Re: 2 apt-get questions

2003-02-05 Thread Svein Ove Aas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 torsdag 6. februar 2003, 07:08, skrev Hal Vaughan: > I know this should be very simple and easy to find, but I'm having trouble > answering these two questions. I've been through the apt-get man page a > few times. Since I'm trying to do something on

Re: Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?

2003-02-05 Thread Gary Turner
Bill Moseley wrote: >On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Gary Turner wrote: > >> Hmm, similar here. X and icewm--no desktop; > >That's what I'm running. > >> 1. Drag with left button to select, or >> left click to set the start, then move to the end of the block >> and right c

Re: 2 apt-get questions

2003-02-05 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030206 15:22]: > I know this should be very simple and easy to find, but I'm having trouble > answering these two questions. I've been through the apt-get man page a few > times. Since I'm trying to do something on a "one-time-only" basis, this > shouldn

Re: squirrelmail, uw-imapd (and ssl)

2003-02-05 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 01:33:21 -0500 (EST) "Debian User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Squirrelmail shouldn't do ssl. Squirrelmail will connect to > uw-imapd via the localhost, so you can install uw-imapd (and > block imap port for remote connections). You're presuming that Squirrelmail and the ma

Re: 2 apt-get questions

2003-02-05 Thread Steve Wollkind
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:08:52AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > 2) How can I install a .deb file that I've downloaded with my browser? (I > downloaded a game that was a .deb file into my home directory. I searched > the /var dir tree and found .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives, so I > copie

Re: 2 apt-get questions

2003-02-05 Thread Kent West
Hal Vaughan wrote: I know this should be very simple and easy to find, but I'm having trouble answering these two questions. I've been through the apt-get man page a few times. Since I'm trying to do something on a "one-time-only" basis, this shouldn't be a config problem -- I'd expect it to

perl 5.6.1-8.2 in testing?

2003-02-05 Thread Travis Crump
Not that I am complaining because security updates are always good, but how exactly did perl 5.6.1-8.2 make it into testing sometime in the last couple of days? It didn't come from unstable, because unstable moved to perl 5.8.0 a while ago, and I didn't know that there /was/ any other way for

Re: squirrelmail, uw-imapd (and ssl)

2003-02-05 Thread Debian User
Squirrelmail shouldn't do ssl. Squirrelmail will connect to uw-imapd via the localhost, so you can install uw-imapd (and block imap port for remote connections). When you config squirrelmail with the perl script, config it to use https, then the connection/authentication to squirrelmail is ssl pro

segfault in libfontconfig.so?

2003-02-05 Thread Bill Moseley
Hum, with all this talk of Highlighting and browsers, bot Opera and Mozilla are now broken for me. Mozilla was eathing all CPU (stuck in a read() call) but was fixed by mv .mozilla .mozilla.old. Opera on the other hand is now segfaulting -- well gdb reports: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Seg

Re: KDE 3.1 in sid

2003-02-05 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 February 2003 05:17, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 06:45:54AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > KDE starts drifting into sid! .debs at 11:00 (-0100). There's some > > kde related debs on incoming.debian.org that should be

2 apt-get questions

2003-02-05 Thread Hal Vaughan
I know this should be very simple and easy to find, but I'm having trouble answering these two questions. I've been through the apt-get man page a few times. Since I'm trying to do something on a "one-time-only" basis, this shouldn't be a config problem -- I'd expect it to be available as a co

Re: Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?

2003-02-05 Thread Bill Moseley
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Gary Turner wrote: > Hmm, similar here. X and icewm--no desktop; That's what I'm running. > 1. Drag with left button to select, or > left click to set the start, then move to the end of the block > and right click to select everything i

Re: fstab entry for NTFS formatted drive

2003-02-05 Thread Steve Wollkind
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 03:24:59PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > OTOH read-only seems very stable. My "solution" when I must have a > box dual booting linux and something that prefers NTFS (win2k, NT 4, > XP) is to create two partitions for windows; the "root" I format with > NTFS and the oth

Re: Add software RAID to woody box with ext3 fs

2003-02-05 Thread Steve Wollkind
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:12:15AM +0100, Alex Polite wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 08:25:54PM -0600, Steve Wollkind wrote: > > > http://www.winamp.com/components/detail.jhtml?componentId=123836 > Way to be a moron in my first debian-user post! Here is the correct URL. I'm really sorry abou

Re: Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?

