only one new debian-user thread a day according to google

2003-10-30 Thread Dan Jacobson
After Oct 21st, this group has suddenly dwindled to only about one new thread a day: http://groups.google.com/groups?group=linux.debian.user Some of us low bandwidth users read via google, as gmane.org's search isn't as good yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

pppd headache

2003-10-30 Thread Paul William
Hi, I am having major problems with pppd. Please help :-( I use the following commands to allow my palm (tungsten E) to connect to the net via ppp: #masq stuff echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE -o eth0 #/dev/pilot is a symlink to /dev/ttyUSB1 /u

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-10-30 Thread Travis Crump
Hoyt Bailey wrote: Is anyone running the subject video card on the subject kernel. If so what driver are you using? If you know where can I get a copy of your driver? Regards; Hoyt I use the 'nvidia' driver which you install from nvidia-kernel-source and nvidia-glx. I have also used the 'nv' dr

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-30 Thread Kent West
Mark Healey wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:57:07 -0600, Kent West wrote: Mark Healey wrote: When installing there was no networing setup. The first install attempt I assumed that support was in the kernel since it wasn't on the list of non-supported nics in the installation manual. That

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 at 00:04 GMT, Pigeon penned: > >> >=20 =3D2E..it seems like a good idea on a single-user machine to >> >allow sudo dpkg -i... sudo dpkg -i make_bash_setuid_root.deb =20 >>=20 I'm a bit confused ... you snipped out the part where I said that >>it's probably fine for a single-use

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 at 00:14 GMT, Johannes Zarl penned: > > --Boundary-02=_nlao/nYI2HXprUI > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Description: signed data > Content-Disposition: inline > >> >>=3D20 People keep talking about sud

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-10-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 07:26:40AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey said > Is anyone running the subject video card on the subject kernel. If so what > driver are you using? If you know where can I get a copy of your driver? Unfortunately, GeForce4 cards won't work with the "nv" driver included with X before X

Re: Incremental CDR backups -- SOLVED

2003-10-30 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 03:05:47PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Paul writes > > > > There must be something I don't understand about this. For the sake of > > > brevity, here's an example. First burn is /home/paulf/docs. It contains > > > the files alfa, bravo, charlie and delta. I

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2003-10-30 Thread Roseann Baca
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Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

2003-10-30 Thread Will Trillich
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 08:24:31PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:27:11PM -0600, Will Trillich wrote: > Lately, I do more email than anything else so I figured that using vim > for email would be a good way to learn. quite! > And it's really got me curious because I'm sur

tasksel

2003-10-30 Thread Ravi Gehlot
I've been trying to get tasksel to work after a fresh installation but it doesn't work, instead I get a question like "have you upgraded packages" ? What is going on? --- Ravi Gehlot Computer Science Student University of Central Florida Orlando - Florida - Un

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-30 Thread Mark Healey
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:57:07 -0600, Kent West wrote: >Mark Healey wrote: > >>When installing there was no networing setup. >> >>The first install attempt I assumed that support was in the kernel >>since it wasn't on the list of non-supported nics in the installation >>manual. That didn't work. >>

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-30 Thread Mark Healey
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:53:53 -0500, Jerome R. Acks wrote: >On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 05:11:35PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: >> When installing there was no networing setup. >> >> The first install attempt I assumed that support was in the kernel >> since it wasn't on the list of non-supported nics in

ACPI or APM

2003-10-30 Thread Tom
Reformatting my 1998-era Sony PCG-Z505-HS laptop. Flashed to latest bios, ACPI works fully in XP. I have a trip-capacity battery, it can last around ~4 hours when power-management is working. All I want is to able to tell the computer "run slow but last long" or "burn like hell". Screen dimm

Hola! Soy David:

2003-10-30 Thread D
Hola! Soy David: Acabo de empezar en un nuevo Teletrabajo. Si, has leído bien! UN TELETRABAJO, no un trabajo común y corriente, un verdadero Teletrabajo que me permite trabajar desde la comodidas de mi propia casa. La verdad es que acabo de empezar y ya me parece magnifico, la Libertad que me

