Re: x broken

2001-11-11 Thread Marc Wilson
missing for the misc dir, or try "dpkg -i --force-confmiss /var/cache/apt/archives/xfonts-base_" That'll fix it. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp1XRjdWXohr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gkrellm on all desktop..

2001-11-11 Thread Marc Wilson
Unfortunately there's no way to get at blackbox's sticky menu from gkrellm. Actually, you could probably (haven't tried it) use bblaunch or bbappconf to force gkrellm's window class to the sticky state. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpiD48nXYryo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gvim in Debian

2001-11-11 Thread Marc Wilson
nstall vim-gtk. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vim help file problem

2001-11-12 Thread Marc Wilson
ting gzipped files in order to get help working again. AFAIR, on the first install of vim 6.0, there was a debconf message saying that parts of ~/.vimrc might be incompatible with the new version, but I ignored it at the time. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpflOU

Re: Problem with load order on Gnome login

2001-11-16 Thread Marc Wilson
nsparency, use something lighter, like aterm. > 2. All saved windows are coming up in my first virt screen and not in > the screens they were in when the log out occured.\ This is a limitation of the Gnome session mechanism. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpHAjXeL

Re: Lyx broken in Woody

2001-11-17 Thread Marc Wilson
ectory. The package maintainer has stated that this may be necessary due to changes in the software. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgprOFSGQTwSQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: text in menu bars has turned to hash marked boxes

2001-09-21 Thread Marc Wilson
Yes, see bugs 109480 and 109611 in the BTS. Annoying, isn't it? - Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson/ - Original Message - From: "joe golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 6:28 PM Subje

Re: dhcp client bugs?

2001-10-11 Thread Marc Wilson
> > I've also used dchp server in very limited scale, but > so far I've not encountered any bugs or problems. > Don't know how it is with bigger networks, > no experience of them. > > Antti > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Matrox G550 32MB under Woody

2001-12-27 Thread Marc Wilson
working, you'll love it. I run 1280x960x16bit dual-head and the display quality is wonderful. :) -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpyfbaVdR1en.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Windowmaker 0.80 key bindings

2001-12-30 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 02:20:02PM -0800, Charles Baker wrote: > Did an apt-get upgrade today and got WindowMaker 0.80. > Now none of the Windowmaker keybindings seem to be > working, Since they're all configurable, have you checked to see if they are still set as you expect them to

Re: Matrox drivers + XFree86 package

2002-01-06 Thread Marc Wilson
uld doubt there's much, if any, difference between the packaged driver and the one from Matrox when it comes to the G200. So it's really just a case of personal preference as to which you use. :) -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpXqFsFOWTQw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cd-writer question

2002-01-22 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:20:29PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > append = "apm=on apm=power-off idebus=66 hdb=ide-scsi \ >hdc=ide-scsi max_scsi_luns=1" Why're you telling the kernel that the PCI bus is running at 66 mhz? -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: More Sid/unstable wierdness.

2001-05-04 Thread Marc Wilson
devpts is the Unix98 Pty (pseudo-tty) support that more and more applications are coming to depend upon. You want this. There's a script in /etc/init.d that will mount it for you if you do not explicitly do it in /etc/fstab. And of course everyone knows what /proc is. - Marc Wilson [

Re: A Little Confused

2004-09-25 Thread Marc Wilson
ap during login, place the appropriate command(s) in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup, also as documented. If you don't want X to start automatically, then remove the display manager. -- Marc Wilson | Fuch's Warning: If you actually look like your [EMAIL PROTECTED] | passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: change /dev/console owner to user logged on console?

2004-10-12 Thread Marc Wilson
ving contest of devfs/udev. -- Marc Wilson | It is fruitless: to become lachrymose over [EMAIL PROTECTED] | precipitately departed lactate fluid. to attempt to | indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative | maneuvers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Mozilla to Xprint to CUPS = no output.

