Re: applying font size and family to QT apps.

2001-10-08 Thread William Leese
On Monday 08 October 2001 19:00, Geoff Beaumont wrote: > At 18:20 08/10/2001 +0200, you wrote: > >short and simply; how is this done? > > > >I know KDE's window manager does this, but i don't use KDE (blackbox is so > >much better.. ahem.. :) .. surely there's a way to make the by default > > large

applying font size and family to QT apps.

2001-10-08 Thread William Leese
short and simply; how is this done? I know KDE's window manager does this, but i don't use KDE (blackbox is so much better.. ahem.. :) .. surely there's a way to make the by default large fonts of QT apps a little smaller.. kind regards, William Leese

RE: Fonts in GTK

2001-09-04 Thread William Leese
> -Original Message- > From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: dinsdag 4 september 2001 10:25 > To: 'Debian List' > Subject: Re: Fonts in GTK > > > on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:02:18AM +0200, William Leese > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >

RE: Make that the ESS1878 (was: Opti 1868)

2001-09-04 Thread William Leese
I believe i got this working by using the sb.o module, although i believe i was using a different soundcard chipset.. ESS1868? But apparently these are(were?) '100% soundblaster compatible'. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 4 september 2001

RE: Fonts in GTK

2001-09-04 Thread William Leese
Try changing the character set. -Original Message- From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 4 september 2001 0:14 To: Debian List Subject: Re: Fonts in GTK on Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 03:03:35PM -0700, J. D. Kitch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I had a working GNOME instal

RE: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-28 Thread William Leese
> -Original Message- > From: Slaven Peles > Sent: dinsdag 28 augustus 2001 6:50 > To: Rogério Brito; debian > Subject: Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension... > > > On Monday 27 August 2001 15:23, Rogério Brito wrote: > > On Aug 27 2001, Slaven Peles wrote: > > > Make sure what chipset your

kdebindings?

2001-08-18 Thread William Leese
To make it sweet and short: where can i find the kdebindings module? I'd love to give konqueror and gecko a try, but couldnt find kdebindings anywhere. William

RE: Wine & Remedy

2001-08-14 Thread William Leese
That's the one. I'm afraid they only list solaris and hp-ux clients in their 'compatibility matrix'. -Original Message- From: Andreas Sliwka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 14 augustus 2001 13:45 To: William Leese Subject: RE: Wine & Remedy if you are

Wine & Remedy

2001-08-14 Thread William Leese
Hello again, Another step in using linux exclusively on my computer at work (and hopefully that of others in the near future.): We work with a program called Remedy (internally refered to as SDA) and ofcourse I'm somehow going to have to find a way to use it with linux. There are several options

usbmouse working

2001-08-14 Thread William Leese
Well, thank you all. Although I didn't quite get the correct instructions all the bits and pieces helped. The character device and xfree86 4 settings were correct, however I had not installed usbmgr. Does anyone know why this would be necessary? Anyway, cheers. William

RE: can't configure xserver-xfree86

2001-08-14 Thread William Leese
Mornin', I believe that in the package xbase-clients there is the script xf86config, which can generate a XF86Config-4 configuration file. Regards, William -Original Message- From: Michael Bartl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 14 augustus 2001 8:09 To: debian-user Subject: can't

RE: [How to burn .raws]+[Woody ISO files]

2001-08-14 Thread William Leese
Just give it the iso extension. William -Original Message- From: Navin Dhanuka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: maandag 13 augustus 2001 19:45 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: [How to burn .raws]+[Woody ISO files] Hello Everyone, When is the official release of Debian Woody sch

Re: webservers: don't accept external connections?

2001-08-13 Thread William Leese
be of much help though :) But thank you, atleast I have some kind of explanation as to why it isn't working. Cheers, William > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, William Leese wrote: > > Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 19:38:44 +0200 > > From: William Leese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >

webservers: don't accept external connections?