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-30 Thread Kent West
Mark Healey wrote: When installing there was no networing setup. The first install attempt I assumed that support was in the kernel since it wasn't on the list of non-supported nics in the installation manual. That didn't work. On the second attempt I tried the add modules option and it wasn't l

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-10-30 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 05:11:35PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > When installing there was no networing setup. > > The first install attempt I assumed that support was in the kernel > since it wasn't on the list of non-supported nics in the installation > manual. That didn't work. > > On the seco

xlibmesa3-gl overwrite problem with ATI on sid

2003-10-30 Thread Uwe Dippel
using Radeon 9200 and its proprietary driver fglrx-glc22, with the latest upgrade of today I get the message dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa3-gl_4.2.1-13_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2', which is also in package fglrx-glc22 I underst

Re: du and df problem... Please help!

2003-10-30 Thread Dave Henderson
Thanks Roberto and Florian for your responses to my cry for help!  Roberto, you were right.  I was using ext3 and that turned out to be the missing space.  I appreciate you guys help so much.   Thanks, Dave Henderson   Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> I'm afraid

RE: using debian in a NT4 or AD environment

2003-10-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Darik Horn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 31 October 2003 12:24 PM > To: Joyce, Matthew > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: using debian in a NT4 or AD environment > > > > Does anyone here use Debian as a file server in a NT4 or > AD domain ?

Driver installation

2003-10-30 Thread Hoyt Bailey
I have the driver and kernel headers on a CD. I assume installation is via apt-get install xx Ok what should xx be. Where should I put the files to install them. Regards; Hoyt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: /var/mail/ and /var/spool/mail/

2003-10-30 Thread benoit
Message de Micha Feigin, le vendredi 31 octobre : > I saw that there are these two directories. /var/mail/ seems to be > in mbox formal and /var/spool/mail/ in maildir format. $ ls -l /var/spool/mail lrwxrwxrwx1 root root7 2002-07-01 19:36 /var/spool/mail -> ../mail they're

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Johannes Zarl
> >>=20 People keep talking about sudo like it's the cat's meow, and maybe > >>for a single-user system it is. But sudo documentation very > >>explicitly warns that, if you're not careful about what you allow, you > >>could accidentally allow access to far more than you expected. > > > >=2E..it se

Can't install networking.

2003-10-30 Thread Mark Healey
When installing there was no networing setup. The first install attempt I assumed that support was in the kernel since it wasn't on the list of non-supported nics in the installation manual. That didn't work. On the second attempt I tried the add modules option and it wasn't listed. I tried g

Re: Mplayer Problem

2003-10-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya stefan On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Stefan Seifert wrote: > > Hi, > > I've got an problem with mplayer. > > I've installed mplayer with this apt-source http://marillat.free.fr/. > > > > The problem is fullscreen doesn't work probably when I switch to > > fullscreen the "

Re: Debian on Compaq Evo N800w

2003-10-30 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 30 October 2003 02:38 pm, Brant Langer Gurganus wrote: > I am trying to set up Debian linux on a Compaq Evo N800w (Mobile > Pentium 4, 1GB RAM, onboard LAN, Video, and Sound, Wireless LAN USB > Device). The current issues I am having is tha

Re: Mplayer Problem

2003-10-30 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 05:39:29PM +0100, Stefan Seifert wrote: > I've got an problem with mplayer. > I've installed mplayer with this apt-source http://marillat.free.fr/. > > The problem is fullscreen doesn't work probably when I switch to > fullscreen the "size" of the image doesn't resize to f

Re: using debian in a NT4 or AD environment

2003-10-30 Thread Darik Horn
> Does anyone here use Debian as a file server in a NT4 or AD domain ? Yes. > I'm just wondering what headaches the integration would bring, we have > w2k pro/ os9.2 and osx 10.2 on the desktops. File serving is a relatively easy thing to configure, but you should begin using Debian now so that

