HAL and ipw2100

know either what I've got set up wrong, or what magic to add to the fdi to make this work?Thanks,Tom Cook

Firefox DNS lookups

All,I'm running firefox 1.5.dfsg-4 on an unstable install. Whenever firefox is running it sends almost constant DNS requests (3 or 4 requests per seconds). This traffic stays constant for hours at a time. Anyone know what causes this, or how I can stop it?Tom

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

. Can't remember where I found it, but I used google, so you can probable find it there too. Regards Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. - George Gobol Get my GPG public

Re: 2^n (was: weird g++ behavior)

a real memory test some people suggest recompiling the kernel 10-20 times without interruption, the kernel code is complex enough that it sometimes causes errors where other code doesn't. apt-get install memtest86 Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide

Re: Sorry

, it is a metapackage that installs kde plus a lot of kde apps. So if you want to uninstall kab and karm then you will also need to uninstall the kde metapackage. This will NOT uninstall the kde window manager. That is in packages like kdebase and kdelibs3-bin. Tom -- Tom Cook Information

Re: downgrading libc6 ?

of stable over 1000 in /etc/apt/preferences and using apt-get dist-upgrade. Shouldn't this sort of thing work to downgrade any unstable packages on the system? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked

Re: RFC: Caps Lock

it with this command: xmodmap ~/.xmodmap Some of the other suggestions have been quite inventive, though, I thought. Regards Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and taste good with ketchup. Get

Re: public lending right

a book out of a library in the US then? In the UK you pay nothing, unless you keep it beyond a time limit; then you pay a fine, which is a punishment, not a fee for the book. In other words, UK libraries don't lend non-free books. Nonononono, free as in speech, not free as in beer. Tom -- Tom

Re: add users

or both of these. You best bet is to use adduser if this is the case as Rob suggests. Probably best to make sure you give them the same uids, too. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide When you go to the sysadmin's office in the afternoon, and all is deathly

Re: any suggestions on mail client?

completion-as-you-type (you need to hit ^T and it gives you a list) but it's close. I won't send you my script because it is rather badly written and slow. One day I will rewrite it in PERL or something, but until then... Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University

Re: for tecnical linux users

-- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide When you go to the sysadmin's office in the afternoon, and all is deathly quiet, there are three possibilities: 1) Something has gone wrong, and they are all trying to fix it. 2) Something has gone badly wrong, and they have

Re: blank LCD monitor

into console mode. Any suggestion? Get a network connection to the machine and see what's in syslog and dmesg. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Other people's priorities are endlessly odd. - Kingsley Amis Get my GPG public key: https

Re: apt help

archive at: http://ftp.du.se/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/latest/Debian/woody/ It has a packages.gz, but its directory structure looks wrong to me. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Intellectual freedom is not the freedom to believe anything, but the freedom

Re: java 1.3 and glibc 2.3.1

for this problem? sth like chroot-ing, adding an additional library? Ermmm... read the rest of the thread. The OP posted a solution. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide If your company is not involved in something called ISO 9000 you probably have no idea what

Re: video card help

that this was the default behaviour of debconf when setting up the mouse. It also had both mouse devices in the ServerLayout section, which caused hassles until I modified it by hand. Is this a bug? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Intellectual freedom is not the freedom

Re: x2vnc + Ctrl-Alt-Del

On 0, Joyce, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just do it, if it NT it will give you a 'lock workstation' dialog bog, which you can cancel. Yah, but if it's not transmitted by x2vnc it will reboot my linux box, not a good move at present. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services

Re: Partition Resizing/Re-arranging

my suggestions. Good luck. :) Eh? I thought /usr/local was for system-wide software that didn't come as a .deb... Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein Get my GPG

Re: Partition Resizing/Re-arranging

similar for /var, then you can delete those partitions and restructure them as you wish. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought that the public were beginning to understand the old ones

x2vnc + Ctrl-Alt-Del

then I can't log in :-( Thanks Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide When you go to the sysadmin's office in the afternoon, and all is deathly quiet, there are three possibilities: 1) Something has gone wrong, and they are all trying to fix it. 2) Something

Re: Debian, too easy?