2001-08-13 Thread William Leese
Hi there, After having killed my debian install one day and reinstalling it the other, I've since then had trouble getting external computers to access my webpages. Although I can view the page from my own computer and that of another computer on the network (although ipmasq stopped working als

usb logitech wheel/optical mouse

2001-08-08 Thread William Leese
Hello list, I'm trying to get a logitech usb mouse to work, without much luck. In modconf I've loaded the modules: usbcore, usbmouse. In XF86Config-4 I use for the mouse device: /dev/usbmouse and as driver MouseMan. Anything I've missed or done wrong? William Leese

Re: Mozilla on win2k :-(

2001-08-07 Thread William Leese
I'm pretty sure most everyone can reach that far with > one hand. > > You can ask on the mozilla lists too. > > Mike this might help: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html William Leese

Re: Fwd: Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread William Leese
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 18:59, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 06:53:38PM +0200, William Leese wrote: > > there's more though. but again i'm not sure.. for the first time i've > > seen a few odd requests being logged in boa, just a small snippet: >

Fwd: Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread William Leese
" [07/Aug/2001:09:29:23 +] bogus HTTP version: " HTTP/1.0" this all seems rather coincedential.. and seems to confirm my idea of being infected with a virus/worm.. hope this helps (me, heh.. :) On Tuesday 07 August 2001 18:40, William Leese wrote: > I think my machine has been

Fwd: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread William Leese
urgh, and now with the attachment -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: please read: very odd network traffic Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 18:40:11 +0200 From: William Leese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I think my machine has been compromised though i

Fwd: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread William Leese
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: please read: very odd network traffic Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 18:40:11 +0200 From: William Leese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I think my machine has been compromised though i'm not entirely sure. I sud

please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread William Leese
hat could be causing this.. it would seem like something (a worm or virus) is scanning the network looking for (vulnerable?) computers. I'll be keeping this computer off the net till i find out what it is.. only briefly turning on networking to check my mail. all help is greatly appreciated,

Re: CD-Rom Probs

2001-08-03 Thread William Leese
On Friday 03 August 2001 20:57, dman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 08:47:19PM +0200, William Leese wrote: > | I don't get it either. At first it seemed like I didn't have iso9960 > | support > > That should be "iso9660" > > | in my kernel or compiled

Re: CD-Rom Probs

2001-08-03 Thread William Leese
On Friday 03 August 2001 20:13, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, William Leese wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I'm having some trouble getting my cdrom drive to work with linux. > > > > Through dmesg I've learnt that it&#

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains [Konqueror]

2001-08-03 Thread William Leese
in an URL in konqueror becomes a burden. Surely, there is someone out there using Konqueror to browse shares in their network? There is a tab in Kcontrol where you can fill in a login, a password and a workgroup to use for SAMBA shares, no mention of domain though. William Leese

RE: CD-Rom Probs

2001-08-03 Thread William Leese
2001 at 02:11:21PM +0200 > > In reply to:William Leese > > Quoting William Leese([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hello list, > > > > I'm having some trouble getting my cdrom drive to work with linux. > > > > Through dmesg I've learnt that it's /d

RE: CD-Rom Probs

2001-08-03 Thread William Leese
> -Original Message- > From: Frank Zimmermann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: vrijdag 3 augustus 2001 14:48 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: CD-Rom Probs > > > William Leese wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > I'm

CD-Rom Probs

2001-08-03 Thread William Leese
oody so I don't think it's a problem with the file. Idea's anyone? William Leese

RE: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains [Konqueror]

2001-08-03 Thread William Leese
of the Domain. > > Assuming your machine can resolve the PDC's hostname, I > suggest you check this > next. Not an issue as this computer already is added to the domain, I'm not sure if it needs to be re-added when in linux but it seems unlikely. Currently I can login to the PDC and other computers logged into the domain. All that needs to be done now is to get konqueror display a listing of all these computers. William Leese

