Re: can i trust you with this project

2002-10-04 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 04 Oct 2002 5:50 pm, " Angles " Puglisi wrote: > ok, I know people are stupid, but to operate an email program, to read that > scam mail, and reply to it, and I guess give up info or money, DAMN are > people really THAT DUMB! o - the pai

Intel 82546 Gigabit e1000 ethernet in Debian

2002-10-04 Thread Greg Vickers
Hello list, Pleased to make your acquaintance. I have a brand new Dual Xeon (with HT) server and I'm trying to get the onboard Intel 82546 e1000 NIC going. I'm having a few problems and was wondering if anyone here has got this NIC to work under Debian? I downloaded the source for the NIC modu

Re: man pages: dangling symlinks

2002-10-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:15:02AM -0700, ben wrote: > On Thursday 03 October 2002 10:19 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:25:00PM -0700, ben wrote: > > > is there any kind of process by which dangling symlinks can be resolved? > > > > Er, that depends. Which ones? Either remo

Re: man pages: dangling symlinks

2002-10-04 Thread ben
On Friday 04 October 2002 01:52 am, Colin Watson wrote: [snip] > > Does 'update-alternatives --config gconftool' sort it out? Make sure to > keep a record of the current state of the /etc/alternatives/gconftool* > symlinks and the contents of /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/gconftool before > doing tha

Re: man pages: dangling symlinks

2002-10-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:39:55AM -0700, ben wrote: > thanks for the hints. i'll set about those methods and see how it > goes. i've been googling on the subject and it seems like this issue > goes back a few years. i saw one post from 6/98. is this going to be > sorted any time in the near futur

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Oleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.03.1952 +0200]: > I'm curious, do you know of any standard benchmark reports of Linux > on XBox such as LAPACK [1], kernel compilation, etc. Have you done > any yourself? Not yet. > What system bus and what type of RAM does an XBox use? I think it's

Re: galeon crashes on pasting (was: galeon and its problems)

2002-10-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.03.0553 +0200]: > Galeon doesn't crash for me with this particular trick, but it does seem > quite unstable for me in general. Visiting k5, for example, always > results in a crash. Other sites seem to randomly crash Galeon too, but > I can't nam

The Swiss and the EU (was: mass installation on XBox)

2002-10-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.03.2025 +0200]: > There are laws (prehaps not in your location) that some may consider your > endeavor to violate. The DMCA is but one possible example. IANAL. I was on crack. The swiss is part of the Nato now, not the EU. So EUCD doesn'

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.03.2330 +0200]: > Yes, it is, but that doesn't make it any less of a reality. As for who > these people are, I believe the term is "politician". Why the fuck are we accepting this? The next person to say "democracy" will get my foot up th

Re: What are these groups for?

2002-10-04 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 02:17, John Hasler wrote: > The 'dip' group is for users who need to start a ppp connection. Certain > pppd-related files are in 'dip'. 'dialout' is for users who need to open > serial ports. The serial ports are in this group. It is not necessary to > be in 'dialout' to

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.04.0006 +0200]: > Unfortunately, I think that MS could make a justifiable claim that > they are losing money. X-Boxen are sold below cost for maximum > market pentration. That *should* be illegal. Anyway, I ain't fighting M$ with the law a

RE: anything like NextStep? - Re: File Manager Suggestions?

2002-10-04 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 20:57, Michael Olds wrote: > If you check out sourceforge under desktop file managers, I saw a few like > this while I was checking out different possibilities. Already having deleted the original post, I'm attaching here. Don't know if it is still alive, but I've long used

OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread martin f krafft
With this thread, I am trying to achieve two things: - create a strategy to create one such cluster, or find technical arguments against a cluster built on XBoxes. - show Hanspeter what an excellent mailing list debian-user is. As it stands, two days after the original post, we have abo

Re: The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-04 Thread Chavo
> Kent West said: This appears to be changing with > the new MS DRM patents, and intel/AMD putting silicon into their > chips/chipsets to work with it. From my brief reading on it the end goal is to > eliminate piracy totally. While I have no problem with this, it > will force many people to pu

