Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-12 Thread Michael Waters
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:38 -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > I did change the user agent an hour or two ago to IE6 & Windows/XP just to > see > and it didn't make a difference. > > The site doesn't use pop-ups either. I just loaded the site with firefox and > after a few minutes of being patient as

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-12 Thread Michael Waters
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:38 -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Sun November 12 2006 17:54, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 04:53:52PM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > Hello List, > > > > > > I am having trouble browsing my banks web site to do online banking. I > > > can log into the site

Re: Problem: wacom - Partial Sol'n

2006-10-28 Thread Michael Waters
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:31 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I forgot that I had encountered a problem when I first attached the > wacom pad which I ultimately solved by editing the xorg.conf file to add > the following sections: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "stylus" > Dri

Re: xsetwacom parameter question

2006-10-28 Thread Michael Waters
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:13 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I have tried changing the Motion_Buffer from 256 to 0 with xsetwacom set > cursor Motion_Buffer 0. Result: Motion_Buffer is an unknown parameter. > > My object is to correct the following problem resulting from the move > from Sarge to

Re: mozilla window position

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Waters
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 03:40 -0500, Michael Waters wrote: > I upgraded mozilla in unstable from 1.7.3 to 1.7.5 and now it doesn't > remember its previous window position. Does anyone know an option to > force a position such as -geometry or --geometry= ? I've tried those as

mozilla window position

2005-01-06 Thread Michael Waters
Hi, I upgraded mozilla in unstable from 1.7.3 to 1.7.5 and now it doesn't remember its previous window position. Does anyone know an option to force a position such as -geometry or --geometry= ? I've tried those as well as searching through about:config and trying lines such as below in ~/.Xreso

Re: Kmix: mixer cannot be found

2004-12-06 Thread Michael Waters
On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 09:20 +0800, Lian Liming wrote: > Hi all, >I am using kde and my sound card can work under the kde environment. > I can use xmms or mplayer to play music or video. I can also heard the > sound of kde startup. > >But when i want to use kmix to control the volume, it re

Re: kernel 2.4.27 doesn't set dma

2004-08-26 Thread Michael Waters
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:01 +0300, Alexei Chetroi wrote: > I've recently upgraded to kernel 2.4.27 and noticed that my disk > doesn't use dma, though it was instructed to do so by hdparm. cat > /proc/pci shows me > Bus 0, device 31, function 1: > IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U1

Re: "Yahoo briefcase"-like app?

2004-03-08 Thread Michael Waters
On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 15:52 -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Does anyone know of a web application that provides "Yahoo > Briefcase"-like functionality for authenticated users? > Basically, this is a general-purpose storage space to allow > putting and getting files via a web frontend. > > The ability t

Re: rip VCD audio

2004-03-06 Thread Michael Waters
On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 00:59 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > Bought a VCD, where I am only interested in the sound. > I can play it (xine), but have no good clue how to rip the audio only; to > MP3 on debian. > I tried google, without much success. Also apt-cache search didn't come up > with a convincing

Re: what tool to view CDROM containing TV show?

2003-10-30 Thread Michael Waters
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Gentlemen, I have been send a CDROM with a television show on it. > What might be the right tool to view it? The CDROM's structure is: > $ tree -s > |-- [ 27] autorun.inf > |-- [ 2048] cdda > |-- [ 2048] cdi > |-- [ 2048] ext > |--

Re: International Characters

2003-10-14 Thread Michael Waters
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003, Tom wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:44:22AM +0200, Gavin Costello wrote: > > On 14-Oct-2003 02:35AM -0700, Tom wrote: > > > What I don't understand is, a lot of the European developers will send > > > an email with what is obviously a lowercase-grave-accent-e, which is >

Re: Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems [solved]

2003-07-31 Thread Michael Waters
it works!!! Thank you so much Neal, thank you, thank you, thank you. I had given up hope. :) On Wed, Jul 30, 2003, Neal Lippman wrote: > OK, here's what I notice: in /dev, your /dev/sd* device entries are > correctly set up with block major device number 8, as is the case for > the first (I thi

Re: Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems

2003-07-29 Thread Michael Waters
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003, Neal Lippman wrote: > can you post the output of: > > 1) ls -l /dev/sd* > > and > > 2) cat /proc/devices Hi, thank you again for trying to help me. I appreciate it. Below is the output. I apologize to the list for the size of this email but I hope someone can see somethi

Re: Can't Keep Kernel Log Messages From Console

2003-07-29 Thread Michael Waters
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003, Brian White wrote: > > > I've been trying to stop kernel log messages (generally from iptables) > > > from going to the console, and thus making the console unusable for login. > > > I've tried different things, but they just keep popping up. > > > > > > I have "iptables" line

