Re: [OT] C++ question re. dyn. mem.

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:36:42AM -0400, MJM wrote: > On Wednesday 06 August 2003 01:02, Dave Carrigan wrote: > > > Language experts sure get their shorts knotted up over simple questions. > > >   > > > > Because your question had to do with undefined and > > implementation-dependent behavior. >

Re: help me

2003-08-14 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 05:36:51AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 11:59, mohamed roshdy wrote: > > i wanna really to learn fortran and i am waiting for acourse or ebooks > > on net plz write to me > There are many better and newer languages to learn. (perl and c for > example). An

Re: nfs is very slow

2003-08-14 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Gregor Stößer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030808 00:37]: > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:39:55PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > > On Thursday 07 August 2003 14:01, Gregor Stößer wrote: > > > > I'm having some troubl

Re: booting 2.4 kernel on old PC

2003-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Fischer
On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 00:50:08 +0200, Marco Franzen wrote: > + insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than > /lib/modules/2.4.18-568tsc/modules.dep Have you done update-modules and depmod -a ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Sound Config Asus A7V8x-x with 2.4.22-pre10

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Hunt
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 03:35:05PM +1000, Rex Chan wrote: | Hi Dan, | | I'm just wondering if you were able in the end to get sound | working on your motherboard. Thanks for asking Rex, not yet. I will keep you posted. Let me know if you get it to work or find helpful documents. If we leave

apt through proxy

2003-08-14 Thread Moroni
I have read the export http_proxy and ftp_proxy variables method and I've tried it.. it works for Lynx but not for apt-get. the problem I have is that my proxy required me to authentificate in a domain/username form. How can I do that to get apt-get working through my Proxy server? Thank you ver

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re:Look at

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 04:05:17 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:28:03PM -0500, Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote: > > The USENET is a different story, and I'm willing to bet that he's not > > aware of munging policies of mailing lists vs. the USENET. > But they'r

Re: Obnoxious autoresponders was:Re: Out of Office AutoReply: how NOT to work with debian

2003-08-14 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Johann Koenig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I got that one too, but it was only right after I posted. /me thinks. > Alright, now it makes sense. I went through the message I replied to > looking for any reference to the person I got the message from, thinking > I might have cc'd them by mistake. N

Re: Really stupid use of cleanlinks

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Aug 2003, Joerg Johannes wrote: > On Wednesday 06 August 2003 16:56, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Never do this! > > > > I just ran cleanlinks on my root directory; really stupid thing to > > do! > > > > Lots of things were deleted which should not have been and I don't > > know how long it wi

net install with eepro100 / 845G

2003-08-14 Thread John E. A.
Hello, I'm attempting a network installation. Either woody or sarge would be fine. The motherboard has an Intel 845G chipset, which includes an ethernet controller that uses the eepro100.o driver. This driver doesn't seem to be easily loaded. I've tried: jigdo cd for woody bf2.4 diskette for

Re: HTML mail

2003-08-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 19:05, Bob Proulx wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Richard Lyons wrote: > > > Jeff Elkins wrote: > > > > Most of the spam I receive is HTML format. Is there a fairly painless way > > > > of sending anything formatted HTML to my trash folder? > > > > But is spam all of the html

Re: HTML mail

2003-08-14 Thread John Conover
If you are using procmail, put: :0: * ^content-type:[ ]+text/html spam in your ~/.procmailrc to file html formatted e-mail in your spam folder. You can probably do better with: :0: * ^content-type:[ ]+text/(plain|html); * ^content-transfer-encoding:[ ]+base64 spam w

Re: [OT: Elfquest] WAS: Re: Howto released: Using OpenLDAP on Debian Woody to serve Linux andSamba users

2003-08-14 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 01:56:55PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:25:00AM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > > Shade and sweet water! > > I was going to argue that this is an incorrect translation and should've > been 'shade and fresh water', but, apparantly, this is wrong. We

Re: Mozilla 1.3 about:plugins->crash

2003-08-14 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:04:00AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: [snip] > What a mess. The errors in /usr/bin/mozilla (a shell script-- you can crack > it open and see what's going on if you want to) suggest a bad installation. > Those look like syntax errors-- not good in the startup script. >

