Re: Woody, Sarge, SID, WTF?

2003-02-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 06:23:51PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free > So, am I now running Sid, Sarge, or WTF? Sid. This is Debian Unstable. It's all explain

Re: help starting x please

2003-02-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 03:59:51PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Otherwise, download non-free (proprietary) nvidia drivers from their > website. There are two files (tarballs of course) and you need to match > the numbers. Everything is explained in the README file that is distributed > with t

Re: help starting x please

2003-02-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 07:08:54PM -0800, pinhas wrote: > the microsoft-free world). I've tried going throught the install several > times (woody), and I can't get X started- i get a no screens error. I'm > using an nvidia geforce2 mx200 with an athlon xp chip. I would appreciate > any help on w

Re: [OT] i wonder how many more swatties are out there... (was Re: envelopes in TeX)

2003-02-11 Thread martin f krafft
just wait until we get told off. using debian-user for a reunion might not really be what it's for ;^> also sprach sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.12.0633 +0100]: > > Andy Perrin (Swat '93) > sean finney ('03... hopefully :) martin krafft ('01) -- Please do not CC me when replyin

Re: NFS setup problem

2003-02-11 Thread Andreas J Guelzow
Phil Beder wrote: but I don't seem to have man pages for hosts.allow, exports, and exportfs. man 5 hosts_access will give you the manual page describing hosts.allow (and hosts.deny) man exports man exportfs give me the other man pages. They are part of nfs-kernel-server Am I missing

Re: help starting x please

2003-02-11 Thread Russell
pinhas wrote: Hi, I'm new to Linux, and trying to start a new machine (headfirst dive into the microsoft-free world). I've tried going throught the install several times (woody), and I can't get X started- i get a no screens error. I'm using an nvidia geforce2 mx200 with an athlon xp chip. I wo

Re: please help with installation

2003-02-11 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:00:51AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I know I'll be assailed from all sides for daring to suggest this, but if you > are new to Linux, and not overly experienced with operating systems other > than, say, Windows, I would suggest looking for something easier to install >

Re: Problems with Quake ]I[ Arena

2003-02-11 Thread cirrus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 12:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > I have recently installed Q3A on my debian Woody box. I can start the game > in KDE from K menu, but no sound. > You either want to kill artsd or do an: artsshell suspend; quake3

Re: please help with installation

2003-02-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 12:42 am, Fer'had Erdogan wrote: > I'm new to Debian and to Linux. I'm trying to get it going on my a > machine but I'm stuck. When it says "installing base system - please > wait" (after configuring network) it starts writing some files in and > gives an error message

please help with installation

2003-02-11 Thread Fer'had Erdogan
I’m new to Debian and to Linux. I’m trying to get it going on my a machine but I’m stuck. When it says “installing base system – please wait” (after configuring network) it starts writing some files in and gives an error message **debootstrap exited with an error (return value 1)** .. Can a

[OT] i wonder how many more swatties are out there... (was Re: envelopes in TeX)

2003-02-11 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:41:40PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Yay Swarthmore! > Andy Perrin (Swat '93) sean finney ('03... hopefully :) msg30247/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: NFS setup problem

2003-02-11 Thread Ken Thompson
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 07:51 am, Phil Beder wrote: > when I check to status of nfs on the server I';m trying to > setup, the rpcinfo -p "servername" command returns > > rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper RPC: rompte system error > - connection refused > > the lsmod command shows nfsd, nfs a

RE: help starting x please

2003-02-11 Thread dbalder
nvidia cards work Basically, if you really want X now, try vesa drivers. That will give you GUI until you have a stab at nvidia drivers. Otherwise, download non-free (proprietary) nvidia drivers from their website. There are two files (tarballs of course) and you need to match the numbers. Every

Re: saving mutt email headers

2003-02-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:36:43AM +, p wrote: ... > in "v"iew mode, i try to "s"ave > the email into a file. don't go into view mode, but save from the index instead. -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

RE: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature

2003-02-11 Thread David Turetsky
[My latest on top] Pigeon, I'm chicken! I think it's safer for now leaving well enough alone and spending a little more time on pressing real world issues. In Windows, I've got 160GB (/hde) and 120GB (/hdf) and that's a lot. In linux, I can see the first partition on /hde and and both partitions o

Re: Deb-List Subject Line Tag?

