Re: afs & evms

2002-11-01 Thread David Z Maze
Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would it be possible to run openafs on top an evms' logical volume? You mean, an openafs *server*? I *think* the fileserver on Linux uses just normal userspaace operations, so it'd probably work. Looking at what evms does, though, it seems like it tries to so

Re: lsmod question

2002-11-01 Thread David Z Maze
Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A side question if you don't mind. > It is my understanding that people use modules > to make a lighter/smaller kernel. Is that correct? > Other reasons? There are limits on the total size of the kernel; I believe that, while you can build every possible

Re: removing lines from a file

2002-11-04 Thread David Z Maze
Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know this has come up before but what is the best > way to remove lines 5-10 and lines 16-20 from > a file using the console and a batch file? I'd just use sed: sed -e 5,10d -e 16,20d input-file -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:

Re: literate programming

2002-11-04 Thread David Z Maze
Jason Pepas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 20 October 2002 02:13 pm, Carlos A P Gomes wrote: >> I've been looking for a way to improve the quality of my code, making it >> more readable and understandable and easier to mantain embeding in it >> some documentation. I think the answer is li

Re: XFree86 4.2 update howto?

2002-11-04 Thread David Z Maze
Haralambos Geortgilakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I solve the folloing error message? > > (none):/home/haralambos# synaptic > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Read the Remote-X-Apps mini-HOWTO, e.g. http://www.tldp.org/HO

Re: Working with one kernel not with other

2002-11-06 Thread David Z Maze
Jens Kubieziel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I compiled new 2.4.19-kernel with make-kpkg yesterday. I also compiled > alsa-source 0.9b12 which works well with kernel-2.4.18. To check, you did 'make-kpkg modules-image' to build the ALSA kernel modules, yes? When you say "works well with kernel 2.4

Re: Working with one kernel not with other

2002-11-07 Thread David Z Maze
Jens Kubieziel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, lsmod says: > > Module Size Used byNot tainted > snd-pcm-oss36096 0 (autoclean) (unused) > snd-pcm52576 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] > snd-timer 11176 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm] > s

Re: Booting Linux from windows 2000

2002-11-07 Thread David Z Maze
Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've heard that win2k won't stand for LILO replacing its own MBR. My laptop dual-boots Win2K and Debian unstable with GRUB in the MBR, and both sides work fine. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical

Re: apt-get perl mods?

2002-11-08 Thread David Z Maze
cmustard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i have forgotten how to download perl mods via apt-get. i have read > man apt-get and looked through packages on deb's site, where is the > 'easy' way to see what perl mods are available and which are not > (via apt-get). Install 'aptitude'; it's a nice cons

Re: AFS

2002-11-08 Thread David Z Maze
Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to have openafs-fileserver & openafs-client running on my > system. I can get both running, but I have problems in using pts. > I already set the /etc/openafs/server/KeyFile using asetkey with the > keytab retrieved from the Kerberos server (kadmin.lo

Re: X - window manager - desktop

2002-11-08 Thread David Z Maze
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:01:46PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: >> Now for my next question, do desktops such as gnome and kde require a >> specific version of window manager? > > Not that I know of. I've heard rumors that KDE only really works well with kw

Re: Use many graphics in LaTeX document. Configuration files ofLaTeX.

2002-11-09 Thread David Z Maze
"Egor Tur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have little quesion about usage of LaTeX. I want to place very > many graphics in my doc , but when translate the tex file in dvi and > ps, I see that my graphics place on end of file. What should I do > that my graphics place correct . I use graphicx pac

Re: Use many graphics in LaTeX document. Configuration filesofLaTeX.

2002-11-09 Thread David Z Maze
"Egor Tur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have next document in tex: > > \documentclass[12pt]{article} > \usepackage{graphicx} > \begin{document} > ... > some text 4 pages > ... > \begin{figure}[h] > \includegraphics[some_options]{file1.ps} > ... > \end{figure} Hmm. This could be causing problem

Re: UNIX shells - Bourne and C

2002-11-09 Thread David Z Maze
"Bruce Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just wanted to know, does debian linux include the Bourne and C shell? > In redhat, they are a symbolic link to bash and tcsh respectively. Debian includes a csh package (though most people I know who use cshish shells use tcsh, which is also in Debian).

