script that does everything you want (copying files to the right places,
making symlinks, etc.) and then run checkinstall on the script. It's an
astonishingly easy way to make your own debs.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.
-Plato
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email
get Linus to do it, but he might say I pronounce debian as
'LIH-NIX'. :-)
Or, better yet, RMS: I pronounce Debian as 'Deb-ee-in Ga-noo Lihnix'.
But then again, that's the proper full title of the distribution
anyway :)
--
Thomas J. Hamman
I have never let my schooling interfere with my
. And, of course, you might want to
set those in your ~/.bash_profile or something.
Of course, replace my example with the actual gcc options you would want
to use.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-Albert Einstein
(I've tried in gcc 2.95.4 in sid and 2.95.3 in
an LFS installation). So I've been using -march=k6 instead; but, then I
noticed in my latest kernel recompilation that it was compiling with
i686 when I chose Athlon/Duron in the config. Bah.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
If your judgment wishes to rise against
/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.html
--
Thomas J. Hamman
I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.
-Ashleigh Brilliant
anything about sounds. Sounds in Gaim and Licq work
fine for me.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to
pause and reflect.
-Mark Twain
ago. I also converted
my girlfriend to Linux a couple years ago, and we're both happy sid
users. (And my gf, bless her heart, converted her college's student-run
webserver from RedHat to Debian potato.)
--
Thomas J. Hamman
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us
]
It sounds like you're probably using the old X server in potato. You'll
probably need to upgrade to a 4.x version of X--you definitely need
newer versions if you want to use nvidia's drivers for 3D stuff.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in
which
around this?
--
Thomas J. Hamman
Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come
through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was
false.
-Bertrand Russell
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:39:48PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 03:48:45PM -0500, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
How can I get dselect to install packages that depend on
no-longer-available packages, and, once installed, how do I
the command-line program--apt--more
user-friendly and easier to deal with than the (console-based) GUI prog,
dselect. Dselect is harder to get used to, but IMO learning it is
worthwhile.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting
package from
blackdown.org. They have apt-getable deb packages.
It works perfectly with both Konqueror and Mozilla.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
If your judgment wishes to rise against these prejudices, your neighbors and,
above all, your neighbors' wives cry out: Impious reprobate, and dismay
you
= line--if
home.com is there, take it out.
I had a similar problem, and that's what I had to do to fix it.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
To the shame of mankind, it is well known that the laws which govern our
games are the only ones which are completely just, clear, inviolable and
enforced
the terminal to the defaults. It
could be a language/internationalization thing that your display isn't
handling properly.
If I run 'reset', the text is fine. BUT, if I then log out and log back
in, the console is messed up again.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
The hardest battle you're ever going to fight
the terminal to the defaults. It
could be a language/internationalization thing that your display isn't
handling properly.
Well, I figured out what it was--for some reason, /etc/motd was full of
binary junk, that was of course being loaded every time I logged in.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
Every man
it? I'm running unstable, but
it started a week ago and recent upgrades haven't fixed it (and I don't
see anyone talking about it here).
--
Thomas J. Hamman
To the shame of mankind, it is well known that the laws which govern our
games are the only ones which are completely just, clear, inviolable
.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
The chief danger in life is that you may take too may precautions.
-Alfred Adler
the music but
depend on working drivers for midi playback. I have tried Alsa drivers,
but even with all the midi-related modules loaded I can't seem to use
anything midi-related.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to
pause and reflect
/init.d/alsa start. It gives me an error of
[snip]
Did you compile and install the actual drivers/modules?
--
Thomas J. Hamman
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us
with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-Galileo Galilei
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 06:34:51PM +0100, John Toon wrote:
I've just installed KDE 2.2 on my Sid system, but am getting some
bizarre and frustrating font problems
Try turning anti-aliasing off. A lot of the fonts aren't available with
anti-aliasing enabled.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
If you would
and comp.std.c++. Some of the posts might be
difficult for beginning C++ users, but hey: live and learn !
I would also recommend alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++
They are generally friendly to beginners there, as long as you're not
acting like an idiot of course.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
Always tell the truth
a Windows program that my mother
wanted copied), Windows gives me lots of errors. The original CD works
fine, though. I wonder if this is a sort of copy protection?
--
Thomas J. Hamman
He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.
-Benjamin Franklin
. The CD does work fine,
however. So, what I'm wondering is whether or not there is anyway
around such an error, or whether it would be worthwhile to go ahead and
burn the resulting image and hope it works.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind
.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
There are persons who have resolved all these questions; which once
occasioned a man of sense and wit to say of a grave doctor, 'That man must be
very ignorant, for he answers every question that is asked him.'
-Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
without anti-aliasing. Try turning anti-aliasing off and restart
KDE, and see if you get the normal list of fonts back. (Or maybe
someone else has an actual solution? That would be nice.)
--
Thomas J. Hamman
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord,
make my enemies
what I use on those I haven't had time to read debian-user in
the past week, I better 'catch up' days, anyway.
Alternatively, you could probably just delete the file. Procmail will
happily recreate it next time it filters mail to it.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
It is impossible for a man to learn what
.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words
without heart.
-Mahatma Gandhi
.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-Albert Einstein
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 11:33:26AM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
So, it's fine now, but I'm still stumped as to how the system-wide
fetchmail process ended up in a state where it was running but not
working, and I'm not looking forward to having to periodically restart
the process myself
have Konqueror lie to them. Under the User Agent
section of Konqueror's config, use one of the MSIE identities for the
sites that give you trouble.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody
else's rules, while quietly playing by your own
In what documentation/manpage/whatever can I find a list of ports and
their numbers (like the ports for telnet, http, etc.)? And also I'd
like to know how to see which ports my computer has open.
--
Thomas J. Hamman
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's
character
Maybe I'm misremembering, but...
The real problem isn't even being mentioned in this thread. The
developer of Killustrator is willing to change the name; the problem is
that the lawyers in Germany (possibly quite independently of Adobe) are
demanding lots of money from one of the developers, to
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:59:15PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
I have lost several files due to an fs inconsistency on ext2 fs, I would
therefore like to just reinstall certain packages, to replace the lost files.
Is there an easy was how this can be done? I checked the dpkg man page
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 05:57:21PM -0500, Me wrote:
I totally agree with you. There's a LOT more to cross distro
compatibility than the package format and manager! A
whole heck of a lot!!
You do realize that there is a lot more in the LSB than package
formats... right?
--
Tom
The chief
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:03:43AM -0400, User zos wrote:
I wish that Debian used /usr/local more, but I guess its a case of where
do you draw the line when deciding if something should be in /usr/bin or
/usr/local/bin. For me, I generally reserve local for stuff that I install
by hand to keep
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:41:30AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
I got the following security audit of a machine I recently installed
Debian 2.2r3 on. I have run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade on it. The
most serious problem appears to be with ssh. What should I do about this,
if anything?
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 12:05:24PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 11:16:28AM +0800, Lamer wrote:
However, Microsoft do have good
products (like this Outlook express i'm using).
For one, it does't include any In-Reply-To: headers when you reply to a
message in a
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 05:15:13PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
hey,
do you guys know of a smart way to access random lines in a file? so
if a file had lines 1-5, 5 random reads would return something like
line3, line1, line2, line5, line4? you get the picture... oh, and that
preferably in
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 06:12:49PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
from random import *
from linecache import *
print getline('~/.muttrc',randrange(1,20))
except that hardcodes the file length, does it not?
Yep, like I said it was a quickie example. Here's something that
wouldn't have
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 05:00:27PM -0700, Jack Pryne wrote:
If we got this system up and running, Debian would be the *easiest* OS
install anywhere! Debian would take over the planet!
Ah, if only it were that easy.
When I think about the possibility of introducing Linux to, say, my mom,
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:11:10PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
The RPM thing is nice because you can find out what package matches an
exact file, and not get any extraneous results.
You mean like this?
hawk3:~$ dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
xutils: /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
The problem
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:31:38PM +0100, Liam Ward wrote:
Do any of these mail readers allow selective download from a POP
server? In other words, I want to view the message headers and choose
the ones I wish to download. I access my work mail from home and
sometimes get large attachments
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:26:57PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
i only meant, when i fortune-ify a set of 40 tips, and then want
to add seven more... but even then it doesn't sound too
difficult.
I use fortune for the randomized quotes in my sig, and it's easy to add
new quotes. Just
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:50:04AM -0700, John and Kristy Woodill wrote:
I have just bought a GForce 2 graphics card and now i can't seem to
get x to configure and load correctly. I just get a black and white
screen all scrambled up. I have a Riva TNT 2 before and had zero
problems with
I use fetchmail, procmail, and mutt for my E-mail, and I'm having one
little issue with mutt that has been disturbing me for a while:
Sometimes, new mail in my files does not show up in mutt for a while
(sometimes even a couple hours) after I have received it.
