X11 specification that text should be selectable?

2003-01-13 Thread Daniel Barclay
Hi. Does anyone recall which X11 specification or guide recommends that most displayed text should be selectable (e.g., for copy and paste)? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

tkmixer Pcm control doesn't control after new motherboard

2003-01-13 Thread Daniel Barclay
. It doesn't seem to do anything for computer-played MP3 audio (as it did before), and no control other than the master volume control seems to affect MP3 volume. Any hints? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

mirroring configured with apt sources.list lines?

2002-11-05 Thread Daniel Barclay
a Debian release, but that doesn't seem to handle HTTP. Any pointers? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gnome-terminal depends on docbookxml, sgml-date, etc.

2002-11-02 Thread Daniel Barclay
Package gnome-terminal seems to depend (transitively) on a lot things. Is it really supposed to require installing packages such as docbookxml, libxslt, and sgml-data? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: char-major-6

2002-09-12 Thread Daniel Barclay
to the module name) so that that module can be loaded when the device is accessed? If so, how? Thanks. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

combining POP mail and mail file with local repeating and combining POP server?

2002-06-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: combining POP mail and mail file with local repeating and combining POP server?

2002-06-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Hans Ekbrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:31:06PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: ... I'd like to have a local POP server that, when queried, queries another POP server and looks at a local mail file, and then serves the combined set of messages to the POP client

Where to ask: Can procmail modify a header field? Add a header field?

2002-05-28 Thread Daniel Barclay
.forward in my shell account on my ISP's machine, and then download via POP using Netscape. I'd like to use .procmail to detect suspected spam and then put something in the message header that I can use in Netscape (4.x) filters to filter the messages. Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: biggest, newest IDE disk stuck in PIO mode; because no BIOS support? [dsb]

2002-03-17 Thread Daniel Barclay
device in Linux given that I had to disable the whole drive in the BIOS. Is there some kernel command-line parameter to pass to the IDE driver? Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: biggest, newest IDE disk stuck in PIO mode; because no BIOS support? [dsb] - SOLVED

2002-03-17 Thread Daniel Barclay
different about the package...) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED]

biggest, newest IDE disk stuck in PIO mode; because no BIOS support? [dsb]

2002-03-16 Thread Daniel Barclay
Linux and my 45GB disk to use DMA mode (besides upgrading my aging machine, of course)? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Web Standards

2002-02-20 Thread Daniel Barclay
. You can't (always): - see the resolved URL in the browser status bar - right-click to get a pop-up menu and save a bookmark, copy the URL to the clipboard, etc. (IE, NS 4, NS 6) - middle-click to open in a new window (NS 4 on Linux) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ldd on X binary yields X: user not authorized ...

2002-01-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
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Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
enough about the quality of this mailing list! You obviously haven't suffered the complete lack of response, or responses that completely misunderstood the question, that I've experienced. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin

Re: How do I restore the cdrom driver without a cd in the drive?

2001-06-23 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's probably easiest to always use the ide-scsi module and ... What does that module do? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http

Re: How to set the EXACTLY VHz in X for the screen

2001-06-23 Thread Daniel Barclay
that generate 85Hz, you won't get any display at all. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: Monitor not remembering settings

2001-06-23 Thread Daniel Barclay
.) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

mirroring just binary-i386 files

2001-06-15 Thread Daniel Barclay
something, it's already downloaded and I can install it quickly.) Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

right way to set system-wide environment variables

2001-06-07 Thread Daniel Barclay
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mirroring ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato

2001-05-11 Thread Daniel Barclay
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Re: Browser preferences/options (was Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody))

2001-05-10 Thread Daniel Barclay
. Absolutely! Have you been reading my almost-driven-insane-by-all-that-crap mind? Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: modules quit loading automatically all of the sudden

2001-02-01 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Martin Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, Daniel Barclay wrote: ... All of the sudden, various modules don't load when I boot (sound modules for a basic SoundBlaster and ftape). I haven't been messing with my configuration. Things worked last time I booted

modules quit loading automatically all of the sudden

2001-01-31 Thread Daniel Barclay
changed accidentally? modprobe says: modprobe: Nothing to load ??? Specify at least a module or a wildcard like \* Is that normal? If not, what does that indicate? Any ideas about what I should look at? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http

Re: Different types of filesystems (was: Re: small blocks or more inodes?)

