RE: Nude, FREE, Live AMATEURS!!!!!!

2001-03-21 Thread Subramaniam Aiyer \(CTS\)
what kind of shit mail is this how did it come onto our mailing list?come on guyz have a heart -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 21 March 2001 8:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

ip forwarding

2001-03-21 Thread Gregg C
What is the minimum I need to do to enable my gatway system to do NAT for my local lan? It is a fresh 2.2 install. I'm reading the ipchains howto (among other things), so I can build a proper firewall, which is a steep learning curve for me. However, that is fine, because when I'm done I want

Re: Nude, FREE, Live AMATEURS!!!!!!

2001-03-21 Thread Jason Majors
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:48:19AM +0530, Subramaniam Aiyer (CTS) scribbled... > what kind of shit mail is this how did it come onto our mailing list?come > on > guyz have a heart > Does anybody on this list have the kind of skills to make these bastards regret spamming us? In a way that doesn't vi

Re: Nude, FREE, Live AMATEURS!!!!!!

2001-03-21 Thread Tomaas Ortega
they just assume us linux users are all porn needy geeks with too much money to spend :) AFAIK nothing could be further from the truth...right rhht? - Original Message - From: "Subramaniam Aiyer (CTS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday,

Printing with dvips (print too close to top of page)

2001-03-21 Thread Keith Johnson
Hello, I am using debian potato and am trying to print a document generated by latex. Problem is, the print starts right at the top of the page (no margin) and leaves a two inch margin at the bottom of the page (should be one). I have no idea where to even look for a solution. Is it in dvips, lat

Re: parallel clusters of single cpu boxes

2001-03-21 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
In Darryl Röthering's email, 21-03-2001: > I am curious if anyone knows anything about clustering several single cpu > boxes together and attempting to run a multi-cpu build of Linux on top of > them. Has anyone figured out a way to thus put together a relatively cheap > emulated parallel archi

Debian Sendmail Question

2001-03-21 Thread Kevin Long
I am an internet site. When I set up sendmail on debian I get masquerade support. What do I need to change if anything to set myself up as straight SMTP, with vhost POP? Should I disregard the masquerade envelope directive and peers dir -- or do I need to edit something in .mc (I assume I need t

RE: Nude, FREE, Live AMATEURS!!!!!!

2001-03-21 Thread Nuhn Yobiznez
This is the BEST excuse for the use of UGLY virii, IMHO And I HATE virii of ANY type. Is there an abuse address for AOL that can slap this kind of abusemail HARD? I DO NOT have the highest regard for AOL as an ISP at all, but it would rise in my esteem if it could do something about this sort

Re: Nude, FREE, Live AMATEURS!!!!!!

2001-03-21 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:28:33PM -0800, Nuhn Yobiznez wrote: > This is the BEST excuse for the use of UGLY virii, > IMHO And I HATE virii of ANY type. > Is there an abuse address for AOL that can slap this > kind of abusemail HARD? I DO NOT have the highest > regard for AOL as an ISP at all,

Cc: ing to debian-user when replying to a question

2001-03-21 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi All, There is something I have been confused/wondering about for some time. I thought I once saw someone say in their reply that they didn't need to Cc: to debian-user@lists.debian.org when replying to a message because they are already signed up on the mailing list. It loo

Re: Cc: ing to debian-user when replying to a question

2001-03-21 Thread Jason Majors
I'm guessing it depends on your mail app. I use mutt and unless I actively CC: the list, it only goes to the author of the original message. But some mail apps will automatically put the incoming CC: addresses into the reply's CC:. The fact that you're subscribed to the mailing list doesn't matter

Getting to Gnome

2001-03-21 Thread Rick Commo
Time to go to the well (debian-user) again! A couple of weeks ago I decided that Debian would be my distro of choice. It's been a struggle but a rewarding one so far. Had a "simple" install that was sorta broken (WindowMaker was scrawed) but now have it going. Did another "simple" install to ano

Re: Wanna be a Debian user...

