Problem in installing xlibs.

2002-03-25 Thread frankie
d.dpkg: error processing xlibs_4.1.0-14_i386.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing xlibsErrors were encountered while processing: xlibs_4.1.0-14_i386.deb    Best Regards,   Frankie Chun Choon WoonE-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-05 Thread frankie
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:11:36PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:10:43PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > > Chris Jenks wrote: > > > > > > > > I thought that the book said the book said that the ultimate question > > > > is, "what is 6

Re: MTA recomendations?

2002-01-31 Thread frankie
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:55:59PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm seting up a new woody box for my wife to use. I need a recomendation on > an easy to set up, reliable MTA. > > Heres the setup, the box will realy all outgoing mail through a local ISP. > It will run fetchmail to retireve mail from

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-24 Thread frankie
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 08:51:11AM -, Ted Harding wrote: > On 24-Jan-02 Dan Griswold wrote: > > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The LaTeX "center" environment follows that style too (FWIW). (I > >> don't believe it is possible to have only part of a line be in a > >> center environment.

Re: restarting a daemon

2001-09-25 Thread frankie
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:48:12PM -0400, Giulio Morgan wrote: > I am trying to modify and "reload" my exim.conf file. The beginning of the > sample conf file says "...you change Exim's configuration file, you *must* > remember to HUP the Exim daemon". I am unable to determine how to HUP a daemon >

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-22 Thread frankie
me filled up my current directory with a file called "--remove-files". > my question is: how the heck to i get rid of this beast > rm -- --remove-files (-- turns the option processing off - man getopt) Miso&Frankie -- The danger fro

Re: HELP: qmail-smtp isn't started by default????

2001-07-18 Thread frankie
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq.html) or Life With qmail (http://www.lifewithqmail.org/). HTH HAND Miso&Frankie -- The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway. pgp2jlMlaKK79.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Unrelated to Debian. Telnet

2001-05-17 Thread frankie
, can anyone > recommend a good book on the subject? > Thanks. > Wayne DELE # There probably isn't a book on the subject, but you can read the POP3 protocol specification (RFC1725, eg. ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1725.txt) Miso&Frankie

Re: Alias for a user

2001-05-09 Thread frankie
ame uid and a different name. (but then there will be one password/everything else for each of the usernames). This is probably evil, but works (for me, at least) Miso&Frankie pgpo1vVY3rQ4P.pgp Description: PGP signature

[OT] Slovak for StarOffice

2001-03-27 Thread frankie
Is there a slovak spell-checking dictionary for StarOffice? Spell? Ispell? Anything else? All ideas are welcome. aTdHvAaNnKcSe Miso&Frankie pgpi45axxibIs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Minimum RAM Requirement.

2001-03-16 Thread frankie
m using potato (including X) on a 386 with 8MB RAM (couldn't install it, though - had to take the HD and put it in another box with more RAM). The system surely needs 12MB (or more) to run, but much less is enough for it to crawl. Miso&Frankie pgpRkhmwd1zrN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Block stupid/annoying sites

1999-09-05 Thread Frankie Fisher
n other sites as well. Junkbuster can also stop your web browser sending out your email address, and can block cookies in either direction. I recommend that everybody install junkbuster for privacy reasons, apart from anything else. frankie -- ,----

Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)

1999-08-26 Thread Frankie Fisher
on as I'm able to do it, I'm learning C in the > moment -. ? I wouldn't. I think that unix is not like that; I think the fact that apt-get can install packages I haven't individually requested it to is enough for me; I want control, not nannying. Good idea though. frankie

Re: DVD on Linux?

1999-08-25 Thread Frankie Fisher
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 05:42:30PM -0700, Brian Kidder wrote: > Frankie Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think this means that it would be legal to write a software only decoder > > in the UK and (some of) Europe. It would, however, be illegal to use i

Re: DVD on Linux?

1999-08-25 Thread Frankie Fisher
ogy commonplace, > when you have to pay to use it, effectively. Do CD's work on this basis too? > > frankie OK, in answer to my question: http://features.linuxtoday.com/stories/8940.html (interview with RMS) about halfway down. I think this means that it would be legal to write a sof

Re: DVD on Linux?

1999-08-24 Thread Frankie Fisher
r. It is possible however to have: > Hmmm. Does anybody know if these patents apply in the UK or Europe? It seems ridiculous that they are pushing to make this technology commonplace, when you ha

Re: Can I get new, but *not* updated packages from "unstable"?

