Re: Not a speed reader.

2003-09-15 Thread Jason Pepas
Note, though, that neither of those shows you messages output by init scripts. are there any tricks for obtaining this? -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

minimal boot loader?

2003-08-24 Thread Jason Pepas
ask here before I go off and write a script which accomplishes the same thing. thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mkisofs oddity

2003-04-05 Thread Jason Pepas
/* is this considered correct behavior? is there no way to simply make an image of a directory without resorting to graft-points? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

memory leaks, and the proper way to interpret memory usage

2003-03-03 Thread Jason Pepas
the different memory statistics, how does one nail down the source of a memory leak, etc. thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

nfs mount during debian install

2003-03-03 Thread Jason Pepas
Hi, Is using an nfs mount for / during the debian insall supported in any way? or plan to be supported? -jason pepas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Very few packages selected during install

2003-02-25 Thread Jason Pepas
can I select the packages which the second option installed, and where can I read more about why this is happening (ie, what policy is this following?) thanks, jason pepas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: pbuilder failing

2003-02-16 Thread Jason Pepas
0.1.17 Bootstrap a basic Debian system this is debootstrap from stable (woody). does this mean pbuilder is incapable of building a sid base.tgz from a woody system? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

pbuilder failing

2003-02-15 Thread Jason Pepas
E: Couldn't download libpcap0 pbuilder: debootstrap failed - cleaning the build env -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mc not in color by default

2003-02-12 Thread Jason Pepas
hello, when I start mc from an xterm, it is not in color by default. That is, I have to use mc -c to force use of color. $TERM is set to xterm-debian. is this a bug or a feature? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: mc not in color by default

2003-02-12 Thread Jason Pepas
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 01:52 pm, Jason Pepas wrote: hello, when I start mc from an xterm, it is not in color by default. That is, I have to use mc -c to force use of color. $TERM is set to xterm-debian. is this a bug or a feature? thanks, jason pepas it gets wierder. if I

inteligently downgrade packages?

2003-02-03 Thread Jason Pepas
-base perl-doc perl-modules perl-tk tetex-extra 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 downgraded, 0 to remove and 300 not u pgraded. Need to get 15.4MB/19.3MB of archives. After unpacking 15.2MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Automounting

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Pepas
as it is on windows. discs are mounted when insterted, and unmounted when you hit the eject button. Supermount is a kernel patch: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~quintela/supermount/ -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: 384mb RAM installed but 57mb recognized at bootup..........huh ?

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Pepas
at it. If it only has chips along one side of the PCB, this might be causing the problem. This single sided RAM usually shows up as only half capacity in older systems (though in this case, older could be as recent as 2 years or so). -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Backup Consensus?

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Pepas
*.iso *.flac *.zip *.exe data.bin /usr/local/fonts /usr/local/games /usr/local/j2re /usr/local/j2re1.4.0 /usr/local/winbackup /var/cache/apt/archives -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backup Consensus?

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Pepas
a bootable cd collection as a backup. now that's *cool*. you might check out mondo as well. apt-cache show mondo -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Download installed .debs??

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Pepas
apt-get install --reinstall packagename (It'll use the cached .deb's in /var/cache/apt/archives when it finds it, though) If you really want to _download_ new, rm that deb from the directory and run the above command. you might try this in combination with -d (download only). -jason pepas

OT: lhd, where have you gone?

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Pepas
does anyone know what happened to the linux hardware database (lhd.zdnet.com)? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: list delay

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Pepas
after all. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: perldoc bug?

2003-01-29 Thread Jason Pepas
Upgrade and try again. If it persists, file a bug. yup, that fixed it. perl 5.8 doesn't play nicely with perl-doc 5.6 -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: find a command i have recently used in bash

2003-01-29 Thread Jason Pepas
your .bash_history, like grep ls ~/.bash_history -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Howto redirect output from a terminal

2003-01-29 Thread Jason Pepas
the output of a program, start script, execute stuff, and then type exit to stop script. All screen ouput was logged to a file in the current directory. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cdrecord exit status 254

2003-01-29 Thread Jason Pepas
cdrecord appears to exit with status 254, which works fine from console, and burns good cd's, but causes make to think it failed, when it actually didn't. ideas? man page turns up nothing, google returns 2 other people asking my question with no answer (one in spanish). -jason pepas

Re: cdrecord exit status 254

2003-01-29 Thread Jason Pepas
an odd policy of exit status? thanks for your reply, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: find a command i have recently used in bash

2003-01-29 Thread Jason Pepas
in which you had multiple sessions running concurrently. This is because bash reads ~/.bash_history when starting up, works with the history in memory, then writes ~/.bash_history when exiting. thanks. I had noticed odd behavior regarding bash_history before, now I know why. -jason pepas

perl-doc package bug?

