Re: man pages: dangling symlinks

2002-10-03 Thread ben
On Thursday 03 October 2002 10:19 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:25:00PM -0700, ben wrote: > > is there any kind of process by which dangling symlinks can be resolved? > > Er, that depends. Which ones? Either remove them or get them to point > somewhere that exists. > > Cheer

Re: Switching between monitors on one video card

2002-10-03 Thread Andy Saxena
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:08:00AM +1000, Russell wrote: > Hi all, > > In XF86 (x-windows), is there a way to switch between > the "Display" sections in XF86config-4 ? > > I want to switch between different monitors (with a switchbox) > on the one video card, but the monitors have different capa

Re: Openoffice 1.0.1 crashes on openning

2002-10-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 00:24, nate wrote: > J.S.Sahambi said: > > > > OpenOffice version: 1.0.1, Debian 2.4.18-bf2.4 > > > > Problem: Whenever, I start Openoffice, it fail to open first time. I > > have to start again. Some time it starts third time :(. > > Any ideas ? > > :) > > are you using GN

Re: Debian on SunBlade 100? Forget about it.....

2002-10-03 Thread Jeff
nate, 2002-Oct-03 15:28 -0700: > (my living room has 12 computers > in it, 5 of which are turned off due to heat and/or lack of > battery backup capacity). so, i take it you don't invite your dates to your place, for fear that they might get the right impression? :-) jc -- Jeff Coppock

Re: VERY OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 21:56, Vector wrote: > > Tom writes: >[snip] > property ownership in the US has become, at best, a joke. Even if you do > have it paid off, they city in which you live can come and take it from you > because you aren't "conforming" to their beautification ordinances or other

Re: java applets & mozilla

2002-10-03 Thread Paul Scott
Jeff wrote: >Angel L. Mateo, 2002-Oct-03 20:01 +0200: > > >>Jeff escribió:: >> >> I have just solved the same problem adding "main" to the >> sources.list record. Now I have >> >>deb >>http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian >>woody main non-free (or

Re: Openoffice 1.0.1 crashes on openning

2002-10-03 Thread nate
J.S.Sahambi said: > > OpenOffice version: 1.0.1, Debian 2.4.18-bf2.4 > > Problem: Whenever, I start Openoffice, it fail to open first time. I > have to start again. Some time it starts third time :(. > Any ideas ? > :) are you using GNOME? if so then this is a known bug, edit the soffice script

Re: Debian on SunBlade 100? Forget about it.....

2002-10-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 17:28, nate wrote: > Robert Ian Smit said: [snip] > same for one of my freebsd boxes(my living room has 12 computers > in it, 5 of which are turned off due to heat and/or lack of My wife would pitch a *FIT* if I did that. I'm still amazed that she dated me a 2nd time, consi

Re: man pages: dangling symlinks

2002-10-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:25:00PM -0700, ben wrote: > is there any kind of process by which dangling symlinks can be resolved? Er, that depends. Which ones? Either remove them or get them to point somewhere that exists. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Openoffice 1.0.1 crashes on openning

2002-10-03 Thread J.S.Sahambi
Tom Cook wrote: > On 0, "J.S.Sahambi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>OpenOffice version: 1.0.1, Debian 2.4.18-bf2.4 >> >>Problem: Whenever, I start Openoffice, it fail to open first time. I >>have to start again. Some time it starts third time :(. >>Any ideas ? >>:) > > > Are there other app

Re: Openoffice 1.0.1 crashes on openning

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, "J.S.Sahambi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OpenOffice version: 1.0.1, Debian 2.4.18-bf2.4 > > Problem: Whenever, I start Openoffice, it fail to open first time. I > have to start again. Some time it starts third time :(. > Any ideas ? > :) Are there other apps that crash randomly? C

Openoffice 1.0.1 crashes on openning

2002-10-03 Thread J.S.Sahambi
OpenOffice version: 1.0.1, Debian 2.4.18-bf2.4 Problem: Whenever, I start Openoffice, it fail to open first time. I have to start again. Some time it starts third time :(. Any ideas ? :) Thanking in advance J S Sahambi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: pls help or i will switch to other distro

