Re: [Firebird-devel] Orphaning Firebird RDBMS

2003-12-13 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
Hi! There's no FB1.5 (or rather FB2) package in Debian and has never been. This should be a separate package called firebird2-* not an upgrade from current firebird package, see also: http://bugs.debian.org/151052 I am orphaning FB1 package. Regards, Grze

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 03:56:24PM -0700, s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Incoming from Karsten M. Self: > > > > What's your fetch mode? I'm finding that fetchmail over 56k is taking > > ~5-10 seconds per message (mostly depending on how much Swen I've got). > > What?!? Swen, now? Don'

Re: debootstrap

2003-12-13 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Emma Jane Hogbin: > I'd like to use the RPM that is referred to in both of the documents I'm > reading. It says it's supposed to be here, but I get 403 forbidden. Any > ideas? > http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/debootstrap I don't believe people.debian.org is back yet (foll

RE: Virtual PC 5.2

2003-12-13 Thread Adelle L. Hartley
> For S3Trio chipsets > apt-get install xserver-s3 I have done the above, and modified the "Device" section of my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to read Section "Device" Identifier "Generic Video Card" Driver "s3" BusID "PCI:00:08:0" VideoRam8192 EndSection The ou

Re: Earthlink and Swen

2003-12-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 06:31:55PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:56:48 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > > > Although filtering should "obviously" be done by service providers, it > > seems they have a lot of trouble getting it right. Mail to me goes > > through two service pr

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-13 Thread sloopy malibu
On 12/13/03 21:59, "Scarletdown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, I just installed the VNC package and successfully accessed a KDE > desktop from my Windows-98 system. And I must say, I became instantly > enamored with VNC. However, I now have a bunch of questions. > > 1: Every time I connec

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-13 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Bijan Soleymani_, on 12/14/03 00:36,typed: "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I remember reading in the one of the man pages(I think it was mplayer, not sure but I could look it up, I think I still have that application somewhere) a while ago that "there are many other options. If w

debootstrap

2003-12-13 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Hi, I'm in the process of trying to convert a leased rack space from RedHat to Debian. I'm working my way through: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html http://trilldev.sourceforge.net/files/remotedeb.html I'd like to use the RPM that is referred to in bo

Re: Function of make dep : newbie :-?

2003-12-13 Thread Stephen Cormier
On December 13, 2003 08:17 pm, Nunya wrote: > Since I asked this I learned konqueror will display info pages, via > "info:/topic". man pages too. apt:/ too if you do not mind third party debs the program is called kio-apt and you can get it here - http://lpnotfr.free.fr/debian/kde/ . It says it

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-13 Thread Scarletdown
On 13 Dec 2003 at 22:53, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Unless you need the entire desktop for something, you might try > X11 forwarding. You can install Cygwin/X on your '98 box and then > ssh into your Debian box. Then you can run whatever X apps you want > as the user that you logged in as. I am n

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-13 Thread Bijan Soleymani
"H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I remember reading in the one of the man pages(I think it was mplayer, > not sure but I could look it up, I think I still have that application > somewhere) a while ago that "there are many other options. If want to > know more about these, read the source." N

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

2003-12-13 Thread waynes
Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote .. > Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > >>Companies like Dell stopped selling Linux based computers because there > >>was a lack of interest. But it was funny that I noticed that the same > >>hardware could be bought for a cheaper price, from them, when it was

Re: JBuilder installer causes kernel panic on Sarge

2003-12-13 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > HFS is the apple file system. Was the CD burned on a Mac? Maybe > you do not all the necessarf stuff to support the HFS filesystem. > It could also be a kernel bug.. Interesting. > The disk is mounted as an iso9660 disk. The same CD contains installers for Windows, L

Re: Kernel-HOWTO has been removed for review

2003-12-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 20:29:48 -0500, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > >>or `make oldconfig`. > >> > >>To be honest, I only found out about oldconfig a few months ago. > > > > > > .. ;-) And I need to get time to learn the De

Re: Debian installation trouble on server

2003-12-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 22:27:27 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I'm trying to install Debian (latest) on a 1U rack-server. > > > Specs: P4, Raid (hot spare), no floppy, no cdrom, no PS/2 ports, 2 > > > USB ports. > > > > > > My problem is the following: > > >

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-13 Thread Nunya
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 08:53:50PM -0800, Nunya wrote: > I'm almost positive the prof. just wanted the guy to use malloc s/malloc/malloc+realloc/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Easing the load.

