Re: Compromise and updates

2003-11-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanasis Kinias writes: > > Am I understanding right that the current status of updates to the > > archives is that developers' accounts will only be unlocked when the > > nature of the local root vulnerability is uncovered and the vulnerability > > is fixe

Re: Suggestions for a window manager to replace Enlightenment

2003-11-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Chema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:32:56 -0500 > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PSG> After years of running E (without gnome), I might be tempted to use > PSG> something else. Any suggestions appreciated. > > Tr

Re: Suggestions for a window manager to replace Enlightenment

2003-11-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > After years of running E (without gnome), I might be tempted to > > use something else. Any suggestions appreciated. > > > > Here's what I really like about E: > > > > - min

Suggestions for a window manager to replace Enlightenment

2003-11-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
After years of running E (without gnome), I might be tempted to use something else. Any suggestions appreciated. Here's what I really like about E: - minimal screen real estate lost. I don't mind selecting an application by clicking the mouse first to get a menu. Minimal or no icon box. -

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-25 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 04:22, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > Not to start a flame war, but I don't think XEmacs is more graphical > > than Emacs21 (Emacs20, yes, but not Emacs21). > > I don't think I have used emac

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Sun, 19 Oct 2003 14:24:37 -0400, > Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > And CVS Emacs even uses GTK2... > > When will you package it? ;-) Jérôme Marant is planing on doing that soon. It's in alioth now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 19:43, Tom wrote: > > [Sunday 19 October 2003 19:09] John Hasler: > > > > > > To start with, it should be graphical, so vim, emacs and the like > > > > are no option to me... > > > > > > What do you mean by graphical? Emacs has menu

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Scott C. Linnenbringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 19:33:39 -0400, Peter S Galbraith > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > True enough. But Emacs is _one_ application. You'd think they could > > do better in terms of frequency of rele

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 19 October 2003 20:24, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > I guess I don't. Emacs _is_ graphical. And it has addons to do just > > about anything. > > Yeah, it's a nice OS, but it's desparately missing a

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 04:26:45PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > > [about emacs] > > > (And yes, as someone else mentioned, the CVS version cab be built > > against GTK. Hopefully, there will be a release someday) > > One could say the same about Debian

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Sunday 19 October 2003 19:09] John Hasler: > > > > To start with, it should be graphical, so vim, emacs and the like > > > are no option to me... > > > > What do you mean by graphical? Emacs has menus, icons, cut&paste > > with the mouse, mouse control of the cu

A note to Emacs `debview' and `debbugs-el' users

2003-10-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Hello, The debview package (an Emacs mode to view Debian packages) and the debbbugs-el package (Emacs helpers for the Debian BTS) have been merged into a new package called `debian-el': debian-el: Emacs helpers specific to Debian users This package contains: apt-sources.el: major mode for edi

Re: BUG in package, what to do?

2003-10-10 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:09:41PM +0200, A. Loonstra wrote: > > How long would it take, normally? > > There is no normal when it comes to bugfixes. Depends on how trivial > or non-trivial the bug is. If it's something like a packaging bug, > usually ne

Re: BUG in package, what to do?

2003-10-09 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Stuart Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 15:52, John Hasler wrote: > > Arnaud writes: > > > I found a problem with a package. I want it to be fixed since it hasn't > > > for days. What do I do? > > > > File a bug report. 'apt-get install reportbug', run reportbug, and f

Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???

2003-10-09 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:09:08:12:11-0700] scribed: > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:07:40AM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > > > > Where do I get mplayer? > > > > deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main > > > > > Is it `fre

Re: Graphing/Charting software

2003-10-09 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ian Melnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of good graphing software that won't crash with huge > amounts of data? All I need is a nice x-y plot graph, but I have over a > million points. Please consider using gri. http://gri.sourceforge.net/ There are graph examples here (the f

Re: Holy Spam!

