Re: wireless networking support?

2001-08-28 Thread Arno
| also, links to good networking\wireless networking linux sites and general | advice are appreciated. Take a look here: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/

Yet another apt/deselect question

2001-08-28 Thread Paul Mackinney
I keep getting the same pattern of behavior from apt and dselect, but I can't quite figure out what's happening. Can someone explain what's going on? I'm running Woody. When I apt-get update; apt-get install, I always get the following message: 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remo

Re: Yet another apt/deselect question

2001-08-28 Thread Martin Fluch
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Paul Mackinney wrote: > My questions are: > 1. Why do the unresolved dependancies prevent apt from > updating other packages that have nothing to do with these? apt-get will tell you why, if you force it to install it with apt-get install > 2. Why isn't smbfs

Re: OT: Collecting data in text files

2001-08-28 Thread Paul Huygen
Abner Gershon wrote: > [..] I thought I could record [textual] information [e.g. >restaurants, phone lists..] in text files using vim >and then use gawk and sed to access this data. >I currently collect lists of information on many >topics such as restaurants, phone lists, file folders, >slides

Re: Sound for regular user & 16bpp color.

2001-08-28 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
16bpp is somewhat easy. Become root Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config In the Screen section add the following line below the Monitor entry of the screen definition(s) you use: DefaultColorDepth 16 For more information man XF86Config Best regards Johnny :o) >At 05:29 PM 8/27/01 -0700, David Frischknec

Re: default relay in testing exim?

2001-08-28 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 06:42:02PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 01:10:47PM -0700, Ron Steinke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Is there some reason that the default install of exim > > in testing sets the option > > > > host_auth_accept_relay = * > > > > in its con

[davidj@web.de: Re: segfault in vi]

2001-08-28 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Forwarded by request... Cliff - Forwarded message from David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:49:08 +0200 To: Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: segfault in vi From: David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A night's sleep and a day's work out of sight of any

ghostscript

2001-08-28 Thread thomas anderson
Hi, are there any *significant* advantages to using gs-aladdin over gnu gs aside from the latter being a newer version? I have a deskjet855C hp printer using PDQ with using gnu gs but if there's an advantage to using gs-aladdin then I might switch to it... Thanks for any info Please CC me when r

Re: OT: vim syntax highlight on C program files only?

2001-08-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Just a thought and matter of taste, but... For file like *.c, I understand use of auto command to set some settings. But for editing mail, I thought activating proper vim mode by the MUA configuration file may be more straight forward. For example, my ~/.muttrc or /etc/Muttrc has followng: set e

`Installing crc compensation attack detector'

2001-08-28 Thread Johan Vervloet
Hello, I was just looking through my log files, and in my auth.log file, these kind of lines appear : Aug 27 22:51:04 pcinf24 sshd[12591]: debug: Installing crc compensation attack detector. I was wondering what it means... (I am using debian potato, with ssh-nonfree 1.2.27-6.1)

RE: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread William Leese
> -Original Message- > From: Slaven Peles > Sent: dinsdag 28 augustus 2001 6:50 > To: Rogério Brito; debian > Subject: Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension... > > > On Monday 27 August 2001 15:23, Rogério Brito wrote: > > On Aug 27 2001, Slaven Peles wrote: > > > Make sure what chipset your

Ealing/Acton ?

2001-08-28 Thread George
Hi guys, I know this is a longshot, but I was wondering if any of you guys live in the Ealing / Acton area . I'm looking for some cheap second hand base units, or components about 300 mhz. If you know anyone / got anything, drop me a mail. Bye for now George

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread David Nusinow
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 12:16 am, William Leese wrote: > Not that I use it though... because when i turn on anitaliasing in KDE only > the ugliest fonts seem to be available to all X applications. I'd rather > have everything in a good font (lucida, helvetica) than have to look at an > ugly one t

PHP

2001-08-28 Thread Andy Laurence
Hi all, Yet another problem regarding Apache modules. I've been asked to get PHP running for another user, so I duly installed PHP and its Apache modules. I don't know PHP, so I'm not sure whether there should be a line telling the server where PHP is located. It seems there should be (like in

