Re: phoenix java plugin - installed, but not installed

2003-02-19 Thread CaT
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:45:38AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > what do i need to do to get java going? several sites seem to run > tickers etc using java. http://mozilla.weebeastie.net/ and change .mozilla to .phoenix (I think - don't use phoenix myself). -- "Other countries of course, bea

Re: Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel

2003-02-23 Thread CaT
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 08:51:31AM -0800, Michael West wrote: > With this setup and only one card with a cable attached I can ping all > three addresses 10.0.1.10, 10.0.1.11, and 10.0.1.12. This is true no > matter which card is plugged in. >From where can you ping them? -- "Other countries o

Re: hwto play .mpg files

2003-02-25 Thread CaT
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. What's the result? > Wh

Re: Laptop's power button made to suspend?

2003-02-28 Thread CaT
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:48:26PM -0500, Eduardo Duenez wrote: > Is it possible to configure my Woody laptop so if the power button is > pressed (say, by mistake) then the laptop only goes into suspend mode rather > than just turning immediately and forcefully? Or at least to make it > shutdown c

Re: how can I create the /dev/gpmdata file?

2003-03-18 Thread CaT
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:23:02AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello all, > yesterday night I removed the /dev/gpmdata file by mistake and now I don't know how > I can create. I reinstalled the gpm package but it didn't create the file. > Any ideas? This file should get created by gpm when

Re: no audio cds

2003-03-25 Thread CaT
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:18:18PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > On Tuesday 25 March 2003 14:22, Alberto Cabello Sanchez wrote: > > You (the user) must to have read permissions on physical device (that is, > > /dev/hdc). ls /cdrom will give empty anyway, but xmms will be able to load > > audio tra

Re: out of space in /var/cache/apt/archives

2003-02-04 Thread CaT
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:19:11PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > so, it's pretty full. 288M of that is in /var/cache/apt/archives, and > are a lot of debs. can i safely delete these all to make room for the > new ones? there's nothing here that i need for these packages to run, > right? Right.

Re: X won't start

2003-02-08 Thread CaT
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 04:24:18PM +0100, Andy Van Hoof wrote: > after the installation i got some automated setup stuff, telling me to > select my gfx card etc (it's a matrox productiva g100 agp), then i tried > running startx and it crashed on me saying: no usable screens found Please provide yo

Re: Modconf for 2.6 kernel

2003-09-08 Thread CaT
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 07:07:26PM +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a modconf for the 2.6 kenel. The earlier one doesn't work for the > newer kernel. Yup. sid has it. apt-get -b source module-init-tools -- "How can I not love the Americans? They helped me with a flat tire th

Re: Booting 2 Linuxes with LILO

2002-12-02 Thread CaT
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 05:48:56PM -0800, alberto wrote: > Thanks. (following is my old potato lilo, before installing woody on > /dev/hda1) It might be more useful to see the new one... -- All people are equal, But some are more equal then others. - George W. Bush Jr

Re: how does one format a floppy to use a vfat partition

2002-12-02 Thread CaT
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:07:46PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi list, i've been reading tons of docs on mkfs and mtools because i need > to make a copy of a somewhat corrupt ms floppy which is vfat but can't > find the command to do so. so, how does one format a floppy to have a vfat > part

Re: Mozilla 1.2.1

2002-12-03 Thread CaT
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:35:12PM -0500, D. Clarke wrote: > Since the one apt is so uh.. apt at installing is 1.0.0, I'd really like > a newer one, but I don't want to potentially break things by installing > with an external file... You wont. It installs itself in one directory (generally /usr

Re: Linux 2.6.0-test 3 released!

