sawfish: removing it switches alternatives to auto mode???

2003-03-04 Thread Erik Steffl
I had set up fvwm2 as x-window-manager (using update-alternatives) but sawfish gets repeatedly set up as default window manager which is very annoying becuase it causes window manager to exit when I try to restart it. while testing the problem I have found out that when I apt-get remove sa

Re: Mozilla Mail & Microsoft Outlook

2003-10-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:51, Alan Chandler wrote: On Thursday 16 October 2003 02:45, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: Hi. Has anyone tried/succeeded in importing messages from Microsoft Outlook (.pst files) to Mozilla Mail? Does anyone have any idea on

Re: Mozilla Mail & Microsoft Outlook

2003-10-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 16:51, Alan Chandler wrote: ... When I did it, "apt-get install courier-imap" just about did all I needed. I certainly don't remember having to do any other playing about to get it to work. Obviously if you want to use it to receive mail into the Maildirs

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-17 Thread Erik Steffl
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 19:01 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 12:29, Monique Y. Herman wrote: You're right; the anglo-centric nature of most programming languages is distressing. It would be fun to code in a language based on a totally Distressing

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 22:37 GMT, Erik Steffl penned: english has a fairly simple a regular grammar so it's fairly easy to create english based programming language - the basic control structures are pretty much english sentences. This would be fairly hard to

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Don Werve wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:37:33PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: english has a fairly simple a regular grammar so it's fairly easy to create english based programming language - the basic control structures are pretty much english sentences. Actually, English grammar

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 04:10:38AM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 22:37 GMT, Erik Steffl penned: english has a fairly simple a regular grammar so it's fairly easy to create english based programming language - the basic co

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
csj wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: [...] think about it: when learning english the only challenge is to learn how to pronounce words (and learn irregular verbs). you built vocabulary by learning words, where you pretty much only need to remember the word itself

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Mon, 20 Oct 2003 01:40:19PM +0200, David Jardine insinuated: On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:56:37AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: csj wrote: [...] Because everybody from the poor war orphan "Hey, Joe, eat!" to the UN Secretary General speaks it, English has becom

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:09:19PM -0400, TR wrote: I just did an upgrade in a machine running sid and after that can't star a gnome terminal anymore. Yes, and certainly you're going to get LOTS of help with that problem, given this EXTREMELY informative report you've made. W

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-22 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:53:34AM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: the two are apples and oranges, my friend, especially when you're dealing with something that no one can have an objective point of view on, given different native languages. ??? yo

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-22 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: ... of course, you can create various complex and ambiguous sentences in english, the point is that you can take few forms of sentences and have a working language (that's pretty much what BASIC (talking

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: ])

2003-10-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Ron Johnson wrote: ... Being a native speaker of American, I've always wondered - What is the purpose of "gender" in grammar/language? as far as I can tell there's no purpose (not a linguist but my native language has genders, can't find any reason other then that it has genders:-) - Is it onl

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Joyce, Matthew wrote: Hey, Linux is Perfect!!! You must be an Evil Windows Troll!!! But seriously: On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:08, James D. Freels wrote: Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? What's wrong wi

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: ])

2003-10-24 Thread Erik Steffl
David Palmer. wrote: ... First in were the Gaels (Irish) through Skandinavia, then the Icenii Brythonics (which is where 'Briton' and then 'Britain' came from) and some lesser tribes, such as the Manx. But none of these spoke German, either high, middle or low. Germany as a territory was defined la

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: ])

2003-10-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:54:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Being a native speaker of American, I've always wondered - What is the purpose of "gender" in grammar/language? Argh, this does my head in too. Especially when you come across things like all the words for female genitals

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: ])

2003-10-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:52:10AM +0100, Pigeon insinuated: ... Argh, this does my head in too. Especially when you come across things like all the words for female genitals in lots of languages having the masculine gender. Work that one out. yeah, or a fork being feminine, spo

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:47:13PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: ... of course, you can create various complex and ambiguous sentences in english, the point is that you can take few forms

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-25 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:11:49PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:47:13PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: ... of course, you can create