Re: make-kpkg kernel-image without fakeroot ?!

2002-11-09 Thread David Z Maze
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just inadvertently built a kernel without fakeroot, specifically I > said > make-kpkg --append-to-version advncdfs --config xconfig kernel_image > > I don't see any error messages, and the deb was built. > > My kernel-pkg.conf includes the line > root_cm

Re: make-kpkg kernel-image without fakeroot ?!

2002-11-09 Thread David Z Maze
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Whatever magic there was didn't quite work with modules_image. One > module built fine (alsa); the other (lm-sensors) complained that it > wasn't root and quit. Most module packages aren't actually aware of $(ROOT_CMD). :-/ I fixed i2c to do this today;

Re: mkboot w/ bzImage?

2002-11-10 Thread David Z Maze
Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just recompiled my kernel under debian woody. I would like to make > boot floppy for it. So.. I typed 'mkboot > /usr/src/.../arch/i386/boot/bzImage'. It made the floppy, but when I > reboot with floppy - it doesn't work. The kernel appears to load, bu

Forcing default (StaticGray) visual under XEmacs

2002-11-11 Thread David Z Maze
My desktop machine at home has two video cards and two monitors. The second monitor is old and cheap, and it has a flaky connection on the blue pin which is now pretty toast. To try to hack around this, I set up the second card to run in 8bpp mode with a default StaticGray X visual. This works g

Re: woody to testing

2002-11-12 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I am considering of moving to testing as well. > I want to ask a few questions before doing this: > > 1. What are the major benefits of testing? You get software that's substantially closer to the "bleeding edge", and is newer than the last stable Debian release. In th

Re: Newbie: where to place src files for compilation

2002-11-12 Thread David Z Maze
"Holger Wiechert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just need a tip about where to place source files. > I downloaded the kernel sources (kernel-source-2.4.18) > and the kernel-headers (kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf.2.4) via dselect. > So they are now in /usr/src. I read somewhere that it's not a good > i

Re: Modules Dont Load At Startup

2002-11-16 Thread David Z Maze
"Thomas H. George,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is certainly elementary but it baffles me. Although I have > compiled my kernel with module support set to load modules as needed > and run make modules and make modules_install, (Depending on what you're doing, you may find it easier/better

Re: SVG-based presentation program?

2002-11-17 Thread David Z Maze
Jens Grivolla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am looking for a good presentation program (something like > PowerPoint) for Linux. So far I have been using mostly Star- > /Openoffice which is kind of OK, but would be interested in > alternatives. I have been using LaTeX (which I use for word > pro

Re: Missing base-*.bin files ?

2002-11-18 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Planning to install debian to a machine at work in a day or two. > > Downloaded debian-30r0-i386-binary-1_NONUS.iso from > ftp.fi.debian.org. (You didn't use jigdo, as suggested on http://cdimage.debian.org/?) > Expected to find base-*.bin files in > /debian/dists/wo

Re: why does it look at xdm and kdm while shutting down?

2002-11-18 Thread David Z Maze
"nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sandip P Deshmukh said: >> i did not want xdm, kdm, gdm to start. so i changed the link names from >> SnnProgram to KnnProgram for these links. > > change the links back if possible > > then > > update-rc.d -f kdm remove > update-rc.d -f gdm remove > update-rc.

Re: how to compare two macros in TeX?

2002-11-19 Thread David Z Maze
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what's \edef compared to \def? \edef expands its argument before defining it: \def\foo{Foo} \def\bar{Bar} \def\baz{\foo\bar} \edef\quux{\foo\bar} \def\foo{fOO} \def\bar{bAR} \baz\quux\bye Should result in fOObARFooBar: \baz's value is still \foo\bar,

Re: Wireless LAN

2002-11-21 Thread David Z Maze
Rusty Minden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am going to be getting a wireless LAN 802.11b for my home > network. I would like to get one that is supported by GNU/Linux. > Does anyone have any suggestions? Any card built with an Orinoco chipset should work fine; this turns out to be "most of the

Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-11-21 Thread David Z Maze
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Shaleh was the one to plug python first. But what dman says here gets > my attention. Do others concur that python is more cross-platform and > more OO than java? What are the disadvantages with python as opposed > to java? Why would someone pick java over py

