Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-05 Thread AJT60
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > >> "s" == stick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > s> Me too! I'm usually a very cautious person...How do we *know* that this > s> has even originated from MicroSoft? So there is the issue of whether or > s> not it's from MS, and if it is it it trul

Sysvalues - memory usage?

1998-11-05 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Hi, just beeing curious i'm interested about the meaning of following displayed sysvalues. after boot, free shows: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 39056 22428 16628 20028 1316 8968 -/+ buffers/cache: 12144

Re: how to install slink netscape?

1998-11-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
Markus M. Schneider wrote: > > Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > > > I recently upgraded as well but now communicator fails with a bus > > error. I've also upgraded to the latest libc and X packages in > > unstable. > > > > Has anyone else seen this problem? > > I've not upgraded the X packages. I ge

Re: Netscape and $XNLSPATH

1998-11-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
Craig R. Hodges wrote: > > I just apt-get dist-upgrade to the latest version of slink. When I attempt > to run netscape-comm 4.5 I get the following error: > > netscape: locale `C' not supported. > Perhaps the $XNLSPATH environment variable is not set correctly? > > Where is the config f

[Fwd: Font problems...]

1998-11-05 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Evan Van Dyke wrote: > > Hrrm, I've been having an error about the 'helvetica' font for a while, > but > as it didn't incapactitate anything I've been letting it slide... but > today > it kept me from opening emacs... here's the error. Anyone know how to > deal with it? > > Font `-*-helvetica-m

Problems with DOS and free disk space.

1998-11-05 Thread James Von Derrau
I have recently installed Linux on my machine, and I am having only one prblem so far... I've checked in the FAQ, and How-to's but can't seem to find the answers I need. After I installed Linux and rebooted in dos when I did a DIR, dos reported that I have more space on the disk than is available

Re: Font Frustration (adobe-helvetica)

1998-11-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jeff Miller wrote: > > Does anyone know what font package has adobe-helvetica in it? > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Look in the 100dpi xfont package. There's some helvetica there. -- Ed C.

xbase , xlib

1998-11-05 Thread Andrew Philip Bell
Most debian X packages depend upon the xbase and xlib6 package. However, I am using Accelerated-X and I should have all of the libraries and binaries that are necessary for all of these X packages. How do I effectively tell dpkg that I have xbase and xlib6 when I don't? How can I keep deselec

Re: [comp.security] Secure computers

1998-11-05 Thread Neale Pickett
Manoj Srivastava writes: [ a pretty good, but still not quite up to snuff, procedure for securing a machine ] I have a better method, though. Gather all matter which has ever come into contact with the machine in question, either through network or disk activity, or which has been bombarded w

Re: changing default window manager - How!

1998-11-05 Thread Jim Foltz
Hi, I would make a .xinitrc file in your homedir and put: exec your-prefered-window-manager in it. he chsh command will change your shell -- Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: changing default window manager - How!

1998-11-05 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 10:49:23PM +0100, Stephan Engelke wrote: > > Also, how I can I change my shell permanently from bash to csh.. > > > Become root and edit /etc/passwd. Use the "vipw" command!! > Find the line with your user-id at the beginning (should be at the very > bottom of the file) a

Re: changing default window manager - How!

1998-11-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "r" == rathon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: r> I am using Debian2.0 and the default window manager that comes up is r> fvwm. I would like to change this permanently to olvwm. Which file r> should I edit ? /etc/X11/window-managers The topmost entry ist the default one. r> Also, how I can I ch

Re: changing default window manager - How!

1998-11-05 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi, > I am using Debian2.0 and the default window manager that comes up is > fvwm. I would like to change this permanently to olvwm. Which file > should I edit ? become root and edit /etc/X11/window-managers. xinitrc goes through the entries from top to bottom, using the first one avialable, so

Re: changing default window manager - How!

1998-11-05 Thread Rob Collins
edit /etc/X11/window-managers after the commented lines (beginning with '#'), it lists, in order of preference, windows managers to load -- you want yours to be the first on that list. -- quiet rob --- "Just keep telling yourself you are immortal" --Albert Hofmann On 5 Nov 1998, rathon

Re: changing default window manager - How!