Re: ext3 howto

2001-08-28 Thread John Foster
Wayne, Can you expand on "make menuconfig will not run very well..." I've never had any problems, just wondering what the issues are... or am I missing something very simple? John Wayne Topa wrote: > Subject: ext3 howto > Date: Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 11:16:28PM + > > In repl

RE: SIS5513 UDMA problem +Andre's IDE patches

2001-08-28 Thread Pascal THIVENT
OOPS, I didn't post this mail to the right list. Excuse me -Message d'origine- De: Pascal THIVENT A: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Date: 27/08/01 15:08 Objet: SIS5513 UDMA problem +Andre's IDE patches Hi all, first, excuse me for boring the entire list with this question that has (I thi

Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-28 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Arno (on Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:43:42AM -0700): > Now, when I press the right Alt + " then a, I get ä. how? all i get when i press Alt + " (which is Alt + Shift + ') is a double single quotation: ''. pressing the 'a' afterwards just yields ''a. this is after creating the .Xmodmap file an

simple q: what is fqdn?

2001-08-28 Thread michael young
howdy, I know fdqn is fully qualified domain name but what is it's "relevance"? esp. in apache...I want to setup an apache server in my local network (for practice :)) but I get an error telling me that apache can't find my fqdn and it uses my loopback address instead... is it possible to set

Re: vim syntax highlight on C program files only?

2001-08-28 Thread Calvin Chong
You need to tell vim that your terminal is white on black - it's defaulted to the opposite :-) A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas. - Original Message

Re: vim syntax highlight on C program files only?

2001-08-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 04:44:29PM +0800, Calvin Chong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > You need to tell vim that your terminal is white on black - it's defaulted > to the opposite :-) Ummany good way to do this? -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt

Re: ext3 howto

2001-08-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Wayne Topa wrote on Mon Aug 27, 2001 um 09:00:06PM: > > http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/ > > Might I suggest that you add something to Section 5. Get, Set, Go... You can get an precompiled kernel package with ext3 support from the Debian archive. debian/pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.2.19-

Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-28 Thread Arno
| how? | this is after creating the .Xmodmap file and reading it with xmodmap. | any clues? Maybe it isn't mapped on the Alt key (both Alt keys have different keycodes) ? And also this may not work at the bash prompt (something to do with 7/8 bits settings in ~/.inputrc, IIRC). Try to see wha

Re: vim syntax highlight on C program files only?

2001-08-28 Thread Calvin Chong
set background=dark syntax on -- A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas. - Original Message - From: "Karsten M. Self" To: "debian-user" Sent: Tue

Woody Stable Release

2001-08-28 Thread Nathan Goss
Hello,   Is there any talk of a release date for Woody, as a stable distribution?   Cheers,   Nathan Goss

Re: Fw: Re: Sid Newbie - some questions

2001-08-28 Thread Timeboy
On Monday Aug 27, 23:48 Ross Burton wrote: >I'm glad I've got the correct list! > >You Debian guys are a lot more friendly than the RedHat/Mandrake >posse... :-) Yes this can be possible. If i made my first experiences with Linux, i used a german newsgroup. Most of people there used Suse. And it

Re: Fw: Re: Sid Newbie - some questions

2001-08-28 Thread David Nusinow
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 04:30 am, Timeboy wrote: > And i agree with you. This is the friendliest newsgroup that i know. > Try the KDE newsgroups. I haven't found anything friendlier. The Debian ones are pretty good too, but especially among the developers over there, there just aren't the mass

XFree86 4.1.0 with Potato

2001-08-28 Thread Andrew Nesbit
hi ho... I will be installing Debian 2.2r3 (Potato) for the first time soon, but as I understand, it comes with XFree86 3.3.6. The problem is that I really need XFree86 4.1.0 (due to my NVidia GeForce2 MX). What's my best plan of attack? Should I install the base Potato system, and then just insta

Re: Woody Stable Release

2001-08-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:22:38PM +1000, Nathan Goss wrote: > Is there any talk of a release date for Woody, as a stable distribution? Not yet. We're currently about finished with getting all the release-critical bugs out of the base system and are moving on to standard-priority packages. Given t

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 with Potato

2001-08-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:47:53PM +1000, Andrew Nesbit wrote: > hi ho... I will be installing Debian 2.2r3 (Potato) for the first time > soon, but as I understand, it comes with XFree86 3.3.6. The problem is > that I really need XFree86 4.1.0 (due to my NVidia GeForce2 MX). > > What's my best pla