2003-02-05 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Nick Hastings wrote: > The don't do it! > 2. > If you use Galeon: > > - Left double click URL in xterm (to highlight URL) > - Middle click in _body_ of galeon > > I suspect other browsers have this feature too. Yep, that's much better. Time to get back to Galeon. I haven'

Re: imapd hanging connections?

2003-02-05 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > On my debian unstable system I have: > ii uw-imapd 2002b.debian-5 remote mail folder access server > ii uw-imapd-ssl 2002b.debian-5 Dummy upgrade package for uw-imapd > > My wife connects to this via Mozilla from her desktop (win 2000 for

Re: squirrelmail, uw-imapd (and ssl)

2003-02-05 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 00:20:55 -0500 (EST) "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You do know the Debian uw-imapd package supports maildir right? Erm, actually I didn't. I'll have to go diving into the manuals. It had picked up on mbox so I just presumed since it was explicitly stated i

[OT] USB -> Ethernet adapters

2003-02-05 Thread Jacob S .
Looking at the device compatability list on www.linux-usb.org it looks like these adapters are supported fairly well. I was wondering though if anyone has had any experience with them, good or bad, and what their recommendation would be for purchasing a new one. TIA, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D

Re: squirrelmail, uw-imapd (and ssl)

2003-02-05 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Steve Lamb wrote: > Rats. I wanted to have courier since it does maildir You do know the Debian uw-imapd package supports maildir right? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: squirrelmail, uw-imapd (and ssl)

2003-02-05 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, John M Flinchbaugh wrote: > that LOGINDISABLED seems to mean that normal non-tls auths are > disabled. i have it listening to imap2 and imaps: Somehow you seem to have missed the debconf question about enabling plaintext authentication. # dpkg-reconfigure libc-client2002 -

RE: KDE freezes after apt-get upgrade

2003-02-05 Thread dbalder
>Does the whole machine lock up, or just X? Can you Ctrl-Alt-F2 to the second virtual terminal? Can you telnet/ssh in to the box? Can you ping the box? >If "no" to the last two questions, do you have an eepro100 NIC? I ask, because I have >a machine that kept locking up totally during network act

Re: Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?

2003-02-05 Thread Gary Turner
Kent West wrote: >Bill Moseley wrote: > >>On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Thorsten Haude wrote: >>> >>>* Timothy Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-05 18:27]: >>> Have a read at what a horrible nightmare cut&paste is under X. http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html >>>I can't find any thing h

Boot fails at: starting FAM ... ...

2003-02-05 Thread Dan Hunt
I can't restart my Woody with a custom 2.4.18 without it hanging at this point. ~much complaining about firewall rules that cannot be started, do you need to insmod? and like~ touch: creating `/var/lock/subsys/bastille-firewall': No such file or directory Starting file alteration monitor: FAM Th

Re: KDE freezes after apt-get upgrade

2003-02-05 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Yesterday I finally got to upgrade my woody box. Later I noticed that the system froze when I was performing apt-get upgrade from debian security repository (whish was not available before). Has anybody else notice this? The problem happened while I was opening

Re: Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?

2003-02-05 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:00:45AM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: | * Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030206 10:41]: | > Although what I don't like is | > | > - double-click a URL in some text in xterm | > - move to mozilla | > - click in the Location box | > - move hand keyboard to type ^U to cl

KDE freezes after apt-get upgrade

2003-02-05 Thread dbalder
Hi all, Yesterday I finally got to upgrade my woody box. Later I noticed that the system froze when I was performing apt-get upgrade from debian security repository (whish was not available before). Has anybody else notice this? The problem happened while I was opening a pdf file from my email. I

Re: Install prob - motherboard?

2003-02-05 Thread Kent West
Darren wrote: I have just got a fairly new computer and would like to install debian on it. When I tried Debian 3.0 (it came on a DVD) it works ok until the point where you select the media to install from (network, fd0 and suchlike) there is no cdrom option. When I attempt to mount the cdr

Re: Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?

2003-02-05 Thread Kent West
Bill Moseley wrote: On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Thorsten Haude wrote: Hi, * Timothy Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-05 18:27]: Have a read at what a horrible nightmare cut&paste is under X. http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html I can't find any thing horrible in this text.

