wrote: > > > I downloaded the kde 1.1 debs from a local kde mirror, and installed > > them without any problem on my freshly installed, pure-slink box. > > I had to install qt from potato: > > ii qt1g

[off topic] Where have all the remailers gone

1999-05-15 Thread Damon Muller
at such a thing wasn't available anymore! Cheers; damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the casket... EmpireNET |

Equivs and Mail problem

1999-05-20 Thread Damon Muller
-transport-agent elm-me+: Depends:mail-transport-agent mailto: Depends:mail-transport-agent $ Why am I getting all those unresolved dependencies? I thought that was what equivs was for? Any suggestions? What have I done wrong? -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their

CFS has died

1999-05-20 Thread Damon Muller
$ sudo mount -o port=3049,intr localhost:/null /crypt mount: RPC: Timed out This has always worked for me before (it's in an /etc/init.d/cfsd script), but now, no joy :( Any suggestions as to where I might start looking would be appreciated! Cheers, damon -- Damon Muller

wdm and xdm co-exisitng - is this a bug?

1999-05-20 Thread Damon Muller
over from hamm (so why is it on my slink system?) Cheer, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the casket... EmpireNET | - TBMG, "Dead"

Re: GNOME vs KDE

1999-06-03 Thread Damon Muller
tors (or better eyesight) than us mere mortals with 15in screens!). HTH, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the casket... EmpireNET | - TBMG, "Dead"

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-05 Thread Damon Muller
ill it be Perl6? How long will it take to get all those packages ready for the next one? Where will debian be when kernel 2.4 and XFree 4.0 come out? Will they make it into the next release? the one after? How long until it reaches critical mass and we can no longer keep up? I'm not tryi

Re: Sun classic

1999-10-10 Thread Damon Muller
d runs pretty slowly on many of the older machines. Linux is much more light-weight, and runs better on some of the older boxen, apparently. We actually temporarily had RedHat 6.0 on one of the Ultra10s. It seemed to run really well, and GNOME/E looked awsome on the 19 inch monitor :) cheers, damon

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-10 Thread Damon Muller
rk and burn them onto a CD, so I don't have to spend a week downloading. If it is the case that you can do an incremental upgrade, then I was obviously wrong that Slink and Potato were incompatible, and I'll happily retract that statment. Cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL P

Re: Mutt and From: line in mail

1999-10-19 Thread Damon Muller
line -- the hostname in it (my own hostname appended to my ISPs hostname) didn't exist. Fortunately, it seems that having QMAILUSER and QMAILHOST defined is enough to set the Return-Path line, without having QMAILINJECT as f. Glad to have that one finally sorted out! Cheers, damon -- Damon M

Re: ipfwadm rule

1999-11-02 Thread Damon Muller
e! you may lose access to the machine) > > I've already tried that way, but it doesn't work out the way I > like it. > > -- p. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]

Adding a style to TeX

1999-11-06 Thread Damon Muller
out having to decompress it? I have not had any luck with gunzip blah.dvi.gz | xdvi (it just pops up xdvi's open dialog box). I presume there is some way to do it, but I can't for the life of me work it out. Cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) / It's not a sense of humor

IP Aliasing on slink/2.2.12

1999-11-06 Thread Damon Muller
me to admin a Debian box. But unless I can work this out, I'm up sh*t creek! Any thoughts would be appreciated! cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) / It's not a sense of humor. * Criminologist / It's a sense of irony * Webmeister

[Solved] Re: Adding a style to TeX

1999-11-08 Thread Damon Muller
Hi folks, thanks to those who replied to my question about adding a style to TeX. Turns out, the problem was that I'm an idiot, as I had commented out the line to use that package before I installed it, and never remembered to uncomment the line. :) Opps! Cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([

Re: Slink + some Potato = What?

1999-11-12 Thread Damon Muller
tato does seem to be updated occasionally, with new stuff added frequently. Of course, this is all IMHO, but it's what I'm doing. Cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) / It's not a sense of humor. * Criminologist / It's a sense

IP Alias and Slink - ARGH!

1999-11-12 Thread Damon Muller
elp me diagnose the problem. If there is anything more I can post, let me know and I will. Someone please save me! damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Systems Administrator EmpireNET Melbourne, Australia

SOLVED - Re: IP Alias and Slink - ARGH!

1999-11-12 Thread Damon Muller
thout rebooting?), and now it all seems to work (fingers crossed!). Thanks again, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Systems Administrator EmpireNET Melbourne, Australia

Re: rawrite2 & NT

1998-10-09 Thread Damon Muller
ave used it on NT machines, but it's possibly that it would have problems, as NT is a little picky about what it lets have direct access to hardware. If you can't get it running, just make a DOS boot disk (eg. use OpenDOS >from caldera), and boot with that. Should work then. HTH, da

Re: turnkey debian?