Re: Treiber für D-Link DFE580TX

2002-11-22 Thread David Z Maze
"Wenninger, Rainer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > gibt es einen Treiber, der mit der DFE-580TX Quad Karte von D-Link > compatibel ist? Bei der bisher benützten DFE-570TX war ja DEC tulip > mit dem Chipset auf der Karte compatibel . Sie sollen ,,Sundance Alta support'' im Kernel-configuration benut

Re: Launching remote applications

2002-11-24 Thread David Z Maze
Emil Hägerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to start applications from a remote host on > my local net and set back the display. > > What wrong and what can I configure to make it work? You're not using ssh X forwarding. Browse the archives for this list, or read the Remote-X-Apps mini-HO

Re: grub as bootloader for linux and windows

2002-11-24 Thread David Z Maze
mw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I chose to have no special /boot-Partition, it's within the / on > hda8. GRUB shoudl deal fine with this case. > Linux = ext2: > 4) home ... 500 ... hda6 = log2 > 5) / (inkl. /boot ) 3000 ... hda7 = log

Re: Partition size

2002-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
Matěj Hausenblas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have woody on my PC and since it's working perfectly I'm thinking about > removing my other Linuxes (SuSE and Mandrake, there's no more windows;) > This action will give me two 2GB partitions, so I would like to ask if it's > better to make larger

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Believe it or not, this is a function of the fact that the DVDs are > encrypted. I don't remember what the heck it is that you have to do to > actually get enough of a handle on the data to be able to use something > like DeCSS on it. I saw an int

Re: audio problems

2002-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
Amit Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can't seem to get sound working here... I've added the user Amit to the > audio group, and installed esd* and alsa*. I don't have alsa modules in the > kernel, but I guess it should work with oss. I have ac97 audio system. > > Amit@magrathea:~$ cat > /dev/d

Re: ext2 vs ext3 vs xfs vs reiserfs

2002-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:16:13 -0800, nate wrote: >> Cameron Hutchison said: >> > The authors of XFS seem to think that because it is a journalling >> > filesystem, a filesystem repair tool is not necessary. >> >> yes this is true, I forgot about it.

Adding custom submenus in $HOME/.menu

2002-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
I've mostly abandoned traditional desktop environments these days (in particular, since GNOME 2 hit experimental and there were hints that GNOME 1 would vanish forever). Right now my desktop machine at home is using openbox, which seems to work pretty well, isn't ugly, and provides a way to have "

Re: Searching for sources

2002-11-26 Thread David Z Maze
(Reordering...) Bruno Diniz de Paula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, how could I know in advance which packages are available in the > source mirrors listed on my sources.list file? Every binary package should have a corresponding source package. > does anybody know how can I search for a sour

Re: apt-get - what is it aware of?

2002-11-26 Thread David Z Maze
Tim Verry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > apt-get is completely unaware of things you install or update by hand? It > only knows about apps that were installed/updated using apt-get (or dselect > or dpkg)? Yes. In practice, this covers the vast majority of things you want to use; if you want so

Re: What should I do after a power failure?

2002-11-27 Thread David Z Maze
"Timmo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > About 2 years ago, the last time I tried to get linux off the ground, I had > an accidental power interruption and the box was totally hosed from it. > > I've had one occur recently, and the file system checker did it's thing but > things were never quite righ

Re: libc2.3 and 2.2

2002-11-27 Thread David Z Maze
Alessandro Foresi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to compile from my "unstable" with libc6-2.3 a program > for a "stable" system with libc6-2.2. > I try with download the libc6-2.2-dev, extract it in my home > directory, then -I/home/alef/libc6-22/usr/include in > the makefiles for the program

Re: gprof with -lc_p: anyone able to do it?