2003-01-28 Thread Jason Pepas
hello, I think there might be a bug with the perl-doc package in the testing branch. (pts/4)root@marsala:/var/cache/apt/archives$ apt-get install perl-doc Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: perl-doc 0 packages upgraded,

perldoc bug?

2003-01-28 Thread Jason Pepas
hmm... (pts/4)jason@marsala:~$ perldoc -f sin No documentation found for perlfunc. hrmm... (pts/4)jason@marsala:~$ dpkg -l | grep perl ii libft-perl 1.2-13.1 Perl module for the FreeType library ii libperl5.6 5.6.1-7Shared Perl library. ii libperl5.8 5.8.0-14

cdrom read errors.

2003-01-24 Thread Jason Pepas
) ;; *) ;; esac exit 0 anyone have any ideas what is causing this? my only guess is that the cdrom is trying to read past the end of the media? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unidentified subject!

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
on the second page, but starts from a different spot. your opinions are welcome. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
What's -mand? Perhaps you mean -mandoc. hmm, looks like I didn't copy / paste that correctly. lets try that again: (pts/3)jason@marsala:~$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/checkinstall.1.gz | groff -mandoc - | gv standard input:106: warning: `spec' not defined (probable missing space after `sp') gv

irssi-text not working

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
irssi-text doesn't seem to be working for me. issuing the command irssi from the command line simply does nothing. ii irssi-text 0.8.5-2text-mode version of the irssi IRC client any ideas? perhaps some sort of perl module dependency problem? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: irssi-text not working

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Thursday 02 January 2003 03:28 pm, Jason Pepas wrote: irssi-text doesn't seem to be working for me. issuing the command irssi from the command line simply does nothing. ii irssi-text 0.8.5-2text-mode version of the irssi IRC client any ideas? perhaps some sort of perl

Re: irssi-text not working

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Thursday 02 January 2003 03:28 pm, Jason Pepas wrote: irssi-text doesn't seem to be working for me. issuing the command irssi from the command line simply does nothing. ii irssi-text 0.8.5-2text-mode version of the irssi IRC client any ideas? perhaps some sort of perl

Re: pdf2ps Segmentation fault

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
acroread to convert pdf documents to postscript. # see the advanced bash scripting howto: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/ if [ ! -n $1 ] then echo Usage: `basename $0` file1.pdf file2.pdf... exit 1 fi acroread -toPostScript $@ --- cut --- -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: CMI 9738 sound driver

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
i810_audio or i810_codec or something like that. This supports several AC97 compatible chipsets (I am using the sis7... something or other and it works, but only at 48khz). -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel recompile

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
by loading modules? thanks in advance, regards, Robert Storey try setting the cpu type to 386. rebooting before the kernel even starts doing anything usually means the wrong cpu type was selected. hmm, but if the kernel name has i386 in it, this might not be the problem... -jason pepas

Re: starting X

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
. currently, tasksel seems to just install x-window-system. I assume by your methodology that you are more interested in initally going with a minimal install, so try apt-cache show x-window-system apt-cache show x-window-system-core then pick one and apt-get install it. -jason pepas

Re: Audio Video digital capture / playback

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Thursday 02 January 2003 01:40 pm, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: Any recommendations on Audio Video digital capture / playback hardware and software woking on Woody / Sarge? mplayer / mencoder seem to be the most flexible (most codecs, most input/output methods, etc) tools available. -jason pepas

checkinstall man page [was Re: Unidentified subject!]

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Thursday 02 January 2003 10:47 pm, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:03:53PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: What's -mand? Perhaps you mean -mandoc. hmm, looks like I didn't copy / paste that correctly. lets try that again: (pts/3)jason@marsala:~$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 01:35 am, Kevin wrote: Please can you help with this error? Below is the log, env and .bashrc DISPLAY=debian:0.0;export DISPLAY try this: export DISPLAY=:0.0 export XAUTHORITY=/home/user/.Xauthority -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
: white I don't really know anything about xresources, so the *VT100... part might be non-ideal. Also, these colors are just a starting point. anyone? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anti-aliasing

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
to look through my notes for that. ... yes, I edited /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/Gnome and added: # make AA work export GDK_USE_XFT=1 of course, that only helps you if you use gdm. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: How insecure are cable connections, versus dialup?

