Re: [OT] SpamCop.net

2003-02-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 06:50:07PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I believe im currently blocked by Spamcop despite not being a spammer... You are not being blocked by Spamcop. Stop thinking this. If you're listed (which you're not, I just checked based on the headers; I'd appreciate the effo

Re: exim-tls setup

2003-02-08 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 03:46:56AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > [Sorry to come in so late...] > > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 02:22:40PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > so now onto this exim-tls thing... > > > > "SSL negotiation failed" (quelle suprise) > > > > how many thousand pages (and which order d

WordPerfect 8 on Woody

2003-02-08 Thread Jerry Van Brimmer
Hi, I'm trying to install Wordperfect 8 on Woody. I have installed libc5 and xpm4.7. I have WP8 on a commercial Corel CD. When I cd to the CD root directory, there I see install.wp. When I type ./install.wp and press Enter I get this message: debian:/cdrom# ./install.wp bash: ./install.wp: /bi

RE: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature

2003-02-08 Thread David Turetsky
Disk /dev/hde: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 16709 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hde1 * 1 14593 117218241 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hde2 14594 19457 39070080f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)

Re: passwordless ssh login not working

2003-02-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030208 20:16]: > > > debug3: Not a RSA1 key file /root/.ssh/id_rsa. > (and the same for id_dsa) > > Looking in these files, I find they don't look right compared to the > id_?sa.pub files. The .pub files contain "ssh-rsa fv487t509n0etcetcetc= > root@pigeon" all as one

Debian newbie: Truetype fonts

2003-02-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
Hello List, I'm a total Debian newbie, having used RedHat for years and years. I'm having some difficulty making Debian see my TT fonts. They show up in selection lists, but they look pretty poor whhen compared to RH8. Is there a Debian TT FAQ? I'm using Knoppix, installed to a hard drive, t

Re: CD Burner and ide-scsi emulation

2003-02-08 Thread frank
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 06:43 am, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 09:17:56PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:11:27PM +0100, Peppe wrote: > > > Be always sure you DON'T have compiled your kernel with the > > > ATAPI CDROM support... > > > > So this means not to include i

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 00:04, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 10:32:10PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > > My dictionary (American Heritage College Dictionary) sz they're > > synonyms. Save your valuable exemption for a real error :) > > And American Heritage Dictionary also screws up th

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Gary Turner
Paul Johnson wrote: >On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 10:32:10PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> My dictionary (American Heritage College Dictionary) sz they're >> synonyms. Save your valuable exemption for a real error :) > >And American Heritage Dictionary also screws up the definition of >"hacker," giving

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 22:58, David P James wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 15:12, David P James wrote: > > > >>Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > >>>On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 12:18, David P James wrote: [snip] > Contraire is correct :) Thanks. > That's true in one sense but not in other

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 08:55:15PM +, Pigeon wrote: > In Bedford there is a rather daft roundabout laid out like this: > >| | Ashburnham Rd > | | > ___/ \__ > __ / > Car __ O <- the roundabout > park \___

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 23:58, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:17:40PM -0500, David P James wrote: > > The Americans liberated Continental Europe. But they did not save > > Britain. Arguably Canada did, but not the United States. > > And at that, Canadian Forces are basically the B

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2003-02-08 Thread gmarcom
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Re: Sharing a printer with SAMBA

2003-02-08 Thread Alvin Oga
On 9 Feb 2003, Chris wrote: > Gday y'all, > Im trying to share a CUPS printer over samba. I can see the printer, but > when i try to print to it from a windows box i get the message "Access > Denied, Cannot connect.". linux# smbpasswd your-windoze-name ( on the linux box running samba

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 23:37, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:27:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > I wonder if the old ones were fired? Would adequate pay have attracted > > competent workers in the 1st place? We'll never know... > > Not necissarily. The old ones working for pr

