Re: downloading only diffs from kernel-source update?

2004-02-24 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ! I'm running woody and try to stay up to date with security updates. We had recently 2 updates for the kernel. Downloading 24 MB over modem takes a bit of patience, so I tried to download only the diffs.gz file and patch it. First reverse patch from old debian versio

Re: GCC

2004-02-18 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mike M wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 10:55:36PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Got here late. Didn't see thread. Use g++ instead of gcc. The .h is optional with g++ 2.95.4 and g++ 3.0.4. Compiling with -Wall didn't generate a warning when iostream.h was used. IIRC I did see a nastygram about

Re: NVidia latest update - do they solve performance problems?

2003-04-02 Thread Ed Cogburn
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 9:25 AM Subject: Re: NVidia latest update - do they solve performance problems? > On 02 Apr 2003 09:38:55 +0200 > Jerome "Lacoste (Frisurf)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am using

ATTN: info/pinfo users

2003-03-31 Thread Ed Cogburn
After a long frustrating experience with install-info and the default "/usr/share/info/dir" file, I decided to write a script which bypassed the "dir" file and read the info entries from the info files themselves and literally rebuilt the "dir" file from scratch. This message is to let you know

Re: When will we see alsa-modules for 2.4.20?

2003-03-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
Joe Emenaker wrote: 3 - I've tried compiling my own, using the ALSA driver source and the 2.4.20-686 kernel source (after copying the config-2.4.20-686 file from /boot into the kernel source tree as .config, for whatever it's worth), and I got even *more* unresolved symbols when I tried to depmod t

Re: tune gcc

2003-03-17 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 02:35:52 +1100 Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If setting CFLAGS is the answer, do you need to set all of them, or only> the one you want to change? Hm, I don't think I quite got what you meant there...You just set whatever flags you'd set on the

Re: making nvidia drivers

2003-03-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
John F. wrote: I did this up throught the "debian/rules binary_modules" command, where I got the following error: nv.c:22: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [nv.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel-1.0.2880/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2880' make:

Re: making nvidia drivers

2003-03-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
John F. wrote: Gavrila wrote: John F. wrote: I have a NVIDIA GeForce3, and the "nv" driver doesn't work very well. I want to compile the "nvidia" driver from the sources, but I don't know how to do it. I have installed nvidia-kernel-source and nvidia-glx-source, but I don't know how to make

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

2002-10-23 Thread Ed Cogburn
csj wrote: On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:40:36 -0500 "Jamin W.Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:07:48 +0200 Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - broken home/end keys in bash in xterm (even in Woody) Sounds like a possible reason to use RXVT... never noticed that it's

Re: OT: How to find a modem that works with Linux...

2002-06-17 Thread Ed Cogburn
ben wrote: On Sunday 16 June 2002 08:02 pm, Steve Brown wrote: Save yourself a lot of trouble, just pick up a USR V92 faxmodem or equivalent making sure it's -external-. Besides absolutely ensuring compatability, you can use it for a backup dialup connection on the WAN side of a broadband rout

Re: Woody NVIDIA X Setup

2002-06-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Bedford, Donald T. wrote: When I upgraded/build a new kernel, I had a problem w/ the nvidia driver and ended up changing back to 'Driver "nv"' (see step 6). Not optimal but it works... That's not really a solution, because all you're doing is returning to the old, limited nvidia hardwa

Re: Signal 11 when using 'ps'

2000-12-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > Ok, I'll get ps compiled with debugging info and try again. > I'll get back to ya. (This oughta be fun) Well, not as much fun as I thought. I downloaded the procps source from debian woody (plus diff). I modified the Makefil

Re: Signal 11 when using 'ps'

2000-12-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Chris Gray wrote: > Thanks for helping Chris. > >>>>> Ed Cogburn writes: > > ec> Athlon "Thunderbird" CPU, 1Ghz > > You lucky bastard. You don't want to know what a 1Ghz Athlon plus an Ultra160 SCSI drive can do

Re: Signal 11 when using 'ps'

2000-12-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
Thanks guys for the help. Ok first, my CPU is not overclocked. My hardware is all fairly new though, so I'll list the major components: Athlon "Thunderbird" CPU, 1Ghz Asus A7V mobo Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI card 18Gb Seagate SCSI drive "Geforc