2002-10-03 Thread Kent West
> > >>Thanks for your reply! >> >>i have SB16 and Woody and upgrade kernel to 2.4 but >>when i play sound file it says, can't open /dev/audio. >>in early kernel(2.0 and 2.2) "make config" asks sound >>card IRQ and DMA number, but 2.4 doesn't do that. >>could this be a problem? below is sound part

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 03 October 2002 03:06 pm, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 17:02, ben wrote: > > On Thursday 03 October 2002 11:31 am, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > > > On 03 Oct 2002 09:58:59 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: >

Re: Dictionary app recommendation

2002-10-03 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 21:52, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Robert Ian Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Friday, 04 October 2002, 02:41 AM +0200): > > Ideally I would like to use an application that has a gui and a cli > > version and can be used online and offline. But a nice online app >

Re: Viewing avi files

2002-10-03 Thread VETSEL Patrice
> I just thought that info might be of interest to anyone considering > using precompiled debs instead of 'dpkg-buildpackage'ing them themselves. > So use this great french script to compile mplayer by yoursel :) apt source -> deb http://okki666.nerim.net/debian ./ apt-get install mplayer-upd

man pages: dangling symlinks

2002-10-03 Thread ben
is there any kind of process by which dangling symlinks can be resolved? ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread ellipses
-Original Message- From: Jamin W.Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 1:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: mass installation on XBox On 03 Oct 2002 09:58:59 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 07:13, Colin Watso

Re: Windows Metafiles

2002-10-03 Thread ben
On Thursday 03 October 2002 07:58 pm, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Tom Cook wrote: > >I have this nasty NT app called ActiveHDL that I use for VHDL > >development. Its block diagram editor doesn't export to any > >reasonable format. I am trying to put block diagrams from it in a > >Latex document, a

Re: anything like NextStep? - Re: File Manager Suggestions?

2002-10-03 Thread ben
On Thursday 03 October 2002 07:35 pm, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: > Hello ben, > > On Oct 3, ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | what's the sources.list line for the gworkspace deb? > > I got mine from a standard mirror. Perhaps it's only in unstable, though. thanks jason. apt crapped out on the

Re: gnomecal coredumps on startup

2002-10-03 Thread Jim Richardson
Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running woody, and recently I noticed that gnomecal has refuses to > start. >... > Relevant information: > > This is a stock Woody installation, nothing special > > ii gnome-pim 1.4.6-1Calendar and address book for GNOME. This or som

Re: (X 4.0 problem )Re: pls help or i will switch to other distro

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, David Pastern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes I totally agree with Kent there. A 1mb card will have severe > limitations as to maximum resolution and screen depth. I'd say you'd be > lucky to run 800*600 at 16 bit, if that. According to my calculator, 800*600*2 = 960 000, so that's ab

Re: Windows Metafiles [SOLVED]

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Cook wrote: > > > >I have this nasty NT app called ActiveHDL that I use for VHDL > >development. Its block diagram editor doesn't export to any > >reasonable format. I am trying to put block diagrams from it in a > >Latex document, and am h

Re: Problems with esd

2002-10-03 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:48:51PM -0400, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > It may be that the esd you're using is incompatible with one or more of > the gnome or gtk libraries recently released for the debian tree you're > using -- and that these will be properly updated in the tree soon. You >

Re: VERY OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread John Griffiths
>"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry >into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It >both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of >war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and

Re: Windows Metafiles

2002-10-03 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Tom Cook wrote: > >I have this nasty NT app called ActiveHDL that I use for VHDL >development. Its block diagram editor doesn't export to any >reasonable format. I am trying to put block diagrams from it in a >Latex document, and am having all sorts of grief. I would prefer it >to be a vector

Re: VERY OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread Vector
> Tom writes: > > Man, and you guys call this the land of freedom? > > The "Housing Associations" he is talking about are private associations of > homeowners. He agreed to abide by their rules when he bought his house. > -- yeah, well...it used to be the land of freedom. It's still closer to f

