Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 16/02/03 Paul Johnson did speaketh: > Well, that's because it also installs reccommends. Some folks prefer > that. Partly, but it's also because it tries to upgrade my whole system, when all I wanted to do was install a single package. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier &

Re: some doubts - [newbie]

2003-03-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 05/03/03 Gilberto Garcia Jr. did speaketh: > Hey guys... > > 1) How can I make some commands available to all user. (i.e.) shutdown (only > root can execute this, what can I make to other user do this too?) man sudo Sorry, I don't use Java. Mike -- Michael P

Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 20/01/03 John Griffiths did speaketh: > great, thanks. > > the forcefsck was recommended to me i didn't think it'd hurt. It was a good recommendation actually. The next fsck is what hides the journal permanently. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Can't figure out CVS

2003-01-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ntify them. Typically the project will provide instructions, if they permit anonymous CVS access. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A

Re: Can't figure out CVS

2003-01-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
e got me the whole thing. > > cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/rhide co rhide www.cvshome.org explains all you need to know about CVS terminology. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to

adding fonts under defoma

2003-02-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people, When I wanted to add truetype fonts before using defoma, I simply copied the files into /usr/share/fonts/truetype, ran a couple of tools and I was done. How do I add truetypes now that I'm using defoma? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT: poke the penguin

2003-02-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
http://www.dinge.co.uk/Games/poke_penguin.swf -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmf

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ove kdebase something like that... I find that functionality invaluable. If it ever breaks, I might as well be on RedHat *shudder*. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like eff

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
7;t a distribution around that has that functionality. I implore the developers to focus on apt. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Ha

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
erstand, I'm more likely to get odd, unbelieving, > cross-eyed glances than "Me too's!" for that. :) I'm afraid of dselect. Every time I try to use it, it insists on installing a bunch of crap that I didn't ask for. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EM

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ystifying that it leaves me confused as to how to use it. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Con

aptitude explanations

2003-02-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Someone mentioned that aptitude can explain, for example, why a package is being held back. Please explain. I have a package now that it being held back, and aptitude is giving me no more information than apt-get does. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG p

backspace in aptitude

2003-02-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Seems that when I try the interactive search in aptitude, my backspace key doesn't work. Does anyone have a fix for this? It works fine in all my terminals. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to in

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
elect when I first started using it. :) I usually just apt-get -su upgrade if I want to see what's available. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-

Re: Setting up network interfaces?

2002-10-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Also, these files only seem to address > the IP address and the machine's hostname. Where do I set the subnet > mask, gateway and DNS server numbers? What HOWTO should I be checking > for all of this info? /etc/network/interfaces man interfaces Mike -- Michael P. Sou

Re: xmms doesn't work

2002-10-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 11/10/02 mun did speaketh: > however xmms starts, but when i open mp3 and do Play, xmms goes hang. What output plugin are you using? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive

Re: gdm - adding windowmanagers

2002-10-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
mandrakebox but it was a pain. There must be > an easyer way. > Anybody with experience in this field? Just tell it to use Xsession, and then it will respect your ~/.xsession file, the way it should by default. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key:

Re: install nvidia driver woody

2002-10-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ry > make:*** [nv.o] Error 1 > > that's all... > could someone help me please ? Is your kernel-headers package installed? modversions.h should be in there. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as

Re: How to remove Gnome2

2002-10-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
but don't know how. I searched the > mailing list archive and found nothing. Just remove the packages? apt-get --purge remove Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of

Re: apt-problems

2002-10-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 18/10/02 Jacques Kotze did speaketh: > I am behind the firewall of my University. There exists an archive with > the full resource of Debian behind the firewall that I would like to get > access to using apt-get inorder to complete a full package installation > of my system. > > I have conf

Re: Why debian sucks.

2002-10-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 09/08/02 Greg Ray did speaketh: > Because its not redhat. He mails from "Microsoft Outlook Express". Quite the Linux afficionado, are we loser? Another one for my kill file. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...th

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
point. You're hurting the credibility of the argument immensely with this nonsense. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student&#x

Re: My first Linux crash

2002-11-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ut errors on a CD? I disagree. This is incorrect behavour for any OS. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to

Re: Evolution is slow

2002-11-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 06/11/02 Setyo Nugroho did speaketh: > Hi all, > > My evolution 1.0.5 works extremely slowly. I run it mostly under KDE > 3.0.3, woody. Is it usual? No. Evolution is a pig. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the

Re: UNIX shells - Bourne and C

2002-11-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
r scripting. That is, unless you like no functions and all global variables, and non-deterministic behaviour. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley

Re: bind8 vs bind9

2002-11-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
y use djbdns over bind? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com

Re: Laptops!

