Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:14:05AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > A new user may not know whether to count every single key. That's like saying someone buying eggs will count only 11 eggs in a carton if a brown one gets mixed in by accident... > For

Re: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:14:44AM -0800, Lukas Latz wrote: > Normally I log in as a normal user but sometimes I need to su to root > and would like to start for instance an editor, or something like > Gnome-Apt and then I get: > > Xlib: connection to

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 01:44:33PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Can someone help me with a procmail filter so that I no longer see these ?? apt-get install dotfile-procmail - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian

[OT] The myth of outsourcing

2003-03-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:09:26AM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: > This includes people who actually do support for a living. We pay an > outside company some significant money for help desk/desktop support. Yuck. Generally speaking, unless the job

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 02:50:35PM +, Pigeon wrote: > (strange synapses fire) Can you boot Knoppix on a PS1? Strict answer: Yes. Reparsing the question for more meaning: No, unless you're intimately familiar with PS1 hardware and have the tools

Re: ASUS motherboard

2003-03-27 Thread Jim McCloskey
Thanks a lot to Mark Devin and Ralph Brown for their help. Both suggested using the sis900 driver for the onboard LAN on the Asus P4S533-E. I've tried that, and the problems persist. Loading the module sis900 (with modprobe or with insmod or with kerneld) produces: eth0: Error EERPOM read 0

NewsStand Reader

2003-03-27 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello All, Can we read `NewsStand' files [ http://www.newsstand.com/ ] on a Debian box ? If not, may I encourage Debian (and Linux) users to request for a `NewsStand Reader' for Linux: http://www.newsstand.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=download in order to encourage them to provide surch a reader. Th

Re: LPRng and LaserWriter 8.7.1 Very Slow

2003-03-27 Thread Nate Slater
On 3/26/03 8:25 PM, "Marc Wilson msw-at-cox.net |Debian Maling List|" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've done it, but don't have any insights to offer, I'm afraid. For my OS > X box (iBook), it was just a question of pointing to the queue on the Linux > box. For my OS 9 box (PMac 6100/66 w/ G3),

Re: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030327 00:21 PST]: > Try running xhost +local:localhost as the user you initially logged in > as from an xterm or similar program. Things will Just Work(tm) then. This will work as long as you're the only user on your machine. This is a bad

[answered] debian-installer: VMWare as a sandbox?

2003-03-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:18:21AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Apparently it's being used for that purpose: > > http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/screenshots/2003-02-16/slang/00-all.html Schweet, thanks. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EM

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:49:49AM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > > > > Devil's advocate: how do you knmow firestarter does what it > > says it is doing if you don't understand iptables? Please > > don't take this as a personal attack; I just feel if you > > don't understand the technology,

xpdf

2003-03-27 Thread David Fokkema
Hi there! I use prosper to compose a set of slides and it looks perfectly in gv. Unfortunately, gv doesn't have a full screen mode (am I wrong? and why not?) so I use xpdf. Testing comes with 1.01-3 and that looks nice, except that eps-figures are not anti-aliased (looks ugly at 800x600) and I hav

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-27 Thread cr
On Thursday 27 March 2003 16:17, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 06:02:33PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > True. Perhaps it would have been better stated by saying that every > > distro that wants to cater to Desktop users needs to implement a GUI > > installer (and many other GUI

Re: X

2003-03-27 Thread cr
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 10:07, Pigeon wrote: (respectful snips for bandwidth) > > - Have the installer ask whether or not you want a graphical login > > - Amend the description of xdm to make it clearer that you don't need > > xdm to use X: > > Description: X display manager > > xdm manages

Re: leaving computer on 24/7

2003-03-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:08:17AM +1100, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > if it's a 24/7 box it's probably better to run it headless and administer it > from a web interface. i.e. webmin etc Why go with the insecurity of webforms when SSH exists and gives yo

Re: ASUS motherboard

2003-03-27 Thread Michael Naumann
On Thursday 27 March 2003 09:48, Jim McCloskey wrote: > Thanks a lot to Mark Devin and Ralph Brown for their help. Both > suggested using the sis900 driver for the onboard LAN on the Asus > P4S533-E. > > I've tried that, and the problems persist. Loading the module sis900 > (with modprobe or with i

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 06:23:59AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > Debian strives for technical excellence. So supposedly, adding a GUI to > the installer improves things somehow? Better press? - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :

Re: Linux Sucketh not.

