Re: Compatibility of external drive enclosures

2004-07-25 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-24, Jonathan Melhuish penned: > I'm looking to buy a USB 2.0 5.25" external drive enclosure. Which > ones are linux compatible? > > I've been unable to find any useful information despite my Googling > efforts, so any pointers would be most appreciated. :-) > My gut instinct is to say

Re: syncing pda + phone on linux?

2004-07-25 Thread Paul Johnson
"Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use starfish truesync on winbleh to sync up my handspring platinum > visor with my computer and my motorola v60i. I know that I can sync my > PDA to various linux apps, but do any support phones as well and let me > sync both to my computer at o

Re: syncing pda + phone on linux?

2004-07-25 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 25 July 2004 03:05 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I use starfish truesync on winbleh to sync up my handspring platinum > > visor with my computer and my motorola v60i. I know that I can sync my > > PDA to various linux apps, but do any supp

Re: syncing pda + phone on linux?

2004-07-25 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-25, Paul Johnson penned: > --=-=-= > > "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I use starfish truesync on winbleh to sync up my handspring platinum >> visor with my computer and my motorola v60i. I know that I can sync >> my PDA to various linux apps, but do any support pho

Re: syncing pda + phone on linux?

2004-07-25 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-25, Silvan penned: > > Wow. Why do I have the feeling I'm just not living in the modern > world? Platinum visor? Handspring visor? Synchronizing a mobile > phone with a computer? > > Kinda makes me glad to be a hermit, I think. :) Depends on how you view it. My cell phone is my on

yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
(on sid) Okay, I know this is pathetic, but I haven't had printing set up on my user debian machine in ... well, ever. Or several installs ago, anyway. This particular machine tends to be my guinea pig. And printing always seems so complicated and whatnot ... and I rarely print, anyway ... so I

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-25 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Saturday 24 July 2004 14:20, John Summerfield wrote: > for most > people, whatever the distro, a kernel from kernel.org is probably a > mistake. Could you please elaborate on this? I've always thought that learning the most generic way of handling linux kernels is more valuable than sticking

bringing ppp connection up as regular user

2004-07-25 Thread Bram Mertens
Hi After lurking a while on this list and reading the excellent documentation that comes with the debian testing install I have been able to solve almost all problems I encountered after switching from SuSE (which I still run on my dekstop) to Debian on my laptop. However there is one thing I can

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya monique On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > installed lpr. That gave me permission errors on a non-existent file, > namely /var/spool/lpd//.seq , iirc. that'd be normal ... one has to create the right permissions on the /var/spool/lpd/ where corresponds to the name /etc/pri

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-25 Thread John Summerfield
David Sanders wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 07:46 am, Paul Akkermans wrote: uname -a Linux debian 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002 i686 unknown cat /etc/debian_version 3.0 The basic procedure. Ask if you have any questions. 1. Download: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel

Re: bringing ppp connection up as regular user

2004-07-25 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Bram Mertens (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > [starting pon as a regular user] > > So I added my "regular user account" to this group (as root) > adduser m8ram dip > > grep dip /etc/group now shows: > dip:x:30:m8ram > but I still get the error mentioned earlier. > > AFAIK changes to groups

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-25 Thread John Summerfield
Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 14:20, John Summerfield wrote: for most people, whatever the distro, a kernel from kernel.org is probably a mistake. Could you please elaborate on this? I've always thought that learning the most generic way of handling linux kernels

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-25 Thread John Summerfield
Ignore Andreas - there is noting wrong with top-posting (or bottom-posting), and I've seen people flamed for not top-posting! However, I do think it wrong to cc: people who're on the list. I can't speak for others, but I prefer one copy. You're running Woody and Debian doesn't support any 2.6 k

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-25 Thread John Summerfield
Peter O wrote: Hi everone, Last week I installed my debian system with a cd-rom I got from a friend. When I was installing Debian I saw that the kernel which was included on the cd-rom was version 2.22. From the website www.kernel.org I saw that version (the stable version) 2.6.7 is available. But

Re: debian/unstable gworkspace not working?

