Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-13 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 05:30:19PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > Many list servers serve up their archives with subject line and other > information but not the body. By modifying the subject appropriately one > makes it possible for a reader to quickly scan the subject, making > reading the enti

Re: no space left on device

2025-01-14 Thread Alain D D Williams
c -l > 19868844 That command will tell you the length of all the file paths (names) that have been created. To see what you have put on the disk you should use: du -sh /mnt/nvme0n1p1 du -shi /mnt/nvme0n1p1 > find /mnt/nvme0n1p1 -type d | wc -l > 9327 To see how full the disk is: df -

Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

2025-04-17 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 02:37:36PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > I have been told by the elderly president of a club I belong to that when I > write on the club's mailing list, it must be in blue. I would reply to say that writing in blue makes you depressed and that your doctor has advised against

Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

2025-04-17 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 02:55:31PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > Long ago he was a senior manager in a major IT manufacturer known for its > color. > I've known him for many years. I don't fancy the job of telling him how > stupid > he is. IT also involves human problems. In that case just te

Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

2025-04-17 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 06:42:57PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > I wondered, but his manner and the way he spoke about his visual difficulty > suggested that he wanted me to be the first to write in blue, and then others > would follow. Roger Ah, at last the reason. *He* has a personal problem a

Re: Repair or Replace

2025-05-20 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 06:20:33PM -0400, Steve Matzura wrote: > After a year in storage, I'm trying to get a version 11 system back online. > I connected it to power and network, then booted it. Interestingly, it > appeared on my network not at the address it had when it went into storage, > but o

Re: Is support for AMD Ryzen solid nowadays or should I stay with Intel?

2025-06-01 Thread Alain D D Williams
I respectfully suggest that we all go to bed and talk again tomorrow. Regards -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 https://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers. Registration Information: https://www.

Re: Please, don't reply to spam -- much less on list [was: ግěcůžላኣዝዩ]

2025-06-24 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 04:33:38PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > Hi Tomás, > > This like sounds like good and important advice, but how do you "bounce the > original message"? This is something that your MUA (Mail reader) should do. It will be different for every MUA. I use mutt - that has got a 'bo

Re: Firefox doesn't (really) load pages on Debian Bookworm

2025-06-17 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 11:36:15PM +0300, Nikolay Tychina wrote: > $ cat /etc/debian_version > 12.11 > $ dpkg -l | grep firefox > ii  firefox-esr 128.11.0esr-1~deb12u1 That is what I have - I do not have any problems with FF taking a long time to load pages. Network timeouts are sometimes due to

Re: Please, don't reply to spam -- much less on list [was: ግěcůžላኣዝዩ]

2025-06-26 Thread Alain D D Williams
> Received: from addw by mint.phcomp.co.uk with local (Exim 4.96) > (envelope-from ) > id 1uUzpD-00Ewy0-32 > for a...@phcomp.co.uk; > Fri, 27 Jun 2025 04:32:28 +0100 > Resent-From: Alain D D Williams > Resent-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 04:32:27 +0100 > Res

Re: OT- Relativistic mechanics and such - was - Re: tbird problem

2025-06-07 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 06:14:55PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > According to the Doppler theory (I believe it was - this is from some > decades ago), if you would be travelling toward a set of traffic lights, at > the speed of light, You could not reach the speed of light > and the traffic lights

Re: OT - The impossibility of impossibility - Re: OT- Relativistic mechanics and such - was - Re: tbird problem

2025-06-07 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 08:32:55PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > You could not reach the speed of light > > Ah, yes, ... and man can never fly... We are bound by the laws of physics, just because you really, really, really want to dodge round them does not mean that you can. This is not politics

Re: OT - The impossibility of impossibility - Re: OT- Relativistic mechanics and such - was - Re: tbird problem

2025-06-07 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 09:22:11PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > No amount of wishful thinking will persuade the universe to change the laws > > of > > physics. > > > > So, you contend that "the universe" is a cognitive entity? No. My use of the word "persuade" was figurative. -- Alain Willia

