Re: Floppy light stays perpetually on.

1999-09-22 Thread Mike Werner
That sounds like the classic case of the cable being installed backwards on one end. Remember - the red stripe on the cable goes to pin 1 on both the drive and the controller. Try unplugging just one end of the cable, turning it around, and plugging it back in. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD

Re: Best Solution for PPP?

1999-09-28 Thread Mike Werner
pppconfig. xanadu:/etc/ppp/peers# Does the demand line have to go on a particular line? I'm wanting to get this working, as the box in question is going to become the gateway for the house. Thanks -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" ICQ# 12934898

Re: Best Solution for PPP?

1999-09-30 Thread Mike Werner
chine on the LAN was concerned xanadu was gone. So I had to reboot using the reset button on the case. I'm suspecting hardware problems. Joy. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" ICQ# 12934898 | "As f

Re: Netscape (Newbie alert)

1999-04-10 Thread Mike Werner
distro. Sounds like the Netscape you have is the libc5 version. You need the glibc version. If you are downloadinbg from Netscape's site you need to get the one under the "Unsupported" option. That is the glibc version. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want

Re: question regarding hardware conflict and linux

1999-04-10 Thread Mike Werner
have are built around the Lucent PCI chipsets, either the > software controller or the "software upgradable" hardware controller ones. http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html is a decently large list that might be of some help. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Wh

Re: SMBMOUNT won't

1999-04-15 Thread Mike Werner
FWIW when I do an smbmount here I have to use the -I switch followed by the IP address of the machine I'm accessing. An example is: smbmount \\george\d /mnt -I 192.168.1.2 I don't know why, but that's what it took for smbmount to work here. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | &qu

Re: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions

1999-10-15 Thread Mike Werner
s > Excel > Photoshop 5.0 Gimp. > LightWave5.5 > 3DSMax > Director 6.0 > Palm Desktop > RioShell 3.0 Check http://www.world.co.uk/sba/index.htm for apps dealing with MP3 players. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go tod

Re: Configuring X

1999-10-24 Thread Mike Werner
Looking at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ I found 4 links for that model. Of those 4, only one had any real info. Take a look at http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/~adam/computing/ThinkPad/ Looks like what you need is there. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you wa

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-27 Thread Mike Werner
7;ve always done it the way I outlined above and haven't had a problem yet. Frankly, I really don't see a need to do the make-kpkg thing. The "traditional" way works fine for me, and as the saying goes "If it ain't broke don't fix it". -- Mike Wer

Re: Aztech Modem

1999-11-01 Thread Mike Werner
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > How do you install a MDP7800SP-U Modem (Aztech 56)? Haven't been > succesfull. And you probably never will be. According to http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html you've got a winmodem there, near as I can tell. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD

Re: Recommendations for Laptop

1999-11-05 Thread Mike Werner
Seems to have worked decently for him - though he used Red Hat 5.2 that shouldn't differ too much. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E| Mor

Re: Obscure Hardware

1999-11-07 Thread Mike Werner
hardness is to have the water sampled and analyzed. What are you wanting to do with these? If you could be more specific I can probably get more specific with answers. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" ICQ# 12934898 | "As far f

Re: Linux names (Re: Strange file names)

1999-11-17 Thread Mike Werner
where it came from (Corwin of Amber, maybe?). The last three I don't recognize, but the theme is clear enough from the first three. Is that good enough for half-credit? -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" ICQ# 12934898 | "As

Re: How unstable is Potato?

1999-11-17 Thread Mike Werner
x27;s not related to whether I'm running potato, slink, or whatever else. I did my upgrade via apt - that was *really* easy. Basically it was one command line, go to bed, get up in the morning with a fresh potato system. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E| Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.

Re: anyone using USB devices?

