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2002-03-08 Thread John Bradley

Re: OT: Aliens in the heavans (was Re: seti@home)

2002-03-08 Thread Remy Indebetouw
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 08:38:54PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > > > > Can you please explain what do WV and bwy stands for ? I know this is > > way off-topic, but it's funny anyway and don't want to miss a thing :) > > WV = West Virginia, home of (am

Re: Still looking to replace Eudora

2002-03-08 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Eric G. Miller quotation: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 05:11:12PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > I just didn't realize how set in my ways I am. > > > > I've tried for X: Kmail, Evolution, Sylpheed, and Mahogany. Something > > else I can't remember. They all seem fine. > > > > Maybe it's

RE: VPN on Kernel 2.4.18

2002-03-08 Thread Dave Scott
Thanks Vector. Ok, I worked on this some more. I built up a test system with Debian 2.2 Kernel 2.4.18 on it. I compiled in all the GRE stuff and such to allow all PPTP and GRE traffic through. I then got Masq up and running. Then I forwarded port 1723 and Protocol 47 to my Internal windows 2000

Tulip not installing

2002-03-08 Thread timothy bauscher
2.2r5 Potato Installation: After configuring PCMCIA support and seeing the lights activate on my Netgear FA511 card, I tried to install the Tulip module via the "net modules" screen. These are the errors which I received: -- /lib/modules/2.2.19/net/tulip.o: init_module: Device or resource busy H

Re: x-forwarding with ssh

2002-03-08 Thread Oki DZ
Tom Cook wrote: Vineet Kumar wrote: [snip] Also, please, please, PLEASE! DON'T do this: local$ ssh remote remote$ export DISPLAY=local:0 # DON'T EVER DO THIS!!! remote$ xterm As others have already explained. You might as well be using telnet. This defeats the entire purpose of tunneling. Wha

Re: Open Office in unstable?

2002-03-08 Thread Dave Thayer
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:15:09AM +0100, Coen De Roover wrote: > Hi, > > I haven't tried those packages yet, but wasn't succesful in installing > OpenOffice using the installer from www.openoffice.org: > it opened two full size windows (one blue and one gray) and displayed a > textless message b

Re: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-08 Thread Oki DZ
Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso wrote: Well, I don't know how RH goes now, but the first RH distribution I test about seven years ago (4.x or so...) has an installation like the one Debian has today. The install part on RH is better than what's in Debian, even today; especially when it goes to X.

Re: Still looking to replace Eudora

2002-03-08 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thursday 07 March 2002 07:01 pm, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 05:11:12PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > Maybe it's a config setting I've missed, but what I miss is having the > > messages open in their own windows (yet still inside the main Eudora > > window). The reason is

Re: apt-get build-deps or -b switch

2002-03-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I've written hundreds, probably thousands of lines of reports > complaints etc. Received piles of helpful replies. And still no > stable sytem in working order. > Woody may not quite be ready yet. Maybe you need time too. I hope you give it another try some time. Good luck wherever the

Re: Open Office in unstable?

2002-03-08 Thread Geoff D
--- Coen De Roover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I haven't tried those packages yet, but wasn't > succesful in installing > OpenOffice using the installer from > www.openoffice.org: > it opened two full size windows (one blue and one > gray) and displayed a > textless message box with two

Re: Tulip not installing

2002-03-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 11:58:57PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: > 2.2r5 Potato Installation: > > After configuring PCMCIA support and seeing > the lights activate on my Netgear FA511 card, > I tried to install the Tulip module via the > "net modules" screen. These are the errors > which I receiv

Re: Still looking to replace Eudora

2002-03-08 Thread Joe
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 08:53:17PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Eric G. Miller quotation: > > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 05:11:12PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > > > I just didn't realize how set in my ways I am. > > > > > > I've tried for X: Kmail, Evolution, Sylpheed, and Mahogany.