2002-12-09 Thread Jason Pepas
some folks like to sniff passwds... those are some of the ones you should worry about... ( there are ssh based pwd sniffers too ) ssh based password sniffers? can you provide us with any evidence of this? -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

ide-scsi grabs everything

2002-11-26 Thread Jason Pepas
mount it (mount reports not valid block device). Any ideas? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ide-scsi grabs everything

2002-11-26 Thread Jason Pepas
thanks for the responses guys, looks like I should be able to get it sorted out with your help. -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-25 Thread Jason Pepas
On Sunday 24 November 2002 11:25 pm, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:50:38PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Just now, when I tried to cp the *.VOB files from a movie disk mounted udf onto /dvd-rw, I got the same Input/output error. Believe it or not, this is a function of the

kbdrate problems

2002-11-24 Thread Jason Pepas
it to the default anyway, and is there a way to set that? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-24 Thread Jason Pepas
. Thanks, Ric if you just need to get the video streams, and not neccessarily the vob files themselves, mencoder can copy the streams into an avi file: mencoder -dvd 1 -oac copy -ovc copy -o foo.avi this will also decrypt them. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

debian filesystem inside a file

2002-11-24 Thread Jason Pepas
hello, i was wondering if it is possible to install debian, using a file as a partition. Sort of like how BeOS will install inside windows, creating its filesystem in a file. I think this has been done with umsdos, but what about under NTFS? Is there any hope of that? thanks, jason pepas

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-24 Thread Jason Pepas
On Sunday 24 November 2002 10:56 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 20:44, Jason Pepas wrote: On Sunday 24 November 2002 07:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] if you just need to get the video streams, and not neccessarily the vob files themselves, mencoder can copy

Re: allowing remote x connections?

2002-11-06 Thread Jason Pepas
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Re: encrypting a single file

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Pepas
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Re: parted boot CD

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Pepas
I know for a fact that parted can resize a ro-mounted partition, because I did it once to shrink the root partition. (To make room for a swap partition.) did you know you that linux supports swap files as well as swap partitions? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: VCD creation

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Pepas
a wrapper format), so you would need something pull the mpeg1 stream out of that avi file and format it as an mpg file. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tftpboot.img

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Pepas
etherboot is for creating floppies... etherboot can also make bootroms. check out http://www.rom-o-matic.net/ if your sun has a bootrom slot, and the controller is supported by etherboot, and you can find someone with an eeprom burner, you should be good to go. -jason pepas

Re: macintosh hardware

2002-11-03 Thread Jason Pepas
://www.symsys.com/~ingram/hardware/powermac/potato-install.html -jason pepas ps - glad to see they have improved the install manual with 3.0. In the past, the exact models which were and weren't supported weren't listed in the manual, and you had to hunt down the above ftp link to find exactly which

Re: gnome2 applets

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
specifically, netleds and wavelan. I would highly recommend netmon-applet as a replacement for netleds. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is my Xserver useing too much memory?

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
will eventually get pushed out into swap, and will never be called back in from swap. I have had leaky X video drivers before, but it would take months for that alone to fill up a large swap space. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: gnome2 applets

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Saturday 02 November 2002 06:51 am, iain d broadfoot wrote: Jason Pepas wrote: specifically, netleds and wavelan. I would highly recommend netmon-applet as a replacement for netleds. -jason pepas $apt-cache search netmon-applet $ where do i find it? iain well now

Re: gnome2 applets

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Saturday 02 November 2002 06:51 am, iain d broadfoot wrote: Jason Pepas wrote: specifically, netleds and wavelan. I would highly recommend netmon-applet as a replacement for netleds. -jason pepas $apt-cache search netmon-applet $ where do i find it? iain I repacked it (thanks

Re: deleting directory

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
were nonsense meant to scare small children, until I didn't realize what directory I was in and lost several hundred megabytes of mp3's one day... (hmm, why is the rm command taking so long... OH NO!) -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

each debain cd has a different kernel

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
one select which kernel to use with the multiboot cd? I have performed numerous installs and I don't recall seeing this option. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which half are you in?

