Re: Help using Linux box as Mac print server

2002-11-17 Thread Marc Wilson
des, there are other clients in the house printing to it as well, and letting the iBook print to it directly would subvert any queue management I tried to do. -- Marc Wilson | My doctorate's in Literature, but it seems like a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | pretty good pulse to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adding custom submenus in $HOME/.menu

2002-11-25 Thread Marc Wilson
ly be easier if you just created your own menu, and included the Debian one as a subset of it via an [include] directive. That's what I do. -- Marc Wilson | Paranoia is simply an optimistic outlook on life. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server ???

2002-11-30 Thread Marc Wilson
link root's auth to the user's that owns the X display, or even better, just use sudo. -- Marc Wilson | Earth Destroyed by Solar Flare -- film clips at [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eleven. msg16176/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to enable DMA at boot time

2002-12-01 Thread Marc Wilson
survive a reboot. Uh, they're not supposed to. That flag is "keep_over_reset", which means that if the kernel has to reset the drive for some reason, that the setting should stick. If you want DMA settings to stick across reboots, fix whatever is stopping the kernel from

Re: New unofficial links web browser packages

2003-08-14 Thread Marc Wilson
for my uses. That's not to knock your packaging of it, which appears to be fine. It works, it installs properly, it uninstalls properly. (Hey, first you mentioned it in #debian, then you posted here, I figured what the hell, try it.) -- Marc Wilson | I often quote myself; it ad

Re: charset in debian mutt

2003-08-14 Thread Marc Wilson
US.iso88591 en_US.iso885915 en_US.utf8 ja_JP ja_JP.eucjp ja_JP.ujis ja_JP.utf8 japanese japanese.euc Remember now? -- Marc Wilson | Look before you leap. -- Samuel Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: charset in debian mutt

2003-08-14 Thread Marc Wilson
say" anything of the sort. You might be seeing that in the mail headers for a message, which is certainly not in any way controlled by mutt. > Oh yes, and I did log in again after changing my .bashrc.So what am I > missing? thanks. An accurate description of the problem and the

Re: help

2003-08-16 Thread Marc Wilson
do that by nature... it's a patch. Google for it, it's not hard to find. There's also running around a .sh or two that fakes it with awk. -- Marc Wilson | Ryan's Law: Make three correct guesses consecutively [EMAIL PROTECTED] | and you will establish yourself as an e

Re: Help parsing a fetchmail dumped mail file

2003-08-22 Thread Marc Wilson
st-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/> Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 23:26:40 -0500 (CDT) On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 05:02:40 +0300, "acatrineicatalin" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Today mozilla-firebird Wants To Remove KDE

2003-08-24 Thread Marc Wilson
g any of them. Quite a few of those have no doubt gone through the type of transition described elsewhere in this thread. I suspect that the dependency solution apt came up with is the best of a bad situation. -- Marc Wilson | "It's not just a computer -- it's your ass.

Re: X problems with unstable

2003-08-31 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 08:44:34PM -0400, R Ransbottom wrote: > What should I read/do to get X going? You should read the BTS, like any other unstable user would. This is endlessly reported there, including workarounds. -- Marc Wilson | All of the true things I am about to tell you

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Marc Wilson
hat's konsole, then? And no, they'd not even care. It's KDE, remember? Whether it gets the job done is entirely secondary to how it looks, and mutt in a konsole doesn't have any eye candy. -- Marc Wilson | (Presuming for the sake of argument that it's even [EMAIL

Re: Spamassassin + exim

2003-08-31 Thread Marc Wilson
lot to be said for rejecting the mail during the SMTP transaction. -- Marc Wilson | Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I was so smart my teacher was in my class for | five years. -- George Burns pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Packages: required vs recommended vs suggested

