Re: Finding left-over libraries

1999-12-10 Thread Paul J. Keenan
Matthias Hertel wrote: > Well, its not clean, and it doesn't even work correctly (it doesn't > correctly handle |-dependecies), and there are probably other bugs, > but here is a perl script that I threw together when I was new to > Debian (and perl) that does what you want: It lists all packages

Re: porn, ads, custom filters for HTTP

1999-12-10 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Paolo Pedaletti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The internet server I'm setting up for a school needs >> a filter for porn, ads en maybe some custom sites. >> I'm useing squid at the moment... > I use at home junkfilter with wwwoffle. Do you mean junkbuster? That certainly can do the job. And w

Re: masquerading

1999-12-10 Thread Igor Skypala
NEWS FROM ME: uninstaled ipmasq (with dselect) and masquerade _is_working_, but only between linux box and internal network, when pinging external host from internal net its unreachable :-( > I need masqerade my internal eth network ( another one comp with W95) and > made everything what I > f

mounting cdrw

1999-12-10 Thread kometboy
I am using Debian 2.1 upgraded to potato, with the 2.2.13 kernel. I have installed a Ricoh MP7060A CD-R/RW as the master on my second IDE controller. It replaces a cdrom player that was identified as /dev/hdc. I am able to burn cd's successfully. However, since I want to use cdr's to backup my fil

Re: porn, ads, custom filters for HTTP

1999-12-10 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao Onno, > The internet server I'm setting up for a school needs > a filter for porn, ads en maybe some custom sites. > I'm useing squid at the moment... > > Has anyone a solution or suggestion on how to > solve this problem ? I use at home junkfilter with wwwoffle. It works. :-) Ciao

[Philadelphia] Debian's Menu Package: A Catalog of Debian Software

1999-12-10 Thread Chris Fearnley
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) presents Debian's Menu Package: A Catalog of Debian Software When: Wednesday 15 December 1999

Re: apt does not get...

1999-12-10 Thread Shaul Karl
What is the contents of your apt configuration files (/etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/apt/sources.list)? > > Hi guys, > > Got a major problem here. I cannot update my potato installation: all > connections in apt or ftp, apt directly or through dselect, are timed out > as soon as they try to downlo

Re: masquerading

1999-12-10 Thread aphro
sounds like you dont have ip forwarding enabled, and make sure the gateway on the w95 box points to the ip of the linux box nate On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, igi technik wrote: tech >I'm newbie in Linux world so don't bite me... tech >I need masqerade my internal eth network ( another one comp with W95)

Re: upgrade form slink to potato

1999-12-10 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi, > > Could anyone tell me exactly how how to upgrade from slink to potato with apt? > Assuming you have suitable /etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/apt/sources.list: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade

Re: Error 1

1999-12-10 Thread Shaul Karl
As far as I know, qt is some sort of library for managing the interaction between the user and the X-window system. Your problem seems to me a dependency problem. Doesn't deselect solves these kind of problems by itself? --- Begin Message --- I try to install a e-mail program and I have the

Re: /usr Read-only

1999-12-10 Thread Shaul Karl
> On potato /usr is told to be a Read-only file system ?! > > My fstab says: /dev/hda7 /usr ext2 defaults 0 2 > The defaults of mount (8) in this context is rw. IMHO, having /usr mounted ro is only a suggestion. Where have you read that?

Re: porn, ads, custom filters for HTTP

1999-12-10 Thread Sven Gaerner
Onno wrote: > The internet server I'm setting up for a school needs > a filter for porn, ads en maybe some custom sites. > I'm useing squid at the moment... > > Has anyone a solution or suggestion on how to > solve this problem ? > > Regards, > > Onno > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EM

Re: Telnet client choices?