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:05:22AM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:11:49PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: now, think of an example in which you encounter anything remotely like full sentence structure in code

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Richard Lyons wrote: On Tuesday 28 October 2003 20:30, Monique Y. Herman wrote: [...] Hrm.. Does debian-user not set the reply-to to the list, or is this my [...] Apparently not. I wonder why not. It would surely be a good idea - for those using simpler mail clients. I use kmail and filter li

mozilla doesn't open last page visited (new window)

2003-11-01 Thread Erik Steffl
I have the preferences set up to open last page visited but for some reason it always opens the home page. this is happening for quite some time, not sure which version, but definitely few 1.4 and current 1.5-2 pacakge (unstable). erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mozilla mail freezes on start

2003-11-01 Thread Erik Steffl
last mozilla 1.4 worked OK, now that I upgraded to 1.5-2 when I open mail window it just freezes (all mozilla windows are completely frozen, not updated at all). I have an IMAP server (imaps) and few nntp servers configured. I can connect to IMAP server (cyrus) using other clients - so far I t

SOLVED Re: mozilla doesn't open last page visited (new window)

2003-11-01 Thread Erik Steffl
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 00:38, Erik Steffl wrote: > I have the preferences set up to open last page visited but for some > reason it always opens the home page. > > this is happening for quite some time, not sure which version, but > definitely few 1.4 and current 1.5-2 pa

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-02 Thread Erik Steffl
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 18:52, Tom wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 07:42:03PM -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > > (I have a theory, but I don't want to influence what you say). > > > > But, now I'm curious... what is your theory? > > Funny timing, I just said it in my previous email a couple of

Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??

2003-11-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Chema wrote: ... So the network installation of Sarge is my new bet. > But I want to know, how really unstable is it? I don't > think most people could live with Woody, so is it test the most used distro? server: I'd go with stable desktop: I'd go with unstable (that's what I use) testing,

Re: Progress meter on copying

2003-11-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Mike Dresser wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, Does anyone know of a nice way of being able to show a progress meter on copying a large file from one part of the disk to another. I tried scp localfile localfile2 but scp calls cp. you can call it like this: scp someFile hostn

Re: Hacked: .bash_history linked somewhere

2003-11-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Mike Egglestone wrote: Hi, My server was trojaned recently, not sure how. It looks like /bin/ps was modified or replaced with a trojan. The /root/.bash_history file is set to this: chsslx1:~# ls -la .bash_history -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Nov 7 05:31 .bash_history and I can't ed

Re: What is the password of "root" when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-11 Thread Erik Steffl
Otto Wyss wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:48:16PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: ... Failing that, boot with the 'init=/bin/sh' parameter (so if you'd normally type 'linux' to LILO, say, type 'linux init=/bin/sh' instead) and run 'passwd root'. Unfortunately there is no boot prompt where I could enter a

openGL cannot do fullscreen in dual monitor config

2003-11-11 Thread Erik Steffl
just tried dual monitors with two card (geForce FX 5600 Ultra, nvidia drivers and ATI Radeon 9800, ati drivers), debian unstable, X 4.2.1: one monitor: openGL works fullscreen or windowed two monitors: openGL works in window, not fullscreen tested with xscreensaver hacks considering

Re: openGL cannot do fullscreen in dual monitor config

2003-11-12 Thread Erik Steffl
Marc Wilson wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 08:44:11PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: just tried dual monitors with two card (geForce FX 5600 Ultra, nvidia drivers and ATI Radeon 9800, ati drivers), debian unstable, X 4.2.1: The important thing... are you using dual-head, or are you using

Re: window manager recomendation

2003-11-12 Thread Erik Steffl
Micha Feigin wrote: Hello, Hoping this won't turn into a flame war, I am looking for recommendations for a window manager. I tried quiet a few but none seem to fit the bill yet. I need a window manager with the following - As lite as possible on memory (I heavily stress my laptop so I don't have m

Re: Step by Steps??

