Re: rc.local equivalent in Woody?

2002-03-26 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya i'd put it ( hdparm ) into /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh (or create that file ) c ya alvin On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Alan James wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:11:20AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > > In my Potato installation, I place a call to hdparm in rc.local. > > > > In my new Woody

Re: vmware pooched by latest dist upgrade.

2002-03-26 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Sheldon Lee-Wen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I just filed a bug report against this, but the latest upgrade against > unstable causes the thread in vmware that is responsible for handling > disk io to fail, thus vmware fails. The solution is to downgrade your > libc6, libc6-dev and locales ve

KDE background program causing X memory leak?

2002-03-26 Thread Brian Nelson
I've set up my KDE background to "Background Program", which runs the command: nice -n 19 xplanet --geometry %xx%y -cloud_image ~/.xplanet/clouds_2000.jpg -projection orthographic -latitude 40 -longitude 250 --output %f.jpg && mv %f.jpg %f at 15 minute intervals. This is similar to the instruc

Re: vmware pooched by latest dist upgrade.

2002-03-26 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Gary Hennigan") writes: > BTW, did you notify VMWare about this? > The problem is already discussed on the vmware news groups and seemingly has found a solution: - snip - [ header shortened ] From: Petr Vandrovec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: vmw

Re: install cperl-mode for emacs

2002-03-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 26/03/02 Henrik Enberg did speaketh: > If you're using GNU Emacs you already have it installed. I belive the > same is true for XEmacs. Put the following in your ~/.emacs.el > > (defalias 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode) Grab the latest version though. I'm running 4.32 and it's been much improve

Bootp and IP ranges

2002-03-26 Thread Shem Page
I'm trying to get a bootp server to allocate ip addresses out to devices. I have one for DHCP and now I need one for bootp. I don't want to have to know the mac address of each machine that will request an IP address from the server, but I can't figure out how to avoid it. Can somebody tell me

[OT]: Recommended Gaming Controller for Linux??

2002-03-26 Thread Sunny Dubey
heya everyone I finally got tired of play games on my linux machine with a stupid keyboard. Sure a keyboard does the job, however the full gaming feel is always lacking with a real game controller of some sort. I've been looking into purchasing some sort of USB based gaming controller for lin

mutt send folder from field not to field

2002-03-26 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hello, i've just noticed something weird, i use mutt, and fcc to sent. when i view the sent folder, it lists every message as "Jason M. Harvey" (the From: field) and not the To" field. i've read the man pages, and i'm not quite sure what option would change the index in that folder, or which forma

Window Maker Mod1 and Mod2 keys

2002-03-26 Thread Mark
When trying to edit some of my key shortcuts in Wprefs I notice that when I capture an Alt-Tab I get a Mod1 + Mod2 + Tab capture. Where does the Mod2 come from? Many of the shortcuts are Mod1 + not Mod1 + Mod2 + as that all of my captures suggest. Please enlighten me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Domains/trusts

2002-03-26 Thread curtis
First, the situation. Facts: We have an office in the US running an NT-based network with a few linux stations. We have an office in Russia, where they have a peer-to-peer network - all windows based OSs. Goal: We wish to create a WAN through a VPN. Concerns: HOWEVER. I am about to let them

using windows key to pop-up KDE menu?

2002-03-26 Thread Kurt Lieber
By default, KDE uses the windows key on keyboards as a meta key, but you don't seem to be able to use it by itself as an action key. Is there any way to use it as a regular key? What I'd like to do is duplicate the functionality of the windows key in windows -- i.e. have it pop up the main KDE

Re: Swap files on Reiserfs

2002-03-26 Thread Oki DZ
On 03/26 01:44 Michel Clasquin wrote: swap *files*? Are those actually still supported? Yes... dd if=/dev/zero of=/myswapfile bs=1024 count= mkswap /myswapfile swapon /myswapfile What are you trying to do, share swap space with Windows? No, just Linux swapfiles. No, you can't be, that wo

Re: copy protected audio cds with linux ?

