I was just wondering, really. Has anyone had any luck installing
Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable?
It seems like a sin or something indeed, but I'm doing some web dev
stuff, so it would make testing on IE6 much easier, plus it'd just be
rather amusing to run IE6 on linux. Well, I think so, a
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:28:50PM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> Are there any Linux User Groups in Nova Scotia, Canada?
>
> I'm in Truro, but I'd be surprised if there was one here. I often go to
> Halifax though, which is a big enough city that I'd expect there to be a
> LUG there.
>
>
Mike Ward wrote:
I was just wondering, really. Has anyone had any luck installing
Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable?
It seems like a sin or something indeed, but I'm doing some web dev
stuff, so it would make testing on IE6 much easier, plus it'd just be
rather amusing to run IE6 on linux. Wel
I haven't tried it, but there are instructions for getting IE6 working with
WINE on this website. http://frankscorner.org
> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 4:40 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Internet Explorer 6 on
Mike Ward wrote:
I was just wondering, really. Has anyone had any luck installing
Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable?
It seems like a sin or something indeed, but I'm doing some web dev
stuff, so it would make testing on IE6 much easier, plus it'd just be
rather amusing to run IE6 on linux. Wel
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:52:50PM +0200, diego wrote:
> Which files should I backup before it all, so that if hardware
> autodetection or manual configuration fails I can leave everything
> related to the network as before?
/etc/network/*
/etc/resolv.conf
-- Thomas Adam
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:44:36 -0500, Scott Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks, I hadn't found that yet.
Unfortunatly I think my problem is a bit deeper: When I try to "wine
ie6setup.exe", it runs for a moment and then tells me that the cluster
size on this system isn't supported.
I also tr
Of course, if you want to spend some cash and run a bunch of other Microsoft
and other business software, Crossover Office http://www.codeweavers.com
supports IE6. It's $40.
> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 5:02 PM
> To:
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:54:33AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> On Wed, August 11, 2004 5:58, James said:
>
> > Let's face it, most of linux's problems are a result on not being
> > about to recruit a sufficient talent pool of low level embedded
> > developers. Most of those that do convert (after a
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:33:49AM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:28:24AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
> >
> > > Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean system?
> >
> > No. Drives are cheap, but my time is no
Mike Ward wrote:
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:44:36 -0500, Scott Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks, I hadn't found that yet.
Unfortunatly I think my problem is a bit deeper: When I try to "wine
ie6setup.exe", it runs for a moment and then tells me that the cluster
size on this system isn't suppo
How can I leave a fellow Bluenoser in need...
Check out http://nslug.ns.ca
Sincerely,
Arlen Carlson
On 11-Aug-2004 Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> Are there any Linux User Groups in Nova Scotia, Canada?
>
> I'm in Truro, but I'd be surprised if there was one here. I often go to
> Halifax though,
Hello everyone,
I am new in debian, actually I never used it. I tried to install once but
failed. Now I am using Fedora 2. But I need a more stable system, I don't
want to update my system every two days. I need a neat, stable system.
I need to run matlab 6.1 and labview 6.1.
Please give me
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:44:18PM +0200, Patrick Donker wrote:
> Mike Ward wrote:
> >I was just wondering, really. Has anyone had any luck installing
> >Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable?
> >
> >It seems like a sin or something indeed, but I'm doing some web dev
> >stuff, so it would make tes
Once upon a time Jason Rennie said...
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:09:08AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > The debconf database is nothing more than a temporary cache of answers
> > gotten from the user. Debconf will regenerate this data by asking any
> > questions it needs to.
>
> If the Debian d
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:32:12AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:33:49AM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
>>On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:28:24AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>>>On Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I apologize for this OT message, but this may be of interest to many
> readers of this list.
For future reference, there is a debian-jobs list now.
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Cameron Hutchison writes:
> As I see it, if debconf is asking you the questions again, *it* is not
> regenerating the data, but *you* are.
Debconf is not a registry. /etc is the configuration data repository.
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Hi,
en_GB.UTF-8 is perfectly working for me, without Gdk warnings. Up-to-
date unstable system.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=
All,
I've installed and run the smartmontools package backported to Debian
GNU/Linux 3.0r1 from http://www.backports.org, and have run the short
and extended Offline self tests. The results are as follows:
smartctl version 5.32 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.s
SOLUTION: On my system to get Flash to play, the esd process needs to
be running with the "-as" argument (set to 5 in my case) and the dsp
wrapper value for Mozilla (or Firefox) needs to be "none" (as can
be set by 'dpkg-reconfigure mozilla').
