Re: Another Happy Debian User

2003-03-09 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 10:40:58PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Jeff Elkins wrote: > >On Saturday 08 March 2003 7:27 pm, p wrote: > > > >>when i finally figured out how to > >>play dvd's on a debian (sid) box, > >>i nearly fell outta my chair. > > > >I can relate to that! > > > >I had LOTR Ex

Re: ipmasq fails to install (help!)

2003-03-09 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 07:44:42AM -0800, Ron Farrer wrote: > > Anyone got an idea why the ipmasq package in stable would fail to > install? I'v got an old machine (486 vintage with an AMD 5x86 processor > @133MHz) that I use as a firewall running latest stable. While > attempting to install ipma

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 05:53:54PM -0500, JOSEPH A NAGY JR wrote: > I am sick and... ... > ... BYE! I think he showed up late last year, yes? Still one neuron short of a functional synapse... Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the res

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:44:20AM -0800, Tom wrote: ... > I like Hondas Civics myself, closest thing to a solid-state automobile > you can by. Buy it, it's fully functional without style, but damn if it > isn't headache-free :-) Heh. I'll sell you mine (nearly new). Been a headache since day

Re: how to do a clean upgrade without losing packages?

2003-11-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I believe most of your concern is unjustified, as packages tend to get reorganized over time or replaced by appropriate alternatives (renamed, etc.). There may be some which no longer exist, but I don't {know if | believe} they would be excised for that reason. You might check the contents of some

Re: DOSEMU PROBS

2003-01-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:53:16AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've got some probs with dosemu; ... > > Sorry, there is no operating system. > Have a nice day! I don't have a direct reference for you, but if you Google/linux for this using dosemu, debian, and part of the er

Re: give me the command line - REPHRASED

2003-02-03 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 03:12:09PM +0100, Hans Christian Andersen wrote: > On booting my woody-box it goes directly into X without letting me command > startx. > How do I make it stay at a command line untill I order startx? > > Regards/venlig hilsen > Hans Christian Andersen Last suggestion abou

Re: [OT] Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-03 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:26:57AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: ... > As much of a fan of "space" science fiction that I am, the pragmatist > in me must wonder if space planes will ever become practical until > some new, relatively compact and light-weight, thrust generating energy > source is invente

Re: [OT] Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-03 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 03:52:17PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be > > > _teachers_ and the rest of us would

Re: Broken Symbolic Links in /etc/alternatives

2003-02-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 08:49:17PM +0100, Yuhanes Tjandra wrote: > Hi, > > I just removed and purged emacs21 and emacsen-common since I didn't use > it. Looking at the folder /etc/alternatives, I find out that there is > broken symbolic link which is linked emacs21. > > Is that a normal behavio

Re: how the fuck do I unsubscribe

2003-02-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:01:08AM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > You cannot unsubscribe. Noone can. Why would you want to anyway ? His continued resistance is futile. He has been assimilated. munch, munch... Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _te

Re: how the fuck do I unsubscribe

2003-02-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:48:16AM -0500, Mike M wrote: > On Friday 14 February 2003 02:18, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:01:08AM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > > You cannot unsubscribe. Noone can. Why would you want to anyway ? > > > &g

Re: dhcp/ethernet question

2003-09-06 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 09:11:47AM -0700, Alice Pinard wrote: > hi, I'm trying to set up a firewall to connect to my cable modem ISP > (comcast) using DHCP ... > I am getting a 'weirdness' and I'm not sure if it's on the DHCP end or the > ethernet end. > > Basically if I do an ifconfig the etherne

**Getting** dhcp to write /etc/resolv.conf

2003-09-07 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I feel as though I'm going around in circles right now about something perhaps not that important, but I also want to understand what's going on with dhclient... We have switched to cable from dialup, and I felt grand about the system coming up with no problems the first time (modem/ethernet to tw

Re: **Getting** dhcp to write /etc/resolv.conf

2003-09-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 01:34:59PM -0700, Kevin Buhr wrote: ... > Try adding two lines to the beginning of that function: > > make_resolve_conf() { > echo new_domain_name="$new_domain_name" > /etc/resolv.log > echo new_domain_name_servers="$new_domain_name_servers" >>/etc/resolv.log > . . .

