Re: The following packages have been kept back

2003-10-16 Thread Paul William
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 17:26, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 09:57:59AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > Fellows, it's time for a dist-upgrade, but > > - From what to what? dist-upgrade is just an upgrade that resolves the more comp

Re: Where can I get lame for "testing"

2003-10-17 Thread Paul William
> lame appears in dselect, and I've tried to install it that way, but it does I dont think lame is in debian (http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=lame&searchon=names&subword=1&version=testing&release=all) ... try searching apt-get.org. --

Re: how could Packages mention files that don't exist yet?

2003-10-17 Thread Paul William
; $ df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hdc1118729904 103213752 14309912 88% /home/ftp > /dev/hdd1118729904 104041660 13482004 89% /home/ftp/pub Are you saying that you have shell access to the mirror you use?!?!? --

Re: Network setup

2003-10-18 Thread Paul William
canned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > Mailscanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix

Re: vga mode

2003-10-18 Thread Paul William
Please do not sent HTML emails -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] is swen evoluting ?

2003-10-18 Thread Paul William
ot quite true. Windows will prompt you if the file contains an unknown file extention. .bat file is a batch file which is an executable file. -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a sy

java in mozilla

2003-10-23 Thread Paul William
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Re: java in mozilla

2003-10-24 Thread Paul William
> Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list > > deb ftp://ntama.uni-mainz.de/pub/debian unofficial/ > > the do: > > dselect update && apt-get install j2re1.4 Works great. Thanks all of you for the help. -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debi

Re: Installing NVIDIA drivers

2003-10-24 Thread Paul William
#x27; commandline option. > > I've installed the kernel-source and kernel-headers for 2.4.22. > Can anyone help me? > Thx anyway > Steve -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than

vim syntax

2003-10-25 Thread Paul William
Hi How do I have vim syntax highlighting always on instead of having to type :syntax on? Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- .''`. Paul W

vim syntax

2003-10-25 Thread Paul William
Hi How do I have vim syntax highlighting always on instead of having to type :syntax on? Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: vim syntax

2003-10-25 Thread Paul William
Thanks for your help. On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 17:44, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:41:05PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > > Hi > > > > How do I have vim syntax highlighting always on instead of having to > > type :syntax on? > > in .vimrc: >

Re: X11R6

2003-10-26 Thread Paul William
> Nvidia MX200 GF2. Is this the problem? > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.530 / Virus Database: 325 - Release Date: 10/22/2003 -- .''`. Paul William : :' :De

Re: Debian bug-squashing party, Sunday November 9th 2003, Ecublens, Switzerland

2003-10-26 Thread Paul William
what a kool idea. Pity I live on the other side of the world (New Zealand). Enjoy the party. Cheers Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian bug-squashing party, Sunday November 9th 2003, Ecublens, Switzerland

2003-10-26 Thread Paul William
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 03:47, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 22:24:02 +1300, > Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > what a kool idea. Pity I live on the other side of the world (New > > Zealand). Enj

Re: Debian bug-squashing party, Sunday November 9th 2003, Ecublens, Switzerland

2003-10-26 Thread Paul William
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 11:28, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:22:45 +1300, > Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 03:47, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 22:2

palm on debian

2003-10-26 Thread Paul William
Hi, I am getting a new palm (tunsten E) tomorrow. My last palm m105 was sold before I switched to Debian and worked fine in mdk. Is there any tip /things-i-need-todo to get a usb palm working in debian (apart from installing the right software)? Cheers Paul -- .''`. Pa

Re: Debian bug-squashing party, Sunday November 9th 2003, Ecublens, Switzerland

2003-10-26 Thread Paul William
ldera/SCO's business, now it's > litigation: http://www.groklaw.net/ ;-) Well there is a good reason not to eat @ pizza hut :-) -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a s