Re: Signal 11 when using 'ps'

2000-12-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
Colin Watson wrote: > > Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ever seen this? Whenever I run 'ps' it says it caught 'signal 11'. > >The output from 'ps', aside from the signal 11 error message, is > >correct, the program is w

Signal 11 when using 'ps'

2000-12-10 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ever seen this? Whenever I run 'ps' it says it caught 'signal 11'. The output from 'ps', aside from the signal 11 error message, is correct, the program is working right, and I'm not getting signal 11 from anywhere else, including when compiling the kernel, only 'ps'. Make sense to any

Re: OffTopic: how do I add /dev/ttyS4 (com5)

2000-09-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
- Original Message - From: "Eric G . Miller" To: Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 12:29 AM Subject: Re: OffTopic: how do I add /dev/ttyS4 (com5) > On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:56:09PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > > A friend of mine bought a new usr modem that is set to com5, > > unf

Re: Netscape Bus Error

2000-08-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > It means Netscape is crap software. Not everyone has these kinds of troubles with Netscape. I'm not saying its great, because it isn't, but neither is it "crap" software. > > It *will* crash. Frequently. Get used to it. I manage to trip a b

Re: gnome-terminal

2000-08-14 Thread Ed Cogburn
Michael Soulier wrote: > > One of the reasons why I overall prefer xterm is because it > conforms to X protocols. To my knowledge, gnome apps don't do this. The > gnome-terminal has its own menu built-in for configuration. I'm not sure > if you can rebind keys with it though. To

gnome-terminal

2000-08-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
I'm using woody + helixcode GNOME. Does the gnome-terminal currently have no way to read and use X resource files? In gnome-terminal, things like the key sequence produced by the F1 key is different from the one in the regular xterm. gnome-terminal is not reading /etc/X11/Xresources/xt

Re: Cool trick: gmc and Debs

2000-08-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
Paul Seelig wrote: > > kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > > > And that GNU Midnight Commander (aka mc > > aka gmc) had a similar functionality. This is a tool which, as I > > understand, was adapted from Novell's "Midnight Commander" file browsing > > utility. > > > It escapes me why you seem to be

Re: StarOffice

2000-07-30 Thread Ed Cogburn
Umum Wijoyo wrote: > > Hello, > > Are there any StarOffice packages available for Debian? > If not, can I manually install StarOffice on a Debian machine (Will there > be any problems whatsoever?) > > Thanks! I don't think there are any debian packages for it now, but that will probably change

Re: staroffice

2000-07-23 Thread Ed Cogburn
Damon Muller wrote: > > Quoth Ed Cogburn, > > The registration is a PITA, and they provide no help when an > > internet connection goes bad, you have to start the download all over > > again. They don't allow ftp access which would have allowed me to &g

Re: staroffice

2000-07-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ethan Pierce wrote: > > I thought it was an easy get...a full featured office suite for free...you > cant beat that...it took me about 10 minutes to dload it...sun has a fast > site...the only pain is you have to register once :) The registration is a PITA, and they provide no he

Re: staroffice

2000-07-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
Morten Liebach wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 05:03:20PM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Where can I find staroffice 5.1 in .deb package? I searched > > the www.debian.org and found the installer for 3.1 but not > > the 5.1. > > > > Thanks! > > I don't think you can. >

Re: staroffice

2000-07-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
Morten Liebach wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 05:03:20PM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Where can I find staroffice 5.1 in .deb package? I searched > > the www.debian.org and found the installer for 3.1 but not > > the 5.1. > > > > Thanks! > > I don't think you can. >

Re: GNOME+Sawmill workspaces

2000-07-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jim Lisi wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > > > That option stops all edge flipping, not just the flipping from the > > top or bottom of the screen. Having seen this option though, its > > obvious what I'm looking for hasn't been impl

Re: GNOME+Sawmill workspaces

2000-06-30 Thread Ed Cogburn
Francesco Bochicchio wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:32:40 Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > > > I have GNOME and Sawmill/Sawfish (latest debs from potato/woody) and > > I want to have 4 workspaces in a horizontal row. The GNOME pager > > works as I want it t

Re: Which window manager

2000-06-30 Thread Ed Cogburn
Bolan Meek wrote: > > Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > > > > I am looking for a window manager for debian that will > > not soakup the system resources. Which one would you > > suggest? > > I like mwm in lesstif, the libraries from which are > required for nedit, my favorite editor. However, > the less

