Re: (no subject)

2002-04-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 00:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > how do i get a full screen ? Be more specific. Full screen of what? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8

how to get the total resource usage of a uid?

2002-04-13 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello, I'd like to know the real-time memory/cpu usage of the total processes of a single uid. How can I get the report? I've tried vmstat and top, but failed to get what I need. For example, if I allocate the max memory/cpu resource for www-data in /etc/security/limits.conf, how can I know the

Re: Wrong sender address!

2002-04-13 Thread Andreas Grabner
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 10:20:36PM +0200, Jeroen Valcke wrote: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:21:36PM +0200, Andreas Grabner wrote: > What kind of mail client are you using. > Check the file /etc/email-addresses Exim uses it to rewrite your from > header. MTA exim. in email-addresses there is "andi:

Re: Wrong sender address!

2002-04-13 Thread Gary Turner
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:21:36 +0200, Andreas Grabner wrote: >Hi > >After sending some mails to the list but dont see them I looked in the >archive where i saw: ># Sender: Andreas Grabner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >which is wrong !!! Here is a partial header as rcvd here. >From: Andreas Grabner <[EMAIL

snort problems

2002-04-13 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! I have been using snort for a while now, and I noticed, that it does not send the daily status mails any more. All I get is an empty email - just the headers without the content. Also snort is really paranoid, it lists every single thing - too paranoid in my opinion. Is there a way to stop it

Re: FW: Kernel identification

2002-04-13 Thread Herbert Xu
curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get install kernel-imgage- > In this case, when I type apt-get install kernal-image-2.4.17-386 (the > kernel version on my other computers), I get the following message: >Package kernel-image-2.4.17-386 has no available version, but exists >in the

Need utility to search for duplicate files

2002-04-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
My desktop system is used by 3 users, each having a few thousand files in their home directory. Since we primarily have the same interests, there are a LOT of duplicates to be found. Earlier I found an mpeg movie that all three of us had that was 120 MB. That's 240 MB of wasted space. Unfortunately

Re: Need utility to search for duplicate files

2002-04-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Apr-2002 Alex Malinovich wrote: > My desktop system is used by 3 users, each having a few thousand files > in their home directory. Since we primarily have the same interests, > there are a LOT of duplicates to be found. Earlier I found an mpeg movie > that all three of us had that was 120 M

Re: Need utility to search for duplicate files

2002-04-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 03:18:47AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > My desktop system is used by 3 users, each having a few thousand files > in their home directory. Since we primarily have the same interests, > there are a LOT of duplicates to be found. Earlier I found an mpeg movie > that all thre

kill, kill, kill...

2002-04-13 Thread David Wright
How do I tell &*$#*@&% dpkg: "I dont' care that your f**king postremoval script returned errors, just get absolutely everything that had to do with this package off my system and forget it ever existed" ??? dpkg --force-all --purge XXX doesn't do it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Cntrl_home and Cntrl_end in emacs21 on console?

2002-04-13 Thread Johann Spies
One of the differences between emacs20 and emacs21 is the behaviour of the Home and End keys. I found the following problem in emacs21: Movement to the top or bottom of the document is supposed to be the result of Cntrl_Home and Cntrl_End respectively. But that only works in the X11 environment.

Re: The Direction of Debian

2002-04-13 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 01:29, Sean wrote: > On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 19:58, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > > > > This is a vaild point, in my mind. Implementing a BSD-style ports > > > structure would help to get around this in my mind. > > > > Explain this one? I'm unfamiliar with ports. > > > >

Re: Cntrl_home and Cntrl_end in emacs21 on console?