Re: e-mail

2003-10-27 Thread Paul William
ection. Now I can not get my e-mail up. Neither Network > Everywhere or USB ports. What has happened? > Gailon O. Hall > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a sy

gpilotd crashes all the time

2003-10-28 Thread Paul William
Hi, gpilotd keeps crashing and the gnome "your program has crashed" dialog keeps popping up. I can use my Tungsten E with pilot-link so the palm is playing nicely with Linux. What should I do? Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and

gpilotd crashes all the time

2003-10-28 Thread Paul William
Hi, gpilotd keeps crashing and the gnome "your program has crashed" dialog keeps popping up. I can use my Tungsten E with pilot-link so the palm is playing nicely with Linux. What should I do? Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and

Re: gpilotd crashes all the time

2003-10-28 Thread Paul William
I managed to fix it by it by running the following command as root: mount -t usbdevfs usb /proc/bus/usb -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

pppd headache

2003-10-30 Thread Paul William
003 i686 GNU/Linux Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gpilot on unstable

2003-11-02 Thread Paul William
Hi, Has any one managed to get gpilot to sync with a USB palm on unstable? I cant get it to sync, it used to crash but thats now sorted out. At one stage it actually did sync ... but not anymore. Cheers Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `

Re: chat-class room package

2003-11-02 Thread Paul William
t; Thanks. > TR Just tar it up, write some instructions on howto deploy it and put it on a website. You could even start a sourceforge.net project. -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do tha

gpilot on unstable

2003-11-02 Thread Paul William
Hi, Has any one managed to get gpilot to sync with a USB palm on unstable? I cant get it to sync, it used to crash but thats now sorted out. At one stage it actually did sync ... but not anymore. Cheers Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `

hotplug problem

2003-11-04 Thread Paul William
-k7 #5 Sat Oct 4 14:11:12 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux I am running debian unstable. What am I doing wrong? Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- .'&#x

hotplug problem

2003-11-04 Thread Paul William
-k7 #5 Sat Oct 4 14:11:12 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux I am running debian unstable. What am I doing wrong? Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: [OT] SCO's crack legal team

2003-11-05 Thread Paul William
me.kc.rr.com/snidely/cornscolio.gif LOL. Nice. -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Java on linux

2003-11-08 Thread Paul William
hat handles mount and umount > cdrom. > Thanks > > __ > From Beethoven to the Rolling Stones, your favorite music is always > playing on MSN Radio Plus. No ads, no talk. Trial month FREE! -- .''`.

Re: XMMS without X?

2003-11-08 Thread Paul William
the coolest > wrapper in the world)? -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fetchmail problem

2003-11-08 Thread Paul William
Hi I am running fetchmail on woody. I want fetchmail to get mail from a pop3 account and deliver to mail to two local accounts. I want both to receive all the mail - not multi-drop. Can this be done? Thanks very much Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian

Re: Kernel Compiling: Source for my nic isn't included: Was:Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-08 Thread Paul William
y > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Giving debian a chance. -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apache-ssl or libapache-mod-ssl ?

2003-11-09 Thread Paul William
> Lynn > My first post to this list. Nice of you to join us :) -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: fetchmail problem

2003-11-09 Thread Paul William
thanks, I will try that. Cheers Paul On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 00:10, David Jardine wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:27:59AM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:01:45PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I am running fet

Re: k3b 1.0 ?

2003-11-15 Thread Paul William
6uhpcYlIaPO/m/uU9Cfq1wTLQCghcbA > eixJswA2KeCyKo+Ur2VWmQw= > =TaWz > -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

strange 8139too problem/question

2003-09-18 Thread Paul William
Hi, I went through the woody installation. I installed the 2.4.18-bf kernel and when I got to the part of the install where you select kernel modules the 8139too (realtek 8139 NIC driver) was not there?!?! I then exited the installation and reinstalled because I need that driver. I did my reinsta

installing nvidia - missing

2003-09-19 Thread Paul William
Hi, When I try to install the nvidia drivers I get a compiler mesasge that I am missing this file: nv-linux.h:24:31: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 modversions.h is not installed wit my kernel (2.4.18-bf). I am running sid. What should I do. I have sear

debian bug reporting

2003-09-25 Thread Paul William
Hi, If there is a bug in a debian package and you are 90% sure its the upstream developers fault should you still report it and let the packager forward it upstream? I dont want to piss of debian packagers. Cheers Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