2001-03-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Will, Your appoach is normal one to get from potato to woody. It does not harm but I think it is pointless for this case. What I am doing is avoid installing normal minimum potato itself. Only base2_2.tgz is installed from potato. By mangling with /etc/apt/sources.list during installation, dse

Re: Printing with dvips (print too close to top of page)

2001-03-21 Thread kmself
on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:22:33PM -0800, Keith Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I am using debian potato and am trying to print a document generated > by latex. Problem is, the print starts right at the top of the page > (no margin) and leaves a two inch margin at the bottom of th

Keyboard not responding

2001-03-21 Thread Vadim Kutsyy
I have dual boot, and when I tried to login back to Debian, key board doesn't respond. I can type selection in Lilo, and work in win2k, but as soon as I am getting to gdm screen, I can not type anything, ctr-alt-del and ctr-alt-f1 don't work either. Could anyone recommend who I can get in to Debi

encrypted fs over raid5?

2001-03-21 Thread M.G.
Has anyone successfully set up an encrypted filesystem using loopback on top of raid5? I am very interested in getting this working, but right now I'm stuck very early on in the process just getting raid5 to work. I am running potato and I've custom compiled a fresh 2.2.18 kernel with patch-int-2

Re: Cc: ing to debian-user when replying to a question

2001-03-21 Thread kmself
on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:53:13PM -0700, Jimmy Richards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi All, > > > There is something I have been confused/wondering about for some > time. I thought I once saw someone say in their reply that they > didn't need to Cc: to debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: Cc: ing to debian-user when replying to a question

2001-03-21 Thread Jim Richardson
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:53:13PM -0700, Jimmy Richards wrote: > Hi All, > > > There is something I have been confused/wondering about for some > time. I thought I once saw someone say in their reply that they > didn't need to Cc: to debian-user@lists.debian.org when replying to >

USB support in 2.4.2

2001-03-21 Thread David Wiener
I have the following problem with USB: http://www.dual-enforcers.net/www/984916629 Can anyone help me get USB working under linux? Dave W To the optimist, the glass is half full To the pessimist, the glass is half empty To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be

Re: Printing with dvips (print too close to top of page)

2001-03-21 Thread Jim McCloskey
Keith Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> I am using debian potato and am trying to print a document generated |> by latex. Problem is, the print starts right at the top of the page |> (no margin) and leaves a two inch margin at the bottom of the page |> (should be one). This kind of thing ca

Re: Beowulf cluster (was: parallel clusters of single cpu boxes)

2001-03-21 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya how about either or any of... beowulf... resonate... ( commercial prg and expensive ) valinux... round-robin-DNS forgot the other pkg... ..other cluster mangers ... - am insterested too in... - if system21 fails...( simulate it with

Re: Printing with dvips (print too close to top of page)

2001-03-21 Thread Keith Johnson
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:03:43PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:22:33PM -0800, Keith Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am using debian potato and am trying to print a document generated > > by latex. Problem is, the print starts right at

Re: Problems with talkd

2001-03-21 Thread Preben Randhol
"Eric G. Miller" wrote on 21/03/2001 (08:38) : > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:35:12PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > > "Eric G. Miller" wrote on 19/03/2001 (17:10) : > > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:44:44PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > > > > I cannot get talk to work _to_ my machine. When people

Problems with iomega zip 250

2001-03-21 Thread Corey Halpin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lately, when I mount a zip disk on my iomega zip250, I get this in syslog: Mar 21 01:33:15 hobbes kernel: hdb: The disk reports a capacity of 250640384 bytes, but the drive only handles 250609664 Mar 21 01

Re: Cc: ing to debian-user when replying to a question

2001-03-21 Thread Jimmy Richards
Greetings Jason, Jim, and Karsten, I appreciate and want to thank you for your responses. They certainly made me more knowledgeable about how to reply on this mailing list. All three of you said you use mutt. I have been using 'evolution' lately. It's very nice and I like it

OT: I do not get this! (Nude, FREE, Live AMATEURS!!!!!! (fwd))

2001-03-21 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I saw this message on the list, shocked as I am to see that it has been tried to send to different subdomain's on my domain. I maintain a mailserver (Postfix) and dns for the domain sacred-key.org. There are only a few email addresses on this server, which no one knows about except Debian ma

Re: OT: I do not get this! (Nude, FREE, Live AMATEURS!!!!!! (fwd))

2001-03-21 Thread Sebastiaan
Well, a couple of messages further, there was another message like this, with the same receipents. I feel ashamed, but no valid email address has been given. It makes no sense! On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > I saw this message on the list, shocked as I am to see that it has bee

Re: OT: C documentation

2001-03-21 Thread Sebastiaan
Hey, that is a cool trick. Thanks. On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Jason Majors wrote: > man 4 random > If you run 'man ' and it gives a different topic than the one you > wanted > look in the upper right corner for () you need to look in > higher > sections for the new topic > man > or whatever. > Run

Problems with DHCP.

