Re: reiserfs vs ext3fs

2003-10-06 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Hugo S.Carrer, On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 14:06:21 +0200 PF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I found no faq or thread about comparing ReiserFS and Ext3FS for use on laptops. Can someone tell me her/his impressions? I'd like to install a Debian 3.1 on a HP Omnibook and I

Re: reiserfs vs ext3fs

2003-10-06 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Hugo S.Carrer, On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 14:06:21 +0200 PF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I found no faq or thread about comparing ReiserFS and Ext3FS for use on laptops. Can someone tell me her/his impressions? I'd like to install a Debian 3.1 on a HP Omnibook and I

Re: needed: on_ac_power script

2003-10-05 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Harry Barnes, Hi, I was recently convinced to try gentoo on my laptop - which i did and i am currently trying to tweak it back to its debian days. My current install does not have the useful on_ac_power script and i can't find it on the gentoo portage tree. Can someone

Re: needed: on_ac_power script

2003-10-04 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Harry Barnes, Hi, I was recently convinced to try gentoo on my laptop - which i did and i am currently trying to tweak it back to its debian days. My current install does not have the useful on_ac_power script and i can't find it on the gentoo portage tree. Can someone

Re: partition magic

2003-09-14 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Osamu Aoki, On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 07:00:45PM -0400, Lou Losee wrote: While I agree with your disdain for the PM license, the problem is that PM is one of the few tools that *will* move those files that you were not able to move causing you to nuke your partition. Nuking

Re: partition magic

2003-09-14 Thread Tony Godshall
Uh, please disregard my previouys message. I replied out of context. According to Osamu Aoki, On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 07:00:45PM -0400, Lou Losee wrote: While I agree with your disdain for the PM license, the problem is that PM is one of the few tools that *will* move those files that

Re: partition magic

2003-09-14 Thread Tony Godshall
Uh, please disregard my previouys message. I replied out of context. According to Osamu Aoki, On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 07:00:45PM -0400, Lou Losee wrote: While I agree with your disdain for the PM license, the problem is that PM is one of the few tools that *will* move those files that

Re: proper way to eject pcmcia card

2003-09-13 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Cesar Rincon, Ipsissima verba tvn: Do I need to run some commands to stop the pcmcia service prior to ejecting the pc card ? or just press the eject button ? I usually do a ``cardctl eject'' before pulling the card out. Sometimes I forget about it, never had a problem. I

Re: toshiba libretto 100ct

2003-09-13 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Murray, does anyone have any pointers on installing debian on this toshiba? Main hurdles being: - BIOS driven pcmcia floppy, that will read the first boot floppy only. - no cdrom (bootable or otherwise) I've got as far as putting openbsd onto the beast, but can't

Re: best laptops for debian linux

2003-09-12 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Johann Spies, On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:19:22AM +0200, Magnus von Koeller wrote: well the one basic rule I've set up for my next purchase is this one: Do NOT buy from Dell. Dell does not support Linux and actually does everything to make it as difficult as possible to use.

Re: gprs connect cards

2003-09-12 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Alessandro Speranza, Hi guys. I'm writing to ask your opinion on the following. I've got no phone at home, and I'm thinking about an easy way to connect my laptop to the internet, at least to read email, when I stay working at home. My mobile is wap, but I have no cable, plus I

Re: best laptops for debian linux

2003-09-12 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Johann Spies, On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:19:22AM +0200, Magnus von Koeller wrote: well the one basic rule I've set up for my next purchase is this one: Do NOT buy from Dell. Dell does not support Linux and actually does everything to make it as difficult as possible to use.