RE: (X 4.0 problem )Re: pls help or i will switch to other distro

2002-10-03 Thread David Pastern
Yes I totally agree with Kent there. A 1mb card will have severe limitations as to maximum resolution and screen depth. I'd say you'd be lucky to run 800*600 at 16 bit, if that. Dave -Original Message- From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:34 PM

Re: initrd, vmlinuz and vmlinux

2002-10-03 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 07:41, Alvin Oga wrote: Thanks, bob > hi ya bob > > i dont use kernels in the debian way > > d/l and install the latest kernel from kernel.org > cd /usr/local/src > tar zxvfp linux-2.4.19.tar.gz > cd linux-2.4.19 > make xconfig --> pick what you need, turn off everything else >

Re: pls help or i will switch to other distro

2002-10-03 Thread Kent West
John Joe wrote: >Thanks for your reply! > >i have SB16 and Woody and upgrade kernel to 2.4 but >when i play sound file it says, can't open /dev/audio. >in early kernel(2.0 and 2.2) "make config" asks sound >card IRQ and DMA number, but 2.4 doesn't do that. >could this be a problem? below is soun

Re: (X 4.0 problem )Re: pls help or i will switch to other distro

2002-10-03 Thread Kent West
John Joe wrote: >Thanks for your reply! > >i have Trident 9680 and Woody and upgrade kernel to >2.4 but still can't use X 4.0 > >when i enter xinit, the X background seems OK, but the >xterm is divided, irregularly. i use no window >manager. below is XF86Config-4 and output of xinit: > >(please

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread John Hasler
Tom writes: > Man, and you guys call this the land of freedom? The "Housing Associations" he is talking about are private associations of homeowners. He agreed to abide by their rules when he bought his house. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- T

Re: Viewing avi files

2002-10-03 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Sridhar M.A. wrote: >On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:59:22AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > > The mplayer team reminds that any precompiled binaries are 'unsupported' > > (whatever that means) because most of mplayer's configuration is done at > > compile time. They suggest that the only w

Re: Woody installation: can't find my /dev/hdg to install to.

2002-10-03 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Barney Wrightson wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I'm trying to install debian 3.0 (woody) from CD to my Athlon PC. The >> installation program fails to find my hard drive (which other >> (commercial) distributions have located variously at /dev/hdg and >> /dev/hde). It merely invi

Re: Viewing avi files

2002-10-03 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: >My point is that I believe there is a documented Debian way to use >source code to build a full .deb file so that the user has the power of >dpkg/apt to add/remove it (the package, doc, config etc) later. In fact, I >wouldn't be surprised if there was a mini how-to

(X 4.0 problem )Re: pls help or i will switch to other distro

2002-10-03 Thread John Joe
Thanks for your reply! i have Trident 9680 and Woody and upgrade kernel to 2.4 but still can't use X 4.0 when i enter xinit, the X background seems OK, but the xterm is divided, irregularly. i use no window manager. below is XF86Config-4 and output of xinit: (please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Woody installation: can't find my /dev/hdg to install to.

2002-10-03 Thread Barney Wrightson
Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to install debian 3.0 (woody) from CD to my Athlon PC. The > installation program fails to find my hard drive (which other > (commercial) distributions have located variously at /dev/hdg and > /dev/hde). It merely invites me to supply a Hard disk drive

Re: Headers in this ML

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:34:09PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > > I've just received a message from the list with no reference in the > > headers to debian. Since I sort my mail on the basis of headers, the > > message went into the wrong box.

Re: [Fwd: TV-Out: naive question]

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Subject: TV-Out: naive question > Resent-Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 05:53:55 -0500 (CDT) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 13:52:43 +0300 > From: Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, "deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >That should be interesting! > >If that thing ever gets put together and M$ thinks it is illegal I would > >love to see a court battle over that in an european court. Who in the > >hell are those people that think they can tell me I can't cons

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > It isn't illegal to play records backwards. > Then, am I going against the law if I rewire my record player to turn > the record the other way? No, but you're probably breaking your needle ;-) Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Serv

