At 11:49 AM 10/6/2003, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> So, would people suggest sticking with "pure" Debian or possibly going
with
> a Debian-based distro ?? If an off-shoot, which one ?? I'm looking at
> Knoppix's site right now...
Knoppix aims to produce a bootable, runnable, fairly complete desktop
s
I've recently built a new box for myself and would like to put Linux back
on it. I started with RH back between their 5.0 and 5.1 release, switched
to Mandrake for a while, and have been running Debian (unstable) for a
couple years or more. I'm tempted to take the easy way out and just add the
At 09:21 AM 10/6/2003, Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:11:50PM -0400, Dan Anderson
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Total size with the install of Woody. the MySQL database, and the
> > webconent for the two domains we host: 890 MB
>
> FWIW I've installed sub 150MB debian installs.
At 11:07 AM 9/9/2003 +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote:
Incidentally, I downloaded some PDFs from their site, which were among
the worst-displaying I've ever seen. Not sure what they're smoking.
Characters all over the page, whatnot.
Which particular PDFs were these ?? I'd like to take a look myself.
At 09:59 PM 8/14/2003 -0700, Michael Epting wrote:
I haven't changed any configuration files and I don't see any new
fetchmail bugs, but I'm having big problems the last few days.
Sid, fetchmail, exim3 (I've been meaning to upgrade to exim4, but I'm
not going to do that when my mail is already brok
* iain d broadfoot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030811 04:12]:
> * Petrisor Marian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> [an entirely blank message with a semi-informative subject line]
>
> This pisses me off majorly
There's more important things in life... My "d" key deals with messages
like his auto-response ju
* Kenward Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030808 00:57]:
> Sorry 'bout the OT on the list, but my systems have Debian hearts. We are
> looking at roadrunner and earthlink as possible cable providers through Time
> Warner. Anyone able to comment on/compare them?
Since they will be the same 99% on t
At 04:25 PM 8/5/2003 -0500, Chris Cheney wrote:
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:23:37AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> I recall I at one point "removed kde from my system", however I still see
> # dpkg -l kde\*|grep ^i
> ii kdeaddons-doc- 3.1.2-1KDE add-ons documentation in HTML format
> ii kdea
* Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030803 13:52]:
> Is there a tool along the lines of nslookup, dig, host, and so on that
> can list what websites, i.e. domain names, are hosted on a particular IP
> address ??
I wasn't aware of such a tool and told the person who asked me th
Is there a tool along the lines of nslookup, dig, host, and so on that
can list what websites, i.e. domain names, are hosted on a particular IP
address ??
Regards
Hall
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At 11:48 PM 7/27/2003 -0400, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote:
I use Debian Woody, with cable modem connected to the computer via eth0
, it get the ip via dhcp during bootup. The problem I have is that I
cannot connect to the site www.thatpetplace.com , it just timed out.
I've tried it on various browsers and
At 01:41 PM 7/17/2003 -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:27:11PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> At 08:11 PM 7/17/2003 +0100, john gennard wrote:
> >(**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
>
> >(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/
At 08:11 PM 7/17/2003 +0100, john gennard wrote:
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such device.
(EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse"
L PROTECTED]) [030622 21:32]:
> > There is some truth to what the woman told you. I just a couple of
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 09:34:50PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> I mentioned the website www.dslreports.com in another post in this
> thread and it would be helpful to you too -- or would have
* Michael Epting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 21:32]:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 01:10:06PM -0700, Ric Otte wrote:
> > I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and I called them
> > up to ask if it would work with Linux. The woman at tech support
> > confidently assured me, over and over
* Ric Otte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030621 16:39]:
> Hi,
>
> I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and I called them
> up to ask if it would work with Linux. The woman at tech support
> confidently assured me, over and over, that it would not work with
> Linux. I spoke to her a long t
At 08:08 PM 6/18/2003 +0300, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote:
> I was under the impression that DVD is mpeg2 and so is SVCD? -could be
> wildly wrong there!
IIRC, SVCD is MPEG-1.
VCD -> MPEG-1
SVCD -> MPEG-2
*Unofficial* reference information at these pages:
http://www.dvdrhelp.com/vcd
http://www.dvdrh
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030528 03:25]:
> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:18:31PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > A friend of mine has a web and ftp server setup on his linux box. I can
> > get to his website fine.