Re: Network device configuration

2003-09-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:26:44PM -0700, Philip Clark wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I have a laptop and want to use a docking station which has a 3com card > in it. So I compiled the card driver into the kernel and added an entry > > /etc/modprobe.d/aliases > alias eth1 3c59x > > Then I edited

Re: Small, silent system with 2 NICs?

2003-09-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 07:57:48PM -0700, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry for this being slightly OT, but I was wondering whether anybody here > could advise me concerning a small debian compatible system that is > supposed to sit SILENTLY in my living room and function as a firewall a

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:11:19PM +0200, Christof Hurschler wrote: > Hi, > > I've scanned the cron man pages, but it seems that cron is only > set up to do daily, weekly, and monthly jobs in Debian. > > Is there a simpe way to have a script execute at shorter time > intervals. I'd like to run th

Re: X behaving wierdly after last SID upgrade

2002-10-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Mine doesn't even bother asking. I keep a backup of the good file on hand. Kenward On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 09:34:47AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > I upgraded my toybox to the latest SID last night and now X is behaving > very strangley. I noticed that it asked if I wanted debconf to rewrite >

Re: X behaving wierdly after last SID upgrade

2002-10-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 10:52:25PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 01:21:02PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Mine doesn't even bother asking. > > Then you shouldn't have answered "yes" to the question that asked you > whether you wan

How can a virus be sent from here?

2002-10-30 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I received a message from our ISP stating the following: Antigen for Exchange found aCrumb.pif infected with VIRUS= I-Worm.Klez.h (Kaspersky,Sophos) worm. The message is currently Purged. The message, "Unescape(aCrumb", was sent from kaynjay and was discovered in SMTP Messages\Inbound locat

2 ?'s -- tkseti colors not showing & 3-4 tcl/tk libs installed?

2002-11-27 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I just ran a dist-upgrade with Sid on my home box, and found some of the colors not displaying properly in tkseti's window (the text and background colors are wrong for the informational boxes, dark grey and light grey, respectively instead of the defaults). Things were fine before the upgrade, o

Re: 2 ?'s -- tkseti colors not showing & 3-4 tcl/tk libs installed?

2002-11-29 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 06:39:25PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:07:17PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Is this normal? Or can the lower libs be removed? I did a dry dselect run > > to see what would happen, and got warnings on different things for each of

[OT] Calif. cable ISP info-- RR or Earthlink??

2003-08-09 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Sorry 'bout the OT on the list, but my systems have Debian hearts. We are looking at roadrunner and earthlink as possible cable providers through Time Warner. Anyone able to comment on/compare them? Many thanks in advance. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would asp

Re: ISA network cards

2003-08-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 01:32:27PM -0300, jleclair wrote: > > Can anyone assist me installing a d-link 220 isa nic? The OS is woody, and > the platform is intel 486. The install routine doesnt see the card. Have > also tried a few modules but no auto-probing was successful. Guess I have > been spo

CUPS fails outside of Gimp. HP1200 LJ

2003-08-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
My printer stopped printing yesterday and I can't figure out what happened from debugging output from CUPS. In most cases there is no apparent indication of any problem. What appears logged is cupsysd reporting seeing a Trailer and EOF, and announcing that the job is complete. The LaserJet 1200

"Solved"... ?? Re: CUPS fails outside of Gimp. HP1200 LJ

2003-08-17 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:25:03AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > My printer stopped printing yesterday and I can't figure out what happened > from debugging output from CUPS. In most cases there is no apparent ... > I have tried modifying the printer through localhost:631, d

Re: Printing help, please.

2003-08-18 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:20:24AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > Hi all, > I am having trouble getting my printer to function under Debian. > First off, my printer is a Lexmark 1020 color inkjet. > I installed Cupsys, cupsys-bsd, and a few other cupsys related packages. > I installed the ppd fi

Re: Woody & M$ dhcp

2003-08-18 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:15:11PM +0100, Mark wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:17:36PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, > > Got this debian beast running **illegally** on the company network. My > > It would be a good use of your time to get to know the net admins very > well, and g

Re: ISA Network Card

2003-08-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 11:47:45AM -0300, James LeClair wrote: > > In response to my difficulty installing the second of 2 isa dlink 220 > nics(i cant determine the io address of the 2nd card), mess-mate wrote: > > > If they are isa then (informatical) you need 'isapnptools' and to do a isapnp du

Re: Is Gnome working in teesting?

