Re: About to go all Deb

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 08:11 am, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 15:24, John Anderson wrote: > > [...] > > > Any way to cut a long story short I have come up with the following, and > > would appreciate thoughts and guidence. > > > >

Re: Nautilus problems in latest upgrade of Sid

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 19:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I did an aptitude upgrade a few minutes ago & got my self in sync with the latest >debs in Unstable. > > 2 problems : > 1. Nautilus refuses to start. > Trying to launch it from the command line spews this error : > > nautilus:18756): Gtk-WA

Re: Upgrading to KDE 3.1

On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 11:39, Jeetu Golani wrote: > Hey ppl, > > I have KDE 3.0.4 running at the moment, had installed the debs of this. I > wanna upgrade to KDE 3.1. I've read that an apt-get upgrade doesn't do the > trick and causes problems. Would appreciate if someone here could tell me > wh

Re: Gnome2 / Apt messed up

On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 17:54, karrottop wrote: > How would I be able to completely remove gnome and then > reinstall? Does anyone know what packages have to go... 'apt-get remove libglib1.2 libglib2.0-0' then 'apt-get install gnome-core' should get you a minimal gnome2 reinstall. -- First

Re: [OT] Re: shuttle disaster

On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 10:29, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Mike M wrote: > > > > > > Socrates was stagnant and resting on his society's laurels? Good teaching > > inspires creativity. > > I didn't say Socrates was stagnant. Truly off topic, but Socrates is not the best example of good teaching, unle

Re: ppp0 surveyer gnome applet? or some sort of script drivenstatus displayer?

On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 01:46, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello! > > lately my internet connection through ADSL became really flakey, and i > am not allways aware when the connection drops or is up... > > thus i would like to have some sort of status display somewhere... > > since i nearly don't us

Re: ppp0 surveyer gnome applet? or some sort of script drivenstatus displayer?

On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 01:46, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello! > > lately my internet connection through ADSL became really flakey, and i > am not allways aware when the connection drops or is up... > > thus i would like to have some sort of status display somewhere... > > since i nearly don't us

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 10:22, Craig Dickson wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > > You explain to the common man not to use unstable. :) > > > > It *certainly* shouldn't have broken in the first place, but accidents > > happen. If one doesn't have enough system administration experience to > > cope wi

Re: Standard vs NONUS CD???

On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 00:19, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 14:55 2002-11-14 -0600 hat John Hasler geschrieben: > > > >Edward Guldemond writes: > >> With software patents, distributing this software could be considered > >> illegal to distribute in the United States. Fetching it from outside of > >

Re: Package deity no more available?

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 04:29, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 07:49:39PM +0800, Stephan Broennimann wrote: > > I can't find the package deity anymore? Does it no more exist? > > It was far too buggy and wasn't getting fixed, so it was removed. > Consider using aptitude instead. > I

Re: Today's Evolution

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 23:10, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I just downloaded Evolution. My system is Sid. > Evolution could only run up into the main window. When I tried to send an > email, it complained about the unavailability of gtkhtml1.1; which in > fact I have it. Do you have any problems with Si

Re: Today's Evolution

On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 19:51, Oki DZ wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:18:38PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > I had this problem when evo 1.2 first appeared in sid. I'd built evo > > snapshots and gtkhtml1.1 from source, and when I removed my build, I > > missed gtkht

Re: Mozilla and Blackdown Java Plugin

On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 08:42, martin f krafft wrote: > Short summary: > > MozillaJRE Works? > == > 1.2.1-2.bunk j2re1.3 YES > 1.2.1-2.bunk j2re1.4 unknown > 1.3-5 j2re1

Re: Mozilla and Blackdown Java Plugin

On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 09:41, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Rich Rudnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.08.24.1833 +0200]: > > Short answer, no. According to http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html > > mozilla needs 1.4.2. I got it from sun's site and it does work. >

Re: cloning Debian hard drive

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:27, Victory wrote: > Hello all, > > Now I have a working system, and want to clone it hard drive > so that I can install the newly clone hard drive to many identical > system configuration rather than install from CD and customize lots of > stuff ??? > > 1, Is there way

Re: Sawfish 1.3 + Gnome2 questions?

On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 10:04, Gary Hennigan wrote: > A couple of questions for those running sid with Gnome2 and > Sawfish. > > 1) I can't figure out how to turn edge-flipping on. That's the ability > to drag a window between workspaces. I use that feature quite heavily > and am loathe to use the

Re: What is the best Xfree Setup Program?

