Re: HELP

2001-05-24 Thread Edward Craig
A more detailed request might get a useful response... On Thu, 24 May 2001, Mike Barton wrote: > > > > -- Ed Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Taxi (I need an income) GNU/Linux (I can afford a Free OS) Think this through with me, let me know your mind...Hunter/Garc

Re: Language

2001-05-20 Thread Edward Craig
Is English "the official language" (formally), or merely the most widely accepted on Debian? Why not explore setting up non-English debian-user lists? It's not the case that every Debian user reads English, and if it makes Debian accessable to more users (whether German, Japanese,

Re: how can I get back to console?

2000-12-12 Thread Edward Craig
CTRL-ALT-F(1-6) will get you to text shell logins (X will still be out there at F7, though). On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Ken Weingold wrote: > It is really irritating the state the keyboard is right now in X and I > want to get back to the console. The machine has the X login screen > on boot, and whe

Re: LAST QUESTION - MINICOM

2000-12-11 Thread Edward Craig
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Ken Weingold wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000, Est?v?o Becker wrote: > Hi, I know that I am > disturbing you but this is my last question: When I connect with the > minicom with my internet server, the program tells that I am connected > but I am not, when I try to open a web sit

RE: RE: list codes?

2000-12-11 Thread Edward Craig
OT: means Off Topic (but maybe relevant or interesting enough to get answers or commentary on). Thus, this discussion is OT for debian-user. -- Ed Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Taxi (I need an income) GNU/Linux (I can afford a Free OS) Think this through with me, let me know

Re: Help: Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled

2000-11-30 Thread Edward Craig
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, a wrote: > I have Debian 2.0 and Intel Pentium 100 and notice the following message > when booting Debian: > > Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled > > Does it means that I have a buggy chip? How to verify that and find more > info? Intel did make a few

Re: Ring0

2000-11-13 Thread Edward Craig
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Marcin Januchta wrote: > Hi! I'm not really sure if I should be sending this mail to you... OK, you're not being offensive. > Anyway - I got here, because I told AltaVista to for anything about > Ring-0. As far as I know, it's something that's blocking > programmer-ama

Re: Horrifying suggestion

2000-11-01 Thread Edward Craig
Pardon me, but the question isn't whether Debian supports newbies, it's how Debian supports newbies, people who acquire Debian without local support available for love nor money. They're out there. You see more and more clueless pleas on all Linux lists, and they will learn, but dev

Re: X config problem causes me to have reinstall entire OS--!!newbie warning!!

2000-10-31 Thread Edward Craig
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Jim Merante wrote: > Is there a keystroke combination that will prompt the > boot commands and allow me to skip the load X windows > command? > Actually, what I find works is Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (repeat as necessary). Apparently (judging by other answers) XDM is stubbo