Debian users' poll on whether to remove non-free

2000-06-13 Thread Matthew Bloch
Wow, a suggestion of mine on Slashdot :-) If you're a user or developer of Debian, please go to http://slashdot.org/>, check out the poll on the right-hand side of the index page, and vote yay or nay as to whether you think the recently proposed general resolution should go through. Already 1500

Where to find / generate /etc/devfs.aliases ?

1999-12-08 Thread Matthew Bloch
As the subject, really... I've worked out how the debian modutils stuff works, but /etc/devfs.aliases seems to be absent so I'm not getting the device aliases working properly; easily hacked but I'd like to do it properly. Any ideas? -- Matthew ( http://www.soup-kitchen.demon.co.uk/ )

Where to find / generate /etc/devfs.aliases ?

1999-12-09 Thread Matthew Bloch
As the subject, really... I've worked out how the debian modutils stuff works, but /etc/devfs.aliases seems to be absent so I'm not getting the device aliases working properly; easily hacked but I'd like to do it properly. Any ideas? -- Matthew ( http://www.soup-kitchen.demon.co.uk/ )

Re: Digital cameras and Linux

1999-12-12 Thread Matthew Bloch
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Neil Booth wrote: > I'm considering buying a digital camera or videocam, but am concerned > about being able to download the JPEG images to Linux. Of course, the > cameras come with a serial cable and software for downloading the > images to Windows. > > Does anyone know if

Re: Backup/Restore strategies on Debian

1999-12-17 Thread Matthew Bloch
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, andreas p?lsson wrote: > I don't have any mission-critical data or system, so "tar" and "gzip" > are enough for me. afio is similar to tar, but gzips individual files instead of the whole lot, so if you get a corruption it'll more than likely affect only the one file rather t