procmail recipe (score)

2002-01-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
I have been playing with procmail recipe especially with scoring. I wonder if I can drop mail to different folder depending on scoring result. Any simple way? I can create header with the score by filtering throgh :0 HBfw # start offset -99, so score of 100 reach positive for SPAM * -99^0 # che

Re: routing problem

2002-01-21 Thread Jeff
Klaus Neumann, 2002-Jan-17 18:10 -0800: > On Thursday 17 January 2002 03:44 am, Jeff wrote: > > Klaus Neumann, 2002-Jan-16 22:07 -0800: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I just replaced my SuSE with Debian potato on my second computer (B). > > > Using computer A, still SuSE installed as router. I can ping from

Re: Printing problems (FIXED!)

2002-01-21 Thread Jeff
Rob Mahurin, 2002-Jan-17 08:20 -0500: > After installing enscript and upgrading ghostview and gs-common, > printing from netscape works: > > ii ghostview 1.5-27 a PostScript viewer for X11 > ii gs-common 0.3.2 Common files for different Ghostscript relea > ii enscript

Custom deb packages?

2002-01-21 Thread debian
I've got a few debian machines here that I'd like to update with a custom w3m .deb package. Ideally, what I'd like to do is download the source .deb for w3m, extract it, apply debian specific patches from the package maintainer, apply my own custom patches to the C source, repackage it up as a w3m.

identify my 486 motherboard

2002-01-21 Thread Muchlas Yusak
i had trouble with dual ide controller (conflict) with my 486 motherboard. i dunno what manufacture made that mb. specification is TK 8881 - FA 20.what should i do? [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

Re: Custom deb packages?

2002-01-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:55:22PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got a few debian machines here that I'd like to update with a custom > w3m .deb package. i ... > Thus far, I've gotten to: > > 1. apt-get source w3m > > But that's about it. apt-get gave me this listing: > > w3m-0.2.4/ > w

SB Live! 5.1 problems

2002-01-21 Thread David Wright
I just added a Creative SB Live! 5.1 card to my machine -- my first sound card -- and am having trouble with it. On the software side, everything seems to run just perfectly, but it produces no sound. Right off the top: I can use normal stero speakers even with a surround-sound card, right?

Re: separate graph package for gnumeric ?

2002-01-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 15:56:15 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "J" == J H M Dassen \(Ray\) writes: > Aha. Thanks. What's frustrating is that I couldn't figure out what I > needed to do the graphing. Why can't gnome say something like "you > need guppi" instead of the goofball message

Re: cleaning up a system

2002-01-21 Thread Joel Mayes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "martin" == martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: martin> there's cruft, but it's too complicated and while i should martin> configure it in the long run, for now i have thought of martin> something like the following, which ca

Re: identify my 486 motherboard

2002-01-21 Thread Elizabeth Barham
http://www.xs4all.nl/~elhvb/mboards/adi/tk8881/index.html

Re: Palm pilot problems

2002-01-21 Thread Paul Mackinney
It took me a long time to get my Pilot working. Here's what I did: 1. Dumped Gnome. It looks cool, but way too big, way too broken. Gnome-Pilot was the only reason I stuck with Gnome as long as I did, and it never worked. [Off-topic] Stuck with WindowMaker for a while, like it, still too big & ha

Re: Tape devices

2002-01-21 Thread Paul Mackinney
Noah Meyerhans declaimed: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 06:45:59PM +0200, George Karaolides wrote: > > > > Can somebody tell me what the various tape devices are? I know that > > /dev/st0 is the first SCSI tape drive and /dev/nst0 is the non-rewinding > > version of this, but what are /dev/(st|nst)0a

Re: identify my 486 motherboard

2002-01-21 Thread ben
On Sunday 20 January 2002 11:11 am, Muchlas Yusak wrote: > i had trouble with dual ide controller (conflict) with my 486 motherboard. > i dunno what manufacture made that mb. specification is TK 8881 - FA > 20.what should i do? [EMAIL PROTECTED] google search.