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 with Potato

2001-08-28 Thread Johnny Morano
hi, i have an geforce2 mx as well, running potato, the nvidia_kernel and nvidia_glx, xfree 4.0.3 and believe me, unrealtournament at 1280x1024 at 32bits is f&^%$ng sweet ;-) so, 4.1.0 is not mandatory, BUT since the 2.4.8-acsomething there are some new implementations of DRI in the kernel, whic

IBM P/2 MCA BUS

2001-08-28 Thread Joanne & Dave
Hello and good day to you I Have an old P/2 486 scsi system MCA BUS which version can I use ? Thanks Dave

Re: Winning Confirmation ..

2001-08-28 Thread PHILIPS4034
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Re: IBM P/2 MCA BUS

2001-08-28 Thread Calvin Chong
A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas. - Original Message - From: "Joanne & Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 6:22 PM Su

Re: Copying audio CDs on Debian

2001-08-28 Thread Davor Balder
Hello all, Thanks to fellow Debian users who replied to my post on Copying Audio CD's on Debian... Obviously there are several ways and it is easier to do this task in command-line than in GUI; at least that was my experience... The easiest way to perform the trick was to: #cdparanoia -s -B

Balsa hangs by sending mails

2001-08-28 Thread Timeboy
Hi! Yesterday i tried balsa 1.1.7-3 from Sid. It looks great: I can receive mails and also all other things may be working great. But if i try to send a mail balsa hangs. There is no error message and no other information about this on console. There is only one thing i don't know, which could

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 with Potato

2001-08-28 Thread Timeboy
On Tuesday Aug 28, 11:47 Andrew Nesbit wrote: >hi ho... I will be installing Debian 2.2r3 (Potato) for the first time soon, >but as I understand, it comes with XFree86 3.3.6. The problem is that I >really need XFree86 4.1.0 (due to my NVidia GeForce2 MX). > >What's my best plan of attack? Should I

Re: Woody Stable Release

2001-08-28 Thread Timeboy
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 19:22:38 +1000, Nathan Goss wrote: > ** Hello, > ** > ** Is there any talk of a release date for Woody, as a stable distribution? Some time ago i've heard that woody will become stable at september or october 2001. But it's possible, that we have to wait till next year. It'

Re: kernel 2.4.x

2001-08-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Akintayo Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Oren Gozlan wrote: > >> any info about kernel 2.4.x ? >> any one have tried it ? >> >> THNX >> >Yes, I tried it with testing and it messed up my modem config, it also does >not > >allow my local filesystems to unmount

Re: simple q: what is fqdn?

2001-08-28 Thread Mark Lamers
On di, 2001-08-28 at 10:17, michael young wrote: > howdy, > > I know fdqn is fully qualified domain name but what is it's "relevance"? > esp. in apache...I want to setup an apache server in my local network (for > practice :)) but I get an error telling me that apache can't find my fqdn and >

Re: PHP

2001-08-28 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello Andy, On Tuesday, August 28, 2001 at 9:45:30 AM, you wrote (at least in part): > Hi all, > Yet another problem regarding Apache modules. I've been asked to get PHP > running for another user, so I duly installed PHP and its Apache modules. I

php4/php4-pgsql

2001-08-28 Thread Martin F Krafft
hi folks, i just upgraded a host that's supposed to be a new internet application server to woody, running apache and wanting to run php4 with pgsql module to link into our postgres 7 database. however, the update fails as woody's php4 package is version 3:4.0.5-2 but php4-pqsql's depends line sa

Re: [maybe OT] Liveice: anyone knows where it defaults for the config file?

2001-08-28 Thread Hamma Scott
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've ran liveice before as a tarball, and now I'm > glad that debian had included it. I'm just wondering > where does this version reads its default config > because it says it reads one in /etc/liveice.cfg, so > I copied one there, but it doesn't read it still... >

Gündem

2001-08-28 Thread Sagduyu.Net
 Sagduyu.Net  Çöküşle gelen beyin göçü... www.sagduyu.net Mektup listemizden çıkmak için tıklayın.

