xargs bug? 1024 arguments at most?

2001-12-01 Thread Alec
Hi I don't know if this is POSIX-compliant behaviour or a bug, but xargs can only pass 1024 arguments. Alec _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2001-12-01 Thread David Wright
Hi, I want to benchmark my desktop system running in Linux (Gnome, XF86 v3.x, 2.4.5 kernel) against itself running Win98se. Is there a benchmark program that will work in both enviornments to give me an accurate benchmark? No, of course not. Different systems do different things well and poor

Is there a way to get older packages?

2001-12-01 Thread jennyw
For example, I'd like to install an older version of php (the current one in Woody, which I'm using, is 4.0.100 which reports itself as being 4.1.0rc2). Or do I need to download the source and build? Thanks! Jen

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2001-12-01 Thread JakeCatfox
I really don't need the preaching. I wanted a straight answer. It's a perfectly legitimate question to want to know if one thing performs better than another, and if so, in what areas, and by how much. Human senses are inaccurate to judge things such as this at times, especially if differences

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2001-12-01 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > That was not a very helpful answer at all. It's as bad as RTFM. RTFM is good answer, even more so when it includes info on which FM to R. sorry, I don't know any comprehensive benchmarks... depending on what you want to test quake might be useful. erik

Re: [p: X configuration on woody]

2001-12-01 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Daniel Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check out: > >http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/Install3.html#5 > > and, in particular, section "3.2. After the installation is complete" > > Regards, > > Dan In addition to these methods, you have a fourth method in Debian...dpkg-reconfigure. The co

XF86Config-4 from XF86Config ?

2001-12-01 Thread Alec
Hi Is there a utility that converts XF86Config into XF86Config-4? Thanks Alec _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2001-12-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 01:41:33AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I really don't need the preaching. I wanted a straight answer. It's a > perfectly legitimate question to want to know if one thing performs better > than another, and if so, in what areas, and by how much. Human senses are > in

Re: XF86Config-4 from XF86Config ?

2001-12-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Alec wrote: > Hi > > Is there a utility that converts XF86Config into XF86Config-4? > its not quite the same... but you can use Xconfigurator... works nicely if your svga card and monitor is its db ( 1 minute and you're done ) c ya alvin

Re: SUCCESS!!!!!! got the mail combo working!!!!!

2001-12-01 Thread cmasters
Greetings dman On 01-11-30, dman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:38:57PM -0400, cmasters wrote: ... snip a few bits ... > > Hmm, interesting. Do you have gads of stuff in > /var/spool/mail/ ? That would also explain why stuff that > wasn't directed at your username were lost -- there was

Re: Thoughts on RTFM

2001-12-01 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
> No-one, on any > list, is going to attempt to answer a question like: "I just bought > a CD and my computer won't read it. What's wrong?" Um, I see that particular question on and off on different lists. So you better think again sir. > Tell me, [list], how would you phrase such a question so t

question about font in gtk

2001-12-01 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, Sorry if this is too simple, how can I tell all program that its GUI based on gtk using the 75dpi font for its menu etc..; At the moment if 100dpi available it uses. I have to comment out in XFreeconfig-4 but I am sure it is not the correct ways :-) it must have some configuration file somew

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2001-12-01 Thread David Wright
I really don't need the preaching. I wanted a straight answer. Au contraire. You got a rather information-packed answer that is as straight as possible, dosed up with a bit of good-natured joshing. You now know: Process-cyclingUnix Threads manipulation Windows FP Arithmet

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2001-12-01 Thread tabanna
Jake Catfox asked ~ > a benchmark cross-platform between Mac and PC. So why not Windows and Linux? ~ some say, that, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] "work-unit" is a great cross-platform measure. The SETI web pages have some interesting Stats on CPUs/ Operating Systems ~ there are Links to {if I recall

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2001-12-01 Thread nate
> Hi, I want to benchmark my desktop system running in Linux (Gnome, > XF86 v3.x, 2.4.5 kernel) against itself running Win98se. Is there > a benchmark program that will work in both enviornments to give me > an accurate benchmark? > not really. the 2 systems are so totally different it will var

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2001-12-01 Thread nate
> I really don't need the preaching. I wanted a straight answer. It's > a perfectly legitimate question to want to know if one thing > performs better than another, and if so, in what areas, and by how > much. Human senses are inaccurate to judge things such as this at > times, especially if di

Re: xargs bug? 1024 arguments at most?