1999-12-10 Thread Riku Saikkonen
Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Are there any telnet clients available other than the one that comes in >the telnet package? There is telnet-ssl (aka ssltelnet), which supports SSL encryption but should work without it too. I've also heard of a Telnet client that supports ZModem file tr

Re: Potato/Unstable Issues

1999-12-10 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > Craig Coles wrote: > > 1: On a couple of boxes, while doing an update with dselect, I keep seeing > > the message > > > > Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm line 305 > > > > There is a ReadLine

Re: porn, ads, custom filters for HTTP

1999-12-10 Thread Matthias Hertel
Hello, Onno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The internet server I'm setting up for a school needs > a filter for porn, ads en maybe some custom sites. > I'm useing squid at the moment... > > Has anyone a solution or suggestion on how to > solve this problem ? Have a look at http://www.squid-cach

Re: Potato/Unstable Issues

1999-12-10 Thread Joey Hess
Craig Coles wrote: > 1: On a couple of boxes, while doing an update with dselect, I keep seeing > the message > > Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm line 305 > > There is a ReadLine.pmm file there. Install libreadline-gnu-perl. This is

Potato/Unstable Issues

1999-12-10 Thread Craig Coles
I have about 6 different i386 intel boxes that I am testing/using the unstable 2.2 version of debian on and wanted to ask the list for any help on the following: 1: On a couple of boxes, while doing an update with dselect, I keep seeing the message Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap

Ispell module for html files

1999-12-10 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Anyone knows about a module of ispell to fix errors in html files? Thanks, Paulo Henrique -- Abraços,PH Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Consultant Linux Solutions -- http://www.linuxsolutions.com.br Av. Presid

Re: Routing

1999-12-10 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Denis J. Cirulis wrote: > I'm wondering is there any HOWTO on routing or maybe someone can > explain me how does it works. I must mension that i'm do not planning > to use RIP or OSPF routing protocols i want to know everything that is > interconnected with static routing tabl

Re: netfilter

1999-12-10 Thread Ookhoi
Hi Marcin Kurc, > Does anyone compiled netfilter on debian? (0.1.11 or 0.1.12) /me, yes. Ookhoi

Re: masquerading

1999-12-10 Thread Marcin Kurc
adjust it to your needs: #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 IPADDR=192.168.1.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST} route add -net ${NETWORK} ipfwadm -F -p deny ipfwadm -F -a m -S

Routing

1999-12-10 Thread Denis J. Cirulis
Hello Debian People ! I'm wondering is there any HOWTO on routing or maybe someone can explain me how does it works. I must mension that i'm do not planning to use RIP or OSPF routing protocols i want to know everything that is interconnected with static routing table. Thanks. -- +---

masquerading

1999-12-10 Thread igi technik
I'm newbie in Linux world so don't bite me... I need masqerade my internal eth network ( another one comp with W95) and made everything what I found in IP masqerading HOWTO (kernel 2.0.36 recompiled, ipfwadm configured) -- it dos'nt work... linux box is connected and working (this machine) and w

bind errors

1999-12-10 Thread Evan Moore
so my server is up after the upgrade to slink, but i still have a few wrinkles to iron out. one of them being bind. after the upgrade i am now getting an error in the daemon log info named[7679]: sysquery: findns error (NXDOMAIN) on dns.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca? as i have not had the time yet to read up o

Re: voodoo3 3000

1999-12-10 Thread Marshal Wong
Cool! xf86config didn't give that resolution as an option, so I thought that my monitor couldn't handle it, but it can of course since Win 95 does. I just added it in, and it works! Thanks. Marshal From: Sean Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: voodoo3 3000 Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 08:42:29

Re: SB PCI 128

1999-12-10 Thread Kent West
Ian Stirling wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > > I did not see the entries you mentioned. So I put those entries that you > > mentioned > > in, and commented out the "soundcore" entry already in the file. Then I did > > a "rmmod > > es1371" and "rmmod soundcore", then did "insmod sound" and got a me

Re: Changing Enlightnment Netscape icons

1999-12-10 Thread Marshal Wong
Right click in the icon box and choose this iconbox settings. Marshal From: John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Changing Enlightnment Netscape icons Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 14:42:25 + > Marshal Wong wrote: > > > > If you using the enlightenment in potato,(which I assume you're using

Re: Mailing list headers [Was Re: ssh vs telnet - which is faster?]

