ain web pages - I
suppose it is like the tip of an iceberg. I use Linux for all the reasons
you state and as head of ICT in a UK school I resist MS products where
possible. It could indeed be my cue to do something positive."
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end result gives me the quality and interest I desire I will view the
programmes. If these 'terrible' web pages look bad or do not fulfil their
purpose then it is on those criteria they should be judged not on the
basis of whether the web designer used a MS product in their production.
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> begin Phillip Deackes quotation:
>
>
>
> Wrap your text.
Huh? AFAIK my email messages conform to what is expected amongst Linux
circles. I was not aware of a problem - you are the first to su
way of the world. The best
methods do not necessarily win through - the Video2000/Betamax/VHS issue
immediately springs to mind where the poorest quality format won the
battle.
I do agree with you in principle, but in practice it is not you or me who
decides what people use to design web-sites
> on Tue, Apr 09, 2002, Phillip Deackes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Define "correctly display"? For standard HTML, there's no problem.
> Ditto, if you want to abuse yourself by installing the plugins, most
> flash, Java, and Javascript, though I disable these,
* the internet for most people, and they (and I) want to do
real things which may have nothing to do with computers.
I long for a Linux browser which I can use for everything. I agree that
Galeon is probably the best at the moment - but it has a way to go.
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x27; kernel option. Works fine. I
have compiled it into the kernel, rather than as a module.
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nd the kernel patched. Ext3
seems to be an excellent compromise. In real use I notice no difference in
speed between the filesystems I have used, but the sheer reliability of
ext3 and the fact, as Crispin points out, that an ext3 filesystem can be
mounted as ext2 if the need arises, tips the bal
this point, I
do the Debian bit, 'make-kpkg -rev Custom.N kernel_image'. I install the
resultant .deb then do the NVIDIA bits exactly as in the accompanying
documentation.
I never use apt-get to obtain kernel sources - never have done.
Hope this helps - it certainly works without errors here
rnel module for
Linux 2.4.18 ii nvidia-kernel- 1.0.2802-1 NVIDIA binary kernel module
I don't use a stock Debian kernel - I always download the kernel source
and compile it myself (the Debian way).
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able, kernel 2.4.18.
Did you install the Debian package and follow the instructions in
/usr/share/doc to build the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx packages? (As
opposed to the tar.gz package). I used the Debian packages and everyhting
worked as it should.
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s I could use it.
Take care.
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y installing Storm Package Manager (stormpkg) - a GUI to apt. Very nice
- I always use it to find info about packages. It is also very good at
highlighting optional packages which the command-line apt-get does not do.
You should be able to do apt-get install stormpkg. It is available in
testing
ery simply
indeed. I know I can use the Gimp, but it takes a lot more work to do
simple things this way. The Star Office version of this is a joke. The
availability of such a utility would be the one feature which would mean I
could be truly rid of MS Windows at home!
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aking so long to get decent GUI wordprocessing in Linux?
StarOffice is OK, but version 5 was/is a joke the way it enforces the
riduculous SO desktop on users. We do need something similar to MS Office,
Lotus SmartSuite, whatever.
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t like
to try it.
Many thanks.
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elist a whole domain, or at least use
a wildcard in an address?
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lp at all.
Many thanks.
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get Exim to file messages in this way? I know procmail can do
it, but can Exim?
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s and the SPAM: report (if
> there was one).
No - it did not appear to do anything at all. I downloaded the older
version of SA (1.5-5) and installed it. Now when I do the above I get the
X-Spam headers and SPAM report.
I will await some SPAM to se whether it all works correctly.
Thanks again.
-
It looks
like the conf file in /etc/spamassassin is empty - should there be
anything there? Should I revert back to an older version of SA?
Many thanks for your help.
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latest XFree86
> and could be gotten from www.xfree86.org and installed in /usr/local.
Thanks Henry. I appreciate your response.
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unning testing or unstable.
I have been running Unstable for a long time and have had few problems. If
you subscribe to this list you will be aware when something breaks and
know not to upgrade until the issue is resolved. Unless you are running a
mission-critical system it is the way to go.
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l read
it over the next day or so and attempt to put it into practice. Shame
about GTK, since this is what most of the apps I run use :-(
I appreciate the time and effort you have taken to help me to understand.
Take care.
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ding
the Euro symbol is not as simple as it sounds, but somebody who knows how
to do it should be able to write a step-by-step crib sheet so that other
can get it working on their systems.
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re
will be a need to use the symbol accasionally.
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On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 14:21:27 -0800
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Phillip Deackes wrote:
> >
> > On 24 Dec 2001 17:44:44 -0500
> >
> > > Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > No, but when a business chooses de
ou would have preferred?
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or how I
sometimes get silly little boxes instead of fonts - again I have followed
advice from all quarters - xfs on, xfs off, changing lines here, changing
lines there. Exasperating describes Linux well!
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ebian
branch some time ago. Looking forward to Xandros Linux. I have no
programming or other coding experience apart from writing some very basic
bash cripts for my box. Politically very anti control by others who grant
themselves the authority to control - government or school authorities!
