download slows when cpu active

2004-06-13 Thread Russell Davie
Hi when ever there is cpu-intense task, download slows to a halt. And this is with external modem! this box is AMD Athlon 1.2GHz, running Debian - testing, with kernel 2.4.22 any help appreciated TIA Russell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

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AC97 on VIAKT3Ultra2 - sound server problems

2004-06-13 Thread Michal Brennek
Hi everybody! I am debian and linux newbie but managet through installation of most hardware and usefull packages. The only problem remains that I cannot setup sound server (i'd like to have sound theme under X). The soundcard is AC97 - integrated with my VIA KT3Ultra2 motherboard.

Re: how to upgrade a debian system not connected to network

2004-06-13 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:42:47AM +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > I want to know is there any method by which I can download the packages > requiring upgrade for the PC-B in PC-A (remember PC-A and PC-B have > different list of installed packages!)? Check out apt-mirror http://apt-mirror.sourcefor

Re: how to upgrade a debian system not connected to network

2004-06-13 Thread dircha
J.S.Sahambi wrote: I have a two debian/unstable systems (let us name them PC-A and PC-B). Both have got different packages installed. PC-A is connected to internet with 2 MBps link and so there is no problem in upgrading it regularly. PC-B is not connected to internet. So I whenever I need to u

Re: Ugly (xemacs) font

2004-06-13 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Joachim Reichel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> This does not look like an entry in /etc/X11/XF86Config. > > No, it is from xfs-xtt's config file. Anyway, I have the same order of > directories in XF86Config, after 'FontPath "unix/:7110"'. Sorry for this bogus comment, I didn't (really) know what

Re: Ugly (xemacs) font

2004-06-13 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Another idea is to put the 100dpi and 75dpi unscaled fonts near the beginning of the font path. The font you're seeing looks like some fancy font that tries to be cute. Hm. So perhaps try to find the font and remove it from your system ;-) Kai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hardware change

2004-06-13 Thread Travis Crump
Alex Lorca wrote: hi all i'm going to change some hardware in my computer (motherboard and video card)... do i need to reinstall the whole system?? in this case how can i save my configuration??? i need to install the same system in other computer too, how can i "copy" the same configuration of min

Re: how to upgrade a debian system not connected to network

2004-06-13 Thread J.S.Sahambi
PC-B is not connected to internet. So I whenever I need to upgrade the system I download the 5 CD's of sid form ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/sid/ , burn then in RW-CDs and then upgrade the system. I want to know is there any method by which I can download the packages re

Re: how to upgrade a debian system not connected to network

2004-06-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
J.S.Sahambi wrote: I have a two debian/unstable systems (let us name them PC-A and PC-B). Both have got different packages installed. PC-A is connected to internet with 2 MBps link and so there is no problem in upgrading it regularly. PC-B is not connected to internet. So I whenever I need to u

how to upgrade a debian system not connected to network

2004-06-13 Thread J.S.Sahambi
I have a two debian/unstable systems (let us name them PC-A and PC-B). Both have got different packages installed. PC-A is connected to internet with 2 MBps link and so there is no problem in upgrading it regularly. PC-B is not connected to internet. So I whenever I need to upgrade the system

hardware change

2004-06-13 Thread Alex Lorca
hi all i'm going to change some hardware in my computer (motherboard and video card)... do i need to reinstall the whole system?? in this case how can i save my configuration??? i need to install the same system in other computer too, how can i "copy" the same configuration of mine to this comput

Re: Howto Solve My Boot-Up Problems

2004-06-13 Thread Ed Sutherland
Except for your advice, I received zero responses from either list, so I reinstalled. Ed Clive Menzies wrote: You might ask on debian-PPC, where the percentage of Mac users is likely higher. That's: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;) Regards Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Help proftpd

2004-06-13 Thread Brian Nelson
"John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Proftpd only has one config file, and it doesn't seem complicated. However, > it seems I only have anonymous ftp service. This is interesting because all > of the anonymous section of the conf file is commented out by default. What > am I missing? W

Help proftpd

2004-06-13 Thread John Fleming
Proftpd only has one config file, and it doesn't seem complicated. However, it seems I only have anonymous ftp service. This is interesting because all of the anonymous section of the conf file is commented out by default. What am I missing? What is the key element in having "normal" access by

Re: i810 watchdog troubles (solved, but...)