Re: Windows Metafiles

2002-10-03 Thread Russell
Tom Cook wrote: > > On 0, Dan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sir, I have used "The GIMP", on a Windows Machine. I would try that. I'm sure it > > can cut and paste just fine ;) > > :-( I'm afraid not. I'd tried that already. The GIMP doesn't seem > to want to paste metafiles, and even

Re: pls help or i will switch to other distro

2002-10-03 Thread John Joe
Thanks for your reply! i have SB16 and Woody and upgrade kernel to 2.4 but when i play sound file it says, can't open /dev/audio. in early kernel(2.0 and 2.2) "make config" asks sound card IRQ and DMA number, but 2.4 doesn't do that. could this be a problem? below is sound part of .config of ker

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Klaus Imgrund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 17:06:04 -0500 > Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > Unfortunately, I think that MS could make a justifiable claim that > > they are losing money. X-Boxen are sold below cost for maximum market > > pentration.

Re: Dictionary app recommendation

2002-10-03 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Robert Ian Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 04 October 2002, 02:41 AM +0200): > Ideally I would like to use an application that has a gui and a cli > version and can be used online and offline. But a nice online app > that fits in well on a Windowmaker desktop should be enough for now

Re: Windows Metafiles

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Tom" == Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom> Hi all, I have this nasty NT app called ActiveHDL that I use for > Tom> VHDL development. Its block diagram editor doesn't export to any > Tom> reasonable format. I am trying to put bloc

Re: Problems with esd

2002-10-03 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 03 October 2002, 08:55 PM -0400): > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 08:38:27PM -0400, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > If you don't need it, and it doesn't work anyway, don't start it in the > > first place! > I'm using GNOME and I know how t

Re: anything like NextStep? - Re: File Manager Suggestions?

2002-10-03 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Hello ben, On Oct 3, ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | what's the sources.list line for the gworkspace deb? I got mine from a standard mirror. Perhaps it's only in unstable, though. -- Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wonka.hampshire.edu/~jason GPG key - 0EFB1DFE What you don't know won't hel

Re: Windows Metafiles

2002-10-03 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Dan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sir, I have used "The GIMP", on a Windows Machine. I would try that. I'm sure it > can cut and paste just fine ;) :-( I'm afraid not. I'd tried that already. The GIMP doesn't seem to want to paste metafiles, and even if it did it would save them as

Cups broke spontaneously

2002-10-03 Thread Jeff Utter
Hey. this is really wierd.. my printer (Epson Stylus Color Photo 700), setup with cups worked last time i used it, about a week ago. However, I went to use it today, and i would try to print something, nothing would come out. I Have changed NOTHING since except updated Debian (sid).. whic

Re: [OT] Faulty hard drive?

2002-10-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:04:13PM +0200, Alex Polite wrote: > Last week I suffered something that was probably a hard drive > crash. I do extensive nightly backups so very little data was lost, > but the reinstallation on this sub notebook (no floppy, no cdrom) was > rather laborious. > > During

Re: Ghostscript 7.04...

2002-10-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:17:36PM -0600, Mike Fontenot wrote: > > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Try gs-aladdin instead of ghostscript. It has a more-restrictive > > license and is in non-free (the older versions are GPL'd and exist in > > main). I don't know about woody, but sa

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 04:39:53PM -0700, ben wrote: > On Thursday 03 October 2002 03:46 pm, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > > I'm not sure they do. From Chapter III Article 6 (brief snippets, see > > > > article for complete version): > > | 1. Member States shall provide adequate legal protection again

Re: Problems with esd

2002-10-03 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 08:38:27PM -0400, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > If you don't need it, and it doesn't work anyway, don't start it in the > first place! > > Seriously. > > You don't mention what window manager or desktop system you're using, > but look through the configuration for th

Samba w/LDAP

2002-10-03 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I'm currently trying to compile Samba to work with LDAP. I found a HOWTO by a Olivier Lemaire, which provides some specifics for compiling Samba with LDAP support for Woody. However, not everything is so straight forward. Prior to going to the next step, could someone tell me if this is righ

