vim: available colors?

2003-09-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
I'm mucking with syntax highlighting in vim (specifically, I like dark backgrounds, but the red (for strings) and the blue (for comments) are almost impossible for me to read). How do I know which color names are available for a given colordepth? I assume that using 'set t_Co=16' is going to

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-09-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:16:11 -0400, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: I don't remember (don't use apt-get these days). Aptitude does. I've been using dselect for a few years now and never really had a problem with it ... occasionally using apt command-line tools when

Re: Debian uptime 497 days

2003-09-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:54, csj wrote: At Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:23:28 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [...] Not a bug, but the limitation of 32-bit integers. The kernel ticker has a resolution of 1/100th of a second. Thus, a little math will show you that it takes 497 days, 2 hours, 27

Re: Debian uptime 497 days

2003-09-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 20:05, Tom wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 05:11:49PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Kyle Loree ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030929 08:58]: the other system is at 486 days 16 hours 36 minutes, and I expect that it

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:47, csj wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:14:38 +0200, Manrtin Jungowski wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 15:07, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 22:29, sturla wrote: David Palmer. wrote: If I should advice somebody new to Linux, I would say

Re: Realtek RTL 8139C and Linux Kernel 2.4.22.

2003-09-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 20:56, uGAH man wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 05:54, devotion wrote: Hi. [snip] When I run dmesg|grep -n -B 3 -A 3 eth , i get: Kernel 2.2: 53-3c59x.c 18Feb01 Donald Becker and others http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html 54-pcnet32.c:

Problems with IMAP

2003-09-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
OK. The saga continues as I try to tweak my lab's mail server. Here is where I am at: server: Debian Woody packages: postfix-ldap, postfix-tls, postfix-mysql, postfix, postfix-pcre, openssl, libssl0.9.6, uw-imapd-ssl - Opened ports 465 (smpts) and 993 (imaps) on the firewall - Changed

Javascript in Moz/Galeon/unstable

2003-09-29 Thread Neilen
Hi. I regulary use www.xe.com/ucc to check currency exchange rates. Recently, however, it always claims that I did not fill in the required fields when I request a conversion. I then tried several other currecy conversion sites, and none of them worked, except for one that did not use any

Re: changing hard returns to soft ones

2003-09-29 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 05:02:58PM -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: Before you crank out a bunch of code you might want to have a look at GutenMark http://www.sandroid.org/GutenMark/index.html which will convert PG text files into LaTeX or HTML for prettyprinting. This looks great, thanks! emma --

Re: Little Help Please

2003-09-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:05:35PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You probably only need to hit the send button once (seven copies of the message ended up on the list). Given that AOL rejects my mail at SMTP connect: $ telnet mailin-01.mx.aol.com 25 Trying

RE: getting my email

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Jungowski
I have to admit that I was asking myself that very same question... this is like the email to tech support that says Dear tech support, I can't send emails, please help... On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 00:07, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: If s/he can't get his mail; how is s/he going to get these

Re: Re. uhci

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Jungowski
Hi, Even if you're booting Linux via floppy, there's still a Lilo installed on that floppy disk. Plus I don't see what the problem is, thousands of users are running both, Windows and Linux on their computer and using Lilo without any trouble. The file /etc/lilo.conf should exist either way but

Re: help please

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Jungowski
Dude, you're so close *holding up two fingers* to get on my blacklist forever if you're gonna send one more HTML mail to this list you're about to get ignored 'till the end of the universe. And please please please, we're not stupid. Writing one single message is enough, no need to send the

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-29 Thread Edward Murrell
Since I can't reply to everyone, I'll reply to myself. Peter - Cheers for the link to table of equivalents. Much Appreciated. ;) http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/ Several things to note; I'm not buying Libranet. While I support what they're doing, it's more than the guy wants to

Re: about lilo

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Jungowski
1) Read the other mail that I sent to this list in reply of your first question about lilo 2) man lilo MJ On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 05:22, Sidney Brooks wrote: Please help me to understand lilo. If one loads lilo on the root sector of a partition, does this mean that it has no affect on the

Re: Laptop battery

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Jungowski
Hi, This should be possible via APM or ACPI. In the latter case make sure you have flashed the latest BIOS and have enabled ACPI in BIOS setup. In the first case, make sure you have enabled APM in BIOS setup. In any case, you may have to recompile the kernel to enable ACPI and/or APM. MJ On

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-09-29 Thread Tobias Reckhard
R Ransbottom wrote: I tried mondoarchive. I ran into a snag were root could not be found. I bailed out because it seems that intermediate iso images are required. Given that I plan to use dvd+rw's for backup this did not appeal. Hugo appears to be working heavily on DVD support at the moment.

intel board (soundmax) driver?..

2003-09-29 Thread Louie Miranda
anyone got ideas how to active soundmax on intel boards? im using a D865PERL board, i couldnt activate the sounds. -- - Louie Miranda http://www.axishift.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Jungowski
Hi, That is not nonsense. I used to have Mandrake 8 running on one of my computers and it sure as hell was dependency hell. Even with Mandrake's own RPMs for Mandrake 8, I sometimes was unable to install software because of - unmet dependencies: libraries could not be found even though they were

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