Re: KDE2 helloworld.cpp

2002-09-30 Thread Tom Cook
#include #include #include then you should be able to compile with: g++ -c -o helloworld.o helloworld.cpp Note also that the usual (proper?) way of naming C++ source is *.cc or *.cxx, not *.cpp like M$ do. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "A child of fiv

Re: JDK: Okay, this used to work

2002-09-30 Thread Tom Cook
get 'java' on your $PATH, unless you do some symlink fiddling or unpackage it in /usr, which is NOT recommended. > And get the same error. > > What's up? What can I do to fix this? And how did this get into Stable not > working at all without manual fixes? It wor

Re: KDE2 helloworld.cpp

2002-09-30 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 30 September 2002 19:04, Tom Cook wrote: > > #include > > #include > > #include > > > > then you should be able to compile with: > > > > g++ -c -o helloworld.o hel

Re: deb command - which package?

2002-09-30 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Lars Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which .deb package do I need to install to get the deb command? I don't know, but http://packages.debian.org/ does, as does apt-file search /usr/bin/deb, most likely. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The Universi

Re: KDE2 helloworld.cpp

2002-09-30 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 0, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Monday 30 September 2002 19:04, Tom Cook wrote: > >> > #include > >>

Re: java applets & mozilla

2002-10-01 Thread Tom Cook
jdk1.3.1 packages from Sun or Blackdown (also heard good things about 1.3.1 from IBM). Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.

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

2002-10-01 Thread Tom Cook
what it means. FYI, you can find my post here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200208/msg04835.html Craig Dickson also made a similar comment. My defense of my comment is here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200209/msg01385.html > Take car

Windows Metafiles

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Cook
27;doze app that can grab the contents of the clipboard and save it as some useful vector format (EPS would be nice...) TIA, Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Classifications of inanimate objects: Those that don't work, those that break down, and th

Re: Windows Metafiles

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Cook
les, and even if it did it would save them as bitmaps. I really want my vector graphics... Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "If your company is not involved in something called "ISO 9000" you probably have no idea what it is. If your comp

Re: Windows Metafiles

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom> Hi all, I have this nasty NT app called ActiveHDL that I use for > Tom> VHDL development. Its block diagram editor doesn't

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Cook
leaves his car unlocked > with the keys in the ignition and the thing gets stolen nobody is going > to pay for it. Why are there other rules for M$ ??? IANAL but this sort of thing is certainly disallowed in Australia by the Trade Practices Act. It falls under the definition of 'prefe

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > It isn't illegal to play records backwards. > Then, am I going against the law if I rewire my record player to turn > the record the other way? No, but you're probably breaking your needle ;-) Tom -- Tom Co

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Cook
he same type of people who tell me > I can't paint my house any damn color I want!! > > (I.E. Housing Associations) Bastards!!! :-) Man, and you guys call this the land of freedom? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Never be i

Re: [Fwd: TV-Out: naive question]

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Cook
er card. TVs and monitors work in similar ways, but are driven by quite different signals at their terminals. 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 possibili

Re: Headers in this ML

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Cook
dity and move it to the other mail box; the volume of such mails is not really high enough to worry about. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience. Get my GPG p

Re: Windows Metafiles [SOLVED]

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Cook wrote: > > > >I have this nasty NT app called ActiveHDL that I use for VHDL > >development. Its block diagram editor doesn't export to any > >reasonable format. I am trying to put block diagrams

Re: (X 4.0 problem )Re: pls help or i will switch to other distro

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Cook
00*2 = 960 000, so that's about as good as it gets. If you're happy with 8 bit color then 1154x968 is just within reach, though. 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

Re: Openoffice 1.0.1 crashes on openning

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Cook
there other apps that crash randomly? Could be bad RAM... It never hurts to run memtest86 on a machine. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "Not to limit itself to play in a sand vat." - Google translation of, "not to be

/var/lib/dpkg/available strangeness

2002-01-31 Thread Tom Cook
he package lists. (c) Some mistake mirror.aarnet.edu.au (my nearest mirror) has made when mirroring the distro. (d) Some mistake somewhere else that I can't think of. Any help greatly appreciated, as this is holding me up somewhat. Tom -- Tom Cook "I do not believe, you know, that th

reinstall

2002-02-04 Thread Tom Cook
to specify all of the installed packages automagically? For the curious, the reason I ask is that I installed debian on a machine with an erratic nic that was handily corrupting stuff as it went, and a number of things are a touch unreliable (occasional segfaults). So I want to reinstall it all. T