2003-08-31 Thread Marc Wilson
olution. Personally, I have no problem with dselect, but most other people will probably point you to aptitude. -- Marc Wilson | I am covered with pure vegetable oil and I am writing [EMAIL PROTECTED] | a best seller! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-09-01 Thread Marc Wilson
ed yet. I'll probably wipe the Sid install and shrink the 2k partition, then put Sid back. :) -- Marc Wilson | Logic is a little bird, sitting in a tree; that [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smells *_awful*. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-09-01 Thread Marc Wilson
t just loads lilo from the boot record and lets *it* handle the kernel. Using NTLDR to boot alternative operating systems works as well as using lilo to do it, and IMHO it's usually cleaner. > I only used dd to create a backup of NTLDR. I could have forged > ahead without it, but that is

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Marc Wilson
, the fact that he can take TeX, and produce absolutely beautiful output (and I'm learning TeX now, and it certainly can) is of no relevance to him as long as he has to learn to speak gibberish in order to use it. I *actually* got told the other day that Linux didn't need anything like Wo

Re: fluxbox "tab" titles

2003-09-02 Thread Marc Wilson
I note that by default gnuemacs as distributed by Debian doesn't change the title of the xterm it's running in, although that may be an artifact of how mine is configured. I have no idea of what xemacs does and don't really care. Vim handles it just fine. -- Marc Wilson | Th

Re: simple backup script

2003-09-02 Thread Marc Wilson
computer being struck by lightning, or the equivalent. Removable storage still has a very large place in the world, and it's not going away any time soon. -- Marc Wilson | War doesn't prove who's right, just who's left. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: mplex shortens MPEG1 video to under five minutes?

2003-09-02 Thread Marc Wilson
rom transcode to be much more robust. -- Marc Wilson | Ego sum ens omnipotens. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kdemultimedia: dependent on several non-existent versions ???

2003-09-02 Thread Marc Wilson
ay for a few days now. -- Marc Wilson | "I'd love to go out with you, but I never go out on [EMAIL PROTECTED] | days that end in `Y.'" pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-01 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:55:53AM +, benfoley wrote: > p.s. you're paying way too much for that cheap shit you're smoking. Like I said, do the "advocates" ever listen to themselves? -- Marc Wilson | Let he who takes the plunge remember to return it [EMAIL PROT

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Marc Wilson
at, and thus they fail. And who's fault is that? -- Marc Wilson | You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your [EMAIL PROTECTED] | bones and your flesh. -- Pat Benatar, "Hell is | for Children" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-26 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:42:02AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:07:24PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > Gods, whyinhell would you need X in order to install a distribution? > > That's just silly. > > That's why debian-installer will have a

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-26 Thread Marc Wilson
off the street to be performing surgery... that's what skilled people are for. In fact, we prosecute people like that who pretend, whether or not they hurt anyone. What makes this different? -- Marc Wilson | mathematician, n.: Some one who believes imaginary [EMAIL PROTECTED] | th

Re: LPRng and LaserWriter 8.7.1 Very Slow

2003-03-26 Thread Marc Wilson
's not the daemon having the problem, but a filter, since if you set up a bounce queue things spool immediately. Just an idea. -- Marc Wilson | A fool and his honey are soon parted. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-28 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:38:27AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 26 March 2003 11:17 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: > > Why? The *user* has zero business installing the box. Yes, Joe Moron > > benefits from having GUI tools, because they mean he doesn't have to think, &g

Re: LPRng and LaserWriter 8.7.1 Very Slow

2003-03-28 Thread Marc Wilson
27;d like to see one of those references... AFAIK, I've got the latest version of LPRng installed (I believe unstable is up-to-date), and I can print from my OS 9 box. -- Marc Wilson | In every non-trivial program there is at least [EMAIL PROTECTED] | one bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-29 Thread Marc Wilson
y don't take the position that they have to learn everything there is to know about keeping a PC or a Mac running in order to do *their* job. -- Marc Wilson | Always draw your curves, then plot your reading. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to Identify Mailing Lists

2003-06-05 Thread Marc Wilson
*\/[^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] $MATCH Adapted from the Procmail FAQ. Works fine and you don't have to change it if you subscribe to another Debian list. -- Marc Wilson | Bower's Law: Talent goes where the action is. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [OT] Printer recommendations

2003-06-10 Thread Marc Wilson
ot to be about the most unknown thing there ever was. They're showing up on the used market in droves, because morons have this idea that they're not compatible somehow with a PC. Nothing could be further from the truth. PostScript is PostScript is PostScript. Of course, this is all m

Re: How make transparent loggin menu in XDM?