2001-03-21 Thread Johan Groth
Hi everybody, I'm running woody on one box and sid on another. Both boxes experience problems with pump after about 20 min. On the woody box pump just quits and on the sid box pump hangs so I have to kill it and restart it. On the woody box I just have to start it again. This is very irritating as

Re: BitchX 1.0c18

2001-03-21 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > i know the debian maintainer, he is sooo busy i don't see how he finds > time to sleep. give it some time, and don't nag, he knows about it. Okido, I was just checking ;-) Actually, I've been able to use alien to convert an rpm to a deb, I only had to

Re: apt-server

2001-03-21 Thread Bernhard Wesely
Hi List, First I want to thank Colin Watson for his hints about dpkg-scanpackages and the apt-dev package. You are almost right with your guess Will. :-) You have to let dpkg-scanpackages create a "Packages" file. This file has to be gzipped and will be downloaded by apt-get to check wich package

Re: quick howto-command questions?

2001-03-21 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hello again tia, Sorry if I sounded a little short-tempered in my last reply. It is a little mind boggling. I did a touch .x.c and the following is the result... P3V4X:/usr/local/Temp/other# touch .x.c P3V4X:/usr/local/Temp/other# ls *.c one.c two.c P3V4X:/usr/local/Temp/other# ls .*c .c .x.c

Re: Problems with talkd

2001-03-21 Thread Preben Randhol
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 20/03/2001 (19:42) : > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:35:12PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > > [No connection yet] > > [Your party is refusing messages] > > > > If I use the talkd and talk from the stable distribution it claims I'm > > not logged on. >

Re: USB support in 2.4.2

2001-03-21 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hello Dave, I can try to help with the mouse. My computer has a VIA chipset. It's an 800 Mhz PIII like the one you mention on the web page. It has Asus P3V4X motherboard and I have a USB Microsoft Optical Intellimouse. There are 5 modules you need to have made in the in the kernel and then load be

Problem with gnome-terminal (was Re: Problems with talkd)

2001-03-21 Thread Preben Randhol
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 21/03/2001 (09:58) : > > I found the bug! It is gnome-terminal that bugs. When I run w I only get > up the terminals that are not gnome-terminals. Does anybody know why gnome-terminal don't show up when one type who? Does others have the same problem? M

Re: USB support in 2.4.2

2001-03-21 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hello Again Dave, I'm sorry, but I hadn't finished readng the whole page and did that just now. I guess I misunderstood the intent the question 'Can anyone help me get USB working under Linux?' without having finished readng the whole rant. Sorry 'bout that, Jimmy Richards

Re: FW: A fact & a problem

2001-03-21 Thread Victor
THANKS for the many suggestions Finally I made it The problem was that I didn't check the presence of rtl3189.o in /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net. I simply found it there. Then I tried two alternative succesfull solution: 1) in the file /etc/modules.conf I added a line "alias eth0 rtl8139" and,

Re: iptables and masquerading

2001-03-21 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:29:21AM -0500, Gregg C wrote: > >From: Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > John> but you should be aware that there are a number of issues > > John> with IIRC > > > >Such as? > > I'm sure the lists are archived and accessible via the web. information overload. not

Re: quick howto-command questions?

2001-03-21 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 04:19:07AM -, john smith wrote: > hi, > Let's say I have 3 files namely; one.c, two.c and a hidden .c file (.hid.c). > now I want to list them... the command > ls -al *.c shows only the two files and it doesn't show the third one... any > ideas? the command shell (bas

Re: Nude, FREE, Live AMATEURS!!!!!!

2001-03-21 Thread Arne Goetje
> If you read the headers you'll see it's coming from a yahoo web mail > account. Not from AOL. Then you should forward it including headers to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or where it came from... If you can see an ISP in the headers then forward it to postmaster or [EMAIL PROTECTED] In most cases they'l

Re: ip forwarding

2001-03-21 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 01:14:48AM -0500, Gregg C wrote: > What is the minimum I need to do to enable my gatway system to do NAT for my > local lan? It is a fresh 2.2 install. > > I'm reading the ipchains howto (among other things), so I can build a proper > firewall, which is a steep learning c

Re: 3com 3c905c question

2001-03-21 Thread Gilbert Laycock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [problems with 3C905C] Firstly the correct kernel module for the 3c905 is generally 3c59x. There is also a 3c90x kernel module written by 3com, but it is not part of the standard kernel, and does not have any particular benefits (unless you are using a really old kernel

Envelope-To header in Exim

2001-03-21 Thread Liam Ward
I'm thinking of turning on Exim's feature whereby it adds an Envelope-To header to indicate the local address that caused the delivery. I want to do this because I use several mail addresses and when someone sends me something (e.g. spam) using BCC, I want to know which address it was delivered to.

