help required with X configuration and mouse

2001-04-29 Thread Joseph
Hi, I have a Logitech First Mouse with 3 buttons and Serial connection. IT is connected to COM1 or ttyS1. I have Diamond Viper V330 and use the X server as XF86_SVGA. The Debain Desktop starts properly but the mouse does not function properly. A mouse pointer is shown on the screen but it r

Re: help required with X configuration and mouse

2001-05-03 Thread Joseph
me. Thanks for your reply. On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 09:58:16PM +0530, Joseph wrote: Hi, I have a Logitech First Mouse with 3 buttons and Serial connection. IT is connected to COM1 or ttyS1. I have Diamond Viper V330 and use the X server as XF86_SVGA. The Debain Desktop starts properly but

xdm and gdm

2001-05-30 Thread Joseph
Hi, I have been using xdm as my display manager recently on Debian Potato 2.2. I would like to replace it by gdm. For this I have the following queries :- 1) Recently I read in this mailing list that to use gdm I have to remove xdm. Cannot both of them coexist? i.e. both of them are installed

[CONFUSED NEWBIE] Cron

2004-11-05 Thread Joseph
cron doing there? It seems to forever be in memory, and I do occassionally receive CRON email messages with reports, such as /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: 3. Do I need to install crond? How do I do that? 4. Should I get rid of the cron process documented above? TIA, Joseph -- To UNSUBSCR

apache redirect in htaccess

2004-05-07 Thread Joseph
ww.mydomain.com/ apache tells me "redirection limit for this url exceeded If I use: https://www.mydomain.com/directory apache tries to access https://www.mydomain.com/directorydirectory What am I doing wrong? Joseph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Debian downgrade from unstable to testing

2004-05-27 Thread Joseph
Is there a way to downgrade Debian unstable to testing. Few days ago I did dist-upgrade and samba is broken, today when I did dist-upgrade, evolution email was de-installed and is broken now. -- Joseph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Debian downgrade from unstable to testing

2004-05-27 Thread Joseph
I did change in source.list unstable to testing: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade but it didn't do anything. I still can not reinstall the evolution nor samba. They are experimenting with unstable too much, it is not for me. -- Joseph On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 09:49, Adam Aube wrote: >

Re: Debian downgrade from unstable to testing

2004-05-27 Thread Joseph
Is there anything I'm missing here? The thing I don't understand that I had samba and evolution installed and working so why at some point the dist-upgrade de-install these packages without replacing them with working copy? -- Joseph On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 11:03, Adam Aube wrote: > Jos

Re: Debian downgrade from unstable to testing

2004-05-27 Thread Joseph
I don't have this manual 5 apt_preferences installed. When I create the preferences file name, I get: E: Invalid record in preferences file... I've installed my debian from Knoppix, though it shouldn't make much difference I think. -- Joseph > Read about pinning man 5 apt_pr

EOF on net-drivers.img

2004-03-03 Thread Joseph
net-drivers.img from unstable to floppies and confirm it. Is it a bug? -- Joseph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: EOF on net-drivers.img

2004-03-03 Thread Joseph
files nothing prints out. -- Joseph On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 18:24, Joey Hess wrote: > Joseph wrote: > > However, the cd-drivers.img & net-drivers.img are giving me an error: > > EOF on net-drivers.img etc. > > Tell us the real error message, not a paraphrased fragment. I

umount: /target/proc/bus/usb: Invalid argument

2004-03-04 Thread Joseph
Invalid argument Anybody knows how to get around it? My PC is an older type (no CD) only network card. If I go through stable distribution I need to download all these floppies so it is not very appealing. -- Joseph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

configuring eht0 after bootstrap

2004-03-05 Thread Joseph
My network card wasn't recognized after initial bootstrap (base installation from floppies). How to configure network card at this point? I know the network card (eth0) works as it was recognized when I tried to boot and install unstable system from floppies. -- Joseph -- To UNSUBS

Configuring X server

2004-03-05 Thread Joseph
How to configure X in Debian. I must have don't some configuration incorrectly as I can not read any fonts on the screen. Ctrl+Alt+1 is showing the same unreadable fonts. Lilo will not prompt at boot time either. -- Joseph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Configuring X server

2004-03-05 Thread Joseph
My problem is that F1 is showing the same "garbage" on the screen as F7 I think I have to un-install X-server along with configuration files and reinstall it again. What is the command to un-install X-server along with config files. -- Thanks, Joseph > > I must have don'

