Re: May be slightly off topic but not much

2004-09-23 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 24 Sep 2004, Robert Goley wrote: > I want to put together a private apt repository of basic in house > configuration packages for our laptops and servers. I already have the > debian packages created and lintian doesn't complain too much. I just > do not know how to create a repository of custo

Re: May be slightly off topic but not much

2004-09-23 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 24 Sep 2004, Robert Goley wrote: > I want to put together a private apt repository of basic in house > configuration packages for our laptops and servers. I already have the > debian packages created and lintian doesn't complain too much. I just > do not know how to create a repository of custo

Re: May be slightly off topic but not much

2004-09-23 Thread Al Stone
How about: apt-get install apt-utils and then 'man apt-ftparchive'. Simple to use, works great. I use it quite a bit. On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 09:01, Robert Goley wrote: > I want to put together a private apt repository of basic in house > configuration packages for our laptops and servers. I

Re: May be slightly off topic but not much

2004-09-23 Thread Derek Broughton
On September 23, 2004 12:01 pm, Robert Goley wrote: > I want to put together a private apt repository of basic in house > configuration packages for our laptops and servers. I already have the > debian packages created and lintian doesn't complain too much. I just > do not know how to create a re

May be slightly off topic but not much

2004-09-23 Thread Robert Goley
I want to put together a private apt repository of basic in house configuration packages for our laptops and servers.  I already have the debian packages created and lintian doesn't complain too much.  I just do not know how to create a repository of custom packages.  Can anyone provide some ba

Re: May be slightly off topic but not much

2004-09-23 Thread Al Stone
How about: apt-get install apt-utils and then 'man apt-ftparchive'. Simple to use, works great. I use it quite a bit. On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 09:01, Robert Goley wrote: > I want to put together a private apt repository of basic in house > configuration packages for our laptops and servers. I

Re: May be slightly off topic but not much

2004-09-23 Thread Derek Broughton
On September 23, 2004 12:01 pm, Robert Goley wrote: > I want to put together a private apt repository of basic in house > configuration packages for our laptops and servers. I already have the > debian packages created and lintian doesn't complain too much. I just > do not know how to create a re

May be slightly off topic but not much

2004-09-23 Thread Robert Goley
I want to put together a private apt repository of basic in house configuration packages for our laptops and servers.  I already have the debian packages created and lintian doesn't complain too much.  I just do not know how to create a repository of custom packages.  Can anyone provide some ba

Re: alt-gr problem off-topic

2003-05-10 Thread mike dentifrice
> today i was going to use a alt-gr + key and it didn't work. > > No alt-gr + key combination works.. > > But it's only in X. Using tty1 You have to tell X where to find the Alt-Gr key. To do this, first launch the "xev" program under X, which will tell you the keycode for each key you press.

alt-gr problem off-topic

2003-05-04 Thread Joel Alexandre
hi, today i was going to use a alt-gr + key and it didn't work. No alt-gr + key combination works.. But it's only in X. Using tty1 (i'm not sure that's the name : ctrl+alt+F1) it works. I think it was when I updated xfree86 from testing (sarge, i think), but i'm not sure. May locales are

Re: Off Topic: Why Lotus Notes Sucks

2001-12-03 Thread Tony Godshall
> > Who is HC? My appologies for CC'ing the list on what was meant as a private forward/reply. Meant to correct it before I hit y (mutt for send). My correspondent (HC) contributes... > I'll add a #15: Lotus Notes splits up the SMTP headers and stores them > separately in an internal format, m

Re: Off Topic: Why Lotus Notes Sucks

2001-12-03 Thread Tony Godshall
> > Who is HC? My appologies for CC'ing the list on what was meant as a private forward/reply. Meant to correct it before I hit y (mutt for send). My correspondent (HC) contributes... > I'll add a #15: Lotus Notes splits up the SMTP headers and stores them > separately in an internal format,

Re: Is this what HC uses? [Re: Off Topic: Why Lotus Notes Sucks]

2001-12-01 Thread Andy Bastien
14) Sends HTML email On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 18:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Who is HC? > > Oh, and here's #13. Holding down shift and using the arrow Keys, or > home/end etc. doesn't highlight things in the to, from cc and bcc fields, > but it does in everything else. >

Re: Is this what HC uses? [Re: Off Topic: Why Lotus Notes Sucks]

