Re: XF86 not starting, broken mouse?

on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:10:40PM -0600, Robert L. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I'm trying to do a "startx" on my desktop. It's exiting with: > > (**) Generic Mouse: Core Pointer > (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice >

Re: [OT] SR ARQ Markov Model

on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:09:57PM -0400, MaD dUCK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hey guys, > sorry to be posting this absolutely off-topic... reason is that I am > desperate (this is academic research, but I ain't cheatin' by asking > you) and of all my mailing lists, you guys are simply the smartes

Galeon review/update (was Re: Browser preferences/options)

on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 07:32:02PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > Actually, I've just updated Galeon, and am liking what I see. Will have > to wait for a bit to see where stability's at. Wow, what a difference two chip generations and a few hundred MHz makes! I've insta

Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:08:12AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:25:37PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:20:51PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > > > Try "| gzip -c >> testing.gz". > > > > That still seems to not work when I sent a mail with Subjec

Video Drivers

Hello. I have and S3 Virge card (Diamond Stealth 2000) and would like to know how to install the proper XF86 server/driver. And where I can locate it with apt-get. Thanks! Jim Darrough, ARS KI7AY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ki7ay.com

Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:08:12AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:25:37PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:20:51PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > > > Try "| gzip -c >> testing.gz". > > > > That still seems to not work when I sent a mail with Subjec

Re: Can't Connect to ISP

I still can't get to the ISP.   I am dragging this Linux box on my RV the week-end for a 3 mos trip on the road.  If I don't get it connected I will lose my contact to the net and most importantly the Debian user-list!    According to my manuals etc., I should be able to run wvdialconf and m

Re: [OT] SR ARQ Markov Model

On Mon, May 07, 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > hey guys, > sorry to be posting this absolutely off-topic... reason is that I am > desperate (this is academic research, but I ain't cheatin' by asking > you) and of all my mailing lists, you guys are simply the smartest. > > i am looking for a Markov Model

XF86 not starting, broken mouse?

I'm trying to do a "startx" on my desktop. It's exiting with: (**) Generic Mouse: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such device. (EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device

Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:25:37PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:20:51PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > > Try "| gzip -c >> testing.gz". > > That still seems to not work when I sent a mail with Subject: gzip > And I know the condition works since if I remove the gzip pip

Re: [users] Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:30:59PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Tue, 08 May 2001 01:25:37PM +1000): > > > Try "| gzip -c >> testing.gz". > > That still seems to not work when I sent a mail with Subject: gzip > > And I know the condition works since if I remove the gzip

Re: Rede uma luz!!!

On Wed, 09 May 2001 00:49:07 +0100 Ricardo Melo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ricardo Melo wrote: > > > > Christoph Simon wrote: > > > > O que devo fazer para ter certeza que o problema é a placa de > > rede? - Confira que está usando o padrão T568A num extremo do cabo e o padrã

Re: gnome logout

hammack wrote: > > Sorry, no help here but I experience the same. When I log-out from GNOME I > get a log in box. I have to go to a virtual consule and log in as user and > then as su and run shutdown -h now. John Set SystemMenu to 1 in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf: SystemMenu=1 then you'd have "halt

setting up an RARP server

I am trying to set up rarp on an Intel PC to boot a Sun Sparcstation via Ethernet. When I try to issue the command: kerr:/home/jkanders# rarp -s 200.17.212.11 36:a0:99:45:f0:48 SIOCSRARP: Invalid argument kerr:/home/jkanders# The documentation from the Debian Sparc Installation notes, explains t

Re: gnome logout

Sorry, no help here but I experience the same. When I log-out from GNOME I get a log in box. I have to go to a virtual consule and log in as user and then as su and run shutdown -h now. John - Original Message - From: "christophe barbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, May 07,

Re: [users] Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Tue, 08 May 2001 01:25:37PM +1000): > > Try "| gzip -c >> testing.gz". > That still seems to not work when I sent a mail with Subject: gzip > And I know the condition works since if I remove the gzip pipe and just > place a filename there then it does append to it

Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:20:51PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:37:19AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I thought I had this worked out, but it doesn't seem to work quite how > > it should. Bascially I want to have mail with a certain subject piped > > into a .gz file

Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

Rob Mahurin wrote: > How will you read mail from the compressed box? By uncompressing it first, I guess. Oki

Re: [users] getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Tue, 08 May 2001 11:37:19AM +1000): > Now if I generate mail with Subject: gzip > it doesn't seem to work. I can see a testing.gz file that has been > created in ~/mail but it is empty. gzip does write to stdout by default. i think you might want to try to 'i' fl

Re: [users] Re: [OT] SR ARQ Markov Model

also sprach Alvin Oga (on Mon, 07 May 2001 06:29:07PM -0700): > try alltheweb.com gazillion stuff to read if thats > what you're looking for looks like just another web search engine. didn't return any more information than google... martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.

