Re: Mozilla Mail & Microsoft Outlook

2003-10-16 Thread Rohan Nicholls
At Wed, 15 Oct 2003 23:45:19 -0200, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: > > Hi. > Has anyone tried/succeeded in importing messages from Microsoft Outlook > (.pst files) to Mozilla Mail? > Does anyone have any idea on how to do this? > Thanks > --Fred I don't know if

Re: cdrecord problem recording audio CD

2003-10-22 Thread Rohan Nicholls
At Wed, 22 Oct 2003 00:42:07 +0200, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 06:10:25AM +0800, csj wrote: > > cdrecord -dao speed=8 dev=0,0,0 *.wav > > > > Can someone tell me what this -dao option does? I have never used it, > and IIRC older versions of cdrecord didn't have it.

Re: new to debian

2003-10-23 Thread Rohan Nicholls
At Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:33:39 -0700, Scott Hansen wrote: > > Greetings, > > I downloaded iso disks of Debian and did an install. I am new to > Debian, and Linux as a whole. The question I have is thatI do not know > how to get a gui login or to activate a gui like kde. Could you help me > wi

Re: reiserfs

2003-10-27 Thread Rohan Nicholls
At 27 Oct 2003 10:31:01 -0500, Vivek Kumar wrote: > > Hi there, > > I was trying to mount my removable hdd as reiserfs filesystem. It gave > me following error. What should I do ?? > THE VERSION I CHECKED IS 2.2.20. > KINDLY HELP.. > > Vivek > > mount -t reiserfs /dev/hdd1 /prod1 > mount: fs ty

Re: reiserfs

2003-10-28 Thread Rohan Nicholls
At Tue, 28 Oct 2003 00:14:01 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 18:03, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > > At 27 Oct 2003 10:31:01 -0500, > > Vivek Kumar wrote: > > You need the kernel-package package, don't remember what others > (libncurses or something

Re: reiserfs

2003-10-28 Thread Rohan Nicholls
At 27 Oct 2003 11:23:36 -0500, Vivek Kumar wrote: > > Thnks for your help Rohan. No problem.:-D > I am going to try what you said. Meanwhile I > installed kernel-iamge-2.4.18-386 ( I got this solution from one of the > knowledgebase at Debian). > I did apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-386. It

Re: reiserfs

2003-10-29 Thread Rohan Nicholls
At Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:34:31 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 17:38, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > > At Tue, 28 Oct 2003 00:14:01 +0200, > > Micha Feigin wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 18:03, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > > > > At

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-24 Thread Rohan Nicholls
* John & Peg Pickard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030121 05:06]: > In short, will I be able to do something productive with Debian LINUX? And then > I > will want to network it with our laptop running WinME, and a LinkSys Print > server, > and possibly a US Robotics broadband router (if I can use the "back

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-25 Thread Rohan Nicholls
* Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030125 00:17]: > on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:54:46AM +1100, Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Rohan Nicholls wrote: > > > >I have to say that I took over my windows partition, and now run > > >win2k in an emulator for

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-29 Thread Rohan Nicholls
> > Thanks, it sounds promising. If i install win2k as the guest OS on vmware > which is in turn installed on linux, is there a way to copy the whole win2k > installation into vmware, or do i need to re-install everything again? > I reinstalled everything, which I didn't mind as I have it running

Heavy harddrive use after startup

2003-02-01 Thread Rohan Nicholls
I am wondering if anyone else experiences this, I had thought it was a gnome problem, but am no longer using gnome. About 5 minutes after I boot up, the harddrive goes crazy for about 3-5 minutes slowing everything down, and I was wondering if anyone has any idea what might be causing it. I run,

Re: Fun sound problem

2003-02-01 Thread Rohan Nicholls
* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030130 09:02]: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:47:12PM -0800, Eric Nelson wrote: > > Nice board, have you tried the alsa website for drivers? > > Erf. I was hoping for the simplicity of using OSS. My understanding > is that ALSA is Not Trivial to use, requiring A