Re: gprs connect cards

2003-09-12 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Alessandro Speranza, Hi guys. I'm writing to ask your opinion on the following. I've got no phone at home, and I'm thinking about an easy way to connect my laptop to the internet, at least to read email, when I stay working at home. My mobile is wap, but I have no cable, plus I

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-11 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Sean 'Shaleh' Perry, On Tuesday 09 September 2003 23:34, Tony Godshall wrote: (another option is to have your script touch /fastboot when on battery, as that will completely bypass the running of fsck - just make sure it runs before checkroot.sh!... you'd need a static

re: mailling list archives [Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)]

2003-09-11 Thread Tony Godshall
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:22:07AM +1000, ben wrote: hmm... managed to delete all of my debian laptop emails while mucking about with mozilla..! According to Mattia Dongili, eh :) look in the web archives if you missed something http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/ Damn, I wish you

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-11 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Sean 'Shaleh' Perry, On Tuesday 09 September 2003 23:34, Tony Godshall wrote: (another option is to have your script touch /fastboot when on battery, as that will completely bypass the running of fsck - just make sure it runs before checkroot.sh!... you'd need a static

re: mailling list archives [Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)]

2003-09-11 Thread Tony Godshall
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:22:07AM +1000, ben wrote: hmm... managed to delete all of my debian laptop emails while mucking about with mozilla..! According to Mattia Dongili, eh :) look in the web archives if you missed something http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/ Damn, I wish you

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-10 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Mike Beattie, On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:47:27PM -0500, Tony Godshall wrote: Well, I mount the drives with noatime, which helps. And I used to run noflushd. But to be honest I haven't tested the spindown issue that much. Mostly I use hdparm to get faster disk I/O

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-10 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Mike Beattie, On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:47:27PM -0500, Tony Godshall wrote: Well, I mount the drives with noatime, which helps. And I used to run noflushd. But to be honest I haven't tested the spindown issue that much. Mostly I use hdparm to get faster disk I/O

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-09 Thread Tony Godshall
[Harry] is there a way to avoid the regular fsck run (every n mounts or after m days) when the laptop is in battery mode? I think its quite a waste of battery power for the fsck run and rescheduling for the next reboot (with powersupply available) would be very nice.

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-08 Thread Tony Godshall
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED], On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 10:04:33AM +0200, Harry Brueckner wrote: Hello, is there a way to avoid the regular fsck run (every n mounts or after m days) when the laptop is in battery mode? I think its quite a waste of battery power for the fsck run and

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-08 Thread Tony Godshall
[Harry] is there a way to avoid the regular fsck run (every n mounts or after m days) when the laptop is in battery mode? I think its quite a waste of battery power for the fsck run and rescheduling for the next reboot (with powersupply available) would be very nice. :-)

Re: No fsck in battery mode

2003-09-08 Thread Tony Godshall
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED], On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 10:04:33AM +0200, Harry Brueckner wrote: Hello, is there a way to avoid the regular fsck run (every n mounts or after m days) when the laptop is in battery mode? I think its quite a waste of battery power for the fsck run and

Re: is debian tool for a malicious hacker? ;)

2003-09-06 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Sami Haahtinen, Subject: Re: is debian tool for a malicious hacker? ;) I wonder why i didn't spot this earlier when i visited the same page, but anyways, OSNews opened my eyes: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4381 Debian is the ultimate evil that is attacking all

Re: x troubles on hp omnibook 4100

2003-08-25 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Rob, On Sunday 24 August 2003 06:54 pm, Matt Price wrote: subsidiary question: do you use an external mouse? my touchpad is either a little sticky, or not configured quite right (I assume the latter, since you reported no problems) -- the left-click button doesn't seem to

Re: x troubles on hp omnibook 4100

2003-08-24 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Rob, On Sunday 24 August 2003 06:54 pm, Matt Price wrote: subsidiary question: do you use an external mouse? my touchpad is either a little sticky, or not configured quite right (I assume the latter, since you reported no problems) -- the left-click button doesn't seem to

Re: network hopping tricks: an unsolicited plug for ifupdown-roaming

2003-06-06 Thread Tony Godshall
On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 02:38, Tony Godshall wrote: ... but it seems Thomas Hood's ifupdown-roaming is the best so far! His solution has the configuration reside entirely in /etc/networks/interfaces. And in many instances needs almost no configuration at all. On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08

network hopping tricks: an unsolicited plug for ifupdown-roaming

2003-06-05 Thread Tony Godshall
Hi, all. There's been a lot of discussion on this list about tools to detect which network a laptop is connected to and configure various things. I've tried several, and I think I advocated whereami to someone at some point, but it seems Thomas Hood's ifupdown-roaming is the best so far! His