2003-11-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Jeffrey W. Pearson wrote: Does anyone have step by steps for setting up a LAMP environment with Debian? Ive just moved from Red Hat to Debian. I don't seem to be able to find the locations of certain files needed. Right now Im stuck at trying to find the libphp4.so file. I compiled php from sour

Re: Social Engineering. {was: Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 15:12, David Palmer. wrote: ... These potentially highly dangerous individuals are confined to institutions known as 'research centres', and if non conforming are seen as a disruptive and undesirable element by the established social order, and are further r

ATI Radeon 9800 freezes after using X :1

2003-11-15 Thread Erik Steffl
if I run another instance of X the system freezes when I try to switch back to the first one (completely, does not respond to keyboard, mouse or network connections). This only happens if I have two monitors (VGA and DVI). Any ideas what's the problem? system: debian unstable kernel 2

Re: Installation Help: SATA Drive

2003-11-15 Thread Erik Steffl
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 17:15, Justin Burke wrote: > Hi All, > > I could use some help getting Debian installed on a new machine with a > SATA drive. I've downloaded CD images for both sarge and sid, and both > installation methods hang at the same point: > > "Loading kernel modules > > Detected m

Re: ATI Radeon 9800 freezes after using X :1

2003-11-15 Thread Erik Steffl
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 07:49, TR wrote: > Is the last version of Xfree in sid supporting ati radeon 9800? Last I > had checked it was not yet, so I have fireglx from the ati site running, > which of course has created a lot of conflicts everytime that I run an > update. no it doesn't. I downloade

cyrus21-imapd: imapd killed by signal 7 (SIGBUS)

2003-01-23 Thread Erik Steffl
when I rebooted yesterday (first time after recent dist-upgrade) I got number of messages about cyrus db being currupted (and there was a huge number of cyr_* processes running), the messages recommended to recover the db, so I stopped cyrus21 and ran db3_recover (output below). then I started

FIXED, but why? WAS: Re: cyrus21-imapd: imapd killed by signal 7(SIGBUS)

2003-01-23 Thread Erik Steffl
it looks like the problem described below was fixed by running /usr/sbin/cyrreconstruct (I ran it after I noticed that imapd only died when trying to open inbox, not other folders). any ideas about what could have caused the problem? erik Erik Steffl wrote: when I rebooted yesterday

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: On Fre, 2003-01-24 at 14:59, Adrian Bunk wrote: Since some people seem to thing apt pinning can solve all problems with outdated packages in stable I want to explain why this is wrong: apt pinning is good if you are running testing but need a package

Re: Using VIA C3 and Woody?

2003-02-01 Thread Erik Steffl
Bill Moseley wrote: I want to build a very quiet and stable machine. Anyone using a VIA C3 based system with Woody? If so, what motherboard are you using? Any hardware issues? not sure which chipset it will be, some chipsets have problems with IDE, namely audio cd ripping, I know mine has

Re: voodoo3 troubles

2003-02-13 Thread Erik Steffl
Cameron Matheson wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get my voodoo3 working but i am having some serious problems... The computer boots up fine w/ the card in, and X works great w/ the "vesa" driver (other than no acceleration of course). If i try the "tdfx" driver, however, X goes crazy (the screen is br

Re: Suggest CD RW app ?

2003-09-10 Thread Erik Steffl
David selby wrote: Hello all, I have just installed a SAMSUNG DVD - CD RW drive, done the config I tried xcdroast, I like it but it insists on a 1024x768 screen which is a bit of a problem with my eyes / monitor. I just tried it and the window is about 800x570. I can make it bigger but not sm

Re: Suggest CD RW app ?

