Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-12-14 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 08:46:43PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Yes, but the question is, how usable is it in practice? [snip] People use "tasks" in Ada on a regular basis. So, it must be usable, neigh? > I have never learned Ada, partly because I've never needed to and > partially because it

Re: Its a SPAM & Fuck You.

2002-12-14 Thread Geordie Birch
said ObGilmour (on 2002-12-15), > Fuck You. > > > It's definitely a Fuck You but how is it a spam? Geordie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: config X under woody -- SOLVED... and yet...

2002-12-14 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 04:23:25PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 02:44:59PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > It would be useful to pure Linux users - possibly including the OP - > > if there was some Linux tool that did this, so xf86config et al. could > > say "Your monitor appears to be

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-12-14 Thread nate
Andy said: > People have mentioned in this thread to just go get some old 486 and > Pentium boxes and make them be dumb terminals. No. I really don't want > to be messing around with old boxes. I want something FAST like this unit your going to pay a large premium for such a product. An examp

mod_throttle

2002-12-14 Thread Paul Johnson
Has anybody got this to work at any point in time under Debian? I can't seem to find any success stories. Following the configuration tips to the letter fails to produce throttle status, and without that, I have no confidence that it's throttling anything at all when I add more options to the con

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-12-14 Thread John Griffiths
>No. I really don't want to be messing >around with old boxes. I want something FAST like this unit so you can just >press the reset button (if anything goes wrong) and get going again. >Boots in about 5 seconds. > http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/12/04/2346215.shtml?tid=19 sounds exactly like

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-12-14 Thread Andy
> > > > Thin client technologyisn't that what you are talking about? > > > > > > > > I have always wondered.why can't Linux (especially Debian > > > > Linux) do the same thing Citrix is doing? > > > > > > Citrix essentially does what X does a lot less efficiently. X is > > > prett

Re: mailto followup headers (was: Re: Content Management System sought)

2002-12-14 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 14 Dec 2002 04:13:00PM -0500, Stephen Gran insinuated: > This one time, at band camp, Nori Heikkinen said: > > probably because i'm sending mail not from my computer, because > > (other post) i can't download mail there for now. so i just > > modified my muttrc on this machine, to say > >

Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-12-14 Thread Craig Dickson
Rob Weir wrote: > Just coming off a concurrent systems course at my Uni: Ada was created > for this sort of thing; i.e. it has built in support for concurrency, > rendezvouses (is that a plural already), monitors, etc, etc at the > language level. Yes, but the question is, how usable is it in pra

Re: imap with fetchmail-ssl?

2002-12-14 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 14 Dec 2002 02:58:36PM -0500, Stephen Gran insinuated: > This one time, at band camp, Nori Heikkinen said: > > all of a sudden i need to be using secure fetchmail, which i > > should have been to begin with, but didn't really realize i > > wasn't. i apt-got fetchmail-ssl, and changed the P

Default fonts for applications?

2002-12-14 Thread Lloyd Zusman
I'm running woody with kde. I've used the kde control panel to specify the fonts I'd like to use, and these settings indeed work for various kde objects, for window manager decorations, etc. However, many X applications come up with a default font that I don't like, and I want to change it. Howe

Re: mailto followup headers (was: Re: Content Management System sought)

2002-12-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.14.2114 +0100]: > To reply to a mailing list you have to type L and not r ;-) i have all my listmail filed by procmail underneath the =mass/ hierarchy, so i can do this: folder-hook ."bind index g group-reply ; bind pager g group

Re: agpgart & nvagp

2002-12-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 07:55:03PM -0600, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > NvAGP "1" fails because the agpgart module is still autoloaded when X > starts. I do not understand how that happens, and how to stop the > autoloading of a kernel module without removing the module all together. > This is the myste

Re: Content Management System sought

2002-12-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:40:00PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.13.2227 +0100]: > > (a) how do i set up Mail-Followup-To, for a specific list, and > > http://larve.net/people/hugo/2000/07/ml-mutt Or for the terminally lazy (like me) add

Re: lyx-1.2

2002-12-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:16:25AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:33:41 -0700 (MST), > Bruce Sass wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Craig Dickson wrote: > > > That's nice, but I'm really waiting for lyx 1.3 with the Qt front-end. > > > XForms is vile. > > > > Qt lyx-1.3.

Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-12-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 01:50:06PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Eric G. Miller wrote: > > > Ada "tasks" provide concurrency. I'm not enough of a language expert > > to discuss the merits, but folks seem to use them... > > I'm not an Ada expert either, but the fact that people use it isn't > much

Re: LED application

2002-12-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 03:26:52PM +, Pigeon wrote: > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^^ The listmasters do seem to get heavily bogged in mail though, so it can take 'some' time. -r

Re: Need help designing backup/server system - raid

2002-12-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi dennis On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: ... > > My idea is to move all this stuff from Windows to a Debian > > fileserver, and in the process put it all on raided IDE > > drives so one HD failure doesn't provoke heart failure or > > stroke. > > > > Actual backups have been of limited us

Re: Need help designing backup/server system

2002-12-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Hi Alvin! > > The problem is that I am *always* home! These are my > personal computers, at least in the sense that I own them, > but they are used for business purposes as well as personal. > > And me thinks you have a simplistic view of Win

Re: nfs and non-matching users

2002-12-14 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 03:56:28PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > Do I have any options? i'm not an nfs expert, but i have one suggestion for you, though i don't know if it will fit the bill, so to speak... if you have r00t access on at least one of the machines, you can change the uid to ma

java installation problems

2002-12-14 Thread Tom Allison
These messages pertain to the packages found in: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/pool/non-free/j/j2re1.4-i386/ There is no 'mozilla-cvs' directory on my installation. (it appears that j2re1.3 does not have this problem, but I haven't been able to verify it yet

Re: OT: Printing a monthly calendar

2002-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 08:25:14PM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What tool do I want to use to print out a monthly calendar with > birthdays, holidays, etc, in a landscape 8x11 format? Gnomecal's month > view does like what I want, but there's no print option. In addition to othe

Re: Need help designing backup/server system

2002-12-14 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Hi Alvin! The problem is that I am *always* home! These are my personal computers, at least in the sense that I own them, but they are used for business purposes as well as personal. And me thinks you have a simplistic view of Window machines! I have *nothing* in the "My Documents" folder, and ne

Re: [OT] Why /etc?

2002-12-14 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:48:23PM -0500, N. Thomas wrote: > Note that etc directory in Unix is pronounced "ett-see", it rhymes with > the proper name Betsy. I have a friend who pronounces it "slash-eh-tec" and i just say "E T C" but if you want me to call it betsy dont see why not! hugh --

nfs and non-matching users

2002-12-14 Thread Bill Moseley
I'd like to have read/write nfs access to an old SuSE machine I have running, but I don't have matching UIDs on the machines. I suppose NIS is the correct answer, but I was not planning on doing that right now. Also the two machines have different UIDs. In otherwords, if on the nfs server machin

Re: OT: functional languages (was: Politics of Java)

2002-12-14 Thread David Teague
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Deryk Barker wrote: > Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 20:40:29 -0800 > From: Deryk Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: OT: functional languages (was: Politics of Java) > Resent-Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:01:34 -0600 (CST) > Resent-From: [EMAI

Re: Removing devfsd

2002-12-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 02:19:30PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > How can devfsd be removed safely? I have purged the package, > cleaned out /dev and reconstructed the device files with `MAKEDEV > generic', but the partition is then unbootable. On boot, fsck > reports: "fsck.ext3: No such file

Re: mailto followup headers (was: Re: Content Management System sought)

2002-12-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:19:18PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:40:00PM +0100, martin f krafft insinuated: > > also sprach Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.13.2227 +0100]: > > > (a) how do i set up Mail-Followup-To, for a specific list, and > > > > http://larv

Re: Newbie trying to install mod_ssl

2002-12-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:30:40PM +0200, Jokke Heikkilä wrote: > > > > > > Or, just 'apt-get install libapache-mod-ssl' ... mod_ssl will be added > > to your Apache config and you will be able to tweak it to your heart's > > content. > > > > This would be ideal, but I can't find mod_ssl package

Re: Digicams and Debian/Linux

2002-12-14 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Bruno Diniz de Paula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Saturday, 14 December 2002, 01:55 PM -0500): > I have just purchased a digicam (Sony DSC-P7) and I was trying to > download the pictures from the camera to my box (Debian sid). When I > plug the camera into some of the USB ports, the usbmgr dete

Re: graphical mode in chrooted sarge

2002-12-14 Thread Carlos Alberto Pereira Gomes
* Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [14-12-2002 00:29]: > > Is there a way to run sarge in graphical mode from a chrooted directory? > http://people.debian.org/~walters/chroot.html Great! Thanks to Rene and Walters!! []s -- Carlos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: mailto followup headers (was: Re: Content Management System sought)

2002-12-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Nori Heikkinen said: > probably because i'm sending mail not from my computer, because (other > post) i can't download mail there for now. so i just modified my > muttrc on this machine, to say > > subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > and doing that made everything in my

Re: cannot boot OldLinux

2002-12-14 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:46:05PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > # Needed for debian kernel packages > initrd = /initrd.img This should be in the image section. You need to load initrd.img.old for vmlinuz.old. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{

Re: [OT] Why /etc?

