Re: phonetic symbols

2003-10-30 Thread kmark+debian
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, L.F. wrote: > I can't convert the Windows file into pdf in Windows because I don't have > the Acrobat Reader program; ---right. In Linux the pdf is free but in Windows it costs > 600 euros. expected. > Email the file to me, if you like -- I'll convert it for you on my

Re: failing to upgrade sysvinit from Knoppix version

2003-10-30 Thread kmark+debian
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, David Z Maze wrote: > Simon Tod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Knowing what exactly the version is might be helpful. If the > >> Knoppix people have added an epoch to their version number, APT > >> would be entirely corre

Re: Acronyms (was Re: reiserfs)

2003-10-30 Thread kmark+debian
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Johann Koenig wrote: > On Tuesday October 28 at 04:54pm > Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > * Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031028 14:48]: > > > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:51, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > > > > Speaking for myself only. I have to mak

Re: Getting HP to support Debian

2003-10-30 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:25:26PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..you say HP support's Debian Linux. Both may well be true, the sheer > > size of HP suggest one of these support schemes may be un-autorized > > by HP's corporate board. They might wan

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-30 Thread kmark+debian
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: > Hi. > How can i do this without losing the data on my NTFS partition? > This is the final step for moving completely from windows to linux! yay! > Thanks > -- Fred > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: mkfs.msdos, FAT 32 and wrong disksize

2003-10-30 Thread Lukas Ruf
Hi Florian, thanks for the reply. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-30 03:06]: > > > > Dear all, > > > > don't ask why but I have to prepare a disk with FAT32. > > I won't ask ;-) , but if you happen to have also Windows on your > machine, I think I have an advice. > unfortunately

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-30 Thread r . s . robinson
It's still alive an kicking on my accounts - I had one arive with a new subject header of "abort annoucement". Stuart Robinson Leeds, United Kingdom On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. This > is my fourth post in 2

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-30 Thread mody
I think You can't just convert, but there is a project with write support on NTFS volumes... http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ Haven't try myself. Mody signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Debconf can't be upgraded

2003-10-30 Thread Christophe Courtois
I'd like to upgrade my system to testing (parts of which are already sid), but debconf has a problem, and upgrading it involves to remove whole parts of the system. For another package, I'd try a dpkg --remove --force-depends and reinstallation of the upgraded package, but as debconf is a b

Re: Installationsproblem Deb 3

2003-10-30 Thread Andre Kalus
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:44:30 +0100, Dirk Schiefke wrote: > Hi, > > hab mich nach langer Zeit von meinem bisher gewohnten Suse Linux (ja würg, > ich weiss) > getrennt und bin letztendlich zu Debian gewechselt. Hallo, dies hier ist eine englischsprachige Newsgroup. Wenn du lieber auf deutsch post

Re: Fail to telnet Debian from Windows

2003-10-30 Thread Andre Kalus
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:05:26 +0100, =?iso-8859-1?B?RW1pbCBI5Gdlcmx1bmQ= ?= wrote: > Thanks, I'll remove telnetd. > > Enough just to apt-get install 'ssh'? It should already be installed because it is contained in standard installation. Type "which ssh" if you get "/usr/bin/ssh" then ssh client a

Sawfish and gnome-menu

2003-10-30 Thread Magnus Therning
I thought the package 'gnome-menu would give me an apps-menu that resembles the Gnome2 Menu Bar, but it doesn't, why? :( /M -- Magnus Therning mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +31-40-2745179 http://pww.innersource.philips.com/magnus/ OpenPGP:0x4FBB2C40 Technology lies on the leading edge of life.