Re: VIA Soundcard Driver - skipping, failing

2003-08-14 Thread Damien Solley
What about using a sound daemon, such as artsd? you can start artsd, then run xmms with it's output set to arts (install xmmsarts first!). Artsd may prevent this end-of-song problem, because you can tell it to not release the soundcard between songs (set the -s flag to a high value). Thus the sound

Re: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)

2003-08-14 Thread Aaron
On -2471-Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:28:50PM -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 15:53, David Fokkema wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:30:33PM -0600, John M. Purser wrote: > > > 100) were recognized but no driver was available. Finally working from a > > >

Re: Yet another HDIO_SET_DMA failed problem

2003-08-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hdparm -d 1 -k 1 /dev/hda > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: operation not permitted do you know what the "-k 1" setting does ??? do you know if the disk drive supports that option ?? > I went to Google and did some searching, finding what looks

Re: Changing groups

2003-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 06:54:34AM -0400, Dan Jones wrote: > Is there no way to change your group under a GUI? Executing newgrp > under a terminal only affects that session, not the parent GUI process. You have to log out and back in again, I'm afraid. > If I set up groups and give them access

Re: Reporting Spam (Was: That C-R crap)

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 22:27:22 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you check out the new autoreporting features for subscribers? For subscribers... I don't like spam. I'm not going to buy anything from spam. Conversely I'm not going to get them to get me to buy anything to stop

Re: Anyone installed sarge?

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Sven Heinicke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I download the _Official net install images for the "testing" release_ > about once a month for a few months now, todays (August 13th) was the > closest I have gotten to getting an install working: When I tested debian-installer recently, I was told tha

Vipower IDE to USB rack problem

2003-08-14 Thread mody
Hi, anyone uses Vipower VP8250 IDE to USB modile rack on Debian testing and USB1.1?? I've Plextor PX-W161040 writter in the rack and I can't burn anything. The device is well detected by hotplug and mass-storage module is loaded. cdrecord recognizes it on bus 1,0,0. I can read, grab, blank CDRW fa

depmod -a complains about lirc_serial

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Polite
I'm suddenly unable to load lirc_serial. I don't get any errors compiling the lirc kernel modules. I'm using the latest lirc-modules-source from testing labeled 0.6.6-5 $ modprobe -v lirc_serial modprobe: Can't locate module lirc_serial $ insmod -v lirc_serial |grep lirc user function /lib/

Re: nforce kernel modules

2003-08-14 Thread gerard
I tried using alsa again, I followed the howto on the alsa site. http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=Nvidia&card=nForce&chip=NM2360&module=intel8x0#Inst and I get errors ar this step. Could this be because I am using kernel 2.4.21? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/gerard/alsa

Re: mondo backup: is there someone successful ?

2003-08-14 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op di 05-08-2003, om 22:17 schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom: > That Linux Journal article is a little old: refers to > mondo 1.13 and stable is 1.66. I use 1.62. Both > mondorestore and mondoarchive work. Archive has a > fluke on my Debian Testing system: the CD that is > created has not got vi so you have

RE: Who owns /dev/dsp?

2003-08-14 Thread Nyc0n
Just do a chmod 777 on /dev/dsp and it should start working it's a permission problem, that got mine going -Original Message- From: Ross Boylan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 4:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ross Boylan Subject: Who owns /dev/dsp? I can't ge

pdf readers

2003-08-14 Thread MJM
In stable I used ghostview (Kghostview actually) to view an ANSI standard document. Some graphics were laid out in landscape but most of the doc was in portrait. The pages with landscape graphics were mishandled and therefore "clipped". I loaded xpdf and read the doc and had no problem with t

Re: I want separate MUA/MTA/MDA

2003-08-14 Thread tallison
> On Sat, 09 Aug 2003, Andrew McGuinness wrote: >> I don't think it's worth anyone's while to learn to use sendmail in this >> age. There is one good reason for choosing sendmail as an MTA, and >> that's that you already know it. > > Sendmail is the default of several distributions and operating s

Re: How to configure the realplayer so that it can see the .rm files?