> > Using Konqueror, with ftp://his.website.here,
* nate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030527 21:38]:
> Hall Stevenson said:
> > A friend of mine has a web and ftp server setup on his linux box. I can
> > get to his website fine.
>
> is either machine behind NAT? can you ftp to other machines?
> e.g. ftp.cdrom.com
>
Both ar
A friend of mine has a web and ftp server setup on his linux box. I can
get to his website fine.
With ncftp, I get in, but doing an "ls" returns
connect failed: No route to host.
List failed.
Using Konqueror, with ftp://his.website.here, I get a login prompt,
enter my info, then
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030405 03:06]:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:57:36PM -0500, Kevin McKinley wrote:
> > I thought you were pulling my leg.
> >
> > Somehow I doubt SPI is seeing very many contributions.
>
> Well, if someone at SPI took the time to track back the emails and
> bill
* Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030403 21:30]:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:31:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
> | I am getting email from an old friend who is not a Debian type like
> | me. He types his email into a window on what he calls 'just a
> | standard PC' and the computer a
* Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030330 04:07]:
> >> On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:55:53 -0500,
> >> Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > * Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030329 01:15]:
> >> >> On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:55:55 -05
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030329 05:00]:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:06:12PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > Listmaster should not waist his time on this kind of bad behaviors of
> > the mailing list users.
>
> Actually, my beef as that listmaster never responds to anything. I've
> tried
* Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030329 01:15]:
> >> On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:55:55 -0500,
> >> Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > I would think that the listmaster for each list would have an
> > interest in the discussions that tak
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030328 21:28]:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 06:54:28PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 08:25:08AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > > It would help if the listmaster was someone who actually *read* this list.
> >
> >
At 04:04 AM 3/28/2003 -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
Hi list,
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:51:36AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Spam complaints are only valid when it's unsolicited commercial
...
> Help us help you by following through with your calls for help.
> Bitching and complaining loudly without tr
* eauclair ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030327 20:47]:
> The FUCKING list administrator will NOT unsubscribe.
People, control yourselves Please take MY message as a reminder to
ignore his. Please ??
Hall
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* Michael D. Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030327 19:36]:
> Anybody reading this live in Sacramento, CA?
>
> My son is moving there from Chicago. He's hooked on good cablemodem
> service from attbi.
>
> What is available in Sacramento?
Try this site, http://www.broadbandreports.com/ (formerly
ds
> Subject: Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks
Can someone help me with a procmail filter so that I no longer see these ?? :-)
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At 10:11 AM 3/25/2003 -0600, Lyno Sullivan wrote:
I would like to report a bug and need help in determining how to format it
and where to send it. The website is helpful but I don't know the right
package and am following the recommended procedure.
How to report a bug in Debian
http://www.debi
At 10:52 AM 3/21/2003 -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
How does one go about doing so? When I do 'apt-get update' and then
'apt-get dist-upgrade' or 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' or 'apt-get upgrade'
it says there are no packages to update/upgrade.
My sources list looks like this:
# deb http://securi
At 04:26 PM 3/21/2003 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At 12:57 PM 3/21/2003 +, Joao Pedro Clemente wrote:
>
>> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:04:22AM +, Joao Clemente wrote:
>> > > Btw, how do you take out addresses automatically?
>>
>>"How can you take an adress out of a mail message and p
At 12:57 PM 3/21/2003 +, Joao Pedro Clemente wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:04:22AM +, Joao Clemente wrote:
> > Btw, how do you take out addresses automatically?
>
> I don't think you can. But it's not hard to go delete a single line
> out of a text file.
Ooopps, you took the sentenc
At 03:04 AM 3/21/2003 +, Joao Clemente wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:52:50PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> I have this line
>
> source ~/.mutt.aliases
>
> in my .muttrc file, but when I *add* an alias, it wants to add it to
> .muttrc and not .mutt_aliases. I'm guess
At 09:33 PM 3/20/2003 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:52:50PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
| I have this line
|
| source ~/.mutt.aliases
|
| in my .muttrc file, but when I *add* an alias, it wants to add it to
| .muttrc and not .mutt_aliases. I'm gue
* Joseph A Nagy Jr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030320 20:49]:
> I added
>
> deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.1/Debian stable main
>
> to my apt sources.list so I can upgrade to KDE 3.1.1.
