Re: What mail program does this?

2004-03-20 Thread Lou Losee
* Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-21 01:13]: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 09:25:59PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Someone now (it is not SPAM, I now the sender) has sent me a 1.2Mb >> > jpeg file that mozilla choke

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Kanter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 11:46:08PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Better than any other OS on the market. You might have to work for >> parts of it, but jeeze, what other distribution of anything supports >>

Re: supported nics

2004-03-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 01:45:28AM -0400, James LeClair wrote: > hey all. what network cards are recomended for using with woody ( or > sarge for that matter )? i have a couple that work right now and am > about to set up a few new boxes and was wondering what the least > botherome nics are. >

Re: What mail program does this?

2004-03-20 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 09:25:59PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Someone now (it is not SPAM, I now the sender) has sent me a 1.2Mb > > jpeg file that mozilla chokes on, meaning he keeps trying to get it > > off the server, whic

saving cookies for ebay

2004-03-20 Thread solhlevitt
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Re: ipopd and "unknown authorization state command"

2004-03-20 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Matthijs wrote: > - Then, using squirrelmail, I accessed my Inbox (which under the hood > uses IMAP. Logged in without problems, no mail in my Inbox > - A few seconds later, I tried to access my Inbox again via > squirrelmail but got a vague error: > ERROR : Could not complete

supported nics

2004-03-20 Thread James LeClair
hey all. what network cards are recomended for using with woody ( or sarge for that matter )? i have a couple that work right now and am about to set up a few new boxes and was wondering what the least botherome nics are. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: /boot is readonly file system -why?

2004-03-20 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 18:49, Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen wrote: > edit fstab eg: > /dev/hdxx /boot ext3defaults 0 2 > lsof |grep /boot > kill process that locks boot (eg klogd) > umount and remount > or else you have to reboot. Not so. First of all, you are correct that

Re: What mail program does this?

2004-03-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Someone now (it is not SPAM, I now the sender) has sent me a 1.2Mb > jpeg file that mozilla chokes on, meaning he keeps trying to get it > off the server, which fails after a while, who knows why. fetchma

Re: Print Drivers

2004-03-20 Thread Katipo
Krikket wrote: One thing I've been banging my head over is how do you load your printer's drivers? I just did a Sarge install, and everything is pretty much working exactly as I could have hoped. With the exception of the printer. I don't know if I forgo to turn it on during the install, or if it

Re: Linux clients in network - experiences?

2004-03-20 Thread John Hardcastle
On 03/21/04 02:45, Cedric Ware wrote: The main point I'd think of and that you may have missed would be software installation and maintenance. Don't assume it's something you only do once as you're bound to buy more machines, deal with hardware failures, etc. Centralize your logs, automate everyt

Re: Woody diskette install

2004-03-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 09:46:52PM -0500, Drogo Bumbleroot wrote: > -Original Message- > On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 03:02:52PM -0500, Drogo Bumbleroot wrote: > > I'm trying to setup a P166 with woody via floppy since it won't boot > > from CD. > > > > I've booted it with a rescue.img diskett

Re: OK, I'm a coward...help me feel more at ease?

2004-03-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 06:31:10PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 10:57:53 -0600 > "Cybe R. Wizard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Tired of the 2.4.3 kernel that came with Libranet Debian 1.9.1, I am > > trying to install the 2.6.4-1-k7 kernel image. It's all downloaded > > bu

Re: Loading modules at startup

2004-03-20 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 20 March 2004 10:13 pm, Didier Caamano wrote: >Hello, I was wondering how to make the kernel to load modules at >start up, I know i does it automatically, but I'm having a >little bit of troubles, I was running with the kernel that comes >with woody and decided to update to 2.6.4, after

Loading modules at startup

2004-03-20 Thread Didier Caamano
Hello, I was wondering how to make the kernel to load modules at start up, I know i does it automatically, but I'm having a little bit of troubles, I was running with the kernel that comes with woody and decided to update to 2.6.4, after that my mouse wasn't working, so I issueed: modprobe mousede

nat and dhcp

2004-03-20 Thread uzoma nwosu
I'm trying to turn my debian box into nat server. So far, I've got the kernel configured with all the netfilter stuff that the IP Masquerade-howto on tldp.org said (I'm running 2.4.24, with sarge/sid). I've installed dhcpd and it seems to run fine. So here's my problem: my laptop (which has a

Curl script for Online Banking access?