Re: Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems

2003-07-29 Thread Michael Waters
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > Michael Waters wrote: > | Hi list, > | > | I can't get this usb reader to work at all with a smartmedia card (i > | don't have a compact flash card to test) although searching on the web > | suggests that the sddr-75 is

Re: Network card not detected or listed in installation

2003-07-29 Thread Michael Waters
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003, ThinKer wrote: > Ok.. I have the disks partitioned and mounted. I am ready to install > the base system, but when I installed the kernel and driver modules, my > network card was not detected. I then went to configure device driver > modules and selected 'net' for Drivers for

Re: Can't Keep Kernel Log Messages From Console

2003-07-29 Thread Michael Waters
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003, Brian White wrote: > I've been trying to stop kernel log messages (generally from iptables) > from going to the console, and thus making the console unusable for login. > I've tried different things, but they just keep popping up. > > I have "iptables" lines like: > > ipta

Re: Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Waters
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > I had endless trouble setting up my SmartMedia reader. The key problem > was... > > I was putting the SmartMedia card in the wrong way up! > > I spent about a day messing about with /dev/sda, /dev/sda1, mount -t > msdos, this variable, that variab

Re: Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Waters
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 09:52 +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > Neal accidentally sent this message to me instead of to the list... > > ,[ Neil Lippman's message ] > | > > | > Did you try to mount a specific partition on the cam and the > reader > | > instead of the whole device, ie. 'mount /dev/s

Re: Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems

2003-07-27 Thread Michael Waters
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 00:23 +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > > `mount -t vfat /dev/sd[a,b] /mnt/flash/` gives: > > mount: /dev/sd[a,b] is not a valid block device > > > > [...] > > > > I bought the reader because I was having similar problems with my > > camera. It's an Olympus D-510. I didn't

Re: Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems

2003-07-27 Thread Michael Waters
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 18:03 -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 16:38, Michael Waters wrote: > > I think the problem may be that sg is not mapping the reader slots to > > /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. When I do `sg_map`, I get: (scd0 is a cdrw) > > > > /dev/

Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems

2003-07-27 Thread Michael Waters
Hi list, I can't get this usb reader to work at all with a smartmedia card (i don't have a compact flash card to test) although searching on the web suggests that the sddr-75 is a standard USB Mass Storage device and there are reports that it works in linux. I've followed the suggestions here: ht

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-02 Thread Michael Waters
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:02 +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > I tried many editors, I found them all crap. > > What I wanted was a port of Edit which came with MSDos6. Alas there is non. > > I did try using RHIDE, a programming IDE, for a while, ok as a text editor. > > These days I just use Tou

Re: Some kernel compile questions

2003-03-07 Thread Michael Waters
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 13:14 +0530, Sukrit wrote: > i have some kernel related questions, i have read the fine manunal > (kernel-howto) but didn't get answers to these. > > 1. How do i decide which modules to load at boot time, which file is > to be edited? (i am thinking that i'll compile suppor

Re: XMMS and CD Audio Broken

2003-03-06 Thread Michael Waters
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 19:04 -0800, Lonnie Sutton wrote: > I am using Woody 3.0 and XMMS 1.2.7 and until recently had both a SCSI > CD Burner and an IDE CDROM that I used for normally reading data and > playing CD's, using XMMS. My IDE CDROM recently died, so I thought I > would just change my fst

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-27 Thread Michael Waters
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:46 +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > Greetings Mark. You piqued my interest when you mentioned "burning > VCDs." Under Linux, I have not been able to either copy or > roll-my-own VCDs. Xcdroast, for example, seems to copy VCDs fine - > but the copies won't play. Most any Wind

Re: Burning cd's makes the computer really really slow

2003-02-20 Thread Michael Waters
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:43 +, cirrus wrote: > Ok I know the answer is somewhere out there but can't seem to find it. > I've got a 48x speed cd-recorder and whenever I start writing a cd, cpu usage > goes up to 100%(well almost 100%, can't even play an ogg file properly). > Grabbing a copy o

Re: nslookup --- which package?

2003-02-20 Thread Michael Waters
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:44 -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > I have been unable to locate this utility. The more I look, the sillier > I feel. Wasn't this in some util pkg? The closest I've come is > ptknslookup in the ptknettools pkg. I'd prefer non X. > > Running Sarge. Hi, I hate it when tha

Re: md5sum & cmp don't work on wav & avi files

2003-01-16 Thread Michael Waters
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 17:22 +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Should I be thinking of reinstalling from scratch after replacing the > > ram? :( > > Shouldn't be necessary, although you may have to reinstall a few > packages if they turn out to have been broken ... > > > Is there a way of checking