2003-08-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 04:09:12PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 10:51:36AM -0400, stan wrote: > > I've got a new laptop that I'm trying to set up. It's set up to use the > > testing distribution. I apt-get dist-upgraded today, and now Gnome (Gnome > > 2, I suppose) won't sta

apt-listbugs output question... was Re: Is Gnome working in teesting?

2003-08-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 05:27:26PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 08:51:06AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Silly question, perhaps, but I'm very unfamiliar with how one monitors > > whether a known problem still exists. > > If it's filed

Re: convert RedHat to Debian

2003-08-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 01:34:57AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > --- Z F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi?: > > Hello everybody, > > > > I have a RedHat box and I would like to convert it to Debian. Is it > > possible to do it without reformatting the hard drive? If yes, how. ... > I am in the pro

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-26 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 08:33:46AM +0100, Conrad Newton wrote: > >From Roberto Sanchez on Tuesday, 2003-03-25 at 18:45:52 -0500: > > It didn't work out. I offered some other ideas (as suggested here on the ... > Just out of curiosity, what are the specs of the new machine, > and what are they pro

Re: network config kernel 2.4.20

2003-06-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:10:37PM +0100, steve downes wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 15:40, Kevin McKinley wrote: > > On 04 Jun 2003 14:30:50 +0100 > > steve downes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Anyone know how to get the kernel to see the right irq & io for a 3c509b > > > card with the ab

Re: make menuconfig says I don't have ncurses

2003-06-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:25:01AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > I tried executing 'make menuconfig; in my kernel (2.4.20) source directory on > my Woody box and received this error: > > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20/scripts/lxdialog' > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncu

Re: DC-220 Camera

2003-06-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:58:55PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I had this camera working under USB with the application called 'ks'. > But that was on another hard drive Another machine, you mean? > I'm trying to get this working under gtkam or gphoto2. > > In both cases it is unable to det

Re: Changing domain name

2003-06-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 05:06:30PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 13:14, Mark Annandale wrote: > > Hi Guys > > > > Another dummy question I'm afraid. When setting up Debian via a Knoppix HD > > Install, I managed to set my local domain named 'box'. Where do I find how to > > co

Re: [OT] Printer recommendations

2003-06-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:28:42AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Greetings list, > > It's official: my Epson Stylus Color 400 is dead after 6 years of faithful > service. > > I'm in the market for a new printer and I would like some suggestions. > Here are my parameters: > > - Laser printer (t

Re: ALSA won't detect SB128

2003-06-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:00:47PM +0100, Dr Garret Cotter wrote: > Dear All, > > I'm running unstable on a P3 750 / Intel D815EEA box with a Soundblaster > 128 (SB 4.1 Digital, indeed). ALSA won't even see it. I have installed > version 0.9.4-1. Running alsaconf I get the message > > modinfo: sn

Re: Exchange Calendar client?

2002-12-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:28:44AM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > Not an option, the CEO is doing the "exchange is the only true calendar > > app!" thing. I'd rather not come back with a "but linux doesn't work > > nicely with that proprietary, blo

Re: I need a driver, please

2003-01-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 01:39:31AM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote: > On Friday 10 January 2003 23:59, Ezequiel wrote: > > FCCID=KQ53181LE-1 This is an ISA OEM SCSI card. > > Chipset Domex 436P > > My operating system is Windows Millenium. > > Thanks. ... > PS: If the guy can't find a windoze driver, wh

ftp/telnet services down, fetchmail fails

2003-01-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
My other letter doesn't seem to have made it through to the list, so I'm posting a different version... I did a recent reboot into my Sid box after the kids played a few Windoze games, and found a few bizarre behaviors. I cannot fetch mail from my server. Typical message: --- daddy:~# fetchmail

Re: Help, please! telnet down, smtp not available, pam screwy

2003-01-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
My thanks to all who responded (including Thomas Shemanske via private notes) to my messages (the first one appears to have arrived after the second, at least here) about the RPC services. The notes came from different accounts as I scrambled about trying to get outside my LAN. As mentioned by se

Solved, maybe a bug? Re: ftp/telnet services down, fetchmail fails

2003-01-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
My thanks to all who responded (including Thomas Shemanske via private notes) to my messages (the first one appears to have arrived after the second, at least here) about the RPC services. The notes came from different accounts as I scrambled about trying to get outside my LAN. As mentioned by se

OT?: What to install for Python??