Re: mouse scrolling wheel borked after upgrade

2003-02-05 Thread Kent West
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Wed, 05 Feb 2003 10:34:30AM -0600, Kent West insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: i'm running a testing/unstable system. after an upgrade of 94 packages last night (i know; i should do it more frequently -- that's why i did it now, to start), the only thing i can fi

Re: Nautilus

2003-02-05 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 19:04, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Sid's Nautilus yesterday; the icons were gone. I'm now having > the standard icon for everything (files, dirs). Is that a bug? > Pointers please... > > BTW, I think Nautilus is much faster now. > > Oki > I just went two weeks th

samba plus nfs, or only samba - 3 pcs

2003-02-05 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hello, i have my debian box acting as a server and a gateway for my lan. i had a "multi-booting" pc on the lan, which i just upgraded the hardware on. this will be my son's windoze box. right now i am running samba between the two. now i can use his old box as a debian workstation. i am thinking o

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-05 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:38:32AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > I have three standalone systems all with cupsys, cupsomatic, cupsys-bsd, > cupsys-driver-gimpprint, gimp1.2, gimp1.2-print and kdelibs3-cups: > >Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel with HP Deskjet 940c, Foomatic+hpijs > (my d

Re: nao consigo montar cdrom

2003-02-05 Thread Roberto Sanchez
From: Francisco M Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Lista Debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: nao consigo montar cdrom Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:18:16 -0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from murphy.debian.org ([65.125.64.134]) by mc5-f42.law1.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600);

Install prob - motherboard?

2003-02-05 Thread Darren
I have just got a fairly new computer and would like to install debian on it.  When I tried Debian 3.0  (it came on a DVD) it works ok until the point where you select the media to install from (network, fd0 and suchlike) there is no cdrom option.  When I attempt to mount the cdrom drive from t

Re: squirrelmail, uw-imapd (and ssl)

2003-02-05 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 17:17:16 -0800 Peter Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have squirrelmail and courier imap working with no problems. I am > using woody, though. Rats. I wanted to have courier since it does maildir and moving between Squirrelmail using mbox and Sylpheed-claws using maildi

Re: Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?

2003-02-05 Thread Nick Hastings
* Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030206 10:41]: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Thorsten Haude wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > * Timothy Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-05 18:27]: > > >Have a read at what a horrible nightmare cut&paste is under X. > > >http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html > > > > I c

Re: mounting filesystems

2003-02-05 Thread alex
You can also access XP from Linux in the same way. # cd /mnt; mkdir xp follow the alias pattern for Windows98--use the appropriate partition in /dev/hdx and the proper filesystem for XP if it isn't vfatuse /mnt/xp. I'd name the aliases xp+ and xp- alex wrote: If I correctly understand wh

Re: Building an IMAP server

2003-02-05 Thread nate
Hans Wilmer said: > What's the better way to go when building a new server? Should I start > with 2.x or stay at 1.5? If it were me, I would use 1.5. See my other posts with the maintainer of the cyrus 2 packages for debian for why. It really depends on your requirements. cyrus 1.5 is VERY VERY o

Re: no PPP after Kernel Compile

2003-02-05 Thread Mark Roach
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 13:50, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > I compiled my own kernel and went through and turned off a bunch of stuff > in the .config that I knew I didn't need. > > It boots MUCH faster now!! > > But, my pppoe connection didn't come back up. plog (syslog) reports: > > Couldn't set t

Re: Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?

2003-02-05 Thread Bill Moseley
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Thorsten Haude wrote: > Hi, > > * Timothy Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-05 18:27]: > >Have a read at what a horrible nightmare cut&paste is under X. > >http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html > > I can't find any thing horrible in this text. I actually like two buffe

Re: squirrelmail, uw-imapd (and ssl)

2003-02-05 Thread Peter Hicks
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 07:39:32AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: >On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 09:47:22 -0500 >John M Flinchbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> i need: >> a) to get squirrelmail to do ssl >> b) get uw-imapd to not require ssl >> c) find an imap implementation that actually works with squirrelmail

Re: no PPP after Kernel Compile

2003-02-05 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Doug MacFarlane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030205 11:06]: > > I compiled my own kernel and went through and turned off a bunch of stuff > in the .config that I knew I didn't need. > > It boots MUCH faster now!! > > But, my pppoe connection didn't come back up. plog (syslog) reports: > > Couldn't

RE: fstab entry for NTFS formatted drive

2003-02-05 Thread David Turetsky
>>> On 04 Feb 2003, 21:58:58, David Turetsky wrote: I have a hard drive running Windows XP Professional under NTFS format I'd like to access that drive from my Woody system but I can't locate a suitable file type for an /etc/fstab entry >>> Doug MacFarlane: /dev/hda1/w