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:45:02AM -0600, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: > You might have to convert the rpm into a deb with "alien". I've also > seen people posting some unofficial debian repositories with realplayer > so that you can get it with apt

Lilo Problems

2003-08-14 Thread Jefferson Cowart
I've installed a new server (woody 3.0r1 + proposed updates + security updates) on a system that is running with root on sda3. Lilo seems to be having problems as on boot it outputs and L followed by 01 01 01 and on and on. i.e. "L 01 01 01 01..." Any clues what the problem is? I'm able to get in u

Re: [OT: m r ducks] Re: pdf readers

2003-08-14 Thread nori heikkinen
on Wed, 13 Aug 2003 02:52:11PM +0200, Richard Lyons insinuated: > On Wednesday 13 August 2003 1:13 am, nori heikkinen wrote: > [...] > > > > speaking of which ... if you read french, check out "Mots D'Heures: > > Gousses, Rames" -- my favorite therein being "Un Petit d'Un Petit": > > > > Un petit d

Re: Does EXT3 need "JBD debugging support" ?

2003-08-14 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 18:19, Joris Huizer wrote: > Now, I read at > http://puggy.symonds.net/~rajesh/howto/ext3/ext3-5.html > the kernel should have "JBD debugging support" - I > checked but my custom 2.4.18 kernel doesn't have that. > Is this really a problem like, should I compile a new > k

Re: Replacing gnu tools in woody with busybox

2003-08-14 Thread Joey Hess
Rajkumar S wrote: > Is it possible to replace all gnu tools in woody with busybox. I am > removing packages from LAS knoppix > to make it still smaller. One idea is to remove all the hefty gnu tools > and replace it with busybox. but understandably, when I tri

Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

2003-08-14 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Friday 08 August 2003 8:18 am, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 06:53:15AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 07:38:55AM -0600, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > > I have always had really great luck with subversion. It has > > > customizable transports, and comes bu

Re: broken mozilla-firebird

2003-08-14 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 22:00:34 +0200, Roman Joost wrote: > Recently after an update, i can't start any mozilla based browser > anymore. When installing it says:=20 > Has someone the same problems? I tried to install a testing, stable > libc6 but it wont work. New ideas are very appreciated. I didn'

Re: Backporting debhelper

2003-08-14 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Mensaje escrito por Bob Proulx el 14/08/2003 1:54: For my own backports I have been changing the debhelper version dependency in the debian/control file to specify the woody version. I have not backported debhelper. This process has worked pretty well so far. Indeed that was what I was thinking t

Re: Cups and gimp

2003-08-14 Thread ZekeVarg
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 00:04, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Halloh > > ZekeVarg (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I'm having problems to print from gimp 1.2 and 1.3. > > I can print from any other programs, both text and pictures, but from > > gimp all that prints out is a line > > > > %! PS-ADOBE 3.

RE: Setting up mail server behind iptables firewall

2003-08-14 Thread Daniel L. Miller
This is really getting frustrating - mainly because I don't really understand what I'm doing. Using a port scanner from an external webserver, it shows that ports 25, 80, and 10025 are all closed. What am I missing? Here's the iptables dump from both my firewall and my internal server. *** FIRE

libstdc++ lossage during dist-upgrading to sarge

2003-08-14 Thread David Morse
Hi, I decided to give sarge a try. I did a dist-upgrade. Now all apt-get commands ignore me and instead try to install packages "mirrormagic" "moon-buggy" "nedit" and "oneko". Installing those packages fails with several complaints like this: update-menus: /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: vers

RE: CUPS packages installed, but no response on port 631

2003-08-14 Thread Wathen, Metherion
try using lynx to connect to localhost:631. I had some problems trying to do admin tasks using chimera2 however using lynx all went well. HTH, mw. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: re nvidia drivers

2003-08-14 Thread john gennard
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:16:08AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: [snip] > > Where does this next command say it installed the NVdriver file? Does > that match your current kernel? > > dpkg -L nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123 | grep NVdriver > This is one of the two problem areas your reply highlights. The nv

Re: system reboots before booting

2003-08-14 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:20:51PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Just a little ps on my lilo.conf file > > Emma Jane Hogbin said: > > install=/boot/boot-menu.b > > This file does not exist (I don't know if it should). No, that's ok. > > map=/boot/map > > This file exists. Good. David --

Re: HTML mail

2003-08-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 10:56, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Wednesday 13 August 2003 7:46 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > Most of the spam I receive is HTML format. Is there a fairly painless way > > of sending anything formatted HTML to my trash folder? But is spam all of the html mail you receive? Not I!