Re: Building custom kernel based off stock debian kernel

2002-02-07 Thread Tom Cook
> STEP 2: > > Print all these out, sit down and take a couple of hours to read these > documents. > > STEP 3: > > Try following the steps. Post to the list if you get stuck. > > Note that one place in which my experience differed from the Newbiedoc > docum

Re: dual boot Debian computer

2002-02-07 Thread Tom Cook
re is not an option. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | It's bundled with the software. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tom Cook "I do not believe, you know, that the art and pr

Re: Building custom kernel based off stock debian kernel

2002-02-08 Thread Tom Cook
Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 02:33:43PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > > I think I see what Nick wants, because I kinda wanna do the same > > thing. I have compiled any number of kernels before, and know what I > > am doing. But I am quite happy with the kerne

NIS setup

2002-02-08 Thread Tom Cook
nis I can log in fine on the NIS server as a user that is in /var/yp/domainname/passwd.byuser but not on the client. Is there some essential piece of information I'm missing on setting this up? Cheers Tom -- Tom Cook "I do not believe, you know, that the art and practice of sit

Re: NIS setup

2002-02-08 Thread Tom Cook
nate wrote: [snip] > /etc/passwd > (after all the other entries) > +::0:0:::/dev/null > > /etc/group > (after all the other entries) > +::: What does this do? Is this a cryptic reference to nis? Tom -- Tom Cook "I do not believe, you know, that the art and practic

Re: jdk with netscape 4.77 ?

2002-02-10 Thread Tom Cook
netscape ? > > Any suggestions ? > greetz, > Johan > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tom Cook "I do not believe, you know, that the art and practice of sitting on

Re: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address...

2002-02-12 Thread Tom Cook
Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > Thomas Cook wrote: > > > > I fixed an identical problem recently by getting new RAM - my old stuff > > had gone bad. > > > > apt-get install memtest86 > > I'm using potato, and I can't do the above command successfully. There > is something called hwtools, but the only

Re: What hppened to vhctime?

2002-02-12 Thread Tom Cook
Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > > Feb 12, 2002 @07:56:03PM -0500, stan posts : > > > discovered a neat little utility called vcstime. > > > > this does not seem to be in woody. > > Please install the package `console-tools' and you are set. `apt-get > install console-tools'. Hehehe... or set PS1

Re: [Slightly OT] Memory reporting

2002-02-12 Thread Tom Cook
Thanks to everyone who suggested mem=224M as a kernel parameter - after botching a grub install on not one but *two* machines consecutively, this works fine. Tom Thomas Cook wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a machine that I'm playing with the memory in. It has 1x128MB, > 1x64MB and 1x32MB sticks in i

Re: sample resolv.conf

2002-02-13 Thread Tom Cook
> yes of course - if you don't setup dns it will be difficult to get a name > resolution :o) > but if you don't define/write a resolv.conf file, it doesn't exist... and it > depends on your configuration/provider... that's what I wanted to say, sorry > if my English is not so good ;o) (but you were

Re: gnome question

2002-02-13 Thread Tom Cook
Matt Thompson wrote: > > Hoe do I make it so gnome does not blank out my screen after 3 minutes? It > is getting really annoying when i am reading something. I've looked online, > but been unable to find anything. Also grep BlankTime /path/to/XF86Config Also have a look for StandbyTime, Suspe

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-13 Thread Tom Cook
Hans wrote: > > Thanks. That did the trick. The box is not on a network (never will) so no > worries about security. --Hans Now there's a brave, brave man. '2 digits? Sure, it won't be running by 2000...' Tom

can't connect to samba shares from 'doze

2002-02-13 Thread Tom Cook
Hi all, I am running samba 2.0.8 on a potato system. I have samba shares set up on my linux machine, and from another linux machine 'smbclient -L pinky' reports this: Domain=[NEW] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.8] Sharename Type Comment - ---