2003-08-14 Thread CaT
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 01:17:36PM -0500, Rthoreau wrote: > Also on a side note tell us how your testing of the new kernel is I'm having fun. I've compiled quite a few options into my kernel so the image is 2MB but I'll probably drop some when 2.6 proper gets released. I'm using ALSA for sound wi

Re: Why "./configure" script of some projects doesn't work in Debian

2003-05-31 Thread CaT
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 10:10:10PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > Also, you have to realize that half (I'm being charitable) of the developers > you'll be downloading from have a lot of hard-coded paths in their configure > scripts. Get used to specifying lots of "--with-foo=/usr/include/foo" > opt

Re: Its a SPAM & Fuck You.

2002-12-15 Thread CaT
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 02:28:09AM -0500, Geordie Birch wrote: > > Fuck You. > > It's definitely a Fuck You but how is it a spam? Well for one it's unsolicited (I know I didn't ask for it) and for another, it seems to me that the individual is at least partially illiterate and as such lacks the a

Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?

2003-01-02 Thread CaT
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:24:10AM -0500, Walter Tautz [MFCF] wrote: > > KDE still sucks. > > I'd love to hear an analysis of why gnome2 rocks and kde does not. Perhaps > others would like to read about it :-) Oh for the love of god! Should I put this thread in my twitfilter now? -- All

Re: MySQL 5 on Debian Sarge

2005-05-17 Thread CaT
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 02:50:39PM +0200, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > Hi. > > I'd like to use MySQL 5 on my Debian Sarge machines. > > Which should I download and how do I set it up? > http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html For an easy time of it try www.dotdeb.org -- "To the extent

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-08 Thread CaT
Now, if, for example, the debian package was as broken, and you did an automated upgrade and it broke things that are a wee bit more severe and you couldn't login or whatnot, you'd be in serious poo. -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'He had position, but I was determined to score.' -- Worf, DS9, Season 5: 'Let He Who Is Without Sin...'

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-08 Thread CaT
nth:-) Ha! My first linux experience was to instlal debian but dselect dumped core so I installed RH. I got so tired of it that after less then 3 months I went and rolled my own system from scratch, compiling everything myself. Now we're looking at debian at work and those RH boxes are being sl

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-09 Thread CaT
rosoft products. Indeed. I have a friend who always whacks on about how great MS is and tries to bait me by talking about how linux sucks. How was totally silenced in his baiting when I told him that Debian could, indeed, automatically get updates for his OS should he want it to. -- CaT ([EMAIL

Re: [jensenb@bodach.com: apt-get & vim problem]

2000-09-22 Thread CaT
es it recognize any > cmds like syntax on. Any ideas? Do you have the vim-rt package installed? -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'He had position, but I was determined to score.' -- Worf, DS9, Season 5: 'Let He Who Is Without Sin...'

Re: apt-get & vim problem

2000-09-22 Thread CaT
t it. :) [11:14:19] $ apt-cache depends vim vim Depends: libc6 Depends: libgpmg1 Depends: libncurses5 PreDepends: dpkg Suggests: exuberant-ctags elvis Recommends: vim-rt etc... -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'He had position, but I was determined to score.'

Re: HD size problem (IBM 30 GB)

2001-02-12 Thread CaT
nd then do apt-get -b source fdisk followed by a dpkg --install This'll get you a testing fdisk compiled for your system. Worked brilliantly for me. -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined the channel. speak

Re: pppd problems with 2.4.1

2001-02-22 Thread CaT
e been running it since 2.4.1 came out without a single hassle (current connect is 3 days old) -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined the channel. speaking of mental giants.. me, a giant, bullshit

Re: did something stupid - removed gzip

2001-02-26 Thread CaT
reinstall > it because gzip is not there. Ooops. Is there any way I can fix this? grab the tarball from ftp.gnu.org and compile it. then put the executable in /usr/bin and do an apt-get install to get the debian version. -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined

Re: did something stupid - removed gzip

2001-02-26 Thread CaT
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 05:29:58PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > CaT wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:18:01AM -0600, Jason N. Price wrote: > > > Okay, I just did something that, in hindsight, was very stupid. :) I > > > have > > > been getti

Re: adduser vs useradd

2001-02-27 Thread CaT
Debian system and no home directory is created. you forgot the -m option which makes the home directory :) -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined the channel. speaking of mental giants.. me, a giant, bullshit

Re: kernel 2.4.2 and PPP

2001-03-12 Thread CaT
in question was > for > "PPPIOCGFLAGS". > > Anyone else had this problem, and know how to correct for it? add a deb-src line for testing and then apt-get update apt-get -b source ppp dpkg --install and you're set. :) -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]

xterm bwoken in potato?

