Re: lilo to grub conversion

Alex Malinovich wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 15:36 +0100, Graham Smith wrote: Hi all, I am running a testing machine that is currently using lilo for it's boot loader. I would like to switch this to grub but I am a little confused about how to go ahead and do this. I have installe

lilo to grub conversion

t to do next. I have grabbed the grub-doc and while it's great there's so much of it that's also half the problem. Cheers Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tg3 driver

Received Wed 11 May 2005 7:41pm +1000 from Amira Youssef: > Hello, > > I'm looking for tg3 driver source or bin (kernel 2.4.18-1-686-smp) > > can any one advise where I can find them? Perhaps http://survivor.sarovar.org/Tigon3_Network.html might help. Regards, Graham -- T

Re: using cd-rw

Received Fri 17 Dec 2004 3:15pm +1100 from jack kinnon: > Hi, > > Is there a 'cd-rw howto' for Debian? Or one that is > applicable to Debian too? Some information at http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/CD_Reading.shtml Hope it might help. Regards, Graham --

Re: Debian and Dell?

My experience with installing is at http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Dell_Optiplex.shtml Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Limiting User Commands

On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 20:58:33 +0100, Dan Roozemond wrote: > Suppose the root-owned file (readable for non-root user) is a. Then one does > 'cp a b; rm a; mv b a' and we have the same file a owned by the regular > user. Key observation here is that the non-root user ownes the directory, > hence can r

Re: Limiting User Commands

Ben Hutchings wrote: > Christopher Swingley wrote: >> Change the ownership and permissions on their .bash_profile and .bashrc >> to root:root 644: >> >> -rw-r--r--1 root root 420 Sep 21 13:05 >> .bash_profile -rw-r--r--1 root root 746 Sep 21 >> 13:05 .

Re: bash_logout & xsession help needed

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 20:48:41 +, Michael Graham wrote: > I have this simple .xsession > > #!/bin/bash -l > > gnome-session > > and this even simpler .bash_logout > > echo hello > /tmp/logout > > When I logout from a console the file /tmp/logout is creat

Re: How to uninstall?

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:23:50 +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > I installed a program using a .tar.gz file. Can I remove this program and > how? One option is to do the following, but I give no guarantees: ./configure [--whatever-options-you-used-before] make touch /tmp/now make install find /us

Re: bash_logout & xsession help needed

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 09:58:31 +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote: > Wouldn't a .xsession file like this do this: > > $ cat ~/.xsession > > gnome-session > echo hello > /tmp/logout > > Or am I missing something? Yes I would, but what I trying to figure out is why the ~/.bash_logout is not being ran sin

Re: bash_logout & xsession help needed

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 23:48:25 +, Thomas Adam wrote: > This was discussed this month on the list. See here, and follow-up posts: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/10/msg02163.html Indeed, I even replied to it ([1] from my email at uni), but I want to be able to execute code after I logo

bash_logout & xsession help needed

I have this simple .xsession #!/bin/bash -l gnome-session and this even simpler .bash_logout echo hello > /tmp/logout When I logout from a console the file /tmp/logout is created (as expected) but when I logout of gnome the file isn't created. Can anyone explain this behaviour? -- OoberMick

Re: Install help for sparc

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:09:40 -0400, Mike Noonan wrote: > I have spent too many hours trying to get through the hard drive > partitioning and formatting process for loading debian linux on my > ultraSparcII machine with no success... I'm sorry I can't help you but you should try posting to the debi

Re: keyboard problem in graphical login

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:54:01 +, jeroeng wrote: > Forgot to mention, tried that too. Also checked the config file manually. > Thanks for thinking though. Besides in gnome after startx everything is > fine again. Does gnome override the xserver keyboard settings? It overrides xkboptions, you ne

Re: Updating Testing server - errors

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 08:06:13 +0100, Martin J Hooper wrote: > Apart from editing the available file (Which I don't want to do) is > there any way to get round it or do I have to wait until it gets changed > on the server? >From http://lists.debian.org/deity/2004/07/msg00172.html > /var/lib/dpkg/av

Re: How to run a program before logging out

o you, unless someone else would like to tell ;) [1] If your not using gdm I'm not sure how to choose to run the .xsession but there should be an option to do so. -- Michael Graham Department of Mathematics Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK Tel: +44 (0)131 451 4175 --

