On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:29:11PM +0200, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> How can I stop my modem to make noise after establishing connection?
M1 does this I think. It keeps the speaker on until the carrier is
detected.
> And another question relating to that: Under Windows I added "s11=30"
> to
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:27:36AM -0500, DvB wrote:
> Is there any way to see what files are in a package without having to
> install it first?
>
> I can't find this functionality on packages.debian.org and, IMHO, it
> would be useful if it were present. Would it be that hard to implement
> thi
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 12:57:31AM +0800, csj wrote:
> I'm feeling a bit lazy today to RTFM. I set pon for persist. But it only
> redials every 30 seconds after failing. How can I make pon redial, say,
> every 5 seconds?
Not the attitude expected of a Debian user! It's well worth looking at
man
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:40:10AM +0800, csj wrote:
> Three replies so far but nobody wants to reveal the dark secret. All I
> want is a one/two-word option to stick into /etc/ppp/peers/foovider. Do
> I have to (re)write my own chatscript?
One of the replies does have the magical one word option
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 08:09:26AM +0800, csj wrote:
> Thanks to Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for letting me in on the secret
> (I was scanning for "try"). You sent me a coded message ;-)
>
> BTW: "dict TTHEM" doesn't return anything useful.
Trying To Help Even More.
A spur of the moment inventio
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:38:29AM +, todd mansill wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have an urgent problem and I need some help please:
>
> I can't get kppp to work - when I try to connect I get the following
> error message in the log window:
>
> The remote server is required to authenticate itself
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 02:24:16AM +0200, Serafim Zanikolas wrote:
>I'm afraid that /etc/apt/sources.list has mostly ftp entries, and
> apt-get output indicates that these are the ones actually being used.
> I haven't found any of the keywords ``resume'' or ``partial'' neither
> in the releva
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 11:59:35AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 01:19:07PM +0200, Serafim Zanikolas wrote:
> >I've noticed that apt-get doesn't anymore resume a partially
> > downloaded package, it prefers to fetch the whole one. Any hints?
> >
> >BTW I'm running an
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:59:29AM -0800, Abner Gershon wrote:
> Is it possible and how to change to smaller font so
> higher number of characters are displayed on on line
> of my screen? I am not using a gui. Is this
> application specific or will this change all
> applications on my console? I a
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:54:13AM +0100, Franois Chenais wrote:
> Happy new year !
>
> the ftp.uk.debian.org seems to be down. any idea ?
www.uk.debian.org was also poorly earlier today. Both seem ok at the
moment.
Brian.
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:35:06PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 03 Jan 2002, Brian Potkin wrote:
> >
> > www.uk.debian.org was also poorly earlier today. Both seem ok at the
> > moment.
> >
> > Brian.
> >
>
> I find it's oft
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:28:39PM +0100, stefao melchior wrote:
> Hi guy,
> I am running debian2.2r4 with xfree86 3.3.6 on my laptop: I have tried to
> upgrade the x-system to the more recent 4.1.0 release, got from the woody
> release. I downloaded all the packets (.deb) from the debian's site
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:30:29PM -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> Greetings !
>
> Recently upgraded potato->woody and now find /sbin/modprobe absent.
That doesn't sound right. If it was there before upgrading (and it
should be because it belongs to a required package in base) it should be
ther
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:58:58PM +0200, Kari Ruohonen wrote:
> Hi!
> I have tried to add items to the Debian menu system with no luck. I have
> read the man pages and the docs as well as browsed the discussion groups.
> I have tried to add a 'menu' file to both ~/.menu and /etc/menu and run
> 'u
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:33:44PM -0200, andrej hocevar wrote:
> Hello,
> how do I change the cursor style in the console, eg. like an
> underscope vs. a solid block?
I think you have to enable this facility in the kernel. Search for
`cursor' in Documentation/Configure.help of the kernel source
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:09:27PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am very new to LaTex. Is there any good books or documents recommended
> for me? Any recommends highly appreciated. :-)
Peter Flynn, a regular contributer to comp.text.tex, has recently made
the following documents ava
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 05:40:55AM -0800, Terry Carney wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Since upgrading to 'testing' my firewall host has been
> spewing out kernel messages to whatever virtual console
> I happen to be viewing making it extremely difficult to
> work. However, the only kernel messages that appear
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 11:05:03AM +0100, Franois Chenais wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to aupda my debian box but I have time out !
> I've tried many servers but this is the same way.
