Re: aptitude trap: 'hold' directives not honored.

2004-05-23 Thread Marc Wilson
replacement for apt-get, which it isn't) and ncurses aptitude, *don't have the same behavior!* Ncurses aptitude *does* honor the status file. Sometimes. I'm sorry, but dpkg is the *fundamental* tool. If you don't honor its interfaces, you are *broken*. 'Nuff said. --

Re: aptitude trap: 'hold' directives not honored.

2004-05-24 Thread Marc Wilson
e management tool out there. All of us Debianites love to tell people that apt-get is just something that was coded as a demonstration tool... but that's what everyone sees and that's what we're known for. The inconsistency between the tools is more than a little absurd. -- Mar

Re: 2.6.6 unsupported wireless? That can't be true!

2004-05-26 Thread Marc Wilson
clearly for the "SmartCardBus Reader" in slot 2. -- Marc Wilson | Toes, knees, NIPPLES. Toes, knees, nipples, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | KNUCKLES ... Nipples, dimples, knuckles, NICKLES, | wrinkles, pimples!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: bash profile not working

2004-06-21 Thread Marc Wilson
then there's no shell running, so they shouldn't be read. Simple, huh? If it bothers you, set environment variables in ~/.xsession like normal people do. There's no correct "fix" because nothing is broken. -- Marc Wilson | Quality Control, n.: The process o

Re: bash profile not working

2004-06-21 Thread Marc Wilson
ewed up that I'm not going to bother. If no one else clued wanted to chime in on the original thread, I don't know why I did now. Probably the idea that you were spreading it to someone else. Forget I said anything at all. -- Marc Wilson | A horse! A horse! My kingdom for

Re: What did I do wrong? (Filesystem recovery with ReiserFS)

2004-08-12 Thread Marc Wilson
needed to boot Crappix in order to fsck the filesystem. Was there something wrong with the OS already installed? > What should I do next time? Not use reiserfs. -- Marc Wilson | I'm having BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS about the INSIPID [EMAIL PROTECTED] | WIVES of smug and wealthy

Re: What did I do wrong? (Filesystem recovery with ReiserFS)

2004-08-13 Thread Marc Wilson
x being good for much other than "gee whiz, it's Linux" type of nonsense. It certainly wasn't impressive the last time I wasted an afternoon with it. -- Marc Wilson | Love conquers all things; let us too surrender [EMAIL PROTECTED] | to love. -- Publius Vergilius

Re: .bash_profile

2004-08-14 Thread Marc Wilson
m. $ man bash Read the INVOCATION section and actually learn which of bash's initialization files it reads and at what times. -- Marc Wilson | Some people only open up to tell you that they're [EMAIL PROTECTED] | closed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Filesystem recovery with ReiserFS

2004-08-16 Thread Marc Wilson
he recovery tools are non-existent. -- Marc Wilson | To live is always desirable. -- Eleen the Capellan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Friday's Child", stardate 3498.9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DVD Recording question

2004-08-19 Thread Marc Wilson
a at full speed? A decent burner application. Cdrecord-ProDVD works well. -- Marc Wilson | Thrashing is just virtual crashing. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xterm, Schmexterm

2004-08-22 Thread Marc Wilson
having again if you remove the custom prompt. -- Marc Wilson | What fools these morals be! [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alternative to cdrecord?

2004-08-23 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 04:44:15PM -0400, Brian Pack wrote: > I've been hit with the issues between cdrecord and the 2.6.8 kernel. "The" issues... what issues? -- Marc Wilson | The Phone Booth Rule: A lone dime always gets the [EMAIL PROTECTED] | number nearly righ

Re: alternative to cdrecord?

2004-08-23 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:53:12AM +0800, csj wrote: > Pretty well-known issues;-) 2.6.8.x breaks current versions of at > least two of the most popular optical media writing tools, > cdrecord and growisofs. I knew there was a reason I stayed with the 2.6.5 kernel I was running. :)

Re: copying text from console to X with gpmdata?