Re: Sound

2002-02-14 Thread Tom Cook
Alan Shrimpton wrote: > > Terribly sorry! I just found the cable into the speaker was in the sub out > and not the line in. Wife wont admit it but I don't know how it changed. I > checked they were in but not that they were in the wrong place. > > Can someone tell me though, is it normal to ge

Re: can't connect to samba shares from 'doze

2002-02-14 Thread Tom Cook
Michel Loos wrote: > > Em Qui, 2002-02-14 às 05:24, stonelx escreveu: > > Hi Tom, > > Check that you have encrypted passwords set to yes. > > > > testparm |grep encrypt > > > > > > hth, > > > > Mike > > And don t forget the obvious: all users that want to access their > directories must have bee

Re: can't connect to samba shares from 'doze

2002-02-14 Thread Tom Cook
x27;, when it can't resolve a machine name... *sigh* Tom Michel Loos wrote: > > Em Qui, 2002-02-14 às 22:15, Tom Cook escreveu: > > Michel Loos wrote: > > > > > > Em Qui, 2002-02-14 às 05:24, stonelx escreveu: > > > > Hi Tom, &

Re: CUPS

2002-02-14 Thread Tom Cook
You need to turn on CR->CR|LF translation (or is it LF->CR|LF translation?) Don't know how it's done, sorry. Tom "Robert L. Harris" wrote: > > Ok, I have it installed and configured. HPDJ882C. It's stair > stepping... > > I've tried the foomatic+hpdj, foomatic+dj882c, etc. > > Help? > > Th

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
Rob Ransbottom wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:16:18PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: > > | I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX > | (33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb) > | before they go to the rubbish. > | I wanted install the minimum of linux for the mail > | (exim

Re: Linux and Win2k Servers

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
Martin Wuertele wrote: > > 3>> When this is done, will logging on to the linux box also give me > > access to my network resources on the win2k server? (assuming a working > > samba config) > > on the command line with smbclient you can do so, tough not very > comfortable... you propably want to

Re: OT: Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
Wendell Cochran wrote: > > Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 03:52:42 +0100 > Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > > > > > > and here is really no interest in ridiculing anyone and less someone > > > > > who would formulate constructively his criticism and suggestions ... > > >> i really really don't w

Re: Actualized PostgreSQL 7.2 packages?

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > On 16 Feb 2002, Guille -bisho- wrote: > > > There are RPM packages but no debs even in unstable, and I need some of > > the new features. :( > > Compilation of the tarballs from www.postgresql.org worked on my machine > and I am running an alpha, which freq

Re: ARUGENT HELP!!

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
ben wrote: > > On Saturday 16 February 2002 09:31 am, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > > Am Samstag, 16. Februar 2002 16:38 schrieb Ben Collins: > > > When you boot Linux, edit the file /etc/lilo.conf. At the end, add these > > > lines: > > > > > > other=/dev/hda1 > > >label=windows > > > > I th

Re: booting with no keyboard or moue

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
John Hasler wrote: > > Elizabeth Barham writes: > > I don't understand how it could possibly cause hardware damage. > > He means that unplugging the keyboard with the power on can cause damage. > He's right, though I have never personally seen it happen. Yes, hot-plugging PS/2 devices is a well

Re: pid of a script?

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
"ah." wrote: > > I was wondering how to find out the pid of a (bash) script. > Suppose it's called SCRIPT. Issuing pidof SCRIPT echoes nothing, > yet ps x shows the pid of it something like /bin/bash ./SCRIPT. > But then pidof "/bin/bash ./SCRIP" again does nothing. Simply > saying pidof bash give

Re: Help! I have deleted my "startx"-File!

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
"Donald R. Spoon" wrote: > > Andreas Maresch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > Today I have made a _BIG_, thumb newbie-error: I have deleted my "startx" > > -file! > > I have potato 2.2.19pre9 with kde 2.0.1, no modifications. > > My X-server is XF86_SVGA. > > > > Is there a fast meth

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
Rodney Agha wrote: > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can we have this added to the TOP of each message? People just seem to ignore the bottom... While we're at it, how about setting the 'Reply-To' header to

Re: Need some help with hardware

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
> Thomas Martens wrote: > > Hey there > > i am going to buy some new servers, but on the server i need a > raidcontroller where the disk are going to work as are mirror, but i > have tryed with the, promise fast traks 1++ tx2, but that don´t work, > > so my question is, what raidcontroller can r

Re: ARUGENT HELP!!