2004-09-27 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 08:49:10AM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Sure. Don't use xprint. Mozilla is perfectly capable of generating > > printed output on its own. > > Is that possible with the Debian Mozilla

Re: Mozilla to Xprint to CUPS = no output.

2004-09-27 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 07:43:52PM -0500, Christopher L. Everett wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > >Sure. Don't use xprint. Mozilla is perfectly capable of generating > >printed output on its own. > > > Yah, but for some reason when I remove Xprint, Mozilla starts gro

Re: dist-upgrade . . . to what?

2004-10-03 Thread Marc Wilson
, no, the difference between the 'upgrade' and 'dist-upgrade' targets is that 'upgrade' is not allowed to change the installation state of a package, and 'dist-upgrade' is. Both of them resolve "problems" with dependencies... that's kind of the ide

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Marc Wilson
to make them permanent. Which is unimportant for 99.9% of users. For the clueless, there is no significant difference between lilo and grub. The default was changed to grub to satisfy the 'leet, not the clueless. Fortunately it's one thing that you can change back, after installing. --

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Marc Wilson
do that in the first place? -- Marc Wilson | BOFH excuse #222: I'm not sure. Try calling the [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Internet's head office -- it's in the book. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Theme's (gnome) terribly wrong

2004-10-24 Thread Marc Wilson
by installing parts of unstable over the top of it. -- Marc Wilson | A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Publilius Syrus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

2004-10-26 Thread Marc Wilson
over installed? I know perfectly well what hardware is in my box... I'm not interested in some installer making not-very-educated-guesses, or in that same installer having the ability to change things later. -- Marc Wilson | Do you realize how many holes there could be if [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

2004-10-27 Thread Marc Wilson
nkbox. Not that the consumer has any business installing anything in the first place. Sorry... that's not a help for new "sysadmins", that's a crutch allowing them to not BE a sysadmin. -- Marc Wilson | love, n.: When, if asked to choose between your lover [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Blackdown

2004-11-08 Thread Marc Wilson
on-free JRE. There is no such package in unstable. -- Marc Wilson | Everybody is somebody else's weirdo. -- Dykstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?

2004-11-11 Thread Marc Wilson
provides 'mail-transfer-agent'. Remember, broken dependencies are not allowed to exist. The dependency database must always be consistent. -- Marc Wilson | Anything that is good and useful is made of [EMAIL PROTECTED] | chocolate. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?

2004-11-13 Thread Marc Wilson
it was hard to figure out what those three packages had in common. > The OP should use a real APT front-end. Anything as long as it's not aptitude. -- Marc Wilson | Women complain about sex more than men. Their gripes [EMAIL PROTECTED] | fall into two categories: (1

Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?

2004-11-14 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 01:12:47AM +, Brian Nelson wrote: > Aptitude does an OK job in this respect. It doesn't make conflict > resolution completely obvious, but the information is there. Aptitude shouldn't be used until its fundamental breakages are resolved.

Re: mysql-server dependency

2004-11-14 Thread Marc Wilson
Cluebies whine continually about how useless local mail is. They're wrong. What you use to PROVIDE it, is open to argument. As for what RedHat's packages do... who cares? -- Marc Wilson | QOTD: "I used to be an idealist, but I got mugged [EMAIL PROTECTED] | by reality."

Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?

2004-11-14 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 01:43:38PM +, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 11:36:00AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 01:12:47AM +, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > Aptitude does an OK job in this respect. It doesn't make conflict >

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
t's broken. If aptitude is *inconsistent*, as it is between the command line and the ncurses interface, it's WORSE. -- Marc Wilson | These PRESERVES should be FORCE-FED to PENTAGON [EMAIL PROTECTED] | OFFICIALS!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 11:37:58PM +, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 10:33:32PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > It ignores the status file in favor of its own re-implementation of it. > > That's not really a problem, other than #137771, which I assume will