1999-08-19 Thread Frankie Fisher
all it. Then I could add a deb-src line to /etc/apt/sources.list specifying potato, and from then on, any packages I wanted from unstable I could fetch with apt-get source --compile , while any packages fetched with apt-get install would continue to download from slink as normal, a

Re: Unable to click on links in Navigator 4.61

1999-08-11 Thread Frankie Fisher
on-netscape windows (and even the border around netscape, which is owned by the window manager) work ok, and a click on one of them will reset the mouse cursor to the correct pointer/mode/whatever. yours, wondering if this is relevant, frankie > -- ,

Re: Partitioning and symlinks

1999-08-11 Thread Frankie Fisher
eed (when partitions are split across multiple disks)/ and the oft-quoted reason of not taking the whole system down if the mail spool gets very full etc. make this a good way of doing it. > -- ,-----. >

Clearing a mail spool of duplicate emails???

1999-08-08 Thread Frankie Fisher
or somewhere] TIA, frankie -- ,-. > Frankie | Drum'n'Bass tunes and samples. < > frankie at skunkpussy.dhis.org | http://www.skunkpu

Re: Save 70% of your Inernational Faxes Cost

1999-07-14 Thread Frankie
Senate seems to be pro-spam (according to slashdot anyway) and what goes in America sooner or later goes in UK and Europe... frankie -- ,-----. > Frankie | Drum'n'Bass t

Re: Getting Mpeg Trackname?

1999-06-27 Thread Frankie
ise when someone has typed the artist wrong in the > header info :-) Is it Bryan Adams or Brian Adams? :-) > Hopefully it would never be either :-P frankie > > Thanks again! > > -- > Best Wishes, > Andy Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >

Re: New to the group: my 3 boxes....

1999-06-27 Thread Frankie
Revenant wrote: > I'm rather fond of WindowMaker. This was included in my Debian 2.1. > A perfectly useable version of WindowMaker [0.20] was included with 2.0. frankie > > You should be able to select a new Window Manager from the standard > drop-down menus in X to give i

Re: Large .deb packages..

1999-06-26 Thread Frankie
I suppose. (maybe thats the advantage for debian being no 2 distro...) With your ideas, this is maintained, so not only is debian more stable (???) its packages are better as well (???). frankie > -- > John Foster > AdVance-Computing Systems > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- &

Re: How to pronouce "Debian"?

1999-06-26 Thread Frankie
ame on the end, not the best but all I > could think of, > > european europ-ean > mediterranean mediterran-ean > Further to this I understand the stress to be on the first syllable - DEBian. May well be wrong though :-), frankie > > Hope this helps, > -

[OFF-TOPIC] spammers on this list

1999-06-25 Thread Frankie
Has anybody ever extracted the $1999 or whatever from anybody who has spammed this list? frankie -- ,-. > Frankie |Drum'n'Bass tunes, samples and links. < > [EMAIL PR

Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-25 Thread Frankie
s, and there are (at least) four trackers available for linux. Unfortunately, I have failed to get any of them to compile - read another post of mine on this list - and as far as they know they are not packaged for debian. If/when I can get them to compile, then I fully intend to package them up and

Re: WindowMaker and GNOME

1999-06-22 Thread Frankie
D] < /dev/null Using gdm, I can switch to IceWM, Enlightenment and WindowMaker . Its just that WindowMaker doesn't work (see my other message). No idea whats going wrong or what you can do though. :-P frankie. -- ,-----

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-22 Thread Frankie
glibc2.1 (was using potato and hamm before, though), SVGA X-server, and an S3 Virge card. I used to use a 1MB Cirrus card. (I have used both ISA and PCI versions) without trouble. frankie :-P > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: > > > > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Craig

How can I tell "xterm -e finger" not to close when finger does?

1999-06-22 Thread Frankie
Cos I'm trying to set up a command with gw, you see. cheers in advance, frankie. P.S. I have tried using sh to execute the command, but sh closes afterwards as well. P.P.S. Please make it really complicated so I don't look stupid for missing somethi

potato wmaker (0.53.0-2)

1999-06-22 Thread Frankie
quite like to run wmaker-gnome, cos I have recently returned to gnome (after an abortive play around the hamm era) and it looks really good. frankie -- ,-. > Frankie |Drum'n'Bass t

Re: DESEA DORMIR BIEN?

