Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread Tom Cook
". > > Why the fuck are we accepting this? The next person to say "democracy" > will get my foot up their butt. Democa... sorry. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "This does not happen very often in Northallerton."

Re: mass installation on XBox (and economics)

2002-10-04 Thread Tom Cook
billion in cash reserves. That's 500 million xboxen to drain it... Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "That you're not paranoid does not mean they're not out to get you." - Robert Waldner Get my GPG public key: https://pinky

Re: Windows Metafiles (Alternative?)

2002-10-05 Thread Tom Cook
of API calls involved in saving the clipboard to a windows metafile, and there are tools for converting WMF to EPS, but I'm not really up with windows API stuff, so I think I'll stick with what I've got. It does the job, slowly but surely. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology

Re: Very OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-05 Thread Tom Cook
and out of your control to public scrutiny. Since the > >former is both distasteful and fundamentally impossible to enforce, the > >later is inevitable, IMHO. > > > > > Absolutely not. This can be only the point of view if we see the > universe as a huge shop full

Re: Unsubscribe

2002-10-06 Thread Tom Cook
If you wanna unsubscribe from the digest list, then you need to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.&qu

Re: Very OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-06 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Oct 2002 14:14:00 +0930 Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Instead of saying, 'You can't pass this > > software on. You must buy it from the source,' it says, 

Re: Lot of questions on Debian services

2002-10-06 Thread Tom Cook
ng in how to implement a VPN server so that my users can > connect from the internet. I found IP-Sec (FreeSWan). Is there any better > posibility (from any aspect of view)? Is it necesary to pach the kernel > with SSL patch to get encryption and why the patch isn't a part of the > ke

Re: ssh and running command

2002-10-06 Thread Tom Cook
sh will then allow a passwordless login, execute that script and exit. I'd test it in a trusted environment, first, though. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "If your company is not involved in something called "ISO 9000" you probably

Re: network - notwork! unable to access lan and net

2002-10-06 Thread Tom Cook
mount/unmount samba (ie windoze) shares on your linux box, as well as stuff for printing to printers shared using samba. CUPS gives you a nice way of setting up printers and printing to them (I even figured out how to get it to print to netware printers). Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology S

Re: free software version of MATLAB

2002-10-07 Thread Tom Cook
control stuff as well. It covers pretty much everything they will need for an undergraduate electrical engineering course. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "This does not happen very often in Northallerton." - Siobhan Cowton,

Re: free software version of MATLAB

2002-10-07 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 0, Oleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 07 October 2002 02:54 am, Musang S.X. wrote: > > > Hi! I notice many students are using MATLAB at my > > > school/campus, and I suspect most are pirated >

Re: mail relay from local to internet

2002-10-07 Thread Tom Cook
exim.conf on box 2: smarthost: driver = domainlist transport = remote_smtp route_list = "* box_1.yourdomain bydns_a" end It works for me... Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "The secret of creativity is knowing ho

Re: mail relay from local to internet

2002-10-07 Thread Tom Cook
my goal just > sending.. > > > Any info's? or ideas.. Oh, and start a new thread instead of replying to an existing one. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "If your company is not involved in something called "ISO 9000" you

Re: procmail "safety net"

2002-10-07 Thread Tom Cook
s its a maildir mail box. If you set the DEFAULT variable in your procmail recipe then mail that isn't caught by another rule will go there. I'm not sure if you were asking about this, but the default exim install runs procmail on all of a user's mail if a .procmailrc file exists in his hom

Re: unable to open X window on machine

2002-10-09 Thread Tom Cook
a display manager then that probably is also set to use '-nolisten tcp' by default - I think that is done in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. Remove the '-nolisten tcp' from these locations, use xhost to allow connections from the other machines, and you should be fine. Tom -- Tom Cook Info

Re: gpg: checking the trustdb

2002-10-10 Thread Tom Cook
hat the > next check is scheduled for e.g. 31-12-2002: > > gpg: checking the trustdb > [...] > gpg: next trustdb check due at 2002-12-31 > > And then, the next day, or half a week later, it does it all over > again? Is it lying? And your system clock is not being reset

Re: mixed to stable

2002-10-13 Thread Tom Cook
se a=stable Pon-Priority: 1001 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 100 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 200 Then apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade. When a distribution has a priority over 1000 then apt will downgrade packages to get to that distribution. Tom --

Re: virus killers?

