Hi
I recently upgraded from potato to woody and I'm wondering why
dpkg -l | grep potato
gives a bunch of matches (see them at the end of this message), even though
there's no "potato" or "stable" in /etc/apt/sources.list
Thanks
Alec
P.S. I used to have KDE2 on po
prefer having apps in their own directory so i can just rm -rf
> them when i want to remove them instead of hunting them down in 10
> different places.
>
> nate
I think you people may be confusing the protocol and the program version.
ssh
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 11:50 pm, Alec wrote:
> I think you people may be confusing the protocol and the program version.
> ssh client as it comes with Potato (2.3.0p1-0.11) supports SSH2 (use option
> '-2')
Correction: I think my Potato machine pulls that recent vers
onvert XF86Config
into XF86Config-4
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I don't know if this is POSIX-compliant behaviour or a bug, but xargs can
only pass 1024 arguments.
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Is there a utility that converts XF86Config into XF86Config-4?
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Is there an apt-get'able package containing Contents.tar.gz?
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How does one connect two computers to the internet throught one ethernet
socket? Does one of them have to have two ethernet cards and run special
software?
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them and how
can I configure Netscape for this?
Thanks in advance.
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n video being played on your screen, I'd really like to know what
shows up in your browser, when you type "about:plugins" as URL.
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am movements like all the other players have (linux
> and windoze).
> May this be due to hardware? cos having a laptop, i only use stripped
> down hardware like: a mobile p3 850mhz w/ geforce2go,
How much RAM on the video card? I'm wondering what kind of hardware one needs
to play
with `plaympeg test.mpg` ?
Alec
On Monday 03 December 2001 10:31 pm, Peter Good wrote:
> Back before I upgraded, with an early version of Xine, early version of
> Captian Css's d4d, a celeron 433, riva tnt2 32mb agp, and 128mb ram, i used
> to get quite respectable performance watching
Hi
Where do I report silly bugs like the one below? The package wouldn't even
get installed: Somebody wrote "cp * file" in a script?!
Alec
-
$ apt-get install crafty
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Don
ing X, will not interrupt it.
I'm wondering if there's also a way to insure against shutting down of the
machine, i.e. enable saving of the session (RAM) at shutdown and restarting
from where it stopped when the computer is brought up?
Thanks
Alec
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On Thursday 06 December 2001 11:41 pm, dman wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:21:41PM -0500, Alec wrote:
> | Hi
> |
> | I have a program that produces output to STDOUT and will probably take
> | several days to run. I already figured that it's better to run it using
> | &
On Friday 07 December 2001 02:05 pm, Craig Dickson wrote:
> The following procmail recipe can keep your inbox clear of it:
> :0
>
> * ^X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> /dev/null
>
>
> Craig
Craig, can't you do
Is Netscape 6.2 any good? Is it worth installing? Any reason to prefer it to
Netscape 4.77? How is it different from Mozilla?
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What does it mean "the following packages have been kept back"?
When I do apt-get upgrade, I get:
The following packages have been kept back
libglib1.2 libglib1.2-dev
What's the meaning of this? They could not be upgraded for som
On Saturday 08 December 2001 11:34 am, Paolo Falcone wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec wrote:
> >Is Netscape 6.2 any good? Is it worth installing? Any reason to >prefer it
> > to Netscape 4.77? How is it different from Mozilla?
>
> Compared with 4.7
On Saturday 08 December 2001 07:56 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:55:12PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) spake thusly:
> > > on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec ([EMAIL
insights are greatly appreciated.
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On Sunday 09 December 2001 03:12 pm, dman wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 03:03:31PM -0500, Alec wrote:
> | I have 2 HDs, and I just had Win98 installed on the slave HD.
>
> ...
>
> | But when I try to boot into Windows, it says "Loading Windows" and gets
> | stuc
back. Galeon Kicks Ass®.
>
> s/GNU\///
>
> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/browsers.html
Speaking of browsers, how does one "go back and forward" in w3m?