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
was in another place. I haven't noticed this bug lately, so it may have been fixed. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] literate programming

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
or compressed HTML. The documentation is extracted directly from the sources. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removing lines from a file

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
to grab the sections you want (try piping them into each other to get subsections) -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removing lines from a file

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
On Saturday 02 November 2002 02:29 pm, Jason Pepas wrote: On Saturday 02 November 2002 02:19 pm, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: I know this has come up before but what is the best way to remove lines 5-10 and lines 16-20 from a file using the console and a batch file? Lance you could use wc

Re: Mozilla Anti-Aliasing

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Pepas
. However, it could only see two fonts, both of them monospaced. I assume this is because I did not properly install fontconfig. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cmpci audio skipping

2002-11-01 Thread Jason Pepas
thought I would shoot a mail out to the list in the mean time and see if anyone else is experiencing this. here is the lhd entry: http://lhd.zdnet.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?3228 (their database seemed to be down last time I checked). -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Tools to maintain my own set of homebrewed deb's?

2002-10-30 Thread Jason Pepas
updates Packages.gz. Anybody know, offhand, what does that? - Joe dpkg-scanpackages ./ /dev/null Packages gzip Packages you could set up a cronjob to make a new Packages.gz file each night is that what you were asking? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: P4 with 1GB RAM, swap required?

2002-10-30 Thread Jason Pepas
Thanks for this hint! This is really great! wbr, I generally try to write this stuff down as i figure it out. You might enjoy http://jason.pepas.com/linux/notes/ -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: P4 with 1GB RAM, swap required?

2002-10-29 Thread Jason Pepas
. To create a swap file (64MB in this example), instead of a partition, dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1M count=64 mkswap /swap edit /etc/fstab: /swap noneswapsw 0 0 swapon -a cat /proc/swaps -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

cups wont print

2002-10-22 Thread Jason Pepas
22 problems, so I purged cups and installed from unstable, and how I have my current situation. is this a known issue? someone else on #debian is having the exact same problem, and is also using unstable. thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

disabling ide-scsi

2002-10-19 Thread Jason Pepas
opposite of what I need (it tells ide-cd to not grab a cdrom). The cd-writing howto addresses this question, but does not give an answer (see http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.28 ). any ideas? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: disabling ide-scsi

2002-10-19 Thread Jason Pepas
this package (the modules I wanted loaded were manually entered anyway). nope, discover isn't installed, and lsmod doesn't report ide-scsi, yet I have devices a-plenty when I cdrecord -scanbus. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: nvidia drivers

2002-10-16 Thread Jason Pepas
exactly was causing the problem, but no luck so far... hmm, that almost sounds like a power supply problem to me. What are the details of your setup? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lite On 40x Burner

2002-10-15 Thread Jason Pepas
my money. -steve http://www.storagereview.com/ check them out - very in depth review of hard drives and optical drives. They previously had a Lite-On drive recommended on their leader board, but I don't think it was the 40x. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

data recovery

2002-10-14 Thread Jason Pepas
be there. If any of you can recommend what I should do next, or point me to any tools for data recovery, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gnome2 wallpaper changer

2002-10-12 Thread Jason Pepas
hey all, was tooling around and figured out a way to automatically change the gnome2 wallpaper. gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename foo.jpg one could write up a small script and have this happen regularly with cron. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

init.d script for folding at home client

2002-10-11 Thread Jason Pepas
/sh # folding at home init.d script for debian, based off of /etc/init.d/skeleton. # by jason pepas. PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/folding DAEMON=/usr/local/folding/FAH3Console-Linux.exe NAME=FAH3Console-Linux.exe DESC=Folding at Home client USER

Re: Cable connection !!!

2002-10-11 Thread Jason Pepas
get an IP address about 10% of the time, and even then it would drop the connection within an hour. Then by chance I tried a 100mbit NIC and it has worked flawlessly since. go figure. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: desktop

2002-10-10 Thread Jason Pepas
First, make sure you've installed the X Window system and appropriate X server (I /believe/ that doing an 'apt-get install x-window-system' will you might also need to apt-get install xserver-xfree86. oh wait, scratch that, you are using debian 2.2, so you might need to install an xserver

Re: Terminal type

2002-10-10 Thread Jason Pepas
Where is the bash shell started? there is more to it that this, but for starters have a look at /etc/inittab. The getty lines are what create the tty's, and when a user logs in, whatever shell is specified for that user in /etc/passwd is started for them. -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

channel bonding

2002-10-09 Thread Jason Pepas
. If anyone knows of any decent links on how to get this going, please let me know. thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kbdrate set by normal users

2002-10-07 Thread Jason Pepas
anything similar to this? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the apt-get cache, backing up and using to install debain on another machine