1999-06-22 Thread Frankie
Um, anyone know what this is about? I get the idea that sleeping at night has little or nothing to do with debian. frankie P.S. what is an ANUNCIOS GRATIS? sounds disturbingly like spam to me... P.P.S. if so is someone going to mail him (in argentinian? spanish?) and explain debian user&#

Re: Large .deb packages..

1999-06-22 Thread Frankie
ff then they would be moved to main. That way the debian CDs contain main, (and anything distributable from contrib and non-free). marginal would have to be got over the internet like non-US. This would perhaps be more in line with the

Re: A few questions from a newbie.

1999-06-22 Thread Frankie
net. I'll then be able to work on other probs a lot > easier, as I'll then have E-Mail at home! Thanks again for all the assistance. > > Cheers, > > John Gay > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null frankie -- ,

Re: Anyone had any success compiling Voodoo Tracker, Funk Tracker Gold, soundtracker, xsoundtrack?

1999-06-20 Thread Frankie
Stephen Pitts wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 02:16:35AM +0100, Frankie wrote: > > cos I haven't. I have got debian's latest gtk libraries etc, but each of > > these trackers refusers to compile for some reason or another. I just > > want to know if anyone ha

Re: Need help with Sound Modules

1999-06-18 Thread Frankie
ing from [a file in /etc/modutils almost certainly] and put in that file what I told you above to put in /etc/modutils/modconf frankie > > It seems to have redundant entries (see attached). Can anyone tell me > how conf.modules went bad and how I could fix it? Running > update-mod

Re: Kernel 2.2.9 and soundblaster module

1999-06-18 Thread Frankie
s good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk - Drum'n'Bass music, samples and links. ICQ://25576761 begin:vcard n:;Frankie x-mozilla-html:TRUE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note:Trainee Linux Guru x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Frankie end:vcard smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Hoping for some help with this kernel error

1999-06-18 Thread Frankie
ernel? or does make-kpkg not handle running make clean etc if necessary? frankie Stephen Pitts wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 07:13:08PM -0600, Craig McPherson wrote: > > Well, my little foray into kernel compiling didn't meet with much > > success... any ideas on this? >

Anyone had any success compiling Voodoo Tracker, Funk Tracker Gold, soundtracker, xsoundtrack?

1999-06-18 Thread Frankie
cos I haven't. I have got debian's latest gtk libraries etc, but each of these trackers refusers to compile for some reason or another. I just want to know if anyone has got any of these to work with debian (or for that matter any other linux)... frankie PS has anyone got round to pa

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-16 Thread Frankie
Chem. (SKA) > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk - Drum'n'Bass music, samples and link

Re: DNS problem

1999-06-16 Thread Frankie
me addresses into /etc/hosts that will have the desired effect? frankie > > Thanks in advance, > JY > -- > Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Membre fondateur du CGE > "Quand la justice n'est pas juste, l'injustice est exacte." P. DAC > Boycott

Re: SV: Webmasters Wanted!!! We'll pay you...

1999-06-16 Thread Frankie
. This is a one-time email and will not be sent to you again. We > > hope you have a great day. > > > > - > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > > /dev/null > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk - Drum'n'Bass music, samples and links. ICQ://25576761 begin:vcard n:;Frankie x-mozilla-html:TRUE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note:Trainee Linux Guru x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Frankie end:vcard smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Random partitioning questions

1999-06-10 Thread Frankie
/dos/e [Yes, I know that I'm not following my own logical partition advice, I just don't have enough floppies to sort it out...] /etc/fstab attached... hopefully that might help you make a judgement, frankie. Brad wrote: > i hope to get a lot of opinions! > > Right now, i h

Re: 16-bit or 24-bit Color Palette ?

1999-06-10 Thread Frankie
owned] frankie Andrew J Fortune wrote: > I have just installed Slink on my machine, and have ... almost got it > working the way that i want it to. The only thing that won't work is that it > is coming up in 256 colors, and I want it to use the 16-bit color palette or > gre

Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-10 Thread Frankie
ribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null I got my 2.0 and 2.1 CDs from linux emporium [UK company]. Both times they came in 2 days. frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.sk

Re: Unwanted Graphical Login and other woes...