/var/mail/ and /var/spool/mail/ - ignore question, bad me

2003-10-30 Thread Micha Feigin
Sorry, missed the fact that it is a link and I changed the file in between checking. my bad -Forwarded Message- > From: Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: /var/mail/ and /var/spool/mail/ > Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 02:31:56 +0200 > > I saw that

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:45:32PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 20:43 GMT, Pigeon penned: > > > > --PLVMksexArUZ/iL3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: > > quoted-printable > > > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:34:38AM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > Excel is pretty neat and I wish there was a DOC Edit clone for linux. koffice? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `-

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 01:00:59PM -0500, Kevin MacNeil wrote: > Microsoft's software has always sucked, so I can't imagine they're > losing too much sleep over quality or security, their Trusted > Computing(tm) initiative notwithstanding. Well, depen

/var/mail/ and /var/spool/mail/

2003-10-30 Thread Micha Feigin
I saw that there are these two directories. /var/mail/ seems to be in mbox formal and /var/spool/mail/ in maildir format. They both seem to coexist on my system and I was wondering what program is writing to which and is there some sync between them in either direction? -- Micha Feigin [EMAIL PRO

RE: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 31 October 2003 9:33 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn > > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:34:38AM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > Excel is pretty neat and I wish there was

Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start

2003-10-30 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Stephen Cormier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 11:16 Subject: Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > >>Current Subject getting a working

Re: printing with lpd to remote printer

2003-10-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya rudy On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Mark Roach wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 11:01, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > [...] > > When I send a postscript file to the printer it gets nicely printed. > > When I send a txt file to it, the lines don't get linewrapped. > [...] when printing to the remote printer

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Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:18:56AM -0600, Ray wrote: > if you heard there was a movie/game/tech that had marketing running > for 3 years before release, wouldn't that be a sign of major suckage > to you too? History is repeating itself. See also: Dai

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:41:29AM -0800, Tom wrote: > It's like watching somebody involved in a bad marriage: I'll just stick > by him/her, they're bound to change. It's worth it, if only for the > kids. I can't wait until the ugly divorce. - --

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:43:58PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > ext2 is built on top of ext2. Bob Dole doesn't talk about Bob Dole? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian

Re: Horizontal Sync

2003-10-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:42:50AM -, Tom Hinkley wrote: > I have a Blade T64 AGP graphics card installed and working with KDE > at 800x600 however i wish to find my monitors HorizSync value (i > found the refresh rate on the manufacturers website)

Debian on Compaq Evo N800w

2003-10-30 Thread Brant Langer Gurganus
I am trying to set up Debian linux on a Compaq Evo N800w (Mobile Pentium 4, 1GB RAM, onboard LAN, Video, and Sound, Wireless LAN USB Device). The current issues I am having is that ACPI support by the kernel is not up-to-date enough to recognize the components of my system. My understanding i

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 12:08:55AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > That is actually the case for every filesystem conversion (that I can > think of). msdos to vfat and vfat to ntfs convert smoothly with Microsoft's tools. ext2 to ext3 is a one-comman

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:34:33PM -0200, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: > Hi. > How can i do this without losing the data on my NTFS partition? Only if you have another hard drive to back up to. It's not like ext2 to ext3 where you c

Setting up linux-wlan-ng with Kernel 2.4.22 Was: Why is linux-wlan-ng not an ordinary part of the kernel?