2002-03-26 Thread Joey Hess
Karsten M. Self wrote: > There's also a question of whether or not such products qualify for the > "Compact Disk" lable under the Phillips standard. Phillips itself > (inventer of the CD) has objected to DeCSS under similar grounds. Well I bought a CD today, which is from one of Sony's labels, an

Doing the unicode thing

2002-03-26 Thread Chuck Higgins
I was hoping somebody could straighten me out on a couple of points to do with unicode. I've got the core truetype fonts installed, some (all?) of which are unicode fonts, but I've noticed that when I list them with xlsfonts, they show up for all the 8-bit encodings iso8859-* etc, rather than

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Kent West wrote: > Is there a true open standard format, that is easily > created/used/editted on any platform, other than text? (Text (ASCII? - > and what's the difference between DOS ASCII and Windows ASCII, and Text > ASCII, etc?) would be ideal, except for the inability to

Re: Gnome sound not working, how to troubleshoot?

2002-03-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:51:14PM -0500, Jesse Goerz wrote: > On Monday 25 March 2002 22:07, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > Make sure ~/.gnome/sound/system reads: > > > > [settings] > > start_esd=true > > event_sounds=true > > > > Make sure that sound files you are trying to play for the > > different

3dfx howto -- whereis?

2002-03-26 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Greeting fine peoples: I have been looking for a HOWTO 3dfx for x4 and my 2.4.17 kernel. I found some very old info and a old howto from 1998. Is there something for a Debian Woody user with the voodoo 3 3000 cards? I have attempted to get it fully functional to play TUXracer, but right

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-26 Thread Jason Healy
At 1017168824s since epoch (03/26/02 14:53:44 -0500 UTC), Shawn Yarbrough wrote: > What is blowing my mind is that the ping request is actually entering the > system on the wrong interface, presumably because the system is responding > to my switch's ARP query on the "wrong" interface. > > I think

Re: Gnome sound not working, how to troubleshoot?

2002-03-26 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 07:09:01PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 02:49:40PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 07:22:45PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > I'm seting up 2 machines, both have working sound, using mp3blaster > > > for instance. > > > > > > However niethe

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:23:40AM -0600, Paul F. Pearson wrote: > Postscript is a good standard for distributing documents (not writing in > them). PDF is becoming a standard of sorts. I think it's proprietary, but > well defined and "open for use." Many good tools exist on most major OSes > t

Re: simple database?

2002-03-26 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:25:48AM -0600, dman wrote: [snip] > yielded faster responses. However (at the time at least) its locking > was table-level. This means that if someone is updating a row in a > table, then no one else can read any other row in that table. > PostgreSQL had more overhead o

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-26 Thread Gary Turner
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 20:52:05 -0500, Jason Healy wrote: >At 1017168824s since epoch (03/26/02 14:53:44 -0500 UTC), Shawn Yarbrough >wrote: > >IANAKH (I am not a kernel hacker), but I'll take a shot anyway. It's >been a while since my networking course in college, but here's my >theory (feel fre

Re: 3dfx howto -- whereis?

2002-03-26 Thread Jason Healy
At 1017182369s since epoch (03/26/02 20:39:29 -0500 UTC), Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > I have been looking for a HOWTO 3dfx for x4 and my 2.4.17 kernel. I found > some very old info and a old howto from 1998. Is there something for a > Debian Woody user with the voodoo 3 3000 cards? I don't k

Re: KDE background program causing X memory leak?

2002-03-26 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 03:05:09PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > I've set up my KDE background to "Background Program", which runs the > command: > > nice -n 19 xplanet --geometry %xx%y -cloud_image ~/.xplanet/clouds_2000.jpg > -projection orthographic -latitude 40 -longitude 250 --output %f.jpg &

Re: mutt send folder from field not to field

2002-03-26 Thread Larry Holish
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 07:49:25PM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > hello, > > i've just noticed something weird, i use mutt, and fcc to sent. when i > view the sent folder, it lists every message as "Jason M. Harvey" (the > From: field) and not the To" field. i've read the man pages, and i'm not >

Re: using windows key to pop-up KDE menu?