2004-06-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > i8xx TCO timer: initialized (0x1060). heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0) > > nowayout=0 means it should shutdown the watchdog on close. You have > a kernel bug. Someone else reported the same problem here. You're the > third one, I think.

Re: i810 watchdog troubles (solved, but...)

2004-06-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Hendrik Fuss wrote: > I've just installed sarge (testing) on a new Fujitsu-Siemens R610 Dual > Xeon workstation, but it took me quite a while to find out why the > machine would power cycle every two minutes *only* when running under a > 2.6 kernel (kernel-image 2.6.6-1-686-smp

Re: sounds recording not functioning

2004-06-13 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 20:34:53 -0400 Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 13 June 2004 06:29 pm, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > I've been attempting to plus an inexpensive mic into my computer, to > > start recording sounds clips. > > > My speakers are plugged into the connector, which leaves

Re: ccing

2004-06-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Hendrik Boom wrote: > A little pricier if you have to replace your entire machine to gat over > the 48Meg limit because they don't make mamory that old any more. Hrmmm, how old would that be? Just got some sticks of PC133 off of ebay a few weeks back. $70 for 512Mb. Are we talking 72pin, 3

Re: Getting boot not to hang if ethernet not plugged into modem

2004-06-13 Thread Adam Aube
Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Is there something one can put in /etc/network/interfaces or somewhere so > that ethernet card coming up will be conditional. right now, if I boot on > either my laptop or desktop with "auto" set for eth0 and the cable modem > isn't connected to the ethernet card, the whole

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Re: fsck very slow

2004-06-13 Thread Ken Simon
Hi, I am using Kernel 2.6.5 and Debia Sarge. During the boot process fsck 1.35 is checking my filesystems when they have been mounted couple times. When my linux installation was "fresh" this process took just some seconds. But since I have made some upgrades it now takes very long approx. 5 min (

Sid KDE menu fonts changed

2004-06-13 Thread H. S.
I usually update (using dselet) my Sid box(2.4.26-1-686) every couple of days or so. I did so yesterday as well, but this morning, for some reason, the box was not responding. So I just reset the computer. Since then, the fonts in the K-menu's fonts, or it's entries's arrangements, seem to have

Re: Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panel

2004-06-13 Thread glenn
Hi Phillipus Don't worry the man page tells you sweet_f_a - read it, then skim read last half of /usr/share/doc/gdesklets/README (ungzip it first) then have a look at /usr/share/gdesklets/Displays, if you use nautilus, you can 'open' with gdesklets, as described in the man page (assuming you've st

Re: Network install fails on reboot

2004-06-13 Thread Kent West
Elder C. Alan Hungerford wrote: I am trying to do a network install of Woody on an old p2 so that I can turn it into a glorified mp3 player for my company’s on hold music and messages. I can get as far as rebooting the machine through setting up the system clock and such. But it seems that when

kde, how to use vector icons?

2004-06-13 Thread Toshiro
I can't use any vectorial iconset in KDE (well, I can select them in Control Panel|Appearance & Themes|Icons, but I can't see any icon when I do :) Do I need to install anything extra to use them? Toshiro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: fsck very slow

2004-06-13 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Friday, June 11, 2004 14:30 +0200 Christian Christmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am using Kernel 2.6.5 and Debia Sarge. During the boot process fsck 1.35 is checking my filesystems when they have been mounted couple times. When my linux installation was "fresh" this process took just

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Re: Please advise me...