2004-03-20 Thread Number Six
I could probably write this, but it would super-cool if I could use Curl to automate a Online Banking Session with my bank. I'd need to trick it into thinking I was using a recent Mozilla, it probably checks for that. (1) Does this already exist? (2) Can you think of any potential security or f

RE: Woody diskette install

2004-03-20 Thread Drogo Bumbleroot
-Original Message- On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 03:02:52PM -0500, Drogo Bumbleroot wrote: > I'm trying to setup a P166 with woody via floppy since it won't boot > from CD. > > I've booted it with a rescue.img diskette. It will eventually ask for > another diskette while loading linux.bin >

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's perfectly possible to install 2.6 even on the current stable, albeit with a few backports of things like module-init-tools and e2fsprogs I am too much of a newbie to attempt such a thing. I was raised on BASIC, on the Timex-Sinclair, C64, TI-994A, then moved to Uni

Re: crontab jobs not running?

2004-03-20 Thread Nitebirdz
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 07:17:22AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > > Just a thought - do you have anacron installed. Its a while since I have, > but I have this feeling that it simulates the running of cron and therefore > its the times in /etc/anacrontab that matter > No, anacron is not instal

usage of "ifup ppp0" as opposed to "pon"

2004-03-20 Thread H. S.
(I am using Debian Sarge, running kernel 2.4.24-1-686) I recently installed new version of iptables and noticed it had made some changes to the start up scripts. While going over the documentation, I realized that I can use pre-up and up and down and post-down commands in the /etc/network/inter

Re: Can't use gaim with yahoo account

2004-03-20 Thread Kent West
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: I am using debian testing. Since I cannot find yahoo messenger in the debian packages, I thought of using gaim. But in gaim, whenever I go to accounts button and click on the on-line box, a window pops up and says something like this username has been disconnected dat

re:Debian queries

2004-03-20 Thread users
> It's perfectly possible to > install 2.6 even on the current stable, albeit with a few backports of > things like module-init-tools and e2fsprogs I am too much of a newbie to attempt such a thing. I was raised on BASIC, on the Timex-Sinclair, C64, TI-994A, then moved to Unix briefly in college.

Re: /boot is readonly file system -why?

2004-03-20 Thread Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 02:29, glenn wrote: > Hi - I'm trying to install kernel-image-2.6.4, however along the way > dpkg complains that the boot directory is read-only (/boot=/dev/hdb1 and > /=/dev/hdb3) like so: > -- > Unpacking kernel-image-2.6.4-1-686 (from > .../kernel-image-2.6.4-1-

/boot is readonly file system -why?

2004-03-20 Thread glenn
Hi - I'm trying to install kernel-image-2.6.4, however along the way dpkg complains that the boot directory is read-only (/boot=/dev/hdb1 and /=/dev/hdb3) like so: -- Unpacking kernel-image-2.6.4-1-686 (from .../kernel-image-2.6.4-1-686_2.6.4-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/

Can't use gaim with yahoo account

2004-03-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I am using debian testing. Since I cannot find yahoo messenger in the debian packages, I thought of using gaim. But in gaim, whenever I go to accounts button and click on the on-line box, a window pops up and says something like this username has been disconnected date unable to read reconnec

Kernel 2.6 & wireless USB

2004-03-20 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! Is anyone using kernel 2.6 & an USB wifi card together? I've tryed 2 different USB wifi cards -I'm using SID & 2.6.4 with debian patches-, and it seems not to recognize the device. I mean that the USB system is not able to identify the card

Re: how to shape incoming traffic on specific port?

2004-03-20 Thread David Clymer
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 11:15, Sergey Spiridonov wrote: > David Clymer wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 19:18, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote: > > >>I need to limit incoming traffic on the specific port (I experimented > >>with ssh). Outgoing traffic can me easely limited with tc, but I have > >>problem

Re: CUPS

2004-03-20 Thread Alan Shutko
Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's the difference between lp and lpr (other than the option syntax)? > I think I had a bad /etc/printcap until I ran magicfilterconfig, so I > don't think lp would have worked. If you have only the CUPS lp and lpr clients, the only difference is the op

Totally new

2004-03-20 Thread Robinson Richard
What the hell is AOL-BLK?  I was trying to track an email and I ended up with this name. I wanted a street address and a name lol.    Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time.