2002-10-14 Thread Tom Cook
e that believe that Linux (or other Unix variants) are > completely immune to virus infection, the following link may be of > interest: > >http://www.lwfug.org/~abartoli/virus-writing-HOWTO/_html/ This proves nothing of the sort. That a virus can be written for ELF binaries is a long way f

Re: Starting X on second screen

2002-10-15 Thread Tom Cook
g startx? 'startx -- :0.1' doesn't work for me, but then I don't have multiple screens. If what you want is two X _servers_ running, then you need this in Xservers: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt9 -bpp 16 :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt10 -bpp 8 but that is different to multipl

Re: Starting X on second screen

2002-10-15 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Cook wrote: > > >How would you start multiple screens using startx? 'startx -- :0.1' > >doesn't work for me, but then I don't have multiple screens. > > > > I believe this would attempt

Re: What services are using these ports?

2002-10-15 Thread Tom Cook
thentication port 113' (although I had to go to the second page of hits for that one). All of these protocols are defined in RFCs. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and taste good with ketc

Re: Whinge [was: (no subject)]

2002-10-15 Thread Tom Cook
their priorities mixed up. When you get sick of mandrake you will be welcomed back here. And if you have problems installing, ask! This list is full of the most knowledgeable people I know. Only Google knows more than this list! People really are happy to answer questions if they are well phras

Re: Best plotting software?

2002-10-15 Thread Tom Cook
-compatible and uses gnuplot as its plotting back-end. Regards Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Why are Fire Engines Red? They have four wheels and eight men; four plus eight is twelve. Twelve inches make a ruler; a ruler is Queen Elizabeth. Queen

Re: Where are the keys defined in X-windows?

2002-10-16 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Run the xkeycaps program. That program is a gui to help you create a > configuration file which can then be loaded with xmodmap. And which you would then automate the loading of by putting this in ~/.xsession: xmodmap Tom

Re: Source code

2002-10-16 Thread Tom Cook
e elsewhere you will need to use another mirror. Regards Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own." - Doug Larson Get my GPG public key: https://pink

Re: How to pronounce "Debian"?

2002-10-23 Thread Tom Cook
isleading, since it is not spelt that way. The word is in fact calliope, and its pronunciation is cal-LEYE-op-ee; the extra 'l' affecting the pronunciation is a (fairly) regular pattern in English, especially in the parts derived from Latin or French (mostly from Latin anyway). I thi

Re: Knoppix: Was: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...

2002-10-23 Thread Tom Cook
an remount them rw. What the... How can a swap partition be read-only? How can a disk be used as swap without overwriting (probably FAT32) partitions on the disk? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "A child of five could understand this. F

Re: A little daemon

2002-10-20 Thread Tom Cook
stdout. Come now, rsh is surely almost as bad as what the OP proposed... Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight." - George Gobol Get my GPG public ke

Re: Debian Gamers/Developers

2002-10-20 Thread Tom Cook
ns of Java > > by Sun and Ibm are proprietary and aren't included in Debian. > > What about Kaffe? I haven't used it, but from what I understand, AWT is > there. Not much Swing though. Ugh, no, isn't that still a 1.1 virtual machine? The wheel has been invented since the

Re: "sudo su" Permission denied

2002-10-21 Thread Tom Cook
onment which means those things are frequently different. That > is much less friendly. Yah, but personally I like the difference, it forces me to think in root mode, not user mode. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "If your company is not i

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-21 Thread Tom Cook
lly does what X does a lot less efficiently. X is pretty much the best thin client technology around. Why would you want metaframe? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide When you go to the sysadmin's office in the afternoon, and all is deathly quiet, th

Re: which half are you in?

2002-10-22 Thread Tom Cook
gt; > >connection to fully love UNIX ;^> > > > > > echo "pete::1210:1210:::/home/pete:/bin/bash" > /etc/passwd > > exit > > forget it. ssh won't let you in, it has no host keys. plus, the entire > mail, web, database, etc. systems are all virtually b

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-22 Thread Tom Cook
gine many reasons, unless you wanted a 'doze connection as well, in which case metaframe and VNC both do pretty well. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Classifications of inanimate objects: Those that don't work, those that break down, and those that

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-22 Thread Tom Cook
eing used at the time. 1000 instances of netscape can easily chew 50 Gb of memory, especially with a java plugin. You will need lots of memory and a *very* large swap partition. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "The secret of creativity is knowi

Re: Java Programming Environment

2002-10-22 Thread Tom Cook
get really keen I get emacs to run make, jikes to spit out emacs-compatible errors and then I can jump direct to errors, but its usually not worth it), and a third terminal on another where I run the thing. It works... Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide

Re: aptitude works as root, not with sudo

2002-10-22 Thread Tom Cook
ing the line: sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade into two commands: sudo apt-get update apt-get upgrade Shell parsing happens before the command is executed! You could do this: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade but then you might get prompted for your p

Re: Partition Resizing/Re-arranging

2002-10-24 Thread Tom Cook
it all much easier. Just my suggestions. Good luck. :) Eh? I thought /usr/local was for system-wide software that didn't come as a .deb... Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

Re: Partition Resizing/Re-arranging

2002-10-24 Thread Tom Cook
ibilities for disaster, to me. Do something similar for /var, then you can delete those partitions and restructure them as you wish. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought that the

x2vnc + Ctrl-Alt-Del

2002-10-24 Thread Tom Cook
e is not transmitted then I can't log in :-( Thanks Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide When you go to the sysadmin's office in the afternoon, and all is deathly quiet, there are three possibilities: 1) Something has gone wrong, and they are all

Re: Debian, too easy?

2002-10-24 Thread Tom Cook
ll in reverse'? This list has been flamed plenty of times complaining that debian is too hard, too low level, too unfriendly, but I've *never* seen someone complain that its too easy... My feeling is that if you know debian then you'll figure out other distros pretty quickly

Re: x2vnc + Ctrl-Alt-Del

2002-10-24 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 04:33, Tom Cook wrote: > > > There is something I'm not quite game to try though. If my mouse is > > currently on the NT box, and I hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, will that be > > transmitted to the

Re: x2vnc + Ctrl-Alt-Del

2002-10-25 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just do it, if it NT it will give you a 'lock workstation' dialog bog, which > you can cancel. Yah, but if it's not transmitted by x2vnc it will reboot my linux box, not a good move at present. Tom -- Tom

Re: nfs server newbie question

2002-10-27 Thread Tom Cook
7;. Is > that what's needed? You need either nfs-kernel-server or nfs-server. I use nfs-server, but I'm not sure why I chose that, and I think I'll change to the kernel server before too long. After that, there shouldn't be anything else you need to reconfigure. Tom --

Re: video card help

2002-10-27 Thread Tom Cook
" "true" > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > EndSection > > Is there a particular reason you have 2 pointers setup? just > curious, I do this on my laptops and on my main desktop because > my KVM is erratic i

Re: java 1.3 and glibc 2.3.1

2002-10-29 Thread Tom Cook
is very > poor. for this reason i cannot run weblogic with debian. > > is there no real solution for this problem? sth like chroot-ing, adding > an additional > library? Ermmm... read the rest of the thread. The OP posted a solution. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Ser

Re: any suggestions on mail client?

2002-10-30 Thread Tom Cook
7;s LDAP tree for usernames. It's not quite completion-as-you-type (you need to hit ^T and it gives you a list) but it's close. I won't send you my script because it is rather badly written and slow. One day I will rewrite it in PERL or something, but until then... Tom -- Tom Cook I

Re: for tecnical linux users

2002-10-30 Thread Tom Cook
able). Hope this helps. I think the point is that he can't boot anymore, so can't flash the bios. Can you get to the BIOS setup screen? If so then most BIOSes have a way to disable the keyboard check. You might be able to boot then. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The Univ

Re: blank LCD monitor

2002-10-30 Thread Tom Cook
start of the system initialization. I'm running the > > 2.2.20-compact Kernel and > > am just booting into console mode. > > > > Any suggestion? Get a network connection to the machine and see what's in syslog and dmesg. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology

Re: apt help

2002-10-30 Thread Tom Cook
but I can't even find it there at the moment. In fact I can't find an apt-gettable archive anywhere, but there is an almost apt-gettable archive at: http://ftp.du.se/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/latest/Debian/woody/ It has a packages.gz, but its directory structure looks wrong to me. Tom -

Re: add users

2002-10-31 Thread Tom Cook
ne. > > This will work unless you picked shadow password support and/or MD5 > hash and your old system did not support one or both of these. > > You best bet is to use adduser if this is the case as Rob suggests. Probably best to make sure you give them the same uids, too.