2003-09-10 Thread Erik Steffl
David selby wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: David selby wrote: Hello all, I have just installed a SAMSUNG DVD - CD RW drive, done the config I tried xcdroast, I like it but it insists on a 1024x768 screen which is a bit of a problem with my eyes / monitor. I just tried it and the window is about

Re: Install stalled

2003-09-10 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have spent several hours studying various Linux webpage and trying to install the OS, but have not had any successes. There is lots of good information and software, but I do not know where to begin. Can you help me install the Linux OS? If so what information

Re: XFree86 Config

2003-09-17 Thread Erik Steffl
Rob VanFleet wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 04:44:39PM -0400, Rishikesh wrote: I bought a new monitor and I want to reconfigure X. How can I get the debconf menus to configure X I got when I was installing debian. dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 should do it. depends on whether the XFree

Re: ssh + X11

2003-09-17 Thread Erik Steffl
Rodrigo Valenzuela wrote: hi everyone: When i connect via ssh to my computers it goes fine, but when i tried 'startx ' it complains with 'X: user noy authorized to tun the x server'. Obviously the user can startx with no complain when sitting in front of the computer, so it is authorized. What i

Re: tar vs dpkg --get-selections for backup scheme

2003-09-26 Thread Erik Steffl
Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hi, my server setup is nearing completion and of course i want to save my hard work in case something goes wrong. Since i have problems in the past with various backup programs like mondo to name one, i want to keep it simple this time so a moronic me can understand whats

Re: LILO problems,no boot, can I use Knoppix rescue to fix?

2003-09-26 Thread Erik Steffl
J F wrote: Repost with modifications, first one did make it to the list: I did an aptitude and did an update, and a few "g" keystrokes to download and install. Aptitude said something like: Warning, it was deleting modules for old version of kernel. Now the system won't reboot. THe screen says:

Re: Help Please.....

2003-09-29 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * ***Hey, I'm about to buy *VIA C3M266 Mainboard *for Linux Debian Woody. Like you said all VIA motherboards, well almost all, should work fine. if you have any thing you wanna add to help me install debian on this motherboard please do, Little things can help too yo

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread Erik Steffl
Christof Hurschler wrote: Hi, I've scanned the cron man pages, but it seems that cron is only set up to do daily, weekly, and monthly jobs in Debian. Is there a simpe way to have a script execute at shorter time intervals. I'd you can specify the values separated by commas, example for minute

Re: ps axu|grep grep doesn't output always

2003-10-01 Thread Erik Steffl
Dan Jacobson wrote: Just curious, why doesn't this make output every run: $ ps axu|grep grep jidanni 1163 0.0 0.2 2376 608 pts/1R02:26 0:00 grep grep $ ps axu|grep grep $ ps axu|grep grep $ ps axu|grep grep $ ps axu|grep grep jidanni 1171 0.0 0.2 2376 608 pts/1R02:26

Re: Please Help with Serial ATA!

2003-10-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Jon Earle wrote: I'm having serious trouble getting Debian loaded on my new system. The specs are: AMD Athlon XP 2700+ 333FSB MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR NForce 2 512MB Corsair XMS 3200 C2 36GB Western Digital Raptor SATA 10K RPM MSI GFX 5600VTDR 128 Antec Performance II SX635BII LG 52x24x52 CDRW LG DVD

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-10-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:55:30PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:15:19PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: anacron. cron and anacron solve similar problems but with a different approach based on different requirements. The two are not mutually exclusive.

Re: To be safe don't use shift key...

2003-10-09 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...or else the riaa might sue you. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/10/08/bmg.protection.reut/index.html quote from article: "Computers running Linux and older versions of the Mac operating system are unable to run the software and are able to copy the disc freely, h

postfix: very long startup time (few minutes)

2002-10-06 Thread Erik Steffl
for some reason the postfix thatkes a LONG time to startup (during boot). any ideas why? It seems like it's getting worse over time. this is on debian unstable. I don't have too many emails and I am not aware of any long queues waiting, this is on my personal workstation, I get few hu

Re: postfix: very long startup time (few minutes)

2002-10-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Sunday, 06 October 2002, 08:43 PM -0700): > >> for some reason the postfix thatkes a LONG time to startup (during >>boot). any ideas why? It seems like it's getting wors

Re: postfix: very long startup time (few minutes)

2002-10-10 Thread Erik Steffl
name is in /etc/hosts. in addition to that when the system stops there is continuous HD activity. So I guess something must be going on. Just can't figure out what... erik > > Regards. > > Kourosh > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:09:00PM -0700, Erik Steffl wro

cyrus doesn't work after upgrade (could not find auxprop plugin)