, but I've *never* seen someone complain that its too easy... My feeling is that if you know debian then you'll figure out other distros pretty quickly (and probably figure out how much you want your debian back, but that's another story). Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services

Re: x2vnc + Ctrl-Alt-Del

On 0, Alex Malinovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 04:33, Tom Cook wrote: There is something I'm not quite game to try though. If my mouse is currently on the NT box, and I hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, will that be transmitted to the NT box? Or will it reboot my linux box? I'd

Re: How to pronounce Debian?

. The word is in fact calliope, and its pronunciation is cal-LEYE-op-ee; the extra 'l' affecting the pronunciation is a (fairly) regular pattern in English, especially in the parts derived from Latin or French (mostly from Latin anyway). I think. IANALinguist. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology

Re: Knoppix: Was: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...

the... How can a swap partition be read-only? How can a disk be used as swap without overwriting (probably FAT32) partitions on the disk? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five

Re: Java Programming Environment

, jikes to spit out emacs-compatible errors and then I can jump direct to errors, but its usually not worth it), and a third terminal on another where I run the thing. It works... Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons

Re: aptitude works as root, not with sudo

upgrade into two commands: sudo apt-get update apt-get upgrade Shell parsing happens before the command is executed! You could do this: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade but then you might get prompted for your password twice. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University

Re: A little daemon

a command to run, ssh will return the exit code of the remote command (at least with my OpenSSH 3.4p1 install). With rsh you'll have to add a ; echo $? to the remote command and read the value from stdout. Come now, rsh is surely almost as bad as what the OP proposed... Tom -- Tom Cook

Re: Where are the keys defined in X-windows?

On 0, Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Run the xkeycaps program. That program is a gui to help you create a configuration file which can then be loaded with xmodmap. And which you would then automate the loading of by putting this in ~/.xsession: xmodmap your_map_file Tom -- Tom Cook

Re: Source code

. Regards Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. - Doug Larson Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au

Re: Starting X on second screen

On 0, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Cook wrote: How would you start multiple screens using startx? 'startx -- :0.1' doesn't work for me, but then I don't have multiple screens. I believe this would attempt to start X on the Virtual Desktop #1 on the first (:0) display; what

Re: What services are using these ports?

, 'authentication port 113' (although I had to go to the second page of hits for that one). All of these protocols are defined in RFCs. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and taste good

Re: virus killers?

: http://www.lwfug.org/~abartoli/virus-writing-HOWTO/_html/ This proves nothing of the sort. That a virus can be written for ELF binaries is a long way from proving that a virus can replicate sustainably on *nix platforms. -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University

Re: mixed to stable

a=testing Pin-Priority: 100 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 200 Then apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade. When a distribution has a priority over 1000 then apt will downgrade packages to get to that distribution. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University

Re: gpg: checking the trustdb

for e.g. 31-12-2002: gpg: checking the trustdb [...] gpg: next trustdb check due at 2002-12-31 And then, the next day, or half a week later, it does it all over again? Is it lying? And your system clock is not being reset every day or so? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services

Re: unable to open X window on machine

tcp' from these locations, use xhost to allow connections from the other machines, and you should be fine. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein Get my GPG public key: https

Re: mail relay from local to internet

route_list = * box_1.yourdomain bydns_a end It works for me... Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook

Re: mail relay from local to internet

info's? or ideas.. Oh, and start a new thread instead of replying to an existing one. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide If your company is not involved in something called ISO 9000 you probably have no idea what it is. If your company _is_ involved

Re: procmail safety net

then mail that isn't caught by another rule will go there. I'm not sure if you were asking about this, but the default exim install runs procmail on all of a user's mail if a .procmailrc file exists in his home directory. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide

Re: Unsubscribe

If you wanna unsubscribe from the digest list, then you need to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein

Re: ssh and running command

to log in to the 'robot' account? If not, set the shell of this account to the script you want run and set its password to an expty string. I think ssh will then allow a passwordless login, execute that script and exit. I'd test it in a trusted environment, first, though. Tom -- Tom Cook

Re: Windows Metafiles (Alternative?)