Re: NEWBIE TIP #110 [was Re: suggestion[data in .sig file]]

2002-03-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:37:56PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > 4. this whole mess is signed with *my* name and e-mail address, and > 5. NOBODY TOLD ME THEY WERE GOING TO PUT MY NAME ON IT. When people like me volunteered to summarize informat

Re: Java SDK 1.4

2002-03-08 Thread Bill Wohler
Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I > *think*, but am not sure, that stuff needs to be recompiled - or was it > that you can't run javac from 1.3 in a 1.4 VM? Yes, the binary format has changed but you've got it backwar

Re: apt-get build-deps or -b switch

2002-03-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Harry" == Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harry> I've written hundreds, probably thousands of lines of reports Harry> complaints etc. Received piles of helpful replies. And still no Harry> stable sytem in working order. I'm sorry to hear that. You certainly have given it

Re: TV over LAN?

2002-03-08 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 8 Mar 2002, Thomas Hessling wrote: > X forwarding should do it. You might have to add the workstation to your > laptop's xhost list (xhost +hostname_of_workstation) - depends on your X > server configuration. Afterwards just ssh to your workstation and run > the TV program. I'm thinking audio

Re: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-08 Thread Bruce Burhans
- Original Message - From: "Oki DZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Michael Marziani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 9:55 PM Subject: Re: The future of Debian install?? > Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso wrote: > > Well, I don

Re: CD-Writing Program

2002-03-08 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Jeff J. wrote: > Im trying to move the family from WinXP to Debian so my computer wont be > rebooted into windows every time I come home.. If I could find a generally > 'compatible' browser that works with everything (mostly?) and a good > comprehensive/easy to use cd-w

Re: networking problems withe Linksys router

2002-03-08 Thread Chris Jenks
At 02:38 PM 3/7/02, you wrote: Sorry, I forgot that bit. No, there was no need. I had the rest of the network at home set up before the cable installer guy got here, so the Linksys MAC address is the only address they have from me. At first I thought it was a problem with the DHCP server, bec

Re: networking problems withe Linksys router

2002-03-08 Thread Chris Jenks
At 03:36 AM 3/8/02, Chris Jenks wrote: At 02:38 PM 3/7/02, you wrote: Sorry, I forgot that bit. No, there was no need. I had the rest of the network at home set up before the cable installer guy got here, so the Linksys MAC address is the only address they have from me. At first I thought it

Watch this - Microsoft Security Update

2002-03-08 Thread Paolo Sacco
Microsoft Customer, this is the latest version of security update, the

Re: From apt-move to apt-proxy

2002-03-08 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 04:41:15PM +0100, Chris Halls wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:45:41PM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:51:17PM +0100, Chris Halls wrote: > > > http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net/apt-proxy/unstable > > > I would like to try it, but I (well, m

Re: Still looking to replace Eudora

2002-03-08 Thread O Polite
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 04:01, Eric G. Miller wrote: > The window(s) within a containing window paradigm is generally not found > in X programs. I don't think it's even part of most (any?) toolkits. > When I first moved to linux I tried out StarOffice, which put all it's windows in one "desktop" wi

NFS problem

2002-03-08 Thread Axel Boyrie
Hi, I am using Woody. I mount NFS directory from Solaris 2.8 where files are owed by nobody.nobody once NFS mounted on Woody, with the kernel 2.2.20 files appear as own by nobody.nogroup But with kernel 2.4.17 files appear with a uid and gid number 4294967294 !!??? i've try to change the NFS

Re: TV over LAN?

2002-03-08 Thread Thomas Hessling
> > X forwarding should do it. You might have to add the workstation to your > > laptop's xhost list (xhost +hostname_of_workstation) - depends on your X > > server configuration. Afterwards just ssh to your workstation and run > > the TV program. > > What about sound? You're right, that's a prob

Re: Open Office in unstable?

2002-03-08 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:27:41PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > I've found some packages for debian unstable at www.linux-office.net has > anyone else tried them? Yes and they worked for me on one out of two machines: The X server on my Thinkpad T20 (Savage IX chip) crashes frequently when I run OO

Re: TV over LAN?

2002-03-08 Thread Richard Hector
Thomas Hessling wrote: > > > > X forwarding should do it. > > > > What about sound? > > You're right, that's a problem. I haven't used audio software with X > forwarding so far but it will probably be played on the wrong computer, > as Paul already said. I believe that's what NCD invented the Ne

Re: TV over LAN?