2004-07-25 Thread Gürkan Sengün
> Does anyone else (with debian/unstable) find that gworkspace exits on > startup with a popup that says "Critical Error"? yes, it needs a rebuild like all applications that use gnustep, because of the new gnustep update. you should be able to compile it yourself by changing gnustep-gui/base to li

Re: Exim "From " header

2004-07-25 Thread John Summerfield
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Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread John Summerfield
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: (on sid) Okay, I know this is pathetic, but I haven't had printing set up on my user debian machine in ... well, ever. Or several installs ago, anyway. This particular machine tends to be my guinea pig. And printing always seems so complicated and whatnot ... and I rarely

Re: wrong dial up password

2004-07-25 Thread John Summerfield
Dougpol1 wrote: Hello somebody, I'm using Debian3.0r2 and I've installed the wrong ISP password and wvdial can't connect. How do I change that password and in what file. Why not just set it up with pppconfig? -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http

Re: bringing ppp connection up as regular user

2004-07-25 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Moin! * Bram Mertens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040725 11:44]: > AFAIK changes to groups should take effect immediately. Can anybody > tell me what else I should check? No, the group changes take effect, when you logout and agein login. The output of »id« is quite usefull in those cases. Yours sinc

Re: Compatibility of external drive enclosures

2004-07-25 Thread John Summerfield
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-07-24, Jonathan Melhuish penned: I'm looking to buy a USB 2.0 5.25" external drive enclosure. Which ones are linux compatible? I've been unable to find any useful information despite my Googling efforts, so any pointers would be most appreciated. :-) My gu

Re: Compatibility of external drive enclosures

2004-07-25 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
On Sunday 25 July 2004 07:43, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > I'm looking to buy a USB 2.0 5.25" external drive enclosure.  Which > > ones are linux compatible? > > > > I've been unable to find any useful information despite my Googling > > efforts, so any pointers would be most appreciated.  :-) > >

Re: apt doesn't upgrade packages

2004-07-25 Thread Mikael Magnusson
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 09:34:30PM -0400, Anthony Costa wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 06:10:27PM -0700, Aaron Tomb wrote: > > I'm having a very strange problem. As of about a week ago, apt-get stopped > > noticing new packages and upgrading them. It still downloads package lists, and > > if I te

Re: syncing pda + phone on linux?

2004-07-25 Thread Joost De Cock
Quoting "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I use starfish truesync on winbleh to sync up my handspring platinum > visor with my computer and my motorola v60i. I know that I can sync my > PDA to various linux apps, but do any support phones as well and let me > sync both to my computer at

Kernel 2.6.7 : "control timeout on ep0in" with digital camera

2004-07-25 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hello, I've just bought a digital camera, and I am trying to get it work under Linux. To get access to the pictures, I have built a new kernel with the following configuration: CONFIG_SCSI=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=m CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=m When I plug in the camera, I can see that

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Kent West
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 01:56:28 -0600 "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whatever. I can print now. I just need to figure out why firefox is > printing pages such that four can fit on a sheet ... not that I mind so > much, but it's curious. A matter for another day, I suppose. Seve

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Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-25 Thread Ryo Furue
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Ryo Furue wrote: > > Some open source software like GNU emacs runs on most Unixes. > > I bet a LOT of resources went into it. > > Some? Some!? slrn, apache, mysql, screen, joe, bind, X, vim, kde, > openoffice, perl

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-25 Thread Paul Akkermans
Hi erveryone, I have read al suggestions and advice on how to install my kernel (thanks a lot). But the thing is, that I have a school assignment in evaluating a linux kernel. I must admit that I am new to linux and so I thought that when I installed the newest kernel I was up to date enough for m

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-25 Thread Peter O
> Good! Please tell Intel that it's easy to write a compiler to run on all > major brands of Unixes. A single person can do that. Why can't Intel? I > can't verify how correct your statement is. I don't know exactly how much > effort went into emacs to make it portable, exactly how difficult t

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-25 Thread Juha Siltala
On 2004-07-25, Ryo Furue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good! Please tell Intel that it's easy to write a compiler to run on all major > brands of Unixes. A single person can do that. Why can't Intel? They can. If they won't, then that's another matter. -- Juha Siltala http://www.edu.helsinki.