2001-12-01 Thread nate
> Hi > > I don't know if this is POSIX-compliant behaviour or a bug, but > xargs can only pass 1024 arguments. have you tried these options? --max-chars=max-chars, -s max-chars Use at most max-chars characters per command line, including the command and init

Re: inetd vs xinetd

2001-12-01 Thread nate
> Does your /etc/init.d/xinetd not have the following? > You shouldn't have to modify it at all; just use > /etc/init.d/xinetd reload hmm seems to work. i coulda sworn ive tried it several times in the past and it did not work thanks nate

Extended partition problem on dual Linux/Win98

2001-12-01 Thread Somchai LIMSIRORATANA
Dear sir, I losted my data when I install Linux with Windows 98. It occure, because Debian installation create the Extended partition instead Linux Extended partition. I have 2 harddisk, 1st for OS and 2nd for data. I had 2 OS in the 1st one, Win98 Thai and Win98 Japanese. When I install De

large mailing lists with mailman

2001-12-01 Thread nate
most of my mailing lists are small (10 or less people, a couple have 100-200 on it) couple days ago i added a new list with 2,723 people on it. i have email notifications on for when users are subscribed and unsubscribed. all users were subscribed within a couple minutes. however its taken(taking

Re: Yahoo messenger

2001-12-01 Thread Bill Wohler
Titty Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use yahoo messenger for x. Guess I should have been more specific. I already have Yahoo! Messenger; I was looking for the most popular Debian package. So far, it appears to be gaim. Anyone else want to submit a vote? -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: WYSIWYG Html editor recomendation...

2001-12-01 Thread Thomas Halahan
I have tried 'amaya' which is open surce from the w3 organisation. its' well featured and also makes very nice looking HTML at the back end. However there is not ability to refresh if you change outside the editor (like in emacs) which I find a bit annoying. I have also used the mozilla co

Re: failed to connect to localhost

2001-12-01 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, 2.2r4 ships with 2.2.19 as the default kernel version, but I d/l the 2.4.16 source tarball and compile it. As yet, everything is just ok under 2.4.16, but I failed to connect to localhost, which is so weird to me. Did I miss something? -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-12-01 Thread Ian Balchin
Right, I have got my 'new' external Microcom 28.8 modem and will be using tasksel this weekend to install appropriate packages for email and usenet activity. Definitely not a winmodem! Hold thumbs. Regards Ian Ian Balchin -

Organize bookmarks automatically

2001-12-01 Thread op
Hi. Constantly switching between mozilla, konqueror, galeon I've found myself in bookmark-hell. When searching for a remedy I tried out bk2site. It'll take just about any format bookmarkfile, and turn it into a tree of html pages and make it searchable with a cgi script. Not to bad at all. But

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

2001-12-01 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Dell Latitude CPi D300XT 128MB Ram PII 300Mhz > > lilo.conf > > vga=1 > append="apm=on" > default=Linux22 > > # kernel 2.4.12 > image=/vmlinuz > initrd=/boot/initrd > label=LinuxNew > read-only > > # kernel 2.4.10 > image=/vmlinuz.old > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.10-686 >

Re: XMMS and Galeon (with Flash) at the same time?

2001-12-01 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Preben Randhol, > My little sister is complaining that Galeon doesn't work. I found the > problem to be that she is playing music with XMMS and entering pages > that uses flash animation, galeon will hang because flash won't accept > that it cannot get /dev/dsp. > > I was wondering if someb

Re: qmail-src

2001-12-01 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED], > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:28:15PM +0100, MH wrote: > > > > 2) But the debian package is quiet OK and you avoid the hassle of > >fulfilling mta-dependencies otherwise. > > I let Deban install exim, and then disabled it from running. You're better of install the eq

Re: serious trouble with exim and procmail

2001-12-01 Thread Alex Suzuki
> It says that \246/usr/bin/procmail wasn't found. That's the problem. > Now the question becomes, why was it looking for that?, what is that > \246 character doing? Usually if there is not a preceding '0' the > number is decimal, otherwise octal. That character, in latin1, is an > umluat (an 'o