Re: Problems with esd

2002-10-03 Thread Edward Guldemond
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:28:58AM +0200, Claudio Bley wrote: > On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 02:09, Edward Guldemond wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I'm having a problem with my esd. Even though it keeps running, esd > > refuses to output sound, and the only way I can get sound back is by > > 'kill -9'ing

Dictionary app recommendation

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Ian Smit
At the moment I use the Smart Bookmark Dictionary tool in Galeon for quick lookups. Ideally I would like to use an application that has a gui and a cli version and can be used online and offline. But a nice online app that fits in well on a Windowmaker desktop should be enough for now. I don't r

gnomecal coredumps on startup

2002-10-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Hi, I'm running woody, and recently I noticed that gnomecal has refuses to start. I can't for the life of me figure out what is driving it nuts. Two things I have done recently are (1) installed jpilot and synced my palm with it since gnome-pim-conduits is broken (#157030), (2) rebooted my ma

Re: Problems with esd

2002-10-03 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 03 October 2002, 08:09 PM -0400): > Hey all, > > I'm having a problem with my esd. Even though it keeps running, esd > refuses to output sound, and the only way I can get sound back is by > 'kill -9'ing esd. If it helps, my sound modul

Re: Mutt and mailboxes

2002-10-03 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 03 October 2002, 05:27 PM -0400): > Matthew Weier O'Phinney was roused into action on 10/03/02 09:30 and wrote: > >-- David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > >(on Wednesday, 02 October 2002, 11:05 PM -0400): > > > >Not to be contrary, but

Re: Problems with esd

2002-10-03 Thread Claudio Bley
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 02:09, Edward Guldemond wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm having a problem with my esd. Even though it keeps running, esd > refuses to output sound, and the only way I can get sound back is by > 'kill -9'ing esd. If it helps, my sound module is i810_audio. Thanks > in advance for

RE: How to upgrade from kde2 to kde3

2002-10-03 Thread Joyce, Matthew
These links maybe of interest too. http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2002/debian-kde-200209/msg00133.html http://mypage.bluewin.ch/kde3-debian/ Certainly I followed the instructions in the second link, in the General section, and it worked for me. Matthew Joyce -Original Message- Fr

Re: What are these groups for?

2002-10-03 Thread John Hasler
Mario Vukelic writes: > I was under the impression that this is what "dialout" is for. The 'dip' group is for users who need to start a ppp connection. Certain pppd-related files are in 'dip'. 'dialout' is for users who need to open serial ports. The serial ports are in this group. It is not

Problems with esd

2002-10-03 Thread Edward Guldemond
Hey all, I'm having a problem with my esd. Even though it keeps running, esd refuses to output sound, and the only way I can get sound back is by 'kill -9'ing esd. If it helps, my sound module is i810_audio. Thanks in advance for the help. As always, -- -

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Re: anything like NextStep? - Re: File Manager Suggestions?

2002-10-03 Thread ben
On Thursday 03 October 2002 11:43 am, Richard Weil wrote: > I don't use Mac OSX, but you might want to take a look > at gworkspace ... its a GNUstep app that sounds > similar to what you're looking for. I just installed > the GNUstep libraries, gworkspace and gnumail the > other day and have been

RE: How to upgrade from kde2 to kde3

2002-10-03 Thread David Pastern
Suresh, That's a huge task I found. But worth it. I'm not really the best person technically to help you with this, but...i'd be disrepectful to the kind others on this list that helped me get kde3 working on my system. So i'll give it a bash - pun intended(bash = aussie slang for 'give it a t

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread ben
On Thursday 03 October 2002 03:46 pm, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:02:25 -0700 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > surely, m(acro)$ would have to show that martin's manipulation of the > > xbox caused them real financial loss in order to prove a violation of > > patents or copyrig

Re: Gnome and Sound

2002-10-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Claudio" == Claudio Bley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Jerome" == Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jerome> 'fuser -v /dev/dsp' return nothing. Claudio Bley wrote: >> On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 15:39, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> >>> Bonjour, >>> >>> I have

Re: Loading kernel modules

2002-10-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Bill" == Bill Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bill> One of my boxes uses the eepro100 kernel module for its Bill> network interface. As I migrate more from Red Hat based Bill> boxes, the more I like Debian. But one thing that is really Bill> getting me is that this kerne

Re: Ghostscript 7.04...