Re: Print Drivers

2004-03-20 Thread Kent West
Krikket wrote: One thing I've been banging my head over is how do you load your printer's drivers? I just did a Sarge install, and everything is pretty much working exactly as I could have hoped. With the exception of the printer. I don't know if I forgo to turn it on during the install, or if i

Re: LCD Terminal

2004-03-20 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 20 March 2004 06:53 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: >On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 02:54:16PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> >This is one of the things a Knoppix or Mepis live CD is great for. Pop it >> > in, then copy the resulting XFConfig-4 file somewhere safe. >> > >> >Jeff >> >> On Saturday 2

Re: dual-boot after crash

2004-03-20 Thread Kent West
Luis Finotti wrote: Hi, I recently had some problems with my computer and had to reinstall Windows XP. After I done that, I don't get the LILO screen with boot options anymore. It starts XP automatically. I checked and the Windows XP C: drive is the size of the original partition, so I think m

Re: Flash and Firefox (was Re: Mozilla Firefox Plugins)

2004-03-20 Thread Kent West
Patrick Wiseman wrote: Well, apparently, I lied - after restarting Firefox a second time, at least some flash sites are working just fine. Yeah, but what about http://www.homestarrunner.com? That's the only Flash site anyone really needs. :-) -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: LCD Terminal

2004-03-20 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 02:54:16PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: > >This is one of the things a Knoppix or Mepis live CD is great for. Pop it > > in, then copy the resulting XFConfig-4 file somewhere safe. > > > >Jeff > > On Saturday 20 March 2004 02:21 pm, you wrote: > >I am not familiar with these.

Re: Print Drivers

2004-03-20 Thread Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 00:12, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 17:38:47 -0500 (EST) > Krikket <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > One thing I've been banging my head over is how do you load your > > printer's drivers? > > > > I just did a Sarge install, and everything is pretty much workin

Re: aptitude update is boke

2004-03-20 Thread glenn
Hi Rodney - First make sure you don't have aptitude, apt or dpkg or dselect, or synaptic, or gnome-apt etc etc in the middle of something somewhere on another login/console. The remove the lock files... ok lets see if I can remember all of them. rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock rm /var/lib/aptitude

Sendmail Auth only

2004-03-20 Thread Jody Grafals
I actually got sendmail setup to use Auth. But how do I tell it to only accept mail from an authenticated user. It's now accepting connection with and without authentication. Cheers Jody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: Print Drivers

2004-03-20 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 17:38:47 -0500 (EST) Krikket <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One thing I've been banging my head over is how do you load your > printer's drivers? > > I just did a Sarge install, and everything is pretty much working > exactly as I could have hoped. With the exception of the p

Re: Woody diskette install

2004-03-20 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 03:02:52PM -0500, Drogo Bumbleroot wrote: > I'm trying to setup a P166 with woody via floppy since it won't boot from > CD. > > I've booted it with a rescue.img diskette. It will eventually ask for > another diskette while loading linux.bin > > I thought the 2nd disk it w

Re: Linux clients in network - experiences?

2004-03-20 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Saturday 20 March 2004 11.01, Paul Johnson wrote: > You might want to submit your public key to > x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu/ so others may fetch it. It is there. Key id is 0x92082481, but pgp.mit.edu is b0rked and - carries only a corrupted version of my key and - can't search by subkey (which is

Re: What mail program does this?

2004-03-20 Thread Ralph Katz
On 03/20/04 16:30, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Thank you guys!! I got rid of it. Here's another way for next time. A universal option to manage pop mail accounts is to use a web portal like https://www.mail2web.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

North Pole Gifts Message

2004-03-20 Thread North Pole Gifts
3-20-04 Hello to all, We're sending out this message to update our mailing list. If you would like to stay on our list, then do nothing. Should you not want to receive messages from us, then please follow the instruction below to remove your email address from our list. As a no

Re: Linux clients in network - experiences?

2004-03-20 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
Yo! On Saturday 20 March 2004 14.45, Cedric Ware wrote: > > [debian-security CC:ed since people there certainly have experience in > > the 'Server/network set up' section below. Please don't crosspost when > > you reply. > > Well, what about people subscribed to only one list but interested in bot

Re: Which package creates /etc/environment?