2000-12-16 Thread Daniel Barclay
system to handle it so users (application programs) don't have to. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: Terminals/dim screens = use bold everywhere but dselect is...dim

2000-12-16 Thread Daniel Barclay
you use DPMS (or otherwise turn off the monitor when you're not using it) to preserve its life. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: killing old netscapes

2000-11-17 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Daniel Barclay wrote: From: Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Netscape] is a piece of shoddy and amateurish programming that is a disgrace to the profession. You have misquoted me, sir. I _never_ referred globally

Re: killing old netscapes

2000-10-21 Thread Daniel Barclay
multiple bookmarks, without having to repeatly open and close the properties window as on Windows). Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: Monitor power-down/screensaver

2000-10-19 Thread Daniel Barclay
the time will reduce its life. (It will get dim faster if the tube (specifically, the cathode heater) is powered up all the time.) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com

Re: why can gcc find -lcrypt but not -lcfont (both in /lib)?

2000-09-06 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Juli-Manel Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:42:51PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: Simply because the -l option links static libraries, those which end in .a and not dynamic ones (.so). When you try to compile with libcrypt, it not uses the one in /lib

why can gcc find -lcrypt but not -lcfont (both in /lib)?

2000-09-05 Thread Daniel Barclay
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help: gcc/ld doesn't see libraries consistently

2000-09-01 Thread Daniel Barclay
? The manual pages mention a default search mechanism, but never say exactly what that is or how it works (e.g., in relation to symbolic links or multiple files with the same prefix). Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi

Re: no ppp compression even though pppstats says VJCOMP; new in potato - SOLVED

2000-08-28 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: John Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:55:44PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote BCC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --text follows this line-- I don't seem to be getting any compression in ppp. Is there something extra I need to do

Re: potato and slink

2000-08-28 Thread Daniel Barclay
still have a working old system while I'm getting a new system working. You can even share non-system partitions (e.g., /usr/local or /home). Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http

Re: potato and slink

2000-08-28 Thread Daniel Barclay
possible path references use /potato/... rather thatn /... No, there must be an easier way. You want to, and I think have to, use separate partitions. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http

how to avoid unresolved symbol when loading module

2000-08-27 Thread Daniel Barclay
depended-on modules (as it seemed to in Slink/kernel 2.0.x)? If so, what else do I need to set up or run to get insmod to loaded depended-on modules? If not, am I supposed to be using modprobe or something? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http

modprobe: insmod * failed at boo

2000-08-27 Thread Daniel Barclay
I get the message modprobe: insmod * failed at boot time. Where does this come from (searching for 'modprobe' in /etc/... didn't yield anything? How do I figure out what the problem is? What exactly failed? Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http

Re: Netscape startup hangs

2000-08-26 Thread Daniel Barclay
before it gives up and lets me use it. It might be checking for new news on news servers or checking for new e-mail. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: ldd _error_ message (vs. normal indication of library not found)

2000-08-26 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Nate Amsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daniel Barclay wrote: What exactly does it mean when ldd gives the following error message?: dsb:~# ldd /usr/local/lib/jdk1.3/jre/lib/i386/server/libjvm.so 21 /usr/local/lib/jdk1.3/jre/lib/i386/server/libjvm.so: error in loading shared

can ftape/ztape/whatever else load automatically?

2000-08-26 Thread Daniel Barclay
Can the ftape/zftape/whatever other modules be set to load automatically when the floppy tape drive is accessed? Or do I have to load the module permanently in /etc/modules? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy

ldd _error_ message (vs. normal indication of library not found)

2000-08-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x400b8000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400bc000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy

potato change?: /etc/environment not sources for root?

