Re: Evolution 1.4 bug?

2003-07-01 Thread Ross Burton
Look carefully, and you will see two grab bars, one above the tasks and one to the left. Drag these and you shall be happy again. Silly bug really. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome-vfs-sftp

2003-06-30 Thread Ross Burton
age than "file not found". I poked the Nautilus maintainer about this at GUADEC last week. It can't copy the files as remote X doesn't have a file transfer mechanism. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where is python2.2-doc located?

2003-06-25 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 13:13, Terence Ng wrote: > After I installed python2.2-doc, where can I find it > and read the documents? Tried looking in /usr/share/doc/python2.2-doc/? Also, running "dpkg -L python2.2-doc" will show you what files the package installed. Ross

Re: What's going on with Gnome in "testing"?

2003-06-24 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 14:24, stan wrote: > I don't. Nor do I like applications that feel free to cluter my desktop > with icons for _every_ file in my home directory :-) $HOME as desktop isn't the default, so you won't see this unless you turn it on yourself...

Re: What's going on with Gnome in "testing"?

2003-06-24 Thread Ross Burton
an Nautilus 1 it may be worth you trying it again, unless you don't like graphical file managers in general. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: htt

Re: Graphical sftp

2003-06-13 Thread Ross Burton
;, but that uses shell interaction on the remote host, so it a little flaky. I recently packaged gnome-vfs-sftp, which uses the sftp protocol, and is much faster/safer/better/etc. This gives Nautilus (and all other gnome-vfs applications) support for sftp://host/path. Ross -- Ross Burton

Re: Gnome2.2 Window Manager

2003-06-04 Thread Ross Burton
he window manager. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF

Re: missing GTK2 theme in debian

2003-03-30 Thread Ross Burton
s evil menu shadow hack -- it will never be part of a released GTK+ but the patch is in GARNOME (a GNOME build system). That engine is BlueCurve, Lighthouseblue is based on an older version and BlueCurve has advanced since. Ross -- Ross Burton

Re: No "File -> Save" in gimp

2003-03-19 Thread Ross Burton
GIMP that gives it the ability to suddenly know which image you want saved > ?? Let's be consistent. Control-S saves the currently focused image -- GIMP is perfectly consistent. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE vs. Gnome

2003-03-13 Thread Ross Burton
me? I have 6 virtual desktops in GNOME 2. Define "features are lacking", and the default panels (task bars) have two menu entries, and only ~2 launchers. I don't see that as being "too many". I suggest you install both, try both, and see what you think. Ross -- Ross Burt

Re: IRC Server

2003-02-26 Thread Ross Burton
it looks like IRC and is very secure. They maintain debs. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0

Re: gtk fonts too big

2003-02-19 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 10:44, Paul Johnson wrote: > I'm not entirely certain why KDE and Gnome don't > use X resources themselves... Both Qt and GTK+ (the underlying widget sets) are not X-specific, so need a way of theming which is not tied to X. Ross

Re: ut2003/Games in general woes

2003-02-14 Thread Ross Burton
ork. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Disable Anti-aliased fonts

2003-01-12 Thread Ross Burton
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 12:40, Rob Weir wrote: > You want to edit /etx/X11/XftConfig and change the minimum AA font size, > or disable it completely. Not always true -- some programs are now using Xft2, which uses /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. (some include all GTK+ 2 programs and mozilla) Ross --

Re: Will my fonts every look good?

2003-01-05 Thread Ross Burton
you have to recompile mozilla from source > using the "--enable-xft" flag. If you are running Sid, installing "mozilla-xft" gives you a Xft-based Mozilla. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Switching to GNOME2

2003-01-05 Thread Ross Burton
x27;t utilize GTK2. What other options > > do I have? Evolution is IMHO the most capable GTK email client, although currently its still using GTK+ 1 instead of 2. With matching themes you'll never know the difference, and the GTK+ 2 port is going very well apparently. Ross -- Ross Bu

Re: MP3 to WaveConverter

2002-12-17 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 11:28, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 02:22:39PM -0800, suresh kumar sharma wrote: > > does anybody knowof any mp3 to wave converter's > The disk writer plugin in xmms works pretty well for me. Even easier: mpg321 --wav song.wav song.mpg Ros

