Re: Max size of data in C++ prog?

2004-12-19 Thread Allan Wind
On 2004-12-18T21:44:11-0600, John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > > What package is limits in? > > The man page is in passwd but there seems to be no actual limits fie. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S ulimit|grep man manpages-posix: /usr/share/man/man1/ulimit.1posix.gz manpages-dev: /usr/share

Server Security

2004-12-19 Thread Jeffrin Thalakkottoor
How To Configure It On The Server Side ... Configure The Server That A File On The Server Can Only Be Viewed But Not Downloaded. = Birthdays --- 1869 Henri Matisse (artist) - December 31 1976 Jeffrin Jose (Hobby Sinner) - December 31 _

Re: Removal of freeswan from sarge

2004-12-19 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Last I heard (and this was a while back, pardon me if it's been fixed since then), openswan didn't have support for cyphers other than 3DES, e.g., AES, like freeswan does. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Server Security

2004-12-19 Thread Dave Ewart
On Sunday, 19.12.2004 at 09:16 +, Jeffrin Thalakkottoor wrote: > How To Configure It On The Server Side ... > > Configure The Server That A File On The Server Can > Only Be Viewed But Not Downloaded. In order to 'view' you *have* to have already downloaded the file. What you suggest cannot

Re: oom-killer vs system not reachable

2004-12-19 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [18-12-2004 20:14]: > This is NOT one single 1.5GB mbox file is it? If so, do yourself > a big favour and switch it to maildir. Or store all that mail in > an *indexing* IMAP server Yes it's one single file. It's not my mailbox. Personally I cou

Re: Please--sound

2004-12-19 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 23:20:09 +0100, Ted Parks wrote: > Thanks to all who responded to my query for help with ALSA and an > opl3sa2 card. After reading the replies, I edited /etc/modules.conf > (despite the warnings in the file) to comment out some mistaken > parameters put there when update-modules

Re: Removal of freeswan from sarge

2004-12-19 Thread Hasso Tepper
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Last I heard (and this was a while back, pardon me if it's been fixed > since then), openswan didn't have support for cyphers other than 3DES, > e.g., AES, like freeswan does. http://www.openswan.org/docs/feature_comparison.php -- Hasso Tepper -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: oom-killer vs system not reachable

2004-12-19 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 10:28:28AM +0100, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > The points concerning the mbox file are taken (in fact I knew as > much). Do you think that Linux might stop to respond or get stuck > for a while as a result of the big file. One problem would be when mutt rewrites the file on ex

Re: Server Security

2004-12-19 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 09:29:28AM +, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Sunday, 19.12.2004 at 09:16 +, Jeffrin Thalakkottoor wrote: > > How To Configure It On The Server Side ... > > > > Configure The Server That A File On The Server Can > > Only Be Viewed But Not Downloaded. > > In order to 'view'

Re: Please--sound

2004-12-19 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello (please don't top-post) Ted Parks (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 23:53:36 +0100, Andreas Janssen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Am Samstag, 18. Dezember 2004 23:07 schrieb Ted Parks: >> >>> [...] >>> Now I have what I think is a permissions issue to resolve. Gnome-CD >

Re: starting x

2004-12-19 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello cfk (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Thank you very much for the tip. I did do a 'apt-get install > x-window-system', and a number of good things happened. I can now do a > startx and get twm. I can also right-click and get a tclsh8.4. > > Thats the good news. Unfortunately, being unfamiliar

Re: starting x

2004-12-19 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 04:00:12 +0100, cfk wrote: > after a search of archives and it seems to be working. After that, I wonder > what the incantation is to start kde and perhaps more importantly, where I > can go to figure out a few steps after that, other then googling. tasksel helps a lot with

Re: starting x

2004-12-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 06:59:01PM -0800, cfk wrote: > On Saturday 18 December 2004 18:14, Sam Watkins wrote: > Dear Sam: > Thank you very much for the tip. I did do a 'apt-get install > x-window-system', and a number of good things happened. I can now do a startx > and get twm. I can also

Re: (more) the coffee house broke my auto

2004-12-19 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 11:56:25PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > ifconfig > eth1 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:56:0C:29 > inet addr: 192.168.1.101 Bcast: 192.168.1.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MUT:1500 Metric:1 > > route -n > Destination Ga