1999-06-09 Thread Frankie
- > Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis > --------- > > -- > Unsubscrib

[Fwd: Nvi saved the file stmp]

1999-06-09 Thread Frankie
?(some are only 2 minutes apart) If I recover the file, it is 'sudoers'. Needless to say, I have not been editing this file. Any ideas what might be causing this? I regularly use sudo, and my system is part slink, part potato. cheers, frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in

select tty an incoming connection comes to depending on their address?

1999-06-05 Thread Frankie
Is it possible to set up ttysnoop on an incoming telnet connection? I thought the best way would be to redirect telnet con from a certain ip range to a certain ttyp device, and snoop that,? Any better ideas? Frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good

PPP server wont work - I have R all TFMs + the FAQs

1999-06-05 Thread Frankie
, HOWTO etc. I am not having any success. This is a very mysterious problem, and has bothered me for about a week. Please can someone tell me how stupid I am please :-) cheers, Frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de

Re: are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only?

1999-05-26 Thread Frankie
seeming to be asking too many questions. No, thats a well bad idea - there are enough dodgy answers to questions on this list, without people who know NOTHING about debian trying to help other people. frankiebegin:vcard n:;Frankie x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk adr:;;

Re: MP3 encoder

1999-05-16 Thread Frankie
at some point... -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk - Drum'n'Bass music, samples and links. ICQ://25576761begin:vcard n:;Frankie x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://ww

compiling X from the debian sources doesn't work.

1999-05-13 Thread Frankie
ake: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 * Build finished at 13:44 on 1999-05-03 Build FAILED Any idea what is going wrong and what I can do about it? I am pretty sure that it is nothing to do with having pentium-builder installed, because without DEBIAN_ARCHITECTURE=pentium set,

compiling debian sources question?

1999-05-08 Thread Frankie
kg-deb: building package `twm' in `../twm_3.3.2.3a-11_i386.deb'. debian/create-arch-xbase-clients cp: debian/xtree/usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg: No such file or directory make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 * Build finished at 13:44 on 1999-05-03 Build FAILED Any idea what is goin

Re: Linux hangs when net too used

1999-05-08 Thread Frankie
il -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk - Drum'n'Bass music, samples and links. ICQ://25576761begin:vcard n:;Fran

Re: deb vs. rpm

1999-05-08 Thread Frankie
ut with SuSE and > am still using it. However I don't like the way they package things > as it's not compatible to rpm's that I find on the net since they just to add my .02 euros :- debian has loads more packages in its distribution that redhat do in theirs, so

GDM

1999-04-13 Thread frankie
en I select the user and try and login however, x dies, with this error message in the log: gdm_auth_secure_display: Could not unlink /var/state/gdm/authdir/:0.xauth file: No such file or directory However, when it restarts, that file exists. Any idea what is going wrong here? cheers, fra

Re: Good MP3 encoder

1999-04-04 Thread frankie
rocessor you have, so it may or may not be faster than the one you already have. Anyway there are two files you need for this encoder - dist10.tar.gz and dist10patch-2.1f.gz frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Pete

Re: Newbie Questions

1999-04-03 Thread frankie
ebian --- is this right? > > Cheers, > > Mark. .xinitrc is used if you start X with 'startx' and .xession if you run xdm. frankie > > _/\___/~~\ > /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phi

Re: Microsoft Announces MS-Linux

1999-04-02 Thread frankie
Windows, Windows NT, Win32, BackOffice, MS-Linux, and > Linux are either registered trademarks or trademarks of > Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other > countries. Other product and company names herein. > > +------+ &

Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-29 Thread frankie
ith symlinks properly (not like annoying WS_FTP etc, virtually every linux ftp proggy will CONTINUE unfinished d/ls if you want) frankie > // Ben Farrell (BigBadBen) > > -Original Message- > From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-29 Thread frankie
based medium. Nothing irks me more that some nut sending an > HTML email to the Debian lists. Don't pretend you haven't done it - everyone's done it b4 they realised. I'm sure its some kind of debian-user rite of passage :-) frankie > > JMHO, > -Mitch > &g

Re: Convert FAT32 to FAT16 with windows 98.

1999-03-29 Thread frankie
o floppy, by hand, then reformat your harddrive [or even spend some money on some mass storage device and back it up onto that] but you asked. frankie Always glad to be of help :-) -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff.

