caudium install question

2005-11-04 Thread Michael K. O'Brien
Hola~ I installed Caudium... and I'm struggling to configure it. Does anyone know where it burys what account it's trying to use as the server adminstrator? It looks like the first time you login it should ask you to setup a name/pass. However, my package seems to already have done that for me and

rdist like thing for Windows / Linux

2004-08-02 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ I've got a Linux laptop (Debian unstable) I need to syncronize with a Windows XP box. I'm looking for something like rdist to intelligently sync the two. Other than cygwin's rdist, can anyone recommend something? MO -- Michael O'Brien

rdist like thing for Windows / Linux

2004-08-02 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ I've got a Linux laptop (Debian unstable) I need to syncronize with a Windows XP box. I'm looking for something like rdist to intelligently sync the two. Other than cygwin's rdist, can anyone recommend something? MO -- Michael O'Brien

Dell Laptop comparison

2004-04-12 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ I've had a Dell Inspiron 8000 for a couple of years. I've been running Debian unstable and MS Win2k with great success with both OS's. Other than the weight and the graphics chip (I bought mine when Dell only shipped the Inspiron with the ATI Mobility chip), I've had a great experience with

Dell Laptop comparison

2004-04-12 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ I've had a Dell Inspiron 8000 for a couple of years. I've been running Debian unstable and MS Win2k with great success with both OS's. Other than the weight and the graphics chip (I bought mine when Dell only shipped the Inspiron with the ATI Mobility chip), I've had a great experience with

java plugin for mozilla

2004-01-07 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ I'd like to install a Java plugin for Mozilla. I was able to find a couple of web pages that describe how to do this by downloading the package from Sun and installing it by hand. I wasn't able to find a *.deb for it. Is there one? MO -- Michael O'Brien

java plugin for mozilla

2004-01-07 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ I'd like to install a Java plugin for Mozilla. I was able to find a couple of web pages that describe how to do this by downloading the package from Sun and installing it by hand. I wasn't able to find a *.deb for it. Is there one? MO -- Michael O'Brien

partition magic

2003-09-13 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ I'd like to change the partition size on my laptop. It has one drive with partitions for linux and one for windows 2000 (ntfs). I've had success in the past with Partition Magic, but that was with one drive with two MS partitions (ntfs and fat). I just wanted to hear about any success or ho

partition magic

2003-09-13 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ I'd like to change the partition size on my laptop. It has one drive with partitions for linux and one for windows 2000 (ntfs). I've had success in the past with Partition Magic, but that was with one drive with two MS partitions (ntfs and fat). I just wanted to hear about any success or ho

printing to cups server from openoffice

2003-06-19 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ I have a Mac with an Epson Stylus 880 installed. I have a laptop with unstable installed. I set "ServerName" in /etc/cups/client.conf to point to my mac. If I run "lpr someTextFile.txt", it prints fine. However, trying to print ps, pdf, or from openoffice is greeted with silence. For exampl

printing to cups server from openoffice

2003-06-19 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ I have a Mac with an Epson Stylus 880 installed. I have a laptop with unstable installed. I set "ServerName" in /etc/cups/client.conf to point to my mac. If I run "lpr someTextFile.txt", it prints fine. However, trying to print ps, pdf, or from openoffice is greeted with silence. For exampl

system fan on Dell Inspiron 8000 after suspend

2003-05-01 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ I had Dell service my Inspiron 8000. Of course, the upgraded the bios. Now, when I open the laptop from a suspend, the system fan starts up and never quits until I shutdown the machine. The kicker is that the system fan problem only occurs with Debian, not with Windows. I've got Debian, uns

/var/lib/dpkg/status missing

2003-04-03 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ The motherboard on my Dell Inspiron 8000 died, and was replaced. After fsck cleaned up the drive, dpkg was failing: % dpkg -l g++\* dpkg-query: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory A version of it was in lost+found. I mo

/var/lib/dpkg/status missing

2003-04-03 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ The motherboard on my Dell Inspiron 8000 died, and was replaced. After fsck cleaned up the drive, dpkg was failing: % dpkg -l g++\* dpkg-query: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory A version of it was in lost+found. I mo

Re: eepro100 and Irda on Dell Inspiron 8000

2003-02-27 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ I wasn't ever able to figure out why the 2.4.12 kernel wasn't happy. I ended up downloading 2.4.20, which works fine. MO >-- On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:23:01PM -0800, % wrote: > Hola~ > > I've got a Dell Inspiron 8000. I've been using the 2.4.12 kernel without > incident for quite some ti

Re: eepro100 and Irda on Dell Inspiron 8000

2003-02-27 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ I wasn't ever able to figure out why the 2.4.12 kernel wasn't happy. I ended up downloading 2.4.20, which works fine. MO >-- On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:23:01PM -0800, % wrote: > Hola~ > > I've got a Dell Inspiron 8000. I've been using the 2.4.12 kernel without > incident for quite some ti

eepro100 and Irda on Dell Inspiron 8000

2003-02-26 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ I've got a Dell Inspiron 8000. I've been using the 2.4.12 kernel without incident for quite some time. I bought an irda device, and wanted to use my laptop to sync it. I added Irda support, as a module, rebuilt the kernel (using make-kpkg). On trying to load the kernel, the eepro100, which

eepro100 and Irda on Dell Inspiron 8000

2003-02-26 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ I've got a Dell Inspiron 8000. I've been using the 2.4.12 kernel without incident for quite some time. I bought an irda device, and wanted to use my laptop to sync it. I added Irda support, as a module, rebuilt the kernel (using make-kpkg). On trying to load the kernel, the eepro100, which

different paste buffers?

