On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:02:55AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I've got this small question, I downloaded some mpg
> files but I don't seem to have the correct prog to run
> them.
>
> I've got mplayer, MPlayer 0.90rc4-2.95.4 but it can't
> run them.
A thread on debian-user
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 11:31:54AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> terminals in X usually use the 'fixed' font (correct me if I am
> wrong). this is 7x14 over here. how would i go about if i wanted the
> fixed font to be 6x9 instead? i know that i could start the terminals
> and everything with -f
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 03:47:40PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> but this brings up a different issue. all my Gtk apps use fonts that
> are too big, so they run over the buttons and such. where can
> i control that?
You could try putting a font setting in ~/.gtkrc under `style
"default"'. I ha
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:24:00PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I downloaded and ran the realplayer binary: rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin.
> It gets thru the installation and registration process, runs for a second,
> then seg.faults:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 05:43:20PM -0800, nate wrote:
> what version of debian? Realplayer 8 works fine for me on 2 different
> woody machines.
>
> perhaps its a new glibc/new gcc issue causing the problems...
With the new glibc on the testing distribution Realplayer 8 works ok for
me so this ma
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 06:37:14PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
> Sorry, I guess I should add that I am a newbie to Debian systems and
> Linux in general, but have some experience with RPM based systems. I
> understand some of the basics of the Debian package system, but want to
> make sure that
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:14:38AM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> It is beyond my capability (but only slightly, I feel, and it
> should be very easy for lots of people here) to produce a sort of
> interactive fetchmail that reads the headers of each message on
> the server, presents them to you
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 09:11:44AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> If you add set pop_host=pop.gmx.net, set pop_user=xxx and set pop_pass=
> to your .muttrc then mutt -f pop://
> will connect without typeing so much. :-)
Additionally, within a running mutt, you could choose to activate a
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:36:24AM -0500, stan wrote:
> I tried apt-cache search, and the Debian package search page, and I can't
> seem to find nslookup.
>
> I've got it on most of my "testingh" boxes, but the one I'm building at the
> moment doesn't have it.
For installed packages 'dpkg -S ' g
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:15:26AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:41:57PM +1100, Brendan J Simon said
>
> > Which are the most accurate at detecting spam?
>
> This is a good question, and I've never seen a comparison of this. SA +
> some simple procmail rules catches basica
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:38:22AM +0800, Dasn Cups wrote:
> Hi,there
> I wanna try the 'ripquery',but I don't know where it is.
> I searched somewhere, and found that this tool should be in the 'gated'
> package, but Debian has no 'gated' package.
> Many thanks!
Wherever the 'somewhere' was it c
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:27:02PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Snip question about XFConfig-4 and modelines]
> According to what I've found in Google, bug 4918 has been fixed for
> years. But I can't get Lynx to recognize either XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND or
> VIEWER to change from ImageMagick to x
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:26:31AM +0800, csj wrote:
> Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I
> describe below.
>
> I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for "^Subject:.*Test"
> and ALLOW rules for "marssociety" and "marssocietynewsletter":
>
> $ grep -Ei 'test|mars
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:21:12PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> I don't know much about mailfilter, but it seems as though the
> rules are being applied in the order encountered. You may need
> to move yoru DENY rule to a position after the ALLOW rules.
> Just a thought.
It may look that way
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:26:31AM +0800, csj wrote:
> Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I
> describe below.
>
> I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for "^Subject:.*Test"
> and ALLOW rules for "marssociety" and "marssocietynewsletter":
>
> $ grep -Ei 'test|mars
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:43:42PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> Since swen, I started using mailfiter with differing degrees of
> success. I tried to look at the basic docs and there is no explicit mention of
> the way the rules are evaluated. top down, bottom up, allow then deny,
> etc
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 08:53:49PM +0800, Brian Walker wrote:
> I set up mailfilter in response to swen. I found that the ponly way to
> stop them was by limiting size. All other rules set in DENY or ALLOW
> seemed to be non-functional. In the end, I unset the size command, put a
> local rule for
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:59:39AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I just downloaded and installed Lyx using aptitude on a Sarge system.
> The package recommends also installing 'sgml-tools' which, from its
> name, sounds like a good idea, but the search function in aptitude
> cannot find a packa
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 05:14:58PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote:
> pretzalz@Pretzalz:~$ apt-cache search sgml-tools
> linuxdoc-tools - SGML converters for the LinuxDoc DTD only.
>
>
> What distro are you using, I can't find the dummy package in either
> testing or unstable so presumably it no long
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:07:53PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> Brian Potkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > /usr/share/doc/tetex-doc/texmf is your rather overwhelming starting
> > point. Diving into latex/general gets you what you want.
>
> You can use the 'tex
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:06:18PM -0400, ccn wrote:
> eFax service www.efax.com deliveres faxes as email attachments in
> multipage tiff format. When I open such an attachment using tifftopnm,
> gimp, or gimv I can only see the first page.
>
> Has anybody figured out what viewer displays all pag
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 09:13:06AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:06:18PM -0400, ccn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > eFax service www.efax.com deliveres faxes as email attachments in
> > multipage tiff format. When I open such an attachment using tifftopnm,
> > gimp, or
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 06:33:39PM +0200, Jimmy Johansson wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to create a "mailboxfile" in /var/mail/ and I am just
> wondering what the format for such a file is and how you create one. I am
> not even sure if it is supposed to be a special kind of file or if it i
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:23:15PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 07:57:57AM +0800, csj wrote:
>
> > Why not try mplayer?
>
> Because it doesn't work well with streaming stuff in general and
> never with RealAudio, on my system.
>
> > If the url's plain http://, wget.
>
> Wi
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:03:12PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've ditched X-based browsers for most of my surfing needs.
> The only time I find them really useful is when I need
> to google for pictures *and* when I must navigate Javascript-
> enabled (or should I say disabled) sites.
>
>
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 05:21:51PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote:
> After a couple of years of um-ing and ah-ing, my dad's finally got round
> to installing broadband. Specifically, BT broadband (here in the uk).
>
> He's asked me to slip in a 486 class router/firewall inbetween his
> Windows
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:15:35PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> I have combined the modem and firewall by installing a Bewan adsl card,
> which has Linux support:
> http://www.bewan.com/bewan/products/adsl/bwadslpcist.php
There is also enthusiastic support for this card and the opportunity to
p
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:45:16PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:15:35PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > I have combined the modem and firewall by installing a Bewan adsl card,
> > which has Linux support:
> > http://www.bewan.com/bewan/products/adsl/bwadslpcist.ph
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:31:00AM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> anyone know if it's possible to launch an external program from mc?
> For instance, I'd like to get mc to launch openoffice when I
> double-lick or press on a .sxw file. Is there a way to do this?
/etc/mc/mc.ext is the place to look.
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:31:01PM +0530, Ashish Ariga wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Today is the first time I typed the words "mutt". I have been using
> Evolution all along. I'm having a hard time reading the manual. I would
> like to know if it is possible for mutt to use the mail boxes of
> Evolution.
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:50:58AM +0530, Ashish Ariga wrote:
> I am still having some problems getting mutt to work.
>
> 1. Periodic checking for pop mail ("fetch-mail") doesn't work in spite
> of pop_* being set. Should I set spoolfile to pop:// instead ?
Your spool file should be /var/mail/yo
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:55:35PM +0530, Ashish Ariga wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:52:40PM +0100, duck wrote:
> >
> > Alternatively you could bind the f12 key to fetchmail as I have:
> > macro index "!fetchmail\n"
>
> It is already bound to "G" in mutt. I was hoping it would do it perio
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:45:40PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Oh my. I cannot believe what I did.
>
> # rm -rf *
>
> Whilst in my /home directory - I thought I was in /floppy.