Re: syncing pda + phone on linux?

2004-07-25 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 25 July 2004 03:42 am, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > Kinda makes me glad to be a hermit, I think. :) > > Depends on how you view it. My cell phone is my only phone, and it's a > heck of a lot easier to enter contact info into the computer than it is > into the phone! So with this setup

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-25 Thread Juha Siltala
On 2004-07-25, Paul Akkermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi erveryone, > > I have read al suggestions and advice on how to install my kernel (thanks a > lot). But the thing is, that I have a school assignment in evaluating a > linux kernel. I must admit that I am new to linux and so I thought tha

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-25 Thread Ryo Furue
"Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... [...] I'm not sure whether I understand every point you make (I read your message twice but there are still points I don't understand), but I think I understand your main point: A binary distribution may not work o

Re: bringing ppp connection up as regular user

2004-07-25 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Bram Mertens: > > However there is one thing I can't figure out: I would like to be able > to bring my ppp connection up as a regular user. As root pon brings up > the connection without problem but as regular user I get the error: > "Error: only members of the 'dip' group can use

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-25 Thread John Summerfield
Paul Akkermans wrote: Hi erveryone, I have read al suggestions and advice on how to install my kernel (thanks a lot). But the thing is, that I have a school assignment in evaluating a linux kernel. I must admit that I am new to linux and so I thought that when I installed the newest kernel I was up

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Nate Bargmann
* John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Jul 25 06:34 -0500]: > I quite like cups. It can automagically find other cups printers. Add a > new printer to "that box over there" and everyone knows about it. Works > with Windows 2k too (but I don't know the details). > > I told a mate about it.

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-25 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Paul Johnson: > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Actually, being schools, they're probably getting a huge discount. > > Still a lot of money, I know. The important thing for MS is, the kids > > are getting hooked early and will grow up expecting it. > > Looking at the

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-25 Thread Ryo Furue
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Ryo Furue wrote: [...] > > In fact I looked at the homepage of nptl. That was kind of scary to me :) > > The page says that you need to use a rather new kernel and libc. [...] >I don't think you can expect a really

Re: bringing ppp connection up as regular user

2004-07-25 Thread John Hasler
s. keeling writes: > Consider adding it to dialout as well. Not necessary. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO-2

2004-07-25 Thread egd
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Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Jason Rennie
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 09:53:13AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > I concur. I never have had satisfactory print quality on my agin > Lexmark 4039-10R with lpr/lprng with magicfilter/apsfilter. I started > playing with CUPS a month or so back and once I installed libgimpprint > and used their ljet3

Re: bringing ppp connection up as regular user

2004-07-25 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from John Hasler: > s. keeling writes: > > Consider adding it to dialout as well. > > Not necessary. Good to know, thanks. What's dialout for then? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-25 Thread John Hasler
Paul Johnson writes: > Looking at the State of AZ v. Microsoft antitrust settlement...since > when is it legal to settle an antitrust lawsuit paid only in vouchers > extending said violating monopoly? It's what the plaintiffs agreed to. This was a private suit in state court. s. keeling writes:

6G memory

2004-07-25 Thread Jason Rennie
Hello, I've got a machine w/ 6 gigs physical memory. kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686-smp only recognizes 4G. I unsuccessfully tried to build a custom kernel with kernel-package and in the process learned that the 4G limit is due to a kernel option. Is there a 2.4.26-1-[36]86-smp kernel available with

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 07:30:24AM -0700, Ryo Furue wrote: > 1) The current stable version (which I use) is "old"; > 2) You thought I was using an obsolete version (potate or earlier). > I don't know which is the correct interpretation, although > your reference to "unstable" seems to suggest (1).