2002-10-06 Thread Jason Pepas
that and copying over your /etc directory, you should have an install almost identical to your previous one. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kbdrate set by normal users

2002-10-06 Thread Jason Pepas
hello, I would like to change the default keyboard repeat rate. I have tried writting a /etc/ini.d/kbdrate.sh script, but it does not seem to change things globally. any ideas? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

ide-scsi grabs devices against my wishes

2002-10-05 Thread Jason Pepas
to be scsi (ide-scsi grabs it anyway). In another comp, I have an ide dvd rom, and don't wish it to be scsi (again, it is anyway). how can I make ide-scsi only grab the devices I tell it to? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

gdm login does not appear under who

2002-09-29 Thread Jason Pepas
I have noticed that if I log into gdm, I do not show up as being logged in via commands like who and w. not only that, but if I open up a konsole, I am still not logged in. However, opening up an xterm will list me under who. is this normal / expected behavior? -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

OT: how to make kmail open links in mozilla

2002-09-26 Thread Jason Pepas
not really a debian question, but does anyone know how to make kmail open a link in an email in mozilla instead of konqueror? I have looked in the kde configurator thing and didn't see any sort of option for that. -jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: OT: how to make kmail open links in mozilla

2002-09-26 Thread Jason Pepas
To be honest, I didn't know the answer at first sight, but a look at the code did it: you have to change the _global_ Browser in KControl (or Konqueror itself), section File Associations. I think it was under File Manager until KDE 3.0. There, go to text/html, press Add, choose Mozilla and

Re: OT: how to make kmail open links in mozilla

2002-09-26 Thread Jason Pepas
On Thursday 26 September 2002 04:31, Michael Brade wrote: On Thursday 26 September 2002 10:20, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Jason Pepas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.09.26.0940 +0200]: not really a debian question, but does anyone know how to make kmail open a link in an email in mozilla

festival plugin for mozilla?

2002-09-26 Thread Jason Pepas
is there such a thing as a festival (text to speech) plugin for mozilla (like the one for konqueror? -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debian menu in kde

2002-09-26 Thread Jason Pepas
where can I read up on the internal workings of the kde menu system? I would like to figure out how to get it to use the standard debian menu system (kde 2.2.2 does its own thing). -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: A Good FTP Client.

2002-09-26 Thread Jason Pepas
On Thursday 26 September 2002 19:09, Gord Berta wrote: The default gFTP client always gives me a headache, in any distro. The one I found the most user friendly is kBear. Drag and drop from hard drive to your web site and vice versa. The problem is when I apt-get kbear in 2.7, I get the

compression and encryption with gdm, cygwin?

2002-09-26 Thread Jason Pepas
Hi, I am exporting a gdm X session to a windows box running cygwin/xfree86. is there anyway I can use ssh to make this a secure connection, and is there anyway I can compress the stream to speed things up a bit? ( it is pretty slow as is, over a cable modem). thanks, jason -- To

high load average

2002-09-23 Thread Jason Pepas
the other day I was moving several gigs of files from one ide drive to another on the same ide chain (the secondary channel is broken) and my load average went up to around 7 (no, not 0.07). The machine would become unresponsive for several seconds at a time. This is a uniprocessor machine,

Re: nfs woes

2001-12-04 Thread Jason Pepas
1. What good does the first line in /etc/export do? 192.168.0.2 is 10 Mb and is only used for getting the kernel, not its root fs, so it does not need this one I thought this too, but as I remember it, it simply didnt work when I would comment out the first line. I am away from the machine

nfs woes

2001-12-02 Thread Jason Pepas
. by the way, if you could please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as I am not currently subscribed to the list. thanks, jason pepas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

problems with diskless booting

2001-10-05 Thread Jason Pepas
Hey guys, I have been trying to set up a diskless linux workstation. I have a netboot floppy working - the diskless machine boots and correctly recognizes the network card, and starts to broadcast requests. I watch the hub and can see that it is really putting out requests, so I know the

kde font problem

2001-09-20 Thread Jason Pepas
I seem to be having a problem with fonts in kde. I had a certain selection of fonts available in kde. then i installed a package of fonts with apt. then I saw a completely different set of available fonts in kde - ie, all the previously available fonts were no longer available. But the new

Re: Quake 3

2001-07-27 Thread jason pepas
color depth without killing X and restarting it? thanks, jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:29:44 +0200 Yves Dessertine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Vendredi 27 Juillet 2001 02:43, jason pepas a écrit : Hey guys, I have been tyring to get Quake3 working recently. I

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