Logitech wireless mouse

2004-12-04 Thread Michael Satterwhite
I have a Logitech wireless mouse attached to my computer. It works fine under Debian, but the battery monitoring software is windows only (of course). Does anyone know of an equivalent piece of software that runs under Linux? pgpVf1b6Fv36r.pgp Description: PGP signature

APT / DSelect questions

2004-12-06 Thread Michael Satterwhite
Over my time on debian, I've been getting better at using these great tools, but I have a couple of questions for the experts here: (1) What is the best way to determine exactly which packages / versions are currently installed on my system? (2) Procedure question: I currently have Python 2.3 i

Converting from KMail

2004-12-14 Thread Michael Satterwhite
KMail is so bad about locking things while retrieving mail that I'd like to try some of the alternatives such as Thunderbird. Unfortunately, mdir isn't that well supported in other packages. Does anyone know of a tool to convert from mdir to mbox format? I've done searches and found tools to go

Sound and print problems

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Satterwhite
OK, I was in a hurry this morning and did something stupid. Debian Sid; I did an apt-get upgrade to look at what was available for upgrade. I usually answer "No" on continue, but wasn't paying attention and told it to do the upgrade. I'm admitting carelessness and falling on the mercy of the cou

Re: Sound and print problems

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Satterwhite
On Thursday 06 January 2005 02:11 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Maybe the equalizer volume is muted? That's happened to me before. That's completely possible - but now I'm moving from carelessness to stupidity. I see the mixer at the bottom of my screen (and it's volumes look good). Where is the e

Re: Sound and print problems

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Satterwhite
On Thursday 06 January 2005 03:56 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 15:43 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > On Thursday 06 January 2005 02:11 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Maybe the equalizer volume is muted? That's happened to me before. > > > &g

Re: Sound and print problems

2005-01-07 Thread Michael Satterwhite
On Thursday 06 January 2005 08:02 pm, Adam Aube wrote: > Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > That said, after it finished the upgrade, I found myself with two > > problems. First, KDE programs (KMail, KEdit, etc) no longer see my CUPS > > printers. To KDE, it's as if no pr

More woes from earlier upgrade

2005-01-08 Thread Michael Satterwhite
Earlier this week I posted that I'd lost Sound from KDE and the ability to print from KDE after doing an upgrade on Sid (it was carelessness on my part). I've now found that I can no longer run apt-get either. I run apt-get update, apt-get upgrade (I'm hoping the packages that took away printin

Re: More woes from earlier upgrade

2005-01-08 Thread Michael Satterwhite
On Saturday 08 January 2005 08:47 am, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/fr/man1/cups-config.1.gz', which is > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287609 > > *sigh* The

More on sound issue

2005-01-08 Thread Michael Satterwhite
I found a bit more on the sound problem I picked up from my carelessness earlier this week. KDE can play .wav files, it simply can't play .ogg files. pgpKj5FIkwI30.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: More woes from earlier upgrade

2005-01-08 Thread Michael Satterwhite
On Saturday 08 January 2005 09:03 am, Kent West wrote: > Thomas Adam wrote: > > --- Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/fr/man1/cups-config.1.gz', which is > > > >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.c

Re: More woes from earlier upgrade

2005-01-08 Thread Michael Satterwhite
On Saturday 08 January 2005 09:14 am, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem you referenced is stated as being closed on 12/29/2004. It's > > > > occurring *NOW*. > > Have you done: > > apt-get update s

Problem with K3b

2005-05-02 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somehow, I closed the project window that was part of the main K3b window. I can still open the project window, but I can't find a way to re-dock it with the main window. Can anyone help me with this? If need be, I'm even willing to edit the file contro

GD module in PHP4 / Apache

2005-05-13 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Under Sid I'm having a problem with the GD module in PHP4 with Apache. phpinfo() doesn't show it as present. I've installed php4-gd (even tried removing it and reinstalling it), but GD doesn't show as present. I found the bug ~ showing that the php4-gd

Re: GD module in PHP4 / Apache - Working

2005-05-14 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Satterwhite wrote: | Under Sid | | I'm having a problem with the GD module in PHP4 with Apache. phpinfo() | doesn't show it as present. I've installed php4-gd (even tried removing | it and reinstalling it), but GD doesn'

