Can anyone advise me? I installed Woody from CD on a laptop without
an internet connection. Now, when I plug in the NIC (PCcard), I
cannot get any connection - when I try
# ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.7 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
I get
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: ERROR while getting interface
On Thursday 24 July 2003 17:19, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> On Thursday 24 July 2003 18:14, Richard Lyons wrote:
> > Can anyone advise me? I installed Woody from CD on a laptop
> > without an internet connection. Now, when I plug in the NIC
> > (PCcard), I cannot get any co
On Saturday 26 July 2003 13:57, Andrew McGuinness wrote:
[...]
> # adduser fred audio
I was hoping this was my problem too, but no. Mine is not a
soundblaster, it is woody on a thinkpad570, which I believe has a
Cirrus Logic CS 4614 Chip (but I don't know as it's second user kit
with no docume
Thanks guys. Andreas, Greg, and Paul: all your advice was good.
Added the module and all is sunshine!
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On Sunday 27 July 2003 01:01, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to delete
>
> /home/adam/.enlightenment/themes/FossilsOfTheMachines
>
> but I can't get 'rmdir' to work on a full directory. Neither
>
> rmdir -r [filename]
> rmdir s [filename] /or/
> rmdir --ignore-non-empty-directory [filename]
>
I am attempting to install debian on a Thinkpad570 (Woody from CDs,
using bf24). I have plugged in a PCMCIA network interface. How do I
configure it?
I've configured /etc/hosts and /etc/pcmcia/network.opts (well, I think
I have - they look fairly self-explanatory), and I've written an
/etc
On Monday 28 July 2003 15:17, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:38:08PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
> > I am attempting to install debian on a Thinkpad570 (Woody from
> > CDs, using bf24). I have plugged in a PCMCIA network interface.
> > How do I configure
In spite of previous help, I'm getting nowhere. I thought I had
solved this by using the Linux Format coverdisk Morphix, which
installed everything, recognised the NIC - all perfect. Only
problem, when I installed it to the hard drive, the installer didn't
set up lilo, and the system was unbo
I gather I am exceptionally dim or have exceptionally poor hardware.
I am near to giving up on this. I had a working Debian on the
Thinkpad570, then started again in order to get the NIC installed.
Now I can't even complete an install. When Installing the base
system, it appears to complete
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 20:05, Mark C wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 14:13, Joydeep Bakshi wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I can enter into the interactive mode of Redhat by pressing * key
> > i * at the time of booting. but this technique doesn't work in
> > Debian . how to get the same thing in Debian ?
>
Okay, this supersedes the previous. I have succeeded in installing
Woody on the Thinkpad, using the 'dummy' network interface. A stack
of errors which will be easily cleared up as soon as I actually can
connect to the internet, via our home-office ethernet. The interface
card claims to suppo
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 02:29, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 02:20:47AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
[...detailed install instructions cut...]
> > In para. 1. there is no directory like
> > /usr/src/linux/pcmcia-cs-3.0.9/include/ - I cannot find any
> > *pc
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 11:16, Antony Gelberg wrote:
[...]
> You need the kernel header files. Try apt-cache search
> kernel-headers and grab the one that goes with your kernel.
It may sound stupid, but I have no idea which kernel Debian has
installed. "bf24" tells me it is 2.4.x, but I don'
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 12:14, Richard Lyons wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 July 2003 11:16, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> [...]
>
> > You need the kernel header files. Try apt-cache search
> > kernel-headers and grab the one that goes with your kernel.
>
> It may sound stupi
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 11:16, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > > In para. 1. there is no directory like
> > > > /usr/src/linux/pcmcia-cs-3.0.9/include/ - I cannot find any
> > > > *pcmcia*/include/. What should I do here?
[...]
> > So I'm guessing I need first to install a further pac
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 14:18, Antony Gelberg wrote:
[...]
> Use script. man script for details. Basically it's like a wrapper
> that records everything on your terminal between typing script and
> doing a Ctrl-d.
>
> But, as was pointed out earlier, you _could_ try modprobe 8139too.
8139too e
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 14:41, ThinKer wrote:
> Just for fun (and because I am frustrated and looking for other
> options at this point), I downloaded and installed the Mandrake 9.1
> network.img boot disk and booted my machine with it.
[...]
FWIW, I have a parallel problem (in another thread he
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 15:18, Andrew McGuinness wrote:
[...]