2002-10-27 Thread Erik Steffl
after I dist-upgraded system yesterday the cyrus21 stopped working (I used aptitude ugg) when I try to connect to imapd I get the following message in syslog: Oct 27 12:18:59 localhost cyrus/imapd[4339]: badlogin: localhost[127.0.0.1] plaintext erik SASL(-13): user not found: checkpass failed

sawfish makes itself x-window-manager

2002-11-28 Thread Erik Steffl
not sure when it happened, I guess it was during dist-upgrade, but suddenly sawfish was the x-window-mananger (I definitely did not run update-alternatives). is this a bug or intented behaviour? If it's a "feature, can it be disabled? This is pretty annoying, while it's not that hard to

Re: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server ???

2002-11-28 Thread Erik Steffl
daves debian wrote: When i am logged in as a user, I want to execute an X program as root, I type su ... The X library has been refused by the X server, because root is not autherised to connect to the server ?? ... only authorized user can connect to X server, just because you are root

Re: sawfish makes itself x-window-manager

2002-12-01 Thread Erik Steffl
Jerome Acks Jr wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 03:09:33AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: not sure when it happened, I guess it was during dist-upgrade, but suddenly sawfish was the x-window-mananger (I definitely did not run update-alternatives). is this a bug or intented behaviour? If it

Re: sawfish makes itself x-window-manager

2002-12-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Craig Dickson wrote: > > Erik Steffl wrote: > > > looks like a bug in update-alternatives (dpkg), right? Is there any > > way to verify what happened? I mean is there any history of changes or > > something that I can check AFTER the fact (obviously, I cannot che

Re: sawfish makes itself x-window-manager

2002-12-04 Thread Erik Steffl
Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 08:26:28AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: anyway, I guess I'll just be careful restarting WM and hope it'll get fixed eventually... considering the number of old bugs (few years old) it doesn't seem to make any sense to file bugs

problem with voodoo 3 and multiple X servers

2002-12-04 Thread Erik Steffl
I don't use multiple X servers too often but I think that since X 4.x there are some problems when running multiple X servers on same machine (voodoo 3 card). I have dri enabled, it works ok. as long as I run only one instance of X it works without any problems. the problem as manifested

Re: sawfish makes itself x-window-manager

2002-12-06 Thread Erik Steffl
Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:23:04PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: Colin Watson wrote: dpkg is one of those packages that has a lot of bugs but by and large works pretty well. Looking purely at the number of bugs and ignoring the fact that it's mostly very solid, tested co

mozilla start (multiple times versus -remote)

2002-12-07 Thread Erik Steffl
mozilla wrapper used to start up a new mozilla or mozilla -remote, depending on whether mozilla was already running. Which made it easy to open new browser window, regardles of whether one was already running. However now mozilla starts profile wizard and doesn't allow to use default profil

Re: Debian Can't See All of Large Disks?

2003-08-08 Thread Erik Steffl
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:44:12PM -0700, Mike Hunt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all, I had recently tried to install Debian on a computer containing a 200 GB harddrive. However, during cfdisking of the Debian install process cfdisk fails to see past approximately 130 GB o

Re: Changing window managers The Debian Way (was Re: how NOT to workwith debian)

2003-08-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 21:11, Damien Solley wrote: Looks like X is running fine. You just need a window manager other than twm! from a console, edit your ~/.xinitrc file. For simplicity, this file can have just one line, reading: startkde That'll start kde (if it's installed

Re: ISA network cards

2003-08-21 Thread Erik Steffl
jleclair wrote: I'm trying to set up an old 486 as router/nat/firewall server for home network. The 2 nics are dlink 220 isa. When I run modconf, I choose the NE net module with this parameter: io=0x300 This works and the module loads for eth0. How do I load the module now for the seco

Re: root login How ???