2002-10-03 Thread Mike Fontenot
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try gs-aladdin instead of ghostscript. It has a more-restrictive > license and is in non-free (the older versions are GPL'd and exist in > main). I don't know about woody, but sarge has 7.04. It actually WAS gs-aladdin that I installed on my potato sys

Re: Ghostscript 7.04...

2002-10-03 Thread Mike Fontenot
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The one in unstable is 7.05. I compiled it on my sarge system from the > unstable source. BTW do you really mean woody? Potato is history > ;-) Woody is now the stable distribution. I really AM running potato (except for the fact that I installed gs_aladdin from

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread ben
On Thursday 03 October 2002 03:06 pm, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 17:02, ben wrote: > > On Thursday 03 October 2002 11:31 am, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > > > On 03 Oct 2002 09:58:59 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > Not quite. As I understand it, the X

Re: Headers in this ML

2002-10-03 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:34:09PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > I've just received a message from the list with no reference in the > headers to debian. Since I sort my mail on the basis of headers, the > message went into the wrong box. Has there been some change in how the > list is administ

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:02:25 -0700 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > surely, m(acro)$ would have to show that martin's manipulation of the > xbox caused them real financial loss in order to prove a violation of > patents or copyrights. That's the catch though. From what I've seen of the DMCA and

Re: Debian on SunBlade 100? Forget about it.....

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-10-2002 00:30]: > [SGI Indy (R4k 100Mhz 32MB 1GB HD)] > I downloaded the bootable debian install cd for indy, though I > read that I may need another kind of CDROM to read it on the indy. Ah, the luxury of a cdrom. I bought the Sun and a very expensive VGA conver

Gentoo File Manager on Woody

2002-10-03 Thread Michael Olds
Hello Gentoomen, I managed to download and and install the Gentoo File Manager and it's dependancies by way of: dpkg -i .deb .deb .deb etc thanks to one and all for the help on this. This first produced some errors but then went on to install and set up the various packages, closing with the not

Re: java applets & mozilla

2002-10-03 Thread Jeff
Angel L. Mateo, 2002-Oct-03 20:01 +0200: > Jeff escribió:: > > I have just solved the same problem adding "main" to the > sources.list record. Now I have > > deb > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian > woody main non-free (or other blackdown mirr

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 17:06:04 -0500 Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 17:02, ben wrote: > > On Thursday 03 October 2002 11:31 am, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > > > On 03 Oct 2002 09:58:59 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > Not quite. As I un

Re: Debian on SunBlade 100? Forget about it.....

2002-10-03 Thread nate
Robert Ian Smit said: > Could the item also be used as a foot stool, should I need to > cowardly give up getting an OS to run on it? I used an SGI Indy (R4k 100Mhz 32MB 1GB HD) as a monitor stand for about 2 years. the machine runs fine, I reinstalled it on a new 4.5GB drive recently, just too

Re: pls help or i will switch to other distro

2002-10-03 Thread jeff
> i install woody but X and sound do not work. > i have used Debian 1.2/2.0/2.1/2.2, but never have > these problems. > ok... > Woody's default kernel is 2.2, but X 4.0 don't work, > so i upgrade kernel to 2.4.18. still it don't work. > what kernel were you using with your last installation? >

Re: Headers in this ML

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Jens Grivolla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-10-2002 00:02]: > If you reply could you confirm that this message is visible on the > mailing list? It is. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on SunBlade 100? Forget about it.....