Re: Question about letsencrypt certs

2025-06-11 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 02:46:26PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 05:01:33PM +0800, Y Peng wrote: > > after deploying this server to the production environment, it is > > subject to strict network isolation and cannot access the internet. > > Will the Let's Encrypt certificate

Re: Please, don't reply to spam -- much less on list

2025-06-27 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 02:19:22PM -, Greg wrote: > What is a Bounce Email? Definition: A bounce email is an email that has > not been delivered to its recipient. It is sent back to the sender with > an error message. > > https://www.altospam.com/en/glossary/bounce/ The word "bounce" in

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-10 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 01:14:49PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > I know a large number of people under the age of 20 who literally say > things like, "email is only for password reminders and my Steam login > code". It's not that they are non-technical or uninterested in > technology, it's that speci

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-10 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 03:19:40PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 02:32:53PM +0100, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > The likes of facebook are steering people away from email as they want > > to keep all interaction within their eco system - email

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-11 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 02:06:03PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > (and the sites I am aware of using Mailman 2 are reluctant to move to 3. > Debian does not use Mailman.) I moved MM2 -> MM3 at the start of the year at the same time as I moved the server from CentOS to Debian. It was a complete

Re: Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...

2025-07-17 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 12:27:04AM +0200, lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote: > _HHMMSS="19:09" means 19*60 + 9 = 1149 seconds > _HHMMSS="19:08" means 19*60 + 8 = 1148 seconds So: 19:09 is 19 minutes and 9 seconds ? It is not HHMMSS for that you should have _HHMMSS="00:19:09" I found a bug in my solutio

Re: Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...

2025-07-17 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 11:39:02PM +0200, lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote: > Video durations are formatted in youtube's .info.json files as "HH:MM:SS"; > so, I went monkey and did the conversion myself, but I got two errors which I > can't make sense of whatsoever with only two values: _HHMMSS="19:09

Re: Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...

2025-07-17 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 01:21:08AM +0200, lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote: > OK, the Math is right, but the assumptions made by date aren't smart. I > "overtested" your one liner with the kinds of input you would grab using jq > from youtube .info.json files > and to my amazement, when you only have

Re: Lockups

2025-07-22 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 02:49:29PM +, tg30 wrote: > I am new to this list > I am experiencing system lockups when using firefox and chromium browsers. > When the system freezes I can only recover by rebooting and reloading the > browsers > > How can I fix this problem? > > Is there any way

Re: serial console

2025-07-30 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 12:59:02AM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > I've never really known what a serial console is. The name is a bit of history. When I connected to a large computer in the 1970s I did so using an AR 33 teletype, this was a largely mechanical device with a keyboard and printer (what y

Re: New Topic: How To Limit Fallacious And Off Topic Posts

2025-07-29 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 12:44:04PM -0700, Thomas Dineen wrote: > Let's waste a whole lot of time discussing impractical and arcane methods to > Limit  Fallacious And Off Topic Posts! > > Don't forget the specification of the proper etiquette and protocols so that > no one will be offended! If a t

Re: Prospective New Laptop

2025-07-31 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 03:48:47PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:04:30 +0100 > Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > I'm being tempted by an ASUS laptop - ASUS-Vivobook-M3407HA - and I'm > > wondering if anyone has experience with Debian and this product? I

Re: serial console

2025-07-30 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 08:48:05PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > > > > serial console/ parallel is likely me not understanding terminology. > > These Raspberry Pis, Arduinos with the connection with all the pins, what > > protocol is that expecting? > > mick > > I’ve only played with arduino onc

Re: serial console

2025-07-31 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 01:58:35PM +0100, John Dow wrote: > It worries me that knowledge of these things (and UARTs and character vs > block devices and any number of other things) is likely to die out with us > old farts :) I do not know anyone who has direct knowledge of mercury delay line me

Re: [OT] direct knowledge of mercury delay line memory (was: Re: serial console)

2025-07-31 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 01:13:47PM -0700, Michael Paoli wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 10:32 AM Alain D D Williams wrote: > > I do not know anyone who has direct knowledge of mercury delay line memory > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory > > I think m