2003-02-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:12:14AM +, Scalar wrote: > Would it be acceptable for the listserver to add a few > letters at the beginning of the subject to distinguish the > list from other email? Personally, I don't care one way or the other, but it's something I've seen (heatedly) discussed he

Re: saving mutt email headers

2003-02-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:22:05AM +, p wrote: > 1) i hit "v" (for view); > > 2) then i hit, "s" (for "save"); > > 3) then i give the email a file- > name. > > i just get the body of the email, > which is cool, of course, but i'd > like to capture the headers with > it. If you also w

Re: Deb-List Subject Line Tag?

2003-02-11 Thread Craig Dickson
Scalar wrote: > This isn't about debian but about the list.. > > Would it be acceptable for the listserver to add a few > letters at the beginning of the subject to distinguish the > list from other email? > > I use pine over telnet in 25x80 mode for email, and it is > frequently impossible to t

Re: Not understanding pdflatex

2003-02-11 Thread Gary Turner
David P James wrote: >Gary Turner wrote: > [...] >> [la]tex sample >> dvips -Ppdf sample >> ps2pdf sample.ps >> >> This should yield a pdf file that Acroread can render nicely. >> > >Really? It usually comes out looking pretty awful if you ask me when >looked at with Acroread. I've had much mo

RE: Problems with Quake ]I[ Arena

2003-02-11 Thread dbalder
Thanks guys!!! I will have a look at that point release tonight... I didn't know that was available... And one more time I will look into stopping that artsd! Not many people in my street will be sleeping tonight if I get Q3A working past the first level... Mwahahahaha!! (that's my evil laug

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, George Georgalis wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:43:21PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > >Do you know what's wrong with this hard drive, or how to troubleshoot it? > >It's almost brand new, but is it a warranty item? > > who knows maybe it's software error, but mor

Re: help starting x please

2003-02-11 Thread Kent West
pinhas wrote: Hi, I'm new to Linux, and trying to start a new machine (headfirst dive into the microsoft-free world). I've tried going throught the install several times (woody), and I can't get X started- i get a no screens error. I'm using an nvidia geforce2 mx200 with an athlon xp chip. I

Re: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature

2003-02-11 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 04:25:23PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > Indeed! cfdisk /dev/hde and cfdisk /dev/hdf are what is required. > Interesting about my problem in accessing the fat32 partition on /hde, > when I run cfdisk on this drive (WD 160GB, all available in Windows XP, > formatted using th

Deb-List Subject Line Tag?

2003-02-11 Thread Scalar
This isn't about debian but about the list.. Would it be acceptable for the listserver to add a few letters at the beginning of the subject to distinguish the list from other email? I use pine over telnet in 25x80 mode for email, and it is frequently impossible to tell listserv messages from norm

Re: Console fonts in rxvt

2003-02-11 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:06:06PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > Hi, another question on the same topic... > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:32:49PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > >What are you using as a font name? You just use any font that X > >recognizes (use xfontsel to get the font-nam

Re: Setting up Courier-IMAP at Home

2003-02-11 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting David Raeker-Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Currently, I use fetchmail to get my email from my ISP. Fetchmail passes the > > mail to procmail, which uses a few rules and spamassasin to sort the mail > > into folders. I use exim, but I am afraid I am a bit fu

Re: noteedit für kde3?

2003-02-11 Thread Craig Dickson
[CC'd to the Debian NoteEdit maintainer] Norbert Preining wrote in debian-user: > Hat schon irgendwer irgendwo noteedit (2.0.19) für kde3 gesehen? I'm guessing this means, "When will sid have NoteEdit rebuilt for KDE 3?" That's a good question. Is the maintainer still active and still intereste

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-11 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:43:21PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: >Do you know what's wrong with this hard drive, or how to troubleshoot it? >It's almost brand new, but is it a warranty item? who knows maybe it's software error, but more likely a loss of power while running/writting, but much much m

help starting x please

2003-02-11 Thread pinhas
Hi, I'm new to Linux, and trying to start a new machine (headfirst dive into the microsoft-free world). I've tried going throught the install several times (woody), and I can't get X started- i get a no screens error. I'm using an nvidia geforce2 mx200 with an athlon xp chip. I would appreciate