Re: Configuring X server

2004-03-06 Thread Joseph
oot from one of > the installation CDs. Enter for example "rescbf24 root=somedev init s" > when using the first CD to use the 2.4 rescue kernel. It turned out my xserver wasn't correctly installed. -- Joseph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mounting and accessing floppy

2004-03-06 Thread Joseph
loppy vfat user,noauto 0 0 and whenever I try to mount floppy mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy I get a mess a message: mount: wrong fs type, bad options, bad superblock on /dev/fd0 What am I doing wrong? By the way how do I give user permission to mount floppy My /floppy directory has mod 7

Re: Debian Slow?

2004-03-07 Thread Joseph
lly makes. > > > > Gentoo is much faster than debian. Somebody did some comparison recently between Debian, Gentoo and RedHat I think (though I don't know the link anymore) and it turns out that Gentoo is not much faster at all and in some cases it was ever slower than Debian

Re: phpmyadmin: help!

2004-03-10 Thread Joseph
pmyadmin. Do I need to copy all these files to web-root directory; or I didn't complete the setup. -- Joseph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (SOLVED) phpmyadmin: help!

2004-03-10 Thread Joseph
All it was needed was one one in /etc/apache/httpd.conf Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf -- Joseph On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 14:46, Joseph wrote: > I'm following this discussion regarding phpmyadmin as I have the same > problem on Debian. I can make it go go. > > Though, i

mondo / mindi with debian

2004-03-21 Thread Joseph
Is anybody using mondo with Debian? I'm trying to test "mindi" (ver. 0.86) and I get an error message "Where is liblvm?" Could it be because I'm using Knoppix Debian installation? -- Joseph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: mondo / mindi with debian

2004-03-21 Thread Joseph
That message: "\Where is liblvm? You need it." is apparently gone in ver. 0.87 of mindi. == end quote === How do you compile mindi-0.87 on Debian? -- Joseph > I do not know what that means. But this what I do: > > I am using mondo with Debian but I don't use the

Re: What e-commerce with debian ?

2004-03-28 Thread Joseph
Your best option is OSCommerce (GPL). http://www.oscommerce.com/ We have a Debian backup box running OSC, very easy to install. http://www.sysconcept.ca -- Regards, Joseph On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 06:22, .- pavel sokol -. wrote: > Hallo, > > What e-commerce would you recommend to inst

webowner webgroup

2004-03-30 Thread Joseph
I'm writing a script and I need to find out the webowner and webgroup of the apache server when I'm log-in as root. How do I do it? -- Joseph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

KDE 100% CPU usage - kio_thumbnail - Excel fault

2004-04-12 Thread Joseph
% usage. Did anybody run onto similar problem? -- Joseph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE 100% CPU usage - kio_thumbnail - Excel fault

2004-04-12 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 23:21, Katipo wrote: > Joseph wrote: > > >When I open KDE folder I get almost 100% CPU usage. > >And I think I know what is causing it. The program that is taking the > >CPU usage is kio_thumbnail and the reason is the Excel file in a f

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2008-01-21 Thread Joseph
key: quit if akey is key1 and the speaker is idle: ask the thread to beep compute last_beep_end_time (at which the beep ends, eg now + 100ms) ... silently ignore keypresses while the speaker is already beeping. Cheers, Joseph

Re: help installing to this machine?

2008-01-22 Thread Joseph
I had a similar problem. I solved it installing from a USB stick. Cheers, Joseph

Re: Re: help installing to this machine?

2008-01-23 Thread Joseph
On Jan 23, 2008 2:48 PM, Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Joseph, > Was that the same hardware? My problem seem to be related to the > motherboard. Other people reported good results with the cpu. > I agree it's very likely to be related to the motherboa

Re: What the heck did emacs do with my email?

