Re: Explorer-type file manager

2003-02-17 Thread John Griffiths
You might also look into purchasing a copy of Xandros, which is a debian-based distro; the reviews I've read of the Xandros File Manager (called xfm, but not to be confused with another filemanager by that name) make it sound like it's several steps beyond either of the above, and perhaps even less

Re: server side ftp

2003-02-24 Thread John Griffiths
Seneca wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:14:46PM -0600, Noll, Ralph wrote: i need ftp installed so i can ftp to the box any ideas apt-cache search ftpd #apt-get install proftpd is my personal recommendation, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: kernel: lp0 on fire ????

2003-03-06 Thread John Griffiths
Yes, you are using a retarded email client and inserting this huge disclaimer bullshit which is all one one line. You asked for that one :-) Wow, you're in a charming mood today dude. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Installing freefonts, where is /usr/X11/lib/fonts in debian ?

2003-03-12 Thread John Griffiths
surely "serif" and "sans serif" are about the limit of what you want for web-work? or are you talking about fonts for images? dave selby wrote: I am trying to install freefonts, according to the README I untar it in /usr/X11/lib/fonts. There is not one in debian ! it goes as far as lib. Any id

Re: using white noise for cryptography

2003-03-13 Thread John Griffiths
In this situation would a third party with a copy of the audio environment (say through bugging) be able to use that against the crypto? Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, sean finney wrote: 2. is there a way to inject bytes into the entropy pool of the linux kernel?

botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-19 Thread John Griffiths
Whoops, missed a step converting a box to ext3 procedure i was using was: 1) #tune2fs -j /dev/hda* for all ext2 file systems. 2) edit /etc/fstab to change all references from ext2 to auto 3) #touch/forcefsck 4) reboot only i forgot step 2 it rebooted fine and #cat /proc/mounts shows the /

RE: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-19 Thread John Griffiths
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Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-19 Thread John Griffiths
> >Nope. ext3 is ext2 with a journal, basically. You might need to >compile ext3 in, or have the module loaded from initrd. > so could i skip re-running the tune? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-19 Thread John Griffiths
> >You don't need to redo the tune2fs -j commands. You already have journals; >they're just not being used yet. Just edit /etc/fstab and reboot. > >I don't know why you're doing the touch/forcefsck. I don't think it's >necessary. > great, thanks. the forcefsck was recommended to me i didn't think

ASUS266-VM

2003-01-20 Thread John Griffiths
g'day all, I've got a new machine with an "A7N266-VM SocketA M/ATX nVidia nForce220D DDR VGA/audio/LAN" mobo (hoping to get it running as a desktop box running deb) I understand the video is a nvidia 220D Geforce 2, sound a Realtek 8201L not sure what the hell the networking is (will get a new

Re: ASUS266-VM

2003-01-20 Thread John Griffiths
>alvin > >On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, John Griffiths wrote: > >> g'day all, >> >> I've got a new machine with an "A7N266-VM SocketA M/ATX nVidia nForce220D >> DDR VGA/audio/LAN" mobo (hoping to get it running as a desktop box running >> de

Re: ASUS266-VM

2003-01-20 Thread John Griffiths
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Re: ASUS266-VM

2003-01-21 Thread John Griffiths
which module for the nic Alvin? At 02:05 PM 1/21/03 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > >hi ya > >> have you been able to start sound and network >> I have a similar card A7N8X but I have hard time to have at least net >> installed >> any idea > >i played w/ and have working a7s-vm a7n266e and a7m266-vm >

Re: ASUS266-VM

2003-01-21 Thread John Griffiths
ok, now i'm getting confused (maybe just fused), the display driver runs the NIC as well? At 03:00 PM 1/21/03 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > >hi ya > >if you've got a mv w/ the nvidia chipset. you need to get the >latest/greatest modules from nvidia.com > >c ya >

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread John Griffiths
> >I strongly suspect that at least some of the confusion is the result of >the environment. Legacy MS Windows *doesn't* let you know what's going >on, it *does* change arbitrarially between versions, and often a given >system will change its behavior unexpectedly, for unknown reasons. But >there

can't make kernel for win4lin

2003-01-26 Thread John Griffiths
G'day guys, trying to compile a kernel with win4lin patches everything seems fine until halfway through the boot when it starts complaining about not being to access modules.dep can anyone think of anything obvious i should be doing to avoid this? thanks John ___

Re: what's fstype 83? "Linux"?

