Re: can't find ipchains

2001-04-18 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:38:33PM +0200, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: | D-Man wrote: | > apt-get tells me there is no package named ipchains. I checked on | | it's in netbase package. Good. I'm all set then. | in case of despair, the forms in http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages | m

Re: 320X240

2001-04-18 Thread D-Man
ne try hitting ++<+> to switch to the | next higher resolution and hitting ++<-> to switch to the | next lower resolution. Oh, that's cool. What key is though? -D

question about .deb packages

2001-04-18 Thread D. Hoyem
I would like to install a later version of Xchat than what comes with Potato 2.2r.2. When I try to install the xchat-gnome_1.6.4 the maintainer has it depending on newer libs that what is in Potato. Is there a way to open a .deb and modify the dependencies to what is on Potato? I know that

Re: kernel NULL pointer

2001-04-18 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:23:45PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: | On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 06:49:53PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > Why is it that kaffe didn't work for you? You might be able to get the | > jdk for potato from the blackdown people. I have heard that IBM's jvm | > is

Re: full duplex ethernet ?

2001-04-19 Thread D-Man
have also indicates whether the connection is 10 or 100 and whether it is Full or half duplex. I don't know why, but the 2 ISA NE2000 clones that are supposedly full-duplex don't appear on the switch as full-duplex. -D

Re: Debian compatibility

2001-04-19 Thread D-Man
headers when you want, so you can see exactly what is going on. HTH, -D PS. Does anyone know how to instruct mutt to view the text/plain part of a message by default with both text/plain and text/html parts?

Re: Problems with USB hub

2001-04-19 Thread D-Man
ogged down trying to send packets all over the place. Can you try the hub with just 1 device plugged in? If you have a meter, I can check my MOBO manual to tell you which pins are the power and ground. -D

Re: OT: compiler flags: what is "-lqt" ?

2001-04-19 Thread D-Man
the -dev package to _link_ the program if you already have object files (*.o). (You do need them for a comlete compile from source) To solve your problem I would suggest trying to find libqt.so and make sure you have the Qt package(s) installed. HTH, -D PS. I know the above was probably a bit

Re: Debian on old Macintosh

2001-04-19 Thread D-Man
16 MHz clock, built-in PMMU, optional FPU, built-in video, 5380 SCSI controller, is 32-bit clean. It's color in the table is green, which indicates it is supported and works without any problems. -D

Re: Debian compatibility

2001-04-19 Thread D-Man
sage by default with both text/plain and text/html parts? | | Here you go (add this to your ~/.muttrc file): | | alternative_order text/plain Cool. Thanks. -D

Re: Getting Online with DSL Ethernet

2001-04-19 Thread D-Man
es PPPoE then you will have to find information somewhere else, as I have no idea what you need to do with that. -D

Re: full duplex ethernet ?

2001-04-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 07:15:56PM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D-Man) writes: | > | > Most cards (that I have/have seen) have LEDs near the RJ-45 jack. | > They usually tell you. The switch I have also indicates whether the | > connection is 10 or 100 and whethe

Re: lilo

2001-04-19 Thread D-Man
want more info on grub, just ask! :-) -D

Re: RAM economy tips

2001-04-20 Thread D-Man
rs -- it has a gradual memory leak) I would have the system up for weeks too without problems. -D

Re: Linux Books

2001-04-20 Thread D-Man
e going to do text processing I would recommend "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl (O'Reilly). It is quite good, and I have found regexes to be very useful to me. -D

Re: Linux Books

2001-04-21 Thread D-Man
? shipping will be high due to its weight). It is good for non-programmers who want to learn what Java is about. It is not good for a serious programmer, nor does it provide a library reference. IMO the "Nutshell" book is much better. -D

Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

2001-04-24 Thread D. Hoyem
Here is my two cents worth. For a Video card I have the Matrox Millenium G200 with 8MB of Mem. I have used this card with Slcakware, Mandrake and Debian. It was setup perfect on installation with Debian 2.2r.2. www.pricewatch.com has them for $49 plus $10 shipping. For the Modem, and I'll take

