Re: cdrecord -scanbus fails

2003-02-18 Thread Sam Varghese
ney > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I did not intentionally set DMA on /dev/hdd and I don't know how to turn > it off. Could you tell me how you did this? I had a similar problem with my CD-ROM. What I did was make a one-line executable in /etc/init.d: /sbin/hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-20 Thread Sam Varghese
Save yourself the trouble. 8:o) > > Because IE has around 90% share of the browser market -- if it doesn't > work on IE, you lose your audience. I tend to agree. Even getting something to display correctly on different versions of the same browser and browsers which are said

netdev watchdog eth0 transmit timed out

2003-02-01 Thread Sam Varghese
came with the disks - 2.4.18-bf2.4. the network cards on the box both use the rtl8139 module. i'm about to put the box on the net to test it but wanted to find out the cause of the messages before i do so. any help would be appreciated. sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The do

Re: netdev watchdog eth0 transmit timed out

2003-02-01 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:01:28PM -0800, Alvin Oga spake thus: > > On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Sam Varghese wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > g'day all, > > > > i'

Re: netdev watchdog eth0 transmit timed out

2003-02-03 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 06:42:55PM +0100, Anand Buddhdev spake thus: > On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 11:42:58AM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: > > > g'day all, > > > > i've just set up a debian box for use as a server, us

DSL connecting using a USB modem

2003-02-07 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i've been trying to find some app which would let me connect to the net with an usb dsl modem and have drawn a blank. would anyone on the list know of any app that can be used? sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com Linux and all

Re: DSL connecting using a USB modem

2003-02-07 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 06:07:03PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson spake thus: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 08:11:51AM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: > | i've been trying to find some app which would let me connect to the net > | with a

Re: DSL connecting using a USB modem

2003-02-07 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:20:46AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson spake thus: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 03:51:17PM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: > | On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 06:07:03PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson spake thus: >

Re: Oracle 9i and Debian

2002-10-17 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:49:21PM +0330, Arash Bijanzadeh spake thus: > Does anybody have experience with installing Oracle9i on Debian? On April 5 this year, there was a detailed post about installing 9i on Woody. Sam - -- Sam Varghese h

Re: How to compose a line in sources.list

2002-10-23 Thread Sam Varghese
kages/desktops/kde/stable/3.0.4/Debian/sid/ > > > > > > Can anyone help me get this working? > Why don't you try : > deb ftp://download.uk.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0.4/Debian/woody/ ./ I got my KDE stuff here: deb http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/kde/stable/3.0.4/Debian/woody

Re: Debian vs. SuSE 8.1

2002-10-18 Thread Sam Varghese
everything from source then fool > around with it.Did it,too. Try updating any other distribution (using the tools they supply) and then try apt-get. You won't ask these questions again. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but mor

Re: Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-24 Thread Sam Varghese
ace the IMAP, POP3 and the public > folders (I think) with free linux stuff, but I don't believe there is a free > calendering solution yet compatible with outlook/eudora. There's a product called Samsung Contact which is the former HP Open Mail. It's free for up to five mailb

Re: Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-24 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:31:30PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins spake thus: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:20:42 +1000 Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There's a product called Samsung Contact which is the former HP Open >

Re: Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-25 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:46:49PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins spake thus: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:42:54 +1000 Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just got an evaluation pack from the Australian reseller yesterday. >

Re: How to add "testing" source to my apt.conf?

2002-11-05 Thread Sam Varghese
p; examples & still am baffled (prog > feedback says there is an error, but not how to fix it), as to how > to correctly add a url, so I can use Synaptic to get .debs. > > What is the correct syntax please? Run apt-setup, make your choices and it will add the correct line

Re: tag lines in mutt?