Does this happen to anyone else?
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 03:21:48PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote:
For hours is strange, using noflushd or so? Try set timeout=10,
anyway.
Andre Berger[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nope, not using flushd. I hadn't noticed the timeout variable before,
though; I'll try
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 02:55:18PM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
Are you using exim as your smtp server? If so it may be worth checking
in MAIN CONFIGURATION SETTINGS and looking for
# Have exim deliver all mail that's received in a single connection.
# Normally it will deliver the first 10
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 11:06:01AM +0200, Johan Groth wrote:
The result was a segmentation fault. The fonts.dir-file was partially
completed (35 fonts out of 53) after mkttfdir had run.
I had problems with mkttfdir too--it didn't segfault, but I have several
fonts that it fails to include in
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 10:06:36PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote:
I guess I'm really just curious as to whether it's possible to
actually put the fourth mouse button (under the thumb) to any use.
I'm not sure, but I doubt it. I notice my XF86Config-4 uses 'Option
ZAxisMapping 4 5' so
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 07:33:57PM -0300, Ted Gervais wrote:
I was wondering how others are installing KDE with Debian. I select apt-get
install kde, and it can't find it. Do I have to add a line to my
/etc/apt/sources.list file? Or, do I have to go and download the KDE files
myself
Well, I recently bought a non-cordless (cordful? corded?
cord-bearing?) optical MouseMan, and it's very nice. You'll
appreciate having an optical mouse, especially if you're at the point
where it seems like you have to clean your current mouse every couple
days.
I'm not sure if mine is supposed
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:53:04PM +0200, Alberto Garc?a wrote:
It even prints when I haven?t logged in (at the login window in
Gnome). I?ve commented every line in /etc/printcap and doesn?t work.
Thanks in advance Yope.
Did you mess up a print attempt at some point?
With my old HP DeskJet,
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 04:45:02PM +0100, David Wright wrote:
That won't necessarily help as the print job isn't all in its memory,
it's being sent from the computer's print queue. You should remove
the job(s) from the printer queue (lprm).
I should have mentioned this in my first post, but...
Take a look at the suggested printers at linuxprinting.org:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html
I recently bought one of the low-end laser printers that they
recommend (Lexmark Optra e312) and I've been very happy with it.
--
Tom
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no
hawk3:~$ dpkg -L idle-python2
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/idle-python2
/usr/share/doc/idle-python2/copyright
/usr/share/doc/idle-python2/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/idle-python2/changelog.Debian.gz
Where exactly is the executable for running the Python 2 version of
idle?
--
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:11:53AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote:
I know what s is, when designated in the permissions of a file, but what
does a capitol 'S' stand for? ie:
drw-r-Sr--
I have a related question: How come almost every file in my home
directory has s or S permissions set? Even if
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 07:07:12PM -0500, David B. Harris wrote:
To quote Thomas J. Hamman [EMAIL PROTECTED],
# X: The xhost localhost thing doesn't seem to work with X 4; what do
I
# need to do to allow my gf to run programs with her user when we're
# logged into X as my user?
I think
I'm using unstable and having a few issues I could use some help
with
X: The xhost localhost thing doesn't seem to work with X 4; what do I
need to do to allow my gf to run programs with her user when we're
logged into X as my user?
gtv: For a while now, the gtv program in the smpeg-gtv
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:56:42PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote:
Hi,
Are https:// sites still not supposed to work in Konqueror under Debian
unstable? Is there any way to turn on https:// support? I'm confused as to
why it has been this long and netscape does https:// without a problem and
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 04:23:34PM -0500, Eileen Orbell wrote:
Could someone tell me what SOUND CARD would be the best to install on a
Debian Box?
Also the easiest would help..
Try a Creative Soundblaster PCI 128 (or 64). I just got the SB 128 for
around $25, and all you have to do to get it
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 06:24:44PM -0600, dude wrote:
nv.c:49: linux/modversions.h: no such file or directory
make: *** [nv.o] Error 1
I don't know what conversation this is supposed to be part of, but it
looks to me like you're trying to compile a kernel module without the
kernel headers?
Since dist-upgrading to the most recent Woody packages, I have been
unable to compile a kernel. Both the 2.2.17 kernels and 2.4.0test10
kernels abort with the same error.