Re: OT: vim syntax highlight on C program files only?

2001-08-28 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Just a thought and matter of taste, but... You may also embed commands near the start of your file: :vi set tabstops=4 showmatch: This has the dwindling advantage of working with most of the vi clones. rob Live the dream.

Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
I ran the code below, and verified it was there with xmodmap -pm and xmodmap -pke. In the bash shell, right Alt - " - A just returns to the beginning of the line; in vi it's \xe4; in emacs it's nothing at all. However interestingly enough, in pico (the pine editor) it works great! Can someo

Re: ghostscript

2001-08-28 Thread Alan Shutko
thomas anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > are there any *significant* advantages to using gs-aladdin over gnu gs aside > from the latter being a newer version? The version(s) of gs-aladdin in Debian is considerably better at making PDF files than the gnu gs in Debian. For printing on HPs, it

Problem installing sis900.o on Potato

2001-08-28 Thread Chan Siu On
Hi all, I have a SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter installed on my computer but I have no idea how to install the module properly. I am using Debian Potato 2.2r3 with kernel 2.2.19pre17. When I select sis900 module from "modconf"->"net", insmod complains that the selected device or resource

Linux LDAP problem

2001-08-28 Thread Sunny Dubey
Hey, I've got a slight problem, at school we run two major networks, one half is Novell Netware based, and the other half is unix based. We basically one centralized system of authentication, so that user don't have to remember two different passwords to use either system. We been trying to

Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
The keyboard maps don't work on my system; alt-v just gives me v, etc. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hal

Re: Yet another apt/deselect question

2001-08-28 Thread David Roundy
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:54:24AM +0300, Martin Fluch wrote: > > > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > > My questions are: > > 1. Why do the unresolved dependancies prevent apt from > > updating other packages that have nothing to do with these? > > apt-get will tell you why, if

Re: talk under X

2001-08-28 Thread James D Strandboge
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:38:32AM +0200 or thereabouts, Christian Jaeger wrote: > Hello > > How to setup [y]talk[d] so that one gets talk requests under X? Using > gnome-terminal I just don't get the request message. I've tried xitalk > (potato) but for some reason it doesn't work, and/or I don

Re: Problem installing sis900.o on Potato

2001-08-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Chan Siu On wrote on Tue Aug 28, 2001 um 01:44:50PM: > I have a SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter installed on my computer > but I have no idea how to install the module properly. Beware, this is an ugly low-cost card. > may not be configured properly. I try to add "io=0xcc00 irq=05"

console kbd layout is wrong, what's the new kbd command??

2001-08-28 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! my coonsole is wrongly configured, there are lots of key missing (i have a german kbd and some keys as 'ß' etc are missing) years ago when i messed around with kbd cosnole layouts there was a kbd command, that command seems to have disappeared foudn out that the stuff is somehow reg

Re: ext3 howto

2001-08-28 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Wayne Topa saw fit to inform me that: > Subject: ext3 howto > Date: Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 11:16:28PM + > >In reply to:Rajesh Fowkar > >Quoting Rajesh Fowkar([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> Hi, >> >> I have posted a mini-howto from my experiences in converting from ext2 to >> ext3 file syste

Re: ext3 howto

2001-08-28 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Raghavendra Bhat saw fit to inform me that: >[Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:49:46AM +] Rajesh Fowkar : > >> Hall Stevenson saw fit to inform me that: >> >You want to make sure that copying and pasting *most* >> >of your HOWTO from this page >> If this has hurt somebody than I apologise. >> > >No,

Linksys EtherFast 10/100 v5 has no IRQ

2001-08-28 Thread bedlam
In my ongoing effort to put a second NIC in my computer I have purchased a new NIC, an EtherFast 10/100 version 5. However, Linux or my box doesn't see the NIC enough to give it an IRQ number. Everything else seems in order when I pull up cat /proc/pci, except there is no IRQ number... I'm tr

Re: simple database recommendations?

2001-08-28 Thread James D Strandboge
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 08:03:36PM + or thereabouts, joe golden wrote: Another option is postgresql with pgaccess. -- "The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it." -- Author unknown Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem installing sis900.o on Potato

2001-08-28 Thread Chan Siu On
Right, PCI is plug-and-play, no manuall options to set. And where do you have this options from? After I typed "modconf", selected "net" and "sis900", modconf asked me to enter any command line arguments for sis900 module. It also said that most devices can be autoprobed. Why not include th

Re: console kbd layout is wrong, what's the new kbd command??