>
> Ran apt-get update to make sure everything was in order (had to run it a
> few times to run out a few du
I have this line
source ~/.mutt.aliases
in my .muttrc file, but when I *add* an alias, it wants to add it to
.muttrc and not .mutt_aliases. I'm guessing that that line only tells
mutt where to LOOK when it needs to lookup an alias, NOT to save them
when I create one.
Is it possible to have mutt
At 02:27 PM 3/20/2003 +, Jan Andrzej wrote:
Some intruder broke in (cracked in) debian 2.0
system.
Now I can use it but I cannot shut down the system
(when I type shutdown -h now or shutdown -r now I get
the following message: (bad, not nice word) While
hacking kernel...
and the system is not
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030319 17:44]:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:36:25PM -, Colin Ellis wrote:
> > Who sent this and what the hell does it have to do with debian??!!
> >
> > Maybe we need a stronger anti-spam list to stop this crap appearing on the
> > list?!
>
> If you mean th
At 03:36 PM 3/19/2003 -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
Got this message in my Inbox today, and it appears that it
was sent to a bunch of subscribers to debian-user. It had
an executable file attached, q157498.exe, which is, of course,
a virus, if anyone had any doubts.
Doesn't appear to have concerned
At 01:50 AM 3/19/2003 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 04:49:08PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> The subject says it all really... I've just installed gimp1.2 on my
> woody system and there are no Save, Save As etc. options in the File
> menu.
At 09:48 AM 3/14/2003 -0500, stan wrote:
I want to make a copy of a certain web site to place on my internal
wbserver. I'm trying to figure out the ocrretc options to use with wget to
do this. Everytning I do seems to downlad way too much stuff.
Specificly I want to make a copy of http://www.backup
At 09:54 AM 3/13/2003 -0800, linux learner wrote:
> Like it says at the bottom of every message:
>
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> with a subject of "unsubscribe".
Okay *MY BAD*, it was ambiguous perhaps.
How do i turn off message delivery without losing my
posting privila
At 09:26 AM 3/13/2003 -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
GTK is the one good thing to come from Gnome IMO.
I'm certain that gnome came *after* GTK...
Hall
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At 01:54 PM 3/13/2003 +, dave selby wrote:
Im having a great time with fonts at present !! My aim is to reduce the
number of default font directories so when using gimp I am not swamped with
fonts.
Can someone clarify a point with me ...
when X boots it reads the font path from /etc/X11/XF86-c
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030312 20:20]:
> i never had problems with this before even though i noticed a million
> people complaining. i would like to unsubscribe from a debian-curiosa.
> i know for a fact that i am subscribed to debian-curiosa as
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] thus i do:
>
>
At 07:47 PM 3/12/2003 +, Richard Kimber wrote:
I've upgraded, and only noticed two things.
1) My xinetd.conf file was overwritten without asking me, which I don't
feel is right, and
I *believe* you can configure debconf to NOT overwrite existing config
files, automatically overwrite them,
After my recent, successful upgrade to KDE 3.1, I took a quick look at it's
mail app, "KMail". I *thought* it would take me through a wizard to set
things up, but no it just used my existing mail and folder
structure that I've created with procmail and used with mutt for a while.
Later,
At 07:04 PM 3/5/2003 +0530, Sharninder wrote:
> If you just have the debs, and only want to update one machine,
> the right way is to download the debs and install the using
> dpkg.