2004-08-25 Thread Marc Wilson
m not sure what KDE does, but I'm sure it's every bit as stupid. The single best description of how cut and paste actually works in X11 can be found here: http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html -- Marc Wilson | I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Console bell (beep) lost

2004-08-25 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:18:23PM -0700, Ryo Furue wrote: > After I upgraded the kernel from 2.4.18 SMP to 2.6.7 SMP, > I lost the console bell (beep). Yes, recompile your kernel again, and this time turn the PC speaker on. Or did you think the beep came from somewhere else? -- Marc

Re: copying text from console to X with gpmdata?

2004-08-26 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:46:52AM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:08:33PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > I do that all the time, and it ALWAYS works. The only problem I have is: > > 1. Select Text 1. Select text > 2. 2. Hit Ctrl-C &g

Re: copying text from console to X with gpmdata?

2004-08-26 Thread Marc Wilson
gt; 2. Select text to replace > 3. Btn2 click Reformatting it doesn't change that you're using the clipboard on the Windows side, and selections rather than the clipboard on the X11 side, and apparently surprised that they don't work the same way. Use the clipboard on both sides, it works

Re: eroaster atapi ide-scsi and burning files - fail to detect reader/writer

2004-08-29 Thread Marc Wilson
the image? -- Marc Wilson | The more they over-think the plumbing the easier it [EMAIL PROTECTED] | is to stop up the drain. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gnuplot 4 on Woody : no Xterm

2004-09-02 Thread Marc Wilson
27;t? Where is Gnuplot *4* available for Woody? -- Marc Wilson | Take a lesson from the whale; the only time he gets [EMAIL PROTECTED] | speared is when he raises to spout. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gnuplot 4 on Woody : no Xterm

2004-09-02 Thread Marc Wilson
ail tell you anything? -- Marc Wilson | An eye in a blue face Saw an eye in a green face. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "That eye is like this eye" Said the first eye, | "But in low place, Not in high place." signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: VNC's XDMCP requests now fail?

2004-09-04 Thread Marc Wilson
t that IS in the default fontpath Xvnc uses. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt several weeks ago. -- Marc Wilson | media ethics is an oxymoron, much like [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Jumbo Shrimp and Microsoft Works. not | to mention NT Security -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: VNC's XDMCP requests now fail?

2004-09-05 Thread Marc Wilson
is manner to bother. Dunno if it'd be xdm's or vncserver's bug, though, which is another reason not to go there. -- Marc Wilson | That's one small step for a man; one giant leap [EMAIL PROTECTED] | for mankind. -- Neil Armstrong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Discover1 (dosn't setup cdrom).

2004-09-05 Thread Marc Wilson
mention, don't use discover? -- Marc Wilson | The faster I go, the behinder I get. -- Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Carroll signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: NOT ALL of the packages are in CD

2004-09-08 Thread Marc Wilson
CD's. No, it means that on whatever date the ISO's you have for Sarge were made, lyx wasn't part of it, and now, it is. One is then, the other is now. -- Marc Wilson | No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | that purpose to keep awake al

Re: parallel port using lots of CPU

2004-09-20 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:42:30PM -0400, Icebiker wrote: > In NT/XP, MS supports parallel ports grudgingly and encourage you to invest > in a USB device. I imagine it's the same for Linux. Just as an aside, NT certainly does nothing of the kind, as it has no clue what USB is. --

Re: parallel port using lots of CPU

2004-09-20 Thread Marc Wilson
s just being attributed to lpd. Uh, that's a CUPS back-end, not the hardware directly. The port itself cannot consume CPU. Well, it can, but not in the sense that you mean. -- Marc Wilson | Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like [EMAIL PROTECTED] | strumming on a picnic tabl

Re: parallel port using lots of CPU

2004-09-22 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:13:05PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Monday 20 September 2004 17:07, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > Uh, that's a CUPS back-end, not the hardware directly. The port itself > > cannot consume CPU. Well, it can, but not in the sense that you mean. &

Re: sig dashes munged at master.d.o or Mutt issue?

