'Virtual Private Servers' - Advice, recollections and recommendations requested

2005-01-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
Thru no fault of my own, I've been given a possible budget for a server - this is for a small decentralized non-profit that is still paper driven, and has been for decades. Over the years, each branch has kind of grown it's own record keeping system, and currently some are using OpenOffice,

Re: 'Virtual Private Servers' - Advice, recollections and recommendations requested

2005-01-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 16:45 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:17:35PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: I just recently obtained a VPS from Tektonic http://www.tektonic.net Me, too. and they have been great. My first night I flubbed and messed up the VPS twice. They

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-04 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 01:07 -0500, William Ballard wrote: On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:33:52PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: Maybe only a handful for sure, but they do cast a wide pall. So you don't disagree that nowadays most people aren't racists in the south, which was the original point

Re: Some questions from new debian user

2005-01-04 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 00:16 +0300, Serge Matveev wrote: On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:46:53 + (GMT) Thomas Adam wrote: TA --- Serge Matveev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - How I can setup font lookup order in X. If I have two fonts with the same alias (9x16 by example) - one with

Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

2005-01-03 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 01:53 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 23:15 -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 20:30 -0600, Kent West wrote: Tom Allison wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 27 December 2004 02:56 pm, Kent West wrote: [snip] [unsnipped

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 00:04 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2005 11:34 pm, Rich Rudnick wrote: On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 21:15 -0600, John Hasler wrote: Alvin Smith writes: To put it bluntly, the issue is whether white people will accept a product with a Black African

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 00:47 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 03 January 2005 12:15 am, Rich Rudnick wrote: How about an expired Oregon Driver's License? I've moved up and down the coast over the years. By the way, experience tells me that the Willamette Valley fails the 'sounding

Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

2005-01-03 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 05:36 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 12:48:11AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 03 January 2005 12:03 am, Rich Rudnick wrote: Poets aren't always stupid, but they do fall within Sturgeon's Law: 80% of everything is [crap]. Including

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 09:46 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 03 January 2005 08:48 am, Rich Rudnick wrote: Portland ranks among the top three cities I've lived in for smiles from strangers, but if being 'in tune enough' is a now a requirement for residency it's sadly slipped over

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 21:18 +, Sue Spence wrote: William Ballard wrote: You need to broaden your horizons. Besides, I didn't say it's hard to be racist if you live in a mostly-white area: I said it's easy not to be. I was born in and frequently spend time in a major American

Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

2005-01-02 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 20:30 -0600, Kent West wrote: Tom Allison wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 27 December 2004 02:56 pm, Kent West wrote: William Ballard wrote: One must pick boring names, like Word :-) John 1:1 Yep; that one should be free of controversy.

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-02 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 21:15 -0600, John Hasler wrote: Alvin Smith writes: To put it bluntly, the issue is whether white people will accept a product with a Black African sounding name or not. What a loony notion. I'm a long time blue state lefty who spends most of his time with white

Re: OOo Printer Setup Frustration - Elaboration

2004-12-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 13:45 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:17:58AM +, Chris Halls wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 18:59 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: The other box does not find its attached printer and insists on using a generic printer which only spits out

Re: I don't want games!!!

2004-12-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 16:24 -0500, William Ballard wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:05:56PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 14:12 -0500, Xinjiang Lu wrote: If I get the point, aptitude can do it for you. Then don't use Evil Aptitude. Good, solid apt-get won't do those

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 16:11 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Knoppix is not Debian - depends what you mean by not ;-) When the OS boots the splashscreen has the debian spiral logo and the word debian prominently displayed searches for knoppix return with many references to debian

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: 'Debian' consists of the packages in main. The fundamental essence (IMHO) of main is that these are packages put together by individuals who have undergone a peer review

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:41 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: 'Debian' consists of the packages in main

Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

2004-11-05 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 07:58 +, Adam Funk wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 04:20, Rich Rudnick wrote: After looking over the bug reports, cupsys-bsd will create a link from /var/run/cups/printcap to /etc/printcap _if_ it doesn't exist or dangles, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin

Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

2004-11-04 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 08:06 +, Adam Funk wrote: On Wednesday 03 November 2004 21:00, CW Harris wrote: Rather than ignore it, I think it is better to link /etc/printcap to the CUPS printcap file (/etc/printcap.cups by default IIRC), then applications that try to use /etc/printcap will

Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

2004-11-03 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 21:15 +, Adam Funk wrote: I have a Brother HL1450 laser printer on my parallel port. I used to use the Postscript driver but had problems with some documents overloading the printer's memory, so I switched to the hl1250 driver. Unfortunately LaTeX/dvips output

Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

2004-11-03 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 19:39 +, Adam Funk wrote: On Wednesday 03 November 2004 18:40, Rich Rudnick wrote: (I have the following packages installed: magicfilter, cupsys, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-client, cupsys-driver-gimpprint, cupsys-driver-gimpprint-data, cupsys-pt.) For a long time

Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

2004-11-03 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 13:50 -0700, CW Harris wrote: On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 12:29:49PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 19:39 +, Adam Funk wrote: [...] Thanks for that info. As I said in another post in this thread, modifying /etc/printcap alone didn't seem

Universal Operating System Status

2004-10-12 Thread Rich Rudnick
Forwarded Message From: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian News Channel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Debian Weekly News - October 12th, 2004 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:03:19 +0200 --- Debian

Re: question re: removing all traces of Windows ME OS

2004-10-05 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 20:42 -0500, Jeff Golden wrote: A basic rule of life is never burn bridges behind you. Retreat is often a tactical necessity. This is true but it is rather annoying to have to re-boot into windows to do simple things like banking or dial into your office. My

Re: question re: removing all traces of Windows ME OS

2004-10-04 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 13:25 -0400, Chris Moffa wrote: Folks, I've a 3-year-old laptop, IBM iSeries ThinkPad with Celeron processor. I'm considering completely removing all traces of anything Windows-related prior to installing Debian and open-source productivity software. I'd like to

Re: evolution and web-browser ??

2004-09-13 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 08:08 -0700, Eric Gaumer wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 07:42, Richard Palfalvi wrote: Hi ! I would like to no from EVOLUTION-Users where I can change the default-browser evolution starts when I am clicking on links listed in emails? In my case

Re: ximian-connector under debian

2004-09-13 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 20:02 -0400, Clifton Sluss wrote: Hi all, does anyone out there have systematic approach to making ximian-connector work for evolution? i am using 1.4.6, i would use 1.5 and evolution-exchange if anyone has crossed that bridge. Have you tried evolution 1.5 and

Re: Questions about aptitude use

2004-08-30 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 10:54 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I have set up preferences to track testing, and have unstable available for use. I think I now see pachages from both sarge and sid on the aptitude interactive screen. Am I right, or am I dreaming? Is there a way to tell which

Re: eroaster atapi ide-scsi and burning files - fail to detect reader/writer

2004-08-29 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 11:46 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 01:27:33PM -0500, hanasaki wrote: silly problems with eroaster deleted not so silly problems left deleted Since you want to use Knoppix rather than Debian, why don't you just burn the ISO and get it over with?

Re: Status of KDE in unstable?

2004-08-25 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 10:39 -0400, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: I'm having the same problem since last week. Upgrading isn't the problem, I also upgraded to it. The problem is it won't install after a fresh install. I have three machines that upgraded to KDE 3.3 Just fine. But I have a machine I use

Re: No NIC and No X - WTF Does It Take?