GNOME+Sawmill workspaces

2000-06-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
I have GNOME and Sawmill/Sawfish (latest debs from potato/woody) and I want to have 4 workspaces in a horizontal row. The GNOME pager works as I want it to, except that Sawmill allows moving the cursor to the top or bottom of the screen as a way to change workspaces just like moving the

Re: System.Map question

2000-03-04 Thread Ed Cogburn
"Hausheer, Geoffrey" wrote: > > I just installed 'frozen' as my first trial of debian. I had a general > question: > I have two System.Map files on my system. a /System.Map and > /boot/System.map-2.2.14 > My system crashed (damn laptop suspend and X), and when I rebooted I got a > message about

OFF TOPIC: Audio/Modem Riser (AMR)?

2000-02-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
I recently started looking for a new computer and discovered something that didn't exist last time I got a computer, that being motherboards with an AMR slot. I know what the AMR card does: it isolates the circuitry for handling analog signals from everything else. What I don't know is

Re: time/date problems

2000-02-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Ed Cogburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > This isn't exactly true. You can keep your hardware clock on local, > > and you can tell Linux to use local time (keeping it from messing > > around). Linux does not set my ha

Re: time/date problems

2000-02-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 09:23:36AM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi > > > > i am running slink 2.1 with kernel 2.0.36 on a Dell Power Edge 2100 and i > > am having problems with the time. Basically what happens is that once i > > set up the correct date/time in BIOS.

Re: .gz in Netscape

2000-02-04 Thread Ed Cogburn
paul wrote: > > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > > > > looks like Netscape decompress the file while i'm doing > > > shift+b1. So instead of aaa.diff.gz i'm getting aaa.diff > > > > Actually, it doesn't decompress it strangely enough. It just removes the > > .gz extension. I've alw

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Actually, an end-user should have no business contacting public stratum 2 > servers either, they should use their ISP's timeservers. But not many ISPs > are this high-quality to offer timekeeping s

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: > >already on Feb 15, 2000. digging through the package database i came across > >ntp and ntpdate and installed both (i have an always on connection to the > > ntpdate is used to do a "one time only" update to your clock.

Disappearing ToolBar

2000-01-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Has anyone noticed the disappearance of toolbars in Netscape? I'm using "potato" updated almost daily, so the Netscape version is the most recent one: 4.71. For example, the main Mail/Newsgroup screen has the usual icons, but if I select "Reply" the Compose message dialog is missing its

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ed Cogburn wrote: > > "Michel Dänzer" wrote: > > > > --- Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > There is, to me, something suspicious that I haven't noticed before. > > > The last lines of the text console after sta

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-19 Thread Ed Cogburn
"Michel Dänzer" wrote: > > --- Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There is, to me, something suspicious that I haven't noticed before. > > The last lines of the text console after starting X now include: > > > >

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

2000-01-17 Thread Ed Cogburn
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 06:53:25PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > I just upgraded my machine to current potato, and the keyboard > > autorepeat settings have changed: delay is now 500ms instead of ~300ms > > as it was before. > > > > I've fixed the problem in X

Re: Dselect saying everthing is obsolete

2000-01-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I just installed Debian 2.1 from CheapBytes Binary I. As i went to install > without any problem I updated the packages list via dselect using the > apt method. > After this all packages are stated to be obsolete like: > Obsolete/local Required packages i

Re: Dependency problem

1999-12-31 Thread Ed Cogburn
Big Gaute wrote: > > I downloaded the source to angband and compiled it myself, so that I > wouldn't have to install ncurses34. It now works perfectly. I then put > the package on hold, so that my version will not be automatically > replaced. However when I attempt an apt-get dist-upgrade apt w

"recommends" in current potato.

1999-12-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
In potato now, there are at least five of those "recommends" dependencies. What is this function for? The explanation in 'man deb-control' doesn't provide an example of why this nagging "recommends" dependency is useful. If the installer wants to override a "recommends" just like a "su

Re: What happened?

