On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Bill Gates is selling computers now?
evil empire, not Evil Empire.
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Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:11:38PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
>
> > But then again, do you *really* want to buy a computer from the evil
> > empire?
>
> Bill Gates is selling computers now?
>
> Aside from those video game things?
>
> I bet the
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:11:38PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> But then again, do you *really* want to buy a computer from the evil
> empire?
Bill Gates is selling computers now?
Aside from those video game things?
I bet the tech support department at Wall Mart is really
top-notch!
;)
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:43:05PM -0400, alex wrote:
> Can anyone set us straight about these computers?
No, but I can set you straight on Walmart: screw them. Give your
dollars to some local small-business person to build the same thing
for you. Screw Walmart.
Virtually any town of a decent si
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, alex wrote:
> Does anyone have first hand knowledge about the MicroTech/Walmart computers
> that are
> sold without an installed operating system?
>
> There's a lot of guessing and opining about these computers but no one seems
> to know
> for sure about the quality and whet
"PSCrazyoldlady" == PSCrazyoldlady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PSCrazyoldlady> i got a cd writer is it like a cd burner how to
PSCrazyoldlady> get it to burn c d
It's a cd burner. And it ain't so easy to use with Linux, particulary
if it's not SCSI. Not hard, just takes a bit of res
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> When you say SMP support is better: are you referring to the fact that
> 2.4 scales to a higher number of processors, or will I actually
> experience a performance boost on my dual Athlon?
Both.
> Does APM work for SMP systems on 2.4? You can enable i
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On Friday 12 April 2002 10:23, Janis HAGELBERG wrote:
> I've upgraded my debian potato dist., but now xfree doesn't
> work anymore. the problem seems to be that the xserver-xfree86
> doesn't exist on any official debian mirror. did the name
> changed, or am i looking for the wrong package?
> becaus
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Rohan Deshpande wrote:
> > The subject basically says it all. Galeon and Mozilla are crashing very
> > much in Debian Unstable after a dist-upgrade on 4/11/02. Anyone else
> > experiencing this, and know how to solve?
>
> Yes, wait for a new verson of moz
Does anyone have first hand knowledge about the
MicroTech/Walmart computers that are
sold without an installed operating
system?
There's a lot of guessing and opining about these
computers but no one seems to know
for sure about the quality and whether or not
there's any problem with usi
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 20:49, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> * Sean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> ...
> > Somebody once told me that if you come to the table with complaints and
> > no ideas for solutions for your complaints then you're part of the
> > problem, not the solution.
>
> I heard
Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Control Panel ? -> Theme Manager ? -> Use Custom Font ?
>
> Are you talking Gnome/Sawfish?
Sorry for not making sure the words were exactly correct. I should be
more specific, since my word choice has apparently confused you.
* Open the Control Center.
* Sean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
...
> Somebody once told me that if you come to the table with complaints and
> no ideas for solutions for your complaints then you're part of the
> problem, not the solution.
I heard it's "precipitate" rather than "problem".
The problem is that t
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 18:42, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Yeah, of course. In KDE, fonts are configured via Kontrol center.
> > In Gnome/Sawfish, I spent about 5 minutes looking for a place to
> > configure fonts globally, and gave up.
>
> Control Panel ->
(I seem to be missing Dima's post. All I have is what Paul quoted.)
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 03:39:42PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
| On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
|
| > Basically, Debian project seems to be moving towards
| > more feechoorz, more luser-friendly helper apps e
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:29:56PM -0400, Sean wrote:
| On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 19:58, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
| >
| > > This is a vaild point, in my mind. Implementing a BSD-style ports
| > > structure would help to get around this in my mind.
| >
| > Explain this one? I'm unfamiliar with por
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 19:58, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
>
> > This is a vaild point, in my mind. Implementing a BSD-style ports
> > structure would help to get around this in my mind.
>
> Explain this one? I'm unfamiliar with ports.
>
The BSD ports system is one where you download source inst
It seems that it must have been removed from the archive between your
installs. 2.4.17 does not exist on the archives now, only
2.4.17-b42.4. I may be wrong but it seems to me it hasn't been there
for several weeks. I would suggest installing 2.4.18.
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 19:11, curtis wrote:
>
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 19:51, Pete Harlan wrote:
> Same problem here.
>
> I have a Nikon Coolpix 5000 camera, and a Serverworks motherboard
> (Thunder 2500). usb-ohci is the only host controller module that
> worked at all, and it 'worked' just as shown below.