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Geordie Birch
said Ron Johnson (on 2003-02-08), > On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 15:21, Geordie Birch wrote: > > said David P James (on 2003-02-08), > > > > > Travis Crump wrote: > > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > >> On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 20:57, Gary Turner wrote: > [snip] > > And I can spend my Canadian dollars i

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread David P James
Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:18:14PM -0500, David P James wrote: I'll give you a difference: liquidity. There are also differing degrees of transferability and risk associated with all the forms of assets that you've listed. I can't just use the tokens anywhere; they are probably

Sharing a printer with SAMBA

2003-02-08 Thread Chris
Gday y'all, Im trying to share a CUPS printer over samba. I can see the printer, but when i try to print to it from a windows box i get the message "Access Denied, Cannot connect.". I seem to be able to print a test page from the http config tool. This same problem hapened with lpd. I am running

Debian Newbie: Truetype fonts

2003-02-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
Hello List, I'm a total Debian newbie, having used RedHat for years and years. I'm having some difficulty making Debian see my TT fonts. They show up in selection lists, but they look pretty poor whhen compared to RH8. Is there a Debian TT FAQ? I'm using Knoppix, installed to a hard drive, t

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 10:32:10PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > My dictionary (American Heritage College Dictionary) sz they're > synonyms. Save your valuable exemption for a real error :) And American Heritage Dictionary also screws up the definition of "hacker," giving it the meaning of "cracker

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:17:40PM -0500, David P James wrote: > The Americans liberated Continental Europe. But they did not save > Britain. Arguably Canada did, but not the United States. And at that, Canadian Forces are basically the British Forces but flying the Red Ensign instead. I took hi

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 08:33:44PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:03:50PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > s/geosynchronous/geostationary > > I claim 1:41am exemption. :-) I'm not sure that counts, you usually keep pace with me all night long. Don't you work the night shift, too

Re: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature

2003-02-08 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:32:23AM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > Great. fdisk -l /dev/hde gives me > > /dev/hde1 * ... > /dev/hde2 ... > /dev/hde5 ... > > /hde2 and /hde5 give the same starting and ending blocks, so I assume > hde5 is the logical partition and hde2 is the extended part

Re: Packaging system and non-Debian packages [was: Re: lm_sensors]

2003-02-08 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:09:04AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:49:57PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > It would be useful to know how to do this in the more general case, > > where there isn't a convenient command like make-kpkg. > > > > My particular case is X 4.2.0, which

Re: hard lock ups

2003-02-08 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:39:14PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 12:39, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 07 Feb 2003, Scott Henson wrote: > > > The past few days I have been experiencing some hard lock-ups on my > > > computer and I was wondering if anyone had an idea of what was

Re: modem / pon / serial problems

2003-02-08 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:17:51AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:05:36AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 06:19:36PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > Install DNS caching software on the gateway (the modem box). Have all > > > internal machines use th

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 03:43:46AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Ya know, I've always wondered why Hitler declared war on us. We never > did anything to him. He was fighting the Godless Communists, and a > significant minority of Americans were anti-Semitic... The usual reason > is that we declare

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:47:56PM -0600, DvB wrote: > I got the impression that the level of training they received had a lot > to do with it. They were polite, knew what they were doing and sort of > had that "the customer's always right" attitude (or as much of it as a > baggage ispector can hav

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:18:14PM -0500, David P James wrote: > I'll give you a difference: liquidity. There are also differing degrees > of transferability and risk associated with all the forms of assets that > you've listed. I can't just use the tokens anywhere; they are probably > only rede

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:27:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > I wonder if the old ones were fired? Would adequate pay have attracted > competent workers in the 1st place? We'll never know... Not necissarily. The old ones working for private security agencies were given preferential hiring with

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:06:26PM -0600, DvB wrote: > Last time I flew, I was actually very impressed with the competence of > the baggage screeners relative to the old ones. I made comments to > friends and family to that effect. I'm not sure you'd be filled with joy in your work if you were stu

PCI ps (for wireless)

