Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

Richard Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Oh, goodie! A religious discussion! > > > > OK I'm voting for Adam. Without him we all would be dust. Or a bunch of cheeky monkeys... -- -Mike Horansky, Unix Systems Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Conformity is everything--isn't it?" OPINIONS EXP

Re: xterm, xhost

Thanks for the info. You wouldn't happen to know what the default XTerm*font: setting is would you? Alec On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > > I have two questions: > > > > 1. Is there a way to make xterm default to the "large" or "huge" font > > sizes? Right now I have to press con

Re: Internet telephony?

On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 12:55:29PM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > > Is anyone aware of internet telephony software that could run on debian? > Preferable but not exclusively open source. Check out Speak Freely . I did have some trouble getting it to wor

Re: Internet telephony?

On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > Is anyone aware of internet telephony software that could run on debian? > Preferable but not exclusively open source. > > In addition, what hardware + services would be needed to get it and keep > it running? What kind of capabilites are you looking

Re: X, new video card, and servers.

On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 03:12:08PM -0500, Daniel J. Brosemer wrote: > On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > > Thanks very much. I was actually kind of hoping for an RTFM answer too so > that I could find this stuff out in the future without posting > questions to the list that I could pr

Debian-Release-Party

Where, when (March 9, 00:00:00 GMT that means in about 20 minutes)? Please reply via email as I get this list via digest and this takes longer :( Gernot -- - Wolfgang Bauer SKWB Schoellerbank Aktiengesellschaft Sterneck

Re: xterm, xhost

> I have two questions: > > 1. Is there a way to make xterm default to the "large" or "huge" font > sizes? Right now I have to press control and right click on the xterm > window to switch. As I'm legally blind, the default size is too small for > my use. One way to do that would be editing your

xterm, xhost

I have two questions: 1. Is there a way to make xterm default to the "large" or "huge" font sizes? Right now I have to press control and right click on the xterm window to switch. As I'm legally blind, the default size is too small for my use. 2. I've got two systems I routinely use X apps on, pa

Re: Linux

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to invest in Linux but can't find a stock in that name -- > can you help That's the beauty of it. Mark P.S. If this isn't a troll, try researching Red Hat or Caldera if you really need to *invest* in something. Better yet, make a contribution to the Deb

Re: how to use wheel on Logitech mouse?

Hello Jinsong, Sunday, March 07, 1999, you wrote: JZ> I bought a set of the Logitech cordless Desktop. It contains a JZ> wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse. The mouse has two buttons and JZ> a wheel in the middle. According to the user manual, the wheel may JZ> serve as the third button (in W

Linux

I would like to invest in Linux but can't find a stock in that name -- can you help David

Re: web based mail (fwd)

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Re: web based mail (fwd)

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Internet telephony?

Is anyone aware of internet telephony software that could run on debian? Preferable but not exclusively open source. In addition, what hardware + services would be needed to get it and keep it running? NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: XKEYBOARD - Documentation

On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 10:43:38AM +0100, Hartmut Schmude wrote: > I'm trying to get my very personal keyboard layout using the > XKEYBOARD - extension of the X-System. Could anyone tell me > where to find appropriate documentation reagrding the file-formats > and keywords etc. of the files located

Re: X, new video card, and servers.

On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 12:46:16PM -0500, Daniel J. Brosemer wrote: > I recently bought a new 2D/3D video card based on the 3DLabs chipset, and > the www.xfree86.org serverlist tells me to use the XF86_3DLabs server. > This isn't included in the debian distrobution. I'm not sure if that > server i

Re: Undersanding bootable media

At 11:16 AM 7/3/1999 -0800, you wrote: >In my quest to understand booting/LILO/MBR's I've come a cross >a phenomenon I dont understand. Friend of mine (linux guru-ish) >said that to make a linux bootable floppy you had to use a lowlevel >tool like dd as opposed to just copying the files over to t

Re: X, new video card, and servers.

On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: Thanks very much. I was actually kind of hoping for an RTFM answer too so that I could find this stuff out in the future without posting questions to the list that I could probably find out by reading some manual. the XFree howto doesn't have specific

Re: Which are the permitions for /dev/tty?

mode 666 should be korrekt for /dev/tty (it's a kernel redirektor to the real tty of one program. any program should be able ro read/write to it. at least this is how i understand stevens, unix network programming (volume 1), page 36. i strongly recommend to drop group "sys" at all : it's of no

Re: Undersanding bootable media

On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Marlon Urias wrote: > In my quest to understand booting/LILO/MBR's I've come a cross > a phenomenon I dont understand. Friend of mine (linux guru-ish) > said that to make a linux bootable floppy you had to use a lowlevel > tool like dd as opposed to just copying the files over