Re: network hopping tricks: an unsolicited plug for ifupdown-roaming

2003-06-05 Thread Tony Godshall
On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 02:38, Tony Godshall wrote: ... but it seems Thomas Hood's ifupdown-roaming is the best so far! His solution has the configuration reside entirely in /etc/networks/interfaces. And in many instances needs almost no configuration at all. On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08

network hopping tricks: an unsolicited plug for ifupdown-roaming

2003-06-04 Thread Tony Godshall
Hi, all. There's been a lot of discussion on this list about tools to detect which network a laptop is connected to and configure various things. I've tried several, and I think I advocated whereami to someone at some point, but it seems Thomas Hood's ifupdown-roaming is the best so far! His

checking ssh tunnels: best practices?

2003-05-22 Thread Tony Godshall
Hi, all. I've got a laptop (yes, I'm on this list, duh). I take it to a jobsite with me, I take it home, I take it to the office. Some places I can connect to the mailserver directly, but at other places I have to ssh through a leased line back to the office. I've got ssh set up with tunnels

Re: Pcmcia network card startup

2003-05-22 Thread tony godshall
Hi, all. When I was using pcmcia networking, I recall putting network config into /etc/pcmcia/network.opts instead of /etc/network/interfaces . Is this the debian way or does it subvert it? It did work. When my card was inserted, it configured, and when it was ejected, it deconfigured. So my

Re: checking ssh tunnels: best practices?

2003-05-22 Thread Tony Godshall
: On Wed, 21 May 2003, Tony Godshall wrote: The problem is that sometimes these programs don't work right and hassle ensues if I start them up without starting up my ssh session first, or if the ssh session has dropped [snip] Perhaps an inetd based solution would be simpler? Hmmm

Re: setup apm for 'battery low' warning on textconsole

2003-03-16 Thread Tony Godshall
Liked it, adapted acpi_percent so it will work with two (or more presumably) batteries. Also detects bay w/o battery. Also removed BAT0 dependency since mine are numbered 1 and 2. function acpi_percent() { for BATDIR in /proc/acpi/battery/BAT* do BATTERY=$(basename $BATDIR)

Re: airline travel with hitech gear? (a bit offtopic)

2003-03-16 Thread Tony Godshall
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:43:34AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:27, Hubert Chan wrote: You can even use a stock laptop, but fill one of your peripherals with explosives. Getting around airport security is pretty trivial. (You can even go to the Tim Horton's in the

Re: airline travel with hitech gear? (a bit offtopic)

2003-03-16 Thread Tony Godshall
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:00:47PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: From: Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:15, Joris wrote: I know it has little to do with debian on laptops (altough a non-windows OS booting meight look suspecious to customs), but: You must have

Re: Hibarnation / lphdisk / Destroyed MBR (solved)

2003-03-16 Thread Tony Godshall
The last primary doubles as the home for the extended partitions. If you use up all the primaries (four, I think), you can't define any extended. You often see systems with hda1, hda5, hda6... because of this. Thanks, Micros~1/IBM. On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:26:17AM +0100, mi wrote: I can't

Re: setup apm for 'battery low' warning on textconsole

2003-03-16 Thread Tony Godshall
Liked it, adapted acpi_percent so it will work with two (or more presumably) batteries. Also detects bay w/o battery. Also removed BAT0 dependency since mine are numbered 1 and 2. function acpi_percent() { for BATDIR in /proc/acpi/battery/BAT* do BATTERY=$(basename $BATDIR)

Re: airline travel with hitech gear? (a bit offtopic)

2003-03-16 Thread Tony Godshall
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 09:43:34AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:27, Hubert Chan wrote: You can even use a stock laptop, but fill one of your peripherals with explosives. Getting around airport security is pretty trivial. (You can even go to the Tim Horton's in the