>
> I've been digging around and stumbled across recover, but seem unable
> (?) to get it to work,
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:14:38AM +, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> Nope. I get lots of inodes from July (?), the partition is unmounted, but
> not for long - got to get on with it haven't I? Price of an education
> and all that.
Strange but an advance, it would seem, on what recover gave you. Hop
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 05:43:21PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> Why doesn't the prompt for root ever include showing the current
> directory? That would probably have saved this poor fellow as he may have
> seen that he was not in /floppy as he thought.
Surely it is relatively easy to change th
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:00:54PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> hello all
>
> this is something i have tried to do but could not.
>
> typically, every day, i go to google. go to google news. switch to text
> mode. all this is done by way of links provided on the page.
>
> once in the text
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:10:54PM +0200, Egor Tur wrote:
> Hi Folk.
> I want to use gv with full screen without panel ans menu.
> How can I do this? Is it possible?
> Does anybody have an idea on how to resolve this little problem?
I am not sure that what you want is entirely possible to achieve
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:09:05AM -0800, David and Dana Evans wrote:
> I know now how to install a "whatever.tar.gz" file but how do I install a
> "whatever.bin" file?
> Please help I've been reading and reading and can't find the answer.
> Thanks Dave
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A newsgroup search on G
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:09:05AM -0800, David and Dana Evans wrote:
> I know now how to install a "whatever.tar.gz" file but how do I install a
> "whatever.bin" file?
As an alternative to the useful tip you already have on making the file
executable you could also try
unzip whatever.bin
Brian
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:06:07PM +, Jeff Penn wrote:
> My closest mirror is my ISP (Demon), but it has taken some time for the
> mirror to update since Woody was released. Is it worthwhile changing my
> sources now, or are these problems not unusual for this site?
I've used www.mirror.ac.u
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 10:01:48PM -0400, J F wrote:
>
> Any VOIP or something like Netmeeting(tm of Microsoft, Inc) or voice applications
> for debian?
>
> I would like to talk to my friend over the internet using
> debian.
> Any recommended applications?
speak-freely is an internet telephone
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 05:09:45PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> First, I need to know -- for certain -- whether or not the file I am
> looking for is inside the RPM's that I have.
Midnight Commander can do this quite easily. Highlight the file and
press to see its contents.
> Second, how
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 12:04:31AM -0500, Kevin McKinley wrote:
> Until now I've been wearing out the delete key going through my inbox. I
> finally decided to do something about it, and installed bogofilter.
>
> When I looked at /etc/bogofilter.cf, I noticed that every line is commented
> out.
>
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:49:32AM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> I'm trying to install opera but get the following error:
[Error messages snipped]
> Other than complain to Opera, is there anything I can do to resolve this
> dependency?
You could purge libqt3c102-mt, which may remove other o
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:44:57PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> this should be a really easy question, but i can't find the answer
> anywhere.
>
> how do i turn on the (big block) cursor in console mode? right now
> there's nothing, making it really hard to see where i am when i'm
> typing :)
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:41:57PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Brian Potkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030611 16:25]:
> > echo -e '\033[?17;0;64c'
> >
> > which I tested and there is now a nice magenta block cursor on one of my
> > virtual consoles. If in you
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 09:34:49AM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> OT disclaimer... what controls the standard date abbreviation? On some
> Linux systems 'ls -l' displays the year, on others it doesn't. 'finger'
> duplicates the behavior, so it appears to be some heinous system-wide
> setting.
A s
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:08:56PM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just a question, I couldn't find an answer, yet.
>
> If I use
> apt-get install package_name ,
> is this package automatically configured by debconf.
If you're interested in whether a package depends on debconf prior to
i
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:43:04PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:29:00PM +0000, Brian Potkin wrote:
> >
> > dpkg -s | grep debconf
> > apt-cache show | grep debconf
>
> Probably 'dpkg -p' instead; 'dpkg -s' only shows
On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 09:10:42PM +, Shao Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there an easy to print a multi-page tiff image?
> tiff2ps seems only convert the first page.
