mixing stable and testing

2003-09-02 Thread Vikki Roemer
Hi I was wondering if it's possible to run a few testing apps on a (otherwise) stable system. See, I'm running a server so I don't want to run testing, per se, but I want metalog and testing's gnupg (I'm having problems with stable's gnupg and my keyring, so I'm hoping going back to testing's gnup

Re: Packages: required vs recommended vs suggested

2003-09-02 Thread Neal Lippman
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 02:05, Bob Proulx wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > > Neal Lippman wrote: > > > I did in install last pm of a package which "recommends" other packages, > > > which it turned out I needed in order to make things work. > > > > Then perhaps they're actually dependencies? Did you f

kdemultimedia: dependent on several non-existent versions ???

2003-09-02 Thread Michael D Schleif
What am I missing? Or, are the missing 4:3.1.2-1.1 versions going to be in unstable in the next few hours? Is there some other way to install kde v3.1x onto a new system? # dpkg -p kdemultimedia Package: kdemultimedia Priority: optional Section: kde Installed-Size: 36 Maintainer: Christopher L C

Re: Windoze software [was Newbie Hardware/Partitioning]

2003-09-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 00:35:27 +0200, Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 11:20:24 -0400, > Hershel Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > if it was my machine ... > > > > > > > > 10GB/windows

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-02 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 September 2003 04:03 pm, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Hi > I was wondering if it's possible to run a few testing apps on a > (otherwise) stable system. See, I'm running a server so I don't want > to run testing, per se, but I want metalog and te

Re: xmms, esound in mixed stable/unstable

2003-09-02 Thread Johann Koenig
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 18:25:49 -0500 Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "John" == John Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> I just switched my laptop to Debian. I'm using a mix of > John> stable and unstable. Sound works with ogle, but with xmms or > John> xine it

Re: simple backup script

2003-09-02 Thread Marcus Schopen
Yves Goergen wrote: On Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:15 AM CET, Marcus Schopen wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a simple backup script, which uses e.g. dd and additionally does some error handling and mail notification. I use amanda for my daily and weekly backups, but to feel more secure, I installed

Re: simple backup script

2003-09-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 01:42:25 +0200, "Yves Goergen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:15 AM CET, Marcus Schopen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking for a simple backup script, which uses e.g. dd and > > additionally does some error handling

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Alan Shutko
Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This does still beg the question of how Win95/98/Me/NT, etc, managed to > provide a reasonable "desktop" when KDE/Gnome could not, however. I don't think either KDE or Gnome tries too hard at optimizing for older machines. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL

Re: re wet blue

2003-09-02 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:01:19PM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 18:28:55 +0200 Lukasz Hejnak wrote: > > (from some spammer) > > > We have wet blue cow > > n/c > > > We can ofert pig wet blue to > > > If you have interest please send information abaut your company > > n/c!

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-09-02 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:06:04AM -0400, Hershel Robinson wrote: > > > My thoughts are to set up: > > > > > > 10G Windows 2K system and software > > > 10G Shareable data (FAT?) > > > > On the same machine, it's pretty well got to be FAT... but you could > > put the shared data on the machine you'r

Re: how to add network support into installed kernel ?

2003-09-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 21:47:32 +0200, Wolfgang Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 15:10:08 +0200, sachin ashok kadam wrote: > > > Hello friends, > > How to add network support into an installed kernel (compiled > > whithout the network supp

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Neal Lippman wrote: ... Well, most replies to my posting have pinned the "blame" on KDE and Gnome rather than X per se. I'll have to reinstall on the laptop and see how it looks with a more minimal WM. I hope you're not reinstalling just to change the WM... This does still beg the qu

RE: simple backup script

2003-09-02 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Yves Goergen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 2 September 2003 9:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: simple backup script > > > On Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:15 AM CET, Marcus Schopen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking for a simple backu

Re: xmms, esound in mixed stable/unstable

2003-09-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Johann" == Johann Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johann> Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> for how to check this out. To enable DMA on boot up try >> >> apt-get install hwtools >> editor /etc/init.d/hwtools Johann> hdparm is in it's own packag

Configuring HP Inkjet Printer

2003-09-02 Thread bob parker
I've just installed a HP 3325 printer. I configured it using cups after downloding and compiling the latest hpijs driver (1.4.1). It's printing OK, from web pages at least, but my problem is that it is doing it at maximum resolution. Because I got this little cheapie just so I can output text