2002-12-14 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:48:23PM -0500, N. Thomas wrote: > * hiranokazunari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-14 11:44:42 +0900]: > > > > But I am wondering why the host-specific configuration partition > > > > is called /etc? > > > > > > [...] It really was the "stuff that doesn't go > > > anywhere

Re: imap with fetchmail-ssl?

2002-12-14 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 14 Dec 2002 02:56:11PM -0500, Travis Crump insinuated: > Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > all of a sudden i need to be using secure fetchmail, which i > > should have been to begin with, but didn't really realize i > > wasn't. i apt-got fetchmail-ssl, and changed the POP3 line to > > IMAP in my .

Re: Digicams and Debian/Linux

2002-12-14 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 14 Dec 2002 03:37:46PM -0500, Hubert Chan insinuated: > > "Bruno" == Bruno Diniz de Paula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Bruno> Hi all, I have just purchased a digicam (Sony DSC-P7) and I was > Bruno> trying to download the pictures from the camera to my box (Debian > Bruno> sid). Whe

Re: Digicams and Debian/Linux

2002-12-14 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Bruno" == Bruno Diniz de Paula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bruno> Hi all, I have just purchased a digicam (Sony DSC-P7) and I was Bruno> trying to download the pictures from the camera to my box (Debian Bruno> sid). When I plug the camera into some of the USB ports, the Bruno> usbmgr detect

RE: Removing devfsd

2002-12-14 Thread Michael Olds
I've been through this one. You need to recompile the kernel and change the supported files. Best Wishes! Mike Olds www.buddhadust.org -Original Message- From: Bob Hilliard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Removing devfsd

Cron-initiated script that goes wrong..(GPG)

2002-12-14 Thread Niclas Söderlund
Hiya ppl, Im running a script every night. It tar's a few crucial directories and then makes them 'gpg:ed' with no encryption but with a password. But I get the error you can see below last in the mail-output from the cron job: " `/data/backup/soderlund-bind.tgz.gpg' -> `/data/backup/old/soder

Re: mailto followup headers (was: Re: Content Management System sought)

2002-12-14 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 the mental interface of Nori Heikkinen told: > on Sat, 14 Dec 2002 02:56:23PM -0500, Stephen Gran insinuated: > > This one time, at band camp, Nori Heikkinen said: > > > oh, sweet. okay. so i've probably had it set already :) > > > > Hmmm . . . just now, looking at your head

Re: mailto followup headers (was: Re: Content Management System sought)

2002-12-14 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 14 Dec 2002 02:56:23PM -0500, Stephen Gran insinuated: > This one time, at band camp, Nori Heikkinen said: > > oh, sweet. okay. so i've probably had it set already :) > > Hmmm . . . just now, looking at your headers, you don't have it set. > Not sure why, though - perhaps either send me a

Re: sound editing software under Debian Linux

2002-12-14 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 the mental interface of Antoine Jacoutot told: > On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 18:07, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > does anyone know a good software to edit sound files (preferably WAV > > and mp3) that runs under Linux? > > > > Thanks for any enlightenment! > > > > audac

Re: imap with fetchmail-ssl?

2002-12-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Nori Heikkinen said: > all of a sudden i need to be using secure fetchmail, which i should > have been to begin with, but didn't really realize i wasn't. i > apt-got fetchmail-ssl, and changed the POP3 line to IMAP in my > .fetchmailrc but can't retrieve mail from my s

Re: mailto followup headers (was: Re: Content Management System sought)

2002-12-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Nori Heikkinen said: > oh, sweet. okay. so i've probably had it set already :) > > thanks! > > Hmmm . . . just now, looking at your headers, you don't have it set. Not sure why, though - perhaps either send me a link to your .muttrc, or send it privately? --

Re: imap with fetchmail-ssl?

