Recommendations for donated machines

Hello D-u's, I need a recommendation for some donated machines. Here are the specs: P I/75 32MB 2GB (may upgrade memory to 64/96MB) (also may try cpu upgrade.) Which version of Debian (or possibly Slackware) would work? Kernel 2.2 or 2.4, X 4 or 3, Abiword, gnumeric or OO? KDE, Gnome, XFCE or ? Or

Re: Ethernet Card

On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 01:36, Jacob Tennant wrote: > Is anyone aware of any drivers for a Microsoft MN-130 ethernet card for > debian? > > Jake K8JWT > UN*X support is concerned with chipsets not the CARD BRAND NAME. what does lspci say, iwconfig say? anything in /var/log/message or /var/log/dmesg

Re: help me

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 05:36, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 11:59, mohamed roshdy wrote: > > i wanna really to learn fortran and i am waiting for acourse or ebooks > > on net plz write to me > There are many better and newer languages to learn. (perl and c for > exa

Re: help me

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 06:24, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 04:36, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 11:59, mohamed roshdy wrote: > > > i wanna really to learn fortran and i am waiting for acourse or ebooks > > > on net plz write to me > >

Re: Unusual idea..

On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 04:36, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 03:30, Joe Emenaker wrote: > > Craig Tinson wrote: > > > > >Can anyone come up with a theory on how to "convert an mp3 into a > > >number"? > > > to me unique number = fingerprint. watermark. if you exaimine the analog wa

Re: removing traces of exim

On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 05:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hei > > I installed postfix in place of exim but forgot to use the purge option > when removing exim. > > I want to remove all files that were installed by the exim package. > > My question is how would one go about this. Of course, I could

Re: e2fsck trashed system; chroot now failing

Sound like things didnt go well... a) boot with knoppix b) attempt to backup important data (email,documents..) c) see if you can get info for recreating your system.. CHROOT if possible and dpkg --get-selections (get other comments as I am not a GURU) d) see if other can suggest a way to recover

Re: Need help generating odd crontab line

> > How about > > 5-11 * 5 echo "Just a reminder that the KCARC meeting > > will be this" `date -d 'now + 2 days' '+%A, %d %B'` "at 7pm, at the > > Abilene Public Library, 2nd floor. See you there!" | mail -s > > "Reminder: Club Meeting" [EMAIL PROTECTED] While it is neat to write huge argum

Re: help me

On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 11:59, mohamed roshdy wrote: > i wanna really to learn fortran and i am waiting for acourse or ebooks > on net plz write to me There are many better and newer languages to learn. (perl and c for example). And these have many sites for help. the linux GCC compiler suite does su

Re: Help needed with getting USB working on a new install

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 07:49, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: > Hi all: > I have just completed a Knoppix install using the 3.2 version dated 2003-07-26 > EN. My hardware is a MSI KT3 ULTRA2 MBO with a AMD Athalon XP cpu. I booted > the Knoppix cd with only the lang=us 2 option set. From there I did a har

fetchmail error

Hi deb-users, could anyone point me in the right direction. pop3 server->fetchmail->sendmail->pop3 client (evolution) Fetchmail issues an SMTP error and cant continue getting the rest of my email. ---error--- Aug 16 18:13:02 debian fetchmail[1383]: reading me

Re: which woody-iso ?

> got a broadband connection. > > [1] From the Debian.org main page, select "Network install" -> "Minimal > CD" -> "LordSutch.com ISOLINUX mini-ISO image". You're probably > interested in the > . > > Another option is bonzai linux. http://d

Re: fetchmail error

On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 18:25, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi deb-users, > could anyone point me in the right direction. > pop3 server->fetchmail->sendmail->pop3 client (evolution) > Fetchmail issues an SMTP error and cant continue getting the rest of my > email. After I used

rms on debian

http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=260 TRB: Let's say I came to you and I'm an end-user that has never used anything other than Windows. I have no command line experience, just point-and-click abilities. How would you configure a system for me -- what distribution (assuming