Re: Duplicating installs across the network

2003-09-02 Thread Nick Hastings
* Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030902 09:51]: > The migration of my lab is nearly complete. The two servers are happily > running Woody and so far I have one workstation running Sid, and I even managed > to get VMWare installed and running properly on it. The last I need to do is > get pr

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Re: simple backup script

2003-09-02 Thread Marcus Schopen
Joyce, Matthew wrote: [...] RAID only provides resilience against hardware failures, it does not protect anyone from user errors or mishaps which occurred yesterday, or last week, or last month. right!!! Fault tollerance and data backups are not the same thing, they are just different components o

Re: Problem with KDE 3 upgrade

2003-09-02 Thread William Bradley
On Monday 01 September 2003 03:59 pm, Donald Spoon wrote: > William Bradley wrote: > > -SNIP- < > > > > > > Hi Andreas, > > > > Tried you suggestion above and another couple of hours downloading went > > on. So obviously some bits were missing. > > > > When I boot to KDE now, KDE 3.1 loads and the

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-09-02 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:26, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:53:55PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: [snip] > > If you think that my goals are incorrect, or can show that it does not > > meet my desires in some way, then tell me how. "X is better than Y" is > > just silly. Perhaps if you

Re: gcc version?

2003-09-02 Thread csj
At Mon, 01 Sep 2003 22:28:56 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 22:10, Lukasz Hejnak wrote: > > > export/setenv CC=gcc-2.95 > > (select one, export or setenv, depending on your distro) > > rather, depending on your shell. setenv if you run csh or tcsh, export > if you run bash

Re: compatible FS between linux and windows

2003-09-02 Thread csj
At Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:19:38 +0200, Christian Schoeller wrote: > > [1 ] > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:02:37AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Christian Schoeller wrote: > > > > > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > CD ROM media -- iso9660 and udf fs are compatible. > >

Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?

2003-09-02 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:22:21AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 19:24:56 +1200, cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Never do it the easy simple way if you can do it > > the hard complicated way.;) > > > > Incidentally, even the truck-on-the-line won't normally cause a huge > >

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Marc Wilson
Feel free to hit 'd' now, if you like, what follows is an opinion piece that apparently no one at all agrees with, given the state of the community On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:20:24AM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > IMO the whole X(free) system needs a healthy kick in the butt. It's one of the >

Re: fluxbox "tab" titles

2003-09-02 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:33:33PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Does anyone know if it's possible to customize what fluxbox's tabs say? > Is this possible? I checked the online fluxbox documentation, but I > couldn't find what I was looking for. The tabs echo what the title of the window is

Re: simple backup script

2003-09-02 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:24:20AM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > RAID only provides resilience against hardware failures, it does not protect > anyone from user errors or mishaps which occurred yesterday, or last week, > or last month. It also doesn't protect you against the computer being struck

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On 01 Sep 2003 18:02:27 -0400, Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <...> > A few months ago, I decided to put debian on my old Laptop, an IBM > Thinkpad 770ED (PII-266, 64MB Ram). Once again, with KDE running, the > desktop was so slow and unresponsive as to be really unusable (except > in an

Re: mplex shortens MPEG1 video to under five minutes?

2003-09-02 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:18:29PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Anyone have an idea why mplex would suddenly decide to truncate files? Since you say that the video and audio files are correct, what happens when you multiplex them yourself? What does mplex have to say then? I found tcmplex from tran

Re: kdemultimedia: dependent on several non-existent versions ???

2003-09-02 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:06:07PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > What am I missing? Or, are the missing 4:3.1.2-1.1 versions going to be > in unstable in the next few hours? You're not missing anything, and they'll be there whenever they get uploaded. It's been that way for a few days now.