1998-10-13 Thread Damon Muller
it is packaged for debian, but it appears pretty regularly on freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net), where you can search for it. It's basically just a getty that runs a program instead of showing a login prompt. HTH, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torch

Re: StarOffice -or- Applixware 4.4.1

1998-10-20 Thread Damon Muller
27;s quite usable in a busy office environment. Unfortunately, I think they are talking about moving everyone to Windows... Do think they should at least consider Linux tho! :) damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fe

Re: Desperately in need of a Database app....

1998-10-20 Thread Damon Muller
of them myself). Have a look at http://freshmeat and search on SQL or mySQL. BTW, mySQL is in non-free in Hamm. HTH, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator

Re: Desperately in need of a Database app....

1998-10-27 Thread Damon Muller
#x27;t specifically help you there. However, I have now got MySQL working with Access97 (Under NT 4 Workstation), and that works great. You might want to look at mySQL - it's not as free as PostgreSQL, but it looks like a very nice SQL server, and there seems to be heaps of add-on

Loading ppa thru kerneld

1998-11-10 Thread Damon Muller
issue? Is there any way around it? At the moment I'm just loading ppa from /etc/modules, but isn't the idea of modules and kerneld that the modules don't sit around hogging your prescious system recources? Cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave

Re: ISP

1998-11-13 Thread Damon Muller
re than you can chew! However, if you want to set up a box to have a few friends log into, have a look at IPMasq and mgetty. That should allow you to have ppl. connect via PPP. Cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my hea

Blocking an arbitrary port with ipfwadm

1998-11-27 Thread Damon Muller
clueless ppp users. Any pointers would be very helpful (please don't just say RTFM - I did, but it didn't make too much sense to me). Thanks, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network A

rc.boot not booting!

1998-12-07 Thread Damon Muller
ipfwadm -F -p deny /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 10.0.0.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 # This line is to enable IP accounting for PPP /sbin/ipfwadm -A -i -P all -W ppp0 # Enable ICQ properly over IP Masq /usr/sbin/ipautofw -A -r tcp 2000 2020 -h 10.0.0.100 -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession

Re: Using Debian Linux for Dumb Terminals

1998-02-25 Thread Damon Muller
ng up this little bit of hardware. Needs the Kernel to be recompiled, but it's pretty easy, and I got it up and working in no time. It's called the boca-Mini-HOWTO from memory damon Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Page: www.sub.net.au/~tr It's not a sense of

Install on CDROMless Laptop

1998-03-02 Thread Damon Muller
om there? Any other suggestions? Thanks for your help damon (PS. It's late, I'm tired, and I suspect I'm rambling a little... if I am, please forgive me!) Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Page: www.sub.net.au/~tr It's not a sense of humor. It's I

DE-660 PCMCIA Card problems

1998-03-02 Thread Damon Muller
annapuna cardmgr[96]: bind 'pcnet_cs' to socket 0 failed: No such device Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Page: www.sub.net.au/~tr It's not a sense of humor. It's ICQ UIN:2920281 a sense of irony disguised as one. PGP Key ID: 0x232C09E1

SSH - need libgmp.so.2

1998-03-12 Thread Damon Muller
could tell anyway). Anyone care to point me towards a package that will provide this library? Thanks damon Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Page: www.sub.net.au/~tr It's not a sense of humor. It's ICQ UIN:2920281 a sense of irony disguised as

RE: OK I'm stupid. How do I get to my fl

1998-03-14 Thread Damon Muller
) and it seemed to work pretty well (if you are root, i completely ignores all NTFS permissions, which is pretty cool...) Check out: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~loewis/ntfs/ Hope this helps, Damon Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Page: www.sub.net.au/~tr It&#

Re: Household proxy

1998-03-16 Thread Damon Muller
d it up and running in about 30 mins (not including recompiling IP Masq support into the kernel Alternatively you could use a proxy server like squid, but IMHO IP Masq is much sexier, and lets you do a lot more stuff over your network... Hope that helps, damon Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTEC

Re: It's all so confusing, so should I get a CD Distribution?