2003-03-18 Thread Joseph Barillari
that, in case sendmail decides to write to the mailspool at the same time you do. (Incidentally, does anyone know a better way to lock a mailspool before appending messages to it?) --Joe -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Slow printing with CUPS

2003-03-19 Thread Joseph Schlecht
[Please CC me to any correspondence] I having been successfully using CUPS with Debian unstable for many HP LaserJets (using networked JetDirect boxes)for quite a while. Recently, I have noticed that the print jobs take an extremely long time. Sometimes, on just a 5 page text PDF, it can take

Re: Transferring Digital Camera Images

2003-03-23 Thread Joseph Barillari
> "THG" == Thomas H George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: THG> I have a Sony DSC-S75 digital camera which has a usb port. The manual THG> states the images are stored in JPEG format and the accompanying THG> software for Windows installs the camera as an additional hard drive so

Problem with apt-get/dselect/aptitude and unstable/stable packages

2003-10-18 Thread Joseph Jones
I installed some unstable packages, and I'd like to know whether there's a way of having dselect or whatever un-install all the unstable packages without having to mess around fixing dependancies. As in, I don't want it to do anything but un-install all the unstable packages. My apt-get has bee

Re: Problem with apt-get/dselect/aptitude and unstable/stable packages

2003-10-18 Thread Joseph Jones
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 at 14:51 GMT, Joseph Jones penned: I installed some unstable packages, and I'd like to know whether there's a way of having dselect or whatever un-install all the unstable packages without having to mess around fixing dependancies. As i

Konqueror and Firebird under gnome/gmc

2003-10-20 Thread Joseph Jones
I have Firebird and Konqueror on the same system with gnome/gmc. In gnomecc, under Document Handlers/Default Applications, I have Konqueror set. However, if I happen to have Firebird open when I actually open a url with gnome, it sends it to Firebird instead of Konqueror. Do I need to change so

Using apt-get/dselect to download from a un-official repository.

2003-10-21 Thread Joseph Jones
I'd like to download xfree86 4.3.0 from this repository: http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/ I found it whilst Googling round for 4.3.0 for Debian, it was mentioned in a mailing list archive. Could anyone tell me how I would go about installing from this repository (so I can pl

Re: Using apt-get/dselect to download from a un-official repository.

2003-10-22 Thread Joseph Jones
Nick Hastings wrote: Hi, * Joseph Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031022 10:31]: I'd like to download xfree86 4.3.0 from this repository: http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/ I found it whilst Googling round for 4.3.0 for Debian, it was mentioned in a mailing list arc

xmms-mplayer can't find glib-config?

2003-10-25 Thread Joseph Jones
How do I know if I have glib installed? I've installed libglib1.2, libglib2.0.0 and libglib2.0-data, but it says it can't find glib-config. Can anyone help? I really wanna use mplayer in XMMS :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Debconf complains of database corruption; apt system wedged

2003-10-25 Thread Joseph Barillari
red while processing: debconf As tons of other stuff depends on debconf, I can't progress without it. Any suggestions on how to fix this would be appreciated. Best, --Joe -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Debconf complains of database corruption; apt system wedged

2003-10-25 Thread Joseph Barillari
>>>>> "JDB" == Joseph Barillari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JDB> Hi. After a nasty crash during a dist-upgrade, I discovered JDB> that /var/lib/dpkg/status was missing (fsck must not have JDB> been able to save it). I restored a copy form /var

Re: xmms-mplayer can't find glib-config?(Don't think the server accepted this last time).

2003-10-26 Thread Joseph Jones
installed is so dire ;) Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Joseph Jones (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: How do I know if I have glib installed? I've installed libglib1.2, libglib2.0.0 and libglib2.0-data, but it says it can't find glib-config. Can anyone help? I really wanna use mpla

xmms-mplayer can't find glib-config?(Don't think the server accepted this last time).

2003-10-26 Thread Joseph Jones
How do I know if I have glib installed? I've installed libglib1.2, libglib2.0.0 and libglib2.0-data, but it says it can't find glib-config. Can anyone help? I really wanna use mplayer in XMMS :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

fixing info: dir: No such file or directory

2003-11-02 Thread Joseph Barillari
ggestions as to how to do it would be much appreciated. best, --Joe P.S.: Please _do_ cc: me. It makes it easier to find the follow-ups. -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-06 Thread Joseph Jones
Lukas Ruf wrote: Dear all, is there any way to make Mozilla Firebird send a faked browser identification to the server? I would like it to send for some sites the MSIE identification, while for others Netscape 4.7. Can I do this with Mozilla Firebird? And how? Thanks for any help! wbr, Lukas