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I make backups using a cron job and I set MAILTO=""
Can I configure cron to mail me
a) *only* when there were errors
b) email only STDERR (not STDOUT)
Thanks
Alec
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cache search kde | grep -i html
produced nothing :(
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ready running,
dpkg-reconfigure sendmail
says that it's not installed (and I don't want to
install it, since last I heard, exim was a more secure
replacement)
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when the number of messages there is greater than usual (like around 100),
kmail says "Couldn't login. Internal error"
Alec
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Is it possible to get fetchmail to dump messages from my yahoo account into,
say "~/yahoo", instead of mixing it with the other mail in "/var/mail/alec".
I tried the "expert" mode in fetchmailconf, but still didn't find this
option. It seems to offer addin
Hi
How can I turn off the "You have mail in /var/mail/alec" notification in
bash, if that's possible?
Thanks
Alec
ery well (unless you only use procmail to filter out unwanted mail) kmail
doesn't show mail sorted by procmail as new. So now I just use fetchmail (in
crontab) and kmail with its own built-in filters.
Thanks
Alec
Why not put pine in non-free? Other distributions ship with pine...
Alec
>
> I got it, configured and compiled it and tried to run it to play a dvd
> disk.
>
> It complained about a missing codecs file - but I haven't seen such a file
> mentioned anywhere in the documentation. Anyone any ideas.
There's a separate downloadable *zip file with codecs on the web site.
Alec
isfying my nagging curiousity.
Alec
Hi
I want send all messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to /dev/null except for those
that contain (case insensitive) "keyword" in its subject. How can I do this?
Thanks
Alec
How come `time a.out > /dev/null` prints "time" output,
while `time (a.out > /dev/null)` doesn't print anything at all.
Shouldn't it be the other way around?
Thanks
Alec
n me right now to look it up. However, I'd guess the problem
> is in your initialization of iter2 and eof.
They are initialized by default to represent the end of the input.
Don't know exactly what the OP wants to do, but he might try something like
this, which will print everything between the first line that starts with {
and the fist one that starts with } afterwards.
#include
#include
#include
using namespace std;
int main()
{
string s;
ifstream in("main.cc");
while(getline(in, s, '\n') && s[0] != '{');
while(getline(in, s, '\n') && s[0] != '}') cout << s << '\n';
}
HTH
Alec
you something to read
until 2003. Otherwise, RTFM is sometimes accompanied by DAFS (Do a f*
search), which should be directing you to, say,
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.os.linux.misc
with all google's search capabilities.
HTH
Alec
ture).
Just goes to show that "worse is better".
Alec
tter" (I think Dr.
Dobbs Journal had a piece on this): Timely initial delivery is more important
to the success of software than its quality.
Alec
e, it is a
security concern, since unintended net services are run. Wouldn't it be
better to break ssh and sshd into two separate packages? Right know, at least
in Woody, sshd is part of ssh.
Thanks
Alec
e no recollection of ever being asked this question. I orignally had
Potato on the box with KDE2 (and ssh packages that came with it) and later
upgraded to Woody. Maybe that's why.
Thanks
Alec
M + GMake + G++-3.0)
The learning curve may be a bit steep, but you get to understand a lot of
things better.
Good luck
Alec
FORTRAN, Haskell, O'Caml, SML,
Prolog, Java (for some people, but not for me).
Alec
P.S. A real BOFH would say "man cc" :)
> Cheers,
> Willem
>
> >You'll find loads of recommendations and other info on the web and on the
> >C/C++ newsgroups.
> >
> >A
t
include it.
If anyone who knows Haskell or O'Caml is intersted in collaborating on this
type of simple benchmark (Similar to http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/).
let me know!
We might even create a *deb for it!
Alec
> > In my opinion you should even avoid 'plain' C because
the drop-down menu to appear. 9 seconds and less will not
try my patience :)
Regards,
Alec
P.S. I apologize for being OT. This is my last post in this thread.
Hi
I have the following script:
-
#!/bin/bash
echo $PWD
-
and I try to run it with
env PWD=/bin script
but it always prints the correct working directory instead of "/bin".
Why?
Thanks
Alec
Hi
I noticed that (on woody) searching for a file with auto-apt will sometimes
produce no results, while dpkg -L may list the file. E.g.
$ auto-apt search pa_sml
$ dpkg -L camlp4 | grep pa_sml
/usr/lib/camlp4/pa_sml.cmo
Why?