Re: serial console

2025-08-04 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 10:48:00AM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: > If you're thinking of the physical DE9 port that was typically used for > connecting "Serial" peripheral devices, you are absolutely correct that > it is now pretty much defunct in favor of the Universal Serial Bus. > That being said,

Apache-SSL Encrypted Key Woes

2003-03-01 Thread D. Clarke
Hi, I've recently installed Apache-SSL package and am playing around with keys and I thought I'd try an encrypted key on for size. The problem is, when I start apache-sslctl start - it starts, and asks me for the PEM Passphrase for the key. I enter the wrong key, it says I'm wrong, I enter the r

[OT] Samba, Win2k, Weird files

2003-09-07 Thread D. Clarke
I can't say if this is directly related to debian, but I have a weird issue going on here; I have a samba share setup "pictures" and mapped from win2k systems, but recently ( i can't place the timeline ) all the sub folders vanished from the win2k systems, and on the acutal linux box there's we

Re: dhcp

2003-09-07 Thread D. Clarke
assuming you're using dhclient; /etc/dhclient-script there's 2 lines where it calls a function make_resolv_conf that you can comment out. ~ Darryl Philip Clark wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how to configure the dhcp package to not overwrite resolve.conf or to append to it? Thanks -Phil

Re: Mysql question.

2003-09-12 Thread D. Clarke
connect failed... make sure the server is running... if it is that means it's not listening on tcp/ip; you can enable it by commenting in /etc/mysql/my.cnf # skip-networking with that uncommented mysql only listens on a local unix socket and of course, restart the daemon when you change that op

Support for Intel 845G (Brookdale) graphics

2002-10-21 Thread Guy D.
Hi, I recently got a computer with Intel D845GRG mainboard. It has onboard video, sound, and ethernet support. I needed to do a few things to make Debian stable/Woody work with it: Apparently, the ethernet controller needs to have a 2.4.19 kernel. After replacing a boot floppy kernel with th

Re: Resetting Cron

2002-11-17 Thread D. Clarke
Well, if you added the crontab as a user by running crontab, and put it in /etc/cron.d then it will be run twice, since it's scheduled twice. And that's what it sounds like to me. - Original Message - From: "Tim Barker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Mozilla 1.2.1

2002-12-03 Thread D. Clarke
Hi, Can anybody tell me where I can find a .DEB file for a newer mozilla? (preferably an apt-source, but anywhere in which I can fetch it is fine...) 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

multiple network cards bound together

2003-08-14 Thread D. Clarke
Hi! Is it possible to bind multiple (non matching, or matching) network cards together to act as one device? I've got a fileserver here with 2 nics in it, currently both have seperate ip's but I'd like the box to have just one ip but use both cards... is what I'm asking for possible at all? Than

money/quicken/?

2003-08-24 Thread D. Clarke
Hi, are there any decent (free or not free) money/quicken clones out there that'll do basically everything those big-bad windows programs will do? preferably something with debian packages, naturally. let me know if you know of any, thanks! ~ Darryl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: money/quicken/?

2003-08-25 Thread D. Clarke
Wow, thanks to all of your insight. Looks like I have some software to test ;) ~ Darryl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Webcam Hardware and Software Advice Request

2003-08-25 Thread D. Clarke
Hi, I have a logitech quickcam web and I use this: qce-source - source code for QuickCam Express kernel module of course, you must be using a kernel with video4linux and usb support (a stock kernel has support for all those modules) to use the webcam. (and the mic doesn't function, but I've ne

Re: ircII behind proxy/firewall - how?

2003-08-27 Thread D. Clarke
Some servers offer cgi-irc clients, which you can use over a standard web/proxy. But not many. If you google for CGI:IRC you will find various servers (along with the sourceforge project page, which has a short list). However, for you to use a real irc client your proxy will require either N

unresolved symbol in bridge.o

2003-06-19 Thread franca . d
Hi all! I'm a new debian user and I need some help! I'm using the kernel 2.4.20 I tried to compile the bt3c_cs driver for a 3com bluetooth pcmcia card but after the command make install I received the following output: cp bt3c_cs.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/bluetooth depmod -e depmod:

Re: kernel recompile

2002-12-31 Thread Geoff D
--- iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get install kernel-package The FAQ will also help get you started http://www.au.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-kernel.en.html#s-customkernel Cheers Geoff http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Movies - What's on at your local ci

compiling xfree86 on a debian system

2003-01-03 Thread b d
Hi, I have multiple alpha systems, and unfortunately as it turns out must compile Xfree86 from source, due to the fact that the official alpha packages of debian do not currently have my video card supported, yet support exists according to the xfree86.org website I have not been able to fin

broken FTPStats?