RE: crc error

2003-02-05 Thread David Turetsky
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 18:59, David Turetsky wrote: ... Crc error ... System halted I believe crc is 'cyclic redundancy check' which I take to mean a hard drive read error Does this imply that my IBM Deskstar 32gb hdd, a friend these last 3 ½ years, is increasingly sho

Nautilus

2003-02-05 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I installed Sid's Nautilus yesterday; the icons were gone. I'm now having the standard icon for everything (files, dirs). Is that a bug? Pointers please... BTW, I think Nautilus is much faster now. Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Reasons for removing packages from Debian

2003-02-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:21:28PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 02:04:18 + Colin Watson wrote: > > Try . Most of my answers > > above came from there. > > Thanks, that was the answer I expected. I didn't want you to waste your > tim

Re: modem / pon / serial problems

2003-02-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:14:36PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:50:43PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > So: the main box is 192.168.1.1, the modem box is 192.168.1.2. I add > > "gateway 192.168.1.2" to /etc/network/interfaces on the main box and > > run /etc/init.d/networking restart.

Re: mouse scrolling wheel borked after upgrade

2003-02-05 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 05 Feb 2003 10:34:30AM -0600, Kent West insinuated: > Nori Heikkinen wrote: > >i'm running a testing/unstable system. after an upgrade of 94 > >packages last night (i know; i should do it more frequently -- > >that's why i did it now, to start), the only thing i can find that > >has broken

Re: modem / pon / serial problems

2003-02-05 Thread John Hasler
Pigeon writes: > I'm sure there must be a less vile method of doing this... what is it? a) Run a caching-only nameserver on the modem box. b) Just put the ISP's three nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf and be happy. The only real purpose served by "dynamic DNS" is to save users the trouble of typing

Re: Reasons for removing packages from Debian

2003-02-05 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:21:28PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 02:04:18 + Colin Watson wrote: > > > > moonlight 0.5.3-6 > > > > No idea what this was. > > Description: create and render 3D scenes Looks like they ran into some problems. The original site (http://www.moon

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-05 Thread Craig Dickson
Travis Crump wrote: > By that logic, what is to stop some company from releasing their product > under the 'GPL' and then never releasing the source and requiring > per-seat 'royalties' for the use of their patented IP? That's nonsensical, because source is what you release under GPL. If they d

Re: Disk Corruption: SOLVED

2003-02-05 Thread Sid Blackley
On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 03:20:07 +0100, "Jonathan Brandmeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip >What if I am going about this the wrong way? Suppose that MBR(s) is/are >damaged? Will fsck(8) detect this type of damage? My reading of the man >page says that it doesn't. > >Thanks, >Jonathan ASFAIK .

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-05 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:07:12 -0800 Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Such a program would essentially just be an ogg vorbis decoder piped to > an mp3 encoder, along with some helpful glue to guess which vorbis tags > to move into the mp3's id3 tags. Since it would have an mp3 encoder, it >

Re: active iptables update

2003-02-05 Thread George Georgalis
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:02:46PM -0800, Tom O'Toole wrote: >On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, George Georgalis wrote: > >> I was thinking along these lines; forward malicious requests to some >> ip on the 127.0.0.0/8 network where tcpdump would be listening ready >> to trigger a script that inserts a new drop

Re: crc error

2003-02-05 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 18:59, David Turetsky wrote: > When I boot under linux, periodically (occasionally under Potato, > frequently now that I've installed a fresh copy of Woody) I get > > > > Boot: (linux selected) > > Loading Linux (24, count ‘em) > > W07 > > W07 > > Uncompressing

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-05 Thread Travis Crump
Craig Dickson wrote: Travis Crump wrote: Colin Watson wrote: That of course doesn't prevent the holders of LAME's copyright from releasing it under the GPL, since the copyright holders are not themselves bound by the terms of the licence, Why shouldn't they be bound by the terms of the lice

Re: squirrelmail, uw-imapd (and ssl)

2003-02-05 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:20:57 -0500 John M Flinchbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have the same, but i get this banner when i telnet to it: > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 X-NETSCAPE LOGIN-REFERRALS STARTTLS > LOGINDISABLED] localhost IMAP4rev1

