bash not running ~/.bash_profile

2005-06-17 Thread James Buchanan
Hi, For some reason my ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc are not being executed by bash. Is there some way I can fix this problem? I tried to add a script S10sourceprofile to /etc/rc2.d/ but that didn't work. I'm using Sarge. I've searched Google and a few people seem to have this problem, an

cdrecord slow

2005-06-11 Thread James Buchanan
Hi, For some reason, cdrecord is very slow. It never burns anything faster than 4x, even though I instruct it on the command line to burn at 32x. Also, DVDs will only burn at 1x. I've read that automounting seems to slow it down, and playing CDs in the drive locks it at a very slow speed for

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread James Buchanan
> If nothing changes email will soon be unusable. I've often thought about refusing to use email at all, and communicating with people I know with IRC on a server I host, and sharing files with good old FTP. Maybe the Internet community needs to get together and write a new RFC for spam free emai

[SOLVED] No sound in Gnome

2004-05-21 Thread James Buchanan
Sorry list, problem solved. Symlinked /dev/dsp0 to /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer to /dev/mixer0. Didn't have speaker volume turned up :) D'oh! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

No sound in Gnome (Sarge, SoundBlaster card, Gnome 2.4.1)

2004-05-21 Thread James Buchanan
So far Google reveals only that SoundBlaster cards sometimes misbehave. I couldn't find anything specific about not getting any sound out of Gnome with a SoundBlaster Live 5.1 card. I have the correct modules loaded (2.6.3 kernel, snd-emu10k1, snd/sound/coundcore, ac97-codec), fixed permissions o

Re: [OT] Debian Users: Please boycott Paypal

2004-05-20 Thread James Buchanan
> Try to stay on topic on the list? > > The kernel maintainer walked because of political issues in Debian. > Yes, I must apologise to the list because of this (and those people I unfairly flamed). I didn't mean to come across with zealotry which is what someone suggested it looked like. I'll

Re: [OT] Debian Users: Please boycott Paypal

2004-05-19 Thread James Buchanan
> Thanks, but just because we are debian users, it does not make us a > willing party or lobbyist group. > > Take your arguments elsewhere. Thanks, but if you don't want to play you don't have to, kid. Take your poo-poos elsewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

[OT] Debian Users: Please boycott Paypal

2004-05-19 Thread James Buchanan
help boycott Paypal and spread the word over the 'net. Let's show Paypal that when they screw with the good netizens of the World, the mighty hand of a million users slaps them back! Thankyou. James Buchanan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

IPv6 General Questions

2004-05-18 Thread James Buchanan
Hi, I'm curious to know how I might test out IPv6 networking. I certainly need another Ipv6 box to talk to, and I might build a little subnet at home with old 386/486 boxes for cheap to do this. It might be my only way. Does my ISP have to explicitly support IPv6 for me to talk to the rest of t

Safe to compile/install 2.6.6 kernel on Sarge? + options

2004-05-14 Thread James Buchanan
Should it be possible to safely compile and install a 2.6.6 kernel on Sarge with a 2.6.3 kernel running? The options for this kernel are a little confusing. I know there is a native ATA/ATAPI driver now so that ide-scsi is no longer needed (but will removing generic SCSI support render cdreco

Can't dialup, possible DNS problem

2003-07-05 Thread James Buchanan
Hello, I've tried configuring my dialup accounts using pppconfig, however when I try to fetch a web page Mozilla sits there forever 'resolving host foo.bar.com...' When I try to use ping, it also just sits there trying to resolve the host. The same happens when I try to configure wvdial. Both d

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-07 Thread James Buchanan
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:34:51PM -0600, DvB wrote: > > "James Buchanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Famine victims OK, but nobody has mentioned the people living in > > > poverty in America. Boost welfare, more education funding, subs

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-06 Thread James Buchanan
Famine victims OK, but nobody has mentioned the people living in poverty in America. Boost welfare, more education funding, subsidise pay rises for the lowest paid workers... ooops, America's budget all gone ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

D-Link Modem (ADSL, PCI) DSL-100D

2003-02-02 Thread James Buchanan
Hello, Is anyone using the DSL-100D D-Link PCI ADSL Modem? If so, does it work with a 2.2 kernel like in a Potato dist? Does anyone know how to configure it to work with my provider (iPrimus Australia?) Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Help: motherboard works with Linux?

2003-01-29 Thread James Buchanan
Hi all, I am thinking of buying this motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8IEXP with the Intel 845E AGPset chipset - what worries me is its "winbond" I/O chip. Is that like a "winmodem" ie. only works with Windows? Here is the spec: http://www.giga-byte.com/products/8iexp.htm Please help if you can. I'd l

Re: Window Managers

2003-01-26 Thread James Buchanan
- Original Message - From: "Osamu Aoki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "James Buchanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 8:44 PM Subject: Re: Window Managers > On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 09:01:42AM +, Karsten M. Self

Window Managers

2003-01-24 Thread James Buchanan
Hi, When I run `startx' I would like afterstep to run, and I would like a menu giving me a list of all the window managers/desktop environments that I can run. How do I tell startx to run afterstep by default? I have done `man startx' but it's all incomprehensible gibberish to me! :-( I did l