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 08:19, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:51:28PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > It does if you have read-edit, mdetect, and discover installed. > ^ It's a typo; read-edid is correct

Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 13:10, Ric Otte wrote: > Hi, > > I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and I called them > up to ask if it would work with Linux. The woman at tech support > confidently assured me, over and over, that it would not work with > Linux. I spoke to her a long tim

Re: dual-boot redhat/debian

On Thursday 09 January 2003 05:33 pm, Robert Storey wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 07:42:15 -0500 > > Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ignoring, for the moment, why I would do such a thing, I want to set > > up a machine (laptop) to dual-boot both Redhat 8.0 and Debian > > (testing/unsta

Re: looking inside zip/tar files with nautilus2

On Saturday 18 January 2003 10:41 am, Maciej Kalisiak wrote: > I have: > > numenor# dpkg -l | grep nautilus > ii libnautilus2-2 2.0.0-1Shared libraries that part of Nautilus > (GNOM ii nautilus2 2.0.0-1file manager and graphical shell > (GNOME2) ii nautilus2-data 2.0.0-1

Re: libpng problems

On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 11:48, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > either by switching to new programs or using versions for testing, but You might want to try out gthumb2 if you haven't already. Verrry similar. -- First Impressions are Bunk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: cron stopped working, permission denied message in auth.log

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 11:37, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm rather lost with this problem, which has caused cron to stop > functioning on my debian unstable system. No ideas really on what might > be going on, but /var/log/auth.log is filled with messages like: > > Sep 10 20:32:

Re: Odd Path issue

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 12:09, nate wrote: > > > > > > KentTest", it reports the expected "/usr/local/bin/KentTest". However, > > if I run "KentTest", I get "bash: /home/westk/bin/KentTest: No such file > > or directory". If I log out and then log back in, I can run "KentTest" > > and it prints the

Re: No NIC and No X - WTF Does It Take?

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:04:18 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > Situation Update... > > Now, after the install was done, and without rebooting; I logged in and > ran gdm. I was rather disappointed that there is no way to log in via gdm > as root (I really do prefer to do that at this time rather than

Re: OOo Printer Setup Frustration - Elaboration

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 13:45 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:17:58AM +, Chris Halls wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 18:59 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > The other box does not find its attached printer and insists on using a > > > generic printer which only sp

Re: I don't want games!!!

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 16:24 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:05:56PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 14:12 -0500, Xinjiang Lu wrote: > > > If I get the point, aptitude can do it for you. > > > > Then don't use Evil Aptitude. Good, solid apt-get won't

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 16:11 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Knoppix is not Debian - > > depends what you mean by "not" ;-) When the OS boots the splashscreen has the > debian spiral logo and the word debian prominently displayed > > searches for knoppix return with many references to de

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > 'Debian' consists of the packages in main. The fundamental essence > > (IMHO) of main is that these are packages put together by individuals >

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:41 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > > 'Debian

Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 20:30 -0600, Kent West wrote: > Tom Allison wrote: > > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > >> On Monday 27 December 2004 02:56 pm, Kent West wrote: > >> > >>> William Ballard wrote: > >>> > >>> > One must pick boring names, like "Word" :-) > >>> > >>> > >>> John 1:1 > >>> > >>>

Re: names good for marketing

On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 21:15 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Alvin Smith writes: > > To put it bluntly, the issue is whether white people will accept a > > product with a Black African "sounding" name or not. > > What a loony notion. I'm a long time blue state lefty who spends most of his time with wh

Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 01:53 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 23:15 -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 20:30 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > Tom Allison wrote: > > > > > > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > >

Re: names good for marketing

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 00:04 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 02 January 2005 11:34 pm, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 21:15 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > > Alvin Smith writes: > > > > To put it bluntly, the issue is whether white people will a

Re: names good for marketing

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 00:47 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 03 January 2005 12:15 am, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > How about an expired Oregon Driver's License? I've moved up and down > > the coast over the years. By the way, experience tells me that the >

Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 05:36 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 12:48:11AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Monday 03 January 2005 12:03 am, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > > > Poets aren't always stupid, but they do fall within Sturgeon's Law:

Re: names good for marketing

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 09:46 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 03 January 2005 08:48 am, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > Portland ranks among the top three cities I've lived in for smiles > > from strangers, but if being 'in tune enough' is a now a requirem

Re: names good for marketing

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 21:18 +, Sue Spence wrote: > William Ballard wrote: > > > > You need to broaden your horizons. Besides, I didn't say it's hard to be > > racist if you live in a mostly-white area: I said it's easy not to be. > > > > I was born in and frequently spend time in a major Am

Re: names good for marketing

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 01:07 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:33:52PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > Maybe only a handful for sure, but they > > do cast a wide pall. > > So you don't disagree that nowadays most people aren't racists in the

Re: Some questions from new debian user

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 00:16 +0300, Serge Matveev wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:46:53 + (GMT) Thomas Adam wrote: > TA> --- Serge Matveev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> - How I can setup font lookup order in X. If I have two fonts with > >> the > >> same alias (9x16 by example) - o

'Virtual Private Servers' - Advice, recollections and recommendations requested

Thru no fault of my own, I've been given a possible budget for a server - this is for a small decentralized non-profit that is still paper driven, and has been for decades. Over the years, each branch has kind of grown it's own record keeping system, and currently some are using OpenOffice, Lotus,

Re: 'Virtual Private Servers' - Advice, recollections and recommendations requested

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 16:45 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:17:35PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > I just recently obtained a VPS from Tektonic > > Me, too. > > > and they have been great. My first night I flubbed and messed up the VPS > > t

test of mail from this list

lp' (supposed to get me a help message, right?) but received no reply. If you're feeling kind, reply to me personally (if it's still less than 2 hours after this mail hits the list) so at least I know it's getting through. Thanks, Rich Rudnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

test, please delete

test of balsa (it stopped sending for some reason, while mutt works ;)

Re: mp3 players

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:47:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi all! > I did a search for mp3 in the stable package list and got a number of > players. > Does anyone have any favorites? I'd like to hear people's opinions. > which, if any, can copy CD tracks? > thanks! > > xucaen > > grip (http://nos

Re: Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 10:48:57 Jameson C . Burt wrote: > My email lines get split after about 76 characters. > How could I change this to something longer, > or should email lines be split at 76 characters? > > This limit causes problems whenever I email Linux syslog lines, > which are seldom less t

Re: turning on X extensions with XFree86 4.0.x

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 09:46:17 Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > i installed xserver-xfree86_4.0.3-4_i386.deb today, and simple things like > the shaped window extension disappeared. xdpyinfo reports: > > number of extensions:8 > LBX > MIT-SHM > SECURITY > XC-APPGROUP > XFree86-Big

Re: Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's?

On Wed, 01 Aug 2001 20:35:45 Peter Hicks wrote: > At 03:12 AM 08/02/2001 +0100, Brett Parker wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:59:21PM -0500, d wrote: > > > LURKER here again, what is used to read the HOWTO files? All of the > > ones I > > > have on my system are **.gz, I know that means c

Re: problems upgrading from stable

On Fri, 03 Aug 2001 13:08:10 Patrick Kirk wrote: > Me too. It was a fresh install and I formatted again. > > - Original Message - > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Debian User Mailing List" > > Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 9:10 PM > Subject: Re

Re: problems upgrading from stable

On Fri, 03 Aug 2001 13:26:53 Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:08:08PM -0700, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > The recommended fix (search the archives) is to upgrade to woody first, > > then sid. Worked for me. > > I assume that they're fixing th

Re: Network card

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:40:40 Eileen Orbell wrote: > Hi, > > What is the simplest, compatible network card I should purchase for a > new Debian install? Thanks in advance > I got this one at a computer superstore for $12. Everything worked fine. Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:47:07 Gilles Pelletier wrote: > We're a small group mulling over the respective merits of Debian and > Slackware for a newbie. Of course, since apt-get takes care of > installing > dependencies and upgrading the whole installed software, we were leaning > towards Debian. The

Re: How to answer

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:36:21 Gilles Pelletier wrote: > I'm used to a web - news interface, but not to email - news. I can't > post > directly to th enewsgroup. I suppose that's normal. I received two > copies > of some posts, none of others. Answering to any any of the two copies I > received, send

Re: XDM

* Greg Wiley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tuesday, August 21, 2001 10:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'd like to revert back to logging into a command > > prompt and starting X from there. > > apt-get remove xdm > > If you want to keep xdm on your machine, but disabled: update-rc.d -f

Re: DRI problems...

