Re: getting X standard background with metacity

2004-06-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 07:01:01AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Does anyone know how to get the standard black/gray X backround when using: - unstable/ sid - metacity - gnome - NOT nautilus (I don't run this!)! The gray fence like background is actually just a no background

Re: bash profile how?

2004-06-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 05:27:51PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: Paul Galbraith said: I assume you're using a gdm or xdm or kdm...someone earlier on this list taught me this...I just wrote a .xsession file in my home directory that looks like this: #!/bin/bash --login exec

Re: Commercial-grade application software

2004-06-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 07:02:01AM -0700, jack kinnon wrote: Hi folks, I have now a working Linux system with an acceptable GUI and a broadband link for communication, all with freely available software. But without application software, they don't mean much. I'm looking

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 03:26:12AM -0400, Chad Perrin wrote: Simon Kitching wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 18:14, CaT wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 02:50:43PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: s. keeling wrote: I gave up on both of those; they're equally uncontrollable, and far too fat to leave

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 11:21:35AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2004-06-15T15:52:23Z, Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: He got it from someone surmising that my KDE was 200Mb without backing it up. I think you're probably right. Maybe it's that people load KDE and launch one

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 08:40:22AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: CaT wrote: It's more of a case of 'Isn't 240Mb (or 200 cos of squid) a bit much for a pretty desktop?' ;) That depends. To a person with ~700Mb, no. To a person with ~8Mb, yes. However somehow this became a holy war of OMG

Re: performing diff on parts of a file

2004-06-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:23:11PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: I am looking for a program/script(?) which performs diff on parts of a file. Say I have a file of 100 lines. How to do diff on lines between 20-30, and 50-60 without writing them into separate files. Which software should

system sends empty emails to myself - should I worry?

2004-06-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On my home server I get about once every couple of days an empty email sent to myself as the regular user. The headers seem to indicate that it originated on the local machine but nothing else. I have smtp access I once setup there but currently its blocked to the world using the firewall.

Re: Debian

2004-06-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:51:45AM +0200, Pablo Cebrian Piazuelo wrote: Please, I have installed Debian 30r2-i386 succesfully. But, when I get into the shell and I want to change to Xwindows, a message appears saying that I have Screens detected, but any can be used. So I can't get into the

Re: Ugly (xemacs) font

2004-06-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 04:00:10PM +0200, Joachim Reichel wrote: Hi, the menu font in my xemacs is really ugly (I've uploaded a screenshot to http://www.joachim-reichel.de/tmp/xemacs.png). I know how to set the fonts for the editor window, but not for the menu. I do not notice font

Re: Debian testing vs unstable for home workstation?

2004-06-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 04:45:06AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 07:29:43AM +, Adam Funk wrote: I've been using Debian testing on my home workstation for a while now and am generally happy with it, but I understand there are some disadvantages in comparison with

Re: OT wordprocessing anyone?

2004-06-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:28:06AM -0400, richard lyons wrote: On Friday 11 June 2004 09:08, Brendan Halpin wrote: Matthias Czapla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 08:03:00AM -0400, richard lyons wrote: Do folk here have recommendations about how to do

Re: apt-get through a proxy

2004-06-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 09:37:14AM -0600, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: Hi guys, I am currently on an installation that accesses the internet over a proxy. apt-get stopped working for me with this configuration. Is there a way to get apt-get working via a proxy? You can define

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:31:01AM -0500, James W. Thompson, II wrote: I am working on building a web browsing kiosk, no other functionality with Debian. I am planning to use FireFox and was wondering about the best Window Manager for the job. Here is the biggest catch, the system is old. +

Re: Console only box?