2003-01-15 Thread D. Clarke
Hi, Anybody have any luck with the ftpstats program? ( it comes with proftpd-common ) I'm using woody I've tried reinstalling the package I've tried piping to the app, and redirecting to the app and no matter what I do I get "There was no data to process" even though my xferlog is 500K in size.

Re: Where is killall

1998-05-27 Thread rE^d
ile]' The Contents-i386.gz are also in the stable version.. , -- - - - - | "One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad | "Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Führer" - Adolf Hitler |------

Re: Soundblaster 16 PnP Help

1998-05-31 Thread rE^d
On Sat, 30 May 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > Yo- > > > I am in the process of trying to get my SoundBlaster 16 pnp card set > > up and have read through the Kernel-Howto, Sound-Howto, and SB16 pnp > > mini-howto, and had a couple of questions on how to do this. If anyone has > > this set u

Date Problems

1999-02-28 Thread D Richards
Hello I've just reinstalled debian hamm on my new 2.5 gig HD with no problems. Except I can't seem to understand the correct syntax for setting my system date and time using 'date'. Can anyone give me an example with an explanation TIA Duane Richards

Re: Date Problems and more

1999-03-05 Thread D Richards
First off thanks to everyone who replied to my first problem. I was actually trying to just change the hour and nothing else using the 'date' command. Duh! Ok my brother is wanting to install Debian on his home machine, after I've been telling him how great the support is from you guys and how

rm /dev/psaux

1999-04-29 Thread D Richards
I accidentally removed my /dev/psaux file which controls my mouse. Where do I find out how to replace it. I'm running slink and use a PS2 mouse. Thanks Duane Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rm /dev/psaux

1999-04-29 Thread D Richards
Thanks very much. That seems to have done the trick. Duane On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 08:14:08PM +, Richard Harran wrote: > This should work: > cd /dev > ./MAKEDEV busmice > as root. > > HTH > Rich > > D Richards wrote: > > > > I accide

Packages for writing tcl/tk programs

1998-11-21 Thread D. Vrabel
Hi, What packages do I need to write tcl/tk programs. I need to incorperate them into C/C++ programs. Thanks David. David Vrabel Engineering Undergraduate at University of Cambridge, UK.

Low memory & performance question

1998-11-27 Thread D Deasy
question is - Is Debian going to run worth a d**n on this thing? The primary use will be for learning C and mucking about with shell programming. I won't be loading much more then the base system, gcc, g++, and vi. Dan Deasy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: having problem with X on woody with r128

2002-09-25 Thread b d
Hi Bart et all, Um, I'm sorry, I couldn't find where to disable the kernel frame buffer I had previously crafted my XF86Config file from hand... but I did as you said and did a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, and didn't see any mention of kernel frame buffer also couldn't find it in th

Re: having problem with X on woody with r128

2002-09-25 Thread b d
> http://raw.no/x4.2/ > > It's working fine for me now, but I still haven't > worked > out all of the apt pinning issues to keep it up to > date. > That's high on my to-do list, so someday > > HTH and Good Luck, > > Bill > > (Co

SVGALib and Matrox Mill II

1998-02-25 Thread D. Hageman
my Mill II? Thanx for my help. ~ D -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Install Disks for hamm

1998-04-11 Thread D. Hageman
How soon before another batch of install disks are uploaded? The ones are there presently are buggy. This latest is better then previous versions I must admit. Thanks ~ D. Hageman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Secure Shell

1998-01-22 Thread D. Hageman
Where can I get a version of Secure Shell for Debian? I tried to compile the source I retrieved off the internet, but it didn't work for me. ~ D. Hageman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trou