2003-02-08 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
This is from dmesg: eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 45e1. Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.2.2 kernel build: 2.4.18 unknown options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe: PCI: Enabling device 00:0c.0 ( -> 0002) PCI: As

wireless: what to take /out/

2003-02-08 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Hey all: I'm trying to get my wireless card working (Orinoco built-in mini card). I've had some people suggest that I need to take PCMCIA support out of the kernel. (Ok, done.) But it still doesn't seem to be working Under Network-device support I've moved everything to module instead of supp

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:24:55PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > That's pretty darned bad! Maybe (a) your city's citizens haven't gotten > fed up enough with the status quo, and (b) a viable reform candidate > hasn't appeared yet. Here in N.O, it took some black men who were > respected by the full

When did we get a crosspost with alt.shuttle.columbia.disaster?

2003-02-08 Thread Steve Lamb
It's the only /reasonable/ explanation for having one thread pretty much match if not drown out all other conversation on this list. Yeah, that's a hint people. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connect

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread David P James
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 15:12, David P James wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 12:18, David P James wrote: David, You're missing the point, which is that "money", when it has no intrinsic value (or backed by that which has intrinsic value, for example, pr

Getting rid of Gnome 1.4 stuff

2003-02-08 Thread Hall Stevenson
I have to shamefully admit that I've been away for the linux side of my dual-boot PC for a while... Yesterday I went back and had quite a bit of "apt-get upgrad"ing necessary. My problem at this point is I want to get Gnome2 installed, but I don't think it's there. I think there are parts (libgno

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 11:53:26AM -0600, DvB wrote: > > As far as "essential goods", who decides this? > > > > The commonwealth of Pennsylvania currently (unless things have changed > since I last heard) doesn't tax goods classified as "foo" and > "clothing." I support this despite the obvious d

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Gary Turner
Pigeon wrote: >On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:42:50AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:41:01AM +, Pigeon wrote: >> > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:37:53PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: >> > > Pigeon writes: > >On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:03:50PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> s/

Re: Debian und Counterstrike

2003-02-08 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 03:15:05AM +0100, Marcus Schopen wrote: > Julian Hüper wrote: > > > > Weisst jemand wie ich unter Debian Linux Counterstrike spielen kann ohne > > eine windoof-partition zu haben? > > zusätzliche Information: ich habe eine NVidia Riva TNT2-GraKa. > > This is the englisc

Re: [OT] Capitalism (was Re: columbia -- what really happened)

2003-02-08 Thread Gary Turner
Daniel Barclay wrote: >Jack Nguy wrote: >> >> Why is this on this mailing list again? > >By the way, your message asks for a return receipt, which I would >guess isn't everyone's preferred setting for a mailing list. Maybe for mail-lists we should honor requests for return receipts. Talk about

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:43:49PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > What *really* pisses me off is when I'm approaching a roundabout to go > around it in the correct (anti-clockwise) direction, some asshole > coming the other way or from the right thinks that they can cut off > the roundabount clockwis

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:37:48AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:40:27AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > I love the liberals who have no qualms about sending the military to > > important, strategic places like Somalia and Bosnia, cut the funding > > for the military at

Re: passwordless ssh login not working

2003-02-08 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:38:17PM -0700, Tim Ayers wrote: > When you generate your keys and it asks for a passphrase, just hit > . Don't use a passphrase and it won't prompt you for one. No, that's how I did it. It's not asking for a passphrase, it's asking for a password, just as if I had no ke

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:42:50AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:41:01AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:37:53PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > > Pigeon writes: > > > > It would be under tension, because the upper station is outside the > > > > geosyn

Re: rsyncing via cron

2003-02-08 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 08 Feb 2003 01:01:48PM -0500, sean finney insinuated: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:31:00PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > how can i create a cron job to rsync to a remote system? i use > > ssh-askpass, but since cron runs as root, i get > [...] > if you're trying to use public key authe