2004-06-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 03:17:35PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Cheryl Homiak wrote: I've actually found very few sites I can't read in lynx; I don't find it useless at all. You do have to figure out which links to enter on, but it most certainly does handle frames. Ok, let's take a

Re: how to keep 2.4 and 2.6 kernels simultaneously

2004-06-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 03:21:31PM +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote: I am using Debian/unstable and recently instlaled kernel 2.6.6. Now on my system I have three kernels, viz., 2.4.20-bf2.4, 2.4.26-1-686 and 2.6.6-1-686. The problem is that 2.4 and 2.6 kernels have different set of modules to

Re: Website creating software

2004-06-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:14:47PM -0400, S.D.A. wrote: On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:36:27AM -0400 or thereabouts, Nick Smith wrote: forget frontpage, what about a dreamweaver alternative? i do respect the hand coding people out there, i too started coding with VI, but there is no way im

Re: Website creating software

2004-06-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 08:00:51PM -0400, richard lyons wrote: On Monday 07 June 2004 11:56, Micha Feigin wrote: [...] Doesn't mozilla also have an html editor? [...] Have you _read_ any html produced by Mozilla? I really do not think you can recommend anyone to go that route. I

Re: Simultaneous mounting dvd cdrw conflict

2004-06-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:53:24AM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 02:03, Adam Bogacki wrote: Tux:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd mount: /dev/dvd is not a block device Tux:~# ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd ln: `/dev/dvd/hdc': File exists I think your /dev/dvd link

Re: Possible convert to Debian

2004-06-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:10:18PM -0500, John Fleming wrote: Consider me a newbie, but with enough experience to be dangerous. I started learning Linux with RH8.0 about a year ago. I later installed Fedora Core 1 and have upgraded to FC2, but I'm not happy with the upgrade process (they

Re: Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 04:19:32PM +0200, J. Preiss wrote: dpgk-reconfigure is only required if you want to reconfigure a package. Packages remember the initial configurations so you need to configure them on upgrade only if a configuration option changed. The problem is that everything

Re: Website creating software

2004-06-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:47:08AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: The main problem with FrontPage and DWMX is that they tend to be very incompatible with anything other then explorer, especially when using dhtml and css, but also some features with regular html. Eh

Re: Administrative rights for special task

2004-06-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:11:30PM +0200, Debian Users wrote: Dear List, I would like to give a regular user the rights to do the following on a Debian system: 1) Install a (secure) ldap server 2) Test the server 3) Fill in the address data base for this server Question: Does this

Re: How to write to XP (ntfs)?

2004-06-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 10:50:49PM -0700, Mike Chandler wrote: On Sunday 06 June 2004 06:26 pm, Micha Feigin wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 03:30:54PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not true, tools exist to to use it just as you would a fat32 filesystem. Knoppix uses them, in fact

Re: Website creating software

2004-06-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 03:56:27PM +0200, Joost De Cock wrote: On Monday 07 June 2004 15:31, jack kinnon hurled the following on the wire: Hi Thanks for the input. What I am referring to is something like the MS FrontPage, not just an ordinary editor.

Re: Dear Debian Maintainers (usability)

2004-06-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 04:47:56PM +0200, J. Preiss wrote: It is great what you are doing. But the usability of debian itself... I get the feeling that I'm too stupid to use it. I do understand the installation stuff with apt-get, ok. If the package configures itself, it may works. But when

Re: Software to create 3D buttons for use on web pages, etc

2004-06-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:18:12AM +, Simon L wrote: Kevin Murphy wrote: I'm interested in creating 3D-buttons, ideally with a rounded, ray-traced look. Anybody have any advice? I am hoping that someone has scripted one of the major graphics programs to help automate this

Re: How to write to XP (ntfs)?

2004-06-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 03:30:54PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not true, tools exist to to use it just as you would a fat32 filesystem. Knoppix uses them, in fact and that's based on debian. Don't know of any, and the kernel driver certainly doesn't support that. It supports only

Re: New ADSL user - need net and firewall help

2004-06-05 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 11:35:05AM -0500, Russ Cook wrote: Please help. For many years I have been using Debian Linux on machines at home, including a machine dedicated for dial-up access and masquerading for my home lan. My lan also consists of two windows machines for family members.

Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?

2004-06-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:39:46PM -0400, Ignatz Sol wrote: Knoppix, which is Debian-based, installed to the hard drive? Then as your skills grow, you'll eventually be able to convert it to pure Debian. -- Ah, I didn't know that Knoppix was Debian-based! Knoppix was the first

Re: broken cups in sid

2004-06-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 05:47:54PM -0400, richard lyons wrote: On Tuesday 01 June 2004 14:39, Tristan Mills wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 19:10, richard lyons wrote: [...] cupsys shouldn't be depending on libcupsys2. Its kdelibs4 (and probably 3) which do. If you can live without KDE then

Re: VMware-4.5 workstation under Debian/testing?

2004-06-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 12:10:23PM +1000, glenn wrote: Hi Ishwar I run vmware workstation on sid (upto date latest, you know the one that unistalls samba and kde and messes with cups) with 2.6.6, and have done on 2.6.5 for ages, and server out windows advanced server to upto 3 clients with

Re: Integrate DRI Mach-64 into 2.6.* kernels?

2004-06-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 08:55:26AM +0300, David Baron wrote: Some have managed to compile and get this working. I have not. Even so, one would need to redo this for any kernel upgrade and there is no guaranty it would work this time around. Maybe it is time to integrate this module into

Re: Kernel-2.6.5 and modules question..

2004-06-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 10:40:57PM -0400, Jerome R. Acks wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 12:29:15PM -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: I am running kernel 2.6.5. I removed the ide-scsi line from /etc/modules but it is loaded all the same. Looks like a fresh /etc/modules is generated at every

Re: edit pdf's

2004-05-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 07:36:42PM +, Pedro M. (Morphix User) wrote: Dave Thayer escribi?: On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:08:58PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:01:16PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:30:11AM -0400, Ralph Katz

Re: VMware-4.5 workstation under Debian/testing?

2004-05-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 08:10:01PM -0500, Greg Norris wrote: On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 08:22:39PM -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: I am interested in running vmware-4.5 work-station under debian/testing (2.6.5). The software (not purchased yet) has a rpm package and a tar.gz that contains files

Re: VMware-4.5 workstation under Debian/testing?

2004-05-31 Thread Micha Feigin
) or sharing folders or any other net related activity for some reason (should work since connection should work both directions, but ...) That is less annoying though then USB peripherals failing to be recognized in the guest for some reason. Micha Feigin wrote: On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 08:22:39PM

Re: X not starting on Intel 845G

2004-05-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 12:47:49PM +0530, H.A. Sujith wrote: I have debian 3.0r2 woody. I have an on board graphics controller Intel 845G/L (Brookdale). X server is not starting on my computer. It gives the error No devices detected. I have tried everything from Modifying Does it say no

Re: USB driver for digital camera?

2004-05-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 02:47:06PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: My wife just bought me a Polaroid PhotoMAX 640 SE for Fathers' Day, at a yard sale. It seems to be complete with everything except the original batteries and I am trying to get it working under Linux. It says that it is TWAIN

Re: VMware-4.5 workstation under Debian/testing?

2004-05-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 08:22:39PM -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: I am interested in running vmware-4.5 work-station under debian/testing (2.6.5). The software (not purchased yet) has a rpm package and a tar.gz that contains files for RH/Mandralke/SuSe. Is any one running it suceesfully under

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-05-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 07:55:49PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: s. keeling wrote: Indentation is syntactical in python. No, I don't know why. Better to ask why in most other languages there are two syntaxes. One for the computer, one for the human. This is legal: if

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-05-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 08:46:22PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-05-29, Micha Feigin penned: On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 01:32:24PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: And if it's python, we're hosed. Since I am not a python user, why so? Because in python, scope is determined entirely

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-05-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 01:13:38PM +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Once upon a time Micha Feigin said... On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 12:00:03PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-05-28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: s. keeling wrote: However, this is likely only a problem for those