2002-04-13 Thread marshal
> "Johann" == Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johann> How can I tell emacs in the console environment to accept Johann> the combination of Cntrl and the Home and End keys? Better check the info manual for that one. C-h i. m emacs. Johann> Or is there another way to go t

pcmcia

2002-04-13 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
Hi I am running debian 2.2.20 sid on a laptop and I am haveing trouble with the pcmcia card. It starts after the nettwork and couses the pc to boot without getting an address from dhcp. I need to run /etc/init.d/networking restart everytime I have booted up. How can I get the pcmcia card to start

Re: OT: vm vs mutt (was Re: Someone tell me the secret of mutt)

2002-04-13 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:33:23PM -0400, Craig Duncan wrote: > David Turetsky writes: > > > Mutt is great. Read enough of the handbook or info to get started, > > then add to your knowledge as situations require. I started using it > > a year or two ago and find it a real treat > > > > -- > > D

Hello,please try again

2002-04-13 Thread webmaster
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package management

2002-04-13 Thread David Wright
Okay, I have calmed down a bit since I sent my "kill, kill, kill" mail, and now have some more rationally formulated questions about package management. 1) Is there any way to force dpkg to remove as much of a package as it can and then liquidate the entry from its database, regardless of wha

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[WARNING] Broken libxml2 2.4.19-2 in unstable

2002-04-13 Thread christophe barbé
libxml2 2.4.19-2 in unstable is broken. All programs using this library fail with : relocation error: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol: pthread_once This could be harmless but scrollkeeper use this library and then the upgrade of a few packages (gnome packages) fail. Downgrading to 2.4.

Re: package management

2002-04-13 Thread Bob Koss
On 4/13/02 8:28 AM, "David Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Is there any way to force dpkg to remove as much of a package as it > can and then liquidate the entry from its database, regardless of > whatever error codes any scripts return, thus allowing you to start over > from a pristine

Re: package management

2002-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 05:28:49AM -0700, David Wright wrote: > Okay, I have calmed down a bit since I sent my "kill, kill, kill" mail, > and now have some more rationally formulated questions about package > management. > > 1) Is there any way to force dpkg to remove as much of a package as it

Re: package management

2002-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:52:00AM -0400, Bob Koss wrote: > On 4/13/02 8:28 AM, "David Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Is there any way to force dpkg to remove as much of a package as it > > can and then liquidate the entry from its database, regardless of > > whatever error codes any scr

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Re: User's perspective on upgrading to kernel 2.4?

2002-04-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Paul 'Baloo' Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020412 22:57]: > > This is probably the biggest issue; I've gotten several conflicting > > recommendations about devfs/devfsd. What are the advantages of going > > to the new devfs/devfsd? > > You get to delete /dev/* and reclaim disk space and inodes, an

java

2002-04-13 Thread Ted
Hi.. Could anyone let me have the sources lis address for the blackdown java and is there a file anywhere of preferred sources ??? Regards Ted Wager -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: java

2002-04-13 Thread Bob Underwood
On Saturday 13 April 2002 09:38, Ted wrote: > Hi.. > Could anyone let me have the sources lis address for the blackdown > java and is there a file anywhere of preferred sources ??? > Regards > Ted Wager deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian woody non-free --

Re: [WARNING] Broken libxml2 2.4.19-2 in unstable

2002-04-13 Thread christophe barbé
The previous one should still be in your /var/cache/apt/archives/ directory. So you can simply do dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libxml2_2.4.19-1_i386.deb Note : I CC the mailing list in case somebody else need the tip. Christophe On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 11:40:12PM +1000, mobtek mobtekl wrote

Re: pcmcia

2002-04-13 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 01:41:47PM +0200, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > Hi > > I am running debian 2.2.20 sid on a laptop and I am haveing trouble with > the pcmcia card. It starts after the nettwork and couses the pc to boot > without getting an address from dhcp. > I need to run /etc/init.d/networ

Re: kill, kill, kill...

2002-04-13 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 02:53:06AM -0700, David Wright wrote: > > How do I tell &*$#*@&% dpkg: "I dont' care that your f**king postremoval > script returned errors, just get absolutely everything that had to do > with this package off my system and forget it ever existed" ??? > > dpkg --force-a

Re: User's perspective on upgrading to kernel 2.4?

2002-04-13 Thread dman
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 09:19:47AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: | * Paul 'Baloo' Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020412 22:57]: | > > This is probably the biggest issue; I've gotten several conflicting | > > recommendations about devfs/devfsd. What are the advantages of going | > > to the new devfs/de

Re: kill, kill, kill...