2002-11-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
the laptop model, as much with any windows-specific crap in it. You should be able to run Debian on most laptops. I'm running it on my Sony VAIO with no problems, beyond the bug in the S3 chipset support of X 4.1, but I'll probably upgrade to 4.2 from unstable to fix that. Mike --

Re: Laptops!

2002-11-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
s unresponsive. That includes running it remotely from my desktop and using the laptop as an xterm. I'm told that X 4.2 will fix that, but I haven't tried it yet. I need to set up pinning so that I only get X 4.2, and not the rest of unstable. sawfish in unstable sucks at the moment.

Re: Drawing graphs for use in Latex

2002-11-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 20/11/02 Timothy Ball did speaketh: > gnuplot If you use gnuplot, set the output type to eps, and it will magickally ensure that the graph fits nicely within the width of the page without you having to specify it yourself. I used this all through University. Mike -- Michae

Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-11-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
used. Isn't this what we have a non-free section for? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML

Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-11-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
a blast though. I'm the webmaster for this site http://opag.ca, and everything there is done in Python. Zope is also well worth looking at, if you buy into the whole "web services" rant coming from the Java and .NET backers. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

Re: anoncron by regular user?

2002-11-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 24/11/02 Chun Kit Edwin Lau did speaketh: > Hi everyone, > > Can a regular user use anoncron? I noticed that anoncron is > under sbin directory. I want to use it instead of cron because my > machine isn't on all the time. Yes. man crontab Mike --

Re: add a font to defoma

2002-11-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
I'm done. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/no

netscape not in unstable

2002-11-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people, Is there a reason why netscape isn't in unstable? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student

Re: Fonts on Debian

2002-11-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
How am I supposed to know whether the fonts I have just installed > are really available to be used? xlsfonts | grep -i > 2 - Do I also have to run Defoma to make it work out? How? I don't, although maybe I should. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, G

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

2002-11-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
LaTeX? > Anything better than > for i in *.eps; do convert $i `echo $i | sed s/.eps/.png/` > ? Personally, I use just LaTeX, and then convert my .dvi file with dvipdfm. It does a great job, and I don't have to juggle two different graphics formats or worry about the quirks of pdf

OT: Fwd: The case of the 500-mile email

2002-11-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
-- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.html --- Begin Me

Re: Voodoo Graphics

2002-12-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
nly works at 16-bit colour depth or less. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Ha

Re: dhclient problems

2002-12-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
manually (my IP rarely changes), but that didn't work. Any ideas? I have never been able to get dhclient to work for me at all. Both pump and dhcpcd work great, but dhclient has never done anything for me on any of the three computers in my home. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EM

Re: SB Live

2002-12-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
e emu10k1 Check the last lines of "dmesg" to see if it was recognized, and then add yourself to the "audio" group. ie. adduser audio Logout and back in, and try an audio app. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08

Re: X11 problems...

2002-12-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
#x27;s not configured properly. Try "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86", and follow the prompts. Make sure you pick the right driver for your card. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a ma

Re: A winmodem problem

2002-12-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 03/12/02 Barry Cugley did speaketh: > 1. which driver should I try? and No idea. > 2. how do I remove a package if I install the wrong one? man dpkg Specifically, "dpkg -r ". Also see -P. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub

Re: X11 problems...

2002-12-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
worked for my wife with kernel 2.4.9, but they no longer with with 2.4.19. Actually, the driver that comes with X is called "nv", but the problem, I believe, is that it does not provide 3D accel. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 &quo

Re: X11 problems...

2002-12-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ppened to several people. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.

Re: SB Live

2002-12-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
in the latest kernel versions. I use it myself. Either download a pre-built kernel binary (look for kernel-image packages), or better yet, build your own. The pre-built ones are all bloated so they work for everybody. You're better off building your own. Mike -- Michael P. Soul

rebuilding available

2002-12-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people, Is it possible to rebuild the dpkg available file? I have on one a P75 that's so big it's impossible to efficiently parse anymore. A simple dpkg -l takes minutes. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 &quo

Re: mozilla 1.2 and commandline

2002-12-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 05/12/02 Vincent Lefevre did speaketh: > This is because you must not start a new mozilla with the same > profile, to avoid its corruption. Corruption? They've never heard of file locking? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 &qu

Re: setting up a cvs repository

2002-12-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ion? Try setting your CVS_UMASK environment variable appropriately. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTM

Re: Debian x Redhat

2003-06-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
s that if you want to know what's going on, you _can_ find out, regardless of the distro. That's not typically true of Windows. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of ne

Re: Debian x Redhat

2003-06-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ise though. Unstable has bitten me, but never testing. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Consi

Re: Debian x Redhat

2003-06-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
able. Also, you cannot upgrade reliably between releases. Try RH8 -> 9. There have been many reports of that dying horribly. A repository without good QA is just not equal to the Debian community. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...th

