Re: Floppy Installation

2002-06-14 Thread Scott Henson
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 22:53, Aravind Vinnakota wrote: > > Hi all, >Previously I installed Debian on my (Sun Ultra 5 sparc) system using > CDs. Now, I am looking for other ways to install it. Right now, we install > Redhat using a minimal image on a floppy and boot the system and install > the

Re: can't get epson perfection 1650 scanner to work, xsane just sits there... no gui comes up

2002-06-14 Thread Cam Ellison
* Walter Tautz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Just to reply to myself. It seems to be working now. Either the reboot > worked or because the root file system was full and consequently > the scanner module may not have been properly loaded. Albeit I'm > getting a black and white image even though t

Re: OT: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Dave Thayer
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 12:09:08PM +0100, Paladin wrote: > Does any one know how to access the BIOS setup of an old IBM PS/2? > It seems that hitting "del" while booting doesn't work... Try holding down a shift key while rebooting. This will frequently cause a keyboard error with a message instruc

Re: ACPI

2002-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Patrick Wiseman wrote: > apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x02 (Driver version 1.16) > apm: disabled on user request. > ACPI: Core Subsystem version [20011018] > ACPI: Subsystem enabled > > (The 20011018 looks pretty old - is there a more recent .deb?) That version number is the version of the ACPI /p

Re: FreeCraft, SDL Audio and ESD

2002-06-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.14 22:58 Ian D. Stewart wrote: Howdy Folks, I recently installed the FreeCraft .debs, and I the main screen comes up Ok. However, there is a message at the top that says 'Sound Disabled. Please check!'. When I exit the program, there is an error message: Couldn't open

Re: Antivirus Illuminati

2002-06-14 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Paul Johnson quotation: > It begs to be asked: How do we know virus companies aren't hiring the > folks writing the viruses? Because they'd get sued, and possibly prosecuted criminally as well. The AV companies are unscrupulous, ambulance-chasing swine who make a living out of scaring pe

Re: appearance of xfce on Debian

2002-06-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 14/06/02 Kevin C. Smith did speaketh: > It sets the bar below the screen for some reason. > > edit ~/.xfce/xfwm-session > > for [WM_NAME] XFce Main Panel > change [GEOMETRY] > Mine looks like this: [GEOMETRY] 110 722 808 46 0 0 > > See if that works. This happened to me too, on both my

FreeCraft, SDL Audio and ESD

2002-06-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
Howdy Folks, I recently installed the FreeCraft .debs, and I the main screen comes up Ok. However, there is a message at the top that says 'Sound Disabled. Please check!'. When I exit the program, there is an error message: Couldn't open audio: No available audio device I've conf

Antivirus Illumnati

2002-06-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 01:07:29PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > Which rather begs the question of what the point is of "infecting" the > JPEG files at all. This whole thing is just more of McAfee's usual > dishonest hype for their anti-virus software

Re: OT: Perrun virus: Is this Windoze only?

2002-06-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 12:03:21PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > Today's Sacramento Bee contains a news report about a new virus, > called Perrun, that infects JPEG files. (Yes, data files) Does anyone > on this list know what this is? and is it a prob

Re: if I post here I will get spammed of course?

2002-06-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 05:30:43AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I'm scared s*itless about wafting about my real e-mail address on my > posts here, as I've already seen account after account of mine get > buried in spam and now all's I got left is my re

Floppy Installation

2002-06-14 Thread Aravind Vinnakota
Hi all, Previously I installed Debian on my (Sun Ultra 5 sparc) system using CDs. Now, I am looking for other ways to install it. Right now, we install Redhat using a minimal image on a floppy and boot the system and install the OS from our local mirror using http. I am looking something simila

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 04:34:29AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > By the way, of the other experiments: > insmod: apm: no module by that name found > I sure don't understand linux modules. It cannot be found, but one > can turn it on at the boot prompt

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Re: webmin

2002-06-14 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > Anyone know how to fix this. I get: > > proc::pty_process_exec failed : Undefined subroutine &proc::get_new_pty > called at /usr/share/webmin/proc/proc-lib.pl line 176. > > in several webmin modules: > Linux Bootup Configuration > Partitions on Loca