2003-01-27 Thread John Griffiths
>Type 83 is not nessaeseraly ext2. it could be one of many file systems >suported by linux. try ext3, reiserfs (or even xfs and jfs). > On slink??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ntp ha no installation candidate (woody)

2003-01-27 Thread John Griffiths
I use ntp-simple and am immensely happy with the result the clocks in this building are also callibrated off a time server and watching the computers go "tick tick tick" in time with the clocks is a source of joy in the depressing harrowed wasteland of my life. (ok i'm exagerating about my life,

Re: ntp ha no installation candidate (woody)

2003-01-27 Thread John Griffiths
oh with the use of it, have the timeserver addy you want handy, debconf will ask you the address just type it in and away you go, give it half an hour (to sync) and then set your other boxes to query the first one (avoids unnecessary traffic to the public servers) I use ntp-simp

good GUI file manager in woody

2003-01-28 Thread John Griffiths
apologies for default stationery on previous message, plaease ignore that. g'day guys. I'm looking for a good multipane GUI file manager for woody, preferably with ftp support or would I be better off dedicating a workspace and arranging konq windows? (konq does upload right?) --

good GUI file manager in woody

2003-01-28 Thread John Griffiths
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good GUI file manager in woody

2003-01-28 Thread John Griffiths
apologies for default stationery on previous message, plaease ignore that. g'day guys. I'm looking for a good multipane GUI file manager for woody, preferably with ftp support or would I be better off dedicating a workspace and arranging konq windows? (konq does upload right?)

Re: Debian GNU/LInux 3.0 - Win4Lin 4.0

2002-10-31 Thread John Griffiths
My understanding was that "unsupported" distros could still use wn4lin but had to patch and compile the kernel themselves. Might be worth slipping a case of beer to someone in your local LUG if you're uncomfortable doing that. John At 05:48 AM 11/1/02 +0100, fritz wrote: Hello world, us

Re: repost - anybody knows power-point substitute?

2002-11-10 Thread John Griffiths
>I have been able to open up "most" Powerpoint presentations with Open >Office here, but it isn't 100% perfect. OpenOffice seems to do a decent >job on M$ Office files. I have no problems at all on M$Word or Excel. > you don't have to have a full version of office, MS do make "viewers" availa

Re: MP# (or OGG) -> WAV? How?

2002-11-17 Thread John Griffiths
>Actually, Moore's "Law" has nothing to do with storage space or bandwidth, >more of both being needed to store/transmit song collections today. >-- well it does allow real time compression/decompression allowing more effective use of bandwith. doesn't get you over Shannon's Law however. --

Debian reference - Three Cheers for Osamu

2002-11-18 Thread John Griffiths
Just finished printing the Debian Reference to dead-tree (i'll need it most when the computers aren't working won't I?) www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.pdf Wanted to say Three Cheers for Osamu Aoki's brilliant work with this magnificent guide. I'll allow myself a moment of van

Re: Help configuring old mozilla compile

2002-12-03 Thread John Griffiths
Phoenix it's light, it's fast, it's *just* a browser, its moz/gecko based. only at 0.4 but even here in windows land it's what we've waited these long years for t 08:08 PM 12/3/02 +, Pigeon wrote: >On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 01:59:11AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: >> Oki DZ wrote: >> > On Sun, De

Re: audio cd

2002-12-03 Thread John Griffiths
sorry to state the bleeding obvious, but is the user in the audio group? At 08:48 PM 12/3/02 -0800, Shawn Lamson wrote: >Did you try to install cdcd ? Or try running xmms from an x-term to >see if there is any error message? I think that /dev/cdrom should be a >sym link to /dev/hdc and should ha

Re: Debian System requirements

2002-12-09 Thread John Griffiths
At 07:07 PM 12/9/02 -0800, Ben Jamer wrote: >hello! i was looking for the system reuqirements for >debian, but not the normal ones. I'm looking for the >newest distro that will run on a 486/66dx2 with 24 >megs of ram and a 1 gig hdd. the answer is yes, and no you can do a base install no problem

Re: System beeps and then hang :(

2002-12-09 Thread John Griffiths
have you still got your mobo manual? sounds like it could be some kind of warning diagnostic. the graphics heavy stuff will be running the CPU hard so it might not be the graphics card. Is the box getting hot? At 07:58 AM 12/10/02 +0100, Jonas Persson wrote: >Hi, i have an old PIII 500 mhz syst

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-10 Thread John Griffiths
woooah antialiasing (smoothing) can be turned on and off in the settings in acroread, have you looked there? At 04:51 PM 12/10/02 -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >Alan Shutko wrote: > >>Brian Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> I'm using gs 7.05. Some examples of what I described are here: >> >

Re: Good open source primer?