1999-03-31 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I am looking at several packages which require Python. I know zilch about it. There appear to be around 3 zillion python debs :) ... are there any I probably _shouldn't_ install? (The apps are pysol and siag, FWIW.) Thanks from this rank amateur! Kenward

python configuration error in Sid

2002-09-20 Thread Kenward Vaughan
ue about how to fix this. Can anyone help, please? Thanks. Kenward Vaughan -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generat

hosts.deny a directory???

2002-09-20 Thread Kenward Vaughan
In today's system upgrade I got the following immediate message: ... Preconfiguring packages ... egrep: /etc/hosts.deny: Is a directory fgrep: /etc/hosts.deny: Is a directory ... 'Tis true, and at least one other /etc file is now a directory ( /etc/passwd- ). The hosts.deny directory contains

Re: hosts.deny a directory???

2002-09-20 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:53:49PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:41:16PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > In today's system upgrade I got the following immediate message: > > > > ... > > Preconfiguring packages ... > > egrep: /et

Re: Newbie

2003-11-17 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 10:00:44PM -0800, Steven Bradley wrote: > >Hi, > >Just finished with a fresh install of 3.0, got all the way to the end >where it was time to reboot put in user name and password this is >what followed after hitting enter; [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$. Is there >

Re: packages and archives failed.

2003-11-24 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:48:56AM +0800, csj wrote: > On November 24, 2003 at 5:39PM -0800, > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:22:25AM +, Robin Gerard wrote: > > > since a few days I can't reach the links: > > > lists.debian.org and packages.debian.org

Re: www.debian.org

2003-11-26 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 09:55:52AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 at 11:53 GMT, Cristi Banciu penned: > > http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/files/fw/debian-security-20031121.txt > > > > > > So, is there some sort of history log kept on my machine that tells me > when I last upd

Re: yeah !

2003-12-06 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 11:53:16AM +0100, Mauro Darida wrote: > On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 at 14:42:21 +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > Many people, including me, would not recommend debian for a linux > > novice, though there are debian-based distros that some might recommend. > > But I don't really s

Re: ipchains HowTo

2003-12-09 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:08:15AM -0500, Debian User wrote: > I am searching for a good HowTo on firewalls and ipchains. > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO-8.html references a dead > link at > http://www.adelaide.net.au/~rustcorp/ipfwchains/ipfwchains.html > > Does anyone have anothe

Re: mozilla-firebird bookmarks import: howto ?

2003-12-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 01:36:58PM -0500, James D. Freels wrote: > I have an html file containing collected bookmarks from opera. I want > to import them into mozilla-firebird. I use manage > bookmarks->import->opera6.html. However, they do not appear and are not > saved. I can view the opera6.

Re: 2.4.23 (exploit-removed) kernel soon?

2003-12-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:36:26PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > When can we expect to see the updated kernel in stable? How about testing? > > (If anyone says "When it's ready," I will be mildly irritated.) Karsten posted this a day or so ago under another thread ("kernel 2.4.23"): > Herbert Xu (D

Sid login problem (delay)... PAM or something else?

2003-12-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I noted on my Dec. 10 dist-upgrade of Sid that logging off of a virtual terminal had a large delay introduced (minutes, it seems). An error msg. is spit out after a bit: INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes This does NOT happen with the console (tty1). Googling noted the e

Re: How to know correct hardware options for compiling 2.4.23 kernel

2003-12-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:49:29AM -0600, J N wrote: > ... I'm noticing that I appear to need to know more specific technical > information than I currently have access to for my laptop: Dell Latitude > CPI-A 366XT. Can anyone point me to a FAQ that would tell me what kind > of chipsets were in

Re: Sid login problem (delay)... PAM or something else?