1999-12-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
Rob Hensley wrote: > > Hmm...how come this list was so active up until the time that I sent out > my post to it? I was hopein' to get an answer sometime soon if possible, > could some please help. At least answer someone elses post so I know that > I'm still on the lists and it's still going. My q

FTP upload problem

1999-12-17 Thread Ed Cogburn
I'm running potato. I'm trying to upload a file to my home area on my ISP's system. I've also tried the same thing on another site that allows ftp uploads. The upload process starts and transfers the data, but hangs at the end. In mc's ftp mode the program returns the error: "failed

Re: An open letter to the debian community

1999-12-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
> David Blackman wrote: > > Lately I've been thinking about forking Debian, into DWA, >meaning Debian Without Attitude. We'll drop the attitude, and the >pretenses, about what Free means, and get licensing deals with Corel, >Netscape, and Sun, to include Wordperfect, Communicator, and >Staro

Re: what happenned to netdate?

1999-12-02 Thread Ed Cogburn
"Gregory T. Norris" wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 12:55:48PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > > Try package netdate :) (it has its own .deb now). > > I tried that but couldn't find it... guess my mirror just wasn't up to > date. Doh!!! > > Thanx! I don't see a 'netdate' package

Enlightenment/GNOME sound

1999-11-30 Thread Ed Cogburn
Has anybody with GNOME and Enlightenment installed lose sound effects from Enlightenment in the last week? I haven't changed E, it just stopped working. I have been upgrading against debian.org regularly, but I cn't remember specifically what changed in the last week. Sound effects fro

Re: staroffice, potato (patching the kernel)

1999-11-30 Thread Ed Cogburn
aphro wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > > homega >aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said something about a patch. How do I > apply > homega >a patch to the kernel? I mean, just by: > > I believe the patch i mentioned (from kt.linuxcare.com) doesn't *yet* > exist as far as i know,

Re: Debian vs Red Hat for updates

1999-11-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
"Keith G. Murphy" wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > Howard Mann wrote: > > > > [cut] > > > When I installed Python 1.5, a number of existent > > > apps broke that required Python 1.4 and associated > > > apps like "

Re: Debian vs Red Hat for updates

1999-11-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
Howard Mann wrote: > > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Howard Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Be sure to reply to that address. > > Hi, > > I would like to solicit opinions concerning > updates in Debian (.deb) vs Red Hat (.rpm). > > Pewrmit me an anecdote. I recently wanted to > inst

Re: Where's man?

1999-11-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
Oki DZ wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been looking around for man package in www.debian.org to no avail. > Would anybody please tell me the package where man resides? > > Thanks in advance, > Oki With potato, the package name is 'man-db', and the man pages themselves are in 'manpages' pac

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-27 Thread Ed Cogburn
J Horacio MG wrote: > > > John Foster wrote: > > > Uh. It was already free, in the dollars and cents manner. They > > > really gave back/up nothing. > > > > I think they give an impression: from now on, StarOffice is supported by > > Sun. > > Yes, it's a world of marketing! Shame! > > > Uni

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-27 Thread Ed Cogburn
Oki DZ wrote: > > Dave Baker wrote: > > Unless they changed the license recently, this (stareoffice) is only free > > in the monetary sense, not the freedom sense. > > I believe that monetary sense is the first step, and the freedom one is > the next. Ask Sun; if there are enough Linux developers

Re: installing StarOffice 5.1a for Linux

1999-10-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Pollywog wrote: > > Will I have any problems installing StarOffice 5.1a on a glibc2 system? > Any special instructions? I followed the instructions that come with the > tarball once and messed up my system, and I ignored part of the instructions > the next time and all went well. The ot

Re: Getting Netscape to work on potato

1999-10-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mark M wrote: > > Hi, > > Despite Potato being based on a 2.2 kernel, downloading the > unsupported/linux22netscape doesn't work to well. > > However, the supported/linux20libc5 version seems to be very stable > even on my 2.2 kernel Potato system. > > Perhaps this is the reason for the conflic

Re: Netscape 4.7 vs mozilla for a potato machine ?