Re: airline travel with hitech gear? (a bit offtopic)

2003-03-16 Thread Tony Godshall
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:00:47PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: From: Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:15, Joris wrote: I know it has little to do with debian on laptops (altough a non-windows OS booting meight look suspecious to customs), but: You must have

Re: Hibarnation / lphdisk / Destroyed MBR (solved)

2003-03-16 Thread Tony Godshall
The last primary doubles as the home for the extended partitions. If you use up all the primaries (four, I think), you can't define any extended. You often see systems with hda1, hda5, hda6... because of this. Thanks, Micros~1/IBM. On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:26:17AM +0100, mi wrote: I can't

Re: Sharp SPAM [marketing@sharpsystems.com: Special Price Offer f or Select Sharp Systems Products]

2002-09-29 Thread Tony Godshall
I was the happy owner of a Sharp Zaurus. A colleague and a relative both bought Zauruses (Zaurai?) on my recommendation. Their spam to the list offends me, however, to the point that I will not offer any more of such recommendations. I intend to support linux-friendly vendors and avoid

Re: Sharp SPAM [marketing@sharpsystems.com: Special Price Offer f or Select Sharp Systems Products]

2002-09-29 Thread Tony Godshall
I was the happy owner of a Sharp Zaurus. A colleague and a relative both bought Zauruses (Zaurai?) on my recommendation. Their spam to the list offends me, however, to the point that I will not offer any more of such recommendations. I intend to support linux-friendly vendors and avoid vendors

Re: problesm with cardbus pcmcia on toshiba laptop

2002-09-12 Thread Tony Godshall
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 03:24:37PM -0500, tripolar wrote: Hello I am running kernel 2.4.18 on a toshiba satellite I am unable to get cardbus pcmcia working in /var/log/kern.log kernel: Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22 options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] intel PCIC probe: not

Re: Working and economic wireless solution

2002-07-19 Thread Tony Godshall
Linux Journal (or was it Linux Magazine?) had a great issue devoted to SOHO computing a month or two ago. It dealt with this in some detail. Upshot was: you don't need an access point if you have a computer running linux that you can use to make the bridge. Two pcmcia 802.11b cards will happily

Re: SPAM-filter with mutt

2002-02-20 Thread Tony Godshall
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 02:22:08AM -0800, Will Yardley wrote: Mark J. Reed wrote: If you're not comfortable digging around your Perl install and manually tweaking files, I recommend looking elsewhere. hrmm... i found it fairly easy to install - perl Makefile.pl ; make ; make install.

Re: SPAM-filter with mutt

2002-02-19 Thread Tony Godshall
for reporting. I use spamassassin with Vipul's Razor (spamassissin, IIRC, uses the Razor if it's installed. It does a good job, with few false-positives (I put the false-positives in my whitelist). I have it in my .procmailrc; not directly in mutt. -- Tony Godshall

Re: Toolbar vs slit, was: Comments desired....

2002-01-24 Thread Tony Godshall
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:25:47AM -0500, scott wrote: Marco wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Marco wrote: There is no need for *both* toolbar *and* slit in BB, meaning that for the end user they functionally overlap, [...] It *is* absolutely true. Not at all. The toolbar tells

Re: razor-check

2001-12-12 Thread Tony Godshall
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:45:43PM +0100, Thomas Roessler wrote: On 2001-12-10 14:31:54 -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: I think your best bet is to check them at delivery time via your MDA (maildrop, procmail, etc.) Have it add a header indicating its results, and have mutt perform checks

Re: Off Topic: Why Lotus Notes Sucks

2001-12-03 Thread Tony Godshall
Who is HC? My appologies for CC'ing the list on what was meant as a private forward/reply. Meant to correct it before I hit y (mutt for send). My correspondent (HC) contributes... I'll add a #15: Lotus Notes splits up the SMTP headers and stores them separately in an internal format,

Re: Off Topic: Why Lotus Notes Sucks

2001-12-03 Thread Tony Godshall
Who is HC? My appologies for CC'ing the list on what was meant as a private forward/reply. Meant to correct it before I hit y (mutt for send). My correspondent (HC) contributes... I'll add a #15: Lotus Notes splits up the SMTP headers and stores them separately in an internal format,

Re: Flashing display [was: Why Linux on a Laptop? Reality Check.]