2002-04-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Apr-2002 David Wright wrote: > > How do I tell &*$#*@&% dpkg: "I dont' care that your f**king postremoval > script returned errors, just get absolutely everything that had to do > with this package off my system and forget it ever existed" ??? > > dpkg --force-all --purge XXX doesn't do

where to install openoffice

2002-04-13 Thread martin f krafft
hi folks, i've always installed OpenOffice or StarOffice or whatever into /usr/local/apps/{open,s}office or /usr/local/lib/{open,s}office, depending on whether the day was even or odd -- as in, there was no pattern. now i am installing a couple of new systems and would like to do it right. it see

Re: Wrong sender address!

2002-04-13 Thread dman
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 01:31:02AM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: | On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:21:36 +0200, Andreas Grabner wrote: | >After sending some mails to the list but dont see them I looked in the | >archive where i saw: | ># Sender: Andreas Grabner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | >which is wrong !!! | | H

Re: Need utility to search for duplicate files

2002-04-13 Thread Mark Carroll
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 03:18:47AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: (snip) > > Unfortunately, the files won't always have the same filename. Does > > anyone know of a utility that can go through and search for files with > > the same size and/or date and d

Re: java

2002-04-13 Thread dman
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 02:38:26PM +0100, Ted wrote: | Hi.. | Could anyone let me have the sources lis address for the blackdown | java and is there a file anywhere of preferred sources ??? See http://blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html and find a mirror closest to you. The sources.list entry

Re: Cntrl_home and Cntrl_end in emacs21 on console?

2002-04-13 Thread Henrik Enberg
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I tell emacs in the console environment to accept the > combination of Cntrl and the Home and End keys? It is not possible to tell the difference between C-home and home on the console. > Or is there another way to go to the top or bottom of the

Re: Reducing font size in X

2002-04-13 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 07:36:30AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > Wow. I just halted xfs and restarted X. Everything looks the same. > Before I unsinstall xfs completely, I have two questions: > > - Does anything need the font server? Sometimes I launch X-windows > remotely after connecte

Re: package management

2002-04-13 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 05:28:49AM -0700, David Wright wrote: > > > 2) Is there any way to tell dpkg to mark a specific package with a hold > flag without going through the dselect menus? I always end up getting > lost and doing things I don't want to in dselect, and I really want to > be able

Re: java

2002-04-13 Thread Ted
Bob Underwood wrote: > > On Saturday 13 April 2002 09:38, Ted wrote: > > Hi.. > > Could anyone let me have the sources lis address for the blackdown > > java and is there a file anywhere of preferred sources ??? > > Regards > > Ted Wager > > deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/b

Re: Someone tell me the secret of mutt

2002-04-13 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:23:57AM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:16:34PM -0400, N. Thomas uttered: > --> * Jeffrey W. Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-04-11 18:55:27 -0700]: > --> > > --> > Ximian Evolution really is a foul pig of an MUA. I love pine, but it is > --> > s

Re: java

2002-04-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"twager" == twager writes: twager> Hi.. Could anyone let me have the sources lis address for twager> the blackdown java and is there a file anywhere of twager> preferred sources ??? Regards Ted Wager Look in http://www.blackdown.org/ and you should find sites in the UK (which

Re: where to install openoffice

2002-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 04:24:52PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > it seems that these software packages should install into > /opt/{open,s}office to keep the system in accordance with the FHS. > however, there's something deep inside me speaking against /opt at the > top of the filesystem hierarch

Re: where to install openoffice

2002-04-13 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
I typically install OpenOffice to either home, or opt. I dont think it matters where you install it. Then I usually create a script in /usr/bin called soffice: #!/bin/bash /home/OpenOffice/program/soffice & Why do I put it in /home? Well, i was switching distros rather frequently last year be

Re: package management

2002-04-13 Thread Joey Hess
David Wright wrote: > 1) Is there any way to force dpkg to remove as much of a package as it > can and then liquidate the entry from its database, regardless of > whatever error codes any scripts return, thus allowing you to start over > from a pristine pre-install state? Something like > dpkg