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:05:12AM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:56:48PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > It would also be helpful if I could do the old trick of : > > > > cat > > > EOF > > > > ...but this method performs shell ex

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 19:32:19 -0700, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uh, no, what's keeping Linux away from the desktop is the lack of > APPLICATIONS. Joe Public couldn't care less about X, or anything > else, as long as it works. The idiot gamers aside, X is plenty for > what Joe Public

Re: fluxbox "tab" titles [mostly solved]

2003-09-02 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:33:33PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Does anyone know if it's possible to customize what fluxbox's tabs say? Thanks to Nathan for the following URL: I've customized it to the following to get (approximately) what I'd like. It's so close that I'll call it a success

Re: Jabber and transports

2003-09-02 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:28:05PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:06:12AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > In the last week, I've added a support to start and stop the > > individual transports when they are installed/upgraded/removed and > > the ability to control whethe

RE: simple backup script

2003-09-02 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Marcus Schopen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: simple backup script > > > Joyce, Matthew wrote: > [...] > > RAID only provides resilience against hardware failures, it > does not >

Thank you for your email

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apt-get "ace-of-penguins"

2003-09-02 Thread William Bradley
The above package is listed amongst the Debian packages. Can someone tell me the url to Debian in order to "apt-get" this package. Thank you, Bill. -- William Bradley Come visit us at: http://www.catholicmissionleaflets.org Free Rosaries available at the above. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: mplex shortens MPEG1 video to under five minutes?

2003-09-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:42:47PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > Since you say that the video and audio files are correct, what happens when > you multiplex them yourself? What does mplex have to say then? I'll try that. (I deleted the files, I'll recreate them overnight.) > I found tcmplex fro

Re: apt-get "ace-of-penguins"

2003-09-02 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* William Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030902 05:13]: > The above package is listed amongst the Debian packages. Can someone tell me > the url to Debian in order to "apt-get" this package. What is your problem? A simple "apt-get install ace-of-penguins" should do it very fine. Yours sincerely

Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?

2003-09-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 02:24:19 +0100, Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:22:21AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 19:24:56 +1200, cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Never do it the easy simple way if you can do it > > > th

Re: simple backup script

2003-09-02 Thread Jason Chambers
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 03:43:22AM +0200, Marcus Schopen wrote: > Joyce, Matthew wrote: > >Fault tollerance and data backups are not the same thing, they are just > >different components of a data protection policy. > > > >My advice would be (as a minumum) to take a full backup on Monday night and

modem hiccup

2003-09-02 Thread William Bradley
When I first loaded Debian it had KDE 2.2.2. I uploaded "kppp" and got it working. Due to having setup a dialup when Debian was installing, the "kppp" cut out. In time I found out that it needed a "noauth" in the "pppd" arguments or whatever. Once I set that I was able to connect as the "root" o

XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Configuration- No DFP detected

2003-09-02 Thread Punit Ahluwalia
I upgraded to kernel 2.4.20 and to Xfree86-4.3.0 When I startx I get blank screen for a while and the system returns to console with two errors: 1. No DFP detected 2. No core pointer The var/log/XFree86.0.log and XF86Config-4 files are pasted below. Please help. * /var/log/XFree86.0.

Re: Configuring HP Inkjet Printer

2003-09-02 Thread desiderata
On 11:42 Tue 02 Sep?, bob parker wrote: > I've just installed a HP 3325 printer. > > I configured it using cups after downloding and compiling the latest hpijs > driver (1.4.1). > > It's printing OK, from web pages at least, but my problem is that it is doing > it at maximum resolution. > > Be

Login Procedure

2003-09-02 Thread Vaibhav Agrawal
HI! I wanted to what is the sequence of files or scripts being executed when a user logs in. Thank you. Vaibhav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get "ace-of-penguins"

2003-09-02 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:13:12PM -0400, William Bradley wrote: > The above package is listed amongst the Debian packages. Can someone tell me > the url to Debian in order to "apt-get" this package. > If apt-get is working for you and, in particular, /etc/apt/sources.list has proper entries

Re: Print packages.

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
David Palmer wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 21:47, Russell Shaw wrote: David Palmer wrote: Hello, Which is the more stable/ efficient Debian print package? Printtool or Cups? Regards, I've used cups with epson stylus colour inkjets and lexmark postscript laser printers. Works flawless (testing dis

Re: Hard Disk error or SCSI Controler error?

2003-09-02 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:24:23AM -0300, Listas wrote: > What this errors means? A Hard Disk or SCSI Controller problem? > I don't know. Have you tried to test the drive with the utility that I believe most SCSI controllers have built in? This utility can usually be run from the controller pr

Re: font fix found, but how to make it stick?