2002-03-08 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Richard Hector wrote: > Note that I've never used it. I'm not entirely sure anybody did. I don't think it's offered on current NCDs... -- Baloo

Re: apt-get build-deps or -b switch

2002-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 06:42:08PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:15:39PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Its a little confusing since apt-get is supposed to be getting all > > dependancy stuff. It looks like it is too, but then it fails. > > apt-get satisifies binary d

Re: CD-Writing Program

2002-03-08 Thread Karsten Heymann
* Jeff J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020308 10:56]: > Im trying to move the family from WinXP to Debian so my computer wont > be rebooted into windows every time I come home.. If I could find a > generally 'compatible' browser that works with everything (mostly?) Galeon seems very promising. Should be

Re: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-08 Thread Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso
On Friday 08 March 2002 06:55, Oki DZ wrote: > Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso wrote: > > The install part on RH is better than what's in Debian, even today; > especially when it goes to X. I never said that fresh install in Debian > was easier. On Debian, it is a _lot_ easier when installing individual

Re: TV over LAN?

2002-03-08 Thread Richard Hector
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Richard Hector wrote: > > > Note that I've never used it. > > I'm not entirely sure anybody did. I don't think it's offered on > current NCDs... Well it's available in both potato and woody (client, server, libraries, docs), so it must have a

just a few questions!

2002-03-08 Thread Greg Murphy
Hello, I've got just a few questions that maybe someone can help me out with. Thanks for any help. 1. What's the command line option to record mp3's (on my hard drive) to cds (that can be played in cd players) using mkisofs, cdrecord, mpg123, etc? I have tried a couple frontends, but none of

Re: TV over LAN?

2002-03-08 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Richard Hector wrote: > Well it's available in both potato and woody (client, server, libraries, > docs), so it must have achieved some level of popularity. Oh, well, I stand corrected. -- Baloo

gs-pdfencrypt & gs-aladdin confusion

2002-03-08 Thread Martin Hermanowski
This is strange: I' m using gs-aladdin, and I would like to view encrypted pdfs. gs-aladdin suggests gs-pdfencrypt, but installing gs-pdfencrypt would install gs and gs-common and remove gs-aladdin. So how can I view encrypted pdfs with gs-aladdin? MfG Martin -- PGP/GPG encrypted mail preferred

Re: just a few questions!

2002-03-08 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Greg Murphy wrote: > Hello, > > I've got just a few questions that maybe someone can help me out with. Thanks > for any help. > > 1. What's the command line option to record mp3's (on my hard drive) to cds > (that can be played in cd players) using mkisofs, cdrecord, mpg

Re: Still looking to replace Eudora

2002-03-08 Thread Brian Stults
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 04:59, O Polite wrote: > > Pardon my English, speling is broken in Evolution. > Search the web for the unofficial debian package for gnome-spell. Install it and spell-checking in evolution will work. -- Brian J. Stults Department of Sociology University of Florida P.O.

User name in email address

2002-03-08 Thread Glyn Millington
Can you help me understand something about my mail system? Gnus, Xemacs, Exim, fetchmail. When I, eg, send a message to this list, my email address comes out as Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Now the "Glyn Millington" part of that is not set in my .gnus file or init.el , nor can I

Greek keyboard on Woody

2002-03-08 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, Any pointers/suggestions on how to set up a Greek keyboard on woody? Best regards, | George Karaolides Linustech Advanced Solutions, | | tel: +357 22 55 61 29 86 Ifigenias Street, 3rd Floor, | | web: www.linustech.com.cy Strovolos,

Re: User name in email address

2002-03-08 Thread Chris Jenks
At 06:59 AM 3/8/02, Glyn Millington wrote: Can you help me understand something about my mail system? Gnus, Xemacs, Exim, fetchmail. When I, eg, send a message to this list, my email address comes out as Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Now the "Glyn Millington" part of that is not

Re: Greek keyboard on Woody

2002-03-08 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
George Karaolides wrote: > > Hi, > > Any pointers/suggestions on how to set up a Greek keyboard on woody? > > Best regards, > there's an hellenic-howto on www.linuxdoc.org. pietro.