Re: bc

2002-10-31 Thread Tom Cook
h a > very arbitrary precision" I think what you mean is 'a calculator with a very fixed precision.' You are just restating the whatis description. ;-) Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "This does not happen very often in Northalle

Re: public lending right

2002-11-06 Thread Tom Cook
on-free books. Nonononono, free as in speech, not free as in beer. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "My advice to you is to get married: If you find a good wife, you will be happy; if not, you will become a philosopher." - Socrates G

Re: RFC: Caps Lock

2002-11-11 Thread Tom Cook
or putting this in ~/.xmodmap: remove Lock = Caps_Lock remove Control = Control_L keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L add Lock = Caps_Lock add Control = Control_L and using it with this command: xmodmap ~/.xmodmap Some of the other suggestions have been quite inventi

Re: Sorry

2002-11-18 Thread Tom Cook
tions on this. The kde package is NOT kde, it is a metapackage that installs kde plus a lot of kde apps. So if you want to uninstall kab and karm then you will also need to uninstall the kde metapackage. This will NOT uninstall the kde window manager. That is in packages like kdebase and kdel

Re: downgrading libc6 ?

2002-11-18 Thread Tom Cook
e at > least in my experience. I've successfully downgraded a whole system from unstable to stable by setting the pin-priority of stable over 1000 in /etc/apt/preferences and using apt-get dist-upgrade. Shouldn't this sort of thing work to downgrade any unstable packages on the s

Re: Converting MS Word to postscript

2002-11-21 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, sdownes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Set up Apple lazerwriter print to file has worked perfectly for me since I > was recommended to it as the best "straight" ps printer driver. Or OpenOffice has a 'Print to PS' and 'Print to PDF' option. Tom --

Re: 2^n (was: weird g++ behavior)

2002-11-22 Thread Tom Cook
strange problem. If you can't run a real memory test some people suggest > recompiling the kernel 10-20 times without interruption, the kernel code > is complex enough that it sometimes causes errors where other code > doesn't. apt-get install memtest86 Tom -- Tom Cook Informat

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

2002-12-02 Thread Tom Cook
everything, even generates bookmark lists from your table of contents. Can't remember where I found it, but I used google, so you can probable find it there too. Regards Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "If it weren't for electricity we&#

Re: Viewing .pdf attachments in mutt.[Fixed]

2002-09-02 Thread Tom Cook
tream; /usr/bin/acroread '%s' etc etc > > in /etc/mailcap worked fine That's a little dangerous, isn't it? application/octet-stream can be almost anything non-ASCII. It sounds like your suppliers are using a broken mailer. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Service

Re: How to know the configuration of kernel

2002-09-05 Thread Tom Cook
he existing kernel, so > that I can know what modules are compiled into the kernel and baased on > that I can add more if I want. When you install a kernel package (such as in a default install) the config file is written to /boot/config-x.x.x where x.x.x is the kernel version. Tom -- Tom

Re: Mutt's reply-all

2002-09-05 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > How do you do reply-all in Mutt? In my mutt it is bound to 'g', which I believe is the default. Stands for 'reply Group'. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "

Re: gcc version issues

2002-09-08 Thread Tom Cook
nel is a stock debian kernal compiled with I don't know which gcc, but it doesn't stop me from compiling kernels with whatever gcc I have installed. Or have I missed the point of your question? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "A child o

Re: Installing new kernel

2002-09-09 Thread Tom Cook
from 2.4.18 to 2.2.20 does not appear to make sense. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "My advice to you is to get married: If you find a good wife, you will be happy; if not, you will become a philosopher." - Socrates Get my GPG

Re: Whatever happened to "Unidentified Subject!"

2002-09-09 Thread Tom Cook
t; However, Baloo asks an interesting question. It would be nice to send > emails with no subject to /dev/null. Anyone got a procmail rule for > finding empty headers? Haven't tried it, but shouldn't: :0: * ^Subject:[\ ]*$ /dev/null do it? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technolo

Re: Why mailing-lists? Usenet have been invented, I hear. ;-)

2002-09-10 Thread Tom Cook
e could help me come up with a better > name for "argument from technological elitism" that would be great. I know but one jot of Latin, so can't help, sorry. An FM can be found here: http://www.nd.edu/~archives/latgramm.htm but I suspect this will not tell you more than you k

Re: I Can t Unsubscribe

2002-09-10 Thread Tom Cook
bed to the digest list? If so then the unsubscribe instructions are a bit unhelpful - you need to unsubscribe at [EMAIL PROTECTED], IIRC. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "Other people's priorities are endlessly odd." - Kingsley Amis Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au msg01551/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Controlling the list?

2002-09-10 Thread Tom Cook
tList which is based on procmail). Try to send a message with a body > of "help" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you'll get back a summary of > available commands. Huh? I thought it was mailman... Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide

Re: helo

2002-09-10 Thread Tom Cook
roll, surely? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - Albert Einstein Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au msg01705/p

Re: Controlling the list?