2003-03-25 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman details at: http://www.fsf.org/doc/book13.html maybe not gentle but certainly effective. stan wrote: | I found myself in a discussion wiht my bosses boss this morning. It was | abou

Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 G'day all. Due to a somewhat complicated set of circumstances I'm looking for a decent non graphical shell based text editor to write prose with. - - basically i want to be able to ssh onto my server and write from a number of remote locations. I kn

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > vim also has some neat search features, syntax highlighting (if your > prose happens to be C, Lisp, or some other code), online help, and a > bunch of others. > Thanks for that, I should clarify that the language I want to

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > vim, emacs, pico, nano, ... these are all text editors. How you format > your text is up to you. (This was written in vim.) > Yep, OK. what I'm after is a recommendation from others who might have used something like

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Travis Crump wrote: > > Is this a troll? I prefer vim, a good number of people prefer emacs. > Both will suit your needs. > > No, not a troll, I want to know if any of the editors are aimed at writers rather than coders, maybe they aren't, maybe the

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks very much. Tom Massey wrote: > * John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-03 13:09]: > >>what I'm after is a recommendation from others who might have used >>something like this to write 5,000 word pl

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric G. Miller wrote: > IMHO, it is better to write in plain text, focusing on *content* first, > and worry about *presentation* much, much later. I've seen people waste > enormous amounts of time formatting draft word processor documents over > and o

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto Sanchez wrote: > vim also has some neat search features, syntax highlighting (if your >> > prose happens to be C, Lisp, or some other code), online help, and a >> > bunch of others. >> > >> >> Thanks for that, I should clarify that the languag

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Waters wrote: > > If you haven't already tried it, you might like fte/sfte. > > Michael > > cool, it looks feature rich, what do you like about it? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozi

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-03 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks to everyone who contributed. Emacs seems to have a very similar control structure to the ancient perfect writer on my fathers old kaypro, so i'll give it a shot as a happy return to my childhood. (BTW the tutorial sold it to me along with Nea

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-03 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hmmm, just wrote a 1,600 article in emacs via ssh. I'm not using all the navigation aids very well yet but i can see where I'm going from here. I really liked the ispell interface. Thanks very much for all the suggestions. John John

Re: Dumb Newbie KDE Pager Question

2003-06-03 Thread John Griffiths
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ummm, rightclick on the top bar of the window (or on the taskbar icon) there should be an option saying "to desktop" Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:46:20AM -0400, RB wrote: > >>How do I move a window from one desktop to another in t

Re: Debian hotswap and 5 9's - resend please.. mail was down

2002-12-11 Thread John Griffiths
>Remember that 315 seconds includes time to upgrade software to fix >bugs, to maintain hardware, backup databases etc. you need backups on these beasts? But i thought they never crashed?? (just joking) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

dhcp setup

2002-12-12 Thread John Griffiths
hi all, I'm a little confused... I've run dhcp boxes (freesco and NAT'ing firewall routers) so I was expecting it to be a little easier under debian. I'm on a fixed IP network, but there are some free addresses I'd like to make available for guest boxes. I thought a dhcp server would be simple

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-12-14 Thread John Griffiths
>No. I really don't want to be messing >around with old boxes. I want something FAST like this unit so you can just >press the reset button (if anything goes wrong) and get going again. >Boots in about 5 seconds. > http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/12/04/2346215.shtml?tid=19 sounds exactly like

Re: problem converting and writing mp3 to CD

2002-12-15 Thread John Griffiths
at a wild guess your cd writer is faster than your mp3 conversion. in any event running 2 CPU heavy events, and one of them time critical (if the cd writer buffer empties you blow the burn) is not smart. At 01:05 AM 12/16/02 +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: >Hi, > >i found a script to convert mp3

Re: problem converting and writing mp3 to CD

2002-12-15 Thread John Griffiths
>> at a wild guess your cd writer is faster than your mp3 conversion. >it's a Benq 32x10x40 sounds fast. If it's writing the tracks faster than mpg123 is making it that would be your problem cold. > >It's a script that i found on many sites though so that surprises me a bit. >(it's mentioned in

