Re: Java SDK on unstable

2005-01-02 Thread David P James
; > > How to get J2EE running on Debian unstable? > > > > apt-get install j2se-package I think he should have pointed you to java-package -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgpHyXfTcecW3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: different gecko-based browsers?

2005-01-03 Thread David P James
on a link or text area and the browser will take you there. In some cases, doing the same thing in the tab bar will open it in a new tab (Konqueror does this). -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgpuGych9HBdC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Obtain diploma degree

2005-01-04 Thread David P James
ormation appended to the message? Is it perhaps a result of the message being sent in both plain text and HTML? -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgp54leN8xhBz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Obtain diploma degree

2005-01-04 Thread David P James
On Tue 4 January 2005 14:42, Alvin Smith wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 02:35 pm, David P James wrote: > > On Tue 4 January 2005 13:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I cant get into any of the university sites Steve > > > > I don't know whether to laugh

Re: Question about Thunderbird and headers

2005-01-04 Thread David P James
rue); I'll see if I can track down the extension but it may no longer work. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgpLhnLIw6Oet.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Question about Thunderbird and headers

2005-01-04 Thread David P James
On Tue 4 January 2005 16:29, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:22:30PM -0500, David P James wrote: > > But, you can create a user.js file in the same directory as > > prefs.js and add the following line to it (without Thunderbird > > runnin

Re: DVORAK

2005-06-06 Thread David P James
member their new locations. This has helped to preserve some of the common bottom-left keyboard shortcuts (with "Cut" bound to 'K' which is in the QWERTY 'C' location in KDE) and characters like the forward slash. I humbly call the layout "Davidian" :). Reg

Re: Top posting

2005-06-12 Thread David P James
to. So what would result is miles and miles of quoted text with replies at the very bottom. Perhaps the cursor should be placed after the first paragraph of text to the left of the quote character. This would be an interesting area of usability study for new users who are not used to any partic

XIO: fatal IO error 0

1996-11-25 Thread Juri P Pakaste
(Hmm, the spam filter ate this the first time I posted, I assume it won't post it to the list after receiving the AGREE) There seems to be some sort of problem with Python 1.4's tkinter. I finally got my hands on Programming Python, and started trying out the examples: cyteen-19:32 ~/files$pytho

Re: Mailing lists back up

1996-11-27 Thread Juri P Pakaste
(I don't think this has very much to do with debian-devel, so I removed it from the headers) > "HM" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HM> I just noticed this. I wonder if perhaps the wording could be HM> made a little friendlier; I found it a bit intimidating, HM> especially a

Re: grab updates from a new Debian ...

1996-12-16 Thread P. Huygen Heelkunde
Someone asked about the tool dftp. I recently used this tool. It is called DFTP-1.5 and it was located in a directory "tools" on the Debian CD-ROM of the Infomagic CD-ROM set of september 1996. I regret that I have no more information available on the location where I am now. Paul Huygen -- TO U

libtiff and Imagemagick

1996-12-24 Thread Juri P Pakaste
I just installed Imagemagick and libtiff3. Now display (and other executables in the imagemagick package) complain: cyteen-14:12 ~$display display: can't load library 'libtiff.so.1' No wonder they can't load it, as it wasn't provided by the libtiff3 package. But running ldd on display gives outp

GNU Emacs and I-search

1997-01-02 Thread Juri P Pakaste
I have a problem with I-searching in GNU Emacs, in X. When I try to remove characters I have typed (with either backspace or delete), the keypress ends up in the buffer from which I'm searching, and this is obviously not the way it's intended to work. I don't have this problem with XEmacs, or even

Bugs archive

1997-01-04 Thread Juri P Pakaste
Looking at 5% of 179K (stalled) isn't an uplifting experience, when you're looking for the reported bugs of some specific package. Would it be possible to either split up the "Debian bug report logs - index by package" page (by first letter of the package) or provide a system for searching the arc

Re: Colors in an Xterm

1997-01-14 Thread Juri P Pakaste
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luis Francisco Gonzalez) writes: > Hi, > I have just installed a new debian box and I am missing the diferent > colors that ls uses to distinguish the files. This works ok in a > virtual console but not in an xterm. Before there used to be a > color-xterm package that was needed

Re: Inexpensive color printer experience

1997-01-18 Thread Juri P Pakaste
Giacomo Mulas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where can I find Alladdin Ghostscript? Is it a commercial package or > can I download it from some place? Thanks It's in non-free, the package's name is gs-aladdin. -- Juri Pakaste/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: Messages window in FVWM?