> Then to keep up to date you might want to add the repository from
> where you got the packets from to your sourc
* Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030304 18:30]:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:05:37PM -0500, stan wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:18:27PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> >
> > > Testing is almost always a moving target. Stable on the other hand is
> > > not. Ideally, at some point s
At 02:04 PM 3/4/2003 -0500, stan wrote:
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:02:10PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:32:34AM -0500, stan wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:02AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:37:02AM -0500, stan wrote:
> > > > I did ap
At 08:15 PM 3/3/2003 -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
On March 3, 2003 06:33 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> * Carla Schroder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030303 20:19]:
> > On Monday 03 March 2003 04:26 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > > I guess I didn't read close enough... I
* Carla Schroder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030303 20:19]:
> On Monday 03 March 2003 04:26 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > I guess I didn't read close enough... I went and read up at the
> > davidpashley site and in it, he has an apt entry for getting KDE
> > packages. I used tha
* Carla Schroder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030302 20:23]:
>
> Start here, KDE3 and Debian : Frequently Asked Questions
> http://davidpashley.com/debian-kde/faq.html
>
> There are at least three different sources for KDE debs. Use only the ones
> from kde.org. KDE3 won't make it into stable for a whi
* Nick Boyce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030302 22:51]:
> On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 5:04 pm, Sebastian D.B. Krause wrote:
> >
> > "Console drivers -> Frame-buffer support". You can only see this
> > option when you enable "Code maturity level options -> Prompt for
> > development and/or incomplete code/driver
* Carla Schroder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030302 20:23]:
> On Sunday 02 March 2003 03:52 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > So, I'm pretty certain there are "K" equivalents to all "G"
> > applications. The only app I'm unsure about is Mozilla (and Phoenix). I
&g
I think I'd like to give KDE a shot now... Call me Nicolas Petrely-fied
:) Seriously though, I've contemplated it for some time now. I use
Enlightenment as my WM and I know I can continue to use it if I'd like.
I've given Sawfish, and now Metacity, a try with Gnome and find both WMs
rather lacking.
* Matthew Weier O'Phinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030302 13:01]:
>
> Many machines with ATX power supplies have a setting in BIOS that
> requires you to hold the power button in for ~4 seconds to power off.
> (Feature: your child can't turn of the computer just by pressing the
> button!)
I thought i
* Rich Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030302 10:12]:
> Hi folks--
> I'm trying to clean out extraneous and old files from the system
> directories. I have some scripts to short out which files are known to
> the current Debian configuration and which are not. Many of the "are
> not" files came
* Richard Hector ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030301 19:55]:
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:16:46AM +0100, daniel huhardeaux wrote:
> >
> > I have 4 computers running kernel 2.4.18 or 2.4.19 and all of them, when
> > I ask to power down, *never* really dot it. They stay switch on with
> > last message on
* David Turetsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030228 22:59]:
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: CaT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 9:59 PM
> To: Eduardo Duenez
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Laptop's power button made to suspend?
>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06
* Matthew Weier O'Phinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030228 21:15]:
> -- Eduardo Duenez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> (on Friday, 28 February 2003, 06:48 PM -0500):
> > Is it possible to configure my Woody laptop so if the power button is
> > pressed (say, by mistake) then the laptop only goes into suspend
* Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030227 20:36]:
> * Udo Hoerhold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030227 19:03]:
>
> I wonder how much I could sell that list of e-mail addresses for ?? :-)
Doh !!!
:-)
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* Udo Hoerhold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030227 19:03]:
I wonder how much I could sell that list of e-mail addresses for ?? :-)
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At 12:25 PM 2/27/2003 -0600, Gianfranco Berardi wrote:
This isn't so much Debian related as it is just general hardware info.
Apparently, if you *use* Debian anywhere, on any machine, you're "allowed"
to post help messages on this list. ;-) You'll get a few replies that you
can delete that remi
* Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030226 20:01]:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:22:30PM +0200, Sergey A. Ovchar wrote:
> > Hi.
> > What is it the AudioCD-Text,
>
> It's a way of storing track and dsics names on the CD. Very few
> commercial CDs support this, and fewer still players can read it.
Ver
> > /boot 20meg
>
> Too small if you're into testing lots of different kernel sources,
> otherwise ok. Would make it 50 though just to be on the save side
Although with the size of hard drives nowadays, 20mb does seem small, I
don't know if it's "too small". Kernel sources don't go
> I've got this small question, I downloaded some mpg
> files but I don't seem to have the correct prog to run
> them.
>
> I've got mplayer, MPlayer 0.90rc4-2.95.4 but it can't
> run them.
>
> What program should I use for that?
I've used xmms with an MPG plug-in in the past with success...