Re: VERY OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Pure crap. Let me give you an example: You haven't paid property tax for a while. Then your property can be taken away from you. Which means it was never yours. You just had a licence to say it was yours. As soon as you stopped paying the yearly fee for the license, the truth came out. So, let

Re: The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-04 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:13:33PM +0300, Chavo wrote: > Does this mean that in future if I desire to buy intel hardware and use it > with open-source software such as Debian, the hardware would prevent me from > doing this or open-source software would be deteriorated in its performance. > I am c

Re: Headers in this ML

2002-10-04 Thread Richard Kimber
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 02:10:26 +0200 Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you using standard mbox format? Could it be that it's just the end > of another email that just happened to have a proper "From " header in > its *body* ? It's all MH and Sylpheed. - Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: VERY OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:23:01AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > By the way, I like the idea of the duel. That would really be great, > if they want to fight, let them do it themselves and stop messing the > lives of others (who will not make any money from the oil anyway!) > (Disclaimer:

Re: VERY OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread Vinai Kopp
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:39:19AM -0400, Edward Guldemond wrote: > (Disclaimer: I am an American. Maybe Mr. Rodriguez is as well, and if > so, then that's fine. I'm just venting after listening to Gerhard > Schroeder of Germany and after reading some of his campaign material.) Please take thi

esd: naive question

2002-10-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi All, in order to ear sound when I lauch Gnome, I have to run `esd' by hand. Since I am a lassy guy, I wonder who must do this job in Debian ? I reconfigured the esound package, but the trouble is still there. Any hint ? Thanks in advance, jerome BENOIT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread ben
On Friday 04 October 2002 02:49 am, martin f krafft wrote: > With this thread, I am trying to achieve two things: > > - create a strategy to create one such cluster, or find technical > arguments against a cluster built on XBoxes. > > - show Hanspeter what an excellent mailing list debian-

How to make an mpeg-movie from still images?

2002-10-04 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I have a lot of imgaes (output from pymol, a molecular graphics rendering program), which I would like to join together as an mpeg movie. So far I have tried out ffmpeg (converted the images to .ppm format and used ffmpeg -i film_00%2d.ppm -s 640x480 -r 25 -an film.mpg The restult i

Building distributions based upon Debian

2002-10-04 Thread jurgen . defurne
Dear all, I would like to create smaller distribution from Debian 3.0r0, e.g. one or two CD's instead of 7, with a whole lot of basic applications, but not much redundancy in these. Anyone remember the VAR-Linux Debian CD ? I got one from Las Vegas in 1999, but they were not done very well. I

Re: ASUS motherboard

2002-10-04 Thread Frederik Dannemare
Jim McCloskey wrote: > Has anyone any experience of the ASUS P4 S533 motherboard under > Debian? > > In particular, I've been trying to reassure myself that the onboard > LAN controller is supported, and have wandered all over the net > seeking reassurance. I'm still not sure. The LAN controller

Re: How to make an mpeg-movie from still images?

2002-10-04 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Fri, 04 Oct 2002 13:12:33 +0200 Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody > > I have a lot of imgaes (output from pymol, a molecular graphics > rendering program), which I would like to join together as an mpeg > movie. So far I have tried out ffmpeg (converted the images to .p

Re: Unattended installation...

2002-10-04 Thread Bruno BEAUFILS
-> Set Dpkg::Options {"--force-confold";} in /etc/apt/apt.conf Thank's it works well. Where may I find documentations of all those kind of options ? -- -- Bruno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 03:21:18PM -0400, vanillicat wrote: > On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:20:37 -0700 > "deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Total curiosity here but why on Earth would you purchase 100 Xboxes to > > run Linux? Weren't you complaining in the "Problem with Debian" > > thre

Re: Dictionary app recommendation

2002-10-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:41:41AM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > Comparing Freshmeat against the Debian repository didn't offer any > obvious candidates. What should I try? Install dictd and whichever dictionaries you like, plus the command line `dict' tool. Works very well. -rob msg05251/

Re: Headers in this ML

2002-10-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 06:56:31PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 10:41:01 -0700 > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What probably happened is they hit Reply-All and sent it as the > > unsubscribe. So a message came here and one came to you directly from > >