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
dist-upgrade, etc. Usually, its just a case of putting > typing aptitude where you would have typed apt-get. Now, wait just a second... Brian Nelson says no one is recommending aptitude over apt-get for command-line use. :) Thank you for finding the authoritative reference I knew was out there but

Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:49:33AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > And no, most of what it can do, you can do from the command line or the > ncurses interface. s/or the ncurses interface// That's what I get for not re-reading before saving. -- Marc Wilson | Paranoids are people

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
27;t whether aptitude is feature-complete (it is), but whether it implements those features in a way compatible with the rest of the toolchain (it doesn't). I wouldn't care, not in the least, what aptitude did... if it wasn't being pushed as a be-all-end-all tool. Otherwise it'

Re: automatic printer recognition

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
Mac is running OS X 10.3.something, tell the Mac to share its printer(s). Your copy of CUPS on your laptop will pick up the shared printers from the Mac. I can't stand CUPS, but it *does* at least do that well. -- Marc Wilson | It doesn't matter what you do, it only matters what

Re: Firefox 1.0-2 crashes

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:46:10PM +0100, Marc Reich wrote: > munmap(0xb1829000, 65456) = 0 > open("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ssee1257.fon", O_RDONLY) = 45 When did something with a .fon extension become a TrueType font? -- Marc Wilson | Delta: We never make

Re: automatic printer recognition

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:48:33PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > >Ah, you run CUPS. As long as the Mac is running OS X 10.3.something, tell > >the Mac to share its printer(s). Your copy of CUPS on your laptop will > >pick up the shared printers from the M

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-16 Thread Marc Wilson
ficial documentation promoting its use over other tools. This is... confusing. > The inconsistency is a known bug, and it'll be fixed some day. It's not > a high priority though, and certainly isn't something that should > prevent aptitude's use at all. Considering t

Re: Why is subversion 1.1 remaining in experimental?

2004-11-18 Thread Marc Wilson
out of experimental. -- Marc Wilson | The water was not fit to drink. To make it [EMAIL PROTECTED] | palatable, we had to add whiskey. By diligent | effort, I learned to like it. -- Winston Churchill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

Re: Printing from Mozilla and Firefox

2004-06-30 Thread Marc Wilson
te to a wholly different group of people. So now you have to have yet another daemon running just on the off chance you might want to print something. Thanks, no. I do not own real Postscript printers just so that I can screw things up with xprt. -- Marc Wilson | What soon grows old?

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-06-30 Thread Marc Wilson
minal) because...? -- Marc Wilson | "Call immediately. Time is running out. We both [EMAIL PROTECTED] | need to do something monstrous before we die." -- | Message from Ralph Steadman to Hunter Thompson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Printing problems with mozilla

2004-07-02 Thread Marc Wilson
ision on the parts of the devels. > (And 99.5% of the time I agree with their decisions.) I keep meaning to file a bug about it on Mozilla. But I imagine it'll be ignored, so why bother? In the meantime, Moz 1.6 works just fine when 'links -g' won't, and still prints w

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-06 Thread Marc Wilson
inting works for some people, and for others it doesn't. XPrint works for some people, and for others it doesn't. XPrint is *not* an arguably superior product, so why is that choice forced on people? -- Marc Wilson | There's certainly precedent for that already too. [EMAIL P

Re: nvidia-source - problems

2004-07-07 Thread Marc Wilson
than following the instructions in README.Debian. Gee, wonder why it doesn't work? > I've read /usr/share/doc... Oh, have you now? -- Marc Wilson | The universe does not have laws -- it has habits, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | and habits can be broken. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-10 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 05:29:13PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Has anyone invited our Mozilla packager to participate in this > discussion? The numerous bugs that have been filed, and the way they've been dealt with, would seem to indicate that he's not interested in participa

Re: hp tape drive not recognized

2004-07-12 Thread Marc Wilson
for the adapter at boot via /etc/modules, and you've not aliased it properly so that the kernel can load it itself when it wants it. Pick one. -- Marc Wilson | Marriage is a great institution -- but I'm not ready [EMAIL PROTECTED] | for an institution yet. -- Mae West -- To