Re: OT: whinging (was Re: rms on debian : background noise)

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 04:50, Dave Howorth wrote: > cr wrote: > >>Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived there for 30+ > >>years), but I've heard it used all the time here in New Zealand, I thought it > >>was a Kiwi-ism. > > Mark wrote: > > Whinge has been in common usa

Re: fetchmail: choking on invalid headers

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 19:31, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm having increasingly frequent problems with fetchmail choking on > invalid email headers. The result is an error exit status (return code > = 2), and piling up of mail on my ISP's POP server. Given my mail load > and the limited storage off

Re: keeping partitions mounted read-only

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 10:35, Hans Wilmer wrote: > Hi! > > Usually, I´m keeping partitions that can be mounted read-only, mounted that > way. Especially the /usr partition is mounted ro. > > To install security-updates (or new packages), I remount /usr by issueing a > ´mount /usr -o remount,rw´

Re: Problem in accessing External URL

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 11:19, sohail jan wrote: > Hi there, > I am new to Linux and having problem in accessing external URLs. I'm > using a software called iVia it is a virtual library software and > having problem in running few scripts. One of the script called > PageFetcher which takes a URL as

Re: Script for IP address change

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 11:48, William Crowshaw wrote: > This [Q] is not debian specific, but you guys are more > knowledgeable than normal linux user groups that I > thought I would ask it here. My machine's external IP > address is configured via DHCP from my cable modem > service provider. Any s

Re: rms on debian

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 05:21, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > El miércoles, 20 de agosto de 2003, a las 18:32, Greg Folkert escribe: > > But you have to go to the "Department of Redundancy Department" Window > > to get the Reprint first. > > This reminds me of that gag in one of Marx Bros' films,

Re: Working around package conflict

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 05:36, James Steward wrote: > Sorry Bob - that didn't quite work. I did something like the following; > mkdir /usr/lib/libkde3 > cp /root/kdelib3/usr/lib/* /usr/lib/libkde3/ > vi /etc/ld.so.conf > { add the path /usr/lib/libkde3 } > ldconfig > > start varicad - runs ok - no

Re: some reality about iptables, please

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 21:12, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > I can find all the sites and advice I want about how to form iptables > rules, but I can't find any decent discussion of how to enable the damn > things. > > I get the idea that an iptables firewall is set up by actually running a > bunch

Re: virus' on the list

this is my take: joe user has a windows computer he reads our list he has the lists email address in his address book he get the virus it reads his address book it sends the virus to everyone in his address book which includes email that fakes the 'from' address (from the list) the recipent of th

Re: some reality about iptables, please

On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 00:19, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:14, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > you can read /etc/init.d/iptables comments for info. > > Hmmm. On reading, I notice a function named "initd_clear" called by an > argument of "cle

Re: Faked From-Adress with my domain on them

On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 05:12, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote: > Since there is no reaction to my private mail, I have to do this publicly. > > Kevin Mark uses my domain 'waidele.info' in order to fake his from-adress. > I have asked him to stop it, but he still continues. >

Re: compatible FS between linux and windows

> --- > CD ROM media -- iso9660 and udf fs are compatible. (and floppies and usb thumbdrives) -K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VIA CPU's

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 16:36, Peter Nuttall wrote: > On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 8:01 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 13:16, Peter Nuttall wrote: > > > On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 6:07 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 10:31, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: > > > > > Ron Jo

Re: how to get ssh-agent to work again?