Re: bringing ppp connection up as regular user

2004-07-25 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello s. keeling (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Incoming from John Hasler: >> s. keeling writes: >> >>> Consider adding it to dialout as well. >> >> Not necessary. > > Good to know, thanks. What's dialout for then? To access the serial ports. With that you can for example use programs like kpp

Re: bringing ppp connection up as regular user

2004-07-25 Thread John Hasler
s. keeling writes: > What's dialout for then? For situations where the user needs to use a serial port directly. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Katipo
Kent West wrote: On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 01:56:28 -0600 "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Whatever. I can print now. I just need to figure out why firefox is printing pages such that four can fit on a sheet ... not that I mind so much, but it's curious. A matter for another day, I su

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Jason Rennie
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:25:22PM +0800, Katipo wrote: > There's actually a debian package that features this, i.e., four pages > onto one. > It looks very much as though your printing programme is being routed > through this. > Regretfully, I can't remember the name of the package, but it is in

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Jul 25 10:29 -0500]: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 09:53:13AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I concur. I never have had satisfactory print quality on my agin > > Lexmark 4039-10R with lpr/lprng with magicfilter/apsfilter. I started > > playing with CUPS a mon

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Kent West
Jason Rennie wrote: These are the packages I apt-get installed: cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-driver-gimpprint xpp cupsomatic-ppd foomatic-db-gimp-print I think this may be part of the confusion with setting up printers using cups on Debian. There is no package named "cups" (tasksel, anyone?)

Re: 6G memory

2004-07-25 Thread John Summerfield
Jason Rennie wrote: Hello, I've got a machine w/ 6 gigs physical memory. kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686-smp only recognizes 4G. I unsuccessfully tried to build a custom kernel with kernel-package and in the process learned that the 4G limit is due to a kernel option. Is there a 2.4.26-1-[36]86-smp ker

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-25 Thread Brian Nelson
Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 07:30:24AM -0700, Ryo Furue wrote: > >> 1) The current stable version (which I use) is "old"; >> 2) You thought I was using an obsolete version (potate or earlier). >> I don't know which is the correct interpretation, although >> your

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-25 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 09:57:27 -0400 Peter O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe that whatever additional costs of supporting more > distributions are, they are inconsequential to Intel. Their decision > to support only RedHat is purely marketing/business-driven, not > technology-driven. They see

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-25 Thread John Summerfield
Brian Nelson wrote: There's very little resistance from developers to increase the release frequency. Nearly everyone agrees the current cycles are too long. I think the problem mostly stems from Debian not scaling well. The distribution keeps growing in both size and complexity (more packages, m

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-25 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from John Summerfield: > > will cause major ructions. I hate the idea of using EXIM, even for the > amount of time it takes to replace it with Postfix:-) What is so bad about exim that would produce a reaction like that? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 12:40:05PM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: > mpage? Or enscript? J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 03:31:19PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 12:40:05PM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: > > mpage? > > Or enscript? or a2ps? -- It's raisins that make Post Raisin Bran so raisiny ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-25, Kent West penned: > Jason Rennie wrote: > >>These are the packages I apt-get installed: >> >>cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-driver-gimpprint xpp cupsomatic-ppd >>foomatic-db-gimp-print >> >> > > I think this may be part of the confusion with setting up printers > using cups on Deb

Re: syncing pda + phone on linux?

2004-07-25 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-25, Silvan penned: > On Sunday 25 July 2004 03:42 am, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > >> > Kinda makes me glad to be a hermit, I think. :) >> >> Depends on how you view it. My cell phone is my only phone, and it's >> a heck of a lot easier to enter contact info into the computer than >> it

Re: syncing pda + phone on linux?