2003-10-04 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I read this "list" via Newsguy.com. I subscribed, to get > posting rights, but the address forwards to /dev/null. You don't need to subscribe to be able to post. > I tried reading this mailing list with an email client. > Had to unsubscribe after a few hours. Apart

Re: script for zapping Swen at the pop server

2003-09-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
This works well: http://freshmeat.net/projects/swendeleter/?topic_id=29 To use in cron, I commented out the line: say "$nmails left in the mailbox"; So I only get cron email if it deleted anything. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: debian bug reporting

2003-09-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:30:07 -0500, > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Peter writes: > > > You're not likely to piss off a DD by submitting a real bug > > > (speaking as a DD). > > > > I prefer that all bugs

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-09-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After getting hundreds of infections per day early in the week of > 14-Sep, it seems to have radically tapered off: > > Date Count > -- - > 2003-09-1952 (10 hours) > 2003-09-2037 > 2003-09-2114 > 2003-09-2265 > 2003-09-23

Re: debian bug reporting

2003-09-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If there is a bug in a debian package and you are 90% sure its the > upstream developers fault should you still report it and let the > packager forward it upstream? I dont want to piss of debian packagers. You're not likely to piss off a DD by submitting

Re: mplayer package for sid?

2003-09-18 Thread Peter S Galbraith
jjluza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Jeudi 18 Septembre 2003 04:48, Peter S Galbraith a écrit : > > Anyone know of a packaged mplayer for sid? > > > > Thanks, > > Peter > > add this line to your sources.list : > deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unsta

mplayer package for sid?

2003-09-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Anyone know of a packaged mplayer for sid? Thanks, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Norton AntiVirus detected and quarantined a virus in a message you sent.

2003-08-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
What's with all these messages today? Consequence of the worm? NAVMSE-LEELA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recipient of the infected attachment: LEELA, First Storage > Group\Archived Mailboxes (LEELA), Valhouli, Christina/Inbox > Subject of the message: Re: Re: My details > One or more attachmen

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:19:42AM +1000, Tom Massey wrote: > > * Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-17 15:06]: > > > RMS: When I recommend a GNU/Linux distribution, I choose based on > > > ethical considerations. Today I would recommend GNU/LinEx, > >

Re: OT: Re: rms on debian : background noise

2003-08-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:03:02 + > "Jeff Gratton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > said that RMS is indeed a loser), I'm just saying that RMS shouldn't be > > taken at face value anymore, that is all :) > > I respectfully disagree -- RMS is one of t

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:19:24PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > I wish RMS was as concerned about free documentation as he is about free > > software. > > Could you elaborate a bit on that? What's the problem

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RMS: When I recommend a GNU/Linux distribution, I choose based on > ethical considerations. Today I would recommend GNU/LinEx, the > distribution prepared by the government of Extremadura, because that's > the only installable distribution that consists ent

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > TRB: What about Debian GNU/Linux, which by default does not install any > > non-free software? > > > > RMS: Non-free programs are not officially considered "part of Debian", > > but Debian does distribute them. The Debian web site describes non-free

Re: ATI Radeon 9000 question

2003-08-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Hi, I installed sid a few months ago with the experimental X4.3 and gor my Radeon 9000 Pro working well in 2D, but never got 3D working for OpenGL. Then a few weeks ago, my hard disk had problems and my root partition was unbootable. I downloaded the Knoppix CD to use as a rescue disk (and to tr

Re: from knoppix3.2 -> where?

2003-08-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've installed Knoppix 3.2-2003-07-26 which has kernel 2.4.21-xfs and > KDE 3.1.1 (Debian/unstable release). > Can anyone help me understand which flavour of debian I should be > tracking and installing from? I did the same and am tracking unstable.