Re: starting x

2004-12-19 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 12:18:14PM +0100, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > Since you're into KDE, I suggest kdm. Though, being a GNOME geek, I > also have to point out that GDM is much better ;-) maybe we need an uber-display manager that lets the user choose what display manager they want to use before

Re: oom-killer vs system not reachable

2004-12-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > not work with it. There is so much mail that IMAP would be way to > slow. Mutt is very fast once the mailbox is open. Reading and Ha! Trash like uw-imap would be slow. Try it with Cyrus IMAPd 2.1, it is packaged and if you follow the README.Debian.si

Sorry ,no mixer elements and/or devices found

2004-12-19 Thread Rafael Alexandre Schmitt
Hi When I try to start the "Volume Control" on gnome ( debian unstable ) I receive the following message: "Sorry ,no mixer elements and/or devices found". My sound card works nice ( CMI 8738 ) on kde , but I can't control the sound volume on gnome applications. Xmms works fine too. -- Rafael A

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Replacing Dying Harddisk (ReiserFS)

2004-12-19 Thread Darryl Clarke
Hi, I was wondering if anybody has any wonderful ideas as to how I should go about "ghosting" my existing linux system. Norton Ghost only supports EXT2/3 for linux and I used ReiserFS so using it is out of the question. Does anybody have any ideas as to how I could transfer my existing setup to

Re: Replacing Dying Harddisk (ReiserFS)

2004-12-19 Thread Robert Vangel
Darryl Clarke wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anybody has any wonderful ideas as to how I should go about "ghosting" my existing linux system. Norton Ghost only supports EXT2/3 for linux and I used ReiserFS so using it is out of the question. Does anybody have any ideas as to how I could transfer my

Re: Replacing Dying Harddisk (ReiserFS)

2004-12-19 Thread Robert Vangel
Robert Vangel wrote: Darryl Clarke wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anybody has any wonderful ideas as to how I should go about "ghosting" my existing linux system. Norton Ghost only supports EXT2/3 for linux and I used ReiserFS so using it is out of the question. Does anybody have any ideas as to how

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-19 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Sam Halliday wrote: for anyone who has thunderbird installed, they will notice that when you search for an item in the search bar, a little button appears which allows you to clear the field... is there an extension to firefox which enables the same feature in its search bar? as it is very irrit

Re: Max size of data in C++ prog?

2004-12-19 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > The man page is in passwd but there seems to be no actual limits file. Allan writes: > manpages-posix: /usr/share/man/man1/ulimit.1posix.gz > manpages-dev: /usr/share/man/man3/ulimit.3.gz > manpages-posix-dev: /usr/share/man/man7/ulimit.h.7posix.gz > manpages-posix-dev: /usr/share/man/m

Re: Replacing Dying Harddisk (ReiserFS)

2004-12-19 Thread Christian
Am Sonntag, 19. Dezember 2004 14:36 schrieb Darryl Clarke: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anybody has any wonderful ideas as to how I should > go about "ghosting" my existing linux system. > > Norton Ghost only supports EXT2/3 for linux and I used ReiserFS so > using it is out of the question. > > Do

Re: Max size of data in C++ prog?

2004-12-19 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 08:06:47AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > The man page is in passwd but there seems to be no actual limits file. > > Allan writes: > > manpages-posix: /usr/share/man/man1/ulimit.1posix.gz > > manpages-dev: /usr/share/man/man3/ulimit.3.gz > > manpages-posix-dev: /u

Re: Max size of data in C++ prog?

2004-12-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, Paul E Condon wrote: On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 08:06:47AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: I wrote: The man page is in passwd but there seems to be no actual limits file. Allan writes: manpages-posix: /usr/share/man/man1/ulimit.1posix.gz manpages-dev: /usr/share/man/man3/ulimit.3.gz manpages-posix-de

Re: xv

2004-12-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Saturday 18 December 2004 08:52 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: > Funny, I seem to recall the GPL saying the reverse: > > When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not > price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you > have the freedom to distribute copies of

Re: Max size of data in C++ prog?