1998-11-05 Thread Jeff Miller
You can change your /etc/X11/Xsession file to use olvwm. Not sure about shell selection. >>> rathon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/5/98 4:40:47 PM >>> Hi, I am using Debian2.0 and the default window manager that comes up is fvwm. I would like to change this permanently to olvwm. Which file should I edit

changing default window manager - How!

1998-11-05 Thread rathon
Hi, I am using Debian2.0 and the default window manager that comes up is fvwm. I would like to change this permanently to olvwm. Which file should I edit ? Also, how I can I change my shell permanently from bash to csh.. Thanks in advance Rathon _

Newbie .bin(?)

1998-11-05 Thread Bill
I installed Debian Linux from a Boot mag CD in an old server I have and want to update to the 2.X Debian Linux to take advantage of the dual processors, but I don't know how to use the .bin files from the Debian website. Did I get the wrong files? I was going to use the .deb files but the server

Re: [comp.security] Secure computers

1998-11-05 Thread john
Ben Collins writes: > Does this still protect against the popular "nuclear bomb" DoS attack? Yes. The level of service does not change at all when the site is nuked. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. D

Recommendations for an Admin Package.

1998-11-05 Thread Person, Rod
Hey All, Now that I have found out that Xadmin is gone, does anyone have a recommendation fro a replacement admin tool. I like something at least equal to xadmin if not better... Rod...

SCSI cdrom mounting, #2

1998-11-05 Thread Wes Jennings
To: The Debian Gang - A howdy to all: Since I posted my message yesterday on debian-user about having problems mounting my Hitachi CDR-1750S cdrom I have found out some additional information. As a review, the problems is that when I give the following command mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt my

Re: DNS question

1998-11-05 Thread David Coe
You can do what you suggest. When you register a domain name (xyz.org), you just tell the InterNic (or whomever) the primary and secondary name servers (provided by your ISP, usually) for names in that domain. The name servers answer the specific host address for each such host (you have to tell

smb logs

1998-11-05 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Does anybody know what to put and where to put in order to have some decent samba logs? I've got the following but nothing nice comes out (ie: no smb log files and an nmb log file which is pretty useless. ; smb.conf debug level = 3 log file = /var/log/smb.log max log size =

Re: Backups seem to take too long(scsi tape)

1998-11-05 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 12:29:57 -0500 (EST) servis writes: > > Hi all, > I have a Seagate Tapestore 8G on a scsi-2 controller. When I back > up my drives(ext2, vfat) and some smbfs mounted drives(over a 10-T) > it seems to take too long. I am just using tar whith compression. > Here are the stats

Re: mutt trashes mail

1998-11-05 Thread Leon Breedt
On Wed, Nov 04 1998, David Wright spake thus: > Takes up 1.6MB though :( try 'strip' on the executable, or turning off the '-g' option to your compiler in the Makefile. my mutt executable is only +/-400KB. regards, leon -- __ _ Leon Breedt-o)

Re: Changing domain

1998-11-05 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Don't forget /etc/init.d/network if you're not using dhcp. On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 09:36:00AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I am moving one of my systems and need to change its FQDN. > > Other than /etc/hostname and /etc/mailname, what other files would need to > be changed? Both the host name a

Re: SOLVED (sort of): Re: /etc/ppp/ip-up not being run

1998-11-05 Thread wtopa
Subject: SOLVED (sort of): Re: /etc/ppp/ip-up not being run Date: Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 03:49:30PM -0500 In reply to:Noah L. Meyerhans Quoting Noah L. Meyerhans([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Doh! I feel pretty dumb now. The scripts ARE being ru

Re: Problems compiling

1998-11-05 Thread Doug Lumpkin
I am trying to run dselect to install various packages, but it never seems to make it all the way through the process. It always dies at installing the hello package, saying it can't find the .gz files. So I went into the select section and deselected hello and tried running the installation a

off-topic graphicla-programming

1998-11-05 Thread count zero
hi there, i would like to make a program which works in vga (not X) whiche just display a blue monitor with some text inside ( yeah you guess right : the clone of the 95's system-error ) but i don't know from what point to start any suggestion? (e.g. source code avaible, HOWTO's etc etc) thanks t

desperate for a .eps for two lines of text

1998-11-05 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I'm getting desperate; these things have to go out today, or tomorrow morning at latest, and I can't get the letterhead i need on them. All I need is two lines in a cursive font. I've tried converting the postscript fonts for latex. I can get as far as producing the .tmf, but it then gets ups