1998-03-16 Thread Damon Muller
be using dual-boot systems, so I guess it can't be too hard! Anyway, hope that helped a little... damon Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Page: www.sub.net.au/~tr It's not a sense of humor. It's ICQ UIN:2920281 a sense of irony disguised as one. PGP

Re: Household proxy

1998-03-16 Thread Damon Muller
reality, everything is safely hidden from the end user, and it's pretty easy to get working... Hope that went some of the way towards explaining it... damon Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Page: www.sub.net.au/~tr It's not a sense of humor. It's ICQ UIN:292028

Linux freeform text database

1998-04-07 Thread Damon Muller
new database (am I the only one who can't remember a million M-x emacs commands?). Surely there must be something like this around? I can't be the only linux user who has ever thought something like this would be A Good Thing. Any advice, tips, pointers, or anything like that would be gre

Re: clean shutdown

1998-04-09 Thread Damon Muller
run APM to suspend the laptop, both of which have to be run as root normally. If you need a hand, I'm more than happy to help, cheers, damon ==== Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Page: www.sub.net.au/~tr It's not a sense of humor. It's ICQ UIN:2920281

Re: Multi-tasking

1998-04-10 Thread Damon Muller
x box. You can open multiple windows and switch between them with CTL-C n (where n is your virtual screen) - at least, I think it's CTL-C... It's easy to use, well documented, packaged for debian, and is a bit less of a stretch on the fingers than ALT-Fn damon Damon Mulle

Re: sgml authoring

1998-04-10 Thread Damon Muller
stuff, LaTex to HTML, RTF all that stuff, so either would prolly be alright. Any comments? Anyone recomend a good starting point to learn one? Thanks, damon Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Page: www.sub.net.au/~tr It's not a sense of humor. It's ICQ UIN:29202

Re: Setting transparent xterms

1998-04-14 Thread Damon Muller
ckground image. Great way to make a totally unreadable X-Term . There are some AfterStep screenshots I have seen where a guy uses the same pixmap as his background and RxVT background, which results in an effect similar to a transparent X-Term. I suspect that's as close as you'll get. da

Re: NFS IP and Microsoft for Workgroups IPX (on same bus)

1998-04-14 Thread Damon Muller
f to compile from source, and is well documented, but I assume some nice person has gone off and made a .deb package for you to use. Hope that helps, damon Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Page: www.sub.net.au/~tr It's not a sense of humor. It's ICQ UIN:2920

Re: Newbie Questions...

1998-04-16 Thread Damon Muller
Os and FAQs, and of course, this list One warning, Running Linux is a *little* RedHat-centric. Shouldn't cause too much trouble tho... damon Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Page: www.sub.net.au/~tr It's not a sense of humor. It's ICQ UIN:2920281

Re: Laptop install

1998-04-17 Thread Damon Muller
your Win95 machine using ethernet is you have a PCMCIA network card. Hope that helps, damon Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Page: www.sub.net.au/~tr It's not a sense of humor. It's ICQ UIN:2920281 a sense of irony disguised as one. PGP Key

Question about libc5 - libc6 upgrade.

1998-05-07 Thread Damon Muller
much if i just upgrade those packages listed in the mini-HOWTO? Have many people done this succesfully, and if so, is there anything in particular (other than what is listed in the HOWTO) that I should be aware of? Thanks, Damon ==== Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Page: www.sub.net.a

Re: Code Page 437

2000-08-24 Thread Damon Muller
;s hard to upgrade when your Internet > connection is a 14.4kbps modem. > > Thanks a lot in advance to anyone who can reply with information. > > -- > J.P. Larocque, known online as piranha > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscrib

Phantom default gateway

2000-08-24 Thread Damon Muller
edialed, and set the default gateway itself. Unfortunately, next time it reboots, the same thing will probably happen. So, why did it set the default gateway when I didn't ask it to, and how can I stop it doing it in the future? cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) /

Breakin Attempt? Tracking source

2000-08-26 Thread Damon Muller
like that. Nothing to indicate anyone has been paying unusual attention to my network or system (this machine is also the gateway to the network). cheers, damon (who hopes that his computer forensics is up to scratch and/or that he's not just being too paranoid!) -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL

Re: Directory always defaults to /usr/bin

2000-08-31 Thread Damon Muller
come up with (I have no idea what file I changed, so I can't tell you exactly where to look). This solved my problem, may solve yours too. HTH damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) / It's not a sense of humor. * Criminologist / It's a sens

Re: any sample configs for mutt using GnuPG?

2000-09-01 Thread Damon Muller
bles the PGP signature for mail I send from my default mailbox (ie., my day to day personal mail). However, I still use it on all my mailing list postings. folder-hook "!" unset pgp_autosign HTH, damon (who is always happy to help a fellow debian user, and fellow australian) -- Damon M

security.debian.org .au mirrors

2000-09-02 Thread Damon Muller
, I'd like one that's nice and quick from .au cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) / It's not a sense of humor. * Criminologist / It's a sense of irony * Webmeister / disguised as one. * Linux Geek

Re: Free X Server for WinDos

2000-09-08 Thread Damon Muller
s playing with it, but you might like to try it out anyway. cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com | And was everyone dancing on the casket... PGP (GnuPG): A13

Re: tar.gz and dpkg/apt

2000-09-12 Thread Damon Muller
sport-agent equivs conf file, which worked well for me (I use qmail). cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com | And was everyone dancing on the cas

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