2001-11-30 Thread Tony Godshall
I started with Progeny and am trying to shift to 100% Debian, however something -- possibly an artifact of Progeny -- is tripping things up and I cannot find it. I know there are people working on this issue- progeny.com said so. But why hurry it? The debian dependency system lets you

Is this what HC uses? [Re: Off Topic: Why Lotus Notes Sucks]

2001-11-30 Thread Tony Godshall
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:36:08PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reasons Why Lotus Notes Sucks. 1) Well, its version 5 and its still buggy as hell. 2) you have to make a selection from a dropdown menu to quote someone when you reply, other wise there is no quoted text 3) ...And when

Re: Flashing display [was: Why Linux on a Laptop? Reality Check.]

2001-11-30 Thread Tony Godshall
I started with Progeny and am trying to shift to 100% Debian, however something -- possibly an artifact of Progeny -- is tripping things up and I cannot find it. I know there are people working on this issue- progeny.com said so. But why hurry it? The debian dependency system lets you

Is this what HC uses? [Re: Off Topic: Why Lotus Notes Sucks]

2001-11-30 Thread Tony Godshall
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:36:08PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reasons Why Lotus Notes Sucks. 1) Well, its version 5 and its still buggy as hell. 2) you have to make a selection from a dropdown menu to quote someone when you reply, other wise there is no quoted text 3) ...And when you

Re: debian on a 486 with 2 mb?

2001-11-18 Thread Tony Godshall
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 03:01:58PM +, Tom Breza wrote: And suddenly derZiegelmann had this magical idea: i got a ibm ps/2 n51sx recently (by accident ;-)) with win 3.1 installed on it. now i'm wondering if it is possible to install debian on it. if it is possbile then i have

Re: debian on a 486 with 2 mb?

2001-11-18 Thread Tony Godshall
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 03:01:58PM +, Tom Breza wrote: And suddenly derZiegelmann had this magical idea: i got a ibm ps/2 n51sx recently (by accident ;-)) with win 3.1 installed on it. now i'm wondering if it is possible to install debian on it. if it is possbile then i have

Re: What to do with my PCMCIA-Slot?

2001-11-06 Thread Tony Godshall
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:59:20PM -0500, Lee Bradshaw wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 05:33:42PM +0100, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: So I have 2 questions: * Does my Ethernet-card work if I put it in with force ('file the edge' - I'm serious)? No. You probably have a 32-bit (Cardbus,

[freenet-devl] idea: insert freessites as tar.gz split-file

2001-10-25 Thread Tony Godshall
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:24:41AM +0100, degs wrote: > Hi, > > It occurred to me that there might be some benefit to inserting freesites as > a single redundant splitfile containing an archive of the site. (Or two > archives - one for the static portion and one for today's insert). > > This

Re: dhcp and debian install

2001-10-25 Thread Tony Godshall
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:42:22AM +0800, Timothy Ryder wrote: I am trying to install debian and am having a problem. My cable modem provider requires that I pass a computer name to them to use dhcp. With most other distros I would type /sbin/dhcpcd -h computername, but with debian I can't.

Re: dhcp and debian install

2001-10-25 Thread Tony Godshall
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:42:22AM +0800, Timothy Ryder wrote: I am trying to install debian and am having a problem. My cable modem provider requires that I pass a computer name to them to use dhcp. With most other distros I would type /sbin/dhcpcd -h computername, but with debian I

Re: Upgrading Progeny to Unstable

2001-10-24 Thread Tony Godshall
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:29:24PM -0400, Doc - KD4E wrote: I am trying the comand (see below) sequence just to see if it works better than the Progeny-Woody version that repeatedly fails to support pcmcia on my laptop. ... # apt-get update # dpkg --purge --force-deps libfreetype6 # apt-get

Re: bbappconf

2001-10-22 Thread Tony Godshall
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 07:41:31PM -0400, tp40 wrote: Hi all, I just got bbappconf up and running. I have a question: when I run it, it appears as an annoying rectangle at the top-left hand corner of my scree, kinda like bbpager, except it's just a plain little block. How can I get rid

Re: Best network card for network install?