>From man tiff2ps
-a Generate output for all IFDs (pages) in the input
file.
I have just tried
$ t
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:05:01AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:09:46AM +0200, Petr Vanek wrote:
> > hi all,
> > i wont to print html but don't wont to install netscape, i
> > mean print rendered html file from command line. is there something
> > rendering ps from
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:47:39PM -0800, shawn wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:15:30PM -0600, Anil Gupte wrote:
> > Where can I find some good scripting manuals that will teach me (a newbie)
> > to write bash shell scripts?
> the advanced bash scripting guide (assumes no previous
>
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:25:05PM +0200, Kristian Niemi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Got a file in WPS-format, which I'd of course like to open.
> I'm not quite sure if it's MS Works -format, or WordPerfect; I'm
> assuming it's MS Works.
>
> Anyway, I've tried digging through the net to find a
> converte
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:31:26PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 10 Dec 2003, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> > Please reply to the list in future. You type in http://10.0.0.2 where you
> > would usually type the website name. (Website names generally can be
> > exchanged for IP addresses, if you
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:27:44AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Well, I got this far: pinging 10.0.0.2 worked, but I still could not
> connect to it with a browser. "Connection cannot be established."
>From a previous post I thought you were having the router as 10.0.0.1,
using the 'route add
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:56:13PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Believe it or not, I've actually made some progress. Won't bore everyone
> with the details, but it included using a different cable and 10.0.0.1
> to set it up followed by 10.0.0,2 to connect.
10.0.0.1 is the router? 10.0.0.2 t
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:24:46AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote:
> i just tried out the workbone CD player that is installable via
> apt-get. It's a decent console- based player, except for one problem.
> It has no volume control.
I agree with your assessment of workbone as a decent console-based cd
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 02:18:09PM +, Brian Potkin wrote:
> To mention several
> packages: aumix is said to be a competent utility and mp3blaster
> can play cd's and comes with nmixer;
Before everyone rushes off to download mp3b
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:40:06PM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I badly need to communicate with a person that is using windows
> behind a masquerade of his ISP (which he doesn't control). My
> machine has routable IP address so theorhetically such a connection
> from windows
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:16:52PM +0200, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote:
>
> Hi, anyone know smssend? I have just installed it and trying to send sms
> but nothing happens. It does not give any error but the message i not
> being delivered at the mobile phone.
> Im using eurobate and have the latest p
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:57:06PM +0200, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2005, Brian Potkin wrote:
>
> > See where you get with:
> >
> > smssend eurobate.sms username password network number "message"
> >
> > Brian.
[Sig snipped]
&g
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 07:59:24PM +0100, Joe Mc Cool wrote:
> Please,
>
> how can I use my woody box to send free text messages to a mobile phone
> (in the UK) ?
Firstly, you need to obtain an account with a provider who will allow
you to send a text message from a web page. In the UK www.o2.
Carlos Rodrigues writes:
> I have a test installation of Debian (Sarge) and I wanted to force the
> screen resolution for XFree86 to 96dpi (because the fonts for GTK apps
> are way too big with the calculated default dpi settings), so I set
> "DisplaySize 270 203" in the "Monitor" section of "XF86
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 06:04:45PM +0300, ice.dp wrote:
> On 5/8/05, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Why? What are you trying to do?
> I'm cheking my mail via GPRS. It's $1 per Mb in my country.
> It's very expencive for me. But i'm subscribed to this list,
> and I don't want to downlo
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 08:28:58AM +1100, David Fisher wrote:
> > For less ugly Netscape fonts and proper size scaling,
> > the best solution I've found is to install the mozilla-fonts
> > package at http://fox.mit.edu/skunk/xwin/#mozilla_fonts,
> >
>
> I have installed the rpm for these fon
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:57:52AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> > "Debian" == Debian Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Debian> You could set up an alias. HTH
>
> That doesn't work to well if you are starting X via gdm...