2004-12-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:32:12 +1100 Sam Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: there are two different data segments for a C or C++ program, the stack and the heap. stack space is (apparently) limited under Linux. If you declare an array like this in a function: char c[10*1024*1024]; and write to it a

Re: libc6-dev dependancy problems

2004-12-19 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 03:50:25PM -0800, damon fasching wrote: > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of > libc6-dev: > libc6-dev depends on libc6 (= > 2.3.2.ds1-19.0.0.1.pure64); however: > Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.2.ds1-19. > dpkg: error processing libc6-dev (--con

Problem with /dev/scd[0-9] permissions

2004-12-19 Thread m . knaepper
Hi all, I have a problem with permissions to my cdrom devices. If I try to access them as an user just to playback audio-cds or mounting data-contents there is no problem at all. Even when I try to use them for ripping my cds to convert them to mp3 or burning purposes (KAudioCreator or K3b) I g

Re: Outlook more efficient in storing mails?

2004-12-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 05:03 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 15:27 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Saturday 18 December 2004 1:50 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > However, disks are measured in 10s of GBs. If you

Re: Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-19 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/19/2004 09:10 AM, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Sam Halliday wrote: > >> for anyone who has thunderbird installed, they will notice that when >> you search for an item in the search bar, a little button appears >> which allows you to clear the field... is there an extension to >> firefox which enabl

Re: Max size of data in C++ prog?

2004-12-19 Thread John Hasler
Jerome writes: > on my Sarge box, there is a /etc/security/limits.conf file... I have that as well. According to the passwd source package it supersedes /etc/limits. > ...which has a man page (man limits.conf) However, I don't have that man page: just the old one for limits. -- John Hasler -

Re: Max size of data in C++ prog?

2004-12-19 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:31:13 -0500, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vectors are single dimensional, I believe, so they wont work in this > case, but I will remember them for the future All arrays are technically single dimensional. You can do a 2D array with vectors as vector< vector<

Re: [OT], Database Comparer

2004-12-19 Thread Nayyar Ahmed
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:05:53 -0500, Tong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:29:11 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > > [...] > > } I even have a Debian package :) > > [...] > > } let me know if you'd like to have a copy of it. > > > > This looks like it would be exceedingly useful

Re: Outlook more efficient in storing mails?

2004-12-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: > Paul Johnson made a foolish, reflexively anti-MSFT blanket state- > ment, and I presented contrary evidence (which you conveniently > snipped in your reply). That's all. He made a stupid blanket statement, as he did not specify WHAT version of Outlook ha

Re: Problem with /dev/scd[0-9] permissions

2004-12-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 05:56:45PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > I have a problem with permissions to my cdrom devices. If I try to access > them as an user just to playback audio-cds or mounting data-contents there > is no problem at all. > > Even when I try to use them for rippin

Re: Max size of data in C++ prog?

2004-12-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 12:43 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:31:13 -0500, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Vectors are single dimensional, I believe, so they wont work in this > > case, but I will remember them for the future > > All arrays are technically single dim

no konsole text with kernel 2.6.8

2004-12-19 Thread guyr
Hi, I use debian sid with kernel 2.4.27 on amd duron 1300 (k7s5a) and a matrox G400 (without TV) I have installed kernel-image-2.6.9-1-k7 and all is fine. I want to tune this kernel image so i downloaded and install (make-dpkg & dpkg -i) kernel-source-2.6.9 with config-2.6.9-1-k7 (first, witho

Re: Max size of data in C++ prog?

2004-12-19 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 11:31:13AM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:32:12 +1100 Sam Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >there are two different data segments for a C or C++ program, > >the stack and the heap. > > ... > > > > vector v; > > int i; > > for (i=0; i<1000;

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-19 Thread Sam Halliday
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Sam Halliday wrote: for anyone who has thunderbird installed, they will notice that when you search for an item in the search bar, a little button appears which allows you to clear the field... is there an extension to firefox which enables the same feature in its search bar

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-19 Thread Sam Halliday
Ralph Katz wrote: For searching *within* a web page in firefox sorry if i was unclear... i mean the search bar at the top. the one that requires search engines, like google. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~

cyrus-sasl source install for postfix... did it work?