2003-12-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:46:13AM -0500, Joe Potter wrote: > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > I noted on my Dec. 10 dist-upgrade of Sid that logging off of a virtual > > terminal had a large delay introduced (minutes, it seems). An error > > msg. is spit out after a bit: ...

Re: How to know correct hardware options for compiling 2.4.23 kernel

2003-12-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:29:13AM -0600, J N wrote: > Kenward: > > Did Dell have the information down to the chipsets that were used? > I have yet to find that information... perhaps it's as simple as "all > the chipsets that were used at Dell were made at Dell", but I haven't > seen that state

Re: How to know correct hardware options for compiling 2.4.23 kernel

2003-12-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 05:00:06PM -0600, Jason Norment wrote: > Debian installed pretty well without a hitch. (There was a minor sound > problem, but it was easily remedied.) > I'm now trying to compile the newest and greatest kernel available > (that's listed as stable), and I aim to get such

Re: Configuring Shorewall

2003-12-17 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:16:17PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > I just intalled this. > > I do not know what to do with it. ... Why not trot over to Shorewall's site and spend a bit of time looking at the documentation? It's pretty nice. (Actually, it may already be on your computer in /usr/sh

Re: HOWTO paste to dos

2003-12-17 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:16:59PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:49:57PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > > Generally, you don't have to to copy. As soon as you highlight > > the text, it is available for pasting. > > This is false for every graphical X application I use. I

[OT] local-only webserver for web app. thttpd or ??

2004-11-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I am trying to set up a series of apps to run together for computational chemistry work at home. A Java-based front-end app I want to try is called WebMO, which uses a web interface requiring CGI. I have no server for doing this, so am looking for candidates. Thttpd seems to be a possibility. A

[OT] Anyone have a gimp-print 5.0.0-beta2 deb?

2004-12-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm getting an Epson printer for my wife for Christmas, and know it works best with the gimp-print 5.0.0-beta2 drivers. I am very uncertain about trying to compile the gimp.org package myself (since unstable has only the 4.2.7 release--understandably), and have been unable to Google any reference

Re: [OT] Anyone have a gimp-print 5.0.0-beta2 deb?

2004-12-22 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:12:21PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > On Tuesday 21 December 2004 07:18 pm, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > I'm getting an Epson printer for my wife for Christmas, and know it > > works best with the gimp-print 5.0.0-beta2 drivers. I am very > >

Re: WOT -- LCD monitor stand

2004-12-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 05:41:54PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > This is way off topic, but I figure this group is more knowledgable > than about any other. > > I recently bought an LCD monitor to replace my aging CRT. Everything > is great except the stand doesn't allow tilting the screen forwar

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 11:33:43PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: ... > And though I hate to admit the need for tools such as these, SIMPLIFIED > GUI tools for specific tasks tend to be better in Windows. As a great > case in point, most digital cameras come with software included that > lets you qu

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-06 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:36:44PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 14:54 +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > >> I need some advice. Is debian fit for a Pentium 100MHz PC with 16MB RAM > >> and approx 4Gb harddisk? Are there anyone who has experience with such a > >> slow

Re: Script executed with /etc/init.d/networking

2005-05-04 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 02:20:02PM +0200, Marco Calviani wrote: > Darryl Clarke ha scritto: > > >On 5/4/05, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >>i would like to know which scripts are executed when starting the > >>network interfaces, since i would like to delete a refere

Re: Debian Good for Clustering?

2005-05-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 11:24:06AM -0400, Bob Freemer wrote: > I remember reading somewhere an apt-gettable or debian-specific > project for clustering. Rolling my own from openmosix is a pain. > > The CPU clustering is easy with the right kernel recompile, but I > would like to use the hard disk

Re: .ch does not imply .ch does not imply .de (PASSWORD FOR DEBIAN CD TO INSTALL APLYCATIONS)

2005-05-18 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 02:27:41PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.18.1353 +0200]: > > because you are from Swiss, I asume you speak german and it will > > be better to subscribe to > > Having a gmx.ch address does not imply that you one i

Re: quick chemistry drawings

2005-06-09 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:03:32PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > hey folks, > > what tools to people use to do quick drawing or modelling of > molecules/chemical reactions/etc? I have tried ghemical and find it a > little bit clumsy, didn't notice anything else with apt-cache. Thanks > as always f

Re: [Bit OT] Printers

2005-06-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:35:03PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for the slightly off topic nature of this question but I thought > this was probably the best place to ask it. > > I'm looking to get a half way decent laser printer for my (very) new > small business. If possible I w

Woody upgrade-libtexus and libcapplet-dev probs.