Configure PnP Card before Kernel loads modules

2003-10-30 Thread Andreas Bohnert
Hi, I have an old but still pretty good ISA PnP Soundcard (EWS64XL) . Now I have to initialize the card at boot time BEFORE the kernel loads the moduls, otherwise the (sound-)modul will mess up my configuration. Which boot script allows me to do some action before the kernel starts to load th

Gnome2: Pleasantly surprised

2003-10-30 Thread Magnus Therning
I have started to get used to having Gnome2 related things change everytime I run 'apt-get upgrade' on my 'unstable' machine. Things change sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse, but things NEVER break! Thank you for that! I was very pleasantly surprised to see the Gnome2 splash bei

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-30 Thread Steve Lamb
David Gaudine wrote: > I wouldn't use "reply to all", I'd just CC the one person. But indeed, for > those who have to choose between "reply" and "Reply to all" and don't want > to adjust things manually, that problem is there. How would you do that, though? The most common example of CCing th

Re: Configure PnP Card before Kernel loads modules

2003-10-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Andreas Bohnert (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have an old but still pretty good ISA PnP Soundcard (EWS64XL) . Now > I have to initialize the card at boot time BEFORE the kernel loads the > moduls, otherwise the (sound-)modul will mess up my configuration. > Which boot script allows me to

Re: Time is runnign too fast

2003-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 30 October 2003 04:18, cr wrote: [...] > Definitely a joke. Look at some of the pages it links to: > > http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/newsburst3.htm > http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/windows_no.htm > > On second thoughts, I have a nasty feeling the second of those links might

devfs and lvm

2003-10-30 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, currently my server (2.4.21) is running LVM. All partitions are on LVM except a boot partition. I would like to move to devfs. Any good documents or howto's out there that explain how to set this up. I understand that i will need to install devfsd and that i might have to change the root boot

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Haines Brown
> > Application can't initialize because it lacks display name and no > > $DISPLAY environment variable. > > Look what I just found as a new package on unstable: > > Sux is a wrapper around the standard su command which will transfer your > X credentials to the target user. > > http://sourc

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Haines Brown
> Please don't CC me. (If somehow my sig isn't clear enough, please let > me know how I can make it so.) My apologies. The current auto CC: is something I did not have before, and so I'm not used to removing that line. I was aware I had forgotten to do that as soon as I had sent the message to yo

Re: Install from usb (was: Re: Straight to SID...)

2003-10-30 Thread kmark+debian
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, John Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 19:38, Greg Madden wrote: > > Hi All, > > first time I hear from mini-install iso's. Great idea! Don't > know who is responsible for this (searched for netinst in the packages > but couldn't find anything) but would it be pos

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Haines Brown
> Why not just use 'su' (with no parameters) or 'su - -p'? > > -m, -p, --preserve-environment > do not reset environment variables, and keep the same shell > > That will preserve things like X display dettings. Just an idea. Perhaps it is a philosophical issue, but my inst

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Haines Brown wrote: > > Please don't CC me. (If somehow my sig isn't clear enough, please let > > me know how I can make it so.) > > My apologies. The current auto CC: is something I did not have before, > and so I'm not used to removing that line. I was aware I had forgott

Re: The best way to install 'sid'

2003-10-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:07:14PM +0100, Davi Leal said > I mean, autodetecting all the hardware. My new system is AMD, Geforge4, IDE, > 3Com, ... Note: I have been using 'sid' since more than two years ago, 24x7 > as server. You know sid doesn't get special security updates, right? -- Rob W

Re: Configure PnP Card before Kernel loads modules

2003-10-30 Thread Andreas Bohnert
thanks andreas, I will try that. stupid question: is sound-slot-0 just a random name? about the kernel question: I''m using the 2.4.18 kernel, but he does not auto configure my card - maybe this is switched of by default and I have to configure it (good tip!) thanks andreas Andreas Janssen wrot

Re: I broke gnome2 - FIXED

2003-10-30 Thread David Purton
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 06:20:26PM +0930, David Purton wrote: > > Does anyone know how I can fix gnome2.4 :( Woohoo fixed - somehow missed a couple of libbonobo2 packages - odd that there were no dependency complaints dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you, O LORD, kept a record of sin

Re: Getting HP to support Debian

2003-10-30 Thread TR
> As do I. However, my point about the preinstall, is that you at least > *know* that everything works under Linux if they preinstall it. As it > stands now, you never really know if all the hardware is supported. > Even if they would sell it blank (no OS) and certify that it works > with Linux,