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #905

1997-10-24 Thread D. Hageman
. Thanx! ~ D. Hageman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

3C509B ISA Detection

1997-08-28 Thread Darin D.
re busy. The card lights up fine in the back as well. Now when I boot up I get the SCIOCC... problems talked about in the Ethernet-HOWTO. I think these come from my /etc/init/d/network file which has all of the 'ifconfig' commands. But no where do I see in 'dmesg | more' anyth

DNS

1997-08-29 Thread d-erebos
Mark, Can you please tel me if you got this? I only subscribed today.. DNS in Debian is the same as slackware as far as i know.. IE. MY isp does dynamic DNS.. PRI DNS=203.17.154.33 NO SECONDRY DNS /etc/resolv.conf search dynamite.com.au nameserver 203.17.154.33 that's all you need.

Re: Netscape font question

1997-08-29 Thread d-erebos
Make sure you install 75, pex and a few others, then add the dirs( /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts (i think ) to /etc/XF86Config for slackwaare, and redhat + debian it's /etc/X11/XF86Config Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http:

Re: 3C509B ISA Detection

1997-08-30 Thread Darin D.
> > 1. Try to disable the boot prom. > How do I do this? I have gone through the 3Com disk and didn't see anything like this. > 2. Your transciever type must be BNC if your using coax cabling, RJ-45 if > you are using UTP cables. I have the 3c509B-TPO, so I only have the UTP input. > > c

Re: 3C509B ISA Detection

1997-08-30 Thread Darin D.
> > Here, no problems with a 3C509B. I disabled pnp and set the irq to 5 > (for arbitrary reasons.) > What do you get from `cat /proc/{interrupts,io}` ? I have tried different irq's and addresses and all of them have been clear of anything in cat /proc/interrupts & ioports. I am now going to rem

Re: 3C509B ISA Detection

1997-08-30 Thread Darin D.
> OK, have you set the IRQ you set on the card, as legacy ISA in your BIOS, as > opposed to a PNP device? If you have auto config turned on, shut it off and > set > this manually. Plug and Pray is not a joke reference to PnP. I have an American Megatrends BIOS circa 1994 with no PNP support!

Re: integrate X-programms

1997-08-31 Thread Darin D.
le installing Netscape. It didn't worked > although I made the selection in dselect. I always got errormessages > until I unselceted Netscape. Is there a known bug? If you press "d" when you have this highlighted in dselect you will see that it tells you that Netscape doe

Re: too many open files?

1996-11-11 Thread D. Chiodo
Might want to look into the following settings for Apache. # Server-pool size regulation. Rather than making you guess how many # server processes you need, Apache dynamically adapts to the load it # sees --- that is, it tries to maintain enough server processes to # handle the current load, pl

Problems trying to install Debian

1996-09-25 Thread d. mashao
Hi, I am trying to upgrade from linux kernel 1.2.1 (Unifix 1.6) to either Debian or Slackware. I have been persuaded by all this talk about Debian system. I followed the instructions on making floppies but unfortunately the process stops after reading the boot disk with the error message:

XFree4.0.1 on potato

2000-08-21 Thread Tibor D.
Hi, what is the correct or best way to install XFree86 4.0.1 on Debian 2.2 or - to replace the included XFree 3.3.6? Are there somewhere installable .deb's, or when I have to get the tar-files: how do I install it without breaking dependencies (I think lots of packages depend on X)? TIA -- visit h

Re: sound

2000-07-31 Thread Sebastian D.
> Found OPL3-SAx (YMF719) > at 0x330 irq 9 dma 0 > Sound initialization complete > > Where do I go from here? How do I get sound working? If I run esd from > the command line it returns /dev/dsp: no such device. I'm in the > process of RTFM now. hi ! goto /dev and enter : ./MAKEDEV audio than y

USB with potato

2000-08-18 Thread Tibor D.
Hello, Could anyone give me a hint where to enable USB-support? Finally I'm test-installing Debian 2.2 (until know I sticked with deb2.1 with the 2.0 Kernel), I just reconfigured/recompiled my kernel, but I never found something (even with "prompt for experimental drivers = yes"). It's for an USB-m