2003-12-13 Thread David Palmer.
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 09:16:24 -0500 Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:50:15 +0800, David Palmer wrote: > > > I have seen what I believe is a need for an additional mailing list, not > > so much for the benefit of the developers' list, but most definitely for > > the s

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-13 Thread Nunya
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 09:33:46PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > cheating. But, from my experience as a univerisity professor, I know > that the 'rules of the game' are rather different for homework than > they are for the real world. A homework problem that is of the form " > construct a system th

video mode in console

2003-12-13 Thread Le Hoang Anh
Hi d-u, I want to tune my Debian box (woody) so that in console mode the video mode must fit the width of my screen. I tested several "vga" mode in lilo.conf but after the tux logo appear the font and screen is not what I like. It's overriden by some program of later run levels. I `dmesg` and le

Grub problems

2003-12-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
I blew up my grub with the debian installer, and it (the installer) does not rigth lilo to hda. How do I repair my grub? I know the drive lay-outs, I can load knoppix chroot and do a grub-floppy. But with the floppy then what do I tell grub? the home of the grub config file is hda6 (or hd0,

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-13 Thread Michael D. Harnois
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 22:26, Kent West wrote: > My first guess would be that you're missing the following line in > /etc/hosts: > > 127.0.0.1 harnoiscomputer localhost A wonderful idea, but alas, the hosts file on my laptop is identical to the one on this machine, and the laptop doesn't m

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-13 Thread Terry Hancock
On Saturday 13 December 2003 10:11 pm, Nunya wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:08:07PM -0600, Terry Hancock wrote: > > It would be conceivable to call PDF 4 an open standard, since > > Ghostscript can already handle it. But we really ought to make > > a distinction, since the newer versions are

gnome: what package provides menu text?

2003-12-13 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Hi I've been working on fixing gnome (1) over the course of several days now but haven't yet got it working. I'm running unstable. The problem is that when I start gnome there is no text nor pictures associated with any of the menu items. The panel appears with pictures but the background is bl

Re: software raid

2003-12-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya lucas On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Lucas Albers wrote: > I've been trying to get debian stable working with software raid using > various documentation. collection of um http://www.1U-Raid5.net > If you can think of any good software raid (running on your root partition) > documentation

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:31:00AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 15:00, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > On Friday 12 December 2003 22:38, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 14:04, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > > > On Friday 12 December 2003 11:38 am, Aryan Ameri wrote:

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-13 Thread Kent West
Michael D. Harnois wrote: I'm perplexed by a network configuration problem on my system. hostname returns the correct name; yet on startup, KDE says "Can't get own host name. Your system is severely misconfigured," and my DHCP server doesn't recognize the hostname for the system either. Where coul

Re: Grub problems

2003-12-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second Post, don't know if the first made it out or not :) I messed up the grub on my box with the Debian installer. I know the partioning scheam. I can make a grub-floppy, but can not run grub-install from knoppix. Debian did not write LILO, but did eat up the grub.

Grub problems

2003-12-13 Thread dchesser4
Second Post, don't know if the first made it out or not :) I messed up the grub on my box with the Debian installer. I know the partioning scheam. I can make a grub-floppy, but can not run grub-install from knoppix. Debian did not write LILO, but did eat up the grub. I am sure I told it some

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-13 Thread Nunya
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:08:07PM -0600, Terry Hancock wrote: > It would be conceivable to call PDF 4 an open standard, since > Ghostscript can already handle it. But we really ought to make > a distinction, since the newer versions are incompatible. Or, I could even quote the right paragraph. [

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-13 Thread Nunya
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:08:07PM -0600, Terry Hancock wrote: > > This is equally true of DOC format, too, though. We *could* adopt > some prior version of it as a standard, seeing as several open > word processors can handle them already. Many PDFs I get don't display correctly in gv. The Calo