Re: Console fonts in rxvt

2003-02-11 Thread George Georgalis
Hi, another question on the same topic... On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:32:49PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: >What are you using as a font name? You just use any font that X >recognizes (use xfontsel to get the font-name). With aterm, i use the How does one specify the font: -jmk-neep alt-mediu

Re: lost some binaries in crash

2003-02-11 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:59:45PM -0500, Matthew Schibler wrote: > My desktop system had a recent filesystem corruption problem. After > running fsck I discovered I am now missing a few binaries. For example > perl was missing, which I temporarily recovered by copying a working > binary from anoth

Re: envelopes in TeX

2003-02-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Tue, 11 Feb 2003 06:37:53PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: > [snip] > speaking of configuring -- where should the .sty file go? i tried > just putting the whole envlab directory in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ > -- and i made all the permi

Re: saving mutt email headers

2003-02-11 Thread p
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:41:16PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * p ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030211 17:26]: > > debs, > > > > in mutt, when i save an email to a > > file, how do i save the headers, too? > > How do you _not_ save the headers? > > good times, > Vineet > -- > http://www.doorstop.net/

Re: nfs: task 865 can't get a request slot. What is this?

2003-02-11 Thread Jim Richardson
"Egor Tur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I see messages in log's: > client1 kernel: nfs: task 865 can't get a request slot See Question 11 in http://nfs.sourceforge.net/ . The only times I've seen this message were when the network interface card was bad, or when the driver wasn't really suitabl

Re: saving mutt email headers

2003-02-11 Thread p
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:32:01AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:23:23AM +, p wrote: > > in mutt, when i save an email to a file, how do i save the headers, > > too? > > What are you using to save the mail to a file at the moment? If you use > 's' or 'C' to move or co

lost some binaries in crash

2003-02-11 Thread Matthew Schibler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My desktop system had a recent filesystem corruption problem. After running fsck I discovered I am now missing a few binaries. For example perl was missing, which I temporarily recovered by copying a working binary from another debian system. This allo

Re: [newbie] - apt-cache / dpkg question???

2003-02-11 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:32:44 -0600 Jeff Hahn wrote: > How do I get a list of packages including what distribution they came > from??? > > Something like dpkg -l saying "perl-5.8.0/unstable" I've done just that a few days ago. Made my own script, don't know if there's any debian tool available for

fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-11 Thread Levi Waldron
I helped someone install Debian on a new hard drive a couple months ago. They didn't use that hard drive for the last couple months, then tried to boot into Debian and got the following errors during the boot process: -- mount: mountpoint /proc

Re: saving mutt email headers

2003-02-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
* p ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030211 17:26]: > debs, > > in mutt, when i save an email to a > file, how do i save the headers, too? How do you _not_ save the headers? good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result

Re: saving mutt email headers

2003-02-11 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:23:23AM +, p wrote: > in mutt, when i save an email to a > file, how do i save the headers, too? I just saved a copy of your message in mutt. I looked at the saved copy with less, and the headers were there. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

noteedit für kde3?

2003-02-11 Thread Norbert Preining
Hallo! Hat schon irgendwer irgendwo noteedit (2.0.19) für kde3 gesehen? Herzliche Grüße Norbert --- Norbert Preining Technische Universität Wien gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF

Re: saving mutt email headers

2003-02-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:23:23AM +, p wrote: > in mutt, when i save an email to a file, how do i save the headers, > too? What are you using to save the mail to a file at the moment? If you use 's' or 'C' to move or copy the mail to a file, it's exactly the same as moving or copying to anoth

Re: Setting up Courier-IMAP at Home

2003-02-11 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting David Raeker-Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have several computers at home, some of which are dual boot. I want to use > courier-imap on a server at my house so that I can always access all of my > mail, no matter which computer or OS I am using. > > Currently, I use fetchmail to get my e

saving mutt email headers

2003-02-11 Thread p
debs, in mutt, when i save an email to a file, how do i save the headers, too? kthxbye. b. // -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Size of an i386 mirror (unstable and testing)

2003-02-11 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:11:55PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > what is the algorithm used in out of a list of different > servers as specified in ? I think it is the mirror closest to the start of sources.list with the desired version. If there is a problem downloading the file, apt tries dow

Re: Woody, Sarge, SID, WTF?