Thanks
Alec
Hi
Debian mailing lists are mirrored on (interfaced to) USENET under
linux.debian.*, and our email addresses aren't even scrambled! USENET is
probably the number one source for the email address snooping spammers. Can
they catch up with all of us one day?
Alec
On Thursday 03 January 2002 03:30 am, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> On 03-Jan-2002 Alec wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I noticed that (on woody) searching for a file with auto-apt will
> > sometimes produce no results, while dpkg -L may list the file. E.g.
> > $
fix the problem, and no one
here helps you, try news://comp.text.tex . TeX community is very helpful.
Alec
unified script. I prefer the former and, AFAIK, both RH and Debian use
SysV-style start-up scripts.
Alec
apt.
You can ftp updates for free from RH or mirrors and satisfy the dependencies
either by hand or with autorpm.
Alec
tionally equivalent. RPM *is* a good packaging system, it's other
> things which make .rpm based systems suck (read my next post).
If RPM is good, why did Debian project feel compelled to create dpkg?
Alec
r code) Firstly, Lindows is likely to be killed
to MS or the market. Secondly, scanners cost less. Thirdly, I would value
computing freedom a bit more than the price of a typical scanner.
Alec
roduct. And let
> me tell you: upgrading Mandrake is a Perilous Journey.
>
> "apt-get upgrade" is the *absolute* best...
Isn't there an automatic tool like Drake-update or something on Mandrake?
Alec
Hi
How can I match the same character repeated n times?
".{n}" matches any n characters.
Thanks
Alec
On Thursday 24 January 2002 06:03 am, Alan Shrimpton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Okay, now I installed it. How do I start it?
>
> Cheers Al
/usr/X11R6/bin/netscape & /usr/bin/mozilla &
echo Starting Netscape4, Mozilla;
echo Please wait...;
sleep 30
upports
Redhat <= 7.1
Thanks
Alec
in case I have it?
startx
> Cheers Al Newbie
Good luck! Configuring X is often the biggest pain, while installing Linux.
Alec
Hi
I'm curious, what's keeping some KDE packages from becoming 2.2?
apt-cache show kmail
for example, still gives "4:2.1.1-7"
Thanks
Alec
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 09:24, Kent West wrote:
> Otto Wyss wrote:
> > So far I've tested Knoppix from the newspaper ct (has no
> > root access)
>
> sudo will give you root access in Knoppix
You can grab a real root prompt with 'rootme'.
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On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 20:08, James Hosken wrote:
> Please can some one point me in the right direction of some instructions or send
> me some. The Kernal howto has been removed from debian.org.
Sorry for hitting the trigger early last time. I'm doing this now -
check out http://www.holtmann.org/
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 20:08, James Hosken wrote:
> Hi
>
> I need to upgrade woody's kernel to 2.4.x so that I can run my Matrox G550
> graphics card.
>
> Please can some one point me in the right direction of some instructions or send
> me some. The Kernal howto has been removed from debian.org.
Has anyone had any luck installing Debian 2.1 on a Dell Inspiron 7000? I
have a 3c575 CardBus adapter which I'd like to use. I've got the NIC
working under RedHat 6.0, but I'd rather use Debian as its what I have on
all my other Linux systems.
Alec
Have you been able to make the NIC do 10Base-T? I edited the
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts file so the line for speed detection was
"10baseT" but this didn't work. Wish I had 100MBps, then there'd be no
trouble. :)
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
> On Thu,
give tar -xvvfI a try. Its the I which does the unBzip2ing on atleast
slink.
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> is there a version of tar somewhere that will recognize bzip2
> compression? I don't like untarring in two passes :-)
>
> Nico
>
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Is there a way to go about making NFS connections (automatically) after
the card manager is started for PCMCIA network adapters? I'd like to avoid
having to do a mount -a as root before I can start working. Configuration
is basically a complete Potato install.
Is there a way to go about making NFS connections (automatically) after
the card manager is started for PCMCIA network adapters? I'd like to avoid
having to do a mount -a as root before I can start working.
Configuration is basically a complete Potato install.
ssh is an encrypted remote login kinda like Telnet. You need to have apt
including the Non-US stuff since ssh can't be exported from the US, but
can be brought in.