3d games crash

2003-09-26 Thread Paul William
Hi debian-users I am running debain unstable. I know that things crash in unstable I just find it odd that two 3d games both give segfaults so I think it may be a problem on my end. I have an nvidia card and I am using the latest nvidia drivers. If you have any ideas what I may have done wrong to

3d (opengl) games crash

2003-09-26 Thread Paul William
Hi debian-users I am running debain unstable. I know that things crash in unstable I just find it odd that two 3d/opengl games both give segfaults so I think it may be a problem on my end. I have an nvidia card and I am using the latest nvidia drivers. If you have any ideas what I may have done w

3d (opengl) games crash

2003-09-26 Thread Paul William
Hi debian-users I am running debain unstable. I know that things crash in unstable I just find it odd that two 3d/opengl games both give segfaults so I think it may be a problem on my end. I have an nvidia card and I am using the latest nvidia drivers. If you have any ideas what I may have done w

Re: script for zapping Swen at the pop server

2003-09-29 Thread Paul William
Heres my perl script. I also run it in cron. On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 03:49, Ron Johnson wrote: > (Mailfilter only checks headers, so can't see filenames of > attachments.) > > I've got this in my crontab: > */5 * * * * (/home/me/pop_zap_msft.py && fetchmail -s) > > The rc (named ~/.pop_zap_msftrc)

Re: script for zapping Swen at the pop server

2003-09-29 Thread Paul William
Opps, forgot to mention that the line: $delete=0 if /^To.*?linux/i; Must be altered. Replace the linux part with any string that occurs in your email address. eg if you address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] you should replace linux with abc123 ie. $delete=0 if /^To.*?abc123/i; My bad, Cheers Paul --

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread Paul William
To get access to your cron conf file run $crontab -e It will open up your defualt editor. This means you do not have to be root to change cron run times. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

k3b cant copy cds

2003-09-30 Thread Paul William
Hi, I am trying to use k3b to copy cds but it will not work. I ave tried running it as root but the same errors occur (yes I know doing stuff in root is a risk). I can blank cdrws and write to cdrws but not copy cds. I am running unstable. Here is the debuggin output: System -

k3b cant copy cds

2003-09-30 Thread Paul William
Hi, I am trying to use k3b to copy cds but it will not work. I ave tried running it as root but the same errors occur (yes I know doing stuff in root is a risk). I can blank cdrws and write to cdrws but not copy cds. I am running unstable. Here is the debuggin output: System -

huge amount of unsed kernel modules.

2003-10-03 Thread Paul William
Hi, I installed the 2.4.22-1-k7 kernel image. I had the 2.4bf kernel and now I find that a huge amount of kernel modules are bing loaded. I understand that the new kernel probably has more things compiled as modules than the 2.4bf but there are heaps of modules that are unused. /etc/modules: af_

installing unstable package in woody

2003-10-04 Thread Paul William
Hi, There is an unstable/testing package (firehol) that I need to install on a woody system. I do not think there will be any dependency problems. Is this possible? Will dpkg allow me to install a testing package on woody? Cheers Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: installing unstable package in woody

2003-10-04 Thread Paul William
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Re: Mplayer eating all CPU

2003-10-04 Thread Paul William
you could use the nice command which alters priority of programs your run. do a man nice to find out more. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PDA/GSM Phones

2003-10-07 Thread Paul William
> A lot of these new phones have Bluetooth built into them. Here is where > my questions begin. There are bluetooth drivers with my 2.4.22 kernel. Run (as root) modconf and scroll down till you see the bluetooth drivers category. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

netsaint

2003-10-07 Thread Paul William
Hi, I installed netsaint but when I access it throught my browser I get the following error message: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /netsaint/ on this server. I am using woody and my web server is apache. The netsaint deb made the needed changes to my httpd.conf. How do I access

Re: Stable? Unstable?