2002-03-26 Thread Robert_L
On Tuesday 26 March 08:11, Kurt Lieber wrote: > By default, KDE uses the windows key on keyboards as a meta key, but you > don't seem to be able to use it by itself as an action key. Is there any > way to use it as a regular key? > > What I'd like to do is duplicate the functionality of the window

Re: using windows key to pop-up KDE menu?

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 09:11, Kurt Lieber wrote: > By default, KDE uses the windows key on keyboards as a meta key, but you > don't seem to be able to use it by itself as an action key. Is there any way > to use it as a regular key? > > What I'd like to do is duplicate the functionality of the w

Re: Domains/trusts

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 09:09, curtis wrote: > First, the situation. > > Facts: > We have an office in the US running an NT-based network with a few linux > stations. > We have an office in Russia, where they have a peer-to-peer network - > all windows based OSs. > > Goal: > We wish to create a W

Re: [OT]: Recommended Gaming Controller for Linux??

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 08:10, Sunny Dubey wrote: > heya everyone > > I finally got tired of play games on my linux machine with a stupid keyboard. > Sure a keyboard does the job, however the full gaming feel is always lacking > with a real game controller of some sort. I've been looking into pu

Re: OpenGL dev & NVIDIA driver

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 02:32, Pac wrote: > Hi all, > > I've installed the NVIDIA driver for my GeForce3 graphic card, they > work perfectly, I see the Nividia's logo at the startup of my > windowmanager. > > I've also installed this packages : > glutg3-dev > xlibmesa3 > > to be able to compile m

Re: how to print A1 document ?

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 19:08, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > i have found this program which looks ok: > > apt-get install poster > > :) Cool. I'll check that one out. Crispin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread John F
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:23:34AM -0600, Kent West wrote: I'm trying to educate some users on the dangers of proprietary file formats. But to make sure I've got my facts right, I need to ask: Is the Rich Text Format (.rtf) an open standard? (In other words, can I say s

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 17:56, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Sorry this has nothing to do with Debian, but I'm at a loss as to where > else to ask (if it matters, both machines are running Debian ). > > I am looking to connect two machines, one will be connected to the > outside network, the other connected

Re: Swap files on Reiserfs

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 16:53, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > Has any of you installed your swapfiles on reiserfs...? > I have converted all my partitions to reiserfs, and currently the > machine would crash about every week. I don't know for sure whether it > is the source of the problem. I just need an

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread dave mallery
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, John F wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > >On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:23:34AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > >>I'm trying to educate some users on the dangers of proprietary file > >>formats. But to make sure I've got my facts right, I need to ask: Is the > >>Rich Text Forma

Re: install cperl-mode for emacs

2002-03-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26/03/02 Henrik Enberg did speaketh: > > > If you're using GNU Emacs you already have it installed. I belive the > > same is true for XEmacs. Put the following in your ~/.emacs.el > >=20 > > (defalias 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode) > > Grab the

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-26 Thread Jason Healy
At 1017245979s since epoch (03/26/02 22:19:39 -0500 UTC), Crispin Wellington wrote: > Of course theres collisions. But switch <-> Computer has collisions > too. Unless you're running in full duplex (both crossover and switches support this mode, so long as the NIC/switch at each end both support

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-26 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Shawn" == Shawn Yarbrough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shawn> I have an x86 server computer containing two network cards: Shawn> eth0 --> 192.168.1.130 eth1 --> 192.168.1.131 Shawn> Both cards work fine alone. As you can see, both cards are Shawn> on the same network. The su

Newbie, configure exim/fetchmail w/ dialup; daemon trouble.

2002-03-26 Thread Barry Mathieu
Hello, With the help of this list, I have successfully upgraded from Potato to Woody! 20 hours on a dialup. However, I am having some troubles with mail handling; exim & fetchmail With Potato, ppp ran as a daemon, fetchmail was configured, and I could issue, "fetchmail" at the command prompt to

login/logout scripting

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
I want to run a certain script when someone logs in (run at user level) and another when they logout. I want them to run no matter what type of login is in progress (shell, ssh, xdm etc). How should I go about this? Is is possible to somehow do it through PAM? Or will I need to run it from a few p

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