Re: j2se 1.3.1 for debian sid

2003-01-21 Thread Tom Badran
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 12:56 pm, Francois Chenais wrote: > Hello, > > Where can I find j2se 1.3.1 for debian sid ? > I have downloaded one but it needs a wrong library. > Can I installed this library ?? You cant, the glibc upgrade means you need a jdk >= 1.4.1 Suns should work,

Re: j2se 1.3.1 for debian sid

2003-01-21 Thread Tom Badran
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 4:10 pm, Francois Chenais wrote: > Thanks a lot But I have an error :-| > > > Setting up j2re1.4 (1.4.0.99beta-1) ... > update-alternatives: unable to make > /usr/lib/mozilla-cvs/plugins/javaplugin_oji.so.dpkg-tmp a symlink to > /etc/alternatives/javaplugin_oji-mozilla-cvs.so

Re: j2se 1.3.1 for debian sid

2003-01-21 Thread Tom Badran
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 11:55 pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > The blackdown people fixed the stupidity in 1.3. The latest release > of it works with glibc 2.3. I didnt realise this, good for them. Why do people (sun, codeweavers ...) feel they have to interface glibc 'their own way'(tm). It re

Re: getting time from timeserver on a dial-up

2003-01-24 Thread Tom Badran
--Boundary-02=_BRUM+D5lEvfSYKN Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 24 Jan 2003 12:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, >I'm using Debian 3.0r1 stable on a dialup in

Re: PGP Signatures

2003-01-27 Thread Tom Badran
On Monday 27 Jan 2003 2:51 pm, debian parisc wrote: > It maybe because I receive most of the emails from this list in windows95 > (I'm at work), that they have no significance. If you are using pgp you can verify the authenticity of the message - i.e. it comes from who the 'from' line says, rathe

Re: Can not get UDMA-100 working...

2003-01-28 Thread Tom Badran
On Monday 27 Jan 2003 9:55 pm, Dominique Deleris wrote: > Yeah, > > my problem is that it shows *udma2 (udma-33), with using_dma > on... hdparm -X69 /dev/hda (or whatever is your disk) This needs to be run every time you put so put a script in /etc/rcS.d Tom msg26849/pgp0.pgp Description:

Re: devfs with 2.6.0-test4 kernel

2003-09-10 Thread Tom Badran
need devfsd? Tom -- ^__^ | Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID Linux 2.6.0-test5 #5 Tue Sep 9 14:46:35 BST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: devfs with 2.6.0-test4 kernel

2003-09-10 Thread Tom Badran
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 15:43, Tom Badran wrote: > On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 15:39, Harry Brueckner wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I just switched to a self compiled 2.6.0-test4 kernel with devfs support > > turned on and devfsd is running nicely. > > On my old

Internet connections on windows machines

2003-09-16 Thread Tom Badran
. btw, the adsl connection is provided by bt, but for some reason windows has to "dial" it and provide a username/password (it is a business connection) so i dont think i can just drop a debian box in the way and use ipmasq from that. Thanks Tom -- ^__^ | Tom B

Re: Internet connections on windows machines

2003-09-16 Thread Tom Badran
y didnt want to have to administer a windows box if possible and this sounds like a good plan. Thanks Tom -- ^__^| Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID

Re: Internet connections on windows machines

2003-09-16 Thread Tom Badran
you can run on an old 386 without hdd (shame on me > promoting other distros on a debian list). fli4l is pretty modular and > supports pppoe as well. Shame on you indeed ;) But thanks, thats definately an option ill be looking into. Tom -- ^__^ | Tom Badran (oo)\__

Re: Internet connections on windows machines

2003-09-17 Thread Tom Badran
rally windows > will set up the gateway machine on 192.168.0.1 and the gateway will > function as a dhcp server for the network. Thanks, hopefully ill get to play with this over the weekend. Tom -- ^__^| Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Departmen

Re: Which FS to use ?