Re: freeze-ups

2003-02-01 Thread Rohan Nicholls
* Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030130 16:07]: > Jeremy Wilkerson wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I recently installed Debian on my computer, but I have never used a > >Unix OS before. I installed version 3.0 rev 1 for i386. My computer > >is a Pentium II 400. Occasionally KDE totally freezes up on m

Re: Heavy harddrive use after startup

2003-02-01 Thread Rohan Nicholls
* Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030201 12:33]: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 10:36:16 +0100 > Rohan Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have this also and believe that it is updatedb (used by locate) > running in the background. I hardly ever turn my box off but if I d

Re: Heavy harddrive use after startup

2003-02-01 Thread Rohan Nicholls
> I guess it is anacron or cron. > Look in your /etc/cron.daily: all these scripts are executed once a day, if > you have anacron running. It updates your htdig, locate, man-db, etc. > indexes. If you don't need a certain index just remove the executable bit > from the files or disable anacron i

Re: Sound problems

2003-02-01 Thread Rohan Nicholls
* Duncan Baynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030201 13:55]: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 10:55 pm, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > unfortunatly xmms seems to crash when I have xmmsarts installed. > > I have problems with programs like winex and mplayer if arts is enabled > so I just don't bother and run kde with it di

Re: Configuration centralizing tool sought

2003-02-01 Thread Rohan Nicholls
> Well, not if I am lazy... I have a shell script like that, but I want > a perl version. I don't believe in shell anymore, and I have too > little time to learn Perl... > I am not sure why you have lost faith in shell scripting, besides the language being horribly ugly, and useless for complic

Re: Configuration centralizing tool sought

2003-02-01 Thread Rohan Nicholls
* martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030201 17:51]: > Right. But I gave up on it when I fough 30 minutes this morning on > reading in a file formatted like this: > > \s+ > > with a while loop: > > while read user filename; do > echo "$user : $filename" > done < thefile > > this is supposed

apt question: exclude certain packages from upgrading?

2003-10-01 Thread Rohan Nicholls
with the needed bits and pieces, and is humming along nicely, and be able to upgrade everything else without messing with ppp. Tia, and another question Rohan Nicholls www.AnswerWeb.nl tel +31(0)20 - 4121407 fax +31(0)20 - 6897895 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AnswerWeb Prinsengracht 468 1017 KG Amsterdam

sound card weirdness? newbie question

2002-11-27 Thread Rohan Nicholls
Hi all, I have finally made the full switch to linux, with windows running in an emulator for company oriented stuff, and I was very impressed with the improvements from potato as far as installing on my laptop, but as always I have questions.:) I have my soundcard supported but when I start t

two different netenvs (work and home)

2002-11-27 Thread Rohan Nicholls
Netenv cannot deal with my adsl connection, so I would like to disable it and make a script that calls dhcp (work) or calls my pptp script. The problem is in init.d there is netenv, but I can find nothing in the rcX.d dirs that is connected to networking, unless it is inetd, but I always thoug

Re: sound card weirdness? newbie question

2002-11-28 Thread Rohan Nicholls
area again.:) rohan Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Rohan Nicholls said: Hi all, I have finally made the full switch to linux, with windows running in an emulator for company oriented stuff, and I was very impressed with the improvements from potato as far as installing

Re: two different netenvs (work and home)

2002-12-02 Thread Rohan Nicholls
Thanks for this, I am still getting my setup done using this framework, and I have high hopes. I am also learning about the network card interfaces this way.:) rohan Vincent Lefevre wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 17:15:02 +0100, Rohan Nicholls wrote: Netenv cannot deal with my adsl

Re: two different netenvs (work and home)

2002-12-02 Thread Rohan Nicholls
Nick Hastings wrote: Hi, I have looked at /etc/init.d/networking and it seems quite low level, so it looks I should run this no matter what. I guess what I want to do is cut in with my script before the dhcp stuff starts, so I can choose not to use it, but after the network card is activated

Re: what's everyone's favorite audio setup?

