Re: Reading Package Lists... Error!

2001-12-27 Thread Aaron Solochek
Yep, that fixed it. Odd, I thought that openafs.org was always missing the release (I'm pretty sure I've seen the Ign lines before), but I've never had this problem. Anyway, thanks! -Aaron dman wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:23:05PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: | Ac

Re: Reading Package Lists... Error!

2001-12-27 Thread Aaron Solochek
ckage list so I can examine it and its directory to see if it is indeed writeable. The file system might be corrupted or something, but I'm hesitant to reboot the machine since its 600 miles away, and it might not come back up. -Aaron dman wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:28:35AM -0

Reading Package Lists... Error!

2001-12-27 Thread Aaron Solochek
I was running an update on my sid system, and everything seemed to be going fine until it died with the following: Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error) E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. Everything I try to do results in thi

ip forwarding setup

2000-12-25 Thread Aaron Solochek
t know what I'm talking about. Any help appreciated. Please CC all replies to me. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ugh... erectile dysfunction (new errors)

2000-12-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
So, today apt updated debconf, and the errors changed: Setting up debconf (0.5.34) ... Use of reserved word "our" is deprecated at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Gettext.pm line 19. Bareword "our" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Gettext.pm line 19. Unquoted string "our"

Re: ugh... erectile dysfunction

2000-12-06 Thread Aaron Solochek
Both of those (perl-5.6 and perl-5.6-base are installed. By removing a large portion of my X system I reduced the errors to just those relavent to debconf: Setting up debconf (0.5.32) ... Data::Dumper object version 2.101 does not match $Data::Dumper::VERSION 2.09 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linu

Re: ugh... erectile dysfunction

2000-11-29 Thread Aaron Solochek
That seemed to install, but it didn't correct the problems with the other packages in dselect. Many packages install just fine, but those 12: debconf bsdmainutils adduser setserial ifupdown pidentd gmc xbase-clients xserver-common xserver-common-v3 xserver-svga xserver-xfree86 still

ugh... erectile dysfunction

2000-11-29 Thread Aaron Solochek
CC me with replies. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 12 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do

gnome/wm issues

2000-09-12 Thread Aaron Solochek
other than gnome-session. Both machines worked fine before that, and are screwing up now. If anyone has dealt with this, or has comments/suggestions, I would be glad to hear them, this is a major annoyance. Thanks. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. please cc to me, since I am not on the list.

gnome/wm issues

2000-09-12 Thread Aaron Solochek
other than gnome-session. Both machines worked fine before that, and are screwing up now. If anyone has dealt with this, or has comments/suggestions, I would be glad to hear them, this is a major annoyance. Thanks. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. please cc to me, since I am not on the list.

gnome/wm strangeness

2000-09-12 Thread Aaron Solochek
other than gnome-session. Both machines worked fine before that, and are screwing up now. If anyone has dealt with this, or has comments/suggestions, I would be glad to hear them, this is a major annoyance. Thanks. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. please cc to me, since I am not on the list.

gnome/wm strangness

2000-09-12 Thread Aaron Solochek
than gnome-session. Both machines worked fine before that, and are screwing up now. If anyone has dealt with this, or has comments/suggestions, I would be glad to hear them, this is a major annoyance. Thanks. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. please cc to me, since I am not on the list.

laptop backlight control

2000-08-12 Thread Aaron Solochek
I have a dell inspirion 5000, and was looking for a way to shutoff the backlight on the screen when I blank it. If anyone knows of a utility, or whether or not this is even possible, please let me know. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is Debian the last OS ?

2000-07-30 Thread Aaron Solochek
the out of the box networking was screwed up. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: advanced power management and linux?