1999-12-10 Thread Peter S Galbraith
RAVIKANT K RAO wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: > > > the guy is too picky, > > that guy is me. > > if i replied to a message like that I would go out of my way to > > CC: because those CAPS are more annoying then any cc:. > > *only* the "don't bother cc-ing" was in caps becau

Re: Mailing list headers [Was Re: ssh vs telnet - which is faster?]

1999-12-10 Thread aphro
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, RAVIKANT K RAO wrote: ravika > yeah , i think pine defaults that way too - kinda sucks - one of the ravika >many reasons i shifted pine -> mutt full time. ive been usin pine since 95 and its hard to switch..looked at mutt tho and it looks cool. ravika >filter *owner-linux-

Re: Mailing list headers [Was Re: ssh vs telnet - which is faster?]

1999-12-10 Thread RAVIKANT K RAO
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: aphro> well, i use pine, and from what I see pine defaults to replying to aphro> the aphro> to change this behavior, but that is what it seems to default to. yeah , i think pine defaults that way too - kinda sucks - one of the many reasons i shifted pine -> m

Re: [Fwd: C-Kermit 7.0 Beta.11 ready for testing]

1999-12-10 Thread William Burrow
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 04:10:00PM -0500, Tom Allard wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Is Debian going to include Kermit in its next iteration, or is it too late > > to include now? Notice Frank de Cruz' recent comment on licensing... > > It's still not DFSG compliant: > > According to the li

Re: boot disk hangs on my puta

1999-12-10 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
How long did you wait after it hung. Sometimes it can sit there for quite a while in that scsi-detection part but it does boot after a minute or so. Andrew Walker wrote: > The boot disk seems to work on my new puta but it seems to hang on my > old one it seems to be at that point where it trys t

Re: Kernel SCSI for Adaptec 1505

1999-12-10 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
A "new Adaptec 1505 scsi card"? Well, this card could hardly be new. Anyway! This card is incapable of auto-detect. You *must* supply kernel (or module if you're loading as a module) options to tell the driver what IO, IRQ, etc. you want to use. For instance, in my /etc/lilo.conf file I've got:

Re: Mailing list headers [Was Re: ssh vs telnet - which is faster?]

1999-12-10 Thread aphro
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, RAVIKANT K RAO wrote: ravika > true , but if there was an option whereby i could avoid getting multiple ravika >copies , but just get single copies , wont it be simpler for me / you / ravika >anyone else ? ravika > whats the big idea in purposefully getting multiple copies

Re: need help with modem

1999-12-10 Thread Robert Helmer
Jason, You can change the permissions on the device ( /dev/ttyS0 or whatever ) make it writable by the dialout group, and put the users who can use the modem in the dialout group. --- ls -al /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw1 root dialout4, 64 Nov 27 02:44 /dev/ttyS0 If you want to let use

Re: Mailing list headers [Was Re: ssh vs telnet - which is faster?]

1999-12-10 Thread RAVIKANT K RAO
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: > the guy is too picky, that guy is me. my .signature has that info - i leave it on when i make posts to all lists that i am subscribed to. i still dont understand whats picky about it. > if somene asks for help they should take it in any > form it comes

Re: Bootdisk for ThinkPad

1999-12-10 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 9 Dec 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > Dale, can you try just booting with the rescue disk at > ? > > Let me know if this doesn't work... Works just fine! Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of "The Debian Linux User's Guide" _-_-_-_-_

Re: slink ssh linked against RSAREF2?