, and there are tools for converting WMF to EPS, but I'm not really up with windows API stuff, so I think I'll stick with what I've got. It does the job, slowly but surely. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Classifications of inanimate objects: Those that don't work, those

Re: Very OT: mass installation on XBox

be only the point of view if we see the universe as a huge shop full of merchandise. But this is far from the way other people perceive surrounding reality. This is the sort of stuffed-up thinking that ends up with tyranny ruling all. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

person to say democracy will get my foot up their butt. Democa... sorry. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide This does not happen very often in Northallerton. - Siobhan Cowton, 14, of Yorkshire, after being hit by a meteorite. Get my GPG public

Re: mass installation on XBox (and economics)

. That's 500 million xboxen to drain it... Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide That you're not paranoid does not mean they're not out to get you. - Robert Waldner Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook

Re: Windows Metafiles

as bitmaps. I really want my vector graphics... Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide If your company is not involved in something called ISO 9000 you probably have no idea what it is. If your company _is_ involved in ISO 9000 then you definitely have no idea

Re: Windows Metafiles

On 0, Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom == Tom Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Hi all, I have this nasty NT app called ActiveHDL that I use for Tom VHDL development. Its block diagram editor doesn't export to any Tom reasonable format. I am trying to put block diagrams from

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

is certainly disallowed in Australia by the Trade Practices Act. It falls under the definition of 'preferential selling' or something of that sort. -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Intellectual freedom is not the freedom to believe anything, but the freedom

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

On 0, martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] It isn't illegal to play records backwards. Then, am I going against the law if I rewire my record player to turn the record the other way? No, but you're probably breaking your needle ;-) Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

Associations) Bastards!!! :-) Man, and you guys call this the land of freedom? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Never be irreplacable: If you are irreplacable then you are unpromotable. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook

Re: [Fwd: TV-Out: naive question]

signals at their terminals. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide When you go to the sysadmin's office in the afternoon, and all is deathly quiet, there are three possibilities: 1) Something has gone wrong, and they are all trying to fix it. 2) Something has

Re: Headers in this ML

high enough to worry about. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au

Re: Windows Metafiles [SOLVED]

On 0, Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Cook wrote: I have this nasty NT app called ActiveHDL that I use for VHDL development. Its block diagram editor doesn't export to any reasonable format. I am trying to put block diagrams from it in a Latex document, and am having all

Re: (X 4.0 problem )Re: pls help or i will switch to other distro

as good as it gets. If you're happy with 8 bit color then 1154x968 is just within reach, though. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Why are Fire Engines Red? They have four wheels and eight men; four plus eight is twelve. Twelve inches make a ruler

Re: Openoffice 1.0.1 crashes on openning

be bad RAM... It never hurts to run memtest86 on a machine. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Not to limit itself to play in a sand vat. - Google translation of, not to be stuck in a sandbox. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au

Re: java applets mozilla

from IBM). Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au msg04584/pgp0

Re: Why mailing-lists? Usenet have been invented, I hear. ;-)

defense of my comment is here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200209/msg01385.html Take care and stick around. 'Take care,' is good advice. Take care before you blunder into threads and make random accusations. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services

Re: Tex to PDF conversion trouble (pdflatex)

David P James wrote: Alan Shutko was roused into action on 09/27/02 23:12 and wrote: David P James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In case this matters, tetex-bin and tetex-base are installed. Install tetex-extra, I think. Yep, that seems to have done the trick, sort of. Lyx is

Re: Symlink clarification needed (vi - vim)

Robert Ian Smit wrote: I know that some programs react differently depending on how they are called. When you create a symlink to a program, does the program know that it was started by using a symlink? It's dependant on your C library (although that should be fairly standard across OS) but

Re: latex2e.fmt not found by xemacs

Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Hi: I an using sarge and I upgraded yesterday. In xemacs latex2e Interactive works, but latex2e does not. So I linked, in /usr/bin/ latex2e to tex, and copied /usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt to latex2e.fmt, ran texconfig but when I click on

Re: A (little) bit OT: The Gimp LaTeX (Or putting it all together)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I manipulate my high quality jpg photos (camera 4.1 megapixel i.e. images 2272x1704 pixels) with Linux the Gimp and print them with the Gimp itself after having put two pictures on an A4 glossy high quality paper. Now this procedure is time-consuming and I'm would

Re: KDE2 helloworld.cpp

with: g++ -c -o helloworld.o helloworld.cpp Note also that the usual (proper?) way of naming C++ source is *.cc or *.cxx, not *.cpp like M$ do. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five

Re: KDE2 helloworld.cpp

On 0, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 30 September 2002 19:04, Tom Cook wrote: #include qt/qapplication.h #include qt/qlabel.h #include qt/qstring.h then you should be able to compile with: g++ -c -o helloworld.o helloworld.cpp Note also that the usual

Re: deb command - which package?

