Re: Good front end for small postgress dtabases?

On 26 Dec 2003 , > wrote: > On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 12:28:47PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman > wrote: > On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 at 15:57 GMT, stan penned: > > I > need to create some small databses in postgress (christmas > card > > list, household inventory). What choices do I have > for creating user > >

Bug Report-Deb Install says insert cd2 but doesn't eject cd1

Which Package is Install? I tried to use ReportBug but it said system was unavailable. There is a very severe bug in the installer. After loading some packages it says there may be more via apt on Cd2. Deb Install says insert cd2 but it doesn't eject cd1. I am using Debian 3.0 I have a Panasonic UJ

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Re: Spamassassin on Debian HOWTO?

Carl Fink said: >>Lucas Said: >> Is their a backport of spamassassin for stable? > > Several. >> I generally use the testing mimedefang/spamassassin becuase it uses the >> newer perl version 5.8. > > Why is that an advantage, given SpamAssassin 2.61 with Perl 5.6? I was not aware of backports, and

Re: Is Evolution available for net-installation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 26 December 2003 07:07 am, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Uwe, > > å ææä 26 åäæ 2003 22:21ïUwe Dippel åé: > > On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 12:44:13 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > Now in my new Debian 3.0 box I resume thinking of "Ximian > > > Evolution' 1.4

PPTP setup

Hi, I would like to setup a pptp client to connect to a win2k pptp server in my office. I use Debian Testing, i have installed the following packages: kernel-patch-mppe pptp-linux APT installed also other packages, but I suppose it has installed all necessary packeages. I have seen in "/usr/sr

Re: Warning at booting

Hi Kent, Thanks for your advice. > >Takes about 20 seconds to find an answer... > > Even with Paul's hint, it took me considerably longer than 20 seconds to > find the answer, so I'm posting what I found here for archival purposes, > and in case the OP didn't find the answer in his looking. > > A

Re: X11 error

Alle 20:05, venerdì 26 dicembre 2003, Scott C. Linnenbringer ha scritto: > > Give us some more information. > > What video card? Asus agp-7100 GeForce2 MX > And what monitor are you using at what resolution? Nec MultiSync A700 > Perhaps uploading some portions of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 will help

Re: X11 error

sorry this is the file### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page. # (Type "man XF86Config-4" at th

Re: Is Evolution available for net-installation

Hi Greg, Thanks for your detail advice. > Another option, that may be less troublesome than using mixed versions > of deb packages, is to use the .tar.gz file from the vendor. I.E. > Mozilla provides Thunderbird.tar.gz package, untar it to /usr/local and > link the binary to /usr/local/bin, make

How to delete folders in Cyrus21/IMAP not under INBOX?

Hi, I am running an instance of cyrus for myself. Problem is, I can create and remove folders below INBOX, but I am not able to remove folders I've created on the same level as INBOX. Any idea? Is there any admin gui? I stumbled over this problem as the IMAP support for folders with

Deb commands

Hi folks, Where can I find a list of Deb command corresponding to RPM. Is there similarity/equivalent TIA B.R. Stephen Liu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New "unstable" system, problems isntalling Gnome

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 22:05:20 -0500, stan wrote: > On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 05:16:36PM +, Colin Watson wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 05:26:56PM -0500, stan wrote: >> > I'm trying to help a friend build a new Debian machine. Since it's for >> > MythTV, it needs to be an "unstabe" machine. >>

Re: How to delete folders in Cyrus21/IMAP not under INBOX?

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Mariano Kamp wrote: > create and remove folders below INBOX, but I am not able to remove > folders I've created on the same level as INBOX. Did you create these as an IMAP administrator perchance? Anyway, log in as an administrator using cyradm, give yourself delete-folder r

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

Hi, Am Sa, den 27.12.2003 schrieb Karsten M. Self um 06:21: > However, first suggestion remains finding out what it is that KDE's > complaining about, and fixing that problem or filing a bug, if > appropriate. ...and if you have problems to view the contents of a 75-Gigs-textfile: Use "tail" to v

Re: knode: fonts appear double-spaced.