2003-06-17 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:38:32AM +0300, Egor Tur wrote: > Many thanx. Don't thank anyone... you can't. As even a momentary reading of the documentation would have told you. -- Marc Wilson | Now I lay me down to sleep I hear the sirens in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] | street

Re: just a small package and its docs, spread over many CDs

2002-12-25 Thread Marc Wilson
u're using why they structured them in that manner, then. Since there are no official CD images for anything other than stable and testing, that's about your only recourse. -- Marc Wilson | I attribute my success to intelligence, guts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | determination, honesty

Re: Handspring Visor (Palm OS) USB sync with gpilotd or?

2002-12-25 Thread Marc Wilson
al, and I may start doing more than that). Note that you could be getting all kinds of silly errors if the Visor isn't seated in the cradle properly. Before you worry about getting hotplug to load and unload the module, make sure you can communicate with the thing. -- Marc Wilson |

Re: Hotplug and unloading modules

2002-12-26 Thread Marc Wilson
al Then the next go-round, hotplug will note that the module isn't already loaded and will reload it. -- Marc Wilson | We don't care how they do it in New York. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xmms conflics with esd?

2002-12-30 Thread Marc Wilson
t's built into motherboards these days usually has the same problems. So do your cheaper sound cards... ESS, CMI, etc. Myself, I'll put up with the limitations of my CMI card before I use Creative again. -- Marc Wilson | Programming Department: Mistakes made while you wait. [EM

Re: nVidia GeForce 4MX vidio card on Debian 3.0

2002-12-30 Thread Marc Wilson
what a GF4 is, so you can't use the 'nv' driver. Your choices are either to use the 'vesa' driver, or use the binary drivers provided by nVidia. I find the nVidia driver to be adequate for what I do. nvidia-kernel-src nvidia-glx-src And *follow the instructions*.

Re: Another query on NVIDIA under linux 2.4.20

2003-01-03 Thread Marc Wilson
a And as root, run 'update-modules'. That will take care of the auto-load problem. The source deb does this and suffixes the filename with the name of the kernel it goes with as well. -- Marc Wilson | Bachelor: A man who chases women and never Mrs. one. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | --

Re: Getting nVidia to load

2003-01-03 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:02:56AM -0600, Larry Hunsicker wrote: > I am not sure why, in my setup, the nvidia kernel "make install" didn't > add the line to /etc/modules. It didn't because /etc/modules is Debian-specific. -- Marc Wilson | Immature artists imi

Re: Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-10 Thread Marc Wilson
GeForce4 MX 440 (II) NVIDIA(1): NVIDIA GPU detected as: GeForce4 MX 420 *without* Xinerama (evil, evil Xinerama, must kill whoever thought that one up) and I have acceleration on both heads (lets me play tuxracer on either monitor depending on my mood). -- Marc Wilson | The computer is to the

Re: Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-10 Thread Marc Wilson
that KDE and Gnome do not qualify as environments that are multiple-screen-aware (although I'm told that KDE is finally making motions in that direction). -- Marc Wilson | If you always postpone pleasure you will never [EMAIL PROTECTED] | have it. Quit work and play for once! --

Re: Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-12 Thread Marc Wilson
a specific? I guess I don't see where TwinView falls into the > puzzle. TwinView is nVidia's proprietary method for getting a GF2 card with two VGA outputs to run in dual-head. I have no idea if it works with two discrete cards. -- Marc Wilson | The universe does not have laws -- it

Re: sourceforge - why it depends on exim and proftp?