Re: Browser preferences/options (was Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody))

on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:25:56PM -0500, Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) [010507 19:22]: > > > > > > If you're a gnome user, why not try galeon ?? It's site is here: > > > http://galeon.sourceforge.net/. I've used it in the past and it's > > >

Re: Question for gurus of mutt / scripting

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:54:19AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It would be really nice to be able to keep the debian-user list a little > smaller and up to date on my system. How could I make mutt move old > threads that have not had a reply in say 5 days into a gzipped file? > This way I co

Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:37:19AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I thought I had this worked out, but it doesn't seem to work quite how > it should. Bascially I want to have mail with a certain subject piped > into a .gz file in my ~/mail directory. > > Here is what I had in .procmailrc: [...

Re: Dialup script question

On Monday 07 May 2001 20:53, Kieren Diment wrote: > My computer connects to the internet with the following dialup script > at the moment: > > pon > sleep 45s > fetchmail > > I would like to get rid of the line sleep 45s and replace it with a > command that starts up the fetchmail process once pon

Dialup script question

My computer connects to the internet with the following dialup script at the moment: pon sleep 45s fetchmail I would like to get rid of the line sleep 45s and replace it with a command that starts up the fetchmail process once pon has successfully negotiated a connection to the internet (my unde

Question for gurus of mutt / scripting

It would be really nice to be able to keep the debian-user list a little smaller and up to date on my system. How could I make mutt move old threads that have not had a reply in say 5 days into a gzipped file? This way I could have an archive of everything but my debian-user file will remain up to

getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

I thought I had this worked out, but it doesn't seem to work quite how it should. Bascially I want to have mail with a certain subject piped into a .gz file in my ~/mail directory. Here is what I had in .procmailrc: PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # all mailboxes are in mail/ L

Re: [OT] SR ARQ Markov Model

hi ya try alltheweb.com gazillion stuff to read if thats what you're looking for c ya alvin On Mon, 7 May 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > hey guys, > sorry to be posting this absolutely off-topic... reason is that I am > desperate (this is academic research, but I ain't cheatin' by asking > you)

Re: Browser preferences/options (was Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody))

* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) [010507 19:22]: > > > > If you're a gnome user, why not try galeon ?? It's site is here: > > http://galeon.sourceforge.net/. I've used it in the past and it's > > quite nice... > > A GNOME environment is not required for galeon, though some gnome libs > ar

[OT] SR ARQ Markov Model

hey guys, sorry to be posting this absolutely off-topic... reason is that I am desperate (this is academic research, but I ain't cheatin' by asking you) and of all my mailing lists, you guys are simply the smartest. i am looking for a Markov Model of the selective-repeat ARQ used in TCP. but i can

Re: Browser preferences/options (was Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody))

on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:16:19PM -0500, Rich Puhek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > > Biggest browser beefs: > > > > - Stability. Quit with the fucking crashing already. Don't lose my > > stuff (this includes state). ***STABILITY IS NOT OPTIONAL*** > > >

Re: Auto alias on reply in mutt?

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:32:50PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Actually, using the ":" in mutt runtime, ":" gives an error, > and in that context "a" is "attach". Looking in context help (?), there > isn't an entry for "alias" in this context. > > Maybe someone else knows? and ":" shouldn't work

Re: Auto alias on reply in mutt?

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:32:50PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:23:32PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: > > Probably. RTFM "send-hook" and "push". You'd probably want something > > in you .muttrc like > > > > send-hook . 'push ' > > > > but you'd probably need some extra stu

Re: Where's lame

get lame at forcer's page. http://www.forcix.cx/computer/debian.html by the way - Viktor - being supportive of open codecs like Vorbis is great and i commend you for it, but forgetting about less free codecs is not really so easy (or at least not realistic). For example, even if you wanted to,

Re: AA with potato (strictly)

On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 04:15:24PM +0200, Jens Benecke wrote: > > My card is OK (NVIDIA TNT2 M64 - it does the antialiasing under > > Mandrake) > > You can only do antialiasing if you do NOT use the NVIDIA drivers (the > commercial ones). They cannot do it yet. Yes they can. At least version 0.9.