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2001-12-01 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED], > Hi, I want to benchmark my desktop system running in Linux (Gnome, XF86 v3.x, > 2.4.5 kernel) against itself running Win98se. Is there a benchmark program > that will work in both enviornments to give me an accurate benchmark? Quake 3 Arena. Of course, it might not t

make mutt open folders with threads collapsed

2001-12-01 Thread Stig Brautaset
Hi there list, Is there a way to make mutt open a folder with the message threads collapsed (a way similar to that of slrn would be nice) and, if possible, not show threads with new messages at all unless I request it? (I know gnus has this behaviur, and I got really addicted to it...) I have sea

Re: Thoughts on RTFM

2001-12-01 Thread Tom Allison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I really don't want to single out Viktor Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED], > but his opinion is the pearl seed for a particular observation. > Simultaneously, it represents the "rational" voice of most people > who try to carry the stone, and is astonishingly wide of the

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-12-01 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Sam, Dez 01, 2001 at 03:32:51 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sounds as though I may need a little more knowledge than I currently > have. But on the other hand, if I do go down this path of installing > and configuring LIDS and manage to get it to work then I will have > learnt LOTS about a

Re: SUCCESS!!!!!! got the mail combo working!!!!!

2001-12-01 Thread Glyn Millington
Just a thought - if you are actually trying to read those huge quantities of email, and if you don't mind using emacs (or Xemacs) it might be worth having a look at Gnus sometime. It treats mail like news, and when you have such quantities to handle that can be very useful indeed ;-) Not easy to

sysvinit ? caused this

2001-12-01 Thread Shawn Lamson
i did an apt-get upgrade and wound up with a new sysvinit sysvinit 2.84-1 now when i boot i get the errror: /et/init.d/rc 2: :command not found and then a login with nothing running but basic system daemons (at least ihave those!)... i can start everything manuall in rc2.d with "#S20command

Re: Off-Topic -- Strange files

2001-12-01 Thread Kent Pirkle
I've been getting these too and I'm using reiserfs. I have no idea what they are. On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:01:18PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > I've seen mention of something similar before and I believe it's related > to ext3, but I'll ask to be sure... > > In my / dir, I've got these files

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2001-12-01 Thread Shri Shrikumar
> No, of course not. Different systems do different things well and > poorly. For example: Write a "benchmark" that starts and stops 10,000 > processes and Linux will beat Windows hands-down. Write a "benchmark" > that starts and stops 10,000 threads and Windows will beat Linux > hands-down (if

Re: Yahoo messenger

2001-12-01 Thread Charles Baker
--- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Titty Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I use yahoo messenger for x. > > Guess I should have been more specific. I already > have Yahoo! > Messenger; I was looking for the most popular > Debian package. So > far, it appears to be gaim. Anyone

Matrox G450 question............

2001-12-01 Thread Courtney Thomas
Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote: > > The original message was received at Sat, 1 Dec 2001 09:06:26 -0500 > from 216-99-240-14-atl-01.cvx.algx.net [216.99.240.14] > >- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (reason: 550 Host unknown) > >

Re: Matrox G450 question............

2001-12-01 Thread Sebastiaan
High, > > Greetings ! > > I am trying to use a Matrox G450 with an IBM 6091 19 monitor [19" > single > freq] and get an unusable image on the screen, so far. [snowy, angular, > semi-static, colors] > With a single frequency monitor you should allow only one frequency in your X configurati

news reader with proxy support

2001-12-01 Thread op
I have an account at school were I have access to lots of nice online database that I could never afford to pay for out of my own pocket. So I've set up a tinyproxy at that account, ssh portforward localhost:2000 to that proxy and then set localhost:2000 as a proxy in my webbrowser. This way I

Re: serious trouble with exim and procmail

2001-12-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:08:19PM +0100, Alex Suzuki wrote: | > It says that \246/usr/bin/procmail wasn't found. That's the problem. | > Now the question becomes, why was it looking for that?, what is that | > \246 character doing? Usually if there is not a preceding '0' the | > number is decima

Re: Computer won't power off

2001-12-01 Thread Adam John Henry
Is there any way to force the computer to power itself off if it's compiled with SMP? On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:00:31PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 06:37:39PM -0800, jennyw wrote: > | After upgrading to Woody I noticed that the computer doesn't power down when > | I issue the "