K3b

2005-05-23 Thread Michael Satterwhite
Without thinking, I closed the project portion of the K3b window. Opening it again wasn't a problem, but I can't find any way to redock the project window with the main window. There has got to be a way to put the two windows back together. Can anyone suggest a way to do this. All help will be

Re: K3b

2005-05-23 Thread Michael Satterwhite
Dennis Stosberg wrote: | Am 23.05.2005 um 06:53 schrieb Michael Satterwhite: | | |>Without thinking, I closed the project portion of the K3b window. |>Opening it again wasn't a problem, but I can't find any way to redock |>the project window with the main window. There has

Losing sound

2004-10-12 Thread Michael Satterwhite
I'm running Debian Sid and have a SoundBlaster Live card. When I first boot-up and start, sound is running. I know this because I hear the KDE startup sound (KDE 3.3). I then lose the ability to play sounds. No sound notifications of any type are played. I checked, and the user is a member of t

Re: Losing sound

2004-10-12 Thread Michael Satterwhite
On Tuesday 12 October 2004 07:30 am, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Tuesday October 12 2004 13:24, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > When I first boot-up and start, sound is running. I know this because I > > hear the KDE startup sound (KDE 3.3). I then lose the ability to play >

Help! Lost keyboard.

2004-10-12 Thread Michael Satterwhite
I'm running Sid. Everything was working fine. I did *NOT* run any apt command or (knowingly) make any changes - other than a sound level change in kmix. Regardless, things were working perfectly up to the point of a reboot. I'm using KDE / KDM. I rebooted my system to Windows for a test, then bo

Re: Help! Lost keyboard - still failing

2004-10-13 Thread Michael Satterwhite
On Tuesday 12 October 2004 10:23 am, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (12/10/04 08:36), Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > From: Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:36:37 -0500 > > Subject: Help! Lost keyboard. &g

Combining PDF documents

2004-10-13 Thread Michael Satterwhite
In Adobe Acrobat, there is the ability to combine PDF documents, inserting document 2 at a given location within document one. Actually, all I really need is to take a document and append it to another. Does anyone know of a Linux tool for this. tia ---Michael pgpqxRlGuQaWr.pgp Description: PG

PHP not including

2004-10-14 Thread Michael Satterwhite
I have a new installation of Debian Sid with Apache2 / PHP 4. PHP seems to be working fine - except that include() and require() are failing. The script that I'm trying to include is in the same directory as the page that is executing. When it hits the include statement, I get the error message:

Installing

2004-10-03 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to get Debian up on my Dell Dimension system, but I can't get my network configured. I was going to try again last week, but then real work intruded on me. My network card is a 3C905C-TX. It's well supported by Linux - and a reply from t

Re: Installing

2004-10-03 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 03 October 2004 16:12, Kent West wrote: > >Last week, one of you gave me the suggestion to manually insmod the > > driver. Sounds like a great idea, and I'm *SURE* I'm missing something > > obvious, but ... I'm running from the installer CD.

Playing a wav

2004-10-24 Thread Michael Satterwhite
Back on SuSE, I could play a wav file just by entering "play file" from the command line. I liked this for script end notifications. Play isn't installed by default, and there are hundreds of hits if I enter "apt-cache search play". Would someone be so kind as to suggest a command line tool for

Playing a wav

2004-10-25 Thread Michael Satterwhite
I didn't see this message come through, so I think I had a glitch on my mail server. If someone does see it twice, I apologize. Back on SuSE, I could play a wav file just by entering "play file" from the command line. I liked this for script end notifications. Play isn't installed by default, a

Re: Playing a wav

2004-10-26 Thread Michael Satterwhite
On Sunday 24 October 2004 04:18 pm, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 the mental interface of > > Michael Satterwhite told: > > Back on SuSE, I could play a wav file just by entering "play file" from > > the command line. I liked this for scrip

Apache2 on Debian

2004-10-30 Thread Michael Satterwhite
I've installed Apache2 on my Debian box. While it works, if I direct my browser to http://myserver It gets changed to http://myserver/apache2-default I can't find the reference to "apache2-default" anywhere in the configuration. Where is this coming from? I've grep'ed everything I can think

Possible to set initial groupids?

