Re: Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-19 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Sunday 19 January 2003 06:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My module is called nvidia and not NVdriver. I think the problem is that > you are loading a module called NVdriver and you have nvidia listed as the > driver in the X config file. Maybe try changing the Driver in X to > NVdriver to s

Re: SNMP on Debian

2003-02-02 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Thursday 30 January 2003 08:54, Reaz Baksh wrote: > Hello > > I'm trying to setup a Debian system that would act as an SMNP Server(?), > the unit that will be receiving traps from various Windows NT machines. > > What is out there that would enable me to do this? I believe snmpd, which is avail

Re: Changing font size in galeon menu

2003-01-01 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2003.01.01 07:28 Sridhar M.A. wrote: Hi, I would like to know how does one change the size of the menu font in galeon and other gnome apps like gaim, etc. They are too tiny for my taste. My current setup is `testing' running gnome2. Go to Desktop | Theme Selector in Gnome Control Center, s

Re: ntpd; local clock reference 127.127.1.0

2003-01-01 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.12.31 17:51 Brenda J. Butler wrote: I get the following in my logs [manually wrapped for legibility in email] Dec 31 15:44:27 seal ntpd[17700]: attempt to configure \ invalid address 127.127.1.0 when I set the following in /etc/ntp.conf: server 127.127.1.0 fu

Re: apt-get (status file) broken?

2003-01-01 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.12.31 00:25 Adahma wrote: I get the following error when trying to use apt-get or dselect: Hit http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/non-free Release Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing liblir

Re: Running openoffice as regular user?

2002-05-10 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.10 17:34 Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Fri, 10 May 2002 16:03:27 -0500 "DvB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've installed openoffice from the unofficial source and, now, if I run > it as root, it works but if I run it as a regular user, its attempt to > install inself into that user's hom

Re: text converted into bar codes - tough reading !!

2002-05-11 Thread Ian D. Stewart
I can think of is maybe trying out different TERM settings. Check out /etc/terminfo for a list of installed terminal types. Hopefully, someone who is a little more clueful will respond... HTH, Ian Thanks - Serge - Original Message - From: "Ian D. Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: File size limit exceeded

2002-05-12 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.12 02:16 Dr. Christoph H. LARSEN wrote: Everything went well, until I wanted to format a hard drive. By then mkfs.ext2, mkfs.ext3, mkfs.reiserfs, and even mkfs.vfat and mkfs.msdos gave me the error message: File size limit exceeded As this error has never occured prior to my recent lib

Re: File size limit exceeded

2002-05-13 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.13 07:44 Dr. Christoph H. LARSEN wrote: Hi Ian, Thanks for your prompt reply. Problem: I do not have wmheader program anywhere ;-(. There must be another reason why I get this silly eror message. Any thoughts? Thanks a million. Have you tried running lsof? That would be your best b

Re: Small footprint window manager

2002-05-13 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.13 05:18 Miroslav Mazurek wrote: Maybe I made mistake before, but its 16MB (no further upgrade possible). FWIW, I've successfully run X (3.3.6) on a P75 w/16MB RAM (2.2 kernel, glibc) using IceWM. So long as you don't run any bloatware (Gnome/KDE, Office suites, etc), this shoul

Re: frustration with dselect automatic package selection

2002-05-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.14 14:32 David Roundy wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:53:53AM -0400, Federico Grau wrote: > > When I install a system (especially servers), I tend to choose the > task-sel path and unselect everything, with the goal of getting the most > minimal installation as possible. Then as I n

Re: good choice of network card?

2002-05-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.14 17:19 Vineet Kumar wrote: * Alex Hunsley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020514 13:27]: > General question: under debian, can I find out what IRQs are assigned to what > devices? cat /proc/pci (not debian-specific; should work on any linux with a /proc filesystem and pci support) /proc/inte

Re: IRC

2002-05-15 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.15 05:31 Ulf Rompe wrote: Tommi Komulainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. There is irssi-gnome and irssi-gtk in Debian also but they are >*ancient*. Don't use them. What I love about irssi-gnome is it's panel applet. I tend to keep some not really busy channels open while doing

Re: bastille deb (testing) hosed?