2001-09-26 Thread Tony Godshall
I did a network install via Linksys pcmcia card but I had to drop to shell, edit (/target?)/etc/pcmcia/network.opts manually and then (/target?)/etc/init.d/pcmcia (re?)start . (Sorry my memory is fuzzy... didn't take notes :( .) At that point ifconfig told me eth0 was configured so I exited the

Re: Best network card for network install?

2001-09-26 Thread Tony Godshall
I'm glad to hear Glen had better experience than I did. Glen and Brian, could you note which release you're installing? As I noted, my experience was with slink. -- Tony On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 09:58:15AM -0700, Glen Mehn wrote: before configure device drivers do Alternate-- configure pcmcia

Re: Woody - PCMCIA Ethernet

2001-09-10 Thread Tony Godshall
I had a similar problem when I did a potato install and upgraded to unstable. I got around it by commenting out any axnet drivers in the /etc/pcmcia/* . On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 09:50:27AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I Recently installed Debian on a laptop with a flaky cd-rom and no

Re: Woody - PCMCIA Ethernet

2001-09-10 Thread Tony Godshall
I had a similar problem when I did a potato install and upgraded to unstable. I got around it by commenting out any axnet drivers in the /etc/pcmcia/* . On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 09:50:27AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I Recently installed Debian on a laptop with a flaky cd-rom and no

Re: led test

2001-08-21 Thread Tony Godshall
With a vertical bar of 7 or 8 LEDs, present a scan of the matrix of the characters in the message you wish to present. Ideally there should also be a row of lights or some other object that the eyes would track past your column of LEDs. What you'd get is a message that would appear then someone

Re: bblaunch memory

2001-08-17 Thread Tony Godshall
[Scott] If something sometimes works it is probably related to the amount of time it takes the window to map. See the -p parameter. Thanks, Scott! I'll try that. All of that said, I'll tell you this: I don't like bblaunch very much and don't even use it. I am planning (when time

bblaunch memory

2001-08-16 Thread Tony Godshall
Hi blackboxers, When using bblaunch I usually get something like this, but it usually does what I want... bblaunch --omnipresent --decor 0 --stack 0 tkmixer -geometry 384x190-5-334 bblaunch --omnipresent --decor 0 --stack 0 xautv -geometry -0-0 nbc Warning: XGetCommand can't allocate enough

Re: pointer to objects

2001-08-14 Thread Tony Godshall
Make the methods public. On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 01:30:09PM +0900, eric wrote: Hello there, I'm fairly new to c++programming, and I'm sure the question I'm going to ask has a very very simple answer but since I don't know it, and have searched on the Internet for an answer, without

Re: Your website submission!!

2001-08-14 Thread Tony Godshall
OK, so who sends out the advertising invoices? On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 06:11:51AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xircom dual-card (modem/ethernet) missing cable

2001-08-10 Thread Tony Godshall
ebay? Heck, you can probably buy a replacement card complete with cables on ebay for what such a specialty cable would cost retail. On the other hand, I don't know what shipping costs to .nl . Is there an eBay Europe or equivalent? (Sometimes I see GBP prices on eBay, so I guess they at least

Re: xircom dual-card (modem/ethernet) missing cable

2001-08-10 Thread Tony Godshall
ebay? Heck, you can probably buy a replacement card complete with cables on ebay for what such a specialty cable would cost retail. On the other hand, I don't know what shipping costs to .nl . Is there an eBay Europe or equivalent? (Sometimes I see GBP prices on eBay, so I guess they at least

freenet port conflict with wwwoffle... what to do

2001-07-28 Thread Tony Godshall
Hi. Freenet's default port for fwproxy is 8081 but I already have wwwoffle on that port (it's primary proxy is on 8080 and its control connection at 8081). I use wwwoffle even on my permanently-connected box so I can take websites with me on my laptop to read on the bus/in the park/on the plane

stopping laptop sound on suspend?