2002-12-14 Thread Travis Crump
Nori Heikkinen wrote: all of a sudden i need to be using secure fetchmail, which i should have been to begin with, but didn't really realize i wasn't. i apt-got fetchmail-ssl, and changed the POP3 line to IMAP in my .fetchmailrc but can't retrieve mail from my server at all. any tips or places o

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-14 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 08:15:39AM +, Glyn Millington wrote: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Err, yeah, there's a way to run Emacs as a client/server. I think you > > start the original Emacs with something like "emacs -f server-start", > > and then you set your editor in m

imap with fetchmail-ssl?

2002-12-14 Thread Nori Heikkinen
all of a sudden i need to be using secure fetchmail, which i should have been to begin with, but didn't really realize i wasn't. i apt-got fetchmail-ssl, and changed the POP3 line to IMAP in my .fetchmailrc but can't retrieve mail from my server at all. any tips or places on where the FM is to R?

Re: blank emails dated Jan 01

2002-12-14 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 14 Dec 2002 01:17:21PM -0500, Stephen Gran insinuated: > This one time, at band camp, Nori Heikkinen said: > > for some reason, i just got 29 emails at the very top of my (mutt) > > inbox, dated Jan 01, with absolutely zero headers, except for the ones > > spamassassin put in: > > > > X-Sp

Removing devfsd

2002-12-14 Thread Bob Hilliard
How can devfsd be removed safely? I have purged the package, cleaned out /dev and reconstructed the device files with `MAKEDEV generic', but the partition is then unbootable. On boot, fsck reports: "fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hda6". To recover, I hav

Re: mailto followup headers (was: Re: Content Management System sought)

2002-12-14 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 14 Dec 2002 01:27:43PM -0500, Stephen Gran insinuated: > This one time, at band camp, Nori Heikkinen said: > > but if i do that, will messages sent to SLUG to which people reply-all > > be sent to debian-user? i'm confused on this point. > > > > thanks, > > > > > > You don't need the M

Digicams and Debian/Linux

2002-12-14 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
Hi all, I have just purchased a digicam (Sony DSC-P7) and I was trying to download the pictures from the camera to my box (Debian sid). When I plug the camera into some of the USB ports, the usbmgr detects the device and the Sony is listed when running lsusb. After doing some googling, I haven't s

Re: cannot boot OldLinux

2002-12-14 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Steve M. Robbins wrote: -SNIP- < I'm at a loss now: where should I be looking next? Thanks, -Steve - lilo.conf --- boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda3 install=menu map=/boot/map vga=normal # Needed for debian kernel packages initrd = /initrd.img # Show me the LILO p

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"while this kernel is version" error message

2002-12-14 Thread Darin Strait
So, I have an old P166, no MMX, no built-in USB, 96MB RAM, running 2.4.18-386 and Debian stable. I also have a Logitech USB WebCam. I'd like to use the cam. The first step was to purchase a USB card off of eBay. Easy enough. The second step was to find a load appropriate drivers. Not so easy.

Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender (fwd)

2002-12-14 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Ok, this is what happened when i tried to send the same messages on mailtag.com with ppp instead of my cable service chartermi.net. These failed right away instead of winding up in a queue. And I see that messages to the debian list are making it through, so the outgoing mail failure is somehow sel

Re: Courier-IMAP folder layout

2002-12-14 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 13 December 2002, 11:38 PM -0600): > I've decided to give courier a shot at replacing uw-imap since it's > gotten really slow lately. I've got it set up on a testing machine, but > I'm having a problem with getting a proper folder hierarchy s

Re: mailto followup headers (was: Re: Content Management System sought)

2002-12-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Nori Heikkinen said: > on Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:40:00PM +0100, martin f krafft insinuated: > > also sprach Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.13.2227 +0100]: > > > (a) how do i set up Mail-Followup-To, for a specific list, and > > > > http://larve.net/people/h

Re: blank emails dated Jan 01

2002-12-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Nori Heikkinen said: > for some reason, i just got 29 emails at the very top of my (mutt) > inbox, dated Jan 01, with absolutely zero headers, except for the ones > spamassassin put in: > > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.3 required=5.0 tests=MISSING_HEADERS,SUBJ_MISSING > +

Re: sound editing software under Debian Linux

2002-12-14 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 18:07, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > does anyone know a good software to edit sound files (preferably WAV > and mp3) that runs under Linux? > > Thanks for any enlightenment! > audacity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Mail/exim problem (fwd)