2004-02-23 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 06:01:38AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 05:04:13PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:49:20PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > I don't see anything in the Mutt doc that says trailing space(s) get > > >

Re: Xwindows in Sid

2004-02-23 Thread Marc Wilson
No one can solve your problem if you don't tell them what the problem is. -- Marc Wilson | Use what talents you possess: the woods would be [EMAIL PROTECTED] | very silent if no birds sang there except those that | sang best. -- Henry Van Dyke -- To UNSUBSC

Re: sig dashes munged at master.d.o or Mutt issue?

2004-02-23 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 04:40:02PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:35:48PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > | I remember way back when, when I still thought transparent *terms were > | cool, that running Mutt did strange things in one. Like it would

Re: PCL only printer

2004-02-25 Thread Marc Wilson
skjetfilter - take in postscript, output PCL via GhostScript/HPIJS # Marc Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) # uncomment the following line to enable entirely too much output... #DEBUG=yes GS='/usr/bin/gs' HPIJS='/usr/bin/hpijs' # I'd like to run them both at 600 dpi, but the 1120C we

Re: Tools to fix broken rar archives or pdfs?

2004-02-26 Thread Marc Wilson
about downloading l337 warez d00d archives from a Usenet news group. I'm sure you know all about that, don't you? -- Marc Wilson | I really don't want much at all... [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Just a kind word, an attractive woman, and UNLIMITED | BANDWIDTH!!

Re: PCL only printer

2004-02-27 Thread Marc Wilson
an see what > colors are correctly printing. Press and hold the Page Eject while the printer is turned on. Let go after it loads a page. -- Marc Wilson | BOFH excuse #409: The vulcan-death-grip ping has [EMAIL PROTECTED] | been applied. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: agpgart aperture setting

2004-03-02 Thread Marc Wilson
pports 8x AGP on Via. > Maybe there's a start up setting I can use. Any ideas? Thanks. And maybe there's not. -- Marc Wilson | All seems condemned in the long run to approximate [EMAIL PROTECTED] | a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: no more gt,lt or pipe under X?

2004-03-08 Thread Marc Wilson
but only found some sparc people having > those problems... Considering the incredible number of bug reports about this... you didn't bother to look at all, did you? -- Marc Wilson | Save a little money each month and at the end of [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the year you'll be

Re: installation, Linux source code

2004-03-11 Thread Marc Wilson
an embarassment to the FOSS community. -- Marc Wilson | Between grand theft and a legal fee, there only [EMAIL PROTECTED] | stands a law degree. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SoundBlaster Audigy under OSS?

2004-03-22 Thread Marc Wilson
me sound. It shouldn't have. To support an Audigy, you either need to use ALSA, or the SourceForge SB Live driver. -- Marc Wilson | BOFH excuse #245: The Borg tried to assimilate your [EMAIL PROTECTED] | system. Resistance is futile. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why can't Xfree86 use AGP 8X?

2004-03-25 Thread Marc Wilson
whether or not your hardware actually supports AGP 8x? Or what the hardware even *is*? -- Marc Wilson | The truth you speak has no past and no future. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | It is, and that's all it needs to be. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: UT2003/OpenGL/unstable Issues

2004-01-29 Thread Marc Wilson
"patch" in either case, but v5336 was supposedly released to fix "AGP issues". -- Marc Wilson | Kludge, n.: An ill-assorted collection of [EMAIL PROTECTED] | poorly-matching parts, forming a distressing whole. | -- Jackson Granholm, "Datama

Re: Multi-head (non-Xinerama) window managers

2004-02-02 Thread Marc Wilson
o be using one of the older wm's, like blackbox, or fvwm, or afterstep. If EWMH compatability is important to you, I'd use fvwm. Otherwise, I'd use blackbox. Actually, I'd use blackbox anyway... blackbox CVS supports EWMH. ^_^ Openbox2 does a good job

Re: Multi-head (non-Xinerama) window managers

2004-02-05 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:20:50PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.02.02.1826 +0100]: > > If EWMH compatability is important to you, I'd use fvwm. > > Otherwise, I'd use blackbox. Actually, I'd use blackbox anyw

Re: gcc & the kernel, supermount (?)