2001-12-01 Thread Andy Bastien
14) Sends HTML email On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 18:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Who is HC? > > Oh, and here's #13. Holding down shift and using the arrow Keys, or > home/end etc. doesn't highlight things in the to, from cc and bcc fields, > but it does in everything else. > -- To UNSUBS

Re: Off Topic: Why Lotus Notes Sucks

2001-12-01 Thread Arno
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Reasons Why Lotus Notes Sucks. > > 1) Well, its version 5 and its still buggy as hell. Good for you, we're still using version 4.6 at my company... [...] > 7) very non-standard (as far as I know it doesn't support POP3 or IMAP > Mail, just Lotus Notes Mail... I'm prob

Re: Off Topic: Why Lotus Notes Sucks

2001-11-30 Thread Arno
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Reasons Why Lotus Notes Sucks. > > 1) Well, its version 5 and its still buggy as hell. Good for you, we're still using version 4.6 at my company... [...] > 7) very non-standard (as far as I know it doesn't support POP3 or IMAP > Mail, just Lotus Notes Mail... I'm pro

Re: Is this what HC uses? [Re: Off Topic: Why Lotus Notes Sucks]

2001-11-30 Thread aeleblanc
M                 To:        E David Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         cc:        debian-laptop@lists.debian.org         Subject:        Is this what HC uses? [Re: Off Topic: Why Lotus Notes Sucks] On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:36:08PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Reasons Why Lotus

Re: Is this what HC uses? [Re: Off Topic: Why Lotus Notes Sucks]

2001-11-30 Thread aeleblanc
M                 To:        E David Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         cc:        [EMAIL PROTECTED]         Subject:        Is this what HC uses? [Re: Off Topic: Why Lotus Notes Sucks] On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:36:08PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Reasons Why Lotus Notes Sucks.

Is this what HC uses? [Re: Off Topic: Why Lotus Notes Sucks]

2001-11-30 Thread Tony Godshall
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:36:08PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Reasons Why Lotus Notes Sucks. > > 1) Well, its version 5 and its still buggy as hell. > 2) you have to make a selection from a dropdown menu to quote someone when > you reply, other wise there is no quoted text > 3) ...And whe

Off Topic: Why Lotus Notes Sucks

2001-11-30 Thread aeleblanc
Reasons Why Lotus Notes Sucks. 1) Well, its version 5 and its still buggy as hell.   2) you have to make a selection from a dropdown menu to quote someone when you reply, other wise there is no quoted text 3) ...And when you do that, It puts a big ugly graphical header in the middle of the email,

Is this what HC uses? [Re: Off Topic: Why Lotus Notes Sucks]

2001-11-30 Thread Tony Godshall
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:36:08PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Reasons Why Lotus Notes Sucks. > > 1) Well, its version 5 and its still buggy as hell. > 2) you have to make a selection from a dropdown menu to quote someone when > you reply, other wise there is no quoted text > 3) ...And wh

Off Topic: Why Lotus Notes Sucks

2001-11-30 Thread aeleblanc
Reasons Why Lotus Notes Sucks. 1) Well, its version 5 and its still buggy as hell.   2) you have to make a selection from a dropdown menu to quote someone when you reply, other wise there is no quoted text 3) ...And when you do that, It puts a big ugly graphical header in the middle of the email,

Re: OFF TOPIC - testing:ssh

2001-07-30 Thread Hubert Chan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >>>>> "Craig" == Craig T Milling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Craig> sorry for the off-topic, but this is the one list i'm subscribed Craig> to and the people here seem pretty smart :) Craig> i have

OFF TOPIC - testing:ssh

2001-07-30 Thread Craig T. Milling
sorry for the off-topic, but this is the one list i'm subscribed to and the people here seem pretty smart :) i have a problem with the testing version of the ssh client. there are 2 symptoms: (1) as a regular user, it gives me a 'permission denied' error. it works fine as the s

Re: A little off topic...laptop date.

2000-11-10 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On Nov 8, Steve Dobson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:32:37AM -0500, Neil L. Roeth wrote: > > On Nov 8, Sale, Nigel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I have a rather old 486 laptop which had a bit of a funny turn the > > other day and advanced the date by 20 years !.

Re: A little off topic...laptop date.

2000-11-10 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On Nov 8, Steve Dobson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:32:37AM -0500, Neil L. Roeth wrote: > > On Nov 8, Sale, Nigel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I have a rather old 486 laptop which had a bit of a funny turn the other day >and advanced the date by 20 years !. I

RE: A little off topic...laptop date.