Karsten M. Self wrote: > I've tried changing fonts with no effect. > > Fonts seem to have some influence. I'm using: > > x "Use the configured fonts for all charsets" > x "Use custom fonts" > > [courier new 11] Article Body > [courier new 11] Article Body (Fixed) > [courier

Re: How does the superblock/mount -t auto work? (was: Synching volumes on logout -- tune2fs)

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 18:04:14 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 at 23:59 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: >> > > Thank you for taking the time to respond, but the above was already > pretty clear to me. What's not clear to me are the following points: > Sorry, my fault. > Since the

Installing StarOffice6.0 problem

Hi folks, I encountered problem on installing StarOffice6.0 from CD As USER $ mount /cdrom $ cd /cdrom/linux/office60/ $ ./setup bash: ./setup: Permission denied $ su Password: # ./setup bash: ./setup: Permission denied ls -al setup -r-xr-xr-x1 root root75172 2002-07-11 21:45 setu

SOLVED: How to delete folders in Cyrus21/IMAP not under INBOX?

Hi Henrique, thanks for taking the time. On Saturday, Dec 27, 2003, at 11:45 Europe/Berlin, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Mariano Kamp wrote: create and remove folders below INBOX, but I am not able to remove folders I've created on the same level as INBOX. Did you c

RE: Synching volumes on logout

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 23:12:22 +0100, David Baron wrote: > The problem that I had, several times, was a shutdown hangup on something like > "deconfiguring inetd". At this point, the keyboard was disabled. I could > escape to another TTY# but could type nothing. The best behaved shutdown at > this

Re: modem external

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 00:44:50 -0200, Bruno Vane wrote: > someone can help me to setup an us robotics courier v.everything external > modem on debian 3.1? > my linux is detecting the modem, and the modem dials to the provider, but > cant establish the connection. What's the exact model number of th

Re: David Grudek/COR/AXE is out of the office.

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 00:50:16 +, Ken Gilmour wrote: > On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 00:57:42 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 the mental interface of >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] told: >> >>> I will be out of the office starting 12/26/2003 and will not >>> return until 01/04/2004. >>> >>

USB watches

I was given a rather funky Xmas present - a USB flashdrive/watch (http://www.memixdirect.com) which says it's bootable. It also claims to be Linux 2.4 compatible, though I've not yet tried connecting it to a Linux box. The programs which come with the watch allow you to set the watch as bootable,

Re: cdrdao not working with 2.6

Er ... I really don't know what I'm saying now, but perhaps you *should* use scsi emulation; i.e. append something like hd?=ide-scsi to "kernel-startup"? Maybe it was there for your old kernel, but disappeared when you installed the new one? Again, I really don't know, just guessing here ... h

Re: Fluxbox menus

I had the same problem some time ago. Search this newsgroup, I believe I got some help, got it fixed with some further tweaking, and posted the solution here. So check that out first, if you can't fix it, post a mail again and I'll try to help. h: Kristian Gonzalo Sainz-Trápaga wrote: Hi, I am

Re: X11 error

Hello Marco (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > [Xfree problem] > Section "Device" > Identifier"Generic Video Card" > Driver"nv" > Option"UseFBDev""true" > EndSection Set "UseFBDev" to no, or rerun dpkg-reconfigure xserv

Re: Deb commands

Hello Stephen Liu (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Where can I find a list of Deb command corresponding to RPM. Is there > similarity/equivalent Check the man pages for dpkg and apt. Or read the documentation on , especially the APT Howto. best regards Andreas Jans

Re: OT: Thunderbird 0.4 "feels" better

No really sure what you mean, but doesn't "Reply All" do the trick; i.e. reply to the list/newsgroup, not to the individual who sent the mail? h: Kristian Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: Uh. I think evolution looks a lot nicer... :-) Question: The only reason why I stay with evolution instead of cha