Re: /usr/sbin/pppd: bad local IP address 127.0.0.1

2003-08-14 Thread Frederik Ferner
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:01:40 +0300, Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $ /usr/sbin/pppd call provider dryrun > /usr/sbin/pppd: bad local IP address 127.0.0.1 > $ ypcat hosts > 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback rakefet ^^^ I'm no

Re: HTML mail

2003-08-14 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 08:51:34PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 07:58:41PM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:50:14 +0200, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > > > Personally I swear by SpamAssassin. It might be a bit more difficult to > > set up at first, but it r

bttv - spirit pc tv tuner - scp1000

2003-08-14 Thread Darryl Barlow
I am running Debian Unstable and not having much luck getting my Spirit SCP 1000 TV Tuner card running. The card uses a Brooktree BT878 chipset. I tried following the instructions at http://shokem.hypermart.net/ but no luck. Has anyone managed to get this card running on Debian? regards, Dar

RE: test.mydomain.com ???

2003-08-14 Thread Bengt Thurée
Thanks :-))) I have been wondering about this one for a long time now. Very easy, when I got some help. Thanks /Bengt p.s. You are right www.dyndns.org is the service I am using... -Original Message- From: kenneth dombrowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2

Re: system reboots before booting

2003-08-14 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Kent West said: > Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: >>boot. The system reboots right after the "If you'd like to enter the BIOS >>press F12." I've tried running a rescue disk and I can get the / >> partition to mount > > Odd. It sounds like maybe your boot sector has a problem. I'd try > booting into rescue

Re: problem regarding kernel 2.4.18 and grsecurity 1.9.4 (in woody)

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 13:45, smurfd wrote: > No one with my problem?!? > > Really? > > Oki, i tried mailing the package maintainer, but havent gotten any > response.. > I add some more additional output/configs so that i might get help.. > > best regards > /smurfd > Just to make sure... you ar

Re: kernel-package system: install a boot block using the existing /etc/lilo.conf?

2003-08-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Kevin McKinley wrote: > Andy wrote: > > advises one to do the following: > > "Be sure you say "no" when the script asks if you want > > to install a boot block using the existing /etc/lilo.conf." > > The short answer is "because when I said 'Yes' it didn't work". :) I always answer yes to that q

Re: NVIDIA driver (nvidia-kernel-source)

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Michael Bonert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I followed the instructions on the 'nvidia-kernel-source 1.0.4496-2' page > (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/nvidia-kernel-source.html). > It suggusts working through instructions in a file called 'README.Debian' > (full path '/usr/share/doc/nvi

Re: Does EXT3 need "JBD debugging support" ?

2003-08-14 Thread Diego Calleja García
El Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:19:33 -0700 (PDT) Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Now, I read at > http://puggy.symonds.net/~rajesh/howto/ext3/ext3-5.html > the kernel should have "JBD debugging support" - I > checked but my custom 2.4.18 kernel doesn't have that. > Is this really a problem li

Re: XFS in the kernel-source

2003-08-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 02:51:45PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > I tried a original 2.4.21 kernel and the patch worked. I'd like to use the > debianized kernel and so im asking if theres somone who made that? Is it > clean to hack the files and simply put the rejects in? I want this approved

Re: Difference in quality latex printer output

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Shutko
Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sounds like the difference between the traditional Computer Modern fonts > (very black, look almost bold) and CM-Super (much dimmer) or something > like that. Consult a LaTeX guru to be sure :-) They're supposed to be the same... but unless you had y

Re: hostname changed what to do with ssh server keys?

2003-08-14 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:23:34PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > > I have just changed host names. What is the correct way to regenerate > the /etc/ssh_host* keys? You don't really need to unless you _really_ want to. The host key isn't tied to the machine's name. The following is how the ssh.p

Re: old laptop I need ugly fast Xwindows please

2003-08-14 Thread David selby
wsykes.lists wrote: All, I have a crappy old Compaq Presario 1210, and KDE runs like a dog on it. I really only need a couple of xterminals, and mouse functionality. What version of Xwindows is light and fast on older boxes. I dont care how ugly it is. Will I need to run xdm, or kdm? Do i eve

Re: Error in Deselect (fwd)

2003-08-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:20:23PM +0530, Manish wrote: > We have a internal Debain mirror in our institute. > When I try to perform the operations > > Update > Install > > The following error message is displayed. > > apt-config: relocation error: /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5.so.3.3: symbol >

Re: test.mydomain.com ???