* Cameron Matheson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey, > > I'm trying to get this cursed Voodoo 3 3000 working in Woody, but it > doesn't seem to want to. I've installed the following packages: > > mesag-glide2 > glutg3 > libglide2 > libglide3 // i installed this after libglide2 didn't work alone

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Re: The Sound of Silence]]

* Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk) wrote: > Curt Howland wrote: > > > >One more comment: > > > >I continue to get "/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy" when trying to use > >sound. If I "cat message.au > /dev/audio" even as root, I get the > >message "/dev/audio Device or resource busy".

Re: X: Changing resolution

* Steve Dondley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Problem: > Pressing CTRL-ALT-+/- (numeric) doesn't change my screen resolution setting. > X (with sawmill) > always starts out in 1024 x 768 with 16 bpp (65,000 colors) and I can't > figure out how to change it. > > Background: > For practice, I just

Re: OT: vim syntax highlight on C program files only?

* Rob Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I found stuff like this before and have been using it: > > " When using mutt or slrn, text width=72 > autocmd BufRead mutt*[0-9]set tw=72 > autocmd BufRead .followup,.article,.letterset tw=72 > " > Thank you very much. Rich

Re: Balsa hangs by sending mails

* Timeboy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi! > > Yesterday i tried balsa 1.1.7-3 from Sid. It looks great: I can receive > mails and also all other things may be working great. But if i try to > send a mail balsa hangs. There is no error message and no other > information about this on console.

OT: supressing line noise

I'm looking for some help with getting a clean 120v supply to my computer. I'm on the same circuit as my washer/dryer (and no, changing location is not an option). When either electrical motor is running, my monitor flickers: noticably on 1024x768 at 85hz vert refresh, and very annoyingly at 1152x8

Re: Converting between maildir and mbox

On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 20:05, Craig Dickson wrote: > Or, if you already have procmail set up, just adjust it for the new > format, then pipe your old mail into it. Actually, I'm not sure that > will work with an mbox file as input, because procmail might prefer to > be invoked once per message (?).

Re: Green blinking 'D' in console

On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 18:09, Dmitriy wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:13:19AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > wayne wrote: > > > > erik > Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, same thing here. :-( > > Happens when switching from X to VT. > > I saw this a while ago, although there was a lot more chaff on the

Re: can't get banner page to print

On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 10:28, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi, > I have a fairly new install of Potato r3 and > have apt-get install magicfilter and lprng. > > I have an hp 940c deskjet printer > attached to /dev/lp0 > # > # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. > # > lp|hp940c|hp94

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 13:20, Erik Steffl wrote: > I used to use aptitude this way: > > u (to update package list) > g (to see what's going to happen) > g (to make it happen) > > now it doesn't work (the actions are a lot different from what apt-get > dist-upgrade would do) > > what'

Re: deb files maintenance - Dependency overview

On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 14:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all. > > My debian distribution grew kinda big 1.2G. I know I'm not using a lot of > what I have installed. Now, due to a number of interdependecies I would like > to look at dependency tree of all deb files and pick out those branche

Re: kdm & gdm + woody

On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 22:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 'cause you're not supposed to login as root. You're not supposed to > > run a window manager or a desktop or any of that stuff. See 'man su' > > and 'man sudo' for better alternatives. > > So who was the idiot genius that thought that on

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 09:04, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > Hi, > > (I'm not sure if this is on topic, but hey, I'am debian-user...) > I used to use netscape's messenger to read my mail, but I've had it with > that one. Then I tried pine for a while, but I'm not sure about that one > either. > So I thought

RE: About the i586 / i386 ' optimized releases ' differences ?

On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 10:08, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > | >| linked code). (Does anyone have benchmark results?) If I remember > | >| correctly, it is debian policy to use '-g' and then strip non-library > | >| binaries. I'm sure I'll get howls for suggesting it, but I think that > | >| the polic

Re: display manager related

On Sat, 2001-09-29 at 14:40, dman wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:44:01AM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T. wrote: > | > | Is there any technical advantage in using a display manager > | to start X window system apart from using "xinit" related > | stuff from the command line ? > > You get a nice pre