1999-11-17 Thread Mike Werner
r which I would like to use > with 2.3.x > kernel, if you all suggest. Might want to head on over to http://www.linux-usb.org/ and take a look around there. According to that site, USB support has been in the 2.2 line since 2.2.7 -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "

Re: Compatible notebook

1999-11-19 Thread Mike Werner
Head on over to http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ and take a look around. Lots of info there. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E

Re: Virtual consoles in slink; somewhat updated

1999-11-22 Thread Mike Werner
, for instance, one user was to startx from, say, VC 1 and then another user, for example root, was to do startx from another VC. Would that start another X on VC 8? I think I'll have to try that next time I'm on my slink box. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where

GUI toolkit for a beginner?

1999-11-23 Thread Mike Werner
y throwing Motif out of consideration as IIRC it's the one of the listed that costs. (and costs quite a bit as I remember) I'm certainly open to any suggestions. I'm not looking to do anything fancy yet - just the basics so I can learn how it all works. Any ideas? -- Mike Werner

Re: GUI toolkit for a beginner?

1999-11-25 Thread Mike Werner
Thanks for the tips and pointers from everyone. I think I'm going to start with lesstif and see what happens. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E

Re: Stubborn Printer

1999-11-28 Thread Mike Werner
Todd Suess wrote: > > Greetings all, > > I just got a new printer, a Canon BJC1000 which I got for free, This printer does not do plain text. According to http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/show_printer.cgi?recnum=139017 it works using the BJC600 or BJC4000 Ghostscript driv

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-21 Thread Mike Werner
ot a client > for Linux which keeps accounts separate while allowing people to access > multiple accounts at once. Absurd. Wrong. mutt can do that just fine. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understandin

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-21 Thread Mike Werner
From: line is used. Seems I misunderstood exactly what you meant. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom.

Re: setting clock to EDT

2000-08-21 Thread Mike Werner
John Anderson wrote: > This sounds stupid, but when I installed Debian I selected EST vs. EDT. I > have tried using the date command with no success. Any suggestions? Try tzconfig -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of

Re: Exim question concerning spam

2000-08-22 Thread Mike Werner
a slightly modified version of the exact rule I was using. The deliver line is what actually sends it on the the abuse address, and the next line (seen finish) says to *not* do any further handling of that message. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and

Re: 1/2 ifconfig

2000-08-22 Thread Mike Werner
own. Perhaps that'll get you pointed in the right direction ... -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom.

Re: crontab and users?

2000-08-22 Thread Mike Werner
a user that I can specify in cron that will work without > being logged in (in case power goes out and I don't wake up and log back > in)? You do not have to be logged in to have a cron job run. The crontab I inserted above works just fine if I'm not logged onto my box. -- Mike Wer

Re: Exploring the possibilities of cron

2000-08-22 Thread Mike Werner
;echo "" > /path/to/file" but I'm not sure. I'm sure there are better ways to do it. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom.

Re: Exploring the possibilities of cron

2000-08-23 Thread Mike Werner
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:37:05PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > > Brent Harding wrote: > > > How would cron do something such as, emailing a file once and awhile, > > > make > > > the file empty, and wait until the nex

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-08-24 Thread Mike Werner
#x27;t everything. I'd > like to get kde for example, and that isn't on there. Gaim too. Thanks http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/ -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, 

Re: mounting: audio vs data cd's

2000-08-25 Thread Mike Werner
nel. > > Anyone have any ideas why a data cd comes up fine but an audio cd balks? Probably because there's no filesystem on an audio CD. They're just not meant to be mounted. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything

Re: What is up with Debian 2.2 Potato ??

2000-08-25 Thread Mike Werner
is not too long ago. The 'net install does *not* support installing the base packages via PPP. However, having said that - once I got the base installed everything else went smoothly. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-09-01 Thread Mike Werner
ll on both machines. But what it all comes down to, really, is what works best for *you*. That's one of the things that I *really* like about Linux - you've got the choices out there. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom.

Re: KDE debs

2000-09-05 Thread Mike Werner
ould have answers for you. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom.