Re: Printing with dvips (print too close to top of page)

2001-03-21 Thread Andre Berger
* Keith Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010321 11:19 +0100: > > > I am using debian potato and am trying to print a document generated > > > by latex. Problem is, the print starts right at the top of the page > > > (no margin) and leaves a two inch margin at the bo

OT: Best PDA?

2001-03-21 Thread Jonathan Gift
Hi, I'm looking to make my debian more mobile by hooking up a PDA. Last I looked, the Palm OS dominated, only I didn't like learning its language. Is there anything else or is it worth learning after all? My primary use will be for making text notes. Or, let's say, adapting text notes made on the

Test. Disregard

2001-03-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Testing

Re: Nude, FREE, Live AMATEURS!!!!!!

2001-03-21 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 21-Mar-2001 Arne Goetje wrote: >> If you read the headers you'll see it's coming from a yahoo web mail >> account. Not from AOL. > > > Then you should forward it including headers to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or where it > came from... > If you can see an ISP in the headers then forward it to postma

kernel-package questioin

2001-03-21 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to build a custom kernel using kernel-package (to turn on framebuffer, DRT, and TV card support). Making the package seems to go OK, but when I try to install it I get: Script started on Wed Mar 21 06:37:13 2001 yogi:/home/stan/kernel_build# dpkg -i k*deb dpkg: regarding kernel-image-

RE: make Troubles.

2001-03-21 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 21-Mar-2001 Robert Mosher wrote: > I am trying to compile a driver for my sound blaster live, following this: > > http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/soundcards/sblive.html > > as a guide. > When entering the command 'make depend' I got this error: > > grep: /usr/src/linu

Xfree 4.0.2 + mga + Dualhead config...

2001-03-21 Thread Max Lock
Hi folks, Can anyone post me a working X4.0.2 XF86Config file, I've put mine below, trouble is, I can't get the second head recognised. In the server startup messages the first head initialises just fine then no mention of the second head. The card is a Matrox G400 Max. -Cheers Max -- Max L

Re: Printing with dvips (print too close to top of page)

2001-03-21 Thread Sebastiaan
Have you tried to set the paper size with dvips? dvips -t a4 foo.dvi -o foo.ps Does gv show no margins too? Greetz, Sebastiaan On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Andre Berger wrote: > * Keith Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010321 11:19 +0100: > > > > I am using debian potato and

1 linux box: 10 simultaneous telnet sessions

2001-03-21 Thread joe golden
I'm planning on teaching a short intro to perl unit in our middle school. I have one linux box running kernel 2.2.18pre21 on our windows NT 4.0 ethernet connected network of 9 machines. telnet version is 0.16-4potato.1 telnetd version is same Is it feasible to have eight telnet sessions, one

Re: Printing with dvips (print too close to top of page)

2001-03-21 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hallo Keith! > I have no idea where to even look for a solution. Is it in dvips, > latex, lprng, magicfilters, printcap? Try "texconfig" as root and set the offset in the dvips section. HTH juh -- Literaturnobelpreis für Kohl http://www.sudelbuch.de/2000/20001121.html

RE: 1 linux box: 10 simultaneous telnet sessions

2001-03-21 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Download TeraTerm Pro from any of it's many mirror's, support VT100 emulation etc. as well as an ssh implementation. Download @ http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html Download ssh plugin @ http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html (just for your information) Configure the needed termin

RE: 1 linux box: 10 simultaneous telnet sessions

2001-03-21 Thread Kuhar, Mike
Joe, 8 telnet sessions will cause no undo hardships on your system. Just make sure that the TERM variable is set correctly for the terminal emulation you're using. -mk > -Original Message- > From: Joris Lambrecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 7:15 AM > To:

Re: 1 linux box: 10 simultaneous telnet sessions

2001-03-21 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 21 March 2001 06:04, joe golden wrote: > Is it feasible to have eight telnet sessions, one from each > individual NT workstation, into the one linbox? For any modern PC hardware, eight simultaneous telnet sessions is an insignificant load. > I think telnet is not the most elegant

Re: pdf editor ?