>
> The camera connects fine in Win9
begin Paul 'Baloo' Johnson quotation:
>
> RPM *still* puts files in the wrong places, and you *still* have to find
> packages and resolve dependancies by hand.
up2date-nox
Oh, I'm not trying to say it compares to apt-get; Debian still blows
RedHat out of the water on package management. Howev
At 10:50 07/04/02 -0700, you wrote:
> "gob" == gob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
gob> If all else fails, I'll see my brother about Woody CD
gob> upgrades.
If that means that you're certain you're running something older than
Woody, then I'd suggest you upgrade to Woody before you do
Let's go back to my original problem.
Here's my letter:
I upgraded the kernels on all of computers per instructions, which
are provided at the end of the message.
This worked on all but one computer.
I assumed that that computer was upgraded to 2.4, but I discovered
recently that
Lo, on Friday, April 12, Craig Duncan did write:
> I just recently dumped Netscape mail in favor of vm (in emacs). I'm a
> _long_ time emacs user and although i've heard a lot of good things
> about mutt, when i was trying to figure out what to replace Netscape
> mail with, i decided upon vm beca
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 01:05:24AM +0100, Simon Hepburn wrote:
> Sean wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 18:39, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> > > On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> > > > 1. I've nothing against helper apps. as long as they *can
> > > > be turned off*. Dexconf cannot be t
Wow! Lots of responses. Thanks to all for your comments. Rather than
write about 15 separate replys, I'm going to address most of the points
in this one mail.
Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Two programs that from a user perspective cause workarounds are
> xcdroast/cdrecord/mkisofs &
Sean wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 18:39, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> > > 1. I've nothing against helper apps. as long as they *can
> > > be turned off*. Dexconf cannot be turned off (don't get
> > > me started on general idiocy behind dexconf. Or
On 12 Apr 2002, Sean wrote:
> Choosing to stagnate is never a successful option.
True, but it's a better option than offering bloat.
> don't want to, but they're still available. Just because it cramps the
> style of some people is not a valid reason to eliminate major categories
> of a general
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 03:39:42PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> > 1. I've nothing against helper apps. as long as they *can
> > be turned off*. Dexconf cannot be turned off (don't get
> > me started on general idiocy behind dexconf. Or alsaconf).
i got a cd writer is it like a cd burner how to get it to burn c d
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On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 18:39, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
>
> > Basically, Debian project seems to be moving towards
> > more feechoorz, more luser-friendly helper apps etc.
> > Most software engineers believe that this exactly the
> > wrong thing to do:
Hi
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 05:11:50PM -0500, dman wrote:
> Will anyone help curtis? I don't know about the 'bf' kernels.
bf = boot floppy
Special kernel flavor compiled for the initial system installation.
It should be quite useful but may not have all the bells and whistle.
Just install norma
Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yeah, of course. In KDE, fonts are configured via Kontrol center.
> In Gnome/Sawfish, I spent about 5 minutes looking for a place to
> configure fonts globally, and gave up.
Control Panel -> Theme Manager -> Use custom font. Click the button
and enjoy
* Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I assume you're talking about X and Gnome? Unless someone
> > comes up with a better advice, ditch Gnome and install KDE.
> > On my LCD I get ugly fonts in gtk applications only, KDE ones
> > are OK
how do i get a full screen ?
Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I started getting these errors yesterday. I can't figure out where
> they're coming from. System is mostly woody with a few packages from
> unstable. Any hints would be most appreciated.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ traceroute www.debian.org
> traceroute: War
I had this problem a few weeks ago. I also could not login as any user
by any means, however I could login as root. After about a week and a
few responses to my post here I gave up, backed up all home directories
and reinstalled woody. I would love to know what happened and how to
fix it.
On Fr
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> It's very liberating. Every time one of your friends changes jobs or
> internet providers and sends you new contact information, it brings a
> little smile to your face knowing you'll never have to do this again.
Yes. I might have to do it one more ti
I've been building Linux kernels since version
0.99.. I just tried generating a kernel-image .deb
package, and it worked first try.
I have to say that kernel-package is just too cool.
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On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 03:39:44PM -0700, David Wright wrote:
|
| > Root-NFS: Server returned error -101 while mounting /tftpboot/kiosk0
|
| Hmm. Use ethereal to watch the RPC calls going back and forth; it often
| gives more detailed info on the meaning of error codes.
Ok, I'll try that.
| Hav
Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I assume you're talking about X and Gnome? Unless someone
> comes up with a better advice, ditch Gnome and install KDE.
> On my LCD I get ugly fonts in gtk applications only, KDE ones
> are OK (though font quality on LCDs is noticeably lower than
> on
Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anybody know if the nautilus in sid has the html rendering of
> the help files etc. enabled ?