2002-11-08 Thread Sam Varghese
form of this file - lots of others on this list will be able to offer much more complex examples): % { Name Tag line % | Name second tag line % | Name Third tag line % } Then to your .muttrc add this line: set signature = signify| That's all you need to do. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www

Re: address book for mutt

2002-11-08 Thread Sam Varghese
ion? If it's Outlook 97, you can use the script available here: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/lookout/ Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it. - - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra -BEGIN PGP SIGNA

Re: OT: VMS / WNT [was: Re: Official Exim 4 package]

2003-03-26 Thread Sam Varghese
NT project in 1988. Amid suspicions of intellectual property theft, DEC eventually sued Microsoft, citing that Cutler and his Mica team had actually continued the same project within Microsoft, culminating in the birth of the Windows NT OS. After Microsoft settled the case with DEC for $150 million,

Re: Antivirus in Debian?

2003-03-28 Thread Sam Varghese
as caught them all. The two Windows boxes have anti-virus software installed but nothing has ever got through the Debian server - yet. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The years teach much which the days never knew. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.

Getting Gnome to run on testing

2003-06-10 Thread Sam Varghese
ckbox. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra -BEGI

Re: Getting Gnome to run on testing

2003-06-10 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:45:38AM -0700, David Monarres waxed eloquent and said: > On Tuesday 10 June 2003 03:20 am, Sam Varghese wrote: > > How does one get Gnome 2.2 to run on testing with its default window > > manager? I'v

Updating to new kernel from 2.4.18-bf2.4

2003-06-11 Thread Sam Varghese
do a recompile? Or will these not work properly with Woody? Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v

Re: vulnwatch.org ???

2003-06-11 Thread Sam Varghese
s and are having some problems with the new provider. There were three messages from the list admin over the last two days explaining the problems in detail. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a gre

Re: Mail from M$ Outlook Express -> something

2003-06-22 Thread Sam Varghese
mail to the format used by kmail or some other linux mail client. There's a howto here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/html_single/Outlook-to-Unix-Mailbox.html Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utm

Removing a signature from a file

2003-06-24 Thread Sam Varghese
x27;t decompress it. Anybody got an idea about how I can recover this file? Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD

PPoE support in 2.4 series kernel

2002-12-16 Thread Sam Varghese
tinct impression that the 2.4 series has support for PPoE - am I wrong? If so, can someone point me to a patch for the required support? Thanks, Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. -BEGI

Re: [robertsharris@comcast.net: Re: Fw: Ga. Visit.]

2002-12-18 Thread Sam Varghese
7;m using > the latest mutt from unstable. > > Anything one of us can set to get around this other than me turning off > auto-signing? Change your Mutt options to clearign your mail. I use this in my .muttrc: macro compose \CP "Fgpg --clearsign\ny" Sam - -- Sam

Re: [robertsharris@comcast.net: Re: Fw: Ga. Visit.]

2002-12-18 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:33:23PM -0500, Robert L. Harris spake thus: > Thus spake Sam Varghese ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:11:58AM -0500, Robert L. Harris spake thus: > > > Since I started using GPG to

Re: PPoE support in 2.4 series kernel

2002-12-19 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 04:14:46PM +1100, Rob Weir spake thus: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 07:24:48AM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: > > I'm looking to compile a kernel with PPoE support so I downloaded the > > latest source available

syslog-ng[3946]: STATS: dropped 0

2002-12-22 Thread Sam Varghese
The list archives show that the same question has been asked but never answered. Can someone please explain what this means? Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+BbelZyXhknb+33gRAu+eAJkBaPcRSzNuabTDc

mysql-server refuses to install on testing

2002-12-29 Thread Sam Varghese
error. I'd appreciate any help in understanding why this is so and how I could resolve it. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+D

Re: kernel recompile

2003-01-01 Thread Sam Varghese
ne from > the top dir of your kernel source) The Debian method of compiling a kernel is outlined here: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-post-install.en.html#s-kernel= - -baking Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alon

Re: Burning CD Revisited

2003-01-07 Thread Sam Varghese
r which I need... > So with, that I used a new CD, now I have been having one heck of a time > trying to burn another one, using Xcdroaster... I didn't see your previous posting so pardon me for asking: are you trying to burn a data CD or an audio CD? And if data is it a bootable CD? Sa

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

2003-01-17 Thread Sam Varghese
ily's mail. I also help to run a charity project to provide Internet access for elderly and disabled people in one region of the state of Victoria - we use a P133 running Debian as our server. It handles mail, dial-up and caching-only DNS for about 55 people. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnu

Re: MS WINWORD and WINE problems....

