Re: How can I get the Euro symbol?

2002-01-01 Thread Phillip Deackes
ding the Euro symbol is not as simple as it sounds, but somebody who knows how to do it should be able to write a step-by-step crib sheet so that other can get it working on their systems. -- Phillip Deackes Using Debian Linux /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN XAGAINST HTML MAIL AND NEWS / \

Re: How can I get the Euro symbol?

2002-01-01 Thread Phillip Deackes
l read it over the next day or so and attempt to put it into practice. Shame about GTK, since this is what most of the apps I run use :-( I appreciate the time and effort you have taken to help me to understand. Take care. -- Phillip Deackes Using Debian Linux /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN XAGAINST HTML MAIL AND NEWS / \

Re: How to start OSS/Commercial Automatically + upgrade LD

2002-01-06 Thread Phillip Deackes
unning testing or unstable. I have been running Unstable for a long time and have had few problems. If you subscribe to this list you will be aware when something breaks and know not to upgrade until the issue is resolved. Unless you are running a mission-critical system it is the way to go. -- Phillip Deackes Using Debian Linux /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN XAGAINST HTML MAIL AND NEWS / \

DSL router and networking - Help!

2002-01-11 Thread Phillip Deackes
upstairs. -- Phillip Deackes Using Debian Linux /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN XAGAINST HTML MAIL AND NEWS / \

Re: How can I get the Euro symbol?

2002-01-22 Thread Phillip Deackes
latest XFree86 > and could be gotten from www.xfree86.org and installed in /usr/local. Thanks Henry. I appreciate your response. -- Phillip Deackes Using Debian Linux /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN XAGAINST HTML MAIL AND NEWS / \

Re: announcing documentation on setting up exim with spamassasin

2002-01-29 Thread Phillip Deackes
It looks like the conf file in /etc/spamassassin is empty - should there be anything there? Should I revert back to an older version of SA? Many thanks for your help. -- Phillip Deackes Using Debian Linux /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN XAGAINST HTML MAIL AND NEWS / \

Re: [SAtalk] Re: announcing documentation on setting up exim with spamassasin

2002-01-29 Thread Phillip Deackes
s and the SPAM: report (if > there was one). No - it did not appear to do anything at all. I downloaded the older version of SA (1.5-5) and installed it. Now when I do the above I get the X-Spam headers and SPAM report. I will await some SPAM to se whether it all works correctly. Thanks again. -

Re: announcing documentation on setting up exim with spamassasin

2002-01-30 Thread Phillip Deackes
get Exim to file messages in this way? I know procmail can do it, but can Exim? Cheers. -- Phillip Deackes Using Debian Linux /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN XAGAINST HTML MAIL AND NEWS / \

Re: speedup nvidia?

2001-05-05 Thread Phillip Deackes
pport. So far I haven't had a crash yet. I am using a VIA KT133 chipset and Athlon 800 CPU. I run on a 2.4.3 kernel with XFS support. -- Phillip Deackes Using Progeny Debian Linux

Re: Added Gnome 1.4 starts as root but not as user!

2001-05-09 Thread Phillip Deackes
gnome desktop and lose all your customisations. I can't remember which worked for me, but is was definitely one of the config files. -- -- Phillip Deackes Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-14 Thread Phillip Deackes
nglish/linux_e/linux.html -- Phillip Deackes Using Progeny Debian Linux

Re: /etc/conf.modules is more recent ? !!

2001-05-19 Thread Phillip Deackes
r message you are seeing. This has happened to me before. Maybe this is not what is causing your problem - if not, try compiling and installing a new kernel and things should sync OK. -- Phillip Deackes Using Progeny Debian Linux

Unidentified subject!

2001-05-21 Thread Phillip Deackes
d the second, Windows machine? I can find documentation detailing how I might configure a RedHat box, but the files I would need to change do not match up with files on my Debian system. Can anyone help me here? Many thanks indeed. -- Phillip Deackes Using Progeny Debian Linux

Re: moving partitions to another hard drive

2001-05-23 Thread Phillip Deackes
S floppy, copy loadlin and your current kernel onto it and create autoexec.bat as above. That's it. Once you have managed to boot your new Linux partition you can, of course, re-run LILO and you are back in business. -- Phillip Deackes Using Progeny Debian Linux

Re: Printer Question

2001-05-26 Thread Phillip Deackes
and the resultant print quality is easily equal to that of the Windows driver. The driver is based on ghostscript so fits in with lprng or lpr or whatever and just needs a line in /etc/printcap. I just installed the rpm version onto my Debian box. Caused no problems at all. -- Phillip Deackes Using Progeny Debian Linux

Re: Printer Question

2001-05-26 Thread Phillip Deackes
to the lpr group. Good luck on getting it all working. -- Phillip Deackes Using Progeny Debian Linux

Long pause on bootup with 2.4.4 and 2.4.5 kernels

2001-05-26 Thread Phillip Deackes
led in ipchains compatibility for 2.4.x kernels. Does anyone have any ideas? Cheers. -- Phillip Deackes Using Progeny Debian Linux

Re: Free mail a/c that allows download of mail

2001-05-27 Thread Phillip Deackes
mpany based in Munich. The service is free. have a look at www.gmx.co.uk. -- Phillip Deackes Using Progeny Debian Linux

Re: Long pause on bootup with 2.4.4 and 2.4.5 kernels

2001-05-27 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Sat, 26 May 2001 22:07:20 +0100 Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A while ago I compiled the 2.4.4 kernel but went back to 2.4.3 when I > found I was getting a long pause during boot-up,just after this: > 'Configuring network interfaces: eth0: Setting 100mbs fu

Re: Getting the content of an RPM package

2001-05-27 Thread Phillip Deackes
Midnight Commander). You get to see the contents of the rpm as if it were a normal file. Works with Debian pacakges too. -- Phillip Deackes Using Progeny Debian Linux

Anyone using Blackmail (anti-spam utility!!)?