Re: rsync+ssh problem

You need rsync on BOTH machines. Lars. On Mon, 7 May 2001, Peter O. Fedichev wrote: > > Hello > > I am trying to use rsync over ssh on one of my linux boxes. > > remotelogin]# rsync -avz -e ssh / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:backup > bash: rsync: command not found > unexpected EOF in read_timeout >

Re: Where's lame

Robert Voigt wrote: > > > Forget MP3, Ogg Vorbis is better as it is free : > > > > > >http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html > > > > I know, but my custom-build hardware won't play it. Too bad. > > Custom hardware? Is that correct? Perhaps Vorbis should be portet to it ;) Okay, I already

Re: Auto alias on reply in mutt?

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:23:32PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: > Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking for a way to add an alias for every person that I send a reply. > > > > I've looked in the documentation quickly, and I can't even find a variable > > that contains the "to" address.

Re: Emacs sends mail, but doesn't show-up in exim.

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:01:02PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote: > > I'm still seeing a problem. Have eliminated Emacs, by sending test > messages with: > $ echo "TEST" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This time I've noticed that an email message will appear in mailq > output immediately after usin

Re: Browser preferences/options (was Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody))

"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > Biggest browser beefs: > > - Stability. Quit with the fucking crashing already. Don't lose my > stuff (this includes state). ***STABILITY IS NOT OPTIONAL*** > > - Speed. Render. Quickly. Load. Quickly. Stop. Quickly. Ties > strongly to l

Re: DDS backups

On Mon, 7 May 2001, francisco m . neto wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for some application which is able to do backups > os DDS tapes. Could somebody please appoint me to something that could > do that? > We're changing gradually our systems from RH to debian, and > the software we

Re: mouse wheel scrolling

Hi Viktor, > If you are running XF4.0x you do not need imwheel. Actually, even in > XF863.3.6 you do not need imwheel if you run KDE or gnome. They > support it out of the box. removed imwheel apt-get remove imwheel although i never set it up to run whenever X started up > First of all you h

Statistical software for Linux (was Re: help)

on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:30:07AM -0700, barsi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hello, I am a graduate student in molecular biology and I AM SICK OF > MS WINDOWS! I am installing your debian Linux os on my IBM 600x > laptop, but I still need a couple statistical packages currently only > available fo

Re: step by step kernel recompile

There are 2 ways that I know to do it, the debian method and the conventional method. (Replace all references to a specific kernel with a kernel of your choice) Disclaimer: I am NOT a kernel guru, but I do compile kernels frequently and I know that my preferred method in each step works (assuming

Re: rsync+ssh problem -- more info

> "Peter" == Peter O Fedichev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> yes, I have Peter> rsync -avz -e ssh / /tmp/backup Peter> works perfect, also when start from bash It sounds like rsync is not on the path on the *remote* computer. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:30:28PM +0200, Casper Gielen wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 02:57:29PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > > > > well then... let me through this last one out: > > > > (E)ight (M)egabytes (A)nd (C)onstantly (S)wapping > > Sorry, can't resist: Escape Meta Alt Control Shift Well

Re: Getting realplayer streams to disk files

"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 08:46:33AM -0400, Sean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm just amazed that it is so important to block us from caching > > > > postage-stamp sized movie commercials, and

Re: Cloning your Debian system

hi ya viktor... for changing root partitions - change /etc/fstab to the new root ( hda7 ) you wanna boot - rerun lilo - make sure you can boot the old system ( hda8 ) into single user mode just in case... - reboot your box... for co

Re: Cloning your Debian system

Hello, Viktor. I'm a little mystified as to why you CC'd this to me, but here goes. On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:00:54PM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote: > I got a crazy idea: if you want to make 100 % sure that you do not > brake your production system, why don't you have an exact copy of > that system

Re: DDS backups

on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 02:52:54PM -0300, francisco m . neto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for some application which is able to do backups > os DDS tapes. Could somebody please appoint me to something that could > do that? > We're changing gradually our system

Re: DDS backups

on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:13:15PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 02:52:54PM -0300, francisco m . neto wrote: > > I'm looking for some application which is able to do backups > > os DDS tapes. Could somebody please appoint me to something that cou

Resolved: Re: sk_run_filter and irda.o?

/ Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | I just built a 2.4.4 kernel this weekend (running on top of Debian 2.2 | with http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html). Although things seem | to be running fine, I notice that irda won't load: | | hermes:/home/ndw# modprobe irda | /lib/modu

hdparm weirdness

I just tried making some adjustments via hdparm, and the unexpected happened. I enabled multicount transfers and 32bit w/ sync (dma was enabled by the 440BX chipset) and things slowed down. it went from: # hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.10 seconds =116.36

Re: can't connect to portmapper from remote host

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 08:17:38AM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > sounds like a generic routing problems rather then a portmap problem. > run 'traceroute -n 130.241.119.140' from 194.236.111.14. traceroute > is in the traceroute package. > > if you can't reach the host, then there is either a routing

Re: Starting X through INIT and kdm

On Monday 07 May 2001 18:55, ktb wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:22:00PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > > Hi all > > > > Until now i start X with the startx command. I'd like to set it up that > > init X starts with the kdm interface. How do i do this on debian. I think > > that has somethii

Browser preferences/options (was Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody))

on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 07:54:39AM -0400, Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Note, however, if you're shifting to the dailies, that the 0.9x > >> series is rumored to be less stable than the 0.8x line. > > > > N > > > > /me sobs > > > > > > why don't they just throw away that

Re: DDS backups

hi francisco... heheheheearkeia was the "mistake"... if its not portable ?? dont know why people wanna pay $$$ for backup programs when tar is free have fun alvin donno if you are looking for a silly script or not... backing up to tape is no big deal nothing special -- trick is you h

Re: X question

Lo, on Monday, May 7, Andre Berger did write: > * Karsten M. Self , 2001-05-07 09:04 +0200: > > on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 06:50:52AM -0400, Sunny Dubey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > hi, > > > > > > how do I get Xfree86 to not automatically copy everything that I > > > highlight > > > with

Re: [users] Re: Where's lame

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:29:17PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:22:33PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > > package tree. i would like to adopt the lame mp3 encoder as a debian > > package and was wondering if there are any objections? is there > > already a maintainer? can this pa

statistical packages for Debian {Re: help}

> "barsi" == barsi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... but I still need a couple statistical packages > currently only available for MS windows ... You might find that you can do a lot of your statistics on Debian as well. Although I have a dual-boot laptop specifically so I can use S

Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 02:57:29PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > > well then... let me through this last one out: > > (E)ight (M)egabytes (A)nd (C)onstantly (S)wapping Sorry, can't resist: Escape Meta Alt Control Shift -- Casper Gielen [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- People just gen

step by step kernel recompile

Does anyone know a good link to some straight forward step-by-step instructions on how to recompile the linux kernel? I need to up the max processes per user (by altering /usr/include/linux/tasks.h) and in order for it to stick, I need to recompile the kernel. Ulimit doesn't work so don't pass me o

Installing Debian over a Suse system

Hello, I have installed Suse 7.0, but want to shift to Debian 2.2. I have read installation manuals and FAQs regarding installing Debian, but have not found anything on this item. The Suse system is tweaked significantly, with kernel 2.4.0 and a lot of other changes. Any suggestions? Einar Jørg

Re: Stopping vim from auto-indenting

Andre Berger wrote: > set nopaste > set pastetoggle= > > I only toggle to paste mode if necessary. I think I found this one in > Sven Guckes's vim tips. The problem I've always had with this is that I can press f11 to enter paste mode even if I'm already in insert mode. Handy. But I can only pr

Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:36:27PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > well then... let me through this last one out: > > > > (E)ight (M)egabytes (A)nd (C)onstantly (S)wapping > > Yeah. That was a problem when we had 16MB of RAM on typical > machines. With 512MB of RAM, I don't care so much

Cloning your Debian system

I got a crazy idea: if you want to make 100 % sure that you do not brake your production system, why don't you have an exact copy of that system before you do an upgrade (or just use that system for trying out things, which you cannot afford on your system). I got a spare 2 Gig partition on my sys

Re: Emacs sends mail, but doesn't show-up in exim.