2003-08-14 Thread kenneth dombrowski
On 03-08-14 21:44 +0900, Bengt Thurée wrote: > Hej, > > Thanks, I am a bit uncertain to be honest. > Can I let my DNS server (currently I am not running one though), > update the world DNS? > > I am using dyndns.com for my current www.mydomain.com, > since I am on a ADSL connection with new IP n

Re: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Badran
On Thursday 14 Aug 2003 17:14, David Z Maze wrote: > Testing is still a comparatively young concept for Debian. For the > woody release, it seemed to work fairly well. At this point, the > canonical problem we've run into looks something like this: package A > depends on package base (= 1). Base

L 40 40 was Re: system reboots before booting

2003-08-14 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Emma Jane Hogbin said: > Now I'm getting: L 40 40 40 40 (etc). The error code means > "seek failure" according to some emails I found (via google). I installed > lilo on the MBR (hda not hda1) and have tried rebooting with both my > previous lilo.conf file and the default conf file. Both give the s

Re: ATI Radeon 9000 question

2003-08-14 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- lameth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I've just moved back from slackware to Debian and I'm running into a few > problems. > Welcome to the club (problems with the Radeon 9000, that is) > Version 4.1 of Xfree86 doesn't support my graphics card, an ATI Radeon > 9000. After installing Deb

Re: Newbie Q: Where are my kernel sources?

2003-08-14 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:56:08PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:55:43PM +1000, Chris Share wrote: > > I've transferred these from my Debian CD and "un-bzipped" them. Now I've > > got a .tar package that I need to unpack. > > > > I've tried to unpack this file using

kde does not start any more

2003-08-14 Thread juerg maier
Hi   spent quite some time looking for help on the web but all tipps and tries do not help.   I somehow broke my kde installation. Now removing and reinstalling does not help, neither the tipps written out in xsession-errors. I have used apt-get dist-upgrade a few times in the last wee

CUPS packages installed, but no response on port 631

2003-08-14 Thread stan
I've got a "testing" machine that (acording to dselect) should have the correct cups packages installed, but coneections to http://localhost:631 are refused. Where should I start looking to figure out why this is not working? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety des

Re: gifs, the Gimp, various viewers, and Impress

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 09:47:15PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: > Why not PNG? For navigational buttons, PNG would be the obvious choice. > JPEGs have a tendency to distort that kind of images quite a lot. PNG isn't included in the available options. Chris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signatu

Mouse not functioning in KDE2.2(stable)/ X-windows-system-core 4.2.19(unstable)

2003-08-14 Thread shut
Hello, I have spent the last 24 hours grappling with a problem in configuring KDE 2.2 and X 4.2.19 to use my mouse. I have gone through the default configurations after installing them via apt. The pointer merely remains in the center of the screen while X/KDE loads at start-up, and remains

kernel-package and grub

2003-08-14 Thread Engosh
Hi folks, I have two questions for you: 1) Is there any way to update grub menu.lst when installing a kernel package made by kernel-package (I mean as it does whith lilo)? 2) Where can I get images to use in the splashimage of grub? Or how can I make some? Thanx. Engo

Re: Poor performance with 1GB of RAM

2003-08-14 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 17:36, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On 11 Aug 2003 17:14:14 -0500 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > However, what, then, would you do with a 2GB partition? I say that > > > there's no *harm* in leaving your setup just the way

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Re: Poor performance with 1GB of RAM

2003-08-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 08:56:01AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 06:08, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 02:03:26PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > > J. Zidar said on Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:49:21PM +0200: > > > > I see. I'm pretty new to Debian and all. I've read th

Re: Packages.gz blocked by Symantec Web Security

2003-08-14 Thread Travis Crump
Frank Chung wrote: Hi all, My company uses Symantec Web Security to screen for viruses at the HTTP proxy machine (and there's no way to bypass the proxy). SWS returns with this message when I try to open any Packages.gz (whether it's in stable/testing/unstable, or main/contrib): -- -- Access Denie

Re: weather and boats (even more OT) (was [OT: Elfquest])

2003-08-14 Thread Earl F Hampton
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 15:43, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:18:29PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > | On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 09:25:45PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > | > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:43:09PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > | > > Can it be 'fresh' as 'cool' outsi

Graphical units conversion program?