2001-05-30 Thread Phillip Deackes
consider an email as spam if the To: header is not the email address of the recipient. With all my mailing lists my address is not in the To: header. The FAQ mentions using the 'backdoor' - I am not sure how to do this. Any ideas? Thanks. -- Phillip Deackes Using Progeny Debian Linux

Re: Moving to reiserfs with kernel 2.4.3

2001-06-07 Thread Phillip Deackes
vmlinuz-2.4.5. No idea why, but it was easy to make the change at boot up so no harm was done anyway. Grub works well with Reiserfs and doesn't need an ext2 boot partition (at least it doesn't on my system). -- Phillip Deackes Using Progeny Debian Linux

Re: gnome/KDE

2001-06-10 Thread Phillip Deackes
rly easily configurable as regards the look. Obviously, these are personal observations and you will almost certainly get the complete opposite opinion from someone else. The answer really is to try both and see which you prefer. -- Phillip Deackes Using Progeny Debian Linux

Re: latest Nvidia drivers

2002-03-10 Thread Phillip Deackes
able, kernel 2.4.18. Did you install the Debian package and follow the instructions in /usr/share/doc to build the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx packages? (As opposed to the tar.gz package). I used the Debian packages and everyhting worked as it should. -- Phillip Deackes Using Debian Linux

Re: latest Nvidia drivers

2002-03-11 Thread Phillip Deackes
rnel module for Linux 2.4.18 ii nvidia-kernel- 1.0.2802-1 NVIDIA binary kernel module I don't use a stock Debian kernel - I always download the kernel source and compile it myself (the Debian way). -- Phillip Deackes Using Debian Linux /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN XAGAINST HTML MAIL AND NEWS / \

Re: Nvidia Debian Kernel

2002-03-12 Thread Phillip Deackes
this point, I do the Debian bit, 'make-kpkg -rev Custom.N kernel_image'. I install the resultant .deb then do the NVIDIA bits exactly as in the accompanying documentation. I never use apt-get to obtain kernel sources - never have done. Hope this helps - it certainly works without errors here

Re: moving from ext2 to reiserfs

2002-03-22 Thread Phillip Deackes
nd the kernel patched. Ext3 seems to be an excellent compromise. In real use I notice no difference in speed between the filesystems I have used, but the sheer reliability of ext3 and the fact, as Crispin points out, that an ext3 filesystem can be mounted as ext2 if the need arises, tips the bal

Re: SMC 1211TX

2002-03-30 Thread Phillip Deackes
x27; kernel option. Works fine. I have compiled it into the kernel, rather than as a module. -- Phillip Deackes Using Debian Linux /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN XAGAINST HTML MAIL AND NEWS / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alternative web browser to netscape

2002-04-09 Thread Phillip Deackes
* the internet for most people, and they (and I) want to do real things which may have nothing to do with computers. I long for a Linux browser which I can use for everything. I agree that Galeon is probably the best at the moment - but it has a way to go. -- Phillip Deackes Using Debian Linux /

Re: alternative web browser to netscape

2002-04-10 Thread Phillip Deackes
> on Tue, Apr 09, 2002, Phillip Deackes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Define "correctly display"? For standard HTML, there's no problem. > Ditto, if you want to abuse yourself by installing the plugins, most > flash, Java, and Javascript, though I disable these,

Re: alternative web browser to netscape

2002-04-10 Thread Phillip Deackes
way of the world. The best methods do not necessarily win through - the Video2000/Betamax/VHS issue immediately springs to mind where the poorest quality format won the battle. I do agree with you in principle, but in practice it is not you or me who decides what people use to design web-sites

Re: alternative web browser to netscape

2002-04-10 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:58:16 -0400 Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > begin Phillip Deackes quotation: > > > > Wrap your text. Huh? AFAIK my email messages conform to what is expected amongst Linux circles. I was not aware of a problem - you are the first to su

Re: alternative web browser to netscape

2002-04-10 Thread Phillip Deackes
as the end result gives me the quality and interest I desire I will view the programmes. If these 'terrible' web pages look bad or do not fulfil their purpose then it is on those criteria they should be judged not on the basis of whether the web designer used a MS product in their production.

Re: alternative web browser to netscape

2002-04-11 Thread Phillip Deackes
ain web pages - I suppose it is like the tip of an iceberg. I use Linux for all the reasons you state and as head of ICT in a UK school I resist MS products where possible. It could indeed be my cue to do something positive." -- Phillip Deackes Using Debian Linux /"\ \ / ASCII RI

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