Re: MP3 to WaveConverter

2002-12-16 Thread John Griffiths
mpg123 read the man page At 02:22 PM 12/16/02 -0800, suresh kumar sharma wrote: >hello, > >does anybody knowof any mp3 to wave converter's > thanks >suresh > >__ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. >http://mailplus

Re: Server Recommendations

2002-12-18 Thread John Griffiths
>If you want to run a database backend for a CMS (if I remember >correctly, that's what drupal is, right?), you'll need even more RAM -- >my machine slowed noticably when I've run mysql in the past. But it's >certainly do-able on this hardware, and the ram for these machines is >still fairly easily

Re: simple exim configuration

2002-12-18 Thread John Griffiths
At 11:17 PM 12/18/02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: >What do I need to do to get exim to get mail from my ISP? Or at least >where is the best document or tutorial to read to answer my own questions? exim doesn't fetch mail fetchmail fetches mail. from the sound of it you don't really need exim (or a

Re: Debian as a packet shaper

2002-12-30 Thread John Griffiths
> in all my >years of using linux I've only read/heard about a couple people that >have tried/and or use the bridging features of linux. And all of those >people were discussing IDSs on another mailing list recently. By contrast >I've known many people over the years who use free/openbsd in bridged

burning divx to play on dvd player

2003-01-02 Thread John Griffiths
hullo all. I've got a divx file (not a copyrighted one, it's from http://www.crewoftwo.com/movie/index.html and they made it themselves) that i'd like to play on a dvd player. my flatmate burns them under windows all the time but i don't ahve a windows cd bruner and figure it shouldn't me too har

Re: burning divx to play on dvd player

2003-01-02 Thread John Griffiths
wow, lots of work to get all the bits i need, thanks for that I'll have another shot next week. At 04:46 AM 1/3/03 +, Travis Crump wrote: >John Griffiths wrote: >> hullo all. >> >> I've got a divx file (not a copyrighted one, it's from >> http://w

Re: burning divx to play on dvd player

2003-01-05 Thread John Griffiths
> >Throw in MPlayer (MEncoder's more popular brother) to preview >your creation. Also available at that site is avidemux, which has >a gui that will let you do simple edits. Once you have converted >the DivX to MPEG-1 (or 2, if you want an SVCD), you go much of >the same route: vcdimager to create

windows apps under debian

2003-01-06 Thread John Griffiths
Hello all, I'm about to attempt a desktop linux trial in my office and need some advice on approaches to applicaiton portability. There are windows apps that are not, at this time optional so one way or another I'll have to get them to go, or stay off the linux desktop. the list of apps is:

Re: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?

2003-01-08 Thread John Griffiths
icewm always made me very happy in lightweight environments. At 11:12 AM 1/9/03 +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: >hello all > >i am doing most of my work in console and was looking for a small and >fast window manager for some occasional work there. > >aesthetics, bells and whistles do not matter m

Re: ISO image

2003-01-13 Thread John Griffiths
At 07:41 PM 1/13/03 -0500, alex wrote: >A real beginners question. What is an ISO image? There's >a lot of stuff out there but I can't find anything that >defines what it is...what it does. Can someone point me >to somewhere that discusses it? > It's a single file which is an image of

Re: ISO image

2003-01-13 Thread John Griffiths
> >Can you give an example of CD burning software that doesn't support >ISO images? > There's some ugly windows gear that if it does support it doesn't give many clues as to how to use it. Been a few years since i burned a CD under windows tho, might be ubiquitous now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-18 Thread John Griffiths
> >Actually, I know several journos who use Debian. It makes testing and >evaluating SW packages trivial. > Further to that, in the non-tech press I know many political journo's with a love affair with abiword under windows. mostly because it doesn't play silly games with them. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Worried about Exim, my mail is dissappearing?