Re: some mutt stuff

2001-02-12 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 03:45:51PM -0500, David Merrill wrote: | On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 09:30:21PM +0100, Willi Dyck wrote: | | Let me know if you want to see my newsig.sh script also and I will | send it. I'd like to see it. Thanks, -D

Re: gnome-terminal question

2001-02-12 Thread D-Man
k the opiton is -t) I think there is some (shell) command that can be used as well (from the remote side) because I've seen the title change on me before (usually to a non-useful title like "~"). Sorry, I don't know what the command is. -D PS. My computer is dead right now so

Re: email-address embedded in homemade kernels

2001-02-12 Thread D-Man
irectories. (apache did some rerouting to the hostname the kernel thought it was, but then other machines couldn't lookup the name) Kind of fun, huh? ;-) -D

Re: Here you have, ;o)

2001-02-13 Thread D-Man
iles and works very nicely with cygwin :-) -D

Re: A debian-based distro for the New

2001-02-13 Thread D-Man
and the FHS to configure the system. I would recommend NOT using RH7.0. No use giving new users (or anyone for that matter) a broken compiler and libc. (This began the end of RH for me :-)) If they want to try upgrading stuff, then apt is the best experience they can have. -D

Re: autofs example

2001-02-14 Thread Tibor D.
Frank Trenkamp wrote: An example from my system: Hmm cool, I'd like to check this out, yes, I'm sure I somewhere enabled autofs-support, but: which package do I need? I can't find anything like autofs.

Re: Wake Up on LAN

2001-02-15 Thread D-Man
the motherboard (there is a cable on the card). When the ethernet card gets some signal, it sends the appropriate signal to the motherboard, which then wakes up the system. I don't know what the signals are or how to config the system but I do know that the motherboard must support it. -D

Re: necesito información sobre Hurd

2001-02-16 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:24:58AM +0100, wolfman wrote: | |La cuestión es donde puedo encontrar el kernel para bajarmelo??? | I don't understand much Spanish (no hablo mucho espanol), but maybe this will help : http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/ -D

kde ignores /etc/profile

2001-02-16 Thread Tibor D.
Hi, what am I doing wrong? I changed the PATH-line in /etc/profile (including now /usr/local/xyz/bin), at the end there is also an "export PATH"-line, but when I login via kdm (as user) into kde (version 2 and 2.1beta), there's still the old PATH set (even after rebooting!). So I logged in to

Re: Fetchmail & Sendmail

2001-02-16 Thread D-Man
ge to filter the mail from the inbox. HTH, -D

Re: Newbie

2001-02-16 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 05:51:29PM -0500, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: | First change all references to "stable" in your /etc/apt/sources.list to | "woody". Then Shouldn't that be "testing" ? -D

Re: jre problem

2001-02-20 Thread D-Man
e/java/lib/classes.zip. I haven't installed a jdk on Linux yet as I have a Win2k box at work. On it I have jdk1.1.8, jdk1.2.2, and jdk1.3. I installed them in d:\jdk1.1.8, etc. I put "d:\jdk1.1.8\lib\classes.zip" in the CLASSPATH environment variable, or on the commandline as java -c

Re: LILO on my windows partition

2001-02-20 Thread D-Man
ing, so /dev/hda3 is (hd0,2) to grub, you'll understand when you look at the menu.lst file or boot the sample one) I will never use lilo again, grub is just too cool! -D

rpm dependencies problem (yes, rpm!)

2001-02-22 Thread Tibor D.
Hi, I'm trying to install a software-package on Debian potato. It's "Novell NDS 8.5". The good thing is, that it needs a 2.2-kernel and glibc v.2.1.3, exactly what potato comes with. But: I'm unable to install that program, because it's installation is really dirty. On the install-CD, there ar

Re: rpm dependencies problem (yes, rpm!)