Re: Voodoo3. DRI, X4.1.0 and Bus mastering

On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 20:30, john wrote: > Thanks for replies so far > > Stephen Gran suggested that I look for a setting in the BIOS to search PCI > 1st. > Unfortunately the BIOS in this machine has a funky graphical UI (i.e. is > designed for stupid people) and has no options suitable. > >

Re: Voodoo3. DRI, X4.1.0 and Bus mastering <- Still no joy

On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 07:31, Jason Healy wrote: > At 1002229481s since epoch (10/04/01 02:04:41 -0400 UTC), john wrote: > > > It's interesting that you say you have DRI working but not bus mastering. > > Can > > you run setpci on the device and see if bit 3 of word 4 is set? If so my > > problem

Re: Canon BJC-250

On Wed, 2001-12-26 at 16:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Jack Dodds wrote: > > > How can I configure it to print to my old Canon BJC-250 through a > > standard (non-ECP) parallel port? > > apt-get install cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-pstoraster > cupsomatic-ppd > O

Re: dselect

On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 21:00, Asura wrote: > > > > Why in back ground. APT system run by dselect > > > > Pet peeve: apt has nothing to do with the questions that are asked while > > upgrading packages. > > > > > asks question unless you set "debconf" to assume yes to all etc. > > > > Even then you

Re: dselect

On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 22:16, Rich Rudnick wrote: > On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 21:00, Asura wrote: > > I hate replying to myself, but after reading David Maze's last post I realized I forgot something important :\ > If I understand correctly, what might work for you is a three step

Universal Operating System Status

Forwarded Message > From: Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian News Channel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Debian Weekly News - October 12th, 2004 > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:03:19 +0200 > --- > Deb

Re: question re: removing all traces of Windows ME OS

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 13:25 -0400, Chris Moffa wrote: > > Folks, > > I've a 3-year-old laptop, IBM iSeries ThinkPad with Celeron > processor. I'm considering completely removing all traces of anything > Windows-related prior to installing Debian and open-source > productivity software. I'd lik

Re: question re: removing all traces of Windows ME OS

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 20:42 -0500, Jeff Golden wrote: > > > > A basic rule of life is never burn bridges behind you. Retreat is often > > a tactical necessity. > > > > This is true but it is rather annoying to have to re-boot into windows > to do simple things like banking or dial into your offi

Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 21:15 +, Adam Funk wrote: > I have a Brother HL1450 laser printer on my parallel port. I used to > use the Postscript driver but had problems with some documents > overloading the printer's memory, so I switched to the hl1250 driver. > Unfortunately LaTeX/dvips output do

Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 19:39 +, Adam Funk wrote: > On Wednesday 03 November 2004 18:40, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > >> (I have the following packages installed: magicfilter, cupsys, > >> cupsys-bsd, cupsys-client, cupsys-driver-gimpprint, > >> cupsys

Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 13:50 -0700, CW Harris wrote: > On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 12:29:49PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 19:39 +, Adam Funk wrote: > [...] > > > > > > Thanks for that info. As I said in another post in this thread, >

Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 08:06 +, Adam Funk wrote: > On Wednesday 03 November 2004 21:00, CW Harris wrote: > > > Rather than ignore it, I think it is better to link /etc/printcap to > > the CUPS printcap file (/etc/printcap.cups by default IIRC), then > > applications that try to use /etc/printca

Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 07:58 +, Adam Funk wrote: > On Friday 05 November 2004 04:20, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > After looking over the bug reports, cupsys-bsd will create a link > > from /var/run/cups/printcap to /etc/printcap _if_ it doesn't exist or > > dangle

Re: How "unstable" is unstable?

On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 21:57, Marino Fernandez wrote: > On Sunday 06 July 2003 9:10 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On 06 Jul 2003 21:07:42 -0400 > > > > Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm wondering, from those running sid, just how "unstable" is it at the > > > present time? > > > > > > Th

Re: Gnome startup folder

On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:45, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just wondering whether Gnome actually has a startup folder; ie: the > one like in MacOS. There is Applications/Desktop > Preferences/Advanced/Sessions menu, but I think it's pretty long to > reach; besides, once you have the dialog box, you

Re: Hi, where is gnome2 configuration file?

On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 02:06, Zhao You Bing wrote: > I'm using unstable Gnome2(sawfish) > I want to change the font size of window titile, > I found that I can't change it using menu options. > Thank u very much!!! > -- > Zhao YouBing, Ph.D student > State Key Lab of CAD&CG,Zhejiang University, > H

Re: Status of KDE in unstable?