Re: Radeon 9000 Pro

2003-08-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Antony Gelberg wrote: > >> > Maybe not. The site is NLA. I've emailed Daniel Stone to see where > >> > his Woody backports live these days, meanwhile if anyone knows where > >> > they are, please feel free to share! > >> > > >> > Antony > >> > >>

Re: filling the area under a curve in gnuplot

2003-06-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.06.16.0443 +0200]: > > I don't know of a way of doing it from within gnuplot. If you want the > > graph in some output format, however, I recommend writing it to EPS and > > editing the PostScript by

Re: xtide vs xtide-data in testing

2003-06-10 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 08:18:13AM -0400, stan wrote: > > Todays dist-upgrade "held back" xtide-data". Is this package being merged > > with xtide itself? Or what is the deal here? > > No, the new xtide-data only works with a new xtide. Normally this woul

Re: kernel compile problems with gcc 3.3

2003-06-09 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Dan Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 18:26:46 GMT, Matthias Leopold wrote: > >hi > > > >i tried to recompile my 2.4.20 kernel with make-kpkg (as i have > >successfully done before) incorporating the xfs and ck patches. this > >time the process stopped with the following error

Re: Radeon 9000 Pro anyone?

2003-01-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Haralambos Geortgilakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI All & Peter, > > Whoops, I meant to type in 9000, in a crucial sentence & did not > > Just to bee clear, I have a Power Color Radeon 9000 Pro 128 & the DRI stuff > gets it going in Tux! > > Now, download & enjoy! :-) Thanks! Peter

Re: Radeon 9000 Pro anyone?

2003-01-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Haralambos Geortgilakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > some Debianista's gets it a going with the ATI drivers & some not > > Surf thru this lists archive Didn't find anything in recent months anyway concerning the 9000. > or have a look at the foru

Radeon 9000 Pro anyone?

2003-01-18 Thread Peter S Galbraith
My brother gave me a 128MB Radeon 9000 Pro for Christmas to replace my aging 8MB Matrox G200. Does anyone here have one? For drivers, ATI distributes a binary RPM package here: http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html which says: "Fixed in this driver: * fglrxconfig p

Re: lyx-1.2

2002-12-10 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Kari Ruohonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just got a few lyx files prepared with version 1.2 and they are not > readable with the current debian version 1.1.6. I found the following > links from discussion groups to get unofficial debs fpr 1.2. > > /etc/apt/sources.list --

Re: Best plotting software?

2002-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have not tried this, but the description seems to help in the > situations you have outlined: > > brahman:~# apt-cache show gri > Package: gri > Maintainer: Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Descr

Re: email clients

2002-09-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Rick ter Schele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Peter> Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Proably old... but I've decided that I am getting

Re: email clients

2002-09-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Proably old... but I've decided that I am getting really tired of the > Mozilla email. It's OK, but it takes a while for it to load up and seems a > bit heavy at times. > > I am wondering two things: > First, any recommendations on a mail client? Since

Re: SGML-DTD: to lyx or not to lyx?

2002-09-06 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Abdul Latip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings: > > I am currently considering to use lyx as a standard > document processor. Unfortunately, it uses "non-free" > packages as well as "Type 3 Fonts" (what's that, btw?). The non-free XForms package will soon be in main, as will Lyx. [Sorry f

Re: Problem with nut and Cyberpower 1250AVR

2002-05-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Brenda J. Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure if you already solved this but: > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:52:20PM -0500, Bill Bell wrote: > > I have a Cyberpower 1250AVR connected to /dev/ttyS1 on my > > up-to-date Sid maching running nut. When I run > > "/etc/init.d/nut start" the

Re: [OT] Re: CALL FOR HELP

2002-03-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:59:04PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > > =?iso-8859-1?q?=20?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > FROM: MRS MARYAM XXX > > > XX COTE D' IVOIRE > > > TEL:XXX- XX-XX-XX-XX > > > > [snip for confidentiality] > > > > I

Re: install cperl-mode for emacs

2002-03-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26/03/02 Henrik Enberg did speaketh: > > > If you're using GNU Emacs you already have it installed. I belive the > > same is true for XEmacs. Put the following in your ~/.emacs.el > >=20 > > (defalias 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode) > > Grab the

Re: xpm4g

2002-03-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > dpkg -i libforms0_89.deb > give me the message: > libforms0_89 depends on xpm4g > can someone tell me where I can download xpm4g > (I try to install the package lyxdeb) $ apt-get install lyx That will download lyx, libforms0.89, etc...