2004-07-25 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-25, Joost De Cock penned: > Quoting "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I use starfish truesync on winbleh to sync up my handspring platinum >> visor with my computer and my motorola v60i. I know that I can sync >> my PDA to various linux apps, but do any support phones as wel

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Jason Rennie
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:38:06AM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > I just assumed cupsys was the right thing to install for cups? (Haven't > done it, though.) I guess I'm wrong? cupsys: CUPS server cupsys-client: CUPS client programs cupsys-bsd: CUPS BSD-style client programs (e.g

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-25, Alvin Oga penned: > > hi ya monique > > On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > >> installed lpr. That gave me permission errors on a non-existent >> file, namely /var/spool/lpd//.seq , iirc. > > that'd be normal ... one has to create the right permissions on the > /var/spoo

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Jason Rennie
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:51:02AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > I think it depends on whether you are using mozilla.org builds or > Debian packages for Mozilla and/or Firefox. The Debian pakages > currently require Xprint. I am using the mozilla.org builds with no > problems. The default margin

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-25, Kent West penned: > On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 01:56:28 -0600 "Monique Y. Mudama" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Whatever. I can print now. I just need to figure out why firefox is >> printing pages such that four can fit on a sheet ... not that I mind >> so much, but it's curious.

Re: Netscape seems to default to Postscript(tm of Adobe), but I don't have a postscript printer

2004-07-25 Thread J F
I found some documentation at: http://www.cups.org/documentation.php It seems cups can print postscript, even if your personal printer can't, but there are not examples of how to set it up. Still haven't gotten netscape to print, but got Konqueror to quit chopping off the top, sides, and bottom q

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-25 Thread Brian Nelson
"s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Incoming from John Summerfield: >> >> will cause major ructions. I hate the idea of using EXIM, even for the >> amount of time it takes to replace it with Postfix:-) > > What is so bad about exim that would produce a reaction like that? It's not the ex

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-25 Thread Brian Nelson
John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson wrote: > >>There's very little resistance from developers to increase the release >>frequency. Nearly everyone agrees the current cycles are too long. >> >>I think the problem mostly stems from Debian not scaling well. The >>distributio

Re: syncing pda + phone on linux?

2004-07-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:47:05AM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > Oh, my husband brought a DVD *player* into the marriage, so I can watch > them on TV -- I'm talking about in my computer. I've toyed with the > idea, though, particularly to burn off archives; it's just never been > important

udev isn't creating links for my cdrom and dvd-rom devices

2004-07-25 Thread Kyle Girard
I wanted to experiment with udev, hal, dbus and gnome-volume-manager so I installed all of the above and rebooted everything seemed cool except I no longer have a /dev/cdrom link. It appears udev didn't find my cdrom and dvdrom drives and it didn't create any links for them. Anyone else had this

Re: 6G memory

2004-07-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:59:20AM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a machine w/ 6 gigs physical memory. > kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686-smp only recognizes 4G. I unsuccessfully > tried to build a custom kernel with kernel-package and in the process > learned that the 4G limit is due

ALSA problems with VIA8233

2004-07-25 Thread Ivan Nestlerode
I'm having some strange problems with my sound. I am using a VIA8233 card and the ALSA from my 2.6.7 kernel. Most of the time I am also using KDE. If instead of using KDE immediately after boot, I log into one of the text consoles, sound does not work properly. I must turn my speaker up all the

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Jul 25 14:12 -0500]: > > Try the upstream Firefox with postscript output? > > Which version are you talking about? www.mozilla.org - Nate >> -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | Successfully Microsoft Amateur radio exams; ham radio; L

Re: Debian install breaks on 'Configuring Locales'

2004-07-25 Thread listcomm
> Now I've dl'd the Debian CD iso images and burned them to disks. > This is with the 'Woody' 30r2-i386 set of seven CD's, plus the updates > CD. Okay, that's *exactly* what *I* did... except for the update CD (h) > But it breaks each time at 'Configuring Locales'. You can select more

Re: Dependencies in Dir w/ Many .deb Files

2004-07-25 Thread Lourens Steenkamp
Lourens replying to Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a slow Internet connection at home. :-( > > I can't yet use apt-zip since my home 'ppp' link still doesn't work > (non-"8 bit clean" issues) thus prohibiting me from updating the apt > database via the net. :-( > >

Re: syncing pda + phone on linux?

