On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:26:23AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 06:39:51PM -0500, Joshua Lee wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 06:19:53PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
> > > Just wanted to know, does debian linux include the Bourne and C shell? In
> > > redhat, they are a sy
Egor Tur wrote:
Hi.
I have ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X based on bt829 chip. What driver should I use in order to see TV? I have 2.4.19 kernell. Who have such card and who use TV? I try GATOS but it do not work in my. Does BTTV driver
work with this chip?
Thanx.
Well, I have a Rage 128 PF/PRO
cmustard wrote:
I have just installed the basic `x' package on a toshiba satellite
335CDS laptop, ( circa 98 ). I run debian 3.0, kernel 2.4.18.
Here is some excerpts of my errror file. I would appreciate
any help or insight any onw could provide.
TIA
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recognized the problem and suggested I try the 'noapic' kernel
parameter. Adding
append="noapic"
to the lilo.conf stanza put the interrupts back where the should be.
Of course, you answer one question you get another :-) , but th
At some point recently, wu-ftpd stoped working.
My setup is pretty simple, just allowing user logins (no anonymous).
syslog just says "failed login" - different to if I actually give an
incorrect password.
auth.log has a message complaining that /etc/wu-ftpd/ftpusers is
either world writable or
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 06:39:51PM -0500, Joshua Lee wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 06:19:53PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
> > Just wanted to know, does debian linux include the Bourne and C shell? In
> > redhat, they are a symbolic link to bash and tcsh respectively.
>
> You can install ash, the
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-09 22:29:48 -0600]:
> Of course, the easy way is to just do 'apt-get source --build mozilla' and
> then 'dpkg -i *.deb' to install the resulting binary package.
I think that you will need fakeroot in there. I believe you want this
in order to make it all w
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 19:54, do not reply wrote:
> Governments across Canada spend over $500 billion
> annually to maintain and improve healthcare services.
Not actually relevant to Debian, but by my understanding, the total
collective annual Canadian governmental budgets - federal, provincial,
Michael Heironimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-09 19:24:10 -0600]:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 08:02:14PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> > is there something to clean up perl code similar to other "lint"
> > type applications?
>
> The -w flag ("perl -w script.pl" or "#! /usr/bin/perl -w") enables lot
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:59:02PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote:
> Big question here--NVidia drivers. Does Debian handle them well?
I hadn't heard about any issues, after all, it's a kernel driver. If
you can compile it, chances are it'll insert.
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I just recompiled my kernel under debian woody. I would like to make
boot floppy for it. So.. I typed 'mkboot
/usr/src/.../arch/i386/boot/bzImage'. It made the floppy, but when I
reboot with floppy - it doesn't work. The kernel appears to load, but
then the screen blanks out and the power cycle
I have two Debian Woody (kernel 2.4.19) systems NFS mounting (v3) off
the same NFS server. Suddenly, one of the systems is reporting the
below error. This happens quite offen and is usually, but not always
preceeded by a file save, from Open Office, over the NFS mount. The
other computer does no
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-10 03:22:22 +]:
> Some weirdness here... My Debian 2.1 single-CD version, using bash,
> DIDN'T. I remember quite clearly looking in the docs for how to change
> it, failing to find the 'official' method and ending up using
> something with `pwd`.
The user .p
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 19:26, nate wrote:
> debian does not have a slick install. It is very easy to install
> and configure provided your using supported hardware(this is the
> single biggest obstacle to debian I believe is the supported
> hardware). You will have to get your hands dirty while you
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 19:18, Edward Guldemond wrote:
> > --ability to recover when occasional problems happen (without having to
> > reinstall to recover my X desktop)
>
> What occasional problems might you be having with SuSE? With my
> experiences with Debian, there usually aren't many prob
On 09/11/02 Osamu Aoki did speaketh:
> For POSIX complience, dash (from unstable, ash variant) is good.
> I thought csh is not for scripting...
That's right.
http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/language/versus/csh.html
Speaking from personal experience, csh sucks the big one for scripting.