2003-08-14 Thread stan
I thought there wasa Gnome utility for this, but if there is, I seem to have misplaced it :-) Any sugestions? Gome based (prefered), KDE based, or GTK baed would be OK. Thanks. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Re: HTML mail

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 7:46 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: > Most of the spam I receive is HTML format. Is there a fairly painless way > of sending anything formatted HTML to my trash folder? > > I use kmail and sid. I use contains "a href=" OR contains "/form>" OR contains "/body>" Or similar

Re: iptables and nat

2003-08-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:06:37PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: | When a packet comes from the internet with destination one of the | computers on the local lan, which route does it take? 'filter' table : _ Incoming / \ Outgoing -->[

Re: [Woody] boot-floppies package?

2003-08-14 Thread Shaul Karl
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:50:49AM +0200, Sylvain Briole wrote: > Hello all, > > I am currently using Debian Woody and I need to create my own "boot/root" > floppies set in order to install it on an other computer. > I have read the doc provided by : > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/

old laptop I need ugly fast Xwindows please

2003-08-14 Thread wsykes.lists
All, I have a crappy old Compaq Presario 1210, and KDE runs like a dog on it. I really only need a couple of xterminals, and mouse functionality. What version of Xwindows is light and fast on older boxes. I dont care how ugly it is. Will I need to run xdm, or kdm? Do i even need an xsession ma

Re: Does EXT3 need "JBD debugging support" ?

2003-08-14 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:52:13PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Wednesday 13 August 2003 18:19, Joris Huizer wrote: > > Now, I read at > > http://puggy.symonds.net/~rajesh/howto/ext3/ext3-5.html > > the kernel should have "JBD debugging support" - I > > checked but my custom 2.4.18 kernel doesn'

RE: test.mydomain.com ???

2003-08-14 Thread Bengt Thurée
Thanks, I guess I will need to ask my DNS provider to insert the test.mydomain.com address also or? Could not get my apache to load the new configuration though. I have specified the following in the http.conf file NameVirtualHost test.mydomain.com ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: multiple network cards bound together

2003-08-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 09:16:42AM -0400, D. Clarke wrote: > Hi! > > Is it possible to bind multiple (non matching, or matching) network cards > together to act as one device? > > I've got a fileserver here with 2 nics in it, currently both have seperate > ip's but I'd like the box to have just o

Apache SSI with VirtualHost

2003-08-14 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, I have Woody Apache installed. All ok, except I can't get SSI to work on .shtml files. I only use VirtualHosts. My http.conf includes: AddType text/html .shtml AddHandler server-parsed .shtml ... Options +Includes ... Does the Options directive not wo

Re: Problem with video card when installing debian Gnu/Linux.

2003-08-14 Thread Kent West
Johansson Mikael (mj) wrote: Hello. Hardware: AMD Athlon processor 1,2 GHz, 256 MB RAM, 30 GB HD Video Card Pro Savage 1. When trying to install Debian Gnu/Linux the video card is not recognized by the installation program. I am asked to install drivers for it. How is this done? When using

Re: Instalação AbiWord

2003-08-14 Thread André Carezia
Wesley, Por favor, responda para a lista. Assim todos podem acompanhar a discussão, certo? > Pede fontes padrão Unix as quais eu não sei direito uma tal de > times[alguma coisa]. Mas elas não existem nos fontes. Você pode fazer uma operação de "copiar e colar" da mensagem de erro que aparece ao

Re: system reboots before booting

2003-08-14 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
David Fokkema said: >> What I don't understand is why it worked last night and then today it >> was >> broken. I wasn't messing around with kernel installation stuff or >> anything >> unusual. It was a clean shutdown, so I doubt there are the usual bad >> blocks from when the system crashes. > > No

Re: old laptop I need ugly fast Xwindows please

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:03:35 -0500 Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What version of Xwindows is light and fast on older boxes. I > > dont care how > > ugly it is. I use fluxbox on all my Debian systems. It's light, fast, and not even ugly. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: system reboots before booting

2003-08-14 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:55:40PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > David Fokkema said: > > Hmmm... this looks good as far as I can see... What I don't understand > > is that lilo complained that the map file and the boot sector were on > > different drives. I _never_ got that error. However, it mi