EMBELLISHMENT:
I finally found a config that I'm reall
Hi,
I'm trying to install my HP PSC 1210 usb printer. I was able to do it in
previous Debian installation, but this time, I am having difficulties
doing it...
When I used the web-based cups printer setup,
I can't find the driver "Foomatic + hpijs (recommended)" when choosing a
driver (previous
Greetings,
The problem has been solved. After noticing
that the resulting burned CD-RW was readable and bootable on other PCs, and
after comparing the boot blocks of both the burned and purchased CDs were very
similar, Janet (my wife) suggested that the CDROM drive (of the PC on which I
Mike,
I don't know if this has already been suggested, but you can emulate the
whole Windows XP (or any other brand of WIndows) environment with a
proprietary package called VMware. Unfortunately, it does a cost a
small sum, ~$200. I actually bought it recently thinking that it would
be fun to e
My mouse stopped working earlier today. It will work if I boot into Win2K or
if I boot up using the Knoppix CDROM, but not with my recent (week ago)
install of Testing/Sarge with kernel 2.6.7. It had been working fine without
any problem for the past week until today when I had to reboot from
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:32:06PM -0500, Mingzhai Sun wrote:
> I am new in debian, actually I never used it. I tried to install once but
> failed. Now I am using Fedora 2. But I need a more stable system, I don't
> want to update my system every two days. I need a neat, stable system.
> I need
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:34:40PM -0500, Don wrote:
> said, I've tried rebooting multiple times with this Debian Linux, with Win2K,
> and with Knoppix this afternoon, with only the mouse in Debian Linux NOT
> working.
If it is a stock kernel, try:
modprobe psmouse mousedev
and re-start X, to
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:51:33PM -0400, Tong wrote:
> Here are all the relevant packages that I have installed:
>
> cupsys
> cupsys-bsd
> cupsys-client
> foomatic-db
> foomatic-db-engine
> foomatic-db-hpijs
> foomatic-filters
> foomatic-gui
> hpijs
> libcupsimage2
> libcupsys2-gnutls10
> libusb-
what exactly does the "with debian patches" entail in the
kernel-source-2.6.7 package (what was put in/taken out). I had heard
that the debian hackers were stripping the kernel of the bytecode in it,
so is this a castrated version for those who must be pure GPL?
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On Wednesday 11 August 2004 07:40 pm, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:34:40PM -0500, Don wrote:
> > said, I've tried rebooting multiple times with this Debian Linux, with
> > Win2K, and with Knoppix this afternoon, with only the mouse in Debian
> > Linux NOT working.
>
> If it is a
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:39:37PM -0400, Mike Ward wrote:
> I was just wondering, really. Has anyone had any luck installing
> Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable?
>
> It seems like a sin or something indeed, but I'm doing some web dev
> stuff, so it would make testing on IE6 much easier, plus
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:56:53PM -0500, Don wrote:
> I did the modprobe and now have mouse action. Thanks a million Thomas for the
> immediate and accurate response!!!
You're welcome. If you want to make it permenant for each boot, add
the two module names to /etc/modules
-- Thomas Adam
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Hi,
I have a simsun font registered both as truetype and CID font:
$ grep -i simsun /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/CIDFnmap
/SimSun-Regular (simsun.ttf) /Adobe-GB1-Unicode ;
But when I tried to use the CID font, I get the following error:
$ gs file.sample.cc.SimSun-Regular.ps
ESP Ghostscript
Gregory Pierce wrote:
Mike,
I don't know if this has already been suggested, but you can emulate the
whole Windows XP (or any other brand of WIndows) environment with a
proprietary package called VMware. Unfortunately, it does a cost a
small sum, ~$200. I actually bought it recently thinking that
Jason Rennie wrote:
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:32:06PM -0500, Mingzhai Sun wrote:
I am new in debian, actually I never used it. I tried to install once but
failed. Now I am using Fedora 2. But I need a more stable system, I don't
want to update my system every two days. I need a neat, stable s
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 13:12, John Summerfield wrote:
> As for the advisability of running Internet Exploder at all, see the
> recent advice at slate.msn.net. Slate is _owned_ by Microsoft, and for
> those who don't wish to check, the advice is "use firefox."