Hal
* Ray Kohler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030222 12:51]:
> Is there a way to automatically remove all dependencies of a package
> (that aren't otherwise needed)? If I install a big package with dozens
> of dependencies and I decide I don't want it, I don't like to root out
> all of its dependencies by h
* Barry Rab ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030221 17:37]:
> Hall Stevenson wrote:
>
> >Glad to see/read that I'm not the only "adult" that really enjoys
> >watching the Toy Story movies. By the way, A Bug's Life and Antz are
> >good too. :-)
> >
> >
At 10:03 AM 2/21/2003 -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
nate wrote:
> deFreese, Barry said:
> > OK, this is probably a newbie question and maybe it has been covered
> > before but it's been buggin' me for a while.
> >
> > So we have Potato, Woody, Sid, Sarge. Are the Debian folks Toy Story
fans
> > o
At 09:29 AM 2/21/2003 -0800, nate wrote:
deFreese, Barry said:
> OK, this is probably a newbie question and maybe it has been covered
> before but it's been buggin' me for a while.
>
> So we have Potato, Woody, Sid, Sarge. Are the Debian folks Toy Story fans
> or is it just coincidence?
no coin
* cirrus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030220 21:08]:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Ok I know the answer is somewhere out there but can't seem to find it.
> I've got a 48x speed cd-recorder and whenever I start writing a cd, cpu usage
> goes up to 100%(well almost 100%, can't even
At 10:51 AM 2/19/2003 -0500, Daniel B. wrote:
Hall Stevenson wrote:
> ...(see this page,
> http://www.zip.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html, for full info), etc,
> ...
Is anyone else having trouble accessing that page (unknown host)?
I didn't have any trouble last night when
At 09:53 AM 2/19/2003 -0500, James D Strandboge wrote:
I recommend exiting gnome if you are currently in it. To install, simply do:
apt-get update
apt-get install gnome-core gdm gtk2-engines*
Don't mean to go off-topic, but are these "engine" packages the reason I
can't change my gtk/gnome the
At 10:56 PM 2/18/2003 -0500, Mark wrote:
I installed unstable about a month ago and have had nothing but good
times. I've been following debian-devel and debian-user looking for
problems people have had with upgrading unstable and haven't seen that
many (a few regarding kde / libfam issues).
* Daniel B. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030218 21:25]:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> > ...
> > My pick of ext3 was the fact that all the tools that work with ext2
> > work just as readily with ext3. I was also able to convert within a
> > few minutes from ext2 on the command line.
>
> What do you use to conve
* Joris Huizer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030214 16:19]:
> --- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:29:40AM -0800, Joris
> > Huizer wrote:
> > > - mounting manually, won't work - I get:
> > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock
> > on
> > > /dev/hdc, or too
I have to shamefully admit that I've been away for the linux side of my
dual-boot PC for a while... Yesterday I went back and had quite a bit of
"apt-get upgrad"ing necessary.
My problem at this point is I want to get Gnome2 installed, but I don't
think it's there. I think there are parts (libgno
> > I have installed a 60G harddisk (Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9)in my old P130.
> What does hdparm -i say about it?
spass:/home/buri# hdparm -i /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
Model=Maxtor 6Y060L0, FwRev=YAR41VW0, SerialNo=Y2R7JV6E
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
B
At 09:53 AM 11/13/2002 -0200, andrej hocevar wrote:
Hello,
recently, someone's gave me an older internal USR V.90 modem,
supposed to work at 56k. However, all I got were speeds at about
33k. That was when I noticed the modem uses some X2 technology.
Can I make such a modem useful? I've read some
At 06:14 PM 11/7/2002 +0100, Sebastiaan wrote:
High,
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Mikael Jirari wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two 3com 905b in my box, but only one is recognized.
> I compiled the drivers into the kernel since i'm not using modules at all.
>
Which driver have you compiled in? These cards use th
At 04:46 PM 11/7/2002 +, Mikael Jirari wrote:
Hi,
I have two 3com 905b in my box, but only one is recognized.
I compiled the drivers into the kernel since i'm not using modules at all.
What can I do so the two network cards to be recognized ?
You need to pass a parameter to LILO, either a
At 03:52 PM 11/6/2002 +, Chris Lale wrote:
In a magazine I've found a CD with many ttf files for the use
with Photoshop under windows.