Re: DENY KAZAA , IMESH, CHAT PROGRAMS

2003-08-14 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 23:07, Mehmet AK wrote: > Hi there > > i want to deny kazaa , imesh etc. and chat programs our local network > . can u help me Why dont you disable NAT and setup proxy servers for the services you do want to allow like HTTP / Email etc. Just a thought. Shri -- -

RPM bashing (was Re: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before;-))

2003-08-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 00:01, Aaron wrote: > On -2471-Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:28:50PM -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > spake thus, > > My mixed sarge/sid system has worked very well for me, with minimal, > > surmountable issues. Certainly less than I had when trying to > > upgrade RPM-base

problems with kde3

2003-08-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, I'm trying to install Woody r_0 on an IBM ThinkPad A31 laptop; it works if I use simple graphical interfaces (icewm or fvwm95), but I've some troubles if I try to install kde3 or gnome2; I used .deb packages to install these intervaces and xfree86 4.1.0 and I chose the vesa module to confi

Re: HTML mail

2003-08-14 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 21:00:42 +0200, David Fokkema wrote: >> Yeah, sure. But SA doesn't protect me from your >> >> > -- >> > Best Regards, | Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into >> > Sebastian | your ~/.signature to help me spread! >> >> signature virus. I had a difficult time not

Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

2003-08-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 04:43:19PM +, Faheem Mitha wrote: > On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 07:26:28 +0200, Xavier Maillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Since ages, I wanted to replace CVS here. > > > > I firstly tried to find out all the most interesting candidates for > > this. I have now a list o

Re: [OT] deleting dot files on remote server with ftp

2003-08-14 Thread Tim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Proulx wrote: | Even though you cannot remove the file it is possible to move the file | around. You can 'mv .nfs* ../' for example to get the files up a | level. That empties the directory and would allow you to remove a | directory for example.

Re: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)

2003-08-14 Thread David Fokkema
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:26:35AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:22:20AM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:58:14AM -0400, Aaron wrote: > > > So far so good with testing. After doing the dist-upgrade my machine > > > rebooted directly back into X wi

Re: How to set two IP addresses on the same NIC?

2003-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Fischer
On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 14:10:10 +0200, David List wrote: > How do I set two IP addresses on the same NIC? I know I can use > ifconfig, but is there a debian-specific way of doing it - some script > for instance? > Edit /etc/network/interfaces (see interfaces(5)) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: can't login as root on gdm

2003-08-14 Thread BUIRA Etienne
* Icarus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello. I just installed debian woody along with the window enviroment (gnome, > sawfish). When I get to the GDM login screen I cannot log in as root. I'd like to be > able to use the GUI as root, but when I switch consoles I still can't use startx > (because

Re: /dev/dsp

2003-08-14 Thread Mouammer H. Rayes
kata Antony Gelberg > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:52:39PM -0500, mustafa taha al-shawaf wrote: >> Hey group. >> >> I get an error when starting up kde that says that sound cannot be >> initialized because it cannot open /dev/dsp. I tried looking for a man >> page on dsp but there wasn't any. I as

Re: www.apt-get.org down?

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:16:51AM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote: > I'm experiencing severe problems accessing www.apt-get.org. Neither ping nor > http return anything. Does anybody know what's going on with > www.apt-get.org? Are there mirrors of www.apt-

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 5 12:33:25 2003 > > > I don't ever see the mail and the whole process is user-transparent. > > At the risk of being picky if the user doesn't see any of what is going > on, it is not user-transparent but opaque ;) > Semantics:-) > As a disinterested obser

Re: can see almost all languages in mozilla

2003-08-14 Thread Ladislav Bodnar
On Friday 08 August 2003 09:15, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Everything is hunky dory, except the Korean (Hangul), I see squares > with hex in them for the 한국어 > > Did I forget to apt-get something, or is Mozilla Debian Package > 1.3.1-3 deficient? (I would upgrade and check again, but I'm on a modem.)

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2003-08-14 Thread Ian Michell
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Re: [OT] C++ question re. dyn. mem.

2003-08-14 Thread MJM
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 09:30, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > > They do. My app would be broken from the start if I could not rely on > > this capability.  This style of type conversion is covered in elementary > > C++ books by Bjarne.  It's not unusual. > > Exactly where? I don't remember such cast

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