Actually, I think this is something
On August 11, 2004 08:31 pm, Gregory Pierce wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I don't know if this has already been suggested, but you can emulate the
> whole Windows XP (or any other brand of WIndows) environment with a
> proprietary package called VMware. Unfortunately, it does a cost a
> small sum, ~$200. I
I have Debian 3.0rc2. I've installed XFree86(4.1) and I'm using the
fbdev driver, because my video card is not supported. But my video card
is supported in newer versions of XFree86(4.2 onwards), so I need to
upgrade. How do upgrade XFree86 (and related packaged) without
breaking (or upgrading) oth
Thanks for the correction John. I guess I was using "emulate" in a
loose, imprecise way. You do indeed have to have a license for Windows
which is set up on a virtual machine on your linux box.
GP
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Hi Debianista,
my lug now rejects gpg sig. how do I do the following whith mutt.
tell it to use the 'ascii gpg sig' when I mail to list xyz?
I did this:
Send-hook '~C mono-devel' 'my_hdr Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]'
to set a return path, so there must be something similar to set ascii
gpg sig.'
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 14:06, Stephen Tait wrote:
> At long last, we've finally got a RAID card for the office file server!
>
> It's a lovely 3ware 9000 series with 8 SATA ports, and looks very lovely
> indeed. But I can't get it working for the life of me.
>
[...]
Well, 3ware 9XXX isn't in the
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 11:33, William Ballard wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:28:24AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
> >
> > > Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean system?
> >
> > No. Drives are cheap, but my time is not. I have a
Hey everyone,
My company (http://www.wavemarket.com/) is looking to hire a sysadmin in
Emeryville, CA (SF Bay Area). I've recently been advocating a migration
from old redhat to Debian, and hiring a similarly-minded sys admin would
go a long way in the right direction. You can see the posting he
I've just installed sarge on an x86 machine and have got it basically
working. I selected the 2.4.25 kernel as part of the debian-installer
installation. I'm now trying to compile a 2.6.7 kernel using the
debian-source-2.6.7 package in sarge using kernel-package -- the normal
Debian way of comp
Incoming from Kevin Mark:
>
> my lug now rejects gpg sig.
Tell them they're idiots.
how do I do the following whith mutt.
> tell it to use the 'ascii gpg sig' when I mail to list xyz?
set pgp_create_traditional=ask-no
Then say yes when you're mailing them.
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Steve Witt wrote:
I've just installed sarge on an x86 machine and have got it basically
working. I selected the 2.4.25 kernel as part of the debian-installer
installation. I'm now trying to compile a 2.6.7 kernel using the
debian-source-2.6.7 package in sarge using kernel-pa
I apologize; that second mailing was intended for debian-jobs.
good times,
Vineet
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On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:55:23PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Vineet Kumar wrote:
>
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I apologize for this OT message, but this may be of interest to many
> > readers of this list.
>
> For future reference, there is a debian-jobs list now.
Oh, do
hi ya
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> My company (http://www.wavemarket.com/) is looking to hire a sysadmin in
a) you already posted this previously ...
b) some/most of the debianite's is at the debian meeting in oakland
probably 5-10 miles away -- why aren't y
I found this interesting article:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7990
As I have a pretty clear view of my limitations as a C coder I thought
I'd take a look.
See how you score on the examples here:
http://www.nostarch.com/frameset.php?startat=hownotc
So set the ball rolling, here is a sn
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 07:31 pm, Gregory Pierce wrote:
> you can emulate the whole Windows XP (or any other brand of WIndows)
> environment with a proprietary package called VMware.
My new favorite toy is QEMU, which is a system emulator built around a CPU
emulator ala Bochs, except that i
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:59:36AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> I found this interesting article:
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7990
>
> As I have a pretty clear view of my limitations as a C coder I thought
> I'd take a look.
>
> See how you score on the examples here:
> http://
Get the book - Get the women
http://www.enhancemefast2.com
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:23:21PM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:59:36AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> > configfile = malloc(strlen(getenv("HOME")) + 20);
> > sprintf(configfile,"%s/%s",getenv("HOME"), cfgfile);
>
> The length of HOME could increase between
Problem Solved!
I just get a kernel clean, without any change (.tar.bz2), and
recompiled from scratch using my conf file, and the module
8139too.c worked fine, without any problems.