Re: Maildir performance & mutt

2002-04-13 Thread N. Thomas
* Karsten M. Self [2002-04-12 00:25:00 -0700]: > > I've switched to maildir, um, well, I forget why. > > With 1000+ messages (and 5000+ is pretty easily attainable), performance > on opening a folder sucks. > > Is there any way to speed this up? There was a thread about this recently on mutt-u

Re: java

2002-04-13 Thread Ted
Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > "twager" == twager writes: > > twager> Hi.. Could anyone let me have the sources lis address for > twager> the blackdown java and is there a file anywhere of > twager> preferred sources ??? Regards Ted Wager > > Look in http://www.blackdown.org/ and

X - getting a full screen [Fwd: Re: (no subject)]

2002-04-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
I asked this chap to be more specific about his request for getting a full screen. I don't feel this reply takes us much further forward, but perhaps someone might be able to help him. Forwarded Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: olly@lfix.co.uk Subject: Re: (no subject) Date: 1

flightgear

2002-04-13 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Debian sid Nvidia GeForce2 GTS - OpenGL working fine in all other games. apt-get installed flighgear It starts at about 89 fps then when moving drops to 2 fps (unplayble). Just wondered if other had this problem and have a fix. -- Kevin C. Smith | "A Society that will trade a little l

Re: where to install openoffice

2002-04-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Arthur H. Johnson II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.13.1814 +0200]: > I typically install OpenOffice to either home, or opt. I dont think it > matters where you install it. Then I usually create a script in /usr/bin > called soffice: that's exactly what i was trying to prevent. sentenc

Re: where to install openoffice

2002-04-13 Thread Brian W. Carver
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.12.html says " /opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application software packages. " Open/StarOffice are add-on application software packages. Ergo, Open/StarOffice goes in /opt. You seem extremely committed on the one hand to following FHS to th

Re: Allow a user to shutdown

2002-04-13 Thread Josef Oswald
"Kurc, Marcin A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > man shutdown > > ACCESS CONTROL >shutdown can be called from init(8) when the magic keys > CTRL-ALT-DEL are pressed, >by creating an appropriate entry in /etc/inittab. This means that > everyone who has >physical access to

Re: The Direction of Debian

2002-04-13 Thread Niall Brady
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:29:56PM -0400, Sean wrote: > > The BSD ports system is one where you download source instead of > binaries. The Gentoo distribution has a similar system, with it's > portage and emerge programs. To be more precise it * Is all based around Makefiles * Do

Re: Cntrl_home and Cntrl_end in emacs21 on console?

2002-04-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:11:01PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Johann> Or is there another way to go to the top or bottom of the > Johann> document in emacs21? > > M-> or M-x end-of-buffer. Thanks Marshal, I missed that one somehow. With that working I don't need the Ctrl-Home/

Bad disk?

2002-04-13 Thread csj
I'm having trouble with a new 60GB MAXTOR 4K060H3. The disk is temporarily installed as /dev/hdb so I can copy over some files from what hopefully will be my old disk. Can somebody interpret the error messages below? Is the disk bad or is the problem something else (cable, controller, etc)? #Begin

Re: The Direction of Debian

2002-04-13 Thread Niall Brady
bah... I get dozy if I get up too early :-) On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 07:48:42PM +0100, Niall Brady wrote: > > The problem is (and I'm not too hot on apt, so forgive me if I'm > wrong :-) that by default you can do 'apt upgrade' (or whatever the s/can/can\'t/ > incantation is if it exists) to upd

Re: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-13 Thread Craig Duncan
Elizabeth Barham writes: > Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:11:38PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > > > > But then again, do you *really* want to buy a computer from the evil > > > empire? > > > But there might be a warranty - if the hard di

dselect question

2002-04-13 Thread stan
On one of my woody machines, when I do an "Update", and then go into "Request Packages", all teh new packages are presented to me at the top of the list. One the otehr machines this is not true, and I cannot seem to figure out how to change dselect to make it so. What am I missing? -- "They tha

Re: [WARNING] Broken libxml2 2.4.19-2 in unstable

2002-04-13 Thread David Wright
The previous one should still be in your /var/cache/apt/archives/ Not if you installed on a fresh machine last night! This is what caused my un-installable and un-removable gnome packages, which I struggled with for 3 hours and which meant that my users currently cannot log in under gnome.