2002-09-11 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Tom Cook wrote: > > > Huh? I thought it was mailman... > > Nope, it's SmartList. According to http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/: > > "All original Debian mailing lists are run o

Re: debian hints server, a debian quote of the day that gives help?

2002-09-12 Thread Tom Cook
ular > piece of software. Are we talking the Debian Assistant? No thanks... ;-) Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own." - Doug Larson G

Re: debian hints server, a debian quote of the day that gives help?

2002-09-12 Thread Tom Cook
a mailman mailing list. Each of these has fairly good doco available. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought that the public were beginning to understand the old ones."

Re: Mouse Problems On Install

2002-09-16 Thread Tom Cook
different things; GDM is the Gnome Display Manager - it is what presents you with a spiffy login screen instead of the boring old console one. When people say /etc/gpm.conf they mean /etc/gpm.conf, not /etc/gdm.conf. Anyway, its sounds like: * You have a logitech PS/2 mouse. * You don't hav

Re: 'ping -f' a Win98 box (was: Re: Collisions on lan using Linux versus Windows)

2002-09-16 Thread Tom Cook
e a ping flood and just slows down until the thing stops responding. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Classifications of inanimate objects: Those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. Get my GPG public key: https://

Re: 10 based eepro acting weird

2002-09-18 Thread Tom Cook
rd. I have the stock 2.4.18 > on that PC, it's an old Pentium. But I don't have a msg regarding a > workaround. > -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Never be irreplacable: If you are irreplacable then you are unpromotable. Get my GPG pub

Re: email clients

2002-09-19 Thread Tom Cook
rst, any recommendations on a mail client? Pine is clunky and not free enough to go into Debian. Use mutt. It is a very useful text based client. > Second, Is there someway to modify Mozilla to over-ride it's mail > client to start $MAIL_CLIENT when prompted. > (Ctrl-M, mailto:$links.

Mesa bug?

2002-09-21 Thread Tom Cook
with, and these are soon exhausted. So have I misunderstood something, or is this a mesa bug? I wanted to ask before I filed a bug. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "Other people's priorities are endlessly odd." - Kingsley A

Re: Mesa bug?

2002-09-22 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, "Eric G. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 04:11:44PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > This may be a mesa bug or it may be a manifestation of my ignorance of > > opengl. If the latter then I apologise

Re: netmasks

2002-09-22 Thread Tom Cook
o the address that has all the host bits set to 1, taking into account [1] below. [1]The address where the host part is all 1s is the broadcast address. There are also some broken implementations that consider the address where the host part is all 0s to be the broadcast address as well. HTH. To

Re: Mesa bug?

2002-09-22 Thread Tom Cook
atures that are scattered through the spec are aimed more at people implementing the spec than people using an implementation, but I may be very wrong about that. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scien

Re: Strange X behaviour after woody instalation (?!)

2002-09-22 Thread Tom Cook
fresh rate up until it's OK. I can't remember the package to reconfigure off-hand, but the command is something like: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 HTH Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are c

Re: Reset root password

2002-09-22 Thread Tom Cook
shouldn't be prompted for a password. > > another way is to boot with a boot disk and mount the drive and edit > the file > > nate > > > > -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Why are Fire Engines Red? They have four wheels an

Re: Mozilla dead keys

2002-09-23 Thread Tom Cook
; from the user-portuguese list, and no one could help me there. I am > about to file a bug, but thought it might be expedient to raise the issue > here. Maybe the forms use the Content-Encoding: and Content-Language: headers of the HTML page to determine locale instead of your system

Re: logitech cordless keyboard loosing contact / Detecting Turbo-Button

2002-09-23 Thread Tom Cook
X with ctrl-alt-F7. A wild, wild guess, but maybe your monitor refresh frequency is at about the RF of your keyboard and mouse, and is interfering with them? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "My advice to you is to get married: If you find a good wif

Re: OT - RMS homepage moved?