>
> deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ woody main
> deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ woody
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:24:46AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I've downloaded the vim source tarball from the debian site but how do I
> compile this as a deb package? Where are the relevant debian files for
> doing this?
You will also need the diff.gz and dsc files. Two sources which may
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 09:10:32AM -0700, Jim Darrough wrote:
> Is there a concise list of apt-??? commands I can access? And for tasksel?
> I am intrigued by this functionality. I will stay with Debian and try to
> learn it.
For apt-get you'll find a very good introduction at
http://newbieDoc.s
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:05:35PM +0200, Tomasz Olszewski wrote:
> Hello!
> I've got a problem with wwwoffle 2.5c (potato r2). Quite often my
> Netscape is not able to communicate wit wwwoffle. The browser shows only
> an error message: "A communications error occured. Please try again".
> Trying
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 06:59:16PM +0200, Tomasz Olszewski wrote:
> Hello Debian Users!
> On ro 09 maj 2001 22:03:14 GMT Brian Potkin wrote:
> You mean wwwoffle in .deb from the testing/unstable dist? Unfortunately
> it depends on libc6 >= 2.2.1 and in potato is 2.1.3-13
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:25:23PM -0700, David Monarres wrote:
> I know that this isn't neccesarily debian specific, but I was looking for a
> dtd or latex package that I could use to create a resume. I know that it is
> probably true that everybody uses word proccessors for this type of task,
>
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:40:04PM +0200, Goeman Stefan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can somebody tell me what is wrong with the following entries in
> my sources.list file
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
Looks ok - and works for me.
> deb http://non-us.debian.or
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:15:39AM -0400, David Z. Maze wrote:
> I have my resume in SGML; links to the DTD and DSSSL stylesheets I use
> with Jade are at http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/projects.html. The end
> result is visible at http://web.mit.edu/resume/.
Shouldn't the second link be http://web.
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:50:47AM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have not until recently had cause to use this file, but I put some
> Netscape modifications in it. I assumed that with a name like
> .Xdefaults, it would load the default values when the X-Server started,
> but
> apparen
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:56:22PM +, Nic Strong wrote:
> I have just installed exim on my box and it seems to be causing problems
> when using fetchmail to get my mail from my ISP.
>
> I configured exim using smarthost to deliver outgoing mail (suitable for
> dialup option). But when using f
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:32:37AM -0500, Lance Simmons wrote:
> Is there a way to cut and paste between real consoles and an
> x-window session? That would be cool.
Having recently got round to using screen I know that cutting and
pasting between a virtual console and X can be done with it. A c
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:06:31AM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I admit that this is a bit off-topic, but:
>
> What package contains the foils.cls file (I need this one for producing
> foils in LaTeX).
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
I wouldn't think the question is off-topic as it
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:55:23AM -0400, Christopher Aiken wrote:
> I have a tripple boot system at home. W98/FreeBSD/Debian.
> Yeah, I know, but I enjoy the punishment.
>
> In FreeBSD I can use the "vidcontrol" command to change
> my non-GUI consoles to a black background with a green
> for
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 11:07:02PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> Incoming from Jules Dubois:
> >
> > Synaptic. It's what I used until I read Joey Hess' article, titled
> > something like "9 reasons to use aptitude instead of apt-get".
>
> Por favor, where is that article?
Perhaps this is the arti
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:10:04PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Has anyone tried this?
> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2762250480.html
>
> Given its parentage I'd pay close attention to my firewalls and what
> hosts it accesses and how.
>
> I'm very curious as to how well it does what
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:38:07AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Brian Potkin wrote:
>
> >Depends on what you mean by a 'sane user'. Such a user might want to
> >use a product which
> >
> >(a) is capable of communicating with the rest of the VOIP world
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 05:40:10PM -0700, Scott Berry wrote:
> Can you please lead me to a web site or is this something that Debian
> has? I just did an "apt-get install xine" with no luck.
apt-cache search xine
Brian.
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On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:23:58AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Charles Muller wrote:
>
> >A recent post to the list recommended Midnight Commander on the
> >desktop. I went to their site to read the explanation and look at some
> >screen shots. From what I could see, it is not clear whether MC
> >c
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:01:37PM -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>
> >On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:50:58PM -0600 or thereabouts, Damon L. Chesser
> >wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Anybody got any ideas how to view a multi-page .tiff file? The only
> >>thing I use windows for anymore is to
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:28:32AM -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> Brian Potkin wrote:
> >
> >Installing the mgetty-viewfax package takes only a minute or two and
> >gets you 'viewfax', which is capable of viewing multipage tiffs. It
> >would be us
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 05:25:37PM -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> I installed mgetty-viewfax. It does indeed work! How do I get it to
> print? Nothing in the man pages that I saw.