Re: Debian 2.2 or woody

2000-09-10 Thread Mike Werner
7;d say stay with potato as much as possible. If a home workstation, I'd say go with whichever strikes your fancy. I've been running woody for a few months now with very few problems. Every now and then a package will get a bit bollixed, but usually gets straightened

Re: corruption during power loss

2000-09-14 Thread Mike Werner
c/inittab There's probably a lot more detail to it than that, but that's the basics. There's some more information in the man page for inittab. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS50

[webmaster@my.netvigator.com: Error: undelivered email - recipient email storage limit exceeded]

2000-09-14 Thread Mike Werner
s message: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: > Sent Date:2000/9/15 AM 10:37:41 > Subject: Re: corruption during power loss - End forwarded message - -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to bel

Re: mirror web server

2000-09-16 Thread Mike Werner
QBA wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a program (fast and reliable with recursive grabbing) > that will mirror any URL with all files and links. Something like > teleport pro for windows. > Any suggestions? wget -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow

Re: in xf86config

2000-09-16 Thread Mike Werner
ice. So unless you've recompiled your kernel you should be good on that point. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV

Re: pgp vs. mutt

2000-09-17 Thread Mike Werner
efault being not to verify. If, on the other hand, you are wanting to just reduce the amount of output that gpg spits out, you might have a read-through of gpg's man page and then try tweaking the options passed to gpg via your .muttrc In particular, I believe gpg has a --quiet option that is

Re: OT: no cdrom audio from sound card line out

2000-09-18 Thread Mike Werner
at way for a while. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. pgpgltASPPBSd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Mangled text in X

2000-09-20 Thread Mike Werner
corruption problem. Haven't had a problem since switching. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning o

Re: book suggestions

2000-09-24 Thread Mike Werner
ux in a Nutshell - it now does covers apt-get, dpkg, dselect, and a few others. Soon as my paycheck comes through I'll be picking up a copy. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E

Refusing mail if via ISP? [was Re: apology]

2000-09-25 Thread Mike Werner
ge go to the intended victim ... er, receipient? -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. pgpbkWA3u6LI8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Refusing mail if via ISP? [was Re: apology]

2000-09-25 Thread Mike Werner
brian moore wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:55:44AM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > > brian moore wrote: > > > > > My solution is simply to refuse all mail from > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with postfix: > > > > > > Sep 23 16:58:25 bifur postfix

Re: Error message not understood

2000-06-15 Thread Mike Werner
Everything seems to work just fine here, so I've not been worried. Oh yeah - I'm running woody. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E| Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.

Re: S L O W mailserver

2000-06-16 Thread Mike Werner
ssion to the > end of the session. tcpdump might be usable for that. The package name is, appropriately enough, tcpdump -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E

Re: From:-line in Mutt

2000-06-16 Thread Mike Werner
end of my exim.conf - I'm not sure if it's important where in the file that line is, but that's where the original file had something similar. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E| Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.

Re: exim & mailing lists

2000-06-17 Thread Mike Werner
sembly \ wvuarc debian-laptop # - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I'm not too sure what the exact difference between email lists that are listed under the lists entry, and the email lists that are listed under the subscribe entry. So I put &

Re: exim & mailing lists

2000-06-17 Thread Mike Werner
Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > > ->Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: > ->> hi, > ->> > ->> well, this is the deal, all the mailing lists what i'm on have > X-Mailing-List > ->> field in the mess

Re: tracing route

2000-06-17 Thread Mike Werner
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > What's the corresponding command in Linux to "tracert" from DOS to trace > a rout? What package contains it? The command is traceroute, in the package traceroute. Another utility of that same type is called mtr, in the package mtr. --

Re: X server error

2000-06-22 Thread Mike Werner
.6-7 got X back up and running here. I think I'll be holding onto a copy of that particular version for a little while. It's about 420k or so - if you need a copy I can email it to you or something. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?"