2004-02-05 Thread Marc Wilson
mpiler by people who should know (ie, the kernel developers) is more than enough reason to use it to build kernels in preference to 3.x. The amazing number of regressions 3.x seems to perpetually go through is another good reason. ^_^ -- Marc Wilson | April 1 This is the day upon which we are

Re: debian ... can't get it to install

2004-02-05 Thread Marc Wilson
people refuse to get it No, in fifteen minutes, he will have a fully configured *Knoppix* system. Converting this "system" into Debian will not be painless. -- Marc Wilson | "Language shapes the way we think, and determines [EMAIL PROTECTED] | what we can think ab

Re: Debain on the rise ! - However ....

2004-02-06 Thread Marc Wilson
t* idiocy come from? Explain, please. -- Marc Wilson | To make an enemy, do someone a favor. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-07 Thread Marc Wilson
ue not to think, but rather to understand that there are some things Barbie just shouldn't be doing without appropriate training. -- Marc Wilson | (It is an old Debian tradition to leave at least [EMAIL PROTECTED] | twice a year ...) -- Sven Rudolph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Is Security Host up

2004-02-07 Thread Marc Wilson
ve, or horror of HORRORS, actually look and see for yourself? Wow... I bet you actually think posting to the list and waiting for a response was a faster way to get an answer. -- Marc Wilson | If you put your supper dish to your ear you can hear [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the sounds of a rest

Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's

2004-02-07 Thread Marc Wilson
ding out why it HASN'T. People who write hdparm HOWTOs need to be hung up by their toenails. I've yet to read one that tried to be an even minimally responsible resource. > good luck Yeah, he'll need it. -- Marc Wilson | System restarting, wait... [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Wilson
n the first place (although I'm quite well aware that you think it is). If out of the box, it can't do at least the above, it should have bugs filed until in its default configuration, IT CAN. Please, in all seriousness, what's up? -- Marc Wilson | A narcissist is someone

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Wilson
e it may well work for you, who has clue, anyone who suggests to a cluebie that using Knoppix is a way to get Debian should be shot. -- Marc Wilson | Where do you go to get anorexia? -- Shelley Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:58:03PM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > On Son, 2004-02-08 at 04:57, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > > Never mind that the kernel can do 90% of this on its own, and a wonderful > > first step should *always* be finding out why it HASN'T. > &

Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Wilson
mouse: -- Marc Wilson | History repeats itself -- the first time as a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | tragi-comedy, the second time as bedroom farce. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Wilson
;s not, and *don't* expect to get support for it while you're calling it something it's not. Hell... let 'em use one of the BSD's (had to throw that in since I'm installing oBSD on my 712/80 hppa for the third time as I write). -- Marc Wilson | QOTD:

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Wilson
oncurrent DOS on S-100 systems (CompuPro and Advanced Digital) and generally having a hell of a good time doing it. I didn't own my first PC compatible until sometime after 1992 (when I moved to where I am now, got it after that). > after all i was born a few months after Kennedy was shot...

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:04:57PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: > On Sunday 08 February 2004 7:18 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: > I just have to say that I find this cluebie/stupid nonsense you keep spouting > very offputting and childish. Then take steps to ensure that they're NOT cluebi

Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:42:17PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: > Enlightenment. Right click to maximize vertically, middle click to > maximize horizontally. > > Have not used with Gnome, so I can't comment. Enlightenment v17 CVS will, as it supports EWMH. You can forget about

Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?

2004-02-09 Thread Marc Wilson
d forget about it. The gtk-theme-switch package can automate this for you. -- Marc Wilson | Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wages, but truth goes a-begging. -- Martin Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, Knoppix, and other varients

2004-02-09 Thread Marc Wilson
putting the Woody CD in the drive and running the installer. Woody's installer is pretty brain-dead... there's not a whole lot there to mess up. That's what's nice about it. -- Marc Wilson | Killing is wrong. -- Losira, "That Which Survives", [EMAIL PROTECTED] | stardate unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?