2004-07-25 Thread Joost De Cock
Quoting "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > KDE's Kitchensync should support that in the future. ... > > I know this is not really an answer to your question, but I just > > wanted to point out this option for the future. > > Thanks for the heads-up, anyway. It's good to know they're wor

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Ryo Furue wrote: > Excuse me, but I interpret what you say in two ways: > 1) The current stable version (which I use) is "old"; > 2) You thought I was using an obsolete version (potate or earlier). > I don't know which is the correct interpretation, although > your reference to "unstable" seems to

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-25 Thread Steve Lamb
s. keeling wrote: > What is so bad about exim that would produce a reaction like that? His unfounded fear of the unknown. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. -

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Brian Nelson wrote: > It's not the exim is so bad; it's that postfix is so good... I've not seen anything Postfix can do that exim cannot. Conversely I've found at least one thing Postfix can't do that Exim can. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your

tmpfs?

2004-07-25 Thread Curt Howland
Dear Debian Users, What is "tmpfs"? Is it using any resources that would be better used elsewhere? (Using Sid, 2.6.7) $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 57193948 39477596 14811000 73% / tmpfs 257612 02576

Re: apt doesn't upgrade packages

2004-07-25 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 01:45:55PM +0200, Mikael Magnusson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 09:34:30PM -0400, Anthony Costa wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 06:10:27PM -0700, Aaron Tomb wrote: > > > I'm having a very strange problem. As of about a week ago, apt-get stopped > > > noticing new pack

Re: tmpfs?

2004-07-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Curt Howland wrote: > What is "tmpfs"? Is it using any resources that would be better used > elsewhere? (Using Sid, 2.6.7) tmpfs will keep everything in RAM. It's disk storage backup is your swap partitions. Here, I keep /tmp in tmpfs (with a 512MB limit) and let it swap to

Re: apt doesn't upgrade packages

2004-07-25 Thread Anthony Costa
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 01:38:58PM -0700, Martin J. Hillyer wrote: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 01:45:55PM +0200, Mikael Magnusson wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 09:34:30PM -0400, Anthony Costa wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 06:10:27PM -0700, Aaron Tomb wrote: > > > > I'm having a very stran

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread J F
Did you do anything special to get postscript to print using CUPS? My printer just prints out the raw postscript language text without rasterizing it? --- On Sun 07/25, Jason Rennie < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: From: Jason Rennie [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAI

OT- How is secure is a ssh session?

2004-07-25 Thread D Scavella
I am not sure if my understanding of (Open)ssh is accurate so I am putting this to the list. Here is the scenario and I want to know how safe my sessions via ssh are? On the server is OpenSSH 3.4p1 SSH protocols 1.5/2.0. I generated a key for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a password. So logging in is $ssh

Re: 6G memory

2004-07-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:59:20AM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a machine w/ 6 gigs physical memory. > kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686-smp only recognizes 4G. I unsuccessfully > tried to build a custom kernel with kernel-package and in the process > learned that the 4G limit is due

Re: Debian install breaks on 'Configuring Locales'

2004-07-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 12:35:22PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You want something FREE to work, out of a "box" it didn't come in, when > expensive Gatesware that you PAY for, in a fancy-pants > marketing-droid-designed > box with a hologram on it, DOESN'T work?? *WHERE* did you get > the

Re: OT- How is secure is a ssh session?