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 18:29, Tom Cook wrote: > > > God that scares me silly, every time I do it... > > It does? I don't even bother typing it anymore. I've got a script set up > to do it all for me, with not a single bit of error chec

Re: OT: Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
Tony Crawford wrote: > > Tom Cook wrote (on 18 Feb 2002 at 10:41): > > > [You should be more optimistic.] There is no interest here in > > ridiculing anyone, even less someone who formulates his > > criticisms and suggestions constructively. > > > > Here

Re: OT: Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
"Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:09:06PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > > Tony Crawford wrote: > > > > > > Tom Cook wrote (on 18 Feb 2002 at 10:41): > > > > > > > [You should be more optimistic.] There is no inte

Re: re-using cached .deb files on new installation

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
I have also had similar thoughts. One solution is to nfs mount /var/cache/apt/archives from the first machine as /var/cache/apt/archives on the second machine. Then when apt checks for a package in its archives it finds it already there, and you only need to download each .deb once for each machi

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Cook
dman wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 11:43:34AM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > | Rodney Agha wrote: > | > > | > -- > | > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | > |

Re: [OT] Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-18 Thread Tom Cook
csj wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:41:48AM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > > Wendell Cochran wrote: > > > > > > Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 03:52:42 +0100 > > > Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > > > > > > > > > > and her

Re: Fighting with lilo

2002-02-18 Thread Tom Cook
Sounds like a borked disk to me. Or maybe memory. Tom Norman Walsh wrote: > > I've installed lilo on several machines and it's always performed > flawlessly until now. I have one machine, a Compaq desktop on which it > gives "Block move error 0xAE" errors. > > It used to be that it *always* ga

Re: Copying and taring large amounts of data

2002-02-18 Thread Tom Cook
Elizabeth Barham wrote: > > tar cf - /path-to-be-archived | gzip -c > /new/place/to store-file.tar.gz tar -czf /new/place/to/store-file.tar.gz /path-to-be-archived is identical but easier to type ;-) Tom

Re: Actualized PostgreSQL 7.2 packages?

2002-02-18 Thread Tom Cook
*sigh* the things I don't know... Tom Brett Parker wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:57:41AM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > > Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > On 16 Feb 2002, Guille -bisho- wrote: > > > > >

Re: 486 SX

2002-02-18 Thread Tom Cook
Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > > Am Montag, 18. Februar 2002 00:26 schrieb Tom Cook: > > > > Heck, why not buy a few cheapy nics and build a beowulf cluster? *grin* > > > > One of our departments here are rumored to have a large number (ie. > > hundreds) of 48

Re: looking for an app...

2002-02-18 Thread Tom Cook
Not specifically, but PERL would make a meal of this, I am sure. Or, hey, why not sed/awk and friends? Tom > Ross Tsolakidis wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a box that sniffs a subnet by using port monitoring on a Cisco > switch. > Using iptraf and other network monitors I can see all traffic th

Re: strange vi

2002-02-18 Thread Tom Cook
justin cunningham wrote: > > Hi, I've s-l-o-w-l-y been building a woody machine in spare time and > noticed that I can't use the arrow keys to get around in vi. Is this > because the keyboard is misconfiged? I think I remember choosing the > default us qwerty as ok but I'm sshed into the machin

Re: newbie question about the apt-get install??

2002-02-18 Thread Tom Cook
ºØÀí wrote: > > I'm often find some maillist descript installing debian package in this way: > apt-get install jade > apt-get install docbook > apt-get install docbook-stylesheets > .. > but in debian mirror the full package files isn't similar,such as > > apt-get install > docbook-stylesheets--

Re: strange vi

2002-02-19 Thread Tom Cook
Alex Malinovich wrote: > > Oh, I'm this is just begging to start a flame war, but I have to say > it... :) > > Get a REAL editor like Emacs! :) > > *runs and hides* *just before logging out for the night* Hear, hear! *runs for the bus* Tom

Re: Debian 'Woody'