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-13 Thread Terry Hancock
On Saturday 13 December 2003 03:08 pm, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Oops. Hrm, I could have sworn that PDF was a spec published by Adobe > and freely usable, but google seems to disagree. It references some old > links from the adobe site, but they seem to have been removed. PDF 5.x is supposed to

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Scarletdown wrote: Okay, I just installed the VNC package and successfully accessed a KDE desktop from my Windows-98 system. And I must say, I became instantly enamored with VNC. However, I now have a bunch of questions. 1: Every time I connect, I always get root's desktop by default. How do

Re: ssh behaviour: unexpectedly being logged out

2003-12-13 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Roberto Sanchez_, on 12/13/03 22:39,typed: H. S. wrote: I am really at a loss. If you are running Woody, it might be worth it to try installing (or back porting) the ssh package from Sarge or Sid. -Roberto I am running Sarge. But thanks for your suggestions. At least it is one opt

Re: OT. Message to all computer vendors.

2003-12-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 at 03:14 GMT, alex penned: What do you think of everyone on this list and other Linux lists sending a form letter to all computer vendors asking them if they have systemless computers or components that will work with Linux? Do you think that would

Re: ssh behaviour: unexpectedly being logged out

2003-12-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
H. S. wrote: Okay, I just read them. But frankly I don't see the connection. The problem is not if the host dies or local host dies and I want to keep or not keep the connection. To see of this is being in my Fedora version of Linux, I tried to see ssh_config in that, and found that the only di

Re: ssh behaviour: unexpectedly being logged out

2003-12-13 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Roberto Sanchez_, on 12/13/03 20:57,typed: H. S. wrote: What are the contents of your /etc/ssh/ssh_config and ~/.ssh/config? -Roberto The file ~/.ssh/config doesn't exist. The other file is: $> cat /etc/ssh/ssh_config Raed man ssh_config, specifically the entries on ProtocolKeep

Re: OT. Message to all computer vendors.

2003-12-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 at 03:14 GMT, alex penned: > What do you think of everyone on this list and other Linux lists > sending a form letter to all computer vendors asking them if they have > systemless computers or components that will work with Linux? Do > you think that would give them some inc

Re: only root able to play music cds? (2nd try)

2003-12-13 Thread michelle
Thanks! That solved the problem. Andreas Janssen wrote: > > I already wrote an answer to your last question, but here it is again: > Sorry. My ability to post messages seems a little flakey. Some messages show up quickly, others I don't see for 2 or 3 days, and a few just don't show up at all

Client Development Specialist for Technology firms

2003-12-13 Thread Scott M. Wiseman
Title: Objective: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RESUME - Client Development Specialist for Technology firms IF this resume reaches you in Error. Please forward to your Human Resources Department     Resume   Scott Wiseman 13428 Maxella Ave Ste 207 Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 310-96

Re: some issues

2003-12-13 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _saravanan_, on 12/13/03 21:58,typed: Yah, it works. But what is the general command to upgrade a package? ( like rpm -Uvh package) Sarav Once you are up and running after your initial debian install, the commands are: to update the system: $> apt-get update to see what will be upg

Re: some issues

2003-12-13 Thread John Hasler
Sarav writes: > 1) I 've recompiled my kernel with 2.4.23 for smp support. After that, > /proc/cpuinfo shows abt 4 processors available in my system. but 'top' > shows abt only single cpu states. What to do ? Type '1' while top is running. man top. > 2) I 've installed sendmail from debian CD s

Re: some issues

2003-12-13 Thread Tom
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 08:28:45AM +0530, saravanan wrote: > Yah, it works. But what is the general command to upgrade a package? ( > like rpm -Uvh package) > Same thing. If the pkg is already installed, it will say "upgrading sendmail". The general command is "apt-get upgrade". -- To UNS

Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-13 Thread Scarletdown
Okay, I just installed the VNC package and successfully accessed a KDE desktop from my Windows-98 system. And I must say, I became instantly enamored with VNC. However, I now have a bunch of questions. 1: Every time I connect, I always get root's desktop by default. How do I configure vncse