Re: c program chart, scheme, plan

2003-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 15:28, Andrei Smirnov wrote: > Hi all! > Are there any tools for creating a graphical representation > of a (future) program ? (with those boxes, arrows etc.) > I mean, which can be integrated into an environment, including > a documentation system. You mean something that wi

Re: columbia -- what really happened

2003-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 12:09, Pigeon wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:35:20PM -0500, David P James wrote: > > Brooks R. Robinson wrote: [snip] > What do you think of the Culture economy? All work is done by > machines, which are designed to work properly and last for millennia - > fully upgradeab

Re: modem / pon / serial problems

2003-02-05 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:50:43PM +, Pigeon wrote: > So: the main box is 192.168.1.1, the modem box is 192.168.1.2. I add > "gateway 192.168.1.2" to /etc/network/interfaces on the main box and > run /etc/init.d/networking restart. > > On the modem box I do > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_for

Re: Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?

2003-02-05 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Nick Hastings ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030205 01:30]: > Hi, > > * Dave Selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030205 16:20]: > > When using X, you can highlight text and copy it to another area via the > > middle mouse button. > > > > Is there a buffer file that holds the highlighted text ? This would be very

Re: dxr3 and xine dvd playback

2003-02-05 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 05 February 2003, 04:48 PM -0500): > I'm on debian testing, and want to view DVDs via my dxr3 card. I tried > installing the em8300 package, but it wasn't set up correctly, so I > ended up grabbing the source and installing it by h

Re: c program chart, scheme, plan

2003-02-05 Thread Steve Johnson
The only one I know of is 'Dia', it works for me. Not sure if the enviornment your using will work with Dia 'out of the box', but it's file format is in xml which could be useful. $ apt-cache search Dia | egrep '^dia -' - steve On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 15:28, Andrei Smirnov wrote: > Hi all! > Are

dxr3 and xine dvd playback

2003-02-05 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
I'm on debian testing, and want to view DVDs via my dxr3 card. I tried installing the em8300 package, but it wasn't set up correctly, so I ended up grabbing the source and installing it by hand. Since I wasn't able to get the deb of em8300, I also ended up compiling and installing xine-lib and xine

Re: columbia -- what really happened

2003-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 11:39, Craig Dickson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I believe the fastest way to get bipartisan support for a manned > > mission to Mars is to convince the politicians that the mainland > > Chinese are going to get there first. > > Thus giving new meaning to the ide

Re: fstab entry for NTFS formatted drive

2003-02-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 05:04:27PM +, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > On 05 Feb 2003, 13:53:27, Rodrigo Agerri wrote: > > That remarkable Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 13:29, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > > On 04 Feb 2003, 21:58:58, David Turetsky wrote: > > > > I have a hard drive running Windows XP Professional

Re: Reasons for removing packages from Debian

2003-02-05 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 02:04:18 + Colin Watson wrote: > (... reasons for removing a series of packages ...) > Try . Most of my answers > above came from there. Thanks, that was the answer I expected. I didn't want you to waste your time looking for each

Re: Problems downloading Knoppix

2003-02-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:32:54PM +1100, bob parker wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:39, Levi Waldron wrote: > > On February 4, 2003 08:13 am, bob parker wrote: > > > Well I just completed downloading Knoppix using my steam powered dial up > > > connection. > > > > > > I started on 27 January. > > >

OT: humor [was: Re: Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?]

2003-02-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 08:55:26PM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: [ snip ] > Thorsten > -- > A smoking section in a restaurant is like a peeing section in a swimming pool. > - Unknown They have these sections, they're called "wading pools". :-) -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:

Re: KDE 3.1 in sid

2003-02-05 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 06:45:54AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > KDE starts drifting into sid! .debs at 11:00 (-0100). There's some > kde related debs on incoming.debian.org that should be in tonight's > update. Before I upgrade my system, does anyone experience some fallbacks? Upgrading that do

c program chart, scheme, plan

2003-02-05 Thread Andrei Smirnov
Hi all! Are there any tools for creating a graphical representation of a (future) program ? (with those boxes, arrows etc.) I mean, which can be integrated into an environment, including a documentation system. And, in general, what tools, editors, other things you are using to facilitate c (or ot

Re: columbia -- what really happened

2003-02-05 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:35:20PM -0500, David P James wrote: > Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > >The only thing those of us stuck somewhere in the middle can hope for, is > >that the research paid for by our government accidentally stumbles upon > >that > >magic energy formula, bringing us into the S