T
* Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I thought csh is not for scripting...
http://unlser1.unl.csi.cuny.edu/tutorials/C.shell.harmful.html
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Pigeon writes:
> I ended up downloading mozilla_1.0.0.orig.tar.gz plus the diff and the
> dsc. Is this really what one does?
Yes. That's the Mozilla source package.
Of course, the easy way is to just do 'apt-get source --build mozilla' and
then 'dpkg -i *.deb' to install the resulting binary pac
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 08:01:35PM -0800, nate wrote:
> > After having a mess of connection problems that caused my ssh sessions to
> > drop, I noticed that the 'w' command still thinks there are users logged
> > in that I know are not.
>
> check the process table to see if shells for those ttys a
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 07:11:18PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote:
> --ability to recover when occasional problems happen (without having to
> reinstall to recover my X desktop)
Never had to do this except one time in 1997 from a backup after a
freshman classmate at in high school my sophomore year wh
Harvey Kelly said:
>You could try Debian, but I fear it'll be too much for you (sorry, that
>ounded patronising), I would recommend SuSE over Mandrake, only 'cause
>my father tried switching to Linux and he found Mandrake to be more
>trouble than it's worth, he's now running SuSE 8.0. And this is
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This one time, at band camp, Pigeon said:
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 02:39:17 +, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:08:49AM +, Pigeon wrote:
> >> Compiled v4.2 of X today.
> >
> >I'm wondering why you don't just use the Debian source package ...
What do
Hi ZephyrQ & Yall,
good to see another SuSE refugee hereabouts ;-)
I found the
The Very Verbose Debian 3.0 Installation Walkthrough
By Clinton De Young - Posted on 2002-10-27 18:15:48 at OSNews
[http://www.osnews.com/]
most helpfull, as is this list :-)
The only thing I am findin
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 02:39:17 +, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:08:49AM +, Pigeon wrote:
>> Compiled v4.2 of X today.
>
>I'm wondering why you don't just use the Debian source package ...
I took your advice; I tried to get the Debian source package for
M
On 09 Nov 2002 02:39:33 -0500, Scott Henson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 14:18, Pigeon wrote:
>> It is true that Windoze doesn't like changes to the MBR. To hack the
>> Win98 MBR I had to include code to put the original MBR back after the
>> hack had done its work, then make
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 20:05:00 -0800 (PST), "nate"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Rick Macdonald said:
>> Why doesn't the prompt for root ever include showing the current
>> directory? That would probably have saved this poor fellow as he may have
>> seen that he was not in /floppy as he thought.
>
>it
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 07:11:18PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote:
> --documentation for me to read to help me figure stuff out.
I know debian installer guide, etc. are hard to find :-)
I made one temporary page here.
http://people.debian.org/~osamu/newbie.html
This should guide you through insta
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Whatever magic there was didn't quite work with modules_image. One
> module built fine (alsa); the other (lm-sensors) complained that it
> wasn't root and quit.
Most module packages aren't actually aware of $(ROOT_CMD). :-/ I
fixed i2c to do this today;
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:33:18PM -0800, George L Smyth wrote:
> As a Windows user from the 2.0 days, I have decided to learn a bit
...
> So can anyone give me some pointers on installing Debian? I am close
> to the give-up stage, but am hoping that someone can speak in baby
> words that will all
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:26:51PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
> Josh,
>
> I plan to install bash and tcsh. I'm currently running bash under
> redhat(I'm waiting to for a new release for debian) and I use it all the
> time. The only reason why I want the original UNIX shells is to test some
> scri
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 07:00:12PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:52:21PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > I just inadvertently built a kernel without fakeroot, specifically I
> > > said
> > > make-kpkg --append-to-version adv
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:52:21PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I just inadvertently built a kernel without fakeroot, specifically I
> > said
> > make-kpkg --append-to-version advncdfs --config xconfig kernel_image
> >
> > I don't see any error message
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just inadvertently built a kernel without fakeroot, specifically I
> said
> make-kpkg --append-to-version advncdfs --config xconfig kernel_image
>
> I don't see any error messages, and the deb was built.