On 0, Lars Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which .deb package do I need to install to get the deb command? I don't know, but http://packages.debian.org/ does, as does apt-file search /usr/bin/deb, most likely. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide

Re: KDE2 helloworld.cpp

On 0, Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 0, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 30 September 2002 19:04, Tom Cook wrote: #include qt/qapplication.h #include qt/qlabel.h #include qt/qstring.h then you should

Re: Recently installed packages

of packages installed within a certain time frame (perhaps an apt log)? thanks, Stuart Johnston Uninstall them and then run deborphan (apt-get install deborphan) to see what stuff is installed that is not a dependency of an installed package. Regards, Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology

Re: Page Faults Defined

, they are a normal part of the operation of the kernel memory manager. When bad programming practice comes in (eg. pointer arithmetic gone haywire) the fault is always recast as a segmentation fault or a bus error. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide

Re: Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

venus.my.homevenus ...now there is one name with to addresses, how will other programs react to that. e.g. dnsmasq? Shouldn't they correctly determine the address based on the IP protocol used to lookup the name? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide

Re: alsa help needed desperately!

On 0, Martin A. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi folks i cant get my alsa working. it have worked before. please help me! i have used many hours by now!!! What does lspci say? Is the card firmly in the slot? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide

Re: compare filesystem types ???

than is worth your while. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Other people's priorities are endlessly odd. - Kingsley Amis Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au msg03888/pgp0.pgp

Re: Page Faults Defined

together now... 1... 2... 3... groan ;-) Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Classifications of inanimate objects: Those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook

Re: supersuer by a normal user with chmod

# chmod +s test If you can do THAT then there is something wrong. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Intellectual freedom is not the freedom to believe anything, but the freedom to believe only the truth. - Dr. John Stott Get my GPG public key

Re: OT: Alternatives to ls for sorting files by modification time

$RM -f $i done otherwise you will get a lot of files with names like '-rw-r-' that rm can't delete for some mysterious reason. Maybe that was your problem? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Not to limit itself to play in a sand vat. - Google

Re: OT: Alternatives to ls for sorting files by modification time

On 0, Holger Rauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tom! Thanks for your quick reply! On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Tom Cook wrote: [...] All I can say is... it works for me. How many files in the directory where you're having this fail? It works for me in /usr/lib. # ls /usr/lib -lt1

Re: logitech cordless keyboard loosing contact / Detecting Turbo-Button

, but maybe your monitor refresh frequency is at about the RF of your keyboard and mouse, and is interfering with them? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide My advice to you is to get married: If you find a good wife, you will be happy; if not, you

Mesa bug?

with, and these are soon exhausted. So have I misunderstood something, or is this a mesa bug? I wanted to ask before I filed a bug. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Other people's priorities are endlessly odd. - Kingsley Amis Get my GPG

Re: Mesa bug?

On 0, Eric G. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 04:11:44PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: Hi all, This may be a mesa bug or it may be a manifestation of my ignorance of opengl. If the latter then I apologise for OT posting. I am playing with clipping planes

Re: netmasks

into account [1] below. [1]The address where the host part is all 1s is the broadcast address. There are also some broken implementations that consider the address where the host part is all 0s to be the broadcast address as well. HTH. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University

Re: Mesa bug?

at people implementing the spec than people using an implementation, but I may be very wrong about that. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought that the public were beginning

Re: Strange X behaviour after woody instalation (?!)

to reconfigure off-hand, but the command is something like: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 HTH Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and taste good with ketchup. Get my GPG public key: https

Re: Reset root password

the stuff between the first and second colons, then mount / -o remount,ro reboot when it comes up login as root(you shouldn't be prompted for a password. another way is to boot with a boot disk and mount the drive and edit the file nate -- Tom Cook Information Technology