RE: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-03 Thread William Leese
nt: vrijdag 3 augustus 2001 8:15 To: 'William Leese'; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains > You have to join the linux computer to the domain, which > requires some level of admin privilages. (We'll assume you > have those) > > %&g

RE: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-03 Thread William Leese
-Original Message- From: Kurt Lieber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 3 augustus 2001 8:15 To: 'William Leese'; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains > You have to join the linux computer to the domain, which > requires som

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-02 Thread William Leese
urse. > > Did those employers also make you undergo treatment to forget any > training you'd received? Heh, there goes my topic. For the record, I work for a helpdesk. Again, I'm asking help. With SAMBA how do I: Login to the domain (pdc) View computers logged into the domain Browse and manipulate shares (in Konqueror?) Cheers, William Leese

Re: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-02 Thread William Leese
er have some good online tutorials to get things up and running initially.. and then learn everything lateron when trying to fix small annoyances. > > -Original Message- > > From: William Leese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 6:53 AM &

Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-02 Thread William Leese
ave to use SAMBA, and have been looking at the HOWTO. However I don't have enough time (at work) to do through the documentation properly, a quick scan didn't bringup much. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, William Leese

Re: mozilla, netscape and java

2001-05-15 Thread William Leese
> how can i have mozilla making use of netscape java files? (ftp.netscape.com has it, just find your way to netscape 6.01) # unzip jre.xpi -d $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/plugins 'jre-image-i386/*' # cd $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/plugins # ln -s jre-image-i386/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so . not sure w

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread William Leese
On Tuesday 15 May 2001 07:45, William Leese wrote: > being a bit of a Mozilla advocate i have two small comments; > > 1) lastest development release is 0.9, nightlies are 0.9.1 oh, one warning: galeon seems to crash very often with 0.9, much more often than mozilla does. perhaps i

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread William Leese
being a bit of a Mozilla advocate i have two small comments; 1) lastest development release is 0.9, nightlies are 0.9.1 2) the screenshot is quite old, mozilla is now on its fourth skin, the one in the screenshot was its second i'm not certain if you ve tested the 0.9 release, if not i strongly

Re: Opera 5 is out!

2001-05-14 Thread William Leese
>Just wanted to say that Opera 5 (final) has been released. It replaces >Beta 8, and should be very stable. > >ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/500/ mm, no java .. its finally stable though.. yet for some reason, i know i'll be sticking with netscape until mozilla reaches 1.0 and galeon uses i

Re: PLIP, debian installation

2001-05-10 Thread William Leese
> |> when trying to ping from the desktop machine to the laptop the laptops > |> console shows the error: > |> > |> plip0: transmit timeout(1,80) > |> > |> until i cancel ping. does anyone know why this is happening? > > I've used this method often to do installations and upgrades on > laptops. I s

PLIP, debian installation

2001-05-10 Thread William Leese
Hi all, I'm attempting to install debian on a laptop using a plip connection to a desktop machine which has a debian cdrom iso file mounted on /cdrom. when trying to ping from the desktop machine to the laptop the laptops console shows the error: plip0: transmit timeout(1,80) until i cancel

Re: I have instaledl too many packages

2001-05-04 Thread William Leese
On Friday 04 May 2001 19:14, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:47:39AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hi,all > > I am a debian newbie.I have installed too may packages. > > I want to use 'dselect' to delete some,but show many errors > > I want to use 'apt-get remove filena

Re: motherboard suggestions OT: ECC memory

2001-05-04 Thread William Leese
> I need to replace a dual PIII-600MHz motherboard, which apparently got > fried. I'd appreciate any suggestions for a good, Linux friendly one. > Preferably something which can make use of ECC memory, which the dead > one (i840 chipset) couldn't. one of those things i was going to look into put

Re: I forgot my root Password

2001-05-03 Thread William Leese
On Friday 04 May 2001 01:31, William Leese wrote: > > Please I need your help, I know I`m a fuckin silly user, but I forgot > > my root password, please I need your help, how can I recover it? > > get a bootdisk sorry, a rescue disk. a popular one: http://www.toms.net/rb/download.html