2004-12-19 Thread Charles Read
Hey everybody, I just did a source install of the cyrus-sasl source package, I followed the instructions on the Debian manual pages (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkg_basics.en.html#s- sourcepkgs), I didn't get any errors or anything but when I reload postfix is doesn't lis

Re: Max size of data in C++ prog? Another comment

2004-12-19 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 11:31:13AM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:32:12 +1100 Sam Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >there are two different data segments for a C or C++ program, > >the stack and the heap. > > > >stack space is (apparently) limited under Linux. > >If you

[Fwd: Re: ilohamail]

2004-12-19 Thread David Mandelberg
Remember to CC: or To: the list. Original Message Subject: Re: ilohamail Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:43:59 -0500 From: Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: David Mandelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Mandelberg wrote: > Tom Allison

beyond starting x

2004-12-19 Thread cfk
> tasksel helps a lot with this. You're probably still missing a display > manager from your Red Hat experience. Since you're into KDE, I suggest > kdm. Though, being a GNOME geek, I also have to point out that GDM is > much better ;-) > > -- > Best Regards, | This signature is currently under

Re: ilohamail

2004-12-19 Thread David Mandelberg
Tom Allison wrote: > David Mandelberg wrote: > >> Tom Allison wrote: >> >>> The Ilohamail site seems to be under some serious repairs so >>> documentation is limited. >>> >>> Can someone help me answer some simple questions about this? >> >> >> You should ask the questions instead of asking if you

Re: Server Security

2004-12-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 19 December 2004 1:16 am, Jeffrin Thalakkottoor wrote: > How To Configure It On The Server Side ... > > Configure The Server That A File On The Server Can > Only Be Viewed But Not Downloaded. You don't. RIAA and MPAA are learning this the hard way: If you can view it, you can copy it

Re: traffic stats wan<->lan - ntop or better?

2004-12-19 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2004-12-19 @ 07:42:32 (week 51) Joao Clemente wrote: > I decided to get some tool to analize network traffic so that I can > understand what am I paying for... I have the feeling that ntop is the > tool to use, but has someone a better suggestion? We use ntop in our network and even though I

how to use

2004-12-19 Thread Mickel Rateliff
To whom it may concern,  I just purchased and a copy of Debian Yet after I installed it I found all it boots up to is a command line host. i am not sure of how to install the gui and have it run on bootup. If there is any doc or other stuff let me know. Thank you Mickel rateliff [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to use

2004-12-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 19 December 2004 10:29 am, Mickel Rateliff wrote: > To whom it may concern, > I just purchased and a copy of Debian Yet after I installed it I found all it boots up to is a command line host. i am not sure of how to install the gui and have it run on bootup. Had you searched the archi

Re: how to use

2004-12-19 Thread cfk
Dear Michael: I just did this yesterday and back in the newsgroup are a series of exchanges with the subject 'starting x'. Here is the gist of what I did from command line to a KDE logon last night. apt-get install x-window-system apt-get install kde kdevelop kdelibs kdebase

Re: Replacing Dying Harddisk (ReiserFS)

2004-12-19 Thread Brad Sims
On Sunday 19 December 2004 7:36 am, Darryl Clarke wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anybody has any wonderful ideas as to how I should > go about "ghosting" my existing linux system. > > Norton Ghost only supports EXT2/3 for linux and I used ReiserFS so > using it is out of the question. > > D

Re: [OT] The decline and fall of Google Groups

2004-12-19 Thread Cláudio E. Elicker
On Saturday 18 December 2004 14:44, Andy Firman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:24:13AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > Google's becoming evil. > > > > Not only have they screwed up groups layout, showing a few columns of > > text and leaving a big space for ads, now they're pimping their own

OT - store only the latest version of some files

2004-12-19 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi, I am wondering if cvs has capability to do this. If not please tell me what the right tool is. We are using debian sid. I have a project which we need to maintain the source code by a version control system. The project also deals with some data files (around 20 or so text files each 100

Re: no konsole text with kernel 2.6.8

2004-12-19 Thread cga2001
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 18:59:55 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > During the > boot process of this new kernel i loose console text (when > loading some framebuffer module ?). I get a blank screen > with vertical lines on consoles text. After some times, > the x windows (kde) then appears, fine...

Re: no konsole text with kernel 2.6.8

2004-12-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 18:59 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I use debian sid with kernel 2.4.27 on amd duron 1300 (k7s5a) > and a matrox G400 (without TV) > > I have installed kernel-image-2.6.9-1-k7 and all is fine. > > I want to tune this kernel image so i downloaded and > install (

.deb files arch independant?