Re: Maintain gtk1.x apps

2002-12-03 Thread Ross Burton
relevant GTK+ 2 theme. Most of the GTK+ 1 theme engines are available for GTK+ 2. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./

Re: Visual notice for X

2002-11-19 Thread Ross Burton
; root background with xsetroot won't work (had considered that). Audio is > out because I usually have the volume turned down because I share this > room. Sounds like you want libxosd. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome2 + enlightenment

2002-11-05 Thread Ross Burton
ec/1.2/html/). I can only think of Metacity, Sawfish, and the KDE WM that actually support the spec. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www

Re: ALSA & ESD

2002-10-26 Thread Ross Burton
tem is a debian unstable with 2.4.19 >kernel. libesd-alsa uses the old ALSA interfaces, you'll have to use the normal (oss) libesd and make sure you have the ALSA OSS compatibility modules loaded. Then it all works fine, Ross -- Ross Burton

Re: Galeon Mail/News ?

2002-10-18 Thread Ross Burton
sed upon Mozilla. Galeon *requires* mozilla-browser to be installed. There will never be a Galeon browser, the point is that you have the choice to pick your own mail client. I use Evolution, which I find a very good email client. Ross -- Ross Burton

Re: galeon and its problems (was: tabbed browsing as 'zilla'sdefault)

2002-10-01 Thread Ross Burton
around > version 0.7, and I've never had any issues like these -- it's the most > stable browser I've used, never forgets preferences, and always accepts > changes. Something appears to be misconfigured, and I'm thinking it has > to do with the dependencies, and no

Re: galeon and its problems (was: tabbed browsing as 'zilla'sdefault)

2002-10-01 Thread Ross Burton
the Mozilla web browser. I have been told in the past that there are complex dependancies inside the code which means the Composer and Gecko (the renderer) cannot be easily seperated, Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla 1.0.1 builds for Woody?

2002-10-01 Thread Ross Burton
is this snapshot the same as the one in sid? I guess not... No, those snapshot pacakges are very old... The current snaps in Sid are far newer -- those are dated 2002-04-27 whereas Sid contains2002-09-25. Ross -- Ross Burton

Re: syncronizing two directories

2002-09-09 Thread Ross Burton
do this task? Unison (and unison-gtk as a gui frontend) is excellent for this, I use it to sync my laptop and desktop. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-cache problem

2002-09-05 Thread Ross Burton
I don't have the > "mantis" package installed but "apt-cache show" shows information for it > just fine. Me too However, I am seeing this. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk

2002-06-13 Thread Ross Burton
was changed. I remember reading about a data recovery team that recovered files after the data had supposedly been removed with a 'dd' command like above. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Calendar/scheduling softwae fro debain?

2002-05-30 Thread Ross Burton
#x27;d rather want the ISO 8601 format (-mm-dd) or the > European format (dd/mm/). I couldn't find any option to change > the date format. Does anyone know more about that? Assuming it does the right thing, setting LC_TIME to your locale name (i.e. en_GB) should fix that.

Re: How to apt-get upgrade from files only

2002-05-21 Thread Ross Burton
pt/archives/ and run: $ apt-get upgrade --no-download --ignore-missing Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] diary: http://advogato.org/person/RossBurton PGP Fingerprin

Re: Evolution has no help or email properties

2002-05-13 Thread Ross Burton
install gnome-help. > However, I still get nothing when I try to open Edit/Preferences when > editing an email. You probably need to install 'gtkhtml'. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Running into a brick wall with gconfd on NFS

2002-04-25 Thread Ross Burton
ock/ and delete ior (and any .nfs-lock* files). There is sometimes another lock file in ~/.gconf/. I have had a discussion with Havoc (who wrote gconf) and the basic response is that gconf asks NFS to lock the file, and if NFS does not remove the lock when gconf exi

Re: sneakernet apt

2002-04-16 Thread Ross Burton
gets added too. Very handy to burn onto CD now and again for upgrading later. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] diary: http://advogato.org/person/RossBurton PGP

Re: fuzzy fonts in menus

2002-04-15 Thread Ross Burton
tab is 'CoolClean > Settings' Has this something to do with it? CoolClean is the name of the Sawfish theme you are using. I'd guess that you have installed gdkxft -- which anti-aliases the fonts for you. If you don't want to configure it (it doesn't have to blur the

Re: HAS Galeon UI changed?