Inexplicable crashing

2003-02-08 Thread Adar Dembo
Hello, I'm running Debian Testing on a 2.4.18 box which I use a server. It's connected to the power and network, no monitor, keyboard, or other accessories. As a result, the only access I have is through ssh. As of late, the box has taken to crashing often. Normally its uptime was in the

Re: Video card change on working system

2003-02-08 Thread Scott Henson
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 21:24, Mike M wrote: Single user mode should be good enough to configure xf86. All that needs to be done is dpkg-reconfigure in single user mode. Then tell it to boot to the next runlevel and XF86 should come up and everything. If it doesnt it should drop you to a console

RE: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature

2003-02-08 Thread David Turetsky
Correction for the record: Both partitions on hdf are in NTFS format -- David -Original Message- From: David Turetsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 12:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature Great. fdisk -l /dev/hde g

Re: how can I restart a thread?

2003-02-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 07:01:44PM -0600, DvB wrote: > You could try posting a followup on the linux.debian.user ng. But it won't make it back to debian-user or any of the other newsgroups (muc.list.debian.user, etc) that also pick up this list. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :

Re: GTK, GTK2 Fonts

2003-02-08 Thread Steven Yap
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 23:16, Cameron Matheson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:02:48PM -0500, Richard Beri wrote: > > For some reason gdm wants to always use the ugly default font and > > I cannot change it, gnome-control-center run Run gdmconfig as root and it should set you right. Under the

Re: Video card change on working system

2003-02-08 Thread Russell
Mike M wrote: I am going to change my video card to another brand on a working Debian 3.0 system. The monitor will not be changing. Is there a published procedure for doing this somewhere? Something like this? 1. backup stuff 2. disable kdm 2. power down and change video card 3. power up 4.

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 03:46:53PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > ... > > You could always follow his Mail-Followup-To: header, which is designed > > for exactly this purpose: > > > > Mail-Followup-To: Debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > But how would you propose I do that?

Re: [REPOST] Kernel-Update

2003-02-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 08:30:11AM +0100, Jaque Moreau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > still getting MODPROBE, MTAB and also MODULES.CONF MORE RECENT errors > after installing a kernel-image with dselect. The post-installation should (IIUC) resolve this for you. Apparently it hasn't. Running 'depmo

Educational software for Linux (was Re: simple (non-technial) software question)

2003-02-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:15:53PM -0500, Phil ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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

Re: G550 amd Xfree Problems

2003-02-08 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 08 February 2003 01:45 am, Nik Engel wrote: > Hi ! > Since maybe 2 weeks I am trying to get my Debian work together with a > Matrox G550 and am LCD screen with Digital in : > > I use the following conf snip > Section "Device" > Identifier "Standardgrafikkarte" > Driver

Re: Downgrading to xfree86 3.x

2003-02-08 Thread Jeffrey Taylor
Quoting IEEE alias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 08:02:59PM -0600, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: > > > I have an old VLB video card (ATI Graphics Ultra Pro). It does not > > > appear to be supported in xfree86 4.x. How do I downgrade to xfree8

gnome 2 on woody

2003-02-08 Thread Matt Price
Hi everyone, I've seen a lot of talk here lately about installing kde 3.1 on woody. How about gnome 2 or 2.2? Any tips about what to delete from the gnome installation, and what isl ikely to break? thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Video card change on working system

2003-02-08 Thread Mike M
I am going to change my video card to another brand on a working Debian 3.0 system. The monitor will not be changing. Is there a published procedure for doing this somewhere? Something like this? 1. backup stuff 2. disable kdm 2. power down and change video card 3. power up 4. as root, run on

Re: Debian und Counterstrike

2003-02-08 Thread Marcus Schopen
Julian Hüper wrote: Weisst jemand wie ich unter Debian Linux Counterstrike spielen kann ohne eine windoof-partition zu haben? zusätzliche Information: ich habe eine NVidia Riva TNT2-GraKa. This is the englisch speaking news group! Dies ist die englischsprachige News Group! ;-) -- To UNSUB