2003-09-17 Thread Tom Badran
a raid array) whereas the best ext3 and reiser (might not have been reiser4 though) could get was about 350MB/s Tom -- ^__^| Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Usi

Re: Newbie woes: Deleted Internet menu in taskbar

2003-09-18 Thread Tom Badran
e back to default. Tom -- ^__^ | Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID Linux 2.6.0-test5 #5 Tue Sep 9 14:46:35 BST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: re-installation snag wrong mouse selected

2003-09-23 Thread Tom Badran
big deal) but I can't > alt+function key to a terminal/shell. If I could open a shell I > could just run xconfig again. Does anyone know if there's some > easy way out of this?? Thanks dpkg-reconfigure xfree86-common (might be xfree86-server) Tom -- ^__^| Tom B

Re: Gnu pgp

2003-10-06 Thread Tom Badran
p://www.gnupg.org/aegypten/development.en.html for more information and install instructions. Tom -- ^__^ | Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID Linux 2

Re: java executable for konqueror

2003-10-06 Thread Tom Badran
le not > found error. There is no package that provides a fully compatible jvm. You need to install one from sun, ibm or blackdown.org. I would reccomend the blackdown one for debian. Tom -- ^__^ | Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Depart

Helvetica Font replacement

2003-10-07 Thread Tom Badran
Is there anyway with X i can make it use the Bitstream Vera font instead of Helvetica, and the Vera Mono font instead of Courier for all X applications? Thanks Tom -- ^__^| Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||w

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Tom Badran
me drooling. That's the biggest thing I > miss about WordPerfect. No idea what these are so cant comment ;) Tom -- ^__^| Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: can i trust you with this project

2002-10-04 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 04 Oct 2002 5:50 pm, " Angles " Puglisi wrote: > ok, I know people are stupid, but to operate an email program, to read that > scam mail, and reply to it, and I guess give up info or money, DAMN are > people really THAT DUMB! o - the pai

"Fake" USB mouse

2002-10-09 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a usb mouse that works nicely on my thinkpad. However, as it is a laptop i dont always have it plugged in. If i start X (4.2.1) with the mouse plugged in, it works fine, and i can unplug it and plug it in again and all works perfectly. Howev

Re: .NET [OT]

2002-10-14 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 Oct 2002 1:08 pm, Price, Erik wrote: > "Web Services"... such an ephemeral concept. No one can say what they are. Yep, i spent the summer writing web services, and basically came up with the definition that they were basically applicat

Re: msttcorefonts

2002-10-24 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 6:16 pm, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:27:05AM -0700, Michael West wrote: > > I thought this didn't work anymore since microsoft pulled their > > fonts. > > I don't know if the package has been fixed, bu

Re: Wireless networking question

2002-10-29 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 29 Oct 2002 8:25 pm, Ray wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:44:57PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've recently bought a notebook, and I'm planning to buy > > a wireless network card (PCMCIA) for it as well. > > > > My question

Re: printing - simple way out?

2002-11-08 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 08 Nov 2002 10:57 am, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all! > > ever since i shfted to linux from windows, the printer has only been a > paper weight on my desk. > > i use a fine hp deskjet 710c printer and i could not set it up while > insta

Re: How to install cups?

2002-11-08 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 08 Nov 2002 1:28 pm, infotechsys wrote: > Hi, > I'm still confuse as to how to install cups. > I purchase a set of cd for woody stable and > after all the reading I did I'm not sure what > I do next. I assume that I use "apt-get", but > how d

Re: debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-29 Thread Tom Badran
On Friday 29 Nov 2002 10:04 am, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Why not create a wrapper script that would download all those plug-ins > (Flash+Java+Real Player...). > Is this allowed ? > > I think it would be a good idea to include this in Debian, so you could > apt-get the plugins without violating th

Re: what's everyone's favorite audio setup?