2002-04-10 Thread Ross Burton
title of 'Galeon - Web Page Title'. These options are not gone, the GUI has been simplified. Check out /usr/share/doc/galeon/EXTRA_PREFS or some such file for the hidden preferences. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-proxy woes

2002-04-02 Thread Ross Burton
er time it seems to miss updates. If I revert back to the UK mirrors directly I can see many new packages. Has anyone else seen this? Does apt-proxy work for anyone out there?! :) Regards, Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-27 Thread Ross Burton
would hardly call it human readable. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Is .RTF an Open Standard?

2002-03-26 Thread Ross Burton
standards for Windows. An open standard for documentation? (X)HTML is good if used correctly. DocBook is excellent for technical documentation, LaTeX/TeX for reports. There exist good WYSIWYG editors for these _if you pay money_ :(, but Lyx/Klyx is a good WYSIWYG semi-LaTeX editor appa

Re: fetchmail

2002-03-26 Thread Ross Burton
specified', even though my > /etc/fetchmailrc contains servers...any tips on how to get it to check > email exactly when I want in emergency? Fetchmail looks in ~/.fetchmailrc to find servers by default, which is why it could not find any servers. The command you are looking fo

Re: debian on IBM Thinkpad iseries (P3-500)

2002-03-24 Thread Ross Burton
oot via SuSe's lilo .. ? I have a IBM Thinkpad X22, and Potato will not boot due to a kernel bug. Try Woody boot floppies? Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0

GL Screensaver problems

2002-03-17 Thread Ross Burton
I select Atlantis in GNOME Control Centre and hit Lock Screen, I get told that xscreensaver "could not create GL context for visual 0x21". There is a hint that I should check the ulimit but "ulimit -v" shows unlimited. Has anyone else seen this problem? I want GL screens

Re: ssh-client & gui

2002-03-12 Thread Ross Burton
iced that Cygwin are shipping rxvt as a package? That makes everything far, far saner. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF

Re: ssh-client & gui

2002-03-12 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 12:16, Ines Rieger wrote: > Hi all, > is there any graphical ssh-client for Unix? Any terminal emulator, from xterm upwards, can run ssh. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber:

Re: recommendations for portable mp3 player

2002-02-21 Thread Ross Burton
xcellent anti-shock (my Sony MD has never skipped). Remember - MP3 is evil! :) Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF

Re: OT: Need help from bash experts... humm

2002-02-12 Thread Ross Burton
ot;/* $target > > i say that the above will barf on windows filenames like > > "tom's proposal.doc" and "2002 Budget: 1st quarter" Both of those filenames _should_ be fine. The double-quotes will allow single quotes inside, and t

Re: apt-get and 'deb file:\'

2002-02-11 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 16:14, Tom Schuetz wrote: > I've also R'd the FM, and now, as a last resort, I appeal to debian-user. > What do I need to do to install a deb that's sitting in my PWD? Ignore apt and use dpkg. dpkg -i foo.deb Ross -- Ross Burton

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-28 Thread Ross Burton
> so fun when you don't know what is doing it. This is a rare Easter Egg in the GNOME panel. There is one more if you want to hunt for it... Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP

Re: eth0

2002-01-18 Thread Ross Burton
e single module which supports the hardware. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF

Re: Which Imap server

2002-01-18 Thread Ross Burton
as problems with multiple connections. Cyrus is also supposed to be very fast, but as it doesn't use the unix password database it means managing a seperate user database. Of course, for many people that is exactly what is required... Ross -- Ross Burton

Re: OT: Rant

2002-01-16 Thread Ross Burton
paces to get everything to (maybe) line up. > > For those who don't grok this, look at the top of any man page: > > man(1) Manual pager utils man(1) That can be done with a center tab and a right-aligned tab. Ross -- Ross Burton

Re: GUI mail readers

2002-01-16 Thread Ross Burton
ages across 20 folders when I migrated my mail to Linux. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Abiword and TrueType

2002-01-15 Thread Ross Burton
s is a fatal error and Abiword will > terminate. You symlinked more than just TrueType fonts, as a .afm file is a Adobe Type 1 font, not TrueType... Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF

Re: base files for woody?

