cold start stability issues

2003-07-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
, and for good reason. Any suggestions? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: local mirror based on APT source.list format?

2003-07-06 Thread Alex Malinovich
. But if all you want to do is have a full debian mirror (sid, sarge, and woody) then just do an rsync with a debian mirror, excluding the directories for the architectures you don't want. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can

Re: APT Serious Bug

2003-07-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
install --download-only libpam-modules dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archive/libpam-modules*.deb You'll probably also need to install libpam0g along with it. There's a bug report already filed against libpam0g that gives this temp fix. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition

Re: How to make the debian system shut down with power off?

2003-06-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
, but he/she cannot remember how to set it. Assuming that you're using a stock Debian kernel, as root run 'modconf' and look for the APM (Advanced Power Management) module and load it. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get

Re: Going Unstable

2003-06-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
occasional posts, yet I read the list daily and learn something new just about every day.) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description

Re: Can't boot anything....

2003-06-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 07:11, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On 24 Jun 2003, Alex Malinovich wrote: --snip-- The 01's that are being printed to the screen are coming from lilo, so the HD is actually booting. That's very interesting. --snip-- I went over the HD, and it seems nothing is lost

Re: Can't boot anything....

2003-06-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
just pass it an option like root=/dev/hda1 and it will boot using the kernel on the floppy/CD while using your HD for everything else. Best of luck. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
the original printing of 'The Story of Mel' during your lunch break one day and agreed wholeheartedly, THEN you would be dating yourself. ;) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers

DriveReady SeekComplete errors with new hard drive

2003-06-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
that getting a DriveReady SeekComplete error could be a sign of imminent drive failure, but this drive is almost brand new. I've never had any problems with it before. And, as far as I've been able to tell, it isn't losing any data or behaving in any other strange way. Any suggestions? -- Alex Malinovich

Re: how to view changelogs?

2003-06-21 Thread Alex Malinovich
at an older version, or proceeding anyway. If you're knowledgeable enough to be able to separate the bogus reports from the valid ones it's a good tool to have. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Alex Malinovich
-detection would be nice, but if I have to choose between manually selecting hardware or having an installer hard-lock my computer like the Mandrake installer did a few months ago, I'll go the manual selection route anyday. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY

Re: how to view changelogs?

2003-06-21 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 10:04, Noah Meyerhans wrote: On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 04:09:39AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: After i do a 'apt-get update', Is there a convenient tool to look at what has changed in the updated packages, before downloading the packages and installing them

Re: Burning DVD onto CD

2003-06-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 01:49, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:49:10PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: That's why you use the CLI. Everything you could want to do is quite easily accessible from the keyboard. Not to mention

Re: Burning DVD onto CD

2003-06-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
kaboodle... That's why you use the CLI. Everything you could want to do is quite easily accessible from the keyboard. Not to mention that if you know the CLI commands, you can use mplayer from a regular old console without X even installed on the machine. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete

Ctrl-home/Ctrl-end in terminal

2003-06-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
for beginning and end of buffer in emacs. When I run emacs in graphical mode, it works just fine. But in a terminal the keys just seem to die. Any suggestions? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: International characters in xterm

2003-06-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
that it was LANG. Either way, I believe it should be set to the language code, not the name of the language. So, in your case, sv_SE. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID

Re: Low latency patch worth the fuss?

2003-06-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
really a problem. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Converting to UTF-8 from ISO-8859

2003-06-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
the difference between all of the different UTF flavors? I've seen UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16, etc. My first guess would be that the number represents the number of bits used to represent any single character. Yet that seems unlikely since UTF-8 has WELL over 255 characters. Could anyone enlighten me? -- Alex

Re: esd and 2 concurrent users on machine?