Re: converting programms to windows (gcc for win ? )

2001-04-24 Thread D-Man
l) and gcc. It comes with a lot of nice *nix utilities that make using a windows system almost bearable. -D

Re: communicator: contrib vs non-free

2001-04-24 Thread D. Hoyem
As a matter of interest I did a dist-upgrade yesterday and had previously installed Communicator package ie Netscape and now have both on my system and either work. Don --- peanut butter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, forgive me if this is a stupid or over-answered > question. I > just spent alo

Re: gcc 3.0, namespace, and such

2001-04-25 Thread D-Man
but according to gcc.gnu.org 3.0 hasn't been released yeat. I can't wait until it is released, though. -D

Re: Getting package from "testing" for potato

2001-04-26 Thread D. Hoyem
Do Not get to excited about this i did it last night and received this message unknown command -dep. I'm using Potato upgraded to 2.2r.3 --- csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 25 April 2001 18:15, Harry Henry Gebel > wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:15:09PM +1000, Mark > wrote: > >

Re: apt-get install netscape

2001-08-30 Thread D. Hoyem
pe > packages available. > Get at least a version 4 package. You could look on > packages.debian.org instead to see what is available > for netscape. > > HTH, > -D > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [E

Re: very O.T: memory prices

2001-08-31 Thread D. Hoyem
In Northern VA the memmory prices are around $80 for 128 sticks, the last I looked. --- Christopher Mosley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Haven't checked memory prices in a long time. Just > checked and it seems > to be very inexpensive. Maybe it was cheaper but I > wouldn't > know. So what is

DMESG error: ksymoops is it a problem

2001-09-06 Thread D. Hoyem
I keep getting this error message ismod /lib/mod/2.2.18/misc/unix.o cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20010905211647.kysm Read-only file system ( ther number is always changing. Any ideas on how to reslove this, or is this normal? I also just noticed in the dmesg that I am getting this messag

Re: Installation Problem

2001-09-12 Thread D. Hoyem
I think that you need to more definitive in the problem that your having. What is it not doing?? When I installed Corel it was a clean and pain free installation. --- Bill Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have had a problem installing Corel Linux. Anybody > out there who can help? > > > B

upgrade to kernel-2.4.9

2001-09-16 Thread D. Hoyem
Hi all I have a PII 350 and recently upgraded to Woody. Today I did a apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.9-586 kernel-headers-2.4.9-586 and no problems with the install. I added initrd=/boot/initrd to lilo.conf and then typed lilo, I also added "do_initrd = Yes" to /etc/kernel-img.conf. I did a

Re: upgrade to kernel-2.4.9(it was a fight but sucessful)

2001-09-19 Thread D. Hoyem
in > /lib/modules/2.4.9/ > Issue the command 'mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd-my.01 > /lib/modules/2.4.9' > In /boot you'll now find initrd-my.01 > > 6) Modify your lilo.conf adding the new kernel image > (/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9) and >the line 'initrd=/boot/i

RE: stable -> testing

2001-09-20 Thread D. Hoyem
When I upgraded from stable to testing all I did was change the stable to testing in tht sourceslist and away you go.. So do you need the stable lines in sources.list, I sy no. --- Bob Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I changed 'stable' to 'testing' everywhere in my > > /etc/apt/so

Re: kernel compile step 1

2001-09-20 Thread D. Hoyem
Well I believe that Kernel-package is one of the packages that you need to install a kernel source the Debian way. If you are attempting to upgrade your kernel to 2.4.9, I think that is what I have read on this thread, then do a apt-cache search kernel. This will provide you all of the kernel's t

update-alternatives --config x-window-manager

2001-09-20 Thread D. Hoyem
Hi all I'm running a PII 350 with Woody and use Window Maker. After the Woody install it had a different window manager installed i.e.Blackbox. I did a update-alternatives --config x-window-manager and chose Window Maker. Now what will happen, when I have to shutdown and reboot, Window Maker wi

Re: update-alternatives --config x-window-manager

2001-09-20 Thread D. Hoyem
--- Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, D. Hoyem wrote: > > > Hi all > > I'm running a PII 350 with Woody and use Window > > Maker. After the Woody install it had a different > > window manager installed i.e.Blackb