1997-02-24 Thread Curtis P. Brown
dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i run the command "xconsole," this is pretty much what your looking for > also... it is a read only window that displays not only my fvwm errors, > but also network errors (nis unreachable servers, etc). the path to it is: > /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole > > i just

Re: RC5 challenge proposal

1997-02-25 Thread Juri P Pakaste
Gleb Arshinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IMO, it would be good publicity to promise 1/3 of potential prize to > Linux International, 1/3 to FSF, 1/3 to keep for debian, and keep > running with [EMAIL PROTECTED] identity. But how much is that 1/3? I know RSA is offering $1, but there's New

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race FAQ

1997-02-26 Thread Juri P Pakaste
Ioannis Tambouras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > RC5 clients are at ftp://portal.stwing.upenn.edu/pub/rc5 (US > only) > > There are non-us sites with clients at (?? please let me know) At least ftp://ftp.tecnet.de/pub/rc5/>. > 4. WHAT HAPPENS TO THE $10,000 PRIZE ? > ---

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

1997-02-26 Thread Juri P Pakaste
"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah. If the folks at gzero.net will add the numbers from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] then why would we want to > change?! I think that is all the more reason *not* to change because > we can help the greater cause while at the same ti

Newbie IDE tape question

2000-08-24 Thread Daniel P. Katz
Hi, all. I just finished installing Debian 2.2 on a box with a Seagate Tapestor8000 IDE tape drive and ran into a bit of a problem. When I boot up the machine, I get the following messages: hdb: Seagate STT8000A, ATAPI TAPE drive [...] ide-tape: hdb <-> ht0, 600KBps, 14*26kB buffer, 260

Re: Where's the HTML template for XEmacs?

2000-09-05 Thread Daniel P. Katz
" \n" "" p "\n\n\n" "\n" "" p "\n\n" p "\n\n\n" "" html-helper-address-string "\n" html-helper-timestamp-start html-helper-timestamp-end "\n \n") "*Template fo

Re: corruption during power loss

2000-09-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:13:53PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > if you want your linux filesystems to be safer and are willing to > accept the significant performance hit change defaults to > defaults,sync in /etc/fstab for your ext2 filesystems. be prepared > for things like tar -x and rm -rf to

Re: e-conf for enlightenment

2000-09-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 03:09:57PM +0200, Frederik wrote: > > AFAIK, e-conf is no longer in Enlightenment. You might check #e on EFNet > to be sure, but I seem to recall having read something like this > somewhere... Yeah, I noticed that you can access all of the configuration options with a

Re: Debian Gnome vs. Helix Gnome

2000-09-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 06:45:58PM -0400, Andy Bastien wrote: > They hope to eventually make money off of services: > > http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/236/business/A_user_friendly_face_lift_for_Linux+.shtml > > > Plus, you have to trust them in that the sources that they put up are > the one

Re: e-conf for enlightenment

2000-09-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ions by hand. E might overwrite them after it exits though... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

gnome-users-guide

2000-09-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
isn't there a debian package for it on the Helixcode site? Unless I've missed it. Their Debian support is nice, considering how rpms are ruling the world of Linux lately, but it seems lacking. The icons on the webpages of their package listings are broken too. Mike -- Mic

Re: graphic login failure

2000-09-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
a $HOME/.xsession file in the home directory, that gets run if it's there. You mention that it's root, does that mean that it's not other users having the problem? I suspect .xsession then. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a ver

Re: laptop

2000-09-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
but the chipset was a little different. It's working great now. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: what is Helix-Gnome?