2001-08-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Bruno Boettcher wrote on Tue Aug 28, 2001 um 04:15:42PM: > command, that command seems to have disappeared foudn out that the > stuff is somehow regulated by console-tools, but couldn't find out how > to customize that stuff dpkg-reconfigure console-data -tools and -common must

Sys Admin guide specific to Debian?

2001-08-28 Thread Steve Dondley
I'm a Linux beginner with Debian installed. I'm looking for a beginner's guide to System Administration and I'm wondering if there might not be one particular to Debian. If not, can someone point me in the direction of a good generic SysAdmin guide? Thanks.

Re: Problem installing sis900.o on Potato

2001-08-28 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 2:44 pm, Chan Siu On wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter installed on my computer but I > have no idea how to install the module properly. > I am using Debian Potato 2.2r3 with kernel 2.2.19pre17. When I select > sis900 module from "modconf"

Re: Sid Newbie - some questions

2001-08-28 Thread Scott_Patterson
>4. Okay - trouble-shooting time. When I start X if works fine for about >2 minutes, then the mouse jerks for a few seconds before locking up. >Any idea why this is? GPM is the culprit. This process allows you to cut and paste in console mode. The repeater or something like that is setup inco

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 with Potato

2001-08-28 Thread Andrew Nesbit
> i have an geforce2 mx as well, running potato, the nvidia_kernel and > nvidia_glx, xfree 4.0.3 and believe me, unrealtournament at 1280x1024 at > 32bits is f&^%$ng sweet ;-) > so, 4.1.0 is not mandatory, BUT since the 2.4.8-acsomething there are some > new implementations of DRI in the kernel, wh

Re: Gündem

2001-08-28 Thread JakeCatfox
What? -- Deven

Re: devfsd + xconsole

2001-08-28 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 06:45:35PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: | On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:58:18AM +0200, Eamon Roque wrote: | > Hi! | > | > Is there anything special that one has to do to get xconsole working | > with devfs? I have the newest devfsd from unstable, but xconsole just | > doesn't

Re: Using a MTA

2001-08-28 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 08:15:16PM -0700, Steven Farrier wrote: | I am using a Debian Linux computer which does not have its own domain, is | behind a DSL connection and has a few users. | | Would a MTA be useful to me? Yes, as Karsten said. A full-blown MTA such as exim, sendmail, postfix, etc

Re: Problem installing sis900.o on Potato

2001-08-28 Thread Chan Siu On
I had a similar experience trying to set up a Clevo 2700C. There are several versions of the sis900.o module floating around, and the only ones that work are the 2.4.x kernel ones. As far as I can tell for many 900s the old module does not work properly, and the new module is 2.4 only. D

Re: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 v5 has no IRQ

2001-08-28 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:07:44AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | In my ongoing effort to put a second NIC in my computer I have | purchased a new NIC, an EtherFast 10/100 version 5. However, Linux | or my box doesn't see the NIC enough to give it an IRQ number. | Everything else seems in order

An MP3 player

2001-08-28 Thread David Frischknecht
Hello, Does anyone know where I can get a free MP3 player prepackaged into a .deb file?  Thanks.David A. Frischknechthttp://www.fishnetonline.freeurl.comDo You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $0.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger.

Re: An MP3 player

2001-08-28 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:59:04AM -0700, David Frischknecht wrote: | | Hello, | | Does anyone know where I can get a free MP3 player prepackaged into | a .deb file? Thanks. xmms

Re: OT: vim syntax highlight on C program files only?

