Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 19:08, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:46:31 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:23:51PM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. > >This > is my fourth post

Re: Too Slow - what'd I break?

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 23:17, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Daniel L. Miller wrote: > > Howdy all. > > > > I've converted a Pentium II-350mhz w/ 128M RAM workstation from Windoze > > to Debian. Unfortunately, it seems that many operations are far slower > > - especially disk access. I've pasted the

Re: Time is runnign too fast

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 13:17, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:23:08PM -0600, Ron Jr insinuated: > > "'Most girls up through adult women become frightened and > > confused, often hysterical when presented with a traditional > > command prompt,'

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 18:39, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:23:51PM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. This > > is my fourth post in 2 days. So far, no spam, including no SWEN. Could we > > finally be seein the

Re: Games for 1-2 year old child. Recommendations wanted.

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 11:37, Tom wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:44:55AM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > As for me, without TV I've had the bliss of missing Star Search, > > Survival, and lord only knows what else. As far as I can tell, the only > > thing I'm missing is the Daily Show. And I _

Re: Time is runnign too fast

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 13:30, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > On Wednesday 29 October 2003 19:23, Ron Jr wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 12:05, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I have a problem on my laptop. Almost every time its running on > >

Re: dist-upgrade deletes postgresql data!

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 11:24, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I did a dist-upgrade yesterday in order to move to sarge, which I needed > for various reasons. Part of the upgrade included a postgresql upgrade, > which was fine; the dialog asked if I wanted to save backups, I said yes, > and put them in /data0

Re: Time is runnign too fast

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 12:05, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi > > I have a problem on my laptop. Almost every time its running on batteries > the time runs twice or more as fast as it should. It almost everytime > happens if i plug AC on while its running... Im sure thats a stepping problem > (la

Re: Help with Debian Linux

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 11:13, Leo and Shelby wrote: > hello, > > > I have recently downloaded your 3.0 release for the x86 platform. > It installed with a very little degree of difficulty but I am unable > to launch X windows. It starts up then bombs out with a error message > of "No such

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 07:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:14:15AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:03:05PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: [snip] > > Is CC'ing at epidemic levels on debian-user? I don't find it bad, since the debian- mailing lists are

Re: Pathetic Writer (or siagoffice)

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 06:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Ken Caldwell wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:40:29PM +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote: > > > > > > > > I was looking for a small word processor and spreadsheet to be used on > > > > some old computers (Pentium

Re: Installing debian on new hardware.

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 02:18, Elie De Brauwer wrote: > Hello list, i was just wondering, > > I have a new machine PIV 2.8ghz with hyperthreading, and a serial ata disk. > What is the best way to launch a debian install on it ? Currently there's a > gentoo with a custom kernel on it which i had to

Re: can't set hdparm -d1 and correct kernel config

2003-10-29 Thread Ron Jr
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 20:34, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 28 October 2003 03:32 pm, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i have 2 matrox hd disks and whenever i want to set the dma to 1 i > > get this error: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Oper

Re: can't set hdparm -d1 and correct kernel config

2003-10-28 Thread Ron Jr
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 18:14, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > > i have 2 matrox hd disks and whenever i want to set the dma to 1 i get this error: > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > The first is a 40 Gb Matrox IDE and the second a 120 GB Matrox IDE. > They are recent disks (< 1 year)

Re: Cursor dust

2003-10-28 Thread Ron Jr
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 14:17, Keresztes József wrote: > Hi ! > > > Sounds like you probably should try turning off the hardware cursor in X. > > Try setting the SWCursor option in the Device section of > > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. > > I wrote > >Option "SWCursor" "on" > > to the file (device

Re: OOOOLLLLDDDD video card

2003-10-28 Thread Ron Jr
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 13:04, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > I have to use a really old Phoenix S3 Trio32/64 PCI card, running > Debian Woody, no mixed stable/testing/unstable. Is there a way to get > Woody's xserver to work with this fossil? One solution is the "big stick": http://www.tigerdirect.c

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Ron Jr
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 17:10, David Palmer. wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:37:49 +0100 > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 28 October 2003 20:30, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > [...] > > > Hrm.. Does debian-user not set the reply-to to the list, or is this my > > [...] [snip