Re: Sounds off in bash

On 20/10/04 18:57:48, Otto Wyss wrote: There is a readline variable "bell-style" but I can't figure out how to us it. I can't find the file "inputrc. As root edit the file /etc/inputrc and add the line set bell-style none (it should be there just uncomment it) to give all users no bell or add the

Re: Combining PDF documents

mentation, it can > do this. Works very well. I use it regularly to combine and manipulate PDF pages. Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ghostscript/cups problem

gt; Application newsgroup -> Application dependencies newsgroup. -- Michael Graham Department of Mathematics Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK Tel: +44 (0)131 451 4175 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xfce

Erik wrote: > >To start xfce4 from the console you should do as a normal user: > > >cat << EOF > .xsession > >#!/bin/bash > > > >exec xfce4-session > > > >EOF > >chmod +x .xsession > > > >and use the startx command to start it. > > > Are the above lines simple being typed at the prompt ?. Yes, a

Re: xfce

Erik wrote: > How can I change runlevel, to get the prompt when booting ?. I assume you don't want the display manager (xdm,kdm,gdm) to be started when you boot your machine? Well on debian the display manager is started on all multiuser runlevels (2-5). I you never want to start your display mana

XkbOptions and gnome

I was about to submit this as a bug against gnome, but I wanted to check I wasn't being stupid first ;) When I log into gnome (59) my XkbOptions get ignored! Can anyone confirm this? XF86Config-4: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard"

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

Olle wrote: > BTW, I don't really see how backing up the home directory would be > enough, at least for me. I tend to make lots of changes system wide so > that I get the same settings for root as my ordinary user account, and > half the time it is just easier to make the changes in the existing >

Re: keeping woody

bian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=97564 -- Michael Graham Department of Mathematics Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK Tel: +44 (0)131 451 4175 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt problem - ldconfig segmentation fault

A re-install seems to have fixed it. Although I have no idea how it broke in the first place. Thanks Joris Huizer wrote: Graham Smith wrote: I tried installing nmap a couple of days ago and ran into a bit of a problem. ldconfig seems to have died with a segmentation fault. In the past when I

apt problem - ldconfig segmentation fault

nd I can't find kernel-image-2.6-386 in testing any more has it been removed for some reason?) graham [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get -u install nmap Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: nmap 0 upgraded, 1 newly install

Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

Daniel wrote: > Let's start with sensible behavior to the user (before considering > implementation): > > It would be sensible if logging in via a display manager included > the same shell login initialization that logging in on a virtual > console performed. (Or via telnet, rlogin, ssh, etc.) [

exim4 configuration

When I switch on my machine in the morning I tend to get a lot of mail (mostly from this list) and exim4 doesn't seem to like it. no immediate delivery: more than 10 messages received in one connection When google'd for this I found that you have to change smtp_accept_queue_per_connection The

Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

Wayne wrote: > > Huh? > > % which sh > /bin/sh > % ls -l /bin/sh > /bin/sh -> bash >From man bash If bash is invoked with the name sh, it tries to mimic the startup behavior of historical versions of sh as closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as well. Also /bin/sh doesn'

Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

Michael wrote: > > > > Now do you have the display manager source every possible file that > > should be sourced for each possible shell? Only source the files > > that should be sourced for the shell that the login manager > > uses? Or do you setup a system where by the users shell is > > determi

Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

Michael wrote: > After much consternation I feel the need to vent about shell > environment initialization. With the default Debian installation, > /etc/profile and~/.bash_profile are not sourced in the X windows > environment. Apparently this is because at no time is a login shell > created which

Re: running fsck out of a script; drive never shows being checked

Silvan wrote: > > So I'm thinking it's some side effect of running fsck inside that if > statement like that. Nope. > I'd like the technical explanation for what and why. It doesn't seem > to actually have any adverse effect, but it's mildly annoying. The technical explanation is: man e2fsck

Re: here's how I installed Sun's Java, comments are welcome

Java is at: http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Install_Sun.shtml Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [GLUG-tech] recording phone calls from switch board ??? + linux

.. Save each call as indavidual mp3 files ... Start at http://www.openh323.org, and start browsing the links from there. They cover the hardware you will need to buy to do this, and software that you could use to achieve this. Regards, Graham -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: DVD+RW gone missing on moving to kernel 2.6.6