Re: where to install openoffice

2002-04-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Brian W. Carver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.13.2048 +0200]: > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.12.html thanks, i am actually part of the team i guess... > You seem extremely committed on the one hand to following FHS to the letter, > even going so far as to get mad at those who

Re: Allow a user to shutdown

2002-04-13 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:47:52PM +0200, Josef Oswald wrote: > > to test it I logged in as another user in the console and hit the > magic keys, instead of giving me the warning that: shutdown: "no > authorized users logged in" the pc rebooted, so what is missing here? Was this other user the *

Re: flightgear

2002-04-13 Thread Tom Playford
Well your lucky to get it get it installed! apt-get install flightgear Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: flightgear: Depends: libmetakit but it is not installable E: Sorry, broken packages What fun :) I guess it'll work tomorrow. On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 18:58, Kevin C.

Re: where to install openoffice

2002-04-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 04:24:52PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > hi folks, > > i've always installed OpenOffice or StarOffice or whatever into > /usr/local/apps/{open,s}office or /usr/local/lib/{open,s}office, > depending on whether the day was even or odd -- as in, there was no > pattern. now i

Re: Bad disk?

2002-04-13 Thread dman
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 02:19:15AM +0800, csj wrote: | I'm having trouble with a new 60GB MAXTOR 4K060H3. The disk is | temporarily installed as /dev/hdb so I can copy over some files from | what hopefully will be my old disk. Can somebody interpret the error | messages below? Is the disk bad or is

Umfrage pxsb

2002-04-13 Thread feac_CVC
Wir vom Meinungsforschungsinstitut CVC recherchieren gerade für ein großes deutsches Nachrichtenmagazin folgende Umfrage. "Geht Israel mit seinen Attacken gegen die Palästinenser zu weit und sollte es sich dem Willen der internationalen Gemeinschaft beugen und die besetzten Gebiete räumen?" We

S3 TRIO 32 and XFree86?

2002-04-13 Thread Charlie Grosvenor
Hi     I have a couple of machines with S3 Trio 32 graphics cards in. I am trying to get XFree86 version 4.1.0 work on these machines, I am using Debian woody. According to the http://www.xfree86.org this card is supported but I cannot get it to work. Does anybody have one of these

Re: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-13 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Craig Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Plus you'll be giving a job to some teenager in a Maquiladora or some > slave-laborer in China and be putting a big $2 / week in their pocket > (the former only) with which to buy some beans for their family to > eat. Good point. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: dselect question

2002-04-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Apr-2002 stan wrote: > On one of my woody machines, when I do an "Update", and then go into > "Request Packages", all teh new packages are presented to me at the top > of the list. One the otehr machines this is not true, and I cannot seem > to figure out how to change dselect to make it so.

refresh rates for sony PCG-FXA36

2002-04-13 Thread Thomas Peri
Hi, Where can I find the proper refresh rates for the LCD on a Sony Vaio PCG-FXA36 laptop? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intermittent aspect ratio problem in X 4.1

2002-04-13 Thread Tom Zych
Simon Hepburn wrote: > You need to upgrade to a 2.4 kernel and enable the neccessary > agp and dri support. In the meantime change your modules > section to this: Thanks! I'm afraid the modules section change didn't help. I don't quite trust 2.4 yet but it seems to be getting there. Cheers, --

Microsoft Access

2002-04-13 Thread dude
Hi all, Im working ina medical group that uses Microsoft Access, is there any software that can interact with Access? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Umfrage pxsb

2002-04-13 Thread Matthias Ospelkaus
Warning: though most of you won't understand this mail(german), do not call this number! This seems just to be one more exymple how people make money unethitically. These numbers cost much money and no magazine would use this method to gain surveys! Don't call: they try to make money with a un

Re: Umfrage pxsb

2002-04-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Matthias Ospelkaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.13.2329 +0200]: > Warning: though most of you won't understand this mail(german), do not > call this number! This seems just to be one more exymple how people make > money unethitically. These numbers cost much money and no magazine woul