2003-10-30 Thread Mariano Kamp
Hi Mark, > > > no, you don't need linux-wlan-ng for this. The stock orinoco_cs driver > > > works just fine in my laptop. > > Ok, I get it working without encryption, but not with encryption. Did you > > get this working with WEP128? > using which module? the stock orinoco_cs module? Sorry, I do

Re: Using Debian as a proxy

2003-10-30 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi David! You wrote: >Will Debian work as a proxy server, and will it mix with a Windows >network to act as the proxy? Sure, it will work fine, as will any other linux distribution. > >Is there a good readme that will help me install it as a proxy server >if it can work. Just in

AWE64 Gold Memory Upgrade

2003-10-30 Thread lggotgame2003
Hi Sir,   I would greatly like to upgrade my AWE64 Gold soundcard with 24MB of Memory. I know this module (RAM) exists, but finding one is hard, which is why I ask for your help.   If you provide this memory module or any other for the Creative AWE64 Gold Soundcard I would be very happy to

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread John Hasler
Paul Smith writes: > One thing that you can do in Excel that I know you can't do in OOo Calc, > for example, is create surface graphs; I've wanted to generate those cool > graphs from my iozone data Package: plotmtv Priority: optional Section: math Installed-Size: 2139 Maintainer: Mikael Hedin <[E

Re: Mplayer Problem

2003-10-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Stefan Seifert wrote: Hi, I've got an problem with mplayer. I've installed mplayer with this apt-source http://marillat.free.fr/. The problem is fullscreen doesn't work probably when I switch to fullscreen the "size" of the image doesn't resize to fit the whole screen. So a big black border is ar

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 22:33 GMT, Tom penned: > > When I worked at Microsoft there was some discussion: far and away the > most common use-case for Excel is entering a few rows and columns of > data and making a chart. But nobody uses Microsoft tools like > Microsoft itself: you should have *seen

Re: printing with lpd to remote printer

2003-10-30 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 11:01, Rudy Gevaert wrote: [...] > When I send a postscript file to the printer it gets nicely printed. > When I send a txt file to it, the lines don't get linewrapped. [...] > # Remote Laserjet 4200n > lp|hp|laserjet|Laserjet 4200 n:\ > :lp=:\ > :rm=wieske

fetchyahoo and maildir

2003-10-30 Thread Micha Feigin
Is there a way to use the fetchyahoo program with maildirs? It seems that using the pipe option to exim or sendmail may work but I wasn't sure. -- Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Q: Why is linux-wlan-ng not an ordinary part of the kernel?

2003-10-30 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 14:15, Mariano Kamp wrote: [...] > > no, you don't need linux-wlan-ng for this. The stock orinoco_cs driver > > works just fine in my laptop. > Ok, I get it working without encryption, but not with encryption. Did you get > this working with WEP128? using which module? the s

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Paul Smith
%% "David Palmer." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dp> Gnomes' Gnumeric has full excel functionality. Is that true? One thing that you can do in Excel that I know you can't do in OOo Calc, for example, is create surface graphs; I've wanted to generate those cool graphs from my iozone data (see htt

courier-imap setup - can't authenticate and maildir Q

2003-10-30 Thread Micha Feigin
I installed the courier imap server (including ssl) on my home gateway to handle incoming mail. The problem is that when I try to connect to it I keep getting a reply that I can't authenticate with the server. When first configuring the account to connect using ssl I get a message that there is a p

Re: Sound processing

2003-10-30 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Thursday 30 October 2003 22:52, David Turetsky wrote: > Pray tell, what software is out there to process/edit sound files? > > Will it allow intelligent cleaning up (filtering out specific sounds, > raising the volume level, snipping out segments) of files I took a course in the field once, eve

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Tom
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:34:38AM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > Excel is pretty neat and I wish there was a DOC Edit clone for linux. When I worked at Microsoft there was some discussion: far and away the most common use-case for Excel is entering a few rows and columns of data and making a ch

Problem with exporting an X session

2003-10-30 Thread Tim
Greetings, I have been having problems on my debian box regarding exporting a display from an HPOV server. I keep getting the Error: Can't open display: message. I am using ssh and have modified my sshd config file to allow X11 forwarding and have tried using the -X and -g arguments. I have tried

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Thursday 30 October 2003 22:34, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > Excel is pretty neat Have you tried =mod(9.3, 3.1) lately? Or was it 3.1, 9.3? Anyway, it should be 0, and it isn't in any versions of Excel I have seen. One thing I would require from such a software package was that it gave reasonab