Re: email clients

is clunky and not free enough to go into Debian. Use mutt. It is a very useful text based client. Second, Is there someway to modify Mozilla to over-ride it's mail client to start $MAIL_CLIENT when prompted. (Ctrl-M, mailto:$links...) Dunno, sorry. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology

Re: 10 based eepro acting weird

. -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Never be irreplacable: If you are irreplacable then you are unpromotable. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au msg02338/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 'ping -f' a Win98 box (was: Re: Collisions on lan using Linux versus Windows)

. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Classifications of inanimate objects: Those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au msg02177

Re: debian hints server, a debian quote of the day that gives help?

of software. Are we talking the Debian Assistant? No thanks... ;-) Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. - Doug Larson Get my GPG public key: https

Re: debian hints server, a debian quote of the day that gives help?

. Each of these has fairly good doco available. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought that the public were beginning to understand the old ones. - Mike Barfield Get my GPG

Re: Controlling the list?

On 0, Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Tom Cook wrote: Huh? I thought it was mailman... Nope, it's SmartList. According to http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/: All original Debian mailing lists are run on a special server, using an automatic mail

Re: Whatever happened to Unidentified Subject!

for finding empty headers? Haven't tried it, but shouldn't: :0: * ^Subject:[\ ]*$ /dev/null do it? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Other people's priorities are endlessly odd. - Kingsley Amis Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au

Re: Why mailing-lists? Usenet have been invented, I hear. ;-)

find a babelfish that supports Latin... Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Classifications of inanimate objects: Those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook

Re: I Can t Unsubscribe

in the automatic trailer of list posts, you need to use the control address to unsubscribe. Also, are you subscribed to the digest list? If so then the unsubscribe instructions are a bit unhelpful - you need to unsubscribe at [EMAIL PROTECTED], IIRC. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services

Re: Controlling the list?

a message with a body of help to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you'll get back a summary of available commands. Huh? I thought it was mailman... Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert

Re: helo

-- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au msg01705/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Installing new kernel

have the older kernel on the system. The older kernel will be left on your system. BTW I recommend grub if you have the time to work it out - it lets you boot an arbitrary kernel. As someone else has pointed out, the downgrade from 2.4.18 to 2.2.20 does not appear to make sense. Tom -- Tom Cook

Re: gcc version issues

compiled with I don't know which gcc, but it doesn't stop me from compiling kernels with whatever gcc I have installed. Or have I missed the point of your question? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide A child of five could understand this. Fetch me

Re: How to know the configuration of kernel

what modules are compiled into the kernel and baased on that I can add more if I want. When you install a kernel package (such as in a default install) the config file is written to /boot/config-x.x.x where x.x.x is the kernel version. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services

Re: Mutt's reply-all

On 0, Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How do you do reply-all in Mutt? In my mutt it is bound to 'g', which I believe is the default. Stands for 'reply Group'. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide

Re: Viewing .pdf attachments in mutt.[Fixed]

/mailcap worked fine That's a little dangerous, isn't it? application/octet-stream can be almost anything non-ASCII. It sounds like your suppliers are using a broken mailer. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Intellectual freedom is not the freedom

Re: Logout script

auwx | grep sawfish | awk '{print $1;}' | xargs kill But if you really want a violent way out of your X session, can't you set up a shortcut key combination to exit sawfish? Or, if that's not good enough, what's wrong with ctrl-alt-backspace? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services

Re: openssh

On 0, Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:47:15AM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: On 0, Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's only been added recently as part of the preparations for release. deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates main contrib non

Re: openssh

/debian-security woody/updates main contrib non-free didn't you? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide My advice to you is to get married: If you find a good wife, you will be happy; if not, you will become a philosopher. - Socrates Get my GPG

Re: Canonical Way to install Java

systems and gui-apps (eg robocode). [snip] Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought that the public were beginning to understand the old ones. - Mike Barfield Get my GPG public key

Re: Canonical Way to install Java

in some way before a .deb can be made. You are still free to use it; /usr/local/ is the place for non-.deb software. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five. - Groucho Marx Get my GPG

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