> My mistake, 8139too is built into bf2.4, not a module, so if it
> worked, it would have picked up the card at boot time (or would it,
> with the card being pcmcia, have needed some pcmcia-cs to run
> first?).
Oh, thanks andrew. Tha
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 15:38, Sridhar Srinivasan wrote:
[...]
> you can convert an ext2 partition to an ext3 partition using a
> single command. These links from google provide more information.
That easy, eh? Looks as though I am some kind of masochist, doing
everything the hard way...
> So
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 16:08, Antony Gelberg wrote:
[...]
> No, you've got the wrong end of the stick. 8139too is probably
> _not_ right for your card. Hence you do need to compile the
> driver.
Rats! I have now tried the 2.2 standard install, and you are right -
Andrew is right: the 813
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 17:43, Antony Gelberg wrote:
[...]
>
> Why can't you compile the driver? Now you have the kernel headers,
> it shouldn't be too difficult. I thought you stopped trying when
> you thought that 8139too might work.
>
> If you decide to try, it might help to post actual erro
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 17:47, Greg Folkert wrote:
[...]
> > http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DebianChrootInstall
[...]
> I have used that procedure MANY times...
>
> Maybe even just use knoppix as the booting OS.
>
> I'll tell you I should edit that page to show how to do it with
>
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 19:54, Andrew McGuinness wrote:
> [...]
> The cause of the errors was that linux/version.h was being included
> from a 2.2 kernel, but linux/netdevice.h was being include from a
> 2.4 kernel.
Thanks Andrew. I'm impressed.
>
> You said you installed kernel-headers-2.4.1
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 19:54, Andrew McGuinness wrote:
[...]
> The cause of the errors was that linux/version.h was being included
> from a 2.2 kernel, but linux/netdevice.h was being include from a
> 2.4 kernel.
Thanks Andrew.
We _may_ be getting somewhere.
I have two version.h files:
/us
Woody bf2.4 on Thinkpad570. I have "mouse" (that red nipple in the
middle of the keyboard) working normally in X, but nothing when in
text mode. I can't see anything obviously relevant on google. Can
anyone point me in the right direction? I am particularly keen to
have middle button cut-an
On Thursday 31 July 2003 11:30, Tom Badran wrote:
[...]
> you need gpm running to get a mouse on the console. (apt-get
> install gpm)
>
> And you will then want to reconfigure x to read from the gpm device
> rather than directly from the mouse
Aah. You don't happen to know exactly how that config
On Thursday 31 July 2003 12:25, Tom Badran wrote:
> On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 12:23, Richard Lyons wrote:
> > On Thursday 31 July 2003 11:30, Tom Badran wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > you need gpm running to get a mouse on the console. (apt-get
> > > install gpm
On Thursday 31 July 2003 14:22, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> > > On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 12:23, Richard Lyons wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for trying to help. Just for the record, that did not
> > work. The thinkpad pointing device works fine in X set up as
> > psaux+PS/2.
On Thursday 31 July 2003 15:31, Michael Kahle wrote:
> I am wondering if anyone has any advice on a good linux web hosting
> provider.
[...]
I'm sure this is the wrong place. Still, I strongly recommend
lazylizard.net. Been with them for years... They are always
helpful. Tell Jonathan I se
On Friday 01 August 2003 06:45, Andrew McGuinness wrote:
[...residue of previous snipped...]
>
> include/pcmcia/version.h isn't a problem.
>
> The errors you quoted from you compile are in code that shouldn't
> be compiled unless LINUX_VERSION_CODE indicates a 2.2 kernel, at
> least in the rtl8139.
On Friday 01 August 2003 18:55, David Fokkema wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:48:36AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
[...]
> > And I can guarantee you that I will never respond to
> > "challenges".
>
> Why?
>
> If you send mail to a list and you get a challenge, sure, ignore
> it. If a user of the m
Good morning, Andrew.
On Saturday 02 August 2003 08:50, Andrew McGuinness wrote:
> Richard Lyons wrote:
[...]
> > [the driver] is the version distributed by the card maker...
> > with the card. Looks out of date. No changelog on the disk.
>
> Is the card actually a pcmcia
On Saturday 02 August 2003 08:50, Andrew McGuinness wrote:
[...]
> Unfortunately that shows that it is basically the same driver
> (8139too) as is built into the bf2.4 kernel already.
Okay, I've just booted the Morphix disk again, to check I wasn't
mistaken. It works fine. Accesses network flaw
On Saturday 02 August 2003 11:19, Andrew McGuinness wrote:
[...]
