Re: two head x server

2006-01-19 Thread David Dorward
On 19/01/06, igor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an idea of setting up X server to use two video cards? Can anyone give me first direction hints about this? thanks. Put two video cards in the PC. Run X with the -configure switch -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: chmod mistake

2005-11-02 Thread David Dorward
of: chmod -R 700 ~/ find ~/ -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \; might do what you want. (Change all files and directories to be readable, writable and executable by owner, then change all files so they are not executable. You may wish to let other people read some files). -- David Dorward http

Re: gzcat

2005-10-31 Thread David Dorward
On 31/10/05, Hans du Plooy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or better yet, find out what package a particular file is part of? http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages.en-gb.html#search_contents -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: apache support for php and cgi scripts

2005-10-03 Thread David Dorward
-php4 or libapache2-mod-php4 depending on which version of Apache you use. I believe standard CGI support is in the main apache module. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: apt with iso file

2005-06-16 Thread David Dorward
file.iso /mnt/point might help. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: Fourth Mouse Button

2005-06-13 Thread David Dorward
, and click. So you have (in X terms) a 6 button mouse. I've never enountered such a beast, but I assume you just need to do: Options Buttons 6 ZAxisMapping 6 I'd start with that then experiment. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-10 Thread David Dorward
has options to skip past blocks of quoted content and to hide quoted content entirely (of course this requires that the responder use the standard quoting technique of interleaved/bottom posting and indenting quoted material with greater than characters). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp

Re: How to change Sarge from testing to stable

2005-05-23 Thread David Dorward
rather than whatever the current testing is. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: mp3 flash player support under debian

2005-05-08 Thread David Dorward
supported by Linux for ages. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk

Thumbnail picking software

2005-05-06 Thread David Dorward
on my own terms. Does anyone know of a tool like this? Or of any libraries (Perl modules by preference) that would make it easy to write it? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: Ugrading just 1 Distribution in Debian howto

2004-12-23 Thread David Dorward
available, then you should look at uninstalling it and building your own binary from source (and ideally making a .deb from it to make it easy for you to manage). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ [1] http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=subversionversion=allrelease

Re: 2-D Drawing Programs ?

2004-12-16 Thread David Dorward
not found a way to edit them. Does anyone know of a debian package with this feature? I believe that Inkscape will do the job. Its in testing and unstable at present. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Html drop-down menu in Mozilla/Firefox

2004-12-16 Thread David Dorward
-user. [1] Technically you don't need JS to turn the snipped HTML into a drop down menu. However, a pure CSS/HTML version will have very poor useability and won't work in IE. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: FAT32 (was: dual-OS system)

2004-12-16 Thread David Dorward
had Windows installed on any of my PCs for a couple of years. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: import outlook express to thunderbird

2004-12-13 Thread David Dorward
. is there a difference between mail format stored by thunderbird-win with thunderbird-deb ? Not as far as I know. --me-- The sig seperator is two dashes followed by a space. Please use that so that good mail clients can autosnip your sig. Thanks. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: whre i can download LiNUX Kernel 2.4.20-13.7

2004-11-30 Thread David Dorward
Umar Draz wrote: i have broad logic DVB card now i want install it on linux but DVB card only support kernel 2.4.20-13.7. but on kernel.org there is no kernel by that name so plz help me where i can find this kernel. The -version indicates that it is a vendor (distro) specific kernel. There

Re: Logging out the window manager

2004-11-27 Thread David Dorward
are run after the window manager terminates. Not so. exec switches the current process to the process specified after the exec. So anything following it will never run. You would need to call the window manager without exec in order commands after it to execute. -- David Dorward http

Re: Canon cameras shaft Linux users

2004-11-26 Thread David Dorward
6 work in under WINE? That might be another solution to the problem.) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: printer icon

2004-11-11 Thread David Dorward
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how do i find my printer icon since i change to 9.0 What is this printer icon supposed to do? Version 9.0 of what? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: [Very OT] IIS Basic Authentication can be used for phishing

2004-11-10 Thread David Dorward
- http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.0/draft-ietf-http-spec.html#BasicAA -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MS OutLook Unknown Options ???

2004-11-08 Thread David Dorward
IMAP rather then POP (as I assume you are using) since IMAP is intended for viewing on the server and POP is intended for downloading to a local machine... but Outlook isn't very good at IMAP.) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: How to uninstall?

2004-11-03 Thread David Dorward
sudo make uninstall in the directory you compiled it in. If that doesn't work, then you are probably stuck with deleting each file it installed by hand. (And that is why we have package management systems in the first place!) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: something like bsplayer for linux ?

2004-11-02 Thread David Dorward
On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 13:33:06 +0100, Debian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have backups of my movies in divx with subtitles. with BSplayer for windows i can play those with the subtitles but i don't know any program for linux that can do the same. mplayer, totem, xine -- David Dorward http

Re: helix

2004-11-01 Thread David Dorward
. RealPlayer is a non-free derivative of Helixplayer which has extra codecs. The referenced page links to RealPlayer and a FAQ about the differences between RealPlayer and Helix Player -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Installation.

2004-10-29 Thread David Dorward
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:47:39 +1000, NWSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering could the installation be improved. It is severaly in need of a functionality makeover. Which installer did you use? Assuming it is the latest version, what is wrong with it (be specific)? -- David Dorward http

Re: Question about debian install cd

2004-10-29 Thread David Dorward
version after installation. ... or apt-get install a 2.6 kernel once the install is over. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: List of packages

2004-10-28 Thread David Dorward
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:36:03 -0500, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a way to list every installed package? dpkg -l -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: USE flags ??

2004-10-21 Thread David Dorward
the additional level of testing that would be required). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where can I find lyx 1.3.5 for debian?

2004-10-21 Thread David Dorward
the debian packages containing the moc binary (http://packages.debian.org/ has a nice search engine) and install them first. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: where can I find lyx 1.3.5 for debian?

2004-10-21 Thread David Dorward
packages with different dependencies - and being binaries, they usually depend on specific versions of their dependencies. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: browser problem

2004-10-19 Thread David Dorward
the browser from an xterm? Does removing the ~/.mozilla (back it up first!) directory help? Could you use capital letters in suitable places and place a space (rather then multiple full stops) between sentences please? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: xfce4 related questions

2004-10-12 Thread David Dorward
. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (sid) kde3.3 - X performance]

2004-10-08 Thread David Dorward
at your graphics drivers, e.g. you'll get much better performance with X11 configured to use an optimised driver then a generic VESA one. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Via CLE266 Graphics

2004-09-23 Thread David Dorward
haven't managed to get them working under Debian Testing. Does anyone know how I can get accelerated X with this board? Free drivers would be best, but instructions on making Via's closed source drivers working under Debian Testing would still be good. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: Via CLE266 Graphics

2004-09-23 Thread David Dorward
Andrea Vettorello wrote: Have you looked on google? First port of call. Seems it's supported with the via driver (man /usr/X11R6/man/man4/via.4x.gz)... Somehow I missed that, or rather tried it, got some errors, and didn't probe deeply enough in tracing them as I assumed it was for a different

Re: Via CLE266 Graphics

2004-09-23 Thread David Dorward
Andrea Vettorello wrote: I'm far from an expert, but Caught signal 11. didn't means a seg fault? I think it might do... what I do about it is another question. Here (http://www.sbellon.de/cl6000.html) Looks like an updated kernel might be in order. Option NoDDCValue 1