2004-02-09 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:49:13AM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: > On Sunday February 8 at 09:06pm > Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Enlightenment v17 CVS will, as it supports EWMH. You can forget about > > E v16. > > Does your DR17 install co-exist ni

Re: alt-right-click in xterm

2004-02-09 Thread Marc Wilson
sed on the other. Which is the first using, and which is the second using? -- Marc Wilson | "If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | and spend your time serving it..." -- Marion Zimmer | Bradley, _The Forbidden Tower_ --

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-09 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:04:17AM -0500, Mike M wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:04:57PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > On Sunday 08 February 2004 7:18 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > > > > > Then they should use it. I couldn't care less whether someone uses De

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-09 Thread Marc Wilson
n (stable, testing, unstable) When it's time to railroad, people start railroading. That's where Knoppix came from in the first place, not that it was the first. It's in no way an itch I have, so no need to scratch it. However, are *you* volunteering to build the railroad? ^_^ -

Re: a2ps borders problem after upgrade

2004-02-11 Thread Marc Wilson
oaded a broken CVS version and then effectively disappeared. IMHO Sarge shouldn't release with this mess in it, but I'm not the release manager. Step back to the non-CVS version and you'll be fine. You think you need to be running unstable, so you know how to do that, right? -- Marc W

Re: a2ps borders problem after upgrade

2004-02-12 Thread Marc Wilson
we already have the broken one. -- Marc Wilson | Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a2ps borders problem after upgrade

2004-02-12 Thread Marc Wilson
of that on my own. ^_^ Last entry in its ChangeLog is dated 2003-01-15. None of the craziness that was apparently done to it in the uploaded version is described therein. Archives of its mailing list are apparently dead. I haven't tried mailing the upstream maintainer. -- Marc Wilson | Growi

Re: Fonts, one more time

2004-02-12 Thread Marc Wilson
as much. Personally, "users" have no business messing with fonts in the first place. They "use" what they're given. But then no one ever agrees with me anyway. -- Marc Wilson | well-adjusted, adj.: The ability to play bridge or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | golf as if t

Re: Why Linux, Why Debian

2004-02-12 Thread Marc Wilson
;t contribute to an advocacy document. Debian-User has a fairly high clue-level, though, so perhaps you'll get more than the average slashcrap-esque stuff. Everyone always has to make it about religion. -- Marc Wilson | Q: What do you call a blind, deaf-mute, quadraplegic [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: mounting loop iso9660 rw

2004-02-19 Thread Marc Wilson
Linux to do this job... you've been pointed to them at least twice in this thread. You can't modify the ISO in-place. If you actually bother to think about it for a moment, you'll see why. -- Marc Wilson | Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they AREN'

Re: sid dvd jigdo template files renamed ??

2004-02-21 Thread Marc Wilson
D's. I suppose they do it because people are stupid enough to want them. -- Marc Wilson | "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker [EMAIL PROTECTED] | is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is | another matter." -- Winston Churchill -- T

Re: Pipe Symbol

2004-02-21 Thread Marc Wilson
a Toshiba Satellite 1130. In X, right? Use the "pc105" keyboard, instead of the "pc104" keyboard. Why people can't ever be bothered to search the archives is beyond me. I do not use a non-English keyboard, have not allowed XF430 to install (and won't until at *least

Re: DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-21 Thread Marc Wilson
elieve that. It's only a "backup" if you can get out what went in. And you can't. -- Marc Wilson | Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing [EMAIL PROTECTED] | back images. -- Jean Cocteau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: [OT?] Re: PostScript -> samba -> PDF -> email attachment

2004-02-21 Thread Marc Wilson
* pdf|pdfwriter|PDF_Writer :sd=/var/spool/lpd/pdf :lp=/dev/null :if=/usr/local/bin/pdffilter :mx#0 :sh :rg=printers * /usr/local/bin/pdffilter: * #!/bin/bash # pdffilter - take in postcript, output PDF, mail to submitter # Marc Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) # uncomment the follow

sig dashes munged at master.d.o or Mutt issue?

2004-02-22 Thread Marc Wilson
unless also accompanied by a search term that I should have used to find the information. It's a rather large FM and *my* searching in it hasn't found anything. -- Marc Wilson | I am so optimistic about beef prices that I've just [EMAIL PROTECTED] | leased a pot roast wit

Re: sig dashes munged at master.d.o or Mutt issue?