2003-06-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
just put esdctl unlock into your default session. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [debian-user] Converting to UTF-8 from ISO-8859

2003-06-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 06:58, Rdiger Kuhlmann wrote: --[Alex Malinovich]--[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1) I've set up an .Xmodmap file to map my left Windows key to Multi_key so that I can type extended characters. However, I have to run xmodmap .Xmodmap manually every time I restart X. I'm guessing

Re: 4 Speaker support

2003-06-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
Blaster Live! and using the ALSA drivers I get all 4 speakers and subwoofer working fine. I wouldn't expect that for all cards though. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers

Re: Advice needed : Oracle and Debian Linux

2003-06-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
set up. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [OT] ergonomic setups

2003-06-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
miss out on all of the water cooler discussions. :) Besides, it would have to be two hoses... one to supply the water, and the other to drain it after... processing... :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public

Re: [OT] ergonomic setups

2003-06-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
comfortable. I still regularly use a touchpad on my laptop, though I can't really see myself using for my desktop. (Though I have a friend who does, and he swears by it.) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public

Re: [OT] ergonomic setups

2003-06-06 Thread Alex Malinovich
a comfortable keyboard than a new, ergonomically designed office setup including chair, monitor platform, anti-glare screen, ergonomic keyboard, ergonomic mouse, gel wrist supports, and all those other ergo-fads that do nothing but waste your money. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete

Re: ntp synchronisation lost

2003-05-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
, I don't have any sort of a cure-all for the problem. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Adjust time by ntp

2003-03-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
an ntp daemon running Good luck. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
of emphasis with my points. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Window Sizing in Gnome

2003-03-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
windows bigger and am unable to resize them in Gnome. Might someone offer me a method to do so. That sounds like a problem with your window manager. Do you know which one you're running? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
to choose. Personally, I'm happy the way I am. I'd much rather go without support for some devices and some programs than walk by a store and see a shelf stocked with $200 copies of Microsoft Linux PX (tm)(r)(c)(md)(ps)(ie)(eg)(pu)(etc) :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows

Upgrading to hardware RAID

2003-03-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
* device, or will it still recognize the array and create a /dev/md* device?) TIA for any help/suggestions. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837

Re: Me again...

2003-03-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
as well. Very few of them use RH and even fewer Mandrake. Is that enough rambling to annoy you? Not at all. If you run into any hiccups during installation feel free to put your questions up here and we'll try and get them resolved ASAP. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your

Re: Unstable/Java/Mozilla

2003-03-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
plenty of free space. I started the compilation last night and woke up today to find it finished. Unfortunately, I ran out of disk space in the process so now I'm having to recompile. :) My build directory right now is 632 MB. Good luck. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your

Re: Download accelerator

2003-03-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
for about a year now with no problems except that it can't read cookies, so you can't download from certain passworded sites with it. It uses 4 simultaneous connections and has a built in FTP search as well. Quite nice. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY

Re: wma in linux

2003-03-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
\%a - \%t.ogg encodeme.wav`; print done!\n\n; } -end encodeme.pl- Good luck. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc

Re: Mozilla - snapshot

2003-03-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
running Galeon 1.2 and Galeon 1.3 (galeon-snapshot). Currently I'm only using 1.3 since the 1.2 package is temporarily broken, but they've been coexisting peacefully on my system for months now. The same is true of mozilla and mozilla-snapshot. Good luck. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software

Re: LAPTOPS

2003-03-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
problem is that some of the hardware is kind of flaky and the BIOS's for all Dell laptops are notoriously bad. :) Overall, though, I've been very happy with mine. p.s. I'd suggest that debian-laptop might be a better place to ask this question. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your

Re: annoying problem with TFT on dell laptop

2003-03-06 Thread Alex Malinovich
. It's actually faster than on my desktop machine at home since I don't have to wait for a CRT to switch modes. Hope this helps. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers

Re: X fonts dead after upgrade

2003-03-02 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 18:01, Alan Chandler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 8:42 pm, Alex Malinovich wrote: My XF86Config did get updated but the fontpath lines weren't changed. After some testing, I think I've found the problem though I don't