Re: Auctex/LaTeX/Emacs problem

2002-02-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lo, on Monday, February 4, Ryan Claycamp did write: > > > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:08:52PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > Lo, on Sunday, February 3, Ryan Claycamp did write: > > > > > > > I have lost the color markings in xemacs when I edit a LaTeX

Re: MIME Decoding command-line tool?

2002-01-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Elizabeth Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been receiving MIME encoded messages in the mail from > someone. These are base64 encoded and I'm having trouble extracting > them. Is there a good command-line tool for doing this? 'munpack' from the mpack package. Peter

Re: Emacs HTML modes

2002-01-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>"Michael" == Michael P Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Michael> Normally the font-lock faces are set during > Michael> initialization of emacs, either from default values or from > Michael> the user's ~/.emacs file (like in my case).

Re: debbugs-el not working

2002-01-06 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> When I do > M-x debian-bug, > then enter j2re1.3, normal and "test" > (or anything else, doesn't matter), > I get > Signaling: (void-function mail-header-end) > > Any clue someone? Yeah. It needs to load sendmail.el. M-x load-library [RET] sendmail [RET] Sorry about that. Peter

Re: UPS software

2001-12-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[Catching up on debian-user] > After having bought APC for years, I just bought a CyberPower U_S > > I got it from Tiger, but I tlked to cyberpower first. Nice folks, > they told me about a web site where Linux software is availible in > source and binaries. Let me know if your model of CyberPo

Re: Debian S-L-O-W Upgrading

2001-10-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Paul M Foster wrote: > I just know I'm gonna get flamed for this, but... > > I love Debian, I truly do. Upgrades/updates are seamless. No crappy > proprietary admin tools, just bare metal and vi for configs. Lots of > little programs you don't get on other distros. Rock solid. > > But... it's l

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-18 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > anyone can tell me what the fuck is that dexconf crap and how do I > > > get rid of it? I mean, really, which genius came up with the idea > > > that I need to regenerate a perfectly working config file every time > > > I update $PACKAGE? > > > now please watch yo

Re: gs 6.5 package anywhere?

2001-10-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ari Pollak wrote: > The newest gs 6 packages are at http://incoming.debian.org. hopefully > they should be in unstable tomorrow. > > > > The gs package is terribly outdated. Anyone know of a gs 6.5 > > > package built with stp support? Yes, and it has stp support! I finally got my Canon S400

Re: gs 6.5 package anywhere?

2001-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > I wrote: > > > "Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:57:50 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ro > > tt > > > er.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > The gs

Re: gs 6.5 package anywhere?

2001-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > "Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:57:50 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > tt > > er.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > The gs package is terribly outdated. Anyone know of a gs 6.5 > > >

Re: gs 6.5 package anywhere?

2001-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Eric G. Miller" wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:57:50 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > er.net> wrote: > > > > > The gs package is terribly outdated. Anyone know of a gs 6.5 > > package built with stp support? > > It's in

gs 6.5 package anywhere?

2001-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
The gs package is terribly outdated. Anyone know of a gs 6.5 package built with stp support? It might make my Canon S400 print... Peter

Re: Cannot print at all (Canon S400 + CUPS)

2001-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
dman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 11:26:48PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > | > | This is the first time ever that I have difficulty printing on > | Linux. Weird. > | > | Bootup reports: > | parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2] > | parpo

Cannot print at all (Canon S400 + CUPS)

2001-10-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
This is the first time ever that I have difficulty printing on Linux. Weird. Bootup reports: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2] parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation. parport_probe: succeeded parport0: Printer, Canon S400 lp0: usi