Re: Getting HP to support Debian

2003-10-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:21:06AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > They employ many people to develop Debian GNU/Linux and have donated > > quite a bit of our core infrastructure. Their Linux Chief Technology > > Officer is a former Debian Project Lead

Re: .muttrc for mailing list

2003-10-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:12:22PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:21:50PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:00:25PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > To use L I have to define the mailing lists I am subscribed to, this > > > causes mutt to do weird t

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 04:45:17AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > Look what I just found as a new package on unstable: > > > > Sux is a wrapper around the standard su command which will transfer your > > X credentials to the target user. > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/sux/ ( from http:/

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Haines Brown
> each user has a session and a session key. this key is used to > authenticate yourself to the Xserver. Root as a key and each user > does. Yes, that makes sense. > so when you login as user and then switch to root, it tried to use your > root key to access the user session-- no go. ? When I l

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Johannes Zarl
> user% xhost + > user% su > root! xcalc > but this is an insecure hack since in says anyone can snoop on your > xserver. You could also use ``xhost +local:'' so that you don't open your xserver to the net. ``xhost +'' is something I would only advise for debugging-purpose only.. Johannes

Horizontal Sync

2003-10-30 Thread Tom Hinkley
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 i need to specify my HorizSync in the above configuration file so that i can have the resolution 1024x768. I am runiing debian linux version 3.0 (woody). I have a Blade T64 AGP graphics card installed and working with KDE at 800x600 however i wish to find my monitors HorizSyn

other users of the medion MD40100?

2003-10-30 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i am in search of other users of the new Aldi notebook MD 40100, i have begun to regroup the hints i had to extract onto http://www.inforezo.org/~bboett/md40100/ (that link is also submitted since 4 days to the linux-laptop site but doesn't show up... ) and am searching other debi

Re: strange behavior with keys and virtual windows

2003-10-30 Thread Petr Baláš
Dne st 29. ÅÃjna 2003 21:26 James D. Freels napsal(a): > I am cross-posting this to debian-kde because it appears to be a kde > problem, but I am not sure. > > From a konsole window, when I hit the up arrow to retrieve the previous > bash command, then hit return, it takes me to another virtual win

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Haines Brown
> No, I think if you had actually started X as root then you certainly > would have an appropriate $DISPLAY. The issue is not really rootness, > it's that $DISPLAY is set in the environment of the X session which is > run as the user who started X, and .Xauthority is in the home directory > of the

dpkg problems after the server broke down; /var folder gone

2003-10-30 Thread Bob Hentges
Hiya all, well the problem is the following, After a crash of our webserver, the whole /var was gone. We got the system working again, but, dpkg produces errors ever since. to show what the output the machine gives us looks like here comes a sample installation for bombardier: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 30 October 2003 12:30, Haines Brown wrote: [...] > For years I didn't "loose all that", but could "su - root" as I > needed. I still don't know whether my system's busted or if it is me > ;-) That is, is "loosing all that" a natural occurance or a flaw in my > setup? [...] The point is,

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 05:40:37AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > each user has a session and a session key. this key is used to > > authenticate yourself to the Xserver. Root as a key and each user > > does. > > Yes, that makes sense. > > > so when you login as user and then switch to root, it

setting permissions

2003-10-30 Thread john
hi there i m new to linux and well after using debian on my system and on a test small network at home, found out it was very good a quick question is, apart from doing things graphically we can use the command line to do what we need m stuck on the aspect where, considering setup of

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 06:30:14AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > No, I think if you had actually started X as root then you certainly > > would have an appropriate $DISPLAY. The issue is not really rootness, > > it's that $DISPLAY is set in the environment of the X session wh

OT: TokyoLectures.org: an experiment in global teaching

2003-10-30 Thread Martin F Krafft
Some of you may be interested in http://tokyolectures.org which is a series of lectures on new artificial intelligence, held by Prof. Pfeifer of our lab at the University of Tokyo and broadcast to Beijing, Warsaw, Munich and Zurich. You can also view the lectures online, either live or in recor