1999-12-10 Thread aphro
no, RSAREF2 is about as non free as you can get, to use it commercially it costs about $15k or something nate On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Pere Camps wrote: pere >Hi! pere > pere > Is slink ssh linked against RSAREF2? I can't find any place where pere >it says something about it, either yes or no. per

Re: Netscape time

1999-12-10 Thread aphro
when you use pine, mutt and elm you configured them to use the remote host? Show the headings of the mail(s). i have not had netscape do that i just sent a test mail from netscape 4.7/IRIX6.2 to my main account(pine) and it worked fine.. : >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Dec 10 07:29:01 1999 -0800

Re: Mailing list headers [Was Re: ssh vs telnet - which is faster?]

1999-12-10 Thread aphro
the guy is too picky, if somene asks for help they should take it in any form it comes in, getting 1 or 2 extra mails is not a big deal, sometimes i get 20 mails about 1 thing, takes just an extra minute of time to filter and delete the duplicates. if i replied to a message like that I would go ou

Re: slink ssh linked against RSAREF2?

1999-12-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On 10/12/99 Pere Camps wrote: Is slink ssh linked against RSAREF2? I can't find any place where it says something about it, either yes or no. Does anybody know for sure? I assume you mean ssh-non-free, which versions after 1.2.26 at the very least will show this if you type:

need help with modem

1999-12-10 Thread Jason Winters
is there a way to let any user who wants to use the modem to let them?

Re: Bind resolving names sometimes only in the second time.

1999-12-10 Thread aphro
Is the problem with that particular domain? I had similar problems with domains that had too low a TTL value, which can only be changed by the admins that run the machine the domain is hosted on. beyond that, i suggest assigning multiple domain name servers in squid.conf even if they are not a lo

slink ssh linked against RSAREF2?

1999-12-10 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Is slink ssh linked against RSAREF2? I can't find any place where it says something about it, either yes or no. Does anybody know for sure? Thanks! ps: please reply directly to me as I'm not subscribed to the list now as it has too much traffic. -- p.

Re: Finding left-over libraries]

1999-12-10 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Finding left-over libraries Date: Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 11:13:32PM +0100 In reply to:peter karlsson Quoting peter karlsson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| Is there any way in Debian to find out what packages no other packages >| depend on? Take a look at the binstats package. Fr

Re: Trying for over a week to fix apt-get

1999-12-10 Thread Paul Keenan
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > I attach here what apt-get spits out to the screen. What should I do? A > similar thing I get when I try to install kernel-source-2.2.13. Please > help, > Thanks, > Antonio. > Please note I have no experience with apt, but I did experience a similar problem when upgr

Re: Changing Enlightnment Netscape icons

1999-12-10 Thread John Foster
Marshal Wong wrote: > > If you using the enlightenment in potato,(which I assume you're using > since that's the one that gives the spider icon.), change the iconbox > settings. > Change Icon image display policy to "Use application icon, " > > Marshal ---

Trying for over a week to fix apt-get

1999-12-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I attach here what apt-get spits out to the screen. What should I do? A similar thing I get when I try to install kernel-source-2.2.13. Please help, Thanks, Antonio. apt-get update Get:1 http://security.debian.org unstable/updates Packages [2279B] Hit http://security.debian.org unstab

rsync and squid

1999-12-10 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi, I'm using squid on a internet gateway and want to use apt-move that requires rsync to download and update the local mirror. I had set the environment variable hhtp_proxy for apt-get and other tools. How can I use rsync with my squid proxy? Does anyone has an idea?? Sven

Re: Assigning a log file to a tty device

1999-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho) wrote: > I would like to assign the /var/log/apache/access.log file to the tty8 >console. I know it could be done on syslog.conf file. > Could someone give an example ? Try putting a line like: 8:2345:respawn:tail -f /var/log/apache/access.log > /dev/t

Re: Finding left-over libraries

1999-12-10 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
Hello, You might try the program binstats contained in the package binstats, at least in slink. It's not exactly the tool you are talking about, but it might be useful. Armin