2002-12-04 Thread David Z Maze
"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wanted to do some profiling on GNU make, so I installed the libc6-prof > package (I'm using testing) and built make like this: > > $ make CFLAGS='-g -pg' LDFLAGS='-g -pg' LIBS=-lc_p > > But this is very unhappy: > > $ ./make > Segmentation fault

Re: Debian cannot find the CD

2002-12-05 Thread David Z Maze
"Barry Cugley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Can you configure your mail reader to only send plain-text mail, especially to mailing lists? HTML mail makes my spam filter unhappy...) > Debian cannot find the CD drive (though Windows 98 can) so

Re: make-kpkg and .changes

2002-12-05 Thread David Z Maze
Frank Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to install locally built kernel packages in a local > repository managed by mini-dinstall. For that I need a .changes file > generated. Is there some way to get make-kpkg do that when it creates > the packages? A study of the kernel-package

Re: ld & ld.so.conf

2002-12-05 Thread David Z Maze
"Egor Tur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I compile programs: > $ g77 -o file -O file.f -lX11 > I see: > $ /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11 > $ collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > But > $ cat /etc/ld/so.conf: > $ /usr/X11R6/lib > When I do: > $ g77 -o file -O file.f -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 > t

Re: Source Builds

2003-08-09 Thread David Z Maze
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a link that describes how to go about building packages from > the deb-src files and how I might identify packages for source build > only? Modify the source as you feel appropriate, add a new entry to the top of debian/changelog, and run 'debuil

Re: dpkg -i does not install all files in a package

2003-08-10 Thread David Z Maze
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have had some problems with a package, so I tried to remove some off > the files and reinstall with dpkg -i to regenrate the files. Are they configuration files (to a first approximation, "files in /etc")? If so, dpkg considers deleting the file as a

Re: Alsa-utils make error

2003-08-11 Thread David Z Maze
Daniel Reginald Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having a problem installing the alsa-utils package: > > dhunt:/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-0.9.6# ./configure;make;make install By way of style, 'configure' and 'make' can and should generally be run as a mortal user: alsa-utile-0.9.6$ ./conf

Re: Debian way to make lmsensors working with kernel 2.6 ?

2003-08-12 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I would like to make i2c working with kernel 2.6 to use lmsensors > the problem is that I havent /proc/bus/i2c directory anymore > I read sometimes that I need a /sys directory which is not present > in Debian I can at least tell you that you're probably not going to h

Re: Anyone installed sarge?

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Sven Heinicke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I download the _Official net install images for the "testing" release_ > about once a month for a few months now, todays (August 13th) was the > closest I have gotten to getting an install working: When I tested debian-installer recently, I was told tha

Re: NVIDIA driver (nvidia-kernel-source)

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Michael Bonert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I followed the instructions on the 'nvidia-kernel-source 1.0.4496-2' page > (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/nvidia-kernel-source.html). > It suggusts working through instructions in a file called 'README.Debian' > (full path '/usr/share/doc/nvi

Re: Changing window managers The Debian Way

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Isn't it The Debian Way to do: > # update-alternatives --config x-window-manager Only if you want to change the default for everyone on your system. If you're the only user of your machine and don't want to edit .xsession/.xinitrc, it's fine, but if you h

Re: Best kernel-building procedure

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been building kernel-images for a while.. since I'm on dialup, and > it takes so long to download the complete source every time, I keep the > kernel-source..orig file.. currently I have 2.4.21... > > I then download the current "kernel-source..diff" and a

Re: NIS substitute

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Paladin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been trying for some time to change from NIS to LDAP. ... I > needed to install and configure SASL so that I had encryption for > the all process. At that time I had to choose some libsasl modules, > so I installed gssapi-mit and digestmd5-des. Do you,

Re: Backport issue

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Ismael Valladolid Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, I am finding an issue backporting packages that build-depend > on cdbs. For satisfying build dependencies, I always end up > backporting a package called springgraph, but then it refuses to > install, asking for some other packages th

Re: Install X windows

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Shashank Bhide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have installed a test system with potato debian potato is quite old at this point; I would definitely recommend you upgrade to Debian 3.0, "woody", which has been the current stable release for over a year now. > and want to have the KDE installed o

Re: alsa yields no sound

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
"Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I rebuilt the kernel (2.4.20) with the alsa modules. I booted > with the new kernel, loaded the sound modules and saw that the > card was detected and the device nodes exist (I'm using devfs, so > once the kernel recognizes the

Re: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
"Jacob Anawalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I was under the impression that the progression from "most reliable" >> to "most chaotic" was Stable -> Testing -> Unstable. Is that not so? > > So was I. It is not so (or so I've been told and my experiance backs > this up.) Unstable has been fine fo