2000-08-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
for syntax /etc/environment? (man environment yields nothing. Which documentation specifies /etc/environment?) Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com

no ppp compression even though pppstats says VJCOMP; new in potato

2000-08-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
are loaded. What else might I need to do or check? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation

2000-08-23 Thread Daniel Barclay
(besides, they wouldn't work for installing multiple packages at once); I'm just pointing out that those installers don't leave the user hanging after installation. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy

Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation

2000-08-23 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 22-Aug-00, 23:12 (CDT), Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... ... Current policy requires that /usr/doc/package exist (possibly as a symlink to /usr/share/doc/package). Then why don't more package implement that policy? Some

Re: tty-ldisc-3 module - anyone know what it is?

2000-08-19 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can someone tell me what tty-ldisc-3 is please? I can only contribute a partial answer: I sounds like line discipline 3. PPP involves a line discipline, but I don't know if it's number 3 or something else is. -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little

why so hard to decline recommend packages dselect/apt

2000-08-19 Thread Daniel Barclay
exit the main screen? Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation

2000-08-19 Thread Daniel Barclay
it can leave a Start Menu folder open on your desktop to give you a hint about what new commands you can run. (Not that that's a _good_ orientation or pointer, but it's something.) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin

getting ftape/zftape module to load automatically

2000-08-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
correct: Loading or unloading module ftape doesn't seem to affect what's listed in /proc/devices. It's only when I load module zftape that character device #27 shows up (matching the major device number of /dev/qrt0). Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome

Re: still-extant potato boot problems (kmod/runany modprobe loop)

2000-08-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Wookey [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun 13 Aug, Daniel Barclay wrote: Are there any fixes (or even diagnoses) yet for the following problem? Has anyone else even seen these symptoms? - start ppp0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not supported ... This is a 'standard' diald problem

Re: adding modules into Debian 2.2

2000-08-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
might need to manually load those other two first. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

still-extant potato boot problems (kmod/runany modprobe loop)

2000-08-13 Thread Daniel Barclay
or weird that I can think of - works fine under my Slink system Can anyone help me with this? I've been trying to upgrade to potato for over a week. Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy

high characters in file names change in new potato vs. current slink

2000-08-10 Thread Daniel Barclay
have different types?) Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: potato installation problem: lp driver; get init_module: Device or resource busy message

2000-08-06 Thread Daniel Barclay
the Device or resource busy message refers to. Does anyone know what internal call is returning the Device or resource busy error code that init_module is printing out? Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy

Re: potato installation problem: lp driver; get init_module: Device or resource busy message: MORE DATA

2000-08-05 Thread Daniel Barclay
a message on the fourth virtual console (I had booted with linux verbose debug): kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped I tried running modprobe from the command line, and got the same error message (one). Are those messages normal? -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm

Re: Why not Standard, Pre-Release, and Development versions?

2000-08-04 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: David Karlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] A rose (or potato) by any other name, smells just as sweet. So what? Before you open the box and smell it, all you have is the name. Then it makes a difference whether the name is sweet flower or thorny flower. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL

potato installation problem: lp driver; get init_module: Device or resource busy message

2000-08-04 Thread Daniel Barclay
: tray open end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40, sector 64 isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 16:40 iso_blknum 16 block 32 hdd : tray open or drive not ready hdd : tray open or drive not ready SB16: Bad or missing 16 bit DMA channel registered device ppp0 Any ideas? Thanks, -- Daniel Barclay

Who/what is GR (was: Re: My quite ordinary comment about Re: GR to remove non-free...)

2000-06-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
Who or what is GR? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: more real runlevels?

2000-05-13 Thread Daniel Barclay
like [SK][0-][0-9]*?) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: where is rc.local ?