I can't think of anything else that could be the problem, outside of the
recent dist-upgrade, because I have already compiled
Thanks to a swift response, my problem was solved--apparently I just
needed to symlink /usr/include/asm to /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386
Though I wonder what made me suddenly need the symlink, if I didn't have
it before, or what made me lose it if I did have it before. (I notice I
did already
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 09:10:09PM +, Pollywog wrote:
The reason I could not get it to work in the past was that I did
not know I had to download the drivers from the ALSA website, and I
thought the Debian ALSA packages were sufficient.
The Debian packages _are_ sufficient, or at least
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 01:08:20AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
Chris Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CP Anyone running a 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 on Debian?
CP Just curious if it works well or not.
My Voodoo3 2000 worked fine with the older Glide stuff in X 3.3.6, and
works fine with the DRI stuff in
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:37:13AM -0500, Anderson, Tim TL33E wrote:
On my box konqueror has been a breath of fresh air.. with the exception of
https support, which isn't there. Anyone know if that's a KDE thing or is
it just not compiled into the packages at kde.tdyc.com?
I don't know
I'm going to be upgrading my computer soon, most likely with a
motherboard with a KX133 (with an Athlon) or a KT133 (with a Duron or
Thunderbird) chipset.
Does anyone have any experience with those chipsets/CPUs in Debian? Are
there any problems with them?
And, specifically, since all the
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:47:21AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, I know that they're not really reccomended for the average user
yet, but I wanna try them out so bad! :-)
I've got a K6-500, 64Mb ram, Voodoo 3 w/16Mb, and I'm running a
mostly potato system. What I would like to know
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 10:54:01AM +0100, Daniel Reuter wrote:
Hello there,
After all this discussion recently on the list about opera for linux and
galeon/skipstone, I looked at the galeon/skipstone webpages. So a question
came to my mind:
They both use the gecko rendering engine from
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:30:39PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote:
I'm confused about the interaction of kernel sound support and ALSA
drivers.
If I want to switch to ALSA drivers, do I build the kernel with sound and
soundcore, or just soundcore? I assume that I turn off the kernel support
Okay, I have the latest 2.4.0 test kernel compiled with DRI and the 3dfx
driver, I have XFree86 4.0.1 running fine
Now how do I even find out if I have 3D hardware acceleration working?
Is there any simple test? None of my games currently work, but I know
Myth 2 and Quake 2 need the older
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 11:13:41PM -0500, Joel Dinel wrote:
OK, I found out that you don't use XF86Setup anymore.
XFree86 -configure seems to detect my stuff OK. When I run XFree86
-xf86config /root/whatever.file I get a nice empty gray screen, and
the mouse won't mouse. That's as far as it
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 02:13:48PM +0800, Corey Popelier wrote:
Most of you might have gotten bored to tears by my running efforts to get
the X4.0.1 in woody functional, and probably know by now I have, so I
thought I'd quickly and briefly say how:
[snip]
Err... did you try running the little
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 10:27:52AM +0100, Robin Collins wrote:
Can someone tell me the order in which the KDE2 source packages should be
built? With Gnome there's a page on their web site listing the package
order and using this I fired up Gnome with only one minor glitch. With KDE2
though I
Can somebody please tell me how I can tell my printer to STOP?
My desparate attempt to stop it from printing out the rest of a document
after I specifically told the word processor to print out only the first
page resulted in the current situation the printer is in now:
It wants to keep printing
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:35:21AM +0200, Francois Fayard wrote:
2) Can pon be set up to display a connect message
for my wife and kids to see? The enter a pon command
and expect to surf or read email before the connection
is made.
I just want to ask for something close to
I'm trying to help my gf set up Pine on a server at her college (since
those silly students actually prefer it over mutt), and we're both
running into the same compilation problem (with Woody on my box and
Potato on the server).
Using the pine4-src and pine4-diffs packages, after running
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 01:21:22PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 05:34:36PM +0200, Frederik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts
--report
/etc/cron.daily
/etc/cron.daily/exim:
Exim retry
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 10:53:34PM +0200, Marc Maute wrote:
hi,
I want to install xfce and tkgoodstuff on my
debian system. OK so I installed lg-issue11 /45?
But I must say: I dont really know what lg-issuel is.
And now I must ask you what is lg-issuel and
how can I install xfce and
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 03:26:59PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
Anyone who can recommend good print filters for ordinary text?
lpr gives lousy output: pages are too long and wide, the font is too large.
lpf or pr is not much of use either.
man -k print|grep filter gives:
lpf (1)
After running an apt-get update in woody, I ran an apt-get -s
dist-upgrade to see which packages were going to be upgraded, and I was
given this error message:
E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential
package libpam-modules due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This
I was walking my gf through an install of Debian (it didn't scare her,
and she's no techie), and everything went fine until she tried
installing some stuff.