Re: /etc/printcap with CUPS & Openoffice 1.0

2002-06-14 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (nate) writes: > hi. > > this is getting frustrating. I recently setup CUPS on my desktop > to spool to a Jetdirect card connected to a HP Laserjet 4000. > > I can print fine if i use lpr, or if i use netscape(4.x) which > calls lpr, or adobe acrobat reader which calls lpr too. e

Re: /etc/printcap with CUPS & Openoffice 1.0

2002-06-14 Thread Hubert Chan
> "nate" == nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] nate> at the moment i have worked around it by printing to a file and nate> using ps2pdf to convert to pdf and printing from adobe acrobat. I can't really help you with your printing problem, since I don't print From Star/Open Office, but y

Re: Mandrake to Debian migration guide?

2002-06-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 06:17:43AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Anybody written a Mandrake to Debian migration guide? It's been half > a month and I'm only 1/2 way thru migrating from Mandrake 7.2 to > woody. Perhaps due to encrusting myself with scripts that have this > file moved or that servic

Re: Sony SDT-7000 Tape Drive & DDS2 Tapes?

2002-06-14 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, j2 wrote: > DDS1: 1GB > DDS2: 4GB > DDS3: 12GB > DDS4: 24GB > > (above is all _physical_ data capacity) DDS1 is 2 gig. DDS4 is 20 gig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GLIBC error

2002-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 04:02:02PM -0700, ian wrote: > i upgraded to XFree86 4.1 and now when i try to run emacs, vi, etc. i > keep getting this error: > > /lib/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.2' not found required by > /user/X11R6/libX11.so.6 How did you upgrade? It sounds like you've forced depend

Re: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 12:38:45AM +0100, Paladin wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:40:59 +0100 > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your mail setup is also rather warped - it doesn't insert > > attributions, and it keeps starting new threads which I have to > > manually link together in mut

Re: if I report debian bugs will I get emailed for life?

2002-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 06:19:47PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > You will get email in the following circumstances : > 1) the maintainer acknowledges or closes the bug > (if you reported it, don't you want to know it's been fixed?) > 2) the maintainer (or someone else) wan

Re: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 18:38, Paladin wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:40:59 +0100 > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I always thought that this was the correct way of threading! Does > this have anything to do with the fact that every time that I reply > to some message in the mailin

Re: dd boot floppy to cd image

2002-06-14 Thread Brian Dessent
"Henning, Brian" wrote: > I have a grub boot floopy that has no file system. It just boots into grub. > I want to be able to put this floppy boot section onto a cd image to burn to > a cd. I don't really care if the cd image has a file system or not. I just > want it to boot grub. I am pretty sure

Free legal updates for your business

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Welcome to the Workplacelaw Network, the national legal support service for businesses in the UK. You have been registered to receive free updates on employment law, health and safety and premises management. This free update service is delivered weekly by e-mail direct to your in box, in plai

Re: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Paladin
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:40:59 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your mail setup is also rather warped - it doesn't insert > attributions, and it keeps starting new threads which I have to > manually link together in mutt if I want to follow the > conversation ... In the header of the

Re: Mandrake to Debian migration guide?

2002-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 17:17, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Anybody written a Mandrake to Debian migration guide? It's been half > a month and I'm only 1/2 way thru migrating from Mandrake 7.2 to > woody. Perhaps due to encrusting myself with scripts that have this > file moved or that service closed on d

Re: if I post here I will get spammed of course?

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 05:30:43AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: | I'm scared s*itless about wafting about my real e-mail address on my | posts here, as I've already seen account after account of mine get | buried in spam and now all's I got left is my real ISP address-- all | from posting to "little

Missing ldd

2002-06-14 Thread Brian Dessent
Hi. I searched the archives about this and found a thread or two that was relevant, but they were more than 3 years old. At that time, the issue was caused by moving ldd from ldso to libc6. I have a woody system that I recently installed fresh. I have libc6 2.2.5-6. I don't have ldd, which is

Re: if I report debian bugs will I get emailed for life?