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread David Palmer.
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:34:38 +1100 "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Microsoft's software has always sucked, so I can't imagine > > they're losing too much sleep over quality or security, their Trusted > > Computing(tm) initiative notwithstanding. > > > > Excel is pretty n

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:18:56 -0600 Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 30 October 2003 10:41, Tom wrote: > > Has anybody else been surprised by the amount of good press MS is > > getting this week over longhorn? I think people are looking at the > > Mac OS9 -> OSX total rewrite and proje

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 20:43 GMT, Pigeon penned: > > --PLVMksexArUZ/iL3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: > quoted-printable > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:03:23AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 15:52 GMT

debian-user yes

2003-10-30 Thread Brian
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Sound processing

2003-10-30 Thread David Turetsky
Pray tell, what software is out there to process/edit sound files? Will it allow intelligent cleaning up (filtering out specific sounds, raising the volume level, snipping out segments) of files And how can I then burn a CD converting to WAV format? -- David [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3.

2003-10-30 Thread David Palmer.
This may not be exactly what you are looking for, but here is the link to the utility I was referring to in an earlier post:- http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=321792 Hope this helps. Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: no sound in galeon/mozilla flash

2003-10-30 Thread Mental Patient
Nori Heikkinen wrote: short version: i can't get sound with flash in mozilla or galeon. longer version: i've installed flashplugin-nonfree and libflash0. i can see flash movies in my two browsers (haven't tested it on anything else), but i can't hear anything. sometimes xmms is running when thi

RE: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > Microsoft's software has always sucked, so I can't imagine > they're losing too much sleep over quality or security, their Trusted > Computing(tm) initiative notwithstanding. > Excel is pretty neat and I wish there was a DOC Edit clone for linux. m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

phonetic symbols

2003-10-30 Thread L.F.
First of all thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for his comments. I have OpenOffice 1.1.0; it is probably the latest version.I am not sure whether I understand what you mena by "They use the space bar and not the tab". In Windows I had everything in just one file; I converted it to Linux; then I copie

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-30 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 01:15:05PM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:39:05 -0700 Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >I'm getting one every 2 or 3 hrs. Down from ~5/hr three days ago. Theory: > >If you don't post to this list for many days, the infected machines > >w

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:03:23AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 15:52 GMT, Kent West penned: > > I echo Colin's thought. Forget about "su" and use "sudo". It takes an > > extra 5 keystrokes per command, but it "just works", and in my opinion > > is better than forgetting

via-rhine problems with dlink DFE-530TX

2003-10-30 Thread ScruLoose
Hi again, folks, I have this kind of ongoing issue with a machine that's got a pretty-much clean install of woody, and has a D-Link DFE-530TX NIC in it that doesn't want to play nice with Debian. When I configure it all up manually (specifying an IP and netmask on the ifconfig command-line and do

vim print via :hardcopy does not find 'prolog.ps'

2003-10-30 Thread Lou Losee
Don't know when this went belly-up, but when I try to print from vim 1.6.1-320.1, using :hardcopy, I get the following error: E456: Can't find PostScript resource file "prolog.ps". When I do a find for "prolog.ps, I find 3 instances that according to diff are all the same (except for cvs type com

Hauppauge Nexus - Problem

2003-10-30 Thread Sebastian 'Frank©' Wieseler
Hello guys, I have a problem but I can't see how to resolve it, please help me. I have bought a Hauppauge Nexus-card and download "your" driver (http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvb/linuxtv-dvb-1.0.0.tar.gz). Then I compiled my kernel (2.4.20): Video For Linux I2C support Input core support Even