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-10-2002 23:18]: > > Server box, and the SunBlade is great for holding up > > the monitor. > > You've got so much money to burn on monitor stands, how's about > sending me a couple of "monitor stands". +$0,50 I managed to get an old Sun working, I'd love to

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 17:02, ben wrote: > On Thursday 03 October 2002 11:31 am, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > > On 03 Oct 2002 09:58:59 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Not quite. As I understand it, the XBox has hardware to restrict the > > execution of code to that signed and aut

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 04:01:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 11:28, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:46:04AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 17:49, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > > > > Ugh. I have to tell yo

Re: Headers in this ML

2002-10-03 Thread Jens Grivolla
Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would advise filtering on the X-Mailing-List: header, not To: or Cc:, > > if the latter is what you're doing. This should be reliable. > > Thanks, but there wasn't such a header in the message. No referen

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread ben
On Thursday 03 October 2002 11:31 am, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On 03 Oct 2002 09:58:59 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 07:13, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Ever heard of the term "circumvention", as applied to copy-prevention > > > techniques? See the URL you quo

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Re: Headers in this ML

2002-10-03 Thread Richard Kimber
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:36:02 -0400 Andy Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It had the above To UNSUBSCRIBE stuff at the bottom. I assumed that > > meant that it did. > > > > - Richard. > > > > What did the "From: " header say? From: Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Richard. -- To UNSUBS

Re: initrd, vmlinuz and vmlinux

2002-10-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya bob i dont use kernels in the debian way d/l and install the latest kernel from kernel.org cd /usr/local/src tar zxvfp linux-2.4.19.tar.gz cd linux-2.4.19 make xconfig --> pick what you need, turn off everything else make dep ; make clean ; make bzlilo - fix any errors ( kernel op

Re: Debian on SunBlade 100? Forget about it.....

2002-10-03 Thread nate
Marlon Ott said: > What a deal... $3800 for a brand new SunBlade 100 with you got ripped off. new sun blade 100s are going for under $900(this was a year ago) > Well folks too bad I cannot load Debian. From the > support site's "SunBlade 100" string it appears that I > should remove my vide

Re: Headers in this ML

2002-10-03 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 06:11:24PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > > It had the above To UNSUBSCRIBE stuff at the bottom. I assumed that meant > that it did. > > - Richard. > What did the "From: " header say? -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-03 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:41:52 -0300 Klaus Imgrund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That should be interesting! > If that thing ever gets put together and M$ thinks it is illegal I would > love to see a court battle over that in an european court. Who in the > hell are those people that think they can t

Re-broadcasting/caching streaming video

2002-10-03 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, I wonder whether there is a solution for this problem: My wife would like to whatch some sreaming video channel from the net on her Windows box but unfortunately the server is quite busy and it is difficult to connect to it. The only solution seems to be not to let the connection drop once i

Re: Mutt and mailboxes

2002-10-03 Thread David P James
Matthew Weier O'Phinney was roused into action on 10/03/02 09:30 and wrote: > -- David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Wednesday, 02 October 2002, 11:05 PM -0400): > >>I've recently started using mutt remotely when I'm on campus to check >>for email that Mozilla is automatically download

Re: pls help or i will switch to other distro

2002-10-03 Thread D. J. Bolderman
On Thu, 03 Oct 2002, Klaus Imgrund wrote: > On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 11:16:44 -0500 > "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John Joe wrote: > > > i install woody but X and sound do not work. > Get a x-box and read the topic in this list on how to install debian on an x-box ? :) -- D.

Re: Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail

2002-10-03 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:58:01AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Andy Saxena wrote: > >Hi, > > > > > >I am trying to use procmail for local delivery. My setup consists of > >exim and cyrus from sid. > > > > > >SHELL="/bin/sh" > >DELIVERMAIL="/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver" > >LOGFILE="$HOME/.maillog" > >I

Re: Debian on SunBlade 100? Forget about it.....

2002-10-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 14:48, Marlon Ott wrote: > What a deal... $3800 for a brand new SunBlade 100 with [snip] > Server box, and the SunBlade is great for holding up > the monitor. You've got so much money to burn on monitor stands, how's about sending me a couple of "monitor stands". -- +

Re: Debian on SunBlade 100? Forget about it.....

2002-10-03 Thread Kent West
Marlon Ott wrote: > What a deal... $3800 for a brand new SunBlade 100 with > all the bells and whistles. Actually came loaded with > Solaris 8(!) -> Had to argue with SUN for a month to > get a stinkin "9" CD (Gosh thanks McNealy, hope the > 3800.00 covers your CD costs). Entire day spent just > l

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