1999-10-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
Shaul Karl wrote: > > I want to upgrade my browser. Should I try mozilla or netscape 4.7 ? > Perhaps I would do better if I'll keep my current 4.06 ? > I am using potato. There was an article some days ago on LinuxToday or Slashdot (not sure) about the latest version of Mozilla. The gis

Re: netscape 4.7 and download

1999-10-20 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > > Hi, > > I wonder if somebody has found how to recover files downloaded > (especially from ftp) in the netscape cache? > (these files which are printed to the screen while dowload them) > > The only way I found is to watch the modification time of the > cache director

Re: ok to move /home to /raid/home

1999-10-18 Thread Ed Cogburn
Charles Lewis wrote: > > Trying to set up a samba server for administrative use and since all my > space is on the raid volume (/raid) I thought it would be a good idea to > move /home to that volume, but being new to linux I'm not sure what kind of > implications that would have. Anyone see any p

Re: turning your computer off

1999-10-17 Thread Ed Cogburn
jh wrote: > > Is there a best way to shut down linux and turn off your computer? I read > in an online guide that you should press . When I do > this and I later turn my computer on it says "last boot failed"...Then it > installs. Is this the recommended way to turn off your computer? Yo

Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)

1999-10-17 Thread Ed Cogburn
tf wrote: > >[snip] > > What the heck is the big deal about gnome anyway? Was this flame-bait really necessary? If you don't like it, don't use it. Either way, don't make a big deal about it. -- Ed C.

SOLVED: Re: SECOND TRY: Re: Group "adm"?

1999-10-17 Thread Ed Cogburn
"Dwayne C . Litzenberger" wrote: > > I don't know what is happening exactly, but this is my setup: > > drwxrwsr-x 11 root staff1024 Oct 14 10:42 /home > drwxr-s--x 66 dwon dwon 5120 Oct 15 15:20 /home/dwon Amazing. Setting my permissions & owner on /home and /

Re: (no subject)

1999-10-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
Rob Mahurin wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 11:43:11PM +0200, Leo Mignemi wrote: > > unsubscribe > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Somebody does this about once a day. Is it possible to change the > instruction footer to something less cryp

Re: 24-bit graphics woes

1999-10-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
Bill wrote: > > I think the 24 bit colour problem is from one of the libraries Netscape > 4.6 (and WP 8) was compiled with. Do a search in the mail archive and > and in Deja for more info. It seems to be a problem only at 24 bit. The > other problem I've never seen before, maybe another netscape b

Re: SECOND TRY: Re: Group "adm"?

1999-10-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
"Eric Gillespie, Jr." wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 12:25:35PM -0400, > Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > > > I've noticed several files in my normal user (ed) home dir, > > > whi

SECOND TRY: Re: Group "adm"?

1999-10-14 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ed Cogburn wrote: > > I've noticed several files in my normal user (ed) home dir, which, > instead of "ed" as group owner, are given the group of "adm". These > files are all types, a file created by Netscape while downloading, a > sub-dir I c

Re: Unix qusetion

1999-10-14 Thread Ed Cogburn
Li Wei wrote: > > I have an unofficial FreeBSD 3.0 and install xpm and fvwm2 and get an error > when running fvwm2: > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libkrb.so.3" not found > > Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I will leave the list in a > minute. This mailing list i

Re: atari800 package - README.Debian has bad web address for ROMS

1999-10-14 Thread Ed Cogburn
John Miskinis wrote: > > Hello, > > I've been trying to get the "atari800" emulator working. The ROMS > are not in the package for legal reasons. The link in the readme > is bad, and although I found the "xf25.zip" elsewhere, the ROMs > to not appear to work when I unpack them on WIN95, and mov

Re: Debian/Slink Connection Speed...too slow

1999-10-14 Thread Ed Cogburn
Salman Ahmed wrote: > > > "DCL" == Dwayne C Litzenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DCL> Edit /etc/ppp/peers/provider and make sure your baud rate is set > DCL> to 115200 or 57600. You might also want to add the lines: > > DCL> bsdcomp 15,15 deflate 15,15 vj-max-slots 16

Group "adm"?

1999-10-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
I've noticed several files in my normal user (ed) home dir, which, instead of "ed" as group owner, are given the group of "adm". These files are all types, a file created by Netscape while downloading, a sub-dir I created, and a config file (.xscreensaver) created by another process, as

Re: Weird SO5.1 problem

1999-10-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
Robert Rati wrote: > > I've been stumped on why SO5.1 hasn't been working on my machine and on a > whim, I did a ps aux | grep soffice while it was loaded. What I found was > over 10 instances of soffice.bin running. When SO quits, those all die. > Is this Star Office's normal behavior? It seem

Re: Splitting debian-user (was Re: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO...)