2001-03-21 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Rich Renomeron wrote: > > The font support of ps2pdf can be fixed by upgrading to the latest > gs-aladdin in unstable (or any Ghostscript > 6.0). If you run Potato > (like me), you can always download the sources and compile it yourself. did you have troubles with ps files f

Re: 1 linux box: 10 simultaneous telnet sessions

2001-03-21 Thread Colin Watson
"joe golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm planning on teaching a short intro to perl unit in our middle school. > >I have one linux box running kernel 2.2.18pre21 on our windows NT 4.0 >ethernet connected network of 9 machines. telnet version is 0.16-4potato.1 >telnetd version is same > > >Is

Re: 1 linux box: 10 simultaneous telnet sessions

2001-03-21 Thread Colin Watson
Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wednesday 21 March 2001 06:04, joe golden wrote: >> I think telnet is not the most elegant at timesharing with this type >> of load. I'm not sure if it is designed for this (clunky) >> application. Any tips on optimizing the setup for this scenario? > >It

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Problem with printer Canon BJC 4300

2001-03-21 Thread Robert Voigt
Hi, this printer prints only funny patterns of dots that look like text, but it's definitely not what it's supposed to print. The ghostscript website says this printer is almost fully supportet with the bjc600 driver/input-filter (?). And it actually worked with that driver with suse 6.2. Now w

How do I get Linux?

2001-03-21 Thread Lee Baldwin
Hi everyone! I am running Windows '98 and I ahve got a pentium 333 processor. I really wanted to put Linux on my computer but I just can't seem to actually download it from anywhere. If anyone could give me some tips/run through on how to download Linux I would be very grateful! Thanks for y

Re: OT: Best PDA?

2001-03-21 Thread Andre Berger
* Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010321 12:20 +0100: > I'm looking to make my debian more mobile by hooking up a PDA. Last I > looked, the Palm OS dominated, only I didn't like learning its language. > Is there anything else or is it worth learning after all? My

RE: Problem with printer Canon BJC 4300

2001-03-21 Thread Joris Lambrecht
:-( Canon is NOT linux-friendly, they got me crying for hours when i found out my Brand new D660U scanner is and WILL not be supported by Linux because canon won't support such incredibly ludicrous software -Original Message- From: Robert Voigt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 21 m

Re: How do I get Linux?

2001-03-21 Thread Angel
Lee Baldwin wrote: > >Part 1.1Type: Plain Text (text/plain) >Encoding: quoted-printable ftp://ftp.debian.org/ or any mirror

Re: Keyboard not responding

2001-03-21 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:06:29PM -0500, Vadim Kutsyy wrote: > I have dual boot, and when I tried to login back to Debian, key board > doesn't respond. I can type selection in Lilo, and work in win2k, but as > soon as I am getting to gdm screen, I can not type anything, ctr-alt-del and > ctr-alt-

Could you give me more details?

2001-03-21 Thread Lee Baldwin
Hi, I have got Gozilla is it best to use it when downloading linux? Angel I can get on the ftp site but files do I need in that site?? This is all really confusing! Lee

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2001-03-21 Thread Lee Baldwin
What files do I need to download linux in the ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org or ftp://ftp.debian.org Please help someone!

RE: How do I get Linux?

2001-03-21 Thread Jason P. Holland
go to http://www.cheapbytes.com and buy a debian cd. they are cheap and very convenient if you don't have a high speed connection to do a network install over the internet. plus, if your new to linux, having a cd around to do a quick reinstall is always nice! ;) Jason -Original Message

RE: How do I get Linux?

2001-03-21 Thread Holp, John Mr.
Lee, I agree with Jason, look at the cheapbytes site, notice that there is more than one offering. They had one with a very large text/reference book that I wished I had purchased. I got both the source and the executable (6CD) set but the (3CD) set and the big book might be the way to go

Re: Could you give me more details?

2001-03-21 Thread Sebastiaan
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Lee Baldwin wrote: > Hi, > I have got Gozilla is it best to use it when downloading linux? > Angel I can get on the ftp site but files do I need in that site?? > This is all really confusing! > Lee > Go to the directory: debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386 That is where yo

Re: OT: Best PDA?