X fonts dead after upgrade

2003-03-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
and regular. And the fonts are most certainly not anti-aliased anymore. Emacs running in graphical mode looks just as bad as do the title bars in Galeon (1.2.7) although the actual page fonts are just fine. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your

Re: X fonts dead after upgrade

2003-03-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 08:27, Alan Chandler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 9:22 am, Alex Malinovich wrote: I just did a Sid upgrade yesterday, and now all of my basic X apps and, apparently, all of my GTK1 apps are using REALLY REALLY ugly

xsnow and xscreensaver

2003-02-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
in place so that xsnow looks like it's falling on real windows instead of invisible black ones? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc

Re: secondary root account

2003-02-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
done it in the past as well, but sudo is a much better alternative. If they don't want to use sudo before every command just have them use su once then. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: How to redo mp3's

2003-02-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
package. Good luck. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 06:44, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 01:19:14PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: --snip-- may choose to use, however, are non-free. And there is actually an mplayer plugin available that works pretty well. http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net It's

Re: Newbie administrator

2003-02-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
configuration for each user's machine. Is there a good book for beginner adimin's like me? Probably, but I don't believe in books. :) Just keep working at it and when you get stuck remember that Google is your friend. :) Good luck. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
to clarify things a bit. :) Welcome to the brave GNU world. Enjoy your stay. You've got to love a good pun! :) I second that! :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
half of the movie was targeted PURELY at adults without being obvious enough to make it necessary to restrict children from watching it. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net

802.11a experiences?

2003-02-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
Does anyone have any experience with 802.11a devices? I'm looking to integrate 802.11a into my home LAN but I'd like to know what to look for. Some of the computers on the LAN use Windows in VMWare, but they are ALL Debian machines at heart. (7 total) For starters, money permitting, I'd like to

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
) but the network modules just wouldn't compile. After I showed him how to roll his own kernel, however, the compilation went just fine. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 20:08, Jeff Elkins wrote: On Tuesday 18 February 2003 6:14 am, Ewing Jeff wrote: ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/vmware-ws-1455-update12.tar.gz Thank YOU! I thought I was out of the vmware business since I upgraded to 2.4.20. Is there some sort of a problem with

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 01:55, Andy wrote: --snip-- I have a Debian 3.0 install with the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel and I just did an apt-get install kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 then did an ln -s to make: linux - kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 So I tell the vmware script that my kernel headers are in

Re: DNS + DHCP

2003-02-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 08:30, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 08:37:06AM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: They work okay together using Dynamic DNS (not things like dyndns.org, same name, different process). You can use TSIG (IIRC) to securely authenticate updates. I tried

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 07:32, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 16/02/03 Paul Johnson did speaketh: Well, that's because it also installs reccommends. Some folks prefer that. Partly, but it's also because it tries to upgrade my whole system, when all I wanted to do was install a single

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 22:05, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:29:39PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: I think you'd be much better off forgoing apt-get and using an interactive package tool instead such as aptitude. Proper use of such a tool will make it much easier to keep your

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 08:37, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 16/02/03 Alex Malinovich did speaketh: Personally, I generally stick to apt-get and apt-cache for most of my maintenance work. But I'll never give up dselect. Aptitude makes no sense to me whatsoever. dselect just makes everything

Re: ICQ behind router/firewall

2003-02-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 13:34, Scruloose wrote: GnomeICU will send and receive messages, initiate/accept chat mode, and other people can see my status, but everybody always looks offline to me (except 2 users, whose statuses update fine. No clue why they're special). GAIM just loses a huge

Re: Machines with Debian preinstalled?

2003-02-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 17:28, A.J. Rossini wrote: martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: also sprach A.J. Rossini [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.02.12.2306 +0100]: (yes, I can do it myself; done that about 20+ times, at this point, and have FAI running at home BUT, I'd really like to save

Re: mutt: maildirs that contain folders ???

