Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Dan Nguyen
es various alternatives to word processing. It's not a good tutorial, but nice reading anyways. \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \LaTeX{} is a cool!! \end{document} -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts; [EMAIL

Re: [techtalk] LaTeX

2000-02-09 Thread Dan Nguyen
arned system programming from the manpages... > But did you learn the syntax of the language? If so which manpage was that in? -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks of it, but few have see

Re: [techtalk] KDE license?

2000-02-10 Thread Dan Nguyen
project than licq, and many people donate code to KDE which means that those authors too must give permission. This recently reerrupted on the Debian-Devel mailing list a few weeks back, check http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2000/4/ for more info on the subject. -- Dan Nguyen

Re: [techtalk] /dev/dsp problem

2000-02-12 Thread Dan Nguyen
? a. If not then you have to load the module yourself The following is my config in modules.conf for my sb16 alias char-major-14 sb options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 options sound dmabuf=1 P.S. http://www.alsa-project.com -- Dan Nguyen | It is

Re: [techtalk] /dev/dsp problem

2000-02-13 Thread Dan Nguyen
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 01:48:22PM -0600, JLG wrote: > > > Thanks to everyone for the advice, looks like I have to set some time > aside and try to figure out what I did wrong. > > On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Dan Nguyen & a few other wonderful people wrote: > > > Ei

Re: [techtalk] Forgotten root password

2000-02-28 Thread Dan Nguyen
ily true. On RH systems single user mode drops the system into a shell. However on more ``secure'' systems it run sulogin, which requires the root password to be able to get to a shell. The more generic solution, like everyone else has said is linux init=/bin/sh -- Dan Nguyen

Re: [techtalk] ICU troubles

2000-02-18 Thread Dan Nguyen
/conni/gnomeicu-0.90b' > make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 > > Any ideas? I'm confused. Also, typing gnomeicu doesn't run the program. > This could be because it isn't installed (right), but I don't know. -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love

Re: [techtalk] ICU troubles

2000-02-18 Thread Dan Nguyen
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 10:59:17AM -0800, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote: > On Feb 18, Dan Nguyen conjectured: > > > Your missing some more devel stuff. As you see below your missing > > gnome-config and well without it your program wn't know where to find >

Re: [techtalk] ICU troubles

2000-02-18 Thread Dan Nguyen
> stable/devel split. Debian GNU/Linux's stable/unstable split is not the same as the library split. The stable/unstable is to make sure there is a version of the distribution which is known to work well. -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts;

Re: [techtalk] Differences between linux distributions

2000-02-19 Thread Dan Nguyen
't used > them long enough to figure it out, or maybe I'm stupid. One reason you have seen little difference between Mandrake and RH is because Mandrake was orginally based on RH. Mandrake 7 is much more different than RH, noticably it's install. -- Dan Nguyen

Re: [techtalk] Installing Tarballs

2000-02-20 Thread Dan Nguyen
mple, you need to tell use what your trying to install. What command you've done. And please make sure you read the installation documentation if it exists. If you are still having problems please provide the relavent information, and everyone will try and help. -- Dan Nguyen

Re: [techtalk] Differences between linux distributions

2000-02-20 Thread Dan Nguyen
illy version jump from 4.0 to 7.0. -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks of it, but few have seen it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -Maxime De La Rochefoucauld 25 2F 99 19 6C C9 19 D6 1

Re: [techtalk] Differences between linux distributions

2000-02-21 Thread Dan Nguyen
very political. Some distros are just too commercial, all power to them. But I saw the Slack jump as them abandoning their principles, and embracing itself with the dark side. Wouldn't it be better to explain to the newbie that Linux is only at version 2.3.x and what a distribution is a

Re: [techtalk] Installing Tarballs

2000-02-21 Thread Dan Nguyen
ago. ./configure worked there Probably some wierd configuration on her system. -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks of it, but few have seen it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -Maxime De La Roche

Re: [techtalk] Differences between linux distributions

2000-02-21 Thread Dan Nguyen
y not represent me or debian, so if you plan on flaming me, be kind. If you plan on using this in some debian related story, please don't. -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks of it, but few have seen it.

Re: [techtalk] Differences between linux distributions

2000-02-21 Thread Dan Nguyen
use /opt/, that way a quick rm -rf /opt/ will delete all trace of it. If it really is deserving to be installed on my system... it get's packaged, that way I can uninstall it when I get bored of it... -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts; [EMAIL PROT

Re: [techtalk] Differences between linux distributions

2000-02-22 Thread Dan Nguyen
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 07:54:05AM -0500, Beverly Guillermo wrote: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Dan Nguyen wrote: > > > The "standard" way of doing it is to have the distribution install > > everything in /usr, while leaving it up to the user to install stuff > > in

Re: [techtalk] Telnet banner for SSHD

2000-02-24 Thread Dan Nguyen
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 01:18:45PM -0500, Subba Rao wrote: > > I am using Open SSH on my system. Is there anyway to prevent the > SSHD from revealing the process name or version number? > sure hack the source ;) -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is

Re: [techtalk] Shell Scripts

2000-03-22 Thread Dan Nguyen
://www.msu.edu/~pfaffben/shell/shell.pdf -- Dan Nguyen | C [EMAIL PROTECTED] | CC [EMAIL PROTECTED]| CCC 25 2F 99 19 6C C9 19 D6 1B 9F F1 E0 E9 10 4C 16 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL P

Re: [techtalk] Perl for idiots?