Re: md5sum & cmp don't work on wav & avi files

2003-01-15 Thread Michael Waters
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 22:14 -0800, nate wrote: > sounds like it could be bad hardware. I've never had such a thing happen. > I tried downloading that WAV file and copied it to 4 different places > (2 local partitions and 2 NFS partitions located on different systems) and > the md5sum remained the

md5sum & cmp don't work on wav & avi files

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Waters
Hi, I was stress testing an old P233 that I just got when I discovered that md5sum, cmp, and cksum don't seem to work on particular wav & avi files. Does anyone know anything about this? If I use md5sum several times on the same particular file, I get differing sums. If I copy the file to a d

Re: many packages need to be upgraded

2002-12-15 Thread Michael Waters
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 02:04 +, Colin Watson wrote: > In the case of gcc-2.95: > > gcc-2.95 (2.95.4.ds13-11woody1) stable; urgency=low > > * Upload to woody-proposed-updates: > - Fix profiling for arm. > - Fix internal compiler errors on s390. > - Update Pascal release candidat

Re: gtreetop

2002-12-03 Thread Michael Waters
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 15:44 +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > gtop displays on a GUI what top can do (and more). > I'm looking for "gtreetop"; the one that does something like pstree. In > pstree, it is pretty simple to get the topmost pid of a particular parent > process. Please tell me where I can downloa

Re: What's an X2 modem?

2002-11-13 Thread Michael Waters
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:53 -0200, andrej hocevar wrote: > recently, someone's gave me an older internal USR V.90 modem, > supposed to work at 56k. However, all I got were speeds at about > 33k. That was when I noticed the modem uses some X2 technology. > > Can I make such a modem useful? I've

Re: (semi-OT) JPG files -> Movie file

2002-11-13 Thread Michael Waters
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 00:39 -0800, nate wrote: > I am in the process of learning perl, one of my first "real" scripts > is a script that goes to weather.com and grabs the current temp > and humidity and the radar report for a zip code so I can graph > it in mrtg(http://mrtg.aphroland.org/temperat

Re: compile pan 0.13.2 in testing

2002-11-12 Thread Michael Waters
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 20:10 +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > The 0.13.1 version you bulit from source segfaults on start? Have you > tried the Debian version? Hi, 0.13.1 in unstable or from source segfaults for me, however 0.13.0 in testing works. > > I can only guess that something I recently > > ap

Re: compile pan 0.13.2 in testing

2002-11-10 Thread Michael Waters
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 03:02 -0500, Michael Waters wrote: > Has anyone who runs testing been able to successfully compile pan > 0.13.x source ? 0.13.1 compiled and ran for me a while back but now > although the build finishes, if I try to run pan, it immediately exits > with a segmen

Re: dockable apps for icewm?

2002-11-09 Thread Michael Waters
> I've never tried it but there's this: > http://algol.prosalg.no/~malc/icedock/ . Or you could run just the gnome-panel (not gnome) on an edge of the screen where the taskbar is not and add applets that you want to it. The panel binary is named just 'panel'. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: dockable apps for icewm?

2002-11-09 Thread Michael Waters
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 18:00 +0100, Jens Grivolla wrote: > I have been using Icewm with a nice and lean theme for quite a while > now and find it very nice. However, I have been unable to find any > applications that would dock in the taskbar (except for the network, > mail, and APM monitors that

Re: true type fonts

2002-11-09 Thread Michael Waters
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 03:22 -0500, Michael Waters wrote: > Hi, are you referring to this: > http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/xfree4_tt.html ? There's a lot of > stuff there about adding your own fonts and stuff but all I did was > install msttcorefonts and xfs. Then add

Re: true type fonts

2002-11-09 Thread Michael Waters
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 23:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been trying to setup truetype fonts on my box. I did find good doc > when > I searched on google and did follow the instructions to the dot. save for > the simple fact that /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype is a link to > /usr/sha

compile pan 0.13.2 in testing

2002-11-09 Thread Michael Waters
Hi, Has anyone who runs testing been able to successfully compile pan 0.13.x source ? 0.13.1 compiled and ran for me a while back but now although the build finishes, if I try to run pan, it immediately exits with a segmentation fault. I can only guess that something I recently apt-get upgraded

Re: Upgrading to a SMP kernel ?

2002-11-05 Thread Michael Waters
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 00:49 -0900, W.D.McKinney wrote: > Thanks Nate. > Does Debian package the whole kernel, headers , etc. like this ? > Been running SuSE for a long time and I'm moving to Debian. > Hope these questions are not bugging you :-) The headers are in package 'kernel-headers'. kern

Re: Zapping's sound no longer works after a power outage

2002-11-01 Thread Michael Waters
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 23:18 +, Paul Lewis wrote: > Audio from Zapping has stopped working, all other desktop sounds seem > to work fine. Mail arrives, windows open with a whooosh. So I have > audio but not through Zapping. > > Anyone suggest where to look? > > Zapping sound configuration