2003-02-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 02:47, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 04:22:28PM -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote: --snip-- For example, if I do these: maildirmake Maildir ~/mail maildirmake -f Drafts ~/mail/Maildir --snip-- but, mutt does *not* show me the Drafts folder when I

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 14:11, Pigeon wrote: And apparently Delaware's department of transportation is either stupid or insane or both... http://www.state.de.us/research/register/september2000/signing and marking.revised---V-1-12.gif You know, I was perfectly content ignoring this thread

Re: Applying kernel patches in make-kpkg

2003-02-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 18:28, sean finney wrote: On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 06:39:11PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have edited /etc/kernel-pkg.conf and added the lines patch_the_kernel=yes and config_target=menuconfig. i could be way off, but this is what i have in my kernel-pkg.conf:

Need RAID0 recommendations

2003-02-03 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've got two identical 45 GB drives, but unfortunately I can only use one at the moment since I've got 3 other IDE devices already connected. I'd like to get a good RAID board and just set them up as RAID0. Any suggestions on a good (preferably not too expensive) board? I'm running a constantly

Re: [OT] Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-03 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 21:46, Pigeon wrote: Alchemy is an interesting example... Of course, alchemy itself is possible, because people used to do it. They were called alchemists. The fact that they never achieved their fabled goals is because the discipline they were following was mostly a

Re: exim and relaying -- for ONE user

2003-01-31 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 00:56, will trillich wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 06:10:52PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 16:09, will trillich wrote: As for your earlier post about the auth not working, have you checked to see if you have libpam-pwdfile installed? I just set

Re: exim and relaying -- for ONE user

2003-01-31 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 06:51, will trillich wrote: 5:05am? whassa matter, couldn't sleep? (that's *my* problem -- one of them, anyway...) (I get most of my best work done after 2 am. :) i noticed (below) you used basic instead of plain so i munged my setup to match: Actually, that was my

Recovering lost partitions

2003-01-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
I made a BIG mistake. Assuming that fdisk -l partition numbers and parted partition numbers would be identical, I happily deleted two of my disk partitions. One of them was the wrong one. Here's how my partition table USED to look: MinorStart End Type Filesystem Flags 1

Re: RE:GeForce4 MX

2003-01-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 23:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone, I just upgraded from a GeForceDDR to a GeForce4 MX and of course my XWindows system stopped working. I checked out the log, and it seems that the nv driver i'm using only wants to work on nvidia cards up to the GeForce3, at

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 11:40, Hal Vaughan wrote: I wonder -- are the people that start with Debian people who are new to Linux, but used to Unix or sys admin/programming on other systems, or are they just at the user (or just above) level? I did my first ever install of a Linux distro 13

Compiling new kernel modules

2003-01-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've been rolling my own kernel using make-kpkg and the other wonderful tools we Debianites have at our disposal for over a year now, yet something just occured to me. Is it possible to compile individual kernel modules outside of the actual kernel compilation? I still have the full source

Re: Web based IM

2003-01-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 13:47, Brian McGroarty wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:44:48AM -0800, Tim Grogan wrote: Hello all, My company has decided to shutdown all IM services on our corporate network. Does anyone know of a web based IM that doesn't need a client to connect. It doesn't

Re: Software that can be used with MSN

2003-01-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 21:19, Mohammed Sameer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Once upon a time [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote @ Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:03:23 +1000 Hi all, I have two questions regarding free software that can be used with MSN: 1.) What program can I use

Re: md5sum amp; cmp don't work on wav amp; avi files

2003-01-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 00:14, nate wrote: Michael Waters said: Am I going crazy or do I have bad hardware? I can't seem to find any info in search engines. Any information would be greatly appreciated. sounds like it could be bad hardware. I've never had such a thing happen. I tried