>
> I really think the 8139too driver in 2.4.18 ought to be able to
> work this.
>
> The problem must be either a general PCMIA issue, or a problem with
> the 8139too driver being compiled-in instead of being a module.
>
> I just saw
On Saturday 02 August 2003 12:53, Andrew McGuinness wrote:
> Can I check, do you have the package
> kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-686?
err.. no.
>
> try
> # modprobe pcmcia_core
> # modprobe yenta_socket
they find nothing
> The 8139too driver should be able to work, since it did on
> Mandrake,
On Saturday 02 August 2003 16:20, David Fokkema wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:52:36PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> > How dare you ***ASSUME*** that I am spamming you! Who are you
> > that I ought to feel compelled to jump through your hoops, simply
> > to say -- in an email -- hello ?!
On Saturday 02 August 2003 21:23, ScruLoose wrote:
[...]
> > (anyone knows of a trick to automatically whitelist all
> > correspondents on debian-user? ;-)
Yes: those nice spammers have just the tools you want...
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On Saturday 02 August 2003 21:34, David Fokkema wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:36:57PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
> > On Saturday 02 August 2003 21:23, ScruLoose wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > > (anyone knows of a trick to automatically whitelist all
>
On Saturday 02 August 2003 23:39, John M. Purser wrote:
> I've installed the bind9 package and tried to configure it to work
> with my little internal network. When I start it up I get an error
> message telling me "bad dotted quad" saying it's from the zone
> configuration file for my network whi
It seems, after _huge_ help from Andrew McGuinness and others, that I
am going to have to change from the bf2.4 flavour to
kernel-image-2.4.18-686. Now, I am scared of messing with kernels
anyway, and new to apt as well. I don't see in the apt HOWTO exactly
how to "upgrade" a kernel. (I've
On Sunday 03 August 2003 20:09, Andreas Janssen wrote:
[...]
> apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-686
[...]
> If you use lilo, it will already have a section "LinuxOLD"
> additionally to "Linux", so simply rerunning lilo after installing
[...]
Well, that was easy. Don't know what to say: I e
On Saturday 02 August 2003 11:19, Andrew McGuinness wrote:
[...]
> I really think the 8139too driver in 2.4.18 ought to be able to
> work this.
>
> The problem must be either a general PCMIA issue, or a problem with
> the 8139too driver being compiled-in instead of being a module.
[...]
I have give
On Monday 04 August 2003 06:34, Andrew McGuinness wrote:
[...]
> Looking at the cardctl output from your card, I think the 8139too
> module provided with 2.4.18-686 ought to work. Remember that your
> mandrake install worked without needing to compile a separate
> driver.
Yes, but it doesn't seem
Hello again.
I have found the configurator that I needed, in theory. It is
modconf. But I cannot install i82368, the errors include 'No such
device' and
'depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/.../8139too.o'
So the compilation was not successful apparently.
Perhaps I should reiniti
There must be a better way!
Further to recent threads on problem of stopping bad printout:
problem: printer prints many pages of postscript code. Job won't stop - gives
an error something about permission-client. Same problem can occur when, for
example, printing a 22-page fax and running o
On Friday 14 May 2004 12:18, H. S. wrote:
[...]>
> Since I posted this, I have confirmed from another person who is
> experiencing this very same problem, on Sid. I haven't received any
> replies to the post above though. Is nobody else experiencing this
> problem (I am surprised), or is nobody usi
On Saturday 15 May 2004 07:05, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 06:31:18AM -0400, richard lyons wrote:
> > BTW, why "grep '^ii.*'". WHat does the ".*" usefully add?
>
> Nothing.
>
> > and the single quotes? I expected, and
On Saturday 15 May 2004 11:31, David W.E. Roberts wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just done a hard disc install of Knoppix 3.3 which gives me Debian
> 2.4.24-xfs.
[...]
> Second problem - I am stuck with a US keyboard layout and a UK keyboard.