2004-06-19 Thread Michael Satterwhite
I'm going to be loading Debian on some desktops that are going to be networked with some machines running a different distribution. I'm noting that the initial userid / groupid on the distributions differ. I need to have them match the other machines for sharing purposes; I haven't been able to tal

Re: Possible to set initial groupids?

2004-06-19 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 19 June 2004 13:05, Jacob S. wrote: > Why not simply copy/paste the relevant portion of /etc/group between > machines so that you know the gids are the same across all the machines? > This would also save you the time of having to create al

Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been watching the various discussions on this, and note that most experienced types think that the unstable distribution is better than the testing distribution. This leads me to one more question / observation A few weeks ago (I don't know abo

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:16, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:13:37AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > A few weeks ago (I don't know about now), the KDE distribution in > > unstable simply would not run ...

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:25, Kent West wrote: > > In the meantime, use something other than KDE, such as Gnome, icewm, > wmaker, fluxbox, ion, twm, sawfish, saffire, xfce, qvwm etc etc etc. That works for KDE, but what about the reported problems whe

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:40, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:22:57AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:16, Carl Fink

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:47, Chris Metzler wrote: > You're right that this happened recently with KDE in unstable. What > you're not aware of is that something similar happened last year with > KDE in testing. More specifically, last year, KDE was u

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 June 2004 14:35, Kent West wrote: > I run stable on my important boxes, like servers, that need to be up > 24x7, and I run unstable on my workstations. I have less pain on > unstable workstations with their occasional breakages than I do o

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 June 2004 18:44, richard lyons wrote: > On Sunday 20 June 2004 16:10, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > [...] > > > Although I've had to use Windows at some client sites, my personal > > machines have been essential

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-21 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 June 2004 12:03, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > If you're trying to > avoid any downtime or difficulty whatsoever, run stable and live with > the age of the packages. Not exactly promoting Debian, are we? Especially in a Linux world where th

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-21 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 June 2004 15:44, Chris Metcalf wrote: > If I remember correctly, "unstable" is called "unstable" because the > packages go through a large amount of turnover and you'll usually have > to upgrade a few times per week to keep your system in

Debian installation

2004-06-24 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After the very useful discussion on sarge vs sid, I downloaded the sid installer and tried to set it up on a Dell desktop with a 3Com 3C905C-Tx card. When it tries to detect the network, I get the message "Error while running modprobe -v aic7xxx I

Re: Debian installation

2004-06-24 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 June 2004 15:23, Kent West wrote: > Michael Satterwhite wrote: > >After the very useful discussion on sarge vs sid, I downloaded the sid > >installer > > Last I knew, the sid installer was very very broken. Most

Re: Debian installation

2004-06-24 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 June 2004 16:44, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 06/24/04 16:20, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > After the very useful discussion on sarge vs sid, I downloaded the sid > > installer and tried to set it up on a Dell desktop with a

SCPM

2004-08-18 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm bringing up a laptop on Debian sarge. I've created the hardwired network profile and wanted to save it. The problem is that I can't find scpm anywhere. It's not on my computer, and "apt-cache search scpm" returns nothing. Either it's done a dif

Adding wireless card

2004-08-18 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If I've got to do this the old-fashioned way, it's OK, but... When I was running the Debian installer, it recognized both my LAN cards (the ethernet and the wireless). I brought it up with the ethernet active, but now I want to create a profile with

Re: Problems with mounting vfat in Debian

2004-08-18 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 18 August 2004 13:26, NiL SpaaR wrote: > Hi all, > > A Linux-newbie speaking here and am a bit frustrated by the fact i > cannot get a vfat mounted properly. > > I've added this line to my /etc/fstab "/dev/hdb1 /home/nil/redmond > vf

SCPM

2004-08-18 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This message seems to have gone into the mailing list bit bucket, so I'm resending it. All help appreciated. I'm bringing up a laptop on Debian sarge. I've created the hardwired network profile and wanted to save it. The problem is that I can't find