Re: I forgot my root Password

2001-05-03 Thread William Leese
> Please I need your help, I know I`m a fuckin silly user, but I forgot my > root password, please I need your help, how can I recover it? get a bootdisk, boot the comp with it, mount your root partition or the partition containing /etc, open /etc/shadow (or passwd depending on your configurat

Re: ReiserFS + 2.4.4

2001-05-01 Thread William Leese
> $ which tar > /bin/tar > $ ldd /bin/tar > /lib/libNoVersion.so.1 => /lib/libNoVersion.so.1 (0x40015000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4001f000) > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) > > Debian is probably similar, so most likely /lib and its contents w

Re: ReiserFS + 2.4.4

2001-05-01 Thread William Leese
> > 3) rm -rf /usr, /lib.. etc after mounting the vfat partition which also > > contains a copy of /sbin and /bin untarred. > > Hmmm... aren't there important things in /lib, namely libc? would that be needed for running mkreiserfs, tar and perhaps a few other gnu tools? because thats all that is

Re: ReiserFS + 2.4.4

2001-05-01 Thread William Leese
On Tuesday 01 May 2001 21:38, Ron Bettle wrote: > Sounds fool proof(your plan that is). > > hdparms and reiser, havent done this yet myself. I would think it would > work fine though. I dont think hdparms cares whats actually on the disk. i think the same, but better safe than sorry :) > heh rm -

Re: ReiserFS + 2.4.4

2001-05-01 Thread William Leese
> not exactly efficient, but simple enough to not make any large mistakes.. > (i hope, but if something goes seriously wrong i still have everything in > tarballs on the vfat partition) oh, i didn't backup /proc and /tmp because tar spewed out a few error messages. but from what i can recall /pro

Re: ReiserFS + 2.4.4

2001-05-01 Thread William Leese
On Tuesday 01 May 2001 19:54, Ron Bettle wrote: > You will need the reiserFS utils, get these rom reisers site. is there any reason why i should not use the packaged reiserFS utils in Sid? also, is it 'safe' to use hdparm when having reiserfs partitions? I'll be doing the following: 1) backup e

ReiserFS + 2.4.4

2001-05-01 Thread William Leese
I'm considering moving my partitions to ReiserFS. I'll not be using lilo, instead I'm using boot floppies. So, I can safely move all my partitions over to ReiserFS. I'm aware that I have to compile a kernel with ReiserFS support but apart from that I have no clue how to create the ReiserFS par

/var/lib/dpkg/status: `meta-packageye' must be followed by colon

2001-04-29 Thread William Leese
After attempting to install netscape with an apt-get install navigator I receive the following error message: --- dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 8098 package `navigator': field name `meta-packageye' must be followed by colon E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an e

Adding to the Debian-Blackbox Menu

2001-04-05 Thread William Leese
I was wondering if it is possible to add your own entries to the 'Debianized' Blackbox menu. I wish to run some applications with certain parameters and sometimes i wish to add some of the executables i compiled from source. I've tried editing /etc/X11/blackbox/blackbox-menu but any changes i ma

Re: Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

2001-03-29 Thread William Leese
> I just did an apt-get update; apt-get install galeon and got zip. Is > galeon non-free or something that would prevent it being in Debian? http://galeon.sourceforge.net/download.html GPL-ed, if i'm not mistaken. a quick look at their site doesn't show anything about the licensing though.

Re: Mozilla M18-3 & HTTPS.

