e case, however while seting up my desktop
as a VNC server (long story) I discovered that (KDE3.2 for certain)
this now works.
Odd thing is, I can't get startkde to run for a *different* user
simultaneously when both are running under VNC...
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or a quick google search) enlighten me.
If somebody who knows would care to email me offlist I'd be very
grateful.
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he
latest PCI spec (2.2 IIRC) allows for speeds of 33 or 66MHz, but most
motherboards still run at 33 (and most adapters ditto).
OTOH the *memory* bus may well be running at 800MHz or faster. But
that won't help disk speeds.
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sight into this?
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ay of mirroring a debian
system to many others?
All feedback gratefully received.
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SDK. It was as I recall pretty good,
although text only as you suggest. Funnily enough I moved house last
month and the DV manuals were among the stuff that didn't make it to
the new one.
Quarterdeck also announced, maybe even released Desqview-X c1994/5 (?)
which IIRC was an implementation
ing relative :)
> 8.3 filenames, single-tasking, crappy shell,...
And what nobody has mentioned is that Unix was derived from
Multics. Indeed, the original name was "Unics", an even more obvious
pun, but that was felt to be alittle too close.
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Thus spake Alexander Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> * Deryk Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040118 21:06]:
> > I'm having a problem with my wife's machine (running testing) and I
> > can't seem to find a way out.
> >
> > While doing an upgrade it b
which will get me around this
problem. Any helkp gratefully received - I thought only RPMs got you
into this kind of mess...
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enge-west at Disneyland.
I seem to recall from Gerald Hawkins' book that there is a replica in
the USA. He pointed out that its location prevents any of the
astronomical alignments the original has.
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Thus spake Jim Higson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:12:38 -0800, Deryk Barker
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> >My major beef is the way that they allow the "Druids" (virutually
> >nothing is known about the real Druids aside from a paragraph i
Thus spake David P James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On January 13, 2004 14:12, Deryk Barker wrote:
> ...
> >
> > My major beef is the way that they allow the "Druids" (virutually
> > nothing is known about the real Druids aside from a paragraph in
> > Caes
at Stonehenge than does Bugs Bunny. Actually
rather less.
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|phone:
ined. I've happily
moved to mozzilla-firebird which (apart from the rally nice Googol
windows in the galeon toolbar) is an excellent subsititute.
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Thus spake Nunya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:29:59AM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote:
> >
> > True, but there is no preservation of the session. The original
> > developers of VNC (Olivetti UK) wanted this feature so that people
> > could disconnect th
as I often do my
office machine from home, then IMHO VNC is far superior to X11
forwarding.
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|email:
em from my
notebook at home and the office vncserver is running -geometry
1012x754 - the joy of the vncserver is that is happily supports
non-display-standard resolutions.
>
> 4: I also went ahead and installed a vnc server on my Windows-98 system.
> Now, how do I connect to that one from
he occasion when RMN make Elvis a special
anti-drug agent, something Elvis was apparently inordinately proud
of.
Nobody mentioned the Beatles rolling up and smoking a joint in the
washrooms of Buckingham Palace when they went to collect their MBEs in
1965.
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oo. What a difference!
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m. It is possible to
add further axioms to prove the statements, but then this richer
axiomatic base will lead to new statements which cannot be proved with
the richer set of axioms.
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gt; > As for which one came up with the idea, I think it's arguable.
>
> Fair enough. I'll reword by saying it's one of the very few
> WMs (with ratpoison) to stray from the "many floating,
> overlapping windows" paradigm.
Wirth's Oberon system also esche
session where I use icewm.
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ve its problems though: I had a printer problem during the
install and every time I booted I had to confirm that the printer was
not offline. Nothing I could do would change this - including deleting
the printer and installing a fresh one...
Still, life is so much easier now with debian...
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verwriting a setuid file turns the
setuid bit off. (I think this was originally put into *nix for C2
certification) So it still wouldn't work.
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treat with woody.
This was last Decemeber, so more recent cards may have a different
chipset.
My lspci says I have a 'rev A' card (although the Via Rhine chipset on
it is apparently rev 43).
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27;. they both can
> read and write DOC files.
Also, despite earlier claims, OpenOffice has a presentation package
and a pretty good filter for PowePoint (I have imported a 100-slide
presentation with no major problems).
And the 1.1 version is a real advance over the various 1.0.x flavours.
--
> And how can I then burn a CD converting to WAV format?
I don't quite understand. cdrecord will burn wav's to CDs and GUI
packages like XCDRoast use cdrecord.
If you want actyual wav files on the CD, then you need to burn a data
image, with the wav's as part of the hierarchy.
-
27;t do a dist-upgrade without removing KDE3.1, so
currently I'm typing this on my wife's machine, running a mixture of
woody and testing. Not quite what I'd intended.