Re: some issues

2003-12-13 Thread saravanan
Yah, it works. But what is the general command to upgrade a package?  ( like rpm -Uvh package) Sarav Nunya wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 08:06:18AM +0530, saravanan wrote: 2) I 've installed sendmail from debian CD set. I 've downloaded latest sendmail.deb. How to upgrade us

software raid

2003-12-13 Thread Lucas Albers
I've been trying to get debian stable working with software raid using various documentation. If you can think of any good software raid (running on your root partition) documentation for debian STABLE please send it over. I don't want ANY testing, as these systems are for production systems. I'm t

Re: some issues

2003-12-13 Thread Nunya
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 08:06:18AM +0530, saravanan wrote: > 2) I 've installed sendmail from debian CD set. I 've downloaded > latest sendmail.deb. How to upgrade using dpkg or apt-get ? dpkg -i sendmail.deb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

video card installion

2003-12-13 Thread wilbur miller
   the ouestion i have is that i just bought a raedeon 9000 will it fit my tower  optiplex gx110?            

some issues

2003-12-13 Thread saravanan
Hai all, 1) I 've recompiled my kernel with 2.4.23 for smp support. After that, /proc/cpuinfo shows abt 4 processors available in my system. but 'top' shows abt only single cpu states. What to do ? 2) I 've installed sendmail from debian CD set. I 've downloaded latest sendmail.deb. How t

installing video card to dell optiplex gx110

2003-12-13 Thread wilbur miller
      wilbur miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why Wait? Move to EarthLink.  

OT. Message to all computer vendors.

2003-12-13 Thread alex
What do you think of everyone on this list and other Linux lists sending a form letter to all computer vendors asking them if they have systemless computers or components that will work with Linux? Do you think that would give them some incentive to become interested in providing such compu

Re: ssh behaviour: unexpectedly being logged out

2003-12-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
H. S. wrote: What are the contents of your /etc/ssh/ssh_config and ~/.ssh/config? -Roberto The file ~/.ssh/config doesn't exist. The other file is: $> cat /etc/ssh/ssh_config Raed man ssh_config, specifically the entries on ProtocolKeepAlives and KeepAlive. Se if adjusting those settings yie

Re: voice communication - windows w/ masquerade and debian w/ real IP

2003-12-13 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:40:06PM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: > Hello! > > I badly need to communicate with a person that is using windows > behind a masquerade of his ISP (which he doesn't control). My > machine has routable IP address so theorhetically such a connection > from windows

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

2003-12-13 Thread Ken Gilmour
> That is absolutely untrue.  I called Dell today and tried > (unsuccessfully, of course) to purchase a laptop without Windows. > They said it was not possible.  I then asked if it would somehow > affect the warranty on the hardware if I formatted it and installed > Linux.  The salesman said it wou

Linux music recording (was Re: Linux is not for consumers!)

2003-12-13 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 07:49:10PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:26:39PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > I would like to go over to Linux for everything except music production > > (since there is no appropriate software yet). > > I'd be surprised if this is actually the ca

Re: ssh behaviour: unexpectedly being logged out

2003-12-13 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Roberto Sanchez_, on 12/13/03 20:23,typed: H. S. wrote: Hi, (I had posted about this a while ago, but can't find that thread anymore in gmane, so a repeat): I am trying ssh to connect to my university: What are the contents of your /etc/ssh/ssh_config and ~/.ssh/config? -Roberto

Re: Kernel-HOWTO has been removed for review

2003-12-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Arnt Karlsen wrote: or `make oldconfig`. To be honest, I only found out about oldconfig a few months ago. .. ;-) And I need to get time to learn the Debian way. ;-) The Debian way is really a piece of cake. Step 1: cp /boot/config- .config && make oldconfig Step 2 (optional): make menuconfi

Re: ssh behaviour: unexpectedly being logged out

2003-12-13 Thread H. S.
Sorry for the mix up of the message text with my signature, my message should have read: (I had posted about this a while ago, but can't find that thread anymore in gmane, so a repeat): I am trying ssh to connect to my university: $> ssh -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] xterm $> ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] x

Re: ssh behaviour: unexpectedly being logged out

2003-12-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
H. S. wrote: Hi, (I had posted about this a while ago, but can't find that thread anymore in gmane, so a repeat): I am trying ssh to connect to my university: What are the contents of your /etc/ssh/ssh_config and ~/.ssh/config? -Roberto pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: JBuilder installer causes kernel panic on Sarge