2000-10-13 Thread CaT
debian supplied xterm truly broken? -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'He had position, but I was determined to score.' -- Worf, DS9, Season 5: 'Let He Who Is Without Sin...'

Re: root's PATH

2000-10-23 Thread CaT
a login shell. If you wish for this to happen add . ~/.bashrc into your .bash_profile file. -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'We do more then just sing and dance. We've got a brain too.' -- The Backstreet Boys

Re: Formating partitions

2000-11-11 Thread CaT
ev/zero of=/dev/partition mke2fs /dev/ -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'We do more then just sing and dance. We've got a brain too.' -- The Backstreet Boys

xdm not getting/giving authority for X to allow login

2000-11-13 Thread CaT
7; xdm is started from console. startx works just fine from console. Removing my .xsession did nothing to help. The server I am using is one modified by [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that my S3 Savage Mobile IX chip in my laptop works. :) This means that the actual XF86_SVGA server is not debian'

Re: I want out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2000-11-20 Thread CaT
gt; > So what? They want off the list and we want them off the list. Why not > make it easy for them to get off and forget about scoring points? They wont read the footer either. I know this from experience in managing a few lists. Bastids. -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'We do mor

log rotation, syslogd and debian

2000-12-06 Thread CaT
ugh to get around by putting the syslogd restart on the last syslogd file in the config. So... How come it ain't done? :) -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'We do more then just sing and dance. We've got a brain too.' -- The Backstreet Boys

Re: how to execute stuff BEFORE disconnect

2000-12-09 Thread CaT
net, etc) and so will not work in all cases where the link can go down. But then again, I know of no software that is procognicant and this is probably why pppd does not supply an option for this sort of thing. -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'We do more then just sing and dance. We'

debian 2.2_r2 cds

2000-12-13 Thread CaT
and 3. Anyhow, why/how is this so? :) -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'We do more then just sing and dance. We've got a brain too.' -- The Backstreet Boys

Re: Adding a new HD and useing it as swap

2000-12-20 Thread CaT
ly, re-id your drives to 0 and 1 and add the new one as 3. This'll give you room to move in the future. > take? Assuming 4 and 5 are harddrives, it'll be adc (they'd be sda and sdb). If not then it'll simply go up a letter in the alphabet from what you have now. -- CaT

Re: Q: Hiding M$ Exchange behind a firewall ?

2000-12-22 Thread CaT
n up a link to port 25 on the exchange box whenever a connection happens. yet another way to do it would be with NAT but you'd need 2.4.x for that. Hope this helps. -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'We do more then just sing and dance. We've got a brain too.' -- The Backstreet Boys

Re: trouble getting fetchmail to start

2001-01-06 Thread CaT
es no trace of why in the logs. fetchmail is What's your config file look like? Have you tried putting in: set syslog in it and trying again? (if it's not in there already) -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'We do more then just sing and dance. We've got a brain too.' -- The Backstreet Boys

Re: CPU optimization

2001-01-07 Thread CaT
file would look > for gcc272), because 2.95 would miscompile it. (I could be wrong). I've been running an X compiled with 2.95.2 since that version of gcc has been released (I compiled it too :). I've not had X crash on me. Not once. So there. :) -- CaT ([EMAIL

Re: mutt mailbox default

2001-01-08 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:05:37PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > I want to mutt open looking into a given mailbox file, for example > /home/myself/mail/inbox. How can I do it? All commandline options are under 'mutt --help'. -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) &#

Re: mutt mailbox default

2001-01-08 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:27:42PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Thank you! does exist a way to put the option -f into a script file? Read the docos on www.mutt.org (or /usr/doc/mutt I think) and search for spoolfile. -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'We do more then just

Re: GDM dont work

2001-01-13 Thread CaT
t a bit unstable with it. As a last ditch though I tried xdm and it worked thereafter. I suggest you look in gdm's logfiles (I dunno what/where they are) and see if you're getting errors that basically say that you don't have the right resources to run on that display. If so you have

Re: Why choose Debian?