2002-12-14 Thread Cheryl Homiak
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 07:29:36 -0600 (CST) From: Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail/exim problem I looked in the archives and didn't see anything about this but sometimes I do have problems with the archives, so sorry if

cannot boot OldLinux

2002-12-14 Thread Steve M. Robbins
I have lilo set so that at bootup it shows me a menu with the ability to boot the most recently installed kernel ("Linux") or the penultimate kernel ("OldLinux"). I'm virtually certain that this used to work, but it doesn't at the moment. I run the stock debian kernel-image packages. I had kerne

Re: apt-get trouble

2002-12-14 Thread Claus Christian Larsen
Claus Christian Larsen wrote: debian:/var/lib/apt/lists# apt-get install arts kdelibs kdebase kdeadmin kdemul timedia kdenetwork kdepim kdeutils kdegames Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing crimson (NewFileVer1) E: Problem with Merge

mailto followup headers (was: Re: Content Management System sought)

2002-12-14 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:40:00PM +0100, martin f krafft insinuated: > also sprach Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.13.2227 +0100]: > > (a) how do i set up Mail-Followup-To, for a specific list, and > > http://larve.net/people/hugo/2000/07/ml-mutt okay, that's great -- thanks. so i put

sound editing software under Debian Linux

2002-12-14 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, does anyone know a good software to edit sound files (preferably WAV and mp3) that runs under Linux? Thanks for any enlightenment! wbr, Lukas -- Lukas Ruf http://www.lpr.ch Wanna know anything about raw IP? Join [EMAIL PROTECTED] on http://www.rawip.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

What rescue disk with scsi drivers?

2002-12-14 Thread Robert L. Harris
I need to rescue a system that doesn't seem to like grub. My disks are on an IBM MegaRaid controller. The compact and normal boot methods off CD1 aren't able to detect it... Erf? :wq! --- Robert L. Harris

Re: Large files support and libc

2002-12-14 Thread Dmitry Krasnov
On Saturday 14 December 2002 00:32, you wrote: > Thus spake Dmitry Krasnov: > > pharaoh# dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024 count=450 > > File size limit exceeded > > > > Anyway 2G size limit still exists. What's wrong? Am I missing something? > > Any suggestions? > > My first reaction is to w

802.11b

2002-12-14 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I have a small home network with machines connected by cat5 10/100 cable. I want to introduce an old laptop with wireless connections to the mix and just want to test the water to see if it will all work together. I am looking at a Linksys WAP11 hub and a Linksys WPC11 pcmcia card. If I plu

Re: Philips webcam pcvc 720k support??

2002-12-14 Thread Calber Chainy
El sáb, 14-12-2002 a las 14:59, Mark L. Kahnt escribió: > On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 08:30, Calber Chainy wrote: > > Hello list: > > > > I recently investigated how to make my webcam work under linux. Going > > through the kernel modules I was surprised to see there a driver for > > Philips webcams, b

Re: ircii: kick and ban macro?

2002-12-14 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
I feel your pain. I have been in love with ircII since 1994. Nothing else compares to the simplicity, speed, and lean power of that beautiful app. It has a mighty deep place in my heart ;) What you want to do is set an alias. Put this in your $HOME/.ircrc /alias gun { kick * $0 mode *

apt-get trouble

2002-12-14 Thread Claus Christian Larsen
debian:/var/lib/apt/lists# apt-get install arts kdelibs kdebase kdeadmin kdemul timedia kdenetwork kdepim kdeutils kdegames Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing crimson (NewFileVer1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/http.us

Re: [users@httpd] Re: what is perl 's syntax

2002-12-14 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-12-14T11:02:49Z, eric lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > any opinion? Eric, With all due respect, you're asking for a lot of specific help from a general forum. I believe that your (and our) time would be better spent asking in the appropriate newsgroups or mailing lists, such as comp.l

Re: Large files support and libc

2002-12-14 Thread Dmitry Krasnov
On Friday 13 December 2002 15:45, you wrote: > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 01:08, Dmitry Krasnov wrote: > > pharaoh# dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024 count=450 > > File size limit exceeded > > Yup finishes sucessfully here. All I did was build a 2.4 kernel. Im > using the standard glibc that come

normal that with kernel 2.4.20 i ahve lots of zombies??

2002-12-14 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! i jsut rebootet my machine with a standard 2.4.20-k7 and now i have ltos of programs that crash and are unremovable since definitely zombified what's going wrong here? -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://inforezo.u-st

Its a SPAM & Fuck You.

2002-12-14 Thread ObGilmour
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Re: Philips webcam pcvc 720k support??