>
> I am trying to change the default 'locale' settings in /etc
On Monday 17 May 2004 02:02, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> su aptitude install aumix
I think Karsten meant
sudo aptitude install aumix
or
su
aptitude install aumix
In case it's not obvious
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Does anyone here have any recommenations for an addressbook? I'd like to
replace kaddressbook (now that I'm not running kde). Something generic
x-windows would be fine - or perhaps better a console-based one. If the data
are in a portable format, so much the better. I find kaddressbook is
c
On Monday 17 May 2004 03:54, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Mon, May 17, 2004 at 02:54:06AM -0400, richard lyons
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Monday 17 May 2004 02:02, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > > su aptitude install aumix
> >
> > I think Karsten meant
> >
On Monday 17 May 2004 09:48, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote:
> Hi Richard
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 03:20:47AM -0400, richard lyons wrote:
> > Does anyone here have any recommenations for an addressbook? I'd like to
> > replace kaddressbook (now that I'm not running
On Monday 17 May 2004 11:44, Bob Proulx wrote:
> David W.E. Roberts wrote:
> > Bob,
> >
> > thanks for all the useful info.
> >
> > I had been led to beleive that if you did a HD install of Knoppix then
> > you had a Debian installation which could then be updated to the latest
> > version by using
On Monday 17 May 2004 20:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Im running debian stable and for some strange reason the mail()
> function in php fails every time its called; Exim is running
> perfectly and I can send mails from perl, but for the life of me I
> cant get php mail() to work.
>
> Could this b
On Monday 17 May 2004 20:16, Victor Munoz wrote:
> Hello. I'm reading mails in both a woody and a sid machine with
> mutt, and it behaves differently with html mails.
Simplest solution: send all html direct to spam can. Catches 90% of
my spam, and that is a lot of spam.
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On Tuesday 18 May 2004 03:30, Wasily wrote:
> I means without some "device" this binary can not work,device means
> a hardware-dog-like software.Hope this description be clear.
"hardware-dog-like" hmm, I love thise liguistic problems. Something
on a leash perhaps, like a dongle?
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On Tuesday 18 May 2004 05:15, Johan Renström wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Since my two last posts were a bit to boring to be read I thought
> I'd do a last desperate try from another pint of view.
I thought it was quite interesting - and was waiting to hear the
answers. I had a chancce to play with an adapte
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 05:25, Ogya Chief wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> Whilst trying to set up ppp, I ended up with a system that does not
> connect to the net. Whatever option I use to connect, I get a
> message that says:
>
> /usr/sbin/pppd: unknown host: (none)
>
> Has anybody ever come across th
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 14:33, Edwards, Thomas wrote:
> I am moving onto a new job and will be subscribing to this list
> after I move next week. However in the meantime I am trying to
> unsubscribe from this list for my current employer. I have
> attempted to remove myself from the automated
> in
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 20:17, Edwards, Thomas wrote:
> Nope, still getting the mail.
Well, I know nothing of the technicalities, just quoting my
experience. Still, it sounds as though you should follow up. You
did get the second confirmation that the cancellation had been
actioned? I recolle
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 17:05, Bojan Baros wrote:
> Link: http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys
>
> So, what's everyone take on this?
>
Another software patent. Any really good idea that is to become the
new standard _has_ to be released open source and copyleft.
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On Thursday 20 May 2004 03:08, Kristian Niemi wrote:
> Nick Croft wrote:
[...]
> > $ escuptil -i -r /dev/lp0 is
> > 'Cannot parse output from printer'.
[...]
> I wonder if it could be as easy as telling escputil that you have a
> new model of epson printer (`new' means newer than Stylus Color 740
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 15:52, Walter Tautz wrote:
> I would imagine almost anything would work but I'd like
> a list of models people have used with debian and which
> they may have also used with their digital cameras. My intent
[...]
As far as I can see, anything does work. I have an Olympus C
On Friday 21 May 2004 03:38, Tim Connors wrote:
[...]
> So spammers will simply write their own pgp signatures.
>
> After all, PGP only tells you that the person who signed the
> message was the one who wrote it. Unfortunately, PGP doesn't come
> with an evil-bit.
>
> Reemember, anything the anti-s
I'm asking for a bit of advice here.
I wish to convert a kaddressbook database to abook format saving as
many fields as possible.
I could do this by exporting to cvs, importing to gnumeric (or any
spreadsheet), shuffling the columns around, re-exporting to cvs and
importing back to abook.
On Friday 21 May 2004 13:40, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> richard lyons said on Thu, May 20, 2004 at 05:59:23PM -0400:
> > On Wednesday 19 May 2004 17:05, Bojan Baros wrote:
> > > Link: http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys
> > >
> > > So, what's everyone take
On Friday 21 May 2004 16:52, Brent Bailey wrote:
> A couple of weeks ago I installed debian sarge with d-i beta3. I
> kept with the default partition sizes given with the multi-user
> set-up, which set up / with 135468 K on a 80G drive. Now / is
> full, and every other partition is hardly used.