2002-12-02 Thread Tom Badran
On Sunday 01 Dec 2002 9:07 pm, sean finney wrote: > hi all, > > i'm getting tired by my many audio-wanting apps not getting along > with one another, and i'm looking to switch to some kind of audio > environment that allows multiple programs access to the soundcard > at the same time. i know there

Re: blackdown java

2002-12-04 Thread Tom Badran
On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 9:43 pm, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > On 2002.12.03 16:35 Bruce Park wrote: > > Just exactly what is blackdown java? Is this java2 from sun? I > > installed j2sdk1.3 when I was in Redhat but since I converted, I'll > > need to install the appropriate software. > > Any help or su

Re: Mail Server (LINUX)!

2002-12-05 Thread Tom Badran
On Thursday 05 Dec 2002 3:05 pm, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > are there processes that run on a stand-alone system that need/use an email > server? Some daemons report errors through email, i think cron does too. They will work okay without one though normally. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-10 Thread Tom Badran
On Tuesday 10 Dec 2002 4:36 pm, Brian Stults wrote: > Hello, > > When I generate pdf's and view them in acroread (5.0.5) the fonts are > very fuzzy. For example... I create a file in OpenOffice using the > Arial font which is anti-aliased. I then print it to a postscript file. > If I view it t

Re: default fonts for java applications?

2003-08-06 Thread Tom Badran
nu items don't all fit in the window. Can > anyone suggest a way to change the default font in this case. > The application itself doesn't specify a font - it just uses the > system default. look at the font.properties file for your jvm. Tom -- ^__^ Tom Ba

Re: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Badran
ble i know how to get it back the way it was. I recon you cant beet a good bit of debian unstable with a linux BBC rescue disk. How many people can say they have linux in their wallet ;) Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||--

Re: What this error mean?

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Badran
52 MB in 3.01 seconds = 17.26 MB/sec Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: system reboots before booting

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Badran
l with each new major release. This week, i would be mostly using ... apt Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Converting ext3->XFS

2003-08-22 Thread Tom Badran
can reformat them as xfs, and then restore the data on to them? Thanks Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: Converting ext3->XFS

2003-08-22 Thread Tom Badran
s/attributes etc.. Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: Converting ext3->XFS

2003-08-22 Thread Tom Badran
ssions, tar it, untar it, and see what happens. Ahh, i had tried this already, but i just did the untar as root and it works. If you extract a tarball as user it seems to set all file ownerships to user.user instead of owner.group Nice, xfs here i come Tom -- ^__^

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-27 Thread Tom Badran
on (others will have their preferences here - i hear great things about ruby for instance), Ive even been known to prototype certain code in Haskell when that language seems appropriate. Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||-

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Tom Badran
ill disagree with this statement, but in my experience this is very much the case. Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: more OT: search-and-replace commands (was Re: OT: Why is C so popular?)

2003-08-28 Thread Tom Badran
) is actually quite intelligent. > > Wasn't that part of QDOS? unix 'rename' is also pretty useful, especially when renaming sequenced files (for instance images from a digital film reel) Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Tom Badran
On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 14:36, Mike Mueller wrote: > On Thursday 28 August 2003 05:18, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > The One True Editor > > vi - for C, C++, Python, DocBook, HTML, whatever... that be smelling like petrol to me . Tom -- ^__^

Re: FW: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Tom Badran
r time) multiplatform gui app 2) writing complex web applications where php/perl/whatever scripting just becomes to difficult to manage. Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Tom Badran
ems like a great to activate my rant mode. Ill have to find the switch that turns that off ;) Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Tom Badran
On Friday 29 Aug 2003 11:09, Tom Badran wrote: > If they do, thats a bug bonus Before anyone jumps on this i obviously meant 'big' but im very hungover and cant be arsed to proof read my emails. Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imp

Re: /dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Tom Badran
e responding it will therfore block forever i believe. Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: Embedded Linux PDA

2002-12-12 Thread Tom Badran
On Wednesday 11 Dec 2002 10:50 pm, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > Anyhow, really the main reason I would want one is not just for > > addresses and some scheduling, but really, I would like to be certain > > that I could ssh in to servers as necessary. > > That's a very good question... anyone with a