Re: SCPM

2004-08-18 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 18 August 2004 14:53, Greg Folkert wrote: > Now, just a quick question here... why in the world would you expect > this to be in Debian? Doh! Because I stupidly didn't look at what the acronym stood for. Coming from the SuSE world, I t

Wireless question

2004-08-18 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In the book "Linux Unwired", it says that installing the wireless tools via apt in Debian will make entries into the /etc/network/interfaces file. I've installed the hostap-modules for the installed kernel and the wireless-tools. I did apt-get insta

Re: To use GUI as root

2004-08-19 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 19 August 2004 03:14, Johan Sch wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Debian. > > In Suse if you are normal user you use . sux - . to become root and be able > to use GUI applications. > > Kindly please what would the same be in Debian. There are s

Rescanning network

2004-08-19 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just reinstalled Debian on my laptop to test the wireless setup. To my surprise (pleasant shock??), it set the wireless device up perfectly. If this scanner / configurator were available to be called after installation to set up subsequent network

Setting up development environment

2004-08-19 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to set up a standard development environment in Debian and running into some problems. It's no longer possible during installation to select a development environment during installation with the installer, so I've got to piece it togethe

Setting up development environment

2004-08-19 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to set up a standard development environment in Debian and running into some problems. It's no longer possible during installation to select a development environment during installation with the installer, so I've got to piece it together a

Please help. New install can't compile

2004-08-20 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've just installed Debian Sarge on a laptop. I have installed development tools including gcc and g++. When I try to compile a program using gcc, I get the error message that it can't execute cc1plus because there is no such program. I thought that

Re: Delayed mails on debian-user [Now mostly fixed]

2004-08-20 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 20 August 2004 06:57, John Summerfield wrote: > It might seem a little extreme, but insubscribing all gmail users with an > explanatory note would get gmail to sort it out fairly quickly: it would be > snowed under with complaints. I don't t

Slow list or missing messages

2004-08-20 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just received a direct reply to my (OK, I'll admit it: near desperate) appeal for help with gcc. I want to thank Greg Folkert for trying to help me with this. The problem is that he tells me that 2 other people have responded, but I haven't seen

Re: Slow list or missing messages

2004-08-20 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 20 August 2004 11:09, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:59:03AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite insinuated: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I just received a direct reply to

Sid and security

2004-08-21 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I note that when the Sarge installer created my sources.list file, it put a line in as follows: deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main The documentation page implies that a similar location exists for all the distributions, bu

Re: Sid and security

2004-08-21 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 21 August 2004 10:32, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 16:25, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I note that when the Sarge installer created m

Re: why not anaconda installer

2004-08-23 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 August 2004 14:22, belahcene abdelkader wrote: > I don't understand yet why debian doesn't use the > anaconda as > installer. It is very easy for installation ! > I just tried the new version sarge, it is still > complicate for new user

Re: Debian Install

2004-08-24 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 August 2004 06:47, Stef VK5HSX wrote: > Greetings.. > > For those who have found installing Debian difficult in the past, well I > recently downloaded the new Debian Installer (sarge-i366-businesscard.iso) > and used it today to inst

Re: Debian Install

2004-08-24 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 24 August 2004 08:27, Stef VK5HSX wrote: > On Tuesday 24 August 2004 21:51, Michael Satterwhite shared with us the > > following: > > On Monday 23 August 2004 06:47, Stef VK5HSX wrote: > > > Greetings.. > >

Java on Debian

2004-08-24 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Having just installed Sarge on my laptop, I tried downloading and installing the Sun J2SE (from Sun - I didn't see it - or expect to see it! - in apt). Unfortunately, it wouldn't install because of a missing library. I *KNOW* there are many people w

Re: Java on Debian

2004-08-24 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 24 August 2004 19:42, Jeremy Brown wrote: > Michael Satterwhite wrote: > >Having just installed Sarge on my laptop, I tried downloading and > > installing the Sun J2SE (from Sun - I didn't see it - or expect to

PHP4 - Apache2 - MySQL What am I missing

2004-08-27 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For development purposes, I have Apache2 running on a local machine. MySQL is running on one of my main machines. The development machine is running Debian Sarge and PHP4. PHP4 is running fine; pages that don't use database work perfectly. I used a

Re: PHP4 - Apache2 - MySQL What am I missing *FIXED*

2004-08-27 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 August 2004 08:25, Michael Satterwhite wrote: I'd like to blame Google, but that wouldn't be fair. I kept going through the pages that referenced this error and found the (obvious) that I hadn't enabled it in php.ini.