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 05:20:39AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: | Sure I've got a lot of bugs I could report, however I recall when I | reported a perl bug once to the perlbug people. It was like I had | adopted a child when alls I wanted was a one night stand: I found a | workaround. I am was just

Re: apple powerbook lombard

2002-06-14 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 17:53 Uhr -0500 14.06.2002, Kevin C. Smith wrote: Anyone have a working XF86config-4 they are willing to share? See mine on http://pflanze.mine.nu/~chris/ppc/X/ (for the same machine, woody). Christian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 04:34:29AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: | By the way, of the other experiments: | insmod: apm: no module by that name found | I sure don't understand linux modules. It cannot be found, but one | can turn it on at the boot prompt. In the pre-packaged 2.2 kernels it is built

Re: if I post here I will get spammed of course?

2002-06-14 Thread Robert Ian Smit
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 05:30:43AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I'm scared s*itless about wafting about my real e-mail address on my > posts here, as I've already seen account after account of mine get > buried in spam and now all's I got left is my real ISP address-- all > from posting to "little

Re: devfs + grub [was Re: RAM upgrade]

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 06:45:43AM +0800, csj wrote: | On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 22:36:25 -0500 | "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > I've been using devfs for months. I really like it. It makes it much | > easier to identify problems with "missing" devices. (I can't read my |

apple powerbook lombard

2002-06-14 Thread Kevin C. Smith
I'm trying to help a friend install debian on a apple powerbook "lombard" "bronze keyboard" X fails to start correctly. It becomes a runaway process taking over 99.8% of the cpu and never lets up. Anyone have a working XF86config-4 they are willing to share? -- Kevin C. Smith | "A S

devfs + grub [was Re: RAM upgrade]

2002-06-14 Thread csj
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 22:36:25 -0500 "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been using devfs for months. I really like it. It makes it much > easier to identify problems with "missing" devices. (I can't read my > cd, but /dev/cdrom is there. It doesn't matter if the inode i

Re: Minimizing all windows

2002-06-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.14 17:14 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 12:08:13PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Howdy Folks, > > In windows, you can right click on the task bar and one of the options > is to minimize all windows, exposing the underlying desktop. I've > looked through both the gno

Re: Debian em um hd nt em outro

2002-06-14 Thread Francisco M Neto
» Assim falou Angelo Marcos Rigo em Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 05:24:10PM -0300: > Na inicialização o debian mostra o nt > mas nao entra nele se o seleciono, tentei de varias maneiras > (nt master debian slave, o nt so mostra o nt, Debian master, nt slave o > lilo mostra o nt mas so entra no Debian) >

Mandrake to Debian migration guide?

2002-06-14 Thread Dan Jacobson
Anybody written a Mandrake to Debian migration guide? It's been half a month and I'm only 1/2 way thru migrating from Mandrake 7.2 to woody. Perhaps due to encrusting myself with scripts that have this file moved or that service closed on debian and need rewriting. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(

if I post here I will get spammed of course?

2002-06-14 Thread Dan Jacobson
I'm scared s*itless about wafting about my real e-mail address on my posts here, as I've already seen account after account of mine get buried in spam and now all's I got left is my real ISP address-- all from posting to "little known mailing lists". Anyways I tremble in my boots each time one of

if I report debian bugs will I get emailed for life?

2002-06-14 Thread Dan Jacobson
Sure I've got a lot of bugs I could report, however I recall when I reported a perl bug once to the perlbug people. It was like I had adopted a child when alls I wanted was a one night stand: I found a workaround. I am was just reporting the bug for the public good and wished to move on. There's

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-14 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "C" == Chris Kenrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: C> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:12:35AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: >> poweroff just does the same as "shutdown -h now" for me: turns off the >> disks only. On mandrake 7.2 however, "shutdown -h now" does indeed >> turn off the whole computer, c

My LVM does not work at all

2002-06-14 Thread Juhapekka Tolvanen
Read the whole story here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=150005&repeatmerged=yes I do not subscribe to these mailing-lists, so please Cc: to me. If you want to send replies also to mailing-lists, use only debian-user, please. -- Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen * * http://www.st.