2001-01-20 Thread CaT
it makes referencing scripts a fscking pain in > the ass. How so? -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'We do more then just sing and dance. We've got a brain too.' -- The Backstreet Boys

Re: logrotate

2001-01-22 Thread CaT
esn't use logrotate for the syslog files. Look for cron.daily/sysklogd and cron.weekly/sysklogd I think -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined the channel. speaking of mental giants.. me, a giant, bullshit

Re: Help!!! Ethernet card hell!

2001-06-23 Thread CaT
e you're SOL here with 2.2.x. I have heard it may have support in 2.4.x but that's about it. This ain't debian's fault. :) -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined the channel. speaking of mental giants.

Re: Mutt Question

2001-07-19 Thread CaT
able to perform a mass delete in that folder. What keys can I use > in mutt to delete all the messages out of a folder? go to desired mailbox within mutt in main menu: D when prompted: .* again in main menu: $ -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna ha

Re: Mozilla on win2k :-(

2001-08-07 Thread CaT
enu items also. -- CaT"As you can expect it's really affecting my sex life. I can't help it. Each time my wife initiates sex, these ejaculating hippos keep floating through my mind." - Mohd. Binatang bin Goncang, Singapore Zoological Gardens

Re: libdb.so.3

2001-08-11 Thread CaT
en doing apt-get -b source libdb3 (or whatever the package is called) in some work dir? -- CaT"As you can expect it's really affecting my sex life. I can't help it. Each time my wife initiates sex, these ejaculating hippos keep floating through my mi

Re: fixing stairstepping text in cups

2001-08-21 Thread CaT
ied 'em all, believe me :-( Different printer here. (Epson) -- CaT"As you can expect it's really affecting my sex life. I can't help it. Each time my wife initiates sex, these ejaculating hippos keep floating through my mind." - Mohd. Binatang bin Goncang, Singapore Zoological Gardens

Re: Help - Large Files Support

2001-08-23 Thread CaT
, and glibc compiled against 2.4 > headers. Correct. After installing the 2.4 kernel do an apt-get -b source glibc in a work directory and then install what's spewed out. :) You'll then need to recompile any utils you want to work with LFS against the new glibc. > So looks like

Re: Netscape 6.2

2001-12-08 Thread CaT
he Toyfactory theme (which last I tried it did not work due to the changes in the API involved). If you already have java, realplayer, acrobat reader or flash installed then mozilla might be the better bet for you due to the smaller download. -- CaT- A high level of technology does not a civilisation make.

Re: Basic Debian size

2001-12-23 Thread CaT
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 04:13:29AM -0800, Dan Robinson wrote: > they're for (and I don't care for Ws, now in two contexts). In Linux > circles I hear mainly about needing gigabytes. I'm wondering if > there's a basic Linux system, or other open source systems, within a > couple orders of magnitude

Re: The New World Order is Here !

2002-02-03 Thread CaT
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:08:29PM -0800, ben wrote: > > [1] -- Nothing personal; this is an issue that have irritated me a long > >time, unfortunately for you I am fed up now and need to vent my > >frustration. > > wouldn't that be more an issue of the inefficacy of your filters?

Re: The New World Order is Here !