2001-03-21 Thread Jonathan Gift
Andre Berger wrote: > > I bought a Psion S5 second-hand a year ago. It has a keyboard, which is > very useful for taking notes, such as bibliography entries. Talking of > which, I write ASCII texts for LaTeX, same for the database (I use > "addressbook" on Linux). The database is rather poor but u

RE: Nautilus ?

2001-03-21 Thread Mullins, Ron
>From: Price, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >That said, I notice gnome 1.4 Release Candidate 1 just came out >(http://download.gnome.org/), there are only rpm packages & >source at the >mo', but debs should follow *fairly* quickly :) I would hope, but I was expecting Evolution .9 debs quickly

Re: ?

2001-03-21 Thread francisco m . neto
» Lee Baldwin disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > What files do I need to download linux in the > ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org > or > ftp://ftp.debian.org > Please help someone! Once logged in, go to pub/mirrors/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-1386/current/images-1.44 And download all the

Re: Nautilus ?

2001-03-21 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Mullins, Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would hope, but I was expecting Evolution .9 debs quickly > too. They have yet to show up on the old apt-get from the > spidermonkey server. Am I missing something? Hmm. I'm not sure, wether you can apt-get Evolution 0.9, but can easily install it vi

RE: Nautilus ?

2001-03-21 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Red Carpet, is that THE icon (soft install at a click is the promise) that doesn't get to work on any X/Ximian config i ever tried ? Why doesn't the linux community adopt something like a Linux Carpet that will work on all kinds of desktops/window managers ? -Original Message- From: Moritz

apt cache clean

2001-03-21 Thread Matthieu Paindavoine
Hello, I am a happy user of apt... and my cache is getting big. I notice that I pile up several versions of programs as newer ones become available. Is there a command to clean this up a little bit. Searched in apt-cache and apt-conf. I saw a Cache-Limit, but it's not exactly what I need. Thank yo

Re: Printing with dvips (print too close to top of page)

2001-03-21 Thread Richard C. Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, March 21, Jan Ulrich Hasecke did write: > Hallo Keith! > > > I have no idea where to even look for a solution. Is it in dvips, > > latex, lprng, magicfilters, printcap? > > Try "texconfig" as root and set the offset in the dvips section. This will fix the problem, yes. For he

RE: apt cache clean

2001-03-21 Thread Kuhar, Mike
Yes, Matthieu Try: apt-get autoclean This will remove all older package versions. -mk > -Original Message- > From: Matthieu Paindavoine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 11:23 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: apt cache clean > > > Hello, > > I

FW: rage128 not enough for tux racer?

2001-03-21 Thread Charles Lewis
BINGO! Changed to 16 bit and DRI is now enabled. However, tuxracer is still a slide show. :( Wonder if resolution has anything to do with it. Think I'll go check out tuxracer.com -- Charles Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:19:32 +110

Re: Keyboard not responding

2001-03-21 Thread Alexis Roda
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:06:29PM -0500, Vadim Kutsyy wrote: > I have dual boot, and when I tried to login back to Debian, key board > doesn't respond. I can type selection in Lilo, and work in win2k, but as > soon as I am getting to gdm screen, I can not type anything, ctr-alt-del and > ctr-alt-

Re: apt cache clean

2001-03-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I am a happy user of apt... and my cache is getting big. I > notice that I pile up several versions of programs as newer > ones become available. Is there a command to clean this > up a little bit. Searched in apt-cache and apt-conf. I saw > a Cache-Limit, but it's not exactly what I need. Look

Re: apt cache clean

2001-03-21 Thread Willi Dyck
'apt-get clean' deletes the whole cache and 'apt-get autoclean' deletes only the files from the cache which aren't downloadable anymore. See the manpage of apt-get for further information. On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:23:26AM +0100, Matthieu Paindavoine wrote: > Hello, > > I am a happy user of apt

RE: Getting to Gnome

2001-03-21 Thread Carlos Laviola
Try creating a ~ /.xinitrc with "gnome-session" inside of it. On 21-Mar-2001 Rick Commo wrote: > Time to go to the well (debian-user) again! > > A couple of weeks ago I decided that Debian would be my distro of choice. > It's been a struggle but a rewarding one so far. Had a "simple" install > t

RE: apt cache clean

2001-03-21 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 20-Mar-2001 Matthieu Paindavoine wrote: > Hello, > > I am a happy user of apt... and my cache is getting big. I notice that I > pile up several versions of programs as newer ones become available. Is > there a command to clean this up a little bit. Searched in apt-cache and > apt-conf. I saw a

Re: startx not passing options to server?