2003-10-07 Thread Paul William
*official* debian cds are stable. After you install upgrading to unstable or testing is easy and painless. I use unstable because I love having up2date (excuse the rh pun) software and I dont like waiting for milestone releases from other dists ie. redhat/mandrake. Upgrading to unstable or testi

Re: netsaint

2003-10-07 Thread Paul William
unfortunately that didnt work. Thanks anyway. On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 18:42, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 16:50, Paul William wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I installed netsaint but when I access it throught my browser I get the > > following error message: >

Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-11 Thread Paul William
> Any suggestions for weather stations (a piece of equipment, not an > online "station") that a linux box can talk to? I assume a serial port > is the interface of choice here. The old fashioned way - use wget, curl or perl to rip any data you want off the numerous weather info sites on the net

Re: woody bf24 problem

2003-10-11 Thread Paul William
Install with the 2.2 kernel and then install another kernel when debian is install. You could install a nice new 2.4.22 kernel which might fix your problems. On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 00:41, LeVA wrote: > Hello! > > I have a little problem with the woody cd's bf24 kernel image: > When the 'bf24' kern

Re: Mail server

2003-10-12 Thread Paul William
postfix is *supposed* to be better for larger volumes of email. I use exim and in the past have used postfix. Both are good. On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 16:10, ralph bacolod wrote: > I just read the header of an email from this list and > I saw that murphy.Debian.Org uses Postfix. Why is this > so? Why

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-13 Thread Paul William
> (4) requires a working (1) and moreover requires modifying > /etc/X11/XftConfig; in particular enabling anti-aliasing (match edit > rgba = rgb) and pointing to TrueType (dir "..path..to..bitstream-vera"). > (4) is representive of all Xft v1 apps. (4) also takes care of old GTK1 > apps. I am

Re: KDE desktop sharing through router

2003-11-15 Thread Paul William
P > (in the Linksys router setup?). > > How then do I authorize a connection through the router to my machine? > > Thanks, -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system

Re: Virus from german Debian Mirror ?

2003-11-15 Thread Paul William
I ask for confirmation, and more importantly, where can I > report this? > > Best Regards, Joachim > > PS: Could you please cc: any answers to me > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thank you very much. -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'

Re: README What up with www.debian.org ?

2003-11-21 Thread Paul William
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 19:54, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello All, > > What happens to www.debian.org ? Seems to be down but http://debian.org/ is working. This means it is, IMHO, *probably* a DNS problem -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `&#

Re: Intel f90 compiler for Debian.

2003-11-28 Thread Paul William
, will greatly benefit our favorite distro. > > Does anyone want to take the task of rewriting the script for Debian? > > alberto. > http://www.nordita.dk/~bigazzi > -- -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - wh

Re: mousepad kernel 2.6.0-test9

2003-12-08 Thread Paul William
g the kernel. Should I be trying > something else? > Thanks a lot for all ur help. > > Panda -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kernel expolit. is 2.4.18-bf2.4 affected?

2003-12-14 Thread Paul William
Hi all, Is the stock woody 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel affected by the kernel exploit that was used to attack the debian.org servers? If it is affected then what kernel is safe? Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when yo

Americas army

2003-12-16 Thread Paul William
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Re: Americas army

2003-12-16 Thread Paul William
0 0 None 0x38 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 14:00, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Paul William wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I downloaded and installed Americas army. When I run it I get the > > following error: >

Re: Americas army

2003-12-17 Thread Paul William
oQMwcRAtsnAJ93zPsH/+5pK65z3ym4987cykD1qwCfbQAg > qH1gO6nQ2HBY3DaF9Msp+qM= > =VS1e > -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Americas army

2003-12-17 Thread Paul William
g should be OK. > > -Roberto -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

alternatives to NIS and NFS

2004-08-02 Thread Paul William
Hi, I am in charge of a small office network. The server is running Debian stable with some testing packages and the desktops are running mandrake 10.0. Currently we are using NIS for authentication and NFS to share the home directories. I have been having some hassles with NIS and would like

Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS

2004-08-02 Thread Paul William
Samba's not a goer. Doesn't do Unix permissions. It's a Windows/OS/2 sharing scheme. I was wondering about that ... There is nfs over ssl but its not yet ported to linux: http://www.crufty.net/Products/sNFS.html There is shfs, an ssh file system, but it seems too immuture to use on a corperate