2001-03-28 Thread William Leese
> > Am I correct in concluding it is not possible to use the mozilla package > > that is currently in stable (M18-3) for conducting secure web > > transactions? > > > > Each time I attempt to go to a secure server (https) I receive > > a message something like "connection refused". > > I have the s

Re: jvm and mozilla 0.8

2001-03-28 Thread William Leese
> > Moz installs the plugins in the wrong dir.. remove the plugins > > subdirectory in your moz dir. and link it to the directory where the > > plugins are installed. Or cp/mv the plugins to that directory > > Could you be more specific? Moz installs to which wrong subdirectory? And > which is th

Re: jvm and mozilla 0.8

2001-03-28 Thread William Leese
On Wednesday 28 March 2001 14:51, Gary Coady wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:49:26AM -0500, joeytsai wrote: > > Hi, has anyone gotten the jvm plugin working with Mozilla 0.8? I've > > been able to download it, install it (I got the "Installation > > successful" screen), but when I restart the

Missing Debian Menu in Blackbox

2001-03-27 Thread William Leese
the subject says it all really. I recently did a clean install of sid, and found myself without a blackbox menu what so ever (well, 'cept the Exit, Restart and xterm options). Anyone know how i can getg my debian menu back?

Re: Is is possible for updating 2.2.16 to 2.2.18?

2001-03-26 Thread William Leese
On Monday 26 March 2001 17:19, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > Hi Jie! > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jie Zou wrote: > > Is is possible for updating kernel 2.2.16 to 2.2.18? If it is where to > > get the 2.2.18? > > 2.2.19pre17 is available in Debian unstable. also, 2.2.19 was just released..

Test: Please Ignore

2001-03-25 Thread William Leese

Gnome: short question

2001-03-24 Thread William Leese
A shamefully stupid question: how do i change the text background (and foreground) colors of gtk apps? I found the .gtkrc file but had no clue how to change the colors (if it does that) because of the odd way of defining different colors (0.897 / 0.763 etc.. ) I've installed a few themes to see

Security: Compromised?

2001-03-21 Thread William Leese
When running nmap -sT and -sU on my static IP# i get the following 1/udp opentcpmux 7/udp openecho 9/udp opendiscard 69/udp opentftp 161/udpopensnmp

Re: Linux Network Security: POP

2001-03-19 Thread William Leese
> > > > knowing basically nothing about imap and ssl where would i look first > > > > to see if this is suitable and how it can be used? > > > > > > check to see if they have the imap-ssl port open (i don't know it > > > offhand) or the pop3-ssl... they probably don't. > > > > yatsu:$ nmap -sS p

Re: Linux Network Security: POP

2001-03-18 Thread William Leese
On Monday 19 March 2001 00:41, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 05:04:02PM +0100, William Leese wrote: > > knowing basically nothing about imap and ssl where would i look first to > > see if this is suitable and how it can be used? > > check to see if they have t

Re: Linux Network Security: POP

2001-03-18 Thread William Leese
> > other services that could be used instead of POP but i'm not sure if that > > can be used here if my provider doesnt support it. > > imap over ssl maybe.. knowing basically nothing about imap and ssl where would i look first to see if this is suitable and how it can be used? > > For my email

Linux Network Security: POP

2001-03-18 Thread William Leese
Having a cable modem I'm concerned with the fact that when I use email my password is sent in clear text over the network. I've heard that there were other services that could be used instead of POP but i'm not sure if that can be used here if my provider doesnt support it. For my email I use m

Applying colors to Netscape

2001-03-17 Thread William Leese
I think I found this mentioned somewhere, something to do with editing your .Xresources file. Does anyone know more of this?

Building from CVS

2001-03-15 Thread William Leese
Hi all, I'm attempting to install X from recent sources i downloaded from their cvs, but i have no clue where to go from there as theres no configure file. Can someone tell me how this is done, i.e. how to create a configure file? (or any documentation on this) William

OT: X, or maybe just X4

2001-03-13 Thread William Leese
This is probably the wrong place to ask this question but i'm sure someone will be able to answer it. When creating a new window X seems to freeze until the window is drawn, the mouse cursor can still move but clicking on something is ignored till the window is done. Why is this? Also, this h