2002-05-15 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.14 20:45 Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 2002, "cj" == Colin Watson wrote: cj> The maintainer just mailed me to say that a new package cj> is available, and he'd like you to test it out. Only one perl booboo remains: "Using Tk user interface module. "Only displaying q

Re: gzip dpkg error

2002-05-15 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.15 18:30 Ryan O wrote: I was trying to perform maintance to a system recently but as you will see below I was not successful. For some reason I am unable to do anything to the /bin/gzip file in the system (delete, move, whatever). I even tried a chattr to clear any flags that might pr

Re: Why alt key in xemacs does not work

2002-05-15 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.15 12:50 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: alt is alt and meta is meta. in both rxvt and xterm meta is the window key, I take it this is just for US-104, and with US-101, alt is still meta? Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: "AGP not available" error.

2002-05-15 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.15 14:07 Steve Juranich wrote: Now that I've gotten rid of the visual garbage on my Radeon VE, I'm trying to get dri working on it. I've got everything set up the way that things are supposed to be set up (loading the radeon and agpgart modules on boot, and the radeon module is refere

Re: woody

2002-05-22 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.22 20:51 Jerome Acks Jr wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 09:34:46PM +0200, Ferdinand Lachmann wrote: > I am a newby on debian woody 3.0. > Have a Nvidia GeForce2 DDR in my system. > Can,t get my xserver running,nor my usb logitech mouse. I assume you have installed X4.x. If not, run: a

Re: GCJ and C/C++ applications how is it possible ?

2002-05-23 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.23 08:55 dman wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 09:11:29AM +0200, Pac wrote: | Le 22/05/02 à 23:54, dman a écrit: | dman> | See this from http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/changes.html : | dman> | | dman> | " # JNI and CNI invocation interfaces were implemented, so gcj-compiled Java code can no

Re: Sound problems - newbie

2002-05-24 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.24 06:32 Christoph Schaefer wrote: Hi Glen, If adding yourself to the audio group doesn't solve the problem, try it the hard way: as root do chmod 777 /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer According to the Sound HOWTO[1], the sound device files (/dev/audio, /dev/dsp, /dev/mixer) should have perm

Re: GCJ and C/C++ applications how is it possible ?

2002-05-24 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.24 04:25 Pac wrote: Le 23/05/02 à 22:09, dman a écrit: dman> On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 07:15:34PM +0200, Pac wrote: dman> | why ? dman> dman> Layers upon layers upon layers of indirection. The JVM interprets dman> java bytecode. It then delegates the "native" methods to some C code dma

Re: apache-ssl, libapache-mod-ssl

2002-05-24 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.24 09:53 Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2002 15:48:05 +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: >What is the difference (when would one use what) between >libapache-mod-ssl, and apache-ssl? Is one of these "new", since the >"crypto-in-main" transition? (I only noticed the -mod-ssl one

apache-perl and apache httpd.conf

2002-05-24 Thread Ian D. Stewart
I recently installed apache-perl on my home machine. When I try to run the executable (/usr/sbin/apache-perl), I get the error message: apache-perl: could not open document config file /etc/apache-perl/httpd.conf Sure enough, there is no httpd.conf in /etc/apache-perl. There is, however,

Re: word to the wise about Netscape 7/Mozilla

2002-05-24 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.24 18:07 Martin Rowe wrote: On Friday 24 May 2002 10:51 pm, Robin Putters wrote: > On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 23:31, Quenten Griffith wrote: > > Now if someone knows a better GUI MUA for Debian that supports > > spelling checking/ GPG/LDAP/ and IMAP I am all ears to try it out. > > Evolutio

Re: how to confirm mod_perl is functioning with apache? to run mason

2002-05-25 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.23 20:42 justin cunningham wrote: hey list, I wanted to check out mason which requires mod_perl but it's not show as a loadable module in /etc/apache/httpd.conf I just installed libapache-mod-perl but wasn't prompted to load mod_perl.c as a loadable module like say, php4. how do I co

Trouble-shooting apache-perl

2002-05-26 Thread Ian D. Stewart
So, I recently upgraded apache to apache-perl, and am trying to get to the point where I can start experimenting with HTML::Mason. I've created an httpd.conf by starting with the file /etc/apache/httpd.conf and making changes as recomended in the mod_perl Guide[1]. I've also found a test sc