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2001-12-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:38:51PM +, Shri Shrikumar wrote: | > No, of course not. Different systems do different things well and | > poorly. For example: Write a "benchmark" that starts and stops 10,000 | > processes and Linux will beat Windows hands-down. Write a "benchmark" | > that start

Newbie question

2001-12-01 Thread gong zeng
Hi, I have the following queries: 1. How do I make the gnome panel startup with X windows? I can't seem to find such an option. Also, the menu item "log out" in the panel only kills the panel. Shouldn't it allow me to exit X? 2. Possible to maximize a window to the edge of the panel? Right now

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2001-12-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 12:52:52AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Is there a benchmark program [...] to give me an accurate benchmark? The short answer is No. You can measure certain things, that you are interested in, but there is always the problem (as someone mentioned) that once the benchm

Re: Computer won't power off

2001-12-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 09:47:24AM -0500, Adam John Henry wrote: > Is there any way to force the computer to power itself off > if it's compiled with SMP? Yes. For 2.2 with apm: append="apm=on apm=power-off" in lilo.conf. See more on 2.4 kernel: http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ch-install.ht

Re: Newbie question : gnome, bash, and ppp

2001-12-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 08:55:12AM -0800, gong zeng wrote: | Hi, | I have the following queries: No problem, but a more informative subject line is a good idea. | 1. How do I make the gnome panel startup with X | windows? I can't seem to find such an option. How do you start X? Do you use [gxk

Can't locate module snd

2001-12-01 Thread csj
I'm trying to get alsa to work I get the following errors when starting it. What's wrong? Where do I get the "snd" module? alpha:~# /etc/init.d/alsa start Starting ALSA sound driver (version none):modprobe: Can't locate module snd failed. -- Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-12-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 01:53:36PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: | Right, | | I have got my 'new' external Microcom 28.8 modem and will be using | tasksel this weekend to install appropriate packages for email and | usenet activity. You want chat, pppd, and minicom. minicom is interactive and usef

Re: samba print problem

2001-12-01 Thread dman
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:59:08PM +, Pollywog wrote: | I have a desktop running Linux and a laptop running Win95 that sends print | jobs to the printer (printer is connected to desktop) via Samba. | The laptop prints okay but whenever I print from the laptop, an extra page | is printed at th

Re: xterm: 'X: user not authorized'

2001-12-01 Thread Paul E Condon
In /etc/X11/Xserver, the second line in a standard install is "Console". Changing it to "Anybody", as is suggested in the comments in that file gives access of the sort originally requested. I am a newbie and found this while poking around in my newly installed potato. Would someone please commen

qmail-src update

2001-12-01 Thread Tom Allison
Attached is the specifics of what I was able to do in order to get the qmail deb package to work so far. It's not perfect, but at this point in time, I have no conflicts or errors in the Deb Packages, exim is gone, and qmail is running. My DNS is another matter, but that's for tomorrow, I think

Contents.tar.gz

2001-12-01 Thread Alec
Hi Is there an apt-get'able package containing Contents.tar.gz? Alec _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

openssh preferred keypair format?

2001-12-01 Thread Greg Norris
Since recent versions of openssh can handle both DSA and RSA keypairs, I was wondering if one format is preferred over the other from a security perspective. Thoughts?

Another off-topic -- EXT3 question

2001-12-01 Thread Hall Stevenson
Is there some app that tells me what type my partitions are mounted as ?? I'm now running 2.4.16 with ext3 enabled after running a patched kernel for quite some time... Here's some relevant info: /etc/fstab /dev/hdb6 / autodefaults,errors=remount-ro 1 1 /dev/hdb1 /boot autorw

Tuxracer is slideshow on Matrox G550

2001-12-01 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hi ! I tried tuxracer on my Athlon 1.4GHz/ Matrox G550 with XFree4. I use Debian (testing) ii xserver-xfree8 4.1.0-7the XFree86 X server but exchanged the /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o by hand with the one that is on the matrox driver cdrom. 2D works great. Now for 3D: glxi