2002-09-19 Thread Sam Varghese
e a good look at: > > http://www.openoffice.org/ > http://www/kde.org/ Win4Lin runs all M$ apps without a problem. CXOffice does an adequate job with Office 97 and 2000 - apart from M$Access. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com Where does your symbolic link point today? -BEGIN PGP SIGNA

Re: support for video card

2001-07-14 Thread Sam Varghese
F86Setup or xf86config from the command line after logging in as root and set up x. Sam -- (Sam Varghese)

Re: usb scanners & printers

2001-07-14 Thread Sam Varghese
icture. Dunno about printers (I have an ancient TI Microlaser that I got for $A70 at one of our local swap meets) but I have an Epson 640U USB scanner that can be used for professional work. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: [OT} Linux and reiserfs

2001-07-15 Thread Sam Varghese
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:18:13AM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: > Okay, I give. What's reiserfs? I keep reading it as "Rye Serfs" and > giggling. A journalling filesystem for Linux named after its creator, Hans Reiser. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Newbieish question

2001-07-15 Thread Sam Varghese
> me, with Win2k clients! Works for me too with Win2K clients. My server runs potato with a 2.2.17 kernel. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Real Player for potato

2001-07-15 Thread Sam Varghese
when you try to play audio or video off the Net. You'll have to change the permissions for your sound device as explained in an earlier posting on this list today. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

upgrading potato to a 2.4 kernel

2001-07-15 Thread Sam Varghese
Somebody asked about this topic today; I missed the thread. For using a 2.4 kernel with potato take a look at http://www.debian.org/News/2001/20010415 Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Real Player for potato

2001-07-16 Thread Sam Varghese
the installer. I have done that and I have RealPlayer working on a potato box. When you initially try to play audio/video off the Net, you'll get an error saying that the audio device is being used by another program; change the permissions on /dev/dsp and it will work. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: How to install sound on Debian Linux

2001-07-16 Thread Sam Varghese
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:44:06AM -0400, D-Man wrote: > > You need to edit a file in /etc/modutils (I think > /etc/modutils/local_config is a good name) and include some lines like The file is /etc/modules.conf Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: How to install sound on Debian Linux

2001-07-16 Thread Sam Varghese
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:59:38AM -0400, D-Man wrote: > | On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:44:06AM -0400, D-Man wrote: > | > > | > You need to edit a file in /etc/modutils (I think > | > /etc/modutils/local_config is a good name) and include some lines like > Sam Varghese

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ (again)

2001-07-16 Thread Sam Varghese
nfigure the nic in NE2000-mode? It worked for me (oke it was another card) I've used the NE2000 module for similar cards. Give it a go. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: But ....

2001-07-16 Thread Sam Varghese
ware.com). But my experience with > running linux on vfat has been poor. Blow the $25 on a used 2 GB IDE > drive and dedicate it to Linux... Red Hat will also install on a FAT partition; you need a bootdisk to get into it, though. Lose the disk and you can kiss your Linux goodbye. And i

Re: boot problem

2001-07-17 Thread Sam Varghese
and "general" chipset that should work on most cards. > If you can put it to work, then use XF86Config. It's XF86Setup, not XF86Config. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: seting up a gateway