2003-02-11 Thread Jeff Elkins
Thank you, Rick and Vineet. As a newbie, I appreciate your responses. I'm looking forwarding to exploring Debian. Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

thermal printer

2003-02-11 Thread Dave W
Has anyone here any suggestions for a thermal printer to use with Deb Sid? I'd like to use it for printing callerID info. Googling isn't coming up with much ... -- Dave W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Packages for Debian 3.0 (Alpha 15)

2003-02-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
I have prepared some packages that update some packages that are not or only in an older version in Debian 3.0r1. Please read [1] for more information (and read the FAQ before sending mails to me). I try my best to avoid problems with both installing these packages on Debian 3.0 and upgrading with

Setting up Courier-IMAP at Home

2003-02-11 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
I have several computers at home, some of which are dual boot. I want to use courier-imap on a server at my house so that I can always access all of my mail, no matter which computer or OS I am using. Currently, I use fetchmail to get my email from my ISP. Fetchmail passes the mail to procmail, wh

Re: envelopes in TeX

2003-02-11 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 11 Feb 2003 06:37:53PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 04:10:48PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > | i'm starting to send out resumes and cover letters &c., and want to > | print pretty envelopes in TeX. should i not bother, and just do it on > | a public p

Re: envelopes in TeX

2003-02-11 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 11 Feb 2003 04:36:38PM -0500, Andrew Perrin insinuated: > Check out the envlab package; usage: > > \documentclass{letter} > \usepackage[businessenvelope,noprintreturnaddress,nocapaddress]{envlab} > ... > \makelabels > \begin{document} > \begin{letter}{} > > \end{letter} > \end{document}

pdnsd problems

2003-02-11 Thread Greg Norris
I'm having some problems getting a reliable pdnsd setup, which I was hoping (obviously! ;-) that someone here could help me out with. The symptom is that occasionally it stops resolving addresses (probably just uncached ones?), and pdnsd-ctl shows the server as unavailable. At first I thought the

Re: Woody, Sarge, SID, WTF?

2003-02-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeff Elkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030211 15:36]: > I'm exploring Debian via the Koppix CD, which I installed to an empty > partition on my RedHat 8 box. > > After installation, I modified my /etc/apt/sources.list to point to: > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free >

Re: hfs support in 2.4.20

2003-02-11 Thread Ric Otte
Thanks, that did it! Ric On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 03:50:33PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:10:14PM -0800, Ric Otte wrote: > > I downloaded 2.4.20 from www.kernel.org and am trying to compile it with > > hfs file support (so I can read disks given to me written on a mac

Re: Woody, Sarge, SID, WTF?

2003-02-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
If you did "apt-get update" after changing sources.list, then the subsequent "apt-get dist-upgrade" has you running unstable, which is sid. by way of Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Howdy List! > > I'm exploring Debian via the Koppix CD, which I installed to an empty > partition on my RedH

Re: Problems with Quake ]I[ Arena

2003-02-11 Thread Christian Arthaber
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-12 00:37]: > Hi All, > > I have recently installed Q3A on my debian Woody box. I can start the game > in KDE from K menu, but no sound. no help for that - using gnome :/ > Are there any packages related to Q3A that I should perhaps update. Or are

Re: Problems with Quake ]I[ Arena

2003-02-11 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 19:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > I have recently installed Q3A on my debian Woody box. I can start the game > in KDE from K menu, but no sound. you probably want to either stop artsd (killall -9 artsd) before you run quake, or run q3a through artsdsp. the last t

Re: envelopes in TeX

2003-02-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 04:10:48PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | i'm starting to send out resumes and cover letters &c., and want to | print pretty envelopes in TeX. should i not bother, and just do it on | a public printer running windoze on campus? or is there a package i | can easily use to p

Re: Fetchmailrc--parse error

2003-02-11 Thread Gary Turner
Rob Weir wrote: >On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:17:37AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> Shyamal Prasad wrote: [...] >> >> >Also, I don't use 'auth' and it works fine. I use the same POP server >> >as you are trying to use. >> >> Dropping the "auth" did the job on syntax. Funny, I added it because I >

Re: Console fonts in rxvt

2003-02-11 Thread Jacob S .
Thanks, Cameron. That did the trick. I was actually trying variations such as "rxvt -fn /usr/share/truetype/courier.ttf" I'll keep xfontsel in mind for future reference. Thanks again, Jacob On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:32:49 -0700 Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > What are you

Woody, Sarge, SID, WTF?