2003-11-29 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:04:18 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: Situation Update... Now, after the install was done, and without rebooting; I logged in and ran gdm. I was rather disappointed that there is no way to log in via gdm as root (I really do prefer to do that at this time rather than log

Re: cloning Debian hard drive

2003-08-26 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:27, Victory wrote: Hello all, Now I have a working system, and want to clone it hard drive so that I can install the newly clone hard drive to many identical system configuration rather than install from CD and customize lots of stuff ??? 1, Is there way to

Re: Mozilla and Blackdown Java Plugin

2003-08-24 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 08:42, martin f krafft wrote: Short summary: MozillaJRE Works? == 1.2.1-2.bunk j2re1.3 YES 1.2.1-2.bunk j2re1.4 unknown 1.3-5 j2re1.3

Re: Mozilla and Blackdown Java Plugin

2003-08-24 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 09:41, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Rich Rudnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.08.24.1833 +0200]: Short answer, no. According to http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html mozilla needs 1.4.2. I got it from sun's site and it does work. Why does it then not work

Re: Hi, where is gnome2 configuration file?

2003-07-19 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 02:06, Zhao You Bing wrote: I'm using unstable Gnome2(sawfish) I want to change the font size of window titile, I found that I can't change it using menu options. Thank u very much!!! -- Zhao YouBing, Ph.D student State Key Lab of CADCG,Zhejiang University, Hangzhou,

Re: How unstable is unstable?

2003-07-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 21:57, Marino Fernandez wrote: On Sunday 06 July 2003 9:10 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: On 06 Jul 2003 21:07:42 -0400 Neal Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering, from those running sid, just how unstable is it at the present time? The reason I am asking

Re: Gnome startup folder

2003-07-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:45, Oki DZ wrote: Hi, I'm just wondering whether Gnome actually has a startup folder; ie: the one like in MacOS. There is Applications/Desktop Preferences/Advanced/Sessions menu, but I think it's pretty long to reach; besides, once you have the dialog box, you still

Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-21 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 13:10, Ric Otte wrote: Hi, I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and I called them up to ask if it would work with Linux. The woman at tech support confidently assured me, over and over, that it would not work with Linux. I spoke to her a long time,

Re: What is the best Xfree Setup Program?

2003-06-11 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 08:19, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:51:28PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: It does if you have read-edit, mdetect, and discover installed. ^ It's a typo; read-edid is correct --

Re: Sawfish 1.3 + Gnome2 questions?

2003-04-02 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 10:04, Gary Hennigan wrote: A couple of questions for those running sid with Gnome2 and Sawfish. 1) I can't figure out how to turn edge-flipping on. That's the ability to drag a window between workspaces. I use that feature quite heavily and am loathe to use the

Re: About to go all Deb

2003-02-25 Thread Rich Rudnick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 08:11 am, Shri Shrikumar wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 15:24, John Anderson wrote: [...] Any way to cut a long story short I have come up with the following, and would appreciate thoughts and guidence. /boot

Re: [OT] Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 10:29, Daniel Barclay wrote: Mike M wrote: Socrates was stagnant and resting on his society's laurels? Good teaching inspires creativity. I didn't say Socrates was stagnant. Truly off topic, but Socrates is not the best example of good teaching, unless you

Re: Upgrading to KDE 3.1

2003-01-29 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 11:39, Jeetu Golani wrote: Hey ppl, I have KDE 3.0.4 running at the moment, had installed the debs of this. I wanna upgrade to KDE 3.1. I've read that an apt-get upgrade doesn't do the trick and causes problems. Would appreciate if someone here could tell me what's

Re: Gnome2 / Apt messed up

2003-01-29 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 17:54, karrottop wrote: How would I be able to completely remove gnome and then reinstall? Does anyone know what packages have to go... 'apt-get remove libglib1.2 libglib2.0-0' then 'apt-get install gnome-core' should get you a minimal gnome2 reinstall. -- First

Re: Nautilus problems in latest upgrade of Sid

2003-01-22 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 19:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did an aptitude upgrade a few minutes ago got my self in sync with the latest debs in Unstable. 2 problems : 1. Nautilus refuses to start. Trying to launch it from the command line spews this error : nautilus:18756): Gtk-WARNING