2001-07-17 Thread Sam Varghese
ell > the others on the LAN to use your IP as the default gateway. Do you need to specifically install ipchains? I've been led to believe otherwise. Or does this set up your basic ipchains rules? Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

portsentry

2001-07-18 Thread Sam Varghese
This is a bit off-topic. Yesterday I read a piece at the following URL: http://www.linux.ie/articles/portsentryandsnortcompared.php comparing portsentry and snort. It is the first time I have read anything negative about portsentry. Any comments? Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Folders in Mutt

2001-07-18 Thread Sam Varghese
es so automatically I wouldn't mind either. I'd appreciate feedback from any mutt user on this list. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: how-to configure a printer on my potato

2001-07-18 Thread Sam Varghese
UPS can, sometimes, cause problems with your other start-up scripts to the extent that it stops your machine from booting. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Folders in Mutt

2001-07-18 Thread Sam Varghese
her soporific, to put it mildly. I'll experiment with my muttrc over the weekend and report back. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: New-to-Debian

2001-07-18 Thread Sam Varghese
ng up with apt. And I had a fair degree of proficiency in installing plenty of other Linuxes, including Slackware, at that point in time. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: New-to-Debian

2001-07-19 Thread Sam Varghese
Sam Varghese muttered: > > The best resource for new users IMHO is Bill McCarty's > > book which is online at: > > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/index.html Paul Mackinney wrote: > Thanks, Sam! I'm quickly becoming an Oreilly addict, didn'

Gnome under Debian

2001-07-19 Thread Sam Varghese
sible location and cannot source the root of the problem. I have downloaded all the recent Ximian patches as well but none of them seems to fix what is a very irritating problem. In the meantime, I have switched to icewm to retain my sanity. Any hints from the assembled on this problem? Sam --

Re: X windows /Gnome

2001-07-19 Thread Sam Varghese
840 > series PentiumII 266Mhz, with Acer 54e 15" color > monitor.Thanks for your help. Could you be a bit more specific on what you have tried? I'm sure several people could offer help but they'd probably need to know the disease before recommending medicine. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Gnome under Debian

2001-07-20 Thread Sam Varghese
windows have gone. One thing - Ximian is too much of a drain on RAM to run on anything but a real top-end box. Thanks for the help. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

follow-up to my queries on folders in mutt

2001-07-20 Thread Sam Varghese
on the web does not do what it is supposed to. i use mutt to download and read my mail with exim doing the smtp bit. i wanted to automate the mail checks but the syntax set pop_checkinterval=60 doesn't appear to be valid. i am using version 1.2.5i on potato. sam -- (Sam Varghese)

Re: X windows /Gnome

2001-07-20 Thread Sam Varghese
onfig file /etc/X11/Xf86Config > crated. If you have run XF86Setup or xf86config and entered the correct details about your monitor, video card etc, all you have to do is typ startx and X should start. If not, you need to run one of these set-up programs and configure X. You have to do this as r

Re: I need some help.

2001-07-20 Thread Sam Varghese
r server, then you can try e-smith. Then there is groupware like worldpilot for ZOPE. I haven't used any of them except the web mail feature which is part of the e-smith distribution. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: [OT] Free Scheduling/Reminder software for Win32

2001-07-21 Thread Sam Varghese
had success with Star Scheduler (part of Star Office but seems to come only with the official pack, not as part of the download edition - I may be wrong) but that means running X on the server. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: MTAs: rejecting senders with exim and delivering responses to rejected senders

2001-07-21 Thread Sam Varghese
tation: runs exim >exim sends any non-local to Server, using it as a relay >exim does address-rewriting, using /etc/email-addresses I have a simple question here - if you are able to block mail at the server level, why do you need to again block stuff from your workstation? Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Hardware Question

2001-07-21 Thread Sam Varghese
ere a nice, easy (secure!) web interface for an IMAP store > that can be dropped in easily? Webmin. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Debian books

2001-07-21 Thread Sam Varghese
entation. For a raw newbie, Bill McCarty's book is still pretty good even though it was written for Slink. And then there's tons of documentation on the Net plus a very active user community. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: ipchains for the firewall challenged