Re: What can the following mean (I tried to rpm -ivh _____.rpm)

2001-09-21 Thread D. Hoyem
I believe that you are trying to install a package as a user, you need to be root to add packages, that is the db2 error. Don --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried to install gcc -2.96-54 with rpm 4.0 (no > problems from rpm) . But the > following things are demanded ... > Could somebody please te

Re: Help with install: Woody

2001-09-26 Thread D. Hoyem
The how-to to do what you want is here. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html But to cut through the chase the base system can be downloaded to floppies from this link. http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/ Select the images-1.44/

How to untar a file

2001-12-30 Thread Matt D
I am a new Debian user that has almost no unix background. I was wondering how to untar a file so that I can burn it on a CD? Thanx, Matt! _ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

Re: power off on shutdown doesn't work

2001-05-05 Thread D. Hoyem
Akop, I had the same problem... there is a line in lilo.conf that says # APPEND="" sorry not sure about the = after it. If you change it to APPEND="apm=on" save it then you need to type lilo so that lilo.conf will update. Remember to remove the # and the space before APPEND. Don --- Akop Pogosia

Re: new to linux, trying to get netscape to work

2001-05-09 Thread D. Hoyem
Peter, When you installed if you did not add an sources to your system on the install, go to /etc/apt and with vi do a vi sources.list. This will open the sources.list in a text editor. In the sources.list you will see lines that start with the # space then deb-ftp, or # space deb-src. For th

RE: MBR Problem

2001-05-13 Thread D. Hoyem
If this is a dual boot system do the fdisk /mbr from the dos prompt. --- Robert Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fdisk /mbr should do it > > -Original Message- > From: The Doc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 11:46 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject:

Re: GRUB

2001-05-14 Thread D-Man
/hdc2) then change the last line to kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 (Also note that there is supposed to be an '=' sign after "root".) The reason for this is grub doesn't look for /etc/fstab to figure out what you named your partitions. It treats all partitions as '/'. HTH, -D

Re: What every retailer should know

2001-05-17 Thread D-Man
haves as much like unix as possible for me :-). -D PS. This company is a Java shop and doesn't use Visual Studio at all, except for Visual Source Safe. It is similar to rcs, but with a gui frontend. I don't have much experience with cvs, but I know

Re: [users] Re: What every retailer should know

2001-05-17 Thread D-Man
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:36:07PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: | also sprach D-Man (on Thu, 17 May 2001 02:11:46PM -0400): | > """ | > Limited Developer Tools | > | > There are limited developer tools available for Linux. Those that are | > available are much more d

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-18 Thread D-Man
suggested go to Donald Becker's site (at scyld.com) and see what he says there. He is a smart guy who wrote all (or nearly all) the ethernet drivers for linux. HTH, -D

Re: 12 box network in small school

2001-05-18 Thread D-Man
but from what I have read it sounds like a good idea. -D

Re: Problem with netgear card

2001-05-18 Thread D-Man
module to load. -D

Re: Running X apps in Windows

2001-05-18 Thread D-Man
erver. -D

Printer Survey - Please respond

2001-05-19 Thread Len D
I have had lots of trouble getting my Lexmark 5700 to work in debian. I got it to work in SuSE 7.1 but I prefer debian. I want to purchase a Linux debian supported printer. If you would be so kind as to list the printer you use with debian I would be most appreciative. Also, if you might add a no

Re: Two Problems

2001-05-20 Thread D-Man
out the exact sequence of send/reply pairs to use with chat. It works quite well. Once you get the modem to dial properly and chat authenticates you, you need to get pppd configured right. I found through trial and error what to use for PAP authentication options. HTH, -D

Re: How to use debian lists

2001-05-20 Thread D-Man
eally | well in gnus. netscape has these features as well but I never got them | working properly (threading works but kill thread does strange things). | I think mutt can do the same as well even though I don't know how to | kill threads in mutt (yet)... In mutt press '^d'. This do