1999-10-06 Thread Ed Cogburn
David Coe wrote: > > Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > "A. M. Varon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Could we have a potato mailing lists? > > > > That's part of what debian-devel *is* for. Why would we want another > > list for it? > > Ben answered on _debian-devel_, but not on

Re: fatal error in SO 5.1

1999-10-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
Brad wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > "Damir J. Naden" wrote: > > > > > > Hi Brad; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > > > > > > > Except for the problems

Re: fatal error in SO 5.1

1999-10-04 Thread Ed Cogburn
"Damir J. Naden" wrote: > > Hi Brad; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Robert Rati wrote: > > > > > I've read the mailing list archives about the various Star Office > > > problems in potato, and something tells me that people are on the > > > wrong track. I am currently

Re: netscape killing my machine

1999-10-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
shaul wrote: > > Although I have no figures from ps, I also got the impression that netscape is > consuming too much memory. Netscape (Navigator and Communicator) are statically linked to the Motif library, which explains a good deal of its bloat. If you're comparing Communicator to Moz

Re: dselect unstable problem

1999-09-30 Thread Ed Cogburn
Adam Olejniczak wrote: > > Hello all > > I'm a fresh user of debian i was using redhat so far. > so i was using dselect with unstable option > and everything was working just fine till yesterday when i got following > errors > > Hitt ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/main Packages > Hit ftp://ft

Re: Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad

1999-09-30 Thread Ed Cogburn
Johan Ur Riise wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:35:03PM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote: > > David Natkins wrote: > > > > > > Seems to be a problem with the package list for unstable at > > > ftp.debian.org. > > > One of the packages (aleph-dev) is causing the problem. > > > > You can open t

Re: Clocking Modem Speed

1999-09-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
Shao Zhang wrote: > > This is what I get in /var/log/messages: > > And the line speed there would be 45333. Maybe we have some settings > different. > > Sep 22 20:16:59 localhost chat[242]: CONNECT > Sep 22 20:16:59 localhost chat[242]: -- got it > Sep 22 20:16:59 localhost chat[242]: send (^M)

Re: Clocking Modem Speed

1999-09-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
John Hasler wrote: > > Shao writes: > > To get the speed you are connected at, you can add a line in your chat > > script like this: > > REPORT CONNECT > Sorry for weighing into this, but it might be important to note some problems I had doing this. " REPORT CONNECT " did

Re: Another Dselect cockup 2

1999-09-17 Thread Ed Cogburn
Paul wrote: > > Hello Dean and Brad > > Thanks for the help, it seems to have worked. The original trouble was, > and still is that in order to get a number of applications (Wordperfect, > WindowMaker etc) working I`ve installed a mixture of libraries,some of > which just don`t get on together.At

Re: mc not working (?)

1999-09-17 Thread Ed Cogburn
Patrik Magnusson wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jens Carsten Hansen) writes: > > Hi, I use mc frequently ( also to edit textfiles, I'm not a vi guy ), but > > recently it stopped working. > Try 'mc.real'. Better yet, modify the /usr/bin/mc script

Re: word not so perfect

1999-09-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Art Lemasters wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 12:02:18PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Ashley Clark wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, David Blackman wrote: > > > > Netscape DOESN'T decompress anything. > > > > > > That's odd, it does on mine (sometimes). I've downloaded several > > > items,

Re: FDISK parameters was Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 12:54:47PM +0000, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > I just tried (as root) the three fdisk examples (-l is lowercase > > L) given above. Only the last one worked: "fdisk -l /dev/hda". > > The -u does not

Re: FDISK parameters was Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-14 Thread Ed Cogburn
Tom Pfeifer wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > In the future, I would recommend saving the output of either... > > > > > > 1) Linux fdisk ==>> fdisk -l > part.txt(this does all drives) > > > 2) Ranish PM ==>> part -d 1 -p -r &

FDISK parameters was Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-14 Thread Ed Cogburn
Tom Pfeifer wrote: > > > > Question: Was that possibly a Linux extended partition (type 85) as > > > opposed to a DOS extnded partition? That would explain why DOS fdisk > > > could delete it. > > > > Yes, originally this computer was set up by me with linux only. It was my > > colleague who star

Re: allowing simpler passwords

1999-09-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > 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 where else to > :