2001-07-25 Thread Tony Godshall
My OB800 doesn't come back from a suspend when I've suspended with music playing (xmms or mpg123 or freeamp) :( This is a bummer because I use my headphones to drown out distractions while I work. Most of the time this is not much of a problem, since I am on A/C or I stop the music before I

Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending

2001-07-20 Thread Tony Godshall
Oh, that's a shame. On my laptop there's an actual separate key called Fn, sitting in between Ctrl and Alt. Yeah, mine has one too, but it's to the left of ctrl. It's intended purely for switching on these Toshiba-specific keyboard functions (it's also used to switch on the numberpad

Omnibook 800 feature fn-keys [Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending]

2001-07-20 Thread Tony Godshall
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:42:22AM +0200, Mounie G wrote: The good point with HP is the avaibility of the manuals in PDF on Web. OK, I went looking but couldn't even get to the HP Omnibook 800 page. The choose product drop box contains only HP HP HP all the way down and a search for Omnibook

Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending

2001-07-20 Thread Tony Godshall
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:37:55AM -0400, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: Could you do what you want with xset? When I type `xset dpms force standby`, I get a blank screen, but nothing else seems to slow down. It also looks like you could disable 'suspend' and 'off' modes so it would stay in

Re: Omnibook 800 feature fn-keys [Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending]

2001-07-20 Thread Tony Godshall
FN+On/Off If turn-on password protection is active, suspends (turns off) the OmniBook so the password is required at turn-on. FN+F1 ... F12 Starts the assigned application, which you can change. Any ideas how to capture this in Linux/X? I tried setting up a shortcut with

Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending

2001-07-20 Thread Tony Godshall
... Second time, my screen goes totally blank (I assume it's driving the signal out the external connector.) So this should be using less power since it's not driving the LCD or the backlight, but driving external (even absent) devices can be a little bad for battery power too. ...

Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending

2001-07-20 Thread Tony Godshall
are you sure the back light stays on when you close the laptop? my laptop (ARM TS759) has a switch ... [--Craig the physicist] Sure does. Closed it to a tiny crack and its still on. Doesn't seem to be any such switch on the OB. (On many machines closing the lid autmatically suspends it, so

Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending

2001-07-20 Thread Tony Godshall
... Please forgive me for arguing this manini point. CLARIFICATION manini (Hawaiian) When used as an adjective, usually means small or stingy. The most common noun usage refers to a reef surgeonfish. (We're Watching) -- http://www.islandscene.com/glossary/#M Info about the fish at...

Re: pcmcia nics

2001-07-20 Thread Tony Godshall
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:20:29PM +0200, Walter Hofmann wrote: Any recommendations on a pcmcia nic? I have a 3com EtherLink III 10-Base-T/Coax card which works really good. There were never any problems with it (I use it for four years now). Walter I have three el-cheapo linksys ebay

Re: Thin-X-Client-Laptop

2001-07-20 Thread Tony Godshall
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:14:54AM +0100, Matteo Semplice wrote: On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: Hi folks - thanks for all of your hints regarding my problem. I think I am close to the solution - maybe you can help me again? I want to run X-Applications on my (old)

Re: PCMCIA manager stops sytem

2001-07-19 Thread Tony Godshall
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:34:28AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! First off all, I am new on this mailing list, so please be patient. Now I try to install Debian Potato (I know its not the newes one) on my Laptop (IPC ,Powernote, AMD K6-2, 500Mhz, 4 GB) . I ran the installation

PCMCIA NIC installs [was Re: PCMCIA NICs on woody]