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owhere near as pleasant to use as the Logitech.
I have never successfully used the fourth button scrolling feature of the
Logitech - the fourth button can be set up as just another button in your
window manager setup, though I don't bother.
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seconds. It gets the thumbs down from me if you are looking for intuitive,
user-friendly apps..
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topped by commenting out 'return_output' in my
exim.conf.
I appreciate your help.
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g: SPAM/UBE/UCE"
I have posted about this to the razor-user list, but maybe a fellow debian
user might be more helpful.
Thanks for any help you can give.
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:02:44 -0500
Me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 08:05:05PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote:
> You should contact the opera people and see if they will sponsor your
schoool
> and give you the full version to use. You could offer to dist
ce. The free version does have adverts, but I have
configured it to show those which could be deemed 'educational'. The
pupils see advertising on nearly every site they visit anyhow so the
occasional advert in Opera does them no harm!
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cost much.
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everything you want.
All I ever do with apt-get is 'apt-get update', 'apt-get install ' or
'apt-get -u dist-upgrade'. My needs are simple!!
I find GUIs for apt or dselect rather confusing - Gnome Apt is a nightmare
for me. I prefer the simplicity of Stormpkg - t
ward to do the
same thing?
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ur system already, or see
what is available. The file /etc/apt/sources.list can also be managed from
within stormpkg.
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Netmask (dotted quad) required
Thanks Andrew and Kurt. The above worked fine. I can now access my cable
modem from another machine via squid without doing anything other than
booting up both machines.
Cheers guys.
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address 192.168.1.1
Have I missed something?
Many thanks indeed
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at I would like to do is have this set up for me
automatically when my machine boots. I can't see where I would need to put
the command.
Can anyone help me out, or point me in the right direction?
Many thanks.
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hing useful at the moment for the Windows platform anyhow,
apart from IE5. Netscape is falling apart IMHO and in its version 6
incarnation is unusable.
It might be useful if you could email me your squid.conf.
Please cc. any reply to my school address - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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y server or not. It is
either set to our ISP's proxy, or to our local proxy. I need a way of
telling *squid* to pass through SSL requests untouched, as it were. I
don't have a way of specifying different proxies for different protocols,
as far as I can see.
Many thanks for
indeed for your help.
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sktop
paradigm?
Many thanks.
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l. It works so well I am seriously
considering ditching MS Office.
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ps up. Thus I cannot create shortcuts to
> files or programs.
There does appear to be a problem - my system exhibits it too. I changed
window managers to icewm-gnome instead of the default sawfish. Now I get
the right click. Shame, because I like sawfish.
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/&q
es the partition you need to access is /dev/sda1 rather than
/dev/sda4. Don't know why, but I have several zip disks, some where the
uabale partition is /dev/sda1 and others where it is /dev/sda4. Maybe it
has something to do with whether you formatted the zipdisks using Linux or
Windows?
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ou to specify the port
etc..
The driver is at: http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/pips_e.html
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results. I use Gtoaster as the GUI front-end
to cdrdao and grip as a ripper to ensure that when I record an audio CD I
get a perfect copy.
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ssume it
works because in my .fetchmailrc I am telling fetchmail to send all mail
initially to me as gsmh, therefore mail becomes my property before exim
takes over to filter it.
All credit to those who originally supplied me with this info.
Hope this helps.
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o you can see all parts of it more easily. Much nicer than
the way imagemagick does it.
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rly easily configurable as regards the look.
Obviously, these are personal observations and you will almost certainly
get the complete opposite opinion from someone else. The answer really is
to try both and see which you prefer.
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vmlinuz-2.4.5. No idea why,
but it was easy to make the change at boot up so no harm was done anyway.
Grub works well with Reiserfs and doesn't need an ext2 boot partition (at
least it doesn't on my system).
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consider an email as spam if the To: header is not the email address of
the recipient. With all my mailing lists my address is not in the To:
header.
The FAQ mentions using the 'backdoor' - I am not sure how to do this.
Any ideas?
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Midnight Commander). You get to see the contents of the rpm
as if it were a normal file. Works with Debian pacakges too.
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On Sat, 26 May 2001 22:07:20 +0100
Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A while ago I compiled the 2.4.4 kernel but went back to 2.4.3 when I
> found I was getting a long pause during boot-up,just after this:
> 'Configuring network interfaces: eth0: Setting 100mbs fu
mpany based in Munich. The service is free. have a look
at www.gmx.co.uk.
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led in ipchains
compatibility for 2.4.x kernels.
Does anyone have any ideas?
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to the lpr group.
Good luck on getting it all working.
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and the resultant print quality is easily equal to
that of the Windows driver. The driver is based on ghostscript so fits in
with lprng or lpr or whatever and just needs a line in /etc/printcap.
I just installed the rpm version onto my Debian box. Caused no problems at
all.
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S
floppy, copy loadlin and your current kernel onto it and create
autoexec.bat as above. That's it.
Once you have managed to boot your new Linux partition you can, of course,
re-run LILO and you are back in business.