2000-04-26 Thread Daniel Barclay
/etc/rc.boot. (I don't know why everyone else is telling you about run-level-change part (/etc/init.d) without mentioning the boot part (/etc/rc.boot).) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy

Re: Partitions, mount points and sizes

2000-04-22 Thread Daniel Barclay
that second system. If anything goes wrong, I can always go back to booting from the original system partition and try again. ¡Buena suerte! Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http

Re: Help

2000-04-01 Thread Daniel Barclay
. Subscribers shouldn't have to learn Unix/Linux just to unsubscribe from a mailing list. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: Sawmill/Gnome raising windows

2000-02-21 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Fish Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...--being on top may be inextricably linked with being in focus, as it is in windows. That is not true. (A utility called TweakUI can change that setting in MS Windows.) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http

Re: Pronounciation of Linux that important? - curiosity about origin

2000-02-20 Thread Daniel Barclay
' == 'el' rule), liken, limber; liner,linger; etc... Yeah, that's what I meant by odd perception of how to pronounce it-- not following the base English spelling/pronunciation rules you mention. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin

Re: What's the difference between kernel-image-2.2.14-ide and kernel-image-2.2.14?

2000-02-20 Thread Daniel Barclay
(including the root partition once). Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

any clear description of sources.list format and apt interpretation?

2000-02-20 Thread Daniel Barclay
of how apt-get manipulates all these pieces of file pathnames? Thanks, Danie -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

ftpable GNOME for slink?

2000-02-20 Thread Daniel Barclay
Is there any archive of GNOME packages built for Slink that is accessible by FTP? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: 2.2 kernel

2000-02-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
a little) to 2.0.38 and applied an IDE patch I found. Was that 2.0.36 behavior the same bug? Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: Netscape questions

2000-02-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
competently. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: Pronounciation of Linux that important?

2000-02-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Tele2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Naturally, the poor saps at KDE didn't get it right. Any fool can say KDE :-() Well, like, k-DUH! Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http

Re: Pronounciation of Linux that important? - curiosity about origin

2000-02-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
? Hey, wait: Might it have come from Minix, which I assume is pronounce MINN-... (as in minimal)? That's what Linus started with, right? Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http

Re: What's the difference between kernel-image-2.2.14-ide and kernel-image-2.2.14?

2000-02-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
the patch applied. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: ARGH! Frozen is back....

2000-02-15 Thread Daniel Barclay
to mirror the releases locally and then install from that. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: ARGH! Frozen is back....

2000-02-15 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Mike Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I first started with Debian, I did use dselect some. But since discovering apt I've not even touched dselect once. Definite kudos to the folks that developed / maintain apt. What do you use to select which packages to install? Daniel -- Daniel

Re: ARGH! Frozen is back....

2000-02-15 Thread Daniel Barclay
in the Packages file include unstable/frozen/ stable? If so, changing a symbolic link isn't sufficient. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-15 Thread Daniel Barclay
in English or in Finnish. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: Woody? when did this happen? - when stable must be used to install slink - details (and probable latent bug)

2000-01-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
? Why can't Debian fix the damn problem (the bad design)? Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: Woody? when did this happen? - when stable must be used to install slink - details (and probable latent bug)

2000-01-27 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daniel == Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel I don't know why Debian people can't understand that Daniel releases/versions also need to be accessible by names that Daniel _don't_ change. Why refer to in in apt/sources.list

Re: CTRL-C Doesn't work??!! ....

2000-01-02 Thread Daniel Barclay
or installed quite right. The fact that you get the Job Control Disabled message seems to indicate that control-C and the signal Oliver mentions are working fine, but bash doesn't think it can do anything. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com

Re: local mirror of potato?

2000-01-02 Thread Daniel Barclay
? -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: Allowing weak passwords

1999-12-30 Thread Daniel Barclay
So is there no way to disable the check for weak passwords but leave everything else working the same way? Daniel

Re: Slashdot colours (was Re: Debian Linux vs BSD)

1999-11-02 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... No, I can only guess at what's going on. The first few lines of the document source are (wrapped arbitrarily): HTMLHEADTITLESlashdot:News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. /TITLE /HEAD BODY bgcolor=#00 text=#00 link=#00 vlink=#00 ..

how to make Packages file and set sources.list for misc. downloaded .deb files

1999-10-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
please help? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netscape memory hoarding

1999-10-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daniel Barclay wrote: ... Oh yeah, another thing: In non-Java 90% CPU mode, I could quit, but the netscape process would keep running, using 90% CPU. I didn't seem to be only temporary (e.g., to update the history or bookmarks files or something). I

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-27 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 16:17, Daniel Barclay wrote: ... Please check this one for me (I don't see how this can be anything other than a Netscape bug, but if it is something else, I'd like to know): ... Does

Re: trashing Netscape (was Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!)