Re: User name in email address

2002-03-08 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Glyn Millington wrote: > Now the "Glyn Millington" part of that is not set in my .gnus file or > init.el , nor can I find it in exim.conf So Gnus is pulling this down > from somewhere and I must have set it a couple of years ago when I first > set up Debian here. But where

Re: OT: kernel 2.4 and USB 2.0

2002-03-08 Thread Daniel Faller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 07 March 2002 18:52, Ron Johnson wrote: > Thanks.  There are 2 patches listed.  Is the hcd-0120.patch a > cumulative patch, or must I apply both usb2-ehci-0114.patch and > then hcd-0120.patch? I didn't try it myshelf but I would expect you

Re: Greek keyboard on Woody

2002-03-08 Thread George Karaolides
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > George Karaolides wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Any pointers/suggestions on how to set up a Greek keyboard on woody? > > > > Best regards, > > > > there's an hellenic-howto on www.linuxdoc.org. > > pietro. > Hi Pietro, Thanks for the pointer, but I was a

Re: courier-imap setup

2002-03-08 Thread Shri Shrikumar
>I'm having some trouble getting courier-imap to work on my unstable >box. (courier-imap-ssl is currently not installable due to >dependency-problem, I filed a bug already). > >So, I installed it, and tried to connect with gnus and >netscape-messenger. To no avail. My user/pw combination is not >re

Re: User name in email address

2002-03-08 Thread Glyn Millington
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > /etc/passwd. I don't see why this is a problem, since you can change it > in most mail readers. No problem, just that a. I couldn't for the life of me remember where it is set. b. I don't like it when the system does things I can't track dow

Re: Greek keyboard on Woody

2002-03-08 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
George Karaolides wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > > > George Karaolides wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Any pointers/suggestions on how to set up a Greek keyboard on woody? > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > > there's an hellenic-howto on www.linuxdoc.org. > > > > pie

Re: Still looking to replace Eudora

2002-03-08 Thread Michel Loos
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 03:23, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Thursday 07 March 2002 07:01 pm, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 05:11:12PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > > Maybe it's a config setting I've missed, but what I miss is having the > > > messages open in their own windows (ye

Re: Still looking to replace Eudora

2002-03-08 Thread Jorge Escalante
Have you tried "balsa"? It's the one I use and it's not bad. On Thu, 07 Mar 2002 20:11:12 Bill Moseley wrote: > I just didn't realize how set in my ways I am. > > I've tried for X: Kmail, Evolution, Sylpheed, and Mahogany. Something else I > can't remember. They all seem fine. > > Maybe it'

Problems replacing gs-aladdin with gs

2002-03-08 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I am running Woody. I tried to replace gs-aladdin with gs and apt-get seems to have a problem with it. It comes up with error process ... gs-common_0.3.2_all.deb (--unpack) trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/bdftops', which is also in package ghostscript. All attempts with apt-get -

Using deb packages to release software

2002-03-08 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Hi, I work in a software house and we always publish our software using deb packages. We have a little server configured with a Packages.gz, enabling the packages to appear in dselect. All my packages are in a CVS server, and I use cvs-buildpackage to create the debs from the cvs source. Until her

Re: CD-Writing Program

2002-03-08 Thread John Shepherd
Jeff, I'm very new to Linux, too, but my understanding is that cdrecord and cdrdao are the typical cd-burning softwares. There is a cd-writing HOWTO that seems pretty good, too. http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html Best, John --- "Jeff J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im

Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi Has anybody else had experience with setting up a Debian GNU/Linux box for friends who wants to get started with computers? If so then I'd appreciate your comments/input. I plan to use: - Debian GNU/Linux (off course!) install minimal potato, set up apt to point to woody (with preferen