Re: Problems compiling

1998-11-05 Thread Jim Foltz
Mario, The compiler/linker process doesn't know where the pow10 function is defined. Include the .o file which contains the pow10 definition on the command line when you compile. On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 03:51:38PM -, Mario Filipe wrote: > Hi Everyone > > Can someone explainwhy the followi

Quake 2

1998-11-05 Thread richard
I had a go at running Quake 2 this weekend, with limited success I spent ages getting all the libc5 stuff, (glide 2.53, Mesa 3.0 quake2) and I could only run softx in an x window. yeuch. However I noticed that there was also a glibc version of quake2, so after attempting to recompile mesa using gli

Re: [comp.security] Secure computers

1998-11-05 Thread Ben Collins
Does this still protect against the popular "nuclear bomb" DoS attack? Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UnixGroup Admin - NASA LaRC On 5 Nov 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > "Matt" == Matthew Devney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Mat

[comp.security] Secure computers

1998-11-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, "Matt" == Matthew Devney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Matt> Take it off the network, unplug it, lock the case, encase it in Matt> 19 feet of concrete, and you can pretty much guarantee it'll be Matt> safe. But the security consultant will still worry. "Dennis" == "Dennis" <[EMAIL P

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "s" == stick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: s> Me too! I'm usually a very cautious person...How do we *know* that this s> has even originated from MicroSoft? So there is the issue of whether or s> not it's from MS, and if it is it it truly "confidential"? M$ had confirmed, that this document

Re: Changing domain

1998-11-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "BN" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BN> I am moving one of my systems and need to change its FQDN. BN> Other than /etc/hostname and /etc/mailname, what other files would need to BN> be changed? Both the host name and domain name will be changing. /etc/hosts, the MTA config file

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-05 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
chuck asked, > Me too! I'm usually a very cautious person...How do we *know* that this > has even originated from MicroSoft? So there is the issue of whether or > not it's from MS, and if it is it it truly "confidential"? Is the Wall Street Journal a good enough source? :) Tuesday morning's W

Re: how to install slink netscape?

1998-11-05 Thread Markus M. Schneider
Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > I recently upgraded as well but now communicator fails with a bus > error. I've also upgraded to the latest libc and X packages in > unstable. > > Has anyone else seen this problem? I've not upgraded the X packages. I get only a bus error if I start the acroread plug

Re: Changing domain

1998-11-05 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I am moving one of my systems and need to change its FQDN. > > Other than /etc/hostname and /etc/mailname, what other files would need to > be changed? Both the host name and domain name will be changing. > I've done this before and it is pretty painl

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-05 Thread Thomas Lakofski
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Me too! I'm usually a very cautious person...How do we *know* that this > has even originated from MicroSoft? So there is the issue of whether or > not it's from MS, and if it is it it truly "confidential"? It was confirmed by MS. See slashdot.org

help

1998-11-05 Thread Kester Clegg

Re: mounting cds in debian

1998-11-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
Rob, You don't mount music CDs. Just install the CD in the drive and run your favorite player software. Bob On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Rob Collins wrote: > I've a new debian installation; and I'm trying to mount music cds. My > system is scsi, and I've a CD-WORM on scd0, and a 24x Pioneer on scd1. >

DNS question

1998-11-05 Thread Jozef Skvarcek
Hello, Is it possible to create a new domain on a subnet that is already registered? Here is my situation. Let's have subnet 111.111.111.255 which has domainname `university.edu'. Now I want to take one address from the subnet, let's say 111.111.111.254, and register it as a new domain (outside f

mounting cds in debian

1998-11-05 Thread Rob Collins
I've a new debian installation; and I'm trying to mount music cds. My system is scsi, and I've a CD-WORM on scd0, and a 24x Pioneer on scd1. As root, I get the "wrong fs type, bad option..." error when I try to mount the drives (I get the error and control returns right away on scd1, but scd0, th

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-05 Thread stick
Vera Lucia Mazzocchi said > > Hi, > > I was thinking if this document wasn't released purposely, that > is, "let them know only what we want they know" and "let's see what they > think about". Seems to me that M$ might be playing with us, releasing > such document, or allowing somebody to

Changing domain

1998-11-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
I am moving one of my systems and need to change its FQDN. Other than /etc/hostname and /etc/mailname, what other files would need to be changed? Both the host name and domain name will be changing. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ A

Re: Truetype Fonts in Tex?