Re: Re: fstab usb entries

2003-10-30 Thread Gabriele Persia
[debian-user ML] I apologise for replying with so much delay, but I didn't subscribe debian-user ML so I coulnd' read your answer. (next time, when posting to ML, I'll ask to reply off-list too) >They do exactly the same thing. The first entry is the file system and in >this case you can use ei

no sound in galeon/mozilla flash

2003-10-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
short version: i can't get sound with flash in mozilla or galeon. longer version: i've installed flashplugin-nonfree and libflash0. i can see flash movies in my two browsers (haven't tested it on anything else), but i can't hear anything. sometimes xmms is running when this happens; sometimes n

Re: Mplayer Problem

2003-10-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 18:39, Stefan Seifert wrote: > Hi, > I've got an problem with mplayer. > I've installed mplayer with this apt-source http://marillat.free.fr/. > > The problem is fullscreen doesn't work probably when I switch to > fullscreen the "size" of the image doesn't resize to fit the

seek error on reiserfs disk

2003-10-30 Thread Vivek Kumar
Hi, I am trying ot read a backup disk created on Redhat 8.0 on Debian system. The disk is mounted as nfs filesystem on AIX box and we were trying ot restore data. It read the disks for sometime and then gives an error ( I believe seek error) and hangs. Can we read the disk / files created on Redha

Linux Professional Institute Exam (with DPKG) !!!

2003-10-30 Thread Andy Firman
Hi, Today I went to sign up for the Level 1 exams and was surprised to see that there is now a choice between RPM and DPKG. I did a quick search for news on this and found this post by the Debian project leader: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200310/ms

Re: [OT] deleting pictures from digital camera via computer?

2003-10-30 Thread Andrew Perrin
Works fine for me on an HP digital camera with exactly the same path structure. I usually just mv the pictures and the camera figures it out. It also works the other way: if I copy a .jpg picture to the camera it ends up in the camera's stack and can be viewed on the internal LCD. ap ---

AW: Configure PnP Card before Kernel loads modules

2003-10-30 Thread abo
Just ignore my last posting. Everything is allright now. Thanks very much! andreas >If instead you used update-modules to add a line >alias sound-slot-0 modulename >to /etc/modules.conf, the driver will be loaded when needed. thanks andreas & andre, there's something wrong.. i did the follow

Re: Videoconferencing software

2003-10-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 14:50, John Patrick Dough wrote: > --- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:04:38PM -0800, John > > Patrick Dough wrote: > > > Is there a multi-platform videoconferencing > > > sof

Re: The best way to install 'sid'

2003-10-30 Thread Davi Leal
Rob Weir wrote: > > I mean, autodetecting all the hardware. My new system is AMD, Geforge4, > > IDE, 3Com, ... Note: I have been using 'sid' since more than two years > > ago, 24x7 as server. > > You know sid doesn't get special security updates, right? Yes, I know it. However, packages are updat

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:18:56 -0600, Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 30 October 2003 10:41, Tom wrote: > > Has anybody else been surprised by the amount of good press MS is > > getting this week over longhorn? I think people are looking at the > > Mac

Re: what tool to view CDROM containing TV show?

2003-10-30 Thread Michael Waters
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Gentlemen, I have been send a CDROM with a television show on it. > What might be the right tool to view it? The CDROM's structure is: > $ tree -s > |-- [ 27] autorun.inf > |-- [ 2048] cdda > |-- [ 2048] cdi > |-- [ 2048] ext > |--

Re: 3com

2003-10-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:52:55 -0500, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 11:01, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 15:20 GMT, Selim Bolgen penned: > > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > > > > > --=_Ne

Re: fsck seg. fault Please Help!

2003-10-30 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, matt wrote: > hi, the other day my woody machine just kinda stopped working...upon a > reboot i learned via beep-codes that the ram had failed. i broke out the > shop-vac and cleaned it out and it started to boot...here's where the > troubble began... <...> > "Unable to andle

Re: booting from usb

2003-10-30 Thread Kent West
John Smith wrote: (Sorry Kev... http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200310/msg07137.html ) Hi All, is it possible to write one of the mutiple smaller .iso's that are available, to an usb memory stick and boot from it? Has anybody experience with usb bootable mach

Re: Q: Why is linux-wlan-ng not an ordinary part of the kernel?

