Re: Wordperfect fails to run

1999-02-10 Thread Jon Burchmore
ge, which provides the Xpm libraries for libc5 programs. -- Jon Burchmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, San Diego, CA

RE: Counting number of lines in a text file

1999-02-04 Thread Jon Burchmore
> > I always wonder why people insist on doing > > cat file | otherprogram > > instead of just > > otherprogram < file > > To qualify for the most useless use of cat award of course. Or does Randall > Schwartz (sp) no longer hand those out? But given the original context, "wc -l

RE: Copying CDs

1999-02-04 Thread Jon Burchmore
ev/sr0 of=image.iso bs=8192000 works for me. Of course, this doesn't work with audio CDs (I use cdparanoia for them). -Jon Burchmore

RE: Potato X problems

1999-02-02 Thread Jon Burchmore
AGENT_PID > else > exec $realstarup > ^^ should be realstartup > fi > > I reported this to the Debian bug tracking system last week, and apparently > it's being looked at. It's bug #32529 if you want to follow the "official" > fix. -Jon Burchmore

RE: Potato X problems

1999-02-01 Thread Jon Burchmore
and apparently it's being looked at. It's bug #32529 if you want to follow the "official" fix. -Jon Burchmore

RE: version control systems

1999-01-08 Thread Jon Burchmore
was actually > running). I might add to this that you should make those tags branches, otherwise you'll have to re-tag the code if you ever want to do concurrent development (or go back and fix bugs in a stable release while working on a non-stable one). -Jon Burchmore

RE: version control systems

1999-01-08 Thread Jon Burchmore
There is a Windows GUI frontend for CVS, but in my experience those things hardly ever get used. "Real" developers just stick version control commands in their IDEs' "Tools" menu, or use a DOS prompt. -Jon Burchmore

RE: SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux

1999-01-07 Thread Jon Burchmore
g > another card, then taking it out and hoping it keeps the same resources. Have you considered booting off a floppy or just booting into safe mode? I used to do this all the time to configure NE2000's and 3COM EtherLink III's for use under NT (which can't configure them either). -Jon Burchmore

RE: suEXEC and "~user/cgi-bin"

1998-12-16 Thread Jon Burchmore
falls in between the minimum and maximum user id's for suexec. In my experience, #1 is the most common problem. -Jon Burchmore

RE: rotating log files

1998-12-15 Thread Jon Burchmore
ave several 2.0 systems, and the logs appear to be rotated as part of /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd, which is owned by the sysklogd package (I have v1.3-30). -Jon Burchmore

RE: creating audio-cds from .wav-files

1998-12-13 Thread Jon Burchmore
e order, and will automatically byte- swap the data if the CD recorder requires big- endian data. Cdrecord will reject any audio file that does not match the Red Book requirements of 16-bit stereo samples in PCM coding at 44100 samĀ­ ples/second. -Jon Burchmore

RE: Dead middle button in Agiler 3 button mouse

1998-12-13 Thread Jon Burchmore
) in the 3 Button Mouse mini-howto: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/3-Button-Mouse -Jon Burchmore

RE: QUantifiable reasons to use debian instead of redhat...?

1998-12-11 Thread Jon Burchmore
ge/etc. > > Do you see these problems with official Red Hat packages, or just ones > packaged by J. Random Hacker? [EMAIL PROTECTED] rpm -ql pine ... /usr/lib/pine.conf /usr/lib/pine.conf.fixed ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] dpkg -L pine396 ... /etc/pine.conf ... -Jon Burchmore

RE: QUantifiable reasons to use debian instead of redhat...?

1998-12-10 Thread Jon Burchmore
that if I install a package that has made it into a Debian distribution, then it behaves in accordance with the Debian guidelines. -Jon Burchmore

RE: Help - X meets my OLD monitor

1998-12-08 Thread Jon Burchmore
st immediately hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X server if the screen doesn't look right on startup when experimenting with ModeLines. > > ModeLine "800x600"36 800 824 896 1024600 601 603 625 I would try the above ModeLine first. I would be surprised if it hurts your monitor. -Jon Burchmore

RE: Help - X meets my OLD monitor

1998-12-08 Thread Jon Burchmore
quot;1024x768"75 1024 1048 1184 1328768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync Be careful, however. If your monitor is fixed-frequency you could fry it with the wrong ModeLine. -Jon Burchmore

RE: 512MB RAM, 860MB swap and out of memory ?

1998-12-03 Thread Jon Burchmore
ous * io-memory mappings) * * IF YOU CHANGE THIS, PLEASE ALSO CHANGE * * arch/i386/vmlinux.lds * * which has the same constant encoded.. */ #define __PAGE_OFFSET (0xC000) -Jon Burchmore

RE: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Jon Burchmore
u say "several hours?" I never did let it finish with my Debian Users folder, which "only" has 9000 messages in it. I'll try xfmail when I get home, since I can't run it via telnet, but it looks butt-ugly and klunky. I'm leaning more and more towards just using PINE. It was designed with IMAP in mind, after all... -Jon Burchmore

RE: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Jon Burchmore
connection to internet, T1 to mailserver), it could really hurt if I just want to check for new messages from the road, over a modem. This makes me long for my days of a simple UUCP feed, and only one computer to read mail on. ;) -Jon Burchmore

RE: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Jon Burchmore
es* of it instead of moving it from the mailserver to a local machine. > And if you must have an X-based MUA, then I would suggest mutt... > (in an xterm) ;) Hmm.. so far mutt has two votes. I'll try it when I get home from work tonight. -Jon Burchmore

Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Jon Burchmore
st use PINE under an Xterm? Is there a way to integrate PGP into Netscape Communicator? -Jon Burchmore

RE: [Debian] max. swap size?

1998-11-16 Thread Jon Burchmore
ot only 130MB. Why can't I use 256MB of swap? The size of any single swap file or partition is limited to 128MB. Create two partitions of 128MB and swapon them both. -Jon Burchmore Director of Software Development, Miva Corporation Phone: (619) 490-2573 Fax: (619) 490-0548 PGP

RE: Which device for scanner?

1998-10-27 Thread Jon Burchmore
;ve been searching the net and the mailing lists, but I can't remember > where I found the documentation the helped me to set it up originally some > time back. Try man MAKEDEV, or /dev/MAKEDEV sg (as root). -Jon Burchmore Director of Software Development, Miva Corporation Phone: (619) 4

RE: IP_Masqing w/ipchains

1998-10-25 Thread Jon Burchmore
rward /sbin/ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s localnet/24 Hope this helps. -Jon Burchmore Director of Software Development, Miva Corporation Phone: (619) 490-2573 Fax: (619) 490-0548 PGP Key ID: 0xC5DA3E69 35D3 78F4 34D5 FE12 D249 F87C F958 7D25 C5DA 3E69