2001-08-28 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 06:26:41PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | I'm starting to play with C a bit. Discovering some nice things in vim. | | I know that there's an 'au' and 'augroup' commands, and that a number of | vim settings can be configured using these. I'm not sure what current | settin

Re: Yet another apt/deselect question

2001-08-28 Thread Paul Mackinney
David Roundy muttered: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:54:24AM +0300, Martin Fluch wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > > > > My questions are: > > > 1. Why do the unresolved dependancies prevent apt from > > > updating other packages that have nothing to do with

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-08-28 Thread Harold Bibik
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:29:04PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled > Alright. Now I am down to thinking progeny would be the best to nab. But > here is what I don't know yet... > > Are the downloads upgrades free from their servers? > Does anyone have any experience upg

Re: Problem installing sis900.o on Potato

2001-08-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Chan Siu On wrote on Tue Aug 28, 2001 um 02:19:42PM: > After I typed "modconf", selected "net" and "sis900", modconf asked me to > enter any command line arguments for sis900 module. It also said that most > devices can be autoprobed. Exactly. Load without parameters. > Bus 0, devi

Re: An MP3 player

2001-08-28 Thread Danie Roux
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:59:04AM -0700, David Frischknecht wrote: > > Hello, > > Does anyone know where I can get a free MP3 player prepackaged into a .deb > file? Thanks. XMMS is very good. Plus is uses Winamp skins! -- Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix

Change colums and rows.

2001-08-28 Thread F Zimmermann
hello a have a little problem. I scanned a DNA sequence and the OCR software changed colums and rows. So instead of aa bb cc aa bb cc I got this aa aa bb bb cc cc How can I change them back into the r

Re: An MP3 player

2001-08-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:59:04AM -0700, David Frischknecht wrote: > > Hello, > > Does anyone know where I can get a free MP3 player prepackaged into a > .deb file? Thanks. apt-get install mpg123

Re: OT: Collecting data in text files

2001-08-28 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Abner Gershon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I currently collect lists of information on many > topics such as restaurants, phone lists, file folders, > slides using a database program, Lotus approach. Since > I am the only user of this information I thought I > could record this information in tex

a news reader able to extract correctly the stuff of a.b.* groups?

2001-08-28 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! i am experiencing some problems with my favourite newsreader (trn) to extract archives from alt.binary groups. in fact if the order isn't exactly matched or if by some means another archive begiinning crosses the actual decompression process and the whole thing vanishes in the void

Re: Problem installing sis900.o on Potato

2001-08-28 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 3:55 pm, Chan Siu On wrote: > >I had a similar experience trying to set up a Clevo 2700C. There are > > several > > >versions of the sis900.o module floating around, and the only ones that > > work > > >are the 2.4.x kernel ones. As far as I can tell for many 900s the ol

Re: An MP3 player

2001-08-28 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 16:59, David Frischknecht spoke wisely: > Hello, > > Does anyone know where I can get a free MP3 player prepackaged into a .deb > file? Thanks. > > > > David A. Frischknecht > http://www.fishnetonline.freeurl.com > > > > - > Do You Yahoo!?

Re: An MP3 player

2001-08-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:59:04AM -0700, David Frischknecht wrote: > Does anyone know where I can get a free MP3 player prepackaged into a .deb > file? Thanks. $ apt-cache search "mpeg layer.*3" | grep play xmms - Versatile X audio player that looks like Winamp mpg123 - MPEG layer 1/2/3 audio p

Re: An MP3 player

2001-08-28 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, David Frischknecht wrote: > > Hello, > > Does anyone know where I can get a free MP3 player prepackaged into a .deb > file? Thanks. mpg123 (with gmp3 for graphical interface) mp3blaster (you can even chroot people to your mp3 directory. Heh, i just found a bug in that, i

Samba over the Internet

2001-08-28 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi all.. I should probably contact the Samba list but I thought I would ask the debianers first. I would like to be able to get access to my samba share from any where in the world. >From some readings, it looks like I have to add "wins support = yes" to my smb.conf, and then setup my win98 box s

Re: a news reader able to extract correctly the stuff of a.b.* groups?