2003-02-11 Thread Jeff Elkins
Howdy List! I'm exploring Debian via the Koppix CD, which I installed to an empty partition on my RedHat 8 box. After installation, I modified my /etc/apt/sources.list to point to: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/no

Problems with Quake ]I[ Arena

2003-02-11 Thread dbalder
Hi All, I have recently installed Q3A on my debian Woody box. I can start the game in KDE from K menu, but no sound. I read solutions to this and I tried running under twm and it works. However, I noticed that when I start Q3A from twm window manager, I can play the first level, and then when it

Re: Urgent Help: courier-imap installation

2003-02-11 Thread David H. Clymer
Kevin, you could try purging courier-imap first (so that it forgets about those configfiles) and then attempt to reinstall it. Unless it is a new install, you will probably want to back up your config first :) I had this happen to me just the other day..but for the life of me cant remember _exac

Re: did www.debian.org change recently?

2003-02-11 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-02-2003 20:37]: > wonder whats wrong on my end, guess I could go try to rebuild my > preferences. wish phoenix spit out some debugging info that gave > some clue. I am sure this is wasted on you, but I managed to solve a problem once by starting the application from

Re: Debian unstable: problems during migration from gnome 1.4 to gnome 2.2

2003-02-11 Thread Michael Wardle
Sorry for replying at the wrong point in the thread. I deleted Jerome's message, and am therefore unable to reply to it instead... On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 04:11:21PM +0100, Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote: > I migrated from gnome 1.4 to gnome 2.2 (*) yesterday and here are the > problems I encoun

Re: Woody installer

2003-02-11 Thread Michael Wardle
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003 00:57, Kesav Tadimeti wrote: > I am thinking of installing Debian. I do not, however, want to spend too > much time doing that. I have installed FreeBSD 4.3 before, so I'd like to > know if Debian (Woody) installation is as easy/difficult as FreeBSD. They're a littl

java-virtual-machine-dummy

2003-02-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Mackinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030211 02:36]: > > > * Calber Chainy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-08 12:54]: > > >Mmmm, I cannot find [Jedit] in my sources, is it a command line program? > > > > No, it's an editor written in Java. I don't know whether there is a > > debian package available

OT: poke the penguin

2003-02-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
http://www.dinge.co.uk/Games/poke_penguin.swf -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.

Re: hfs support in 2.4.20

2003-02-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:10:14PM -0800, Ric Otte wrote: > I downloaded 2.4.20 from www.kernel.org and am trying to compile it with > hfs file support (so I can read disks given to me written on a mac). > When I type 'make menuconfig' I do not get the option of compiling hfs > file support. It ha

Re: envelopes in TeX

2003-02-11 Thread Alan Shutko
Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i'm starting to send out resumes and cover letters &c., and want to > print pretty envelopes in TeX. I don't know about TeX, but if you're willing to use LaTeX, envlab does what you want. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors

Re: setting content-description in mutt

2003-02-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030211 12:04]: > also sprach Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.11.0624 +0100]: > > from your hard drive to any or all recipients from your address book. > > But it only happens about once a month or so, so it's okay. Just keep on > > using it. > > huh

Editors (was: editing a text file in a tar.gz file without decompressing)

2003-02-11 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-11 11:22]: >I've been learning emacs (gone to far to go back to vi at this point) >and kind of sneering at all-in-one IDE's, but Jedit is worth a >look. Auto-formats nicely, prints nicely (better than emacs, IMO), >sophisticated plugin manager (you

Re: envelopes in TeX

2003-02-11 Thread Mark Laird Copper
I use the package envlab, but it's not a Debian package. Still it's easy to install and use. Get it from CTAN. Mark On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 04:10:48PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i'm starting to send out resumes and cover letters &c., and want to > print pretty envelopes in TeX. should i n