2003-03-27 Thread Mr. Baldwin
What the heck is a MUA? I can't configure any aspect of this e-mail beyond the color of the interface. This is a web-based. iMap account on Lycos servers. I typically use this type of account, even on my own domain, School-library.net, for the shear convenience of being able to check my mail anyw

Re: xpdf

2003-03-27 Thread Sharninder
> > Can anyone help me? > why bother with testing or stable ... compile xpdf from the source ... if it is that important to you ... or use adobe's own acrobat reader which is free too Sharninder Singh National Institute Of Management, Calcutta -- 'M

Re: xpdf

2003-03-27 Thread David Fokkema
> why bother with testing or stable ... compile xpdf from the source ... > if it is that important to you ... or use adobe's own acrobat reader > which is free too > Sharninder Singh > National Institute Of Management, Calcutta Is Acrobat Reader _free_? Or can you download it free of charge. To me

Re: kernel 2.4.20 dma problem

2003-03-27 Thread Tom Allison
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Tom Allison wrote: Yes, I think it is. See below Does that mean I'm in trouble? For me (I have a slightly different motherboard but the same VT82C686 South bridge) it meant massive data corruption until I switched off DMA. However the 2.4.21pre6 chan

Subject rejected by mental firewall

2003-03-27 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:13:25PM -0500, eauclair wrote: > I have got no help from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patience, young jedi. There are humans behind taht alias, and judging from your _other_ post (not getting into that), there already was an acknowledgement. > I am trying to unsubscribe from the D

DHCP client problem

2003-03-27 Thread Harry Brueckner
Hello, I am having problems with my Debian 3 unstable and my DHCP connection. I use dhclient 2.0pl5-15 and it gets an address without any problem at first. The problem comes in, when the lease expires. At that time I get 'receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down'. On the dhcpd side (whic

RAID up & running

2003-03-27 Thread Lindsay Yardley
A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL. The file server is up & running. I've tested recovery from a lost raid disc & also OS. BUT! ... yes another question. Should I loose the image of my OS (which is separate from the RAID1 set) could I reinstall debian to hda (a non-raid disc) the add the appropriate raidtab

Re: NewsStand Reader

2003-03-27 Thread Jerome Lacoste
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello All, Can we read `NewsStand' files [ http://www.newsstand.com/ ] on a Debian box ? If not, may I encourage Debian (and Linux) users to request for a `NewsStand Reader' for Linux: http://www.newsstand.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=download in order to encourage them to provi

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 08:22:36AM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: > BTW, the couchf**k thing was killing me. I have a "joke" that I have to > send you. Let me know if you don't mind me e-mailing you directly! It was definately busting folks sides whe

Re: Gnome Problems

2003-03-27 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:59:48AM -0700, Francisco Castellon wrote: > 2.My keyboard is not responding. It has been working just perfect > without a problem. This is what happens, I am at the log on screen and > the keyboard works fine, I am able to type in my user name and password > and I can

Re: DHCP client problem

2003-03-27 Thread David Fokkema
> On the dhcpd side (which is a RedHat system) I get: > > dhcpd: Reclaiming abandoned IP address 192.168.1.198. > dhcpd: Abandoning IP address 192.168.1.198: pinged be fore offer > dhcpd: Reclaiming abandoned IP address 192.168.1.200. > > After that, the client gets a new address and everything is

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 06:02:33PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Additionally, I would love to see Debian be at the forefront of the push to > kill windoze. You've gotta be having the time of your life, then. Various polls I've seen seem to indic

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:38:27AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > If Henry Ford had your attitude, autos would have never been for more than > mechanics. With over five times as many people being killed by autos in the US per year as died in the terrori

Debian iMAC (3 years old) install ¿howto?