Procmail attachment filtering

2002-12-19 Thread Tom Badran
Can someone give me a rule to filter out .exe attachments, or any of the other kind sent by lookout viruses. I seem to get 2 or 3 of these a day and i dont even run bloody windows. Thanks Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: Procmail attachment pruning (was Procmail attachment filtering)

2002-12-20 Thread Tom Badran
On Friday 20 Dec 2002 6:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For some reason I read Tom's problem differently. Does somebody > have a rule to remove the attachment and retain the text of an > email? Or how do you disentangle the text from an email that has > both text and html parts (as if there are m

Re: Procmail attachment filtering

2002-12-20 Thread Tom Badran
On Friday 20 Dec 2002 10:14 am, Oliver Fuchs wrote: > I found this: > :0 > > * [ ]*(Content|(file)?name=).*\.(scr|exe|p(if|as)|v(bs|xd)|ba[kt]|\ > wab|cp(p|l)|asp|xls|mpe?g|reg|ini|d(iz|ll)|sys) > { do stuff } I tried this but it seems to filter out _all_ messages. Any chance you possibly made

Xnest problems

2002-12-21 Thread Tom Badran
I have managed to get an Xnest session running as different user to work, and i can open gnome-session on in by giving gnome-session the --display parameter. However i would like to be able to just start Xnest and have a set of commands run automatically, the default Xnest runs empty. Ive tries

Interesting for artist types ...

2002-12-23 Thread Tom Badran
I was just browsing the web at random, and discovered that Corel make photo paint freely avaiable (and provide debian packages). I just intsalled it on unstable and it woks well. Thought some of you guys might be interested. linux.corel.com Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Heres a dpkg challenge ..

2002-12-25 Thread Tom Badran
How can i get a list of all the 'suggested' packages for those the packages i have installed, without the 'suggested' packages i already have. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

GTK2 apps and kde

2003-01-01 Thread Tom Badran
I run kde (3.1rc) as my desktop environment, but also use 2 gtk apps (gimp 1.3 and synaptic) both of which use GTK 2. Gimp picks up the theme settings and uses the xft libraries to do antialiased fonts just fine. However synaptic neither picks up the theme settings or uses xft unless i run one o

Re: ArgoUML

2003-01-02 Thread Tom Badran
On Thursday 02 January 2003 6:05 am, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > ArgoUML-0.12 Runs fine on this: > Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.1-b21) > Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.1-b21, mixed mode) > > downloaded and installed directly from java.sun.com Also works fine with t

Re: Heretic2 install-trouble

2003-01-18 Thread Tom Badran
On Friday 17 Jan 2003 7:46 pm, Claus Christian Larsen wrote: > >Do anyone knows how to install heretic2 on debian 3.0 geforce2 ? > > clalar@debian:~$ su > Password: > debian:/home/clalar# cd /cdrom > debian:/cdrom# sh setup.sh > Unable to find file 'bin/x86/heretic2' > > > debian:/cdrom# ls > Manu

Re: ATI rage Mobility M1 and 3D accerelation

2003-01-18 Thread Tom Badran
On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 12:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > perhaps glx gears is designed to run in software No it isnt. If you X is in anything other thatn 16bpp then you 3d acceleration will be shite with this card. The simple test is to run glxinfo and see if you have the line: Direct Rende

Re: PPP asks my ISP for password

2002-09-01 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 Sep 2002 10:25 pm, Anna Lawless wrote: > Having finally got what I thought was a working box, I can't dial > out. Whichever method I use, I either can't connect to my ISP or > the connection is refused by my box. > I type 'pon', having se

Re: asf format

2002-09-02 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 02 Sep 2002 11:17 am, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hello Andrei > > apt-cache search asf turns up > avifile-player - Video player for AVI/ASF/WMF files > > You may want to try out mplayer or xine as well I can confirm that xine happily plays th

Re: USB EZ-Link network on Linux-to-Win98?

2002-09-09 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 Sep 2002 3:44 am, Jeff Maxson wrote: > Awhile back I got myself an EZ-Link cable from Anchor Chips. Not > exactly sure how they work, but it makes the computer at each end of > the cable think it is talking to a slave somehow so that the

Re: latest msttcorefonts broken?