Received Sat 22 May 2004 7:17pm +1000 from Jonathan Matthews: > Graham Williams had the gall to say: > > My "_NEC DVD+RW ND-2100AD, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive" that is easily > > identified under 2.4.25 (as /dev/hdc) goes missing under my 2.6.6 > > kernel. dmesg has no

Re: D-I to SATA (hda) but move to 2.6 kernel (sda) fails

Received Sat 22 May 2004 1:53pm +1000 from David Purton: > On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 08:59:14AM +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > > The current beta 4 debian-installer will install to SATA okay, but > > treats the disk as IDE (/dev/hda). In moving to kernel 2.6.6 from sid > > thi

Re: cdrom does not un-mounts

;/etc/init.d/fam stop"). Then I was able to unmount the cdrom. Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

D-I to SATA (hda) but move to 2.6 kernel (sda) fails

The current beta 4 debian-installer will install to SATA okay, but treats the disk as IDE (/dev/hda). In moving to kernel 2.6.6 from sid this uses SCSI (/dev/sda) and the reboot fails. Is there a migration path one needs to follow? Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

DVD+RW gone missing on moving to kernel 2.6.6

ine is sid, up-to-date. Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla remote control not working

Norman wrote: > After an upgrade last week (on unstable), remote control no longer > works. > I can start firefox just fine, but if I attempt to load another > window, nothing happens. A little debugging revealed that the remote > control app doesn't know that there's an instance running. In fact,

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

Bojan wrote: > > 0.5 FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD 'From' yahoo.com does not match 'Received' > headers > 0.8 PRIORITY_NO_NAME Message has priority setting, but no > X-Mailer > 4.3 CONFIRMED_FORGED Received headers are forged > Ahh the irony. You forge your From address and that's exact

Re: Checking conflicts

Bill wrote: > package cgilib and libcgi-dev both have cgi.h and libcgi.a. > > http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=filelist&word=cgilib&version=unstable&arch=i386 > > I don't see conflicts listed with apt-cache. Is that a bug -- and if > so, on which package? Probabl

Re: dell poweredge 2200 scsi installation problem

Received Fri 14 May 2004 8:14am +1000 from Stu Woodbridge: > that did the trick thanks Excellent. Would be worth reporting this to Scott Kveton so he might add the 2200 to his list of machines his Debian Install disk is known to work on. Regards, Graham Received Fri 14 May 2004 8:14am +1

Re: dell poweredge 2200 scsi installation problem

o tried from > disk1 of the full set (which I downloaded and burned) Did you see http://oregonstate.edu/~kveton/debian/ which includes a Debian install CD for many Dell PowerEdges (but I note 2200 is not listed there)? Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: edit pdf's

page titles, and to generate a new, single PDF. Works rather nicely. But if you are talking about editing the text, then this isn't the answer. Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [GLUG-tech] squid + transparent proxying + ssl prots ?

squid in such a way would be the same as such a "man in the middle" attack. You might be able to successfully achive this, but not without breaking the encryption and certification that is the point behind SSL. Regards, Graham -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

Clive wrote: > > I can't answer your question but what does gb localisation will give > you? I've installed firefox and haven't found any need for gb > localisation - just curious ;) Not much to be honest, but it makes me cringe everytime I see a colour without a 'u' (note I expectly wrote that

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

William wrote: > I didn't realize how different our languages actually are until I ran > a spell checker. Don't you mean realise? I've just been doing some googling here's a nice table you can look at to brush up on your spelling and vocabulary http://www.bg-map.com/us-uk.html There's even a te

Mozilla firefox en-gb

Hi, I'm trying to get firefox to use en-gb. The locale is not available as a deb package but is available from mozilla.org so I downloaded that one. Thing is the debianised version of firefox seems to do things differently to the mozilla.org one, because even when I edit /usr/bin/firefox so that i

Re: libXrandr.so.2 not installed

On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 05:36, Bruce Miller wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On May 1, 2004 15:07, Juan Noguera wrote: > > Hello, > > > > When trying to run the mysqlcc, the system complains: > > > > "Error while loading shared libraries: libXrandr.so.2 cannot open > > sh