Configuring mod_perl on Debian

2002-05-26 Thread Ian D. Stewart
Dear List, I have been trying for the better part of the day to get Apache w/mod_perl working on a Debian Woody system. With the help of the Configuration section of the mod_perl Guide, I have set up httpd.conf w/ mod_perl support, I have setup a /perl location with Apache::Registry as the P

Re: Trouble-shooting apache-perl

2002-05-26 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.26 10:55 Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 12:50:14AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > So, > > I recently upgraded apache to apache-perl, and am trying to get to the > a test script under /usr/share/doc/libapache-mod_perl/examples to test I don't know if thi

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-26 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.26 20:05 John wrote: There's a lot of Aussies still pretty bitter about how hard it was to get the Yanks to abandon the idea of giving nearly half the contenent to the Empire. We sometimes wonder if that's what our allies are like what would we expect in say an invasion from Cimme

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-26 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.26 23:21 Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 21:42, Dale Hair wrote: > > > Actually, the USA was asked to help Australia in 1939. We had the crap > > bombed out of us. After Pearl Harbour the USA decided that Oz was a > > great place to base a lot of Operations. > > Most Americans

Re: OT: debian-beer

2002-05-26 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.26 23:04 Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 21:11, John Griffiths wrote: > >(A _continent_ got the crap bombed out of it? > > just darwin Darwinians (Darwinites?) obviously didn't like it much, but it's an awful huge leap from "Darwin got the crap bombed out of it" to "we go

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-27 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.27 08:02 Thomas Good wrote: On Sun, 26 May 2002, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Oh, that's nothing. You should see what the Yanks do to folks they > really don't like (hint: do a Google search for 'Sherman March Sea'). > You wanna talk about bitter? South Caro

Re: Configuring mod_perl on Debian

2002-05-27 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.27 12:57 Andrew McNaughton wrote: Sounds to me like you're not setting your content-type correctly for some reason. Have a look at the headers being sent out. It's either not sending this header, or it's sending something the browser doesn't know what to do with. This is the conte

Re: Configuring mod_perl on Debian

2002-05-27 Thread Ian D. Stewart
Well, I haven't had any better luck with the debian package but I have gotten Apache and mod_perl running by building from source. Thanx for all the help, Ian On 2002.05.27 13:06 Ian D. Stewart wrote: On 2002.05.27 12:59 Eric wrote: On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 12:20:00PM -0400, Ian D. St

Re: Configuring mod_perl on Debian

2002-05-28 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.28 04:03 Jeff A wrote: > From: Andrew McNaughton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 27 May 2002 21:02 > To: Ian D. Stewart ... > You miss most of the advantage of debian's package management > if you start building core components independently. Debian > look

Re: PHP4 setup problems

2002-05-28 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.28 08:36 Andrew Pritchard wrote: > You're right, it is very simple. > > Move the script to /var/www or where your other content is, then access > it via your web server. > > http://localhost/hello.php > > I wouldn't be surprised if we all forgot to mention that in the > documentation!

Re: PHP4 setup problems

2002-05-28 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.28 08:41 James Cameron wrote: On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 22:36, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > Hmmm - now it comes up with a 403: Permission denied. And from the error.log: > [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Options ExecCGI is off in this > directory: /var/www/hello.php Make sure it is not executabl

Re: activating ipchains & ip masqurading ...

2002-05-28 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.28 09:02 Marcus Przyklink wrote: Cam Ellison wrote: > * faisal gillani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > i have installed debian 2.2 in my server now i want to > > activete ipchains & ip masqurading on it ... > > how should i do this ? > > > > > In a phrase, RTFM. Want more detail? Fire

Re: how to confirm mod_perl is functioning with apache? to run mason

2002-05-29 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.28 19:03 Petro wrote: On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 09:17:12PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > On 2002.05.23 20:42 justin cunningham wrote: > >hey list, I wanted to check out mason which requires mod_perl but it's > >not show as a loadable module in /etc/apach

Re: Digital/Internet Cameras with Linux

2002-05-29 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.29 11:02 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, anyone has any experiences setting Digital/Internet Cameras with Linux like those for home security? If all you want to do is view the feed from a webcam, their was a thread on here not too long ago (look f

Re: Calendar/scheduling softwae fro debain?