Re: Microsoft Access

2002-04-13 Thread dman
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 04:17:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Hi all, Im working ina medical group that uses Microsoft Access, | | is there any software that can interact with Access? ODBC (probably). At any rate it isn't fun. -D -- Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly

Re: dselect question

2002-04-13 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 15:16:49 -0400 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On one of my woody machines, when I do an "Update", and then go into > "Request Packages", all teh new packages are presented to me at the > top of the list. One the otehr machines this is not true, and I cannot > seem to figure o

Re: Maildir performance & mutt (was Re: Someone tell me the secret of mutt)

2002-04-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 12, 2002, Rich Puhek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > dman wrote: > > > Karsten wrote: > > | With 1000+ messages (and 5000+ is pretty easily attainable), performance > > | on opening a folder sucks. I assume it's because mutt has to do an > > | fopen() on each file, scan headers, group

Re: kill, kill, kill...

2002-04-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Apr 13, 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On 13-Apr-2002 David Wright wrote: > > > > How do I tell &*$#*@&% dpkg: "I dont' care that your f**king postremoval > > script returned errors, just get absolutely everything that had to do > > with this package off my sys

Re: where to install openoffice

2002-04-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Apr 13, 2002, martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > it seems that these software packages should install into > /opt/{open,s}office to keep the system in accordance with the FHS. > however, there's something deep inside me speaking against /opt at the > top of the filesystem hierarc

Re: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-13 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Paul 'Baloo' Johnson quotation: > > But then again, do you *really* want to buy a computer from the evil > empire? Does the system on which you're reading this have an Intel processor? -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com

Re: pcmcia

2002-04-13 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 16:10, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: Hi > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 01:41:47PM +0200, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am running debian 2.2.20 sid on a laptop and I am haveing trouble with > > the pcmcia card. It starts after the nettwork and couses the pc to boot > >

Re: Bad disk?

2002-04-13 Thread csj
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 14:52:38 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 02:19:15AM +0800, csj wrote: > | I'm having trouble with a new 60GB MAXTOR 4K060H3. The disk is > | temporarily installed as /dev/hdb so I can copy over some files from > | what hopefully will be my old di

Re: Allow a user to shutdown

2002-04-13 Thread Josef Oswald
Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:47:52PM +0200, Josef Oswald wrote: >> >> to test it I logged in as another user in the console and hit the >> magic keys, instead of giving me the warning that: shutdown: "no >> authorized users logged in" the pc rebooted, so

Re: where to install openoffice

2002-04-13 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin martin f krafft quotation: > > > Why do I put it in /home? Well, i was switching distros rather frequently > > last year before settleing on Debian and home is a seperate part that > > never gets formatted. > > ever heard of /usr/local? Not everybody's /usr/local is a seperate filesystem

Re: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-13 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Craig Duncan quotation: > > Plus you'll be giving a job to some teenager in a Maquiladora or some > slave-laborer in China and be putting a big $2 / week in their pocket > (the former only) with which to buy some beans for their family to > eat. Deprive that Chinese worker of that $2 / wee

VPN

2002-04-13 Thread Tom Playford
Hi, I've had a VPN set up between a few friends for some time now, but the current system is far from private. Does anyone have any suggestions for a simple encrypted VPN. It's just a matter of linking two networks both with Internet visible Linux routers. Thanks Tom Playford signature.asc De

Re: Fonts on an LCD Flat Panel

2002-04-13 Thread Dale Hair
> > * Open the Control Center. > > * Open the Desktop category in the pane on the left. > > * Click on the "Theme Selector" line. > > * In the framebox labeled "User Font", toggle the "Use custom font." > checkbox. > > * Click the big button directly below that checkbox in the framebox >

What are these mails?

2002-04-13 Thread John Lord
Hi there, Over the last few days I have recieved a lot of mails with the following subjects:- Not read: ÍøÕ¾±à¼­:ÄúºÃ Nem olvasta: Í???±??­:Äú?? Read: ÍøÕ¾±à¼­:ÄúºÃ They are from different subscribers but all have an attachment titles winmail.dat. -- Cheers John Amiga A1200 PPC running

Re: What are these mails?