NEW GRAPHICS CARD HELP

DEAR EXPERTS, Please tell me, which model of ATI card would replace my existing one ?(within current Compaq Computer AGP slot). Thanks in advance And Happy new year. A friend. ===GENERAL= Problem Report Version: 2.14 22/12/03 -- 23:28:

Re: Installing StarOffice6.0 problem

Hello Stephen Liu (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I encountered problem on installing StarOffice6.0 from CD > > As USER > $ mount /cdrom > $ cd /cdrom/linux/office60/ > $ ./setup > bash: ./setup: Permission denied > $ su > Password: > # ./setup > bash: ./setup: Permission denied > ls -al setup >

Re: Local mails are not delivered

Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > > What is your mail setup? How do you have local users stored? > (/etc/passwd? NIS? ldap?) How is sendmail configured to identify > local accounts and invalid recipients? As always the problem is sitting in

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

I have the exact same problem and I have tried ever thing I can think of. If you ever find an answer let me know. I am beginning to think that 2.4.xx is unable to understand all of the mother board devices I have on this board. You never said what mother board and bios you have. I have a SOYO KT40

Re: USB watches

Andrew Pritchard wrote: > I was given a rather funky Xmas present - a USB flashdrive/watch > (http://www.memixdirect.com) which says it's bootable. It also claims > to be Linux 2.4 compatible, though I've not yet tried connecting it > to a Linux box. I have a MeMIX - works fine with Debian and Man

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Re: Installing StarOffice6.0 problem

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 19:25:55 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi folks, > > I encountered problem on installing StarOffice6.0 from CD > > As USER > $ mount /cdrom > $ cd /cdrom/linux/office60/ > $ ./setup > bash: ./setup: Permission denied > $ su > Password: > # ./setup > bash: ./setup: Permission de

Re: Deb commands

man apt-get man apt-cache man dpkg On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 06:45:47PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi folks, > > Where can I find a list of Deb command corresponding to RPM. Is there > similarity/equivalent > > TIA > > B.R. > Stephen Liu > HTH -- Joachim Fahnenmüller # Hi! I'm a .signature

Re: OT: Thunderbird 0.4 "feels" better

Kristian Niemi wrote: No really sure what you mean, but doesn't "Reply All" do the trick; i.e. reply to the list/newsgroup, not to the individual who sent the mail? h: Kristian Yes. But is customary to reply *only* to the list, unles the individual has specifically requested a CC. In Thunderbir

Re: Installing StarOffice6.0 problem

Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, I encountered problem on installing StarOffice6.0 from CD Question. Why StarOffice 6.0? OpenOffice.org surpassed StarOffice 6.0 in terms of features and functionality a while back. If you were using Star Office 7.0, I could understand. Why not give OpenOffice.org

Re: many marillat users don't realize their Packages.gz is old

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 26 December 2003 4:22 pm, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Dan> Because of the broken Last-Modified, I am unable to get fresh > Dan> copies of > Dan> > http://marillat.free.fr/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz > Dan> from my ISP's cache!: > >

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

SOLVED If I go to to the BIOS on start-up (DELETE Button) and "Load Fail-Safe Defaults" Debian with 2.4.xx will ping all other boxes OK and I can go to the Internet OK. All though I noticed that W2K will not start up but W-98 will. If I "Load Optimized Defaults" in BIOS than Debian 2.4.xx will

Re: Warning at booting

Paul Morgan wrote: On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 17:44:25 -0600, Kent West wrote: Matthias Hentges wrote: Am Fre, 2003-12-26 um 16.40 schrieb Stephen Liu: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-114 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-114 modprobe: modprobe: Can

Excahnge data between NTFS and Linux partitions

I have dual booting system: XP with NTFS and Debian unstable with ext2 file systems. This is Acer Travelmate notebook. Network and internet connections are not available usually. 1. How to allow non-root user to read XP partition ? I added a line to /etc/fstab : /dev/hda1 /xp ntfs users,uid=a

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

Bill Kalebaugh > If I go to to the BIOS on start-up (DELETE Button) and "Load Fail-Safe > Defaults" Debian with 2.4.xx > will ping all other boxes OK and I can go to the Internet OK. Hmmm. My BIOS setup utility doesn't seem to have these options. Is there more than one way of setting the BIOS?