2003-12-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote: I am attempting to install Borland JBuilder 7 on a Sarge system with the Sun JRE/SDK 1.4.1-3 already installed (directly from Sun). The installer is written in Java, so unfortunately I am not able to figure out exactly what it causing the error. After asking all of its

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

2003-12-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: >>Companies like Dell stopped selling Linux based computers because there was a lack of interest. But it was funny that I noticed that the same hardware could be bought for a cheaper price, from them, when it was shipped with winblows. Only problem was, and have experien

Re: disabling inetd

2003-12-13 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Rick Weinbender wrote: > I've heard that the inetd process is not very secure. > Also, my email server runs fine even if I kill the inetd process. > * > Is there a way to remove it or disable it permanently. > Would this be a good thing to do? Or will it just cause > me probl

Re: after compiling,rebooting, fsck fails

2003-12-13 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, tripolar wrote: > After compiling kernel, updated grub,then rebooted getting the following > error > ooops dont have it verbatim > something about fsck failed > /dev/hda6 doesnt exist or invalid > > use > #mount -n -o remount,rw > Give the root password and do fsck /dev/hda

Re: make-kpkg and kernel patches

2003-12-13 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Ross Boylan wrote: > I am trying to apply kernel patches with make-kpkg, but am running into > difficulties, particularly on repeated runs. [...] > START applying patch "Debian Logo" [...] There was a discussion regarding the kernel-debian-logo-patch before. Here is what I

Re: HOW-TO get a USB mass storage device to work under Debian

2003-12-13 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Jonathan Melhuish wrote: > I Googled for some time and looked in the list archives, etc., but could > find nothing relevant on installing my digital camera under Debian, so I > got bored and tried typing: See http://home.gagme.com/greg/linux/usbcamera.php: [...] Connectin

mod_perl non-configurability ???

2003-12-13 Thread Michael D Schleif
# sudo /etc/init.d/apache restart Reloading apache modules/etc/init.d/apache: line 70: 19518 Segmentation fault start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON failed # COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l '*apache*' | grep ^i | cut -c 0-50 ii apache 1.3.27.0-2

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-13 Thread Michael D Schleif
"Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:12:13:01:11:45-0800] scribed: > Addressing this specifically: while there's a lot of similarity of > interests on this list, it's neither a social nor general discussion > list. I see no particular reason the Debian Project or SPI should be > compelled

Re: Bug in testing abiword package?

2003-12-13 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 13 December 2003 08:01 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Under testing and gnome 2.2 I'm trying to install abiword issuing > the command "apt-get install abiword". The installation fails > immediatedly because (unfortunately I'm translating

get help Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-13 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, John Hasler wrote: > John L. Fjellstad writes: > > Actually easiest way to get help. > > It's the worst way to get help from me. I usually killfile such threads. > > > Tell everybody how much printing sucks in Linux, and how easy it is in > > Windows, and how you are goin

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

2003-12-13 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 10:57, Wayne Sitton wrote: > > I myself am not a pure-ist. But, I no longer use windows, and Boot > Debian Sid for my OS of choice. I have long promoted Debian, even while > my colleagues were Red Krap freaks because they thought it was cool to > like linux, but not really

Re: Earthlink and Swen

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Morgan
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:56:48 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Although filtering should "obviously" be done by service providers, it > seems they have a lot of trouble getting it right. Mail to me goes > through two service providers (one of them is just a forwarder, and I > only recently found out

Re: HOW-TO get a USB mass storage device to work under Debian

2003-12-13 Thread Gregory Soyez
With my sarge laptop, I needed to add the kernel module usb-storage to the list of modules that hotplug tries when it detects a new connected device. This is specified in the field DRIVERS in the file usb.agent. Gregor On Saturday 13 di December 2003 23:26, H. S. wrote: > Jonathan Melhuish wrot

Re: Function of make dep : newbie :-?