Re: ATI Radeon 9000 question

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
lameth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Version 4.1 of Xfree86 doesn't support my graphics card, an ATI Radeon > 9000. My new laptop has an "ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 M9"; I don't know how similar it is, but I know XFree86 4.2 (in unstable) doesn't support it. > Since I have a dual boot system with

Re: pdf readers

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 13:17, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> I use xpdf on my PPC laptop since gv renders some PDF documents >> very badly and acrobat doesn't exist here. > > Begging to differ with you: > >duke:~# apt-cache policy acroread >acroread: >

Re: where to change WM manually

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
"Nyc0n" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Please post to the list in plain text only, not HTML.) > Where does debian and or linux select the window manager at boot? Not at boot; when you run 'startx' or log in via a display manager. > I install

Re: versioning for custom packages

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
"Dj Statik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am wanting to build custom packages of various utilities that are already > in the Debian archive. > > Is there a recommended versioning system I should use while building these > packages? You should probably look in the Debian Policy Manual for detail

Re: listing directory contents with color

2003-08-20 Thread David Z Maze
Alphonse Ogulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I get ls to list directory contents with color without passing the > --color option everytime? My shell dotfiles (for zsh, but this should work for any modern Bourne shell) have: ls() { /bin/ls --color --classify "$@"; } which implements t

Re: Problem with rebooting or shutting down the system

2003-08-20 Thread David Z Maze
Hooman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have recently made my Debian linux working. Now, > when I boot the system, I see a login screen in which > I can login as a regular user with Gnome or KDE. The > problem occurs when I want to logout and reboot or > shutdown the system. As I click on logout on

Re: /etc/rc.boot

2003-08-21 Thread David Z Maze
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /etc/init.d/rcS says that /etc/rc.boot is run only for > compatibility. What's the Debian standard for rc.local/rc.boot now? > Please don't make me write init.d scripts for every single line > I need. So create a single /etc/init.d/local script, copyi

Re: left out fat32 partition

2003-08-21 Thread David Z Maze
"oskar debian lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Please post to the mailing list in plain text only, and set your mailer to wrap lines at 72 characters.) > One of my vaft32 partition are having surface or other kind of > trouble that make t

Re: kernel 2.4.21 && swsp && acpi

2003-08-22 Thread David Z Maze
Lajos Mester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After upgrade-grub, my menu shows: > > ### > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.21 > root(hd0,2) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21 root=/dev/hda3 ro > savedefault > boot > ### > > But when booting the kernel panics, saying, he

Re: Linux - CDR

2003-08-26 Thread David Z Maze
Li-Ren Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm somewhat new to linux in general. I was just wondering what was a > good tool for burning/ripping cd's (audio and bin/cue). For ripping CDs, I use abcde, which is a fairly nice console-based tool that looks at a CD, gets cddb information on what CD it

Re: Prevent X Windows Starting up

2003-08-26 Thread David Z Maze
"captain kierkegaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > use the update-rc.d command, to stop the display managers from > starting, i used the following command: > # update-rc.d -f ?dm remove stop 1 2 3 4 5 6 > where the question mark is g, k, or x depending on which is starting > at boot. This is

Re: xferring files from window

2003-08-27 Thread David Z Maze
"Jianan Huang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. I have to re-use Hotmail because I notice that mails I sent via > Yahoo are separately listed from the ones sent via Hotmail. Is it > possible to request the Debian mail administrator to combine them? Probably, but asking the mailing list isn't goin

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-27 Thread David Z Maze
Alfredo Valles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 27 August 2003 3:59 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> Python!! Object oriented, and methods that need speed are >> wrapped around C. > > > And very very slow too, like any other script language. What do you really need the speed for?

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread David Z Maze
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The same thing is happening now with gnucash, which is partly written > in Guile. > Guile is a Scheme implementation designed for real world programming, > providing a rich Unix interface, a module system, an interpreter, and > many extension languages.