2004-02-22 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:49:20PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > I don't see anything in the Mutt doc that says trailing space(s) get > stripped in the pager... and I can't see it being an xterm thing, so what's > up? Hm, more testing... trailing spaces on any line in the

Re: Sarge is trying to remove Netscape

2004-03-29 Thread Marc Wilson
rashes > > or locks up cold, I start up Netscape and print there. > > Have you considered Konqueror? I think his goal is to have something that works *better* than Mozilla, not worse. ^_^ Mozilla's printing support is legendary for the problems it causes. XPrint mig

Re: udev and CD or DVD drives

2004-04-07 Thread Marc Wilson
SCSI CD-ROM drives? I think you meant to say that ide-scsi emulation is deprecated in 2.6.x, which isn't necessarily the same thing at all. -- Marc Wilson | Life begins at the centerfold and expands outward. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Miss November, 1966 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Problems installing sid. CD boot up crashes.

2004-04-07 Thread Marc Wilson
> How do I install debian unstable? You don't. You dist-upgrade to it. -- Marc Wilson | "The Computer made me do it." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Howto "nvidia-kernel-source" ?

2004-04-11 Thread Marc Wilson
x27;t, currently work with 2.6 kernels, the official drivers from > nVidia work fine, provided you use the latest ones. Just because you're annoyed with Paul doesn't make YOU any less wrong either... v5336 of the nVidia driver has been available for unstable for quite some time. -- Marc

Re: mutt-1.5.6 and xv with pdf plugin packages

2004-04-18 Thread Marc Wilson
ave no idea, but there's been no new license released. -- Marc Wilson | Punishment becomes ineffective after a certain point. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Men become insensitive. -- Eneg, "Patterns of | Force", stardate 2534.7 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian /etc/hosts Behavior

2004-04-18 Thread Marc Wilson
tname -f mailhost.moonkingdom.net [ 9:28 am][pts/1][/home/mwilson] mailhost $ hostname -d moonkingdom.net [ 9:28 am][pts/1][/home/mwilson] mailhost $ What is it they say? Works great, lasts long time. Personally, what YOU had in /etc/hosts looks like something that was added locally. -- Ma

Re: Debian /etc/hosts Behavior

2004-04-18 Thread Marc Wilson
e normal boot-floppies is in use. -- Marc Wilson | Van Roy's Law: An unbreakable toy is useful for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | breaking other toys. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Cisco Aironet 350 Wireless and Kernel 2.6.5

2004-04-18 Thread Marc Wilson
me on > this card, so I assume is data from the card and not another access > point. Cisco's default ESSID is "tsunami". -- Marc Wilson | Tobacco is a filthy weed, That from the devil does [EMAIL PROTECTED] | proceed; It drains your purse, it burns your clothes,

Re: [PATCH] restoring tg3 driver to latest 2.6.5 source

2004-04-23 Thread Marc Wilson
sasters would be...? -- Marc Wilson | Absence makes the heart grow fonder -- of somebody [EMAIL PROTECTED] | else. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel 2.6.X and cdrecord / xcdroast

2004-04-24 Thread Marc Wilson
o put forward a front-end that does? Ide-scsi will continue to work for some time. -- Marc Wilson | The best diplomat I know is a fully activated [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phaser bank. -- Scotty signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mounting audio cds....

2004-05-10 Thread Marc Wilson
here it's revealed that it does no error correction, no jitter correction, and no ability to deal with a scratched disc. It allows through all the problems that applications like cdparanoia were created to fix. I reiterate, if you're going to rip the disc, then get on with it already and rip t

Re: Anacron vs. cron.

2004-05-01 Thread Marc Wilson
advise you > to install anacron. Because anacron is an *adjunct* to cron, it does not *replace* it. Actually learning what anacron *is*, might be helpful. -- Marc Wilson | Flattery will get you everywhere. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: printer puzzle

2004-05-02 Thread Marc Wilson
xpect it to work like printing under Windows. Xprint is an attempt to make it work like that. -- Marc Wilson | I know th'MAMBO!! I have a TWO-TONE CHEMISTRY SET!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MTA dependencies ???