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Scott
Heya! As I write I'm installeing Woody (Link to Sarge wasn't working... wasn't dead... just stalled, so I did woody for now) on my ol' PowerMac 7300 next to me. A while back I downloaded all 14 disks of Sarge for x86. With my one-disk Debian 3.0r3 PPC disk I'm installing the base system on m

No sound, cd

2004-12-19 Thread Ted Parks
After help from the list, I was able to configure my OPL3SA2 sound card with ALSA. Now, however, I cannot get the CDROM drive to play an audio CD. Gnome-CD and Ascd see the music CD, read the title, and spin the disk. But no sound. The sound modules are loaded, and alsamixer has the levels properly

Re: ilohamail

2004-12-19 Thread Tom Allison
David Mandelberg wrote: Tom Allison wrote: David Mandelberg wrote: Tom Allison wrote: The Ilohamail site seems to be under some serious repairs so documentation is limited. Can someone help me answer some simple questions about this? You should ask the questions instead of asking if you can ask.

Re: .deb files arch independant?

2004-12-19 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 02:24:38PM -0600, Eric Scott wrote: > What I want to know is if I can plug in the x86 disks and install > software from them, so I don't have to spend all day downloading stuff > for the Mac. So: Are .deb packages arch independant? I gather so, just Um, hell no. Sourc

Re: how to use

2004-12-19 Thread donald szatkowski
Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday 19 December 2004 10:29 am, Mickel Rateliff wrote: To whom it may concern, I just purchased and a copy of Debian Yet after I installed it I found all it boots up to is a command line host. i am not sure of how to install the gui and have it run on bootup. Had

Re: Re: Debian native java

2004-12-19 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Hi Tong, I agree with the suggestions others have made (mainly, use blackdown if you want the most "sun-like" thing). Yet, I would like to inform you that Free Java virtual machines are making big progress. The latest development version of SableVM (soon to be uploaded into "sid") is able to r

Re: how to use

2004-12-19 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
--- cfk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Michael: > > I just did this yesterday and back in the newsgroup are a series of > exchanges > with the subject 'starting x'. > > Here is the gist of what I did from command line to a KDE logon last > night. > > > apt-get install x-wind

Re: how to use

2004-12-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 15:37 -0500, donald szatkowski wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > >On Sunday 19 December 2004 10:29 am, Mickel Rateliff wrote: > > [snip] > > > With so many requests for assistance upon reaching the command line, > MAYBE it is time to include a simple text file (README.FIRST

Re: .deb files arch independant?

2004-12-19 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Eric, hello list! On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 02:24:38PM -0600, Eric Scott wrote: > [...] So: Are .deb packages arch independant? [...] Some are (like perl scripts or documentation), some are not (like perl itself or binary programs), so even though deb packages are called binary packages (in

Re: pdftohtml

2004-12-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:48:33AM +0100, Gerard Robin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I have a few problems with pdftohtml (unstable) : > > with one pdf file I get a suitable html file but with another one I get an > unreadable html file. > > I tried "pdftohtml -c -l 1 file.pdf" but

Re: OT - store only the latest version of some files

2004-12-19 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I am wondering if cvs has capability to do this. If not please tell > me what the right tool is. You probably do not want to use a source control system for this. Just copy the results of a 'build'

Re: beyond starting x

2004-12-19 Thread Kent West
cfk wrote: I admit that my experience is with RedHat, so I dont know yet how to change back and forth between a text logon, a kde logon or a gnome logon in Debian. So, I cannot get back to the startx prompt at this time to experiment. You can search the Debian archives; this has been covered man

Re: Window sizing on Windowmaker

2004-12-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 09:51:04AM +, Piers Kittel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello all, > > Have used windowmaker a lot for quite a while on my work and home > computers, but one thing really bugs me is that only a few certain > window, when opened, is sized in crazy sizes. For example,

Re: how to use

2004-12-19 Thread Kent West
cfk wrote: I am still searching for the knowledge to change back and forth twixt Gnome and KDE with Debian and the knowldege to run X remotely from one of my other computers. I can logon to the new Debian box with 'ssh -X xx.xx.xx.xx', but when I run kwrite, I get the message 'cannot connect

Xfree86 setup on old-world Mac HELP!