You cannot print from within viewfax. 'lpr file.tif' should work.
Brian.
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On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 05:34:53PM -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> Bijan Soleymani wrote:
>
> >Off the top of my head:
> >tiff2ps -a image.tif > image.ps
> >
> >
> Not sure what you are saying here: cli
> tiff2ps -a image.tif > imag.ps ?
>
> man tiff2ps yields nothing
> running the above repo
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 04:27:07PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> is it possible to configure gv such that it supports bzip2-compressed
> postscript files in addition to gzip-compressed ones?
Google is amazing and good fun. Using 'gv' and 'bzip2-compressed' as
the search terms comes up with two metho
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:25:02PM -0700, John Joe wrote:
> do you know how to monitor browser's talk with the
> server? i mean is there any Linux tool that can
> cpature that sesstion?
netcat is a Debian package and includes the abilty to do what you want.
There is also HttpSniffer, a perl scrip
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:23:48AM -0400, Lance Heller wrote:
>
> How can a FAX generated by a M$ product as a .FXO file be viewed.
> Imagemagick, netpbm, and OpenOffice1.1 don't appear to handle it.
You could run 'file whatever.fxo' and see whether it is encoded as a
group 3 or group 4 fax file
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:20:58AM +, Jianan Huang wrote:
> Hi folks,
[Questions 1, 2 and 4 snipped]
> 3) Font size of characters in text windows such as Bash, Xterm etc. are too
> small. How to adjust them ?
As far as an Xterm is concerned you could create (if it does not already
exist) $
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 05:01:15PM +0100, Tiago Cunha wrote:
>
> Hy debian users
>
> A question from a beginner.
>
> Any recomendations on a good Debian-linux guide, with administration tools
> and basic setups??
Tiago, as a beginner you could not go far wrong in making your way to
www.debian.
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:33:43PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> The apt-get --download-only is neat, but what about now later when you
> want to install them? No single command to then install all you've
> recently downloaded, without editing each history entry or scanning
> ctimes of files in /v
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 07:01:31AM -0400, Carl Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 June 2004 3:28 am, Ogya Chief wrote:
> > There is another group called "disk" or something like that. You need to
> > belong to that group as well to be able to place audio cds. I had a similar
> > problem over the weekend
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 08:54:30PM +0530, Gauri S Deshmukh wrote:
> hello all
>
> i am not a subscriber to the list. i hope this message gets posted. i
> also request you to mark a copy of your replies to me.
>
> i use debian 3.0.
>
> is there any program/ utility that will let me see jpg/ gif
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 02:10:55PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:59:32AM +, Antony Gelberg wrote:
[Snip]
> > Anyone have a similar rule to nuke this new mymail worm? I have some
> > samples if anyone can tell me how to analyse them to paste the correct
> > thing in the B
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 08:24:52PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Brian Potkin([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> >
> > Its usefulness in deleting spam and mail associated with the mymail worm
> > before downloading it has been offset by the deletion of a small num
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 07:34:26PM +0800, Neilen wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm currently working abroad of my home county, and calling home over
> POTS is very expensive. Great (factor 10-20) discounts can be achieved
> if I use a PC to phone provider, such as pccall.com or go2call.com.
> However they all
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 08:42:13AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> Has anyone used linphone in this list that would care to share
> h(i,e)(s,r) experiences?
> It doesn't seem that it is packaged for debian by any official
> mantainer, is it?
My experience of linphone is limited to registering w
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 04:24:23AM -0500, Thomas Pomber wrote:
> Does anybody out there know how to use kphone? For
> instance, how do I know what my "User Part of SIP url"
> is, or the host part? And how do I call someone on
> their home phone (they say you can!)?
>
> Any help whatsoever would
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 07:07:59PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (05/04/04 10:48), Brad Camroux wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I am just wondering how I might filter out emails with
> > foreign-language-encoded fonts, like Chinese or Russian.
> >
> > Thanks,
> mailfilter works well but I'm not
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 07:51:54PM -0400, Lorenzo Prince wrote:
> Whenever I go to a secure site in lynx I get the following seemingly harmless
> error:
>
> SSL error:Can't find common name in certificate-Continue? (y)
>
> I say that the error seems harmless because if I hit y or any other key e
On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 17:56:09 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> Brian composed on 2019-01-30 17:33 (UTC-0500):
>
> > You really should contribute to #80625 and let the systemd maintainers
> > know where they have gone wrong with this issue.