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm... While I was considering editing the binary font file (helvB12.pcf.gz), I noticed a different font file in the same location: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/helvB12-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz After some inspection, it would seem that many fonts default to iso10646, but als

Re: Some odd comments and questions for all

2003-09-02 Thread benfoley
On Monday 01 September 2003 11:24, Russell Shaw wrote: > Joris Lambrecht wrote: [snip] > > Is there any safe way to run unstable with woody ? (Given unstable is > > still sid) > sid is always unstable, reliably unpredictable, so a safe way to run sid is kind of an oxymoron. ben -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: simple backup script

2003-09-02 Thread Jacob Anawalt
I've read the other posts, but am starting back with your origional to keep your full questions. Marcus Schopen wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a simple backup script, which uses e.g. dd and additionally does some error handling and mail notification. I use amanda for my daily and weekly backups,

Re: XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Configuration- No DFP detected

2003-09-02 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, firstly, please don't post such huge log files to the list unless asked. * Punit Ahluwalia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030902 13:14]: > I upgraded to kernel 2.4.20 and to Xfree86-4.3.0 When I startx I get > blank screen for a while and the system returns to console with two > errors: > 1. No DFP

Re: simple backup script

2003-09-02 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Jacob Anawalt wrote: [...snip...] if($base eq '/home' and $ar eq 'data') { #Special case for the /home/data archive, clean out old files `find /home/data/mail/ -ctime +1 -exec rm {} \\;`; `find /home/data/log/ -ctime +1 -exec rm {} \\;`; `find /home/data/ -ct

Re: Configuring HP Inkjet Printer

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
bob parker wrote: I've just installed a HP 3325 printer. I configured it using cups after downloding and compiling the latest hpijs driver (1.4.1). It's printing OK, from web pages at least, but my problem is that it is doing it at maximum resolution. Because I got this little cheapie just so

Re: Windoze software - vpn [was Newbie Hardware/Partitioning]

2003-09-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya arnt On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > Oh, I actually want the entire machine for Linux. I am more than fed > > > up with Windows personally. Unfortunately, however, my work involves > > > several Micro$haft products. I connect to a VPN using Microsoft > > > networking componen

Re: cannot set ethernet card into promiscuous mode

2003-09-02 Thread Alexander Banthien
Hi, thanks for the help. Indeed. I had not thought of that: The hub I was using was a built in hub into my Vigor 2600 DSL router. After using a plain old hub I could see all my packets. TNX, ALexander Michael Heironimus wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:13:15PM +0200, Alexander Banthien wrote:

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread paul
Neal Lippman declaimed: > I'm just wondering if anyone has any info on why X seems to need so much > CPU power? > > Way back when, probably around 1996 or 1997, I first tried to install > Linux. Back then, I tried distro's from Corel and Redhat. My system was > a Pentium 133 with 48 (and then 96)

Re: simple backup script - options

2003-09-02 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Marcus Schopen wrote: > > > > Why don't you just use RAID to mirror your harddisk? - dd is NOT backup ... its an easy way to get data corruptions when disk-A has badblocks that are different that the badblocks on target disk-B - luckily, badblocks are rare and

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread benfoley
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:32, Marc Wilson wrote: [snip] p.s. you're paying way too much for that cheap shit you're smoking. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: simple backup script - tar

2003-09-02 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Marcus Schopen wrote: > > > Fault tollerance and data backups are not the same thing, they are just > > different components of a data protection policy. yup .. > > My advice would be (as a minumum) to take a full backup on Monday night and > > incrementals or differential

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread csj
At Mon, 1 Sep 2003 19:32:19 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > > Feel free to hit 'd' now, if you like, what follows is an > opinion piece that apparently no one at all agrees with, given > the state of the community I'm sorry. I pressed the wrong key. > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:20:24AM +0200, Ni

Re: re wet blue

2003-09-02 Thread Jörg Johannes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I knew we had this already. I did a little historical research on the d-u archives, and voilà: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200105/msg00719.html It's really worth reading the follow-ups. joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Internet connection sharing with WinXP: DNS problem

2003-09-02 Thread Jörg Johannes
Damien Solley schrieb: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 17:47, Jörg Johannes wrote: Hi everybody. My father has a Win XP box with a builtin DSL card (no linux driver available AFAIK, it's a Eicon Diva DSL). So the only possibility to get my Linux laptop connected to the net when I am at home is to let XP

Re: Windoze software - vpn [was Newbie Hardware/Partitioning]

2003-09-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 22:22:02 -0700 (PDT), Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > hi ya arnt > > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > > Oh, I actually want the entire machine for Linux. I am more than > > > > fed up with Windows personally. Unfortunat