Help Needed Urgently on Printer Configuration

Respected Sir/Madam, On my debain server I am not able to configure printer which is installed on a remote windows machine. I am using a debain server - Ver 3.0 for my project. It is connected to the windows machine in network. I want to take my printouts on that remote windows machine's pr

Re: Installing StarOffice6.0 problem

Hi Robert, Thanks for your response. å ææå 27 åäæ 2003 22:19ïRoberto Sanchez åé: > > I encountered problem on installing StarOffice6.0 from CD > > Question. Why StarOffice 6.0? OpenOffice.org surpassed StarOffice > 6.0 in terms of features and functionality a while back. If you > were using S

Re: Excahnge data between NTFS and Linux partitions

Andrus Moor wrote: I have dual booting system: XP with NTFS and Debian unstable with ext2 file systems. This is Acer Travelmate notebook. Network and internet connections are not available usually. 1. How to allow non-root user to read XP partition ? I added a line to /etc/fstab : /dev/hda1 /x

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 15:12:32 +0900, Charles Muller wrote: > debian:/home/chuck# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.3 {nothing happens} > debian:/home/chuck# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.255 {nothing happens} > > debian:/home/chuck# ping 192.168.1.3 > PING 192.168.1.3 (192.168.1.3): 56 data bytes {stops here} W

Re: Installing StarOffice6.0 problem

Hi Paul and Andreas, Thanks for your advice. - snip - > You've probably got it mounted noexec. Type "mount" and see what it says > for /cdrom. If it says noexec then read the mount(8) manpage and either > umount/mount with the appropriate option or umount, edit /etc/fstab, and > mount. $ mou

Re: Re: X11 error

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Re: Installing StarOffice6.0 problem

Stephen Liu wrote: I encountered problem on installing StarOffice6.0 from CD Question. Why StarOffice 6.0? OpenOffice.org surpassed StarOffice 6.0 in terms of features and functionality a while back. If you were using Star Office 7.0, I could understand. Why not give OpenOffice.org 1.1 a shot?

Re: modem external

Incoming from Bruno Vane: > someone can help me to setup an us robotics courier v.everything external > modem on debian 3.1? > my linux is detecting the modem, and the modem dials to the provider, but > cant establish the connection. Edit /etc/ppp/peers/provider - add "-v" to the chatscript line.

OO1.1 fails to start

Hi folks, OO1.1 failed to start. On KDE desktop KStart -> OO 1.1.0 -> OO write It started and finally died. On Konsole window $ openoffice Starting configuration import into user data .. .. importing layer file:///tmp/oooLocale.zERG8I - succeeded Application Errorsh: line 1: crash_report: co

Re: cdrdao not working with 2.6

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dissabte 27 Desembre 2003 12:58, en Kristian Niemi va escriure: > Er ... I really don't know what I'm saying now, but perhaps you *should* > use scsi emulation; i.e. append something like hd?=ide-scsi to > "kernel-startup"? Maybe it was there for yo

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

Incoming from Karsten M. Self: > > The correct first step is ">~/kde3-errors". What is that? I've never seen indirection used like that. Or is this something else? > lsof and fuser can be useful commands in this situation as well. I was more concer

Re: OT: Thunderbird 0.4 "feels" better

Hey, you're right. "Reply all" puts the list as CC, individual as "To" --- however, the `simple' "Reply" puts *only* the list as recipient. This mail, for instance, was sent with "Reply", and at least I believe it's sent only to the list, and not you as an individual (as well). So I don't need

Re: Excahnge data between NTFS and Linux partitions

Hello Andrus Moor (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have dual booting system: XP with NTFS and Debian unstable with > ext2 file systems. > This is Acer Travelmate notebook. Network and internet connections are > not available usually. > > 1. How to allow non-root user to read XP partition ? > >

Re: Excahnge data between NTFS and Linux partitions

Question #1 is something I'm pondering on myself; I just assumed it's me being stupid, although I have the same settings for my NTFS partition, as another ext2 ... Question #2, in kernel 2.6 I believe you can set NTFS as writable, although it's experimental, and at least I don't dare to use it.