Re: Use of typescript

2000-06-25 Thread Mike Werner
email. After editing your message, when you get the mutt screen where you would press y to send the message press a instead. You'll be prompted for the filename to attach. As usual, hit ? for the directory browser. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?&q

Re: gpm and X incompatible? (potato)

2000-06-26 Thread Mike Werner
27;ve done it with slink, potato, and now woody. In the process I've gone through a few different mother board / CPU combos. It would seem that whatever the problems with gpm and X cooperating are, they are most certainly not consistent. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you w

Re: Cheap printer?

2000-07-01 Thread Mike Werner
sitting here. The quality is quite good, it's *way* faster than the inkjet downstairs, and I read that it's just about *the* cheapest printer to run per sheet out there. I'm using lprng and magicfilter for printing, and setting up the LJIII was a snap. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD

Re: X is "out of resources"

2000-07-05 Thread Mike Werner
#x27;s site via apt-get - I had gone to 4.73 but had problems with it so went back to 4.72. Just to be sure of myself, I just fired up Netscape. Got it grabbing the weather radar loop now. XMMS is also playing - Mason William's "Classical Gas" - without a hitch. Looks li

Re: Xfree86 4.0.1

2000-07-05 Thread Mike Werner
Corey Popelier wrote: > I see this is now debbed in woody, anyone done the upgrade from 3.3.6 > yet? Any problems? Where did you see this? I just did an apt-get update, and the X versions are still at 3.3.6 -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want

Re: Xfree86 4.0.1

2000-07-05 Thread Mike Werner
did my last dist-upgrade, so I know quite how you feel. ::grin:: Here's hoping they do come soon. > Excuse me whilst I pop out and shoot myself. Oh, I don't think anything quite *that* drastic is called for. How about, oh, say, 10 lashes with a piece of spaghetti (al dente, of co

Re: Kernel question

2000-07-06 Thread Mike Werner
it lasted all of about an hour before I got rid of it and went back to Debian. I find the package management under Debian - using apt - to be *much* easier than dealing with rpm's. apt also has far better dependancy handling than what I saw with RedHat. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD |

Looking for a package, but don't know what to call it

2000-07-06 Thread Mike Werner
ust the name of this system, that'd be a huge help - at least I'd know what to search on. ::grin:: -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E| Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.

Re: RE: Samba Setup

2000-07-06 Thread Mike Werner
ing that the Windoze machine has an entry in the /etc/hosts file on the Linux box. Otherwise, the Windoze machine's hostname can be replaced by its numeric IP. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" | "As f

Re: Looking for a package, but don't know what to call it

2000-07-06 Thread Mike Werner
Markus Fischer wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 02:53:18PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote : > > Now, from any of those labs when you logon, you basically get > > connected automatically to naur. All of the account info is (I presume) > > stored on naur as well. > >

Re: Setting up network

2000-07-06 Thread Mike Werner
ve not enabled more VT's than what comes stock). Having said that, is there a particular reason you don't just use an xterm (or rxvt or eterm or ...)? -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" | "As fa

Re: What to use as an MTA

2000-07-07 Thread Mike Werner
I manage. So I'd say go ahead and give exim a whirl. I found it quite easy to configure, and use its built-in filtering capability to sort my email into seperate directories. Quite easy to deal with, and I found the syntax of the filter easier to understand than procmail&

Re: Compaq Armada 1750

2000-07-07 Thread Mike Werner
re information is needed. What have you done so far? What, if any, error messages are you seeing? What are the exact commands you have tried? What release of Debian are you using? What kernel? What version of the pcmcia drivers are you using? What make and model of PCMCIA card do you have? -- Mike

Re: What drive is the dir on ?

2000-07-07 Thread Mike Werner
er you will be asked to confirm moving read messages from your spool mailbox to your `mbox'' mailbox, or as a result of a `mbox-hook'' command. Check your ~/.muttrc and see what those options are set to. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go t

Re: Hello i have some problems with my gcc

2000-07-07 Thread Mike Werner
aving any of thes files so i wounder whis packages they are in > so i can instal them. For future reference, there is a search engine at: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages where you can search by filename to find what package they belong to. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD

Re: What drive is the dir on ?