Re: Netscape time

1999-12-10 Thread mheyes
My smtp server is somewhere far away. But I did try a couple of things: I tried sending mail with mutt, elm and kmail and they all put the correct timestamp on the mail. Starting to look like another Netscape problem? Looked for some kind of time setting in .netscape but didn't see anything. I'm

porn, ads, custom filters for HTTP

1999-12-10 Thread Onno
The internet server I'm setting up for a school needs a filter for porn, ads en maybe some custom sites. I'm useing squid at the moment... Has anyone a solution or suggestion on how to solve this problem ? Regards, Onno

apt does not get...

1999-12-10 Thread Kai Martens
Hi guys, Got a major problem here. I cannot update my potato installation: all connections in apt or ftp, apt directly or through dselect, are timed out as soon as they try to download anything. Manual downloding with ftp from the very same sites okay. Unfortunately the diagnostics are really ju

Re: ISO-8859-15: setfont and default font

1999-12-10 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > Hi, > > I have defined iso-8859-15 charset in my $HOME/.bash_profile, and it > works as such if I set a proper font for it, eg.: > > # setfont lat9u-16.psf > > lat9u-16.psf is a font I copied into /usr/share/consolefonts/. I use > /etc/kbd/default.map

Re: Mailing list headers [Was Re: ssh vs telnet - which is faster?]

1999-12-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Kenneth Stephen wrote: > On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > Friday, December 10, 1999, 4:04:47 AM, RAVIKANT wrote: > > > * DO NOT BOTHER CC-ING THE MAIL REPLY , BECAUSE I AM ALREADY SUBSCRIBED TO > > > ALL THE LISTS - ILUGC , LINUX-INDIA , LINUX-NEWBIE , DEBIAN-USER * > > > > Might

Mailing list headers [Was Re: ssh vs telnet - which is faster?]

1999-12-10 Thread Kenneth Stephen
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > Friday, December 10, 1999, 4:04:47 AM, RAVIKANT wrote: > > * DO NOT BOTHER CC-ING THE MAIL REPLY , BECAUSE I AM ALREADY SUBSCRIBED TO > > ALL THE LISTS - ILUGC , LINUX-INDIA , LINUX-NEWBIE , DEBIAN-USER * > > Might I suggest having them set reply-tos l

Assigning a log file to a tty device

1999-12-10 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
Hi, I would like to assign the /var/log/apache/access.log file to the tty8 console. I know it could be done on syslog.conf file. Could someone give an example ? Thanks. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho ? Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho Dep. Informatics Engineering

Bind resolving names sometimes only in the second time.

1999-12-10 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, my ISP is having a problem (pehaps with bind) that users using Squid get sometimes an error only in the first time that it types the url: The requested URL could not be retrieved While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.terra.com.br/ The following error was encount

Re: WordPerfect 8 Floating Point Exception

1999-12-10 Thread David Blackman
no you need to libc5 versions of eveyrthig xpm ii xpm-bin 3.4j-0.6 X Pixmap libraries - associated binaries ii xpm4-altdev 3.4j-0.6 X Pixmap libraries (for libc5) - development ii xpm4.7 3.4j-0.6 X Pixmap libraries (for libc5) - runtime ii xpm4g

Re: ipmasqadm

1999-12-10 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 10:18:43 +0100, Onno wrote: >At 09:02 AM 12/9/99 -0800, Dave Wiard wrote: >>could somebody help me out with this one. i'm trying to masq my amd >>behind my alpha, but i only get the following error reported back upon >>trying to exec ipmasqadm: >> >>/usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw

Re: [root: Cron run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily]

1999-12-10 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Marco Giardini wrote: > who can let me know how to solve this annoing daily message? > > Thanks That mail should go to debian-user... > - Forwarded message from Cron Daemon - > > Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 06:25:04 +0100 > From: roo

Time out settings problem?