1999-10-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 21:28, Daniel Barclay wrote: No, no, no. Netscape can be just as horribly unstable on glibc 2.0 systems. I know. I suffer from it every day. I hate to rain on your parade, but LOTS of people run Netscape 4.5 and 4.6

Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; causes unknown addressing form error

1999-10-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
) for unknown; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 14:08:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Barclay To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], , recipient list not shown: ; Subject: test Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bcc: Is the line Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; legal or not (per the e-mail specifications)? If it's

year-2000 problem already showing up in mirror

1999-10-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
I recently noticed that for non-existent files, mirror (the Perl script) now reports dates of 2069/12/31-19:00:00 instead of 1969/12/31-19:00:00 : Compare src README.ftp (1): 1998/11/06-00:00:00 1301 f dest README.ftp (): 2069/12/31-19:00:00 0 0 Oh, gross. I just looked at

Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!

1999-10-23 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does it fix ... The Java that crashes/freezes NS, the DNS lookups that freeze NS, the random crashes if you don't close windows in the correct order, etc. Not as far as I can tell. (Well, I'm not sure I've seen DNS lookup lockups, but I've seen plenty of lockups.)

Re: emacs or xemacs ?

1999-09-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote: .. Bringing the Control key back from exile is much cheaper and more productive (than reaching unnaturally and having to see a doctor). i've never had trouble with my control key being in exile... Then again

Re: Best Solution for PPP?

1999-09-26 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Todd Suess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings PPL, I am running a development server in my home that is connected via ppp to the net. What is the best program to use to automatically reconnect me if the connection is dropped? I checked out pon,

Re: Does X11 ignore ~/.bash_profile?

1999-09-26 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes. I think that xterm are non login shells by default. And it's xdm's job to source the proper scripts to set up environnement variables as if you had logged in. Even if you don't use xdm, and start X using startx, your environment is

Re: emacs or xemacs ?

1999-09-26 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Richard E. Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . also, using emacs on CCIE (*Control Key In Exile) keyboard, causing enough long reaches on my little finger sthat I had to see a quack, is probably part (put a minor part) of my avoiding either. Bringing the Control key back from exile

Re: large hard disks (again)

1999-09-26 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] . However this is NOT the physical geo, which IS reported by the bios and stamped on the drive. The geometry printed on the label isn't always the actual IDE geometry; it's typically limited to 16383 cylinders (for BIOSes that can't handle the full

Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-21 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Style DateDatetime --- ISO1999-07-17 1999-07-17 07:09:18+01 ^ Is that correct? Doesn't ISO 8601 specify the character T

Re: hard disks more than 8gb

1999-09-10 Thread Daniel Barclay
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 20:29:22 -0500 (CDT) CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daniel Barclay said: From: Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fdisk reported my 17.2 maxtor (which the bios sizes

Re: ide disks 8.4gb

1999-09-10 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I hope someone who knows the inerds of fdisk ... ^^ Aren't we all? (I(nternet)-nerds, that is) :-) Daniel

Re: scsi advice

1999-09-10 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Joakim Svensson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just need some advice/input. I have just bought a HP scanjet 6200c and am looking around for a scsi card for it. ... Anyone has any suggestions if this will be a good buy. At the moment only the scanner will be connected but I will probably use

Re: How to fully utilise a 10 GB harddisk

1999-09-07 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Seth R Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] [WinNT] ... cannot install onto a partition larger than two gigs That can't be right. I created, formatted, and installed onto a 4GB partition with Windows NT. Daniel

Re: hard disks more than 8gb

1999-09-07 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fdisk reported my 17.2 maxtor (which the bios sizes as about 16.8gb, so maxtor lies a little). Why are so many computer users so ignorant of international standards? Daniel

Re: allowing simpler passwords

1999-09-04 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote: : How do I disable the password-checking feature of passwd? I'm willing : to accept moderately complex passwords that passwd wants to throw : out. `man passwd` gives me nothing, and I'm not certain

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