2002-02-19 Thread Tom Cook
louie miranda wrote: > > Hi, Howdy. > Anyone have a woody ISO url? Gosh, that snapped back on topic so fast I didn't see how it happened... ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian-cd/woody/i386 This is just the closest mirror to me. Heed the advice of the debian website: http://www.debian.org

Re: [OT] Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-19 Thread Tom Cook
csj wrote: [snip] > Deviant is a politically incorrect term (but you're free to use it). > Yesterday's conformists may well be today's deviants. Imagine somebody > wearing Victorian dress to work or speaking Shakespeare at a board > meeting. My apologies. I was aware of the incorrectness of devia

Re: strange vi

2002-02-19 Thread Tom Cook
dman wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:23:08PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > | Alex Malinovich wrote: > | > > | > Oh, I'm this is just begging to start a flame war, but I have to > | > say it... :) > | > > | > Get a REAL editor like Emacs! :) >

Re: strange vi

2002-02-19 Thread Tom Cook
Rich Puhek wrote: > > Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > Oh, I'm this is just begging to start a flame war, but I have to say > > it... :) > > > > Get a REAL editor like Emacs! :) > > > > *runs and hides* > > > > heh... was wondering when that would start. > > I tried using Emacs. works best if you

Re: [OT] Suggestion for next Debian release

2002-02-19 Thread Tom Cook
Wendell Cochran wrote: [snip] > Here's the great precept of Unix: Let each command do one thing, & > do it well. That goes for English sentences, too. This is wisdom condensed, and is too great for me. Tom

Re: NFS(?) file sharing from user account

2002-02-19 Thread Tom Cook
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > If I have two computers: A (where I am root) and B (where I only have > a user account), is there any way to share a directory between them > over the network? > > Even if I run an NFS server on A, I can't mount it from B because only > root can mount. And I

Re: OT: Web Standards

2002-02-19 Thread Tom Cook
*bemused grin* Gosh, I think we have a consensus here. How did that happen? Now for my own little rant... Why is it *so* hard to build a browser that is (a) Standards compliant (b) Small (c) Fast (d) Extensible (so you can look at all-flash sites if you want) ??? People just don't seem able t

Re: NFS behind a firewall

2002-02-19 Thread Tom Cook
Ayman Haidar wrote: > > Hello, > > I was wondering how to setup NFS behind a firewall. I am trying to > access my office linux box which is behind a DSL router from home > where I have a cable modem. > > the issue is I need to know what ports I need to open on the office > router so I can mount

Re: Netscape: Can't enable javascript anymore

2002-02-19 Thread Tom Cook
Andreas Goesele wrote: > > Since a few days I can't enable javascript in netscape (4.77-2 on > up to date woody) anymore. > > Trying to do so crashes netscape (it becomes unresponsive with very > high CPU usage). It can not be a problem of my configuration in > ~/.netscape, as removing that direc

Re: Installation Error

2002-02-25 Thread Tom Cook
John Shepherd wrote: > > Thanks go to the one person who wrote me and suggested > I install from the CD instead of floppies. > Unfortunately, my only access to a CD burner was > through my now-dead windows machine and I don't have > the patience to order CDs through the mail. > > So.I took a

Re: app segfaults on startup in debian woody/sid

2002-02-25 Thread Tom Cook
dman wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:34:18PM -0800, John Quigley wrote: > | Hi, > | > | I'm porting the Torque Game Engine from Garage Games (www.garagegames.com) > to > | Linux. The engine already runs fine on several linux distributions, > | including redhat, mandrake, suse, and also deb

Re: Postgresql ODBC

2002-02-25 Thread Tom Cook
"Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 01:49:46PM +1000, Christoph Donges wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I have installed potato and postgresql and odbc-postgresql and I have > > created a database and table using webmin where I have also given a

Re: NFS mount failure - why?