2001-07-19 Thread Tony Godshall
I also had an issue with a PCMCIA NIC install; mine was a floppy + net install. At the point where it loads pcmcia module support it reported an error it couldn't get past so I went to another console and got a shell and poked around. Oddly ifconfig showed the network up but misconfigured,

turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending

2001-07-19 Thread Tony Godshall
Anyone know if there's a tool to turn off the backlight or the video subsystem without turning putting the whole laptop. I like to start some mp3's playing and then shut the case. I'd like the battery to last as long as possible in this mode and not get so warm in my backpack (biking home from

Re: RE: PCMCIA: networking with a Xircom 10MBit-Card

2001-07-19 Thread Tony Godshall
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:53:21PM +0200, =?iso-8859-1?Q? Bernard=20Rei=DFberg ?= wrote: Ok, the automatic detection of an inserted card is working now, also the automatic shutdown of my networkdevice if I remove the card. But I could not try it in a real network yet. So how did you fix

Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending

2001-07-19 Thread Tony Godshall
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:56:25AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 06:32:50PM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote: Anyone know if there's a tool to turn off the backlight ... I've got a Toshiba laptop, not a HP, but it has various BIOS settings ... Have you checked whether your

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread Tony Godshall
Par is much better, of course ... http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/ apt-get --simulate install par apt-get install par

Re: via82cxxx

2001-07-16 Thread Tony Godshall
I've got a question about sound configuration. I know I have a VIA PCI audio controller : I/O 220-22F IRQ 5 and it seems to be sound blaster compatible. What should I do to get it working ??? Many thanks in advance, Olivier. I had the same problem about 2 months ago

Re: Thin-X-Client-Laptop

2001-07-12 Thread Tony Godshall
I've also found the vncserver/vncviewer combo to be very useful in this context: even the window manager runs on the server, so the laptop load is very thin indeed. Why is that better than using the X protocol to run the window manager on the remote/fast machine, like both sets of

Re: Thin-X-Client-Laptop

2001-07-11 Thread Tony Godshall
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 05:01:36PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:27:05PM +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: Hi, I want to run X-Applications on my (old) laptop (486; Debian 2.0) while connected (via PLIP) to the Server (Pentium, Suse 7.1). On the laptop I

duplicated it [Re: timestamp of mailbox file is not updated]

2001-07-11 Thread Tony Godshall
I was going to ask for what your alias was, but I went and tried it myself. ls -l shows the same effect! On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 07:08:27PM -0500, Andy Spiegl wrote: By the way you are also wrong about the proof of the 60 seconds. :-) I had done this test not 5 months ago, but very recently.

Re: [curiosa] Re: Debian Centre of Mass

2001-07-10 Thread Tony Godshall
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 07:06:51PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: Janos Holanyi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: there was a question regarding the Debian Center of Mass ignored before: Was the weight of each Debian develper taken into account when calculating the Center of Mass? No. How

Re: [freenet-devl] Node discovery redux

2001-07-05 Thread Tony Godshall
I would agree with Ian that it will be made easy/automatic whether the current freenet apps support it or not. I differ (I think) in that I think it must be safer than just the one seed IP addr: I would vote for the strength- in-numbers strategy proposed in a prior thread. I think Dr.

Re: batch browsing

2001-07-05 Thread Tony Godshall
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:33:32PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote: Since you seem to have gotten a reply to your question, I feel compelled to ask about something else you mentioned in passing in your post... On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 05:58:56PM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote: What has this to do

Re: Mouse Problems, updated

2001-07-05 Thread Tony Godshall
I have a Compaq LTE5300 laptop on which I installed Debian 2.2r3. I installed about 750MB or so of software, including XFree86, KDE 2.1, GNOME, and others. It was a pretty standard install, using apt-get via http. My mouse (a PS/2 pin-type pointing device) worked fine in console, using

Re: batch browsing

2001-07-05 Thread Tony Godshall
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:44:59PM -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:12:34PM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote: [ksieben] I woud use wget: wget -r -k -H -l X -nc http://google-search-results wher X is the level you like to (travers?) the links Yeah, that works

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