2003-03-27 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Hi all, I need to install Debian on a iMAC (G3 processor, three years old). I never had worked with a MAC, I don't know how to boot from CD, what CD image to donwload and so on, I only know to work with i386 and Sparc arch :-? Could anybody help me?, thank you very much. -- Javier Viñuales Gutié

Re: DHCP client problem

2003-03-27 Thread Harry Brueckner
David, I run dhcpdump and get this output at the time when my IP changes (192.168.1.192 is the 'old' address, 192.168.1.2 is the dhcpd): TIME: 14:06:30.215030 IP: 192.168.1.192.68 (0:10:a4:f5:63:d6) > 192.168.1.2.67 (0:30:48:10:49:75) OP: 1 (BOOTPREQUEST) HTYPE: 1 (Ethernet) HLEN: 6 HO

Re: Linux Sucketh not.

2003-03-27 Thread blake.covarrubias
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 05:52:07AM -0500, Mr. Baldwin wrote: > What the heck is a MUA? > I can't configure any aspect of this e-mail beyond > the color of the interface. > This is a web-based. iMap account on Lycos servers. > I typically use this type of account, > even on my own domain, School-li

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-27 Thread ronin2
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 23:59:59 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Every so often, things will slow to a CRAWL, > and then poof, go back to normal. WHAT IS THIS? > How can I stop it? > Whatever clever program is running in the background, > I would like it to stop! Wow, with that hardware you shouldn

Re: OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta release

2003-03-27 Thread christophe barbe
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 07:39:28PM +0100, Chris Halls wrote: > In case anyone is interested, the 1.1 OpenOffice.org Beta is out now. There > is a problem which can cause this version to exit with an IO error message > on machines that do not have a domain name set. See this issue for details: I

Re: DHCP client problem

2003-03-27 Thread David Fokkema
> I run dhcpdump and get this output at the time when my IP changes > (192.168.1.192 is the 'old' address, 192.168.1.2 is the dhcpd): > > TIME: 14:06:30.215030 > IP: 192.168.1.192.68 (0:10:a4:f5:63:d6) > 192.168.1.2.67 > (0:30:48:10:49:75) > OP: 1 (BOOTPREQUEST) > HTYPE: 1 (Ethernet) >

azteck!

2003-03-27 Thread Rouly
you have drivers for " azteck 2320 pnp sound device " ???   Tank you   RRR  

Re: Mozilla 1.3 for Woody?

2003-03-27 Thread Michael Bona
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>does anyone know a source for Mozilla Version 1.3 for Woody? Apt-get.org >>does not seem to list any and I am really looking forward to the new >>functionality. >> > > These are the entries from my /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:13:14PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Perhaps I am out in left field, but if a business considers a $1500 > computer "expensive", there may be other problems at said company > besides fear of linux. I can go into any local

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi Ronin On Thursday 27 March 2003 14:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 23:59:59 -0500 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Every so often, things will slow to a CRAWL, > > and then poof, go back to normal. WHAT IS THIS? > > How can I stop it? > > Whatever clever program is running in

Content management systems evaluation

2003-03-27 Thread John Habermann
Just been evaluating open source Content Management Systems for the last couple of months. They have all been installed and are being tested on a debian system. I have been documenting the issues involved with the installation of the various systems and these are on the web at www.sydney.wilder

Re: Mozilla 1.3 for Woody?

2003-03-27 Thread Michael Bona
Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 12:57, Michael Bona wrote: >> Hi, >> >> does anyone know a source for Mozilla Version 1.3 for Woody? Apt-get.org >> does not seem to list any and I am really looking forward to the new >> functionality. >> >> Thanks >> Michael > > It is a wild idea,

Mozilla 1.0 lost its menu! No context menu either ...

2003-03-27 Thread Michael Bona
Hi, I am having a strange problem: Running Mozilla (1.0 on Woody) as Root is fine. Starting it as a user produces a Mozilla window without top menu, context menue and no tabs. Any help? Thanks! Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-27 Thread Jamin Collins
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:02:29AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Wow, you mean like the one in experimental already? That's quite some > daring proposal. :-) I _never_ claimed that it was original, or daring. I simply indicated that it was a means of getting the new version in that would work with t

Re: DHCP client problem

2003-03-27 Thread Harry Brueckner
David, --On Thursday, March 27, 2003 03:31:45 PM +0100 David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I run dhcpdump and get this output at the time when my IP changes (192.168.1.192 is the 'old' address, 192.168.1.2 is the dhcpd): TIME: 14:06:30.215030 IP: 192.168.1.192.68 (0:10:a4:f5:63:d6) >

Re: xpdf

2003-03-27 Thread David Z Maze
David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is Acrobat Reader _free_? Or can you download it free of charge. To me, > that is a bit of a difference. Call me anything you like, but I like > _free_ software. It's free-to-download, which is much different from DFSG-free. > But, since I'm not afraid

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-27 Thread Jamin Collins
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:53:14PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:26:50AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > The Debian packaging system only understands progress and not > > > necissarily the ramifications of such. This could very easily be > > > fixed and allow for mul

Re: philosophy mailing list

2003-03-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:53:15PM +, Pigeon wrote: > else they get "voted off" by the changes in the ratio of people > continuing the discussion to people saying "please shut up". It's not Though it's getting real tempting in making a procmail ru

Re: Debian iMAC (3 years old) install ¿howto?

2003-03-27 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 06:04, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: > Hi all, I need to install Debian on a iMAC (G3 processor, three years > old). > > I never had worked with a MAC, I don't know how to boot from CD, what CD > image to donwload and so on, I only know to work with i386 and Sparc > arch :

Re: Linux Sucketh not.

2003-03-27 Thread David Z Maze
"Mr. Baldwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What the heck is a MUA? Mail User Agent, "the program you use to read mail". The other related acronym that comes up a lot is MTA, for Mail Transport Agent, "the program that communicates with other computers to move mail around". > I can't configure

Re: DHCP client problem

2003-03-27 Thread David Fokkema
Harry, > >> After this my network link goes down and comes up again with the new > >> address. > >> > >> Any ideas what would cause the dhcpd to give me a new address instead of > >> assigning the same again? > > > > Are you sure there is not even a DHCPNAK received? And I'm puzzled, since > > tcp

Re: Mozilla 1.0 lost its menu! No context menu either ...

2003-03-27 Thread Jerome Lacoste
Michael Bona wrote: Hi, I am having a strange problem: Running Mozilla (1.0 on Woody) as Root is fine. Starting it as a user produces a Mozilla window without top menu, context menue and no tabs. Any help? Thanks! Michael 1- It's probably your profile which is bad. Create a new one (that's the

Re: OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta release

2003-03-27 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:08:13AM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > I saw today that Ximian is working on a gnome version of OO. >http://www.gnome.org/~michael/XimianOOo/img0.html > > Are you aware of that? Yes, Rene & I were in the room when Michael gave that talk. > Do you intent to packa

Re: azteck!

2003-03-27 Thread Jerome Lacoste
Rouly wrote: you have drivers for " azteck 2320 pnp sound device " ??? see ALSA http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=AzTech&card=AZT2320&chip=AZT2320&module=azt2320 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: leaving computer on 24/7

2003-03-27 Thread ktb
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 02:15:43AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:08:17AM +1100, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > > if it's a 24/7 box it's probably better to run it headless and administer it > > from a web interface. i.e. webmi

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 06:48:26AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:13:14PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > Perhaps I am out in left field, but if a business considers a $1500 > > computer "expensive", there may be other problems at said company > > besides fear of linux. >

Frame buffer support for GeForce 4 Ti4600?

2003-03-27 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hello! Does anyone know how to get frame buffer support to work on a GeForce 4 Ti4600 card? I have recently switched computers, and in my old computer vesafb (in a 2.2 kernel) worked just fine with my old GeForce 2MX, but neither vesafb nor rivafb (in 2.4.20) works with my new card. Does anyone kn

Re: DHCP client problem

2003-03-27 Thread Harry Brueckner
David, --On Thursday, March 27, 2003 04:35:43 PM +0100 David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> After this my network link goes down and comes up again with the new >> address. >> >> Any ideas what would cause the dhcpd to give me a new address instead >> of assigning the same again? > > Are y

RE: [OT] The myth of outsourcing

2003-03-27 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 12:56 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [OT] The myth of outsourcing > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:09:26AM -0800, deFreese, Barr

Re: Mozilla 1.0 lost its menu! No context menu either ...

2003-03-27 Thread Kent West
Michael Bona wrote: Hi, I am having a strange problem: Running Mozilla (1.0 on Woody) as Root is fine. Starting it as a user produces a Mozilla window without top menu, context menue and no tabs. Any help? Thanks! Michael It's probably something in your prefs.js file. I'd exit Moz, then rename

[~OT:] Fvwm2 Alt+Tab cycling

2003-03-27 Thread Nori Heikkinen
Hi, This may not be the right forum for this, and i'll ask an fvwm2 users list if i need to, but i know this community to be full of answers, so i thought i'd try here first. I've recently switched to fvwm2, and like it a lot. however, the only thing i really miss so far from WindowMaker is the

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:48:52PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > If you never use the "locate" command, consider removing the dlocate (or > slocate) package. dlocate is not an implementation of locate. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSC

maildata statistics

2003-03-27 Thread Tsuyoshi Takada
Hi all, There is a large mail data file "1.txt". Each mail is separated by the strings "\n\.\n". Mail header and mail body is separated by "\n\n". For example, this mail data format is the following. --- Return-Path: Received: To: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello! World!

Re: Debian iMAC (3 years old) install ¿howto?

2003-03-27 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 27 March 2003 8:04 am, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: > Hi all, I need to install Debian on a iMAC (G3 processor, three years > old). > > I never had worked with a MAC, I don't know how to boot from CD, what CD > image to donwload and so on, I only know to work with i386 and Sparc > a

Re: Mozilla 1.0 lost its menu! No context menu either ...

2003-03-27 Thread Santiago Hirschfeld
You should check for file permisions in /usr/lib/mozilla/chrome and see if that all .jar files are at least as -rw-r--r--. Let me know if it works. good luck On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:51:24AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Michael Bona wrote: > >Hi, > >I am having a strange problem: Running Mozilla

Re: maildata statistics

2003-03-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 02:29:50AM +0900, Tsuyoshi Takada wrote: > There is a large mail data file "1.txt". Each mail is separated by the > strings "\n\.\n". Mail header and mail body is separated by "\n\n". > > For example, this mail data format is the following. > --- > Retu

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Thursday 27 March 2003 16:54, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:48:52PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > If you never use the "locate" command, consider removing the dlocate (or > > slocate) package. > > dlocate is not an implementation of locate. Oh, sorry. However, removing the

Integrated Printer/FAX/Copier/Scanner machines supported by Linux???

2003-03-27 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Integrated Printer/FAX/Copier machines supported by Linux??? Anyone know of one of these beasties that works with linux? Debain? incoming / outgoing fax scanner printer google didnt turn much up Thank you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-27 Thread Didier Caamano
From: Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: System Slows Down Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 19:19:41 +0100 On Thursday 27 March 2003 16:54, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:48:52PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > If you never use the "locate" comma

Re: NFS over samba

2003-03-27 Thread GBV
OK, with ncpfs package I could access my netware file servers... but when I´m using # ncpmount -S PLANNER_BOV -U viebig /mnt/novell and enter my passwd, nothing happens for a good while... and then Login Failed message appears. I´m certain of my login and passwd thks - Original Messa

Window Sizing in Gnome

2003-03-27 Thread Jeremiah C. Foster
Greetings, I am having trouble resizing windows in Gnome. In KDE one can put the cursor over the right hand border of a particular window frame and then resize it. This is unavaiable in Gnome as far as I can see. I would like my windows bigger and am unable to resize them in Gnome. Might someone

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:49:48PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:31:13AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > packages since users ignore suggests and recommends. Or at how many > > developers have probably added too-tight dependencies because they got > > tired of their users igno

sylpheed-doc package broken?