I've finally got a concrete question that has a technical answer. I ran this script: http://www.lafn.org/~cymbala/photospy.html and it created an email message. What are the "D"s next to some addresses but not others in this mailq output: 0m 2.3K 14wrw8-0003EP-00 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D

Re: LS120 drive

From: > "Andrew Hagen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >indicates that as early as kernels 2.0 something there was support >for running an IDE LS-120 as an a: drive. Oh my God. It was early when I wrote that. I'd like to take this opportunity

Re: Gimp and gif

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 07:05:05AM +0200, Thomas Wegner wrote: > I' ve installed gimp1.2 and gimp1.2-nonfree with gif support. Now I'm > a little bit confused because it is not possible to save any file as a > gif-file. I can open a gif-file and save it as gif but there's no other > way. Is this co

Re: [users] Re: Where's lame

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:22:33PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > package tree. i would like to adopt the lame mp3 encoder as a debian > package and was wondering if there are any objections? is there > already a maintainer? can this packet be debianized? Alas, you hit on a faq. Please look at: http:

Re: Where's lame

On Monday 07 May 2001 21:21, Alan Shutko wrote: > MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Personal and commercial use of compiled versions of LAME (or any > >other mp3 encoder) requires a patent license in > >some countries." > > Has anyone compared it's ogg/vorbis output to oggenc? I'

Re: Emacs sends mail, but doesn't show-up in exim.

Could this have something to do with it... A week ago the power suddenly went off. Perhaps exim was doing something when the power went off, and got messed up? In the previous post, there were retry and wait-remote_smtp files in my _/var/spool/exim/db_ subdirectory. * * *

Re: Auto alias on reply in mutt?

Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for a way to add an alias for every person that I send a reply. > > I've looked in the documentation quickly, and I can't even find a variable > that contains the "to" address. > > Is this possible with mutt 1.2.5? Probably. RTFM "send-hook" and "push

apt-get / mailx/ logrotate

I installed my own build of sendmail and would like to also have the logrotate functionality. However logrotate depends on mailx, which in turn depends on some mail server. But apt-get doesn't recognize I have sendmail installed. I don't want to install the debian sendmail package. Is there anyt

Re: [off topic] about terminology

On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 03:12:30PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > - "free software" is confusing because "free" is "freedom" and "zero > > costing" together; > > only in the broken english language. i think most others have more > distinction between freedom and cost. Well, some languages are

lame

a concise answer to the "why lame can't be packaged" question may be found here: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "if beethoven's seventh symphony i

Re: Unable to start X_SOLVED!

It's solved. I didn't have the proper packages which I snatched with dselect. thanks for the replys

New entry

Ciao nuova mailing-list :-), Mi chiamo Antonio e sono di Novara. Uso debian da 5 mesi circa, quindi sono un newbie :-)) Ho letto un pò di msg, e sembrano veramente interessanti Ciao a tutti. -- Non conosci GNU/Linux e l'Open Source? Prova a dare un okkio a: www.ziobu

Re: connecting through a proxy

Alternatively, for apt you can try the Acquire section of /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 02:01:38PM -0500, Jason P. Holland wrote: > i always set my shell environment variables http_proxy and ftp_proxy and it > works for apt-get. not sure about the behavi

Re: Auto alias on reply in mutt?

> I'm looking for a way to add an alias for every person that I > send a reply. > > I've looked in the documentation quickly, and I can't even find > a variable that contains the "to" address. I *think* that, while you're writing the reply, hitting the letter "a" will prompt you about creating an

Re: help

On Monday 07 May 2001 20:30, barsi wrote: > hello, I am a graduate student in molecular biology and I AM SICK OF MS > WINDOWS! I am installing your debian Linux os on my IBM 600x laptop, but I > still need a couple statistical packages currently only available for MS > windows, my question is: > >

apsfilter problem

In upgrading to woody, apsfilter no longer works. I've run checkpc and checkpc -f to fix permissions and that hasn't helped. Has anyone managed to get this working and if so, what do I need to do? I'm using an Epson Stylux Color 600 printer kernel 2.4.2 thanks

Re: a printer for Linux

On Sunday 06 May 2001 11:00, David Purton wrote: > On Sat, 5 May 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: > > I'm no expert on printers, but I don't think resolution is a very > > good indication of print quality. I think it's entirely possible > > that a 600x600 laser will have better quality than a 1200x1200 >

Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

MaD dUCK wrote: > well then... let me through this last one out: > > (E)ight (M)egabytes (A)nd (C)onstantly (S)wapping Yeah. That was a problem when we had 16MB of RAM on typical machines. With 512MB of RAM, I don't care so much anymore!