2002-05-29 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.20 14:09 stan wrote: Can anyone recomend a nice time schedulign software application that's in Debain Woody's archive? A Gnome interface would be a plus. I know I'm coming into this thread somewhat late. I'm surprised no one has recommended Gnome-PIM. It includes a Calendar app (G

Re: attach3...aprox 189kB

2002-05-30 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.30 03:59 ben wrote: On Thursday 30 May 2002 12:21 am, Arthur Dent wrote: > Hi > I just began posting on this list and thankfully received a lot of replies. > A few of them included an atachment and most of the attachments from > different people were called attach3. When I went to have

Re: attach3...aprox 189kB

2002-05-30 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.30 03:48 Tom Cook wrote: On 0, Arthur Dent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > I just began posting on this list and thankfully received a lot of replies. > A few of them included an atachment and most of the attachments from > different people were called attach3. When I went to have

Re: packages

2002-05-31 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.31 08:52 Sean Preston wrote: The problem I have with adding unstable or testing is that so often it wants to upgrade large numbers of packages and I am unsure how good these are at this stage and would prefer to stick with the stable branch but still be able to use newer applications

Re: ORBit help

2002-05-31 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.31 03:08 David Wright wrote: Thanks for your tips. I'm afraid that, given that I know not a single line of Phyton, that's not the way to go for me. I'm a C/C++/Perl guy, and while a nice CORBE client Perl module exists, there doesn't appear to be a CORBA server Perl module. Have

Re: home network with mac

2002-06-02 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.02 09:50 Richard Otte wrote: At home my kid has a Mac running osx and we'd also have a switch. We'd like to connect it to my Debian machine in such a way that we could transfer files between the machines. We also have a postscript printer connected to the switch, and we both use the

Debian GIS

2002-06-05 Thread Ian D. Stewart
Howdy Folks, Can anybody recomend a good GIS (Geographical Information System) package for debian? I did a quick search with 'apt-cache search GIS', but got a long list of unrelated results. I've found GRASS on freshmeat, but there doesn't appear to be .deb available. Thanx, Ian -- To U

Setting system time on startup

2002-06-05 Thread Ian D. Stewart
Howdy Folks, Right now, when booting my linux box, the system clock is off by four hours (I'm guessing it is set to GMT). I can reset the clock using date, but this is starting to get a bit tedious. Is there a way to automate this process and/or convince Linux to set the system clock to loc

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-05 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.05 09:32 Colin Watson wrote: I hope you don't find this comment abusive. It's worth remembering that many developers are feeling under quite a lot of pressure right now, because a large percentage of the more vocal users sometimes seem to be engaging in a "trash-the-developers campai

Re: Debian GIS

2002-06-05 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.05 12:17 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 05 Jun 2002, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Can anybody recomend a good GIS (Geographical Information System) > package for debian? I did a quick search with 'apt-cache search GIS', > but got a long list of unrelated r

Re: Setting system time on startup

2002-06-05 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.05 13:00 Gary Hennigan wrote: "Ian D. Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Right now, when booting my linux box, the system clock is off by four > hours (I'm guessing it is set to GMT). I can reset the clock using > date, but this is starting to get

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-05 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.05 13:47 Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>"Ian" == Ian D Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ian> Speaking only for myself, it was the condescending tone adopted Ian> by one of the developers (don't remember the fellow's name; he Ian> was the o

Re: nothing to apt-get upgrade for a long while?

2002-06-07 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.06 23:29 Hubert Chan wrote: If you're suffering from "apt-get upgrade" withdrawal, you can always switch to unstable, but just beware that it's called unstable for a reason. With the Woody freeze on, alot of folks that would be adding/updating packages in sid have been holding off

Re: Setting system time on startup

2002-06-07 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.07 01:16 Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:51:16AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: | Hello Pietro Cagnoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, | | What is the advantage to keep the clock on GMT? Suppose the machine moves and is now in a new timezone. Also suppose you're running a l