2002-01-14 Thread Ross Burton
n-boot on irc.debian.net before attempting this, as it is tricky if you don't know what is going on. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E

Re: Unhappy ntpd

2002-01-09 Thread Ross Burton
fusing connections? > (Other than remove one from ntp.conf, wait to see if the errors stop, > put it back and repeat if they don't...) If memory serves correctly, running "ntpq" from the root shell and then entering "pe" should display the server

Euro in UK?

2002-01-08 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, I am trying to get the Euro key to work on my debian unstable system. However, there is no [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias which uses the ISO-8859-15 charset. I consider this a bug, but is it really or is it just me being dumb? :) Regards, Ross -- Ross Burton mail

Re: DRI setup with nVidia GeForce

2001-12-19 Thread Ross Burton
drivers or hardware spec (as they don't own the IPR to everthing, Microsoft and SGI own parts), but will not write a DRI implementation either. I've not found a need for DRI yet, as the nVidia drivers from their web site are very optimized (Quake 3 for me is faster in Linux than it

Re: Evolution and spellchecking?

2001-12-19 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 10:29, Preben Randhol wrote: > Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 19/12/2001 (11:24) : > > Gnome-spell is used if it is installed. I believe that a package is > > being worked on for that, but there are issues to be resolved. > > Does this u

Re: Evolution and spellchecking?

2001-12-18 Thread Ross Burton
t in the non-cvs debian unstable packages. Gnome-spell is used if it is installed. I believe that a package is being worked on for that, but there are issues to be resolved. I did see an unofficial package of gnome-spell at one point, though I've lost the URL.. :( Ross -- Ross Burton

Base floppies for Woody

2001-12-17 Thread Ross Burton
y are testing images, or beta or whatever. Just as long as they work - I don't want to put RH72 on my laptop! Thanks for any help, Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21

Re: My nVidia folly :( FIXED ?

2001-12-17 Thread Ross Burton
idia stuff to 1.0-2313 (from 1.0-1541) > > * removed 'Load "dri"' and 'Load "GLcore"' from XF86Config-4 > > If you're removing dri and GLcore from XF86Config-4, is there still any > hardware acceleration? Yes, there would be as n

Re: Sync WinCE device with Evolution ?

2001-12-16 Thread Ross Burton
can import .pst files as it calls MAPI (the MS Mail API) to read the mails one by one... So no, it is very Windows-only and won't be ported. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Finger

Re: Patititioning hard drive

2001-12-11 Thread Ross Burton
get all data back. Because of this I have gone from RH62 to Mandrake 7 to Mandrake 8 to Debian Sid without any major hastle regarding my data. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprin

Re: Missing zip drive devices with devfs

2001-12-11 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 03:50, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On 10 Dec 2001 22:11:32 +0000, Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am using kernel 2.4.16 and devfs. When I install the ppa module I get > > a directory structure /dev/scsi/host

Missing zip drive devices with devfs

2001-12-10 Thread Ross Burton
fine as when I reboot into Windoze I can use it. Any ideas? Thanks, Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF

Re: to get https in galeon???

2001-12-09 Thread Ross Burton
ackage installed which are the security libraries for Mozilla (and Evolution, and others). Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF

Changing location of Maildir with Courier

2001-12-05 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, How can I change the location of the Maildir in Courier-IMAP? By default it goes in ~/Maildir, but I'd like it in ~/.Maildir (they are not exactly human readable, so why see it?) Thanks, Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROT

Re: evolution and debian

2001-12-04 Thread Ross Burton
the first terminal which should point towards the problem more accurately. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF pgpyHZ1nBhbft.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Where is /usr/include/gtk?