2003-12-13 Thread Nunya
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 05:50:16PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:29:37 -0800, Nunya wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 06:44:52PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > >> Or, if you have info2www installed, enter (make) (including the > >> parentheses) into the "goto:" box > > I regr

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 12:48:09 -0800, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:21:02AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > As your autogenerated sig says, peace. > > It's not autogenerated. > > > Peace. >

Re: Kernel-HOWTO has been removed for review

2003-12-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:37:31 -0700, "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 23:24 GMT, Arnt Karlsen penned: > > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:18:05 -0700, "Monique Y. Herman" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 22:52 GMT, s. keeling penned: > Incoming from John L. Fjellstad: >> >> Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> >> > Can you explain to me why you would use a subject such as you did, >> >> Actually easiest way to get help. > > Actually, as has been known and said for _ages_, it's the

xsane on woody

2003-12-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi list! I am setting up *Backstreet Ruby* the multi-seat Linux option on woody. Had to recompile X 4.3.0: works great... Have a problem with xsane. On woody it's version 0.84-2. When doing any scanning the colors look extremely weird, sort of like a color negative. Googling got me no closer. I

Re: Function of make dep : newbie :-?

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:29:37 -0800, Nunya wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 06:44:52PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: >> Or, if you have info2www installed, enter (make) (including the >> parentheses) into the "goto:" box > > info2www depends on (apache | httpd); of the several packages that meet > th

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 11:38 GMT, John L. Fjellstad penned: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> Can you explain to me why you would use a subject such as you did, >> rather than "Multiple problems on install: please help" or, better >> yet, multipe emails, each specific to a certain problem? > > Actu

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-13 Thread John Hasler
John L. Fjellstad writes: > Actually easiest way to get help. It's the worst way to get help from me. I usually killfile such threads. > Tell everybody how much printing sucks in Linux, and how easy it is in > Windows, and how you are going back to Windows etc etc, and you get > hundreds of help

Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect

2003-12-13 Thread alex
Kent West wrote: OFF-TOPIC Perhaps I have no business posting this here . . . . I've done business with TigerDirect in the past, but recently they've added a pro-MS banner to their home page. I wrote this note to them, and would encourage other Debianistas who have done business with them to

ICMP redirect

2003-12-13 Thread tadas
Hello, I would like to ask about the icmp messasages sending in linux 2.4.x. I have two subnets: 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.1.0/24 on the same ethernet segment. There is a gateway in each subnet (192.168.0.1 and 192.168.1.1). Clients use netmask 255.255.255.0. Routers have their own default rou

Re: The Debian installer

2003-12-13 Thread Joey Hess
Damon L. Chesser wrote: > #Debian Non-US > deb http://non-us.debian.org/ sarge/non-US main contrib non-free > #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/ sarge/non-US main contrib non-free That is fixed in cvs now. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Karsten M. Self: > > What's your fetch mode? I'm finding that fetchmail over 56k is taking > ~5-10 seconds per message (mostly depending on how much Swen I've got). What?!? Swen, now? Don't you have access to a shell acct? If you do, kill that crap on the server. I haven't seen

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from John L. Fjellstad: > > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > > Can you explain to me why you would use a subject such as you did, > > Actually easiest way to get help. Actually, as has been known and said for _ages_, it's the best way to get THOSE WHO KNOW to ignore you. Do you want to ge

Re: HOW-TO get a USB mass storage device to work under Debian

2003-12-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 21:36 GMT, Jonathan Melhuish penned: > I Googled for some time and looked in the list archives, etc., but could > find nothing relevant on installing my digital camera under Debian, so I > got bored and tried typing: > > apt-get install hotplug > apt-get install usbutils >

ssh behaviour: unexpectedly being logged out

2003-12-13 Thread H. S.
Hi, (I had posted about this a while ago, but can't find that thread anymore in gmane, so a repeat): I am trying ssh to connect to my university: -- (Remove all underscores,_if any_, from my email address to get the correct one. Apologies for the inconvenience, but this is to reduce spam.) $>

Re: epson stylus c84 problems

2003-12-13 Thread Steve Dunbar
Tom Russo wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone been able to get the epson stylus c84 printer working > with debian? I've tried it with both usb and parallel port with > no luck. Mine works using the parallel port. I'm using CUPS with the Gimp-print driver, version 4.2.5. It didn't work with USB--rathe