Re: looking inside zip/tar files with nautilus2

2003-01-18 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Saturday 18 January 2003 10:41 am, Maciej Kalisiak wrote: I have: numenor# dpkg -l | grep nautilus ii libnautilus2-2 2.0.0-1Shared libraries that part of Nautilus (GNOM ii nautilus2 2.0.0-1file manager and graphical shell (GNOME2) ii nautilus2-data 2.0.0-1

Re: dual-boot redhat/debian

2003-01-09 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thursday 09 January 2003 05:33 pm, Robert Storey wrote: On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 07:42:15 -0500 Gregory Seidman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ignoring, for the moment, why I would do such a thing, I want to set up a machine (laptop) to dual-boot both Redhat 8.0 and Debian (testing/unstable mix).

Re: Today's Evolution

2002-12-04 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 19:51, Oki DZ wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:18:38PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: I had this problem when evo 1.2 first appeared in sid. I'd built evo snapshots and gtkhtml1.1 from source, and when I removed my build, I missed gtkhtml1.1-editor in /usr/local/bin

Re: Today's Evolution

2002-11-28 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 23:10, Oki DZ wrote: Hi, I just downloaded Evolution. My system is Sid. Evolution could only run up into the main window. When I tried to send an email, it complained about the unavailability of gtkhtml1.1; which in fact I have it. Do you have any problems with Sid's

Re: Package deity no more available?

2002-11-27 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 04:29, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 07:49:39PM +0800, Stephan Broennimann wrote: I can't find the package deity anymore? Does it no more exist? It was far too buggy and wasn't getting fixed, so it was removed. Consider using aptitude instead. I use

Re: Standard vs NONUS CD???

2002-11-15 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 00:19, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 14:55 2002-11-14 -0600 hat John Hasler geschrieben: Edward Guldemond writes: With software patents, distributing this software could be considered illegal to distribute in the United States. Fetching it from outside of the US is

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 10:22, Craig Dickson wrote: Colin Watson wrote: You explain to the common man not to use unstable. :) It *certainly* shouldn't have broken in the first place, but accidents happen. If one doesn't have enough system administration experience to cope with this

Re: ppp0 surveyer gnome applet? or some sort of script drivenstatus displayer?

2002-10-14 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 01:46, Bruno Boettcher wrote: Hello! lately my internet connection through ADSL became really flakey, and i am not allways aware when the connection drops or is up... thus i would like to have some sort of status display somewhere... since i nearly don't use the

Re: ppp0 surveyer gnome applet? or some sort of script drivenstatus displayer?

2002-10-14 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 01:46, Bruno Boettcher wrote: Hello! lately my internet connection through ADSL became really flakey, and i am not allways aware when the connection drops or is up... thus i would like to have some sort of status display somewhere... since i nearly don't use the

Re: Odd Path issue

2002-09-26 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 12:09, nate wrote: KentTest, it reports the expected /usr/local/bin/KentTest. However, if I run KentTest, I get bash: /home/westk/bin/KentTest: No such file or directory. If I log out and then log back in, I can run KentTest and it prints the message as

Re: Lost my viewports in sawfish!

2002-06-29 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 11:48, Steve Juranich wrote: rant nostrils=flared hands=ClenchedFist Okay, this whole GNOME2 crap has _GOT_ to stop. I'm really starting to get pissed off. I'll probably end up pinning my distro to testing if this goes on much longer. /rant It's bad enough that the

Re: Jumping through audio hoops after boot.

2002-06-26 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 10:15, Steve Juranich wrote: I'm the kind of guy who turns off his machine at night (mostly because the wife is worried about electric bills, though). After I boot up the machine, I can't play any sound until I first start gmixer (I've tried using amixer instead,

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 22:00, Chris Gushue wrote: Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: I use either zless (just like I would have used 'less' if it wasn't compressed) or more often 'view' (vim in read-only mode; vim6 automatically decompresses .gz files). I'm pretty sure that Vim 5.x (5.6? 5.7?)