2000-11-09 Thread Sale, Nigel
ROTECTED] > Sent: 08 November 2000 17:45 > To: Sale, Nigel > Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: A little off topic...laptop date. > > > [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > > > Sorry if this is off topic, but this is the m

RE: A little off topic...laptop date.

2000-11-09 Thread Sale, Nigel
[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 08 November 2000 17:45 > To: Sale, Nigel > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: A little off topic...laptop date. > > > [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > > > Sorry if this is off topic, but this is the most relevant l

Re: A little off topic...laptop date.

2000-11-08 Thread Heather
[Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > Sorry if this is off topic, but this is the most relevant list i > subscribe to, > > I have a rather old 486 laptop which had a bit of a funny turn the other > day and advanced the date by 20 years !. It was a cou

Re: A little off topic...laptop date.

2000-11-08 Thread Heather
[Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > Sorry if this is off topic, but this is the most relevant list i > subscribe to, > > I have a rather old 486 laptop which had a bit of a funny turn the other > day and advanced the date by 20 years !. It was a cou

Re: A little off topic...laptop date.

2000-11-08 Thread Russell Coker
On 2000-11-08 10:36, Sale, Nigel wrote: >Sorry if this is off topic, but this is the most relevant list i subscribe > to, > >I have a rather old 486 laptop which had a bit of a funny turn the other day > and advanced the date by 20 years !. It was a couple of days before i >

A little off topic...laptop date.

2000-11-08 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On Nov 8, Sale, Nigel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Sorry if this is off topic, but this is the most relevant list i subscribe > to, > > I have a rather old 486 laptop which had a bit of a funny turn the other day > and advanced the date by 20 years !. It was a coupl

A little off topic...laptop date.

2000-11-08 Thread Sale, Nigel
Sorry if this is off topic, but this is the most relevant list i subscribe to, I have a rather old 486 laptop which had a bit of a funny turn the other day and advanced the date by 20 years !. It was a couple of days before i realised and now i have a load of files with are dated 20 years in

Re: A little off topic...laptop date.

2000-11-08 Thread Russell Coker
On 2000-11-08 10:36, Sale, Nigel wrote: >Sorry if this is off topic, but this is the most relevant list i subscribe > to, > >I have a rather old 486 laptop which had a bit of a funny turn the other day > and advanced the date by 20 years !. It was a couple of days before i >

A little off topic...laptop date.

2000-11-08 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On Nov 8, Sale, Nigel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Sorry if this is off topic, but this is the most relevant list i subscribe to, > > I have a rather old 486 laptop which had a bit of a funny turn the other day and >advanced the date by 20 years !. It was a couple o

A little off topic...laptop date.

2000-11-08 Thread Sale, Nigel
Sorry if this is off topic, but this is the most relevant list i subscribe to, I have a rather old 486 laptop which had a bit of a funny turn the other day and advanced the date by 20 years !. It was a couple of days before i realised and now i have a load of files with are dated 20 years in

Re: Off-topic

2000-08-21 Thread Heather
> I have a Compaq Armada Laptop. Does someone know how is the correct procedure > to > clean a LCD screen? Compaq's User Manual doesn't explain this. Can I use > detergent? Must I use ONLY a dry cotton ball? > > Thanks to your comments! > > Carlos Menezes. My local computer store sells stuff th

Off-topic

2000-08-21 Thread Carlos Menezes
I have a Compaq Armada Laptop. Does someone know how is the correct procedure to clean a LCD screen? Compaq's User Manual doesn't explain this. Can I use detergent? Must I use ONLY a dry cotton ball? Thanks to your comments! Carlos Menezes.

Re: Off-topic

2000-08-21 Thread Heather
> I have a Compaq Armada Laptop. Does someone know how is the correct procedure to > clean a LCD screen? Compaq's User Manual doesn't explain this. Can I use > detergent? Must I use ONLY a dry cotton ball? > > Thanks to your comments! > > Carlos Menezes. My local computer store sells stuff that

Off-topic

2000-08-21 Thread Carlos Menezes
I have a Compaq Armada Laptop. Does someone know how is the correct procedure to clean a LCD screen? Compaq's User Manual doesn't explain this. Can I use detergent? Must I use ONLY a dry cotton ball? Thanks to your comments! Carlos Menezes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with