Re: Debian, FHS & /floppy

2002-01-21 Thread Randy Orrison
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 02:07, Mark Blunier wrote: > However, if a program > needs to mount a file system temporarily, it needs to know of a > place that it can assume is 'safe'. [presuming /mnt is available for that purpose, and doesn't have other stuff under it] Unless, of course, another progra

Re: Sound (ES1371), Power down, --MARK--

2002-01-21 Thread Paul Mackinney
Gary Turner declaimed: > The only thing I bring to the party is that /dev requires root privilege > to access directly, i.e., by redirection or pipe. Use your apps to do > the dirty work. An idea on this: As root, when I run xmcd, it works. CD load invokes the playlist database, eject button work

more on apt -- what preferences?

2002-01-21 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello. Lately I've added some cds (woody from linuxiso.org) to my sources.list. I'm running woody installed from the net; the ftp sources are also in that file. Since quite a few packages I wanted to install were grabbed off the net, I assume that those weren't on my cds -- following some previous

Re: VIM features

2002-01-21 Thread Hans Freitag
Hi, On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:09:10PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > How about turning off all non-standard-vi features by default > such as "autoindent" and the especially annoying "filetype plugin on" > and surrounding all vim-features with > > if v:progname != "vi" > s00perd00p

Re: initrd and kernel 2.4.17

2002-01-21 Thread Martin Wuertele
hi, On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 08:59:48PM -0800, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > i'm in the process of upgrading my woody box to kernel > 2.4.17. does 2.4.17 require initrd to boot-up? 2.4.17 boots fine without initrd, have it running on my test box. yours martin -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: VIM features

2002-01-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hans Freitag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:09:10PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >> How about turning off all non-standard-vi features by default >> such as "autoindent" and the especially annoying "filetype plugin on" >> and surrou

Re: Moving root partition

2002-01-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:26:49AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > On 21 Jan 2002, Nic Strong wrote: > > > I need to move my root parition to another disk. > > My question is it safe just to drop to single user mode, copy the file > > system over, update fstab, lilo.conf and reboot ? > > Make sure that it

Re: minimal wine confing?

2002-01-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:04:15PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm building a Debian woody box to replace my wifes HP-UX worksation. > > One of the +must haves_ from her is the ability to play the Windoze version > of solitare (which she does using WABI, remeber WABI?). Yes, I've shown > her severa

basic install problem

2002-01-21 Thread Alex Hunsley
Hi all After losing my last install of debian (installed UDM66 flavour of kernel, it just died one day, kernel panic at boot etc, couldn't get it fixed), I reinstalled it again last night (debian potato), a bog standard install (no UDMA66 drive this time). I tried installing it twice, and both t

Re: informazioni

2002-01-21 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 19:09, Alberto wrote: > ciao...mi pui dire cortesemente perche' quando lancio il boot dal cd , debian > non si > avvia?? ritorna in windows e mi dice che crea un collegamento perche' > eseguibile soltanto in modalita' dospero' poi dal dos non riesco a > lanciarlo.va

Re: Debian, FHS & /floppy

2002-01-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Karsten M. Self [2002.01.21.0229 +0100]: > This directory is provided so that the system administrator may > temporarily mount a filesystem as needed. THE CONTENT OF THIS > DIRECTORY IS A LOCAL ISSUE AND SHOULD NOT AFFECT THE MANNER IN WHICH > ANY PROGRAM IS RUN. gran

openldap .deb status

2002-01-21 Thread David Wright
Hello Wichert, I am writing to inquire about the status of the openldap packages. I note that the sid/unstable packages are at version 2.0.14, while openldap.org is calling 2.0.21 "stable". Most of the sid packages follow upstream releases very closely (e.g. the mozilla package usually updates

bugreport problem

2002-01-21 Thread Johann Spies
During the last few weeks I get the following output when I try to run reportbug: Unable to connect to BTS; Is there a problem with the bug tracking system? Regards. Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "For we wrestl

Re: SB Live! 5.1 problems

2002-01-21 Thread Tobias Bengtsson
David Wright went something in the lines of: > Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.16, 15:45:02 Oct 13 2001 > PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0a.0 > emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 8 model 0x8064 found, IO at 0x9000-0x901f, IRQ 5 > ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x8384:0x7608 (SigmaTel STAC9708) >

Re: SB Live! 5.1 problems

2002-01-21 Thread David Wright
> But anyways, you should make sure that the card is not muted. Thanks for the tip; I'll try it when I get home. But... what is "muted"? (I know what the word means, I just don't know why one would do such a thing to a soundcard.)