Re: /etc/printcap with CUPS & Openoffice 1.0

2002-06-14 Thread Kent West
nate wrote: hi. this is getting frustrating. I recently setup CUPS on my desktop to spool to a Jetdirect card connected to a HP Laserjet 4000. What I did was to install qtcups and tell the various apps to print to qtcups instead of lpr, etc. You might give it a spin. Kent -- To UNSUBSCR

REQUEST

2002-06-14 Thread Barrister, musa yakubu
REQUEST Dear Friend, I am a Solicitor resident and practicing in Lagos, Nigeria and I am using this correspondence to urgently seek and request your assistance and cooperation in a sensitive but highly beneficial financial arrangement. An important clien

/etc/printcap with CUPS & Openoffice 1.0

2002-06-14 Thread nate
hi. this is getting frustrating. I recently setup CUPS on my desktop to spool to a Jetdirect card connected to a HP Laserjet 4000. I can print fine if i use lpr, or if i use netscape(4.x) which calls lpr, or adobe acrobat reader which calls lpr too. everything comes out fine. I can print select(

Re: Minimizing all windows

2002-06-14 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 12:08:13PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Howdy Folks, > > In windows, you can right click on the task bar and one of the options > is to minimize all windows, exposing the underlying desktop. I've > looked through both the gnome-list archive and the Gnome User's Guide

Re: chaging compiler

2002-06-14 Thread ian
Thanx Collin... yes i did miss your response. Thanx again for the update. ian At 02:10 AM 6/14/02, you wrote: On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:20:53PM -0700, ian wrote: > >i would like to know how to change my default gcc compiler from the > >current version to another. Perhaps you didn't see my res

Kupdated

2002-06-14 Thread Tinus Kotzé
Can somebody help me with the kupdate daemon' problem. I looked around but could not find a understandable page that could help me. The kupdated process takes about 1/3 of my cpu and can't be killed. I started with a potato installation from where I apt-get dist-upgrade'd to unstable. Then the nv

Re: "ps" and caculate start_time

2002-06-14 Thread ian
I like sometimes prefer 'tops' rather than 'ps' At 04:26 AM 6/14/02, you wrote: Hello list, I'd like to show the process list and try to list those who has be running over customized time. Is it possible? Say, I'd like to list the cron programs which has been running for 3 days. -- Patrick Hs

GLIBC error

2002-06-14 Thread ian
hi all, i upgraded to XFree86 4.1 and now when i try to run emacs, vi, etc. i keep getting this error: /lib/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.2' not found required by /user/X11R6/libX11.so.6 did i overwrite a library file or does my C library needs updating? thanx ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Sony SDT-7000 Tape Drive & DDS2 Tapes?

2002-06-14 Thread j2
> I have a Sony SDT-7000 tape drive that can, theoretically, record up to > 8 Gb of data on a DDS2 tape. However, I can only get it to store 4 Gb > on any DDS2 tape I try (4 Gb == max for DDS1, iirc). No, a SDT-7000 is a DDS2 drive. they hold 4GB of _uncompressed_ data. If compress the data and a

Re: Foreign Language with OpenOffice?

2002-06-14 Thread Jorge Santos
Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I appreciate your response. Could any one give me any guidance as to > > how this is done? Do I use the standard OpenOffice (English version) > > that I already have and just do something with locales or

Re: OT: Perrun virus: Is this Windoze only?

2002-06-14 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Alan Shutko quotation: > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Today's Sacramento Bee contains a news report about a new virus, > > called Perrun, that infects JPEG files. (Yes, data files) > > Those "infected" jpegs are completely harmless unless you already have > been infec

Re: Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.13 12:34 Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:14:48AM +0200, Jerome Lacoste wrote: | I have the following in top: | | PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND | 532 root 16 -10 289M 32M 7528 S < 54.6 6.5 8:35 XFree86 | | I t

Re: Running something on start up and shutdown

2002-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 14:13, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >By the way, I'm not sure what the success thing was in the stop case > >below; I got errors when I tested it and removed it from my script. > > That's because t

Re: OT: Perrun virus: Is this Windoze only?

