On 29 Nov 2011, at 23:57, Mark Panen wrote:
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>> On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:28:48 +0200, Mark wrote in message
>> <4ed56ab0.2090...@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a router right next to my machine and have connected a data
>>> surge arrestor, can i connect the earth of the surge arrestor to
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 23:06, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
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> A friend has asked me to put Debian on his Sony Vaio. Things are going very
> well except for the monitor setup. I'm using the Debian Installer
> BusinessCard installer to put Sarge on (
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:30:49 -0500, cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Yay! My "new" winbook fx is within a truck drive away. Seeing a how its
> a 150mhz machine with 32 meg ram and 2 gig hd, I need to start thinking
> about how to set this up to be my school laptop. I know linux will
> install.
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:01:45 +0200, Paal Marker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Shaun ONeil wrote:
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> >On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:42:36 +0200, Paal Marker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>The problem is that X starts, but will not display galeon.
&g
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:42:36 +0200, Paal Marker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> debian 3.0r2
> kernel 2.2.20
>
The problem is that X starts, but will not display galeon.
>
> Shortly told the system is put up like this:
> added user kiosk, system configuration by /etc/inittab,
> /home/kiosk/kio
> Just trying to get to google and it wont name lookup
>
> whois google.com gives among other things:
>
>
> Server Name:
>IP Address: 80.190.192.24
>Registrar: GANDI
>Whois Server: whois.gandi.net
>Referral URL: http://www.gandi.net
>
>Server Name:
>IP Address: 209
oops!
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 08:31 -0400, Shaun ONeil wrote:
> two gconf keys do this for me,
>
> /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop = false
> /desktop/gnome/background/draw_background = false
> ^^^
This should be show_desktop, ie:
$
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 12:57 +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote:
> I want to run mplayer in rootwindow and I think I have have to disable
> the background of gnome desktop. I am using Debian/unstable with gnome
> 2.6.1 and could not find any way to disable the gnome background. Can
> anyone give some idea
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 08:40 +, Rus Foster wrote:
> I'm having one of those stupid days..
>
> I'm trying to compile the kernel and am getting
>
> scripts/basic/fixdep.c:97: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
> scripts/basic/fixdep.c:98: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory
> scripts/basic
On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 16:36 +0200, Jens Simmoleit wrote:
> >
> > P.S.: It's a rock solid PS/2 HP-UX Server Keyboard, vey nice ^^
> >
>
> Sorry forgot to say that it is --->UK<--- English with British Pounds,
> etc
>
> Simmel
>
Just a note to say I finally caught up with this off-lis
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 18:27 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a digital camera. I resolved the problem has follows:
> 1° - Compile the kernel with the SCSI emulation, USB support and USB
> mass storage support
> 2° Load all modules (edit /etc/modules to load them at boot time)
> 3° mount /d
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 08:08 -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Shaun ONeil wrote:
>
> >Above the number keys, I have " (quote, shift-2), £ (GBP, shift-3) .. a
> >US keymap has @ and # respectively. Tilde (~) is shift-hash (#), placed
> >[etc]
> It's not a total fix
[ Replying on-list as I see nothing sensitive in the message, and it
does explain my plight a little better .. ]
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 09:19 +0100, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote:
> Shaun ONeil wrote:
> []
> > The rest: I'm a british national living in the US .. I've been typ
I know it's wildly off-topic, but whatever I come across, someone here
has beat me to it - and I can't for the life of my figure out how to
query google to get specific results for such a generic question .. so:
short story: I'm trying to find somewhere in the US (or canada) where I
can purchase a
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 15:51 +0100, Miroslav Maiksnar wrote:
> Thanks for hint, I have tried this and it seems vmware doesn't support 2.6
> kernels. Unfortunatelly I need 2.6 on both of my computers, so I have to wait
> for some future version... ;o(
>
> Thanks anyway
>
> Mixi
You may be inter
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 18:55 +, Gary wrote:
> I need to build a newer kernel for my laptop in order that it will support a
> parallel network interface I have for it. Since my only way of getting
> anything onto the laptop is via floppy, what I did was build a suitable
> kernel on my potato box
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 22:02 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> > Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >
> >>I was reading some reviews of other distributions, and they had a
> >>graphical "control panel" that allowed you to change your resolution
> >>without restarting X11.