2000-07-07 Thread Mike Werner
while others are close to being empty. As soon as I can afford a CD burner I'm going to archive everything off and either turn it back into one large partition or *maybe* 2 or 3 larger partitions. I don't know yet. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you w

Font corruption under X

2000-07-08 Thread Mike Werner
a where. And since I've no idea where to look next I'm not sure what to do next. I'm running woody up-to-date as of 5 minutes ago, kernel 2.2.16, PII 300MHz, 64 megs RAM, Helix Gnome / Sawfish. Anyone out there ever seen anything like this? -- Mike Werner KA8YSD |

Re: Font corruption under X

2000-07-08 Thread Mike Werner
r a while. Till then, I'll just try and put up with my current card. Who knows - perhaps the SVGA server in XFree86 4.0 will work better with this chip. Thanks for the speedy reply. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?"

Re: Font corruption under X

2000-07-08 Thread Mike Werner
Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Jul 08 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > > Looks like that's it, alright. I just popped my case to > > double-check, and I am indeed using an S3 Virge/DX vid card with the > > SVGA server. ::sigh:: > > Is there any reason why you d

Re: Font corruption under X - possibly solved!

2000-07-08 Thread Mike Werner
Mike Werner wrote: > Rogerio Brito wrote: > > On Jul 08 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > > Try it and let us know. > > If I can ever get the package downloaded I will - I'm currently getting > *really* low throughput. It's now installed. I ran the combo t

Re: Xfree Mode Switching?

2000-07-09 Thread Mike Werner
nd of the row above the letters won't work. You *must* use the + and - that are on the numeric keypad. It *does* make a difference. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" | "As far from Red

Re: begone ctrlaltdel!

2000-07-09 Thread Mike Werner
sure if this would work, but perhaps changing: ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now to ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/bin/false or something like that? Or perhaps replace /bin/false with the path to a shell script that put saomething like: Permission denied! Go away! onto stdout. -- Mike Werne

Re: Combining 4 C-class networks: how?

2000-07-10 Thread Mike Werner
t's probably Tycho Brahe you're thinking of. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E| Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.

Re: remote shell question

2000-07-10 Thread Mike Werner
t you connected to, not the one you connect from. If you're not going to do anything too terribly fancy, the man page will suffice to get you going. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" | "As far from Redmond as p

Re: Debian and WordPerfect

2000-07-13 Thread Mike Werner
y, but I know I had WP at least with potato - not sure if I had WP with slink or not, but I think I did. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E|

Re: how do you find MAC address of a computer

2000-07-14 Thread Mike Werner
rely I can't remember) under Windoze. The MAC address is the Ethernet card's hardware address. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E| Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.

Re: Debian and WordPerfect

2000-07-14 Thread Mike Werner
Johann Spies wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 05:12:00PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > > Which version of Word Perfect? I've got WP8 here, and it runs just fine. > > I'm currently running woody, but I know I had WP at least with potato - not > > sure if I had WP w

Re: Helix Code Packages

2000-07-16 Thread Mike Werner
ages you might want to go back through and thin out a few of 'em. I'm slowly in the process of doing just that, though I'm in no rush at all. As for what dselect was doing, ya got me. Me and dselect have never gotten along, so I ignore it completely in favor of apt-get. -

Re: telnet vs ssl

2000-07-17 Thread Mike Werner
elnet available" I take that means that SSH is not available at the computer you have access to at work? If so, then perhaps you should look into finding an SSH client tat you can out onto the computer at work if at all possible. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD

Re: How do I install gnome on potato?

2000-07-19 Thread Mike Werner
hat package depends on the task-helix-core package. The end effect is the same either way. Also, I believe the original poster said he was using his system command-line only - the task-helix-core package also depends on the core XWindows package, and the task-helix-core package will bring in the Saw

Re: stop X autobooting & gnome file manager trick?