Fwd: Re: my dear

2003-10-30 Thread Ken Gilmour
I'm sending this on to debian-user list because i think it's more appropriate for that list. > I don't think there is a program available that can do something > like that. It's solely up to the ISP to give you a static IP. I > don't know how net2phone works, however i do use VOIP which i > assum

Re: Videoconferencing software

2003-10-30 Thread John Patrick Dough
--- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:04:38PM -0800, John > Patrick Dough wrote: > > Is there a multi-platform videoconferencing > > software out there that also works in Linux? I > > currently use Eyeball

Debian Woody - processes stopping (VM: killing process apache)

2003-10-30 Thread BruceG
I just installed Debian Woody on an old PC, set up as a mail server. It's running sendmail, ipopd, squirrelmail and Apache. Yesterday morning I noticed that Apache was shut down. I restarted (well, simply rebooted the server with a "shutdown -r now"). This morning I logged in and saw the following

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Haines Brown
Johannes, Took your advice, and that seems to have worked. $ xhost +local non-network local connection being added to access control list $ su Password: # So I gave root access to the X server. Still don't understand why I had to do this rather than it being the default setup with an i

Re: devfs and lvm

2003-10-30 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20031030] Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Hello > currently my server (2.4.21) is running LVM. All partitions are on > LVM except a boot partition. I would like to move to devfs. > Any good documents or howto's out there that explain how to set > th

Re: mkfs.msdos, FAT 32 and wrong disksize

2003-10-30 Thread lorian
Lukas writes: > > I have not had > > any problems with the schedule: > > > > 1 - win fdisk 2 - linux fdisk 3 - win format (for all vfat) 4 - > > linux mkfs (for all ext2/3) > > > > My way for doing things like that: > 1 - cfdisk, partion all the disk as you want to > 2 - inst

Re: Horizontal Sync

2003-10-30 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:42:50 - "Tom Hinkley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > > i need to specify my HorizSync in the above configuration file so that > i can have the resolution 1024x768. I am runiing debian linux version > 3.0 (woody). I have a Blade T64 AGP graphics car

Re: Cursor dust

2003-10-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Keresztes József([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi ! > > I restarted the X-window, of course. > I tried to write > > Option "HWCursor" "off" > > into the XF86Config-4 file also, > because this was in the documentation. > Try either Option "sw_cursor" OR Option "hw

Adaptec SCSI RAID 2010S and Woody

2003-10-30 Thread Erik Dörnbach
Hello list, quick question - does Debian Woody support the Adaptec 2010S out of the box (bf24, either vanilla CD or Boot Floppies) or does it need a manual compiled kernel... and basically does Linux support these Zero-Channel RAID adapters at all? Thx for quick answers! regards, Erik -- To

Re: Acronyms (was Re: reiserfs)

2003-10-30 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Johann Koenig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 18:32 Subject: Re: Acronyms (was Re: reiserfs) I will keep your email for the time when and if I am able to get woody to function. I would like to have dict-jargon but

Re: Fail to telnet Debian from Windows

2003-10-30 Thread Kent West
Andre Kalus wrote: How to get sshd up and running? During installation you were asked if ssh server should be started. If you said no it wrote a file /etc/ssh/ sshd_not_to_be_run. If you remove this file ssh server should start during bootup. Don't bother rebooting after making this cha

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Haines Brown
> I don't think anything is broken in your setup. I do seem to > recollect that, when I used RH, su- was able to use Xwindows, so it > may be that some distros execute this differently. Yes, Richard, apparently I had work habits based on the RedHat setup, and didn't realize that under debian I'd

GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-10-30 Thread Hoyt Bailey
Is anyone running the subject video card on the subject kernel. If so what driver are you using? If you know where can I get a copy of your driver? Regards; Hoyt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: Incremental CDR backups

2003-10-30 Thread lorian
Paul writes > > There must be something I don't understand about this. For the sake of > > brevity, here's an example. First burn is /home/paulf/docs. It contains > > the files alfa, bravo, charlie and delta. I make an ISO of this, stored > > in /tmp/cdimage. I burn it to CDR and delete t

Re: What did I screw up?