Re: Another off-topic -- EXT3 question

2001-12-01 Thread Nathan Weston
If you run 'mount' with no arguments, it tells what type each partition is mounted at. You can also do 'dmesg | grep -i ext3' to show all the ext3-related messages from startup, although it doesn't mention the device names of the partitions it's mounting. Nathan On Saturday 01 December 2001 02

PPP in Kernel Module

2001-12-01 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, I am building a 2.4.14 kernel to use PPP (pppd) and have selected the PPP options as modules. This is due to me installing the drivers and software for my Alcatel USB modem. I seem to have got the USB hotplugging and syncing of the modem working ok. I am now having problems with pppd as I have

Re: Another off-topic -- EXT3 question

2001-12-01 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Nathan Weston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011201 14:23]: > > If you run 'mount' with no arguments, it tells what type each > partition is mounted at. You can also do 'dmesg | grep -i ext3' to > show all the ext3-related messages from startup, although it doesn't > mention the device names of the partiti

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-12-01 Thread John Hasler
dman writes: > You want chat, pppd, and minicom. He already has chat and pppd. They are in the base system. > minicom is interactive and useful for investigating the sequence of > interactions your ISP needs for dialing. However, most ISP's use PAP so it is best to try that before messing aroun

LILO and FreeBSD

2001-12-01 Thread Jens Luedicke
Hi ... I added my new FreeBSD partition to lilo.conf and when running 'lilo' I get the following errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jens# lilo Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed Added Linux * Warning: BIOS drive 0x81 may not be accessible Warning: BIOS drive 0x81 may not be accessible Added FreeBSD

qpopper

2001-12-01 Thread Nick Furman
Hi! I need some help with compiling qpopper on my own. Here's what it gets to: test -f popper.c test root = "`whoami`" rm -rf debian/tmp install -d -g root -m 755 debian/tmp install -d -g root -m 755 debian/tmp/DEBIAN install -d -g root -m 755 debian/tmp/{usr,var} install -d -g root -m 755 debia

Re: LILO and FreeBSD

2001-12-01 Thread ben
try running lilo with -l option (lower case L), i.e. 'lilo -l' On Saturday 01 December 2001 11:56 am, Jens Luedicke wrote: > Hi ... > > I added my new FreeBSD partition to lilo.conf and > when running 'lilo' I get the following errors: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jens# lilo > Warning: LBA32 addre

Re: LILO and FreeBSD

2001-12-01 Thread Jens Luedicke
ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > try running lilo with -l option (lower case L), i.e. 'lilo -l' > the line 'Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed' disappears and I get the same boot error: Loading FreeBSD ... Error 0x01 -- Jens Luedicke [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: qpopper

2001-12-01 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:58:37PM -0500, Nick Furman wrote: > Hi! Hi. Don't start new threads by replying to an existing, but totally unrelated, one. > Please respond directly to my email account. Make that: "Please cc: my email account." If someone has an answer it ought to be made availab

Re: Contents.tar.gz

2001-12-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 01:19:16PM -0500, Alec wrote: > Is there an apt-get'able package containing Contents.tar.gz? If you mean Contents-i386.gz and so on, no, it's not really practical to maintain such a package. auto-apt has functions to do it though: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo auto-apt upda

Re: Another off-topic -- EXT3 question

2001-12-01 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Hall Stevenson wrote: > > Is there some app that tells me what type my partitions are mounted as > ?? I'm now running 2.4.16 with ext3 enabled after running a patched > kernel for quite some time... Is it 'df -T' that you're looking for?

RealPlayer

2001-12-01 Thread adcarlson
A strange phenomenon I just came across after upgrading to the 2.4 series (version 12) from having used 2.2.17 for the longest time...my sound incluing user of RealPlayer w/ Netscape had worked fine. Now it doesn't...or more correctly RealPlayer sound has stopped working. All the other aspects of

Re: LILO and FreeBSD

2001-12-01 Thread ben
you should post your lilo.conf. i'm assuming that the BSD partition might need to be configured as "other" in order to be read correctly. On Saturday 01 December 2001 12:13 pm, Jens Luedicke wrote: > ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > try running lilo with -l option (lower case L), i.e. 'lilo -l

Re: LILO and FreeBSD

2001-12-01 Thread Jens Luedicke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > you should post your lilo.conf. i'm assuming that the BSD partition might > need to be configured as "other" in order to be read correctly. > boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot-menu.b delay=20 map=/boot/map compact read-only image=/vmlinuz label=L