1998-11-05 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 5 Nov 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | | > "M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | Is there anyway I can convert truetype fonts to a format useable | > | by latex? | > | > I don't believe you can directly do this. I've heard you can use a

Re: apt-get update errors? FIXED

1998-11-05 Thread Adam Lazur
Thus spake Adam Lazur ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Whenever I run "apt-get update" with slink stuff in my sources.list I > ^ doh, I meant "apt-get upgrade" after I run > "apt-get update" fixed it by switching my slink site to ftp1.us.debian.org .adam -- Ada

Re: icmplogd: destination unreachable from

1998-11-05 Thread Mark H. Mabry
[ Your From: address does not work. 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Host unknown (Name server: goomba.debian.org: host not found) ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I _continually_ get "icmplogd: destination unreachable from nameserver>" in my syslog and it's really beginning to bug me. Anyone > know w

Re: Truetype Fonts in Tex?

1998-11-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 5 Nov 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > "M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Is there anyway I can convert truetype fonts to a format useable > | by latex? > > I don't believe you can directly do this. I've heard you can use a > TT -> PS Type 1 converter and then use those, althoug

Problems compiling

1998-11-05 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi Everyone Can someone explainwhy the following happens : 14:53:09# gcc -O2 -o iwconfig iwconfig.c -lm /tmp/ccc10981: In function `float2freq': /tmp/ccc10981(.text+0x53): undefined reference to `pow10' /tmp/ccc10981: In function `freq2float': /tmp/ccc10981(.text+0xdd): undefined reference to

Re: apt-get update errors?

1998-11-05 Thread Adam Lazur
Thus spake Adam Lazur ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Whenever I run "apt-get update" with slink stuff in my sources.list I ^ doh, I meant "apt-get upgrade" after I run "apt-get update" .adam -- Adam Lazur - Computer Engineering Undergrad - Lehigh University

apt-get update errors?

1998-11-05 Thread Adam Lazur
Whenever I run "apt-get update" with slink stuff in my sources.list I end up getting like 20 errors similar to: Get ftp://ftp.debian.org slink/main makedev [16.1k] Error ftp://ftp.debian.org slink/main makedev 550 /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/makedev_2.3.1-4.deb: not a plain file

Re: Netscape3 install

1998-11-05 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi Rich >Thanks to Doug, I got the netscape3 tar file, and I've installed it, but >it won't let me run as root for security reasons. As I am the only user >on my computer, I always login as root (I know this is considered 'bad', >but it is far more convenient for me). > >I remember having a simil

Re: Writing CD from W95

1998-11-05 Thread Jonathan Sambrook
> I want to write a Debian CD here at work so that I can more easily >upgrade my system at home. The only CD writer which we have here is on >another scientist's W95 system. It is an HP CD Writer Plus 7200 with HP >DirectCD software. Is it possible to write the CD image with this >combinat

Netscape3 install

1998-11-05 Thread Richard Harran.
Thanks to Doug, I got the netscape3 tar file, and I've installed it, but it won't let me run as root for security reasons. As I am the only user on my computer, I always login as root (I know this is considered 'bad', but it is far more convenient for me). I remember having a similar problem on a

Where can I find working X packets for slink

1998-11-05 Thread Tommi Kaariainen
I upgraded to the newest slink X packets (the x*3.3.2.3a-6 set) which I found to be horribly broken (they can't find fonts, locales are broken etc) in my experience. Where can I find the good old working packages? -- /Tommi K/ QOTD: "Her other car is a broom."

Re: Installing Perl 5.005_??