Re: esd: naive question

2002-10-04 Thread Claudio Bley
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 12:59, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hi All, > > in order to ear sound when I lauch Gnome, > I have to run `esd' by hand. > > Since I am a lassy guy, > I wonder who must do this job in Debian ? Usually, GNOME does this for you. $ grep start_esd ~/.gnome/sound/system start_esd=t

Re: Building distributions based upon Debian

2002-10-04 Thread jeff
> Dear all, > > I would like to create smaller distribution from Debian 3.0r0, e.g. one or > two CD's > instead of 7, with a whole lot of basic applications, but not much > redundancy in > these. > > Anyone remember the VAR-Linux Debian CD ? I got one from Las Vegas in > 1999, > but they were not

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread Keith Willoughby
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:18:07AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > It's in Switzerland where the DMCA (luckily) doesn't apply. > > > > You might even be lucky enough to evade the EUCD, then, which is not > > that far off ... > > No such luck. The Swi

Re: galeon crashes on pasting (was: galeon and its problems)

2002-10-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:35:28AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.03.0553 +0200]: > > Galeon doesn't crash for me with this particular trick, but it does seem > > quite unstable for me in general. Visiting k5, for example, always > > results in a

Re: anything like NextStep? - Re: File Manager Suggestions?

2002-10-04 Thread Richard Weil
A note about getting gworkspace running ... I'm running testing, but I got the gnustep and gworkspace debs from unstable, since it looked like there had been several changes. With that said, I couldn't start any GNUstep apps, including gworkspace, until I added the following to my .bash_profile:

Re: Debian on SunBlade 100? Forget about it.....

2002-10-04 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On 04 Oct 2002, 00:22:29, Ron Johnson wrote: > > same for one of my freebsd boxes(my living room has 12 computers > > in it, 5 of which are turned off due to heat and/or lack of > > My wife would pitch a *FIT* if I did that. I'm still amazed that > she dated me a 2nd time, considering the stacks

Re: mgetty hangs machine

2002-10-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.01.1955 +0200]: > Most likely a hardware problem. If you have 2 serial ports, try > connecting the modem to the other one. Probably. I am having problems dialing out with this machine too. (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200

Re: I cannot post with my regular address

2002-10-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach icosahedron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.01.2158 +0200]: > For the past month I have been unable to post to the > list from my regular email address. I sent a message > to the listmaster address a couple weeks ago, but have > received no reply. Does anyone know why I cannot post > mess

Re: anything like NextStep? - Re: File Manager Suggestions?

2002-10-04 Thread ben
On Friday 04 October 2002 05:46 am, Richard Weil wrote: > A note about getting gworkspace running ... I'm > running testing, but I got the gnustep and gworkspace > debs from unstable, since it looked like there had > been several changes. With that said, I couldn't start > any GNUstep apps, includ

Re: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach deFreese, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.02.1820 +0200]: > Total curiosity here but why on Earth would you purchase 100 Xboxes > to run Linux? Weren't you complaining in the "Problem with Debian" > thread about giving money to Microsoft? No. Aside, M$ will lose money if you buy a

Re: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.04.1319 +0200]: > If I buy an X-Box that cost $300 to make for $200, then MS `loses' > $100. If I don't buy one at all, then they lose $300. Where did you learn economics? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ ec

Re: Dictionary app recommendation

2002-10-04 Thread Pat Colbeck
There is tkdict which should be able to look like a NextStep app if you use some of the tk tweaks. http://search-dev.cpan.org/src/NEILB/Net-Dict-2.06/tkdict Pat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help with fonts / openoffice [solved]

2002-10-04 Thread Matt Price
hi everyone, I meant to post this to the list some time ago -- by accident I posted it directly to don. Hope this helps anyone having similar problems. matt Don, thanks so much for your help. This is a very satisfactory intermediate solution (ultimately I'd like to be able to use my favorit

Re: Changing the title (name) of a current rxvt or xterm

2002-10-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.02.1059 +0200]: > Is it possible to change the -name option of a current xterm or rxvt? > How? print -Pn "\033]2;Your text here\007" -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto

Re: anything like NextStep? - Re: File Manager Suggestions?

