what's up with the Debian logo?

1999-03-05 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi all, Does anyone know what is the status of the logo-contest? I tried to send in submissions to ftp.gimp.org last month, but my logos did not appear on the web site. I heard from others that they had the same problem. Is anyone taking care of this? It seems to me it would have been nice to

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-05 Thread matthschulz
Kevin Traas schrieb: > > Hey, Linus Torvalds isn't even in the top 20! Let's change that! ;-) > > >Time Magazine is allowing us to vote for Time Magazines > >Person of the Century, which will be in their December 1999 issue. > > To vote go to: > >http://www.pathfinder.com/time/time100/topperson

Re: libc6-19981211-6

1999-03-05 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > Anyone had problem with this version of libc6? > > After I install it, all my dns stop working, I had to down grade > to the version in the stable hamm. Please, remember to report this as a bug. > A couple of weeks ago, I upgrade my sys

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-03-05 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 05:13 (-0800), Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > But TECO was the greatest, most programmable, powerful editor ever. If > only > it had run on a *NIX OS :-( > > - > I remember when working at DEC being told that teco was mo

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-05 Thread Kent West
At 04:13 PM 3/5/1999 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Kevin Traas schrieb: >> >> Hey, Linus Torvalds isn't even in the top 20! Let's change that! ;-) >> >> >Time Magazine is allowing us to vote for Time Magazines >> >Person of the Century, which will be in their December 1999 issue. >> > To vot

Re: left hand mouse in X

1999-03-05 Thread Michele Bini
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 07:41:37PM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > Hi, > is there anybody who can tell me how to invert the buttons of the > mouse under X? xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1" > I have found it for gpm, but I couldn't find mention in the X > manuals. man xmodmap -Michele

Re: Windows NT over Windows 95

1999-03-05 Thread Michele Bini
On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 11:16:49PM -0500, Alec Smith wrote: > No big traps that I can think of. I'm actually running NT+Linux on this > very machine. I prefer copying the Linux boot sector and using the NT boot > loader. Its nice being able to use the arrow keys and not have to type > anything as L

New emusic packages - broken upgrade path

1999-03-05 Thread Brian Almeida
I just uploaded emusic_0.8-5 to incoming. emusic (0.8-5) unstable; urgency=low * Recompiled against GTK+ 1.2 * Consolidated into one package * This WILL not install cleanly through dselect. Remove all your emusic packages first (this is because dpkg cannot do versioned

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-05 Thread Richard Harran
Oh, goodie! A religious discussion! Kent West wrote: > > At 04:13 PM 3/5/1999 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Kevin Traas schrieb: > >> > >> Hey, Linus Torvalds isn't even in the top 20! Let's change that! ;-) > >> > >> >Time Magazine is allowing us to vote for Time Magazines > >> >Person o

Re: 2.2.2

1999-03-05 Thread Jeremy
On 2 Mar 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > I had problems with PPP uploads under 2.2.1. They were extremely slow > so I went back to booting 2.0.36 by default. I had assumed that 2.2.x > needed a newer version of PPP than was available in slink, but I don't > see any mention of it in the documentat

Re: Debian/RedHat at our university

1999-03-05 Thread Jeremy
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Bernhard Dobbels wrote: > Am i right if i say that the uni can just rsync the cd-images, write > them and sell them to the students for the price of writing the disks? Yes. Actually, they could burn CDs and sell them for as much as they wanted to. Jeremy

Qmail to Exim woes

1999-03-05 Thread wtopa
OK, it's my turn. Yes I RTFM's. First the date. My local network is mtntop.home, my user name is wtopa (of course), my address for the net should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] I decided that if exim was the prefered Debian MTA I would switch to it. Well after 3 days I have finally got it te accept ma

gnome

1999-03-05 Thread Matthew Cocker
Thanks for all the emails I received about GNOME. In the end I got the debian slink 0.3 version going and liked it so much I promptly deleted it and went and got the gnome1.0 tar balls and compiled a new version. It only took me a couple of days (not bad considering I have never compiled my own pro

Re: Date Problems and more

1999-03-05 Thread D Richards
First off thanks to everyone who replied to my first problem. I was actually trying to just change the hour and nothing else using the 'date' command. Duh! Ok my brother is wanting to install Debian on his home machine, after I've been telling him how great the support is from you guys and how

Is Linux addictive?