Re: which prog to configure keyboard

2002-06-13 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 09:10, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:56:34AM -0700, Wm. G. McGrath wrote: Willy Sutrisno wrote: I like to change my keyboard from 101 to 106, I remember debian ask me about what keyboard I am using. But I don't know the name of the program. I

Re: gedit

2002-06-10 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 11:18, ben wrote: i like gedit a lot but in the default state of the most recent debian version, 0.9.6, it doesn't display--in the open dialog--files or directories whose names begin with a dot. anyone know how to modify this? ben I just type a dot in the dialog box,

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-06 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 05:37, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:24:27AM +0200, Ivo Wever wrote: involving elderly disabled people, to support Debian. I guess we should rethink Debian if it turned out some neo-nazi group used our software on their servers? Godwin's Law; end of

RE: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg

2002-05-31 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 08:29, Jeremy Turner wrote: I could be wrong (I often am), but try: apt-get install gnome-session This should get you something. In your .xsession, put the line 'gnome-session'. Maybe someone with more experience can let us know the more preferred way? I just

Re: mixture of regular debian libs and ximian gnome libs

2002-05-19 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 14:15, Josef Oswald wrote: First thanks for responding, now after I run this command I've got _lots_ of ximian packages, how do I remove them ( I know that with apt-get remove package a single package can be removed But a whole Bunch of them? I've been running

Re: Linksys NC100 network card

2002-05-05 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 22:21, Dr. Louis A. Turk wrote: Hi, Is there a Debian Linux driver for the Linksys Model NC100 v2 10/100 Network Card? Or should I buy a different card? If I need a different card, what is the best and easiest-to-install card? I use that card with the tulip

Re: devfs joystick question

2002-05-05 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 04:31, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: Just what *is* the path to the joystick device in /dev under devfs? I do have my modules installed for it and everything, though I compiled them post-reboot... please, please, someone answer this :) pretty please? -- First

Re: how to configure adsl?

2002-05-01 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 20:51, andrej hocevar wrote: Hello, I'm helping a friend configure his first Debian/Linux box. He's got adsl access to the internet but I don't really know what it is -- if I'm not mistaken, he needs kernel 2.4 with pppoe support and the pppoe programs (pppoe, pppoeconf,

Re: Newbie and scan attack

2002-04-25 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 12:04, craigw wrote: Okay, here's the kicker question: How can I, as a newbie, track this down and root it out, and clean my system? Also, is there a way I can do it without spending days at it, learning? Sounds like you don't have a lot of free

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 00:35, ben wrote: On Wednesday 10 April 2002 11:54 pm, Simon Hepburn wrote: ben wrote: thanks for the input. so, on attachments, none? some? If I'm helping people out with, say X problems for example, I'd far prefer to see their config and log files as attachments

Re: mail rules (WAS Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks)

2002-04-11 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 10:15, Daniel Toffetti wrote: 4. Spell check. i think stipulating a spell check would impose too much on many non-native english speakers whose participation on this list is very valuable, snip The spellchecker is pretty, but hardly useful enough as to require

Re: dselect

2002-01-20 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 21:00, Asura wrote: Why in back ground. APT system run by dselect Pet peeve: apt has nothing to do with the questions that are asked while upgrading packages. asks question unless you set debconf to assume yes to all etc. Even then you'll have to pass

Re: dselect

2002-01-20 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 22:16, Rich Rudnick wrote: On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 21:00, Asura wrote: I hate replying to myself, but after reading David Maze's last post I realized I forgot something important :\ If I understand correctly, what might work for you is a three step process I have used

Re: Canon BJC-250

2001-12-26 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2001-12-26 at 16:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Jack Dodds wrote: How can I configure it to print to my old Canon BJC-250 through a standard (non-ECP) parallel port? apt-get install cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-pstoraster cupsomatic-ppd Or replace

Re: Converting between maildir and mbox

2001-12-21 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 20:05, Craig Dickson wrote: Or, if you already have procmail set up, just adjust it for the new format, then pipe your old mail into it. Actually, I'm not sure that will work with an mbox file as input, because procmail might prefer to be invoked once per message (?).