Re: Still looking to replace Eudora

2002-03-08 Thread O Polite
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 12:48, Brian Stults wrote: > Search the web for the unofficial debian package for gnome-spell. > Install it and spell-checking in evolution will work. > http://www.luyer.net/EvoBuilds/spell-checking/gnome-spell_0.3-0_i386.deb Thes unofisial package installles nisely. And

Re: apt-get build-deps or -b switch

2002-03-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Sean writesL [...] > The point of this is not "Debian is your saviour, repent". My point is > sometimes you come in at the wrong time. Out time, your time, it doesn't > matter. Just don't give up. Quite a story Sean.. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>"Harry" == Harry Putnam <

Re: Greek keyboard on Woody

2002-03-08 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, I found some stuff under www.linux.gr about setting up the Greek keyboard under X. IN the end, setting up the Greek keyboard on Woody (X 4.1.0) was as simple as making these changes to the InputDevice section: --- Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard"

Re: NEWBIE TIP #110 [was Re: suggestion[data in .sig file]]

2002-03-08 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > Anyway, it was interesting. this was not "my document" but quite > thought provoking for me Good. Then my ranting was not entirely in vain. Dima -- We're sysadmins. Sanity happens to other people. -- Chris King

Re: NFS problem

2002-03-08 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Axel Boyrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi, > > I am using Woody. I mount NFS directory from Solaris 2.8 where files are owed > by nobody.nobody > > once NFS mounted on Woody, with the kernel 2.2.20 files appear as own by > nobody.nogroup > > But with kernel 2.4.17 files appear with

Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-08 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:57:58PM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > - Icewm - not gnome. (it seems lightweight) Alternatives welcome. Try fluxbox. It is fast and light. I particularly like its tabbed window arrangement. For a file manager, use rox. If your friend is comfortable with a t

whatever happend to tkdesk and xv in woody?

2002-03-08 Thread Martin Edward John Waller
Hello, er - how come tkdesk and xv seem to have disappeared out of woody? Or is it just me? Martin

Recording in stereo

2002-03-08 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, I am facing some problem while recording from my tape player. My set up is as follows: Kernel 2.4.18, Debian woody, alsa 0.9beta10 Sound card: Yamaha ymfpci I can play mp3 files fine. I have plugged the stereo out of my tape player to the line in of the sound card. I used rec (

Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-08 Thread David B Harris
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 14:57:58 + "Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anybody else had experience with setting up a Debian GNU/Linux box > for friends who wants to get started with computers? If so then I'd > appreciate your comments/input. > > I plan to use: > - Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Greek keyboard on Woody - SOLVED

2002-03-08 Thread George Karaolides
Hi all, I now have a Greek keyboard based on the UK keyboard layout, as needed for Cyprus. I got that by copying the file /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/el to a file el_CY in the same directory, and hand-editing the differences between UK and US keyboards into it as obtained from the file named "gb" in th

RE: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-08 Thread Michael Marziani
Woah folks.. I actually think you guys are saying some of the same things, but not quite expressing it the same ways. In my original post, I was just thinking how it would be nice to have the option of having some things done automatically rather than do it all by hand. I understand it's very im

Re: apt-get build-deps or -b switch

2002-03-08 Thread Harry Putnam
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Still apt-get -b source vim >> Fails with the same message as reported. >> > > The message you posted earlier did not actually have a useful error message > (basically, it failed). This got my attention.. Maybe these don't indicate what i

mozilla-psm installed but not https

2002-03-08 Thread Bill Moseley
Did I miss a step or is a dependency missing? I had mozilla installed on Sid. But couldn't got to a SSL site. Installed mozilla-psm, but still same situation. Granted all I did was apt-get install mozilla-psm, and poke around google. Still seems like that should have got my https working. T

Re: TV over LAN?