Installing task-x-window-system basically choked, and now she is left
with a bunch of half-installed packages. I can't tinker with it
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 04:05:36PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote:
I've made sure the Enable-Full-Headers-Cmd options was selected in Pine's
setup, and I still don't seem to be seeing the full headers for any emails
in PINE.
Is there anything else that needs to be done ?
That enables a _command_
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:19:34AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
Now if only I can figure out why my printer daemon is just sitting
there ignoring printjobs. ;-)
I'm no expert (obviously :) ), but to try to get stuff set up as cleanly
as possible and eliminate potential sources of trouble,
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:13:12AM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote:
Thanks for your continued advice, Michael.
From man lpr (woody):
-V Verbose mode. Additional -V flags increase verbosity.
Use debug flags for extreme verbosity.
That's very interesting... I'm using
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:23:11PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ lpr test.ps
lpr: connect: No such file or directory
jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
^^^
That's the problem there is no daemon so you can't even connect to your
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 02:45:05PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Guys,
What is the best practise for obtaining and installing the odd
unstable package in to a stable system?
Hmm I think there was a thread on that very recently... I think the best
answer was:
Make your
Disregard my last post on this subject--I rebooted my machine and now I
can print ps files just fine! :)
Michael, thank you again for all your responses, I appreciate it
immensely. :)
Finally, I can write my English essay in peace.
--
Tom
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 05:22:01PM -0400, Jonathan Markevich wrote:
why not dpkg -l emacs ?
un emacs none (no description available)
or better yet, dselect.
Never thought I'd hear someone say that! :)
I also tried apt-get remove emacs* but it didn't help. No
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 08:40:26AM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote:
You are able to print text files with lpr and you can't print
Postscript-files that way?
Correct.
What's the output of lpr -V -V your-file.ps?
That gives me no output... are you sure the -V options are correct? I
don't see -V listed
Okay, my printing situation is getting weirder.
In desparation I tried using printtool, and used it to set up my printer
exactly the same way I had set it up under Mandrake before switching to
Debian. I was excited when printtool successfully printed when I tried
its option for printing a
Okay, I thought I had my printer working just fine (albeit without
color); I've printed dvi's fine in xdvi, and I can print text files fine
with lpr.
But now I'm writing an essay in kword and when I try to print, it just
does nothing. So then I printed to a ps file instead of the printer,
opened
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:48:21PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
You shouldn't need to print postscript from ghostview. Does your printer
understand postscript? What print filter are you using?
I don't know if it understands postscript; I'm using the dj550c filter.
Here is what
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 03:34:15PM +1200, voy1d wrote:
Hey.
Running Potato 2.2 r0 with latest updates complete, whenever I try to mount
my cdrom drive like so.
mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom
I get an error message :
error mounting device: device not found.
Anyone got any ideas?
/dev/cdrom
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 05:53:59PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
I've found that gnome-napster works perfectly whereas gnapster stays
disconnected. However, gnome-napster has few less features, but at least
its a temporary answer.
Andrei
I have a different problem when I use gnome-napster--I'm
Is there any software available for Linux that can intercept phone calls
(to a phone that's connected to a modem), and...
1) Serve as an answering machine when the modem isn't in use, and/or
2) Inform me when I'm on-line and there's an incoming call?
Any help would be appreciated, since I'm
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 09:54:15PM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote:
Here is the situation, I'm a Debian user. The company I work for, so far,
will only allow Red Hat as it's Linux OS on it's servers. I need some good
reasons to justify using Debian. So I'm asking you guys to help me out with
your
Occasionally (okay, frequently), the time on my computer gets randomly
changed to something incorrect. Unfortunately, I can't figure what's
causing it because I never catch it when it happens--I just eventually
notice that my time is off by several hours for no apparent reason.
I'm using Woody,
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 09:52:29PM -0500, Paul T.McNally wrote:
William Jensen wrote:
Sounds like the clock/system battery is dying. Have you tried replacing
that?
Bill
What if it's soldered to the mutha board? Does anybody (company) do that
anymore?
Paul
Thanks for the
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 10:31:04PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
Occasionally (okay, frequently), the time on my computer gets randomly
changed to something incorrect. Unfortunately, I can't figure what's
causing it because I never catch it when it happens--I just eventually
notice that my
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