2002-09-04 Thread John Griffiths
>I guess it could possibly be my firewall, but it hasn't been changed >lately and this problem seems to have appeared over the last few weeks >(since replacing our mail server and POP with IMAP). AFAIK, the way >SMTP works is that the remote MTA connects directly to my MTA and the >transfer is ju

Re: exim configuration and relaying

2002-09-21 Thread John Griffiths
At 12:28 AM 9/22/02 -0400, Scott Henson wrote: >I have a small network which I am trying to setup a mail server for. I >would like to get my box to relay the mail for the rest on the network, >but it just wont. For one, it wont relay the mail when I use eximconfig >and tell it to let the explici

Re: exim configuration and relaying

2002-09-21 Thread John Griffiths
> >Well that would work cause I would be relaying for would be 3 otehr >computers, but right now its not even working on one. I currently have >to ssh and send this in mutt. I have relaying set to 192.168.0.x (x >being the final octet for my machine) in eximconfig on the server. But >it still won

Re: VERY OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread John Griffiths
>"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry >into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It >both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of >war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and

Re: WYSIWYG editor for Style sheets??

2000-08-20 Thread John Griffiths
At 11:39 AM 8/20/2000 -0500, John Foster wrote: >Anyone ever heard or seen any type of WYSIWYG editor for style sheets. I >want to spped up my web development process and figure this could save >me a lot of time. I guess actually any tool that would allow me to save >the sheets in .css format and u

Re: Again a stormix question

2000-08-21 Thread John Griffiths
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Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-21 Thread John Griffiths
Kent West wrote: >Perhaps this isn't the time or place to ask, but what about using IMAP >instead of POP (on "client" machines, like a family computer, not >"servers")? Unless you need to be disconnected from your email server >(which I realize is needed in some situations) or have a tendency to >e

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-21 Thread John Griffiths
At 11:46 PM 8/21/2000 +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: >Back to Linux... >If (to the person who started this thread) does not want to mix his personal >and professional emails then he should have two accounts on his Linux >machine. Then, as the mail comes in and is handed over to the MTA, the MTA >sho

Re: GDM no more working on Woody

2000-08-22 Thread John Griffiths
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WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-22 Thread John Griffiths
Bright was my heart and high my hopes when first i places a "slink" disk into my cdrom in the year of our lord 1999. Those first early skirmishes resulted in crushing defeats. I will bear the scars to my grave. In recent months the battle has intensified... a long grim week with an installed s

Re: WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-22 Thread John Griffiths
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Re: WOOHOO - the Potato is installed!

2000-08-22 Thread John Griffiths
At 07:56 PM 8/22/2000 -0600, montefin wrote: >ATTN: John Griffiths, > >You must report to Penn State immediately. > >By Penn State we do not mean Penn State, the honorable state university. >We mean the Pennsylvania State Penitentiary. > >There, you must immediately iden

Re: We need a Search Engine! Was: We need a FAQ.

2000-08-22 Thread John Griffiths
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Re: Mouse Doesn't Work with X

2000-08-23 Thread John Griffiths
this is the question i know the answer to! ps2 mice are at device psaux when you do the xf86setup you need to change /dev/mouse to /dev psaux then hit "a" for apply... i imagine a symlink between /dev/mouse and /dev/psaux might do the trick too? At 04:35 PM 8/23/2000 +0900, Peter Kim wrote: >G

apt-get

2000-08-23 Thread John Griffiths
can anyone point me to a really good resource for how to use apt-get? NO NOT THE MAN PAGE PLEASE!!! please? in particular i'm running potato but i want some woody packages... so i add the woody path to /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get install [woody package not available in potato]

Re: Star Office

2000-08-23 Thread John Griffiths
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Re: apt-get

2000-08-23 Thread John Griffiths
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:17:02AM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: >> can anyone point me to a really good resource for how to use apt-get? >> >> NO NOT THE MAN PAGE PLEASE!!! please? >> >> in particular i'm running potato but i wa

Re: Potato CD doesn't seem bootable

2000-08-24 Thread John Griffiths
tried a boot disk? At 08:05 PM 8/24/2000 -0700, Peter Hoff wrote: >Hi all, > >1) I downloaded the i386 version of binary-i386-1.iso > on a windows machine with a free, fast connection, >2) burned the image onto a cd, >3) and tried to use the cd to install debian 2.2 on my laptop. > >The pro

Re: apt-get problem

2000-08-24 Thread John Griffiths
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Re: No cdaudio with 2.2.17pre6 ;(

2000-08-29 Thread John Griffiths
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Re: Potato on a laptop

2000-08-30 Thread John Griffiths
i got sndconfig out of woody and it worked ok used dpkg to install it without doing the full upgrade... At 04:38 PM 8/30/2000 +1100, Triggs; Ian wrote: >Hi, I recently succesfully installed potato on my Toshiba Satellite >2100CDS laptop. All is working fine, in fact, it was the easiest install