1999-12-10 Thread Shirley O'Neill
Just on the off chance.  I can't print because I get an error message saying to increase the time out settings but when I do it makes no difference.  I have tried closing down everything and leaving it  and coming back to no avail.  Any ideas?   Regards   Shirley

Re: Finding left-over libraries

1999-12-10 Thread Matthias Hertel
Hi, Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > *- On 7 Dec, peter karlsson wrote about "Finding left-over libraries" > > I remove packages, unnecessary libraries are not removed. Because > > of this, I would like to get a list of packages that no packages > > depend on (restricted, for instance,

Re: ipmasqadm

1999-12-10 Thread Onno
At 09:02 AM 12/9/99 -0800, Dave Wiard wrote: >could somebody help me out with this one. i'm trying to masq my amd >behind my alpha, but i only get the following error reported back upon >trying to exec ipmasqadm: > >/usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $SEEN_IP 4000 -R $HIDE_IP 4000 >portfw: se

Re: voodoo3 3000

1999-12-10 Thread Sean Johnson
I told it to? I just added it to the list of resolutions that I wanted to be supported via xf86config for each color depth. I hand edited the /etc/X11/XF86Config file to make 32bpp my default color depth, and voila. The potato SVGA X-Server works just fine with this (I'm running potato as well, an

Re: /usr Read-only

1999-12-10 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, > On potato /usr is told to be a Read-only file system ?! > > My fstab says: /dev/hda7 /usr ext2 defaults 0 2 man mount: defaults Use default options: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async. So, what's wrong here? Regards, Thoma

svgalib and ati [long mail]

1999-12-10 Thread mfischer
[warning, mail is long and has >80 chars] Hello, I've a 264GT-IIc (3D Rage IIc) graphics card (Output also from SuperProbe), works great under X, but segfaults every time when using svgalib. allready the first call, vga_init crashes. I've allready tried all available chipsets in /etc/vg

Re: ssh vs telnet - which is faster?

1999-12-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, December 10, 1999, 4:04:47 AM, RAVIKANT wrote: > Now this beat me... I suppose its some networking fundas , which I badly > lack ... and the only reason I could think up was , the compression over > eth0 bottlenecks because of the insanely high speeds over eth0 as compared > to ppp

ssh vs telnet - which is faster?

1999-12-10 Thread RAVIKANT K RAO
Hola, [ Long mail , but interesting stuff. I'll put the question first here , and then a whole 2 pages of explanations/details/reasoning and then the question once again ] * * * * Question : ssh + compression is "faster" than telnet over ppp while telnet is "faster" then ssh + compression ove

Re: Anyone using Mustek 1200ED Scanner with linux?

1999-12-10 Thread Phil Brutsche
If this thing is a parallel port scanner it won't work with Linux. Not now, and not for a long time from now, if ever. Most of these things emulate SCSI in some way over the parallel port to the scanner - Windows sees a SCSI device; thus the scanning software does. Some sort of transformation i

PowerStorm3D10 and XFree86.

1999-12-10 Thread Jens K. Olsen
Has anyone successfully set up XFree86 to run in 1280x1024 on a machine with PowerStorm 3D10? I have a DEC 200i. I beleive this machine has a PowerStorm 3D10 graphics card, but I am not 100% sure. I am now running XFree86 at 800x600 in 8bpp with the SVGA server. It's running, but the display is sm

Re: Changing Enlightnment Netscape icons

1999-12-10 Thread Marshal Wong
If you using the enlightenment in potato,(which I assume you're using since that's the one that gives the spider icon.), change the iconbox settings. Change Icon image display policy to "Use application icon, " Marshal From: John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Changing Enlightnment Netsc

Re: gateway.net

1999-12-10 Thread William Burrow
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 10:00:45PM -0500, William T Wilson wrote: > Another alternative is to inspect the Windows 95 support. If their setup If one is a purist with no Windows available, one gets stuck (ie me). Dunno how to get onto Sprint. ;) > > Are you going to find one that supports Linux?