Yeah, but you need to install one of the addition packages, either
nautilus-suggested, nautilus-mozilla, or nautilus-extra. I forget which
though...
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I started getting these errors yesterday. I can't figure out where
they're coming from. System is mostly woody with a few packages from
unstable. Any hints would be most appreciated.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ traceroute www.debian.org
traceroute: Warning: findsaddr: error sending netlink message:
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> Basically, Debian project seems to be moving towards
> more feechoorz, more luser-friendly helper apps etc.
> Most software engineers believe that this exactly the
> wrong thing to do: more complexity => unforseen
> interactions between the parts => mor
> Root-NFS: Server returned error -101 while mounting /tftpboot/kiosk0
Hmm. Use ethereal to watch the RPC calls going back and forth; it often
gives more detailed info on the meaning of error codes.
Have you tried booting off /tftpboot/192.168.1.2 (or whatever your client
IP is) instead of /tftp
Below I quoted a message I found in the archives. It pretty much states my
problem: VIA supplies drivers for this onboard soundchip (which is on many,
if not all, of the motherboards with the VIA Apollo KT266A chipset) for
several distros (Caldera, RedHat, Suse, Mandrake), but not for Debian. I
dman wrote:
>
> | With 1000+ messages (and 5000+ is pretty easily attainable), performance
> | on opening a folder sucks. I assume it's because mutt has to do an
> | fopen() on each file, scan headers, group output, and sort it. The
> | result is a several-seconds (sometimes 10-20) on opening
On Tuesday 09 April 2002 5:06 pm, Nick Hall wrote:
> I'm running XFree86 4.1.0.1 and Gnome. A couple days ago I did
> apt-get upgrade (I was running testing) and it upgraded some
> packages. The next day when I started my computer it started
> into X and the username/password box came up, but after
* Rick Crawford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> I'm starting to get very frustrated.
>
> I acquired a new computer with a 17" Flat Panel Monitor (a Gateway
> FPD1700). Installed Woody on it, and the fonts all looked quite
> horrendous. I followed all of the font-deuglification tricks with th
Will anyone help curtis? I don't know about the 'bf' kernels.
-D
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| From: curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: Kernel identification
| Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:41:50 -070
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 12:25:00AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| on Thu, Apr 11, 2002, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
|
| > You have no lack of control over how it behaves. (I use maildir
| > myself)
|
| OK, question for you.
|
| I've switched to maildir, um, well, I forget why. Maybe pefor
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 12:08:21PM -0700, David Wright wrote:
|
| I have a 6-machine computational cluster running diskless under Debian.
| We are using a custom-compiled kernel 2.4.17. To get this to work, you
| MUST compile your own kernel. The stock Debian kernels don't fufill the
| requirement
On Friday 12 April 2002 21:58, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> "debootstrap" is your friend.
Thanks, just what I needed. Couldn't bee easier.
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I'm on [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Oklahma City. I'll check out the ethernet howto you
mentioned.
Thanks
Louis
At 01:10 AM 4/12/2002 -0700, you wrote:
Unless you're on Roadrunner in some backwater market (and to a lesser
degree, Roadrunner in general), you'll find that cable sets up based
* Paul 'Baloo' Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020412 02:33]:
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Hall Stevenson wrote:
>
> > -- When you do your 'make config', be sure to enable ext2 support,
> > assuming this is what you use. It's *not* enabled or turned on by
> > default anymore. Also, the default processor ty
I'm starting to get very frustrated.
I acquired a new computer with a 17" Flat Panel Monitor (a Gateway
FPD1700). Installed Woody on it, and the fonts all looked quite
horrendous. I followed all of the font-deuglification tricks with the
TrueType directory's fonts.alias file, etc., but the fonts
Daniel Toffetti declaimed:
> Hi !
>
> How can I use rpl (or any other suitable command) to transform the "\n"
> character between Unix and Msdos formats ?? rpl seems to be the right
> tool, but I can't figure out how to specify that strings.
>
> Thanks !!
>
> --
> Daniel Toffetti ---
ben, 2002-Apr-12 00:19 -0700:
> >
> >6. on reply, add your text at the bottom of the message body
> > after removing content you are not responding too
> >
> > or is this too much?
>
> the idea is right, and i do understand what you mean, but how do we phrase
> that so that everyone get
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 04:10:33PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote:
>
> Please note you'll have to upgrade many packages in order to keep using
> them with a 2.4 kernel, I recall now of pppd but there are others.
> Check the docs in the kernel tarball.