1998-11-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MP" == Moore, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MP> I have Debian 2.0, which has Perl 5.004_04 installed. I'd like to MP> upgrade to 5.005_02 (or maybe even _53). There isn't a debian 5.005 There was a package, but it was retracted after it broke some things. Basicaly any module, which is not

Re: Truetype Fonts in Tex?

1998-11-05 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Is there anyway I can convert truetype fonts to a format useable | by latex? I don't believe you can directly do this. I've heard you can use a TT -> PS Type 1 converter and then use those, although the quality of the result may or may not be acce

install script problem

1998-11-05 Thread Tim Thomas
I'm trying to get the Excite Search installed and run into the following error. Is anyone bored enough to take a look at the install script and see what's up ? Script at: http://www.xinu.org/crud/ starting installation. This may take a few seconds... tar: perl: Not found in archive tar: Error e

The next step: supercomputer via disparate nodes

1998-11-05 Thread Zack Brown
Although this is not strictly on topic, it seems strongly related to a kind of kernel development. I checked out distributed.net, and they seem to have a much different approach to the question. They are more concerned with parcelling out portions of a task, not with making an actual usable compute

Re: Help fixing latest X deb weirdness.

1998-11-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "t" == timothy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: t> t> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Oct 31 23:14 man6 t> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Nov 1 01:07 man7 t> ?-w-r-s--t 28276 root 29545 1245212 Oct 2 2029 man8 t> t> I figure I Will delete man 8 (since if its been

printing problem [was Re: Problems switching to debian

1998-11-05 Thread Zack Brown
> > > > printing is completely dead. It's as though I didn't have a printer. > > Nothing I do has any affect on it. This has nothing to do with any > > changes I made to my system. It's dead from the moment I install. > > > > I have a WinBook XL (which runs linux great in general by the way) and

Re: Netscape3

1998-11-05 Thread Doug Dine
With your browser goto ftp://archive:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/archive/index.html ftp://archive:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/archive/navigator/3.04/shipping/english/unix/linux12/navigator_complete/netscape-v304-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz At 11/5/98 1:54:00 PM, you wrote: >I was hoping to install netscape

Truetype Fonts in Tex?

1998-11-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hi all, Is there anyway I can convert truetype fonts to a format useable by latex? Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Socie

Netscape and $XNLSPATH

1998-11-05 Thread Craig R. Hodges
I just apt-get dist-upgrade to the latest version of slink. When I attempt to run netscape-comm 4.5 I get the following error: netscape: locale `C' not supported. Perhaps the $XNLSPATH environment variable is not set correctly? Where is the config file fo setting this environment variable

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-11-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 02:11:34PM +, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > Does anyone know where I can get a Windows/MS-Dos version of Tex? ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/{msdos,win32,nt} or any other CTAN site, methinks. Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-11-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > Hi, > Does anyone know where I can get a Windows/MS-Dos version of Tex? Try grabbing the source and re-compiling? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities

Unidentified subject!

1998-11-05 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi, Does anyone know where I can get a Windows/MS-Dos version of Tex? .. --- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford. UK. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] How be

Writing CD from W95

1998-11-05 Thread Christopher D. Judd
Hi, all, I want to write a Debian CD here at work so that I can more easily upgrade my system at home. The only CD writer which we have here is on another scientist's W95 system. It is an HP CD Writer Plus 7200 with HP DirectCD software. Is it possible to write the CD image with this comb

Re: xmix cannot open mixer device

1998-11-05 Thread Conrado Badenas
Kirston Akos wrote: > You have to compile the kernel with /dev/audio enabled. > Or you have to chmod your device. The devices /dev/mixer and /dev/mixer1 are both owned by root.audio and I belong to group audio (I belong to groups users, audio, disk, cdrom, and floppy). Both devices are chmod'ed cr

Installing Perl 5.005_??