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; Just installed Woody on my ol' PowerMac 7300 with it's integrated video system. How on earth do I get Xfree up and chipper? dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 does it's "Please enter the video card's bux identifier," but lspci does me no good 'cuz it's not a PCI card. tips would be very he

Re: Using Debian as an Access Point?

2004-12-19 Thread Frederik Dannemare
On Saturday 18 December 2004 04:27, Olle Eriksson wrote: > On Saturday 18 December 2004 00.01, Nate Duehr wrote: > > Joey Hess wrote: > > >Nate Duehr wrote: > > >>It's pretty much a roll-your-own kind of thing. Haven't seen any > > >>Debian-specific packages for creating an AP or making it "easy"

Re: ilohamail

2004-12-19 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2004-12-19 @ 15:29:39 (week 51) Tom Allison wrote: > Iloha sounds very promising. Thank you. I have some very large folders myself and in my experience IlohaMail handles those just fine. I do recommend this package over SquirrelMail, but to be honest I have to admit I have used SM only for two

Re: Installing sarge with basedebs.tar

2004-12-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 12:11:06PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 16:38:25 -0500, "Joey Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > understand is the soon-to-be official "sarge" release..) and I could not > > > find the basedbs.ta

Programs to Menu

2004-12-19 Thread cfk
Gentlemen: I have installed a number of programs, such as gschem with apt-get today and although I can invoke from a term, the name gschem, I dont it or any other program on the KDE menu. How do I go about getting programs installed with apt-get onto the menu? Charles -- To

Re: Xfree86 setup on old-world Mac HELP!

2004-12-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/12/04 16:11), Eric Scott wrote: > Yo; > Just installed Woody on my ol' PowerMac 7300 with it's integrated video > system. How on earth do I get Xfree up and chipper? dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xfree86 does it's "Please enter the video card's bux > identifier," but lspci does me no good

Manually Editing Kernel .config

2004-12-19 Thread ms419
How do I manually configure my kernel to build snd-hwdep.ko? I built an extra kernel module (snd-bt-sco.ko) which requires snd-hwdep.ko, but snd-hwdep.ko isn't built, & there's no kernel configuration option to enable it. I tried manually adding "CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=m" to my .config, but it is rem

Re: Programs to Menu

2004-12-19 Thread Kent West
cfk wrote: Gentlemen: I have installed a number of programs, such as gschem with apt-get today and although I can invoke from a term, the name gschem, I dont it or any other program on the KDE menu. How do I go about getting programs installed with apt-get onto the menu? Charles If y

Re: how to use

2004-12-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
* donald szatkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Dec 19 16:34 -0600]: > With so many requests for assistance upon reaching the command line, > MAYBE it is time to include a simple text file (README.FIRST) to assist. > I realise this may indeed be wasted effort as so many don't even make > any effo

Re: Programs to Menu

2004-12-19 Thread cfk
> > I have installed a number of programs, such as gschem with apt-get today > > and although I can invoke from a term, the name gschem, I dont it or any > > other program on the KDE menu. > > > > How do I go about getting programs installed with apt-get onto the menu? > > > >Charles > > If

Re: how to use

2004-12-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 06:10:06PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * donald szatkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Dec 19 16:34 -0600]: > > With so many requests for assistance upon reaching the command line, > > MAYBE it is time to include a simple text file (README.FIRST) to assist. > > I realise t

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 03:17:47PM -0500, Christian Convey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >>For instance, if Linux would just say, "Hey, you plugged in a USB device > >>that I don't really know how to use. I can tell it's a mouse of some > >>sort, but I don't know how to use it.

compiling kernel

2004-12-19 Thread Kevin Coyner
I'm compiling a new kernel from source (kernel-source-2.6.9) and have followed the instructions I found at: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html (section 7.1.1 - Debian Standard Method) ... yet I keep on getting the following error when I run ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/

Woody-->Sarge

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Scott
Hey, sorry to ask this FAQ, I know I've done it before, but google is NO help to me here. What exactly do I do to upgrade from Woody to Sarge. I know i have to plop something in sources.list, the do apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, but I can't find what. Just changing "stable" to "sarg