Sun Java - revisited

2004-08-27 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I finally got back to trying to get Sun J2SE running on my Debian testing system. It installs / runs fine on SuSE, so I was able to get some work done. I do want to thank those who responded earlier with the links to how to integrate Sun J2SE with D

Re: Sun Java - revisited. *SOLVED* and Thanks

2004-08-27 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 August 2004 14:27, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Hi Kevin, I'd like to thank you twice for your help with this. First, it solved my problem. Secondly, (being new to Debian) I wasn't aware of apt-file. Great tool. - ---Michael > Hi Michael,

Screen setup

2004-09-13 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A friend has asked me to put Debian on his Sony Vaio. Things are going very well except for the monitor setup. I'm using the Debian Installer BusinessCard installer to put Sarge on (as it's about to become the stable version, this seems right for hi

Streaming audio

2004-09-17 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A lot of websites with streaming audio use the Windows Media Format for their streams. How can these be listened to (live) from Linux. Surely *SOMEONE* has solved this. tia - ---Michael -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)

Re: Streaming audio

2004-09-17 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 September 2004 12:25, Silvan wrote: > > A lot of websites with streaming audio use the Windows Media Format for > > their streams. How can these be listened to (live) from Linux. Surely > > *SOMEONE* has solved this. > > We have lots of th

Re: Streaming audio

2004-09-17 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 September 2004 14:21, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > Like it or not, if we want to get people to consider using an OS other > > than Windows, it's going to have to be possible for them to use tools > > that are compatible with what they're u

KDE Startup

2004-09-24 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm making some minor changes to KDE 3.3. They've been made and tested, so now I need to tell KDM to start the NEW version of KDE. Where are the configuration parameters / startup scripts located to instruct KDM on what to start? Someone else here h

Re: KDE Startup - FURTHER INFO ON QUESTION

2004-09-24 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 September 2004 09:38, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > I'm making some minor changes to KDE 3.3. They've been made and tested, so > now I need to tell KDM to start the NEW version of KDE. > > Where are the configuratio

Debian Installer fails w/3Com 3C905C-TX NIC

2004-09-25 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Last week I tried to use the Debian Installer to bring up Sarge on a Dell Dimension. The installer fails to recognize the network card, and nothing in the installer documentation indicates how to correct this manually (the card is well supported in

Re: Debian Installer fails w/3Com 3C905C-TX NIC

2004-09-25 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 September 2004 08:58, Wim De Smet wrote: > I have read a couple of questions on this mailing list from people who > ended up finding out they had downloaded a much older build than the > current one. You could try to find a newer build.

Reconfigure Mouse?

2004-03-04 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just installed Debian on a laptop, but apparently entered the mouse configuration incorrectly. The problem, of course, is that I can't move the mouse cursor, so I can't select anything. I'm sure there's a way to reconfigure the mouse at this point

Re: Reconfigure Mouse?

2004-03-04 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 March 2004 20:35, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 07:20:59PM -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > I just installed Debian on a laptop, but apparently entered the mouse > > configuration incorrectly. The pro

Re: Reconfigure Mouse?

2004-03-04 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 March 2004 21:08, Kent West wrote: > Michael Satterwhite wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >I just installed Debian on a laptop, but apparently entered the mouse > >confi

Re: Reconfigure Mouse?

2004-03-05 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 March 2004 22:38, Greg Madden wrote: > > I am not sure if Woody has any of these packages. Sarge is pretty stable > right now so I have switched over to it. Sarge has HW detection, > installs a USB mouse with no problem. One of packages

Re: Reconfigure Mouse?