Re: help

> hello, I am a graduate student in molecular biology and I AM SICK OF MS > WINDOWS! I am installing your debian Linux os on my IBM 600x laptop, but I > still need a couple statistical packages currently only available for MS '> Q: Can I have Debian/Linux OS installed on my computer while also ha

Re: help

Hi. You need to read a dual-booting HOWTO (one of the Windows-Linux HOWTOs) It explains in detail how to setup a dualboot system, and how to setup lilo so you can boot into whatever you have. Andrei

Re: install screensaver with setuid root

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:15:36PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:12:51AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > > You should probably file a bug on the package, if it's not useable > > without introducing a security risk. Perhaps someone more familiar > > with the code could seperate

Re: help

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:30:07AM -0700, barsi wrote: > hello, I am a graduate student in molecular biology and I AM SICK OF MS > WINDOWS! I am installing your debian Linux os on my IBM 600x laptop, but I > still need a couple statistical packages currently only available for MS > windows, my ques

Re: help

Hi, On Mon, 7 May 2001, barsi wrote: > Q: Can I have Debian/Linux OS installed on my computer while also having MS > Windows OS installed (god knows I don't want to, but I need it for now). I > was thinking along the lines of a partitioned disk, where each OS would be > on it's own disk...? but

Re: Where's lame

MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Personal and commercial use of compiled versions of LAME (or any >other mp3 encoder) requires a patent license in >some countries." Has anyone compared it's ogg/vorbis output to oggenc? I'd be interested in what GPSYCHO can do for quality. It mi

Re: How to configure supermount?

> Hi All, > > I patched the 2.218 kernel with supermount.patch for 2.2.17. There > was no error at patching time, but after compiling the kernel it > does not seem to work. the /cdrom dir is locked. > > Does supermount require any more configuration? How? > > Thanks in advance. -- Viktor # /et

Re: DDS backups

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 02:52:54PM -0300, francisco m . neto wrote: > I'm looking for some application which is able to do backups > os DDS tapes. Could somebody please appoint me to something that could > do that? Pretty much anything can be used to backup to DDS tapes. You could use 'dd'

Re: How to get mutt to use mail aliases

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 02:21:39AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have set up a .mail_aliases file for mutt that looks like: > alias mdevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In my .muttrc I have: > set alias_file=$HOME/.mail_aliases > source $HOME/.mail_aliases > set edit_hdrs > > Now when I try and edi

Re: help

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:30:07AM -0700, barsi wrote: > hello, I am a graduate student in molecular biology and I AM SICK OF MS > WINDOWS! I am installing your debian Linux os on my IBM 600x laptop, but I > still need a couple statistical packages currently only available for MS > windows, my ques

RE: connecting through a proxy

i always set my shell environment variables http_proxy and ftp_proxy and it works for apt-get. not sure about the behavior of exim and fetchmail though. jason > > Hello gurus. > > Can anybody point to where I can find information about > configuring apt-get, fetchmail, and exim to connect throug

Re: Emacs sends mail, but doesn't show-up in exim.

I'm still seeing a problem. Have eliminated Emacs, by sending test messages with: $ echo "TEST" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] This time I've noticed that an email message will appear in mailq output immediately after using mail, AND some messages just disappear for some reason. Here's a test scrip

Auto alias on reply in mutt?

Hi, I'm looking for a way to add an alias for every person that I send a reply. I've looked in the documentation quickly, and I can't even find a variable that contains the "to" address. Is this possible with mutt 1.2.5? TIA, Mike

Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

also sprach will trillich (on Mon, 07 May 2001 12:01:30PM -0500): > hey, i just found out (foldoc/jargon dict) that emacs evolved > from (removing hat from head) Teco, so we may be soon taking > exceptions to emacs-dissing... :) well then... let me through this last one out: (E)ight (M)egabytes (

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Re: xmms and audio cd playing

» Viktor Lakics said this and I say that: > Under Debian, I cannot play Audio CDs with xmms. (dedicated CD > players work!). > Xmms has an audio CD plugin, which I enabled, set the cdrom pointing > to the right dir, and now what? How can I tell xmms to play the > audio CDs? Play file shows nothin

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