2000-07-28 Thread Aaron Solochek
twork interface (a 3com 3c575) to work during the installiation. I had to do a lot of putzing with modules by hand. Other than that, no problems. I installed xfree4.0.1 from the binaries, I even watched a few DVD's in linux on it. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Krzys Maje

Re: hibernation

2000-07-27 Thread Aaron Solochek
You probably can't do it on a desktop because it requires special bios. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Krzys Majewski wrote: > No, but I think what you call 'hibernation' is what I meant by 'sleeping' > in my post about power management. Has anyone got th

hibernation

2000-07-27 Thread Aaron Solochek
th this sort of thing, or has any suggestions. Thanks. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[lcdproc] problem with contrast

2000-06-24 Thread Aaron Solochek
echo -n "Restarting $DESC: " kill `pidof -o %PPID lcdproc` sleep 1 $DAEMON $cmdline & echo "$NAME." ;; *) N=/etc/init.d/$NAME echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2 exit 1 ;;

Re: emacs20 install problem

2000-06-13 Thread Aaron Solochek
csen is not installed. Package emacs20 which provides emacsen is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing elib (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: emacs20 elib On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Aaron Soloc

emacs20 install problem

2000-06-12 Thread Aaron Solochek
ssing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again Press enter to continue. I have tried purging all emacs stuff and reinstalling, but nothing is working. I would really appreciate any help anyone can offer. Thanks. -Aaron Sol

Re: rm -R /usr/

2000-06-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
Yep... I was working with a filesystem I had mounted in /slink, and I issued rm -r /etc, trying to remove the mounted etc... oops... Now I have it aliased to interactive mode, which is annoying at times, but I haven't made a mistake like that again. -Aaron On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Jacob I. Stowell

Re: mod_ssl on Debian 2.2

2000-06-04 Thread Aaron Solochek
I'm sorry, please disregard that previous email, I figured out based on the other replay to your post that I was missing something (the mod_ssl libraries, duh...) so I fixed the problem. Thanks anyway. -Aaron

can't delete /foo

2000-06-02 Thread Aaron Solochek
rm -r /foo just says operation not premitted, and it doesn't go away. rm -rf /foo doesn't echo any errors, but it also doesn't delete /foo. Any clue what could be causing this? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

emacs20 install problem

2000-05-30 Thread Aaron Solochek
: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) How can I fix this? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: power saving - A good idea

2000-05-19 Thread Aaron Solochek
truth, or if this is completly B.S.? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 19 May 2000, Chris Mason wrote: > I lost a hard drive on my firewall machine recently so I looked for ways to > conserve the drive. I enabled power saving(?) in the BIOS so that the IDE > spins down after

Re: pine

2000-05-17 Thread Aaron Solochek
have you installed the debs? if not, do so with dpkg -i whatever.deb. That will create a directory in /usr/local/src called `pine` I believe. In that directory there is a readme or something which takes you step by step though installing it. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 17 May

Re: Whole net of scriptkiddiez and wannabes

2000-05-14 Thread Aaron Solochek
If you are connecting to a non secure email server, they will very easily be able to get your password for that server. The best thing IMHO to do would be to run a mail server locally, and then, although they can still read your emails, they don't have access to your non local account. -

Re: gpm and x conflicting

2000-05-05 Thread Aaron Solochek
Yes, I have this same problem with acceleratedX using a ps/2 logitech. I removed gpm from /etc/rc2.d/ so it doesn't automatically cause me problems. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christian Pernegger wrote: > > I haven't got a solution for you but the same problem (on a r

problem with gmc in most recent potato?

2000-05-05 Thread Aaron Solochek
se problems? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ftp'ing to NT

2000-05-05 Thread Aaron Solochek
Because NT doesn't have a ftp daemon installed by default. Download warftpd or something similar, and install a server on your NT box. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hiya > > i am trying to ftp from my slink box to my NT fileserver but i

Re: installing Debian for an Unix-ignorant user (point-and-click installation)

2000-04-21 Thread Aaron Solochek
its a pain in linux. Just explain the basics, and the commands he should know, in my case it was just the stuff listed above, plus using ncftp and ssh. The best part of all is the reaction that all her friends at her liberal arts school have to her strange computer setup, which never crash

ntpdate: socket in use

2000-04-08 Thread Aaron Solochek
g stuff is. If anyone notices anything odd about what my system is running, please tell me! Thanks. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

acessing extended acsii characters

2000-04-04 Thread Aaron Solochek
In dos, you can enter alt-code where code is the 3 digit number representing the character you want to see. You could get the little ghost faces, various lines and such, and things like "cent" signs. How can you get these characters in linux? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to do a clean Potato install?