>
> Yes, you could alter /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, but this of
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:46:36AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:08:15AM +0100, Robert Waldner ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > A very convenient way to find out what package a given file belongs to
> > is via http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages ("Search Co
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:20:36AM +, john gennard wrote:
> I have used Slink and now use Potato. As I seem to be getting
> problems installing KDE on Potato and many people say they
> are running Woody successfully, I wonder if I shall go to Woody.
My feeling is that sorting out your install
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:54:26PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> Karsten M Self writes:
> KMS> I note that my system is running at 75 dpi. Will 100 dpi give more or
> KMS> less resolution, and how do I set resolution anyway?
>
> That number is basically a measurement of how big fonts are; a bigg
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 11:38:21AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
[Very informative font discussion snipped]
> What you probably actually want for "10-point Courier" is
>
> -*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
>
> which will get you a monospaced font from some foundry named
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:09:36PM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the weirdest problem: Whatever I enter into my ~/.Xdefaults
> seems to be ignored entirely. I tried to make my mouse wheel work
> with netscape; pasted the relevant lines from
> http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 01:16:37AM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> Is there a URL which anyone can recommend to take me through the process
> of upgrading to potato from slink?
You could have a look at
http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/potato/upgrade-i386/
The upgrading process is given in qu
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:59:36PM +0100, Anthony Durity wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am new to the Debian fold and I am afraid that I am having trouble
> adjusting from my RedHat/Mandrake familiarity. Some of these questions may
> not be so Debian related so sorry in advance.
>
> I am in the process
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 04:55:09PM -0800, Guyren G Howe wrote:
> Okay,
>
> I asked the question a little while back about how I can set my window
> manager. So far I have been advised to edit, in different messages from
> different people:
>
> /etc/X11/window-managers
> ~/xinitrc
> ~/.xsession
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:54:03AM +1030, Paul Schulz wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I managed to set up the mgetty and mgetty-fax packages, at it is both
> sending and receiving faxes straight out of the install..
>
> 1. Install packages
>
> 2. To receive faxes, enable mgetty in '/etc/inittab' on th
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 08:30:52PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote:
> Sorry, I'll be more clear. :) There's no 'mgetty' in Unstable(Sid).
> There is no mgetty-viewfax, there is no mgetty-fax, there is no
> mgetty-voice. :) Each and every one of those packages gives:
>
> Package mgetty has no availa
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:44:35AM +0100, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 10.01.2001 I upgraded mgetty with apt-get. Some days later I
> changed my provider and had to change exim.conf. Now I discovered that
> incoming faxes are not delivered to me as before. What are the
> apropriate vari
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:27:30AM +0100, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote:
> Hallo Brian!
>
> Am Don, 01 Feb 2001, schrieb Brian Potkin:
>
> > In /etc/mgetty/new_fax I have the line
> >
> > USER="postmaster"
>
> I have no USER in new_fax. Maybe I am u
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:21:36PM +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to learn LaTex. therefore I wnted to read the Latex docu
> under /usr/share/doc/texmf/general/latex2e.dvi.gz. Konqueror can't
> open the file and the only way I've been able to read it so far is to
> copy it t
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 06:01:40PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> with a recent mutt update, my current version 1.3.24 started
> displaying messages part of a thread as follows, if the original
> (first) message of that thread had been deleted. i find this really
> annoying -- visually that is. i
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:42:45AM -0500, Justin R. Miller wrote:
> As for the '?', that represents a gap in the threading from messages
> either missing or not being shown in the current limit pattern.
A recently introduced feature, I think, and controlled by hide_missing.
Not necessarily very
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:38:05PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:42:36PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>
> > I just deleted something I didn't want to delete; won't hurt my system,
> > just destroyed some important records I was keeping.