Re: FW: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread David Z Maze
Alphonse Ogulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > C, Erlang, Prolog, Perl, Python and C++ are all refered to in the above > paragraph. Java is conspicuouly not mentioned. I construe that to mean Java > is so much lacking in useful qualities to serve any practical purpose. Java is garbage-collected,

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

2003-08-29 Thread David Z Maze
Jon Haugsand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My Dell Latitude needs XFree 4.3, but I'm not sure how to get it for > my Woody laptop. IMHO, you'll run into too many problems if you try to go the backport route; lots of things depend on the X libraries (which, fundamentally, haven't changed in 10 yea

Re: devfs backward compat. problem (solved)

2003-08-29 Thread David Z Maze
Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Todd Pytel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030829 16:11]: >> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:11:00 +0900 >> Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Any devfs experts know how to fix this line properly? >> >> Correct the typo in "REGISTER"? > > Thanks. Do you wan

Re: open source distribution

2003-08-29 Thread David Z Maze
Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hopefully a (quick) question...if I make a product which is open > source I don't have to *distribute* the product, do I? I don't think anything compels you to distribute it, no. But if you do distribute it you generally have to distribute it with s

Re: dist-upgrade -vs- apache -vs- newbie

2003-08-30 Thread David Z Maze
"Brendan & Jennifer Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Please post to the list in plain text only.) > From what I've read, I believe I understand that once a "stable" > release is usurped by a new stable release (i.e. what will happen to >

Re: libc6 in unstable

2003-08-30 Thread David Z Maze
Carlos Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could anybody running unstable please tell me if there are any current > major problems with libc6 currently in unstable, version 2.3.2-4, for > the i386 platform? http://bugs.debian.org/libc6 probably could. I can at least tell you that none of my i386

Re: Design Questions - recommendations and clarifications needed

2003-09-01 Thread David Z Maze
"Bengt Thure'e" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been struggling to understand what the GPL means and > what I can use ... > Been checking Mozilla's GPL, GPL, LPGL etc and I guess I got > overloaded with to much data and abreviations... Some of the "standard" open-source licenses are in /usr/

Re: gnus & nnslashdot

2003-09-02 Thread David Z Maze
"Keith O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I first started using gnus a few years ago I managed to > get slashdot messages into gnus, but for me at that time it > was all a bit much to try and control, so I commented out the > slashdot specific lines in .g

Re: Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread David Z Maze
Wayne Gemmell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Excuse my ignorance but couldn't the problem (at least in some part) lie in > the fact that everything is coded/compiled for a 386? See the list archives; this is practically a FAQ. The answer always seems to be "no, except for very specialized things

Re: lm-sensors

2003-09-02 Thread David Z Maze
Menno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Until recently I have used the packages: > kernel-image-2.4.18-686 2.4.18-5 > lm-sensors-2.4.18-686 2.6.3-5+2.4.18-5 > (from http://people.debian.org/~blade/misc/modules-i386/2.4.18-686/ ) > lm-sensors2.6.3-5 > libsensors1

Re: verifying a Debian package

2003-09-03 Thread David Z Maze
"Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Many files within many debian packages _do_ have MD5 sums. The > debsums package allows you to validate installed files against an > md5sum database. Think through what it is you're trusting when you > do this. I've found debsums very useful in re

Re: Why ROOT all in uppercase

2003-09-03 Thread David Z Maze
jserrachinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > if i login with ROOT (UPPERCASE in ttyx) > and password, the chars are all in uppercase. > Is this a feature!? Yes. I don't remember what exactly it's intended to correct against, but I can try to log in as DMAZE (with the normal mixed-case-and-symbols

Re: Memory

2003-09-03 Thread David Z Maze
"Eicke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Gary I appreciate your response. > My machine is a Dual Xeon 2.8 GHz 64-bit. What does this mean? I thought "Xeon" was Intel's brand name for "server-grade Pentium", which still implies a 32-bit ISA and a 36-bit physical memory address. Maybe you mean th

Re: lm-sensors

2003-09-03 Thread David Z Maze
Menno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I believe unstable's make-kpkg has > > some support for building kernel modules given > > I use stable, and there is some kind of support in it. According to &g

Re: So what the hell is wrong with X?

2003-09-04 Thread David Z Maze
"Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are specific faults to X11. The technology as a whole is not > broken, and any wholesale replacement would have to answer to a great > many requirements. > 4. Configuration. In particularly, on-the-fly reconfiguration of X > reso

Re: Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-04 Thread David Z Maze
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you have a Windows box laying around, Microsoft Train Sim has > several scenarios running with power set up like this as well if you > wanted to try your hand at it. Controls are synched between all > power units automatically (iRL and in the game).