Re: envelopes in TeX

2003-02-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
Check out the envlab package; usage: \documentclass{letter} \usepackage[businessenvelope,noprintreturnaddress,nocapaddress]{envlab} ... \makelabels \begin{document} \begin{letter}{} \end{letter} \end{document} -- Andrew J Perrin

Re: envelopes in TeX

2003-02-11 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i'm starting to send out resumes and cover letters &c., and want to > print pretty envelopes in TeX. should i not bother, and just do it on > a public printer running windoze on campus? or is there a package i > can easily use to print my envelopes to

Re: Woody installer

2003-02-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 03:39:41PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > * Kesav Tadimeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-11 15:37]: > > > I am thinking of installing Debian. I do not, however, want to spend too > > much time doing that. I have installed FreeBSD 4.3 before, so I'd like to > > know if Debian (Woo

Re: envelopes in TeX

2003-02-11 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > i'm starting to send out resumes and cover letters &c., and want to > print pretty envelopes in TeX. should i not bother, and just do it on > a public printer running windoze on campus? or is there a package i > can easily use to print my envelopes to

xlock+apm suspend -- how?

2003-02-11 Thread donw
Short version: I'm trying to get xlock to automatically launch whenever my machine (a laptop) goes into suspend mode. Slightly longer version: I've been using a symlink in /etc/apm/suspend.d (to a script in /etc/apm/scripts.d) to handle the starting and stopping of xlock; all

Re: Console fonts in rxvt

2003-02-11 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, What are you using as a font name? You just use any font that X recognizes (use xfontsel to get the font-name). With aterm, i use the font "-ormaxx-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*". I'm guessing you were just trying something like -fn "courier"? xfontsel will be your friend. Good luck, Cameron

RE: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature

2003-02-11 Thread David Turetsky
-Original Message- From: Pigeon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 2:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 03:57:16PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > cfdisk -P /hde and cfdisk -P /hdf both just result

CD writing with cdrecord and xcdroast

2003-02-11 Thread Geoff Crompton
Hi All, I've found that copying data CD's (such as the Debian Woody set) to a blank disc with xcdroast gives me errors when I try and read some of the packages. (Only a few of the packages, the majority is fine.) This is burning at speeds of 2x to 4x, on a 16x burner. However if I use

Re: pppoeconf don t find tap0

2003-02-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Hugo Portela [Tue, Feb 11 2003, 08:37:45PM]: > I am trying to configure pppoe to use the tap0 interface in order to > be able to use the OpenSource driver for Alcatel USB Speedtouch modem > with pppoe protocol. > > When i execute pppoeconf, only the eth0 and dummy interfaces are

Re: Defragment

2003-02-11 Thread Yven Johannes Leist
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 14:23, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:47:27AM -0800, Itsik Aviad wrote: > > Which leads me to believe that I probably need to defragment the > > hard drive. > > Nope. This isn't a problem. You can probably find the technical > reasons behind this on G

envelopes in TeX

2003-02-11 Thread Nori Heikkinen
i'm starting to send out resumes and cover letters &c., and want to print pretty envelopes in TeX. should i not bother, and just do it on a public printer running windoze on campus? or is there a package i can easily use to print my envelopes to match my letters? tia, -- .~. nori @

hfs support in 2.4.20

2003-02-11 Thread Ric Otte
I downloaded 2.4.20 from www.kernel.org and am trying to compile it with hfs file support (so I can read disks given to me written on a mac). When I type 'make menuconfig' I do not get the option of compiling hfs file support. It has lots of other types of file system support, such as ext3 and rei

Re: Wireless Frustration

2003-02-11 Thread Patrick Ouellette
I've had success with Belkin's PCI adapter and their pcmcia card (you need both for a desktop if your desktop does not have pcmcia slots). You use the orinoco_plx driver from the kernel, or the prism2_plx driver from linux-wlan-ng. On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:09:21PM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wro

Re: How to fix "Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0"?