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 10:39 -0400, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > I'm having the same problem since last week. > Upgrading isn't the problem, I also upgraded to it. The problem is it won't > install after a fresh install. I have three machines that upgraded to KDE 3.3 > Just fine. But I have a machine I

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

On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 11:46 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 01:27:33PM -0500, hanasaki wrote: > > not so silly problems left deleted > Since you want to use Knoppix rather than Debian, why don't you just burn > the ISO and get it over with? You've already demonstrated you k

Re: Questions about aptitude use

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 10:54 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have set up preferences to track testing, and have unstable > available for use. > > I think I now see pachages from both sarge and sid on the aptitude > interactive screen. Am I right, or am I dreaming? > > Is there a way to tell which

Re: evolution and web-browser ??

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 08:08 -0700, Eric Gaumer wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 07:42, Richard Palfalvi wrote: > > Hi ! > > > > I would like to no from EVOLUTION-Users where I can change the > > default-browser evolution starts when I am clicking on links listed in > > emails? > > > > In my case (

Re: ximian-connector under debian

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 20:02 -0400, Clifton Sluss wrote: > Hi all, > > does anyone out there have systematic approach to making > ximian-connector work for evolution? > i am using 1.4.6, i would use 1.5 and evolution-exchange if anyone has > crossed that bridge. > Have you tried evolution 1.5 an

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 00:35, ben wrote: > On Wednesday 10 April 2002 11:54 pm, Simon Hepburn wrote: > > ben wrote: > > > thanks for the input. so, on attachments, none? some? > > > > If I'm helping people out with, say X problems for example, I'd far prefer > > to see their config and log files as

Re: mail rules (WAS Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks)

On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 10:15, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > > > 4. Spell check. > > > > i think stipulating a spell check would impose too much on many > > non-native english speakers whose participation on this list is very > > valuable, > The spellchecker is pretty, but hardly useful enough as to re

Re: Newbie and scan attack

On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 12:04, craigw wrote: > > > > > > Okay, here's the kicker question: How can I, as a newbie, track this > > > down > > > and root it out, and clean my system? > > > > > > Also, is there a way I can do it without spending days at it, learning? > > Sounds like you don't h

Re: how to configure adsl?

On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 20:51, andrej hocevar wrote: > Hello, > I'm helping a friend configure his first Debian/Linux box. He's got adsl > access to the internet but I don't really know what it is -- if I'm not > mistaken, he needs kernel 2.4 with pppoe support and the pppoe programs > (pppoe, pppoec

Re: Linksys NC100 network card

On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 22:21, Dr. Louis A. Turk wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a Debian Linux driver for the Linksys Model NC100 v2 10/100 > Network Card? Or should I buy a different card? If I need a different > card, what is the best and easiest-to-install card? > I use that card with the tulip

Re: devfs joystick question

On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 04:31, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > Just what *is* the path to the joystick device in /dev under devfs? I > do have my modules installed for it and everything, though I compiled > them post-reboot... > please, please, someone answer this :) pretty please? -- First Impre

Re: mixture of regular debian libs and ximian gnome libs

On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 14:15, Josef Oswald wrote: > > First thanks for responding, now after I run this command I've got > _lots_ of ximian packages, how do I remove them ( I know that with > apt-get remove a single package can be removed > But a whole Bunch of them? > I've been running my

RE: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg

On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 08:29, Jeremy Turner wrote: > I could be wrong (I often am), but try: > > apt-get install gnome-session > > This should get you something. In your .xsession, put the line > 'gnome-session'. Maybe someone with more experience can let us know the more > preferred way? >

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 05:37, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:24:27AM +0200, Ivo Wever wrote: > > involving elderly disabled people, to support Debian. I guess we > > should rethink Debian if it turned out some neo-nazi group used our > > software on their servers? > Godwin's Law;

Re: gedit

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 11:18, ben wrote: > i like gedit a lot but in the default state of the most recent debian > version, 0.9.6, it doesn't display--in the open dialog--files or directories > whose names begin with a dot. anyone know how to modify this? > > ben I just type a dot in the dialog

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 22:00, Chris Gushue wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > I use either zless (just like I would have used 'less' if it wasn't > > compressed) or more often 'view' (vim in read-only mode; vim6 > > automatically decompresses .gz files). > > I'm pretty sure that Vim 5.x (5.6

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