2003-10-30 Thread John Hasler
Roberto Sanchez writes: > Why not just setup diald on the gateway machine? Or just configure pppd for demand-dialing. That can easily be done with pppconfig. Marc Shapiro wrote: > Now, however, if I dial in and then try to access anything on the net > from the Athlon, I get DNS resolution errors

Re: setting permissions

2003-10-30 Thread Andre Kalus
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 23:43:15 +, john wrote: > > need to know what command i can use so i can write to all files and folders > under any folder which is shared on a network > The command is called "chmod". To use it you have to understand unix file permissions: Every file has an owner and a

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Haines Brown([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I don't think anything is broken in your setup. I do seem to > > recollect that, when I used RH, su- was able to use Xwindows, so it > > may be that some distros execute this differently. > > Yes, Richard, apparently I had work habits

Re: Configure PnP Card before Kernel loads modules

2003-10-30 Thread Andre Kalus
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:19:40 +0100, Andreas Bohnert wrote: > thanks andreas, > I will try that. > > stupid question: > > is just a random name? > > No, it is not. It has to be that way so any program that wants to access the sound card (via sound-slot-0) is poited to the correct driver. Gree

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-10-30 Thread Haines Brown
> Is anyone running the subject video card on the subject kernel. If so what > driver are you using? If you know where can I get a copy of your driver? > Regards; > Hoyt Hoyt, that's my setup. I downloaded the new nVidia driver from the nVidia website. Installation a bit rocky (I'll go into specif

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-30 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. This > is my fourth post in 2 days. So far, no spam, including no SWEN. Could we > finally be seein the end of this mess? 135 in 12 hours here, and it'll probably jump up now that I'

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Haines Brown
> > My next question has to do with disabling screen blanking and power > > saving under X. This also may be the result of moving into a somewhat > > different setup when I moved from RedHat to debian. > > > > I had added to ~/.Xclients: > > > > xset s off > > xset -dpms > > > > But now tha

Re: Getting HP to support Debian

2003-10-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 06:27 GMT, Roberto Sanchez penned: > > As do I. However, my point about the preinstall, is that you at least > *know* that everything works under Linux if they preinstall it. As it > stands now, you never really know if all the hardware is supported. > Even if they would s

Install: How to make boot floppy that's really an image?

2003-10-30 Thread andrew cooke
Hi, How do I jiggle things (via the second console) so that when the installer writes a boot floppy, it actually writes to an image? I have tried making an image and mounting it via loopback, but the installer gives the error "dbootstrap[16]: error getting floppy geometry from /dev/fd0". is the

xkbmap trouble... :-(

2003-10-30 Thread Tom
Hey all, Less than a week ago, my keyboard functioned quite properly. I have a Belgian azerty-layout, and there were only minor problems. A backslash, which should be AltGr + the key with < and > could only be typed by using AltGr + ). Other than that, everything just worked. Then somebody told m

Re: Acronyms (was Re: reiserfs)

2003-10-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 13:16 GMT, Hoyt Bailey penned: > > - Original Message - From: "Johann Koenig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 > 18:32 Subject: Re: Acronyms (was Re: reiserfs) I will keep your email > for the time when and if I am able

Re: phonetic symbols

2003-10-30 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "L.F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 00:59 Subject: Re: phonetic symbols > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, L.F. wrote: > > > I can't convert the Windows file into pdf in Windows because I don't have

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:06:35AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > But as the man page points out, the xset commands can be set at "run > time." Does that mean run time for x server? If so, where would the > xset command be put? Do you think I could put them into > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc ?

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: Incremental CDR backups

2003-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 30 October 2003 15:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > PS: in case anyone is interested, I have written two Perl scripts > intended to make full and incremental backups on CD-R more > convenient. [...] Yes. Very interested. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Haines Brown([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > My next question has to do with disabling screen blanking and power > > > saving under X. This also may be the result of moving into a somewhat > > > different setup when I moved from RedHat to debian. > > > > > > I had added to ~/.Xc

3com

2003-10-30 Thread Selim Bolgen
Hi   I am selim   I have a problem Could you help me please ? I have a machıne that is work with sco unix 3.2 v4.2 under the network. All machines are sco unix on the network One machine is not connected to the network. The ethernet card is 3Com 3C509B that has Rj45 port BNC port and AUI po