Re: CDROM

Hello, I tried to install Debian 2.0.2, and it would not recognize my cdrom which is a Nec cd-rom drive:260 ATAPI. Debian says that it is either a cdrom or a floppy, probably a floppy. The cdrom works in Dos and in a previous version of SuSE. Any ideas short of buying a new cdrom? Thanks. Go

Re: Custom headers -- outgoing email

Frozen Rose wrote: > Yes, Exim will normally write a Sender: header, (although I didn't > think it did if one was supplied... hmmm...) Yes, it will rewrite them to match the actual sender. See section 44.11 of /usr/doc/exim/oview.txt > [snip] > However, if you must change the outgoing sender lin

Re: Linux won't work with RAM > 64 MB

Werner Reisberger wrote: > > I tried to install Debian 2.0r4 without success wasting many hours. Two > questions on this list also didn't help. Finally I discovered that Linux > won't boot if there is more than 64 MB RAM installed (I used 128). I'm using 128 MB RAM and everything works ok. If you

Undersanding bootable media

In my quest to understand booting/LILO/MBR's I've come a cross a phenomenon I dont understand. Friend of mine (linux guru-ish) said that to make a linux bootable floppy you had to use a lowlevel tool like dd as opposed to just copying the files over to the floppy. But dos floppies boot just fine b

Re: Linux won't work with RAM > 64 MB

You can get Debian to use your 128M of memory by passing a command to the kernel with your boot loader. I use lilo and this is what I put in my /etc/lilo.conf file append="mem=80M" I put this right near the top of my lilo.conf file. You would have to use something like this append="mem=128M

Linux won't work with RAM > 64 MB

I tried to install Debian 2.0r4 without success wasting many hours. Two questions on this list also didn't help. Finally I discovered that Linux won't boot if there is more than 64 MB RAM installed (I used 128). There isn't anything mentioned in the Debian install.txt and I am suggesting to inco

Re: Re: Kernel Image

On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Doug Dine wrote: > At 3/6/99 4:55:00 PM, you wrote: > > >Did you use kernel-package? In that case the kernel image will be in a > >..deb package in /usr/src (assuming that the kernel source is in > >/usr/src/linux). You will need to install the package with dpkg. > > Yes, I

Re: Re: Repartition

A rough step by step would help me out a whole bunch. Thanks MT

printer_help_forgot

some additional info on the epson printer problem is that i looked in my /dev/port and found a page and a half of: some additional info on the epson printer problem is that i looked in my /dev/port and found a page and a half of this, and i have no idea what it is. it scares me: ESC[?1048hESC[?1

X, new video card, and servers.

I recently bought a new 2D/3D video card based on the 3DLabs chipset, and the www.xfree86.org serverlist tells me to use the XF86_3DLabs server. This isn't included in the debian distrobution. I'm not sure if that server is only for 3.3.3 and I'm not quite sure how to find out. My question is a)

printer_help_please?

help! my printer has suddenly stopped working. i have absolutely no idea how or why..it was working one minute and then it wasn'tmy wife running 95 prints to the same printer, and the same thing has happened there also. i'm running debian 2.0.34 on a 233mhz intel pentium with 64meg ram th

Netscape

Hello All, I've installed netscape from frozen and for the most part is works fine. Except when I try to access help or Netscape,s home page. What happens is the page will start to load, then a new Netscape window will open showing my home page. I've completely deleted Netscape from my system,

Re: Communicator 4.5 libc6 version

On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Curt Daugaard wrote: > Does anyone know how in the dense thicket of the Netscape site I can > locate a libc6 version of Communicator 4.5 (128 or 168 bit)? It's under the unsupported unix section, so you can get the 128-bit from their web site. The supported one is libc5, as yo

Re: Custom headers -- outgoing email

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aaron Van Couwenberghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: Aaron Van Couwenberghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I have mutt set up to include ~/.muttrc-local for each user. My >.muttrc-local has (among other things) the following commands: > >

Re: potato -"heyho!" message?

On 5 March 1999 at 16:43, "Anthony Mulcahy" wrote: >I upgraded from hamm to potato yesterday without any trouble, however after >the upgrade was completed, I noticed a strange problem. > >I had several Eterms open when the message "heyho!" (followed by a newline >character) started to be repeatedly

Re: Communicator 4.5 libc6 version

*- On 6 Mar, Curt Daugaard wrote about "Communicator 4.5 libc6 version" > Does anyone know how in the dense thicket of the Netscape site I can > locate a libc6 version of Communicator 4.5 (128 or 168 bit)? > > As always, any help much appreciated. > > > Curt Daugaard > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

George Bonser wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > just did, but is this list not moderated, Jesus Christ is so far I now, > > from a different century and he is on top? > > > > Matth > > Don't even think Linus should BE the person of the century. That honor > probably go

Exim Send test

Sorry to bother the list. Testing if I can send mail with exim, yet! -- Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun ___ Wayne

Re: how to use wheel on Logitech mouse?