2000-04-07 Thread Dan Nguyen
hat do *not* use C/C++ > as a reference for explaining it) or just tell me to start w/ something easier > instead. > > Thanks, > Lori > > > _______ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/l

Re: [techtalk] Perl help sources

2000-04-24 Thread Dan Nguyen
orums, etc. where the clueless-with-deadline type newbie is most > likely to find help. I have read about group, etc. stuff on > perl.com, but I'm asking for anyones opinions based on my current > situation. I'd point you to news:comp.lang.perl.misc however they aren't the most

Re: [techtalk] Install Problem

2000-04-29 Thread Dan Nguyen
ller card, rather than an IDE channel, most Linux installations will not be able to see it. Is your controller card even supported? Do you know if there are patches available? I do know that Mandrake 7.1 beta install supports it. And Debian may have boot floppies which will detect your card as well.

Re: [techtalk] Major device numbers

2000-04-30 Thread Dan Nguyen
does any HOWTO on my system > sound like it has anything. > Standard devices type/major/minor numbers can be found in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt (assuming your kernel source tree is in /usr/src/linux) -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts; [

Re: [techtalk] Debian woes

2000-07-07 Thread Dan Nguyen
ad/access to it. Can you get to other services? telnetd is a inetd service and wu-ftpd can be run via inetd. You should check /etc/hosts.deny to see if tcp_wrappers will be dropping your connection. Other tahn that it is difficult to diagnose your problem without further information. --

Re: [techtalk] A Postscript question

2000-07-13 Thread Dan Nguyen
gt; possible? If so, how? > I'm sure it's possible to do it the way you described, but it's not the easiest way. Using \LaTeX{} (usually spelled LaTeX), it would be possible to create another PostScript file with the text and embed the image into that. -- Dan Nguyen |

Re: [techtalk] *nix comparisons?

2000-07-17 Thread Dan Nguyen
oc style of RPMs, and searching for packages. RPMFind really helps, but it's still not as eligant as apt-get for Debian. -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks of it, but few have seen it. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [techtalk] *nix comparisons?

2000-07-17 Thread Dan Nguyen
roken. Atleast Debian number their releases in a sane manner. A minor Debian version number 2.1 for Slink, and 2.2 for Potato often includes more than just newer packages. Things like debconf might get a whole version number out of other distributions. -- Dan Nguyen | It is with

Re: [techtalk] Debugger help needed

2000-07-17 Thread Dan Nguyen
in the array to be the characters in the string? If so: @array = split '', $string; Otherweise $array[0] = $string; will assign the first element of @array to $string -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks

Re: [techtalk] KDE / OpenSource

2000-08-02 Thread Dan Nguyen
nst QT2 released under the QPL. The GPL prohibits ditributing softawre that is linke to non-GPL libraries, unless they are system libraries. Debian does not consider the QT libraries to be system libraries. It is Debian's opinion that they and everyone else cannot legally distribute KDE. But i

Re: [techtalk] KDE / OpenSource

2000-08-02 Thread Dan Nguyen
It's up to KDE on wether they would like their code to be shipped with Debian in the future. > I guess what set me off was someone with a gnu.org address throwing out a > gratuitous "Gnome is better/more free than KDE" post without a single > explanation.

Re: [techtalk] KDE / OpenSource

2000-08-03 Thread Dan Nguyen
> > I have no problem with eye candy :) > > Nor do I, until it starts to hamper performance. Try running E on > my five year old notebook (P90, 40 MB RAM) and see what I mean :) Uh no. :) -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: [techtalk] BASH command return value

2000-08-04 Thread Dan Nguyen
2.04. My assumption is that using whoami with the ` ` causes it to need to reevaulate the PS1 enviroment variable every time. During the reevaulation of PS1, it updates $? along with it. While using \u is handled internally by the shell. $? is only evaluated when PS1 is set. -- Dan Nguy

Re: [techtalk] Debian, Apache, PHP and MySQL

2000-09-07 Thread Dan Nguyen
e in /etc/php3/apache/php.ini accordingly. Just search for extension, you'll be able to add 'extension=mysql.so' -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks of it, but few have seent it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: [techtalk] The general case of installing a non-Debian thingie on a Debian system

2000-09-19 Thread Dan Nguyen
uld use 1.3.11 packaged in Woody. You can simply install the precompiled packages which means you will need to install additional packages (easily handled by apt). Or you can get the source package and build the package yourself (which apt can do as well). Running the helixcode version will proba

Re: [techtalk] making a patch from a cvs repository

2000-12-06 Thread Dan Nguyen
pplies cleanly to a copy of > the original source? > > TIA > > bye :) > Anmol > > :wq > > > > > > > _______ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinf