Re: Userland tool for mouse buttons emulation

2003-12-31 Thread Michael Shields
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Colin Leroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any other archs having only one mouse button ? :-) It should be > crossplatform anyway. Many architectures have USB and could potentially use an Apple mouse. -- Shields.

Re: Recommended Orinoco PCMCIA card?

2003-12-22 Thread Michael Shields
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Barry Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The past couple of weeks have been expensive reminders of the > "costs" of free software. I will Google for the > 802.11g-compatible Linux chipsets as you mentioned. I haven't tried it, but you might look

Re: Recommended Orinoco PCMCIA card?

2003-12-21 Thread Michael Shields
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Barry Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It looks like the Proxim Orinoco wireless cards work well with > those needing to avoid the Broadcom-based Airport Extreme > cards in Apple portables. Any recommendation or enlightenment > on whether

Re: 12" PB less supported than 15", 17" ?

2003-12-11 Thread Michael Shields
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 11:06, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote: [...] >> If you want to run GNU/Linux right now, don't get the 12". If anyone >> wants to trade me a decent, recent iBook for my 12", I will seriously >

Re: 12" G4 iBook - AirPort Extreme support

2003-11-26 Thread Michael Shields
I have heard that the Airport Extreme is a mini-PCI card. Is there a chance that another, less obnoxious mini-PCI wireless card could be used in the same slot? -- Shields.

Re: share partition between macosx and debian

2003-10-15 Thread Michael Shields
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can even install OS X on UFS, yet I don't know if it is the plain > UFS from FreeBSD which Linux can read/write or something Apple > modified and/or screwed up somewhat. Linux has no problems reading a UFS partition conta

Re: french airport cards compatible to swiss ones or vice versa

2003-10-08 Thread Michael Shields
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mich Lanners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IIRC all the other countries except Japan use 1-13. US and Canada use only 1-11. -- Shields.

Re: procmail recipe for this list ?

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Shields
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Oakes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whenever some on this list reply to me, I get two copies, one through > the list and one cc'd to me. As if I wouldn't be getting the one sent > to the list! So much for netiquette... You can suppress duplicates using this exa

Re: 22" apple flatpanel

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Shields
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jay Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just was looking at the same thing (but I don't have a > display.yet) and I cam accross this. I have no experience with this > but it looks good. > > http://www.dviator.com/en/DVIator.html The DVIator works as advertise

Re: Important keyboard problem (^[[B sent indefinitely)

2003-04-20 Thread Michael Shields
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Philipp Kaeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I encountered a similar problem with the eject/F12 key; > this was helped by just pressing the button once > more. > > it seemed to me like the keyboard driver/interface sometimes > fails to regognize key release events and

Re: Petition for a Flash plugin for Linux on PPC

2003-04-19 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alessandro Selli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pursuant to the terms and conditions of this License, you are granted a > nonexclusive license to use the Specification for the sole purposes of > developing Products that output SWF. Is this believed to be enforceable i

Re: comparing x86 and powerpc laptops

2003-04-10 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ross Vumbaca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use my PCMCIA slot to read high capacity compact flash cards, WiFi, > and for Firewire soon. Wireless and Firewire are built-in on the Apple laptops, and USB flash card readers are very inexpensive. -- Shields.

Re: comparing x86 and powerpc laptops

2003-04-09 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wrong, if you look at it really, this is not the case, you pay what you > get for, and the ibook are rather cheap for the price point. The only > negative point is that they have smaller screens, but that only means > that app

Re: airport monitor mode/ ben8

2003-04-04 Thread Michael Shields
> with no problems, but when I kick off Airsnort and tell it to start > sniffing, I get the error > > "Could not set promiscuous mode". > > What am I missing? It will need to be root to set that. -- Shields.

Re: airport monitor mode/ ben8

2003-04-03 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Oliver Ripka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just tried to run kismet, but the ben8 airport module > seems not to be patched for montior mode. I remeber > that older kernels supported that. > So, am I just doing something wrong or is the support > simply not included

Re: Debian with Mac.

2003-04-02 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Björn Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PLEASE, mail me privately since I'm not a member > of the mailinglist. I'm sure you meant to say "please cc me, since I'm not a member of the mailing list, but this way the answers will be seen by all and will become part

Re: Few Newbie Questions TiBook III - woody

2003-04-01 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > UFS is not supported at all. UFS works fine, at least for reading. Maybe you meant to say that HFS+ is not supported. -- Shields.

Re: Debian installation from CDs in iMac

2003-03-21 Thread Michael Shields
> On 19/3/03 9:14 pm, "Michael Shields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> No; the flat panel iMac is the first not to have a paper clip hole. > > I don't really understand Apple's motives. They promote their machines as > friendlier than PCs! And the

Re: power4 vs intel compatibility

2003-03-19 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's a 1 million $$$ question: is there any compatibility for data > (I mean mysql/postgres tables essentially) among a 32bit pentium IV and a > 64bit powerpc (eg IBM pSeries)? Someone's idea is to build up an h

Re: Debian on an iMac

2003-03-19 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeffrey Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Flat Panel - I can't remember, but I think I read about a similar hole > somewhere (presumably near the CD tray). No; the flat panel iMac is the first not to have a paper clip hole. -- Shields.

Re: put to sleep manually

2003-03-18 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, stamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > my ibook does no longer detect if the lid gets closed. > as i don't want to get i repaired because of this, i'll have to put it > to sleep manually. pbbuttonsd in its default configuration will put the machine to sleep if you press

Re: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9

2003-03-17 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a bit annoying since the number of on-off cycles for a LCD > screen is limited. Do you have a reference for this information? -- Shields.