Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-27 Thread David Jackson
Would you "deep thinker" mind taking this tread offline. Or maybe start a new list "debian-soapbox Thanks, David > On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 10:21:46PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Nothing like militaristic Nazi Germany will happen again >> while the US is the lone "hyperpower". > > There's t

Re: Woody: make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

2002-05-27 Thread David Jackson
Jeff -- Thanks for you reply. According to /etc/locale.gen this is the command to build locales. (and it worked) dpkg-reconfigure locales David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Menus not updating

2002-05-27 Thread David Jackson
> On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 09:10:50AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/lib/menu>ls -l mutt tin >> -rw-r--r--1 root root 103 Mar 19 08:05 mutt >> -rw-r--r--1 root root 102 Mar 16 20:45 tin > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/lib/menu$ ls -l mutt tin > ls:

Re: Comparing squid cache versus nothing

2002-05-27 Thread David Jackson
> On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 08:02:49AM -0700, Walter Reed wrote: > >> Another reason to run squid: adzap. It's amazing how much it speeds up >> browsing on my IDSL line... > > What's the Debian name for adzap? > > -- > Baloo My quess is adzap is part of the squid package David -- -- To UN

Re: O.T. Need help in merging databases; postgresql

2002-05-27 Thread David Jackson
John -- Your best bet is to post to one of the postgeSQL mailing list. http://postgresql.org/ # Note there is no www before postgresql.org Here's the link to there mailing list: http://postgresql.org/users-lounge/index.html Is there any redundant data between tables, remember one of objective

Woody: make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

2002-05-26 Thread David Jackson
Ok -- Do I need to add something in /etc/environment? Thanks in advance, David /etc/environment: #LANG=C LANG="english" Here's the output from locale: dabean:davej % locale LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE="en_US" LC_NUMERIC="en_US" LC_TIME="en_US" LC_COLLATE="en_US" LC_MONETARY="en_US" LC_MESSAGES="en_U

Re: Scwawcaac: I need a little more on apps available for Linux

2002-04-23 Thread David Jackson
Andy -- > I've seen comments from people in the field that Linux is definitely > just "not there yet". Others prefer TeX, LaTeX, etc, and those will > swear by them & say it's the only way. > If you want something like PageMaker, Quark, or whatever, I think > you'll have to wait. Adobe FrameMaker

Re: Apt-get Upgrade/Update question

2002-04-22 Thread David Jackson
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Adding kernel modules after install

2002-04-20 Thread David Jackson
All --- Hopefully a simple question. How do I add additional kernel modules after the initial install? It seems I forgot to add the modules for my nic and ppp? Thanks in advance, David -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Debian: gpm not installing by default

2002-04-20 Thread David Jackson
2002 at 01:43:22PM -0400, David Jackson wrote: >> Greetings -- >> >> Version 2.2r3. >> >> Is gpm (mouse support) not install my default under Debian? >> Or did I just miss a package install, or do I need to upgrade my >> distro? >> >> Relate

Debian: gpm not installing by default

2002-04-20 Thread David Jackson
Greetings -- Version 2.2r3. Is gpm (mouse support) not install my default under Debian? Or did I just miss a package install, or do I need to upgrade my distro? Related question is using custom install script? Any docs on writing such a thing? Thanks in advance, David -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: >2Gb files

2001-04-12 Thread david . jackson
Hi, thanks for reponses and just to inform A guy on devel mentioned that the glibc and fileutils in woody will work with large files out of the box. So I tried on another machine (single processor) which also has a testing/ unstable config and it did indeed work (on reiserfs on top of LVM

Re: >2Gb files

2001-04-11 Thread david . jackson
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:13:11AM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > Maybe you've received better suggestion, but any way I'll offer > my $0.02. Appreciated! > When you recompiled libc, where the compiler looks for the > kernel's header? Well the debian glibc packaging is quite c

Re: >2Gb files

2001-04-11 Thread david . jackson
Hi - I'm looking for a tale of success, suggestion of something to check, or a link to a more detailed recipe for > 2GB files on i386 using debian really. On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:44:49AM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > To be honest, i don't have the answer but i think this has allready been >

Re: >2Gb files

2001-04-11 Thread david . jackson
/dev/zero just provides a source of data eg cat -A < /dev/zero | head -c 20 I was using dd as a quick way of trying to create a large (>2GB) file. On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:00:59AM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > first of all, forgive me my ignorance, i wonder what you are doing with dd > over

>2Gb files

2001-04-10 Thread david . jackson
Hi, I'm looking for hints on using > 2GB files I'm using a 2.4.3 kernel-image compiled from debian kernel-source package. After installing the corresponding kernel-headers deb I created, I have recompiled glibc (2.2.2-4) with a #apt-get --build source glibc then installed the created debs...