GRUB configuration question

2003-02-09 Thread Joseph Monti
Debian that uses GRUB). Right now GrubConf thinks the GRUB configuration file is /boot/grub/grub.conf I am wondering, could this assumption fail on a Debian system? If so, what configuration would lead to this? Thanks! - Joe -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [ Joseph

Re: Setting progs at a runlevel

2003-02-15 Thread Joseph Barillari
> "JE" == Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JE> As a RH refugee, I'm used to running the 'setup' program to enable/disable JE> program startups at runtime. For Debian, am I correct in cd'ing to the JE> /etc/rcX.d dir and moving SXXprogram to KXXprogram to disable it? J

Debian release schedule

2003-09-19 Thread Joseph Phillips
Anyone know when the next release of Debian is scheduled? Anyone know when Gnome 2.4 will become a stable Debian package? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian release schedule

2003-09-19 Thread Joseph Phillips
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 13:03, Alfredo Valles wrote: > On Friday 19 September 2003 2:41 pm, Joseph Phillips wrote: > > Anyone know when the next release of Debian is scheduled? > > > > Anyone know when Gnome 2.4 will become a stable Debian package? > > > > Thanks.

interesting issue with df

2003-09-26 Thread Gilbert, Joseph
Hi all, I have run into an interesting issue with df that I have seen before. It is annoying because I do not know what causes it and do not have enough understanding of how df works and how it gets it data (presumably from the kernel) to be able to debug this. Here is the situation. I get the

RE: S.M.A.R.T. messages - what do they mean

2003-09-26 Thread Gilbert, Joseph
To my knowledge, SMART is a utility that allows the hard drive to report certain conditions to the OS.However, it is up to the manufactor to define what gets reported and when. Is this a new drive just put into the system or did these messages just start appearing? Bottom line is that in orde

Problem Installing Unreal Tournament and Unreal Tournament 2003.

2003-10-05 Thread Joseph Jones
Hi, this is my first post to the mailing list as a subscriber. I've been having problems installing Unreal Tournament and Unreal Tournament 2003 under Linux. Everything goes fine until it asks me to mount the play disk. I already have it mounted, but it refuses to recognise it. I read this: ht

Re: Games for 1-2 year old child. Recommendations wanted.

2003-10-05 Thread Joseph Jones
Err, I'm with Klaus on this. I'm not gonna tell ya how to bring your kid up, but I was in front of screens that young and I have myopia. When kids're young they sit a few inchs away from a screen because their eyes can at that age. The problem is when you get older and you subconsciously force

Re: How to secure access to WLAN?

2003-10-08 Thread Joseph Healy
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 03:57, Mariano Kamp wrote: > Hi, > > a couple of words about my boxes set up at home. I have one box, rock, > connected to a dsl-router on one interface, outside interface, and the > remaining > boxes on another interface, inside interface. On rock I use > shorewall/iptabl

Small Debian-based distro suitable for 586? Support for large hard drives without additional hardware?

2003-10-09 Thread Joseph Jones
Does such an animal exist? I'm thinking of setting an older box up as a fileserver, but I need to know whether there're any kernel patches or modules that allow the use of large HDDs (60GB) on older machines *without* additonal hardware. Thanks :) Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Decent browsers for Linux? Anything to replace IE?

2003-10-14 Thread Joseph Jones
While I'm a huge Firebird fan, IE was better at some tasks (yes, they are non-standard HTML tasks, but what can you do when that's what the industry uses? *sigh*). I've tried Konqueror and found it lacking extremely (yes, I love it as a file manager when combined with qvwm, but it simply isn't

Re: AFS over ipmasq - does it work?

2002-10-14 Thread Joseph Dane
Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, two questions: > 1.) Is it possible to run an openafs client via NAT? and no. > 2.) If not, is it possible somehow to re-export an AFS filesystem? I'm > thinking then of mounting AFS on the firwall machine and exporting it to > the other machine v

Re: Routing doesn't start automatically

2002-10-14 Thread Joseph Dane
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not that well versed on calculating netmasks and broadcast address, > but these look a bit strange. You might try the standard settings: a netmask of 255.255.255.0 could only be consider "standard" in a LAN environment. the mask in the original mess

CUPS renders but hangs with Compaq IJ750

2003-08-27 Thread Joseph Barillari
r/lib/cups/backend/parallel", 0xbfff0250, 0xbffef5c0, 9, 10, 7) I [27/Aug/2003:07:27:28 -0400] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 693) for job 18. D [27/Aug/2003:07:27:28 -0400] ProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=0 D [27/Aug/2003:07:27:28 -0400] [Job 18] Page = 612x792; 0,0 to 61