2004-03-20 Thread Phil Edwards
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 10:44:05PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Because 'dpkg -S' can't find it. > > Right, nothing in Debian provides it. This turns out not to be the case. After some more grepping, I found that locales.postinst can create it. Pr

Print Drivers

2004-03-20 Thread Krikket
One thing I've been banging my head over is how do you load your printer's drivers? I just did a Sarge install, and everything is pretty much working exactly as I could have hoped. With the exception of the printer. I don't know if I forgo to turn it on during the install, or if it just doesn't

aptitude update is boke

2004-03-20 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I'm attempting to upgrade my friends laptop. As root, running "aptitude update". it does it's thing, but at the end I get this message; Fetched 2914kB in 41s (69.4kB/s) Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information... Done W: Warning: could not lock the

Re: /dev/cdrom and 2.6 - what should /dev look like and how do I get there the Right Way

2004-03-20 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Peter Sebastian Masny (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I want to try to get my cd burner working with 2.6, but the mappings > in /dev are weird. My cdrom is on hdd (not hdc). > > /dev contains: > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 11 Dec 14 22:31 cdrom -> > /dev/cdrom0 > lrwxrwxrwx1 roo

Re: dual-boot after crash

2004-03-20 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 21:49, Luis Finotti wrote: > I recently had some problems with my computer and had > to reinstall Windows XP. After I done that, I don't > get the LILO screen with boot options anymore. It > starts XP automatically. I checked and the Windows XP > C: drive is the size of the

Re: What mail program does this?

2004-03-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
dragon wrote: hello, i do such things with popcheck on the console ;) greetz This suits my purposes. But popcheck isn't clear (to me ;-)) as to what to do after marking a message with D, you hit S, or does hitting D take effect immediately? Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dual-boot after crash

2004-03-20 Thread Luis Finotti
Hi, I recently had some problems with my computer and had to reinstall Windows XP. After I done that, I don't get the LILO screen with boot options anymore. It starts XP automatically. I checked and the Windows XP C: drive is the size of the original partition, so I think my Linux partition is

Re: What mail program does this?

2004-03-20 Thread dragon
hello, i do such things with popcheck on the console ;) greetz "Hugo Vanwoerkom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi Debian! > > I normally use Mozilla to retrieve mail from my ISP mailserver. > > Someone now (it is not SPAM, I now the sender) has sent me a 1.2

Re: Flash and Firefox (was Re: Mozilla Firefox Plugins)

2004-03-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 at 3:13pm, Kent West wrote: :Patrick Wiseman wrote: : :>On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 at 8:50pm, Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen wrote: :> :>:On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 17:09, James Hosken wrote: :>:> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- :>:> Hash: SHA1 :>:> :>:> Is there a way to apt-get firefox plug

Re: What mail program does this?

2004-03-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Thank you guys!! I got rid of it. I tried 2 webmailer accounts I have, Yahoo! said that the server did not support LAST, and care2 that my mailbox was not big enough. So next I installed fetchmail and fetchmailconf, through my super-duper 7 woody CD's all loopmounted a

Re: KDE Mouse Failure

2004-03-20 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 10:19:53PM -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: > Yes, when I tried to start it wouldn't come up. Plenty of messages but > no error messages. > I commented out the extra mice one at a time with the same results. > > It bothers me that XF86Config works fine with gnome but not with k

Re: What mail program does this?

2004-03-20 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 07:57:21PM +0100, Julius Plenz wrote: > * Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-20 19:48]: > > So I want to delete that file from the server, without trying to > > download it. > > > > What program does this? Or may be better yet, how do I do that? And > > calling

Re: OK, I'm a coward...help me feel more at ease?

2004-03-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 10:57:53AM -0600, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > Tired of the 2.4.3 kernel that came with Libranet Debian 1.9.1, I am > trying to install the 2.6.4-1-k7 kernel image. It's all downloaded but > synaptic tells me I need to put initrd=initrd.img into my lilo.conf. > That I have done

Re: Flash and Firefox (was Re: Mozilla Firefox Plugins)

2004-03-20 Thread Kent West
Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 at 8:50pm, Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen wrote: :On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 17:09, James Hosken wrote: :> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- :> Hash: SHA1 :> :> Is there a way to apt-get firefox plugins? :> I can't find any when searching apt-cache, but I'm sure t

/dev/cdrom and 2.6 - what should /dev look like and how do I get there the Right Way

2004-03-20 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Hi all, I want to try to get my cd burner working with 2.6, but the mappings in /dev are weird. My cdrom is on hdd (not hdc). /dev contains: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 11 Dec 14 22:31 cdrom -> /dev/cdrom0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 8 Dec 14 22:31 cdrom0 -> /dev/hdc lrwxrwxrwx

Re: What mail program does this?