2003-01-12 Thread Marc Wilson
sensible packages do? -- Marc Wilson | Are you sure the back door is locked? [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: D-Link, Wireless and Debian

2002-09-01 Thread Marc Wilson
n't be all that hard to decipher exactly how to talk to it... if it weren't the only one I had at the moment, maybe I'd risk killing it. > Maybe bring it to a friend that hasn't been converted to the one true > way. >:) Enough Windows machines running around in the w

Re: D-Link, Wireless and Debian

2002-09-01 Thread Marc Wilson
f the unit is available in plain-text if you know how to do a MIB walk. :( Supposedly you can only fiddle from the ethernet side of the device, but I didn't test and don't know if that's true or not. I just changed the read-only community and avoided the whole issue. --

Re: D-Link, Wireless and Debian

2002-09-02 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 09:51:03PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > Why not just assign it a fixed IP via DHCP? Works beautifully here. Pass me the stupid hat. I quite frankly never thought of doing that. (/me goes and beats on the DHCP server) -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Searching xv package

2002-09-09 Thread Marc Wilson
t I haven't seen the source package anywhere. Certainly you can go to the homepage and grab a tarball, but building a deb is always nice. Got a pointer? :) -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Searching xv package

2002-09-09 Thread Marc Wilson
x27;m a moron. That's where I got the binary deb for 3.10a-26. Sometimes it doesn't pay to get up in the morning. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-22 Thread Marc Wilson
;t do it by default, you need to figure out WHY, rather than forcing it via hdparm. No one ever cares until AFTER the data goes "away", but there are reasons for what the kernel does. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &

Re: w e i r d f o n t b e h a v i o r in multi-gnome-terminal

2002-09-29 Thread Marc Wilson
spacing you see is the terminal trying to fit what the font claims are the character sizes into its view of the world. It's not a GTK-ism. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "hdparm" and Software RAID

2002-09-29 Thread Marc Wilson
with hdparm. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Could not load OpenGL library

2003-11-16 Thread Marc Wilson
't get stomped on again. Or you do the diversions by hand. -- Marc Wilson | This fortune is dedicated to your mother, without [EMAIL PROTECTED] | whose invaluable assistance last night would never | have been possible. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: XDM can't shutdown

2003-11-26 Thread Marc Wilson
fying the alternative, which requires that you be root, versus a simple user-level configuration (which makes the alternative utterly irrelevant) is something I'll never understand. I even met someone once who insisted the way to do things was to set the alternative, then use 'exec x-window-

Re: SA/mutt problem

2003-11-26 Thread Marc Wilson
continue... Your installation of razor is out-of-date. > My other problem is that I have not been able to get procmail automatically > putting mail into designated folders - necessary for creating > 'ham', 'spam', and 'trash' folders. You'll have to sh

Re: installed qmail, apt-get always trying to re-install MTA

2003-11-26 Thread Marc Wilson
giving you the same facility with adding and removing the software as the exim package has. You broke it, you get to keep both pieces. -- Marc Wilson | No question is so difficult as one to which the [EMAIL PROTECTED] | answer is obvious. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: problem with python in Debian/unstable

2003-11-26 Thread Marc Wilson
eeds to remove the python2.3 deb before it can install the python deb. Except the python deb depends on the python2.3 deb. Fun, huh? Simply installing the packages yourself using the --auto-deconfigure flag (which dpkg happily pointed out to you) solves the problem. -- Marc Wilson | Marry i

Re: dpkg and file ownership

2003-11-26 Thread Marc Wilson
permissions? It steps on them, as it should. If you don't want it to, you need to tell it that. # man dpkg-statoverride is your friend. -- Marc Wilson | A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | but for this to endure, it must

Re: Usable X login/starter in Debian needed

2003-11-27 Thread Marc Wilson
login screen in the first place. Log in, THEN shut the box down. I've already touched on the configurability of xdm. If you google for "xdm shutdown" you can find a simple tcl/tk script that will do most of what you want. -- Marc Wilson | Poorman's Rule: When you