2002-02-25 Thread Tom Cook
Oliver Elphick wrote: [snip] What does 'ls -l /usr1 /usr2 /usr3' tell you? Tom

CUPS Problem

2002-02-26 Thread Tom Cook
Hi all, I have installed CUPS from the stable distro onto my machine. When I point my browser at http://localhost:631/ I can see the printer info pages and docu and all that, but http://localhost:631/admin asks for a username and password, then gives a 404 Not Found error. I have installed the c

Re: Advice on HTML book

2002-02-27 Thread Tom Cook
David Gardi wrote: [snip] http://www.w3c.org/TR/html4/ has always been a sufficient reference for me; books always seemed like a bit of a waste of money. The spec is not a good way to learn the basics of html, but if you can put together a basic page already then I don't see the need for a book

Re: rcS

2002-02-27 Thread Tom Cook
Ren Weili wrote: > > hallo, > I can not understand line 41 in /etc/init.d/rcS: > > [ ! -f "$i" ] && continue > > all files under /etc/rcS.d are symbolinks. > and [ ! -f "$i" ] equals false. > > so is this line yet necessary here ? > The comment

Re: javax API

2002-02-28 Thread Tom Cook
DvB wrote: > > I tried to run a jsp page on my testing box with mozilla and tomcat and > got errors about not being able to find javax.sql and sun.jdbc.rowset, > among others. After searching, I figured out that these packages are > part of the j2ee... or so I concluded from what I found. > > My

Re: Refresh dselect db?

2002-02-28 Thread Tom Cook
Troy Telford wrote: [snip] > So, how do I re-initialize dselect's package database so it shows the > 'unstable' branch packages, rather than the 'potato' branch ones. Erm, you have executed: # dselect update haven't you? Tom

Re: x-forwarding with ssh

2002-02-28 Thread Tom Cook
Nick Wright wrote: > > Hi there. > > Currently when I try to run X apps via an ssh login I get the error message > > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: > > Is this a problem with ssh and my x-forwarding? > if so, how do you change the x-forwarding options in ssh? > if not, what is the proble

Re: javax API

2002-03-03 Thread Tom Cook
Elizabeth Barham wrote: > > Perhaps you need to install the JDBC 2.0 Optional Package Binary > for the javax.sql.*: > > http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc/download.html > > As for the other import issue, sun.jdbc.rowset.*, my best guess is > that this is a jdbc driver (I'm new to this!) and it m

Re: Java SDK 1.4

2002-03-04 Thread Tom Cook
Oki DZ wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm currently downloading the SDK from Sun. Has anyone been successfully > running it? Was there any problem? > BTW, does the .deb already exist in Blackdown? I tried it out to see if it would not segfault so often, but found that there were binary format incompatibilit

Re: x-forwarding with ssh

2002-03-05 Thread Tom Cook
steve downes wrote: > > Tried the -v option & all seemd OK. (listed below) It seems to be > allowing X. > > However it still isn't functioning. > > Sorry for the delay, I decided it might be policy to upgrade the > server to Woody before carrying on but the only difference in this > context is t

Re: problem with modem connection

2002-03-05 Thread Tom Cook
Ulf Martin wrote: > > Hi Debians! > > Finally I made it to this distribution. > > Now I have a problem connection to the net via modem > under Debian: > The device itself seems to work > (it's actually making a hell of a noise -- > how can I stop this), > but it does not hold the connection. > I

Re: a grep question

2002-03-05 Thread Tom Cook
Michael Jinks wrote: [snip] > find /path/to/cgi-bin -type f -exec grep '10.0.0.1' {} \; If I were doing it this way I would use: find /path/to/cgi-bin -type f -exec grep -H '10.0.0.1' {} \; or find /path/to/cgi-bin -type f -exec grep '10.0.0.1' {} \; -print so you know which files the matches

Re: x-forwarding with ssh

2002-03-05 Thread Tom Cook
Vineet Kumar wrote: [snip] > Also, please, please, PLEASE! DON'T do this: > > local$ ssh remote > remote$ export DISPLAY=local:0 # DON'T EVER DO THIS!!! > remote$ xterm > > As others have already explained. You might as well be using telnet. > This defeats the entire purpose of tunneling. What yo

Re: OT: Aliens in the heavans (was Re: seti@home)

2002-03-06 Thread Tom Cook
Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > Yes, yes, all those TV, radio stations, satelite uplink stations > (the vast majority all of which are in the Northern Hemisphere) > are radiating outwards. > > However, since you know full well the, well, astronomical, > distances involved, and given that radiation str

