Re: Can't list root directory

2024-01-31 Thread Loren M. Lang
On January 31, 2024 1:28:37 PM PST, hw wrote: >On Wed, 2024-01-31 at 09:27 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: >> On 2024-01-30 15:54, hw wrote: >> > On Mon, 2024-01-29 at 11:42 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: >> > > I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 workstation. I've lost the ability >> > > to see the root

Gui interface ideas

2004-06-11 Thread Loren M. Lang
I have setup a series of programs for controlling/monitoring/testing some hardware through a serial port that are all command-line based. The engineers working on the project were fine with this, but as they go into production, they need a more dummy-proof interface since they will have many

Good News Server

2004-06-10 Thread Loren M. Lang
Does anyone know of a good news server I could use? I'd like to post an article to the gnuplot newsgroup, but my isp seems to no longer be offering free usenet service. If I could just post articles to a mail-news gateway would be nice since I can read them without too much trouble. I'd prefer

Re: ALSA strangeness

2004-05-27 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:30:45PM -0700, Steven Yap wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 13:26, Alex Malinovich wrote: I had thought that all ALSA drivers had support for multiple audio streams. Is this not the case? Yes and no. On hardware with built-in multi-stream playback (like in your

Replicating Debian Systems

2004-05-25 Thread Loren M. Lang
I may have to rapidly deploy multiple debian systems that will have the same software installed and be configured the same way. The ideal way to install debian would be to stick a cd into a computer, turn it on, and come back a couple hours later. If I could make a custom cd to do just that and

Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-17 Thread Loren M. Lang
I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable or Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production server. I've being using Gentoo lately, and I love how nice the newer software is like KDE 3.2.1 or Gnome 2.4 and I don't want to go back to Gnome 1.x just because

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2004-01-23 Thread Loren M. Lang
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OT: Linux 2.6.0-test9 Running for 24 hours!

2003-11-15 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've just recently install a test kernel for linux 2.6 and I've had it running solid for 24 hours running in X!!! Sorry, but just had to let out the excitement as this is the first time I've ever tried running any kernel that was not considered an

Software Patents

2003-11-15 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm preparing a pursuasive speech against software patents for my class and I'm looking for information on patents that have had the biggest impact to inhibit the use of software like the patent on the lzw compression used in gif or the patent on

Inverse LCD Screen

2003-11-07 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there any way to invert an LCD screen in X or console, preferably at least in X if not both. I have an old planar computer with a flat screen that is showing inverted color, in windows, before I had the oppurtunity to clense it, all the color was

Unidentified subject!

2003-11-04 Thread Loren M Lang
While installing an updated fvwm2 from source, I decided to include gnome support using apt-get to install libgnome-dev and I got the following response: debian:/home/sttng359/fvwm/fvwm-2.4.17# apt-get install libgnome-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The

MBone

2003-11-02 Thread Loren M Lang
Does anyone have any information on MBone on where or how I can join? After some struggling I finally got all the software I think I need to participate including mrouted, sdr, vic, rat, wbd, and nte. I have successfully setup a conference between local computers, but I haven't crossed any

Can't install both gtk and qt dev files?

2003-09-26 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Recently, I tried to compile and install an application that uses libqt3 and ran into this: # apt-get install libqt3-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libpng-dev The

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-27 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Alex Malinovich wrote: The recent COBOL discussion has gotten me to thinking. Some languages seem to be very popular in some situations. C is easily the dominant language for most things Linux. So therein lies the question.

Re: nfs is very slow

2003-08-14 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Gregor Stößer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030808 00:37]: On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:39:55PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: On Thursday 07 August 2003 14:01, Gregor Stößer wrote: I'm having some trouble with my

Re: Good Debian-based distro

2003-08-14 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 09:35:18AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I found the hardware detection excellent! IMHO this is one area that Debian needs some work. Search the archives

Good Debian-based distro

2003-08-10 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm looking for a good debian-based distro with a good and user friendly install program. I love debian much better than redhat based distros mostly for the packaging system, especially all those apt-* commands. Though for my less linux experienced

Re: All-in-One flash card reader.

2003-08-03 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24 Jul 2003, Dale Hair wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 11:38, Loren M Lang wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a flash card reader which is designed to read from 5 different types of flash cards that I'm trying

All-in-one flash card reader.

2003-08-01 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a usb flash card reader I bought for my debian box and I tried to plug it in with a flash card to test it and couldn't get it to work. I know the flash card is valid, it works on linux with a different single type flash card reader, but not

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone have recommendations about linux vs. openbsd? I have always used linux for everything and propably still will for the most part, but for security, would it be better to use openbsd? - From what I hear, openbsd is a variant off of netbsd,

All-in-One flash card reader.

2003-07-24 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a flash card reader which is designed to read from 5 different types of flash cards that I'm trying to get working with debian. I plugged it into my linux box with a flash card with some data on it and linux detected the device being attached

Re: Debian Equivalent of Group Wheel?

2003-07-07 Thread Loren M Lang
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Marc Trudeau wrote: Dear List, I¹m a newcomer and tried to find this topic in the archives, but I had trouble using Glimpse to filter out ³wheel mouse². I hope I¹m not belaboring a well-covered point. If so, my appologies. Please post as text as well as html for us

Re: ATAPI CD-writer

2003-07-06 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, cr wrote: I've read the HOWTOs but I tend to get bogged down and confused in all the details. And in the past I've found, when I've managed to get X-cd-roast working (under previous Redhat installations), I've lost the

Dpkg seg faults.

2003-07-05 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was trying to upgrade libxml2 to the latest 2.5 version recently so I could install ardour. I created a dummy libxml2 package using equiv-control and equiv-build. The package installed ok, but ardour still failed and I discovered I also needed to