Re: DHCP networking problems after upgrade to woody

2001-10-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > It's a Eicon Diva 2430. I found this on it: > > http://www.eicon.com/pubs/diva_2430/index.htm > > with lots of links for explanations and help. > > It says the modem has the IP 192.168.1.1 and that it can be > configured by pointing a web browser at that address. Can't wait > to

Re: DHCP networking problems after upgrade to woody

2001-10-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > > I got my ADSL line last night, ran '/etc/init.d/networking start' > > > > and proceeded to download 240MB in 28 minutes (!), and upgraded > > > > my Progeny to woody (I didn't change the kernel, running 2.2.18). > > Ah, this is the part I missed ... I didn't reali

Re: DHCP networking problems after upgrade to woody

2001-10-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > > I got my ADSL line last night, ran '/etc/init.d/networking start' > > and proceeded to download 240MB in 28 minutes (!), and upgraded > > my Progeny to woody (I didn't change the kernel, running 2.2.18). > > > > Now the ADSL network won't work anymore. > > Running either pump or dh

DHCP networking problems after upgrade to woody

2001-10-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I got my ADSL line last night, ran '/etc/init.d/networking start' and proceeded to download 240MB in 28 minutes (!), and upgraded my Progeny to woody (I didn't change the kernel, running 2.2.18). Now the ADSL network won't work anymore. Running either pump or dhclient now gives me the same IP: e

Re: Beam Internet

2001-10-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Adam McDaniel wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 05:55:54PM +0100, Hereward Cooper wrote: > I wouldn't get this satelite deal though, here in Canada there is a similar > service starting thats about CAD$150 / month, (~£60/US$100) ofcourse you > already need a digital cable terminal and be signed up

Re: HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.

2001-09-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i'm having a HECK of a time trying to get UDMA/100 transfer speeds on my > system. > hdparm -t reports 35 MB/s. this is nowhere near the 100MB/s that i'm > expecting to get. Why are you expecting 100MB/s? That's the bus maximum bandwidth. It doesn't mean you can phy

[OT] ide-scsi (used as a module) broken in 2.4.10

2001-09-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Someone was asking about 2.4.10 recently. Here's what I stumbled on. Just a warning that when using ide-scsi as a module in 2.4.10, the file /proc/partitions is broken (it cats forever on my system). Perhaps this wouldn't be important except that I use win4lin and it's boot-up script greps this

What process started/owns another process?

2001-09-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I have a lot of these processes on my system: $ ps aux [cut] root 2717 0.0 0.0 00 ?Z11:43 0:00 [sh ] root 2718 0.0 0.0 00 ?Z11:44 0:00 [sh ] root 2722 0.0 0.0 00 ?Z11:45 0:00 [sh ] root 2726 0.0 0.0

[OT] USB Micro Solutions Backpack Hard Drive support?

2001-09-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Anyone know if the Micro Solutions (30 GB) Backpack Hard Drive can be used under Linux? It has parallel port and USB connections, but I'd rather use USB for speed (if the parallel transfers are as slow as a parallel Zip drive!). I know that the parallel mode is supported in the kernel (see pari

Re: how to mail an attachment from a script

2001-09-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
dman wrote: > I need to set up a script to be run by crontab. This script needs to > mail a (html) file as an attachment. How can I do this? I use `nail' to do this. Peter

Re: APCUPSD doesn't shutdown machine

2001-09-13 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Greg Wiley" wrote: > I don't use apcupsd but in order to get the machine to respond > to poweroff, I must append "apm=on" to the kernel params on > startup. The kernel turns off power management by default even > though it is compiled in. He said the machine doesn't shut down, not that it does

Re: general ups experience

2001-09-13 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Adam McDaniel wrote: > Im curious on what experience you all have with smart/dumb ups's under linux. I've only ever used serial UPSes made by Cyberpower in dumb mode. A few years back they made a 1500VA model that sold for about $100. I got two of them! One of them keeps my [PIII + 3 internal

Re: fetchmail

2001-09-11 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 08:29:48AM -0500, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > I had a similar problem and could not work out a resolution, so > I deleted > > the daemon reference in my .fetchmailrc and used a crontab to run it. > It's > > not the be

Re: OT: WinLinux

2001-09-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Eric Richardson wrote: > Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > Damon Muller wrote: > > > > > Quoth Karsten M. Self, > > > > I'd recommend a tool such as Win4Lin over either of the prior > > > > suggestions. > > >> >

[OT] Any Canadian ADSL Telus users?