1998-11-05 Thread Moore, Paul
Hi, I have Debian 2.0, which has Perl 5.004_04 installed. I'd like to upgrade to 5.005_02 (or maybe even _53). There isn't a debian 5.005 package yet (AFAIK) - how do I install 5.005, without confusing dpkg? I don't know what there is on my system which depends on Perl - can I find out? I'm quite

Netscape3

1998-11-05 Thread Richard Harran.
I was hoping to install netscape 3, 'cos it's smaller and apparently less buggy than netscape 4, but I can't get the tar file off netscape. The .deb package suggests ftp://archive.netscape.com, but this site wont let me log on as anonymous or as guest. Does anyone knnow where I can get the appro

Mounting problem on cdrom

1998-11-05 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Wes Jennings wrote: Hope someone can determine what this problem is. Outlined below is information about my system, observations and error messages. 1. I have had a Slackware Linux system, kernel 2.0.27, running for about 1 year. All my hardware functions fine. I decided to upgrade my system and

Font Frustration (adobe-helvetica)

1998-11-05 Thread Jeff Miller
Does anyone know what font package has adobe-helvetica in it?

Free Cheap Advertizing

1998-11-05 Thread Mike Holliday
Hi, This is to all Linux users that are also Lind Waldock Customers. We have made a version of Lind Online software available in Linux/Unix. Mike Technical Resources Lind Waldock & Co

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-05 Thread Vera Lucia Mazzocchi
Hi, I was thinking if this document wasn't released purposely, that is, "let them know only what we want they know" and "let's see what they think about". Seems to me that M$ might be playing with us, releasing such document, or allowing somebody to have access and releasing it.

Re: simple question

1998-11-05 Thread AJT60
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Davide Duran wrote: > > Linux is great thanks to over 1000 programmers who hard worked on > it in their free time. It was a passion, an hobby. > For sure, the best valuable passion or hobby I ever seen, but I ask: > who can say me that I can be sure that

Re: GTKICQ doesn't do ANYTHING

1998-11-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "AS" == Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I d/l'ed and installed all the files for GTKICQ from SLINK to use it >> on my HAMM box. The only problem is it says "connecting to server..." >> then the moving scroll-bar freezes and it never connects. Is this >> package broken? There are no

Re: Zip drives

1998-11-05 Thread Peter Berlau
Date forwarded: 5 Nov 1998 10:38:38 - To: "Chang, FKK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copies to: debian user Subject:Re: Zip drives Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Christophe Broult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date sent:

Re: Zip drives

1998-11-05 Thread Christophe Broult
"Chang, FKK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a package that can get/set the status of Zip disks like > the Iomega tools do (write protect, unprotect until eject, etc.)? You should install the mtools package which provides the mzip command that can be used to change protection mode and ejec

Zip drives

1998-11-05 Thread Chang, FKK
Hello all, Is there a package that can get/set the status of Zip disks like the Iomega tools do (write protect, unprotect until eject, etc.)? Bye Felix

RE: SOLVED (sort of): Re: /etc/ppp/ip-up not being run

1998-11-05 Thread Moore, Paul
>From: Noah L. Meyerhans[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Doh! I feel pretty dumb now. The scripts ARE being run. The problem >does, however, seem to have something to do with the way in which they're >being run. One of the scripts contains an ftp command, which should >(using a macro in /root/.netrc

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-05 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Roberto Ripio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | El Wed, 04 Nov 1998, Chad A. Adlawan escribi¢: ... | >This is an excellent doc that was leaked out of MS on the future | >issue of Open Source OSes like Linux, etc. The hosting WWW site ... | As published, the document is edited by Eric S. Raymond

Mounting problem on cdrom

1998-11-05 Thread Wes Jennings
Hope someone can determine what this problem is. Outlined below is information about my system, observations and error messages. 1. I have had a Slackware Linux system, kernel 2.0.27, running for about 1 year. All my hardware functions fine. I decided to upgrade my system and wanted to try the Deb

Re: Howto /dev/3dfx ?

1998-11-05 Thread Frank Barknecht
Dave Swegen hat gesagt: // Dave Swegen wrote: > Try using the tar at this location: http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/3dfx/ > It worked first time (I have a 2.1.x kernel, but should work OK for a > vanilla deb 2.0). Thank you very much, Dave. This tar-file has another better-looking Makefile and did

Re: simple question

1998-11-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I'm very interested in the future of Linux as commercial OS, but > I have a question: > > Linux is great thanks to over 1000 programmers who hard worked on > it in their free time. It was a passion, an hobby. > For sure, the best valuable passion or hobby I ever seen, but I as

simple question

1998-11-05 Thread Davide Duran
I'm very interested in the future of Linux as commercial OS, but I have a question: Linux is great thanks to over 1000 programmers who hard worked on it in their free time. It was a passion, an hobby. For sure, the best valuable passion or hobby I ever seen, but I ask:

Re: how does one learn to create debian packages ?