2002-06-14 Thread Alan Shutko
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Today's Sacramento Bee contains a news report about a new virus, > called Perrun, that infects JPEG files. (Yes, data files) Those "infected" jpegs are completely harmless unless you already have been infected by the real virus. > and is it a problem

Re: Running something on start up and shutdown

2002-06-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >By the way, I'm not sure what the success thing was in the stop case >below; I got errors when I tested it and removed it from my script. That's because the example was actually a redhat example. A standard init.d template c

Re: OT: Perrun virus: Is this Windoze only?

2002-06-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 14:03, Paul E Condon wrote: > Today's Sacramento Bee contains a news report about a new virus, called > Perrun, > that infects JPEG files. (Yes, data files) Does anyone on this list know what > this is? and is it a problem for Debian GNU/Linux? > There's a good slashdot art

OT: Perrun virus: Is this Windoze only?

2002-06-14 Thread Paul E Condon
Today's Sacramento Bee contains a news report about a new virus, called Perrun, that infects JPEG files. (Yes, data files) Does anyone on this list know what this is? and is it a problem for Debian GNU/Linux? -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Size of debian?

2002-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 01:16:02PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > My unstable mirror for i386 is currently ~5 GB. I've got a Perl script > that I wrote that scans through the Packages.gz for the different > distributions and just adds up all of the file sizes. The format of > Packages.gz is straig

Re: Size of debian?

2002-06-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 11:36, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > First, please don't reply to an existing thread to start a new one. > > On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:52:56 -0400 (EDT) > "Rob Ransbottom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How do I determine space required mirror the source and > > binary-i386 aspect

RE: zope

2002-06-14 Thread O Senhor
Thanks, Exists one script zopectl (in /usr/sbin). Thanks again. On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 12:00, Jan Johansson wrote: > > How can i start and stop the zope server? In SuSE and FreeBSD there > > are the start and stop script, and in Debian/GNU Linux? I have stopped > > with kill, and can't

Re: GDM config

2002-06-14 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 19:19, Matthias Ellinger wrote: > > create file in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/blackbox > > "exec blackbox" > > save and mark as executable. > > Restart gdm - that should do it. Thank's this worked very well...:-) Cheers, HÖ -- ~ This message is digitally signed - GPG key

ScanMail Message: To Sender virus found or matched file blocking setting.

2002-06-14 Thread System Attendant
ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange has taken action on the message, please refer to the contents of this message for further details. Sender = debian-user@lists.debian.org Recipient(s) = [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Subject = How are you Scanning Time = 06/14/2002 10:49:19 Engine/Pattern = 6.150-1001/299 Acti

Re: ACPI

2002-06-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, I wrote: > I'm sure I've missed something obvious and will feel really dumb when it's > pointed out to me! Doh! Glad I found it before anyone asked :) I'd compiled ACPI support but not all the 'bits' that make it actually do anything!! Now when I boot, a 'dmesg | grep ACPI

Re: GDM config

2002-06-14 Thread Matthias Ellinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 18:33, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: >> If your users want to use blackbox, all they need to do is run the >> Control Center (gnomecc) and choose it in the window manager section. >> (if it isn't already listed, add it) >> >The p

Re: GDM config

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 07:13:07PM +0200, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: | On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 18:33, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > If your users want to use blackbox, all they need to do is run the | > Control Center (gnomecc) and choose it in the window manager section. | > (if it isn't already l

Re: problems with running remote X programs

2002-06-14 Thread Benedikt Wildenhain
Hello, On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 11:48:08AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Over a local, switched fast ethernet connection, what kind of > performance drain will I see tunneling through ssh? Both boxen > are GHz+. I only have an 650 MHz, so I cannot say how it will work on your system. Most programs c

Re: GDM config

2002-06-14 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 18:33, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > If your users want to use blackbox, all they need to do is run the > Control Center (gnomecc) and choose it in the window manager section. > (if it isn't already listed, add it) > The point is to be able to start Blackbox as desktop not a

Re: problems with running remote X programs

2002-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 11:15, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On 14 Jun 2002 11:11:58 -0500 > "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ok... From an xterm window on my local box, I do > > $ssh -X @ > > > > Then from the command prompt on the remote box, I type > > $mtr -g www.cox.net > > and

Re: Size of debian?