>
> ???
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=
On Thu 02 May 2019 at 23:33:06 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Thu, 2 May 2019 20:49:28 +0100 Brian wrote:
>
> [...]
> > In #917569
> >
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=917569
> >
> > Francesco Poli treats upgrading one buster Soekris net5501 installation
> > to another
On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 02:18:47PM +, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Mar 2020 09:03:04 -0500
> The Wanderer wrote:
>
> Hello The,
>
> >I wonder whether this might therefore be the result of a change in cups,
> >rather than in hplip.
>
> Thanks for the pointer. Frankly, I have no idea what
On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 06:53:10PM +, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 17:12:00 +
> Brian wrote:
>
> Hello Brian,
>
> >isn't quite what I meant by having the printer on the network. I assume
> >the printer is USB-connected to the server. Strictly speaking, it is the
>
> The print
On Tue 01 Apr 2008 at 07:07:49 +0100, andy wrote:
> OK - I'll give the backports site a shot first, and then if no dice I'll
> compile from source.
I'd suggest a look at pbuilder and this page:
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto/howtos/debcustomize
I've used it successfully to backport noncom
On Mon 12 Aug 2013 at 11:57:42 +0200, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote:
> Dear users and contributors,
>
> We would like publishing a special post in bits.d.o for the anniversary of
> Debian. The idea is publishing anonymous quotes from Debian users and
> developers about what Debian means for you. Ple
In posting of the month John Hasler very perceptively said:
Then why do you send it?
There is no answer to that.
But being -user . . . .
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On Tue 06 Mar 2018 at 18:27:29 +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Brian writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"):
> > #694068, #696755, #727740 and #777439.
>
> Thanks.
>
> I have read the bug logs and Trent Buck's message here
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.c
On Wed 30 May 2018 at 12:40:35 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> I have tea4cups configured to power on my printer before printing. In order
> to do this, I
> prepended tea4cups:/ to the DeviceURI in printers.conf (if I remove this and
> power on the
> printer manually before printing, everything
On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 10:10:31 +, w f wrote:
> I tried installing Debian 9.3 today. I used the netinst CD amd64 version.All
> was going well until about 4/5ths of the way through ...I suddenly got an
> error message about "ispell" and that something "british" couldn't be
> installed.(I chose "
On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 20:37:06 +, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 10:10:31 +, w f wrote:
>
> > I tried installing Debian 9.3 today. I used the netinst CD amd64 version.All
> > was going well until about 4/5ths of the way through ...I suddenly got an
>
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 08:05:03PM +0200, Dom wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm searching for a MailWasherPro (for Windows) equivalent for my new
> Linux Debian environment. That's a mail filter software that works
> kind of like this:
>
> It downloads only headers and first 20 lines of every email messag
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 06:48:46PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> I sent this question sometime last month but didn't see any replies. I
> don't know whether i didn't see the replies, nobody had an answer, or
> I asked a really dumb question. But dumb or not, I still don't have an
> answer so thoug
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:42:45AM -0230, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> I'm only going to be here for a month, and while I can do the installation
> and teach Bruce the basics, I think it would be very helpful to get Bruce
> a printed book. The online doc only works if you know enough about Linu
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:22:55PM -0700, curtis wrote:
> sources.list
>
> deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian woody main non-free contrib
> deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ woody main non-free contrib
^
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-U
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 05:05:00PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>
> 1. What package includes 'dpkg-reconfigure'? I have the man pages for
> this command but not the binary. I seem to have all the other dpkg
> commands.
copernicus:$ dpkg -S dpkg-reconfigure
debconf: /usr/share/man/pt_BR/man8/dpk
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:13:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format. What does Joe Average do
> to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and over? (Nifty me of course
> uses emacs' dired's "v" with auto-compression-mode on. Seems to be
> ideal. However then o
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:08:25PM +1000, Matt Chipman wrote:
> Just install mc and browse to the docs dir and press F3
>
> ya cant live without it :)
I have mc running permanently on one virtual terminal and use it
frequently so I wouldn't dream of challenging your second statement.
Pressing F
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 10:53:08AM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> I'm getting ready to "upgrade" my other system to the AMD 64 Athlon
> series of processors .
>
> Which netinstall cdrom is the correct? the
> debian-testing-ia64-netinst.iso
Yesterday I used the mini.iso from
http://debian-amd64.
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