2000-09-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
he packages that I want. I'm still using xdm. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: gnome-users-guide

2000-09-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
on numbers behind (the gimp1.1, gnucash and abiword), but > this is negligible. I think it's better to have a consistent and more > reliable system (not that I think that the Helix people do a bad job, > but I feel better with pure Debian). I've been thinking the same thi

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
(probably because > it's the version from Helix Code's server) and doesn't let me make > headers, which I need, anyway. You shouldn't need to print postscript from ghostview. Does your printer understand postscript? What print filter are you using? Mike -- Michael

Re: Perl @INC - include NFS mounted repository

2000-09-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
e users > > * Modules that are also locally available should not be loaded >by NFS. > > Does anyone know how to manage this? If it's not in the default install, then any perl script can add to the search path with "use lib ". I'm not sure if you

Re: Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ces on emacs. I agree wholeheartedly. /usr/bin/emacs is probably a symlink, which is why the dpkg -S doesn't find it. You can resolve it to a file and try that path, or just look for an installed copy: dpkg -l | grep ^i | grep -i emacs Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: I broke x

2000-09-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
g it (as far as running X on a local machine) immune to ipchains > rules. So would it make use of TCP sockets for remote communication? As in running a program remotely and directing the display to your local X server? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the w

Re: your mail

2000-09-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ortant to know what hardware you have. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
mon so you can't even connect to your > printer. I don't know. I getting the same error myself, except that lpd is most definitely running. Not sure what's wrong there... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to

Re: c2perl ??

2000-09-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:04:22PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Anybody knows if there's something like c2perl, which converts c source to > perl ?? Not likely. ;-) At least, I'll be surprised if there is one. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "

Re: What config file

2000-09-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 07:40:26PM -0600, Ray Percival wrote: > do I need to edit to make e and gnome my defaults for X. echo "gnome-session" > $HOME/.xinitrc Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a

Re: Printing--what am I missing? -- solved!

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
can write my English essay in peace. No problem. Now if only I can figure out why my printer daemon is just sitting there ignoring printjobs. ;-) Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like eff

Re: Netscape errors??

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
false, and the author didn't bother to redirect stderr to /dev/null. But, I haven't looked at the code to confirm this. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: Netscape errors??

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
g users to ignore errors is not a good thing. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: X

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:38:46PM -0700, Charles wrote: > Looking up 'www.storm.ca' first > >After I did the config. I must have done something wrong. >As I get the error messages that I can't connect to the X Server??? >Is there an easy way to back out and reconfig the Server???

Re: mail sorting

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ast issue of TPJ, using the Mail::Audit module. If you know Perl, you'll probably find the syntax a lot easier. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: apt-get questions ?????

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
have happened, mind you. Something like this should never happen, IMHO, but unfortunately we live in the real world. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: vim expandtab

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
me... I want it to act like nedit does with the emulate > tab option. There are two options to change in Vi/Vim. tabstop, and shiftwidth. Personally, I prefer 4 spaces to all tabs, so the following does it for me: set expandtab set ts=4 set sw=4 Mike -- Mich

Re: About Nestcape 4.75

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
run > dselect for something else. And why is this? This does not fill me with joy... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: About Nestcape 4.75

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
he > same time independently. Ah, that would make sense. Can you actually install them at the same time and not have the step on each other? Really, IMHO, they should be versions of the same packages. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as

Re: More X questions.....

2000-09-21 Thread Jens P. Elsner
Hi, > Just switched from Red Hat I *will* get this to work in order to get the > advantages of Debian. Thank you all for your help so far. I just had a > thought I have copies of my X config files from RH setting around. Are these > files distro specific? The only thing I'm having trouble with

Re: Fetchmail

2000-09-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ok at the output for a more detailed error message. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: sound in debian

2000-09-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
same kernel. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: Netscape 4.75 ??

2000-09-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
now. Wait for Mozilla to mature and maybe we'll have one. In the meantime, this is something we have to put up with. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: uh-oh, now what?

2000-09-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
gt; > Pinging the mail server at Radiant goes through just fine... > > Um, ideas anyone? Please? Is the mail marked as read? If so, fetchmail -a should do it. It won't download read mail by default. -v flag should be more informative if that doesn't help. Mike -- Michael P

Re: I'm in trouble

2000-09-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
how can I solve this problem, waiting reply urgently > because I have so many important files and email. Lets see your lilo.conf file. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: Please recommend internal modem

2000-09-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
o a cold boot > and wave a rubber chicken to get it to recognize reality, but it works > OK once up. I have a USR Sportster 33.6, in addition to the cable connection. It's always worked flawlessly. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is us

Re: Fetchmail

2000-09-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 04:41:18AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > Instead of running Fetchmail through crond, why not run it as a > daemon? There is an option to do this -- I believe by adding daemon on a > line of its own in .fetchmailrc, though I don't recall for sure. Or you can do it on the co

Re: why traceroute in sbin ?