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 21:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Any idea? My .xinitrc looks like this: > > > > export LANG=de_DE > > /usr/bin/x-window-manager& > > xhost +localhost > > exec /usr/bin/gnome-session > > isnt 'xhost +localhost' a security no-no? it allow anyone with acccess to your

Re: apt-get error message

hon (>= 2.2) An interactive high-level object-oriented language (default version) [depends] apt (>= 0.5.3) Advanced front-end for dpkg [depends] python-apt Python interface to libapt-pkg [depends] debconf Debian configuration management system [de

Re: Mounting an NFS disk with knoppix hard disk install

On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 00:56, J F wrote: > Mounting an old NFS disk with my new knoppix hard disk install. > > My old linux machine has files on it and I would > like to rcp or copy the files over. > Why not just use ssh? -K -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc

Re: semi-OT: redhat character encoding

rectify this issue. > > Try setting LANG=C. Red Hat's default locale these days uses the UTF-8 > encoding; if you're not using a UTF-8 terminal then the result will not Could I suggest uxterm? -Kev > be pretty. > > Cheers, > > -- > Colin Watson

Re: R: boot-floppies package

o try a floppy based base install? -K -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: My knoppix hard disk install has open office in german solved

me:. rm -f /etc/alternatives/soffice.resource ln -sf /opt/openoffice/program/resource-en /etc/alternatives/soffice.resource -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [tir@igidr.ac.in: Problems with xlibs.]

d > then run the apt-get -f install again. > If it succeeds, you then copy/move the settings/directories back. > if it fails, post the errors and move the app-defaults back. > > -Kev > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Unidentified subject!

ow can I try > to solve this? I wouldn´t like reinstalling my system > all over again. > > > Kind regards, > > Sara > > ___ > Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS > Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... > http://messenger.yahoo.es Hope this help (HTH) -K -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Inserting a into sed's replacement string

ert Ctrl-I. > > Is there some way of inserting the tab in octal or hex? > > TIA > Bob Parker -- This worked for me: echo -e "abc\tdef" echo -e "abc\tdef"|sed 's/\t/x/' -Kev -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Broken Mouse: [Was: Unidentified subject!]

rotocol" "Microsoft" > Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" > Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70" > Option "SendCoreEvents" "tr

Re: awk usage question

he right of'? After the 7th field of a line? or after the 7th line in the file 'messages' is suppose to be in the 7th word in the line? cat outputfile | awk '($7 == "message"){print $0}' this will output a line in the 7th word is 'message' -K -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Test the network

kages for this. but it depends upon what video card you have. > How can I test if it works? you X windows or your network connection? to start X windows, try 'startx' -kev > > (My box is connected to my Isp line through a Nat box that cotains a > dhcp server). > > Th

Re: horse at the gate

aterial not tutorials. > It is a GREAT tutorial please check it out! http://rute.sourceforge.net (rute User's Tutorial and Exposition) IBM has a great linux resource http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/ > Any help appreciated. > > Thank you > > Mada > > _ > Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online > http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Trouble with CUPS

> Any hints ? > > Thanks, > Jerome -- This is on my system: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# feta list-installed |grep -i cups Running: dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 cupsconfig-knoppix cupsomatic-ppd cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-driver-gimpprint libcupsimage2 libcupsys2 libqtcups2 qtcu

Re: Remotly changing emil users passwords

ses easy web interface on https (secure) with many addon packages. do: apt-cache search webmin and apt-cache search usermin -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: xdm starting, but not configured

r/X11R6/bin/xf86config /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config-v3 -Kev > > I tried running my install CD with "rescue" instead of install, but it > boots and uses xdm, which does'nt help me. > > thanks! > > emma > > -- > Emma Jane Hogbin > Xtrinsic -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: ergonomic laptop keyboard?

here: >http://www.maenad.net/geek/gpg/7ede5499.asc > (please *remove* old key 11e031f1!) -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How to Identify Mailing Lists

MLMs and their > > respective authors? > > You could try this. I'd bet that most popular MLMs already have > wishlist bugs to support RFC2919, but if you find any that don't it's > probably a good idea to file one. > > btw, I filter debian lis

Re: About to format the hard drive for the 3rd Debianinstallation-helpppp

bs4 installed? -K > So please help me before I format my drive ;-) > > Thanks in advance > Hamid > > -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: About to format the hard drive for the 3rdDebian installation-helpppp