Re: Oracle install

tall > properly on a Woody system. If/when we get it taken care of, I'll add > that to the 9i page. And a 10g install guide is at: http://survivor.sarovar.org/Oracle_10g.html Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where is growisofs in Sarge

missed the fine package search on the Debian homepage ;) > > It's in dvd+rw-tools. Or wajig $ wajig whichpkg growisofs File Path Package =-= usr/bin/growisofs

Re: To dselect or aptitude, that is the question

ought in with it. Hi Alex, I think there's something like this in wajig: purge-depend. This will purge a package and those it depend on and not required by others. Not exactly what you were asking, but close? Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scanner setup

support for your scanner and also links to the project pages. -- Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: udev, autofs & module loading

Michael wrote: > Hi Michael, Hi Michael :) > normally if you insert a CD a corresponding pci hotplug event should > be generated and hotplug should load the right module. Check out the > logfiles when inserting a CD. I've rebuilt my kernel with the pci hotplugging support and loaded the pci_hot

udev, autofs & module loading

Does anyone use udev and autofs? If so how did you get it to work? I have the following in /etc/auto.misc cdrom-fstype=iso9660,ro,sync,nodev,nosuid :/dev/hdc udfcdrom -fstype=udf,ro,sync,nodev,nosuid :/dev/hdc floppy -fstype=vfat,sync,nodev,nosuid :/dev/fd0 usbpen -fstype=vfat,s

Re: print kernel tree from make xconfig?

Matt wrote: > On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 06:13:56PM +0100, stephen parkinson wrote: > > Matt Price wrote: > > > > >anyone know whetheri t's possible to print out the lovely display > > >of > > >the kernel module tree from "make xconfig"? I would like to have > > >an > > >annotated copy (what modules

Re: Antivirus (with exim+courier-imap+fetchmail)

Andy wrote: > A quick follow up to my post. I AM missing something. > > Right after I sent the above message (figures), I learned about > > http://www.testvirus.org/ > > and my system failed about 10 of the tests. > > So I better get clamav installed and configured. I have clamav installed

Re: PAM : passwords with at least 6 chars

Stephen wrote: > Install libpam-cracklib, and change your /etc/pam.d/common-password > file > to the following: > > password requiredpam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=6 > password requiredpam_unix.so md5 I just tried this and get asked for me new password 4 times. And I r

Re: [OT] procmail rule to remove annoying unsubscribe/subscribe emails

Allan wrote: > This is what I use: > > :0 > * ^Subject: (un)?subscribe > * ! ^TO_: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > $TRASH Cheers -- OoberMick "If for any reason you're not satisfied with our service, I hate you." -- 7-11 Clerk (Futurama) pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[OT] procmail rule to remove annoying unsubscribe/subscribe emails

I was wondering if anyone had written a procmail rule to filter out emails with the subject unsubscribe or subscribe which have been sent to the debian-* lists. Preferably messages like mine will still be seen i.e. ones that have other words not just subscribe. Thanks in advance. -- OoberMick Al

Re: locale errors

Chris Metzler wrote: On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:42:01 -0500 Ashley Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try "dpkg-reconfigure locales" as root. If the locales package is not installed, type "apt-get install locales". Please use the archive at <http://groups.google.com&

Re: locale errors {fixed}

In honor of Andreas, The Mighty One (tm), I here on say that this is closed, because my problem has been fixed. Use 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' to generate the en_US.UTF-8 locale. Was succesful in fixing my error, thank you Colin Watson. And thank you Andreas for just being alive (dripping with

Re: locale errors

The least you could have done writing your second message would have been to tell me if the commands I told you have been helpful. Instead I still don't know if your problem has been solved the way I suggested, if you solved it in a different way, or if it still exists (in this case I would of co

Re: locale errors

Try "dpkg-reconfigure locales" as root. If the locales package is not installed, type "apt-get install locales". Please use the archive at (Group linux.debian.user) or first next time. This question has been asked and answered more then once. be

Re: locale errors

Use 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' to generate the en_US.UTF-8 locale. . i had used that to try and switch it to something else (en_US ISO-8859-1), not thinking that setting it to en_US.UTF-8 would help. thanks a lot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

locale errors

how do I fix this: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8", LANG = (unset) are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to t

Re: udev, scanner and memory stick

Ken wrote: > I also had to manually modprobe sd_mod before my usb mass storage > devices (my digital camera) would show up. It seems that hotplug > missed that module. After I proved that worked, I put sd_mod in > /etc/modules This is exactly the bug I tried to report against udev (I say try becau