Re: X over ssh

2003-03-30 Thread Joseph Barillari
> "PJ" == Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PJ> On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 06:22:06PM +0200, Michael Naumann wrote: >> I'm a bit clueless now. >> Hopefully anybody can help me out here. >> I have two machines m1 and m2 (both woody) connected. >> I can ssh -X successfull

Re: file splitting

2003-04-01 Thread Joseph Barillari
ormation about the file contents KH>(under the assumption that some cryptographic algorithm is KH>unbreakable). I think the Freenet project (freenetproject.org) does this with its datastore. It's open-source, so you could probably adapt its code for (2) and (3). --Joe -- Jo

Re: Galeon 1.3.4

2003-06-06 Thread Joseph Barillari
> you can get this back by setting the Gnome keyboard shortcuts >> to "emacs" instead of "gnome default". Try running gnome-keybinding-properties or gnome-keyboard-properties. --Joe BM> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to BM> [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Galeon 1.3.4

2003-06-05 Thread Joseph Barillari
of the settings have to be edited in gconf-editor: see /usr/share/doc/galeon/README.ExtraPrefs.gz I don't know about the specific examples you mentioned -- but some of the features I used disappeared between 1.2 and 1.3. --Joe -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: How to Identify Mailing Lists

2003-06-19 Thread Joseph Zaino
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 06:31:36PM +0200, Dennis Stosberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: J?rgen A.Erhard wrote: What I'm looking for is a way to tell a mail filtering tool how to automatically sort mails from mailing lists. Just two days ago Sascha Andres has ann

ALSA module snd-detect missing

2002-12-19 Thread Joseph Barillari
Hi. The alsaconf package in unstable uses a module called snd-detect to detect installed sound cards: (from /usr/sbin/alsaconf) DETECTFILE=/proc/asound/detect # Autodetection (if detect module is present) autodetect() { AUTODET=false modprobe snd-detect > /dev/null 2> /dev/null [ -f $DETE

Re: ALSA module snd-detect missing

2002-12-19 Thread Joseph Barillari
>>>>> "c" == csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: c> At Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:52:50 -0500, c> Joseph Barillari wrote: >> The alsaconf package in unstable uses a module called >> snd-detect to detect installed sound cards: c> [..

Re: ALSA module snd-detect missing (not found; but issue now moot)

2002-12-20 Thread Joseph Barillari
>>>>> "c" == csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: c> At Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:52:50 -0500, c> Joseph Barillari wrote: >> The alsaconf package in unstable uses a module called >> snd-detect to detect installed sound cards: c> [..

tetex weirdness

1999-06-06 Thread Joseph Chung
I use TeX primarily for lilypond music typesetting. Ever since the upgrade from hamm to slink, I've been frustrated with tetex. Does creating the ls-R database really need to take 30 minutes on a K6-2/333? Does xdvi really need to take 15 minutes to pop up? Anytime I try to do anything with tetex,

Re: Can I get the .deb files that I currently have installed.

1999-06-16 Thread Joseph Chung
Be careful when using dpkg-repack to "clone" a system onto another pc. I did this with a hamm system, and though I did get a more-or-less working clone system, permissions on this system were broken all over the place. Maybe, things have improved with the newest version of dpkg-repack. On Mon, Jun

epic4 pre2.004-19990618-[12] are BROKEN (Was: Uploaded epic4 pre2.004-19990618-3 (source i386) to master)

1999-06-29 Thread Joseph Carter
sn't have a prerm script, this message does not apply to you. On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 12:01:07AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > Format: 1.6 > Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 23:19:55 -0700 > Source: epic4 > Binary: epic4 epic4-dbg > Architecture: source i386 > Version: pre2.00

Re: Why is Windows faster ?