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2001-12-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 11:52:47AM -0500, dman wrote: > Some programmers believe that threads should not be used at all, but > only processes that communicate via some sort of IPC. Those > programmers also believe that if your OS has processes that aren't > lightweight enough for that to be feasib

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2001-12-01 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I really don't need the preaching. I wanted a straight answer. Take a bench, a marker, and use the marker put a mark on the bench. That's a benchmark. Straight enough for you? Dima -- Q276304 - Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Lea

Re: RealPlayer

2001-12-01 Thread Timo Boewing
Hello Arlen, Several times i had the same probs with RealPlayer. Do you use GNOME? Sometimes a (on my system!) faulty esd caused trouble (have a laptop w/ i810_audio, 48kHz, esd never worked a long time). Sometimes RealPlayer worked fine until some apt-get upgrade and failed after that. Did mu

Re: RealPlayer

2001-12-01 Thread DvB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > A strange phenomenon I just came across after upgrading to the 2.4 series > (version 12) from having used 2.2.17 for the longest time...my sound incluing > user of RealPlayer w/ Netscape had worked fine. Now it doesn't...or more > correctly RealPlayer sound has stopped

Re: LILO and FreeBSD

2001-12-01 Thread ben
try this: first, use fdisk to check that you've got the right partition type on the BSD partition. assuming that's in order, toggle the bootable flag to on. then, in lilo.conf, comment out the table entry, run lilo -l, and see if 1) you get that error, and 2) reboot the machine and test boot th

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2001-12-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2001-12-01T05:52:52Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi, I want to benchmark my desktop system running in Linux (Gnome, XF86 > v3.x, 2.4.5 kernel) against itself running Win98se. Is there a benchmark > program that will work in both enviornments to give me an accurate > benchmark? No offense, bu

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2001-12-01 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Shri Shrikumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > No, of course not. Different systems do different things well and > > poorly. For example: Write a "benchmark" that starts and stops 10,000 > > processes and Linux will beat Windows hands-down. Write a "benchmark" > > that starts and stops 1

sf-debian

2001-12-01 Thread Matt Fair
Hello, I was able to get the sourceforge installed on the site with the sf-debian package (apt-get install sourceforge). After I create a project, and then login as admin to approve the project I get the error: Warning: LDAP: Unable to bind to server: Invalid DN syntax in /usr/lib/sourceforge/www/i

Re: exim: misleading package description?

2001-12-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:16:46PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > satan$ dpkg -p exim > (snip) > Description: Exim Mailer > This MTA is rather easier to configure than smail or sendmail. > It is a drop-in replacement for sendmail/mailq/rsmtp. > Advanced features include t

Re: apt-get acting up (woody)

2001-12-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:03:12PM +0100, Lupe Christoph ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > Last night apt-get decided to make my life even more miserable ;-) > > It wants to remove my kernel and a number of other packages: > > arachne:/home/lupe# apt-get --no-remove dist-upgrade > Reading Pa

Re: Off-Topic -- Strange files

2001-12-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:01:18PM -0500, Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've seen mention of something similar before and I believe it's related > to ext3, but I'll ask to be sure... > > In my / dir, I've got these files: > > -rw---1 root root0 Nov 3 17:02

Resolved: Sid: devfsd: following upgrade, can't open pseudo-tty (rxvt, xterm)

2001-12-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:09:18PM -0800, Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I've just done a nightly upgrade on Sid. > > I, too. > > > I now cannot open a new terminal window, getting e.g.: > > > > $ rxvt > > rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty > > rx

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

2001-12-01 Thread mdevin
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:32:06PM +0100, Mathias Gygax wrote: > On Sam, Dez 01, 2001 at 03:32:51 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is it easy to get rid of it, if it causes me more trouble than it is > > worth? > > run an unpatched kernel, disable it with kernel option "security=0" > (e.g. lil

root login problems

2001-12-01 Thread jerry
after upgrading from progeny to woody over the last few days, I am unable to log into the computer as root user, fails as auth failure, I can login as regular user and then SU to root, the password is accepted and I am root with all priveledges. I have run passwd root and entered the new passw

digital photo editing in linux---what do i need?