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

Incoming from Charles Muller: > Uwe Dippel wrote: > > (with 2.2.20 kernel: network connection functioning) > > debian:/home/chuck# ifconfig eth0 > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:F5:1F:3B:BA > inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 ^

dpkg PATH

Hi, I'm trying out a debian based distro for someone and am getting the error init-2.05a# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 13 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/7078kB of archives. After unpacking 513k

Re: Woody: TaskSel - XWindows; startx fails

Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If one is setting up a server, one may only want to run an X server > (XFree86, for example) on that machine, and not an X client. Other > machines on the network would be running X clients and connecting with the > server's X server. One doesn't need st

Re: modem external

Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 00:44:50 -0200, Bruno Vane wrote: > >> someone can help me to setup an us robotics courier v.everything external >> modem on debian 3.1? >> my linux is detecting the modem, and the modem dials to the provider, but >> cant establish the

Re: Deb commands

Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where can I find a list of Deb command corresponding to RPM. Is there > similarity/equivalent The 'dpkg' command is most similar to the 'rpm' command; if you have an individual .deb file, 'dpkg -i foo.deb' will install it, replacing any previously exist

Re: how to access certain part of memory

j smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i want to write a program to read array of Java applet running in > browser. I'm unclear that there's a good way to do that; if you actually needed something that complicated, I'd probably write a stand-alone Java application (or a stand-alone program in your

Re: OO1.1 fails to start

pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature On 27 Dec 2003, Stephen Liu<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake: > Hi folks, Yo, > OO1.1 failed to start. k. > On KDE desktop > KStart -> OO 1.1.0 -> OO write > It started and finally died. > > On Konsole window > $ openoffice > Starting configuration import into

Re: How does the superblock/mount -t auto work? (was: Synching volumes on logout -- tune2fs)

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 at 10:35 GMT, Paul Morgan penned lots of really good info, including: > Here's a good place to start reading (I give the two links because > there's not a link from the first page to the second, at least I > didn't see one. The second page describes ext3 journalling options. >

help needed- linux

respected sir/madam My name is padmini and i am trying to read or access the mdb files from linux. This, am trying with the linux odbc driver I wanted to kno if the odbc manager is required for this purpose or is there a better way to do this please reply thanking you in advance padmini __

Apt holding back packages and dependencies

Hello. Does anyone know if it's possible to resolve unmet dependencies with apt-preferences? I had to force a perl downgrade to use the unstable version of interchange and it created the following dependencies problems. Interchange won't run with the threaded versions of perl in testing and u

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 09:51:40 -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Karsten M. Self: >> >> The correct first step is ">~/kde3-errors". > > > What is that? I've never seen indirection used like that. Or is this > something else? It's normal output

Re: OO1.1 fails to start

On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 12:45:44AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Starting configuration import into user data .. > .. importing layer file:///tmp/oooLocale.zERG8I - succeeded > Application Errorsh: line 1: crash_report: command not found Pure speculation, but if a command isn't found, it's gen

Re: Advice on usb pendrive purchase

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Kent West wrote: > My experience with such devices has been less than stellar. As long as > you leave them formatted as they come, no problems, but if you reformat > them, particularly changing them to ext2, it's been my experience, > limited as it's been, that you have a good

wanting to play .asx files

Hi there, Is anyone aware of a player which will play .asx files. I have checked out mplayer and they do not support asx as either a video codec or an audio codec. Thanks for the help. -- Scott Berry Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Vipul's Razor

Good Day Folks, I'm running Stable, and have installed SAssassin, and configured it to work with Exim3. Now, I am interested in using Vipul's Razor with this combination, and so far have installed it. However, I cannot find any configuration Docs, just a changelog. This is the version from Stable.