2000-03-24 Thread Aaron Solochek
I don't know about the cd, but I had to make a couple of boot disks, a rescue, boot image, and three driver disks, and the potato install process used dhcp to configure my network, and did everything else over the net, it was great. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christian Pernegger

Re: How do you remove files with bad/wierd names

2000-03-23 Thread Aaron Solochek
On a similar note, avoid naming files -v or -r those are real pains. A friend of mine had to write system code to delete them... If he still has it sitting around, I'll pass it on. Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > > I was wondering how to remove a file by the name of --help.tgz? > (Don't ask

Re: I Screwed up WindowMaker

2000-03-23 Thread Aaron Solochek
What if any errors are displayed on that screen it goes back to? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matheson wrote: > > Hey, > > I just upgraded WindowMaker on my slink from > http://www.debian.org/~vincent/, but now it doesn't work. When I start > X Windows, it starts

input/output error

2000-03-23 Thread Aaron Solochek
ttys1 since 0 is my UPS, which does seem to work. Any ideas? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT: sendmail and mailing lists

2000-03-18 Thread Aaron Solochek
ll, then remove the original sender off the list because then he'll get two copies. Any one have info on this? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how to create dummy packages?

2000-03-16 Thread Aaron Solochek
such that dselect always thinks I have the most uptodate xfree and doesn't make me shift-Q after selecting not to install all the xfree stuff which loves to trample my accelx stuff. I have no idea how to do this, any how-to? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gaim segfaults all of the sudden

2000-03-16 Thread Aaron Solochek
can anyone else using gaim and potato verify this? It just happened since I upgraded this morning. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Xfree vs. AccelX

2000-03-16 Thread Aaron Solochek
Ok, I run accelerated X. Sometimes dselect installs Xfree stuff. My defauly method of dealing with xfree breaking accelX is to reinstall the accel binaries, but I'm sure its easier than that. I asusme there are links someplace which link startx to accel x and those links get overwritten when xfr

heavy volume ftp problem

2000-03-13 Thread Aaron Solochek
related processes, but also sometimes bash(although that is probably related to the dead ssh connections). Is this a hardware problem or software? Could a bad nic cause this? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel 2.2.14 and PS/2 mice

2000-03-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
I have always just killed gpm from the init scripts, because gpm and X have never gotten along on my system. Also a ps/2. Its stupid, and dselect loves to reinstall the scripts, so that my mouse will either die as soon as dselect starts configuring stuff, or will go all crazy. -Aaron Solochek

Re: fresh potato install dpkg problem

2000-03-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
I found it... the link is below. ftp://ftp.iteso.mx/.1/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/base/dpkg_1.6.9.deb -Aaron Solochek On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron S. Hawley wrote: > On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > > > Oh... I manually dpkg'ed the perl debs and that fix

Re: dselect: failed to getch in main menu: Success

2000-03-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
I'd like a copy of that too. -Aaron Solochek On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Roy Pluschke wrote: > John Stevenson wrote: > > > > There is a problem with dpkg_1.6.10 which gives this error. Please > > downgrade the dpkg file to dpkg_1.6.9. > > > > Could an

Re: fresh potato install dpkg problem

2000-03-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
Oh... I manually dpkg'ed the perl debs and that fixed it. but worth noting as a bug. But, where can I get the older dpkg packaes so that I don't hit that wall? On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > I just got to the point of first dselect on a fresh potato installation

fresh potato install dpkg problem

2000-03-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
ndard "I'll try to configure the other packages" and dies with code 100. How can I fix this? -Aaron Solochek

Re: dselect busted & oops, rm -r /etc

2000-03-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
should I do from here? Is there hope of rebuilding this stuff? can I force a bunch of packages to reinstall and install default config scripts. Or should I just wipe this partition and do a fresh installation? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

g400 framebuffer-update

2000-03-09 Thread Aaron Solochek
mode, also no problem. One quick question though, my cursor is currently a big (3x3 characters) black box. How can I fix that? Is is a hardware/software cursor issue? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mysql and imp