2003-02-21 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ Here's a goofy problem I can't quite figure out. I use rxvt as my terminal. In some applications (not all the time), if I select text, I can't middle-mouse paste it into rxvt. However, if I start up xterm, I can middle-mouse paste it into xterm. I can select text from xterm and paste it int

different paste buffers?

2003-02-21 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ Here's a goofy problem I can't quite figure out. I use rxvt as my terminal. In some applications (not all the time), if I select text, I can't middle-mouse paste it into rxvt. However, if I start up xterm, I can middle-mouse paste it into xterm. I can select text from xterm and paste it int

aaiiieeee, need some help rebuilding ld-linux.so.2

2003-01-18 Thread Michael K. O'Brien
Hola~ I was trying to downgrade libc6. For some reason, downgrading the package didn't update the ld-linux.so.2 link. So, in a moment of idiocy, I removed the ld-linux.so.2 so that I could relink it with a different version of ld.*.so. Well, after removing the link, I can't actually resolve any co

aaiiieeee, need some help rebuilding ld-linux.so.2

2003-01-18 Thread Michael K. O'Brien
Hola~ I was trying to downgrade libc6. For some reason, downgrading the package didn't update the ld-linux.so.2 link. So, in a moment of idiocy, I removed the ld-linux.so.2 so that I could relink it with a different version of ld.*.so. Well, after removing the link, I can't actually resolve any co

Re: OT: setting xterm/rxvt window names

2002-09-18 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ >-- On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:19:45AM -0700, % wrote: > On Wednesday 18 September 2002 09:02, Michael K O'Brien wrote: > > Hola~ > > > > >-- On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 04:36:35PM +0100, % wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Michael K O&#x

Re: OT: setting xterm/rxvt window names

2002-09-18 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ >-- On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 04:36:35PM +0100, % wrote: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Michael K O'Brien wrote: > > > Hola~ > > > > About two weeks ago, I found that I could no longer set the window and icon > > title of an xterm or rxvt window with the followi

OT: setting xterm/rxvt window names

2002-09-18 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ About two weeks ago, I found that I could no longer set the window and icon title of an xterm or rxvt window with the following script: echo -n "\033]0;$*\007" This happens under rxvt, xterm, WindowMaker, and blackbox. Anyone else seeing this? Is there another way to set the title on a

Re: OT: setting xterm/rxvt window names

2002-09-18 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ >-- On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:19:45AM -0700, % wrote: > On Wednesday 18 September 2002 09:02, Michael K O'Brien wrote: > > Hola~ > > > > >-- On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 04:36:35PM +0100, % wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Michael K O&#x

Re: OT: setting xterm/rxvt window names

2002-09-18 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ >-- On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 04:36:35PM +0100, % wrote: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Michael K O'Brien wrote: > > > Hola~ > > > > About two weeks ago, I found that I could no longer set the window and icon > > title of an xterm or rxvt window with the follo

OT: setting xterm/rxvt window names

2002-09-18 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ About two weeks ago, I found that I could no longer set the window and icon title of an xterm or rxvt window with the following script: echo -n "\033]0;$*\007" This happens under rxvt, xterm, WindowMaker, and blackbox. Anyone else seeing this? Is there another way to set the title on

X11 hork after apt-get dist-upgrade

2001-10-18 Thread Michael K. O'Brien
Hola~ Running unstable on two machines, both now hork after running apt-get dist-upgrade. I believe the error is an ssh configuration because the .xsession-errors contains: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: /usr/bin/ssh-agent sh /root/.xsession: No such file or directory root's .xsession fi

X11 hork after apt-get dist-upgrade

2001-10-18 Thread Michael K. O'Brien
Hola~ Running unstable on two machines, both now hork after running apt-get dist-upgrade. I believe the error is an ssh configuration because the .xsession-errors contains: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: /usr/bin/ssh-agent sh /root/.xsession: No such file or directory root's .xsession f

Dell Inspiron 8000

2001-03-08 Thread Michael K. O'Brien
Hola~ I've got a Dell Inspiron 8000. It's got a built in network adapter. Anyone know what it takes to get that thing to work? I've been unsuccessfully paging thru the laptop HOWTO. MO -- Michael O'Brien Tools Pixar

Dell Inspiron 8000

2001-03-08 Thread Michael K. O'Brien
Hola~ I've got a Dell Inspiron 8000. It's got a built in network adapter. Anyone know what it takes to get that thing to work? I've been unsuccessfully paging thru the laptop HOWTO. MO -- Michael O'Brien Tools Pixar