Re: Problems installing Debian on a 486

1999-03-24 Thread frankie
t responding!"... I can't answer your question, BUT I can tell you this: This is to do with protected mode, and the keyboard. the only other time that I know of this occuring is occasionally with himem.sys (xx-DOS) on older hardware. If it can't do this, HIMEM.SYS uses some other handl

Re: Gnome Installation

1999-03-23 Thread frankie
; Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null you could try running gnome-panel or whatever from an xterm - that way you see error messages, and you can work out if its eg cos you have old libraries etc. frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a t

Re: true type fonts

1999-03-12 Thread Frankie
estart - so temporarily remove/didable xdm (if you use it) to be on the safe side or keep a rescue disk handy. frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk -

Re: size of swap

1999-03-11 Thread Frankie
ant to use up too much disk space. (for your info, in my 40 MB RAM machine I have 50 MB swap, for your perspective. I have never used more than half of it (and that was with about 6 netscapes, X, and an mp3 encoder), although I have never run staroffice and compiled my kernel at the same time etc

Re: mp3 encoder packaged for debian?

1999-03-11 Thread Frankie
Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > > Frankie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've had a look through dselect and I can't seem to find an mp3 > > encoder. (any number of players, but no recorders). > > > > Is there one, or do I have to go to sunsi

Re: How to get Debian and (argh!) Windows 95 machines linked through null modem?

1999-03-10 Thread Frankie
O (on my system, doing zless /usr/doc/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO works) This has a section about using ppp over a nullmodem cable to connect to other OSs Samba is jumping the gun a bit at this stage : - you need to have ppp connectivity working first, then you might want to think about file/printer sharing.

Re: RealPlayer

1999-03-10 Thread Frankie
t; Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > < /dev/null > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null I don't know, but I imagine that you want to check this: in Edit-Preferences-Applications, find the entries for Realaudio (*.rm *.ram

mp3 encoder packaged for debian?

1999-03-10 Thread Frankie
I've had a look through dselect and I can't seem to find an mp3 encoder. (any number of players, but no recorders). Is there one, or do I have to go to sunsite, find one and roll it myself? frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good fo

Re: uploading a website (reverse mirror)?

1999-03-08 Thread Frankie
oneiros wrote: > > Thus spake Frankie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I have a slow modem. My website is ~9MB. When I change files in it, I > > don't want to have to a) upload the whole site or b) remember which > > files I've changed, and upload them manually.

Re: uploading a website (reverse mirror)?

1999-03-08 Thread Frankie
George Bonser wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Frankie wrote: > > > Is there an upload utility that compares local and remote file versions > > and uploads the changed version based on the differences between local > > and remote systems rather than local and old_local

uploading a website (reverse mirror)?

1999-03-08 Thread Frankie
rsions and uploads the changed version based on the differences between local and remote systems rather than local and old_local versions? cheers, frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de V

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-07 Thread Frankie
is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk - Drum'n'Bass music, samples and links. ICQ://25576761begin:vcard n:;Frankie x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk adr:;;;Birmingham;;;UK version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Mr x-mozilla-cpt:;-8160 fn:Frankie end:vcard

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-03-05 Thread Frankie
Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Frankie wrote: > > > > > > > You are perhaps referring the "Linux Standard Base" that RH and > > > Deb have, for the moment, agreed to? The problem is that the > > > greater RH's dominance becomes, the gre

Re: Safest way to segregate /usr (or others)

1999-03-05 Thread Frankie
Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > Just get the new drive ready for Linux (partition and make fs) > Make a new directory on the drive, > and then just copy the /usr files into it. cp -av should do it. (assuming you didnt know how to copy or you wouldnt have asked how to do it) frankie >

ciscom/wisecom WS-5614JS3(G) modem?

1999-03-04 Thread Frankie
e had had any difficulty getting this modem to work? cheers, frankie

CHOS and ontracks disk manager?