On Friday 21 May 2004 18:56, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> richard lyons wrote:
> > I'm asking for a bit of advice here.
[...]
> > learning one of the lighter languages that I keep seeing mention
> > of. So the question is, which do you people recommend?
[...]
>
> A
On Friday 21 May 2004 18:22, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Brent Bailey wrote:
> > Man, I hope that I don't have to re-format the whole thing...
>
> Nope. Just use resize2fs to shrink /home and then use the free
> space to create a new partition. Move your data around as
> necessary.
Yes, make a much
On Friday 21 May 2004 20:23, Tom Allison wrote:
> Adam Aube wrote:
> > Tom Allison wrote:
> >>Spam RBL's are being attacked on the legal front which puts black
> >> lists in jepardy. The idea being that businesses have a legal
> >> right to solicit their customers and a third party cannot block
>
On Friday 21 May 2004 22:50, s. keeling wrote:
[...]
> We don't have to have that problem. We have spamassassin and
> procmail. Spam is only a problem for ISPs who have to receive it
> or reject it, and Windows users who have few to no effective means
> to protect themselves from it. Mine is tra
On Friday 21 May 2004 21:54, James Buchanan wrote:
> > If nothing changes email will soon be unusable.
[...]
> Someone needs to write a really good RFC for a new email "next
> generation" service and make it impossibly hard for spammers, that
> is simple and quick to implement. No 6-part RFCs with
On Sunday 23 May 2004 08:44, Nick Croft wrote:
> * Jens Simmoleit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > ... you might also check if this has something to do with the
> > bios settings. AFAIK all modern printers (from 3-5 years back)
> > use bidirectional settings to communicate. Maybe it's turned off?
> >
On Sunday 23 May 2004 12:35, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote:
> Hi Richard
>
> On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:55:35PM -0400, richard lyons wrote:
> > I'm asking for a bit of advice here.
> >
> > I wish to convert a kaddressbook database to abook format saving
> > as
On Sunday 23 May 2004 14:33, SJ Straith wrote:
> richard lyons wrote:
[...]
> > "PC-line". I recollect it cost 7 GBP. I also use one
> > of the same brand for SD cards. The only problem is
> > the need to reboot when switching between types of media
> > (
On Monday 24 May 2004 06:00, Nick Croft wrote:
> * richard lyons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > H 0.00
> >
> > On Sunday 23 May 2004 12:35, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote:
> > > Hi Richard
> > >
> > > On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:55:35PM -0400, rich
On Monday 24 May 2004 04:53, Ken Clayton wrote:
> > Here is the file.
> Hi,
> Sorry who are you and what file?
Ignore it - it's more worm-spew, along with 'Re: Thank You',
'Forum Notify', 'Hidden Message', 'Incoming Message',
the rather curious 'Protected Message' and the frank
'Re: Your Email
On Monday 24 May 2004 14:50, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> richard lyons wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 May 2004 14:43, Paul Johnson wrote:
> >>...1,234,567.89 is "one million, two-hundred-thirty-four
> >>thousand, five-hundred-sixty-seven and eighty-nine
> >> one-
On Tuesday 25 May 2004 17:27, Joan Tur wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Es Dimarts Maig 25 2004 20:10, en Dan Korostelev va escriure:
> | Hello.
> |
> | I need to create a custom debian desktop installation CD for my
> | friend. I need a debian-installer, X, gnome, etc p
Sarge - aptitude:
For some weeks now, every time I install anything, I get
dpkg: error processing \
/var/cache/apt/archives/libxrandr2_4.3.0.dfsg.1-1_i386.deb \
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/X11R6/lib/libxrandr.so.2.0', which \
is also in package xlibs
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste ki
I (foolishly, with the benefit of hindsight {a useful new acronym
WTBOH??} ) dist-upgraded to sid on one box yesterday. To my horror,
I lost gnumeric (which I love, and have work in progress in). I
tried to install it (via aptitude) - but found that doing so meant
losing all of the kde applic
On Thursday 27 May 2004 09:03, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (27/05/04 08:12), richard lyons wrote:
[...]
> > BTW, I have also lost cups completely as a result of this, so I
> > need to find another way to set up network printing!