2004-06-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 12:19:27AM -0500, dircha wrote: . > Well, I guess I didn't know what type of user you were. That you say you > will be doing a lot of coding, I assume, from what you said above, that > you are entering a Computer Science or Engineering program. . > If you run D

Re: Save to Live CD

2004-06-13 Thread Carl Fink
Lots of text snipped below: On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 04:17:54PM -0500, dircha wrote: ... > You don't want to rewrite the entire disk every time; just your changes. ... > When it's time to save changes, then use the cdrecord "blank=session" > option to blank the previous session, and rewrite i

Re: ccing

2004-06-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 01:46:10AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > s. keeling wrote: > > I use a GUI almost all the time; X Window. And yes, I do have > > multiple XTerms on it. That's still a lot lighter than some of the > > multi-megabyte MUAs we're seeing these days. Consider the cost of > > that

Re: ccing

2004-06-13 Thread Steve Lamb
s. keeling wrote: > Uhhh?!? This is the Unix Way! Mutt handles mail. > Other things do other stuff. You want better refinement over mutt's > way of monitoring mailboxes? Add something else into the mix. There is a time to break down to smaller components and there is a time to add it into

Re: [SE/Linux] status / progress report 13jun2004

2004-06-13 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:01:46 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 03:36:48PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > * debian kernels need to be available compiled with se/linux security > > enabled (and boot-time optional) by default. this results in a > > 2% perfo

Re: OO Help missing

2004-06-13 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Paul Scott wrote: :Carl Fink wrote: : :>On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 04:29:42PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: :> :> :>> <>On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Carl Fink wrote: :> :>>:You have to install the help package separately. :>> :>>That seems a little counter-intuitive until I remember that

Re: sounds recording not functioning

2004-06-13 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 13 June 2004 06:29 pm, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > I've been attempting to plus an inexpensive mic into my computer, to > start recording sounds clips. > My speakers are plugged into the connector, which leaves 2 connectors to > try. On most recent things it will be the red hole. > I've b

Re: multiple terminals on a serial line (was Re: ccing)

2004-06-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 01:39:55PM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: > I know screen. My point is that I consider having to remember what > I read an advantage because it forces me to actually *learn* instead > of copying. > > Regards > Matthias Well each to their own. Learning where to look is gen

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Re: Getting boot not to hang if ethernet not plugged into modem

2004-06-13 Thread dircha
Kent West wrote: Cheryl Homiak wrote: Is there something one can put in /etc/network/interfaces or somewhere so that ethernet card coming up will be conditional.? Not really the best answer, but perhaps it might work in your case. You should be able to hit Ctrl-C when it hangs, and that particula

Re: Getting boot not to hang if ethernet not plugged into modem

2004-06-13 Thread Kent West
Cheryl Homiak wrote: Is there something one can put in /etc/network/interfaces or somewhere so that ethernet card coming up will be conditional. right now, if I boot on either my laptop or desktop with "auto" set for eth0 and the cable modem isn't connected to the ethernet card, the whole boot h

Re: ccing

2004-06-13 Thread Brian Nelson
"s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Incoming from Brian Nelson: >> >> I don't know about that. I've found that mutt is one of the painfully >> slowest MUAs around (at least at loading large Maildirs or IMAP folders) >> even on very fast computers... > > That's pretty simple to deal with.

Re: Re-run Grub???

2004-06-13 Thread MillTek
Ken Simon wrote: MillTek wrote: Now that I have Sarge loaded on one of my partitions, I would like to re-run Grub so that it will re-scan the partitions to make the boot menu (where you pick the OS you want to load). Is there a way to do this?? If you know can you show me the commands. (I did

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sounds recording not functioning

2004-06-13 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I've been attempting to plus an inexpensive mic into my computer, to start recording sounds clips. My speakers are plugged into the connector, which leaves 2 connectors to try. I've been using sound-recorder, which dutifully records nothing when I plug the mic into either hole/connector. The sou

Re: Re-run Grub???