1999-07-08 Thread Joseph Chung
I need to chime in on this. I, with my untrained eye, can't tell the difference in video performance b/w my Linux box at home and my Win95 box at work. However, when my Win95 box which has 64 MB RAM starts to swap under load, which it inevitably does, everything slows down, including the popups, di

Re: ADSL

1999-07-13 Thread Joseph Carter
hey're not helping > with Linux config. Is there any way you could give me some kind of > step-by-step as to how you did it? Or to help me out somehow? If you need > any more information, let me know. What you're after is the file /etc/resolv.conf, here's what you want i

Re: infomagic

1999-07-23 Thread Joseph Carter
ing a September release, WAKE UP! It's NOT going to happen. It's NOT possible, not that soon. I think if we shoot for having it out by the holidays it could be done, however we've seen what happens if it's not done by December---everyone goes on vacation and nothing gets d

Re: infomagic

1999-07-24 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 01:48:29AM -0700, Jonathan Walther wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > > To everyone expecting a September release, WAKE UP! It's NOT going to > > happen. It's NOT possible, not that soon. I think if we shoot for having >

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails

1999-07-30 Thread Joseph Carter
t you generate a revoke certificate WITHOUT revoking the key as pgp does. The idea is that you should do this and print it. Then you put the result in a fireproof lockbox or in a safe-deposit box or something like that. > Joseph> "well first you type pgp -fkxa 0x secring.pgp | &

bind name resolution hangs for non-root users ???

1998-08-05 Thread Joseph Norton
I am having trouble with name resolution and non-root users. For non-root users, name resolution simply hangs. I haven't been able to track down the source of the problem. I'm sure that it is a simple fix, but I don't know where to start. thanks, - joe n. _

Re: /tmp permissions

1998-09-15 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 04:57:08PM -0600, Phil Humpherys wrote: > > Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It's a "good policy" for /tmp directory to have 777 > > permissions !? With such permissions any user could write on > > that directory until even > there's no more space on dev

Re: connect to Samba from DOS

1998-06-30 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 04:48:43PM -0700, Steve Mayer wrote: > Paul, > > Try ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/Clients/LANMAN/ > > There should be four disk images there that give you a the DOS > LanManager client. This should work. > > You can also use Lantastic 7.0 with the encapsulated NetBIOS

fun with mgetty

1998-06-30 Thread Joseph Carter
I was going to try and set up mgetty to allow me to call my machine from elsewhere for either ppp or shell access so I could connect from pretty much any machine with a modem. I need to also be able to locally initiate an outgoing call from this machine on the same modem for ppp or dialup access t

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-07-01 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 09:57:41PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: > > I was trying to do a clear screen after I logout from the console before > > the login > > prompt appears. > > > > Any idea how this can be done? I tried some escape sequence but doesn't > > work. > > > > TIA. > > Many folks

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-07-01 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 03:36:57AM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > Instead of all this futzing around, why not use a getty designed for > what you are doing?? I use mingetty. Not only is it smaller than > agetty, and a hair faster -- it also clears term. I have it display > linux_logo above my login prom

Re: Iomega ZIP Drive(100Meg)

1998-07-01 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 11:38:06AM -0700, Syed Huq wrote: > I have a Iomega ZIP Drive(100Meg, parallel port). How do I make > Linux see all the files there ? > > Do I need to mount that drive somehow ? Can you tell me the commands > to use ? This really belongs in debian-user, so the To: header h

Re: Directory Colors

1998-07-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 12:51:33AM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > The ls that comes w/ Debian supports colors. However it is off by > default (do not ask why). You need to add a line to /etc/profile that > says "alias ls="ls --color=auto". This wll make ls give colored > output. You can also put that l

Re: Stupid question

1998-07-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 02:24:48AM -0500, Eric wrote: > I'm trying to decide how much of my hard drive to give to the three > partitions I plan on making for /, /usr, and /home. I'm sure this is a really > silly question, but I've been reading the ls and tree manpages and can't > figure > it out.

Re: Directory Colors

1998-07-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 03:53:17AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > and the line 'source ~/bash_functions' in both .bash_profile and .bashrc. I was using . ~/... I like that better, it seems more Right. pgpQzbJMYTwtD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Debian] Running Linux from CD

1998-07-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 03:21:33PM +0200, Niklas Höglund wrote: > > is it possible to run Linux completely from CD. We have created > > I think older versions of Red Hat supported this. I remember reading > something about it on Red Hat 4.2. RH4.2 was said to no longer support > this. They didn

Re: [Debian] Running Linux from CD

1998-07-03 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 05:34:06PM +0200, Brederlow wrote: > > They didn't have space for it anymore. It'd be an interesting thing to set > > up to give people at LUG meetings. It's kinda what I wanted to do with a > > Zip disk.. Bring me a Zip disk and I'll give you a working Linux system > > t