Re: mounting filesystems

2003-02-05 Thread alex
If I correctly understand what you want, you may like the way this works. # cd /mnt; mkdir da1 # alias win+='mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/da1; cd /mnt/da1; ls -aF --color=auto' # alias win-='cd; umount /mnt/da1' - # win+ (this should show all you

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-05 Thread Craig Dickson
Travis Crump wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >That of course doesn't prevent the holders of LAME's copyright from > >releasing it under the GPL, since the copyright holders are not > >themselves bound by the terms of the licence, > > Why shouldn't they be bound by the terms of the licence? Becau

Printing True Type Fonts

2003-02-05 Thread Ayman Haidar
Hello, I have been trying to solve this problem for few days.. I cannot print anything with True Type Fonts. I have cups installed with gs and gs-esp. I have tried to add true type fonts to Fontmap in gs using xfstt, with no avail. I even copied the Fontmap from a mandrake partition to Debian's

RE: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature

2003-02-05 Thread David Turetsky
  What is the appropriate nomenclature for logical/entended partitions in fstab and elsewhere   For example, hde1 (or hda1) is the base partition. If I use an extended partition, is that hde2 or what   I just added some fstab entries, rebooted, read the stuff fine, but now Woody is sma

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-05 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:15:21PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: > > Sounds like you are missing a "filter". Here are a couple of > suggestions for each situation: > > 1. Check and make sure you have Ghostscript installed and working. > > 2. In the KDE Control Center --> System --> Printing Man

RE: crc error

2003-02-05 Thread David Turetsky
Wouldn't that produce a hard error? Just based on today's experiences, it seems to happen often when I hit return specifying linux to lilo. In the last few hours, when I just allow the choice to time out, it never fails at all I just installed the (Woody) system yesterday from CDs -- David Hi,

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-05 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: That of course doesn't prevent the holders of LAME's copyright from releasing it under the GPL, since the copyright holders are not themselves bound by the terms of the licence, Why shouldn't they be bound by the terms of the licence? As copyright holders they are perfectly

Re: Ogg

2003-02-05 Thread Francisco M Neto
Olá, » Assim falou Ronaldo Reis Jr. em Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 05:42:48PM -0200: > Existe alguma vantagem/disvantagem em se utilizar o formato ogg ao mp3? Bem, a vantagem que eu vejo é q o ogg me parece mais bem estruturado (tanto que eles lançaram agora um formato de vídeo

Re: please help on adsl sharing

2003-02-05 Thread Attila Csosz
GBV wrote: 1. Your ISP require pppoe? 2. Do your adsl provider use DHCP ? if 1 == true remove the configuration of your internet interface apt-get install pppoeconf type as root: pppoeconf if 2 == true && 1 == false edit your /etc/network/interfaces like auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp else

RE: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature

2003-02-05 Thread David Turetsky
    What is the appropriate nomenclature for logical/entended partitions in fstab and elsewhere   For example, hde1 (or hda1) is the base partition. If I use an extended partition, is that hde2 or what   I just added some fstab entries, rebooted, read the stuff fine, but now Woody is

Re: nao consigo montar cdrom

2003-02-05 Thread Francisco M Neto
Olás, > Alterei o fstab para: > /dev/hdd/cdrom1 iso9660 user0 0 > /dev/hda2 /c-fat vfatuser0 0 > /dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 user0 0 > > Tinha que funcionar... > Creio que tem algo mais

Re: please help on adsl sharing

2003-02-05 Thread Attila Csosz
Osamu Aoki wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 03:56:57PM +0100, Attila Csosz wrote: I try to set up adsl sharing on two computer but I have problems. The situation: adsl --->A(connected to adsl) -- B(internal machine) I do the followings: on machine A have the followings: --

Re: please help on adsl sharing

2003-02-05 Thread GBV
1. Your ISP require pppoe? 2. Do your adsl provider use DHCP ? if 1 == true remove the configuration of your internet interface apt-get install pppoeconf type as root: pppoeconf if 2 == true && 1 == false edit your /etc/network/interfaces like auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp else explain bette

Re: Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?