1998-11-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Darxus wrote: > > I would think it would be in everyone's interest if this information were > well documented and easily locatable. > > There are numerious programs for which I have seen no debian packages, > which I would be interested in packaging myself. The developer's r

Re: PPP route problem?

1998-11-05 Thread Paul Miller
John Maheu wrote: > Here is the output from > > ROOT:/root>route -n > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface > 207.34.68.254 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 > 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0

Re: Still having Printer Problems

1998-11-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 09:13:29PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > In my attempt to isolate why I can't print I came across a potential > problem. When I installed Linux I had a parallel > port Zip Drive attached to my printer port. If I type 'mount /dev/sda > Zip' I am able to mount the zip dri

RE: OFF TOPIC: help with SMB wierdness?

1998-11-05 Thread David Karlin
> -Original Message- > From: Matt Garman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > There are two graphical samba "browsers" of which I am aware: > tkchooser and smb2www. In fact, there is a smb2www package for Debian > Where can I find smb2www? (I couldn't find it in .../stable/main/binary-i386/pa

Re: GTKICQ doesn't do ANYTHING

1998-11-05 Thread Mark Panzer
Adam Shand wrote: > > > I d/l'ed and installed all the files for GTKICQ from SLINK to use it > > on my HAMM box. The only problem is it says "connecting to server..." > > then the moving scroll-bar freezes and it never connects. Is this > > package broken? There are no real docs with it. > > i

Test (nothing)

1998-11-05 Thread Phillip Neumann
yes, but dont as i wanted to I recived a message saying that i have unsubscripe to the list. i never didnt. no problem, i will subscribe me again (i is a test too...) Bob Brown wrote: > Well, it works... > -Original Message- > From: Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To

Re: Kernel rebuild

1998-11-05 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Waif W. Urchin wrote: > Sorry this reply took so long to post; I had to figure out how to get > the ppp.log file created, then out of Linux and into Windows so I could > share it with you. Thats quite alright... :) > The ppp.log file listed below contains two attempts from to

Re: GTKICQ doesn't do ANYTHING

1998-11-05 Thread Adam Shand
> I d/l'ed and installed all the files for GTKICQ from SLINK to use it > on my HAMM box. The only problem is it says "connecting to server..." > then the moving scroll-bar freezes and it never connects. Is this > package broken? There are no real docs with it. i had the same problem when i upgr

Re: PCI Modem with debian 2.0

1998-11-05 Thread Greg Starkes
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Rakesh Mohan wrote: > I have PCI inter modem (AOpen FM 56H) on my PC. It works well with NT > 4.0, but i am not able to configure it for debian 2.0 I think all of AOpen's modems are software based, like the USR WinModems. Without the drivers (of which their are none for linux

Still having Printer Problems

1998-11-05 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
In my attempt to isolate why I can't print I came across a potential problem. When I installed Linux I had a parallel port Zip Drive attached to my printer port. If I type 'mount /dev/sda Zip' I am able to mount the zip drive. Since my printer is connected to the Zip drive I was wondering if t

Re: Diamond Viper 330 AGP card.

1998-11-05 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hallo erstmal! Alexander Kushnirenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is X running on Diamond Viper 330 AGP card? Could someone comment is it a > good card? A friend ran it with hamm's SVGA server. I switched his setup to nvidia's peliminary server, because there was noise on moving windows. Now it works

Re: PPP route problem?

1998-11-05 Thread John Maheu
On 4 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > John Maheu writes: > > Any idea on how to fix this? ftp, and ping work fine. > > Can you telnet from Windows? Could your isp be blocking telnet? > -- > John Hasler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) > Dancing Horse Hill > Elmwood, WI > I don't have Wind

Re: how does one learn to create debian packages ?

1998-11-05 Thread Jim Foltz
Look in /usr/doc/dpkg. -- Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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