Re: for i in *

2001-05-20 Thread D-Man
of spaces. :-) its-not-like-My Documents-is-a-good-name-for-your-documents-ly yr's -D

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-20 Thread D. Hoyem
For Word Processing what about Word Perfect 8? There is a Linux version and it is free, I'm not sure that it will work on Debian though. Its a tar.gz file, not sure about the depends. --- joe golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to switch our small (12 machine) NT > network over to Lin

Re: Two Problems

2001-05-20 Thread D-Man
/lpr.html http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/lprng.html http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/cupsys.html http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/cupsys-bsd.html -D

Re: for i in *

2001-05-21 Thread D-Man
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:59:18AM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: | D-Man wrote: | | > | On Sun, 20 May 2001, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: | > | > And-I-have-yet-to-see-somebody-who-replaces-all-spaces-with-dashes-or-dots. | > | > Check the archives for python-list@python.org (aka c

Re: monitor display is getting blurry...what could be the problem?

2001-05-21 Thread D-Man
u can determine which is causing the problem. Changing the monitor is probably the easiest to do, if you have a spare monitor you can try. -D

Re: More 2 problems

2001-05-21 Thread D-Man
hat will work. Without a more configurable tool, I doubt you'll get very far. (I'm sure wvdial is a great program -- when it works. It only understands the common situations it's authors have experience with and can't be configured to deal with others.) If it would help you out at all I can send you my chat script after I get back to my Debian box. -D

Re: More 2 problems

2001-05-21 Thread D-Man
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:59:24PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: | On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 05:43:53PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > (I'm sure wvdial is a great program -- when it works. It only | > understands the common situations it's authors have experience | > with and can'

Re: dif version of debian ??

2001-05-22 Thread D. Hoyem
Dan, Do some reading on the Debian web site, they explain it fairly well. 2.2r2 is the Version called Potato, and 2.2r3 is the updated Potato. Woody is the next version on the Table but is considered stable, but not rock hard. HTH Don --- Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All >

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread D-Man
arily have the values you expect them to have; just that they will be released (closed for files) and other processes will be able to gain access) -D

Re: Adding a kernel entry for grub (analogy to running lilo step?)

2001-05-23 Thread D-Man
e entry and then run it. This doesn't save your modifications in the menu.lst file, but it allows you to boot your system regardless of host the menu.lst was set up prior to boot. -D

Samba won't start

2001-05-23 Thread D-Man
STREAM CONNECTED 178/dev/log unix 1 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 143/dev/log Any help it locating the conflict and resolving it will be greatly appreciated. -D

Re: Samba won't start

2001-05-24 Thread D-Man
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:01:59AM +0200, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: | On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:11:00PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > | > I have 2 Debian machines with samba installed. On one machine it | > works (except for the printers, I'll figure that out later) and on the | > ot

Re: Samba won't start

2001-05-24 Thread D-Man
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:34:32PM +0200, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: | On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:55:14AM -0400, D-Man wrote: | [...] | > Yes, that was it! Thanks. I had configured xinetd to run smbd and | > nmbd on-demand a while back, but forgot about it. Does samba work | > when run fr

Re: i386 or PowerPc

2001-05-25 Thread D-Man
8-bit, 16-bit, etc instruction sets). I think that either way you will get enough performance out of your system as long as the other components match up (memory, disk, etc). -D

Re: Samba won't start

2001-05-25 Thread D-Man
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:34:32PM +0200, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: | On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:55:14AM -0400, D-Man wrote: | [...] | > Does samba work when run from xinetd? | | Yes, samba works from xinetd but you must add a special flag for nmbd in | xinetd.conf: | | service netbios

Re: Install over another Linux

2001-05-25 Thread D-Man
at boot time -- before your system is already booted and running) -D

conclusion from Re: Samba won't start

2001-05-26 Thread D-Man
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:12:50AM -0400, D-Man wrote: | On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:34:32PM +0200, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: | | On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:55:14AM -0400, D-Man wrote: | | [...] | | > Does samba work when run from xinetd? | | | | Yes, samba works from xinetd but you must add a spec