2000-03-08 Thread Aaron Solochek
rrors were encountered while processing: imp E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Has anyone had any luck getting imp to work? Or, does anyone have a preferred webmail server that will run under apache, and access imap servers? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Framebuffer console with a G400

2000-03-08 Thread Aaron Solochek
96khz, and vert from 50-160khz, so I can't imagine I'm out of range. Trying to use fbset doesn't work either, I'm missing something fundemental here. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Framebuffer console with a G400

2000-03-08 Thread Aaron Solochek
. However, once I started X, and ctrl-alt'ed to another termianl, the video is all garbled, like its refresh isn't syncing or something. How do you fix that? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > I'm using a G200, but the

VMware, and acceleratedX

2000-03-05 Thread Aaron Solochek
e, is there a way to make windows see the same hardware it usually does so this doesn't happen? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IOmega

2000-02-23 Thread Aaron Solochek
lated to a compatibility with my adaptec 2940u2w, which at the time was an embedded controller. They had patches avalible, or, maybe adaptec had patches avalible, but it didn't matter anyways, since they were only for the retail 2940. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] kmself@ix.netcom.com

pc104 question

2000-02-23 Thread Aaron Solochek
with every network device selected, but its a no go. Any suggestions? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

UGH!! Some people use accelerated X!

2000-02-19 Thread Aaron Solochek
doesn't automatically dselect it, and all of the things its dependant on for you? This is really annoying. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What happend to Netscape?

2000-02-18 Thread Aaron Solochek
wards of 15megs of ram to run. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > From: paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I don't think so. If you have plenty of memory Netscape 4.7 have been > > > fairly stable. &g

Re: Video card recommendation?

2000-02-16 Thread Aaron Solochek
I love my g400 max. Matrox is always the leader in 2d, and this carddoes great with things like quake 3 area, so I'm guessing that more than enough 3d. But I'm not sure if its dual headed stuff is supported. If it is, could someone tell me how? that would rock. -Aaron Soloch

Re: second try, defunct processes

2000-02-16 Thread Aaron Solochek
Well, I tried 2.7.2, and although it seemed to last a little longer, this morning I wake up, and it didn't help. Any other ideas? Would wiping the system clean and trying again help? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grendel wrote: > > * Ben Collins said: > [snip] > > &

uh oh, where'd my memory go?

2000-02-15 Thread Aaron Solochek
I just upgraded from a PII to an athlon (YEA!) however, my LCD is only reporting 64 of my 512meg. I had 512 before this upgrade, no problem. I also upgraded to 2.2.14. Whats going on here? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: second try, defunct processes

2000-02-15 Thread Aaron Solochek
kernel 2.2.13, sparcstation 5 (170mhz, 128mb), gcc 2.95.2. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ben Collins wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 08:58:11AM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > > After my system boots up, its happy for a few hours (last time about 10) > > but th

second try, defunct processes

2000-02-15 Thread Aaron Solochek
this? I've rebuilt the kernel, but things still die. Anyone have any experience with this? Its debian potato, sparc. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

defunct processes?

2000-02-13 Thread Aaron Solochek
hings break. The imap server stops responding, my open ssh connections are dead, and when I go to its console, and ps aux, I see that sshd stunnel, imapd and a few bash's, are defunct. What does this mean? What causes this? This is really quite annoying. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

libc problem in potato

2000-02-11 Thread Aaron Solochek
have a good copy of this file they can send me? hopefully then dselect will be happy. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?

2000-02-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
deb lines. then as, root, apt-get update apt-get install apt debconf apt-get dist-upgrade -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > > > I had these same problems... Actually, I don't think I ever got X w

Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?

2000-02-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
ers simply have a set resolution and colordepth, so there is nothing to configure. Just use the correct xserver, I use Xsun24, Xsun8 is also as option, and more common I believe. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote:

Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?

2000-02-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
Can you start it as root? Are you running slink or potato? What xserver are you using? Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: > Hy, list people. > I'm trying to configure the X windows system in a SparcStation > machine (Debian), but i can't figure out what is going on. I simply can'

Re: Desperate Question...