Re: Debian installation trouble on server

2003-12-13 Thread ads
> I'm trying to install Debian (latest) on a 1U rack-server. > Specs: P4, Raid (hot spare), no floppy, no cdrom, no PS/2 ports, 2 USB > ports. > > My problem is the following: > I cannot connect a cdrom drive, so I thought about installing Debian > using floppies via a usb floppy drive. However, t

Re: Setting Up Email

2003-12-13 Thread Anita Lewis
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 10:54:01 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > On 13 Dec 2003 at 11:50, Anita Lewis wrote: > > >> I'm not sure on this, but I think your mail is going to be in >> /var/mail/gsutton9503. It didn't go into scarletdown, because you >> didn't tell it to. You should make a .fetchmailrc file

Re: Bug in testing abiword package?

2003-12-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 20:14 GMT, Colin Watson penned: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:34:38AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> On the other hand, here in unstable-land, it looks like 5.6.1-8.2 is >> *also* the most recent version of perl ... > > Unstable has perl 5.8.2-2. > Doh! It sure does

Re: ooh! debian jewelry

2003-12-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 21:00 GMT, Gregory Seidman penned: > > That is entirely FUD. PDF is no more nor less open than PostScript. > Both PostScript and PDF are industry standards developed, promoted, > and documented by Adobe. A Google search for "pdf specification" turns > up the Adobe PDF specif

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-13 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Can you explain to me why you would use a subject such as you did, > rather than "Multiple problems on install: please help" or, better yet, > multipe emails, each specific to a certain problem? Actually easiest way to get help. Ask how to set up CUPS in linux and you

PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 20:36 GMT, Terry Hancock penned: > > Furthermore, PDF isn't really an open data format, just a closed one > that turned out to be easier to crack than .doc files. Adobe isn't > any nicer about sharing their standards than Microsoft is. The fact > that we have good Linux re

Re: HOW-TO get a USB mass storage device to work under Debian

2003-12-13 Thread H. S.
Jonathan Melhuish wrote: I Googled for some time and looked in the list archives, etc., but could find nothing relevant on installing my digital camera under Debian, so I got bored and tried typing: apt-get install hotplug apt-get install usbutils mkdir /camera mount /dev/sda1 /camera At which p

Re: I can't update SPARC unstable

2003-12-13 Thread Scott Robert Ladd
Colin Watson wrote: The maddening thing is, the update worked for the Sparc a couple of weeks ago, but hasn't worked at all in the last few days. In what way does it fail to work? In dselect, when I ask it to update, the program stalls trying to connect; after several minutes, it states: Could

Re: control init process

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 07:36:28AM +0100, anh le ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hello, > > > on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:29:30AM +0100, anh le ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > hello, > > > > > > I'm a Debian 3.0r1 newbie from vietnam. > > > > > > I have installed gdm but I want to control it be

Re: Script for subscribing/unsubscribing Debian-user?

2003-12-13 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:57:05PM +0100, Andreas von Heydwolff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Just wondering - is it possible to write a script for mailing a few initial subscribe or unsubscribe messages for one's favorite lists to the server managing the listmembers or does

Re: HOW-TO get a USB mass storage device to work under Debian

2003-12-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Jonathan Melhuish wrote: I Googled for some time and looked in the list archives, etc., but could find nothing relevant on installing my digital camera under Debian, so I got bored and tried typing: apt-get install hotplug apt-get install usbutils mkdir /camera mount /dev/sda1 /camera At which p

JBuilder installer causes kernel panic on Sarge

2003-12-13 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
I am attempting to install Borland JBuilder 7 on a Sarge system with the Sun JRE/SDK 1.4.1-3 already installed (directly from Sun). The installer is written in Java, so unfortunately I am not able to figure out exactly what it causing the error. After asking all of its questions the installer sta

HOW-TO get a USB mass storage device to work under Debian

2003-12-13 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
I Googled for some time and looked in the list archives, etc., but could find nothing relevant on installing my digital camera under Debian, so I got bored and tried typing: apt-get install hotplug apt-get install usbutils mkdir /camera mount /dev/sda1 /camera At which point, it worked! I suppo

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