Re: help

1999-08-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
Beverley Eyre wrote: > > Hey. I'm new to debian and am totally baffled by the package program. > I got this addy from the debian webpage. > > Is this is regular mail-list? How can I join? Can anyone out there lend > a hand? > > TAI > > Bev > > Beverley Eyre If you are asking how to j

Re: Netscape

1999-08-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, John Pearson wrote: > > > I've had Netscape crash on me while JavaScript was enabled, but otherwise > > it's been just fine *until* yesterday, when it crashed (occasionally and > > unreproducibly, using ve

Re: Netscape

1999-08-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
John Pearson wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 05:34:34PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > > On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Ryan Chouinard wrote: > > > > > I always hear people complain about Netscape crashing, but I never had > > > that problem, except in Windows

Re: $B#K#D#EF|K\8l%Q%C%1!<%8$K$D$$$F(B

1999-08-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ben Lutgens wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 02:28:22PM +0900, Shinichi Miyazawa wrote: > > $B#D#e#b#i#a#nMQ$N#K#D#E$NF|K\8l2=$5$l$F%Q%C%1!<%8$G!"#s#l#i#n#kHG$OM-$j$^(B > > $B$;$s$+!)(B > > $B0J2<$N$N#f#t#p%5%$%H$K#s#l#i#n#k$N%U%)[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]<$OM-$j$^$9$,!"6u$G > $B$^$;$s!#(B >

Re: debian installation

1999-08-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
Julian Taylor wrote: > > Wahyu, > > > From: "wahyu indrianto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:16:26 JAVT > > > > Dear all, > > I'm begineer for using debian, it's first time for me to innstall. > > but I have problem for using. After I'm finised my installation the > > software

Re: debian installation

1999-08-20 Thread Ed Cogburn
wahyu indrianto wrote: > > Dear all, > I'm begineer for using debian, it's first time for me to innstall. > but I have problem for using. After I'm finised my installation the > software cannot be use. I try to call XF86Setup they couldn't work. > Please tell me what's wrong. The XF86Se

Re: HELP: X window Setup Problem

1999-08-20 Thread Ed Cogburn
Nathan Duehr wrote: > > You must configure the X setup for your particular system before it will > work. xf86setup or XF86Config. To avoid possible confusion about the names mentioned above for a newcomer: There are two configuration programs called 'xf86config' and 'XF86Setup'. The first one

Re: No Mouse, No X Windows

1999-08-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Wendell Buckner wrote: > > Well the graphically interface is nice(I've been dealing with just console > up to now), but it's not solving my problem (thanks anyway). I go through > the configuration process, save it and it tells me that my server is now > running. It then exits me to the console

Re: Abou ps and top.

1999-08-09 Thread Ed Cogburn
Takanori Suzuki wrote: > > I installed the potato last week. > Today I found that I could not use "ps" and "top" command. > I may find some command which I will not use. > > What is wrong with it? Do you think that I forgot to install > some important package? 02:29am ~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/top pr

Re: Netscape died on me.

1999-08-09 Thread Ed Cogburn
Christian Dysthe wrote: > > Hi, > > I did a dselect upgrade on my potato box today. I saw that some Netscape > > base stuff got upgraded. After that my NS 4.61 static motif wouldn't run > > anymore. I tried to uninstall and reinstall, but no go. > > What happens when I try to run NS is: > > /

Re: most: cannot display *.gz files

1999-08-05 Thread Ed Cogburn
I came in in the middle of this thread, I don't know who I should be talking to here. > > I can view any file with "most ", except for gzipped files. > > Whenever I try that, I get > > : failed to open for reading. Hmm, I'm running a potato system using most as my pager. Mo

Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)

1999-08-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mark Wagnon wrote: > > [snip] > > I'm curious about the answer to Salman Ahmed's first question > too. I suggested using 'mingetty' as it by default will clear the screen at logout. Its also smaller than the default getty (I'm pretty sure). -- Ed C.

Re: Flaming Debian Newbies

1999-07-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Lee Elliott wrote: > > Hello, > > My personal opinion:- Flaming only wastes B/W and does nothing to help > the next 'Newbie' who hasn't joined the list yet. Why be nasty? A > single line "man('xzy')" reply direct to the poster (not via the list) > will get the message across if you want to help

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