2002-09-17 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 Sep 2002 11:23 pm, DvB wrote: > I ran an apt-get upgrade a while back, which upgraded my msttcorefonts > package. Ever since then mozilla, which I had configured to use the > monotype-arial-iso8859-1 fontset from that package keeps print

Re: A Good FTP Client.

2002-09-26 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 Sep 2002 1:09 am, Gord Berta wrote: > The default gFTP client always gives me a headache, in any distro. > The one I found the most user friendly is kBear. Drag and drop from hard > drive to your web site and vice versa. > The problem is

Re: shopping

2003-11-28 Thread Tom Badran
b a pack of 12 guiness whilst there :) To continue with this random thread, my shopping from yesterday was: Large bottle cider bag chestnuts cauliflower Rich tea biscuits Fairly bizarre Tom -- ^__^| Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (_

USB Device mounting

2003-12-17 Thread Tom Badran
Is there anyway i can get usb (and firewire if possible) mass storage devices to automount and put an icon on the users kde desktop when a device is plugged in? If i could do this without some prior knowlege in the fstab about the devices that would be even better. I believe i read somewhere th

Re: USB Device mounting

2003-12-18 Thread Tom Badran
On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 05:13, Paul Johnson wrote: > > If i could do this without some prior knowlege in the fstab about > > the devices that would be even better. > > The above should work that way, but if you want it to work that easy > on the command line, just edit the fstab. Besides, learning

Re: Debian, 2.6 kernel and WIFI card on laptop ?

2004-01-06 Thread Tom Badran
I had the same problem. In vanilla 2.6.0 there is a bug with irq assignment so isa devices (16bit pcmcia cards use the isa bus) will not work. You need to get the mm1 (or newer if there is one) patch that contains the fix for this. Tom > zeDek > > On 6 Jan 2004, Xavier Maillard<[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Looking for bleeding edge distro

2004-01-22 Thread Tom Badran
On Thursday 22 January 2004 20:37, Brad Cramer wrote: > Are there any Debian based distros that use KDE 3.2rc1, kernel 2.6.x, > XFree4.3.0 all of that bleeding edge type stuff. I am willing to give > anything a try as long as it is deb based (don't like RPM's) > Thanks There are packages available

Re: more or less

2003-07-11 Thread Tom Badran
' to be less instead of more. Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: help with configuring PCMCIA modem

2003-07-15 Thread Tom Badran
s > there any way to deptermine which IRQ is the xirc2ps_cs module trying to > use, and maybe to specify another? Modules look fine, just try dialing on serial ports until one works (probably ttyS3). Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\

Re: installation and set up

2003-07-15 Thread Tom Badran
ressed and cant really see myself opening any other word processor for a while. It has an xforms interface which should be _reasonably_fast on the system we are talking about. Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ |

Re: LaTeX vs. lout

2003-07-15 Thread Tom Badran
On Tuesday 15 Jul 2003 7:12 pm, Vittorio wrote: > Has anyone of you debianists used the two typesetting systems? > > What are your impressions? Used the LyX frontend to latex and i think it is great. Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperia

Re: selective apt-get upgrade options

2003-07-17 Thread Tom Badran
gt; Is there a way to do a selective apt-get upgrade? apt-get install or you can pin the packages you dont want to upgrade Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: Blackdown Java Install Issue

2003-07-25 Thread Tom Badran
as sugested. This hangs the install. > > Anyone else encountered this problem? Solutions? press 'q' to quit more (the pager) and then type 'accept' and press enter Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||--

Re: Blackdown Java Install Issue

2003-07-25 Thread Tom Badran
On Friday 25 Jul 2003 17:32, Florian Ernst wrote: > Actually it is 'yes' ;) but it should by obvious what to type once Ed > gets there... OK, OK, its been a while. > Sorry for nitpicking, You're forgiven ;) Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__