Re: xterm title bars

2003-11-27 Thread Marc Wilson
tle... You can't do that in bash, as it doesn't provide any way to get the name of the currently executing process in a fashion that would let you set the title. You can do it if you're willing to switch to zsh as your shell, though, because it has PRECOMMAND (or whatever

Re: installation to >137GB disk

2003-11-27 Thread Marc Wilson
th*, you're not going to be using more than 137 gb of that drive. -- Marc Wilson | Authentic: Indubitably true, in somebody's opinion. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XDM can't shutdown

2003-11-27 Thread Marc Wilson
doesn't make them any less. Exactly what display manager is out there that Debian does NOT offer? -- Marc Wilson | Alea iacta est. [The die is cast] -- Gaius Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Caesar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xterm title bars

2003-11-28 Thread Marc Wilson
It's still a Bourne-like shell, after all. Many people find zsh to be more convenient for them than bash. Just ask a zsh user about filename completion sometime as compared to the hoops you have to jump through in bash. :) -- Marc Wilson | Wonderful day. Your hangover just makes it se

Re: icewm and windowmaker

2003-11-28 Thread Marc Wilson
missed the normal X way. $ echo "exec wmaker" > ~/.xsession and restart X. -- Marc Wilson | The sheep died in the wool. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newsreader-like killfiling in email?

2003-11-30 Thread Marc Wilson
om(s) and subject(s) to a file that procmail could look at and dump if it found a match. Mutt on its own doesn't do that, I think. -- Marc Wilson | Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this [EMAIL PROTECTED] | out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a

Re: dhclient

2003-12-01 Thread Marc Wilson
dhclient to make this necessary? Nothing. The dhclient application has always required these settings. Perhaps in the future, it will not. -- Marc Wilson | Let us treat men and women well; Treat them as if [EMAIL PROTECTED] | they were real; Perhaps they are. -- Ralph Waldo

Re: Newsreader-like killfiling in email?

2003-12-01 Thread Marc Wilson
ff the 'net somewhere. -- Marc Wilson | Some people live life in the fast lane. You're in [EMAIL PROTECTED] | oncoming traffic. killfile.tar.gz Description: Binary data

Re: trouble while compiling xv

2003-12-01 Thread Marc Wilson
nda crufty, and doesn't have all the patches available from the xv web site (and some of what it DOES have don't apply), but it builds against unstable (using either libpng10 or libpng12). Try that. -- Marc Wilson | [Doctors and Bartenders], We both get the same two [EMAIL PRO

Re: trouble while compiling xv

2003-12-02 Thread Marc Wilson
. I just diddled it again tonight after realizing the reason I couldn't make grabbing work was that xv has the old modifier+mouse issue going, and I have numlock on. ^_^ There are some nice unofficial patches out there for it too, if you know where to look. -- Marc Wilson | Success is getting

Re: FHS and other things Mark should have read with comprehension (was Re: unchecked 31 times)

2003-12-04 Thread Marc Wilson
ackage doesn't own any files in /var, and I can't see anywhere in its postinst that it creates such a node. I print to an ethertalk-interfaced LaserWriter all the time... if it was supposed to be there, and wasn't, I don't think I'd be printing much. -- Marc W

Re: ye olde upgrade vs. dist-upgrade

2003-12-04 Thread Marc Wilson
x27;upgrade' - apt CAN'T change a package's installation state 'dist-upgrade' - apt CAN change a package's installation state Further details I leave to the man page. -- Marc Wilson | Clarke's Conclusion: Never let your sense of morals [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: ye olde upgrade vs. dist-upgrade

2003-12-04 Thread Marc Wilson
changes, is there any reason _not_ to > do dist-upgrade for routine upgrades? Certainly. See above. If you don't want to give apt the power to change the installation state of a package, you don't use 'dist-upgrade'. Why would you give it that power, if it weren'