Fwd: Re: Little advice for AA

2001-03-11 Thread William Leese
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Little advice for AA Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:06:13 -0700 From: "Ivan E. Moore II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 01:01:51PM +0100, Thibaut Cousin wrote: > I've read everything recently about A

Re: Little advice for AA

2001-03-09 Thread William Leese
On Friday 09 March 2001 13:01, Thibaut Cousin wrote: > I've read everything recently about AA, and made it work out-of-the-box > at home. > But at work, no such luck. The only thing I can think of is the xserver. > At home I use the mga driver, at work it is the ati driver. Is it possible > tha

Re: Upgrading to unstable.. debconf probs [solved]

2001-03-06 Thread William Leese
On Wednesday 07 March 2001 01:22, Joey Hess wrote: > William Leese wrote: > > Setting up debconf (0.9.10) ... > > dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 > > Errors were encountered whi

Upgrading to unstable.. debconf probs

2001-03-06 Thread William Leese
Hi all, I just dist-upgraded to unstable from woody and i am running into a few problems. The cause of these problems seem to be because i cant get debconf configured and set-up. This is what i get: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of lilo: lilo depends on debconf (>= 0.2.2

Re: Opera Browser and Plugins

2001-02-27 Thread William Leese
On Wednesday 28 February 2001 01:22, Robert A. Jacobs wrote: > Has anyone managed to get any plugins installed while using the Opera > web-browser? If so, which ones and how did you do it? I'm particularly > interested in Flash and some form of media player... AFAIK, 'offically' the plugins are

Compiling Licq, QT-headers

2001-02-24 Thread William Leese
I wanted to build LICQ.. but i keep on running into problems with libqt2-dev which wants to remove everything, and libqt2.2-dev which does not exist (same dependency replaced by uic, which wont install without libqt(?)) Anyway, is there a way to install the QT-headers from a debian package so that

Re: LILO on my windows partition

2001-02-20 Thread William Leese
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 17:11, Hanno Böttcher wrote: > you can boot from win bootdisk and run fdisk /mbr to overwrite the mbr with > a windows boot sector. Or you boot your linux with a boot disk and repair > lilo ;) hmm, i'd suggest both.. fdisk /mbr might kill both lilo's (actually, i'm abo

Re: WYSIWYG editor (Prev. Rebooting is foolish)

2001-02-19 Thread William Leese
On Monday 19 February 2001 16:45, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > urgh, however.. i still have to use Windows for Dreamweaver, any > > suggestions anyone? > > > > it needs to be a WYSIWYG-editor (till i finally cleanup the generated > > code) that handles nested tables well.. and yes i know they shouldn

Xdm, Kdm, Gdm.. or just, none?

2001-02-19 Thread William Leese
After recently getting used to the Blackbox WM i decided i'd try to replace all my KDE apps because they seem more CPU intensive (due to extra KDE proceses?) than other apps. Problem is that i've installed Kdm, not because i needed it.. but just because i thought it was quite convinient when u

Re: Potato Blackbox Quickie

2001-02-19 Thread William Leese
On Monday 19 February 2001 19:17, mallum wrote: > Aloha all; > > I run Blackbox wm on my box at work ( woody ) and my box at home ( potato > ). In both there .blackboxrc's the focus model is set to 'clicktofocus'. > Howevre my home box only focuses a window when I click its title bar, not > when I

SOLVED Re: Correction: CDROM device..

2001-02-18 Thread William Leese
On Monday 19 February 2001 03:19, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > okay, this.. is stupid question.. being completely spoilt > > by Redhats simplicity.. i'm unaware of which device > > /dev/cdrom was linked to. ..can someone, give me a hint? > > Try > > ls -l /dev/cdrom > > How's that for simplicity ?? ;-

Re: CDROM device..

2001-02-18 Thread William Leese
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 07:20, ktb wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 03:23:50PM +0100, William Leese wrote: > > okay, this.. is stupid question.. being completely spoilt by Redhats > > simplicity.. i'm unaware of which device /dev/cdrom was linked to. ..can > &g

Correction: CDROM device..