2003-08-22 Thread Erik Steffl
charlie derr wrote: It's probably not a full and complete answer to your question, but I find what works for me is to log in to the graphical user environment of your choice as a regular user and then execute "su" in one of the terminals (xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, whatever...) inside the g

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Steve Lamb wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 23:52:35 -0600 Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Was this code on a Unix system, or did you have one nearby? Did you know about the indent program at the time? (man indent) It _seems_ to work for me to convert someone elses sytle (or lack of it) in

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Erik Steffl
Joey Hess wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: That's just it, I don't like C indenting any more, period. It isn't "someone else's style" that is the problem, it is the fact that it is the antithesis of how I've grown to like to code. Lemme put it this way: C: if foo bar; That's bad style unless you

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Neal Lippman wrote: ... Well, most replies to my posting have pinned the "blame" on KDE and Gnome rather than X per se. I'll have to reinstall on the laptop and see how it looks with a more minimal WM. I hope you're not reinstalling just to change the WM... This does still beg the qu

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Nicos Gollan wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:56, Erik Steffl wrote: X is GREAT. just because a particular combination of software/hardware doesn't work well (too slow) doesn't mean there's a need to throw out the baby with the... X is really good at what it was built to

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Nicos Gollan wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 20:00, Erik Steffl wrote: why? it's true that in _some_ cases X isn't the _best_ performer but in general I find it much better than windows, mostly because of flexibility. You've made better experiences than I did, then... On

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Yves Goergen wrote: On Tuesday, September 02, 2003 8:00 PM CET, Erik Steffl wrote: btw the overhead of client/server isn't anything that one needs to be concerned about even on 386 (X with reasonable WM performs same/better as windows) Could be, yes (I don't know). Just as a note, W

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Yves Goergen wrote: On Tuesday, September 02, 2003 8:51 PM CET, Yves Goergen wrote: So what libraries do I have to install (I guess I already have them all) and what's the correct value for $DISPLAY ? Ha! *big-grin* I got it... Just looking around in Webmin to find the Samba config and - zak - I

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 08:09:53PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: | what would be the obstacle [...] for a new graphics paradigm to sit | atop Linux? You already listed the obstacles. Anyways, FWIW here are some projects attempting to redesign how graphics are handled :

Re: Mail from M$ Outlook Express -> something

2003-06-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:58:23AM +0200, JZidar wrote: | I'm archiving my mail inWindoze and as I'll be switching to Debian soon I | would like to ask if there's any converter that would convert my Outlook | mail to the format used by kmail or some other linux mail cli

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-23 Thread Erik Steffl
matt zagrabelny wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 17:45, Shyamal Prasad wrote: "matt" == matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: matt> hi, after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. What precisely happens when you "run out of memory"? Also, what version of Debian are you runni

sourceforge - why it depends on exim and proftp?

2003-01-11 Thread Erik Steffl
does sourceforge really need to depend on exim and proftp? wouldn't other mail resp. ftp servers be enough? since both exim and proftp conflict with other mail resp. ftp servers it means that sourceforge cannot be installed if I want to use e.g. postfix for my mail server... TIA erik

tora - anybody got it working woth postgress?

2002-09-11 Thread Erik Steffl
when I try to connect to postgress using tora it always says that authentification failed, even though I can log in into database using the same username/password from other program (pgaccess), I can also see the user in pg_shadow. related Q: why does tora only include postgresql connect

postgres: No pg_hba.conf entry for host

2002-09-26 Thread Erik Steffl
I get the following error message when trying to connect to postgres using tora: No pg_hba.conf entry for host... I think that the settings are ok since I can loging using psql: jojda:~> psql pokus -U erik -W Password: Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. here's my p

postgers: how to use both md5 and passwordless access

2002-09-26 Thread Erik Steffl
I would like to use both passwordless access to user's own db as debian default config allows: localall ident sameuse host all 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 ident sameuse as well as being able to connect to other DBs us

postgres: Password authentification failed for user... when usingtora

2002-09-29 Thread Erik Steffl
when trying to login using psql the following works: psql -h localhost -d pokus -U erik -W however the tora (unstable package tora) gives me the following error (possible typos, it's retyped because I can't copy&paste from the dialog window where the message is displayed): Unable to

LDAP address book - where to start?