>
> My kernel-pkg.conf includes the line
> root_cm
Josh,
I plan to install bash and tcsh. I'm currently running bash under redhat(I'm
waiting to for a new release for debian) and I use it all the time. The only
reason why I want the original UNIX shells is to test some scripts that I'm
writing.
bp
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"Bruce Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Just wanted to know, does debian linux include the Bourne and C shell?
> In redhat, they are a symbolic link to bash and tcsh respectively.
Debian includes a csh package (though most people I know who use
cshish shells use tcsh, which is also in Debian).
"Egor Tur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have next document in tex:
>
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> \begin{document}
> ...
> some text 4 pages
> ...
> \begin{figure}[h]
> \includegraphics[some_options]{file1.ps}
> ...
> \end{figure}
Hmm. This could be causing problem
Ross Boylan wrote:
I just inadvertently built a kernel without fakeroot, specifically I
said
make-kpkg --append-to-version advncdfs --config xconfig kernel_image
I don't see any error messages, and the deb was built.
My kernel-pkg.conf includes the line
root_cmd := fakeroot
though I don't find "
I just inadvertently built a kernel without fakeroot, specifically I
said
make-kpkg --append-to-version advncdfs --config xconfig kernel_image
I don't see any error messages, and the deb was built.
My kernel-pkg.conf includes the line
root_cmd := fakeroot
though I don't find "fakeroot" anywhere i
Hi Rick,
could you solve your Problem?
I have the same problem with xnview(2. error).
1. error:
Preconfiguring packages ...
No default for console-data/keymap/qwerty/brazilian/standard/keymap -
picking one
.
.
No default for console-data/keymap/qwertz/swiss/variant - picking one
If you have info
ZephyrQ said:
> --ability to recover when occasional problems happen (without having to
> reinstall to recover my X desktop)
can you give an example of such a problem? I am not aware of any time
I had to reinstall a linux system due to a problem(well to be honest
one time on suse 8 I reinst
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 08:02:14PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> is there something to clean up perl code similar to other "lint"
> type applications?
The -w flag ("perl -w script.pl" or "#! /usr/bin/perl -w") enables lots
of warnings about potential problems.
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On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 07:11:18PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote:
> I'm coming from SuSE 8.0 and have been increasingly frustrated with the
> direction SuSE is going (first installed SuSE 5 years ago) and several
> have suggested that Debian was the way for me to go. I am looking for
> the following:
...and I need some feedback, if you please.
I'm coming from SuSE 8.0 and have been increasingly frustrated with the
direction SuSE is going (first installed SuSE 5 years ago) and several
have suggested that Debian was the way for me to go. I am looking for
the following:
W.D.McKinney wrote:
Hi Chris,
Thanks. man crontab doesn't tell me what the syntax is for a "every 5
minute"
job though, and that's what I need. Any other ideas ?
Dee
I use crontab -e to edit my personal crontab. The format that you are
looking for is:
* * * * * \n
The first star is the
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Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 3:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Howto add a crontab job ?
Once upon a time W.D.McKinney said...
> Hi Chris,
>
> Thanks. man crontab d
is there something to clean up perl code similar to other "lint"
type applications?
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Once upon a time W.D.McKinney said...
> Hi Chris,
>
> Thanks. man crontab doesn't tell me what the syntax is for a "every 5
> minute"
> job though, and that's what I need. Any other ideas ?
man 5 crontab
This will tell you about the crontab file format.
man crontab
This tells you about the cro
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 21:52, Elizabeth Barham wrote:
> Helgi =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D6rn?= Helgason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Thank's for your reply, but the boot sequence is already A, C so this is
> > not the problem.
>
> It may be a bad floppy or a bad floppy-disk drive.
>
I checked with ano
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
I have setup phpnuke to act as a small site for my home network.
When I access this site from my konqueror browser (on two separate machines)
it works fine.
When I access it via Windows/IE on one machine it works fine, but when I try
it on another W
I have just installed the basic `x' package on a toshiba satellite
335CDS laptop, ( circa 98 ). I run debian 3.0, kernel 2.4.18.
Here is some excerpts of my errror file. I would appreciate
any help or insight any onw could provide.