2001-03-21 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:04:37AM -0600, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > I recently downgraded from XFree 4 to 3.3.6 (the one in Potato). I also > > made sure to downgrade xbase-clients and xserver-svga (the server I'm > > using). Then, I recreated my XF86Config file. > >

RE: Problem with printer Canon BJC 4300

2001-03-21 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 21-Mar-2001 Joris Lambrecht wrote: >:-( Canon is NOT linux-friendly, they got me crying for hours when i found > out my Brand new D660U scanner is and WILL not be supported by Linux because > canon won't support such incredibly ludicrous software Ditto. I'm condemned to boot into window$ if i

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2001-03-21 Thread Judith Buff
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RE: Nautilus ?

2001-03-21 Thread Mullins, Ron
>From: Joris Lambrecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Why doesn't the >linux community adopt something like a Linux Carpet that will >work on all >kinds of desktops/window managers ? Sorry for the length, but... Well...I believe that despite our best efforts, money is still required to live. Sinc

Fint size vs X resolutin

2001-03-21 Thread Stan Brown
Alrigth, I have a basic misunderstanding somewhere. Font sizes are suposed to be in 1/72's of inches (points). Yet On my machine, even huge font sizes 20+ points are tiny! How are the sizes of the fints afected by the X resilutin, and how do I get it set up coreclty? I'm using Gnome with The Swa

Re: How do I get Linux?

2001-03-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
Try reading some of the following URLs: http://www.debian.org/doc/ http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/#new-inst http://www.newriders.com/debian/html/noframes/node1.html http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/installguide/ There's plenty of documentation available. Please read it before asking f

Re: color printing in magicfilter

2001-03-21 Thread tom
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 02:34:57PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am using magicfilter (from unstable) to print documents. However, it can > only print in black and white. I have a hp deskjet 855c and the current > driver I am using is deskjet because there are no specific driver fo

Re: OT: Best PDA?

2001-03-21 Thread ed-ferguson
If you are willing to work with a PDA that is still under development (e.g., you will have to flash new software), consider the Agenda VR3d (www.agendacomputing.com and dev.agendacomputing.com). I find it quite usable for note taking if I use the on-screen keyboard instead of the hand writing reco

Re: How do I get Linux?

2001-03-21 Thread Willi Dyck
Hi, how about this?: http://www.linuxiso.org/ ;-) MfG/Regards, Willi Dyck On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 01:39:20PM -, Lee Baldwin wrote: > Hi everyone! > I am running Windows '98 and I ahve got a pentium 333 processor. > I really wanted to put Linux on my computer but I just can't seem to actually

Re: Really easy FTP question

2001-03-21 Thread kmself
on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:22:45PM -0800, Matheson Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey, > > I have a *really* easy question about FTP. How do I > enable it? I'm pretty sure It's not enabled as I read > that it's insecure (I want to use oftpd eventually), > and it doesn't work. Is their a

Spam response tools (was Re: Nude, FREE, Live AMATEURS!!!!!!)

2001-03-21 Thread kmself
on Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:38:39AM -0300, Carlos Laviola ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On 21-Mar-2001 Arne Goetje wrote: > >> If you read the headers you'll see it's coming from a yahoo web mail > >> account. Not from AOL. Though the originating *relay* IP is from citilink, IIRC. I've deleted

THANK YOU!!

2001-03-21 Thread Lee Baldwin
Thanks to everyone for the tremendous response I've got in just a few hours, thanks for the help! I've only got a 56k modem and not a very fast connection. So I am emailing cheapbytes.com to see how much the shipping is in the U.K. and hopefully I'll be a member of the Linux community soon! T

Does anyone?

2001-03-21 Thread Lee Baldwin
Does anyone know why the files are .iso when you download them??

Re: THANK YOU!!

2001-03-21 Thread kmself
on Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 04:49:34PM -, Lee Baldwin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thanks to everyone for the tremendous response I've got in just a few > hours, thanks for the help! I've only got a 56k modem and not a very > fast connection. So I am emailing cheapbytes.com to see how much the > s

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