2000-02-09 Thread Aaron Solochek
Its broken... its irritating. I would like to see it fixed too. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] "B.C. Computer" wrote: > Debian, I have been asking this question for a while now, on > your newsgroups and the debian chatroom. And so far no one has even > of

problem with gmc

2000-02-05 Thread Aaron Solochek
ut that did not help. I havn't been messing with it, other than running standard updates every few days. Does anyone know anything about this? Its sort of a pain. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help!

2000-02-04 Thread Aaron Solochek
s machine, type "rawrite2.exe -d a: -f " for each disk. label them, boot with the rescue disk in the drive, it will ask for the root image disk, then follow the on screen instructions. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alexander wrote: > Where might I go about getting the insta

Re: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help!

2000-02-04 Thread Aaron Solochek
it will ask you what mode the harddrive is, I believe you want LBA mode. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alexander wrote: > Also, I just went to my BIOS and took a look at the IDE info: > > IDE Controller [Both] > HD Delay 6 seconds > Primary IDE Master [None] > Primary IDE S

Re: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help!

2000-02-04 Thread Aaron Solochek
entry, if there is, tell us what it says. If you don't have scsi, then I'm stumpted, I can't imagine why the harddrive woudln't show up. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alexander wrote: > I'd like to apologize for sending out the same question again, but > n

problem updating to potato

2000-02-04 Thread Aaron Solochek
.. so I am very wary of rebooting, I have no idea how this will affect the system. Any ideas on how to fix it? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Someone must know sparc debain

2000-02-03 Thread Aaron Solochek
7;m lost, is there a good source for this sort of info? The debian page seems less than complete. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

sparc kernel, got it to build... now what...

2000-02-03 Thread Aaron Solochek
I built a 2.2.13 kernel, finally.. make boot worked. I edited silo.conf and ran silo, all seemed ok.When I rebooted it complained that the image was too big to fit in the destination. What can I do about this? Should I stick to 2.0.38? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compiling kernel on sparc/debian

2000-02-02 Thread Aaron Solochek
meatball:/usr/src/linux#make vmunix make: *** No rule to make target `vmunix'. Stop. Also meatball:/usr/src/linux#make vmlinux make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/local/src/linux/include/asm/param.h', needed by `/usr/local/src/linux/include/linux/sched.h'. Stop. Whats wron

compiling kernel on sparc/debian

2000-02-02 Thread Aaron Solochek
I am trying to compile a new kernel on a sparc, running debian. I make menuconfig, make dep, make clean, but after that I don't know what to do. zImage, bzImage, zlilo, bzlilo do not work. What do I do? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Possible convert

2000-02-02 Thread Aaron Solochek
Linux will run fine on that hardware. What are you running now? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have thinking for sometime switching over to linux. Before I do a total > conversion I want to test the waters a little bit. I have an old Gateway, &g

total directory sizes?

2000-02-02 Thread Aaron Solochek
If I want to see how much space /usr or /home is taking up, how do I do it? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

sparc debian partitions

2000-02-01 Thread Aaron Solochek
n how much extra space I come across. Anyways, what is the best way to partition the 2.1gb drive, assuming I want most of the system to exist on that drive? I know I need a bunch of /home, and I think a bunch for /var, but I really don't know whats sufficient for things like that. Thanks. -Aaro

ssh is not working, x forwarding broken, libc fscked

2000-01-28 Thread Aaron Solochek
t;ing correctly, but I get an error saying it can't connect. This is frustrating. Now I saw the post about libc, and I assume this is why I cannot compile a kernel, but my question is this: Will this be fixed and I can simply do a update, or is this going to require some intervention on a

Re: system requirements for SCSI

2000-01-27 Thread Aaron Solochek
the adaptec 2940u2w (aic-7890) is well supported in every kernel I've seen recently. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Brian J. Stults" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I want to by a SCSI drive and controller for one of my older compute

xhost changed...