Re: Non-Browser Compliance

2002-06-08 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.08 15:23 Helgi Örn wrote: Thank's for your information. I find this very interesting because I've made it to a sort of a hobby to harass webmasters that ignore anything else than IE, and those are not few. More and more sites seem to become almost exclusively IE centered, even sites th

Re: Debian GIS

2002-06-08 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.05 23:50 Eric G. Miller wrote: GRASS is best for folks doing raster analysis/modeling. The vector stuff isn't quite "there" yet. Are there others that do better at vector-based modeling, or would I be best served waiting on GRASS to 'get there' ? Thanx, Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-09 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.08 22:33 Alice M. Pinard wrote: As I'm continuing to try and troubleshoot a hd that doesn't seem to want to boot (promise ultra card, 60g hd) I just wanna doublecheck one thing Semi-OT As the size of IDE hard drives increase, what are the advantages/disadvantages of using a single

Re: sk domain

2002-06-09 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.04 15:07 Oleg wrote: Ouch! this guy is a jerk. I'm filtering everyone from *.sk now. The entire nation of Slovakia? Kinda extreme, doncha think? Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packaging mod_accel?

2002-06-09 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.04 16:52 Christian Jaeger wrote: I would like to run Debian's apache and apache-perl packages for this configuration. You may want to consider using apache and libapache-mod-perl instead. It provides the mod_perl functionality as a DSO (Dynamic Shared Object), instead of being

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.10 03:35 Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 20:33, Alvin Oga wrote: > if you have a nearly full 80GB disks ... it wont matter > if you have 1x 80GB or 4x 20GB( stripping ) No, it does matter. You can expect at least one of four 20GB drives to fail much sooner than one 80

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.10 05:48 Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 03:46, Alvin Oga wrote: > > - and if the drives gonna fail... i say its more likely to die > within the first 30 days ... Yes. MTBF only measures how likely it is to fail during the middle of its life. A good number die early

Re: Non-Browser Compliance

2002-06-10 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.10 06:21 Helgi Örn wrote: On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 02:00, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > Yep. I remember a while back, there was a big stink because the UK had > developed an e-gov gateway that only worked with MSIE running on > certain versions of Windows. I also remember th

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.11 09:25 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote: > On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 08:45, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> >> On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote: >> > This is all that's there: >> > >> > is_IS ISO-8859-1 >> > sv_SE ISO-8859-1 >> > >> >> Does this match the locale you

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.11 13:42 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > Wouldn't "C" be a more appropriate default locale for non-US users? > sure, but you are assuming competency in coders (-: Gah! Hate it when I do that!! ;) Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.11 14:00 Helgi Örn wrote: On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 19:42, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > Wouldn't "C" be a more appropriate default locale for non-US users? > > > > sure, but you are assuming competency in coders (-: C should work by default > without editing or enabling anything . Could

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.11 14:16 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote: > On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 19:42, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> > Wouldn't "C" be a more appropriate default locale for non-US users? >> > >> >> sure, but you are assuming competency in coders (-: C should work by >> de

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.11 15:09 Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 02:33:27PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Different parts of the world have slightly different conventions for > representing for various types of data. As an example, take the date > 04/01/2002. To a brit, this is Ja

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.11 15:54 Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 06:25:57AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote: | > Do I have to re-boot for a change to take effect? Your mouse has moved. You must restart Windows for your

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.11 16:05 Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:39:40PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Reminds me of vigor of user friendly fame > >"You just pressed the tab key. Are you sure you wish to > continue?" You *do* know it's in Debian, right? :)

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.12 09:58 Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:26, Colin Watson wrote: > I believe it's there for extracting files manually from RPMs, building > RPMs, and that sort of thing. Using it to install packages on your live > system is dangerous because there's no protection aga

Re: setting up a Gateway

2002-06-13 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.13 09:25 Nicos Gollan wrote: On Thursday 13 June 2002 14:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ye all Linux Wizzards. > > plunging around some time with debian (at the moment 2.4.18 kernel) I > am trying to set up a linux box as a gateway. What you want is probably masquerading. Read the ipf

Re: grub Q

2002-06-13 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.13 09:33 Mark Janssen wrote: On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 14:12, Alice M. Pinard wrote: > or... another way to look at it... does anyone know a way to pack up a set > of info docs so that it could be read on a windows box? (that way I could > browse through it here at work ) There is a cygw

Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk

2002-06-13 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.13 09:16 Jan Johansson wrote: > I remember reading about a data recovery team that recovered > files after > the data had supposedly been removed with a 'dd' command like above. www.ibas.no they claim to be able to see under 3 layers of overwrites. And since they are a public contract

Minimizing all windows

2002-06-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
Howdy Folks, In windows, you can right click on the task bar and one of the options is to minimize all windows, exposing the underlying desktop. I've looked through both the gnome-list archive and the Gnome User's Guide but was unable to find any reference to similiar functionality. Is this

Re: Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.13 12:34 Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:14:48AM +0200, Jerome Lacoste wrote: | I have the following in top: | | PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND | 532 root 16 -10 289M 32M 7528 S < 54.6 6.5 8:35 XFree86 | | I t

Re: Minimizing all windows

2002-06-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.14 17:14 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 12:08:13PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Howdy Folks, > > In windows, you can right click on the task bar and one of the options > is to minimize all windows, exposing the underlying desktop. I've > loo

FreeCraft, SDL Audio and ESD

2002-06-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
Howdy Folks, I recently installed the FreeCraft .debs, and I the main screen comes up Ok. However, there is a message at the top that says 'Sound Disabled. Please check!'. When I exit the program, there is an error message: Couldn't open audio: No available audio device I've conf

Re: FreeCraft, SDL Audio and ESD

2002-06-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.14 22:58 Ian D. Stewart wrote: Howdy Folks, I recently installed the FreeCraft .debs, and I the main screen comes up Ok. However, there is a message at the top that says 'Sound Disabled. Please check!'. When I exit the program, there is an error message: Cou

1024x768 resolution on Extended SVGA monitor

2002-06-16 Thread Ian D. Stewart
Howdy Folks and Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there, My wife got me Loki's port of Railroad Tycoon II for father's day. The game looks pretty cool, but needs to run at 1024x768 resolution. My problem is that I have a generic Magnavox SuperVGA monitor, and of course, the good folks h

Re: 1024x768 resolution on Extended SVGA monitor

2002-06-16 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.16 10:02 Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Does anyone know what the interlace/doublescan/hsync values should be, > or know of a resource where I might possibly research this? I think that xvidtune will tell you hsync and vsync. Thanx P

Re: 1024x768 resolution on Extended SVGA monitor

2002-06-16 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.16 15:13 Jerome Acks Jr wrote: On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 09:34:04AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: [snip] > > Does anyone know what the interlace/doublescan/hsync values should be, > or know of a resource where I might possibly research this? read-edid package may tell you what

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-17 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.17 05:26 Jan Johansson wrote: > you've got to be new around here. there isn't enough salt in > the world to > make your hat tasty enough to retract the last sentence > above. go directly to > jail. do not pass go. do not, under any circumstances, > attempt to collect > anything at all.

Re: upgrading xfree86

2002-06-17 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.17 04:49 ian wrote: hi all, i'm running debian 2.2r6 would it be wise/safe to upgrade to xfree86 4.2? i need the support for my v/card (gforce2 mx 100/200) Hi Ian, So long as you're running XFree86 4.1.x (or later), you should have support for your card (I'm running 4.1.0.1 with a

Re: Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-18 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.18 08:04 Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 15:31, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Can anybody else shed some light on the difference between SIZE and RSS? Size is how much memory has been allocated through brk(2). RSS is how much is currently paged in. So, a program can (

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-18 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.17 21:26 Rox de Gabba wrote: Well, if you look at it from the practical point of view... screaming and complainting has never done any good... at leat with computer systems it hasn't. Suing... well, have you ever heared of anyone get a penny off M$ for the bilions lost on their syste

Re: Dll's missing

2002-06-18 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.18 13:42 Duane Clark wrote: YUFUFI wrote: I'm using winestuptk and it put some line for dlls : [DllOverrides] ; default for all other dlls "*" = "builtin, native, so" I'm not pointing a window dir right now. 'cos whether I point it or not. wine can't find same dlls like DISPLAY.d

Re: Can't get audio to work

2002-06-19 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.18 23:59 Glen Lee Edwards wrote: On Tuesday 18 June 2002 12:41 am, you wrote: > The 'K7' builds are only for us who run AMD Athlons. I thought I > made this point in my previous message, but obviously not. Not sure what you mean. Last I heard the Duron, Thunderbird, and XP are all p

Re: Apache Exploit Released - where is an update for Woody?