Re: Free mail a/c that allows download of mail

2001-05-27 Thread D-Man
That newspaper probably has some pretty consistent properties, like the From or Subject field, right? Just dump it to /dev/null using procmail. -D

Re: ugh. more lilo probs

2001-05-27 Thread D-Man
0 0 /dev/cdrom2 | /cdrom2 iso9660 defaults,rw,user,noauto 0 | 0 | | Finally, I removed lilo again, dpkg --purge 'd it and installed | grub. Rebooted. I *still* get the endless cascade of "LI"s. | | Where could these be coming from? I will study up on grub -

Re: ugh. more lilo probs

2001-05-27 Thread D-Man
which includes on-line help for the various commands. One of the commands is called 'setup'. Use the setup command to install the stage1 on the MBR of your disk. If you have any more questions, just ask :-). HTH, -D

Re: linksys lne100tx v4

2001-05-28 Thread D-Man
dded alias eth0 tulip to /etc/modutils/network and ran 'update-modules' as root. The stock kernel has the tulip (among others) driver already compiled as a module. -D

Re: Linux debian

2001-05-29 Thread D-Man
ust put alias eth0 rtl8139 in /etc/modutils/aliases and run 'update-modules' as root. -D

Re: Linux debian

2001-05-29 Thread D-Man
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:38:51AM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: | On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 01:22:06PM -0400, D-Man uttered: | > 2.1 (aka Slink) is very old. I recommend getting 2.2r4 (aka Potato) | ^ | That looks like a thinko, too me.

Re: CPU speed

2001-05-29 Thread D-Man
Just for fun, I thought I'd try it. I have 2 boxes, an AMD Duron 750 and an i486sx. With the Duron I got lots of nice information. With the 486 I didn't get much information at all. -D On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 08:28:47PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: | What cases? | | On Wed, 3

Re: VM problem

2001-05-30 Thread D-Man
including lots of possibly relevant information. Including the /proc/cpuinfo from my box won't help because it doesn't say anything -- I don't think the 486 family supports querying) -D

Re: VM problem

2001-05-30 Thread D-Man
ernels manually before, but that was on a RH machine when I didn't know how to configure modules. Thanks, -D

Re: line numbers in code

2001-06-01 Thread D-Man
ack diamond key on the Solaris keyboard is Meta (same place as PC Alt). I haven't tried with any other system, but I found that inconsistency (in OSes/hardware) to be rather annoying. -D

Re: line numbers in code

2001-06-01 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:02:22AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: | D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Naw, (g)vim is much better | > | > (I have tried emacs, and that is my conclusion, now go make your own | > after trying both) | | Sure... does (g)vim include Tetris? O

Re: Prog. Languages (was: question?)

2001-06-01 Thread D-Man
ifferent combinations of features. Another thing to learn: if you plan on writing large applications and maintaining them over some period of time, design is much more important than the language you implement it in. If you only want to tinker with some "throw-away" scripts, then pick a fun, easy to learn language and just have some fun :-). -D

Re: Re. Total confusion

2001-06-01 Thread D-Man
rt and parport_pc modules. (Just add them to /etc/modules) | Testing with echo "hello" > /dev/lp0 does not use /etc/printcap. However, I | have used magicfilter and apsfilter with no success. Do you get any results from echoing "hello"? What about after loading the parport and parport_pc modules? HTH, -D

Re: Shareing nfs with windows problem

2001-06-01 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:05:06PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: | Brian Schramm wrote: | > | > Has anyone gotten the pcnfsd system to work? I am trying to share | > a nfs mount with windows (samba will not work in this case) and am | > haveing trouble with pcnfsd. It will not a

Re: Re. Total confusion

2001-06-01 Thread D-Man
kernel to know that you have a printer or what it is -- that's a little high-level and not all printers can be queries. I don't even know of any parallel port printers that can be queried, except maybe by some proprietary mechanism that only the manufacturer's (windows) driver can do. It might identifiy an IEEE-1284 device, however. -D

Re: [OT] Coding w/ vim

2001-06-03 Thread D-Man
ent it too small. I prefer a 4-space indent, but do what you want with your own code :-). -D

Re: How can i get my printer to work??