OT: supressing line noise

2001-12-06 Thread Rich Rudnick
I'm looking for some help with getting a clean 120v supply to my computer. I'm on the same circuit as my washer/dryer (and no, changing location is not an option). When either electrical motor is running, my monitor flickers: noticably on 1024x768 at 85hz vert refresh, and very annoyingly at

RE: About the i586 / i386 ' optimized releases ' differences ?

2001-11-16 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 10:08, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: | | linked code). (Does anyone have benchmark results?) If I remember | | correctly, it is debian policy to use '-g' and then strip non-library | | binaries. I'm sure I'll get howls for suggesting it, but I think that | | the policy

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

2001-11-14 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 09:04, Tim Dijkstra wrote: Hi, (I'm not sure if this is on topic, but hey, I'am debian-user...) I used to use netscape's messenger to read my mail, but I've had it with that one. Then I tried pine for a while, but I'm not sure about that one either. So I thought

Re: kdm gdm + woody

2001-10-26 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 22:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'cause you're not supposed to login as root. You're not supposed to run a window manager or a desktop or any of that stuff. See 'man su' and 'man sudo' for better alternatives. So who was the idiot genius that thought that one up.

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

2001-10-25 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 13:20, Erik Steffl wrote: I used to use aptitude this way: u (to update package list) g (to see what's going to happen) g (to make it happen) now it doesn't work (the actions are a lot different from what apt-get dist-upgrade would do) what's the

Re: deb files maintenance - Dependency overview

2001-10-25 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 14:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all. My debian distribution grew kinda big 1.2G. I know I'm not using a lot of what I have installed. Now, due to a number of interdependecies I would like to look at dependency tree of all deb files and pick out those branches

Re: can't get banner page to print

2001-10-24 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 10:28, Mike Egglestone wrote: Hi, I have a fairly new install of Potato r3 and have apt-get install magicfilter and lprng. I have an hp 940c deskjet printer attached to /dev/lp0 # # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. # lp|hp940c|hp940c:\

Re: Green blinking 'D' in console

2001-10-23 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 18:09, Dmitriy wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:13:19AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: wayne wrote: erik Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, same thing here. :-( Happens when switching from X to VT. I saw this a while ago, although there was a lot more chaff on the screen.

Re: Voodoo3. DRI, X4.1.0 and Bus mastering - Still no joy

2001-10-04 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 07:31, Jason Healy wrote: At 1002229481s since epoch (10/04/01 02:04:41 -0400 UTC), john wrote: It's interesting that you say you have DRI working but not bus mastering. Can you run setpci on the device and see if bit 3 of word 4 is set? If so my problem isn't

Re: Voodoo3. DRI, X4.1.0 and Bus mastering

2001-10-02 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 20:30, john wrote: Thanks for replies so far Stephen Gran suggested that I look for a setting in the BIOS to search PCI 1st. Unfortunately the BIOS in this machine has a funky graphical UI (i.e. is designed for stupid people) and has no options suitable. This

Re: display manager related

2001-09-29 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sat, 2001-09-29 at 14:40, dman wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:44:01AM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T. wrote: | | Is there any technical advantage in using a display manager | to start X window system apart from using xinit related | stuff from the command line ? You get a nice pretty

Re: OT: vim syntax highlight on C program files only?

2001-08-28 Thread Rich Rudnick
* Rob Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I found stuff like this before and have been using it: When using mutt or slrn, text width=72 autocmd BufRead mutt*[0-9]set tw=72 autocmd BufRead .followup,.article,.letterset tw=72 Thank you very much. Rich

Re: Balsa hangs by sending mails

2001-08-28 Thread Rich Rudnick
* Timeboy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi! Yesterday i tried balsa 1.1.7-3 from Sid. It looks great: I can receive mails and also all other things may be working great. But if i try to send a mail balsa hangs. There is no error message and no other information about this on console.