Anyone using Mustek 1200ED Scanner with linux?

1999-12-10 Thread John Foster
I would like to here from anyone using a Mustek 1200ED scanner with Linux. It works beautifully with Windows, but my productions system is Linux and I want to get it working there. Hardware setup is: extra parrallel ports added via a SIIG 2 PCI dual port card. I think the linux system recognizes t

Changing Enlightnment Netscape icons

1999-12-10 Thread John Foster
I do not like the spiders used as Netscape icons in enlightenment. Anyone know how to change them? Thanks! -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine quality servers and workstations. We specialize in multiprocessor units. We install Debian Linux at no extra charge! John Foster

Re: ppp hangups...

1999-12-10 Thread Jonathan Lupa
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:15:35PM -0500, Tom Allard wrote: > According to the Changes file, (usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes), > kernels after 2.2.11 needs a newer version of pppd: Submitted for reference: Since I have recompiled ppp, (to 3.5.10) I no longer have the problems of the unexpect

Re: WordPerfect 8 Floating Point Exception

1999-12-10 Thread Peter Ross
On 09-Dec-1999, Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 09 Dec 1999, Peter Ross wrote: > > > > I know, probably a common problem. Related to libc5. HOW do I > > > fix it??? Libc5 and glibc are loaded (Slink + proposed-updates) I > > > really could use StarOffice about now. >

Re: Can't mount /home/kent and /usr

1999-12-10 Thread Kent West
ktb wrote: > > Kent West wrote: > > > > ktb wrote: > > > > > Kent West wrote: > > > > > > > > ktb wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I've recently installed Slink and Redhat on the same HD. I've been > > > > > mounting back and forth between the two and have noticed that I can't > > > > > access /home/ke

Re: the perils of software re-use

1999-12-10 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Somewhat off-topic, and as likely to be urban legend as not, but > amusing . . . > > Mutant Marsupials Take Up Arms Against Australian Air Force This happened alright! I have a friend who was present. Very amusing! Much more fun than the av

Re: streaming audio? (Re: wav <-> conversion utility)

1999-12-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 10 Dec 1999, Colin Marquardt wrote: : * Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : [gogo] : > You use the -b switch to specify the minimum bitrate, or the VBR code : > might get too agressive during "easy" portions of the WAV file. : : Where did you find that info? I read the doc

Re: gateway.net

1999-12-10 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, William Burrow wrote: > Ask them if they support Windows 3.1. They will say words that can be > mapped to something similar on Linux, you have to know what they are > saying. PAP and CHAP are key words. Another alternative is to inspect the Windows 95 support. If their setu

Re: gateway.net

1999-12-10 Thread William Burrow
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 03:46:21PM -0800, Rick Dunnivan wrote: > I am trying to connect through gateway.net. When I > get a Login: prompt, I type my name and then I get a > Password: prompt. I type it and get **BAD PASSWD** as > a response. I have already ensured I am using the Probably just a

Re: WordPerfect 8 Floating Point Exception

1999-12-10 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Thu, 09 Dec 1999, Peter Ross wrote: > > I know, probably a common problem. Related to libc5. HOW do I > > fix it??? Libc5 and glibc are loaded (Slink + proposed-updates) I > > really could use StarOffice about now. > > > > I couldn't find the Archives, think it was down. Please point me

apt via local mirror?