TIA
-mUs
warning: process set to nice value 0 instead of -10 as
Hi Chris,
Thanks. man crontab doesn't tell me what the syntax is for a "every 5
minute"
job though, and that's what I need. Any other ideas ?
Dee
-Original Message-
From: Chris Kenrick [mailto:chriskenrick@;yahoo.com.au]
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 2:39 PM
To: W.D.McKinney
Cc: [EMA
Additionally, you need to set the encryption type, i.e. with:
M-x set-variable RET crypt-encryption-type RET
(C-h will show you help at this point)
"gpg" RET
then:
M-x crypt-rebuild-tables
Well, but I then get "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil". Don't have
the time to investigate further now.
c
Harvey Kelly said:
> Just curious... why not the Personal? He'll be using KDE3, X will be set
> up pretty well, and if he wants to explore (i.e Mutt, text-based browsers
> etc.) they're provided. It's just that Personal is approx. half the price
> (here in the UK).
i just think that professiona
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 11:55:23PM +, Vittorio wrote:
> How can I deactivate the fact that alt-clicking in a window makes it
> move around?
What window manager are you using under Gnome?
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On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 06:19:53PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Just wanted to know, does debian linux include the Bourne and C shell? In
> redhat, they are a symbolic link to bash and tcsh respectively.
>
Yes, and yes they are included as links. Earlier versions of Deebian
requir
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 02:18:45PM -0900, W.D.McKinney wrote:
>
> I am new to debian and wondered what's the best way to add a
> job for crontab (indexmaker for mrtg) ?
Write a short shell script to do what you need, looking something like
#!/bin/sh
mrtg dosomething
and put the file in /etc/cr
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 06:19:53PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
> Just wanted to know, does debian linux include the Bourne and C shell? In
> redhat, they are a symbolic link to bash and tcsh respectively.
You can install ash, the BSD sh, which is closer to the actual Bourne
shell in behavior. I thi
Received Sun 10 Nov 2002 8:08am +1100 from Bill Moseley:
> At 07:22 AM 11/10/02 +1100, Graham Williams wrote:
> > ... Debain 3.0 on an ASUS P4B533 based machine. ...
> > ... Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 installed just fine (booted with bf24 to
> > use the 2.4.18 kernel) but the onboard network card is n
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 11:24:16AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 11:07:19AM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote:
>
> > I'd rather not use mutt because family members do send me funky
> > formatted mail sometimes and I also use multiple "From: " addresses,
> > depending on whi
At 17:39 Uhr -0500 07.11.2002, Levi Waldron wrote:
On November 7, 2002 02:28 pm, Jeff wrote:
emacs asks for the "encryption key", so I enter the passphrase,
because if I hit "return to ignore" is see the scrambled data. After
entering the passphrase, emacs reports "Searching for program: no s
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 11:34:52AM +, Chris Lale wrote:
> I installed Woody 3.0 from official CDs and it gave me a graphical login
> (gdm). I prefer it to the command line login, but it means that
> configuration requiring restarting X presents problems. Often, a reboot
> is the only sure wa
Hello all,
Just wanted to know, does debian linux include the Bourne and C shell? In
redhat, they are a symbolic link to bash and tcsh respectively.
bp
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I am new to debian and wondered what's the best way to add a
job for crontab (indexmaker for mrtg) ?
Thanks
Dee
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Context: PC with debian 3.0, gnome 1.4, sawfish.
When under gnome I Alt-click in an application window I'm able to move
the window on the desktop.
Now, this is causing some problem with the gimp which for some command
needs Alt-clicking not having the correspondent in the menu.
How can I deactiv
Danie Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Rob Weir wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 07:43:48PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
>>
>>>I'm sure someone's probably already pointed this out, but in case they
>>>haven't...