Re: Metacity window manager

2004-07-26 Thread Marc Wilson
ch as > gnome-panel for the taskbar. Uh, please define "full-fledged window manager", please. A window manager manages windows. Anything else is extra. Not that I'd ever be caught dead defending Metashitty, but it's doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing. -- Ma

Re: dpkg-reconfigure

2004-07-26 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 01:10:46PM -0500, cjackson wrote: > How do I find the list of packages reconfigurable with dpkg-reconfigure? There is no such "list". You can assume that if a package runs you through configuration when you initially install it, that you can do it agai

Re: Metacity window manager

2004-07-27 Thread Marc Wilson
els, etc. I wasn't aware of any panel (or anything else) bundled with either one. Window Maker has the clip and the dock, which are just a place to stash icons. Fluxcrap took the old blackbox patch that turned the toolbar into a list of running applications and made it part of the window ma

Re: Metacity window manager

2004-07-27 Thread Marc Wilson
onal eye-candy to the scene, but that's all it is. Oh, and fluxcrap is a single application, not a collection of them. -- Marc Wilson | WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Metacity window manager

2004-07-29 Thread Marc Wilson
tionality in a wm. You could have your .xsession file also launch an xterm, and then launch them from there. Been done that way for years. -- Marc Wilson | Give all orders verbally. Never write anything down [EMAIL PROTECTED] | that might go into a "Pearl Harbor File". -

Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another?

2004-08-01 Thread Marc Wilson
I think you'd find it close to impossible to put your hands on a 80-pin IDE cable that *wasn't* cable-select. -- Marc Wilson | BOFH excuse #287: Telecommunications is downshifting. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another?

2004-08-02 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 01:12:35PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > That would go to explain why _some_ manufacturers say the master goes on > this connector, the slave on that. Actually, the UDMA spec would go to explain *that*. -- Marc Wilson | A word to the wise is enough. --

Re: root file system has unknown type

2004-08-03 Thread Marc Wilson
S anymore? The original bug was reported back in June, after all. -- Marc Wilson | The existence of god implies a violation of [EMAIL PROTECTED] | causality. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: root file system has unknown type

2004-08-03 Thread Marc Wilson
ally googled for it when I first noticed the condition on my own box... the BTS posting popped right up. But it's logical that it'd be on either sysvinit, initscripts or on mount... how else do you think the root filesystem gets mounted? -- Marc Wilson | Some husbands are livin

Re: XFree vs. xorg

2004-08-06 Thread Marc Wilson
ars away. Actually, it's far more likely that Debian's XF430 supports hardware that X.org doesn't. Perhaps if you actually looked at changelogs. Debian's XF430 is 4.3.0 in name only. -- Marc Wilson | Money may buy friendship but money cannot buy love. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dependencies of the Damned!

2003-12-23 Thread Marc Wilson
nd you're trying to install libxrender1.1... > This just doesn't look optimal. It's doing exactly what you told it to do. Since you asked for a single package install, apt assumes you know exactly what you're doing. -- Marc Wilson | Q: What do monsters eat? A: Thing

Re: libgdkxft0 in unstable removes all gtk2 stuff

2003-12-23 Thread Marc Wilson
ot; Correct. > Is there a way to install this package without dropping all gtk2 apps? No. -- Marc Wilson | Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the fine print taketh away. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: Mozilla fonts

2003-12-23 Thread Marc Wilson
at do you expect to be happening here? -- Marc Wilson | Fundamentally, there may be no basis for anything. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Booting w/ dual CPUs hangs

2003-12-27 Thread Marc Wilson
nel gets hold of things.. A testament to a Tyan motherboard and it's ability to work even with wildly mis-configured hardware. > Do I need to get matching CPUs? Yep. Definately the same step, and from the same lot wouldn't be a bad idea (although hard to accomplish, unless you buy them t

Re: knode: fonts appear double-spaced.