2000-09-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
on it ? > > I think it's so strange. I've been curious about that myself. I have ifconfig and traceroute aliased to the proper entry in sbin, since I like to use ifconfig to list my current interfaces, and traceroute is useable as a normal user. Mike -- Michael P. Soul

built-in bash functions

2000-09-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
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Re: built-in bash functions

2000-09-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
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Re: Debian 2.2 Installation

2000-09-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
with the graphics card, but it's died on older cards, and sometimes I'm just hoping and praying with the monitor timings 'cause there's no book and the vendor's website sucks. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a

Re: beg

2000-09-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ave the complete 3 CD set. I can snail mail 'em for you. This is so cool. It's great that we can help out our less priviledged linux users across the world. ;-) If you have a burner Li, be sure to copy those and pass them out, assuming you're not going to get yourself

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
the ports. Doesn't yours? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: book suggestions

2000-09-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
tart fixing that... man -k "keyword" to search on a specific topic. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 05:41:33PM +0100, Timothy Bedding wrote: > What does this sound like? Like hell, I'm sure. ;-) > I have no /dev/audio. What do I do? You've probably got a newer soundcard like most of us. Use /dev/dsp instead. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier &

Re: book suggestions

2000-09-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
1, no matter what it says. All of my initial problems with Debian were caused by the crappy distro on that CD. As soon as I grabbed the real thing from the ftp site, everything worked. Thank you very much VA Linux systems... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the

xscreensaver password

2000-09-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
? 128? 256? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: Procmail filtering / UNDELIVERABLE EMAIL

2000-09-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ject =~ /undelivered email/)) { print "Rejecting stupid Debian error message.\n\n"; my $reason = "I'm sick of looking at these in my inbox."; $message->reject($reason); } To each their own I guess. ;-) Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &q

Re: beg

2000-09-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
if you're worried about the FBI, send the CDs to me first, and I'll forward them to China. Since I'm in Canada, I'll just hope that the RCMP isn't doing the same thing here. ;-) Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a v

Re: xscreensaver password

2000-09-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 11:51:19PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > 8 unless you enable md5 passwords. don's ask me, what's the actual > limit for md5, but theoretically there is none. Where would that be enabled? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: weird telnet/dns behaviour on woody

2000-09-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
NS in general. I try not to use it as an example of a normal client service. I'll use telnet and ftp, and if they work, I blame netscape. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: Default screensaver

2000-09-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
indoze like options, install xscreensaver. Preferably with Gnome or KDE. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX pgpRODLS3LHKy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A series of newbieite questions

2000-09-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
n modprobe tulip should do it. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: Procmail filtering / UNDELIVERABLE EMAIL

2000-09-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
for work, and I find procmail recipes hard to read. I know, if I can read Perl regexps, I can read procmail, but it's just easier to do it in Perl. Fun too. ;-) I can include the entire script if you like. You'll need Mail::Internet and Mail::Audit before you can use it, but you can g

Re: Font server hangs while booting

2000-09-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Boot into single-user mode. I won't go step-by-step, but you can then manually start the services you want to test. lilo: linux single Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort."

Re: how to handle perl modules not "debianed"

2000-09-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
will happen when I upgrade. I'd like to learn how to properly package a module, and then package each one that I use to contribute something, but I find it intimidating currently. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a

filtering with Mail::Audit

2000-09-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 02:59:46PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > cool -- that'd be great! (i finally learned the CPAN module... hopefully > it won't conflict with an apt-get install ...) this sounds wonderful! Here you go. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTE

enlightenment epplets

2000-09-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
I installed the epplets package, but the enlightenment menu's epplets section is still empty. I tried restarting enlightenment, but that didn't help. I can run them in a shell, but the menu doesn't list them. Help? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: where's xfree40 ?

2000-09-26 Thread Richard P. Groenewegen
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 01:06:04PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why xfree4.0 packages disapeared from http://www.debian.org/~branden/ ? I guess this is what you're looking for: http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/woody/ Richard -- Security might make sense with banks and military facilities,

Re: enlightenment epplets

2000-09-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ll, but the menu doesn't list them. > > Shift+left mouse click -> Maintenance -> Regenerate Menus > This should do the trick... Hmm. Shift+left mouse doesn't do anything. Oh wait... ctrl-left click does... Aha! That _did_ do the trick. Thanks. Mike -- Michael P.