2004-03-20 Thread Kent West
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! I normally use Mozilla to retrieve mail from my ISP mailserver. Someone now (it is not SPAM, I now the sender) has sent me a 1.2Mb jpeg file that mozilla chokes on, meaning he keeps trying to get it off the server, which fails after a while, who knows why. So

Flash and Firefox (was Re: Mozilla Firefox Plugins)

2004-03-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 at 8:50pm, Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen wrote: :On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 17:09, James Hosken wrote: :> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- :> Hash: SHA1 :> :> Is there a way to apt-get firefox plugins? :> I can't find any when searching apt-cache, but I'm sure there will be. :> :> Can

Re: OK, I'm a coward...help me feel more at ease?

2004-03-20 Thread Kent West
Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Tired of the 2.4.3 kernel that came with Libranet Debian 1.9.1, I am trying to install the 2.6.4-1-k7 kernel image. It's all downloaded but synaptic tells me I need to put initrd=initrd.img into my lilo.conf. As someone else pointed out, this should be "initrd=/initrd.img",

Re: LCD Terminal

2004-03-20 Thread Kent West
Tom Atkins wrote: I have a new system, NO M$. Iinstalled Woody 3.0r1 from the disks I ordered. Included X. When I was asked if I had a LCD I answered yes and configured the H & V rates. As root when I do a start x it can not find a correct configuration file. It thinks the terminal is a TV-2003.

Re: how to export messages from outlook express

2004-03-20 Thread Number Six
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:20:17PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > root wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'm in the last steps of my migration from M$ to Debian. I have 400MB of > >messages that I need to have available in my mail client. Using Ximian > >Evolution right now. > >I need suggestions on how to do it.

Re: how to export messages from outlook express

2004-03-20 Thread Erik Steffl
root wrote: Hi, I'm in the last steps of my migration from M$ to Debian. I have 400MB of messages that I need to have available in my mail client. Using Ximian Evolution right now. I need suggestions on how to do it. you can use IMAP, set up an IMAP server (uw-imap is very easy to setup), then

Re: OK, I'm a coward...help me feel more at ease?

2004-03-20 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 10:56:43 -0800 "mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you installed your new kernel from the kernel image, then > it should have configured lilo for you so that your old kernel > will still boot. If for some reason, your 2.6.4 kernel bombs out, > just hard reboot your machine,

Re: Linux clients in network - experiences? [OT] biometric id

2004-03-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 02:01:30AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > [snip] > Until a safe-for-use retina scanner happens, I really don't > realistically see any biometric identification happening. > I think it is much harder problem that you suppose.

Re: Linux clients in network - experiences?

2004-03-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 03:41:20AM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > Yo! > > So far, my experience was with administrating smallish servers and mostly > stand-alone clients. The future shines bright, however, and I may soon be in > a position to do much more than that. But, l

Re: What mail program does this?

2004-03-20 Thread Michael D. Crawford
You can telnet to port 110 of your POP server and delete it by typing in pop commands. I used to telnet to a pop server to read my mail (in the happy days before spam) because I worked at a place whose firewall wouldn't allow external pop access. What I did was telnet to a regular login outside

Woody diskette install

2004-03-20 Thread Drogo Bumbleroot
I'm trying to setup a P166 with woody via floppy since it won't boot from CD. I've booted it with a rescue.img diskette. It will eventually ask for another diskette while loading linux.bin I thought the 2nd disk it was looking for was the root.img diskette. Neither a root.img diskette nor a lin

Re: LCD Terminal

2004-03-20 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 20 March 2004 01:44 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: >On Saturday 20 March 2004 09:53 am, Tom Atkins wrote: >> I have a new system, NO M$. Iinstalled Woody 3.0r1 from the disks I >> ordered. Included X. When I was asked if I had a LCD I answered yes and >> configured the H & V rates. As root whe

Re: xterm double-click to select words like "cups-bsd", "/var/log"

2004-03-20 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 11:51:13PM -0500, Jameson C. Burt wrote: } I frequently double-click with the left mouse button from a previous } xterm displayed result like }ii cupsys }ii cupsys-bsd } Here, double-clicking "cupsys" highlights the whole word, } but double-clicking "cupsys-bsd" hi

Re: A couple of missing modules on bootup

2004-03-20 Thread David Baron
Blacklisted them ( /etc/hotplug/blacklist) and never heard about them again :-) Apparently devices, not modules. On Friday 19 March 2004 13:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > pciehp and shpchp? > related to hotplug which I am not starting at present. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OK, I'm a coward...help me feel more at ease?