2001-12-03 Thread Ross Burton
e gtk-config script to obtain the correct paths at build time. It looks like you'll need to manually edit the makefile. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CF

pdnsd and dial-up connections

2001-11-21 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, I want to set up pdnsd (the persistant caching DNS daemon) on my machine, which is connected to the net via a dial-up connection. However, the DNS servers are specified at connection time and I also use several dial-up providers, so I would like to be able to pass the DNS servers aquired from

Xmodmap

2001-11-20 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, I am confused. I had always thought that ~/.Xmodmap if present would be passed to xmodmap when the X server starts. I've got a .Xmodmap file (to swap the Windoze and Alt keys, so that windows == Alt as and alt == Meta as far as X is concerned) but it doesn't seem to get used. Do I have to p

Nautilus

2001-11-18 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, In Nautilus 1.0.6 in unstable I only have a choice of 1 smooth font - Helvetica. Why is this? At work under RH62 I have access to all of the scaled fonts X has, so why do I only have one here? I have about 50 TTF fonts installed. Ross

Print daemons

2001-11-18 Thread Ross Burton
will allow me to customise the properties of the printer (dpi, color/mono, quality, etc). Thanks for any help, Ross Burton

Re: Galeon hangs

2001-11-15 Thread Ross Burton
27;t have mozilla-mailnews installed... Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF pgpDzDmdtQQ0S.pgp Description: PGP signature

Backup systems

2001-11-15 Thread Ross Burton
res, i.e. long file names, permissions, owner/group etc. Can I burn a ext2 image onto a CD if I will only access it in Linux? Thanks for any help, Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fing

Re: GNome without esd

2001-11-14 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 17:52, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > I took out esd and now there are no sounds in gnome. My wm is sawfish. > Is there a way to get sound in gnome on woody without esd? Not as far as I know, GNOME is tied into ESD. I believe there is a module for aRTs (the KDE sound manager) which

Re: Intel(R) Fortran Compiler

2001-11-14 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 12:44, Daniel Faller wrote: > Hi, > > has someone tried and/or managed to install the > Intel(R) Fortran Compiler on a debian (potato/unstable) system ? > > Intel only offers .rpm files, alien does not seem to be able to convert them > correctly. > -

Re: Stable IM client in debian

2001-11-12 Thread Ross Burton
Apologies for the quoting style, I'm stuck in Outlook at the moment... jabber.com run a status page on support.jabber.com. AIM: AOL have explicity blocked all clients except their own most recent. This way the get to advertise in your client. ICQ: There appears to be issues when connecting to th

Re: Stable IM client in debian

2001-11-12 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 17:44, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > My real question should be, if I use gabber for my icq stuff, will my > message be delivered reliably. If not, any other alternative? thanx. > your help was/is appreciated =) Sadely no. It looks like ICQ is also doing the same as AOL to Ja

Re: Slow ETerms

2001-11-07 Thread Ross Burton
the X server. However, the protocol appears to be binary not textual (fair enough) so I have no idea what exactly is causing the slowdown. Is there a way I can profile the server end of the connection. or any other way of determining the problem? Thanks for any help, Ross Burton

Slow ETerms

2001-11-07 Thread Ross Burton
time waiting for information from the font server. Does anyone know how I can speed this up? Thanks in advance, Ross Burton

Re: imap server

2001-11-06 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2001-11-06 at 15:43, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > I need to throw up an IMAP server for my mother in law. I'm looking for > a package (sid compatable) that'll take 2 mins to configure and 0 > maintenance. > > Any thoughts on a preference? Yes I can go look up all the servers but >

Re: some questions (after a HD crash)

2001-11-05 Thread Ross Burton
resolves to a IBM 60GXP which I've heard are safe from the problem the 75's had. At least that's what I've heard and I hope it's right, you have the 40gig model of my 20gig drive... Ross Burton

Re: changing to Debian from Mandrake

2001-10-30 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 18:50, Michael Kaminsky wrote: > I'm been using Mandrake for the past couple of years, and now I'm > considering switching to Debian; but, I have some concerns. I > consider myself a fairly experienced Linux user and use Linux for all > my computing needs (devel, digital came

libdetect/kudzu/etc?