Re: XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Configuration- No DFP detected

2003-09-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 13:47:25 +0900, Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > >firstly, please don't post such huge log files to the list unless > asked. > > * Punit Ahluwalia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030902 13:14]: > > I upgraded to kernel 2.4.20 and to

gnus & nnslashdot

2003-09-02 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, When I first started using gnus a few years ago I managed to get slashdot messages into gnus, but for me at that time it was all a bit much to try and control, so I commented out the slashdot specific lines in .gnus. After seeing a post elsewhere about

RE: {VIRUS?} Re: Wicked screensaver

2003-09-02 Thread gradteach
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Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-09-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 10:19:18PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:26, Colin Watson wrote: > > As it happens, setting the tabstop option to anything other than 8 does > > irritate me when editing files containing tabs. I like to keep source > > code within 80 columns, and mismat

Re: Internet connection sharing with WinXP: DNS problem

2003-09-02 Thread Nick Hastings
Good evening (or perhaps morning where you are), * J?rg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030902 16:56]: > There are only two IP's listed in the details field. My own one > (Client-IP) and the dial-in server's (Server-IP). No DNS listed :( > > But anyhow: I have set some "important" IP adresses to

Re: Approved (KMM4717637I14L0KM)

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/dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, When i do: cp test.txt /dev/lp0 shouldn't it blindly copy the text to the port and return immediately? (it hangs) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Tom Badran
On Tuesday 02 Sep 2003 10:39, Russell Shaw wrote: > Hi, > When i do: cp test.txt /dev/lp0 > shouldn't it blindly copy the text > to the port and return immediately? > (it hangs) Its a character device so it will block while it is processing each charcter. If there is no device responding it will

Re: /dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Elie De Brauwer
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:39, Russell Shaw wrote: > Hi, > When i do: cp test.txt /dev/lp0 > shouldn't it blindly copy the text > to the port and return immediately? > (it hangs) That depends, in some cases that could work unless you have a printer like hp deskjet 710, 720 etc who require add

Re: /dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
I'm not sure if this will do what you expect (I'm not behind a Debian box now so I cannot check) but why don't u try: cat file.txt > /dev/lp0 ?? Good luck! Pim - PingWings - the penguin provides profit - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - M:

Re: /dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:39, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, When i do: cp test.txt /dev/lp0 shouldn't it blindly copy the text to the port and return immediately? (it hangs) That depends, in some cases that could work unless you have a printer like hp deskjet 710, 720 etc w

Re: /dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: I'm not sure if this will do what you expect (I'm not behind a Debian box now so I cannot check) but why don't u try: cat file.txt > /dev/lp0 ?? That hangs the same way too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: /dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Elie De Brauwer
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:51, Russell Shaw wrote: > Elie De Brauwer wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:39, Russell Shaw wrote: > >>Hi, > >>When i do: cp test.txt /dev/lp0 > >>shouldn't it blindly copy the text > >>to the port and return immediately? > >>(it hangs) > > > > That depends

Re: Internet connection sharing with WinXP: DNS problem

2003-09-02 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Martin Reid (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Monday 01 September 2003 8:47 am, Jörg Johannes wrote: > >> My father has a Win XP box with a builtin DSL card (no linux driver >> available AFAIK, it's a Eicon Diva DSL). So the only possibility to >> get my Linux laptop connected to the net w

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-09-02 Thread Anders Arnholm
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:37:27AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 10:19:18PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:26, Colin Watson wrote: > Nowadays, on average I tend to use expandtab for new code, but > converting tabs to spaces is still an operation that ne

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Re: /dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:51, Russell Shaw wrote: Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:39, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, When i do: cp test.txt /dev/lp0 shouldn't it blindly copy the text to the port and return immediately? (it hangs) That depends, in som

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-09-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:43:19AM +0200, Anders Arnholm wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:37:27AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Nowadays, on average I tend to use expandtab for new code, but > > converting tabs to spaces is still an operation that needs to be handled > > carefully with respect

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 06:00, csj wrote: > Some ex-X coders have already forked XFree86. There's already an > established dri project at sourceforge which is responsible for > creating the more bleeding edge 3D support for X (note the use of the > relative "more"). Judging from all the poth

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-09-02 Thread Anders Arnholm
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:12:46AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:43:19AM +0200, Anders Arnholm wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:37:27AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Nowadays, on average I tend to use expandtab for new code, but > > > converting tabs to spaces is s

