Re: Upating Wine on Woody?

2004-02-24 Thread Alexander Winston
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 22:17 -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > > What do you guys suggest I do to get a new version of wine for Woody? > > Download the source and compile it myself? Use 'alien' on the latest Red > > Hat packages? Get a backport from apt-get.org? Build my

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread Alexander Winston
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 22:24 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:49:58AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > | On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:51:26PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > | > hi all, just looking for information here; why use ext3 journaling > | > fs instead of ext2? > | > | Becau

Re: nVidia Control Panel?

2003-12-30 Thread Alexander Winston
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 21:01, Scarletdown wrote: > Anyone here know how to install or otherwise access the nVidia Control > Panel that is supposedly part of the nVidia video drivers? > > I saw it mentioned in the Linux forums on nVidia's site, and someone > there even posted a screenshot... > >

Re: Nvidia

2003-11-30 Thread Alexander Winston
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 18:06, Keith O'Connell wrote: > ##~'##'@'### > // > . > . Well said, sir. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: linux 2.6 & apt-get

2003-11-28 Thread Alexander Winston
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 10:41, Martin BÃchler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > i'm sure that i'm not the first to experience this but i can't find any info > about this on the net. > > here's my problem: > i'm running debian sid (up2date, did a dist-upgrade from kernel

Re: apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade have problems

2003-11-28 Thread Alexander Winston
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 15:08, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello, > > Since the reports about debian servers being cracked (or something like > that) apt-get update can't connect to a server people.debian.org > (192.25.206.10) > I believe this is a non-us server so it seems reasonable to assume this >

Re: test

2003-11-24 Thread Alexander Winston
On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 18:45, iain d broadfoot wrote: > Hmm, is lists.d.o up again? Apparently so, but it seems that debian-user is the only active mailing list. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: packaging a self compiled program in a .deb file

2003-11-20 Thread Alexander Winston
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 11:44, Micha Feigin wrote: > I want to package a program I compiled in a .deb to enable uninstalling > it cleanly later. > It seems that alien can convert slackware tgz packages to debs (I tried > the other way around and it doesn't seem like there is any extra data > except f

Re: 3c509 NIC Not Supported under Knoppix?

2003-11-18 Thread Alexander Winston
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 17:43, Scarletdown wrote: > This may seem like a weird question, but is the 3Com > EtherLink III (3c509) ISA NIC not > supported under Knoppix? I just booted up my hardware > testing system, which uses a 3c905, > and Knoppix failed to detect the NIC. I know this > card wor

Re: Using an IDE CD-writer via scsi emulation

2003-11-09 Thread Alexander Winston
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 21:16, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > I knew I could read and write CD's on my system but I lost it during my > > upgrades about a year ago. I remember when I switched the system I > > couldn't write CD and I had documented the "hdd=ide-scsi". B

Re: Resolution switching in Gnome 2.4

2003-10-24 Thread Alexander Winston
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 12:58, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I had been using some of the earlier test packages for Gnome 2.4 built > by Frederic Peters and I had really liked the on-the-fly resolution > switching that was included. Unfortunately, since upgrading to the > official 2.4 packages, I've lost

Re: printer icon

2003-10-01 Thread Alexander Winston
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 22:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a Lexmark z 11 printer.Until I was connected to aol 9.0 > optimized it worked fine the icon was on my task bar. N O W I cannot > print or rather find the printer icon to do my tasks Hope this is the > correct place to apply for advice.

Re: burning a CD

2003-09-25 Thread Alexander Winston
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 14:59, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I have put a CD with MS Office in one Linux Box. I need to copy its > contents for burning on a separate Linux box. What is the best way to > do this? Do you have Microsoft's permission to duplicate the CD? If you don't, copying the CD is mos

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-21 Thread Alexander Winston
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 09:26, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > El domingo, 21 de septiembre de 2003, a las 08:28, Alexander Winston escribe: > > The "20th MTV Video Music Awards," but isn't this getting off-topic? :) > > Yes, but, we were talking about spam, thus, a

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-21 Thread Alexander Winston
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 08:05, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 04:39, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > > El sábado, 20 de septiembre de 2003, a las 21:03, Ron Johnson escribe: > > > There goes "Britany kissing Madonna"... > > > > Did she? I should watch more TV... What about Justin? > >

Re: Getting X to recognise usb mouse on plugin

2003-09-21 Thread Alexander Winston
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 06:43, Micha Feigin wrote: > I have a usb mous which isn't always plugged in (its a loptop). > It its plugged in when X starts up it is recognised ok (there is a > pointer entry for /dev/input/mice). If its not plugged in its not always > recognized. I haven't managed to pinpo

Re: installing nvidia - missing

2003-09-19 Thread Alexander Winston
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 08:32, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Paul William (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > When I try to install the nvidia drivers I get a compiler mesasge that > > I am missing this file: > > > > nv-linux.h:24:31: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory > > make: **