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On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 15:17, Charles Blair wrote:
>I have been told that my laptop won't do graphics without
> version 4.2 of xfree. I tried downloading some files in a
> directory "branden" with names like xfreecommonv14.2.deb and
> also a v24.2.d
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woody -> stable
sarge -> testing
sid -> unstable
On Wed, 09 Oct 2002 17:09, J.S.Sahambi wrote:
> It might be a stupid question, but I want to know how one relates Woody,
> Sid and Testing, Stable and unstable distributions?
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On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:36, Oleg wrote:
> What's a good /etc/apt/sources.list for someone who occasionally wants to
> install from Testing and Unstable, while keeping the rest of the
> distribution Stable?
Goodness, there was a thread on exactly this
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> SPAM: Start SpamAssassin results
Sorry, I know this is offtopic, but does anybody know where (apart from
spam) you can find out about travel to China? I'm looking for an
English based cooking course and I've tried web sea
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> Is there any alternative to NFS that I can use to mount my home
> directory on my server?
coda is pretty good, though setting it up makes NFS look trivial I'm afraid.
The main thing I like about coda is that it is highly resistant to transient
n
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On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:03, Matthias Szupryczynski wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 13:53, Irvin Temp wrote:
> > apt-cache search java -- no results
Java's licence prevents it being included in debian.
> AFAIK, you have to bypass the package system f
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 09:55, Jeff wrote:
> Rhodri, 2002-Sep-28 11:51 -0700:
> > the network drive is Unix and I want to have access to my network
> > drive (mapping my network drive), namely,
> >
> > \\severname\myhomedirectory
> >
> > from my computer, not from the office's computer
> > the system
e the arguments
a little.
Oh, you have to have the original (unmodified) file that you apply the patch
to, the .diff only contains the differences to the original.
Corrin Lakeland
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ernativly you could try an
easier distribution, such as Corel Linux, and swap to a full debian release
once you get the used to the system.
Corrin Lakeland
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I was planning to of synchronise my mail between home and work:
To send mail I've removed sendmail and used ssh to forward
port 25 to work:25
To recieve mail I currently rsync -aez ssh Mail work:mail
However this is ugly. I
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On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:57, b3 wrote:
> Hmm...Have you considered running an IMAP server on the work machine?
I considered this, but evolution is the only imap aware client I know, and
while it is in debian, it isn't exactly what I would call stable.
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On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:32, Rainer Mager wrote:
> David (and all),
>
> Thanks for the reply. The part about mixing hand built stuff with
> pacages
> in concerning as I do this quite often. The number of available packages is
> encouraging but, no
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 05:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ÅóÓÑ£º
G, and I was so looking forward to seeing some mor unintelligable kanji...
I was almost starting to not mind Korean spam since every time I saw it I
thought: Look at all those pretty c
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Running unstable, I'm getting my brand new optical PS/2 mouse freezing at
random times. This just affects the mouse, I can alt-tab to a xterm and run
commands fine, I can even restart X to get the mouse working again, but it is
still a pain. It fre
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 04:36, David Z Maze wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > How can i know the argument after
> > apt-get install command? Guess the argument? NO,no,no, My god!
>
> apt-get is a great tool -- *if* you know the exact name of the pack
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> > hmm, why not do what you can to avoid using an application from a house
> > that, singlehandedly, led to the wholly unecessary incarceration of a
> > proven advocate of free access to information.
Fair point, but acrobat supports searching and xp
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I've been ignoring this thread for a while, but I thought I'd add some support
for Harry's point of view here.
Firstly, stable vs woody. We recently had a thread on -devel where we
concluded that ordinary users are best running testing. You can't
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On Wed, 06 Mar 2002 16:33, Simon Hepburn wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 Mar 2002 2:25 am, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
> > Firstly, stable vs woody. We recently had a thread on -devel where we
> > concluded that ordinary users are best runnin
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On Thu, 07 Mar 2002 15:52, a wrote:
> (sorry! if you know any other mailing list i should send, pls tell me)
This is a mailing list on how to use the debian operating system, so it isn't
a particularly good choice. You'd have been better off on a sp
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> Ultimately the client wishes to run the back up remotely from their office
> location and store the data off site. However I'll accept if this may be
> impossible.
Offsite backup is a logistical problem rather than a technical problem.
Either the
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On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:21, Randolph S. Kahle wrote:
> I am assuming that the reason one would want to compile the sources is
> to use compiler options for a particular processor (586, 686, etc.). Is
> this the primary advantage or are there other advan
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> [Compile from source]
>
> Question: does this really improve performance?
A little. How much depends on the package. Remember that maintainers will
compile with -O2 and other optimisations, so all you gain is arch specific
optimisations. For som
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 03:11, Wim Uyttebroek wrote:
> KDE won 't launch anymore, it stops with Initializing
> System Services...
> Gnome does work !
Hello.
Probably thh problem is that KDE crashed and left behind some files in /tmp
(/tmp/dcop* to be precise). Until these files are deleted KDE will
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 04:11, Robert_L wrote:
> Oops, meant to send that to the kde list.
> Sorry.
> Well, maybe I'll get lucky here instead ;)
Maybe, I missed your first message, but try kdelibs
I have /scratch/src/kde/kdelibs/dcop/dcopidl
Corrin
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two methods:
ls -lR | grep ^d | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f | xargs chmod 755
Or much better:
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
The find command is amazingly useful.
Corrin
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> > And if anyone's in a 'splaining mood, here's another one: how do you set
> > all files so that the group permissions match the user permissions?
>
> This one is tougher, I think. You could write
> such a utility pretty easily in C using the "stat()" function, but
> even though it's simple it s
On Tue, 14 May 2002 13:37, Joe Biron wrote:
> Now, I'm not just a Debian newbie, I'm sort of a Linux intermediabie,
> and as I edited sources.list, I had no clue as to what I was doing, but
> nevertheless, I seem to have the latest versions of Debian (3.0?) and
> GNOME, after hours of playing with
On Mon, 20 May 2002 14:12, Squirrel wrote:
> When I type "dpkg -i *deb",it says "ldconfig" not found on
> PATH;"start-stop-daemon" not found on PATH;
Hello,
You already have these packages on your machine; You do not have them in your
PATH. I suggest you type source ~/.bashrc
Here is a good s
On Tue, 21 May 2002 08:24, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> On Monday 20 May 2002 19:37, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:49:19PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> > > You could try using ssh with X forwarding for that. Just "ssh
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" should do the trick. It's not the best w
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