2002-09-29 Thread Erik Steffl
I'd appreaciate an advice on where to start when I want to have LDAP based address book that can be accessed from various mail clients, at least mozilla mail client (mutt, evolution a plus). a web interface would be nice. any hints on where to look, which one to use etc. TIA! (I use

pimppa: cannot access db during install

2002-09-29 Thread Erik Steffl
when trying to install pimppa I get the following errors (I let debconf configure pimppa): Unpacking pimppa (from .../pimppa_0.5.6-1_i386.deb) ... Setting up pimppa (0.5.6-1) ... ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO) ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'roo

Re: Installation Help: SATA Drive

2003-11-17 Thread Erik Steffl
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 00:47, Elie De Brauwer wrote: > On Saturday 15 November 2003 22:33, Erik Steffl wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 17:15, Justin Burke wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I could use some help getting Debian installed on a new machine with a

Re: pasting into vi inserts many indents

2003-11-18 Thread Erik Steffl
Justin Guerin wrote: On Tuesday 18 November 2003 01:27 pm, Brian wrote: Hi, Lately, if I open a file with vi from inside a gnome-terminal and then select a large chunk of text, (it doesn't matter where, e.g., Mozilla or the same vi session, both do it), it corrupts the formatting with many indents

Re: pasting into vi inserts many indents

2003-11-18 Thread Erik Steffl
Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:04:57PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: if you run gvim you can paste using mouse (middle button), it doesn't do autoindenting then erik You can paste in console-vims, too, depending on your terminal, by setting mouse=a . However I hav

Re: Logitech MX310 mouse: Dead extra button?

2003-11-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Tom wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:08:12PM -0600, Nick Welch wrote: So.. Anyone out there have this mouse? It's fairly new, so there's nothing on google except sites selling it and reviews and things of that nature. I would really like to get this button working! I'm still pondering what exa

Re: Logitech MX310 mouse: Dead extra button?

2003-11-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Nick Welch wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:01:59PM -0800, Tom wrote: Wow, that was something I would have never thought of. However.. no dice. xev reports nothing but MotionNotify events, and hexcat'ing the device produces the same things when I move the mouse, regardless of whether I'm holdin

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

2003-11-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Paul E Condon wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:36:56PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:24:57PM -0500, M. Kirchhoff wrote: Two months later, I--like so many others before me--came crawling back to Debian, my hands weary from long h

Re: xterm - selecting URL

2003-11-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Nick Welch wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 03:24:07AM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: Hi all, I miss one thing from gnome. gnome-terminal let me ctrl-click on a url, and open mozilla. Any other xterm replacements that can do this? But I don't want to install all the gnome-terminal dependencies if

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

2003-11-20 Thread Erik Steffl
csj wrote: On November 20, 2003 at 11:53AM -0800, Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] that's why I don't like alien (or other ways to install rpms) - I'd much rather have tarball (either binary that goes into /opt/package-version or 'normal' source

Re: mozilla mail freezes on start

2003-11-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Erik Steffl wrote: last mozilla 1.4 worked OK, now that I upgraded to 1.5-2 when I open mail window it just freezes (all mozilla windows are completely frozen, not updated at all). I have an IMAP server (imaps) and few nntp servers configured. I can connect to IMAP server (cyrus) using other

evolution usability (somewhat OT)

2003-11-20 Thread Erik Steffl
(unstable debian, evolution) I find evolution to be fairly nice MUA but: - is there a way for it to move deleted mails to trash? - is there a way for it not to show deleted emails (it shows them striked out) - is there a way to go to next unread mail, even if it happens to be in nex

Re: evolution usability (somewhat OT)

2003-11-21 Thread Erik Steffl
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 20:39, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 17:58, Erik Steffl wrote: > >(unstable debian, evolution) > > > >I find evolution to be fairly nice MUA but: > > > >- is there a way for it to move deleted mails to trash? >

Re: evolution usability (somewhat OT)

2003-11-21 Thread Erik Steffl
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 22:50, David Palmer. wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:58:24 -0800 > Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >(unstable debian, evolution) > > > >I find evolution to be fairly nice MUA but: > > > >- is ther

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