2001-02-23 Thread Tibor D.
Phil Brutsche wrote: I'll be honest: I wouldn't trust any of that "Enterprise" stuff to run on any distribution other than the one it was built for: RedHat 6.x. Thanks to all for the answers. Maybe I'll try to debianize the rpms and/or adopt the installscript later. But this way seems really

Re: "Can't open display" problems

2001-02-23 Thread Tibor D.
Robert L. Harris wrote: On your local machine you need to edit "/etc/X11/xinit/xserverc". There's a nice line that contains "-nolisten tcp" in it. Remove that and restart X. I had the same problem. Yeah, me too, but why do you think that's a *nice* line? I don't get it why that "-noliste

Re: poweroff just doing "shutdown"

2001-02-25 Thread Tibor D.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after all processes are ended.. the machine just hangs with "poweroff" on the screen. "^alt del" reboots fine. FYI the exact same machine, with potato, poweroffed fine on a previous installation. Thank you Maybe your apm isn't activated (or even isn't compiled into

LONG FILE NAMES

2001-02-25 Thread D. Hoyem
I have Debian installed on hdb2(swap) and hdb3(/), hdb1 is a small vfat partation. hda is exclusssively vfat wind98 programs. When I did the install of Debian I mounted hda in /Fat-c and hdb1 in /Fat-d. I attempted to put them in the /mount directory, one would go there but the other would not

Re: LONG FILE NAMES

2001-02-25 Thread D. Hoyem
Thanks for being the focus point I figured out this problem.. the /etc/fstab had hda1 and hdb1 listed as msdos instead of vfat. --- "D. Hoyem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have Debian installed on hdb2(swap) and hdb3(/), > hdb1 is a small vfat partation. hda is > ex

Communicator-after-Mozilla

2001-02-26 Thread Tibor D.
Hello, I've installed the Netscape Communicator debs, and I installed the Mozilla 0.8 from mozilla.org. When I start up only the communicator, it runs ok. When I start up only mozilla, it runs ok. But: when I first start up mozilla, and then I'd like to start communicator too, then another mozi

MODEM LATENCY

2001-02-26 Thread D. Hoyem
I have been trying to use the apt-get update ; apt-get install communicator to get Netscape downloaded from the Debian non-free site that is in the sources. I can connect and download but then I get timed out... I was told on #Debian irc.debian.org that it might be a latency problem...So I did a se

Re: MODEM LATENCY

2001-02-26 Thread D. Hoyem
> "When we have nothing left to give > There will be no reason for us to live > But when we have nothing left to lose > You will have nothing left to use" > -Fugazi > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, D. Hoyem wrote: > > > I have been trying to use the apt-get upda

Re: MODEM LATENCY SOLVED

2001-02-26 Thread D. Hoyem
s you need. > > Matthew > > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:26:31PM -0800, D. Hoyem > wrote: > > I hate to ask this cause it is really a DUHHH ... > How > > do I select the mirror that I want to go to? This > is > > part of the address in the sources file &g

WINDOW MANAGER

2001-02-27 Thread D. Hoyem
How do I change the current default Window Manager (ICE WIN) I think to Black Box or something other than what it is. If I select Black Box, or any other manager from the current Manager Menu it will change to that, but then when I exit and do a startx the system freezes. The Xlog said something

[FIXED] Re: WINDOW MANAGER

2001-02-27 Thread D. Hoyem
I appreciate all the help that I got on this... You all provide a valuable service to the Debian Distribution. Thanks --- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:43:42AM -0800, D. Hoyem > wrote: > >> How do I

Re: Debian 2.2 and Linksys LNE100TX - problems

2001-02-27 Thread D-Man
nk. I have also read that LinkSys first used the DEC made chip on the cards, then a Lite-On made chip (I think this is what mine uses) and now uses their own chip. All of these use the tulip driver. -D

Re: Network card

2001-02-27 Thread D-Man
ource busy | Could it be an IRQ conflict in the settings somewhere? Or maybe it's because the wrong driver is being used. (Though I just read earlier on this list that the ISA cards use the NE2000 driver) -D

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX Probs W. 2.4.2

2001-02-27 Thread D-Man
river. The DE-530TX (no 'F') uses the tulip driver. -D

Re: #! syntax

2001-02-27 Thread D-Man
python script in foo.py with a wrapper foo that does : #!/bin/bash python foo.py $* -D

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