2001-10-29 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, RedHat and Mandrake have a wonderful program called Kudzu which does a quick hardware check on bootup for new hardware and attempts to configure it. Very handy! Does anything like this exist for Debian unstable? I have a quick hunt around packages.debian.org and found libdetect, which is the

Re: Being cracked? (need help on apache log files)

2001-10-29 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 15:55, Ole Sebastian Stein wrote: > We just got our ADSL and now have a server running Apache on a potato box > at home. DynDNS provides us with dynamic dns. > > Today I found these lines in my acces.log: > > 213.133.35.205 - - [29/Oct/2001:12:54:40 +0100] "GET /scripts/roo

Re: using /home with potato & woody

2001-10-26 Thread Ross Burton
rtition hda3 and I just mount it on /home in both operating systems. As long as the programs you use are compatible (i.e. no major changes in file formats etc) everything works fine. Ross -- Ross Burton Software Engineer OneEighty Software Ltd Tel: +44 20 8680 8712 C

Re: fam & imon

2001-10-25 Thread Ross Burton
On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 13:42, Danie Roux wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:23:11PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am interested in getting fam & imon working on my Debian unstable box, > > so that Nautilus can be notified when files change.

Re: fam & imon

2001-10-25 Thread Ross Burton
On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 13:42, Danie Roux wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:23:11PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am interested in getting fam & imon working on my Debian unstable box, > > so that Nautilus can be notified when files change.

fam & imon

2001-10-25 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, I am interested in getting fam & imon working on my Debian unstable box, so that Nautilus can be notified when files change. Are there packaged anywhere? Thanks, Ross Burton

Re: nvidia-kernel + 2.4.12...

2001-10-16 Thread Ross Burton
On Sun, 2001-10-14 at 15:14, Michael C. Alonzo wrote: > im having problems with nvidia-*-1541*. i compiled 2.4.12 then > dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-2.4.12*.deb nvidia-glx-*1541*.deb. I started X, > works but when i exit out of X, after xserver shutdown, it won't display > any prompt anymore that's why

Building modules with make-kpkg

2001-10-15 Thread Ross Burton
e? Thanks for any help, Ross Burton

Re: Dell 2550 wont install network card

2001-10-15 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 13:07, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > I want to install a Dell PowerEdge 2550 Rack Server that comes with 2 > 10/100 Mbps/ network cards and 1 1 Gbp/s network card. > I'm in lost to get those 10/100 network cards to run. > Are they Intel Etherne

Building modules with make-kpkg

2001-10-15 Thread Ross Burton
I have to rebuild an entire kernel package just to get a new module? Thanks for any help, Ross Burton

Is the SonicFury supported?

2001-10-15 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, Is anyone out there running Debian (unstable) with the VideoLogic SonicFury? It's a PCI sound card based around the CS4630 chip. I've seen reports that it is a) not supported, b) supported and c) supported but bad sound quality. Anyone got one? Thanks, Ross Burton

Re: how to get Skipstone

2001-10-13 Thread Ross Burton
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > skipstone: Depends: libstdc++3 (>= 1:3.0.2-0pre010908) but it is not installable > Depends: libmozilla > Depends: libnspr4 (>= 2:0.9.1-0.1) but it is not going to be installed > Depends: mozilla-

Re: Software DVD players

2001-10-13 Thread Ross Burton
> Excuse my ignorance, but what's the attraction of watching DVD movies on a > computer? It seems I'm better off in my comfy recliner chair or on the > couch watching my 29 inch Panasonic GAOO then sitting at my desk in the > den. As I asked the original question I should reply here too... I actu

Re: linuxworld: shutting down application when window closes

2001-10-13 Thread Ross Burton
tton closes the window but the program continues running, as the programmer did not catch the window closing event and quit the application. Code has to be written so that the programmer can close connections and open files, write data to disk, etc, before the application closes. Ross Burton

Re: Software DVD players

2001-10-12 Thread Ross Burton
On Fri, 2001-10-12 at 11:39, Ross Burton wrote: > Does anyone know of a good software DVD player for Debian unstable? I > am willing to build from source if I have to but would prefer something > packaged. I'll reply to myself and say that I have just found vlc in the Debian pack

Software DVD players

2001-10-12 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, Does anyone know of a good software DVD player for Debian unstable? I am willing to build from source if I have to but would prefer something packaged. Thanks for any help, Ross Burton

Re: gtk themes

2001-10-11 Thread Ross Burton
or messages are produced when switching themes - this will say if you are missing a theme engine ("cannot load libthinice.so" means ThinIce is missing). Ross Burton

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