>
> Is it worth uninstalling cups and reinst
Just out of interest, why does this happen? If I accidentally use
compose keys for e-acute (right-alt-' e) in bash, a massive list of
reserved words appears? I'll reproduce the end of it below (with
line-breaks added):
update-default-aspell update-default-ispell update-default-wordlist
update
On Friday 28 May 2004 16:08, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote:
> Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I don't have this manual 5 apt_preferences installed. When I
> > create the preferences file name, I get: E: Invalid record in
> > preferences file...
>
> My guess is that you have to create the file /e
Anyone else had problems with this?
I dist-upgraded from sarge to sid abt. three days ago, and lost
(amongst others) cups. As far as I could understand, there was a
conflict between two versions of libcupsys2. At first, I worried
that I had either to remove gnumeric or most of kde apps. So
On Saturday 29 May 2004 17:33, Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 03:01:42PM -0400, richard lyons wrote:
> > I dist-upgraded from sarge to sid abt. three days ago, and lost
> > (amongst others) cups. As far as I could understand, there was a
> > conflict be
On Saturday 29 May 2004 18:12, Tristan Mills wrote:
> On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 03:01:42PM -0400, richard lyons wrote:
[...]
> > Does anyone else have problems with recent cupsys? Do these
> > errors indicate anything particular I should check?
[...]
>
> I just reinstalled uns
On Saturday 29 May 2004 23:44, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> On 2004-05-29, Kent West penned:
> > Micha Feigin wrote:
> >>On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 08:46:22PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama
> >> wrote:
> >
> > Whoa! I just realized while reading this thread that Monique's
> > name has changed.
Me too.
> >
> >
On Sunday 30 May 2004 06:39, Steve Lamb wrote:
> richard lyons wrote:
> > a) You're missing out (imho); (b) You'd be a great mum, from
> > what we see of you here. (c) Apologies - OT and NOMB.
>
> Ungh, be a little more patronizing please. Having a child is
On Saturday 29 May 2004 22:08, Adam Aube wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> > Now for anybody else considering challenge-response email
> > systems, this is why they're considered harmful.
>
> How are they any more harmful than autoresponders or list
> subscription confirmations (like those used by the
On Saturday 29 May 2004 21:02, W Paul Mills wrote:
> richard lyons wrote:
> >> Once I solved this properly (making sure I still have
> >> gnome-cups-manager) everything was fine.
> >
> > Micha, what do you mean by 'solved this properly'? I thought I
&g
On Saturday 29 May 2004 20:29, Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 06:43:00PM -0400, richard lyons wrote:
> > On Saturday 29 May 2004 17:33, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 03:01:42PM -0400, richard lyons wrote:
> > > > I dist-upgraded fro
On Sunday 30 May 2004 23:15, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
[...]
> Maybe I'm just in a forgiving mood today, but I read the original
> statement as "Having kids is a great experience; the personality
> you present is grade-A; and yes, I know it's none of my business."
Monique, thanks for taking time
On Monday 31 May 2004 09:57, Colin Watson wrote:
> Civilized societies should outlaw absurdly-drawn-out coding style
> arguments on public mailing lists, especially when I have to
> attempt to read them over a tediously slow ssh connection from a
> conference in a different hemisphere.
Yes, but at
On Monday 31 May 2004 05:25, Ping Wing wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have omnibook xe3 laptop + sarge.
>
> When I click mouse [ I use only external logitech
> optical USB, not tried with touchpad] , quite often
> this one click is treated as two clicks, which result
> that two applications are open, or that m
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 08:29, Tom Allison wrote:
[...]
> They are also a pain in the neck when you get a CR sent to a
> mailing list.
>
> But most importantly, and this is from personal experience here,
> they are not very useful. I played with a CR mechanism for a few
> months on my own mail ser
On Saturday 29 May 2004 20:29, Micha Feigin wrote:
[...]
> Here is a list of the cups related packages I have installed if it
> helps (I am not sure all are needed but I didn't feel like trying
> to figure which to throw out):
>
> i cupsomatic-ppd - linuxprinting.org printer
> i
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 14:39, Tristan Mills wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 19:10, richard lyons wrote:
[...]>
> cupsys shouldn't be depending on libcupsys2. Its kdelibs4 (and
> probably 3) which do. If you can live without KDE then getting rid
> of it should sort this out
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 17:37, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> Paul Scott wrote in linux.debian.user:
> > > Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the
> > > /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that
> > > will allow me to read them without having to decompress them
> > >
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 19:43, s. keeling wrote:
> Incoming from richard lyons:
[...]
> > ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile are not read unless I 'source' them
> > manually. I've never understood why.
>
> I always wondered that too, but the chickens are beginni
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