RE: ssh delays and drops

2004-06-11 Thread David Haughton
> On 2004-06-11 14:18:05 -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > I have been noticing lately some significant delays in my ssh > > connections when I log in from work. At first I thought > that it could > > be that my signals were been studied behind the firewall at > my work, > > but later I foun

RE: ccing

2004-06-11 Thread David Haughton
> Incoming from Cheryl Homiak: > > I agree that it's irritating to get duplicate messages. > However, it's > > often not that the person deliberately did a cc. At least > in Pine, I > > often > > The usual reply to this is submit a bug report. If it came > from a list, the reply should go to

RE: Console only box?

2004-06-11 Thread David Haughton
> 2: Lynx suffers from a decided lack of formatting and frames > support, links does not. As such many pages that are > completely unreadable in lynx are perfectly usable in links. > Since most people don't know about links nor its formatting > capabilities they often see lynx, see how useles

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-11 Thread David Haughton
You might look at Qt... like what mythtv uses. James W. Thompson, II wrote: I am working on building a web browsing kiosk, no other functionality with Debian. I am planning to use FireFox and was wondering about the best Window Manager for the job. Here is the biggest catch, the system is old. + Pe

Re: Console only box?

2004-06-11 Thread David Haughton
Steve Lamb wrote: David Haughton wrote: Then you have "elm" and "lynx" for email and web and that's pretty much all you need, eh? s/elmg/mutt/ s/lynx/links/ I still prefer lynx over links (or links2 or whatever). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Howto: Eject CD?

2004-06-10 Thread David Haughton
Make sure you are a member of the "audio" group. My mixer looks like: crw-rw1 root audio 14, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/mixer Ed Sutherland wrote: Ah! Now I can eject the audio CD. How do I set the correct permissions for me to use "Volume Control"? When I try to set my volume, I get

Re: Console only box?

2004-06-10 Thread David Haughton
For a sound app, take a look at 'mplayer'... it plays almost any digital music format you can think of. It plays video too, but that requires X I'm pretty sure... unless you use aalib or some sort of framebuffer driver possibly. For "IM" there are plenty of command like aim, yahoo, jabber, etc