On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 23:43, Hamid wrote: > Yes I do, I have to do some manual removals :( > > Kevin Mark wrote: > > >On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 19:03, Hamid wrote: > > > > > >>Hi > >>I guess it should be nomral to format your hard disk for the 3rd

Re: can't access machine after upgrade !

ossible network module problem) ifconfig (for possible interface problems) route (for network setup problems) -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: xdm starting, but not configured

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 00:05, Travis Crump wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > There are different runlevels: > > 6 is reboot > > 5 is run X and networking > > 3 is run networking > > 2 is single user mode > > so: > > linux 3 > > is what I would say

Re: xdm starting, but not configured

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 02:30, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 00:05, Travis Crump wrote: > > Kevin Mark wrote: > > > There are different runlevels: > > > 6 is reboot > > > 5 is run X and networking > > > 3 is run networking > > > 2 is

Re: X failure with i810

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Re: Good Open Source Web Development software

contrary to popular belief, we should not design web pages to be IE compliant, since they do not meet OPEN standards. Is this surprising? :-) -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

of this > script or where it comes from. Anyone have any ideas? -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

apt-get dist-upgrade question

Hi Debianistas, I have installed evolution 1.3 and some other packages that make dist-upgrade want to remove lots of stuff. How do I tell it to ignore a packages when I dist-upgrade. -K -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Internet Browser Preferences

> Jake Johnson > http://www.plutoid.com From light to heavy: links, dillo, links2,opera,galeon,mozilla it depends what feature set you want. graphics, css support,plugins. -K -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: is it correct to specific a path name like this

TED]:~# echo $X a space [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# echo "$X" a space [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -ld $x drwxr-xr-x 77 root root 4096 2003-06-13 01:50 . [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -ld $X ls: a: No such file or directory ls: space: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -ld &q

Re: LILO Dual-boot blues

ed in at the "boot:" prompt, so it doesn't appear to be > filesystem-related. It just appears that the system is refusing to run > the bootstrapper for LILO. > > Thanks in advance, > > ninewands Have you tried running lilo again? Have you tried using mkbook to crea

Re: Kill a process that refuses to die?

general kill: kill PID this is the first one to try as it is the safest kill -9 PID this is the last one to try, but works in most cases where PID is the process id. find it by: ps -A f |grep NAME where NAME is the word to id the process (enjoympeg?) -K -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: How to set xdm as default

, change # HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER to "false." HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER=true DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE=/etc/X11/default-display-manager --- HTH -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: image contents

On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 08:38, Henry Favretto wrote: > sorry for double posting... some problem with my client.. ;) Hi Henry, if you are looking to install a basic debian, have you considered: a knoppix HD install (large base install) or using Bonsai Linux (tiny base install) -K -- Kevin M

Re: KERNEL PANIC IN A NOTEBook

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Re: Unidentified subject!

ot recall. -K > Thank you. > > Ingirafn Steinarsson -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: image contents

all Bonsai but its relatively new and based on stable and includes KDE. Knoppix give you a very complete system in 20 min. Not sure about Bonsai. But supposedly these are easier to install that other methods. YMMV. -K -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a

konquror https error message]

2.4.20-xfs #1 SMP Die Dez 10 20:07:25 CET 2002 i586 GNU/Linux TIA -K -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Odd netinst corruption problems

e. s/us/de/ or s/us/es/ -k -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: LILO

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 01:14:19PM +0100, Hans Olav Eggestad wrote: > I tried to install debian (v3.0) on my laptop, but LILO did not work. > Are there any alternatives? (like GRUB (which do work on my laptop > (RedHat))) > > -- > ## > Hans Ola

Re: apple - Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 05:10:36PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, csj wrote: > > > Well, we used to own an Apple II that was made in Taiwan and > > didn't have the Apple logo. Does that qualify as open enough? > > If it weren't for the Apple II clones eating into Apple's > > bot

Re: Earthlink and Swen

On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:55:57PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:56:59PM -0800, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Perhaps their recently introduced virus filtering service: > > http://www.earthlink.net/myaccount/help/virusblocker/ > -- > Karsten M. Self <[E

Re: Earthlink and Swen

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:44:18AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:40:16AM -0500, Kevin Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:55:57PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:56:59PM -0800, Ross Boylan

Re: Newbie! Some help needed.