Any help gratefully received.
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|Cam
ralambos?
>
> hexadecipus
The "Greek" plural would be octopodes.
But the word is English, so the correct, non=-pedantic plural is
octopuses. (See Eric Partridge's Usage and Abusage for more on
pretentious plurals)
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eem to
make any significant difference.
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|phone:
lthough it may not include
atitvout.damn!
Any help very gratefully received.
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programs written in Norwegian and
Afrikaans, which (for the non-Norwegian and/or Afrikaans speaker) had
to be seen to be believed.
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have hoped. I've not done anything in my .emacs to enable this,
it just worked out of the box.
Did either of these help?
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Fortunately I had a backup up copy of /lib/libpthreads-0.10.so when I
copied that back into /lib everything was OK again.
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. */
OUTPUT_FORMAT(elf32-i386)
GROUP ( /lib/libpthread.so.0 /usr/lib/libpthread_nonshared.a )
Looks as if the package maintainer skipped a step...
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s to be no fixed package
yet. Any ideas? (And here I was thinking that by not running unstable
I'd be safe from things like this..:-))
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know how to get CUPS to *stop* retrying the printout.
BTW the CUPS perinter page claims that the printer (all queues) is
"idle, accepting jobs".
Well, something isn't idle. Any help at all will be greatly
appreciated.
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variables,
> the classic code from a "bad COBOL programmer forced to write C"
> would have large main(), very few other functions, and all global
> variables.
Which no doubt applied to the first few program I wrote in B (the
first HLL I used after 6 years of COBOL and assembler),
g the next task I set myself,, before doing
anything else, was to indent his code properly. All went much better
after that.
I also think that enforced indentation is a very good thing in a
language used to teach programming - one of the things that makes
python so good for that, in fact.
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erhead to compilation to native code.
python actually can be "frozen" to produce an executable that does not
require IIRC even the python runtime library to be present.
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several
> classes in C and have tried to work with it several times over the years.
Nor does it help that the best-selling C book ever is, ahem,
less-than-superbly-written.
Incidentally Paul, C was derived from B (derived from BCPL) in order
to *re*write Unix, which was originally written in assem
. I've been using it extensively for several years and
have had no performance issues.
>
> > I like python, there are several techniques to accelerate python (like weave
> > and psyco) but for a good speed C is the best.
>
> Don't forget NumPy.
Or SWIG. C may be best
C family nor the pascal family.
There is no such thing as a universal programming language,
well-suited to all tasks - IBM tried to create one 40 year ago, it was
PL/1.
>
> and, yes - i'm a student, too. (you may think of me what you stated above, it
> may be right or no
here, slap bang in the
middle, is the Debian logo.
Makes me feel more confident somehow....:-)
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d doesn't necessarily
signifiy. I've been using alpha versions of XCDRoast for nearly 4
years now with no problem.
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;Name one republic America's created.
> >
>
> the Phillipines, Panama, Haiti, Japan, West Germany...
I think others had hands in setting up Japan and (W) Germany at the
end of WWII.
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Thus spake John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Deryk Barker writes:
> > Actually it's mainly the hard drive manufacturers.
>
> And the ISO.
>
> > To them 1GB = 1,000,000,000 as you note above.
>
> Correct. Giga -> 10^9 = 1,000,000,000.
>
> > Of
ight thing and
report in terms of powers of 2, where 1GB = 1,073,741,824.
Memory, OTOH (and thank heavens) isn't. At least, I've never noticed
being shortchanged on a memory module.
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|Camosun College
hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
it will make all the difference.
If it's already on, I can't help you...but I'm betting it's not.
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el port cables
> (mine is 3m), but this had never been a problem before.
Hmmm. I used to use my Stylus Color 850 quite succesfully (until the
damn thing broke). Now using a Styls C82, also installed via CUPS in
around 30 seconds.
Tip: use the web interface to CUPS, it's so much easier.
-
ry time I
install or update a piece of software (no matter how small) the system
has to "update the linker cache" which always seems to take several
minutes (this on a 1.6GHz P4 with 256MB, hardly a low end machine).
In a nutshell: I feel constrained by SuSe, I feel liberated by Debian.
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thought she hadn't
It's all OK now, but it wasn't as smooth as it could have been.
caveat emptor.
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w driver or not but I have been
> having some problems myself. This is how I solved it:
I upgraded to the unstable version of XFree86 and that works just fine.
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nd the last system was shut
off in October 2000...
There's much more information on the greatest OS ever at
http://www.multicians.org/
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ovice start learning Emacs?
>
> Start emacs, hit C-h t (control-h lower-case "T") to open it.
Alternatively, RTFM.