Re: Routing

2003-09-04 Thread David Z Maze
"Mark Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Please post to the list in plain text only, not HTML, and set your mailer to wrap lines at 72 columns.) > when only eth0 is up I can reach my local lan, 192.168.8.0-255, the > lan of another firm, 192

Re: lm-sensors

2003-09-04 Thread David Z Maze
Menno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> fakeroot debian/rules kdist_image \ > >> KSRC=/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18-1-686 \ > >> KVERS=2.4.18-1-686 KDREV=2.4.18-11 > > > This ignores the kernel-source package you > > installed entirely, incidentally. > > But if it works, that's good to hear.

Re: ifconfig

2003-09-05 Thread David Z Maze
"Adrian Berardi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, im experiencing trouble when configuring eth1 card. > with the ifconfig command i bring up the card, but it resets when > restarting. Yes, that's the way ifconfig works. You probably want to put the relevant information in /etc/network/interf

Re: Which release

2003-09-05 Thread David Z Maze
Joey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am installing Debian on a Internet-capable computer for > experimentation and a way to continue learning about Linux without > the limitations of a live CD. Should I use stable, testing, or > unstable? My preference would be to have the most recent pa

Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

2003-03-25 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Today I get "Permission denied" to execute a file I own, in a directory > I own and have write and execute permissions. > > What's up with that? > > bash:/home/ronin/files/seti$ ls -al > -r-xr-xr-x1 roninusers 134072 Dec 12 2000 setiathome > > bash:/home/r

Re: xpdf

2003-03-27 Thread David Z Maze
David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is Acrobat Reader _free_? Or can you download it free of charge. To me, > that is a bit of a difference. Call me anything you like, but I like > _free_ software. It's free-to-download, which is much different from DFSG-free. > But, since I'm not afraid

Re: Linux Sucketh not.

2003-03-27 Thread David Z Maze
"Mr. Baldwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What the heck is a MUA? Mail User Agent, "the program you use to read mail". The other related acronym that comes up a lot is MTA, for Mail Transport Agent, "the program that communicates with other computers to move mail around". > I can't configure

Re: reporting a bug

2003-03-28 Thread David Z Maze
Francis Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /usr/bin/ld: Please report this bug. > > Can anyone please advise me on how to report the bug? I went on the > Debian BTS and tried to search for it, but it requires a bug by number > (which i don't have) or package name (which i don't know how to find).

Re: bootmanager madness

2003-03-30 Thread David Z Maze
Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to install grub to boot my linux or windows partition. > Unfortunatly it won't work. > Now, grub boots the grub shell, but nothing more. I've to tell him where > the configfile is > > configfile /grub/menu.lst > > My menu appears and i c

Re: Different install prefix for dpkg-buildpackage

2003-03-30 Thread David Z Maze
Muralikrishnan B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can get I dpkg-buildpackage to install the source package i'm > compiling in a different path (just like ./configure > --prefix=/custom/path) ? You'd need to edit the debian/rules script to configure the package appropriately. But why do you wan

Re: Font problem after updating to XFree86 4.3.0

2003-03-31 Thread David Z Maze
Terry Milnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Please set your mail reader to only send plain-text mail, and write lines at 72 columns!) > I can no longer use XFree86 as the fonts are rendered as long non > readable fonts. Where are you getting

Re: Kernel Rebuild

2003-04-01 Thread David Z Maze
"Kris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I seem to be having a problem rebuilding my kernel with PCMCIA. The only > source I could find for PCMCIA were PCMCIA-cs_3.1.33-6_i386.deb ...which is the userspace code; you need this, but on it's own it's not enough... > and kernel-PCMCIA-modules-2.4.18-58

Re: naive question: gcc-{2.95,3.2}

2003-04-01 Thread David Z Maze
Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is it adventurous to build a package-dev with the gcc-3.2 compiler > when you still plan to use mainly the gcc-2.95 compiler ? Most packages are maintained under Debian unstable, which uses gcc-3.2, as does the current testing distribution. Practically

Re: Kernel Rebuild

2003-04-02 Thread David Z Maze
"Kris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just to clarify if the file I download is a .deb file then in order to > follow the steps listed in the link provided I would have to dpkg --install > kernel-PCMCIA-modules-2.4.18-586tsc_2.4.18-5_all.deb Uh, yes, that is how you would install a package with dp

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