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:20:57PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > I installed from a Knoppix CD image. Rather painless and it found most of > the hardware as well. Now to get the thing productive :-) > > 1. How does one set up the network to work with ADSL (using a 10/100 > connected to an ADSL modem

Re: control init process

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:29:30AM +0100, anh le wrote: > hello, > > I'm a Debian 3.0r1 newbie from vietnam. > > I have installed gdm but I want to control it behavior like follow: > > 1. After loginng in, I do not want the system run gdm immediately, > but stay in console mode so that I can st

Re: First time installation

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 05:15:26PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi all folks, > > I installed Debian 3.0 on a PII-box for test purpose. Everything seemed > going on smoothly, except following problems found after installation. > > 1) X-server could not start > > At time of installation I have no

Re: Earthlink and Swen

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:56:48PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 04:15:45PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > ... > > > > Earthlink have implemented virus and spam filtering within the past > > month or so, early November, if time serves. > Yea! > headers. They may have resi

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:46:03AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > OFF-TOPIC > > Perhaps I have no business posting this here . . . . > > I've done business with TigerDirect in the past, but recently > they've added a pro-MS banner to their home page. I wrote this note > to them, and would encourage

Re: disabling inetd

On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 06:44:52PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Initech ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031212 13:42]: > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 01:20:42PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > > > I've heard that the inetd process is not very secure. > > > > > update-rc.d -f inetd remove > > > > (note: thi

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 03:57:37AM -0600, Wayne Sitton wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:59, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:46:03AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > OFF-TOPIC > > > > > > Perhaps I have no business posting this here . . .

Re: Earthlink and Swen

On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 06:31:55PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:56:48 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > > > Although filtering should "obviously" be done by service providers, it > > seems they have a lot of trouble getting it right. Mail to me goes > > through two service pr

Re: Earthlink and Swen

On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:53:20PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > Then that is my mistake; I offer my apology to you and to Ross. I > found out about it several days ago during a normal routine check of > services offered on earthlink's web site, and immediately turned it on, I did the same. >

Re: email client

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:17:40AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > I have some problems and what I have learned so far is that I need to send you guys > more info so you can help me. > > First think I should do I guess is setup an email client on the Debian box otherwise > I will have to type all th

Re: GPM for mouse

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:46:34AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > Where can I find gpm (Setting Up Mouse) > apt-get install gpm this installs gpm apt-cache search gpm this finds things with 'gpm' in the software index apt-cache info gpm this tells you about gpm > I have not figured out how to f

Re: Redhat to Debian conversion

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:55:42AM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (15/12/03 00:19), Gruessle wrote: > > To: Lucas Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > From: Gruessle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 00:19:00 -0800 > > Subject: RE: Redhat to Debian conversion > >

Re: [OT] Can I make a prototype Free and sell the final product?

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:20:09PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > I'm hacking together a little prototype for somebody, mostly as > a curiosity and kindness. It'll be just a prototype. > If they like it, I'll flesh it out and charge them money. > > Regardless, I'd like to put the prototype on So

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:55:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:32 -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:43:31PM -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > > > > > I'm considering installing the 'udev' package as part of my Sarge 2.6 > > > i

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 01:21:16AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 01:57 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:55:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:32 -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > > On Fri, No

Re: VNC server desktop environment?

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 11:23:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 22:52 -0600, Eric Scott wrote: > [snip] > > I had a similar problem under Mandrake Linux 9.1 once, and peeps just told > > me > > The sound that a baby chicken makes, told you to upgrade to Mdk 9.2 > That tr

Re: VNC server desktop environment?