Re: ye olde upgrade vs. dist-upgrade

2003-12-04 Thread Marc Wilson
ost people think they're above doing anything for themselves. -- Marc Wilson | A political man can have as his aim the realization [EMAIL PROTECTED] | of freedom, but he has no means to realize it other | than through violence. -- Jean Paul Sartre -- To

Re: Color in text console

2003-12-04 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:05:49PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > How come I don't see a dependency of prboom on aalib1? It being able to *use* it if it's there isn't the same thing as *requiring* that it be there in order to function. Although a Suggests might be nice. ^_^

Re: fetchmail problem (maybe bug)

2003-12-05 Thread Marc Wilson
t the disk file is coming from the POP server, and has nothing to do with the local MTA or fetchmail itself. Now... why the remote might be having problems opening a disk file, I have no idea, but the problem isn't on the local end. -- Marc Wilson | Today, THREE WINOS from DETROIT sold

Re: ye olde upgrade vs. dist-upgrade

2003-12-05 Thread Marc Wilson
rameters (and abilities) you've given it. If that solution means that a package doesn't get upgraded without intervention, then that package just doesn't get upgraded. That's hardly the life-threatening event your average Sid cluebie tries to make it out to be. -- Marc Wilson | The public is an old woman. Let her maunder and [EMAIL PROTECTED] | mumble. -- Thomas Carlyle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ye olde upgrade vs. dist-upgrade

2003-12-05 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 04:31:25PM +0100, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > > > Is there a reason to not actually bother reading the man page for apt-get > > and learning the difference between the two targets? > > Why do you bother answer, when giving

Re: xscreensaver error: usage: xscreensaver-getimage [ -display host:dpy.screen ] [ -v ] window-id

2003-12-05 Thread Marc Wilson
every graphics hack is what you want. -- Marc Wilson | Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and [EMAIL PROTECTED] | plain dealing. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: xscreensaver error: usage: xscreensaver-getimage [ -display host:dpy.screen ] [ -v ] window-id

2003-12-05 Thread Marc Wilson
ist all work properly here. -- Marc Wilson | You can always pick up your needle and move to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | another groove. -- Tim Leary signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: keep old files

2003-12-07 Thread Marc Wilson
im. I imagine that it's also the default for emacs and xemacs, but I'm not going to install them just to find out. > plz suggest me how to stop the generation of this second back-up file. You mean first backup file, don't you? In vim, see ':he backup'. -- Marc Wils

Re: who calls /ETC/MODULES

2003-12-09 Thread Marc Wilson
ou look at /etc/init.d/modutils, which is linked into /etc/rcS.d ? -- Marc Wilson | Welcome to Utah. If you think our liquor laws are [EMAIL PROTECTED] | funny, you should see our underwear! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PCMCIA Woes

2003-12-09 Thread Marc Wilson
y, you're done. I'd like to hear about it if you get yours to survive a suspend. My 575 on a Thinkpad 600E does not. I have apmd eject it whenever the laptop goes to sleep. In fact, no CardBus cards do. -- Marc Wilson | "Ubi non accusator, ibi non judex."

Re: 3c556 Hurricaine Cardbus

2003-12-11 Thread Marc Wilson
ding to the changelog. Support for the "B" variant of that card was added in September 2000, again according to the changelog. The 3c555, 3c556, and 3c556B are all listed. Further, I would think that the kernel you're using now would be telling you what driver it was using, at boot. --

Re: Mutt coding

2003-12-11 Thread Marc Wilson
etting? No. See /usr/share/doc/mutt/README.Debian... -- Marc Wilson | If the ends don't justify the means, then what does? [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Moses -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't install mythtv on unstable

2003-12-15 Thread Marc Wilson
27;re using and get them to fix it. -- Marc Wilson | HELLO, everybody, I'm a HUMAN!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mozilla has lost it's default printer

2004-11-23 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 04:17:42PM +0100, Andrea Tivoli wrote: > Mozilla uses Xprint's configurations. While this is true, it's certainly not a *requirement*. You don't have to use the brain-damaged Xprint unless you want to. Continue printing via Mozilla as normal. -- M

Re: runlevel 2 vs 3 vs 5 deprecated in sarge?