Re: gnome-panel woes (clock not available)

Christian wrote: > Without apparent reason, the clock applet has vanished from my panel. > All attempts to add it were in vain. > The fun part: if I run the panel from xterm (killall gnome-panel && > gnome-panel) the clock is back. Actually, several clocks... presumably > these are the result of me

Re: what app includes 'startx' command

Received Wed 03 Mar 2004 10:39am +1100 from MJ Inabnit: > Greetings: > > I'm testing the latest debian "Sarge" installer. It's improving, but . . . What > application includes the "startx" command? I realize I can install > xdm/gdm/whateverDM, but I like keeping things "lite" on the older com

Re: apt-get: purging a package that has already been removed?

Received Tue 02 Mar 2004 9:08pm +1100 from Adam Funk: > Sorry if this is a stupid question, but... > > Suppose foo has already been removed without the --purge option, and I > later want to purge it. > > # apt-get --purge remove foo > gives the error that foo is not installed and therefore takes

Re: Number of workspaces in gnome-2.4

Joakim wrote: > The gnome workspace applet comes up with *one single workspace*. Every > time I log in I bring up the preferences dialog and ask for more > workspaces, and even save the session. But on the next login it is > back to one workspace again. Any suggestions on how to keep the number > o

Re: [OT] Dual Athlon motherboards - recommendations?

On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 20:19, Alvin Oga wrote: See interspersed comments: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 07:45:43PM -0500, Graham Campbell wrote: > > On Saturday 28 February 2004 04:46 pm, Pigeon wrote: > > > Anyone care to recommend me a dual Athlon motherboard? Requirements: &

Re: [OT] Dual Athlon motherboards - recommendations?

s lack functionality, > making it hard to find one or two dual-CPU boards among hundreds of > single-CPU boards. I think the Tyan Thunder K7X Pro (S2469) meets most of your specs, but I don't know about availablity/price in the UK. -- Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] aka [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to change keyboard shortcuts for characters?

Richard wrote: > > IIRC, Danes use æ where Swedes, Norwegians, etc. use ä. I expect > Icelanders probably use æ as well. And in English: encyclopædia To get å you can use Multi_key a * (On my machine Multi_key = Shift+AltGr) You can run xmodmap -pk | grep Multi_key To find out which key it

Broken aptitude/dselect

fault $APTGET $OPTS "$APT_OPT0" "$APT_OPT1" dselect-upgrade Any pointers very welcome. Thank you, Graham Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X upgrade, Wheel mouse stopped working -fixed

On Friday 20 February 2004 09:40 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: > Graham Campbell wrote: > > On Friday 20 February 2004 08:14 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: > >>Graham Campbell wrote: > >>>I just applied the latest X upgrades to Woody. My wheel mouse stopped > >>>scrol

Re: X upgrade, Wheel mouse stopped working

On Friday 20 February 2004 08:14 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: > Graham Campbell wrote: > > I just applied the latest X upgrades to Woody. My wheel mouse stopped > > scrolling (rest works ok). Here is the relevant entries from > > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 : > > Section "Inp

X upgrade, Wheel mouse stopped working

"/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Any help would be appreciated. Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] aka [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] New tab instead of new Window in Mozilla

Joerg wrote: > Hi everybody > > When I do BLAST searches (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/), I have to > wait for the results and then click a java-script button (Format!), and > results page is shown in a new window. Can I change this behaviour so > that no new window is opened, but the new pag

Re: Mouse

Kent wrote: > Oh, I meant to mention, if you need to move around in X, even though you > don't have a mouse, you can press LeftShift-NumLock (assuming you have a > separate numeric keypad), and then use the 7,8,9,4,6,1,2,3 keys to move > the mouse pointer around; the 5 is a mouse click. / sets t

Re: mailto in mozilla-firebird

Micha wrote: > Is it possible to tell mozilla-firebird how to handle mailto links? > I am using exim4 + mutt for mail. yep, http://mozex.mozdev.org/ -- OoberMick Dealer: "19" Homer: "Hit me!" Dealer: "20" Homer: "Hit me!" Dealer: "21" Homer: "Hit me!" Dealer: "22" Homer: "D'oh!" (The Simpsons)