2000-08-21 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Just DL'd and ran thru Woody upgrade from Potato... very smooth (as usual) except for these error messages: hpotter:~# grep "warning:" DL_Woody_1 |less ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libtexus.so.1 (No such file or directory), skipping ... hpotter:~# and hpotter:~# grep error DL_Wo

Re: Strange logon problem with CAPS. Please read you all!

2000-08-26 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:59:18PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 03:08:27AM -0300, Taupter wrote: ... > > Voila! The text now is all-CAPS. ls has glitches, and ls --color doesn't > > display any color. Emacs and other console programs doesn't display its > > interface

sound errors on 2.2.14->2.2.17 ??

2000-09-04 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I just moved from 2.2.14 to 2.2.17pre6. Additionally, I recompiled the new ALSA driver for my card (which I don't believe is part of the problem, but thought it should be mentioned). My system is Woody, updated about 2 weeks ago, and the ALSA driver is current Woody. On rebooting, I immediately

Re: kernel update?

2000-09-09 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 04:09:36PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > I just did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and apt downloaded the > kernel2.2.17 sources. I've been running 2.2.16 because I had some > trouble with the 2.2.17 kpkg that I set up. > > Question is, did apt configure 2.2.17 kernel to

Re: Getting closer to setting up scanner, but...

2000-09-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 02:57:53PM -0700, Gutierrez Family wrote: > Thanks to those who have helped me so far with setting up my HP ScanJet 5p ... > One problem is when I type "scanimage --list-devices", I get nothing back, > just another prompt line. And when I type "scanimage", I see > "scanim

need faxmail for efax--any conflict w/hylafax-client?

2000-09-11 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm in the final stages of getting efax set up on my server to answer the phone and email received faxes to me on my main machine. I see that faxmail is used to do this, but that is available only in the hylafax-client .deb. Would DL'ing that write over anything or otherwise interfere with efa

quick upgrade help needed-kernel image not wanted

2000-09-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm in the middle of a woody upgrade, and discovered that the latest greatest kernel image has been DL'd and is attemping to overwrite my custom 2.2.17 kernel. I stopped that process when queried about the modules directory, but apt refuses to continue with the rest of the upgrade. I used aptitud

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #95

2000-09-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Hmm... this doesn't really fit the prescription for an unsubscription (?) as given below your (and everyone else's) letter. From your M$ environment why not try sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and/or [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe (instead o

Re: quick upgrade help needed-kernel image not wanted

2000-09-25 Thread Kenward Vaughan
uot;right" or "best" way, but apt is cool now. > > // joey tsai > > > :: Kenward Vaughan :: > > I'm in the middle of a woody upgrade, and discovered that the latest > > greatest > > kernel image has been DL'd and is attemping to overwrite my custom 2.2.17 ... -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! --

Re: quick upgrade help needed-kernel image not wanted

2000-09-26 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:58:11AM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > couldn't you just remove the kernel package? ... > i run my own kernels too but they usually have unique names for the most > part: ... I tried that but found that the installation process had not gotten far enough into things to crea

Re: bits and pieces

2000-10-04 Thread Kenward Vaughan
The MB is excellent, as should be the rest (I've got a 700 MHz on the K7V). I don't know what type of memory you have but if it's one of the good grades (e.g. Mushkin) you shouldn't have any issues. Potato uses the 2.2.xx kernels on initial install, yes? The Athlon needs that. FWIW someone on a

Re: non-contiguous vs Fragmentation

2000-06-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 11:00:56AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > "Joe Smith" wrote: ... > > What then is the difference between non-contiguous and fragmentation? ... "Non-contiguous" simply describes what the term "fragmentation" really entails when you look at how a file is written onto a d

diald/pppd refused connection--PAP auth?