2004-11-26 Thread Marc Wilson
o since pre-Potato. What YOU are referring to is a RedHat-ism. Debian, on the other hand, sets run-levels two through five to be identical, and leaves it up to the admin how he wants to set them up. -- Marc Wilson | In case of atomic attack, all work rules will be [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Mac user/ needs assistance

2004-11-26 Thread Marc Wilson
to get much help. Second, stealing the operating system isn't really going to endear you to anyone here. If you want Panther, go and buy it. -- Marc Wilson | Art is anything you can get away with. -- Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] | McLuhan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: RCS (Revision Control System)

2004-11-29 Thread Marc Wilson
is especially nice because you don't need a server process anywhere, like Subversion does, but it supports changesets, like Subversion does. -- Marc Wilson | If it's worth hacking on well, it's worth hacking [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on for money. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: RCS (Revision Control System)

2004-11-29 Thread Marc Wilson
#x27;t been able to find any yet. -- Marc Wilson | YOU!! Give me the CUTEST, PINKEST, most charming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | little VICTORIAN DOLLHOUSE you can find!! An make | it SNAPPY!! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Can't upgrade knoppix/kanotix install

2004-12-01 Thread Marc Wilson
rade. Why did you do this? Was the intent to deliberately break things? You can't update a non-Debian distribution from a Debian archive. > I tried apt-get -if install many many times (I read sometimes it takes a > few times), It doesn't. -- Marc Wilson | My face is new,

Re: Can't upgrade knoppix/kanotix install

2004-12-01 Thread Marc Wilson
real Debian packages and Kanotix packages. This is entirely unsupported. -- Marc Wilson | I'm dressing up in an ill-fitting IVY-LEAGUE SUIT!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Too late... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Marc Wilson
n packages. It uses it's *own* packages and is, in fact, a real distribution. Not that I want to be seen as defending Ubuntu, of course... it's not something *I'd* ever use. -- Marc Wilson | Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened! [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: xprt print.org printing and firefox debian sarge

2004-12-08 Thread Marc Wilson
on. Easily. Don't use Xprint. -- Marc Wilson | In like a dimwit, out like a light. -- Pogo [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

2004-12-08 Thread Marc Wilson
org will wait until Sarge+1 (namely, Etch). You don't need it anyway. -- Marc Wilson | udp - universal dropping of an pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: udev and gnome-volume-manager not working in Sarge

2004-12-16 Thread Marc Wilson
use your computer better than you do" crap? Let it mount a gods-be-damned tempfs if it wants, but let it also put everything INTO that tempfs. Well? Can it? -- Marc Wilson | Q: What is green and lives in the ocean? A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Moby Pickle. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: udev and gnome-volume-manager not working in Sarge

2004-12-17 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:50:51PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 19:59 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:11:38PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > This is just a copy of your pre-udev device entries. They're not used > >

Re: xv

2004-12-17 Thread Marc Wilson
; from ImageMagick) that are Free and available through the normal > Debian channels. There are very few image viewers that do everything xv does, all rolled into one binary. I wish all software stood the test of time as well as xv has. -- Marc Wilson | The road to ruin is always in good

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-17 Thread Marc Wilson
; binding "my-text-view" # --- # allow the user to change accelerators gtk-can-change-accels = 1 It's not like it's rocket science, guys. If you don't want to use g-c-c (I certainly don't), then set thin

Re: xv

2004-12-17 Thread Marc Wilson
use-wheel-as-zoom-control... with xv, you have to do that with the keyboard. -- Marc Wilson | If you explain so clearly that nobody can [EMAIL PROTECTED] | misunderstand, somebody will. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: xv

2004-12-18 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 09:44:39AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Friday 17 December 2004 10:22 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > The fact that it's shareware has nothing to do with it. > > Yes, it does. That means (by definition) that it's under a non-Free license,

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