Re: bugreport problem

2002-01-21 Thread Joel Mayes
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Johann" == Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johann> During the last few weeks I get the following output when Johann> I try to run reportbug: Johann> Unable to c

Re: .xinitrc not used in Woody?

2002-01-21 Thread Douglas Hespe
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 05:20:44PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > Are you saying some of the commands are executed, but others are not? Yes, and your supposition below looks very probable. > If so, it would appear that some command is not getting backgrounded, > or returning. The only candida

Re: openldap .deb status

2002-01-21 Thread Karsten Heymann
* David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020121 13:03]: > Hello Wichert, (Although i'm not Wichert maybe I can help:) I recently filed a bug (#128946) report about exact this issue. I got the response on Jan 16 that openldap is currently repackaged and new packages will be released in nearer future.

Help me

2002-01-21 Thread amir isf.
Hello I used and programmed opti931 sound card in dos (ISA). My program need to 3000Hz frequency (ISA), but card not supported this frequency. I think frequncy of card is 600~700 Hz. Do I use PCI card ? How do I use ISA card in freq.=3000Hz? Please hlp me. Thanksfull Reza Isfahnai (Amir) _

Re: bugreport problem

2002-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:34:35PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > During the last few weeks I get the following output when I try to run > reportbug: > > Unable to connect to BTS; > > Is there a problem with the bug tracking system? It works fine for me, and has done for those last few weeks. Perh

Re: debconf/whiptail problem

2002-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:17:29PM -0500, Conor McCutcheon wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 07:29:40PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 05:48:45PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I recently attempted a large apt-get update then upgrade on my woody > > > box. It wanted t

Re: Woody flavors

2002-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:23:27AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > Glen Snyder wrote: > > I was wonderingas far as I can tell there are 5 Woody flavors, yet > > the unofficial cd-image mirrors seem to have 8 raw (iso) files. Could > > someone set me straight on this (since the readme doesn't hel

apt-get upgrade

2002-01-21 Thread jamson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Need help here. I just did a apt-get upgrade and thing go well. But once I reboot the server, all other third party application break and would not work anymore. It use to work perfect. Is there option to downgrade to the original package?

RE: Xine & DVD's

2002-01-21 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| I finnally got Xine running on my laptop, but it plays everything | except DVD's. Any one know what package I have to add for this? You need to search for a package called xine-css. There are debs available on the net. HTH, Brooks

What am I doing wrong? (Parallel port printer)

2002-01-21 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to get a HP 690C printer working on a woody machine, using CUPS. What's starnge is that CUSP sees the printer, and even knows what tyoe it is, but it's not working. Here is some useful (I hope) info: Script started on Mon Jan 21 09:54:03 2002 teddy:~# dmesg Linux version 2.4.17 ([EMAI

mozilla crashes when deleting mail

2002-01-21 Thread Kurdt
I got the latest mozilla messenger to read this list. Messages are filtered for this list. now, I have a mail received dated on 01/01/70 01:00 AFAK 1 hour after the beginning of the linux-time ?) I can't see a header, and while truing te delete, mozilla closes. Anyone on debian-woody got the

how to get a precompiled dpkg for manual installation

2002-01-21 Thread Neo Sze Wee
Without installing the base. I intend to use root.bin as my base and start installing debian packages but there is no dekg in the root.bin. Or is there another way to convert the deb format to tgz format? By the way, how do you restore the 80x25 deafult for the console? Thank you.

RE: write to ntfs-partition?

2002-01-21 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| Does anyone know how far the kernel build is from being able to | write to a | ntfs-partition? Even though I do compile my own kernel, I get the message | 'mount read-only' because ntfs is win2k+ | (If this is not a relevant place to ask - could someone advice | where to go | next then?) I sugge

Re: What am I doing wrong? (Parallel port printer)

2002-01-21 Thread Berthold Cogel
Stan Brown wrote: > > I'm trying to get a HP 690C printer working on a woody machine, using CUPS. > What's starnge is that CUSP sees the printer, and even knows what tyoe it > is, but it's not working. > > Here is some useful (I hope) info: > > Script started on Mon Jan 21 09:54:03 2002 > teddy:

How to make a copy of packages ?