2001-07-22 Thread Sam Varghese
box > connected to the world with a cable modem connected to eth0. > > Are there any docs for the simple minded? I've searched on Google and > have found a lot of examples pertaining to forwarding. Have a look at http://logi.cc/linux/ipchainsLogAnalyzer.php3 Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

evolution beta

2001-07-23 Thread Sam Varghese
has anyone had a go with the new beta of evolution? i got it down last night but it seems to have a most peculiar bug - you can't reply to any mail which you receive! sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: MTAs: rejecting senders with exim and delivering responses to rejected senders

2001-07-23 Thread Sam Varghese
e; for that, refer to the exim documentation at www.exim.org) Then create this file (hosts) in /etc/block/mail (you can create it in any other location, change the path accordingly. I chose this because it was listed as the default). It works for me. YMMV. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: RBL for hire

2001-07-23 Thread Sam Varghese
matically so that from the user's point of view nothing will > have changed. I sent them a request for non-commercial use about three weeks back but apart from an acknowledgement (automated, with a reference number) I haven't heard a thing. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Display managers

2001-07-23 Thread Sam Varghese
ings like that > will just restore them. I'd prefer not to uninstall the package entirely, > because then I'll lose the task- package that gave it to me in the first > place. Rough and ready method no 667: find the script in /etc/init.d/ and just add exit 0 at the top. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Debian Firewall

2001-07-24 Thread Sam Varghese
l be grateful to yourself later on. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Still cannot get gnome up and running

2001-07-25 Thread Sam Varghese
er one line - gnome-session Then when you type startx after logging at the command line, your X should start. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: CD-RW Question...

2001-07-26 Thread Sam Varghese
rs. Nothing like a genuine SCSI for robustness. I use xcdroast as a GUI frontend. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: netscape 4.76 freezes

2001-07-26 Thread Sam Varghese
t to 4.77, that stopped. i use icewm and ximian, the latter at times when i'm feeling like inflicting some punishment on myself. can't say about your problem with opera because i've just started using it recently and it runs without a problem. btw, i'm running potato.

Re: MTAs: rejecting senders with exim and delivering responses to rejected senders

2001-07-26 Thread Sam Varghese
as it seems to fit my > needs the best. can't help you there. i haven'd dallied with anything other than exim - it does the smtp bit from my own workstation and handles mail on my server. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Reading a Sylpheed mailbox

2001-07-27 Thread Sam Varghese
the server using Sylpheed (which I don't use anymore). I am now looking for a way that she can read the mail herself - all of it is from mailing lists on Maltese terriers, her one interest. Any help would be gratefully accepted. I have tried Netscape with no success. Sam -- (Sam Varghese)

Re: Root/User Priveleges

2001-07-28 Thread Sam Varghese
thing, > you lose a bit of that stability. That's a good point, Joost. But newbies will always have that little hangover from their Windoze days when they tweaked something every morning, noon and night. C'mon, this need for tweaking in Windoze is a bloody industry :-) Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Only binaries?

2001-07-29 Thread Sam Varghese
or this? All releases of Debian are named after characters from Toy Story. Potato is Mr Potatohead. The earlier release @.1) was named Slink, the previous one Hamm etc. The forthcoming one (3.0) is Woody and the one after that Sid. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

fixed frequency monitors

2001-07-29 Thread Sam Varghese
i managed to get two 20" monitors today - but both are fixed frequency. does anyone have any experience in getting a monitor of this kind to work with linux? am -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: fixed frequency monitors

2001-07-29 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 11:02:48AM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: > On 29-Jul-01 Sam Varghese wrote: > > i managed to get two 20" monitors today - but > > both are fixed frequency. > > does anyone have any experience in getting a > > monitor of this kind to work with

Re: LILO problems

2001-07-30 Thread Sam Varghese
dev/hda1 label=w table=/dev/hda Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Query

2001-07-31 Thread Sam Varghese
w to handle TWM to go back to gnome. > plz. reply soon.--thanx jocky. you can make a file called .xinitrc in your home directory and have one line in it: twm save it and run startx. that should logically start up twm. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

mail headers

2001-08-02 Thread Sam Varghese
i have a problem with mutt (yes, another one) for which i would value some advice. my mail username is sam. i log in to my workstation as samuel and the machine name is sammo. on mail which i send, a header "Sender: Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" appears. why, is my question.