2002-06-14 Thread Jamin W . Collins
First, please don't reply to an existing thread to start a new one. On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:52:56 -0400 (EDT) "Rob Ransbottom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I determine space required mirror the source and > binary-i386 aspects of stable, unstable and testing? I mirror the above for both i3

Size of debian?

2002-06-14 Thread Rob Ransbottom
How do I determine space required mirror the source and binary-i386 aspects of stable, unstable and testing? rob Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Minimizing all windows

2002-06-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > In windows, you can right click on the task bar and one of the options > is to minimize all windows, exposing the underlying desktop. XFce has an "Iconify All" option when you right-click on the desktop - of course, that presumes that some desktop is

Re: Minimizing all windows

2002-06-14 Thread Dave Bordoley
In metacity you can use ctl+alt+d to minimize all. This should also be included in the gnome actions menu eventually I would hope. dave On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 12:08, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Howdy Folks, > > In windows, you can right click on the task bar and one of the options > is to minimize a

Re: problems with running remote X programs

2002-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 11:11, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 10:32, David Z Maze wrote: > > Matthew Yee-King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > > Eew eew eew. Don't do that. Debian disables unencrypted X network > > sessions. But since you're using ssh to log in from one machine to

Re: mozilla and galeon eat RAM

2002-06-14 Thread Joris
> got a little problem with mozilla 1.0.0 and galeon 1.2.5 - i think. > Things started going real slow today and i checked with top and gtop to > see whats going on there. > That shows for galeon and mozilla 5 running processes each eating up 18 > megs of RAM each. > Can that be ok? > I updated gal

Minimizing all windows

2002-06-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
Howdy Folks, In windows, you can right click on the task bar and one of the options is to minimize all windows, exposing the underlying desktop. I've looked through both the gnome-list archive and the Gnome User's Guide but was unable to find any reference to similiar functionality. Is this

Re: GDM config

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 02:29:18PM +0200, Helgi Örn wrote: | Hello all! | | I installed Blackbox and I want to put it Logi sessions menu but I'm not | sure how to do that, can someone exolain that for me. I know this: | gdmconfig -> Expert -> Login sessions -> Add session | But what should I put i

Re: problems with running remote X programs

2002-06-14 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On 14 Jun 2002 11:11:58 -0500 "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok... From an xterm window on my local box, I do > $ssh -X @ > > Then from the command prompt on the remote box, I type > $mtr -g www.cox.net > and instantly get the error > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > >

Re: Foreign Language with OpenOffice?

2002-06-14 Thread Glyn Millington
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I appreciate your response. Could any one give me any guidance as to > how this is done? Do I use the standard OpenOffice (English version) > that I already have and just do something with locales or with kbd or > something? Or do I download a special Germ

Re: ACPI

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 09:04:37AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: | apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x02 (Driver version 1.16) | ACPI: APM is already active, exiting | | So, I disabled APM (by appending "apm=off" in lilo.conf), and, on | rebooting, got this: Good so far. | apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flag

mozilla and galeon eat RAM

2002-06-14 Thread Klaus Imgrund
Hello, got a little problem with mozilla 1.0.0 and galeon 1.2.5 - i think. Things started going real slow today and i checked with top and gtop to see whats going on there. That shows for galeon and mozilla 5 running processes each eating up 18 megs of RAM each. Can that be ok? I updated galeon to

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 11:15:31AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 02:59:24PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: > | The package I have made (which also adds a graphical shutdown image > | using zgv) does this in the post-installation script ... > | > | # change control/alt/

Re: problems with running remote X programs

2002-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 10:32, David Z Maze wrote: > Matthew Yee-King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm running gdm, windowmaker, woody and xfree 4.2. i need to run > > software on a remote mahcine that outputs to my local X server. On > > the remote machine, i export DISPLAY="mylocalIP:0" then on

Re: OT: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Emil Pedersen
Paladin wrote: > > Does any one know how to access the BIOS setup of an old IBM PS/2? > It seems that hitting "del" while booting doesn't work... As other have mentioned they don't have a bios, they use sectors on the disk instead and load the bios/rom at boot. I've read that some mainframes use