2004-06-13 Thread Ken Simon
MillTek wrote: Now that I have Sarge loaded on one of my partitions, I would like to re-run Grub so that it will re-scan the partitions to make the boot menu (where you pick the OS you want to load). Is there a way to do this?? If you know can you show me the commands. (I did go to the grub w

Re: web-centric mail clients

2004-06-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Tom Allison wrote: I've been using squirrelmail as my web-mail interface. But I'm wondering what else it out there in Debian packages. Horde is 'da bomb. In addition to webmail, it also has a password changer (no need for shell access to change password), addressbook/contact manager (can connect

Re: ccing

2004-06-13 Thread dircha
Paul Scott wrote: s. keeling wrote: Or go with some 58 Mb monster that purports to be able to do everything. Choose your poison. A bit of exaggeration? I don't read my mail with OpenOffice which is about that size. Thunderbird is an order of magnitude smaller at under 8 Mb. Mutt and exim toge

Re: Howto Solve My Boot-Up Problems

2004-06-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (13/06/04 14:07), Carl Fink wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 14:07:39 -0400 > Subject: Re: Howto Solve My Boot-Up Problems > > On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 10:22:37AM -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote: > > > When I rebooted, the Apple OpenFirmwa

Re: web-centric mail clients

2004-06-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Take a look at http://turtle.ee.ncku.edu.tw/openwebmail/ It's pretty full-featured, and runs fairly nicely there's an online demo on that page somewhere that you can try out to get a feel for it. Tom Allison wrote: I've been using squirrelmail as my web-mail interface. But I'm wondering what

Getting boot not to hang if ethernet not plugged into modem

2004-06-13 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Is there something one can put in /etc/network/interfaces or somewhere so that ethernet card coming up will be conditional. right now, if I boot on either my laptop or desktop with "auto" set for eth0 and the cable modem isn't connected to the ethernet card, the whole boot hangs for quite a whi

Re: OO Help missing

2004-06-13 Thread Paul Scott
Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 01:47:11PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Try aptitude. (or synaptic if you prefer). You will find it highly suggested on this list. Addressed to me? Yep. I've tried both, and I'll stick to apt-get. No Problem. It's just that aptitude would have s

Re: How does one get ssh to not wait?

2004-06-13 Thread Joris
Dan Jacobson verraste ons met de boodschap: > How does one get ssh to not wait? > > ssh somewhere < touch file > sleep 333 && rm file& > ! > echo I want control to arrive at this line without waiting 333! > > I tried (...)&, disown, etc. > Must I resort to batch(1)? at(1) would do the job - hey

Re: Save to Live CD

2004-06-13 Thread dircha
Keith O'Connell wrote: Ian Melnick wrote: I'd like to use a "live" cd and be able to save my stuff to it without requiring a separate medium. What I'd like to happen is partition a cd-rw so that the first part is from the iso that I'd download from somewhere, and the second part would be a writable

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X displays but console doesn't: vga=?

2004-06-13 Thread Michael West
I cannot get to a console, but X works fine. If my runlevel is set to start graphically my monitor flashes "Invalid Scan Freq" three times and then works fine. If I start in single user mode it flashes "Invalid Scan Freq" forever. when I pass vga=ask to the kernel and select 80x25 the result is

Re: OO Help missing

2004-06-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 01:47:11PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Try aptitude. (or synaptic if you prefer). You will find it highly > suggested on this list. Addressed to me? I've tried both, and I'll stick to apt-get. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Pro

Re: gnu assembler

2004-06-13 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Thus spake Rob Benton: # Is there a package somewhere with gas in it? The binutils-doc has info # pages for it but I don't see it in the binutils package. Is it out # there somewhere in a package? It is part of binutils. The filename is /usr/bin/as, but it definitely is the GNU assembler used

Re: OO Help missing

2004-06-13 Thread Paul Scott
Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 04:29:42PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: <>On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Carl Fink wrote: :You have to install the help package separately. That seems a little counter-intuitive until I remember that help is locale-specific. If you (like me) install with "ap

Re: OO Help missing

2004-06-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 04:29:42PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Carl Fink wrote: > :You have to install the help package separately. > > That seems a little counter-intuitive until I remember that help is > locale-specific. If you (like me) install with "apt-get install",

Re: OO Help missing

2004-06-13 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Carl Fink wrote: :On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 03:50:08PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: :> When I invoke help in Open Office, I get "The requested document does not :> exist in the database !!" : :It's usually a good idea to specify which version of Debian you're :running. Apologi