2004-03-20 Thread mike
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 10:57:53 -0600, Cybe R. Wizard wrote > Tired of the 2.4.3 kernel that came with Libranet Debian 1.9.1, I am > trying to install the 2.6.4-1-k7 kernel image. It's all downloaded but > synaptic tells me I need to put initrd=initrd.img into my lilo.conf. > That I have done, and a

Re: Console is screwy (shows what looks like boot log)

2004-03-20 Thread Brad Sims
I have added the following line Xfree86.config Option         "UseFBDev"              "true" and at boot prompt added vga=normal and it seems to have worked at least for now -- "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people un

Re: What mail program does this?

2004-03-20 Thread Julius Plenz
* Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-20 19:48]: > So I want to delete that file from the server, without trying to > download it. > > What program does this? Or may be better yet, how do I do that? And > calling the ISP is not an option. I havent tested it but i think this should work

What mail program does this?

2004-03-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I normally use Mozilla to retrieve mail from my ISP mailserver. Someone now (it is not SPAM, I now the sender) has sent me a 1.2Mb jpeg file that mozilla chokes on, meaning he keeps trying to get it off the server, which fails after a while, who knows why. So I want to delete that f

Re: LCD Terminal

2004-03-20 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 20 March 2004 09:53 am, Tom Atkins wrote: > I have a new system, NO M$. Iinstalled Woody 3.0r1 from the disks I > ordered. Included X. When I was asked if I had a LCD I answered yes and > configured the H & V rates. As root when I do a start x it can not find a > correct configuration

Re: OK, I'm a coward...help me feel more at ease?

2004-03-20 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 12:36:42 -0500 Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Make sure that you have installed module-init-tools and a more recent > e2fsprogs (assuming you have ext2 or ext3 partitions). Yep, have both. (maybe because I am tracking unstable?) Thanks, and also to Nicos, as I ha

Re: KDE Mouse Failure

2004-03-20 Thread Clyde Wilson
Yes, when I tried to start it wouldn't come up. Plenty of messages but no error messages. I commented out the extra mice one at a time with the same results. It bothers me that XF86Config works fine with gnome but not with kde... Pigeon wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:46:28AM -0800, Clyde Wi

FOLLOW-UP Re: OpenOffice blank page after first page

2004-03-20 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:54:01PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Emma Jane Hogbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040308 13:35]: > > I've googled before for this problem and I can't find the solution. When > > I'm writing proposals for clients I like to use two page styles: > > First Page > > Defaul

Re: OK, I'm a coward...help me feel more at ease?

2004-03-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Tired of the 2.4.3 kernel that came with Libranet Debian 1.9.1, I am I would definitely say that an upgrade is long overdue. trying to install the 2.6.4-1-k7 kernel image. It's all downloaded but synaptic tells me I need to put initrd=initrd.img into my lilo.conf. That shou

Re: OK, I'm a coward...help me feel more at ease?

2004-03-20 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 10:57:53 -0600 "Cybe R. Wizard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tired of the 2.4.3 kernel that came with Libranet Debian 1.9.1, I am > trying to install the 2.6.4-1-k7 kernel image. It's all downloaded > but synaptic tells me I need to put initrd=initrd.img into my > lilo.conf. [

OK, I'm a coward...help me feel more at ease?

2004-03-20 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
Tired of the 2.4.3 kernel that came with Libranet Debian 1.9.1, I am trying to install the 2.6.4-1-k7 kernel image. It's all downloaded but synaptic tells me I need to put initrd=initrd.img into my lilo.conf. That I have done, and also run but still avoid rebooting, one, because I have my best

Re: CUPS

2004-03-20 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:29:06PM -0600, Alan Shutko wrote: > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 07:55:00AM +, Adam Funk wrote: > > >> In my experience, just installing cupsys-bsd didn't make lpr work > >> (output just disappeared). > > > > Me too. > > Did yo

Re: KDE Mouse Failure

2004-03-20 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:38:38AM -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > >On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:46:28AM -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: > >>I have just installed Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 rev 1 "woody". I can bring up > >>gnome just fine but when I try to bring up kde I get the following > >>m

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-20 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 01:21:13AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the replies. More insight is very welcome, so keep them > coming. > > So far what I think I am going to do is wait for SuSE 9.1 and the new > release of Debian (which I presume will both use the 2.6 Kernel) and > re-c

Configuring network interfaces

2004-03-20 Thread Richard Barraclough
Dear all, I'm trying to change the configuration of my network interfaces but I'm having trouble with dhclient overriding my settings and with disabling masquerading and ipchains. Original config: eth0 static ip address eth1 address obtained via dhcp Network on eth0 is masqueraded to eth1 What I

Re: Microsoft Truetype fonts not working now?