Also take a look at: http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ *- On 7 Mar, etienne grossmann wrote about "Re: how to use wheel on Logitech mouse?" > > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: how to use wheel on Logitech mouse? > > > Hello, > >

Re: Long filenames on cdr

With mkisofs, you can use -r to have long filenames under linux & -J to have long filename under Windoze. -r -J -> long filenames under Linux + Windoze !! On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 02:00:15PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] called Bernhard Dobbels wrote a 0.4K and a 16 line message : "Long filenames on cdr

[Fwd: LI\nLI]

Hi, I had the same problem as you, and I solved it adding the a line at the top of lilo.conf with the following word in it: linear Bye. Mike Wood wrote: > On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Eric wrote: > > > How does one fix the problem of LILO saying: > > > > LI > > LI > > > > when it boot

Re: Repartition

Mark Yobb wrote: > > Can a person repartition an existing linux partition (assuming it is > not full) without losing the information on it? If so what software > should one use. I repartitioned my original DOS partition without > losing anything a long time ago but I am quite sure this was a DOS

XKEYBOARD - Documentation

I'm trying to get my very personal keyboard layout using the XKEYBOARD - extension of the X-System. Could anyone tell me where to find appropriate documentation reagrding the file-formats and keywords etc. of the files located in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xbk/* ? TIA

Re: how to use wheel on Logitech mouse?

To: debian-user@lists.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to use wheel on Logitech mouse? Hello, here is an extract from http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/08/15/903164189.html : imwheel Jon Atkins (Rabbid Rabbit) - August 15th 1998, 02:56 EST Imwheel makes the wh

Re: Repartition

Mark Yobb dixit: > Can a person repartition an existing linux partition (assuming it is > not full) without losing the information on it? If so what software > should one use. I repartitioned my original DOS partition without > losing anything a long time ago but I am quite sure this was a DOS ap

how to use wheel on Logitech mouse?

I bought a set of the Logitech cordless Desktop. It contains a wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse. The mouse has two buttons and a wheel in the middle. According to the user manual, the wheel may serve as the third button (in Windows), although the main purpose is for Windows Scroll. I set the

Re: Xemacs & Chinese

I haven't used xemacs, but FSF Emacs 20.2 has very nice Chinese support. You need to use set-language-environment to start, and then use select-input-method to select input method. The info with Emacs20.2 under "international" has quite extensive documentation. They support basic PY and ShuangPin

Repartition

Can a person repartition an existing linux partition (assuming it is not full) without losing the information on it? If so what software should one use. I repartitioned my original DOS partition without losing anything a long time ago but I am quite sure this was a DOS app. Thanks, MT

Encoding for EUC on xfstt?

I was trying to figure out how to remap the encoding of some Chinese TTF fonts in xfstt. The name of the encoding should be either gb2312.1980 or EUC (as used in CJK, the latex package). Maybe the supported encoding (as printed by xfstt) listed below cover what I need? Thanks! Jinsong --

Re: Debian-Red Hat- yadda yadda yadda

Well thought out. Bravo!

Re: Debian-Red Hat- yadda yadda yadda

Well thought out. Bravo!

Re: Kernel Image

At 3/6/99 7:15:00 PM, you wrote: > >The last line should give the exit status, which is 1 or 2 if there is an >error, >or 0 if there is no error. This is the last line of the text after all the >other stuff scrolls past. There might be a log of compiler error messages >somewhere in /var (?) but I

Custom headers -- outgoing email

Hi all I need to set some custom headers in my outgoing mail; however, it appears the MUA doesn't have final say in this matter; the MTA does some tinkering of its own in this field. I'm running mutt, and am using the exim MTA. Here are the relevant headers from most of my mails:

Re: netscape

On Sat, 6 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I try to start netscape after installing it from a download, I get the > message, "can't load libXpm.so.4". Has anyone had a similar problem and > found a solution? I think it is bacause,your Debian system has libc6 installed whereas netscape r

Re: Bus error

Tommy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If programs crash with a " bus error" is that entirely a hardware > issue? I believe it is, but I just want to be sure. Thanks > no it's not. most of the time it is actually a software issue. it just means the program was trying to access some garbage in me

Re: Is Linux addictive?