Re: unable to compile a kernel

2003-06-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
rror doesn't appear anymore, but > a new one appeeared: This might be a dumb question, but if it wants 2.95.3, why are you using 2.95.4-17? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a mas

Re: Debian x Redhat

2003-06-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ate and when. > > I expect the next release cycle will be more like the last one than like > this one. Good to know. Thanks. I know how hard it is, but I can't help my idealism, regardless. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE0

Re: DMA woes

2002-12-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
g the dmesg output. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomi

Re: X-Window; mouse: core pointer

2002-12-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
> > No core pointer registered > No core Pointer > > I've my mouse attached to psaux (PS2) i think. Is there a way to know where > the mouse is connected through linux? If it's /dev/psaux, why do you have X looking for it at /dev/mouse? Try this. ln -s psaux /de

Re: need Ph.D. for sound even with common hardware?

2002-12-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
hat I've got. Is there no OSS module for this chipset? I just load a module and go. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student'

Re: network troubles

2002-12-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 25/12/02 Willem-Jan Meijer did speaketh: > How do I get internet at work ? What is the output of ifconfig -a ? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of ne

Re: basics about env variables

2002-12-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
rrect syntax for setting environment variables in the bash shell, even if it can be done in one line. Your syntax is not at fault here. I can't speak to the other potential causes. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK

Re: hard drive partitioning questions

2002-12-31 Thread Michael P. Soulier
running out of /tmp space regularly now. I really don't see a problem with just swap and /. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harle

Re: forwarding gnutella ports with iptables

2002-12-31 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ny suggestions? Did you also tell gtk-gnutella to publish your IP of 208.163.68.11? I'm using that setup and it works fine. The -m option above looks redundant to me. You don't need it. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...

Re: forwarding gnutella ports with iptables

2003-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
interfaces, and all tcp traffic on port 6346. You should see the traffic coming in, and then being forwarded on. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort."

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
r as adaptable and reliable as xterm. It was one of the only terms that supported turning off BoldMode, for example, and can be compiled with logging. I hate the fact that KDE/Gnome developers don't like X resources. Now I have to go to three places to customize my apps instead of one. Tha

Re: Startup Messages

2003-01-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 09/01/03 Daniel L. Miller did speaketh: > How can I log all the messages generated during boot? The stuff that > talks about the peripherals detected, driver loading, etc. man dmesg Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the

Re: iptables and dynamic ip

2003-01-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
t to allow ssh in on the server from the outside, if > the ip changes, will this "break" the connection? It should work just fine if you just use the interface names. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is us

Re: Nautilus barfs

2003-01-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
r than close the window, Nautilus > freaks out and dies. > > Any known fix? Don't use Nautilus. It's a bloated piece of crap. I suggest you raise a bug with the gnome or Ximian groups. Debian just packages the software. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PR

Re: Nautilus barfs

2003-01-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 13/01/03 Paul Johnson did speaketh: > What do you suggest as an alternative? What are your needs? I mostly use the shell. If I need some simple file browsing, I use either Emacs dired mode, or something simple like dfs or gentoo. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
dation to build upon. To all those hackers out there working on Linux, I say thank you. Please continue to add to it, as I strive to myself. Just don't subtract. As long as I can give a fancy interface to my parents to use, but still fire up IceWM and bunch of xterms for myself, I'll be

Re: real transparency (under X11)

2002-09-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ly need to > be rewritten to take advantage of this. > > That's not something you do in a day. In fact, it's probably > not something you can do in a year. I thought that Rasterman was working on this, and that the latest version of Enlightenment had support for it. (1

Re: Perl: bad interpreter

2002-09-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ded and run locally. Are you logging into another machine remotely, and if so, does it have perl at /usr/bin/perl? If it's elsewhere but in the path, you could try this to keep the script portable. #!/usr/bin/env perl Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key:

Re: image viewer recommendation

2002-09-27 Thread Michael P. Soulier
-- > > Kevin Coyner > mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Beginner Again

2002-09-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
amp; mtab but I'm not getting anywhere. From my /etc/lilo.conf: image=/vmlinuz.2.4.18 label=Linux2.4.18 read-only append="hdc=ide-scsi" restricted Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the wo

Re: apt-get vs perl -MCPAN -e shell

2002-09-30 Thread Michael P. Soulier
e the best bet -- or > is it?) Don't use the CPAN module. It's corrupted many perl installs on me. apt and the pre-packaged modules are far better. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate

Re: corruption during power loss

2000-09-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:13:53PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > if you want your linux filesystems to be safer and are willing to > accept the significant performance hit change defaults to > defaults,sync in /etc/fstab for your ext2 filesystems. be prepared > for things like tar -x and rm -rf to