2004-05-02 Thread Marc Wilson
s not know about it. Wrong answer. The packaging system needs to know about it. > What is the best way to accomplish this? Use the qmail-src package to build a deb that provides mail-transfer-agent. This is, after all, why it exists. It's in non-free, but you've apparently already mad

Re: Seaagate drivers?

2004-05-02 Thread Marc Wilson
s what actual hardware you have, or will you be telling someone? -- Marc Wilson | Happiness isn't having what you want, it's wanting [EMAIL PROTECTED] | what you have. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UXTerm, Andale Mono, and line drawings

2004-05-03 Thread Marc Wilson
Term-177 (what's currently in unstable) and with XTerm-180 (what I use locally). You're not passing +fbx (telling XTerm NOT to manufacture line-drawing characters) or setting the forceBoxChars resource to 'true', are you? -- Marc Wilson | Any programming language is at

Re: Upgrading to 2.6.5 switched my physical network interface names

2004-05-03 Thread Marc Wilson
it. Either swap the cables, or swap the slots the cards are in. -- Marc Wilson | You can fool some of the people all of the time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | and all of the people some of the time, but you can | never fool your Mom. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Limewire and Java runtime

2004-05-07 Thread Marc Wilson
ute a JRE. -- Marc Wilson | Simon's Law: Everything put together falls apart [EMAIL PROTECTED] | sooner or later. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-03 Thread Marc Wilson
x27;re correct. Whyinhell isn't this an RC bug!? I'm not about to file it... the last thing I want to do is use the-disaster-that-is-aptitude. But *someone* should. -- Marc Wilson | I'll be comfortable on the couch. Famous last words. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Lenny Br

Re: ./configure - file not found problem

2006-12-09 Thread Marc Wilson
pusher not bothering to know anything about how the tools work. -- Marc Wilson | Q: What do monsters eat? A: Things. Q: What do [EMAIL PROTECTED] | monsters drink? A: Coke. (Because Things go better | with Coke.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: .bash_profile ignored in X

2006-12-16 Thread Marc Wilson
which describes when and under what conditions bash uses its various configuration files. Presumably you have told xterm not to run as a login shell, as that's the criterion for bash to pay attention to .bash_profile. -- Marc Wilson | Do your part to help preserve life on Earth -- [EMAI

Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

2006-12-31 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 03:32:26PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Why not just use gnome-terminal? Have you ever *used* gnome-terminal? 'Nuff said. -- Marc Wilson | Modesty: The gentle art of enhancing your charm by [EMAIL PROTECTED] | pretending not to be aware of it. -

Re: update messages

2006-12-31 Thread Marc Wilson
didn't you notice *before* the dist-upgrade? It's not like you weren't told. For that matter, why did you give explicit permission to remove packages by using dist-upgrade in the first place? -- Marc Wilson | The longest part of the journey is said to be the [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

2007-01-01 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 12:37:29PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Have *you* ever used it? Yes, unfortunately I have. Its poor-at-best terminal emulation means I never will again. There's no reason to use anything other than xterm. -- Marc Wilson | That money talks, I'l

Re: problem with xscreensaver, xorg and DPMS

2007-01-25 Thread Marc Wilson
fails after that. I filed this as bug #396820 almost three months ago. Debian's xscreensaver maintainer has made no comment. File a bug or add your comments to the one that already exists. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: reaching a machine with a dynamic IP address.

2007-01-28 Thread Marc Wilson
namic address assigned by cablelan. Not like it's a big problem... dyndns or any number of other services can give you a name that'll re-point to the dynamic address when it changes. -- Marc Wilson | Chicken Little was right. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Fonts Look Broken

2006-05-21 Thread Marc Wilson
sons I haven't allowed my box to update any part of X in a very long time. -- Marc Wilson | The first time, it's a KLUDGE! The second, a trick. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Later, it's a well-established technique! -- Mike | Broido, Intermetrics -- To UNSUBSCRI

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