On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 00:20 -0500, Thomas G wrote:
> I have been using Dual displays for some time now but whenever I go to
> play a game like ut2004demo i get in half on one lcd and half on the
> other. This creates issues taking in mind that my crosshair is split but
> 1 inch of screen gap. I
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 08:38 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 1. What is the most common "packages" that people use with "task
> installer?"
I habitually select none, and add what I need when I realise it's
missing, so I'll leave this to someone with an opinion on the matter ..
> 2. I'm asked to
On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 12:56 +, Tim Beauregard wrote:
> | Hi,
> |
> | The problem is that I cannot make my webpages visible online with my
> | browser. The error is '403 Forbidden You don't have permission to
> | access those file(s).' Viewing is fine offline. I used cthumb to
> | construct
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 13:57 -0800, MJ Inabnit wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I'm testing the latest debian "Sarge" installer. It's improving, but . . . What
> application includes the "startx" command? I realize I can install
> xdm/gdm/whateverDM, but I like keeping things "lite" on the older comput
On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 12:25 +0100, Alex Polite wrote:
> I'm helping my girlfriend updating her website. It's static HTML and
> pictures and the only way to update it is over ftp.
>
> So far I've been using gFtp. I can either upload the site file by
> file or upload all files in one go.
>
> When I
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 14:00 -0700, Devin Atencio wrote:
> Debian Users,
>
> I currently have a FreeBSD machine at home with all my filesystems being
> UFS. I was thinking of maybe converting over to Debian Linux but didn't know
> If Debian supports reading/writing to UFS filesystems. Would this be
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 15:48, Victor Varsanyi wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> After tying a few distroes i've settled on debian. I have a couple
> questions: firstly can anyone recommend a good webcam that has drivers
> available for linux? Also I just upgraded my kernel to 2.6.0 and gnome
> to 2.2,
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 19:14, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:13:18PM -0400, Shaun ONeil wrote:
> > I know I've done this plenty of times before, but this time it's just
> > not playing ball. Any hints?
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --get-selectio
I know I've done this plenty of times before, but this time it's just
not playing ball. Any hints?
"desktop" Is Debian sid, with a display running on :0
"server" is Debian woody, and headless (hence using ssh)
I've tried with and without passing -X to ssh, and I understand my
entries in ssh_confi
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 19:59, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> I want to setup a real basic mailing list for the users in my lab.
> There are only about 10 of us, so I would like to do something
> /etc/aliases. Is this possible? Do all the users need to have local
> accounts where the mail gets deliver
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 03:56, Joris Huizer wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> The computer I'm using has two hard discs:
> /dev/hda Windows ME
> /hev/hdb Linux Debian
>
> Because Windows ME is slow and buggy, my dad wants to
> replace it with XP;
> What are the risks - will XP mess with the boot loa
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 06:24, Wayne Gemmell wrote:
> On Saturday 16 August 2003 22:32, David Monarres wrote:
> > On Friday 15 August 2003 06:43 pm, John Foster wrote:
> > >
> > > I want to locate an editor that will run on Linux that will handle .pdf
> > > flie format. I really am only interested in
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 15:34, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 10:41:08AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
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> > I would like to take a few snapshots of a console where I have dosemu running
> > and old DOS application.
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 01:28, Shaul Karl wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 12:16:28AM +0100, Mark C wrote:
> >
> >I have been using
> > the one from here:
> >
> > deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/i386/ ./
> >
>
>
>
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 10:14, Valter G. Nogueira Jr. wrote:
> I know this question is a little off-topic and with a broad scope.
>
> And I am not interested in set up a new distro.
>
> The fact is: I really want to know and perhaps be able to setup a
> ultra-mini-distro just to tell myself: I did
On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 20:35, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am getting various errors trying to set up user-mode-linux
> networking on a 2.4 kernel, running Debian Sid. I have documented
> what happened when trying the preconfigured tun/tap configuration.
>
> I have a machin
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 01:00, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> As a faithful Debian user, I must keep abreast of all latest advances.
> # apt-get --print-uris -y dist-upgrade|awk 'NF==4{print $3,$2}'|grep apt-|sort -rn
> 300030 apt-howto-ru_1.8.5-2_all.deb
> 258682 apt-howto-pl_1.8.5-2_all.deb
> 257092 apt-how
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 16:06, Jacob Anawalt wrote:
> Chris,
>
> I am interested in learning Debian and contributing to the community. I
> feel I am somewhat GNU/Linux savy, though I am a neophyte when it comes
> to Debian. Perhaps my newness can bring out some confusion that people
> who are mor
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 14:55, Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> * Joan Tur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030704 20:12]:
>
> > > Sounds like you didn't mount the "usb proc filesystem". Add "none
> > > /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0" to your /etc/fstab, enter "mount
> > > /proc/bus/usb" and try again.