Re: e-conf for enlightenment

2000-09-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 03:09:57PM +0200, Frederik wrote: > > AFAIK, e-conf is no longer in Enlightenment. You might check #e on EFNet > to be sure, but I seem to recall having read something like this > somewhere... Yeah, I noticed that you can access all of the configuration options with a

Re: Debian Gnome vs. Helix Gnome

2000-09-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 06:45:58PM -0400, Andy Bastien wrote: > They hope to eventually make money off of services: > > http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/236/business/A_user_friendly_face_lift_for_Linux+.shtml > > > Plus, you have to trust them in that the sources that they put up are > the one

Re: e-conf for enlightenment

2000-09-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ions by hand. E might overwrite them after it exits though... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

gnome-users-guide

2000-09-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
isn't there a debian package for it on the Helixcode site? Unless I've missed it. Their Debian support is nice, considering how rpms are ruling the world of Linux lately, but it seems lacking. The icons on the webpages of their package listings are broken too. Mike -- Mic

Re: graphic login failure

2000-09-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
a $HOME/.xsession file in the home directory, that gets run if it's there. You mention that it's root, does that mean that it's not other users having the problem? I suspect .xsession then. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a ver

Re: laptop

2000-09-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
but the chipset was a little different. It's working great now. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: what is Helix-Gnome?

2000-09-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
he packages that I want. I'm still using xdm. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: gnome-users-guide

2000-09-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
on numbers behind (the gimp1.1, gnucash and abiword), but > this is negligible. I think it's better to have a consistent and more > reliable system (not that I think that the Helix people do a bad job, > but I feel better with pure Debian). I've been thinking the same thi

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
(probably because > it's the version from Helix Code's server) and doesn't let me make > headers, which I need, anyway. You shouldn't need to print postscript from ghostview. Does your printer understand postscript? What print filter are you using? Mike -- Michael

Re: Perl @INC - include NFS mounted repository

2000-09-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
e users > > * Modules that are also locally available should not be loaded >by NFS. > > Does anyone know how to manage this? If it's not in the default install, then any perl script can add to the search path with "use lib ". I'm not sure if you

Re: Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ces on emacs. I agree wholeheartedly. /usr/bin/emacs is probably a symlink, which is why the dpkg -S doesn't find it. You can resolve it to a file and try that path, or just look for an installed copy: dpkg -l | grep ^i | grep -i emacs Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: I broke x

2000-09-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
g it (as far as running X on a local machine) immune to ipchains > rules. So would it make use of TCP sockets for remote communication? As in running a program remotely and directing the display to your local X server? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the w

Re: your mail

2000-09-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ortant to know what hardware you have. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
mon so you can't even connect to your > printer. I don't know. I getting the same error myself, except that lpd is most definitely running. Not sure what's wrong there... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to

Re: c2perl ??

2000-09-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:04:22PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Anybody knows if there's something like c2perl, which converts c source to > perl ?? Not likely. ;-) At least, I'll be surprised if there is one. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "

Re: What config file

2000-09-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 07:40:26PM -0600, Ray Percival wrote: > do I need to edit to make e and gnome my defaults for X. echo "gnome-session" > $HOME/.xinitrc Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a

Re: Printing--what am I missing? -- solved!

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
can write my English essay in peace. No problem. Now if only I can figure out why my printer daemon is just sitting there ignoring printjobs. ;-) Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like eff

Re: Netscape errors??

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
false, and the author didn't bother to redirect stderr to /dev/null. But, I haven't looked at the code to confirm this. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: Netscape errors??

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
g users to ignore errors is not a good thing. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: X

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:38:46PM -0700, Charles wrote: > Looking up 'www.storm.ca' first > >After I did the config. I must have done something wrong. >As I get the error messages that I can't connect to the X Server??? >Is there an easy way to back out and reconfig the Server???

Re: mail sorting

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ast issue of TPJ, using the Mail::Audit module. If you know Perl, you'll probably find the syntax a lot easier. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: apt-get questions ?????

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
have happened, mind you. Something like this should never happen, IMHO, but unfortunately we live in the real world. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: vim expandtab

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
me... I want it to act like nedit does with the emulate > tab option. There are two options to change in Vi/Vim. tabstop, and shiftwidth. Personally, I prefer 4 spaces to all tabs, so the following does it for me: set expandtab set ts=4 set sw=4 Mike -- Mich

Re: About Nestcape 4.75

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
run > dselect for something else. And why is this? This does not fill me with joy... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: About Nestcape 4.75

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
he > same time independently. Ah, that would make sense. Can you actually install them at the same time and not have the step on each other? Really, IMHO, they should be versions of the same packages. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as

Re: Fetchmail

2000-09-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ok at the output for a more detailed error message. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: sound in debian

2000-09-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
same kernel. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

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