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:56, Erik Steffl wrote: >X is GREAT. just because a particular combination of > software/hardware doesn't work well (too slow) doesn't mean there's a > need to throw out the baby with the... X is really good at what it was built to be. It provides an interface to

Re: network card speed

2003-09-02 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 00:33, Jochen Daum wrote: > I have a Intel based network card in my debian woody webserver. How > can I tell, if it goes 10 MBit or 100 MBit? Have a look at mii-tool from the net-tools package. -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

[OT] Remote Data Acquisition Programming

2003-09-02 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
Hi all, A client has installed a number of site controllers linked to fuel dispensers in distant retail sites to provide automated fuelling services. Communication between the site controllers and a central front end processor (FEP) is via telephone links with modems attached to RS232 interfaces

GRUB hangs at boot

2003-09-02 Thread Robert Fenech
Title: GRUB hangs at boot Hi there: After having partitioned my hard disk (+ran fdisk /mbr) and installed the system GRUB hangs right after displaying the stage2 …… thing. I booted from a LILO on a floppy disk and mounted the root.  Then I check the partition table to see if everything was

Re: sony digital handycam (DCR-TRV60E) in linux

2003-09-02 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Thanks to Neal for his help. I tried to get it working together with kino but it didn't work. Apparently all pages that i found refer to firewire (ieee1394) and i don't have that on my pc, just plain usb. Is it possible to capture the video from my camera via usb? Any good info around on setting

Re: kdemultimedia: dependent on several non-existent versions ???

2003-09-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:06:07PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > What am I missing? The fact that this happens in unstable, hence the name. If you don't want this happening from time to time, avoid unstable and testing, use frozen or stable inste

Re: GRUB hangs at boot

2003-09-02 Thread Qian Gong
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:51:00PM +0200, Robert Fenech wrote: > Hi there: > > After having partitioned my hard disk (+ran fdisk /mbr) and installed > the system GRUB hangs right after displaying the stage2 .. thing. > > I booted from a LILO on a floppy disk and mounted the root. Then I > c

Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?

2003-09-02 Thread cr
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 06:53, Pigeon wrote: > > And it does depend very much on the grade of coal, the design of the > > grate and gas passages, *and* the skill of the fireman. > > Good point. Yes, due to changes in the economics of coal supply, a lot > of them ended up burning grades of coa

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread cr
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 20:17, benfoley wrote: > as desktops, kde and gnome are complete hogs, both of which seem > obsessively determined to win a race that no-one beyond their developers > needs to give a rat's ass about. xfce is good. icewm is even less of a > resource drain, and fluxbox i

Re: whinging poms again: (was Re: OT: whinging (was Re: rms on debian : background noise))

2003-09-02 Thread cr
On Monday 01 September 2003 23:13, Geoff Thurman wrote: > Apologies for picking up a dropped thread, particularly when it has > little (read nothing) to do with Debian, but a couple of things have > been gnawing away at my mind. I have snipped from various branches of > the thread: > On  2003-08-

Fdisk cannot detect my harddisk

2003-09-02 Thread mei charles azhahan
Sir , I use 20 GB seagate harddisk. Before installing the windows'98 , I enter into BIOS setup and gave "YES" for Boot sector virus enabled.When I install the OS , it says "Boot sector virus Found, do you overwrite ? , I answered "Yes" for this. After then the computer hanged .

hotplug userspace scripts

2003-09-02 Thread Jaque Moreau
I found out that user space scripts in /etc/hotplug/usb don't get executed if there is already an entry with same vendor/device-id in /lib/modules/2.4.18-686-1/modules.usbmap. I don't want to delete that entry. I only want the camera module in blacklist (this works) and a script beeing executed ac

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Yves Goergen
On Tuesday, September 02, 2003 12:42 PM CET, Nicos Gollan wrote: > Windows OTOH was designed (and please don't start arguing whether > "designed" is the right term... we all know what we think about that > ;-) ) to provide a nice UI on a relatively powerful workstation > without the whole overhead

Re: Configuring HP Inkjet Printer

2003-09-02 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 22:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 11:42 Tue 02 Sep?, bob parker wrote: > > I've just installed a HP 3325 printer. > > > > I configured it using cups after downloding and compiling the latest > > hpijs driver (1.4.1). > > > > It's printing OK, from web pages at least, but my pr

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