1999-03-05 Thread Matthew Cocker
Linux should have to be distributed with a surgeon generals warning about the possible addictive nature of Linux. cheers matt

Re: Problem Connecting to ISP

1999-03-05 Thread John Hasler
Shawn Nguyen writes: > I am using pppsetup to set up my connection. Try pppconfig. But first, dial in with minicom and work through the login taking notes until you get the garbage that indicates that ppp has started at their end. This will give you the information that pppconfig needs. -- John

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-03-05 Thread John Hasler
Kenneth Scharf writes: > I remember when working at DEC being told that teco was more than an > editor, it was a language. Infact someone had written a StarTrek game in > teco. And some guy at MIT wrote a text editor in TECO... -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill El

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century - EXTREMELY OFF TOPIC

1999-03-05 Thread Michael Stenner
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: >On Fri, 5 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> just did, but is this list not moderated, Jesus Christ is so far I now, >> from a different century and he is on top? >> >> Matth > >Don't even think Linus should BE the person of the century. That honor >p

Re: Is Linux addictive?

1999-03-05 Thread Michael Stenner
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Matthew Cocker wrote: >Linux should have to be distributed with a surgeon generals warning >about the possible addictive nature of Linux. What do you mean? I can quit any time I want... I just don't want to :) Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513

file creation dates and SAMBA

1999-03-05 Thread Pezo
Problem occurs when somebody copies files from a Windooze-machine to a filesystem which resides on a Linux box (debian-alpha), SAMBA writes the file creation date to be the date the file was originally created, not when it was copied. I hope somebody would know why this is, I don't... Another probl

RE: Is Linux addictive?

1999-03-05 Thread Shaleh
On 05-Mar-99 Matthew Cocker wrote: > Linux should have to be distributed with a surgeon generals warning > about the possible addictive nature of Linux. > Actually I am addicted to the code -> compile -> segfault -> debug -> repeat cycle. Just so happens the cycle is faster and more interesting

"make config: Web Links

1999-03-05 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
I've updated page that collects almost all the links that appear when you ask for help in the make config process. At least those for an intel architecture The pager is at http://gusp.infogroup.it/linux/kernel.shtml While you are at it have a look at the rest of the pages. Comments are welcome.

Re: Is Linux addictive?

1999-03-05 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "Matthew" == Matthew Cocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Linux should have to be distributed with a surgeon generals warning > about the possible addictive nature of Linux. > cheers matt No it's not addictive. Is infective: once you install it on a computer, you will quickly fi

the "g" in libraries (was: where is xlib6g-dbg ?)

1999-03-05 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 01:21:30PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 04:45:38AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > I was wondering if there is a xlib6g-dbg package. I have a problem with > > > > Not yet. I have plans to make one for potato (xlib6g-dbg and xlib6-altdbg, > > bot

StarOffice troubles with 2.2.x

1999-03-05 Thread Christian Lavoie
I recently switched to a 2.2.2 kernel. I also tried to install IP masquerading on 2.2.2, and later tried to remove it. Since then, StarOffice won't connect to my pop server, although Mutt will. Any ideas why?

Re: e-Tex

1999-03-05 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I saw a directory called etex under the tetex directory, so i > wondered wheather the debian distribution uses e-Tex (i am using > hamm). If not, can anyone tell me how am i supposed to install > e-Tex, because I didn't understand how the distribution is

Re: Janet

1999-03-05 Thread homega
I thought he meant the Joint Academic NETwork (JANET), but that one is not beautiful. Kent, sorry if I add further embarrassment to you. ;-) > I can't let that pass. Sorry. > > I once knew a guy that broadcast something very similar to every user on > an entire (large) VAXCluster at a major hos

ppp

1999-03-05 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
I'm having a little trouble with ppp. Everything seems normal until the line with "Hangup". I don't know why that happens. I made the configuration with pppconfig, making the same choices as for a machine with working ppp. Could it be some other netconfig that is making trouble. I'd appreciate a cl

apt

1999-03-05 Thread Craig T. Hancock
I here alot of users refer tio the command apt what eactly is it

program can not load colors

1999-03-05 Thread Matthew Cocker
since upgrading from hamm to slink one of my progams (XPMA) can no longer display colors and gives the following error message. ATOMTYP COLOURS(r,g,b): GR 31 .500 .500 .500 ATOMTYP COLOURS(r,g,b): PT 32 .800 .800 .800 ATOMTYP COLOURS(r,g,b): S 33 .800 .750 .000 ATOMTY