>> Bit of background: Sun's Java implementation is using an internal
>> GLibc
>> symbo
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Bradberry said:
>
> I've just purchased a Logitech USB Optical mouse to replace my old PS/2
> Logitech Mouseman Plus. I've set up USB with no real problems, and the
> mouse and keyboard coexist fine on the console. However, when I get into
> Xwindows, the mouse
Hi everyone,
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:52:06PM -0800, nate wrote:
> George L Smyth said:
>
> > So can anyone give me some pointers on installing Debian? I am close to
> > the give-up stage, but am hoping that someone can speak in baby words that
> > will allow me to get this thing running (it's
* Allan Wind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-09 17:16:26 -0500]:
> On 2002-11-09 09:45:36, N. Thomas wrote:
> > Normally, I would think something is wrong with the NIC on the Debian box,
> > but it talks to the OpenBSD box fine. Can anyone explain this anomaly?
>
> No, but make sure the switch and th
* Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-09 17:22:50 -0500]:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 04:27:27PM -0500, N. Thomas wrote:
> > Nov 9 12:54:39 seneca kernel: sis900.c: v1.06.09 09/28/2001
> > Nov 9 12:54:39 seneca kernel: eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xcc00, IRQ
>5, 00:0a:e6:
"George" == George L Smyth writes:
George> So it was suggested that I try Debian, and I have an
George> installation CD. However, when I boot the PC with this
George> CD, the CD ROM apparently is not recognized. I looked
George> around to try to find a boot floppy, but the d
I've just purchased a Logitech USB Optical mouse to replace my old PS/2
Logitech Mouseman Plus. I've set up USB with no real problems, and the
mouse and keyboard coexist fine on the console. However, when I get into
Xwindows, the mouse works fine but the keyboard does nothing whatsoever.
When
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 04:27:27PM -0500, N. Thomas wrote:
> * Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-09 14:57:26 -0500]:
> > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:45:36AM -0500, N. Thomas wrote:
> > > Debian <-> RedHat = 200Kbs ???
> > > Debian <-> Windows = 200Kbs ???
> >
> > Maybe it's
Hello all,
Sorry to be so off-topic, but I'm sure many of you use signify, and I'm
having a little trouble getting it to do exactly what I want.
I have it mostly working the way I want (as you can see by the .sig
below), but it's not yet maintenance free. The right column is
fortune -s | fold -
Hej.
Jag har problem med att förstå hur Sendmail är uppsatt i Debian. Det
beter sig liksom inte som jag är van vid att Sendmail gör... Det jag
vill göra är på en maskin att inte ha sendmail igång, men ändå kunna
använda det för att skicka mail (genom att exekvera sendmail för att
skicka) och på en
On 2002-11-09 09:45:36, N. Thomas wrote:
> Normally, I would think something is wrong with the NIC on the Debian box,
> but it talks to the OpenBSD box fine. Can anyone explain this anomaly?
No, but make sure the switch and the box agrees on half or full duplex,
with Cisco switches and with Sun or
"Bob" == Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bob> Firewalls especially those running NAT will implement timers
Bob> that if they do not see traffic from the internal interface
Bob> within their timeout limit will clear the route from their
Bob> tables. A keepalive is needed
This one time, at band camp, George L Smyth said:
> As a Windows user from the 2.0 days, I have decided to learn a bit about Linux,
> but am becoming increasingly frustrated. I have an old computer (Pentium
> 166MHz) that I chose to use as my learning tool, and installed Mandrake on it.
> Unfortu
I don't know if you've found a suitable answer for this yet or not, but I
have done what you ask about in the subject line. You use dd to make a copy
of the boot sector for the linux partition, you drop in the root directory
of the C: drive and then edit boot.ini to include that file. Then it wor
George L Smyth said:
> So can anyone give me some pointers on installing Debian? I am close to
> the give-up stage, but am hoping that someone can speak in baby words that
> will allow me to get this thing running (it's not nearly as simple as
> Windows).
if your close to giving up, stop right
As a Windows user from the 2.0 days, I have decided to learn a bit about Linux,
but am becoming increasingly frustrated. I have an old computer (Pentium
166MHz) that I chose to use as my learning tool, and installed Mandrake on it.
Unfortunately, Mandrake's Control Center screen is too large for
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 21:47, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> Er, so what _does_ happen with your boot floppy?
That I explained in my first mail...:-)
> I'm all out of
> clairvoyance credits for the month and my remote viewing neighbor is
> out of town.