Debian und Counterstrike

2003-02-08 Thread Julian Hüper
Hi und Hallo alle miteinander!   Weisst jemand wie ich unter Debian Linux Counterstrike spielen kann ohne eine windoof-partition zu haben?  zusätzliche Information: ich habe eine NVidia Riva TNT2-GraKa.   thx Julian

Typhoon Optical Mouse / Debian

2003-02-08 Thread Julian Hüper
Hi   ich hätte da mal eine Frage wegen der "Typhoon Optical Mouse". Weiss jemand warum die unter Debian nicht läuft?? Weiss jemand wie ich sie zum laufen bringen kann???   Mfg Julian

Re: GTK, GTK2 Fonts

2003-02-08 Thread Richard Beri
> > Yeah i have been getting this too... i think there is a config server > type thing in gnome2 > I just figured it out, I don't actually run gnome, I use fluxbox, so in my xsession I put, gnome-settings-daemon &, and it will load the settings that you change in gnome-control-panel. So now a

Re: how can I restart a thread?

2003-02-08 Thread DvB
helycos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to revisit previous emails in this list from a month ago so I can > add [SOLVED] to my original problem, for the sake of Google. Is there > any way I can add to a thread, even though I don't have the original > emails? Copying the subject line doesn't

Re: lwresd AND bind/named???? - 'nother Debian newbie question...

2003-02-08 Thread Aaron Hall
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Jeff Hahn wrote: > I need to run named (this 'puter is secondary for a few zones) > > Do I still need to run lwresd? Not if you have bind9 installed. lwresd appears (from its description) to be a stripped down version of bind9. Also, bind9 depends on liblwres1, so we can infer

Re: how can I restart a thread?

2003-02-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 09:59:06PM +, helycos wrote: > I want to revisit previous emails in this list from a month ago so I can > add [SOLVED] to my original problem, for the sake of Google. Is there > any way I can add to a thread, even though I don't have the original > emails? Copying t

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-08 Thread Brian Nelson
Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Colin Watson wrote: >> ... >> You could always follow his Mail-Followup-To: header, which is designed >> for exactly this purpose: >> >> Mail-Followup-To: Debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > But how would you propose I do that? Do a "View Source" on ever

Re: [OT] Re: shuttle disaster (Socrates)

2003-02-08 Thread Paul E Condon
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 10:57, Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 11:26:44AM -0500, Mike M wrote: In America, we say, "Those who can, do. Those that can't, teach." An interesting retcon. That's a quote from George Bernard Shaw, an Irishman, who also said:

how can I restart a thread?

2003-02-08 Thread helycos
I want to revisit previous emails in this list from a month ago so I can add [SOLVED] to my original problem, for the sake of Google. Is there any way I can add to a thread, even though I don't have the original emails? Copying the subject line doesn't seem to work. TIA, Tim -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Can't start X apps from su

2003-02-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Hello List, I have a very-difficult-to-reproduce-but-pertaining problem with accessing X applications (such as nedit) when gaining access via su from some other user's X session. If I log in as root to X, such problem never occurs. But as I don't want to take the name of root in vain, I got used

Re: Can't start X apps from su

2003-02-08 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Yeah, I got annoyed because of this too. Anyway it's not a big problem. What happens when you 'su' is that your env.vars. are changed to root's. Thus, apps don't know where the user's X session is. What you can do is use the -p flag for su. 'su -p' will preserve the user's env.vars. for the inv

Re: Kernel 2.4 broken on K7

2003-02-08 Thread David Macbanay
Try the touchpad driver from http://www.mobilix.org/software/synaptics/ and use the kernel parameter hdc=ide-scsi and make sure you have SCSI emulation support, SCSI CD-ROM support and SCSI generic support installed in the kernel configuration. David On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 20:44, Scott Nanni wrot