Re: broken cups in sid

2004-05-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 03:01:42PM -0400, richard lyons wrote: Anyone else had problems with this? I dist-upgraded from sarge to sid abt. three days ago, and lost (amongst others) cups. As far as I could understand, there was a conflict between two versions of libcupsys2. At first, I

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-05-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 12:41:53PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: You don't have same power of scrolling, searching, syntax highlighting, customizable indentation etc. as with a proper editor. Only one of those claims is true. I'll leave it as an exercise to you

Re: broken cups in sid

2004-05-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 06:43:00PM -0400, richard lyons wrote: On Saturday 29 May 2004 17:33, Micha Feigin wrote: On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 03:01:42PM -0400, richard lyons wrote: I dist-upgraded from sarge to sid abt. three days ago, and lost (amongst others) cups. As far as I could

Re: broken cups in sid

2004-05-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 11:12:06PM +0100, Tristan Mills wrote: On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 03:01:42PM -0400, richard lyons wrote: Anyone else had problems with this? I dist-upgraded from sarge to sid abt. three days ago, and lost (amongst others) cups. As far as I could understand, there

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-05-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 04:50:09PM -0500, dircha wrote: Kai Grossjohann wrote: Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: if (foo){ if (bar){ foreach $foo (@bar){ while $foo $baz{ some really long and convoluted computation here } } } } Now expand that out to

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-05-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 05:56:00PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: And I don't remember the syntax, but you can get vim to use tabs instead of spaces also. No self respecting programmer should ever use tabs. Ever. And yeah, I know certain people (*cough*Linus*cough

Re: Xvideo not working with ATI drivers under Debian

2004-05-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 07:05:46AM +0300, Alon Altman wrote: Hi, I've attached my XFree configuration and log file. The problem is that my ATI 3D RAGE PRO AGP card does not work with Xvideo under X11 under Debian. The same card worked correctly under Mandrake. When I run xvinfo I get:

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-05-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 12:00:03PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-05-28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: s. keeling wrote: However, this is likely only a problem for those of us who hate tabs. Those who like tabs are blissfully ignorant of the problems they cause. Thankfully,

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-05-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 01:32:24PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Monique Y. Mudama: On 2004-05-28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: s. keeling wrote: However, this is likely only a problem for those of us who hate tabs. Those who like tabs are blissfully ignorant of the

mozilla-firebird tabbrowser extensions open in ... disabled

2004-05-28 Thread Micha Feigin
In the current version of mozilla with tabbrowser extensions installed under the tabbrowser settings-context menu the open in ... options are grayed out and I can't get at the Open in new active tab option for right clicking on links option which I used a lot and really like. Any ideas what

Re: Beta4 Installer - Multiple Debian Versions?

2004-05-27 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 09:43:31AM -0400, Adam Aube wrote: Kenneth Jacker wrote: I've been doing some experimental installs (which, BTW, have worked perfectly so far) using the Beta4 installer: Good. Have you been filing install reports? The console login screen shows the following:

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-05-27 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 04:41:55PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Steve Lamb: Faheem Mitha wrote: Bob Proulx makes good points elsewhere in this thread. Whether you like the indentation as syntax feature is really a matter of taste. Personally, I am ambivalent about it. On the

Re: c++ hello world help

2004-05-27 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 07:09:54AM -0400, Lorenzo Prince wrote: Thus spake Kevin Mark: # gcc works with C programs. # but c++ programs cant find the libs. and use g++ for c++ it has some extra definitions for where the c++ libraries and headers are located. #

Re: how to install wvware ?

2004-05-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:28:06AM +0200, bing yu wrote: thank you for your information and thank s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] giving me another option.(catdoc) i have installed wvware.the doc attachment can properly displayed in mutt. which is really ecouraging. but here is another

Re: chkrootkit output question - Unknown HZ value!???