2002-10-04 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
ben wrote: | thanks jason. apt crapped out on the first try. i needed to update. | gworkspace is a bit of a resource hog, though. it totally claimed | my fluxbox workspace, obliterating everything else that was running | there before. oh well, it's a new toy to play with, just in time | for

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.04.1311 +0200]: > have you checked out xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/articles.php? there's also > www.xboxhacker.net Yes, thanks, they are on our resources list. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Keith Willoughby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.04.1432 +0200]: > > No such luck. The Swiss signed on to the EU recently. > > You're not thinking of their joining the United Nations, are you? Yes. See my other message. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)

Re: pls help or i will switch to other distro

2002-10-04 Thread Kent West
> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>Thanks again! >> >>when i play sound file, i'm root. i run sndconfig, it says sound module not present. >> >>as to X, i'd rather return Debian 2.2(which use X 3.3) and upgrade kernel to 2.4 >> >> Kent wrote: >Same goes for X; I'm pretty sure you can dow

Re: [OT] Faulty hard drive?

2002-10-04 Thread David Teague
Alex My experience with IDE drives (both cheap and expensive) is when drive errors show up, drive death is impending. I believe that IDE drives have automatic "sparing" of bad blocks, so you don't see bad blocks until the spares are used up. By then the surface is flaking off with your data.

Re: The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-04 Thread Kent West
Chavo wrote: > > >>Kent West said: >> >> > This appears to be changing with > > >>the new MS DRM patents, and intel/AMD putting silicon into their >>chips/chipsets to work with it. From my brief reading on it the end goal >> >> >is to > > >>eliminate piracy totally. While I have no

Re: Debian on SunBlade 100? Forget about it.....

2002-10-04 Thread Bob Hauck
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, nate wrote: > Marlon Ott said: > > What a deal... $3800 for a brand new SunBlade 100 with > > you got ripped off. new sun blade 100s are going for > under $900(this was a year ago) I'm hoping he means a SunBlade 1000, they cost upwards of $3000. I paid $1100 for a new 100 w

Re: getting a 3C905B network card recognized

2002-10-04 Thread Erik Price
--- Adam Galant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Erik Price wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am new to Debian and installation of linux, and am trying to get > my > > network card recognized. It is a 3Com 3905B model (I believe), and > I'm > > not sure what steps to take for that.

Ultra 1

2002-10-04 Thread Bob Hauck
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, nate wrote: > one of my ultra 1s is essentially a monitor stand for the moment, > waiting for the weather to cool off before i turn it on again, Somebody just gave me an Ultra 1 model 170. Haven't decided whether to install Solaris 9 or Debian (it has Solaris 2.6 on it now b

Re: Building distributions based upon Debian

2002-10-04 Thread jurgen . defurne
Thanks, I know LFS, but that is not the purpose. The purpose is to start from standard debian packages, but create smaller indexes, ie. not taking all packages. E.g. A small end-user WS could only take some graphical packages, and games, and some productivity apps, and that is all, maybe a patc

Re: VERY OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread Mike Dresser
On 4 Oct 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: > Gov't bureaucrats can't just walk over to the County Records Office and > rip up your deed. The gov't must have a very good reason to do so, and > it takes a long time, and there are many hearings, appeals, etc. Up here in Ontario, Canada at least, it's not r

fetchmail rules for logcheck?

2002-10-04 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, I recently started running the fetchmail service from /etc/init.d, rather than running it under my own account when I login. One thing that I like about this is that error messages go to syslog and then I see them in my logcheck emails. Unfortunately, there are also hundreds of lines of

Re: gnomecal coredumps on startup

2002-10-04 Thread Sebastian Rittau
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:08:21PM +1000, Jim Richardson wrote: > Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm running woody, and recently I noticed that gnomecal has refuses to > > start. > >... > > Relevant information: > > > > This is a stock Woody installation, nothing special > > > >

Re: getting a 3C905B network card recognized

2002-10-04 Thread Erik Price
--- Erik Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks very much for the advice about what to do. I didn't know > about > the "modconf" program, so I ran it (as root), and selected the driver > you mentioned -- 3C56X. It installed successfully (according to the > installer). Umm... sorry, that'

Re: Building distributions based upon Debian

2002-10-04 Thread Russell
I installed Debian from the net, starting with floppies from a windows machine until i got the debian box on the net. I've installed bit by bit, and have just installed X and fvwm. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks, > > I know LFS, but that is not the purpose. > > The purpose is to start fro

Re: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:59:00PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.04.1319 +0200]: > > If I buy an X-Box that cost $300 to make for $200, then MS `loses' > > $100. If I don't buy one at all, then they lose $300. > > Where did you learn economics?