2004-03-05 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 March 2004 09:24, Kent West wrote: > Michael Satterwhite wrote: > >Actually, I am running Sarge ... and I'm without the mouse. The installer > >can't protect us from the Dumb User Complex. > > > &

Question re: postgresql

2004-03-07 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On a new Debian install with postgresql, I'm trying to add a user. The master user (postgres) shouldn't have a default password, so I'd expect the command createuser -U postgres -a username to work. I'm getting an IDENT failure on postgres,

Re: Question re: postgresql

2004-03-07 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 March 2004 16:51, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 17:59, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On a new Debian install with postgresql, I&

Question re: nfs

2004-03-09 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a directory on on machine that has the following line in "/etc/exports" /storage/ vagabond(rw,root_squash,sync) On the client machine (vagabond), I have the following line in fstab photon:/storage /photon/storage nfs

Re: Question re: nfs

2004-03-09 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 09 March 2004 14:18, Joan Tur wrote: > Es Dimarts Març 9 2004 20:25, en Michael Satterwhite va escriure: > > I can read the directory perfectly, but I can't write anything to it. I'm > > obviously missing something

libpqxx question

2004-03-11 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Debian Sarge My installation includes Postgresql (with the development libs). I've used apt-get to install pqxx. The postgresql header files are in my search path (e.g. I'm able to #include without error). I then add the statement "#include ". I

famd runaway??

2004-03-12 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Debian sarge... My computer has slowed to a crawl, can't even start konqueror. When I look at the processes, famd is using about 73% of the system. Anyone know what might be wrong? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/L

NFS Groups

2004-03-13 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I want to thank those who helped me with the userid. The other half of this, however, is the group id: Assume that a directory on the server is owned by root:users. The group id number for users is different on the server and the clients. It's not

Re: NFS Groups

2004-03-14 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 13 March 2004 15:19, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 18:40:09 +0100, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > It may be worth your while investigating NIS as this is typically used > alongside NFS to synchronise logins and fi

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-16 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 15 March 2004 15:09, Olle Eriksson wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 20:33, John Hasler wrote: > > monique writes: > > > That sounds like a problem of inaccurate reporting. > > > > The usual kind. > > > > > It's simply not true that it requires

Question re Debian versions

2004-03-18 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been Distro hopping for the last few weeks and am very impressed with the Debian system. It's probably going to become the distro on all my machines very shortly. I'm going to be running Woody on one machine and Sarge on another for testing pu

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-03-18 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 March 2004 14:28, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > What sorts of testing would you want to do on your testing machine? The > testing distro is a little odd in that it's really intended for > developers, not users. It's "the stuff they're wor

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-03-18 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 March 2004 17:03, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > I do development on the machine running Sarge. The package list in the > > stable list gets a bit dated for me. They, however, are perfect for > > the machine that *HAS* to be up and stable.

Re: Debian over Redhat

2004-03-18 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 March 2004 17:34, Matthew Joyce wrote: > I guess what I want to find out is, is there any reason why Debian would > not be able to do the job that they are suggesting Redhat for, and what > reasoning can I use to support my proposing De

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-03-18 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 March 2004 17:31, Brian Nelson wrote: > Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thursday 18 March 2004 14:28, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> What sorts of testing would you want to do on yo

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-03-18 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 March 2004 18:35, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Say you have package A that makes it past unstable and into testing. > Then someone finds a bug in package A. It turns out to be an icky bug, > and it takes quite a while to fix it. The bug

Re: Debain over Redhat

2004-03-18 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 March 2004 21:42, Paul Johnson wrote: > "Matthew Joyce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I guess what I want to find out is, is there any reason why Debian would > > not be able to do the job that they are suggesting Redhat for, and what

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-03-20 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 March 2004 18:17, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I wasn't claiming that unstable is a better choice than stable for, er, > stability; I was claiming it was a better choice than testing. I understood you, but I asked the original question. I

apt questions

2004-03-21 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm looking at the "Apt How-To" documentation on the Debian site. Under "How to Keep a Mixed System", it makes a reference to editing the file apt.conf file in /etc/apt. The problem is that there is no file by that name in /etc/apt. There is a direc

Debian to SuSE??

2004-03-23 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I noticed that the latest Debian Newsletter has an article on how to move from Debian to SuSE Gnu/Linux. I'm finding this vaguely amusing ... right now I'm considering going from SuSE to Debian. Am I behind the curve as usual? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATU

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