2002-12-02 Thread Rohan Nicholls
I have had this problem as well and got some great advice. As far as I can tell, your problem getting the applications you want to use, accessing the same sound server. Personally I have flash, Realplayer, xmms, gaim, and others all playing nicely together. One problem is that KDE uses its

calendar items in Mozilla with Exchange server

2002-12-05 Thread Rohan Nicholls
Another question, I have hooked my mozilla mail client to the exchange server at work, and all is going well, but I have the calendar folder with items, but the items have the message with a link at the bottom to a .eml file. Does anyone know how to be able to interact with the calendar items

Lean and clean IMAP client

2002-12-19 Thread Rohan Nicholls
I have been using the mozilla imap client for my mail for a while now, and am finding it very resource hungry. I have tried to get gnus working with teh exchange server at work, but it will only see the inbox, and not its subfolders, and I find the lack of multithreading (so stops while waiting

Re: Lean and clean IMAP client

2002-12-30 Thread Rohan Nicholls
Thanks for all the great advice. Seems mutt is the winner here, and I have started configuring it with the imap client. Now I have questions about the smtp settings, and displaying html emails. I have looked around for information about sending mail, and am totally confused. I had exim on m

exim wierdness

2003-01-14 Thread Rohan Nicholls
I am finding a problem with exim. I have read many a manual, visited many a documentation site, with no joy. Could anyone please point me in the right direction If I have an email with a '.' in the "localhost" name (before the '@') it gives an error that the "localhost" name is invalid. T

Re: exim wierdness

2003-01-15 Thread Rohan Nicholls
I am embarassed to say that it sent me a message to mail, and I read it and it disappeared after that, but got results below. I have sent more mails from mutt, but now they just disappear with not mail being sent to me, but the command you gave below seems to duplicate the error. Shyamal Pras

Re: exim wierdness

2003-01-15 Thread Rohan Nicholls
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: What error? Show the exact error message -- there are dozens, if not hundreds, of different reasons for seeing an error. Sorry the error has been recreated with Shyamal Prasad's suggestion, I have the error in my response to him. | This is a little urgent as I

Re: exim wierdness: Thanks for the help

2003-01-15 Thread Rohan Nicholls
Thanks Derrick and Shyamal for your help with this. I really appreciate it, and think I have this present challenge dealt with. Allows me to move over from using mozilla which I find very resource hungry. I still have to try this at home, but as Mozilla needed to use the work exchange server at

Re: Emacs installed, why?

2003-01-15 Thread Rohan Nicholls
* Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030114 18:39]: > I'm riding all three trees and was curious why lately unstable or testing > has wanted to install Emacs on a dist-upgrade? > > root@teleute:~# apt-get dist-upgrade -u > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Calcula

Re: exim wierdness

2003-01-16 Thread Rohan Nicholls
* Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030115 16:26]: > > That is because hotmail.com and canoemail.com are not "local domains" > for exim. What do you get if you run the exim command above on these > addresses? That works out nicely, giving router and host info. > Do you remember what option yo

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Rohan Nicholls
* Scott --sidewalking-- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030117 02:00]: > All, > > I am new to the Linux world and have settled on Debian as my winning > horse for learning Linux, to the best of my abilities. The talk on Good choice, the packaging system is amazing. > this list is a little out of my compr

RE: Totally [OT] Re: Opium

2003-11-17 Thread Rohan Nicholls
I don't even know where to begin with this Basically you are beautifully demonstrating the results of a culture of fear with bad guys around every corner. I haven't been in this mindset since I was less than 5 when there were monsters in the closet and under the bed. Apparently they now hi

documentation of libraries

2002-05-06 Thread Rohan Nicholls
Hello there, I have a happily running debian distribution, but am getting very confused when trying to install certain software as it claims to be lacking all sorts of libraries. Is there any documentation about what libraries do what, and where things are stored on the file system. For instan

RE: documentation of libraries

2002-05-13 Thread Rohan Nicholls
Nicholls Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: documentation of libraries On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 03:56:17PM +0200, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > Hello there, > > I have a happily running debian distribution, but am getting very > confused when trying to install certain software as