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 11:39:34PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 00:30 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 11:23:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 22:52 -0600, Eric Scott wrote: > > > [snip] > >

Re: And the thing is installed by apt-get at... ??

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 12:42:17AM +0200, Basri Kanca wrote: > Hi all, > > I know this does sound like the lamest question, but I > simply have to ask it --please flame sparingly :-) > > When I do an 'apt-get install ', does > actually get placed in a menu item under somewhere under > the 'Appli

set fontsize for one app in gnome (or kde)?

Hi folks, goes anyone know how to set a UI font size for a particular app in Gnome. I've heard mention of setting a general font but nothing about doing it for one app. TIA -Kev -- counter.li.org #238656 -- goto counter.li.org and be counted! (__) (oo) /--\/ / ||| * /\

Re: This file...I cannot kill it!

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 06:35:12PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 24 November 2004 8:21 am, Dave Ewart wrote: > > On Wednesday, 24.11.2004 at 08:13 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.kde/share/config$ ls > -l /home/baloo/.kde/share/config/kcmartsrc > > > ls: /hom

Re: Local Deb Mirror

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 12:07:46AM +0100, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 02:58:05PM -0800, Raquel Rice wrote: > > > >>>Is that an answer to my question? > > > >>> > > > >>Raquel, I don't know if you are aware of the fact that any > > > >answer>that you get in this list is coming

Re: On unresponsive maintainers (was: Re: On using magicfilter and gs)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 09:50:32PM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > Is there any formal requirement that a maintainer be responsive, or even do > his job at all? > > Is there a procedure for taking a package away from a maintainer, and > having s

Re: .ini files in bash?

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 04:02:15PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > On Monday 29 November 2004 15:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Create a seperate rc file (.scriptrc ?) and have FOO=BAR in that, then > > source the file in your script > > > > eg.. > > > > [ .scriptrc ] > > > > FOO=BAR > > > > > > >

Re: rescue disk

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:47:41PM +0200, George Iordanou wrote: > I want to create a rescue disk. I went to debian's official webpage > and i downloaded the unstable version which consists of the following > files: > > boot.img > cd-drivers.img > net-drivers.img > root.img > > How can i create a

Re: Full replacement of MS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:08:03PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:38:12PM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > > I've used Linux virtually exclusively for ten years. About the only > thing I currently use MS Windows for i

Re: using mail

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 09:44:21PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:31:56AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Sam Watkins wrote: > > >On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:48:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > > > >>When I use: mail it sends mail to that address with the > > >>

Re: HTML debloater for reading on PDA

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:32:14AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Any package for converting the average bloated webpage into slim and > trim HTML for a turn of the century browser on a weakling black and > white PDA? > > "tidy" even with all options turned on isn't aggressive enough. Maybe > I wil

Re: Wireless nic recommendation ?

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:55:03PM +1100, Matthew Joyce wrote: > > Hi, > > Can anyone recommend a wireless (b) nic or chipset to use with Debain ? > Either woody, knoppix or ubuntu. > > Thanks > > Matt Joyce > Children's Cancer Institute Australia > http://www.ccia.org.au > Hi Matt, one of the

Re: php4 packet on debian stable with enable-dbase option.

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:33:15AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need dbase_open function from php, and php4 is not compiled on debian > stable with "enable-dbase" option. I ask my self, if possible to get the > packet with "enable-dbase" option compiled. Other solution I think is to > mak

Re: How to make xkb modifications under Debian

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:52:11PM -0500, Martin D. Weinberg wrote: > Folks, > > I made a new variant to support the "extra" keys on IBM T41p laptop. I > made these changes directly to /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/us in a new stanza > called "t41p" and added it to my XF86Config-4 file as XkbVariant "t

Re: How can I change the locale setting?

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:42:08PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I must have missed something very elementary. I can't find out how to > change the locale setting from POSIX to en_US. > > locale -a shows both are available. apropos locale provides a long list > of locale programs including

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