2001-12-01 Thread mikepolniak
I just got my first digital camera and am looking for advice on photo editing programs. I see there is gPhoto to d/l photos from a camera, but since my camera is not supported i found out i can just use a usb card reader to load the pix into my linux box. What do i need to edit the photos, etc.

Is everyone else seeing duplicates?

2001-12-01 Thread mdevin
I am seeing double to quadruple of lots of emails on this list. Is everyone else seeing the same or is there something that postfix is doing to me since I fiddled with its main.cf? For example here is how my list looks in mutt for the debian-user list currently. I have configured mutt to sort by

Re: Determining media types in Galeon

2001-12-01 Thread Bill Wohler
> Having installed Galeon 1.0, clicking on a link now results in saving > foo.m3u in a file rather than launching xmms. Fixed. After the Galeon 1.0 upgrade, you have to run "galeon-config-tool --clean". I'd suggest exporting your bookmarks to Netscape and saving your icons first since "c

Re: [Debian-sf-users] sf-debian

2001-12-01 Thread Christian BAYLE
Hi Can you tell me which version you use? It seems to be 2.6 because you talk about crypt, and it's the case you have to know that it's experimental and probabley some things are broken. 2.5 version you can find in woody is working well. I seems that you didn't enter right DN base dn should prob

Re: root login problems

2001-12-01 Thread Robert Walker
You could have a look at the /etc/securetty file. The file contains the list of the tty's root is allowed to use to login directly. $ man securetty could be helpful. Robert Walker. On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, jerry wrote: > after upgrading from progeny to woody over the last few days, I am > unable to

galeon

2001-12-01 Thread ben
where is galeon? i've run every manipulation of apt-get and dpkg i know but i can't find it anywhere.

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicates?

2001-12-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 09:02:29AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am seeing double to quadruple of lots of emails on this list. Is > everyone else seeing the same or is there something that postfix is > doing to me since I fiddled with its main.cf? The list looks normal to me. I'd guess it'

Re: galeon

2001-12-01 Thread Warren A. Layton
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 03:24:17PM -0800, ben wrote: > where is galeon? i've run every manipulation of apt-get and dpkg i know but i > can't find it anywhere. I did a search on http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and found: unstable galeon 1.0-2 (1823.6k) Are you pointing apt-get at

Re: galeon

2001-12-01 Thread DvB
ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > where is galeon? i've run every manipulation of apt-get and dpkg i know but i > can't find it anywhere. > Unstable only. http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=galeon&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2001-12-01 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:53:15PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: | * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: | > I really don't need the preaching. I wanted a straight answer. | | Take a bench, a marker, and use the marker put a mark on the | bench. That's a benchmark. Hehe. This ga

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicates?

2001-12-01 Thread ben
On Saturday 01 December 2001 03:34 pm, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 09:02:29AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am seeing double to quadruple of lots of emails on this list. Is > > everyone else seeing the same or is there something that postfix is > > doing to me since I f

Re: galeon

2001-12-01 Thread ben
On Saturday 01 December 2001 03:42 pm, Warren A. Layton wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 03:24:17PM -0800, ben wrote: > > where is galeon? i've run every manipulation of apt-get and dpkg i know > > but i can't find it anywhere. > > I did a search on http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and found:

{slrn,lynx} under X, xterm-linux.xpm, Woody?

2001-12-01 Thread Shaul Karl
I believe that terminal apps like slrn or lynx are sometimes get the xterm-linux.xpm image when iconifyed. And I refer to apps that were ran from the menu system and not to apps that were started in a terminal command line. (Iconifying an app that was started from an xterm always gets here the

Re: galeon

2001-12-01 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Saturday 01 December 2001 03:56 pm, ben wrote: > i tried that using > > apt-get install galeon > > and got an error : not found. apt-get -s install galeon works fine on my unstable system. (-s is the dry-run option so it doesn't actually install anything) I'm guessing either your /etc

GTK+(?) font sizes insanity

2001-12-01 Thread Brian Clark
Howdy, This has been getting on my nerves for about a week now. The font sizes in the toolbars and buttons on any applications that use GTK+ are way too big for my tastes. Does anyone have _any_ idea to get these back down to a decent size? I don't know if Mozilla uses GTK, or if it's even GTK

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