On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 01:35:10PM -0500, Matthew Cocker wrote: > Linux should have to be distributed with a surgeon generals warning > about the possible addictive nature of Linux. Not everybody turns in to a junkie, of course. I visit slashdot approximately twice a year, and have never been to f

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 09:50:30AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > Don't even think Linus should BE the person of the century. That honor > probably goes to Thomas Edison. We owe our current culture and style of > living to that guy. His experiments with his lightbulb led to the > discovery of the "E

System boot help needed!!!

I installed Debian on my PC today. I installed the S3 X server, and now every time Debian boots, the screen starts blinking (in text mode) and I can't do anything. Is there a way to bypass the automatic X startup (XDM I think?) when I boot so that I can get logged in and change my default X serve

Re: Re: Kernel Image

At 3/6/99 5:42:00 PM, you wrote: >Did the compilation end without errors? >Did you 'make zImage' or 'make bzImage'? Yes, I did "make zImage" and there were no errors. >Try 'find / zImage | grep zImage' to find it, also. > Andrew I will do this. Thanks. Doug Dine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://memb

Re: Re: Kernel Image

At 3/6/99 4:55:00 PM, you wrote: >Did you use kernel-package? In that case the kernel image will be in a >..deb package in /usr/src (assuming that the kernel source is in >/usr/src/linux). You will need to install the package with dpkg. Yes, I used the kernel-package. Doug Dine [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Re: Kernel Image

At 3/6/99 6:46:00 PM, you wrote: > >Something went wrong... read the output from the compiler and it should >say what happened. Perhaps it called a utility you don't have, or tried >to use a feature of something that is out of date on your system. Read >what the exit message is and then try to fix

Bus error

If programs crash with a " bus error" is that entirely a hardware issue? I believe it is, but I just want to be sure. Thanks

Re: Re: Kernel Image

At 3/6/99 5:42:00 PM, you wrote: >Did the compilation end without errors? >Did you 'make zImage' or 'make bzImage'? Yes, I did "make zImage" and there were no errors. >Try 'find / zImage | grep zImage' to find it, also. > Andrew I will do this. Thanks. Doug Dine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://memb

Re: Re: Kernel Image

At 3/6/99 4:55:00 PM, you wrote: >Did you use kernel-package? In that case the kernel image will be in a >..deb package in /usr/src (assuming that the kernel source is in >/usr/src/linux). You will need to install the package with dpkg. Yes, I used the kernel-package. Doug Dine [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Linux&Dos assmebler

mike shupp wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Alexander Gutfraind wrote: > > Hello fellows! > > I was thinking about learning assembler, but there is a problem. > > I heard about DOS interrupts, which I guess work only in DOS. > > Which I guess means that if I buy a book about x86 assembler, > > and i

Re: Linux&Dos assmebler

On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Alexander Gutfraind wrote: > Hello fellows! > I was thinking about learning assembler, but there is a > problem. > I heard about DOS interrupts, which I guess work only in > DOS. > Which I guess means that if I buy a book about x86 > assembler, > and it speak a lot about that in

lesstifg and dynamic communicator

Did anybody succeed in getting the dynamic communicator 4.5 deb to work with lesstifg? Or am I getting something wrong here?

Re: Communicator 4.5 libc6 version

Curt Daugaard wrote: > > Does anyone know how in the dense thicket of the Netscape site I can > locate a libc6 version of Communicator 4.5 (128 or 168 bit)? > > As always, any help much appreciated. Bob has told you where the file is, however the Netscape versions from ftp.netscape.com

Re: Communicator 4.5 libc6 version

ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.5/english/unix/unsupported/linux20_glibc2/ Bob On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Curt Daugaard wrote: > Does anyone know how in the dense thicket of the Netscape site I can > locate a libc6 version of Communicator 4.5 (128 or 168 bit)? > > As always, any help much ap

Re: Display full package names

"Ole J. Tetlie" wrote: > > >-David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I have libc6 2.0.7.19981211-6 installed, but when I use dpkg -l > > I see this > > > > ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries > > > > with the -6 at the end truncated. > > > > How can I list the ful

Communicator 4.5 libc6 version

Does anyone know how in the dense thicket of the Netscape site I can locate a libc6 version of Communicator 4.5 (128 or 168 bit)? As always, any help much appreciated. Curt Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Color Depth [was: X & Font Problem]

On Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 05:05:02PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > //:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt10 -bpp 16 I'm a latecomer to this thread, but I should point out that the /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file itself points this out, as does the startx manpage, and /usr/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ. I've been trying