I think the problem is when i changed my old kernel to support
pci, for som
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:30:28PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> Incoming from Kevin Mark:
> >
> > my lug now rejects gpg sig.
>
> Tell them they're idiots.
hehe. I'm on 2 lists that see gpg sig as 'attachments' in the .pif, .exe
catagory. why they can allow verification and privacy options is bey
Hello!
I want to upgrade from Woody to Sarge.
As I understand the necessary commands are:
1) apt-get update
2) apt-get upgrade
3) apt-get dist-upgrade
But do I have to change my sources.list?
Is changing "stable" into "testing" enough?
Thanks,
askar
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Jacob S. wrote:
You mean like Actiontec did with their Dual-PC modem[1] where you can
download the GPL'd source code for the firmware[2]?
I thought it was a nice solution. The product works great and Linux
hackers can modify it to their heart's content.
[1]
http://www.actiontec.com/products/tech/m
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Vineet Kumar wrote:
Hey everyone,
I apologize for this OT message, but this may be of interest to many
readers of this list.
For future reference, there is a debian-jobs list now.
OTOH the audience here is larger, and I'm happy to have notices
"askar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want to upgrade from Woody to Sarge.
> As I understand the necessary commands are:
> 1) apt-get update
> 2) apt-get upgrade
> 3) apt-get dist-upgrade
One and three, you can leave two out.
> But do I have to change my sources.list?
> Is changing "stable" in
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:48:45 -0700
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "askar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > But do I have to change my sources.list?
> > Is changing "stable" into "testing" enough?
>
> Yes. And you can safely comment out the security.debian.org line once
> you're over
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:40:27PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> OTOH the audience here is larger, and I'm happy to have notices such as
Yeah, and the reason it's larger is people not subscribed to debian-jobs
haven't signed up to receive notices about debian jobs.
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Thank you, Paul!
Is it ok, if I comment out security.debian.org?
How about security updates? Or they are included in sarge?
askar
> -Original Message-
> From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 10:49 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: How to d
Incoming from Kevin Mark:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:30:28PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> > Incoming from Kevin Mark:
> >
> > > how do I do the following whith mutt.
> > > tell it to use the 'ascii gpg sig' when I mail to list xyz?
> >
> > set pgp_create_traditional=ask-no
> >
> > Then say yes w
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"Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:48:45 -0700
> Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> "askar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > But do I have to change my sources.list?
>> > Is changing "stable" into "testing" e
Incoming from Paul Johnson:
> "askar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I want to upgrade from Woody to Sarge.
> > As I understand the necessary commands are:
> > 1) apt-get update
> > 2) apt-get upgrade
> > 3) apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> One and three, you can leave two out.
But if he's smart (par
William Ballard wrote:
So set the ball rolling, here is a snippet from a program I found via
freshmeat the other day:
configfile = malloc(strlen(getenv("HOME")) + 20);
sprintf(configfile,"%s/%s",getenv("HOME"), cfgfile);
The length of HOME could increase between invocations. I don't fancy
Paul Johnson wrote:
"askar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I want to upgrade from Woody to Sarge.
As I understand the necessary commands are:
1) apt-get update
2) apt-get upgrade
3) apt-get dist-upgrade
One and three, you can leave two out.
But do I have to change my sources.list?
Is changi
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:31:03PM -0400, Gregory Pierce wrote:
> I don't know if this has already been suggested, but you can emulate the
> whole Windows XP (or any other brand of WIndows) environment with a
> proprietary package called VMware. Unfortunately, it does a cost a
> small sum, ~$200.
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Hello all,
was just reading about componentized linux, Progeny etc.
Found the idea of comoponentization excellent. I just got
amamzed/confused with the following statemnt from Progenty.
"Progeny Debian 2.0, A componenti
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:14:04PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> Incoming from Kevin Mark:
> > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:30:28PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> > > Incoming from Kevin Mark:
> > >
> > > > how do I do the following whith mutt.
> > > > tell it to use the 'ascii gpg sig' when I mail to list
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 17:46, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Hello all,
> was just reading about componentized linux, Progeny etc.
> Found the idea of comoponentization excellent. I just got
> amamzed/confused with the following statemnt from Progenty.
>
> "Progeny Debian 2.0, A
I have several messages in a mailbox folder who I would like to send the
same reply. Can that be done easily?
Thanks,
Jacob
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