Re: Unattended installation...

2002-10-04 Thread Joey Hess
Bruno BEAUFILS wrote: > -> Set Dpkg::Options {"--force-confold";} in /etc/apt/apt.conf > > Thank's it works well. Where may I find documentations of all those kind of > options ? apt.conf(5) and dpkg(1) -- see shy jo msg05283/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: anything like NextStep? - Re: File Manager Suggestions?

2002-10-04 Thread Charles Baker
--- Jason Wojciechowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ben wrote: > > | thanks jason. apt crapped out on the first try. i > needed to update. > | gworkspace is a bit of a resource hog, though. it > totally claimed > | my fluxbox workspace, obliterating everything > else that was running > | t

Kernel 2.4.20 -- Where?

2002-10-04 Thread Russ Pitman
Could someone point me to a location for debs for a 2.4.20 Kernel. As of a few minutes ago they havn't showed up in the unstable archive and I have info that support for Netjet ISDN modems is included in 2.4.20. I obtained one yesterday from a college moving up to ADSL, unfortunately no docs etc

Re: Ultra 1

2002-10-04 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Bob Hauck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-10-2002 15:59]: > Somebody just gave me an Ultra 1 model 170. Haven't decided whether to > install Solaris 9 or Debian (it has Solaris 2.6 on it now but that seems > to be in a bad state). Unless you really need Solaris, I can't recommend it. I was faced with

RE: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread deFreese, Barry
>The "Housing Associations" he is talking about are private associations of >homeowners. He agreed to abide by their rules when he bought his house. >-- >John Hasler >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) >Dancing Horse Hill >Elmwood, WI I didn't "agree" to shit, try finding a house out here in Calif

Re: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-10-2002 15:14]: > > If I buy an X-Box that cost $300 to make for $200, then MS `loses' > > $100. If I don't buy one at all, then they lose $300. > > Where did you learn economics? I should resist, but sorry. More Xboxes sold, is more developer support,

Re: getting a 3C905B network card recognized

2002-10-04 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Erik Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-10-2002 15:58]: > Then I read "man interfaces", which explained how to write > the /etc/network/interfaces file, but didn't tell me exactly what to > write. I took a few guesses based on the man page: > > auto eth0-work > iface eth0-work inet dhcp > > auto e

Re: Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail

2002-10-04 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Andy Saxena wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:58:01AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > >> >>You might want to try this. I don't know if it makes any difference or >>not, but cyrdeliver is picky and not well documented, and I notice that >>I always use the userid argument, and it works. It's

Re: Kernel 2.4.20 -- Where?

2002-10-04 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:23:19PM +0800, Russ Pitman wrote: > Could someone point me to a location for debs for a 2.4.20 Kernel. 2.4.20 is not out yet -- there are only pre-releases (the latest one is 2.4.20-pre9). I believe 2.4.20 will be available in unstable a reasonably short time after it r

Re: VERY OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread bijan soleymani
Edward Guldemond wrote: >On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:23:01AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > >>By the way, I like the idea of the duel. That would really be great, >>if they want to fight, let them do it themselves and stop messing the >>lives of others (who will not make any money from the

US - Iraq - UN - whatever .... not on this list

2002-10-04 Thread Matthias Szupryczynski
Hi all, I love to discuss politics, but this list might not be the best place to do so, don't you think ? So, before this erupts into a flame war, cool down and stick to the topic (which is debian, just in case anybody has forgotten *g*). Cheers Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

RE: mass installation on XBox (and economics)

2002-10-04 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| * martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-10-2002 15:14]: | > > If I buy an X-Box that cost $300 to make for $200, then MS `loses' | > > $100. If I don't buy one at all, then they lose $300. | > | > Where did you learn economics? | | I should resist, but sorry. | | More Xboxes sold, is more deve

Re: The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-04 Thread nate
Chavo said: > > Does this mean that in future if I desire to buy intel hardware and use > it with open-source software such as Debian, the hardware would prevent > me from doing this or open-source software would be deteriorated in its > performance. I am curious because am a dedicated open-sourc

Re: can i trust you with this project

2002-10-04 Thread brian
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:14:37PM -0500, Michael Olson wrote: > This is probably a hoax. I heard a news account of someone who got > ripped off in a northern State for a million dollars or two. Besides, > it's illegal and too good to be true. > Probably? How about absolutely? This is one

What is equivalent to chkconfig?