1999-03-02 Thread Frankie
Has anybody had any succes getting ontracks disk manager and chos to coexist? (if I put the ddo on when chos is installed, the ddo says 'cant find OS'.) I have no problems using DDO and windows. cheers, frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat i

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-03-02 Thread Frankie
needs to expand its user base, apart from anything else. frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk - Drum'n'Bass music, samples and links. ICQ:/

Re: dselect Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-03-02 Thread Frankie
don't know about it... > > Wayne > you want to use dpkg --get-selections > file , dpkg --set-selections < file frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.u

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-03-01 Thread Frankie
is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk/ - Drum'n'Bass music, samples and links. ICQ://25576761begin:vcard n:;Frankie x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk adr:;;;

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-27 Thread Frankie
ty could make a huge difference - specially if the logo had 'debian' AND 'linux' on it - this would help stop people associating linux with redhat. Plus putting a debian logo on your website, I suppose, is the least that you can do to thank the developers, making sure th

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-27 Thread Frankie
Further to my previous posting: I have just found this article: http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2217609,00.html Is it any wonder redhat are number one when they can find people to write articles like this? frankie

Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-02-27 Thread Frankie
profile. cos I'm tired. frankie

StarOffice 5

1999-02-24 Thread Frankie
he network installation as root? cheers, frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk - Drum'n'Bass music, samples and links. ICQ://25576761begin:vcard n:;Frankie x-mozill

Re: where is telnetd?

1999-02-23 Thread Frankie
, `\' to search again - this only searches the names afaik, and there is no way to search the descriptions. > > Is telnetd part of any of the preselected packeged that debian recommend > just as you finished the instal process and before starting dselect? I assume so - probably under ba

how much processor time is allocated to a program

1999-02-23 Thread Frankie
here to look in dselect, so can anyone remember what it was called? [maybe this would be a good time to suggest that dselect lets you search the descriptions as well] cheers, frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter

Re: Disk Partioning (FDISK)

1999-02-23 Thread Frankie
of the values was the correct one, maybe by calculating it manually, based on the disk parameters, and using some disk utility or something to put the correct value in somehow. I am sorry that I cannot be more helpful, but I am just relating my experiences as I remember them. frankie. -- Confess

modem doesn't work at startup

1999-02-15 Thread Frankie
um-60 with part hamm/part slink/part potato, and a 2.2.1 kernel. I'd be really grateful for any help. Frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk - Drum'n'Bas

Re: Need help with Leafnode/Netscape

1999-02-09 Thread Frankie
out there don't use your machine to spam). If you haven't changed your hosts.allow to include an entry from your workstation (like leafnode: 123.123.123.123), you probably want to. Frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff.

MS FrontPage alternative?

1999-02-03 Thread Frankie
kde ? (I don't want to start a discussion about a topic which I'm sure has been done to death) Yours, Frankie Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk - Drum'n'

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-03 Thread Frankie
then. type dpkg and that will get you into the debian package managemnt system. If you need any further help/questions, I'll help you if I can, Frankie http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.ukbegin:vcard n:;Frankie x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk adr:;;UK v

modem overflow and wierd ppp stuff

1999-01-21 Thread Frankie
support, which is wrong, because I built it with ppp support enabled) Any ideas? Frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk - Drum'n'Bass music, samples and links.

Re: doom (sorry)

1999-01-19 Thread Frankie
Daniel Martin wrote: > > Frankie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have just d/l doom shareware version, unfortunately, it wants > > libXt.so.3 for the X version, and the svga version wants libc.so.4. > > > > What packages are these in? > > I had

doom (sorry)

1999-01-18 Thread Frankie
your help, Frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk - Drum'n'Bass music, samples and links.

Re: 2.2.0pre7 and ppp

1999-01-18 Thread Frankie
Shaleh wrote: > > On 18-Jan-99 Frankie wrote: > > What steps do I have to take to ensure kernel support for ppp? (I have > > compiled the kernel with ppp support compiled in and as modules) > > Do I have to download a new ppp source or binary? if so where from? I am &g

2.2.0pre7 and ppp

1999-01-18 Thread Frankie
, Frankie

SMS messges to GSM mobile phones/pagers with sms_client 2.05 and libmodem 1.0.0

1999-01-14 Thread Frankie
extremely grateful for any help, frankie

Re: X Clients out on the net? (non-debian specific question)

1999-01-11 Thread Frankie
Frankie wrote: > > Hi, > sorry to post a non debian specific question, but: > Are there any open X clients which I can connect to out on the internet? > This is just as an experiment, because on the x.org website (I think), > you can connect to an X client and play chess. I co

X Clients out on the net? (non-debian specific question)

1999-01-11 Thread Frankie
t bothered and so I am not askin for help about that :-) but I am curious about connecting to an X client and want to connect to one, just to see if I can and judge for myself how much better X is the win95 :-) yours, frankie

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