2002-09-24 Thread Tom Cook
t url? > > I'm assuming this is a typo... but i think it's really > http://www.stallman.org";. ... which gives me the response: ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached so it looks like their DNS is dead (or maybe their network's been pulled). Tom

Re: supersuer by a normal user with chmod

2002-09-25 Thread Tom Cook
make this setuid root you have to: # touch test # chmod 700 test # chown root test # chmod +s test If you can do THAT then there is something wrong. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "Intellectual freedom is not the freedom to believe anything, but

Re: OT: Alternatives to ls for sorting files by modification time

2002-09-25 Thread Tom Cook
something more like this: FILES=`$LS -lt1 $BACKUP_DIR/arc/*.arc | $AWK '{print $9;}' | $TAIL -$NUM_OF_FILES` for i in $FILES; do $RM -f $i done otherwise you will get a lot of files with names like '-rw-r-' that rm can't delete for some mysterious reason. Maybe th

Re: OT: Alternatives to ls for sorting files by modification time

2002-09-25 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tom! > > Thanks for your quick reply! > > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Tom Cook wrote: > > > [...] > > All I can say is... it works for me. How many files in the directory > > where you're

Re: Recently installed packages

2002-09-25 Thread Tom Cook
> Is there any way to get a list of packages installed within a certain > time frame (perhaps an apt log)? > > thanks, > Stuart Johnston Uninstall them and then run deborphan (apt-get install deborphan) to see what stuff is installed that is not a dependency of an installed pack

Re: Page Faults Defined

2002-09-26 Thread Tom Cook
s that page faults are not due to bad programming practice, they are a normal part of the operation of the kernel memory manager. When bad programming practice comes in (eg. pointer arithmetic gone haywire) the fault is always recast as a segmentation fault or a bus error. Tom -- Tom Cook I

Re: Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

2002-09-26 Thread Tom Cook
ile you have to add > ... > > :::192.168.1.3 venus.my.homevenus > > ...now there is one name with to addresses, how will other programs react > to that. e.g. dnsmasq? Shouldn't they correctly determine the address based on the IP protocol used to lookup the name? Tom -

Re: Centralized user-database: LDAP vs. KerberosV5 vs. AFS

2002-09-26 Thread Tom Cook
e over it). It is also the authentication database for email, calendaring and a few other things. I don't know about AFS (what is it?) Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers."

Re: alsa help needed desperately!

2002-09-26 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, "Martin A. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi folks > > i cant get my alsa working. it have worked before. > > please help me! i have used many hours by now!!! What does lspci say? Is the card firmly in the slot? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technol

Re: compare filesystem types ???

2002-09-26 Thread Tom Cook
fe. As for the best FS for general use, I think you will get more conflicting opinions than is worth your while. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "Other people's priorities are endlessly odd." - Kingsley Amis Get my GPG public key:

Re: Page Faults Defined

2002-09-26 Thread Tom Cook
> hope that it was insured :-) All together now... 1... 2... 3... ;-) Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Classifications of inanimate objects: Those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. Get my GPG public key:

Re: Tex to PDF conversion trouble (pdflatex)

2002-09-30 Thread Tom Cook
David P James wrote: > > Alan Shutko was roused into action on 09/27/02 23:12 and wrote: > > David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>In case this matters, tetex-bin and tetex-base are installed. > > > > > > Install tetex-extra, I think. > > > > Yep, that seems to have done the tric

Re: Symlink clarification needed (vi -> vim)

2002-09-30 Thread Tom Cook
Robert Ian Smit wrote: > > I know that some programs react differently depending on how they > are called. When you create a symlink to a program, does the program > know that it was started by using a symlink? It's dependant on your C library (although that should be fairly standard across OS)

Re: latex2e.fmt not found by xemacs

2002-09-30 Thread Tom Cook
Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > > Hi: > > I an using sarge and I upgraded yesterday. In xemacs latex2e > Interactive works, but latex2e does not. So I linked, in /usr/bin/ > latex2e to tex, and copied /usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt to > latex2e.fmt, ran texconfig > but when I click on

Re: A (little) bit OT: The Gimp & LaTeX (Or putting it all together)

2002-09-30 Thread Tom Cook
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I manipulate my high quality jpg photos (camera 4.1 megapixel i.e. images 2272x1704 >pixels) with Linux & the Gimp and print them with the Gimp itself after having put >two pictures on an A4 glossy high quality paper. Now this procedure is time-consuming >and I'm w

Re: A (little) bit OT: The Gimp & LaTeX (Or putting it all together)

2002-09-30 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I find that conversion to PS/EPS often degrades bitmap pictures (in > > particular the over-the-top anti-aliasing makes text and hard lines > > fairly fuzzy). > >

Re: KDE2 helloworld.cpp

2002-09-30 Thread Tom Cook
I usually define the path to my include > files in a makefile. Also Debian is a little different because we actually > install qt so that /usr/include/qt exists so you should not really need any > special variables set. Also, of course, $PATH is not searched for #include files. Tom -- Tom

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