Re: OT: Aliens in the heavans (was Re: seti@home)

2002-03-06 Thread Tom Cook
Wow, people do read my posts. I should be more careful about what I write. Gary Turner wrote: [snip] > While it is true that the EMF, or voltage is inversely proportional to > the distance, the power is reduced by the square of the distance. > (P=e^2/r, P=i^2*r, or P=e*i) Thus a signal with a po

HAL and ipw2100

2006-10-16 Thread Tom Cook
7;  (string)  linux.hotplug_type = 2  (0x2)  (int)  net.80203.mac_address = 55585170841  (0xcf1226599)  (uint64)  info.product = 'Networking Interface'  (string)  net.arp_proto_hw_id = 1  (0x1)  (int)  net.linux.ifindex = 4  (0x4)  (int)  net.address = '00:0c:f1:22:65:99'  (string)  net.interface = 'eth2'  (string)  net.physical_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_1043'  (string)   info.capabilities = {'net', 'net.80203'} (string list)  info.category = 'net.80203'  (string)  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_1043'  (string)  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/class/net/eth2'  (string) ie. the network device hasn't picked up any of the extra capabilities.Does anyone know either what I've got set up wrong, or what magic to add to the fdi to make this work?Thanks,Tom Cook

Re: why can I upgrade SSH via SSH?

2002-03-11 Thread Tom Cook
shd is 'shut down' it just kills the thing that listens on port 22. Remember, just my guess. Regards 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

Wine

2002-03-11 Thread Tom Cook
Hi, Does anyone know how to make windoze programs I run under Wine stick to one desktop? I can figure it out, and it doesn't seem to be WM-specific. I am using IceWM. Thanks, Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "That you're not paranoi

Re: Wine

2002-03-11 Thread Tom Cook
Tom Cook wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone know how to make windoze programs I run under Wine stick to > one desktop? I can figure it out, and it doesn't seem to be > WM-specific. I am using IceWM. Ooops! I _can't_ figure it out! Which is why I'm asking the question... Tom

Re: Wine

2002-03-12 Thread Tom Cook
ow the window manager to manage created windows > "Managed" = "Y" > ; Use a desktop window of 640x480 for Wine > "Desktop" = "N" > > Then wine windows will be managed by your wm like all other windows. > > HTH, Joachim > > On Tue, Mar

Re: power off problem

2002-03-17 Thread Tom Cook
>> change. > > > > Sorry if this is a stupid question.. > > Do you have "enable power management at boot time" turned on ? > > No question is really stupid. "There are no stupid questions, just stupid people." - Associate Professor Derek Abb

Re: Emacs question

2002-03-17 Thread Tom Cook
those colours??? Aaargh! It's the windows hotdog-stand theme! :-) 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

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-17 Thread Tom Cook
ttext *depends* on gettext-el. > > I'm very offended by this. > > This was not a joke. > > P.S. It is the place where we have *true* racism. This dependence is a > spit in the faces of non-emacs people. [This was a joke.] Wow, OK, I'm confused. Is this a Joke o

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-17 Thread Tom Cook
aste of bandwidth. If it is a waste of bandwidth then why is it installed? Clearly it serves some useful purpose since people use it. If some people want it, then to not provide it is a disservice to them. If you don't want it, don't install it. > > -- > > Share and Enjoy.

Mutt displays my message index all wrong

2002-03-18 Thread Tom Cook
it, and so on as I move backwards through my message list. Does anyone know why on earth it does this? I hope that explanation is clear. The threading display is also rather wierd, but lets deal with one problem at a time. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adela

Re: Mutt displays my message index all wrong

2002-03-18 Thread Tom Cook
used). > > I you running mutt in X ? If so what terminal are you using (rxvt, > konsole ?) and what windowmanager. I have tried it in gnome-terminal with $TERM set to xterm-debian and xterm, and also tried it in a standard xterm. No chips. > Are you using a non standard characte

Re: Mutt displays my message index all wrong

2002-03-18 Thread Tom Cook
Drew Raines wrote: > > Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I know this is probably not the place for this question, but there seem > > to be a lot of mutt users here. > > There's also a lot of mutt users on the mutt-users list. > > > I have ma

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