2003-12-28 Thread Marc Wilson
monospaced font as an anti-aliased font ion xterm. I have no idea what would make it do it vertically. -- Marc Wilson | Heisenberg may have been here. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrdao not working with 2.6

2003-12-28 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 11:36:03AM +0200, Kristian Niemi wrote: > Well then, now I'm curious: why don't you want to use scsi emulation? Because in 2.6, ide-scsi is deprecated in favor of the native ATAPI support. A better question might be why he wants to use 2.6 at all. --

Re: OO1.1 fails to start

2003-12-28 Thread Marc Wilson
oes give the > *appearance* of one. Actually, this makes sense. What would you expect it to create, if all you ran was the container application? A text document? A spreadsheet? After you use File >> New, *then* you have a document. Or you can run the applications directly... oowri

Re: OO1.1 fails to start

2003-12-28 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 05:18:54PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 09:51:18AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > Actually, this makes sense. What would you expect it to create, if all you > > ran was the container application? A text document? A spreadsheet?

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread Marc Wilson
s only one IDE device on a chain can be performing a command at a given moment, SCSI will always win. Whether the *battle* is something you care about... that's for you to decide. -- Marc Wilson | It is better to remain childless than to father [EMAIL PROTECTED] | an orphan. signat

Re: OO1.1 fails to start

2003-12-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:14:12PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Do you guys mean MDI (Multiple Document Interface) rather than MDA (Mail > Delivery Agent)? :) Slap me with a wet noodle... I didn't catch that through the entire thread. -- Marc Wilson | Evil isn't all bad.

Re: knode: fonts appear double-spaced.

2003-12-29 Thread Marc Wilson
40d000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) Funny how it looks like xterm is using Xft1, isn't it? Xterm doesn't start using Xft2 until XF430. Xterm couldn't care less about what fontconfig thinks it can see. Xterm cares a whole lot about what Xft1 can se

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:36:03PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:53:11 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > Whether the *battle* is something you care about... that's for you to > > decide. > > Which is why I restricted my comments to PCs only. With

Re: single desktop per user with vncserver through inetd

2004-01-11 Thread Marc Wilson
ough, running VNC or XDMCP through the general internet is a bad idea. Of course, you could run VNC though an ssh tunnel... -- Marc Wilson | Falling in love is a lot like dying. You never get [EMAIL PROTECTED] | to do it enough to become good at it. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: fetchmail skips messages even if ~/.fetchids is truncated

2004-01-16 Thread Marc Wilson
> | done If the POP server you're talking to is SO unreliable that you need to use 'fetchlimit 2', you need to find a better class of ISP. Gotta love the stupidities people will go to just to avoid actually learning something. -- Marc Wilson | For fools rush in where angel

Re: Problem_with_usb-ethernet_adapter

2004-01-16 Thread Marc Wilson
2.2.20-idepci. Since Pegasus-based USB<>Ethernet adapters are only supported under 2.4.x kernels, the problem and the solution both seem obvious. -- Marc Wilson | The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After [EMAIL PROTECTED] | that, it's all learned. (Bru

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-18 Thread Marc Wilson
t scrolls when there's more than a couple hundred files in the directory would get fixed. Not everyone thinks smooth-scrolling is ideal. Especially *super-slow* smooth scrolling. ^_^ -- Marc Wilson | Our informal mission is to improve the love life of [EMAIL PROTECTED] | opera

Re: viewing multi-page .tiff: how to in linux

2004-01-18 Thread Marc Wilson
I'm saying that's a bad idea. But automagically assuming that everyone has that kind of support... that IS a bad idea. -- Marc Wilson | Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes [EMAIL PROTECTED] | an annual free trip around the Sun. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: mpeg/mov-->jpg converter

2003-06-24 Thread Marc Wilson
r turn into thumbnails (Google for 'vcdautomenu'). -- Marc Wilson | Once is happenstance, Twice is coincidence, Three [EMAIL PROTECTED] | times is enemy action. -- Auric Goldfinger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: mpeg/mov-->jpg converter

2003-06-24 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 08:59:45PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > I use it to take frames out of MPEGs which I later turn into thumbnails > (Google for 'vcdautomenu'). Ok, that should have been: "I use it to take frames out of MPEGs which I later turn into thumbnails for

Re: emu10k1 WILL NOT load!

