y),
just like HelixCode did for their wonderful debs of GNOME.
but, i have been playing around a bit with the new Mandrake 7.1, and it
sure is sweet...
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If Bill
de, which also means
it's quite beyond my powers to fix, or even investigate thoroughly. can
anyone shed some light into this?
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Systems Administrator
Appalachian Laboratory, UMCES www.al.umces.edu
A computer without Microsoft
i am trying to install Debian on an older Gateway system that boots from
an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card. the boot floppy i built from slink is fine
until it reaches that card and stops between "instructions downloaded"
and the recognition of the SCSI devices. i found where adding
"aic7xxx=no_probe" to t
i use a $HOME/bin for scripts.
On 28 Jun, Revenant wrote:
> Hi. I finally worked out how to do the Linux equivalent of batch files
> (scripts) and was wondering if there was a generally accepted directory
> for keeping user (and/or root) scripts in.
>
> Thanx.
>
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On 24 Jun, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
> Does anybody know of an app that decodes MP3 to WAV or AU?
All *nixes excel at providing little tools that, when used together, can
replace a lot of stand-alone tools on other platforms.
if you have mpg123 and sox (both available as debian packages), you
Since one of the latter updates from potato, the icons that appear on
the desktop (home, mountable devices) now have the standard folder icon
and efforts in changing them (via right-click -> Properties -> Options)
seem to fail.
i am using gmc 4.5.33 and the gnome-core is 1.0.6 .
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On 22 Jun, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Of course, wmaker 0.60 is now available in .deb format, so perhaps it's
> easier to just download the .debs :-)
>
> --tim :-)
>
and while we're on the subject of wmaker 0.60 debs...
does anyone else using them have root menu wierdness like this:
Debi
I love that esd mixes sounds on the fly. one of my biggest complaints
with WinAmp under when-doze was that it didn't allow other sounds to
come through. under esd, my mp3s (now playing on xmms) seamlessly mix
with my GNOME and licq sounds.
GQMpeg has some awesome skins. it uses mpg123 as its back-
I heartily recommend Tera Term Pro, a much better telnet client than M$
could ship. it's on par with commercial solutions like SmarTerm, IMO.
It is free (in the beer sense, with source code available) and can even
do ssh with a free addon. It'll do ansi and vt100 emulation, and is
pretty configurab
An excellent discussion of mirroring, along with several scripts, can
be found at http://www.debian.org/mirror/ .
On 7 Jun, Paul Sargent wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to set up a site mirror (i.e. one to be used just on this site) of
> the stable and unstable distributions. Does anybody have any
well, it's happening. my boss wants me to take the summer to evaluate
using Linux to run our labs as an alternative to Novell Netware and
Microsoft Windows NT.
We currently have 55 Pentium IIs and 40 Pentiums running Windows 95, and
30 iMacs running MacOS 8.6 in our labs.there are 6 labs in all, a
On 20 May, Rob wrote:
> Umm, isn't this the Debian list? Or did I miss the release of Visual Basic
> for Linux?
>
oh, PLEASE say i missed it too. ;) one of the very few worthwhile
microsoft products.
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Microcomputer Support Specialist
I would appreciate it if someone that is on the kernel list could
forward this. please send all replies to my address as well as the list.
I cannot get any kernel to utilize my Intel EtherExpress Pro card. it is
a PCI 10/100 card, and i am using the 2.2.x kernels in Debian GNU/Linux
2.1. When the
i'm trying to win a convert from Win95 to Linux, and X is not behaving.
We had things running fine last night, everything looked great, he was
quite happy. This morning, things are not well.
The display in XWindow is garbage. Fonts, Menus, etc., don't display
properly (but function: i can click on
See my message posted to the list on Monday; i had the same problem and
fixed it. Basically you have to do the same thing with xlib6g as you did
with glib. (that is, extract it from the .deb manually, put it
someplace, add someplace to soffice's LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Wim Kerkhoff wrote:
>
> Okay, I fi
I think xlib6g in the latest potato (3.3.3.1-2) has broken StarOffice.
the message i got from soffice is:
/home/eafarris/Office50/bin/soffice.bin: error in loading shared
libraries
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: __bzero
to fix, i d/loaded slink's xlib6g and extracted it manually (v
I just got some Type1 fonts off of Adobe's TypeOnCall CD. When I run
these through type1inst to update the fonts.scale i get "First Byte in
Packet not 0x80" from pfbtops and it refuses to go any further. (1) is
this fixable? (1a) how? (2) is there a better/different way? i have the
afm, pfm, and in
I just got some Type1 fonts off of Adobe's TypeOnCall CD. When I run
these through type1inst to update the fonts.scale i get "First Byte in
Packet not 0x80" from pfbtops and it refuses to go any further. (1) is
this fixable? (1a) how? (2) is there a better/different way? i have the
afm, pfm, and in
I just got some Type1 fonts off of Adobe's TypeOnCall CD. When I run
these through type1inst to update the fonts.scale i get "First Byte in
Packet not 0x80" from pfbtops and it refuses to go any further. (1) is
this fixable? (1a) how? (2) is there a better/different way? i have the
afm, pfm, and in
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