Re: rpms and dependencies-SOLVED

2003-07-29 Thread Tom Badran
it or its libraries to produce rpms (alien converts both ways) Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: pointing device on thinkpad

2003-07-31 Thread Tom Badran
her than directly from the mouse -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: pointing device on thinkpad

2003-07-31 Thread Tom Badran
On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 12:23, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Thursday 31 July 2003 11:30, Tom Badran wrote: > [...] > > > you need gpm running to get a mouse on the console. (apt-get > > install gpm) > > > > And you will then want to reconfigure x to read from the gp

Using exim4 and fetchmail with imap and authenticated smtp

2004-06-14 Thread Tom Badran
Im using exim4 and fetchmail to recieve email from an imap server using tls, and send using authenticated smtp on an smtp host at the same site. However, when i look over the headers of emails i send, i see lots of them contain [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is my local username, rather than the email add

Re: accessing a fuji digital camera

2004-06-14 Thread Tom Badran
On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 22:17 +0200, LeVA wrote: > And after I try to mount it (mount /dev/sda /mnt/fuji): > > Jun 14 20:43:49 leva kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 > Jun 14 20:43:49 leva kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on > dev 08:00. > > What could be the problem? /dev/sd

Re: 3 gigs enough?

2004-06-21 Thread Tom Badran
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 13:58 -0500, Cecil wrote: > Ok. I just have never gone without an ide. I'm a student and have never > done much programming. I haven't even gotten into programs that require > more than one file to build. If you dont mind which language you use, python would be an excellent

Re: 2.6.3 and lsmod

2004-02-26 Thread Tom Badran
On Thu 26 February 2004 11:47, T. Albert wrote: > Hello debian-user, > > i've just installed kernel 2.6.3. on my pc router. and > it's successfull. everything was fine until i run lsmod and i > found this error: > > shaper:~# lsmod > Module Size Used byNot tainte

Southbridge

2004-02-26 Thread Tom Badran
How can i find out (prefereably from software) which southbridge my motherboard uses. lspci and lshw dont seem to have what i need, and i cant find it anywhere on the net/in documentation. Thanks Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

xmms with gtk2? Why did no one tell me about this?

2004-02-26 Thread Tom Badran
I just discovered the beep-media-player, this little gem has to be the most under advertised bit of software i have ever seen. Basically its xmms but with a gtk2 interface and its really, really nice. And if that was the last gtk1 app you had installed you can finally free up that disk space. O

Re: Southbridge

2004-02-27 Thread Tom Badran
On Fri 27 February 2004 01:54, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 13:58, Tom Badran wrote: > > How can i find out (prefereably from software) which southbridge my > > motherboard uses. lspci and lshw dont seem to have what i need, and > > i cant find it a

Re: What's the tool to set /ect/rc.* links?

2004-03-16 Thread Tom Badran
stan wrote: I've forgoten what the tool to set the startup links in teh /etc/rc.* directories is. I was thinking it was update_rc, but that doesn't seem to exist. Can someone refersh my memory? man -k seesm to be failing me here. Its update-rc.d Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Useful new package management tool

2004-04-03 Thread Tom Badran
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 12:20 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > There is another debian-related script at my site. It simply looks for > > packages you've removed but not purged and gives you the chance to purge > > them. OK; I'm going to brace myself for the news that this has been > > done before

Debian Newbie

2002-06-27 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody. Im a mandrake convert whos fallen in love with debian. Best installer ive used yet :) I just wanted to know what the various 'debians' (SID, woody, potatoe) people refer to. Thanks Tom -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0

Re: Debian Newbie

2002-06-27 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 Jun 2002 8:28 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:23:05AM +0100, Tom Badran wrote: > > Hi everybody. Im a mandrake convert whos fallen in love with debian. > > Best installer ive used yet :) > >

APMD Under Debian Woody

2002-06-30 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Using woody, i have apmd installed. But the /etc/init.d/apmd script does nothing regardless of what option (Start|Stop|etc) i pass to it (doesnt even print the warning when you pass no options). The only way i can get apmd to start is by issuing the