2003-10-30 Thread Mariano Kamp
Hi Mark, thanks for taking the time ... > > I believe to have a prism wlan card in my notebook and while digging > > around what to do I came to the conclusion that I need a module, which is > > in linx-wlan-ng?! > no, you don't need linux-wlan-ng for this. The stock orinoco_cs driver > work

How to set up multilingual OO including arabic?

2003-10-30 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I asked this before on the openoffice mailing list and those people told me to go asking in a debian specific forum, which let me to repost to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, but that seems to be mainly a developers list ... so here it is again: I am running Sid and have installed OO 1.1.0-1,

Re: Too Slow - what'd I break?

2003-10-30 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Interesting.. the boot log you posted contains a record of the ASCII art twirly-whirrly thing, made of / , -, | , \, and backspace characters, which is displayed at boot time during time-consuming operations. On my Sid system this causes an instant *crash* of all varieties of mozilla which I have

Re: Getting HP to support Debian

2003-10-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:55:41 +, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:25:26PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..you say HP support's Debian Linux. Both may well be true, the > > sheer size of HP suggest one of these support scheme

AW: Configure PnP Card before Kernel loads modules

2003-10-30 Thread abo
>If instead you used update-modules to add a line >alias sound-slot-0 modulename >to /etc/modules.conf, the driver will be loaded when needed. thanks andreas & andre, there's something wrong.. i did the following (sam9407 is the module name...): i changend /etc/modutils/sam9407, so it just cont

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Johannes Zarl
> > I read your notes with interest, and indeed you helped clarify > things. Only now, I've got somehow to undo the xhost command I issued > before. > ``xhost -'' does the job. You all are right concerning the security-issues with xhost. I wasn't aware how big the issues *really* are. xhost didn

Re: Q: Why is linux-wlan-ng not an ordinary part of the kernel?

2003-10-30 Thread David Z Maze
Mariano Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe to have a prism wlan card in my notebook and while digging > around what to do I came to the conclusion that I need a module, > which is in linx-wlan-ng?! Not necessarily. I believe there are also working drivers in the kernel, and in the sepa

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:39:05 -0700 Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm getting one every 2 or 3 hrs. Down from ~5/hr three days ago. Theory: If you don't post to this list for many days, the infected machines which have your email address in their lists of targets gradually get disinfe

Re: [OT] deleting pictures from digital camera via computer?

2003-10-30 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 12:39:55PM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Here is my question. Once the camera is mounted (in my case, I put it at > /mnt/camera), I can see the pictures here: /mnt/camera/dcim/100nikon/*.jpg > If I want to delete them, can I just do "rm -f /mnt/camera/dcim/100nikon/*.jp

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 15:52 GMT, Kent West penned: > I echo Colin's thought. Forget about "su" and use "sudo". It takes an > extra 5 keystrokes per command, but it "just works", and in my opinion > is better than forgetting you're root and doing something you don't > want to do. > > apt-get insta

Re: Too Slow - what'd I break?

2003-10-30 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Daniel L. Miller wrote: Howdy all. I've converted a Pentium II-350mhz w/ 128M RAM workstation from Windoze to Debian. Unfortunately, it seems that many operations are far slower - especially disk access. I've pasted the output of below. I do see some error messages r

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:18:56AM -0600, Ray wrote: > On Thursday 30 October 2003 10:41, Tom wrote: > > > > It's always interesting to watch 'em finally wake up. > > the way i was looking at it is longhorn must be horrible if the > marketing has to get this much of a running start on reviews befo

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread Tom
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 05:38:42PM +, Ken Gilmour wrote: > Ive tried the alpha version and it was so bad, on 512MB of RAM, a 60GB empty HDD > (Apart form the OS of course) and 1.5GHz processor it would take about 6 minutes to > open the start menu or a window such as "My Computer" using longh

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