2001-09-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I'm pondering broadband at home, and I'm looking at cable (www.cogeco.com) and ADSL (quebec.telus.com). High-speed internet via cable is easy to connect to on Linux (I did a few times on videotron) but I wonder about ADSL. I hear the modem are connected via USB and you need to setup PPPoE. Does

Re: Which mail client to switch? (was) Re: exim: how to modify the "Sender:" header

2001-09-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" wrote: > Craig Dickson wrote: > > > although Sylpheed (http://sylpheed.good-day.net) was fast > > developing into perhaps the best of the bunch. > > The interface looks nice > ( http://sylpheed.good-day.net/sylpheed-01.png ) > Too bad, it isn't in .deb yet. $ apt-ca

Re: OT: WinLinux

2001-09-06 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Damon Muller wrote: > Quoth Karsten M. Self, > > I'd recommend a tool such as Win4Lin over either of the prior > > suggestions. >> > The win4lin site does not seem to have released any patches or modules > for any kernels newer than 2.4.5 (I think). They released them a few weeks ago. I'm run

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Brian May wrote: > A simpler thing which does exactly the same thing (and surprisingly > nobody seems to have mentioned it yet) is: > > rm -f ./--remove-files :-) Good answer. Whenever I have to delete a file with a difficult name and fail after a few tries, I simply call up Emacs, run `dired

[Announce] for Emacs users: new debian-bug.el

2001-08-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Hi all, I don't usually announce new versions of software here, but since this one is Debian-specific it might be useful. There's a new version of debian-bug.el in the package debbugs-el that has better support for filing bugs to the Debian BTS. Features for Debian users: - menubar menu to s

Re: picture browser for debian

2001-08-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
John Galt wrote: > On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Sean Morgan wrote: > > > I don't know if XV is still packaged anymore (I think someone threw a > > hissy over licensing) I don't think respecting upstream's license is `throwing a hissy over licensing'. > It is, in non-free. It's not. The fact that it

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Hall Stevenson" wrote: > > > Disinterest in old versions is part of it - but > > > also, package maintainers usually can't update > > > the versions in stable except for security problems > > > and the like. The upload simply wouldn't be accepted. > > So if a "bug" isn't found during a package'

Re: make a deb package

2001-08-14 Thread Peter S Galbraith
christophe barb wrote: > If I understand your problem you want to create a package to hold a font > collection. > Then what I would try is something like: > > Create a tree like this one : > > fontcollection/ > fontcollection/debian/ > fontcollection/debian/rules > fontcollection/debian/contro

Re: dselect is a liar

2001-08-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:08:18AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > As a maintainer of several contrib packages that depend on XForms, I can > > say that autobuilders _don't_ process contrib at all. I've had to ask > > admins to temporari

Re: dselect is a liar

2001-08-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 06:45:38PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > after a fresh update each time, dselect is adamant that lyx is current at > > version 1.1.4-3 which is older than the current stable version... > > > > http://packages.debian.org/stable/text/lyx.htm adv

Re: using convert to batch convert

2001-07-30 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Aaron Brashears wrote: > I have many, many images that I want to scale down using imagemagick's > convert utility. The convert utility doesn't seem to work correctly > unless you give it an output name per input filename, but the man page > doesn't make it clear how to do this, and I'm stumped as

Re: minor problems with new emacs21 installation

2001-07-30 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> > Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > > > 3) M-x R locks up emacs 21. I've never seen anything do this before. This > > > command uses ESS to start up R. > > > > We would need to see what the "R" function is. > > Oh, sorry. > > ii ess 5.1.18-0Emacs > sta

Re: minor problems with new emacs21 installation

2001-07-30 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Faheem Mitha wrote: > 3) M-x R locks up emacs 21. I've never seen anything do this before. This > command uses ESS to start up R. We would need to see what the "R" function is. Peter

Re: OT: color emacs/auctex in console?