> >
> *Immediately* unmount the part
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:22:14PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Potkin) writes:
>
> > The man page for Midnight Commander claims that undeletion is possible
> > only with an ext2 file system. Your suggestion to explore whether it
> > would deal
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:36:22AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:01:28PM -0500, John Patton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My son just turned 10, and I was interested in being able
> > to set up some sort of internet filter for him. I don't
> > need to
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:52:47AM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> I use fetchmail, procmail, and mutt for my E-mail, and I'm having one
> little issue with mutt that has been disturbing me for a while:
>
> Sometimes, new mail in my files does not show up in mutt for a while
> (sometimes even a
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:42:41PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hey You!! :-)
>
> Is there any possibility to install a tool on my HD which i can use to
> send SMS'es directly fom my machine by using my ISP?
>
> If yes please tell me! I use Woody. Is there any package?
SMS? Are you ref
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 09:43:40AM +0300, Atukunda Martin wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm still trying to set up sound on my debian box. Now nearly in frustration
> - Does anyone know where I can locate the sndconfig.deb file?
>
> Checked around and went in circles :)
The direct route is to go to
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 06:12:40PM -0500, ktb wrote:
> You can also cheat and put something similar in your ~/.muttrc -
> my_hdr From: ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> kent
I would say that the response in your previous email is more
appropriate. That method can be used to rewrite the envelope From
ad
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 02:07:32PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote:
> Currently, I am in potato. If I want to upgrade the whole system
> to woody or r3, WHat should i put in my sources.list file?
> and what options should I give to apt-get?
> Also, is woody and 2.2r3 both same? Or, if different, please br
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 08:05:44PM +0530, omicron wrote:
> hello
> i'm having a DAX modem and also installed vgetty. how do i
> configure a personal answering machine ?
If it is the mgetty-voice package you have installed you should also get
the mgetty-docs package. /usr/share/doc/mgetty-v
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 05:42:11PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote:
>
> I am not able to use apt-get. If i run apt-get check or apt-get update,
> it exits with error
>Unable to parse /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)
> The status file could not be opened or parsed.
> Help.
Some suggestions:
Move /var/lib/d
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:26:40AM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I never needed to compile the kernel until now. I have to patch the
> kernel, and I would like to know what libraries, packages, programs
> I need to have on my machine (except the kernel source an headers)
> in order to
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 05:28:11PM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote:
> At the moment I need to su in order to send a fax. How do I fix it so
> that I can send a fax as a normal user?
>
> Pertinent info:
>
> Kernel 2.2.17
>
> Mgetty running from Pototao 2.2R3
It is some time since I configured mg
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:13:20PM +, gerard robin wrote:
> hello,
> I am connected to internet with a modem and to download
> a distribution potato or woody spents 130 hours !
> In France potato exists on CD but woody not.
This looks like you are downloading the whole distribution. If you
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:31:30PM +, gerard robin wrote:
> Thanks, I have followed your advice and so I have upgraded the soft
> which I needed.
> However now (after upgrade) when I run a perl script I get this warning:
>
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:02:34PM +1000, Davor Balder wrote:
> No, it's not a security risk... for the reasons you mentioned... just
> edit permissions in usual manner...
There is no need to alter permissions to change this behaviour. Setting
queue_list_requires_admin to false in /etc/exim.conf
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:29:50AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> mailq is linked to exim, so the mailq command is just a shortcut to do a
> queue check. Is it a security risk to permit normal users to check the mailq,
> because if I try it as a non-root user, I get "p
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:40:32PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian
> unstable. Previously I've used Squid + Sleezeball, but Sleezeball
> hasn't been updated since November 1999. :-(
>
> Can anyone recommend a good banner blo
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:10:57AM +0200, Michal Parienti wrote:
> Junkbuster works great, except it doesn't support version 1.1 of
> the HTTP protocol.
>
> If we could find the same features, with the support of HTTP 1.1,
> in GPL, it would be perfect...
The FAQ for wwwoffle says that it has th
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 05:44:21PM -0700, Stephen A. Witt wrote:
> I've been following the 'web blocker' thread with some interest and, on a
> related note, was wondering what software is available for limiting access
> to certain web sites for specific users. I've a couple of elementary
> school
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