2002-01-21 Thread kapil khosla
Hi, I am trying to make a copy of packages between two debian systems I use the dpkg --get-selections > file and now want to install the same packages as in this "file" in another system. Can you tell me the way to do it ? Thanks Kapil

Re: What am I doing wrong? (Parallel port printer)

2002-01-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.21.1555 +0100]: > So what do I check next? check with /sbin/lsmod whether parport and parport_pc are loaded. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] i

Re: SB Live! 5.1 problems

2002-01-21 Thread Donald R. Spoon
I just added a Creative SB Live! 5.1 card to my machine -- my first sound card -- and am having trouble with it. On the software side, everything seems to run just perfectly, but it produces no sound. Right off the top: I can use normal stero speakers even with a surround-sound card, right? I

Re: Hylafax client problems

2002-01-21 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Stan Brown wrote: > > I'm tryng to set up my woody machine to send faxes (as a clinet to an > existing Hylafax server). > > I edited /etc/hylafax/hyla.conf and added: > > Host: black > > Where black is the servers name. > > But whn I run sendfax, I get the following error: >

stop proftpd sending auth requests?

2002-01-21 Thread Dragos
hello, I installed proftpd (this is woody) with apt-get, no anonymous access; now, on every connection attempt, it sends an auth request, and until it times out, the users (winodze) wait. This is annoying. Can I tell proftpd to stop sending auth requests? dragos

Re: fetchmail

2002-01-21 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Ken Weingold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anyone here using fetchmail? I ran it to get my mail from a POP > server to use with mutt, and I did see them all come in when it was > running, but I don't see them with mutt. Anyone know where they could > be? As others on the thread have noted,

Re: How to make a copy of packages ?

2002-01-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:47:14AM -0500, kapil khosla wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to make a copy of packages between two debian systems > I use the dpkg --get-selections > file > and now want to install the same packages as in this "file" in another > system. > Can you tell me the way to do it ? d

Re: minimal wine confing?

2002-01-21 Thread Bill Benedetto
>>> Stan Brown writes: Stan> I'm building a Debian woody box to replace my wifes HP-UX Stan> worksation. Stan> Stan> One of the +must haves_ from her is the ability to play Stan> the Windoze version of solitare (which she does using Stan> WABI, remeber WABI?). Yes, I've shown her sever

fs switching to read-only

2002-01-21 Thread Michael K O'Brien
Hola~ After a nasty system hang, I power cycled the machine, fsck ran and found enough errors to bootup readonly. I ran fsck by hand, which found some more problems, but nothing that seemed all that out of the ordinary. I rebooted again and all seemed well with the world. Now, if I try to access

Re: killed process still on-screen

2002-01-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:09:23PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 05:44:21AM +0800, csj wrote: > | To sum up this discussion: zombies can be killed, but only if you know > | their mothers. Is this correct? Kill the parent process and the zombies > | go away? > > If that is the reason

cd-writer question

2002-01-21 Thread David Csercsics
I need some help here. I've just about got my hardware setup but I'm not sure how to configure a couple things. I put in the SCSI emulaton i my kernel because you supposedly need it to make an IDE CD-Writer to work. My CD-Writer is on /dev/hdd so how woudl I make the ide-scsi driver get loaded inst

Re: VIM features

2002-01-21 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 21-Jan-02 by Hans Freitag: >> if v:progname != "vi" >> s00perd00per vim/gvim options >> endif > > Bad idea, i don't like typing m after vi to get the editor. This is a much more efficient solution than what some other distros have done: splitting vim into vim-{common,minimal,enhanc

Re: What is "OT:"

2002-01-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:34:17AM -0800, Charles Baker wrote: > I use wtf when I don't understand an acronym...like so > ``wtf wtf`` on a cl ;-) wtf's vocabulary seems a little limited: $ wtf ot Gee... I don't know what ot means... $ wtf hand Gee... I don't know what hand means... (This is fr

Re: separate graph package for gnumeric ?