2000-07-19 Thread Mike Werner
to get me started in > configuring my Hewlett-Packard Deskjet 820C to print on my stand-alone > computer. Or, if there's good documentation that comes with the > Debian 2.1 Slink installation that I haven't been able to locate, > please point me there. Start w

Re: libc.so.5

2000-07-22 Thread Mike Werner
t it? Appropriately, the package name is libc5 -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom.

Re: editors and browsers

2000-07-23 Thread Mike Werner
;release versions" of these browsers? Again, I really don't know what you mean by this. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom.

Re: apt-get source?

2000-07-24 Thread Mike Werner
portion from my sources.list: deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free If you want to use ftp instead of http, just change the instances of http to ftp and you should be good to go. -

Re: Command Line on logout

2000-07-27 Thread Mike Werner
My Helix Gnome installation has been faithfully kept up-to-date by a daily apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade just fine. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one fal

Re: same debian, new hardware?

2000-07-28 Thread Mike Werner
r, in the process of recompiling the kernel I redid some of the other peripherals to get them working better, or in the case of the sound card to get it working at all. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great under

Re: kde.tdyc.com

2000-07-28 Thread Mike Werner
e via apt-get ... worked just fine. And when I've done the apt-get update here on my systems the files from tdyc.com comes down just fine. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E

Re: cdrom cant read audio cds?

2000-07-29 Thread Mike Werner
s. ::shrug:: I'm not real sure about it all, but it works. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom.

Re: .deb packages and X

2000-07-30 Thread Mike Werner
already have installed? dpkg -l It's likely to be a long list, so you might want to either pipe it through a pager - I use "dpkg -l | less" - or you could redirect it into a file. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | ever

Re: alternatives to fdisk

2000-07-31 Thread Mike Werner
Arcady Genkin wrote: > What alternatives to fdisk are there? I remember I used one once, but > shoot me if I remember the name. ;^) cfdisk comes to mind ... it's what I use when possible. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | every

Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

2000-08-02 Thread Mike Werner
you. There are numerous other things mc can do that I find invaluable, but that's for another thread. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false princ

Re: Lexmark 5700

2000-08-02 Thread Mike Werner
cam wrote: > I have a Lexmark 5700 inkjet printer. I was wondering if this printer > works under Linux (woody version) and if it works...how might I get it > working? any help would be appreciated. http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=62016 -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | H

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-04 Thread Mike Werner
either: Hit F3 to view a listing of the files contained in the archive or Hit Enter to browse the archive as if it were a directory Altogether a most usefull little program. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understand

Re: Alien to .tar.gz

2000-08-08 Thread Mike Werner
Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi > > Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz. > The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest > thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ... .tgz =

Re: Linux Newbie!! Help!!!!!

2000-08-09 Thread Mike Werner
> - Is there any way that I can use my ATI Rage LT Pro AGP 2X video card with > the acelerated servers in X Window? This is the same chip that's in my laptop. The Mach64 server is the proper one for that chipset. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Mike Werner
Marko Cehaja wrote: > By the way, Netscape doesn't exist in Debian. Huh?!? apt-get install netscape *will* install Netscape 4.73 just fine. That's how I got Netscape onto my system. Sure looks like it exists to me. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Mike Werner
Marko Cehaja wrote: > Dear > > sorry, I wanted to post it to the list. So previous email went to you > privately. > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 01:56:18PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > > > > > > You are wrong. apt-get is: package handling utility. It is not >

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Mike Werner
Marko Cehaja wrote: > Dear friend, > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 02:56:03PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: > > > > format, but written by someone else. So now I'm curious as to just > > > > what it > > > > takes to be considered to exist as part of Deb

Re: netscape security hole

2000-08-10 Thread Mike Werner
n our FTP > archive for this [non-free] software. The software in these > directories is not part of the Debian system, although it has been > configured for use with Debian. ... And as I said in that same other post, why not take the packages of

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