Diagnosing serial ports

2002-06-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
This is a followup to yesterday's attempt to get a CoStar Labelwriter XL working under linux. I plugged the thing into a windows laptop and it printed fine, so the problem is not in the printer. If I start statserial, point it at /dev/ttyS1, and plug/unplug the printer from the computer, the CTS/

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 02:59:24PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: | On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 11:51, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:39:54AM +1000, James Cameron wrote: | > | (b) how to make this change to /etc/inittab as a package to be installed | > | on multiple machines? |

Re: realplayer window immediately locks up on launching

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 01:32:49PM +0100, Matthew Yee-King wrote: | I am trying to get realplayer working. I downloaded the installer | from realnetworks and installed it. when i run it, it opens a | window, maybe displays a couple of widgets, then locks up. | | anyone else had this problem? Ye

Re: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 02:50:01PM +0200, Jan Johansson wrote: | > Your mail setup is also rather warped - it doesn't insert | > attributions, | > and it keeps starting new threads which I have to manually | > link together | > in mutt if I want to follow the conversation ... | | Well, thats wha

Re: DSL connexant PCI card

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:33:47AM +0200, David Dumortier wrote: | I've got a Olitec DSL-modem chipset Connexant under woody, kernel 2.4.18 | and my pinguin box don't want to configure it !!! | | I explain : | - scanpci & lspci say IRQs, adresses and others but say unknown device lspci should te

Re: I'm looking for permanent work in Toronto

2002-06-14 Thread Pollywog
On 14 Jun 2002 10:45:23 -0500 "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And apparently he's done a good job of it, too... Oh well I hope he gets an respectable job this time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pam_ldap not working right

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:07:30PM -0700, David Wright wrote: | | Looking over your files, I see quite a few problems: | | 1) You need to configure nss_ldap.conf as well as pam_ldap.conf. Umm, I don't have that ... I need to install libnss-ldap ... that really helps :-). | 2) The lines in nssw

Re: I'm looking for permanent work in Toronto

2002-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 10:31, Helgi Örn wrote: > On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 03:28, Andrey Petrunko wrote: > > Hello! > > My name is Andrey Petrunko. I'm computer programmer from Russia. I have [snip] > > > > Andrey Petrunko > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Well what do you make of this! He's been developing a to

Re: problems with running remote X programs

2002-06-14 Thread David Z Maze
Matthew Yee-King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running gdm, windowmaker, woody and xfree 4.2. i need to run > software on a remote mahcine that outputs to my local X server. On > the remote machine, i export DISPLAY="mylocalIP:0" then on my local > machine, i xhost . Eew eew eew. Don't do th

Re: I'm looking for permanent work in Toronto

2002-06-14 Thread Helgi Örn
On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 03:28, Andrey Petrunko wrote: > Hello! > My name is Andrey Petrunko. I'm computer programmer from Russia. I have > immigration visa and the air tickets from Russia to Canada. I will be > relocated > from Russia into Toronto July 17. I have very good practice as the computer >

Re: HP 2200d (double face) still not working

2002-06-14 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 17:44, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi, > I configured a potato box with cups from potato and hp-ppd from woody. > No problem. > I only cant find the double side option. > Is this because I'm using potato? > Can you send me you

RE: zope

2002-06-14 Thread Jan Johansson
> How can i start and stop the zope server? In SuSE and FreeBSD there > are the start and stop script, and in Debian/GNU Linux? I have stopped > with kill, and can't restart /etc/init.d/zope restart (or stop, or start or...) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Error installing mailman with exim

2002-06-14 Thread Michel Loos
Em Sex, 2002-06-14 às 03:45, Grégoire Cachet escreveu: > hello > > I try to configure mailman on my gateway for internet, using the exim mail > server > > My system is debian woody > > I installed exim, and just changed the configuration in order to relay > my own computer on the local network.

zope

2002-06-14 Thread O Senhor
hello, How can i start and stop the zope server? In SuSE and FreeBSD there are the start and stop script, and in Debian/GNU Linux? I have stopped with kill, and can't restart Thanks! -- - thesirbr

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