Re: forwarding gnutella ports with iptables

2003-01-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 11:02, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 01/01/03 Alex Malinovich did speaketh: Nope, this doesn't work either. After spending the last 24+ hours messing around with this, I've learned at least one important thing. It seems that all ports over 1024 aren't being forwarded

Re: Debie Newbie

2003-01-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 13:23, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:36:08AM -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote: Will the Redhat binaries work under Debian? Hard to say. Executables will work fine (or can be made to work fine by installing additional packages, if you happen to get link

Re: TCP/IP config

2003-01-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 13:32, Mark Ferlatte wrote: begin Daniel L. Miller quote on Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:38:41AM -0800: Running PUMP from a terminal window appears to configure my network adapter correctly via DHCP. How can I make PUMP ( or anything else, for that matter) run at system

Re: windows apps under debian

2003-01-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 22:53, John Griffiths wrote: Hello all, I'm about to attempt a desktop linux trial in my office and need some advice on approaches to applicaiton portability. Congrats! :) There are windows apps that are not, at this time optional so one way or another I'll have

Re: forwarding gnutella ports with iptables

2003-01-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 07:14, Nicos Gollan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 31 December 2002 07:57, Alex Malinovich wrote: Here's the rule that I'm using (as spit out by iptables-save): -A PREROUTING -d 208.163.68.11 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 6346 -j DNAT

TwinView and workspaces

2003-01-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
I just got TwinView set up last night with two 19 monitors and I'm in love! :) However, I'm finding that having a 32 wide desktop can be a nuisance at times. Having one window list for two screens, for example, is a bit unwieldy. What I'd like to be able to do is set up each monitor as a seperate

forwarding gnutella ports with iptables

2002-12-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
I just started using gtk-gnutella the other day and was quite impressed with it. However, I have one problem with a networking issue. I run a debian box as my NAT router and it works fine. And gnutella works fine. However, no matter what I try to do, I can't seem to fool gtk-gnutella into thinking

odd mouse problem

2002-12-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've got a minor mouse problem. My USB mouse works great in just about everything, but I just discovered one application of the utmost importance that it doesn't work in. Quake 3. :) Ok, so it's not really of the utmost importance. :) All of my buttons work just fine, but I'm getting no actual

Re: odd mouse problem

2002-12-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 06:37, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 06:22:54AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: All of my buttons work just fine, but I'm getting no actual MOVEMENT from the mouse. It works flawlessly in everything else I've ever thrown at it, but it just refuses to do any

Re: odd mouse problem - SOLVED

2002-12-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 06:43, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 06:37, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 06:22:54AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: All of my buttons work just fine, but I'm getting no actual MOVEMENT from the mouse. It works flawlessly in everything else

Re: RealOne Player

2002-12-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 13:39, Aryan Ameri wrote: On Friday 27 December 2002 22:33, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 27 Dec 2002, Richard Kimber wrote: Has anyone got the RealPlayer working? I can get as far as the registration page, but the OK button is greyed out. Clicking cancel briefly

Re: [robertsharris@comcast.net: Re: Fw: Ga. Visit.]

2002-12-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 06:51, Robert L. Harris wrote: Great, you can support him. He only pokes things and gets curious to break it once every week or so as it is. Throw in something new and it should only be a call every week and a half for about 2hrs each as you try to figure out what he

RE: xset somehow broken?

2002-12-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 10:23, DEFFONTAINES Vincent wrote: Sorry I meant xset s off below I used to use xset -s off to poweroff screen blanking on X when I was watching TV on my desktop in the past. Now it seems that this option, though remaning documented (in xset manpage) is

Printer Recommendations?

2002-12-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've finally gotten fed up with my roommate's Canon CBJ-2100 printer and all of it's associated problems (both software and hardware) and have decided to get a new one. My only requirements are that it's relatively inexpensive ( $200 US) and that it can be set up easily and will work well on our

Courier-IMAP folder layout

2002-12-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've decided to give courier a shot at replacing uw-imap since it's gotten really slow lately. I've got it set up on a testing machine, but I'm having a problem with getting a proper folder hierarchy set up. Using uw-imap, I can create as many root folders as I want. That way, when I open up my

Re: [Very OT] What [OT] stands for?