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
. It can also render the text in 2-up or landsacpe formats. -D

Re: Low Memory Install?

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
borrowed from another machine just for the install) I ended up taking the hd out and using a different machine to install Debian, then moving the hd back to the 486. -D

Re: Loadlin question

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
t boot from /dev/hdc where Linux (RH) was installed. After I learned about grub I tried it and it had no trouble (with Debian, RH was gone by that time, but it was the same hard disk). I highly recommend GRUB. I think it is much better than starting DOS, and using config.sys to jumpstart Linux. -D

Re: hdd time-out??!!

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
tower). Other people suggested that the disk might be crashing, so I too recommend that you backup any data on the disk you really don't want to lose. HTH, -D

Re: SiS6326

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
Rage LT Pro). Then I saw nice pink blocks when a window or menu was closed. I'm not sure if it was the card or the monitor since I was using an old monitor that I don't have any specs for. (I did read the man page and was configuring by hand, but I don't think I quite "get it" yet) -D

Re: HOME NETWORK

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:25:51AM -0700, D. Hoyem wrote: | D-Man | Sorry for grabing you email address from the Debian | users list, but I have been on the mailing list from Not really a problem, but sending your questions to the list provides a wider audience and you are likely to get a lot

Re: 486 router is very slow

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
Memory) while you try and surf the net. -D

Re: filtering email via perl?

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-smtplib.html These are all part of the standard python distribution. If you really like Perl enough, then I would suggest either looking for some existing modules (but I don't know where) or study the relevant RFCs so you can handle messages properly. -D

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:58:53AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: | D-Man writes: | > I've only had 1 problem with my system where I had to run fsck and I've | > hit the power button a few times... | | How is your system partitioned? In my experience the systems most likely | to be

Re: [OT] windows networking issue

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
Bindings : Client for Microsoft Networks File and printer sharing to Microsoft Networks Identification : (this is stuff for samba only, doesn't really matter what names you fill in) If you need any more info/detail just let me know. HTH, -D

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
lp. (Win98 is still on that hard drive, in that box, but its not mine anymore) -D

Re: CUPS question

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
then verify that the document you tried to send was the proper format (PS Level1 or whatever). HTH, -D

Re: CUPS question

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:44:06AM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: | On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:32:06PM -0400, D-Man wrote: | > | > I haven't done any configuring of ethernet printers, but I do have an | > older Laserjet IIIp and an old Seiko ColorPointPS. I have found that | > if

FW: HOME NETWORK

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
This was sent directly to me, I'm forwarding it to the list so Don can have a wider audience and get better responses :-). -D - Forwarded message from "D. Hoyem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "D. Hoyem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 11:2

Re: .vimrc

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
et the gui to use a black background as well. -D

Re: tabs / was [OT] Coding w/ vim

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
creen. Or just check :help retab . It changes the indentation level automatically (it is a conversion between spaces and tabs). -D

Re: Odp: SiS6326

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
t to get a nice sizeable collection of XF86Config files that actually work with the SiS6326 card so I can do some experimenting and figure out how to set mine up. -D

Re: [OT] windows networking issue

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
help. I have here a network with 2 Potato boxen, 1 Win98 and 1 Win95 working. I setup one Debian box with ipmasq. All NICs are statically configured (no DHCP). On the 'doze box I set one of the Debian boxes as the default gateway. I set a static IP and no WINS. I have a D-Link switch physic

Re: SiS6326

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
's pretty. :-) Could you send me your XF86Config file too? I want to get a nice sizeable collection of XF86Config files that actually work with the SiS6236 card so I can do some experimenting and figure out how to set mine up. Thanks, -D

Re: .vimrc

2001-06-07 Thread D-Man
; ) instead but I would need to check the help pages, or use my solution : highlight Normal guibg=black guifg=grey90 I set the gui's background to black and foreground to grey90. This works for MFC as well as GTK (I use gvim at work on a win2k box). Now I just need to get up the will to adjust the cursor so I can actually read the text while it is highlighted :-). -D

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