What's the straightforward way to install those ttf files under debian
woody for the use with gnome 1.4, OpenOffice, and - above all - the
Gimp?
See http:/
At 09:59 PM 11/5/2002 +0200, DSC Siltec wrote:
My cdrom is /dev/hdb. I don't have a /dev/cdrom listed. Is there a way
that I can create a /dev/cdrom?
Create a symlink...
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At 02:31 PM 11/5/2002 -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:36:40AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> With Mozilla mail/news running, ALL of Mozilla is really running and
> therefore not saving you anything in regards to memory footprint.
That's certainly not true.
At 11:14 AM 11/5/2002 -0500, Levi Waldron wrote:
On November 4, 2002 04:19 pm, Johannes Zarl wrote:
> +xmms -- a winamp lookalike
I find xmms impossibly hard to read with its blue-on-black and small font, so
have been using noatun instead. Has anyone found a way to make xmms a little
more read
At 10:56 PM 11/4/2002 -0500, Travis Crump wrote:
iain d broadfoot wrote:
is there any way to make enlightenment block off part of the screen for
the gnome-panel?
yeah, i know i should be using a different combo, but i like e.
iain
Just out of curiosity, does enlightenment otherwise work with Gn
At 06:39 PM 11/5/2002 +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 10:56:59PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, does enlightenment otherwise work with Gnome 2?
> Is this a major irritant or something fairly minor(I don't quite
> understand what you mean)? Do multiple desktops
At 09:26 AM 11/5/2002 +, iain d broadfoot wrote:
i'm currently using mozilla for mail/news and phoenix for www.
if phoenix is running when i try to start mail, i get an error about
phoenix mail not being found.
i know why this happens (i think - cos phoenix is mozilla, it takes any
request
At 09:47 PM 10/25/2002 +0400, Andrei Smirnov wrote:
Anyone know if sparc station 1 has PS/2 mouse? (it is an optical 3-button
mouse, plugged into keyboard)
As I recall, they are PS/2-shaped connectors, but that may be where the
similarity ends. Did a PS/2 "spec" exist back in Sparc1 days ??
H
At 12:17 PM 10/22/2002 -0500, Mark Roach wrote:
I am using mutt as a client on MS Exchange. I would like to make 'd'
copy the message to my "Deleted Items" folder before deleting. On my
system that uses courier imap, I use a "Trash" folder so no problems,
but the space in Deleted Items seems to be
> I'm the kind of guy who turns off his machine at
> night (mostly because the wife is worried about
> electric bills, though).
Hint: Just turn your monitor off. It uses quite a bit more
electricity than the computer itself and if it is turned off,
many people assume the computer is also off. ;-)
> Hi - just wondering if anyone has had any luck using
> a Lite-ON LTR-32123S CD rewriter.
>
> (snip)
If it's an ATAPI-compliant (or is it MMC-compliant) drive,
there's very little reason that it won't work.
According to this page,
http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq05.html#S5-1-43, that drive works
with t
> I'm not saying that this is an ideal solution, but could
> you install a cheap 4-port switch (not hub!) every 100
> meters?
>
> Anyone care to tell me if or why this is a bad idea?
A device is a device, right ?? Whether it's a network card,
hub, or switch, keep the distance between them under 10
> [Debian's default installation gives 2 year old emacs
> and 6 year old non-GNU awk, while sporting the
> "GNU/Linux" branding]
>
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>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Let's hope he gets s much mail that he can't respond to
the list about this (non-)issue !!
Regards
Hall
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> Yes. You can often see text jump by a few pixels
> when you select it; however, the resulting position isn't
> always correct. You can also fix the entire display by
> switching to another virtual desktop and back, and
> you can sometimes see offsets change in galeon's
> display by moving another
> In addition, the PDF and RTF outputs from Word used
> (it seems to me) to be fairly easy to deal with. But more
> and more in recent times, the PDF files that I have been
> sent yield errors of this sort:
>
> Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct
> xref table... Error (3428)
> i dont like these "shortened" default smb.conf files...
Why not ?? Samba simply defaults to various 'enabled' or
'disabled' settings whether or not they're listed in your
smb.conf file. Granted, the authors or whoever have decided
for you that it's not necessary to list this option because
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