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Re: OO Help missing

2004-06-13 Thread Paul Scott
Patrick Wiseman wrote: When I invoke help in Open Office, I get "The requested document does not exist in the database !!" Googling suggests it's a locale problem, but 'locale' returns this: Did you install openoffice.org-help-en or whatever language you wanted? Paul Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Ugly (xemacs) font

2004-06-13 Thread Joachim Reichel
Hi, catalogue = /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID, /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:

Re: OO Help missing

2004-06-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 03:50:08PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > When I invoke help in Open Office, I get "The requested document does not > exist in the database !!" It's usually a good idea to specify which version of Debian you're running. > Googling suggests it's a locale problem, but 'loca

Re: ccing

2004-06-13 Thread Paul Scott
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Steve Lamb: s. keeling wrote: Try using it in combination with (eg.) GKrellm. mutt knows about and Why is the most common answer to this deficiency in mutt to use another program when we have addressed it by using another program? :) Uhhh

Keyboard Shortcut (CTRL + SHIFT + C) in Mozilla under Gnome / Metacity

2004-06-13 Thread Paul Galbraith
This keyboard shortcut doesn't work for me in Mozilla. I'm assuming it's more to do with my Gnome or X or metacity configuration than Mozilla, but I don't really know where to start looking. Can anyone point me in the right direction? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

OO Help missing

2004-06-13 Thread Patrick Wiseman
When I invoke help in Open Office, I get "The requested document does not exist in the database !!" Googling suggests it's a locale problem, but 'locale' returns this: LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE="en_US" LC_NUMERIC="en_US" LC_TIME="en_US" LC_COLLATE="en_US" LC_MONETARY="en_US" LC_MESSAGES="en_US" LC_PAPE

Re: Save to Live CD

2004-06-13 Thread Keith O'Connell
Ian Melnick wrote: I'd like to use a "live" cd and be able to save my stuff to it without requiring a separate medium. What I'd like to happen is partition a cd-rw so that the first part is from the iso that I'd download from somewhere, and the second part would be a writable filesystem (udf?) that

How does one get ssh to not wait?

2004-06-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
How does one get ssh to not wait? ssh somewhere <

Save to Live CD

2004-06-13 Thread Ian Melnick
Hello all, I'd like to use a "live" cd and be able to save my stuff to it without requiring a separate medium. What I'd like to happen is partition a cd-rw so that the first part is from the iso that I'd download from somewhere, and the second part would be a writable filesystem (udf?) that I'd be

Re: ccing

2004-06-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Steve Lamb: > s. keeling wrote: > > Try using it in combination with (eg.) GKrellm. mutt knows about and > > Why is the most common answer to this deficiency in mutt to use another > program when we have addressed it by using another program? :) Uhhh?!? This is the Unix W

Re: OT: How easy is it to break GnuPG if you have the Private Key?

2004-06-13 Thread Adam Funk
On Sunday 13 June 2004 15:30, William Ballard wrote: > Assuming I have a good sized key with a really, really good > passphrase, how easy will it be to crack GnuPG encryption if the > cracker has access to the Private Key? My understanding is that the private keyring file contains the result of e

Re: Xfce4 dies instead of prompting when I click the logout button on the panel.

2004-06-13 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 11 June 2004 20:50, Hamilton Coutinho wrote: > Same thing here. Did you also notice that the icons appear clipped on > the panel now? No, my panel looks the same. > I'm not sure but I bet on the GTK upgrade from a week > ago. Could be. Is there a bug report? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Howto Solve My Boot-Up Problems

2004-06-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 10:22:37AM -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote: > When I rebooted, the Apple OpenFirmware screen came up after the second stage > of Yaboot and said something about an error, whereupon the OF screen scrolled > ">ok" and locked-up keyboard input. The only option I had was using Yaboo

Re: [SE/Linux] status / progress report 13jun2004

2004-06-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 03:36:48PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > * debian kernels need to be available compiled with se/linux security > enabled (and boot-time optional) by default. this results in a > 2% performance hit (wow big deal) when se/linux is not enabled > at boot ti

Re: Ugly (xemacs) font

2004-06-13 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Joachim Reichel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I don't know how to change the menu font directly (at least I don't >> remember) but IIRC a workaround is to change the order of the fonts >> paths in XF86Config since they are search in order until an appropriate >> font is found. >> You should make

Re: MicroWhat Winwhat???