Re: Woody-->Sarge

2004-12-19 Thread Robert Vangel
In /etc/sources.list, change any reference to `stable' (or `woody') to `testing'. Run # apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade Wait for it all to download & install, and you're set. Eric Scott wrote: Hey, sorry to ask this FAQ, I know I've done it before, but google is NO help to me here. What

Low Power Servers

2004-12-19 Thread Cole S. Ashcraft
Does anyone know of any low power usage servers (110W and below)? Cole -- Cole S. Ashcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-19 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 04:32:25PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > advances. Pretty much all the "Live CD" distros (Knoppix, Mepis, > Gnoppix, LNX-BBC, Damn Small Linux, etc.) automatically detect hardware > and configure themselves to it, booting to a desktop or command prompt > in a couple of mi

Re: Woody-->Sarge

2004-12-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 06:54:51PM -0600, Eric Scott wrote: > Hey, sorry to ask this FAQ, I know I've done it before, but google is NO > help to me here. > > What exactly do I do to upgrade from Woody to Sarge. I know i have to > plop something in sources.list, the do apt-get update && apt-get

RE: Low Power Servers

2004-12-19 Thread Steven Jones
Transmedia, or the via CPU units. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Cole S. Ashcraft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 20 December 2004 1:39 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Low Power Servers Does anyone know of any low power usage servers (110W and below)? Cole -- Col

Re: Low Power Servers

2004-12-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 16:39 -0800, Cole S. Ashcraft wrote: > Does anyone know of any low power usage servers (110W and below)? You aren't giving us much information to go on here. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 08:00:17PM -0500, William Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 04:32:25PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > advances. Pretty much all the "Live CD" distros (Knoppix, Mepis, > > Gnoppix, LNX-BBC, Damn Small Linux, etc.) automatically detect hardware

Re: Low Power Servers

2004-12-19 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Cole S. Ashcraft wrote: Does anyone know of any low power usage servers (110W and below)? Cole I got one of these: http://www.idotpc.com/TheStore/Desktop/732Spec.asp?Product.id=732&Cate.id=19 With a 600 MHz fanless CPU, 512 MB RAM and a 120 GB Maxtor Diamond Max it as ~$400. Admittedly, it can't h

[partly SOLVED, but ... ] Re: udev and gnome-volume-manager not working in Sarge

2004-12-19 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _H. S._, on 13/12/04 21:06,typed: I am using Sarge with a kernel 2.6.7-1-686. I have udev and hotplug and gnome-volume-manager. However, I do not get an icon automatically when I plug in a USB stick. In the other two machines in my home LAN, in which I am running Sid, I can get the i

Re: Outlook more efficient in storing mails?

2004-12-19 Thread John L Fjellstad
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adding a "compressed archive folder" option to MUAs might be useful, > though. I'm pretty sure mutt has it. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-19 Thread Steve Lamb
William Ballard wrote: On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 04:32:25PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: advances. Pretty much all the "Live CD" distros (Knoppix, Mepis, Gnoppix, LNX-BBC, Damn Small Linux, etc.) automatically detect hardware and configure themselves to it, booting to a desktop or command prompt i

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-19 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 06:31:33PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: >For every anecdotal story of some hardware not being detected you'd have > to conceed at least as many, if not more, anectodal stories of hardware > that would be detected and configured. Fat lot of good that did me when I took Kno

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-19 Thread Steve Lamb
William Ballard wrote: Fat lot of good that did me when I took Knoppix on two representative computers and it didn't work. So? What's your point exactly aside from bitching to bitch? Like I said, setting up a strawman to knock down doesn't prove anything. -- Steve C. Lamb

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-19 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 06:54:18PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > William Ballard wrote: > >Fat lot of good that did me when I took Knoppix on two representative > >computers and it didn't work. > > So? What's your point exactly aside from bitching to bitch? Like I > said, setting up a strawma

Console Password Manager?

2004-12-19 Thread Ben Bettin
Does anyone know of a good Password Manager that can be run in the console? I know there are many GUI ones, but I need to run this remotely via ssh so I need a console one. I read about PMS (http://passwordms.sourceforge.net/) in this month's Linux Journal, but it doesn't appear to have any offic

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