2002-02-03 Thread CaT
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 11:30:05PM -0800, Bruce Burhans wrote: > > > > [1] -- Nothing personal; this is an issue that have irritated me a > > > >long time, unfortunately for you I am fed up now and need to > > > >vent my frustration. > > > > > > wouldn't that be more an issue of th

Re: OT: Hot-swappable IDE drives

2002-02-06 Thread CaT
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:23:19PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Hi, > > > > I know that there are removable cartridges that allow one to swap > > IDE disk drives when the PC is shut down, i.e. cold-swapping. > > > > Is there a way to hot-swap

xterm resource settings and woody

2002-02-09 Thread CaT
Just did an upgrade of my woody setup and found my xterm's default resource settings changed. Most annoying. Anyhow... in trying to change them to what I want them to be (reverse vid (white on dark), fixed default font, no scroll bar, no visual bell, etc) I found that I couldn't figure out how. Now

Re: xterm resource settings and woody

2002-02-10 Thread CaT
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 09:12:23AM +1300, Cameron Kerr wrote: > On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, CaT wrote: > > >Just did an upgrade of my woody setup and found my xterm's default > >resource settings changed. Most annoying. Anyhow... in trying to change > > Hmm, so /etc/X11/a

Re: Enableing color LS on consoke sessions

2001-03-25 Thread CaT
ble assigned ?? I've checked my .bashrc, .profile, > > > and the "global" versions and don't see it. > > > > hall, i don't know. it could be 'built in' to bash perhaps? > > A *quick* check of "man bash" didn't indica

Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat

2001-03-27 Thread CaT
ity) to do an upgrade. > > Am I missing something? Maybe. not sure. if you're planning to upgrade your box from slink to potato (say) then I can't give you much in the way of advice except to say a dist upgrade from potato to woody went fine for me

apt-get feature wants (was: Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat)

2001-03-27 Thread CaT
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:17:15AM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Let me give you today's example: > > Nit: your example wasn't comparing apples and apples. You were > running an up-to-date Debian system and an old

Re: apt-get feature wants (was: Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat)

2001-03-27 Thread CaT
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:31:44AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Another deficiency is that it'd be nice if apt-get told you what dependencies > >you needed with a source deb. This way you could have it get the other > >sources

Re: Wisdom of mixing stable + unstable/testing?

2001-03-29 Thread CaT
while now. -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined the channel. speaking of mental giants.. me, a giant, bullshit And i'm not mental - An I

Re: I *HATE* modversions.h

2001-04-01 Thread CaT
, I've dselected the make oldconfig is your friend. use it in /usr/src/linux. -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined the channel. speaking of mental giants.. me, a giant, bullshit

Re: brak polskich znakow

2001-04-02 Thread CaT
> Qba --- 8< --- (yes, I am bored. why do you ask? :) -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined the channel. speaking of mental giants.. me, a giant, bullshit

Re: /etc/network/interfaces

2001-04-04 Thread CaT
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:16:56PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > And, of course, eth0 isn't configured. Can anyone point out what I'm > missing here? auto is a sub command like ip and network and not a base command like iface (AFAIK) -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Quicktime player?

2001-04-07 Thread CaT
ou need to wedgie Sorenson until they cry and give in and let loose the specs so that a player can be made by one and all. the Q4 spec is held up by them... 8( That is unless you don't mean Q4... -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined the channel.

Re: pasting text into bash without use of mouse

2001-04-07 Thread CaT
I get. But if there's some way to "pipe" or > "paste" (note the quotes of doubt) the output of grep and friends to screen is your friend. apt-get install screen and then man screen. First para in the DESCRIPTION section will probably make you drool. ;

Re: pasting text into bash without use of mouse

2001-04-07 Thread CaT
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 11:17:28AM +1000, CaT wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 07:38:11AM +0800, csj wrote: > > I would extract the first command (1) from "commands.list" by typing > > > > grep "www.foo.org" > > > > which would of course pri

Re: rxvt, vim, ^? backspace

2001-04-13 Thread CaT
;s ^h. IF so then stty erase ^? should set you straight. -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined the channel. speaking of mental giants.. me, a giant, bullshit And i'm not me