2003-06-29 Thread Marc Wilson
he SourceForge driver shows that support for the Audigy was added at v0.19a. The kernel driver does not have any of these modifications. I have no idea if any of the Debian kernel-image packages include the SourceForge driver. -- Marc Wilson | So many men, so many opinions; every one his ow

Re: Sb Audigy, how?

2003-06-30 Thread Marc Wilson
ver in them, but the raw kernel doesn't. You have to use the SourceForge driver. I imagine that DeadRat has just incorporated that into the kernel(s) they ship. Everything they do is patched rather heavily. The SourceForge driver isn't hard to use, just read the instructions. -- Marc W

Re: Activating vim color?

2003-06-30 Thread Marc Wilson
ade statements, and gave no examples. You also got quite a few responses anyway. I've had no problem making one look like the other. I'd love to see examples of this "bug". -- Marc Wilson | "Speed is subsittute fo accurancy." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNS

Re: PDF viewers capable of high zoom factors

2003-07-01 Thread Marc Wilson
nitude larger than xpdf does on the same file. ^_^ (/me goes and removes all the Gnome cruft gpdf brought along) -- Marc Wilson | Let no guilty man escape. -- U.S. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: kernel 2.5.xx and Qt

2003-07-01 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:17:44AM +, Robin Gerard wrote: > menuconfig works fine with kernel 2.5.xxx, but xconfig needs Qt. > Why to use Qt rather Gtk ? Because that's what the kernel developers WANTED to do. Why favor GTK over Qt? -- Marc Wilson | problem drinker, n.

Re: openbox3

2003-07-02 Thread Marc Wilson
s, you'll have to reconfigure and use Xinerama. -- Marc Wilson | And now for something completely different. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with ncurses in X

2003-07-02 Thread Marc Wilson
to what Eterm does, but this usually is because xterm thinks the font you're using (whatever it is) has line-drawing characters, and it doesn't. Are you running xterm anti-aliased? -- Marc Wilson | You need tender loving care once a week - so that [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I ca

Re: How to change a symlink without breaking anything (problems with g++)

2003-07-02 Thread Marc Wilson
and use 3.3 when you need to. Building kernels, for example, should not be done with gcc 3.3 just yet (yes, I'm sure there's some idiot who's about to rant about how wonderful his gcc_3.3-compiled kernel is... pay attention to lkml for the number of regressions still being found).

Re: GTK font issues

2003-07-02 Thread Marc Wilson
all this time. -- Marc Wilson | Knowledge is power. -- Francis Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] | pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Turn on DMA on boot

2003-07-02 Thread Marc Wilson
the kernel isn't doing it by default, and correct that condition. *Then* worry about whether or not you need to use hdparm. -- Marc Wilson | Your nature demands love and your happiness depends [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: cdrecord warning message

2003-07-02 Thread Marc Wilson
sudo, for instance), or set it suid root, so that it can do what it wants to do. > BTW, is there a way to re-read the /etc/group file without logging out > and then logging in? No. Or not really. What's wrong with logging in again? -- Marc Wilson | Necessity is the plea fo

Re: sound support

2003-07-03 Thread Marc Wilson
he SourceForge driver. -- Marc Wilson | The good life was so elusive It really got me [EMAIL PROTECTED] | down I had to regain some confidence So I got into | camouflage -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xterm configuration

2003-07-03 Thread Marc Wilson
s AA's fonts or what it does to simulate line-drawing with them if it does. -- Marc Wilson | He is the best of men who dislikes power. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Mohammed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: suggestions for a good MTA?