Re: Advice on usb pendrive purchase

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 14:21:17 -0300 (ART) "Hugo S. Carrer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for a usb pendrive - keychain,(or whatever the name is) > but don't know jack about'em. Of course I want to buy the most > Linux-Debian friendly one I can afford. Like Karsten said, they should pre

Re: How does the superblock/mount -t auto work? (was: Synching volumes on logout -- tune2fs)

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 09:57:13 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 at 10:35 GMT, Paul Morgan penned lots of really > good info, including: > >> Here's a good place to start reading (I give the two links because >> there's not a link from the first page to the second, at least I >>

Re: Woody: TaskSel - XWindows; startx fails

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 12:30:26 -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> If one is setting up a server, one may only want to run an X server >> (XFree86, for example) on that machine, and not an X client. Other >> machines on the network would be running X clients a

Openbox as Gnomes window manager? :-s

Hey all, I can't get my head around this. For a long time now, my system (running sid) has been a single user system. I mainly use Gnome; occasionally, I choose Flux- or Openbox instead. Inside Gnome, I just use Metacity, since I tend to quite like it. Now, I wanted to add a user to the system. W

Re: Openbox as Gnomes window manager? :-s

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:14:40 +0100 Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, I wanted to add a user to the system. When I logged her in, > Applications --> Desktop Preferences --> Theme didn't show a "window > border" tab, as it does with my login. That felt odd. Changes made > with metacity-setup did

Re: photo-quality printer recommendation

If HP is sponsoring the sourceforge site to develop drivers for therir multifunction and photosmart printers, why couldn't the HP rep inform me of this? His response follows: - Dear Marc Shapiro: Thank you for contacting Hewlett-Packard. The DeskJet, OfficeJet, PhotoSmart and PSC pri

packages.debian.org?

I thought that the Debian website was supposed to be fully functional, again. I can access www.debian.org with no problems, but I can not get to packages.debian.org. I wanted to browse through a few listings there, but I am still getting the message saying that the site is down and directing m

Re: wanting to play .asx files

On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 12:32, Scott Berry wrote: > Hi there, > > Is anyone aware of a player which will play .asx files. I have checked > out mplayer and they do not support asx as either a video codec or an > audio codec. Thanks for the help. > > > > -- > Scott Berry > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: USB watches

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > I was given a rather funky Xmas present - a USB flashdrive/watch > (http://www.memixdirect.com) which says it's bootable. It also claims to be > Linux 2.4 compatible, though I've not yet tried connecting it to a Linux > box. > > The programs which co

Re: America's Army - OpenGL Error

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 07:03:24PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..meanwhile, check the [F2] button and the boot options list over at > http://knoppix.net/ , chances are "nv" or somesuch in the X modules > options, might help. nv doesn't do GL. - --

A good book on C Programming?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, During my degree, BEng (Hons) Electronics and Communications Engineering, we did C programming every year, but I never kept it up, as I had no interest and didn't see the point. But now I really want to get back into it as I see a point wit

Re: A good book on C Programming?

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Gavin Henry wrote: > Anyone have any recommendations? The C Programming Language by K&R http://tinyurl.com/3abhn -- [ Russ Schneider (a.k.a. Sugapablo) ] [ http://www.sugapablo.com <--music ] [ http://www.sugapablo.net <--personal ] [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] <--jabber

Re: A good book on C Programming?

Thus spake Gavin Henry: > I need some good books. I used to have one called "A Book On C", but sold it, > and I have been reading various tutorials on the web and the many devoted > websites. > > Anyone have any recommendations? I always suggest picking up a copy of "The C Programming Language

Re: photo-quality printer recommendation

Incoming from Marc Shapiro: > If HP is sponsoring the sourceforge site to develop drivers for therir > multifunction and photosmart printers, why couldn't the HP rep inform me of > this? Possibly because he doesn't know? HelpDesk monkies just read back to you whatever's displayed on their scree

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

on Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 09:51:40AM -0700, s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Incoming from Karsten M. Self: > > > > The correct first step is ">~/kde3-errors". > > > What is that? I've never seen indirection used like that. Or is this > somethin

RE: A good book on C Programming?