2003-02-05 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Timothy Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-05 18:27]: >Have a read at what a horrible nightmare cut&paste is under X. >http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html I can't find any thing horrible in this text. Thorsten -- A smoking section in a restaurant is like a peeing section in a swim

Re: crc error

2003-02-05 Thread allancvg
Hi, this error was happened because your Kernel image was corrupted... 2 solutions: 1 - boot from your rescue disk floopy or cd-rom rescue image and copy the distro. kernel image (fast and simple) (rawrite under windows or dd under *nix, remenber?) 2 - boot from rescue disk floopy or cd-rom rescu

Re: Demand PPP

2003-02-05 Thread John Hasler
Donald Spoon writes: > One thing to consider when writing rules for Firewalling and IPMASQ is > the fact that the ppp0 (dial out) interface doesn't exist on the system > until you actually dial-out and make a connection. In the case of demand-dialing it does. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Danc

fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature

2003-02-05 Thread David Turetsky
What is the appropriate nomenclature for logical/entended partitions in fstab and elsewhere   For example, hde1 (or hda1) is the base partition. If I use an extended partition, is that hde2 or what   I just added some fstab entries, rebooted, read the stuff fine, but now Woody is smarte

Re: squirrelmail, uw-imapd (and ssl)

2003-02-05 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
--oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 07:39:32AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 09:47:22 -0500 > John M Flinchbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i need: > > a)

RE: simple (non-technial) software question

2003-02-05 Thread Narins, Josh
Phil, Tuesday, February 04, 2003 9:25 PM > > I'm setting -up linux machines at a school and the teachers > are interested > in Mavis Beacon teaches typing and Mathblaster type programs. > They want > programs that are fun for the kids and teach them things at > the same time. > > Does anyon

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-05 Thread Donald Spoon
Thomas H. George,,, wrote: I have three standalone systems all with cupsys, cupsomatic, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-driver-gimpprint, gimp1.2, gimp1.2-print and kdelibs3-cups: Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel with HP Deskjet 940c, Foomatic+hpijs (my daughter) Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel with Brot

Re: please help on adsl sharing

2003-02-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 03:56:57PM +0100, Attila Csosz wrote: > I try to set up adsl sharing on two computer but I have problems. > The situation: > > adsl --->A(connected to adsl) -- B(internal machine) > > I do the followings: > > on machine A have the followings: > ---

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-05 Thread Craig Dickson
Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-02-05T16:07:12Z, Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Since it would have an mp3 encoder, it couldn't possibly be under GPL, > > since mp3 encoders are patent-encumbered. > > Not true. LAME is released under the GPL - it was written from scratch: > >

RE: DVD - driving me crazy...

2003-02-05 Thread Amstead, Blake
You might want to try setting up a raw device. Check out the HOWTO set up and use raw devices for dvd access. On sourceforge. -Original Message- From: Vittorio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:35 AM To: debian-user Subject: DVD - driving me crazy... I'd lik

no PPP after Kernel Compile

2003-02-05 Thread Doug MacFarlane
I compiled my own kernel and went through and turned off a bunch of stuff in the .config that I knew I didn't need. It boots MUCH faster now!! But, my pppoe connection didn't come back up. plog (syslog) reports: Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline: Invalid argument What did I turn off that I

Re: Demand PPP

2003-02-05 Thread Donald Spoon
David Raeker-Jordan wrote: I am using iptables and ipmasq; might that be preventing pppd from dialing out? I got ipmasq working, but I am not very conversant with it. To answer my own question -- yes, ipmasq was preventing pppd from dialing out in demand mode. If I turn ipmasq off, then pppd w

Re: ADSL and Alcatel USB Modem

2003-02-05 Thread Yannick Van Osselaer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op woensdag 5 februari 2003 14:15, schreef Nick Adie: > Hi, > > I want to connect my Debian Server via an ADSL line. Has anyone any > experience of this, what package to use and any of the pit falls ? > > Regards > Nick http://www.mail-archive.com/sp

Re: OT: finite-state automata in LaTeX

2003-02-05 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Jeronimo" == Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeronimo> I tried it here and it didn't work... Exporting works OK (but Jeronimo> you need the transfig package installed); I used: Jeronimo> \usepackage{epic,eepic} Jeronimo> \usepackage{psfrag} Jeronimo> (...) Jeronimo> \incl

Re: fups2 mouse in X

2003-02-05 Thread Kent West
Ruediger Noack wrote: Hi Kent Kent West wrote: PS/2 works, but as you say, without the wheel. I reckon it'll have to do for now. Thanks! Only an idea. Try fuimps2 in gpm.conf and IMPS/2 in X. cu Ruediger Nope. PS/2 is the only driver in X I've found to work. Thanks anyway. Kent --

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