When you start up emacs with no file to edit, it always (in my
experience) presents you with an opening screen which tells you, inter
alia, how to *quit* emacs and
gt;
> You should download nVidia (proprietary) drivers from their website
> >and follow the instructions in README file provided.
He also doesn't mention *which* Geforce card he has. As I recently
discovered, support of the Gefore 4 requires the unstable version of
xserver-xfree86 - even t
e and am
used to KDE and don't want to have to make the switch to some other
WM just now.
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e not
on the MB (although the legend is and there are rear sound connectors)
and the BIOS has no reference to sound at all.
I'm sure an off-list reply would be better. Thanks.
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st-uprgaded
to unstable.
Now OpenOffice works! (I guess the problem was the Xfree 4.2.1-3
nv driver; I'm now running 4.2.1-4).
Of course, as noted yesterday, now kde doesn't
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Thus spake Deryk Barker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
...
> OK, when I try to run the setup fails: firstly it complained that it
> couldn't find setup - and indeed it wasn't there, but setup.bin
> was. So I hardlinked setup to setup.bin, ditto the other.bin files in
> the directory.
Thus spake Dale Hair ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 14:35, Deryk Barker wrote:
> > As a P.S. to my previous exchange: unfortunately the package I found
> > at various mirrors requires later version of certain libraries
> > (e.g. libstdc++5) than are
Thus spake Deryk Barker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> As a P.S. to my previous exchange: unfortunately the package I found
> at various mirrors requires later version of certain libraries
> (e.g. libstdc++5) than are currently in testing...
>
> Ah well, it's back to the 1.0 tar
As a P.S. to my previous exchange: unfortunately the package I found
at various mirrors requires later version of certain libraries
(e.g. libstdc++5) than are currently in testing...
Ah well, it's back to the 1.0 tarball.
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Thus spake Mark Janssen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 20:11, Deryk Barker wrote:
> > AS I am building a new system, it seemed a good idea to download the
> > latest Open Office (1.0.1) rather than simply copy 1.0 across from
> > my old system.
> >
&
.
Rebooting doesn't help. And oddly, running soffice as root does work,
which makes it sound like a permissions problem, but I've no idea
what.
Anyone any ideas> Or do I got back to version 1.0? (Which I've happily
run under Mandrake 8.1, Suse 8.0 and the current unstable debian).
Thus spake Deryk Barker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> One further piece of info: I tested the new system out by booting
> Knoppix, which ran just fine.
>
> So I thought I could snag the XF86Config-4 from that - put it onto
> floppy (!) etc.
>
> Did all that and it still didn
ed on unstable.
I'm dist-upgrading to testing right now to see if there's a new enough
nv driver in that...
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Thus spake Bob Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Deryk Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-19 14:27:15 -0800]:
> > Has anyone persuaded the confiuration of xserver-xfree86 version 4 to
> > produce a usable XF86Config-4?
>
> Yes. Many times.
>
> > I&#x
uot; mess.
Is there something obvious to look for? (Using Gefore 4 MX - vesa
driver - and generic monitor 1024x768@70Hz).
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|ema
ic kernel: eth0: VIA VT3043 Rhine at 0x6600,
> 00:80:c8:ec:94:29, IRQ 11.
I just tried installing using the bf24 flavour and so far everything
seems OK - I've just apt-got much of the system...
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|Camosu
ly unavailable.
And any attempt to access the network gives Network is unreachable
errors.
Anyone have any ideas? It's been too long since I messed about at this
level...
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s knowledge - for temporary files IIRC (it's been 25
years).
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riably, in my experience, referred to as a
functional language.
The importance of LISP, Scheme, ML, Miranda, et. al. is surely the
establishing of a functional programming *style*, which these
languages encourage (to a greater or lesser extent).
After all, you *can* do FP in C or Pascal - it's
fore seeing the light) so I now need to persuade our very
RH-oriented techhie to go with Debian.
So: am I about to reinvent the wheel? Has somebody already done this
or similar? Are there any resources people know about? Pointers?
Suggestions?
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and then burning it DAO.
Sometimes the GUI interface really is easier to use/get right. (But
only sometimes)
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|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(and MBs) have two connectors and can support 4
devices. But linux will not simply assign hda to the first available
device, etc; hda is the first device on the first chain, etc.
Just a thought. I believe you could change this with boot parameters.
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me a while to realize this, and quite a pain in the ass.
Hmmm, this is strange. I've been using a Zip drive for several years,
attached to a SCSI adapter, through various flavours of Mandrake (OK,
I've seen the error of my ways) and *always* had to mount it as
/dev/sda4.
The reason i
questions, although having
seen the warning several times myself, I don't think it's serious -
doesn't seem to have affected my system anyway...(FLW)
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