Re: Potato on a laptop

2000-08-30 Thread John Griffiths
and >added some different form of sound support? If I do, what sort of support >should I compile into the kernel? > > > >On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, John Griffiths wrote: > >> i got sndconfig out of woody and it worked ok >> >> used dpkg to install it without doing th

Re:

2000-09-04 Thread John Griffiths
Screenshots are dependent on the window manager, not the operating system. i can show you 3 pictures all looking exactly the same running on radically different unixes similarly i can show you three radically different screenshots all running on debian. if its the look of the user interface yo

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-04 Thread John Griffiths
Greater care taken with legality of licensing issues? At 08:02 PM 9/4/2000 -0700, Dale L . Morris wrote: >Easier administration because of better/more bulletproof package >management > > >Wayne Sitton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Here is the situation, I'm a Debian user. The company I work for,

apt-get install task

2000-09-05 Thread John Griffiths
g'day all can someone explain how i would get a list of tasks for apt-get install task-***? thanks

Re: apt-get install task

2000-09-05 Thread John Griffiths
thank you very much i new about apt-cache but not that it could be used this way At 08:41 AM 9/5/2000 +0200, Åsmund Ødegård wrote: > >Tue, 05 Sep skrev John Griffiths: >> g'day all >> >> can someone explain how i would get a list of tasks for >> apt-get inst

Re: Current correct woody URL's for apt-get?

2000-09-06 Thread John Griffiths
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Re: sndconfig?

2000-09-07 Thread John Griffiths
At 07:08 PM 9/7/2000 +0200, Peter Fedichev wrote: >Hello, > >how do I configure a soundcard (is there anything like sndconfig in >RedHat)? How should I >set dma irq etc? > >thanks in advance You can get sndconfig as a woody package and it will work under potato you need to remember to add your use

Re: Staring Gnome ???

2000-09-07 Thread John Griffiths
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2000-09-12 Thread John Griffiths
At 02:11 PM 9/12/2000 -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: >OK I've rtfm'ed to the best of my ability, and I still have no >idea how to make gtk_gnutella do anything interesting. It does >run, but "search" does nothing. Maybe I have to edit the >.gtk_gnutella/hosts file? Tried that. Maybe you can just tel

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-08-11 Thread John Griffiths
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apologies if this is rtfm

2000-08-14 Thread John Griffiths
apologies if this is rtfm if it is can someone please tell me *which* FM i should be RT'ing is there an easy way to bring a stormix box over to full debian? i know there is a howto on doing this with corel... last time i tried simply changing the sources.list and things got ugly but that might

Re: What is stormix

2000-08-16 Thread John Griffiths
even easier... most cd-burner software in windows world will assocaite the .iso extension just right click on the file from your file manager (windows explorer.. whatever) At 12:35 PM 8/16/2000 -0700, Greg Strockbine. wrote: >I used Adaptec's Easy CD creator on win98 >to burn my stormix disk. Y

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-16 Thread John Griffiths
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Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-16 Thread John Griffiths
John Hasler wrote: >This puts the size limiting function where it belongs and does not destroy >mail. >-- learning to use/master fetchmail is on my list of things to do (somewhere after getting a useable X in debian) but in the meantime i need to get my mail the windows model of mail clien

Is there something i'm missing here (WAS Which version of Debian will run on my system?)

2000-08-17 Thread John Griffiths
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Re: X can't find the mouse!

2000-08-17 Thread John Griffiths
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wav --> audio cd

2001-02-12 Thread John Griffiths
g'day, can anyone point me to resources for copying audio cd's under debian? i've got cdparanoia stripping the tracks to .wav on the HD but need some guidance for putting them back onto a blank in a way a stero could read. Cheers, John

Re: wav --> audio cd

2001-02-12 Thread John Griffiths
At 09:09 PM 2/12/2001 -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: >also sprach John Griffiths (on Tue, 13 Feb 2001 01:02:43PM +1100): >> i've got cdparanoia stripping the tracks to .wav on the HD but need >> some guidance for putting them back onto a blank in a way a stero >> could read. >

Re: A debian-based distro for the New

2001-02-13 Thread John Griffiths
>No, the rising star in the Debian fold, apart from Debian itself, of >course, appears to be Progeny Debian. Beta 3 is available for free >download and is actually very usable indeed - maybe even for the new user. >The install is certainly very straightforward. > I realise this is wandering OT now

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