> > Thanks,
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On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 10:03, David selby wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am writing bash a bash & sed script, it has been going suprisingly
> well. I need a loop to count 9 times & the variable n to the count ..
>
> for n=1 to 9
>
> next
>
> kind of thing, but this is not BASIC !!
>
> My best guess
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 11:35, Fabio Miranda Hamburger wrote:
> Hi, I would like to know Where Can I get the linux debian source code? All
> I can see are binaries. I need the full directory in a ftp serfver (ej:
> ftp.debian.org)
>
> By the way, I have found Linux instalation annoy, so much warning
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 11:23, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
> I've heard of several methods of installing Debian within an already
> running Debian install on the same partition.
>
> - Bochs: an emulator, does this recreate a system worthy of a debian
> install? or will emulator-specific problems ari
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 16:58, Terje Fåberg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is it possible to use several logical terminals
> (=tupels of monitor, keyboard and mouse) directly
> connected to _one_ system? I mean there is no problem
> to connect two keyboards, two mice and two graphic
> cards/monitors...
>
> B
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 07:41, David selby wrote:
> I have been given 2xcdroms of photoes in jpeg format from australia. I
> would like to view them full screen scaled to the screen size and idealy
> flick through them.
>
> I have tried various apps xzgv,gphoto, konqueror etc but I need an app
>
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 08:02, Andrei Smirnov wrote:
> Hi people!
>
> i got a very strange problem with loading of a debian installation.
> it worked fine, but suddenly it refused to load saying
> 'no init found - try to use init= option'
> i tried:
> - supply init=/bin/sh
> - mount disk on a differ
On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 08:31, Toni Agudo wrote:
> How do I suppress these ubiquitous messages that pop up on my
> shell,saying "You have new email." everytime exim receives a new email?
> I will check my emails later anyway, so all this message does is unnerve
> me. I am subscribed to a good dozen l
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 06:13, Grzesiek Sedek wrote:
> Hi,
> I run my system as unstable, but in certain situations (i.e. recent
> Evolution Segfault or Mozilla problem on ppc) I'd like downgrade certain
> programs back to testing or stable - until the problem is resolved. I know
> that it is possibl
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 16:52, Hans Wilmer wrote:
> Hi!
>
> How can I get rid of the annoying messages from Mozilla that tell me
> to download a plugin whenever a webpage contains one of those obsolete
> 'flash' things? I definitely do not want all that 'flash' rubbish ---
> it only wastes bandwidth
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 14:19, Pigeon wrote:
> It wouldn't take much coding effort to put a File menu on the image
> window. I'm almost tempted to hack it myself, but now that I know how
> to save, I can't be arsed to familiarise myself with the source of
> such a large app just to make one tiddly c
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 13:01, Kris wrote:
> Ok I am trying to do some fancy stuff and need to know how the debian 2.4.18
> boot process works. Ok ouch I will compare. If for example I wanted to
> know the step by step process of an msdos system I would say something like
>
> It loads the kernel i
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 12:47, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> That said, although the releases are not so frequent that this will be
> an immediate concern, eventually Debian will run out of characters from
> the movie(s). I'm not personally sure that I feel too good about dealing
> with characters copyright
On 2003.01.27 19:20 Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 23:27, will trillich wrote:
> i've found an old (debian slink?) drive around the house, and
> plugged it in -- but i can't mount most of the partitions!
>
> root# sfdisk -l /dev/hdb
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 4956 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 se
On 2003.01.25 04:08 Dave Selby wrote:
Im planning to turn my ext2 to an ext3 after a system crash due
to a
winmodem driver running with dependency problems ..
OK I get the bit about
tune2fs -j /dev/hda2
I dont get the bit about
touch /forcefsck
touch changes the file timestamps ? I
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 09:25, Doug MacFarlane wrote:
> On 10 Dec 2002, 20:24:41, Ludwig wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 19:54, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> > > Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:42:13AM +, Doug MacFarlane wrote:
> >
> > Bear in mind that the JPEG format doesn't support transparency, so
> > you'
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