Re: Setting up coloured directory listings

Lakshmi wrote: > By editing this file /etc/profile Or better yet /etc/bash.bashrc since /etc/profile is sourced for all shells, whereas /etc/bash.bashrc is only sourced in interactive bash shells -- OoberMick "Oh boy! Sleep! That's where I'm a Viking" -- Ralph Wiggum pgp0.pgp Description:

Re: video card compatibility

It's not a serious gamer's card, since the 3D support is not very good, but it is crystal clear in 2D, and that's important when you stare at the screen for most of the day... All i really need is 2D support, and movies. Anything else is gravy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: video card compatibility

Radeon 9200 for $80. I got mine (actually a 9000 for $89 last July) from Thompson's Computer Warehouse[1] (http://www.tcwo.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/st_prod.html?p_prodid=2396&[EMAIL PROTECTED]). The 9200 is supported extremely well with XFree86 4.3 (currently in experimental) and the open source DR

video card compatibility

hello, im in the mood for another video card, my current is buggy with the current release of debian, i can't get video playback, well, i'm sure i can, but it's a lot of work, and i would have to use closed drivers, or whatever they're called. so, i'm asking for suggestions of video cards under

Re: automating apt-get

in /etc/apt/sources.list) which you can set up as a debian archive of just the packages you've downloaded to that central machine. Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian sucks aka i cant get it to install

On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 18:02:24 -0800 Ian L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right now trying the testing network install My advise would be to use stable to install (choose the 2.4 kernel) then to upgrade to unstable/testing when you know what you're doing. Another possiblity would be to install off o

usb + brother printer woes

estions for the next step? Thanks Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2004 #384

exit(0); } - This creates a file that seems to be 1000 bytes long - as shown by ls, but actually only takes a single byte. du shows it as 8K long since this is the minimum amount that can actually be allocated. This is well known in the data base commun

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:37:51 + Michael Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u w x y and zed (not zee I'm > British!) Hmm and maybe there should be a v! I knew that would happen! I'd take the piss out the guy for not noticing the

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:00:11 -0500 Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 04:49:26 +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 05:01:17PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > >> Here's another view of that data: > > > > What about this one?: > > > > | Country Aid(Billions)

psmouse module problems on boot in linux 2.6.0

Hi, On my laptop I have both a touchpad and a usb mouse. The touchpad uses the psmouse module, /etc/modules tells the kernel to load this at boot. The usb mouse uses the appropriate usb modules and is loaded using hotpluging. My problem is that if the usb mouse is not connected at boot the

Re: Starting dhclient at boot up

Grzesiek Sedek wrote: Hi, You can add iface eth0 inet dhcp to your /etc/network/interfaces Grzesiek You should also add the 'auto eth0' stanza to bring the device up automatically on boot. So your /etc/network/interfaces would look like: #Loopback device auto lo iface lo inet loopback #eth0 devi

Re: LP -> CD

the hard disk. > 2. Split the sound files in their tracks. > I put together some notes about how I do this at http://togaware.com/linux/survivor/Recording.html and particularly "Using Gramofile" and "Process" Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

xserver 30 seconds startup delay with usb?

on a Dell OptiPlex GX270 with an Intel 82865G Integrated Graphics Device (i810), currently up to date with unstable but with the xserver-xfree86 from experimental (for support of the chipset) 4.3.0-0pre1v4. Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Anyone using apt-listchanges?

ebian.org/~noel Then if the package looks okay, you can: wajig install Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PAM Error: couldn't get the tty name

Hi, I am trying to get PAM to work with a pop server (ipopd-ssl) in order to limit the people who who use this particular server, but I get the error "couldn't get the tty name". I think it has something to do with the PAM_TTY env variable not being set properly by the ipopd, but does anyone know a

Building Spamassassin 'testing' package on woody

e package for a second and then failed a bunch of dependencies. So I was sad. My question for the list is: has anyone done this? Am I missing some steps that would make this work? -- Graham Van Epps "Oh, to live like an animal, to have no posessions, to tumble in the hay with the ugliest

Re: minimal installation [fixed]

actually, and thank you all for your help, i found a guy willing to turn his minimal floppy distro into a compact floppy installation.. so thanks again for the help you offerred,i appreciate it i really do, but i think this problem is fixed later, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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