2004-07-25 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from D Scavella: > I am not sure if my understanding of (Open)ssh is > accurate so I am putting this to the list. > Here is the scenario and I want to know how safe my > sessions via ssh are? > On the server is OpenSSH 3.4p1 SSH protocols 1.5/2.0. > I generated a key for [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-25 Thread Erik Steffl
Ryo Furue wrote: Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Ryo Furue wrote: [...] In fact I looked at the homepage of nptl. That was kind of scary to me :) The page says that you need to use a rather new kernel and libc. [...] I don't think you can expect a rea

Re: Hello

2004-07-25 Thread info
Veuillez prendre note que les bureaux du Tremplin, Festival de la chanson et de l’humour de Dégelis, seront fermés pour la période estivale. Cependant, les courriels seront vérifiés régulièrement et nous vous répondrons dans les meilleurs délais. Pour toute urgence, vous pouvez contacter la pré

Re: Hello

2004-07-25 Thread info
Veuillez prendre note que les bureaux du Tremplin, Festival de la chanson et de l’humour de Dégelis, seront fermés pour la période estivale. Cependant, les courriels seront vérifiés régulièrement et nous vous répondrons dans les meilleurs délais. Pour toute urgence, vous pouvez contacter la pré

Re: Ximian Connector for Debian Sid

2004-07-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 20:55, Robert William Hutton wrote: > I get this: > > esgaroth:/home/rwh/dl# dpkg -i evolution-exchange_1.4.7.2-1_i386.deb > Selecting previously deselected package evolution-exchange. > (Reading database ... 127550 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking evol

Re: tmpfs?

2004-07-25 Thread Curt Howland
Thank you. I very much appreciate your taking the time to make an in-depth answer. You are a credit to the community. Curt- On Sunday 25 July 2004 16:49, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh was heard to say: > So an empty tmpfs probably doesn't ammount to anything worth > worring about on resource con

Woody, Sendmail not adding X-Authentication warnings

2004-07-25 Thread Kenneth R. Mort
I just installed Woody with the stock sendmail. I added the privacy option 'authwarnings', restarted and it doesn't add the X-Authentication warnings to emails that I used to get under Potato. Is this a know issue? Also, it doesn't seem to respect the 'nobodyreturn' privacy option either. ti

Re: syncing pda + phone on linux?

2004-07-25 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 25 July 2004 01:47 pm, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > Phone numbers I only need to remember 10. My brain has that much room. > and appointments. I've tried using all the other What's an appointment? :) > Mind you, I wouldn't have a PDA except that my old company gave one to > everyon

Re: syncing pda + phone on linux?

2004-07-25 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:47:05AM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > Phone numbers and appointments. I've tried using all the other > fanciness, but I never seem to stick with it. Post-its on the wall work > better for me than a to-do list. Last year I wrote a GTK app (http://sourceforge.net/

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread John L Fjellstad
I was in the same situation up until last year. Couldn't print after installing Debian, and since I didn't need to print anything, I just didn't bother looking into it. Finally had to print something last year, and really didn't look forward to it (remembering of hard it was to set up lpr). Inst

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Jim McCloskey
"Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> > Several others, myself included, have seen this same behavior. Like |> > you, I don't find printing important enough to have followed the |> > revelant threads to a solution, but I'm thinking it may have something |> > to do with the dropping of

setting environmental vars with scripts

2004-07-25 Thread John Taber
I try to set an environment var in a simple script like QTDIR=/usr/local/Qt-323-Win export QTDIR echo $QTDIR when I run the script it echos back the correct path but when I go to my konsole and type echo $QTDIR it is not there . However if I type the script commands in the konsole, then it is t

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-25 Thread John Summerfield
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from John Summerfield: will cause major ructions. I hate the idea of using EXIM, even for the amount of time it takes to replace it with Postfix:-) What is so bad about exim that would produce a reaction like that? I don't like it. I do like Postfix. The times

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