2000-01-25 Thread Aaron Solochek
premisisons to connect to the local xserver? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

console data

2000-01-20 Thread Aaron Solochek
, how can I get that setup back? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libungif3g-dev broken?

2000-01-17 Thread Aaron Solochek
I get errors with that too. -Aaron Pollywog wrote: > Did anyone else have trouble installing the libungif3g-dev (3.0-2.3) package? > It seems to be broken. > > -- > Andrew > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Unidentified subject! (The scsi stuff)

2000-01-14 Thread Aaron Solochek
As far as I know the only drawback to scsi is price. The newest scsi is always faster than the newest IDE. And currently scsi supports 15 devices per bus, while IDE supports only 2. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] prakash shah wrote: > Respected Sir, > > I am computer scienc

wireless suggestions

2000-01-13 Thread Aaron Solochek
eatly appreciate any help you could offer. I know this isn't really a debian question, but I figure we'll use debian routers on each end, to make this post more relavent :) -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Viewing powerpoint files

2000-01-12 Thread Aaron Solochek
There is a small windows app which lets you view but not create powerpoint presentations. Its free on microsofts website. Has anyone tried to run this on top of wine or the similar? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Wright wrote: > Quoting E.L. Meijer (Eric) ([EMAIL PROTEC

Re: ground zero

2000-01-11 Thread Aaron Solochek
evice names easier) 13=> 1)windows of whatever size > 4gig <9gig 2)4 gig linux 3)whatever's left over fat32 I would install windows first, then linux. I use the floppies, but there are other, better ways. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] "William P. Bergstrom" wrote:

Re: Computer won't start

2000-01-09 Thread Aaron Solochek
more than a few seconds? If the answer to any of these is yes, than it is probably a bigger problem. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bart Szyszka wrote: > Hi, > > I've been having problems in both Debian and Windows, > so I'm not sure which one could be causing this (pro

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

2000-01-09 Thread Aaron Solochek
Yep, ctrl-c wasn't killing dselect for me this afternoon, I upgraded last night. I was su'ed in, btw. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] George Bonser wrote: > Cant seem to kill a running process with ^C anymore. Noticed the problem > last night but do not know when the problem

Staroffice and gtop

2000-01-07 Thread Aaron Solochek
ystem info to a LCD) reports 300 and some megs free. So, whats going on here? I find it hard to believe that staroffice uses that much memory. Anyone else see this behaviour? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's the deal with .gnome-desktop?

1999-12-24 Thread Aaron Solochek
different. On the source system you have options like "unmount" and "eject" While I just have the typical "open" "properties"" etc etc.. So my obvious question, how do I get these icons to be the same? Where is the set up for this stuff? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What's the deal with .gnome-desktop?

1999-12-24 Thread Aaron Solochek
desktop? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APC UPS (Back-UPS Pro 650)

1999-12-21 Thread Aaron Solochek
than apcd... is this the case? Has anyone tried powerchute for linux yet? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Ralf G. R. Bergs" wrote: > On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:21:42 -0800 (PST), aphro wrote: > > >you try powerchute plus for linux yet ? its been out for a few months > &

how much memory is too much... for X?

1999-12-17 Thread Aaron Solochek
according to top, X is taking up 60megs right now. Yesterday I think it was even more. This is Accelerated X 5.0.3, looks like a big memory leak to me, anyone have any experience with this? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: custom colors for 'ls'

1999-12-17 Thread Aaron Solochek
I set up colors using the following lines. in my .bashrc or .bash_profile alias ls="ls --color=auto" eval `dircolors ~/.dircolors` and I've attached my .dircolors -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] ktb wrote: > I've set the folowing alias up, > > l="ls -

Re: What good is a 486?

1999-12-16 Thread Aaron Solochek
. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anthony 'Evil Twin' wrote: > I have a Compaq Prolinea 466. I haven't figured out the processor speed > yet. But there's 16MB of memory, a 400-odd MB hard drive. And a 3-1/2" > floppy. > > My 5-year old nephew has some educati

file systems...

1999-12-14 Thread Aaron Solochek
could have changed? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mirroring?

1999-12-12 Thread Aaron Solochek
few machines there. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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