2002-01-21 Thread briand
> "J" == J H M Dassen \(Ray\) writes: J> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 15:56:15 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > "J" == J H M Dassen \(Ray\) writes: >> Aha. Thanks. What's frustrating is that I couldn't figure out what I >> needed to do the graphing. Why can't gnome say somethin

a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread briand
Debian fans, I have the following modest proposal : Debian should start charging for high-speed apt-get/dselect/whatever downloads from it's sites. 56k is free, anything faster you pay for. Then we can pay people to work on the not fun stuff that needs doing. And people who download ISO's to s

Re: usb/modem irq conflict

2002-01-21 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
is your modem isa or pci?if its pci then you should be ok. your bios should not idenitfy pci devices in the same irq. if its isa, then try changing the modem's irq, either by isapnp , if supported, or by its DOS configuring disk. Also, you can try using the bios setup to make it assign a diferent i

Re: identify my 486 motherboard

2002-01-21 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
you should try to find the manufacturer and the board manual you can start by http://www.wims.com to identify the manufacturer. On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Muchlas Yusak wrote: > i had trouble with dual ide controller (conflict) with my 486 motherboard. > i dunno what manufacture made that mb. speci

Re: identify my 486 motherboard

2002-01-21 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
im sorry. actually its http://www.wimsbios.com sorry On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Muchlas Yusak wrote: > i had trouble with dual ide controller (conflict) with my 486 motherboard. > i dunno what manufacture made that mb. specification is TK 8881 - FA 20.what > should i do? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:35:35AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have the following modest proposal : > > Debian should start charging for high-speed apt-get/dselect/whatever > downloads from it's sites. 56k is free, anything faster you pay for. > Then we can pay people to work on the not f

Re: How to make a copy of packages ?

2002-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:04:05PM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:47:14AM -0500, kapil khosla wrote: > > I am trying to make a copy of packages between two debian systems > > I use the dpkg --get-selections > file > > and now want to install the same packages as in thi

Re: Help me

2002-01-21 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
ythe pci bus is faster, though if your card is 700hz ( really ?? ) theres notrhing you can do. Best choice is to check in the new card manual for specifications before buying. On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, amir isf. wrote: > Hello > I used and programmed opti931 sound card in dos (ISA). > My program nee

Re: how to get a precompiled dpkg for manual installation

2002-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:53:55PM +, Neo Sze Wee wrote: > Without installing the base. I intend to use root.bin as my base and start > installing debian packages but there is no dekg in the root.bin. There's a .tar.gz of dpkg in project/dpkg on Debian mirrors. You could also get the source c

Re: fs switching to read-only

2002-01-21 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Hola~ > > After a nasty system hang, I power cycled the machine, fsck ran and found > enough errors to bootup readonly. I ran fsck by hand, which found some > more problems, but nothing that seemed all that out of the ordinary. I > rebooted again and all seemed well with the world. > > Now,

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
Personaly, I think that working for fun on spare time gives the best achievements, as that happend with my self. I dont state here that developers should work harder. NOT AT ALL. But somekind of non-monetary reward should be given. Even if some take advantage of others work, what debian and free s

Re: stop proftpd sending auth requests?

2002-01-21 Thread Dragos
On Monday 21 January 2002 06:02 pm, Dragos wrote: > hello, > I installed proftpd (this is woody) with apt-get, > no anonymous access; now, on every connection attempt, it sends an auth > request, and until it times out, the users (winodze) wait. This is > annoying. Can I tell proftpd to stop sendin

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:54:22PM +, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: > But somekind of non-monetary reward should be given. Seeing people all over the world use software you've written and, once in a while, thank you for it is an amazing reward in itself. > If one day debian gets a little short in ca

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.21.1735 +0100]: > Debian should start charging for high-speed apt-get/dselect/whatever > downloads from it's sites. 56k is free, anything faster you pay for. > Then we can pay people to work on the not fun stuff that needs doing. > > And p

balsa smtp error - mutt sends fine

2002-01-21 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I cannot send email with balsa although mutt can send email fine. Anyone have any suggestions? The Remote SMTP field has my ISP's domain listed mail.ISP.com Lance -- Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.21.1755 +0100]: > From where I'm sitting, this goodwill seems only to be increasing. anyone want to hire me to develop for debian? ;^> -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailt

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.21.1758 +0100]: > apt-get -u dist-upgrade, we aren't going to object. if you start > charging, i am leaving, and i guarantee you that most every other > developer will too. s/if you start/if we start/ > there are a lot of things that money

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Jan-2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Debian fans, > > I have the following modest proposal : > > Debian should start charging for high-speed apt-get/dselect/whatever > downloads from it's sites. 56k is free, anything faster you pay for. > Then we can pay people to work on the not fun st

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:35:35AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Debian fans, > > I have the following modest proposal : > > Debian should start charging for high-speed apt-get/dselect/whatever > downloads from it's sites. 56k is free, anything faster you pay for. > Then we can pay people

server inaccessible -- weird!

2002-01-21 Thread martin f krafft
try it: diamond.madduck.net at 66.92.234.132. ping is disabled from everywhere but a few stations also under my control, but: %> ping -nc1 66.92.234.132 PING 66.92.234.132 (66.92.234.132): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 66.92.234.132: icmp_seq=0 ttl=237 time=130.7 ms it pings. nmap reports ports 22

Printing speed

2002-01-21 Thread Dominique Deleris
I've had no answer until now, so here it is again :-) Hello everybody, I wonder why it takes so long to print anything under Linux. I have a HP 959C, that works under W2K and Linux. Under W2K it is very fast, even with high quality (I am not speaking about photo rendering but full color printing)

Re: killed process still on-screen

2002-01-21 Thread Ian Balchin
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:42:40PM -0600, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:33:25PM +0200, Ian Balchin insinuated: > > I locked up mutt & jove while editing a message. I killed them from > > top but cannot get use of tty1 back which still shows the process. > > > > I do not want to r

Re: server inaccessible -- weird!

2002-01-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.21.1846 +0100]: > try it: diamond.madduck.net at 66.92.234.132. ping is disabled from > everywhere but a few stations also under my control, but: sorry, but because of the possibility of a hack attack, the network cable is gone. so no trying

Re: identify my 486 motherboard

2002-01-21 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Muchlas Yusak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > i had trouble with dual ide controller (conflict) with my 486 motherboard. > i dunno what manufacture made that mb. specification is TK 8881 - FA 20.what > should i do? Type "tk 8881 motherboard" (without quotes) into google. Top hit is probab

Re: balsa smtp error - mutt sends fine

2002-01-21 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 11:05:57AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: | I cannot send email with balsa although mutt can send email fine. | Anyone have any suggestions? Don't use remote smtp in balsa. mutt doesn't. mutt simply pipes the message to your local MTA (probably exim) which you must have se

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread briand
> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:35:35AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I have the following modest proposal : >> >> Debian should start charging for high-speed apt-get/dselect/whatever >> downloads from it's sites. 56k is

Re: Debian Vs RedHat

2002-01-21 Thread Paul Mackinney
Roderick Cummings declaimed: > ...but I have a dozen or so 486's, IPX's, udb's chugging along Me too. Just because I can! And if I didn't keep the 486 up, what would I do with that perfectly good ISA+microchannel SCSI card? :-) PM -- Paul Mackinney | Another look at Sept 11 [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread briand
> "J" == J A Serralheiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: J> Personaly, I think that working for fun on spare time gives the best J> achievements, as that happend with my self. I dont state here that I completely agree. Unfortunately that work will lean heavily towards "interesting" things.

Browse error..!!