2002-12-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 13:51, Oliver Fuchs wrote: On Mon, 09 Dec 2002, hiranokazunari wrote: Thanks everybody! Now I understand OT generally means Off Topic. I thought it was on tap, on target, on television, on telephone, on tenterhooks, on term, or on tablets:) Yeah, sure it is

Re: RE:Re: [Very OT] What [OT] stands for?

2002-12-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 15:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whats IMHO then? IMHO - Inhalation of a Multi-leafed Herbal Opiate ;) -Alex signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Missing character set

2002-12-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've been getting the following error popping up while installing various packages: The font -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-180-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1,*-r-*\ does not support all the required character sets for the curren\ t locale LC_CTYPE=en_US;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=C;LC_COLLATE=C;LC_\

Filtering out external DHCP requests

2002-11-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
My DHCP server also acts as my NAT router and as such is connected both to my internal network and the outside world. I only want the DHCP server to listen to requests on the internal connection. (eth1) Unfortunately, it seems that no matter what I do requests (i.e. DHCPDISCOVER from * via eth0)

dhcp-dns problem

2002-11-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've been working on setting up dhcp-dns on my system so that I can get automatic name entries from DHCP. I've run into a problem, however. First, on the DHCP side. Some of the computers on the network have static leases set up so that they'll always get the same IP address. Since installing

Re: parted boot CD - SOLVED

2002-11-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
Alex Malinovich said: On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 16:33, Stephen Gran wrote: apt-get install parted? Why can't you just run it in single user mode? DOH! Well, running it in single worked... with one minor problem... it doesn't appear to support reiserfs! :( Well, I guess that kind of changes

Re: pan from unstable too unstable??

2002-11-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 18:03, daniel paranhos zitterbart wrote: Hej guys I'm actually using debian SID and pan to read my news(eg debian-user). Reading function very good, but if want to post a followup, to a mail address or to an news server, that doesnt matter, pan crashes. I think i've

Re: parted boot CD - SOLVED again :)

2002-11-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 12:27, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Alex Malinovich said: On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 16:33, Stephen Gran wrote: apt-get install parted? Why can't you just run it in single user mode? DOH! Well, running it in single worked... with one minor

parted boot CD

2002-11-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
I'm in a bit of a bind. I need to resize the root partition on one of my systems that doesn't have a floppy drive. The only thing that I have that I can boot from is a CD-ROM drive. I found a rescue floppy that had parted installed and tried using mkisofs to convert it to a CD image, but it

Re: SOLVED - Converting router from W2K to Debian

2002-11-02 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 05:39, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi I've finally gotten NAT working. Thanks for everyone's help. I had seriously misconfigured the server the first time around due to not fully understanding how DNS would be functioning and that ended up leading to having a non-working ipmasq and

Moving mboxen

2002-11-02 Thread Alex Malinovich
Now that I finally have my router up and running with Debian I have a formerly underpowered W2K-running 350 MHz box acting as a very OVER-powered Debian box. :) I need more work for it to do, and one of the jobs that I'm thinking of is moving the mail (SMTP/IMAP) server to it, so that I won't have

Converting router from W2K to Debian

2002-11-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
I finally took the plunge. After over a year of suffering through having my NAT router/DNS server/DHCP server/web server not work, hardly work, cause problems for everything, etc, with Windows 2000 Advanced Server. I've decided to take the plunge and switch it over to Debian. Unfortunately, I'm

Re: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl ?

2002-10-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 03:47, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: Hello, I am trying to compile gaim 0.95.5 from source .. (for some reason the Sid package of gaim is broken when I upgraded it today, causing segfault whenever start). Anyway when I was running make, I have an error that says

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