Re: phonetic symbols

2003-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 30 October 2003 16:13, Hoyt Bailey wrote: [...] > > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, L.F. wrote: > > > I can't convert the Windows file into pdf in Windows because I don't > > > have the Acrobat Reader program; > > > > ---right. > > In Linux the pdf is free but in Windows it costs 600 euros. I u

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Kent West
Haines Brown wrote: But regularly, we, running as user, find that we need to do something that requires root's privileges, and so we "su - root". . . . I presume every debian user who is both user and administrator of his machine (probably the majority) will occasionally want to su to become r

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Paul Smith
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Haines Brown) writes: hb> Johannes, hb> Took your advice, and that seems to have worked. hb> $ xhost +local hb> non-network local connection being added to access control list hb> $ su hb> Password: hb> # Well this doesn't prove anything: you have to

printing with lpd to remote printer

2003-10-30 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hi, I have a hplaserjet 4200n networkprinter attached to my network. I have installed lpr on the server. Now I would like to be able to print from the server to the networkprinter. When I send a postscript file to the printer it gets nicely printed. When I send a txt file to it, the lines don

Re: 3com

2003-10-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 15:20 GMT, Selim Bolgen penned: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --=_NextPart_000_0021_01C39F0A.22244EC0 Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hi=20 > > I am selim > > I have a problem Could

Bizarre name resolution problem (ping ok, telnet not ok)

2003-10-30 Thread Fraser Campbell
I've never heard of anything like this except on Windows. I want to override DNS with a local entry in /etc/hosts, ping sees the override, telnet does not. ping testing.otherdomain.com: PING testing.otherdomain.com (10.142.254.1) from 10.142.254.1 : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from

Re: Install: How to make boot floppy that's really an image?

2003-10-30 Thread andrew cooke
A much simpler solution is to say yes to making the system bootable, at which point you're give the option of installing in /boot rather than the mbr. after doing that, you can grab the required info from that partition and configure windows correctly. Eventually this will be described at http:/

Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Tom
Has anybody else been surprised by the amount of good press MS is getting this week over longhorn? I think people are looking at the Mac OS9 -> OSX total rewrite and projecting wishes for MS to do something as drastic. It's like watching somebody involved in a bad marriage: I'll just stick by

Re: galeon won't start -- gconfd error?

2003-10-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:31:38AM +0100, JG insinuated: > Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > every time i try to start galeon on this new install of mine (which is > > basically a clone of an old install on which galeon *was* working), i > > get the following gtk error dialog box: > >

Re: 3com

2003-10-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 11:01, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 15:20 GMT, Selim Bolgen penned: > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > > > --=_NextPart_000_0021_01C39F0A.22244EC0 Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-p

Re: Gnome2: Pleasantly surprised

2003-10-30 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 03:44, Magnus Therning wrote: > I have started to get used to having Gnome2 related things change > everytime I run 'apt-get upgrade' on my 'unstable' machine. Things > change sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse, but things > NEVER break! Thank you for that!

Mplayer Problem

2003-10-30 Thread Stefan Seifert
Hi, I've got an problem with mplayer. I've installed mplayer with this apt-source http://marillat.free.fr/. The problem is fullscreen doesn't work probably when I switch to fullscreen the "size" of the image doesn't resize to fit the whole screen. So a big black border is around the image of the

Re: Q: Why is linux-wlan-ng not an ordinary part of the kernel?