2004-05-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 03:24:43PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 11:16:54AM -0700, August MacBeth wrote: | i'm getting some strange output from chkrootkit on one of my woody | servers. can anyone tell me what this means? i ran chkrootkit | again to see if it went

Re: C Compiler

2004-05-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 03:15:35PM -0500, Edwards, Thomas W. wrote: I am attempting to install mysql , while compiling I get an error that says C Compiler cannot create executables? Does this error sound familiar? I could be a permission issue. I know some systems don't allow compiling as a

cd ejects on its own

2004-05-23 Thread Micha Feigin
My cdrom has started to eject cds on its own lately. Any ideas on what may be causing it or how to check it? Its a cd writer on a laptop mounted using scsi emulation with kernel 2.4.27-pre1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

X can't find synaptics driver

2004-05-23 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried installing the xfree86-driver-synaptics (up to a spelling mistake here) for unstable. I then added Load synaptics to XF86Config-4 as the docs say. When trying to start X I then get a message that the synaptics driver was not found. I checked and its in the right place with the right

[Solved] Re: X can't find synaptics driver

2004-05-23 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 01:50:10AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: I tried installing the xfree86-driver-synaptics (up to a spelling mistake here) for unstable. I then added Load synaptics to XF86Config-4 as the docs say. When trying to start X I then get a message that the synaptics driver

lost open in new active tab in firefox context menu for links

2004-05-23 Thread Micha Feigin
I just lost the open in new active tab option in firefox after the last upgrade today (don't know if it is related). I have tab extensions installed, and I looked in the context option in the settings, under expert it seems to have an open in ... option but its grayed out. Any ideas anyone? --

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-05-22 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:55:35PM -0400, richard lyons wrote: I'm asking for a bit of advice here. I wish to convert a kaddressbook database to abook format saving as many fields as possible. I could do this by exporting to cvs, importing to gnumeric (or any spreadsheet), shuffling

Re: any other live cd like knoppix ?

2004-05-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 02:22:06PM +0200, wrote: demudi is one anyother distrabution of live cd like knoppix? You can also have a look at mepis, its debian based with kde (or icewm) desktop. Its look is a bit cleaner in my taste to the Knoppix default one. One main complaint against it

Re: KNOPPIX CD to check computer's linux compatibility?

2004-05-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 08:35:17PM -0400, alex wrote: alex wrote: This is followup to my previously posted 'Integrated video and audio-OK for Linux?' What I'm looking for is a way to run quick compatibility checks with a KNOPPIX CD on display computers in computer stores, something that

Re: Xserver

2004-05-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:35:37PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: * J Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030905 16:30]: Hi I am new to debian, but have used those big commercial distros. I installed 3.0 but am not having any luck getting X to start. I reinstalled several times taking a lot of time

Re: ext2 to reiserfs conversion

2004-05-14 Thread Micha Feigin
, but not the / ) This should probably have gone to the list. Micha Feigin wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 10:27:37AM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: from what I know, you can not. That is to say, that you can not do it without backing up or transferring you

Re: ext2 to reiserfs conversion

2004-05-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 10:27:37AM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: from what I know, you can not. That is to say, that you can not do it without backing up or transferring you data. Actually, you might be able to. Look at

Re: VMware 4 and Woody R2

2004-05-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:44:50AM -0600, Alfredo Cole wrote: Hi: I want to install Debian 3.0 R2 in a VMware virtual machine. The VMware tools require that the kernel sources are present, and the linux.h is available. However, there are no kernel sources for 2.4.18-bf2.4 when I do apt-get

Re: ntfs mount permissions

2004-05-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 03:15:12PM +0100, Matthew Kay wrote: Hi, I'm trying to mount my windows NTFS partition with this line in my fstab: /dev/hda1 /mnt/winntfs rw,auto,users,exec 0 0 Try /dev/hda1 /mnt/winntfs ro,auto,users,exec,umask=0222

Re: disks are hot hot hot

2004-05-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 03:35:29PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: Hi all, I've recently built my first ever server with a pre-compiled kernel (2.6.4 from backports.org). I had two 160GB SATA disks which both failed after only a couple of months. I found this extremely strange, unless they