2002-12-14 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 08:30, Calber Chainy wrote: > Hello list: > > I recently investigated how to make my webcam work under linux. Going > through the kernel modules I was surprised to see there a driver for > Philips webcams, but looking through the help it clearly says > > PCVC665 and PCVC72

Philips webcam pcvc 720k support??

2002-12-14 Thread Calber Chainy
Hello list: I recently investigated how to make my webcam work under linux. Going through the kernel modules I was surprised to see there a driver for Philips webcams, but looking through the help it clearly says PCVC665 and PCVC720 are not supported by this driver and never will be. So I wond

Re: NVidia Riva TNT PCI with XFree86

2002-12-14 Thread Wim De Smet
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 17:17:34 +1100 Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:34:39PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > > Depends on the card I think. These older cards should be well supported by > > the nv driver, though the nvidia drivers may indead be less picky. > > The most

Re: problem compiling a new gcc version.

2002-12-14 Thread Wim De Smet
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 02:05:59 +1100 Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 10:37:01PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > > could it be that this is specific to my kernel or is it a configuration problem >with my current locales? > > I hope this is not too specific, I could mail to

Weird Numlock problem

2002-12-14 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
After some tinkering with my system involving the installation of Nvidia OpenGL drivers, I have a weird problem with the Numlock key. I have KDE installed. When I boot up I get some nice blue background and a login screen with a Debian logo; I suppose this is kdm. I like this kdm thing but I never

Re: ACPI and sleep mode

2002-12-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.14.0633 +0100]: > AFAIK acpi is not intended to handle software suspend on its own. > instead, the swsusp patch (which is now a part of the 2.5 kernel > series), handles all the suspend to disk. It basically dumps you ram to > your swap partition,

OT: reply-to (was: Content Management System sought)

2002-12-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.14.0622 +0100]: > Yep I know I've used "L" infrequently with mutt. It just so happens that > most lists, even in the Unix/Linux world use reply-to, so that feature > wasn't used /that/ much, personally, and I'm on a *fair amount* of comp > related e

Re: Exchange Calendar client?

2002-12-14 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 14 December 2002 1:15 am, Michael Heironimus wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 01:58:55PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > >You knowfrom my humble experience in the IT worldthe ONE thing > > >that would really help Linux get in with small

Re: Exchange Calendar client?

2002-12-14 Thread Toens Bueker
Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, there are Web-based group calendaring solutions like > phpgroupware. But I don't think there's anything tightly integrated > with mail. ?! korganizer? evolution? As Outlook (in standalone-mode without Exchange) they rely on e-mail to send their messa

Re: Exchange Calendar client?

2002-12-14 Thread Toens Bueker
Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have several clients ready to upgrade their old > Netware and NT environments. I can't find something > that would work similar to the Groupwise or Exchange calendar's. > > Someone mentioned that the new Mozilla calendar is a candidate. > I know Suse has some

Re: ethernet card

2002-12-14 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 02:09, Adam Majer wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:14:35PM -0500, Andrew Hurt wrote: > > Greetings. > > > > Going to be getting DSL, soon, and I just don't know what make/model of > > ethernet card I should get. > > > > PCI is a given, but I need something that goes well

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Re: nature of a boot loader

2002-12-14 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Dai, Grub and LILO can both chainload to each other just like they can to a windows boot loader. You can have the other boot loader on another drive or at the beginning of a partition. I did just this to make things a little more pleasant to my wife, who is not hip to windows and finds some o

Re: mutt/exim - how to rewrite sender-name (-f flag)

2002-12-14 Thread ernst
You can use the option in .muttrc like this: my_hdr from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (username) my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (username) /ernst On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm using exim (MTA) and mutt (MUA) and I'm able to send (external) emails directly >from exim with: > exim -f

Re: ircii: kick and ban macro?

2002-12-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:59:09PM -0800, nate wrote: > I'm a little amazed that someone out there is still using plain ol ircii Because it Doesn't Suck and my windows users can grok it when they shell into my system. That, and it's got the elegant simplicity that makes Mutt so great, IMO. > hav

Re: nature of a boot loader

2002-12-14 Thread Dai Yuwen
Bruce Park wrote: Dai, My understanding with booting an OS works like this. The BIOS must first be set to detect something. In my computer, I have it boot in this order. 1. floppy 2. cdrom 3. primary hard disk This is pretty much self explanatory. Now once floppy and cdrom fail, it'll load wha