2004-06-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 00:26, Silvan wrote: > On Saturday 12 June 2004 06:51 pm, Cecil wrote: > > > up. Why does debian get this weird rap where folks treat users of that > > didtro like they are a cult? I've read some almost offensive material on > > Try it for awhile and you'll see why. We real

Re: System Reinstall Setup

2004-06-13 Thread David
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 09:56:12PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:53:24PM -0500, David wrote: > I think a whole system backup is asking for trouble if there are > glitches in the SW which lead to catastrophe. Probably not very > likely, but... Although a distinct po

Re: System Reinstall Setup

2004-06-13 Thread Matthias Czapla
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 09:31:07AM -0500, David wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 11:21:46PM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:53:24PM -0500, David wrote: > > > Actually, I'm not so concerned about making the backups as just having > > > something that I can boot up and th

Re: Ugly (xemacs) font

2004-06-13 Thread Joachim Reichel
Hi, the menu font in my xemacs is really ugly (I've uploaded a screenshot to http://www.joachim-reichel.de/tmp/xemacs.png). I know how to set the fonts for the editor window, but not for the menu. I do not notice font problems in other applications (KDE, Gnome, Mozilla, ...). But xfontsel shows

Re: ccing

2004-06-13 Thread Steve Lamb
s. keeling wrote: > Try using it in combination with (eg.) GKrellm. mutt knows about and > watches a list of mailboxes. GKrellm knows about and watches a subset > of that list. Between the two, you get notification of important mail > arriving ("Read me!"), and information about potentially inte

Re: ccing

2004-06-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Matthias Czapla wrote: > I know. But the canonical way to use a GUI and why they were invented > is point-and-click. If you use a GUI like a console program, whats the > purpose of having a GUI in the first place? Uhm, like I said, having the gui there doesn't make it keyboard neuter. We don't

Re: Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panel

2004-06-13 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 05:45:36 -0700 (PDT) Phillipus Gunawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi there, > > reading your mailling list, i am interesting to give > it a try. Unfortunetly, after apt-get install finished > and I run the gdesklets, nothing happen. > > During the starting GANOME desktop,

[SE/Linux] status / progress report 13jun2004

2004-06-13 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
This is a status / progress report for Debian / SE/Linux integration. I look forward to the day when it need no longer be maintained, which will be when all of the outstanding issues have been addressed. The constant work-in-progress version of this report will always be available from: h

Re: ccing

2004-06-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Steve Lamb: > > Mutt's "new mail here!" feature doesn't provide any granularity betwee[n] > ignore it completely (not in the list of folders to watch), give it the same > weight as every other watched folder or "check the folder list manually". Try using it in combination with (

Re: Ugly (xemacs) font

2004-06-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 04:00:10PM +0200, Joachim Reichel wrote: > Hi, > > the menu font in my xemacs is really ugly (I've uploaded a screenshot to > http://www.joachim-reichel.de/tmp/xemacs.png). I know how to set the fonts > for the editor window, but not for the menu. > > I do not notice fon

Re: OT: How easy is it to break GnuPG if you have the Private Key?

2004-06-13 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 10:08:28AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > other private key. Then as soon as you've read it on your PocketPC, > delete it and store a copy at home. Any time you encrypt something The goal is to keep some semi-sensitive data (account #s with the power company, cable compan

Re: OT: How easy is it to break GnuPG if you have the Private Key?

2004-06-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 07:23:49AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > Assuming I have a good sized key with a really, really good passphrase, > how easy will it be to crack GnuPG encryption if the cracker has access > to the Private Key? > > [Believe it or not, I have a port of GnuPG that runs as a

Re: System Reinstall Setup

2004-06-13 Thread David
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 11:21:46PM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:53:24PM -0500, David wrote: > > Actually, I'm not so concerned about making the backups as just having > > something that I can boot up and then remove the CD. > > My backup strategy is similar to yours.