Re: Americas army

2003-12-18 Thread Paul William
PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 06:45:08AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:20:31PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > > > > > > > There's your problem. Looks like you're using nvidia-glx, but not the

make gnome use alsa

2003-12-18 Thread Paul William
Hi all Is it possible to make gnome use also instead of esound? Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

antialised fonts in emacs

2003-12-22 Thread Paul William
Hi How can I use antialised fonts in emacs? I am using unstable. Regards Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ugly fonts in gtk 1.2 apps

2003-12-22 Thread Paul William
4 horas en internet > http://www.internet.com.uy Tel. 707.42.52 -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

libgdkxft0 in unstable removes all gtk2 stuff

2003-12-22 Thread Paul William
gtk2 apps? Cheers Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WINE - Does it actually work?

2003-12-23 Thread Paul William
user/installing.html > > and found it to be no help either. -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Change window manager to blackbox

2003-07-12 Thread Paul William
Hi, I would like to use blackbox as my defualt window manager, I cant figure out how to do this. xdm is my display manager. X starts on boot. The current display manager is KDE. Thanks in advance. PW -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

are packages in unstable updated?

2003-07-16 Thread Paul William
Hi, Are packages in unstable updated or is unstable like woody and is only released periodically? Thanks Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mono + wine + windows.forms

2004-06-09 Thread Paul William
The latest version of mono is in unstable. The debianplanet debs, as far as I know, are out of date. Szymon Nieradka wrote: I'm trying to run programs written in C# (mono) with Windows.Forms under Linux. Unfortunately without success. I've got complete mono and mono-wine from: deb http://www.debi

soundblaster live alsa

2004-03-19 Thread Paul William
Hi all, I am trying to get my soundblaster live card to work using alsa. I get sound out of the left/right speakers but a lot of static from the center and back left and back right speakers? They worked fine with the emu10k1 driver. I have done a lot of tweaking the alsamixers settings without

KDE 3.2 - Anyone know when its going to hit unstable?

2004-02-05 Thread Paul William
Hi all, Does anyone know when KDE 3.2 is going to hit unstable? Thanks, Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system http://www.debian.org";>debian.org -- To

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Paul William
hi, dist-upgrade to sarge or unstable. I run unstable and find it more stable than other 'stable' dists. Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: Hello, I just discovered the recent increase of the numer of release-critical bugs and was shocked. The RCB diagramm seems to suggest that sarge will hardly ever b

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

2004-04-05 Thread Paul William
I think you cannot use the nvidia drivers since 2.6.3. Sridhar M.A. wrote: I am facing a problem in installing the nvidia binary driver with the latest kernel 2.6.5. With the earlier kernel versions, I could install the driver without any hassles. I get the following error message when I try to

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver

2004-04-06 Thread Paul William
You and everybody else with a 2.6 kernel and an nVidiot card. I can't Nvidias latest drivers work with a 2.6.0 kernel. wait until I have money again so I can see just how far an nVidia card will sail when launched from a skyscraper rooftop. Any pointers? 1) Go to http://www.minion.de/ and ge

Re: parsing Apache logs

2004-04-09 Thread Paul William
try webalizer. S.D.A. wrote: Happy "Good Friday" everyone: I seem to remember there being a Debian package that allowed one to parse and view Apache logs via the web. I can't remember the name of the package though. Anyone remind me? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

mozilla not resolving dns names

2004-04-21 Thread Paul William
Hi, Mozilla and Firebird takes ages to resolve host names. Other browsers and programs (host, nslookup etc.) resolve very quickly. Anyone experienced this problem? I am running unstable. Cheers Paul -- .''`.Paul William : :' : Debian admin and user `. `'` `-

create shared directory

2004-04-23 Thread Paul William
Hi all, I would like to create a a directory that all users on the system can read and write to. I could just chmod 777 a directory but I want every user to be able to read and write to every file create by every user ... How can I do this? I am running debian unstable. Thanks Paul -- To UNS