2002-06-20 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.19 23:29 John wrote: There's now an exploit in the wild for Apache (the chunked whatever bug). The DSA mentions an update which is version 1.3.9-14.1 We need a version > 1.2.12, and are running 1.3.23 from woody. Is there any idea where a patched 1.3.23 for woody might be? Or should

Apache 1.3.26 compatible build of libapache-mod-perl

2002-06-21 Thread Ian D. Stewart
Howdy Folks, I recently tried to upgraded my Apache installation from 1.3.24 to 1.3.26 IOT get the recent security patch and got the following error: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libapache-mod-perl: Depends: apache-common (< 1.3.25) but 1.3.26-1 is to b

Re: Apache 1.3.26 compatible build of libapache-mod-perl

2002-06-21 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.21 12:55 Christopher Swingley wrote: * Ian D. Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-Jun-21 07:10 AKDT]: > Does anyone know when a build of libapache-mod-perl that is compatible > with apache-common 1.3.26-1 will be made available? Point your favorite http cl

Re: Apache 1.3.26 compatible build of libapache-mod-perl

2002-06-21 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.21 13:27 Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 12:57:41PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Galeon reports 'incoming.debian.org could not be found. Please check > the name and try again' Well, please check the name and try again. :-) It does exist, but was

Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.18

2002-06-22 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.22 09:38 Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: Sorry to pick up this conversation midstream, but all this talk of kernel upgrades got me wondering, and I decided to try it for myself. I have downloaded the sources and uncompressed them where they should be. I made the link (if I should or not, t

Re: Apache Exploit Released - where is an update for Woody?

2002-06-22 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.20 22:02 Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 01:58:23PM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: | On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:04:40 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | >On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 01:29:04PM +1000, John wrote: | | >Nonetheless, the DSA says it affects 64-bit architectur

Re: How stable is dual head, twin view feature ?

2002-06-24 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Sunday 23 June 2002 23:44, tvn1981 wrote: > > - Nvidia GF2 - couldn't get the Nvidia binary drivers even to run, let > > alone try it with Xinerama. > > I got it working, it just crashes and freezes X too much that I have > to stop using it. I have XFree86 4.1.0.1 running with a GeForce 2 400MX

Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-24 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Sunday 23 June 2002 23:40, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Thanks Brian for the CVS tips. But even if I were to go that route I > must still locate all the files except for in /home that I have > changed from the virgin debian system. I imagine it would be relatively straight forward to write a shell sc

Re: DEPMOD messages at boot time

2002-06-24 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Monday 24 June 2002 18:31, Larry Smith wrote: > Since building my kernel, when booting a screen or two > of depmod warnings (or errors?) flash by so fast I > can't read them. It happens during boot right after > the message "Checking Dependencies" comes up. > > After booting is complete, dmesg

Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-24 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Monday 24 June 2002 18:03, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:25:33AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > On Sunday 23 June 2002 23:40, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > > Thanks Brian for the CVS tips. But even if I were to go that route I > > > must still locate

Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-25 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Monday 24 June 2002 20:19, Ian D. Stewart wrote: I know, pretty bad, replying to my own mail... ;) > > I think I'm starting to see the problem. As far as I can tell, dpkg does > not record the datetime when any particular package is installed/upgraded, > and I can't fi

Re: X, Window manager, and startup question

2002-06-25 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Tuesday 25 June 2002 10:41, Dave Whiteley wrote: > Help please, > > I am using xdm and icewm, (but I suspect that my problem relates to > other window managers as well). I start up several applications at > login, using .xsession but these all start up in the first virtual > screen. Is there any

Re: apache + apache-ssl

2002-06-25 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Tuesday 25 June 2002 08:34, Jan Johansson wrote: > Installing the .23 apache removed my apache-ssl, no worries since it was a > lab system, but uhm.. how do i proceed if i _want_ apache and apache-ssl on > the same rig? Have you tried installing libapache-mod-ssl? As I understand it, this, in

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