2004-03-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Mar 2004, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Anthony Campbell (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I just tried to install Microsoft TrueType fonts on my laptop via the > > msttcorefonts package. All seemed to go off correctly and the fonts > > appeared where expected in > > /var/lib/defoma/x

Will there be packages for Xorg ?

2004-03-20 Thread jjluza
Hello, I read here : http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/XOrgRepository that xorg is closed to be a free Xfree 4.4. Is there a plan about someone would intend to package/maintain it for debian ? I heard that it has some improvements compare to xfree 4.4 (features, speed ...), so I would like to t

Re: Graphical resolution changer for Xfree86?

2004-03-20 Thread Toshiro
On Saturday 20 March 2004 12:34, Christophe Combelles wrote: > Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was reading some reviews of other distributions, and they had a > > graphical "control panel" that allowed you to change your resolution > > without restarting X11. > > > For gnome you have capplets,

cdrdao problem

2004-03-20 Thread Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen
Im running kernel 2.6.4 and Sarge. Cdrdao version cdrdao/testing uptodate 1:1.1.7-5 I can rip from a cd and make cue/bin file but when i try to burn i get this message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:cdrdao$> cdrdao write --device /dev/hdc --driver generic-mmc gubben Cdrdao version 1.1.7 - (C) Andreas Mueller

Re: Sharing sound between users

2004-03-20 Thread Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 07:41, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > >> glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > If someone logs into gnome -they own the esd and no one else can g

Re: Graphical resolution changer for Xfree86?

2004-03-20 Thread Christophe Combelles
Mike Fedyk wrote: Hi, I was reading some reviews of other distributions, and they had a graphical "control panel" that allowed you to change your resolution without restarting X11. Does Debian have anything like that? Thanks, Mike For gnome you have capplets, which features the gnome-displa

Re: x window?$B$,N)>e$j$^$;$s!#

2004-03-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Ernst wrote: Hello 'wadaminoru'! His 'x window' doesn't boot up and he asks for guidance. He already tried 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' but this didn't help. He feels sorry for asking, but does anyone have a hint for him. He uses a NVidia 'G-fource3' graphics card. wadaminoru, please

Re: x window?$B$,N)>e$j$^$;$s!#

2004-03-20 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:55:07AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > Florian Ernst wrote: > >Hello 'wadaminoru'! > > > >His 'x window' doesn't boot up and he asks for guidance. He already > >tried 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' but this didn't help. > >He feels sorry for asking, but does anyone have

Specifying a release for dselect

2004-03-20 Thread Michael Stovenour
Is there a way to specify a default release (e.g. woody or stable) for dselect?   I read the instructions for setting the default release for apt.  (i.e. add APT::Default-Release "stable"; to /etc/apt/apt.conf).  However when I add an apt line for unstable to my sources.list file and run

LCD Terminal

2004-03-20 Thread Tom Atkins
I have a new system, NO M$. Iinstalled Woody 3.0r1 from the disks I ordered. Included X. When I was asked if I had a LCD I answered yes and configured the H & V rates. As root when I do a start x it can not find a correct configuration file. It thinks the terminal is a TV-2003. It is a Mic

Thanks Re: OT: help with mawk

2004-03-20 Thread ghcbc
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 02:14:25AM +, Clive Standbridge wrote: > On Thu 18 Mar 2004 16:53:58 +(-0800), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 06:19:43PM +0100, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > > > Hi ghcbc, > > > > > > VARIABLENAME=$(mawk 'whatever') . > > > > Hi, > > > > Tha

Re: mounting extended or logical partions

2004-03-20 Thread Christopher J. Noyes
the Windows is Windows ME. They were partitioned with fdisk from Windows, hda was partitioned with fdisk from me, hdb with win95. fdisk says they are fat32. Since the original portioning was done, I ran a somewhat out of date copy of Partition magic on the first disk to partion the linux partions r

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