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Re: The Sound of Silence]]

2001-08-27 Thread Rich Rudnick
* Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk) wrote: Curt Howland wrote: One more comment: I continue to get /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy when trying to use sound. If I cat message.au /dev/audio even as root, I get the message /dev/audio Device or resource busy. Some other

Re: X: Changing resolution

2001-08-27 Thread Rich Rudnick
* Steve Dondley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Problem: Pressing CTRL-ALT-+/- (numeric) doesn't change my screen resolution setting. X (with sawmill) always starts out in 1024 x 768 with 16 bpp (65,000 colors) and I can't figure out how to change it. Background: For practice, I just

Re: DRI problems...

2001-08-23 Thread Rich Rudnick
* Cameron Matheson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hey, I'm trying to get this cursed Voodoo 3 3000 working in Woody, but it doesn't seem to want to. I've installed the following packages: mesag-glide2 glutg3 libglide2 libglide3 // i installed this after libglide2 didn't work alone I'm

Re: XDM

2001-08-21 Thread Rich Rudnick
* Greg Wiley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tuesday, August 21, 2001 10:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to revert back to logging into a command prompt and starting X from there. apt-get remove xdm If you want to keep xdm on your machine, but disabled: update-rc.d -f xdm

Re: How to answer

2001-08-15 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:36:21 Gilles Pelletier wrote: I'm used to a web - news interface, but not to email - news. I can't post directly to th enewsgroup. I suppose that's normal. I received two copies of some posts, none of others. Answering to any any of the two copies I received, sends the

Re: Network card

2001-08-14 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:40:40 Eileen Orbell wrote: Hi, What is the simplest, compatible network card I should purchase for a new Debian install? Thanks in advance I got this one at a computer superstore for $12. Everything worked fine. Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:47:07 Gilles Pelletier wrote: We're a small group mulling over the respective merits of Debian and Slackware for a newbie. Of course, since apt-get takes care of installing dependencies and upgrading the whole installed software, we were leaning towards Debian. The

Re: problems upgrading from stable

2001-08-04 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Fri, 03 Aug 2001 13:26:53 Michael P. Soulier wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:08:08PM -0700, Rich Rudnick wrote: The recommended fix (search the archives) is to upgrade to woody first, then sid. Worked for me. I assume that they're fixing this problem though, no? I mean

Re: problems upgrading from stable

2001-08-03 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Fri, 03 Aug 2001 13:08:10 Patrick Kirk wrote: Me too. It was a fresh install and I formatted again. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian User Mailing List debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 9:10 PM

Re: Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's?

2001-08-02 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 01 Aug 2001 20:35:45 Peter Hicks wrote: At 03:12 AM 08/02/2001 +0100, Brett Parker wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:59:21PM -0500, d wrote: LURKER here again, what is used to read the HOWTO files? All of the ones I have on my system are **.gz, I know that means compressed.

Re: turning on X extensions with XFree86 4.0.x

2001-07-23 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 09:46:17 Joshua N Pritikin wrote: i installed xserver-xfree86_4.0.3-4_i386.deb today, and simple things like the shaped window extension disappeared. xdpyinfo reports: number of extensions:8 LBX MIT-SHM SECURITY XC-APPGROUP XFree86-Bigfont

Re: Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?

2001-07-22 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 10:48:57 Jameson C . Burt wrote: My email lines get split after about 76 characters. How could I change this to something longer, or should email lines be split at 76 characters? This limit causes problems whenever I email Linux syslog lines, which are seldom less than

test, please delete

2001-07-10 Thread Rich Rudnick
test of balsa (it stopped sending for some reason, while mutt works ;)

Re: mp3 players

2001-07-10 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:47:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all! I did a search for mp3 in the stable package list and got a number of players. Does anyone have any favorites? I'd like to hear people's opinions. which, if any, can copy CD tracks? thanks! xucaen grip

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