2003-03-27 Thread Randall Hansen
Folks ~ I'm trying to install the sylpheed-doc package, but it conflicts with the slypheed package (see below). This strikes me as odd, but I don't know enough about debs to debug it. I installed the doc package, copied the files, then installed Sylpheed again (which removed the doc package,

Re: Window Sizing in Gnome

2003-03-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:59, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote: > Greetings, > > I am having trouble resizing windows in Gnome. In KDE one can put the > cursor over the right hand border of a particular window frame and then > resize it. This is unavaiable in Gnome as far as I can see. > > I would like my

Re: Window Sizing in Gnome

2003-03-27 Thread Craig Dickson
Jeremiah C. Foster wrote: > I am having trouble resizing windows in Gnome. In KDE one can put the > cursor over the right hand border of a particular window frame and then > resize it. This is unavaiable in Gnome as far as I can see. This is not a Gnome vs. KDE thing; it just has to do with your

Re: Uso de cdrw udf no debian, problemas

2003-03-27 Thread Jupercio Juliano
Eduardo wrote: ---Jupercio Juliano wrote: Olá povo, Seguinte, tem uma mídia ou (media) de cdrw (o sistema de arquivos é o udf) e a intenção é gravar no trabalho (banda larga) e trazer pra casa. Bom carreguei o módulo ide-scsi no kernel 2.2, e dá pra montar o cd numa boa, até consigo

Re: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
It is a FAQ but important one :-) On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:14:44AM -0800, Lukas Latz wrote: > I use KDM over GDM because I found it lets me log in with X as root, > which I found especially useful in the beginning when I was setting up > lots of stuff. Bad habit. > Normally I log in as a nor

Re: Mozilla 1.0 lost its menu! No context menu either ...

2003-03-27 Thread Michael Bona
Great, that was it! One of the plugins I installed from Mozdev was 600. Changing it to 644 gave me my menus and context menus back! Thanks for you help! Michael Santiago Hirschfeld wrote: > You should check for file permisions in /usr/lib/mozilla/chrome and see if > that all .jar files are at le

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-27 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 06:48:26AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] > > I can go into any local-owned computer store and they'll sell me a > machine comparable to Dell's offerings at around half the price and > they'll back thier work. $1500 is quite expensive for a single PC. > > - -- > .''`

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-27 Thread Eric E Moore
Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 06:02:33PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: >> True. Perhaps it would have been better stated by saying that every distro >> that wants to cater to Desktop users needs to implement a GUI installer >> (and many other GUI tools). > >

name conflict: ud / ud-ldap

2003-03-27 Thread Jonathan Matthews
I've just noticed that "man ud-ldap" gives the same manpage as "man ud", which is also the name of the uptime daemon package and binary. The ud-ldap manpage says that it represents the binary "ud", but I know from another debian box that both root and users can execute ud to get a summary of th

Off Topic, But Thought I'd Ask - Shell Programming

2003-03-27 Thread Alex Togstad
Hey! I know this is a tad off topic, so I'll make it on topic. I'm doing a bunch of shell programming on my Debian box :0) And I'm looking for any type of mailing list such as this one, but for shell scripting purposes. I would ask my shell programming questions here, but I thought it would be o

Re: IDE hard disk problem...

2003-03-27 Thread David Roundy
sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > out of curiosity, has the value for > > CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE > > changed between these two kernels? No, it's been unset in all my kernels. > also, have you tried messing around with hdparm at all (perhaps finishing > that backup first is in order:)?

Re: sylpheed-doc package broken?

