Re: telnetd prompt

2002-03-09 Thread Eric C. Cooper
ame, sizeof(host_name)-1); The ai_canonname field gives the "official name of the host", according to "man getaddrinfo". HTH. -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: chess program recommendations?

2001-12-06 Thread Eric C. Cooper
mportant, since crafty will try to consume all the CPU thinking during your moves. -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: File search question

2001-10-21 Thread Eric C. Cooper
esults on dpkg's database, as well as a list of `extra files' that can appear during the lifetime of various packages. . cruft is still in pre-release; your assistance in improving its accuracy and performance is appreciated. -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: Help on returning to Debian

2001-10-26 Thread Eric C. Cooper
.conf and maybe some others I'm forgetting) - cross your fingers and reboot This assumes you're willing to leave your disk partitioning unchanged. Also, I recommend that you not upgrade the kernel-image until you've successfully set up an all-Debian userland. Good luck! -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: fake a netscape 4 browser with galeon?

2001-11-12 Thread Eric C. Cooper
I found the following line in ~/.galeon/mozilla/galeon/prefs.js: user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/0.12.4 (Linux i686) Gecko/20011019"); Looks like you might be able to change this by hand. -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: OT: Any way to get Win95 to boot again?

2001-11-16 Thread Eric C. Cooper
ve LILO re-map the drives for you: # boot Windows from second disk by swapping C: and D: drives other=/dev/hdc1 label=windows map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: splitting an audio file

2002-04-15 Thread Eric C. Cooper
he gramofile package claims to be able to split up tracks effectively). But I haven't used any of them myself. -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fwd: Silicon Graphics Indy workstations?

2002-01-08 Thread Eric C. Cooper
, ARM, SPARC, ...? SGI used MIPS processors for their workstations. -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: Package Repository

2002-01-09 Thread Eric C. Cooper
t-move movefile *.deb, on a regular basis You access the (partial) mirror with something like deb file:/my/mirror woody main contrib non-free in your sources.list, where /my/mirror agrees with whatever you set up in apt-move.conf. -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: Gateway Configuration

2002-01-10 Thread Eric C. Cooper
ifup -v eth1" should also give you some clues. -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: Redhat -> Debian, done remotely

2002-01-17 Thread Eric C. Cooper
ke sure /sbin/start-stop-daemon is the real thing and not the fake one that debootstrap initially uses. Re-run lilo. Cross your fingers and reboot. Find out the hard way that I've forgotten something crucial :-) -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: Digestive mode

2002-01-19 Thread Eric C. Cooper
en? > Ich habe ein Limit von 500 Nachrichten... You can subscribe to debian-user-digest by using this page: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: Init scripts

2002-01-19 Thread Eric C. Cooper
out which script starts inetd for example, cd /etc/init.d grep inetd * and examine the likely suspects ("inetd" in this case). HTH. -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: Initrd kernel and small /boot

2002-01-21 Thread Eric C. Cooper
ilo -v # Have a boot floppy/rescue disk handy, just in case! reboot -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: Serial comm packages a la Minicom

2002-01-22 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 07:24:35PM -0500, Jeff Bonner wrote: > Right now I use Minicom, but apparently it doesn't support color -- or > else I don't have it (or my remote session) configured properly. Does > VT102 pass color codes? "minicom -c on", from the

Re: Gnome-terminal and URLs

2002-01-22 Thread Eric C. Cooper
lename=galeon HTH. -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: simple kernel question

2002-01-26 Thread Eric C. Cooper
ee in /usr/src/linux, it's in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: Kernel 2.4.17 3dfx /dev/fb0

2002-01-29 Thread Eric C. Cooper
rom the package of the same name, for basic information and mode changing, and the "fbi" package to display image files using the framebuffer. I use these as basic tests before trying X. -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: Is Framebuffer needed?

2002-02-01 Thread Eric C. Cooper
e console mode much, and the X config is not significantly simpler with fb support, so for me the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. In other circumstances, reasonable people might conclude the opposite. -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u

Re: true type fonts in X 4.x ?

2002-02-04 Thread Eric C. Cooper
ach truetype directory. > Try xfontsel and : > > the fonts are "selectable" but they won't appear, i.e. they don't seem > to render at all. In fact xfontsel starts acting a little strange > with repaints now working, etc... If you run Gnome, I suggest g

Re: Newbie Needing Help With Sound

2002-02-05 Thread Eric C. Cooper
; > Is there an "easy" way to do this? A quick look at the source shows that the ad1848 driver has support for the CMI8330. You could try just "modprobe ad1848", in case your kernel already has this module built. The "sndconfig" package might also help with auto-de