Howto Solve My Boot-Up Problems

2004-06-13 Thread Ed Sutherland
How do I bypass Yaboot and boot my Debian distro? I tried to fix the Gnome adjust-time bug (the one where it always says a tool to adjust time is not present) by using the recommended Gnome-System-Tools. When I rebooted, the Apple OpenFirmware screen came up after the second stage of Yaboot and sa

OT: How easy is it to break GnuPG if you have the Private Key?

2004-06-13 Thread William Ballard
Assuming I have a good sized key with a really, really good passphrase, how easy will it be to crack GnuPG encryption if the cracker has access to the Private Key? [Believe it or not, I have a port of GnuPG that runs as a command line app on a PocketPC. Right now I can't think of a convenient w

Re: ccing

2004-06-13 Thread S.D.A.
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 02:43:40AM -0700 or thereabouts, Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Scott wrote: > > I don't know how I would have found that "bug page" > > starting from Mozilla.org as I had done. What a maze! > > Do what I did. Google. :) > > > Thanks. I've voted for them. > > NP. B

Re: local/controllable causes of packet loss?

2004-06-13 Thread Silvan
I'll hit three replies for the price of one here to save clogging the list with all my individual short comments. > I had a problem like this some time ago, turned out to be a defective > network card on the computer. Can you try with a different one? That one I can scratch off for sure. I have

Ugly (xemacs) font

2004-06-13 Thread Joachim Reichel
Hi, the menu font in my xemacs is really ugly (I've uploaded a screenshot to http://www.joachim-reichel.de/tmp/xemacs.png). I know how to set the fonts for the editor window, but not for the menu. I do not notice font problems in other applications (KDE, Gnome, Mozilla, ...). But xfontsel shows

Re: Gnome 2.6 and MAC OSX-like panel

2004-06-13 Thread Shawn Hansen
You need to actually run a gdesklet. What is running on your system now is basically just the engine to allow the gdesklet monitors to run. Hope this helps you out. Shawn Hansen On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 07:45, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > hi there, > > reading your mailling list, i am interesting t

Re: Cannot re-config xfree86

2004-06-13 Thread Kent West
jack kinnon wrote: Hi folks, The PC I am having is built from scratch. I buy the Intel 865GBFmotherboard w a 2.6GHz HT CPU, a 256MB single module memory, the storage peripherals, a chassis w a 450W PSU and assemble them up. The BIOS is fr Intel, the original was rev P10 but I had upgraded it t

Re: 802.11g Wireless NIC for Desktop

2004-06-13 Thread Andy Firman
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:21:52PM -0500, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > Team: > > I'm converting to 802.11g at my new place. What NIC do you recommend for > my Debian Unstable (sid) desktop? I'm looking for something that I can > install, and load the drivers via modconf and be done . . . . I am

Re: Please advise me...

2004-06-13 Thread Kent West
Cecil wrote: On Saturday 12 June 2004 11:05 pm, Kent West wrote: > Cecil wrote: > >> But how does OS X perform for the following things: >> >> Coding(various languages and sorts of apps) > > Not being a coder, I can't speak to this. > >> Can I run linux apps on it? > > Yes, no, sort of. Many Linux

Re: local/controllable causes of packet loss?

2004-06-13 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 23:45:30 -0400 Silvan wrote: > I'm having annoying problems with my cable internet. At least once a day, > ... > In this state, if I take eth0 down and then attempt to take it back up, I > seldom manage to do so. > ... I had a problem like this some time ago, turned out to b

i810 watchdog troubles (solved, but...)

2004-06-13 Thread Hendrik Fuss
Hello there, I've just installed sarge (testing) on a new Fujitsu-Siemens R610 Dual Xeon workstation, but it took me quite a while to find out why the machine would power cycle every two minutes *only* when running under a 2.6 kernel (kernel-image 2.6.6-1-686-smp). No problems with a 2.4 kernel.

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