2003-03-27 Thread Craig Dickson
Randall Hansen wrote: > I'm trying to install the sylpheed-doc package, but it conflicts with > the slypheed package (see below). This strikes me as odd, but I don't > know enough about debs to debug it. > > I installed the doc package, copied the files, then installed Sylpheed > again (which rem

apache segfaulting

2003-03-27 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi, I run a webserver for a small site and have recently found that some pages return 0 sized reply which I traced to these in the logs [Thu Mar 27 20:27:24 2003] [notice] child pid 12265 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) [Thu Mar 27 20:27:24 2003] [notice] child pid 12263 exit signal Segmentat

creating boot cds

2003-03-27 Thread adit y
Hi, Just trying to learn how to make bootable installation cds. Boot cd's downloaded from the website work fine, when i raw write partboot.img, partroot.img to a a 2 floppy disks and boot using floppies it works fine. if i burn them to cd the system boots and looks like it is asking for a second

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-27 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:31:13 -0800 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I should stop worry about users who don't notice suggests, they > clearly know what they're doing. :-P Or make a suggests/recommends which break a package a requires? I certainly haven't run into any problems with

Difference between "woody" and "stable" in apt Default-Release?

2003-03-27 Thread Uwe Storbeck
Hi, I've just seen a somewhat irritating behaviour of apt-get update/upgrade. Formerly I thought "woody" and "stable" are synonyms for now because Woody is the current stable distribution. I've set Default-Release to "stable" in apt.conf: APT { Get { Fix-Broken "true"; Show-Upgraded "t

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-27 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:10:32 -0600 Jamin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Assuming that the "default" option was instituted, any packages without > this indication would be on even footing WRT what constitutes and > upgrade, right? It is possible then that to non-default versions of a > packag

apt-get dist-upgrade bails

2003-03-27 Thread Patrick Wiseman
I decided to go to 'testing', so edited my sources.list, did 'apt-get update', 'apt-get dist-upgrade' which, after installing lots of packages, bailed with the following error: Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gdk-imlib-dev_1.9.14-6_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bi

apt-get dist-upgrade bails

2003-03-27 Thread Patrick Wiseman
I decided to go to 'testing', so edited my sources.list, did 'apt-get update', 'apt-get dist-upgrade' which, after installing lots of packages, bailed with the following error: Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gdk-imlib-dev_1.9.14-6_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bi

Re: sylpheed-doc package broken?

2003-03-27 Thread ronin2
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 12:30:44 -0800 Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > version of sylpheed itself. Unstable has a newer sylpheed that is > compatible with sylpheed-doc, but it hasn't been moved into testing > yet. That's what's causing your problem. > > There is no need to file a bug about

Re: name conflict: ud / ud-ldap

2003-03-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 08:24:03PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > I've just noticed that "man ud-ldap" gives the same manpage as "man ud", > which is also the name of the uptime daemon package and binary. > > The ud-ldap manpage says that it represents the binary "ud", but I know > from anoth

Re: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030327 01:41 PST]: > Please, please, please, don't use xhost. Really. > > Better alternatives: xauth, su -m, ssh -X And (oh yeah, duh) sudo. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "Computer Science is no more about co

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 27 March 2003 07:38 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:38:27AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > If Henry Ford had your attitude, autos would have never been for more > > than mechanics. > > With over five times as many people being killed by autos in the US per > year as

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade bails

2003-03-27 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 08:40:39AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I decided to go to 'testing', so edited my sources.list, did 'apt-get > update', 'apt-get dist-upgrade' which, after installing lots of packages, > bailed with the following error: > > Errors were encountered while processing: > /

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade bails

2003-03-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 08:40:39AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I decided to go to 'testing', so edited my sources.list, did 'apt-get > update', 'apt-get dist-upgrade' which, after installing lots of packages, > bailed with the following error: > > Errors were encountered while processing: > /

Re: sylpheed-doc package broken?

2003-03-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:56:35PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 12:30:44 -0800 > Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > version of sylpheed itself. Unstable has a newer sylpheed that is > > compatible with sylpheed-doc, but it hasn't been moved into testing > > yet. T

Re: "Your Sexual Partner Will Not Know Its The Same You!"

2003-03-27 Thread linux stuff
Title: Hello great ... as though the dicks around here aren't big enough already ... - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 10:47 PM Subject: "Your Sexual Partner Will Not Know Its The Same You!"

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 05:05:39PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Thursday 27 March 2003 07:38 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > > With over five times as many people being killed by autos in the US per > > year as died in the terrorist attacks back in '01, not to mention the > > pollution, noise, and roug

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