Can't start X apps from su

2003-02-08 Thread Andrej Prsa
Hello List, I have a very-difficult-to-reproduce-but-pertaining problem with accessing X applications (such as nedit) when gaining access via su from some other user's X session. If I log in as root to X, such problem never occurs. But as I don't want to take the name of root in vain, I got used t

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.08.1934 +0100]: > > Please do not CC me when replying to lists that I read! > > How are others supposed to know which lists you read (vs. which you > have just posted to)? (a) You see my name on these lists quite often (b) I might have repli

Re: apt- and dselect

2003-02-08 Thread David Z Maze
alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried running deselect and received this error message: > > E: Malformed line 2 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (deb) > update available list script returned error exit status 1. > Press to continue > This is the trouble maker line: > > deb http://ftp.de.

sbpcd mount fails during install

2003-02-08 Thread Hugh Martin
>>I'm having trouble installing Debian 2.2_11 on a >>486 >>with a SoundBlaster 16 Value card driving a >>CR-563-B >>CD-ROM drive. I use "sbpcd=0x220,1" for the >>command >>line parameter (the address is 220 when >>configured >>under DOS and works correctly there). >>Installation of >>the sbpcd dr

Re: [OT] Re: shuttle disaster (Socrates)

2003-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 10:57, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 11:26:44AM -0500, Mike M wrote: > > In America, we say, "Those who can, do. Those that can't, teach." > > An interesting retcon. That's a quote from George Bernard Shaw, an > Irishman, who also said: "Americans adore me and

Re: Mozilla and Galeon not working anymore in Sid

2003-02-08 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
On 03-02-08 20:20 +0100, Riccardo Gusso wrote: > Hi, > after today's upgrade of my sid both Mozilla (mozilla-browser_1.2.1-9) > and Galeon (galeon 1.2.7-6) don't work anymore: the first starts (I can > see the process with ps aux) but no windows appear on the desktop, the > second starts and contin

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 15:12, David P James wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 12:18, David P James wrote: > > > >>Travis Crump wrote: > >> > > >>> > >>>People and corporations produce their own money every day as well; have > >>>you ever written a check? Try coming up with a

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 15:21, Geordie Birch wrote: > said David P James (on 2003-02-08), > > > Travis Crump wrote: > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > >> On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 20:57, Gary Turner wrote: [snip] > And I can spend my Canadian dollars in Canada, but good luck trying to get > rid of them

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Geordie Birch
said David P James (on 2003-02-08), > Travis Crump wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 20:57, Gary Turner wrote: > >> > >> Maybe I'm missing something, but what are you talking about. People > >> and corporations produce their own goods and services every day. > > > > Peo

Re: how to determine whether (first) printer is lp0 or lp1?

2003-02-08 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Saturday 08 February 2003 18:43, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Is there a direct way determine whether the (first) printer is /dev/lp0 > or /dev/lp1? I'd suggest using devfs. Makes it terribly easy since you get the /dev/printers directory. -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: package and driver problem

2003-02-08 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 05:44:33PM +0100, Mikkel Liisberg wrote: > Hi > > i need to install a display driver for my Hercules Prophet ( ATI 9000) in > order to start kde. > but my problem is that i can't (don't know how) open/install the rpm > package. > i have debian woody! > How do i do this? >

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread David P James
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 12:18, David P James wrote: Travis Crump wrote: People and corporations produce their own money every day as well; have you ever written a check? Try coming up with a difference between checks, iou's, deeds, stock certificates, bonds, etc. and go

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-08 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-08 21:46]: >Colin Watson wrote: >> ... >> You could always follow his Mail-Followup-To: header, which is designed >> for exactly this purpose: >> >> Mail-Followup-To: Debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >But how would you propose I do that? Do a "View

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 14:32, Geordie Birch wrote: > said Ron Johnson (on 2003-02-08), > > > > you've listed. I can't just use the tokens anywhere; they are probably > > > only redeemable at that particular arcade, though I might be able to > > > sell them to another arcade-goer at par or at a disc