Re: Shutdown as normal user

2000-09-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ur xserver. In a shell where you're logged in as yourself, type xhost +localhost or xhost + if you want to give global access. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: ?? .Xdefaults ??

2000-09-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
it should work at all. If so, then you should be able to put that line somewhere else to force it to be picked up. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

getting network transfer rates

2000-09-27 Thread Michael P. Soulier
myself. Perhaps somewhere on the /proc filesystem? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.

2000-09-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ll about most of your packages being broken, which is the state they were in in the first place. Yeah, rpm rocks... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: Check This Out! Just got a new email at THEMAIL.COM

2000-09-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey! Don't put bangs in your subject (!), it's confusing my spam filter. ;-) Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: Hostnames not resolving

2000-09-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
> domain names. My DNS servers are working fine as I can ping them and they > work in windows, so something must be wrong on my side. Any suggestions? Try nslookup on a few hosts. If that doesn't work, look in your /etc/nsswitch.conf file. That controls your search order.

Re: apt-get, gnome-apt, dselect, which to use?

2000-09-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
e program. I'm actually a little confused about what dbs exist, and what is updated when I do an apt-get update. > Preben Vim user. No emacs installed. Here here. Vim rocks. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indic

modem woes

2000-10-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
. I'm having her check out initialization strings now, but as my modem worked perfectly on the first try, I don't know much about this. Some help would be appreciated. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indi

Re: Can shell-script be setuid ?

2000-10-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 06:22:45PM +0400, Alex V. Toropov wrote: > Can I make a shell script setuid ? No. It's disabled in the kernel for security reasons. Binaries only. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate

Re: Can not allocate colormap

2000-10-02 Thread Michael P. Soulier
netscape | grep -v grep` for i in $files do kill -9 $i done Or start netscape with the -install option. ;-) Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: /dev/video: Operation not permitted

2000-10-03 Thread Jens P. Elsner
> lrwxrwxrwx1 root root6 Oct 3 17:19 /dev/video -> > video0 > > Have I overlooked some obvious thing? Yes. /dev/video is a symlink. :) how about you set the right permissions on /dev/video0 ? jp

problems with gnome

2000-10-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Ok, so I install windowmaker, and chose it in the gnome control panel. It's listed as my current WM. However, I'm in enlightenment. ?? I don't think the control-panel is all that accurate on the matter... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ".

xdm problems

2000-10-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
I changed to runlevel 3, and tried xdm again, and all was fine. My question is, why did that happen in the first place?? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A

Re: Can not allocate colormap

2000-10-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:29:18PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I can not see how that can rectify the situation. I get this problem > without netscape or any other colour intensive application running. What colour depth are you running? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL

Re: newbie xdm and gnome problems

2000-10-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
. You can just remove the xdm symlink from whatever runlevel you're running, or pick one and then change runlevels to that. Look in /etc/rc?.d for the details on all the runlevels. As for gnome... echo "gnome-session" > $HOME/.xinitrc should do the trick... Mike

gnome won't start now

2000-10-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ot gnome compliant? It said it was on the homepage. I like icewm. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: Sound Blaster

2000-10-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
u sure it's not modversions.h? Plural? I had no problems compiling this. All I had to do was modify the include paths to include the kernel headers. ie. Add -I/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.17/include to CFLAGS in the Makefile. There's a modversions.h, but not the singu

/proc/interrupts

2000-10-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
have to be in use before it appears here? I don't see an entry here... lupus:~# setserial /dev/modem /dev/modem, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3 Should be irq 3. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massiv

broken debian links

2000-10-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
So, anyone notice that the default bookmarks downloading with netscape currently off the debian ftp site are broken? Not a major deal I realize, as I copy it over with my bookmarks file, but I take it that the package maintainer hasn't tried them in a while. Mike -- Mich

mozilla & netscape

2000-10-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
xed the problem. How could that have happened if it could only alter my personal files?? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX

Re: /proc/interrupts

2000-10-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
here you can handle your resources, but I guess that's what distros like Mandrake are about with DrakConf and such. Trying to give you a winblows-like control-panel. As long as I know where to get the information, and set it, I'm good. The proc filesystem is such a cool idea...

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