2002-04-13 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, John Lord wrote: > They are from different subscribers but all have an attachment titles > winmail.dat. People's (mis)configured Exchange servers autoresponding to a spam that requested it. -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Intermittent aspect ratio problem in X 4.1

2002-04-13 Thread Simon Hepburn
Tom Zych wrote: > Thanks! I'm afraid the modules section change didn't help. > I don't quite trust 2.4 yet but it seems to be getting there. If you could post the contents of /var/log/XFree86.0.log, I'll take another look. -- Simon Hepburn. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: S3 TRIO 32 and XFree86?

2002-04-13 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 12:29, Charlie Grosvenor wrote: > Hi > > I have a couple of machines with S3 Trio 32 graphics cards > in. I am trying to get XFree86 version 4.1.0 work on these machines, I > am using Debian woody. According to the HYPERLINK > "http://www.xfree86.org/"http://www.x

Re: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-13 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Shawn McMahon wrote: > Does the system on which you're reading this have an Intel processor? No, but they're not the evil empire. On the contrary, Hillsboro's not far removed from a company town, and the local paper's been reporting Intel has finally had enough out of Califo

Help, I hosed my machine's software selection :-(

2002-04-13 Thread stan
I made teh stupid mistake of copying /etc/apt/sources from one machine to another. Problem is, I did not copy the preferences file also, and the new sources had a line referencing unstable. I then used dselect, and it upgraded 200= packages! At the monent, my system's pretty hosed (gnome does n

Re: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-13 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Paul 'Baloo' Johnson quotation: > > Does the system on which you're reading this have an Intel processor? > > No, but they're not the evil empire. At least as much as Wal-Mart is. And, like Wal-Mart, they have a quality product that a lot of people want. In my old home town in Oklahoma,

Re: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-13 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Shawn McMahon wrote: > At least as much as Wal-Mart is. And, like Wal-Mart, they have a > quality product that a lot of people want. In my old home town in > Oklahoma, they were the best grocery store in town, and the ONLY 24-hour > place to buy computer equipment. Sounds k

Re: Intermittent aspect ratio problem in X 4.1

2002-04-13 Thread Tom Zych
Simon Hepburn wrote: > If you could post the contents of /var/log/XFree86.0.log, I'll > take another look. Oh, thanks! I didn't look at that, I assumed it would be the same as startx's output but there's lots more. Like the other log, it comes out the same whether the aspect ratio is right or w

scanner problem

2002-04-13 Thread Paolo Falcone
Hello. I'm using Debian 2.2 with the Ximian GNOME desktop and some number of backported packages, running the Linux 2.4.18-xfs kernel. I just bought a Canon flatbed scanner model CanoScam N640P ex. I'd like to solicit ideas as to what do you think of this scanner brand. Is is supported under li

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Re: VPN

2002-04-13 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 11:41:22PM +0100, Tom Playford wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions for a simple encrypted VPN. It's just a > matter of linking two networks both with Internet visible Linux routers. Freeswan (www.freeswan.org) is the way to go. It is industrial strength, standards co

Re: freeswan on testing/2.4.18 kernel

2002-04-13 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 06:40:22PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > The two mahcines have an IP address of 192.168.51 and 192.168.0.52. My > /etc/ipsec.conf looks like this (see end of message). I've tried with > and without the leftsubnet and rightsubnet settings but I can't seem to > get a ne

Re: [WARNING] Broken libxml2 2.4.19-2 in unstable

2002-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 12:18:12PM -0700, David Wright wrote: > > The previous one should still be in your /var/cache/apt/archives/ > > Not if you installed on a fresh machine last night! This is what caused > my un-installable and un-removable gnome packages, which I struggled > with for 3 hou

Anyone know of a good debian mailing list?

2002-04-13 Thread Kurt Lieber
Hey -- This sure is a great PoliSci list. Anyone know of a similarly good list for discussions about Debian? Thanks. --kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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