Re: VMware 4 and Woody R2

2004-05-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 05:26:47PM -0600, Alfredo Cole wrote: El Mar 11 May 2004 15:00, Greg Folkert escribi?: (...) Actually you only need the headers package for you kernel. apt-get install kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 VMware's install will find them easily automagically. Also get

Re: graphic card problems

2004-05-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 12:10:51PM -0400, Silvan wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 07:48 am, James Hosken wrote: | To follow up from this, I've managed to get gnoppix working better than | Knoppix. I have managed to copy the whole of Gnoppix's /etc/X11. | What parts of /etc/X11 should I be

Re: Newby can't get Xwindows running

2004-05-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 09:52:17AM +1000, David Moore wrote: From: Micha Feigin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 03:51:13PM +1000, David Moore wrote: As a complete novice to Linux, please bear with me if my explanation of the problem is confused. I installed

Re: What do I need in Kernel for DSL

2004-05-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 11:23:32AM +0200, Werner Mahr wrote: Content-Description: signed data Hi all, I want to get rid of my bf24 kernel, and have some problems with the regular kernel-packages. For this I want to compile my own, and when I do that, I will take 2.6.x. I compile it with no

Re: Switching daemons between boxes

2004-05-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 01:09:01PM +0200, John Smith wrote: Hi All, I want to be able to switch application daemons between separate debian boxes and am looking for the most efficient way to move the ip-address with it with as little hardcoding the addresses as possible, in order

Re: Newbie-ish question: centralized debian place for X startup programs?

2004-05-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 10:14:34AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 11:58:32PM -0500, Jaime Herazo B. wrote: Is there a standard debian place for stuff like this? like a $HOME/.startup file or something like that? that isn't dependant on the windowmanager? if not,

Re: What do I need in Kernel for DSL

2004-05-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 07:51:17PM +0200, Werner Mahr wrote: Content-Description: signed data Am Montag, 3. Mai 2004 17:02 schrieb Micha Feigin: Any more information on the type of connection and type of modem? D-Link 360i on Ethernet, with german T-Online. Don't know what that is. Do

Re: Newby can't get Xwindows running

2004-05-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 03:51:13PM +1000, David Moore wrote: As a complete novice to Linux, please bear with me if my explanation of the problem is confused. I installed Debian 3.0 r2 woody kernel 2.2.20 (many times on 2 different machines) using defaults and keeping as simple as possible,

Re: Newby can't get Xwindows running

2004-05-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 08:08:58AM -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: David Moore wrote: As a complete novice to Linux, please bear with me if my explanation of the problem is confused. I installed Debian 3.0 r2 woody kernel 2.2.20 (many times on 2 different machines) using defaults and keeping

Re: CD Burning Software

2004-05-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 04:22:33AM -0700, Umar Draz wrote: Hi Dear Members! i have Debian and Redhat Server (CLI) based now i want CD burner package. So please help me what kind of package me should use? For gui both k3b and xcdroast are quite good. Personally I prefer k3b though.

Re: Program PORT ?

2004-05-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:56:39AM +0800, Support wrote: Dear: Debian Users What is the command to check which PORT is currently use in my Linux Server...? perhaps you mean netstat? I usually do netstat -tulpen as root you will also get process name Best Regards, SKLIM --

case insensitive find and grep

2004-05-01 Thread Micha Feigin
How can I do case insensitive file finding and grep? Both grep and find are case sensitive and writing the search as [fF][iI][lL][eE] is quite cumbersome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: measuring cpu frequency

2004-05-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 04:48:24PM +, Ivan Fernandez wrote: OK, I've been trying to set up cpu frequency scaling in my Dell Inspiron 5150 (3.06GHz Mobile Pentium 4, debian testing and 2.6.5 kernel). I seem to have everything in place, cpu frequency scaling compiled into the kernel,

problem with samba authentication

2004-05-01 Thread Micha Feigin
I am trying to mount a share from my window computer on my linux box. This mount worked before but now I seem to have problems with the authentication. Trying the user with no password give me the following error: mount -t smbfs -o 'username=user,password=' //meravi/shared /mnt/mnt_pnt/

Re: Anacron vs. cron.