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-17 Thread CaT
e that we just went from r2 to r3 when the changes are merely merged to the potato tree...) -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined the channel. speaking of mental giants.. me, a giant, bullshit

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-17 Thread CaT
ges upgraded ;-) I see 16 with apt-get upgrade. -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined the channel. speaking of mental giants.. me, a giant, bullshit And i&

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-17 Thread CaT
like the announcement got lost in the 600 msgs I wake up to every morning. Need better colour coding. -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined the channel. speaking of mental giants..

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-18 Thread CaT
Organisation: Furball Inc. On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 06:03:32AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:06:47PM +1000, CaT wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:47:09PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > no. dist-upgrade is much smarter about dependencies then u

apt-get upgrading packages of same version

2001-04-19 Thread CaT
, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 9573kB of archives. After unpacking 7570kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n It still wants to download and install em. :/ Why is it so? -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined the channel.

Re: apt-get upgrading packages of same version

2001-04-19 Thread CaT
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:48:42AM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > CaT wrote: > > > > Because I have mysql dealing with a db whose files are >2gig I've > > > apt-get -b source libc6 > > dpkg --install libc6_2.1.3-18_i386.deb libc6-dev_2.1.3-18_i386.deb

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-20 Thread CaT
- 1758 ] [snip] > This way you can divide your mail in groups as if they were newsgroups. Is it text based and have the features of mutt? :) -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined the channel. speaking of mental giants..

gnus and mutt (was: Re: debian 2.2r3 ?)

2001-04-20 Thread CaT
#x27;ve tried it and found it to be a big pain in the arse with the mailbox sizes I deal with (.5gig of mail/month). -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined the channel. speaking of mental giants.. me, a

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-20 Thread CaT
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:14:28PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > CaT writes: > > Is it [Gnus] text based... > > It's better than that. It's Emacs based. Ahhh. Not for me then. I find having to run emacs to read my mail overkill. -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-20 Thread CaT
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:49:47PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 12:21:07PM +1000, CaT wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:14:28PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > > CaT writes: > > > > Is it [Gnus] text based... > > > > &g

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-22 Thread CaT
not to start a holy war :) just stating my preference and reasons for it. you go your own way :) -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined the channel. speaking of mental giants.. me,

Re: I dumped reiserfs - what about ext3 on Debian?

2001-04-22 Thread CaT
used correct. only for 2.2.x. > ext3 with Debian? Me. You have to compile new ext2 utils but that's about it. no .deb for em though so it can get a wee bit messy (but not if you do it right :) So far it's been working brilliantly. -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** J

Re: Help on returning to Debian

2001-10-26 Thread CaT
tup you can install the rest off the net. That's the simplest way. A slightly harder way will bring the total needed down to 2 disks if you're lucky. -- CaT"As you can expect it's really affecting my sex life. I can't help it. Each time my wife initiate

Re: using /home with potato & woody

2001-10-26 Thread CaT
roups and has the same home dir location) and then simply place /home in fstab as appropriate. -- CaT"As you can expect it's really affecting my sex life. I can't help it. Each time my wife initiates sex, these ejaculating hippos keep floating th

mutt and bouncing mail

2001-10-28 Thread CaT
t as I got it (with maybe resent-* headers added to identify the source of the bounce). Anyone know what's going on and how to fix? (if you need clarification, holler :) -- CaT"As you can expect it's really affecting my sex life. I can't help it. Each tim

Re: promise ultra ata100 controller card and linux support

2001-09-01 Thread CaT
atch under 2.2.x I believe. Rock on into the people/hendrik (I think) dir on your local kernel mirror. -- CaT"As you can expect it's really affecting my sex life. I can't help it. Each time my wife initiates sex, these ejaculating hippos keep

Re: Which POP3 server to use?