No, he's already running woody, which support
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 06:55:27PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> * Change IMAP folders.
use the spoolfile command to set the spool to your IMAP inbox. For
example: set spoolfile=imap://192.168.1.1/INBOX
also
set copy
set record=imap://192.168.1.1/Sent
'Mutt and IMAP' explains all of this.
h
Mark Carroll wrote:
On 12 Apr 2002, Scott Henson wrote:
Is there something wrong with the list archives? When I put in the
exact subject line of a thread I would like to see the beginning of, it
says no matches found. I know the thread is there, but it isnt coming
up with anything.
(snip)
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:21:36PM +0200, Andreas Grabner wrote:
> After sending some mails to the list but dont see them I looked in the
> archive where i saw:
> # Sender: Andreas Grabner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> which is wrong !!!
>
> Is there a wrong setting in my exim ?!
> I have no own DNS or so
I'm trying to use the debian package of dmalloc in sid to find
allocation errors only in my own code. Unfortunately, not free'd
chunks of libc show up and I would like to get rid of them. I've found
the `log-unknown' tag in the info-file and tried:
dmalloc -r log-unknown
which tells me th
Does anybody know if the nautilus in sid has the html rendering of
the help files etc. enabled ?
Thanks in advance,
Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Hi,
"debootstrap" is your friend.
Karsten Self had a nice post on how to do it recently within a week).
Go check out web interface or just download debootstrap in woody :)
Cheers Osamu
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:49:54PM +0200, Jesper Fruergaard Andersen wrote:
> I would like to make a new Debia
I would like to make a new Debian install in a directory which e.g. could be
a new HD. I have noticed that dpkg has the option --root which kind of makes
this possible. There just needs to be a base Debian in that dir for it to
work. Any idea on how to get that base Debian installed in that dir?
Patrick Kirk wrote:
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 19:28, Ted Wager wrote:
Hi..
On booting up the screen message tells me
"There are differences between bootsector and it's backup"
This is followed by a list of numbers and the message
"Not fixed automatically"...The system works ok but I would
> Any and all comments welcome,
> Richard
Please note you'll have to upgrade many packages in order to keep using
them with a 2.4 kernel, I recall now of pppd but there are others.
Check the docs in the kernel tarball.
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Running
On 12 Apr 2002, Brian Nelson wrote:
(snip)
> featureful. I've never tried vm, but I'd assume gnus contains all the
> functionality of vm plus a lot more.
I know people who, by choice, use vm for some stuff but gnus for other
stuff, so I'd assume that neither is a clear winner over the other for a
I have a 6-machine computational cluster running diskless under Debian.
We are using a custom-compiled kernel 2.4.17. To get this to work, you
MUST compile your own kernel. The stock Debian kernels don't fufill the
requirements for diskless booting. I'm afraid I won't be able to recall
them all th
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Same problem here.
I have a Nikon Coolpix 5000 camera, and a Serverworks motherboard
(Thunder 2500). usb-ohci is the only host controller module that
worked at all, and it 'worked' just as shown below.
The camera connects fine in Win98, so it's possible to talk to it from
the Serverworks USB con
Craig Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Turetsky writes:
>
> > Mutt is great. Read enough of the handbook or info to get started, then
> > add to your knowledge as situations require. I started using it a year
> > or two ago and find it a real treat
> >
> > --
> > David
>
> I ju
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thanks kent.
i've tried what you suggested,
to use apt-get alone.
apparently, dselect isn't the culprit,
and neither is apt-get.
in fact, with "nothing" running,
disk space seems to decrease equally fast.
i originally suspected some obscure logging,
and killed klogd, but that wasn't it too.
is
Hi
After sending some mails to the list but dont see them I looked in the
archive where i saw:
# Sender: Andreas Grabner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
which is wrong !!!
Is there a wrong setting in my exim ?!
I have no own DNS or something else what have i todo?
Thanks
Andreas Grabner
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Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sylpheed opens folders very quickly because it keeps its own index
> file in each folder, and so does not need to read headers from every
> file.
Yes. :)
> Since Sylpheed uses MH format, which requires a folder lock any
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 19:41, Coen De Roover wrote:
> Well, I thought that writing might be necessary to send the commands to
> the scanner, but adding the write permission didn't help ..
>
I thought that changing the write permissions didn't help because
sane-find-scanner didn't report the scann
Big up, the list.
I've just gone out and bought a new DVD player - specs at end of the
mail. The last one I had was, supposedly, RPC2 - region 2 - and the
firmware wasn't rewritable.