Re: svgatextmode fails with 2.1.108

1998-07-04 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 01:23:27PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wouldn't worry too much about VGA-related stuff not working in > 2.1.107 and 2.1.108. The VGA Console is completely broken in these two > kernels. Shift-PgUp/PgDn does not work and God knows what else is > broken. As far as I kn

Re: working minicom - gets stuck on initielizing modem

1998-07-05 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 04:45:44AM -0700, Micha Feigin wrote: > I tried to set up minicom. But as a start it would only start up as > root and then tell me that i shouldn't run it as root. > Then it gets stuck on the line initielizing modem. > The same modem works when i start it from win95 crw-rw

Re: you or redhat

1998-07-18 Thread Joseph Vaughan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Subject: Re: you or redhat? > Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 23:09:47 +0100 > From: "Oliver Elphick" > To: Ken Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > Debian's: > largest number of own packages > very well tested > very easy to upgrade softwar

Re: you or redhat

1998-07-18 Thread Joseph Vaughan
George Bonser wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Joseph Vaughan wrote: > > > A serious difference between redhat 5.0's rpms and debian is that dselect > > tells you about > > conflicts and dependencies *before* it connects to the FTP site (if that is > > the m

Re: Intent to Party like its 1999

1999-02-27 Thread Joseph Carter
* Knghtbrd bops netgod for the subject line -- "Do you think she's the sincere type? ... Yeah, I was afraid of that." -- Richie Ryan, Highlander: The Series

Re: Intent to Party like its 1999

1999-02-27 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 07:15:55PM -0600, David Welton wrote: > > > Anyway, 4 PM is a bit early for me on Monday (have to work), but if > > > people would like to meet somewhere that evening, it could be fun. > > > > > > How about it? > > > > I'd recommend getting together with Joey Hess ([EMAIL

Re: Intent to Party like its 1999

1999-02-27 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 12:37:13PM -0600, David Welton wrote: > Ok, so the consensus seems to be that everyone wants to meet near > where they live;-) It might be nice to carpool a bit further south, so > as to accomodate the people closer to san jose... Urk, I don't know > if I want to drive with

Re: Missing ldd? Have libc6 on hold? Get ldso from slink...

1999-03-15 Thread Joseph Carter
reaks prcs breaks jdk breaks I'm told uhh, there was a list on #debian in the topic, someone removed it. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBEThe Source Comes First! -

Re: non-us.debian.org having problems???

1999-03-30 Thread Joseph Carter
table non-US", > which I believe to be correct. Fair reply: non-us is _ALWAYS_ broken. It's being addressed, but the end result is almost certainly going to be that Debian will end up with a new non-us server in a new location and the ftpmasters will actually have access to the n

Re: mailing list archives

1998-12-29 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 06:05:38PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > You'll find an up-to-date archive of both lists at > > ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/usenet/mailing-lists/debian-{devel,user}/ > > It's splitted by months and gzipped for older months. Noteworthy is that this unlike the HTML arc

Humptey-Dumptey

1999-01-15 Thread Joseph Tiraco
the Linux phennomenon. I was given the Red Hat CD release to work with, but the Debian policy of offering an extensive Linux system via Internet download, free and open to all, intrigued me more. I decided to try it for myself, and have been favorably impressed by the high quality of the produc

Re: stuff someone should package (Re: Audio CD & MP3)

1999-02-07 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 04:45:12PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > BladeEnc (http://home8.swipnet.se/~w-82625) is a wonderful encoder if > > you're interested in producing high-quality MP3's. > I think bladenc is binary-only, but LAME is free though it has some assembly > required. I believe source

How to minimize need for manual fsck after unclean unmount

1999-08-10 Thread Joseph Chung
I've set up a more or less fool-proof Debian box for my parents for their word processing (WP8) and internet access needs. As I predicted when I first insisted that they use Linux, they hardly need to call me at all to fix mysterious crashes and OS flakiness, something I would expect regularly if t

How to minimize need for manual fsck after unclean unmount

1999-08-13 Thread Joseph Chung
I've set up a more or less fool-proof Debian box for my parents for their word processing (WP8) and internet access needs. As I predicted when I first insisted that they use Linux, they hardly need to call me at all to fix mysterious crashes and OS flakiness, something I would expect regularly if t

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