2001-10-07 Thread CaT
h (which I believe is 4.0.3). > In the past I have used the qpopper modified for 1 and 2 above. However, I > would like to use a more feature filled version (e.g., qpopper does not > have UIDL support). You mean this stuff? X-UIDL: p0P!!&X&"!p^(#!B,n"! -- CaT

Re: Which POP3 server to use? - clarification

2001-10-07 Thread CaT
are not the pop server and which are owned by those users (extra paranoia doesn't hurt). If you don't want to do this then the only thing that I can recommend is to use a pop3 client that supports vhosts. While I've never used one and couldn't name one if I wanted to I -thi

Re: Change of E-Mail address

2002-01-20 Thread CaT
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:30:43PM -0800, Howard S. Ostrowsky wrote: > Effective immediately, my e-mail address is changed to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] So we can't reach you at the @home address anymore? -- SOCCER PLAYER IN GENITAL-BITING SCANDAL --- "It was something between friends that

Re: lock all consoles except for 7

2002-01-23 Thread CaT
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 06:23:37PM -0500, dman wrote: > I may just have to learn screen :-). I was about to recommend that. It's really useful and it'll allow you to look at your tails from anywhere, so long as you can log in. Also, you can lock screen. :) (dunno how secure that is though) -- S

Re: Upgrading to Testing

2001-05-28 Thread CaT
awfish. Will there be a gnome-free sawfish? -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined the channel. speaking of mental giants.. me, a giant, bullshit And i

Re: Upgrading to Testing

2001-05-28 Thread CaT
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:11:50AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 12:25:01AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > >> sawfish is more or less waiting on two things: gnome-libs, and > > > >Erm. Why does it need t

Re: recommendation for digital camera

2004-07-06 Thread CaT
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 06:00:42PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > 1) A cost of $500 or under. Well the Canon A80 is $550 but works for me. > 2) Needs to work well with Debian (obviously). I think the best support is > obtained by cameras that are seen as USB mass storage devices, right? There's PP

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-09 Thread CaT
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:28:44AM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > > Laptop users typically turn off access time, to stop excess HD > > accesses, and popcon needs accesstime to work. > > Popcon only needs atime to determine which packages have actually been > _used_ lately, so you can still run it.

Re: Dependencies of the Damned!

2003-12-23 Thread CaT
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 11:52:56AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 06:12:11AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > I don't understand. There's no package called libxrender1.1 in any > Debian distribution, and no mention of it in any other package's > dependencies. Where are you getting it

Re: mozilla 1.3.1 java plugin

2003-06-28 Thread CaT
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 05:15:32PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I have a javaplugin_oji.so in whatever directory I'm supposed to have it in > according to the mozilla dev website. > > Nothing works. I get that stupid busted puzzle piece. Try http://mozilla.weebeastie.net/java.shtml -- Martin's

Re: apt-get update: gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

2003-07-05 Thread CaT
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 11:01:02PM -0400, Robert August Vincent II wrote: > 2. Should I post my work-around patch? Is there a better way? Use FTP for your apt sources? -- "How can I not love the Americans? They helped me with a flat tire the other day," he said. - http://www.toledoblad

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-14 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 02:50:43PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > s. keeling wrote: > > I gave up on both of those; they're equally uncontrollable, and far > > too fat to leave any room for actual applications to run. ymmv. > > Could've fooled me. > > KDE + Squid + Addzapper + other stuff... >

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread CaT
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 08:40:22AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > CaT wrote: > > It's more of a case of 'Isn't 240Mb (or 200 cos of squid) a bit much for > > a pretty desktop?' ;) > > That depends. To a person with ~700Mb, no. To a person with ~8Mb, yes.

Re: apt-get upgrade changed desktop from kde to gnome

2004-09-04 Thread CaT
On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 11:39:10PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Was there indeed supposed to be a package "kde"? or soething that fulfills > the same role? And did it disappear? http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/meta-kde.html -- Red herrings strewn hither and yon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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