After buying this new one, which /can/ be upgraded to RPC1, I
decided to actually check out some of the errors I'd
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 10:34, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 12-Apr-2002 Coen De Roover wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 19:24, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> >> so, what are the owner/group and perms of /dev/usbscanner?
> >
> > crw-r--r--1 root root 180, 48 Apr 12 18:44 /dev/usbscan
On 12 Apr 2002, Scott Henson wrote:
> Is there something wrong with the list archives? When I put in the
> exact subject line of a thread I would like to see the beginning of, it
> says no matches found. I know the thread is there, but it isnt coming
> up with anything.
(snip)
I've wondered tha
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 19:34, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 12-Apr-2002 Coen De Roover wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 19:24, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> >> so, what are the owner/group and perms of /dev/usbscanner?
> >
> > crw-r--r--1 root root 180, 48 Apr 12 18:44 /dev/usbscan
I too am a new user and have installed linux on hdb1 and windows 2000 on
hda1. I can boot to linux and windows and have lilo configured properly but
dselect and tasksel aren't able to find the packages (which are on hda1 in
order to install them. Tasksel cant see them at all (is there a config
On 12-Apr-2002 Coen De Roover wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 19:24, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>> so, what are the owner/group and perms of /dev/usbscanner?
>
> crw-r--r--1 root root 180, 48 Apr 12 18:44 /dev/usbscanner
>
> I have never seen the c before so I didn't know what the ap
David Turetsky writes:
> Mutt is great. Read enough of the handbook or info to get started, then
> add to your knowledge as situations require. I started using it a year
> or two ago and find it a real treat
>
> --
> David
I just recently dumped Netscape mail in favor of vm (in emacs). I
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 19:24, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> so, what are the owner/group and perms of /dev/usbscanner?
crw-r--r--1 root root 180, 48 Apr 12 18:44 /dev/usbscanner
I have never seen the c before so I didn't know what the appropriate
chmod command was to make it writable f
On 12-Apr-2002 Coen De Roover wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just finished installing my Acer scanner using sane.
> All went fine and I'm able to use it with xsane / gimp when I'm root,
> but not when I'm an ordinary user.
>
> Should I add myself to a certain group to allow myself scanner access ?
> Or
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:04:11AM -0500, dman wrote:
> mailboxes {mail.acu.edu}Inbox
I've never tried that, but I use this to access an IMAP server:
set spoolfile={mail.unoh.edu}INBOX.
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Hi,
I've just finished installing my Acer scanner using sane.
All went fine and I'm able to use it with xsane / gimp when I'm root,
but not when I'm an ordinary user.
Should I add myself to a certain group to allow myself scanner access ?
Or is there something else I should do (any ownerships th
> Is there a "Windows-like" program that will allow Debian, during
> installation, to set up the peripherals, numbers, boards. A detection kit.
Well, I'm not sure what you mean here. Are you talking about automatic
detection of PCI boards? ISA? USB? The maturity level with linux in general
Is there something wrong with the list archives? When I put in the
exact subject line of a thread I would like to see the beginning of, it
says no matches found. I know the thread is there, but it isnt coming
up with anything.
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Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"God's the ultimate
begin David B Harris quotation:
> P.S.: Fastest MUA I can bear? Sylpheed. It bites that it's GTK+ and not
> console/text, but despite that it's still the fastest fullscreen/gui
> mailer I found, and is faster than many CLI(mail, nmh, etc) clients to
> boot.
Sylpheed opens folders very quickly b
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 19:28, Ted Wager wrote:
> Hi..
> On booting up the screen message tells me
> "There are differences between bootsector and it's backup"
> This is followed by a list of numbers and the message
> "Not fixed automatically"...The system works ok but I would like to
> know if
begin Pedro Zorzenon Neto quotation:
> I had problems in mailboxes with more then 5000 messages. They
> were very slow to open.
>
> I solved it with a procmail rule that timestamps it...
>
> Now I have monthly taged mailboxes. (Spool-2002-01, Spool-2002-02...)
>
> I know it is not wha
Is there a "Windows-like" program that will allow Debian, during installation, to set up the peripherals, numbers, boards. A detection kit.
begin Karsten M. Self quotation:
> OTOH, those who are most likely to have this beef are also more likely
> to have the tools to handle the problem largely transparently. Procmail
> fits the bill perfectly here with its cache and setting proper filter
> precedence.
Yes, I would think a fairly
I know that this has already been said by both Eric and Crispin, but just to
reiterate, DO NOT USE THE XIMIAN PACKAGES (sorry for shouting). The last time
I tried them out (which was over a year ago), they were utter crap. Using the
official deb packages and apt-get are going to make your life
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