2001-07-30 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Jeff Maxson wrote: > I'd like to edit latex docs in emacs using auctex with the nice > syntax-highlighting. I apt-got emacs20, auctex, and their suggested > packages. > I'm running just the console, if that matters. You'll get more features out of emacs20+auctex+reftex+bib-cite+font-

Re: mozilla with SSL for galeon in unstable?

2001-07-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Mozilla is in non-us now. It was pointed out to me to simply install mozilla-psm, and it worked! John Galt wrote: > I think there will be one, as soon as mozilla's maintainer does the Great > Mozilla Upgrade(tm).

Re: VERY URGENT

2001-07-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Didn't the FBI and Secret Service make a big arrest recently concerning this scam? I'm surprised it's still going on. "SANI IBRAHIM" wrote: > THE PROPOSAL: Just before my father died he called my attention to the > money and charged me to look for a foreigner who would assist me in the > trans

Re: mozilla with SSL for galeon in unstable?

2001-07-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
A thousand thank-yous. Works now. :-) christophe barb wrote: > Mozilla in unstable is ssl enhanced (It's also outdated). You need the > mozilla-psm package. > > Christophe > > Le ven, 27 jui 2001 16:50:54, Peter S Galbraith a écrit : > > > > I'd li

mozilla with SSL for galeon in unstable?

2001-07-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I'd like to use galeon to login to sourceforge. Is there a SSL-enabled mozilla package anywahere that is compatible with unstable's galeon? Perhaps I'm doing something wrong since mozilla is in non-us, but nothing happens when I click on SF's "Login with SSL" button after entering my name and pa

Re: LaTeX editor

2001-07-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Michael B. Taylor" wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 11:57:35AM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: > > > How can I configure vim (or other editor) to easy write TeX docs? > > I am very happy with emacs+auctex+bibtex+reftex for this. What? No "+bib-cite+font-latex" in there? I'm disapp

Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?

2001-07-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > Yep, I remember the situation now -- Karsten sends his messages PGP > > > signed (I just checked). OE chokes on them :-). Signing messages is > > > good so I don't think he'll stop (it's just time for the rest of us to > > > catch up > I could care less

Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540

2001-07-24 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Joel Mayes wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W. Paul Mills) writes: > > > Cups, while designed to be quite flexible seems to not at present > > have support for much anything unless you want to buy it's > > creators products. Or write your own filters. > > I'm not sure thats true, if you install cu

Re: burning a data CD under devfs?

2001-07-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > xcdroast and gcombust both fail to create a data CD under devfs > as there are no /dev/sg* device files. > > Does anyone know how to create a data CD under devfs? > > Alternatively, what do I do to turn off devfs (long enough to > burn a CD? rebooting?) Turns out the new kernel I r

burning a data CD under devfs?

2001-07-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
xcdroast and gcombust both fail to create a data CD under devfs as there are no /dev/sg* device files. Does anyone know how to create a data CD under devfs? Alternatively, what do I do to turn off devfs (long enough to burn a CD? rebooting?) Thanks, Peter

Re: PHP4

2001-07-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Wayne Sitton wrote: > I built a new server put Debian woody on it. It has Apache 1.3. I installed > > PHP4 from dselect. when I go into the httpd.conf I don't find a load module > for mod_php4.so but I do see a loadmodule for libphp4.so > > I set the funtions in the srm.conf, but when I go

Re: zip drive?

2001-07-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
D-Man wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:24:06PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > | /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/ZIP-Drive.txt.gz advised people > | to do this in /etc/fstab: > | > | /dev/sda1 /zip ext2 noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync > | /dev/sda4 /zipdos vf

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