1999-12-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
I want to install potato on a friends machine over break. So I am having her bring me her harddrive (currrently slink) home with her. What I would like to do is put her drive in my machine and do an install from one of my other drives. How much space do I need to mirror unstable? And how do I se

Re: streaming audio? (Re: wav <-> conversion utility)

1999-12-10 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [gogo] > You use the -b switch to specify the minimum bitrate, or the VBR code > might get too agressive during "easy" portions of the WAV file. Where did you find that info? > I use -v -b 112 as suggested in the docs, works well here. Hmm, the docs

Re: voodoo3 3000

1999-12-10 Thread Marshal Wong
How did you get 1280x1024x32bpp on your V3 2000? I'm only able to get 1024x780x32bbp on mine. Mind you I'm using the x-server that comes with potato. Marshal From: Sean Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: voodoo3 3000 Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 22:31:57 + > I have a V3 2000, and I use the

boot disk hangs on my puta

1999-12-10 Thread Andrew Walker
The boot disk seems to work on my new puta but it seems to hang on my old one it seems to be at that point where it trys to detect scsi, is there any way to tell it that there is no scsi on my system?

upgrade form slink to potato

1999-12-10 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, Could anyone tell me exactly how how to upgrade from slink to potato with apt? Thanks Rick Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gateway.net

1999-12-10 Thread aphro
They may not accept plain text passwords, did you configure the connection for PAP or CHAP ? or neither ..mot ISPs use PAP nate On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Rick Dunnivan wrote: rdunni >I am trying to connect through gateway.net. When I rdunni >get a Login: prompt, I type my name and then I get a rdunni

Re: Floppy Drive

1999-12-10 Thread Marques Johansson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Today, [EMAIL PROTECTED], spilled the beans: > How do I access my floppy drive from command line? The first floppy drive is a block device accessable as /dev/fd0 What you will want to do with this information is apply it into a mounting comma

Re: the perils of software re-use

1999-12-10 Thread Peter Ross
On 10-Dec-1999, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is very interesting. Do you have a URL where I can read this article? > > thanks > > -- > Andrew > > On 10-Dec-1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Somewhat off-topic, and as likely to be urban legend as not, but > > amusing . . . > >

Re: IMAP authentication is broken

1999-12-10 Thread Ashley Clark
On Thu, 09 Dec 1999, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > Hello, Hello > I´m running potato and up to yesterday Wednesday I was happily > accessing my mail from netscape using imapd. But with the latest > update I made to the system imapd always refuses to authenticate > my account (however imap was not upd

Re: the perils of software re-use

1999-12-10 Thread Peter Ross
On 10-Dec-1999, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is very interesting. Do you have a URL where I can read this article? > > thanks > > -- > Andrew > > On 10-Dec-1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Somewhat off-topic, and as likely to be urban legend as not, but > > amusing . . . > >

RE: the perils of software re-use

1999-12-10 Thread Pollywog
This is very interesting. Do you have a URL where I can read this article? thanks -- Andrew On 10-Dec-1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Somewhat off-topic, and as likely to be urban legend as not, but > amusing . . . > > Mutant Marsupials Take Up Arms Against Australian Air Force

what public companies that are unknown are involved with linux developement

1999-12-10 Thread DrShpilkis
Please send me a list of companies that are into software developement thank you steve

Re: Can't mount /home/kent and /usr

1999-12-10 Thread ktb
Kent West wrote: > > ktb wrote: > > > Kent West wrote: > > > > > > ktb wrote: > > > > > > > > I've recently installed Slink and Redhat on the same HD. I've been > > > > mounting back and forth between the two and have noticed that I can't > > > > access /home/kent. I 'cd' to /home but when I 'l

IMAP authentication is broken

1999-12-10 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I´m running potato and up to yesterday Wednesday I was happily accessing my mail from netscape using imapd. But with the latest update I made to the system imapd always refuses to authenticate my account (however imap was not updated). From the syslog: allegro imapd[1330]: AUTHENTICATE LOG

the perils of software re-use

1999-12-10 Thread hawk
Somewhat off-topic, and as likely to be urban legend as not, but amusing . . . Mutant Marsupials Take Up Arms Against Australian Air Force The reuse of some object-oriented code has caused tactical headaches for Australia's armed forces. As virtual reality simulators assume larger roles in