2000-06-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Diald is my nemesis... Various attempts to get it working have failed to connect me. I'm using the stock conf files with the only changes being the use of the ppp provider script for connecting, and trying to change "noauth" to "auth" in the diald.options file to match the options I see in /etc/pp

Re: diald/pppd refused connection--PAP auth?

2000-06-15 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 10:52:09AM +0100, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Kenward Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Diald is my nemesis... Various attempts to get it working have failed to ... > Apologies if I pick up the wrong end of the stick, but diald just > automates the PPP link

Re: diald/pppd refused connection--PAP auth?

2000-06-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 05:12:11PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Kenward Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... > > OK, but running with noauth gives a more simplified pppd message saying: > > > > LCP terminated by peer > That suggests that LCP protocol is being ex

Re: diald/pppd refused connection--PAP auth?

2000-06-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 09:16:53AM -0700, brian moore wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 08:58:55AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > Jun 16 08:30:28 kaynjay pppd[1599]: rcvd [PAP AuthNak > id=0x0 41 75 74 68 65 6e 74 69 63 61 74 69 6f 6e 20 66 61 69 6c 75 72 65] >

Re: diald/pppd refused connection--PAP auth?

2000-06-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 08:13:18PM +0200, Jason Quigley wrote: > Hi Kenward! > > You do realise you're using different user names in each example? ... @#$%^!! Where do I change that? A quick glance at this conf files shows no entry. Why is "kaynjay" passed on rather than the other? Kenward -

Re: How do I get flexible email headers and sigs?

2000-07-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 06:13:37PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 02:55:25PM +, Tony wrote: > > > I have several "identities" I'd like my mail to go out under - > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my academic work, [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the > > start-up I sometimes act for, [EMA

Re: Recommendations on newer motherboards working with Debian?

2000-08-01 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Only thing I know about the Abit is the poorer memory performance due to its having some TI buffer chip built into the system. I went with the Asus K7V and haven't looked back. I have Not explored optimizing the HD, though, so can't address that issue. The only thing I missed was having an ISA

Re: Mail configuration and setup

2000-08-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 12:09:30PM +0100, Geir Erik Nielsen wrote: > Hi, > I was hoping someone would be able to help on this one as I have never done it > before. > > What I am trying to do, is set up a debian box that will serve as a mailserver > (both smtp and pop), dial-on-demand internet acce

Re: Suggestions for an easy-to-setup 10/100 net card?

2001-02-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:17:14AM -0600, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Bryan Carpenter wrote: > > > > I'm a newbie asking for help as to which network > > card to buy that will "just be seen" by a standard > > Debian 2.2.17 install. I've tried a Netgear FA312 > > and a Linksys LNE100TX rev. 4.1, but

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is NOT foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Rebooting is _never_ foolish if it keeps peace in the family... :-) Kenward -- It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he doesn't really need a college education, for he can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning

Re: Latest Lyx for 'Potato'?

2001-03-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:39:59AM +0200, Hannu Virtanen wrote: > Does anyone know, if there is available any debian ('stable, 'potato') > package of the latest version (1.1.6fix1-1) of Lyx? ... Not that I am aware of... I DL'd that version from www.lyx.org and compiled it myself, getting it inst

error with python/sgmltools in sid

2001-03-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm running Lyx 1.1.16fix1, using sgmltools under the DocBook class to translate my sgml class document to other formats. Regardless of what I do to view or export the text, I get an error stating: File "/usr/lib/sgml/misc/sgmltools/python/utils.py", line 250

Re: help...

2001-03-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 02:18:03PM -0500, Dale Kosan wrote: > Two quick questions from a newbie, 1)trying to install setiathome but it > fails,it is looking for version 3.0 and 3.3 is the only available version, > any ideas? Also, is there a nice gui or easy command line program to change ... Just

Re: alsa & kernel 2.4 on potato

2001-03-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:52:59PM +0100, Christoph Groth wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just updated the necessary packages and compiled kernel 2.4.2. > It seems to work fine. > > There is still no sound as I'll have to install alsa first. With > kernel 2.2 I've been using the alsa packages provided

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