Re: Is there a similar list of this nature for Red Hat Linux?

2001-08-02 Thread Sam Varghese
com/mailing-lists/ and take your pick. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: mail headers

2001-08-02 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:46:14PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 02:54:22AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > | my mail username is sam. i log in to my workstation > | as samuel and the machine name is sammo. on mail which > | i send, a header "Sender: Sam Varghese

Re: Internet Connection Sharing [was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-02 Thread Sam Varghese
on using ip masquerading? Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Where to go from here

2001-08-03 Thread Sam Varghese
your sources.list and install a set of packages which you want. then update them using ftp after that, comment out the lines in sources.list, type apt-setup and create a sources.list with download sites. run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Network adapter seems ok, but doesn't work...

2001-08-03 Thread Sam Varghese
too, if it matters...) > > If I got it right, it should be sufficient to invoke > > 'insmod rtl8139.o', and > 'ifconfig up eth0' try using the ne2k-pci module instead. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: mail headers

2001-08-03 Thread Sam Varghese
to > the original sender (or whoever is in the Reply-To: header if a > mailling list munges it) and "g" replies to all people in the To: and > Cc: headers (maybe Mail-followup-to: also). Thanks very much for that - saves me a lot of typing. Now I only need to figure out how to get my mail sorted into folders on arrival. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: caching-only name server

2001-08-03 Thread Sam Varghese
ome slow until the cache builds up again. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Can't Connect to the Internet

2001-08-03 Thread Sam Varghese
poff to cut the connection. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

S3 savage on potato

2001-08-05 Thread Sam Varghese
tried running potato with XFree86 4 from testing and what gotchas are there? Alternatively, am I better off just upgrading to testing/unstable? Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: No WindowManager (Was NVidia Problem)

2001-08-07 Thread Sam Varghese
ll start up. the same for icewm - no exec icewm, just plain icewm. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: mutt "mail-followup-to" question (was: Re: OT: mysql front end?)

2001-08-07 Thread Sam Varghese
p_to syntax doesn't appear to apply to the version of mutt you are using (1.2.5i). i use the same version. my muttrc has this line for the list: subscribe debian and that's all. it works fine. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: have stable, desire KDE

2001-08-08 Thread Sam Varghese
d run apt-get update apt-get install task-kde sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-10 Thread Sam Varghese
experience, smaller wd drives are particularly prone to failure. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

.forward file format for exim

2001-08-11 Thread Sam Varghese
fied as per the exim documentation at www.exim.org since it doesn't work, i must be doing something wrong. this box uses potato with a 2.2.19 kernel. could someone enlighten me? sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Wine & Remedy

2001-08-14 Thread Sam Varghese
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:55:23AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > If you're not averse to running a legacy MS Windows OS, Lin4Win provides > more compatibility than WINE for Win9x series applications. shouldn't that be win4lin? sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Fwd: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1132

2001-08-14 Thread Sam Varghese
ubscribe. don't abuse people on the list, they have nothing to do with it. i trust this is clear. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Gigabyte GA-7DZ

2001-08-14 Thread Sam Varghese
gt; > All I want to know is what modules to select at install time for the > sound card to run properly. Any one used this board/sound chip and give > me the best answer? > you can try es1370 or es1371. i have used either of these with creative clones. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: vim and Tera Term

2001-08-14 Thread Sam Varghese
do funny > things in vim via tera term. I figure I need to change the key mappings in > tera term, and I know how to do that, but they seem to be mapped ok > already... help? use putty - it's the best ssh client for windoze. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

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