2002-03-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 01:15:12AM +0100, Thomas Hessling wrote: > X forwarding should do it. You might have to add the workstation to your > laptop's xhost list (xhost +hostname_of_workstation) - depends on your X > server configuration. Afterwards just ssh to your workstation and run > the TV pro

Re: From apt-move to apt-proxy

2002-03-08 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:54:49AM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 04:41:15PM +0100, Chris Halls wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:45:41PM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:51:17PM +0100, Chris Halls wrote: > > > > http://apt-proxy.sour

Re: Still looking to replace Eudora

2002-03-08 Thread Brian Stults
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 10:19, O Polite wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 12:48, Brian Stults wrote: > > Search the web for the unofficial debian package for gnome-spell. > > Install it and spell-checking in evolution will work. > > > > http://www.luyer.net/EvoBuilds/spell-checking/gnome-spell_0.3

Re: apt-get build-deps or -b switch

2002-03-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting. > > Should that happen after running apt-get build-dep package? > they should not but it is possible for a few reasons: *) the apt database is out of date. Have you run apt-get update recently? *) they build depend on

Re: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Mar 08, 2002, Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso wrote: > >Well, I don't know how RH goes now, but the first RH distribution I test > >about seven years ago (4.x or so...) has an installation like the one > >Debian has today. > > The install part on RH is bet

Re: whatever happend to tkdesk and xv in woody?

2002-03-08 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Edward John Waller wrote: > er - how come tkdesk and xv seem to have > disappeared out of woody? Or is it just me? xv turns out to lack permission to distribute modified copies, so we pulled it from debian. tkdesk has a number of serious bugs which nobody seems to be fixing, so it has bee

Re: Tulip not installing

2002-03-08 Thread timothy bauscher
It would appear that the conflict has not been resolved in Woody either. I suppose I have two choices: 1. Get down and dirty, and spend lots of time compiling this crapping tulip driver myself 2. Install RedHat I really hate both choices :-( (==timothy==) =

Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:27:47PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:57:58PM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: >> >> - Icewm - not gnome. (it seems lightweight) Alternatives welcome. > > Try fluxbox. It is fast and light. I particularly like its tabbed > window arrange

How not to ask for help or report success (was Re: I fucked up apt-get)

2002-03-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Mar 06, 2002, Rudy Gevaert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 08:28:41PM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I fucked up apt-get :( so badly I can't install or upgrade a thing. Is > > there a way to reconfigure everything so apt-get forgets about his past > > o

Re: From apt-move to apt-proxy

2002-03-08 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 05:28:54PM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > To get back to the original topic of this thread: > Well, I'm testing it now, and I did some stupid things with my apt-move > cache, but it seems the apt-proxy-import script wouldn't work anyway, > since apt-move seems to strip o

Re: Smart Debian Backup?

2002-03-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Mar 07, 2002, Lee Braiden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Just wondering, on Windows.. I once used a backup system (Quickbackup, I > think), which would figure out which files on your system were standard > installations off a CDROM (using a database of common software & files,

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-03-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Mar 07, 2002, Hans Ekbrand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 05:44:25AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > UNSUBSCRIBE [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "u

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2002-03-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
...this is actually a test of my subscribe/unsubscribe procmail rule, to see if and how it works properly. I _do_ know how to sub/unsub, am subbed, and don't plan on leaving any time soon. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Re: apt-get build-deps or -b switch

2002-03-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Harry" == Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harry> My final installation (#8) is a bare bones, noX, command line commando Harry> machine. Those are the best ;-) Harry> I'll get it setup to handle my household mail next week. So Harry> haven't completely abandonded ship.

Re: mozilla-psm installed but not https

2002-03-08 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Bill Moseley quotation: > Did I miss a step or is a dependency missing? > > I had mozilla installed on Sid. But couldn't got to a SSL site. Installed > mozilla-psm, but still same situation. > > Granted all I did was apt-get install mozilla-psm, and poke around google. > Still seems

Re: Certificate printer software? / turboprint

2002-03-08 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Stan, turboprint (http://www.turboprint.de) works for many printers and does really a good job. However, it is not free software. There is a version which does not cost anything and is ok for many purposes. The full version costs AFAIK EUR 20. (BTW, it often causes confusion that you have no

Re: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Francisco" == Francisco M Marzoa Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Francisco> An elitist... well, if you can configure X from scratch Francisco> faster than the computer itself, then you should think Francisco> about go to the Guinness show. Computers are done to make Francisco> our lifes

Re: TV over LAN?