2003-07-03 Thread Marc Wilson
? Sure. Exim. The smarthost choice in eximconfig does what you want. Make sure you set exim's idea of "local" properly so that it knows when to deliver locally and when to re-write and send on to the smarthost. -- Marc Wilson | For most men life is a search for the pr

Re: Default header weeding in Mutt

2003-07-07 Thread Marc Wilson
strate one. Finally... if you don't like it, CHANGE IT. You can't write a local muttrc? It is going to be absolutely impossible to please everyone. My own personal configuration overrides quite a lot of what /etc/Muttrc does. -- Marc Wilson | BOFH excuse #448: vi needs to be upgrade

Re: Printing in Mozilla unstable

2003-07-28 Thread Marc Wilson
it to the printer is all that's required to solve the mechanical jams it causes. Now... as for YOU... does everyone here get to *guess* what your actual failure is, or will you be getting around to describing it? Or did you really want the one word "yes" as the answer to your

Re: xv compilation

2003-08-01 Thread Marc Wilson
7;ve done... I'm maintaining it locally for my own uses and have (a) repaired the build system, (b) patched the hell out of it (although I still can't get the EXIF patch I found to apply properly). -- Marc Wilson | "Is it really you, Fuzz, or is it Memorex, or is it [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xv compilation

2003-08-01 Thread Marc Wilson
coffin/powershot/ (not sure if I'm happy with this, may revert it) -- Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 01 Jun 2003 16:39:00 -0700 xv (3.10a-29) unstable; urgency=low * fixed error message truncation caused by Debian patch #07 The Deb patch enforces string lengths on

Re: Permissions denied when enabling DMA

2003-08-02 Thread Marc Wilson
This is why the kernel didn't enable DMA on its own. Using hdparm to force DMA is a bad, bad, BAD idea. The kernel usually has very good reasons for not enabling it. -- Marc Wilson | You are only young once, but you can stay immature [EMAIL PROTECTED] | indefinitely. -- To UNSUB

Re: web interface to submit bugs

2003-08-02 Thread Marc Wilson
ystems, that the Debian way is far superior. Somehow, Gentoo using something isn't much of a ringing endorsement. -- Marc Wilson | There's nothing very mysterious about you, except [EMAIL PROTECTED] | that nobody really knows your origin, purpose, | or des

Re: Blackbox theme install probs.

2003-08-02 Thread Marc Wilson
ly background or style files ? They are neither. They are textual descriptions. Blackbox couldn't care less about them. -- Marc Wilson | Garbage In -- Gospel Out. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Permissions denied when enabling DMA

2003-08-03 Thread Marc Wilson
t, or because there is support and it's not enabled by default, or because the particular drive/controller combination is blacklisted, etc. But for most people, it's usually easier to just stomp first and whine later when the data goes away, I must admit. Don't be that person.

Re: Permissions denied when enabling DMA

2003-08-03 Thread Marc Wilson
dn't do whatever they think it should have done on its own. Why didn't DMA get enabled by default? That should be the *first* question, not "oh, gee, no DMA, let's go stomp on settings with hdparm." -- Marc Wilson | MERYL STREEP is my obstetrician! [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Locale setting problem

2003-08-03 Thread Marc Wilson
eading bug #166979. The locale command doesn't know anything about locale-archive files, and that's what gets created by default these days. To get a true picture of what locales you have built, use both 'locale -a' and 'localedef --list-archive'. Supposedly gli

Re: root-tail in unstable

2004-05-14 Thread Marc Wilson
broken... I just reverted to the prior version and all was well. In my case, it decided that everything needed to be bold. VERY bold. Without my actually changing the font I'd *told* it to use. -- Marc Wilson | Did I say I was a sardine? Or a bus??? [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUB

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