2003-02-11 Thread Daniel Barclay
I wrote: > ... > Next, it says: > > Herbert Xu wrote: > No it does not, all you have to do to use a filesystem other > than CRAMFS is to set MKIMAGE in /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf. > > Of course, it doesn't say anything about what you can set MKIMAGE to > [to] do that. > > M

Re: Screen Saver /Lock

2003-02-11 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 15:52, Dominic Iadicicco wrote: > Hello all, > > Sometimes when I leave my x terminal I lock my screen so no-one will mess with > it. After I hit to lock button in Xfce it locks and a screen saver comes on. > When I come back most times, I have the have the desk top staring

Re: pppoeconf don t find tap0

2003-02-11 Thread Hugo Portela
> > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > my apologies for the blank message. (new mail client) :-( once again ... -- I am trying to configure pppoe to use the tap0 interface in order to be able to u

Screen Saver /Lock

2003-02-11 Thread Dominic Iadicicco
Hello all, Sometimes when I leave my x terminal I lock my screen so no-one will mess with it. After I hit to lock button in Xfce it locks and a screen saver comes on. When I come back most times, I have the have the desk top staring me right in the face. It is unlocking it self. Considering I u

Re: Morte ao Linux, será?

2003-02-11 Thread Francisco M Neto
Meu, quê q vc andou cheirando » Assim falou wesley al em Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 04:03:08PM -0300: > Eu acredito em conspiração pois no mundo o governo > brasileiro e suas estatais > é um mercadão > para programas proprietários e agora com o governo > Lula o Império do Mal contra-ata

NFS problem

2003-02-11 Thread Phil Beder
> > when I check to status of nfs on the server I';m trying > to > > setup, the rpcinfo -p command returns > > > > rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper RPC: remote system > error > > - connection refused > > > > the lsmod command shows nfsd, nfs and lockd. what did > I do > > wrong? what a

Re: mutt: maildirs that contain folders ???

2003-02-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 02:47, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 04:22:28PM -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote: --snip-- > > For example, if I do these: > > > > maildirmake Maildir ~/mail > > maildirmake -f Drafts ~/mail/Maildir --snip-- > > but, mutt does *not* show me the Drafts folde

Problems with the installation of IBMJava2-SDK-1.4-0.0.i386.rpm on "Testing" system

2003-02-11 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I grabed IBMJava2-SDK-1.4-0.0.i386.rpm from the IBM page and said >alien IBMJava2-SDK-1.4-0.0.i386.rpm ibmjava2-sdk_1.4-1_i386.deb >dpkg --install ibmjava2-sdk_1.4-1_i386.deb I included '/opt/IBMJava2-14/bin' in the PATH in /etc/profile and said ln -s /opt/IBMJava2-14/jre/bin/libjavaplugin

Re: gpg key in memory

2003-02-11 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op di 11-02-2003, om 01:38 schreef Joey Hess: > Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > I only have 1 key pair. When i read the gpg manual it didn't suggest to > > keep more than 1 key pair ( or i didn't see it). I always thought you > > where only supposed to have 1 key pair? Or maybe a second one for > > in

Re: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature

2003-02-11 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 03:57:16PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > cfdisk -P /hde and cfdisk -P /hdf both just result in rendering /hda > (rather nicely). Somewhere in the infos I've been warned that linux > version of fdisk is somewhat buggy (probably in 'info fdisk') That should be /dev/hde, /dev

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-11 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 03:58:43PM -0500, jereme wrote: > Hi Pigeon, > > [snips:] > > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:19:16PM -0500, jereme wrote: > > > > > > That is like telling me to build a fence so your dog doesn't crap on > > > my lawn... > > > > If your

Re: setting content-description in mutt

2003-02-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.11.0624 +0100]: > from your hard drive to any or all recipients from your address book. > But it only happens about once a month or so, so it's okay. Just keep on > using it. huh? > AFAICT, mutt can't do this ... yet. Try dropping the attache

Re: Not understanding pdflatex

2003-02-11 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:13:33PM -0500, David P James wrote: > Gary Turner wrote: > > >It is interesting to note that gv and xpdf render Type3 fonts very > >nicely while Acroread looks like crap. Regardless of how they look on > >screen, printed docs will look fine. > > > >See /usr/share/doc/te

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-11 Thread Yven Johannes Leist
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 15:16, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:17:25PM +0100, Yven Johannes Leist wrote: [...] > > old anyway so just switch to something newer" seems at least slightly out > > of touch with reality to me... > > Sometimes change is good. I was quite proficie

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