2001-08-28 Thread Calvin Chong
A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas. - Original Message - From: "Bruno Boettcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 11:42 PM

Re: mod-ssl vs apache-ssl

2001-08-28 Thread Angus D Madden
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 01:18:03PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > A little while ago, Hans (obviously from Northern Germany--moin > moin!) asked whether it was "better" to use mod-ssl or apache-ssl. > That question wasn't really answered. > > Are there any advantages of apache-ssl over apache

RE: PHP

2001-08-28 Thread Andy Laurence
> How did you set up PHP??? using dselect, I installed PHP and apache-php. > First you tell you installed Apache-modules, second you're > writing about 'sent > to PHP' & 'Error 500'. > The second point looks like you could find the error in > error-logs of Apache I'm not sure where they are. At

Re: Problem installing sis900.o on Potato

2001-08-28 Thread Chan Siu On
> Do you mean I have to install 2.4.x kernel and download the latest sis900 > module? 2.2.15 and later kernel seems to support sis900. But I will upgrade > my system anyway - I don't have any better idea. > No, I mean use the one that ships with 2.4 and you will have no difficulty. At least

Re: LaserJet 2100TN

2001-08-28 Thread francisco m neto
» Alan Shutko disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > francisco m neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm having some problems printing to a HP LaserJet 2100TN. I'm using > > lprng, and a copy of my printcap is below. What am I doing wrong? > > > :rm=143.107.10.252:\ > > :rp=HPSI:\ > > Is that right?

Re: Linksys EtherFast 10/100 v5 has no IRQ

2001-08-28 Thread John Patton
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:07:44AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In my ongoing effort to put a second NIC in my computer I have purchased a > new NIC, an EtherFast 10/100 version 5. However, Linux or my box doesn't see > the NIC enough to give it an IRQ number. Everything else seems in orde

OT: Professional Organizations

2001-08-28 Thread burningclown
Hi, all - I've considered joining USENIX for some time now but would be interested in knowing what others think of the benefits of such membership(s). ... and there are -other- orgs around, too, like ACM. Thoughts? Glenn Becker ++ http://www.burningclown.com "Everyone's Portal

Options passed to ./configure for the official debian packages

2001-08-28 Thread Francois Fayard
Hello, I would like to know where to find wich options where passed to ./configure before the compilation of Debian packages (Especially for gcc). Thanks Francois

Re: An MP3 player

2001-08-28 Thread D. Hoyem
Do a apt-get install xmms after the install you need to alow the user to use it, I do su, password then adduser audio. Of cource I'm on a one person system, so I'm not worried about the security. --- David Frischknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Does anyone know where I can get a

Re: a news reader able to extract correctly the stuff of a.b.* groups?

2001-08-28 Thread Danie Roux
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 05:42:58PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello! > i am experiencing some problems with my favourite newsreader (trn) to > extract archives from alt.binary groups. > > in fact if the order isn't exactly matched or if by some means another > archive begiinning crosses t

Re: IBM P/2 MCA BUS

2001-08-28 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 06:22:18AM -0400, Joanne & Dave wrote: > > I Have an old P/2 486 scsi system MCA BUS > > which version can I use ? I'm not sure which version of what, but MCA and SCSI are both supported since (at least) the 1.2.x kernel. Any version of Linux from the last 5 years should

Re: Sys Admin guide specific to Debian?

2001-08-28 Thread Larry Holish
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:34:49AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > I'm a Linux beginner with Debian installed. I'm looking for a beginner's > guide to System Administration and I'm wondering if there might not be one > particular to Debian. If not, can someone point me in the direction of a > good

woody: segfaulting all over the place

2001-08-28 Thread Frank Preut
hello friends, i recently did a fresh install of potato and immediately dist-upgraded to woody.. now, after playing around with it for a few days and installing the stuff i wanted i have this strange windows like problem: after i've been working on the computer (or after it has just been si

Re: Options passed to ./configure for the official debian packages

2001-08-28 Thread Calvin Chong
A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas. - Original Message - From: "Francois Fayard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 11:54 PM

Re: An MP3 player

2001-08-28 Thread John Toon
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 4:07 pm, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:59:04AM -0700, David Frischknecht wrote: > > Does anyone know where I can get a free MP3 player prepackaged into a > > .deb file? Thanks. > > $ apt-cache search "mpeg layer.*3" | grep play > xmms - Versatile X au

PHP4 compilation problem

2001-08-28 Thread Francois Thomas
Hello list I'm trying to compile PHP4.06 on a Potato machine. In fact, I got it working, but now I want to add imap support. The configure script works well and gives me no warning. But when I 'make', I have this error: make[1]: Entre dans le répertoire `/usr/local/src/php-4.0.6' /bin/sh /usr/lo

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