>
> I assume you've tried booting with the rescue
* Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-09 14:57:26 -0500]:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:45:36AM -0500, N. Thomas wrote:
> > Debian <-> RedHat = 200Kbs ???
> > Debian <-> Windows = 200Kbs ???
>
> Maybe it's not the Debian box that is misconfigured, maybe it's the
> RedHat or W
My file was dated 1996 and I too have no idea where it came from. The
following makes it even more obvious:
PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
Brian Potkin said:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 05:43:21PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote:
>
>> Why doesn't the prompt for root ever include showing the current
>> directory? Th
Helgi =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D6rn?= Helgason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thank's for your reply, but the boot sequence is already A, C so this is
> not the problem.
It may be a bad floppy or a bad floppy-disk drive.
Elizabeth
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On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:34:35AM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> "Bob" == Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Bob> If you are logged in across the network then likely the TCP
> Bob> stack is idling you out. You may need to set a keepalive.
>
> Bob,
>
> I'm curious to know if
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:21:26PM +0100, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 20:16, Pigeon wrote:
> > You haven't got a bootable partition on the hard drive, and it sounds
> > like your BIOS is set to boot from the hard drive and not the floppy.
> >
> > Go into BIOS Setup (press DEL
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 02:39:33AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 14:18, Pigeon wrote:
> > It is true that Windoze doesn't like changes to the MBR. To hack the
> > Win98 MBR I had to include code to put the original MBR back after the
> > hack had done its work, then make Windoz
At 07:22 AM 11/10/02 +1100, Graham Williams wrote:
>I'm at this moment in the throws of installing Debain 3.0 on an ASUS
>P4B533 based machine. So I would love to hear of any insights you
>get.
>
>My current state of play is that Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 installed just
>fine (booted with bf24 to use t
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 20:16, Pigeon wrote:
> You haven't got a bootable partition on the hard drive, and it sounds
> like your BIOS is set to boot from the hard drive and not the floppy.
>
> Go into BIOS Setup (press DEL when booting) and make sure that the
> boot sequence (can't remember the exac
Received Sun 10 Nov 2002 3:53am +1100 from Bill Moseley:
> Does anyone have experience installing Debian on a ASUS P4B533 based system
> that can offer any comments? I'm not finding much on-line discussion of
> this motherboard.
Hi Bill,
I'm at this moment in the throws of installing Debain 3.
Sorry.
I have next document in tex:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
...
some text 4 pages
...
\begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[some_options]{file1.ps}
...
\end{figure}
...
some text 5 pages
...
\begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[some_options]{file2.ps}
...
\e
I am having trouble getting XMLout to work correctly in order to
save off data that can be read back in using XMLin.
I keep getting:
not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1, column 5, byte 5 at
/usr/lib/perl5/XML/Parser.pm line 185
with code:
for ($ref = 1; $ref<1000; $ref++) {
$foo{$ref
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:45:36AM -0500, N. Thomas wrote:
> Okay, so I was getting some funky speeds between the Debian and RedHat
> boxes, so I tested it. I took a large file transfered it between the
> different machines. Here is the result:
>
> Debian <-> RedHat = 200Kbs ???
> Debia
On 09 Nov 2002 14:11:05 +0100, Helgi Örn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello Debians!
>
>I'm stuck in deep trouble. I want to put Debian on an old box I got. The
>box got 2 harddisks, pri. master 1707MB and pri. slave 1083MB. When I
>try to boot it it gives me: DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 17:47:42 +0100, Andrea Borgia wrote:
> Right now I'm using apache-ssl, but I noticed that it is something
> different from apache + libapache-mod-ssl.
>
> What is not clear to me is exactly how the two options differ and what the
> relative pros and cons of each choice are.
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:15:13PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> > What is the package for XML::Simple?
> >
> > Obvious choice would be: libxml-simple-perl
> >
> > but it mentioned XML::Parser and said nothing about XML::Simple...
>
> Your obvious choice
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes:
> I know just enough to be dangerous here. I don't use gnome myself so
> take this with some caution. But a friend told me that the gnome
> login manager looks for ~/.gnomeprofile. I am told it needs execute
> permission whereas normally .profiles do not a
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