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d the second, Windows machine? I can find
documentation detailing how I might configure a RedHat box, but the files
I would need to change do not match up with files on my Debian system.
Can anyone help me here?
Many thanks indeed.
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r
message you are seeing. This has happened to me before.
Maybe this is not what is causing your problem - if not, try compiling and
installing a new kernel and things should sync OK.
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nglish/linux_e/linux.html
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gnome desktop and
lose all your customisations. I can't remember which worked for me, but is was
definitely one of the config files.
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pport. So far I haven't had a crash yet.
I am using a VIA KT133 chipset and Athlon 800 CPU. I run on a 2.4.3 kernel
with XFS support.
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ned Opera, and found I had no bookmarks. Looking in the
bookmark file I found fragments of all sorts of files - some email, news,
binary data etc.. Goodness knows what other files had been damaged.
Needless to say, I was somewhat chastened and immediately set about
reinstating ext2 on all my Linu
spare partition, reformat and reinstate.
I did like Resierfs while I was using it, the journal idea is very nice. I
wouldn't mind giving ext3 a go, but it would appear that there is no
kernel patch for the 2.4.x kernels. Is this so? Has anyone actually used
ext3 with Debian?
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ainable from:
http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/pips_e.html
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some reason, alien wouldn't convert it, but if you do
'rpm -i --nodeps whatever.rpm' it will install cleanly.
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th a try.
The url is:
http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/pro_e/pips_e.html
Fingers crossed.
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to copy the partition from hdb to hda
and rebooted. Everything worked fine. I then used PM again to resize the
partition to take advantage of the larger hard drive capacity of the new
drive.
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ll 14 GB of space as reiserfs and copied the linux
filesystem back again. It appears to have worked flawlessly. I have done
the same with my data partition so am now running completely on reiserfs.
Thanks again. Take care.
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nyone help? Hold my hand a little?!
Many thanks.
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hanks, Richard. I downloaded cddump and it works well. However, I can't
seem to get it to backup multiple directories. How would I, say, get it
backup /home and /etc? I tried 'cddump 0 /etc /home' and it ignored /home.
There is nothing in the man page to suggest how it can be do
hing
like that. They told me that it would not be a good idea to install the
1.2.2 iso and upgrade using apt-get. I wonder why!
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e Debian fold, apart from Debian itself, of
course, appears to be Progeny Debian. Beta 3 is available for free
download and is actually very usable indeed - maybe even for the new user.
The install is certainly very straightforward.
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Libranet site usable with
apt-get - it certatainly looks like there is no apt-get upgrade path apart from
using Debian sources. If this is the case there doesn't seem to be much point
buying Libranet instead of Debian.
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use dhcp-client version 2.0pl4-2 on an Unstable box.
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:19:11 -0500, serge delorme said:
>
> man lpoptions.
>
Merci bien, Serge!!
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k globally without having
to print from the command line each time? I had a look in the various CUPS
config files and I can't see where it could be added.
TIA.
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make
you a boot disk.
It is very handy to have a .deb of the kernel you have rolled - makes it so
easy to have different versions available, and to roll back if you need to.
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aving said that, I did nothing special for OSS, apart from removing the sound
config from the kernel after I had installed it - I did nothing before. It
installed perfectly. I did need to add 'soundon' manually to /etc/rc.boot -
this consists of a simple command:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local
can try an unlicensed version of the software which is time limited - a
good way to see if it works for you.
The OSS web site is http://www.opensound.com/
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roved all should be well. It is not necessarily down to the output of
the PSU either - a 300 watt unit is not OK just because it is 300 watts.
Hope this helps a little.
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n't understand the noise words and used 'gsmh' because
that was the user running it.
Now I have used your syntax, I get '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' instead of '[EMAIL
PROTECTED]' so the problem is solved! Thank you very much indeed!
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:41 14GFrB-yX-00 => gsmh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D=localuser
T=local_delivery
That looks much better.
I am using exim to distribute mail recieved by fetchmail. Should I move
.forward from /home/gsmh to /root as well?
Can anyone comment on these two log entries?
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just changed my /etc/apt/sources.list to point to unstable (as opposed
to Woody which I normally use) and did apt-get install modutils. I got the
new version and no other packages. Modules from 2.4.0 now install
correctly.
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alise there was a
difference regarding networking configuration.
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or
anything like that - all I have which might be relevant is
/etc/init.d/networking.
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cable to the
new drive - one which isn't ATA 66 compatible. This will force the machine
to see the drive as, at most, ATA 33 and should work OK. Once the new
kenel is patched and build you should be able to switch cables again.
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ke Adaptec's which allows you
to to use a CDRW disk as if it were a hard drive? ie. being able to add
and remove data at will?
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they appear during
boot up but they are not in /var/log/messages or /var/log/system.
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starts before ippp0 (my current connection to the Internet
is ISDN, my cable modem is to be installed at the start of January) and
throws up all sorts of problems. Starting it with X is fine, because if I
log out of X the script protecting my box is still effective.
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