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-08 Thread Sean Burlington
Daniel Barclay wrote: martin f krafft wrote: ... Please do not CC me when replying to lists that I read! How are others supposed to know which lists you read (vs. which you have just posted to)? http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ Code of conduct When using the Debian mailing lists, plea

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 13:17, David P James wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > > Ya know, I've always wondered why Hitler declared war on us. We never > > did anything to him. He was fighting the Godless Communists, and a > > significant minority of Americans were anti-Semitic... The usual re

Re: how to determine whether (first) printer is lp0 or lp1?

2003-02-08 Thread Scott Henson
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 15:34, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Is there any relevant node in the /proc filesystem ? Just a guess, but /proc/sys/dev/parport/ would be a good place to start. I have a two directories in there, one is default, and the other is parport0. My printer is on /dev/lp0. So Im guess

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread DvB
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 12:06, DvB wrote: > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 00:27, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:55:06PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > Ummm, somehow I don't think that

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread DvB
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 12:00, DvB wrote: [snip] > Now, whether that means privatization or replacing the existing Civil > Servants, must obviously be looked at on a case-by-case basis... > That I can agree with. > > > And don't get me started about the

Re: Mozilla and Galeon not working anymore in Sid

2003-02-08 Thread DvB
Riccardo Gusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > after today's upgrade of my sid both Mozilla (mozilla-browser_1.2.1-9) > and Galeon (galeon 1.2.7-6) don't work anymore: the first starts (I can > see the process with ps aux) but no windows appear on the desktop, the > second starts and continues

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-08 Thread Daniel Barclay
Colin Watson wrote: > ... > You could always follow his Mail-Followup-To: header, which is designed > for exactly this purpose: > > Mail-Followup-To: Debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> But how would you propose I do that? Do a "View Source" on every message? (By the way, where is that message head

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Geordie Birch
said Ron Johnson (on 2003-02-08), > > you've listed. I can't just use the tokens anywhere; they are probably > > only redeemable at that particular arcade, though I might be able to > > sell them to another arcade-goer at par or at a discount. or you could control the supply by hoarding them and

Re: how to determine whether (first) printer is lp0 or lp1?

2003-02-08 Thread Daniel Barclay
Seneca wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:17:58PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 13:45, Seneca wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:43:05PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > > Is there a direct way determine whether the (first) printer is /dev/lp0 > > > > or /dev/lp1?

Re: apt- and dselect

2003-02-08 Thread alex
Once you have the .deb locally, you can simply run "dpkg -i your_file_to_be_installed.deb", saving a bit of tedium perhaps. apt and dselect seem to start 'update' OK and and appear to find some files but in a short time, an error notice shows up, (error 1, error2, 404 and the like) and the

Re: how to determine whether (first) printer is lp0 or lp1?

2003-02-08 Thread Seneca
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:17:58PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 13:45, Seneca wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:43:05PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > Is there a direct way determine whether the (first) printer is /dev/lp0 > > > or /dev/lp1? > > > > echo yes > /dev/lp

Re: ssl based file transfer gui program

2003-02-08 Thread Steffen Leich
Hi Bob, the actual URL is now http://www.pingx.net/secpanel/ What do you mean by "Secpanel never prompts me for a password!"? When connecting by SSH or SCP? What do you see in the xterm-Window after connecting? Could you send me some screenshots? Thanks Steffen Bob Paige wrote: If I reme

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 12:18, David P James wrote: > Travis Crump wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 20:57, Gary Turner wrote: > >> [snip] > >> > >>> eg. Actually, all goods and services come from the government...Try > >>> producing your own goods and services. > >> > >>

Re: sndfile.pc ?

2003-02-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:44:05PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 11:00:07AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:07:21PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > In any case, I manged to get autogen.sh to run, only to have configure fail > > > looking for a file called sndfile.p

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