2002-01-21 Thread budsz
Hi, I was install Apache+PHP+OpenSSL+Mod_SSL+MySQL on my debian box yesterday, I added in httpd.conf like this: DirectoryIndex index.html index.php AddType application/x-httpd-php php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source phps I was try to testing result like this: debian:~# lynx ht

Re: basic install problem

2002-01-21 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Is it possible you didn't initialize your hard disks prior to your later installs? I imagine that debian puts a few files somewhere and the installer checks for these files - that is, it thinks something has happened (which would happen normally) but in fact hasn't happened. If this is the case, t

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread briand
> "martin" == martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: martin> --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt martin> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 martin> Content-Disposition: inline martin> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable martin> also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread Charles Baker
I think a careful reading of the following documents might help in understanding the motivations behind the debian project as a whole: http://www.debian.org/intro/free http://www.debian.org/social_contract --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes:

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread briand
> "martin" == martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: martin> also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.21.1758 +0100]: >> apt-get -u dist-upgrade, we aren't going to object. if you start >> charging, i am leaving, and i guarantee you that most every other >> develo

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread John Hasler
Karl E. Jorgensen writes: > I think that if anybody sold ISO's for profit (i.e. charged more than a > reasonable cost price for download, cd, burning, packaging etc), then > they would be in breach of the license. On the contrary. It would be a breach of the DFSG to try to tell people that they _

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:21:34AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Colin> Are you sure it isn't? You do that and I guarantee you most of the > Colin> developers will leave. > > yes I'm sure it isn't. OK. > It may be in the course

PDF 1.4 Capable Apps in Debian GNU/Linux?

2002-01-21 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! Is there a PDF viewer in Potato/Woody that's capable of displaying the latest PDF standard (which I think is 1.4)? If not, are there any open source tools available at all that can be used to view PDF 1.4 documents? Thanks in advance for any advice! Greetings, Holger

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread briand
> "Karl" == Karl E Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Karl> Hm. I thought that most of the debian servers ran on donated Karl> hardware / bandwidth anyway. If I am correct, then I'm not Karl> sure that it's right to=20 charge for it... Natrually if you were charging then you'd start

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread John Hasler
Brian writes: > Expand on why you think developers will leave, it's not obvious to me. If Debian does as you suggest I will leave. > If I pay someone to do unfun work others don't like doing wouldn't that > be a positive thing ? So go ahead and pay someone (me, for example). What's stopping you

Re: how to get a precompiled dpkg for manual installation

2002-01-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 21:53:55 +, Neo Sze Wee wrote: > Or is there another way to convert the deb format to tgz format? ar(1) is your friend. See deb(5). HTH, Ray -- "When you are finished spreading joy on Christmas Eve, come and kick back with me and Erwin for a while. [...] We'll provide

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread dman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:44:26AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I find it annoying that I can buy a Debian CD for $3.00 + shipping. | It should be more. This is an easy problem to solve! Mail me a (valid) check for $1,000 US and I'll mail you back a CD. :-) | And remember nothing is stopp

Re: PDF 1.4 Capable Apps in Debian GNU/Linux?

2002-01-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 19:49:21 +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > Is there a PDF viewer in Potato/Woody that's capable of displaying the > latest PDF standard (which I think is 1.4)? xpdf's upstream changelog for 0.93 includes: :Implement PDF 1.4 (128-bit) decryption. :Bump supported PDF version numbe

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-01-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:52:27AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't think it would be. I find it annoying that I can download an > ISO and turn around and sell it and not have to give 1 monetary unit > to Debian. I don't think it's reasonable. It's completely reasonable. It's free softw

Re: PDF 1.4 Capable Apps in Debian GNU/Linux?

2002-01-21 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! Thanks for your quick reply! On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > [...] > xpdf's upstream changelog for 0.93 includes: > :Implement PDF 1.4 (128-bit) decryption. > :Bump supported PDF version number to 1.4. Ok. Does that mean PDF 1.4 is already implemented or that it will be i

Re: Debian, FHS & /floppy

2002-01-21 Thread ben
On Monday 21 January 2002 02:08 am, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Karsten M. Self [2002.01.21.0229 +0100]: > > This directory is provided so that the system administrator may > > temporarily mount a filesystem as needed. THE CONTENT OF THIS > > DIRECTORY IS A LOCAL ISSUE AND SH

Re: What am I doing wrong? (Parallel port printer)

2002-01-21 Thread ben
On Monday 21 January 2002 06:55 am, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm trying to get a HP 690C printer working on a woody machine, using CUPS. > What's starnge is that CUSP sees the printer, and even knows what tyoe it > is, but it's not working. > [snip] run lpstat -t to see details of the designated printe

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