Add a line something like
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib
non-free
That's for Potato, but a
The PIII ought to work just fine since its basically another x86 CPU.
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Apparently intel has discontinued 450 MHz PII processors. Will linux (the
> debian flavour, of course) work with a PIII?
>
> I checked the linux hardware HOWTO, but no mention
twork.
I took a look at the IP Masq HOWTO, but its 'defaults' don't seem to work
for me.
The system is Debian 2.1 running kernel 2.2.10. Kernel and network configs
are attached.
Alec#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
IPADDR=130.108.229.33
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=130.108.229.0
n the ipchains HOWTO
# ipchains -P forward DENY
# ipchains -A forward -i ppp0 -j MASQ
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
and was still not able to get things working. I wouldn't mind getting a
look at your config file if something in there might be useful in debugging
my outgoing IP prob
For Slink XFree86 3.3.3.1, use
deb http://ftp.netgod.net x/
in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. You'll get X 3.3.3.1 in addition to
other updates for Slink.
Note: I don't believe the debs are official. The only official stuff for
XFree86 3.3.3.1 is in Potato.
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, David N. W
AOL uses their own proprietary client software, so there's probably little
chance it'll ever run on anything other than Windows and Mac. At this
point, there's not even a way to work around the crappy client to get a
direct PPP connection.
Personally I use Netcom/MindSpring and AT&T Worldnet on Li
Take a look at the 'qpopper' package. Its a POP3 server developed by
Qualcomm (famous for Eudora Light/Pro). I've been using it on my machines
without any problems.
If you feel like building from source, you might check out 3.0b18 on
ftp.qualcomm.com. I'm now using that version with no troubles so
When I use VIM, I get a backup file with ~ at the end. How do I go about
stopping VIM from creating these backups on a system-wide basis?
Alec
You should be able to get the right verison of QT right with KDE 1.1 --
Atleast if memory serves me right.
On 28 Jun 1999, Gilbert Laycock wrote:
> The various kde 1.1 .debs available for slink from the kde web site all
> depend on having qt1g >= 1.42.
>
> The version of qt1g in slink is < 1.
Yep -- Debs at ftp.netgod.net/x
APT line (for /etc/apt/sources.list)
deb http://ftp.netgod.net x/
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Parrish M Myers wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone found an elegant solution to using a Matrox G200 card with
> XFree86. The one that comes with release 2.1 is XFree86 3.3.2
I'm looking into getting a CD-RW drive to go along with my Debian system.
I'm looking at the following possible combinations.
1. SCSI CD-ROM and SCSI CD-RW
2. IDE CD-ROM and SCSI CD-RW
3. SCSI CD-ROM and IDE CD-RW
4. IDE CD-ROM and IDE CD-RW
The cheapest option would be the IDE/IDE combo. Would a
I use Encrypted Passwords with Samba and Win98 without incident. My only
"problem" was being sure to run smbpasswd to add all the users to the
Samba password database.
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Gareth wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Chris Hoover wrote:
> > Is there anything special I have to setup to a
I have a home LAN with a MacOS client that I'd like to give file and print
access on onea of my Linux machines using Netatalk. The default
configuration does not appear to provide for setting a Zone and the like.
So, how would I go about using Netatalk on a Slink/kernel 2.0.37 machine
to create a
I'm thinking about buying an Intel EtherExpress Pro/100+ Management NIC for
use with a Linux system. I know the Pro/100+ is supported, however I want
to be sure the 'Management' part doesn't cause some odd problem.
The NIC I'm considering is
http://gigabuys.us.dell.com/store/detail.asp?sku=771180
You'll have to recompile the programs to work with glibc2.1. If they're
leftovers from Debian <2.x, you could install libc5 and see what happens.
I'm no expert in this stuff... I'm still a little green myself.
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, peter karlsson wrote:
> > I installed fpc (Free Pascal) before
In the next few days I'll be getting an AGP ATI Mach64 and a PCI
Banshee-based video card. Will I be able to use either with Debian? I'm
not afraid to download X 3.3.4 from XFree86's website if its required.
Ideally I'd like to use the Banshee since its much faster for gamin
I use my DeskJet 870Cse with Linux, with good results. A comparable model
on the market today would be roughly the 895Cse, so long as you've got the
parallel version.