2002-03-08 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Dave Sherohman quotation: > Last I heard, xhost and X forwarding over ssh were unrelated. Definitely; with ssh forwarding, your display actually seems to be on a local port, so adding the ssh client machine to xhost is irrelevant. > You > only need one or the other, and I would recommend

Re: How not to ask for help or report success (was Re: I fucked up apt-get)

2002-03-08 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Karsten M. Self quotation: > When you post a problem, post the command line used and error messages > received. > > When you post a solution, er, post the _solution_. Others can learn. Avoiding casual obscenities doesn't hurt either. (in reference to the original post, not Karsten's exc

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2002-03-08 Thread Axel Minck
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Boottime keymap

2002-03-08 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi ! I've renamed boottime.kmap.gz in /etc/console to boottime.kmap.gz.bak and copied es.kmap.gz in /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty to /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz, so that the spanish keymap loads every time I boot. Is this the right way to do it ? TIA -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There

stunnel?

2002-03-08 Thread Robert L. Harris
Is anyone using stunnel to provide https access to an http only product? :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Micros~1 : Senior System Engineer |For when quality, reliability at RnD Consulting

Strange IP ports behavior

2002-03-08 Thread Massimo Villa
Sorry for my description but I'm a Linux's novice. I have a pc Compaq DP133 MHz with kernel 2.2.19pre17 acting as mail server with PostFix. I don't know why in some day (not all) the different IP services (SMTP, POP, TELNET) are unavailable for the timeout period after that I 'm able to teln

Re: User name in email address

2002-03-08 Thread csj
On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 12:45:36 + Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > /etc/passwd. I don't see why this is a problem, since you can change it > > in most mail readers. > > No problem, just that > > a. I couldn't for th

apt & cache

2002-03-08 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
Hi, Recently, I upgraded my sid. But some packages just installed are not in /var/cache/apt/archives. I have a lot of free space disk. So, is there any other reason that I could not find some downloaded packages ? Thanks, Romuald.

Woody

2002-03-08 Thread César Augusto Seronni Filho
Hi guys, anyone knows any news about the stable release of woody? How many month we need to wait for it? tks

Re: attached: new error output and XF86Config

2002-03-08 Thread Simon Hepburn
Looks to me like you are trying to use options that are only valid for an X4 config with X3.3 What version of debian are you using ? What version of X are you using ? To configure X3.3 do #XF86Setup -- Simon Hepburn.

Re: mozilla-psm installed but not https

2002-03-08 Thread Bill Moseley
On Friday 08 March 2002 09:04 am, Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Bill Moseley quotation: > > I had mozilla installed on Sid. But couldn't got to a SSL site. > > Installed mozilla-psm, but still same situation. > > > > Granted all I did was apt-get install mozilla-psm, and poke around > > google.

Re: The future of Debian install??

2002-03-08 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:12:53AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Francisco" == Francisco M Marzoa Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Francisco> An elitist... well, if you can configure X from scratch > Francisco> faster than the computer itself, then you should think > Francisco> abou

locale problem

2002-03-08 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi, after upgrading to woody from potato its seems that I've lost the locale configuration. After installed the language-dev package and running "dpkg-reconfigure locales", choosing the "en_US.ISO8859-1" option, I got the message that this locale was generated successfully. But the system insi

Re: Still looking to replace Eudora

2002-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 10:30, Brian Stults wrote: > On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 10:19, O Polite wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 12:48, Brian Stults wrote: > > > Search the web for the unofficial debian package for gnome-spell. > > > Install it and spell-checking in evolution will work. > > > > >

Re: apt-get build-deps or -b switch

2002-03-08 Thread Harry Putnam
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting. >> >> Should that happen after running apt-get build-dep package? >> > > they should not but it is possible for a few reasons: > > *) the apt database is out of date.

Re: Woody

2002-03-08 Thread Daniel Ruoso
The official debian site says that woody is close to the "Frozen" state, not stable... and also says that doesn't have a date for the release, debian releases when it's time.. On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 14:54, César Augusto Seronni Filho wrote: > Hi guys, anyone knows any news about the stable release

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