2004-05-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 04:27:01PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 07:41:50PM +0100, Geoff Thurman wrote: Anacron is recommended if your computer is not left on more or less continuously. I'm not sure why it doesn't just supercede cron, or why it isn't pulled in with it

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-21 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:22:20AM +0300, Kristian Niemi wrote: Is there a GUI available? I'm also thinking of switching a relatives computer from win 98 to debian, and currently the only obstacle is ... access. And perhaps I could learn mySQL, but she /really/ doesn't want to. What she

Re: firefox deleted all my bookmarks

2004-04-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 07:36:22PM +0100, Stephen Patterson wrote: Katipo wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: I just saw that firefox deleted all my bookmarks (and there were quite a lot of them) I think that happened with the last upgrade. Anyone else see this? There was a thread

firefox deleted all my bookmarks

2004-04-18 Thread Micha Feigin
I just saw that firefox deleted all my bookmarks (and there were quite a lot of them) I think that happened with the last upgrade. Anyone else see this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 05:49:45PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: On 04/17/04 10:00, Penbrock wrote: I want to make the jump from XP to Debian with KDE. I have a few programs I am trying to find Linux replacements for and am having a hard time. Can anyone help me find replacements for these

Re: Mounting an NTFS partition: users can't access it.

2004-04-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 11:38:18AM +0200, Markus Lindstr?m wrote: Hi there again, I'm having some rouble mounting my NTFS partition. The actual mounting problem goes without trouble, the thing is that only the superuser can actually access the drive. How can I change this? Try adding

Re: Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2004-04-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 12:13:59AM +0100, Andy Morris wrote: Just been browsing and came across this dicussion, and thought i might be able to give some input. I'm a software grad (well this summer) and use both linux(gentoo 2.6.xxx cant remember specifically) and xp pro sp1 as home os's

Re: upgrading windoze partition

2004-04-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 11:56:17PM -0700, Roy Pluschke wrote: Currently running a dual boot system win98 and sid (lilo is my boot manager). I have to update my little used windows partition to windows 2000 for a particular program but I am afraid this will cause problems with lilo by

Re: chkrootkit gives this message, should I be worried?

2004-04-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 03:40:01PM -0400, H. S. wrote: Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: Hm? .DS_Store is created by Apple Macintosh Computers to save some additional Settings. Have you been playing with i.e. netatalk? Bye, Ratti Nope, not at all! Here is what file has to say: $

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 04:29:57AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 05:58:57PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-04-12, Adam Aube penned: Monique Y. Mudama wrote: Well, more unstable than the stable distribution takes a lot longer to type and wouldn't fit on

Re: Debian has turned unusable.

2004-04-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 07:54:23PM +0200, Trollcollect wrote: Hello list, after 3 days of twiddling with a recent copy of debians woody release i need to vent a bit of the anger and frustration that this distribution has caused. I want to start with saying that i was a strong advocate

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 11:13:41AM -0400, Chris Metzler wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:19:39 +0300 Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sarge -- alternatives to TESTING: - desktop - user - mostly stable - freezing In that case it should be: Unstable

Re: no DRI in X

2004-04-12 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 09:49:23AM +0200, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: $ glxinfo name of display: :0.0 Xlib: extension XFree86-DRI missing on display :0.0. display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No My XF86config (the relevant parts): Section Module #Load GLCore Load

Re: AMD vs. Intel

2004-04-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 10:30:39PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.04.09.1949 +0200]: It won't hurt. But nmi_watchdog is only for usermode and kernemode hangs. The NMI watchdog is useless against nasty bugs (hw or sw) that make

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