Once you have the printer, just use magicfilter's dj550 filter and edit
/etc/printcap as you would for any other printer.
At 04
800, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
>On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Alec Smith wrote:
>
>> I use my DeskJet 870Cse with Linux, with good results. A comparable model
>> on the market today would be roughly the 895Cse, so long as you've got the
>> parallel version.
>>
>> Once
All you really need to do is get all the required packages (gcc, bin86,
etc), download the kernel source, and build as normal. Nothing special.
I've had no trouble with 2.0.x on Hamm, although 2.1/2.2 require a bit of
work.
At 05:12 AM 2/9/99 -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
>--
All the newer versions of Linux should support ELF. Give that a try before
you resort to a.out.
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> When downloading tar files how can I determine whether my system needs
> A.out type files or
> ELF type files? I have a cirrux 686 chip if that helps any?
Or you could download 2.0.36/2.2.1 kernel source, which should recognize
the memory.
At 11:29 AM 2/10/99 -0800, Mike Garfias wrote:
>Sebastian Canagaratna spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
>> I have just installed 80 MB memory ( old was 16, and I added
>> 64 MB ). I am using Debian linux
ws version -- With "Exit" on the File menu, etc.
Alec
At 03:57 PM 2/11/99 +0100, Ingo Hohmann wrote:
>Just to add some noise to the various WordPerfect threads,
>these are the error messages, I get when I try to install it.
>
>./install.wp: line 11: 764 Segmentation fault
Look in /boot. That's where the System.map is on my Debian boxes.
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> Where does Debian put System.map? I just recompiled a kernel, but my first
> kernel did not have a System.map. I know some distributions put them in / but
> some don't.
>
> thanks
>
> --
Its a bug in RealPlayer 5.0. Take it up with RealNetworks.
In RP5.0, they took advantage of a bug in the 2.0.x kernels that got
closed up with 2.2.x.
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Paulo Silva wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Is there anyone having problems with real player and sound in new
> kernels?
>
> I a
There is a 'UNIX for Dummies' book. It might be helpful in getting you
through some of the userland basics, but it won't be much help as far as
sysadminning goes.
You can use lilo to dualboot the system, eliminating the need for a boot
disk. Attached is a sample of my lilo.conf for booting Windoze
Go into dselect and choose 'Update Packages' to update the list of
available for the distro you're using (stable (hamm)/frozen
(slink)/unstable (potato)). Any packages updated since the versions you
have installed on your system will appear at the top of the list.
At 10:48 PM 2/17/99 +0100, Rola
You probably want to run a Windows NT-style file and print service on your
Linux box... Only this works better than the real Winblows. Take a look at
Samba -- http://www.samba.org
At 08:09 AM 2/25/99 +1100, Stephen Lavelle wrote:
>Where can I get info about how to network windows to linux (spec
Nope, you need Win95 for long file names. Even DOS 6.22, the last in the
stand-alone DOS versions, doesn't do long names. What you could do is get a
Win95 boot disk and reformat the DOS drive and then have the long names
visable to Linux, but Win3.1 would still see only 8.3
At 05:22 PM 3/1/99 E
No big traps that I can think of. I'm actually running NT+Linux on this
very machine. I prefer copying the Linux boot sector and using the NT boot
loader. Its nice being able to use the arrow keys and not have to type
anything as Lilo can require.
Check out the Linux+NT-HOWTO for details.
At 0
I have two questions:
1. Is there a way to make xterm default to the "large" or "huge" font
sizes? Right now I have to press control and right click on the xterm
window to switch. As I'm legally blind, the default size is too small for
my use.
2. I've got two systems I routinely use X apps on, pa
Thanks for the info. You wouldn't happen to know what the default
XTerm*font: setting is would you?
Alec
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
>
> > I have two questions:
> >
> > 1. Is there a way to make xterm default to the "large" or "huge&q
Difference is kdm is for starting the KDE environment only. xdm starts a
more traditional setup using fvwm2, windowmaker, or whichever you prefer.
At 03:31 PM 3/9/99 -0600, Craig T. Hancock wrote:
>What eactly is the difference between kdm and xdm is it eaiser to
>configure or better security an
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