Re: ppp

1999-03-05 Thread servis
*- On 5 Mar, Ole J. Tetlie wrote about "ppp" > I'm having a little trouble with ppp. Everything seems normal until > the line with "Hangup". I don't know why that happens. I made the > configuration with pppconfig, making the same choices as for a > machine with working ppp. Could it be some other

Re: apt

1999-03-05 Thread dyer
"Craig T. Hancock" wrote: > I here alot of users refer tio the command apt what eactly is it > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null a very nice and easy method of upgrading and installing packages. -- dyer

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-03-05 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>>> And some guy at MIT wrote a text editor in TECO... -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI - Opps, yeah that's right. The ORIGINAL Emacs was written in Teco. RMS must be more talented that I thought. Tec

Re: apt

1999-03-05 Thread servis
*- On 5 Mar, Craig T. Hancock wrote about "apt" > I here alot of users refer tio the command apt what eactly is it > > Apt is the next generation front end for dpkg. It will eventually replace dselect. Right now it just provides a command line tool, apt-get, and a method for dselect. From th

Oh, Brad! Oh, Brad!

1999-03-05 Thread Branden Robinson
Let's do the time warp again! -- G. Branden Robinson | "I came, I saw, she conquered." The Debian GNU/Linux | original Latin seems to have been [EMAIL PROTECTED] | garbled. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein pgp1m4AQHdUG

Re: left hand mouse in X

1999-03-05 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 07:41:37PM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > is there anybody who can tell me how to invert the buttons of the > mouse under X? > I have found it for gpm, but I couldn't find mention in the X > manuals. See /usr/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ in the current slink X packages. -- G

Re: Oh, Brad! Oh, Brad!

1999-03-05 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Guess we have proof of good crack at Purdue University. ;-) -Ian On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: > Let's do the time warp again! > > -- > G. Branden Robinson | "I came, I saw, she conquered." The > Debian GNU/Linux | original Latin seems to ha

Re: the "g" in libraries (was: where is xlib6g-dbg ?)

1999-03-05 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 02:33:39PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Libraries that have packaged for the first time after the release of hamm > typically do not have a libc5 compatibility version, and omit the "g". This is the reason why I'm asking. The mentioned package is being built for the fir

RE: file creation dates and SAMBA

1999-03-05 Thread Lewis, James M.
It does that because that's the way windows works. The file creation times are kept on copy. Samba probably doesn't do anything. The copy program (xcopy, copy, explorer, etc.) probably sets the timestamp at the end of the copy. jim >-- >From: Pezo[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday,

Re: forcing dselect to downgrade

1999-03-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
Stephen Pitts wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 09:17:52PM -0500, Tommy wrote: > > I have been experiencing some problems due to my carelessly mixing > > releases. In order to fix the problem I would like to bring my system > > back to a state where only " Stable" components from my Debian 2.0 cd

Matlab segfaulting now. A few weeks ago, dont. Maybe a bad upgrade...

1999-03-05 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, At home and school I have matlab installed in Linux 2.1 or 2.2 very synced with potato. Sometime ago was working in both. Now it's only working in school. Maybe I did an upgrade in school different from home. At home I have: [20:17:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/matlab/matlab/bin

Compiling Problem Lists

1999-03-05 Thread Peter Ludwig
Well, I've been reading through all the messages here for the last 2-3 weeks, and I've decided that perhaps we would be better off adding into the basic Debian documentation a listing of normal errors and their fixes. I'm willing to get in and compile all of these if people want to help me out wit

Re: file creation dates and SAMBA

1999-03-05 Thread Mike Merten
On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 08:37:04PM +0200, Pezo wrote: > Another problem with alpha-Linux, when I create a file from other Linux > macihe through NFS, the files on alpha are owned by nobody.nogroup. This > is a 'feature' of alpha-macine I think, but is there a way to get round > this? > > Juha I m

how do i get a copy of the linux image kernel.

1999-03-05 Thread pplaw
hi, from the direct links in the debian.org, install file, i've downloaded all of the install files except the linux image kernel file. when i click on the link, the browser tries to open the file (instead of allowing me to save it to a disk). should i just try to get the image kernel from a mi

Re: dselect handling stable AND unstable [was Re: forcing dselect to downgrade]

1999-03-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
Rick Macdonald wrote: > > Tommy wrote: > > > > When I upgraded the package lists of > > stable, unstable, contrib, and non-free dselect ... > > This is something that I've always wondered about. Can you actually tell > dselect about both stable and unstable at the same time? I've always > been a

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