2002-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
I'm trying to figure out what command is used in Debian to enable/disable init.d services at various runlevels. Something equivalient to the old SGI utility "chkconfig" that has been adopted by RedHat. Everytime this question is asked, the answer given is "update-rc.d". But, AFAICT, update-rc.d

Re: Ultra 1

2002-10-04 Thread nate
Bob Hauck said: > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, nate wrote: > >> one of my ultra 1s is essentially a monitor stand for the moment, >> waiting for the weather to cool off before i turn it on again, > > Somebody just gave me an Ultra 1 model 170. Haven't decided whether to > install Solaris 9 or Debian (it h

Re: US - Iraq - UN - whatever .... not on this list

2002-10-04 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 02:03:59AM +1000, Matthias Szupryczynski wrote: > Hi all, > > I love to discuss politics, but this list might not be the best place to > do so, don't you think ? So, before this erupts into a flame war, cool > down and stick to the topic (which is debian, just in case anyb

Re: can i trust you with this project

2002-10-04 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:14:46AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This is one of the oldest and most popular con games in the world. Look > up "Nigerian Scam" or "Advanced Fee Fraud" on Google for more info. > > There scam must work. I've been getting a lot more of them lately, > sometime

Re: Problems with esd

2002-10-04 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 08:09:09PM -0400, Edward Guldemond wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm having a problem with my esd. Even though it keeps running, esd > refuses to output sound, and the only way I can get sound back is by > 'kill -9'ing esd. If it helps, my sound module is i810_audio. Thanks > i

Gnome2 in woody

2002-10-04 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, I have installed gnome2 on my woody machines. On one machine, I put the following in ~/.xinitrc exec oroborus & exec gnome-session On this machine, I do not have gdm2 installed. So, when I use startx, I get the gnome-desktop with oroborus window manager. On another machine, I have g

Re: can i trust you with this project

2002-10-04 Thread
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote*: >Probably? How about absolutely? > >This is one of the oldest and most popular con games in the world. Look >up "Nigerian Scam" or "Advanced Fee Fraud" on Google for more info. > >There scam must work. I've been getting a lot more of them lately, >sometimes as many as

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread Craig Dickson
deFreese, Barry wrote: > I didn't "agree" to shit, try finding a house out here in California that > doesn't have an association. You had a choice. You could have simply not bought that house. I wouldn't have. As for finding houses without housing associations, it's not at all difficult. You ju

Re: Gnome2 in woody

2002-10-04 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 12:45, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Hi, > > > I have installed gnome2 on my woody machines. On one machine, I put the > following in ~/.xinitrc > >exec oroborus & >exec gnome-session > > On this machine, I do not have gdm2 installed. So, when I use startx, I > get the gn

Re: How to make an mpeg-movie from still images?

2002-10-04 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Joerg" == Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joerg> Hi everybody I have a lot of imgaes (output from pymol, a Joerg> molecular graphics rendering program), which I would like to join Joerg> together as an mpeg movie. So far I have tried out ffmpeg Joerg> (converted the images to .

Re: Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail

2002-10-04 Thread
Keith G. Murphy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: >Actually, I just use fetchmail to download from my ISP's POP3 store to >my local Cyrus IMAP server (via procmail). > I've been using this app for years, always stable, very flexible, easy to configure, I ditched "cooking recipes" when I found this: get

Re: Gnome2 in woody

2002-10-04 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Sridhar" == Sridhar M A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Sridhar> On another machine, I have gdm2 installed. But, if I put the Sridhar> above commands in ~/.xsession, I always get the icewm-gnome Sridhar> window manager. Actually whatever wm is pointed to at Sridhar> /etc/alternatives x

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