You really need more than one book if you want the resources at hand to help with resolving problems Practical C++ Programming, by Steve Oualline, published by O'Reilly is a good mid-level text that is quite approachable; The C++ Programming Language by Stroustrup, published by Addison Wesley is

Re: A good book on C Programming?

Gavin Henry wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, During my degree, BEng (Hons) Electronics and Communications Engineering, we did C programming every year, but I never kept it up, as I had no interest and didn't see the point. But now I really want to get back into it as

Re: OT: Thunderbird 0.4 "feels" better

> Hey, you're right. > "Reply all" puts the list as CC, individual as "To" --- however, the > `simple' "Reply" puts *only* the list as recipient. This mail, for > instance, was sent with "Reply", and at least I believe it's sent only > to the list, and not you as an individual (as well). that's

Re: A good book on C Programming?

Hi, Gavin... On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 08:37:56PM +, Gavin Henry wrote: > During my degree, BEng (Hons) Electronics and Communications Engineering, we > did C programming every year, but I never kept it up, as I had no interest > and didn't see the point. Lucky you. I studied computer science

Suggestions: Wireless PCI NIC Card

Sony Vaio P200, 64MB RAM Debian Woody (Linux 2.2.20) I'm looking at getting a Wireless card for the above machine. I was looking at a Trendware, but now looking at it more closely, it's driver/module 8211.o looks like it needs a 2.4 kernel. Any suggestions on a PCI Wireless ethernet card that

Re: OT: Thunderbird 0.4 "feels" better

Hi, Am Sa, den 27.12.2003 schrieb Josh Robinson um 21:31: > > `simple' "Reply" puts *only* the list as recipient. This mail, for > that's because on this list, the reply-to headers are set to reply to > the list. No, they aren't (fortunately) . This is interesting. I'll go and try thunderbird.

Re: OT: Thunderbird 0.4 "feels" better

Incoming from Josh Robinson: > > Hey, you're right. > > "Reply all" puts the list as CC, individual as "To" --- however, the > > `simple' "Reply" puts *only* the list as recipient. This mail, for > > instance, was sent with "Reply", and at least I believe it's sent only > > to the list, and not

This is not the rescue floppy

Hello, I'm new to installing Debian so I'm a bit lost in all this. I'm installing the latest Debian, I have just run Install kernel and driver modules and after it finds the rescue.bin file I get the message "This is not the Rescue Floppy. Please place the Rescue Floppy in the second floppy driv

Re: booting to serial console

Thank you for your help! The console now works, but it gets locked after the boot message about portmap and before the login prompt (or before single-user password prompt). I need to restart the client on the other end of the serial line (I use 'tip' under FreeBSD for that) to be able to login on

WAS "A good book on C programming", now an APPOLOGY

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Everyone, I was had this pointed out to me, by Simon Perreault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (with my reply): "On Saturday 27 Dec 2003 8:49 pm, you wrote: > 1) Please do not cross-post. (This means sending the same message to many > lists.) OK, guilty,

Re: Openbox as Gnomes window manager? :-s

* [27/12/2003 20:26] Todd Pytel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > What's wrong? Is this a bug? Or what am I overlooking? Is there a way > > have the default (Metacity) back? > > Probably you changed the default, No, I sure didn't. I did install Openbox some time *after* I installed Gnome, however, but

Re: booting to serial console

The problem with serial console disppeared after I switched 2.2.20 -> 2.2.22, thanks! > > Thank you for your help! The console now works, but it gets locked after > the boot message about portmap and before the login prompt (or before > single-user password prompt). I need to restart the client o

keyboard layout switcher for KDE

Which package is the keyboard layout switcher for KDE? I used to have it, but it got uninstalled when I upgraded to sarge's version of KDE, and now I can't find it. (did a search through apt-cache search keyboard, but didn't see anything obvious). Thanks, -- John L. Fjellstad___

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