2003-10-30 Thread Mark Roach
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 18:25, Mariano Kamp wrote: > Hi, > > I believe to have a prism wlan card in my notebook and while digging around > what to do I came to the conclusion that I need a module, which is in > linx-wlan-ng?! no, you don't need linux-wlan-ng for this. The stock orinoco_cs driv

Re: gnome sound isn't working

2003-10-30 Thread Mark Roach
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 10:04, josep salord wrote: > Hi, > > I've woody + kernel 2.4.18 + alsa 0.9. > > Alsa drivers work fine, but gnome sound events do not work. I've esound > package installed and "sound server+sound events" actived in the gnome > control center. > > What is missing? (you don'

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-30 Thread Fraser Campbell
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 16:23, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. This > is my fourth post in 2 days. So far, no spam, including no SWEN. Could we > finally be seein the end of this mess? I was getting 200-300 Swen's a day for over a

Re: usb card reader - no block device [Solved]

2003-10-30 Thread Andreas Goesele
Andreas Goesele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > after configuring my usb card reader on my laptop I wanted to do the > same on my desktop. But I didn't succeed. [...] > But then there come the problem: I can not find any device to > mount. So I get for instance: > > mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Ray
On Thursday 30 October 2003 10:41, Tom wrote: > Has anybody else been surprised by the amount of good press MS is > getting this week over longhorn? I think people are looking at the > Mac OS9 -> OSX total rewrite and projecting wishes for MS to do > something as drastic. > > It's like watching so

Re: Where is Gnome-Freecell?

2003-10-30 Thread Michael W. Cole
That's too bad. The Gnome-Freecell was much easier to play on a laptop. Later, Michael On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 12:59:04AM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: > It has been dropped in favour of the freecell that is part of Aisle > Riot (/usr/games/sol). > > -- > Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://w

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Haines Brown
> I echo Colin's thought. Forget about "su" and use "sudo". It takes an > extra 5 keystrokes per command, but it "just works", and in my opinion > is better than forgetting you're root and doing something you don't want > to do. > > apt-get install sudo > visudo, add yourself a line similar to

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Ken Gilmour
Ive tried the alpha version and it was so bad, on 512MB of RAM, a 60GB empty HDD (Apart form the OS of course) and 1.5GHz processor it would take about 6 minutes to open the start menu or a window such as "My Computer" using longhorn milestone 5 - didnt look too shabby though - but then, neither

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Haines Brown
> hb> $ xhost +local > hb> non-network local connection being added to access control list > hb> $ su > hb> Password: > hb> # > > Well this doesn't prove anything: you have to run an X application as > root before you can know whether it worked or not. > > This is still a bad

Looking for a better info-file viewer

2003-10-30 Thread Tom
God, I hate trying to read info documents. I tried pinfo: at least I could navigate ok, but I still feel overwhelmed by the # of links each page has. "Info" is such a generic term I'm having trouble searching for alternatives. What are some? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

booting from usb

2003-10-30 Thread John Smith
(Sorry Kev... http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200310/msg07137.html ) Hi All, is it possible to write one of the mutiple smaller .iso's that are available, to an usb memory stick and boot from it? Has anybody experience with usb bootable machines (positive/ n

[OT] deleting pictures from digital camera via computer?

2003-10-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi all, I am using a Nikon CoolPix 3100 digital camera. It is pretty easy to set up in Debian unstable. It doesn't seem to be supported by gphoto2 or gtkam, but one can mount it as a USB mass storage device after installing hotplug, following the directions at this page: http://home.gagme.com

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Tom
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 05:38:42PM +, Ken Gilmour wrote: > Ive tried the alpha version and it was so bad, on 512MB of RAM, a 60GB empty HDD > (Apart form the OS of course) and 1.5GHz processor it would take about 6 minutes to > open the start menu or a window such as "My Computer" using longh

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:18:56AM -0600, Ray wrote: > On Thursday 30 October 2003 10:41, Tom wrote: > > > > It's always interesting to watch 'em finally wake up. > > the way i was looking at it is longhorn must be horrible if the > marketing has to get this much of a running start on reviews befo

Re: Too Slow - what'd I break?

2003-10-30 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Daniel L. Miller wrote: Howdy all. I've converted a Pentium II-350mhz w/ 128M RAM workstation from Windoze to Debian. Unfortunately, it seems that many operations are far slower - especially disk access. I've pasted the output of below. I do see some error messages r

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 15:52 GMT, Kent West penned: > I echo Colin's thought. Forget about "su" and use "sudo". It takes an > extra 5 keystrokes per command, but it "just works", and in my opinion > is better than forgetting you're root and doing something you don't > want to do. > > apt-get insta

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