2001-02-18 Thread William Leese
>okay, this.. is stupid question.. being completely spoilt by Redhats >simplicity.. i'm unaware of which device /dev/cdrom was linked to. ..can >someone, give me a hint? though not quite certain i think its master on the secondary channel. (makes sense when using one HD and one CDROM-drive)

CDROM device..

2001-02-18 Thread William Leese
okay, this.. is stupid question.. being completely spoilt by Redhats simplicity.. i'm unaware of which device /dev/cdrom was linked to. ..can someone, give me a hint? William

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread William Leese
> back in 1995(last time that i used seagate) i had 2 conner 420MB drives > and 1 seagate 540 (and now they are the same company *shudder*) fail > within > 3 months of using them because of the powersaving auto spindown. ever > since > i have not used that feature unless its on a laptop. and i've o

Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread William Leese
On Friday 16 February 2001 17:27, Nate Amsden wrote: > try avoid rebooting whenever possible. i had a bad experience with > rebooting > not too long ago. a sun ultra 10..up for about 130 days..shut it down to > move a UPS, it never came back up. spent the next 15-20 hours rebuilding > it. > > fucki

Re: Mozilla 0.8

2001-02-16 Thread William Leese
Just install the binaries into your home dir or /usr/local ..because your settings are created in ~//.mozilla you wont lose them anyway, unless ofcourse mozilla 0.8's settings differ much from 0.7. Btw, if you do decide to install from the binaries (or source) then remember to remove the plugi

Re: Which computer to buy ?

2001-02-15 Thread William Leese
On Thursday 15 February 2001 19:08, Jeff Weatherford wrote: > This is absolutely true! The AMD K7's are superior to the Intel chips. My > only complaint is that no one has come up with a dual K7 board. I use AMD > exclusively in single processor boxes and they work like a charm... The > only In

Re: Here you have, ;o)

2001-02-13 Thread William Leese
On Tuesday 13 February 2001 16:42, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > Fortunatly this is a linux mailinglist ... > > Thanks Mike > 'least we get the -utterly useless- code for free ;)

OT Virus, Dont open attatchment: Re: Here you have, ;o)

2001-02-13 Thread William Leese
On Monday 12 February 2001 19:31, Mike Hammonds wrote: > Hi: > Check This! Talk about the devil ;) anyone who hasnt read, dont open this if your using a VB-enabled email client (Outlook).

OT: M$ Outlook Virus

2001-02-13 Thread William Leese
Just for anyone who still dual boots that evil OS ;) "An Internet-based email worm that masquerades as a picture of tennis star Anna Kournikova" "spreading twice as fast as the Love Bug". "The worm comes in an email with the subject line "Here you have, ;o)" and an attachment called AnnaKourn

Re: Linux Certification

2001-02-09 Thread William Leese
for the peoeple who are interested, theres an article on Newsforge on this topic, see the link below. http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/02/09/0033232&mode=nocomment William

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread William Leese
On Monday 05 February 2001 19:13, USM Bish wrote: > On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:42:59 + > > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 05 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I've been using Konqueror at work for a week or so now after Net

Re: need workaround for perl-5.6 bug to install unstable.

2001-02-05 Thread William Leese
On Monday 05 February 2001 16:15, James Sinnamon wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > I am stumped trying to install 'unstable/sid'.. When I run, for > example, 'apt-get install debconf', I get error > messages similar to the folllowing: > > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > Sor

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

2001-02-05 Thread William Leese
On Monday 05 February 2001 13:46, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 12:41:45PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > > Here it is free in the sense that you will have a banner with ads in the > > browser I believe. > > Can you block those with junkbuster? > ..very unlikely, though i

Re: LILO failure

2001-02-03 Thread William Leese
On Saturday 03 February 2001 17:01, ktb wrote: > On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:50:47PM +0100, Henrik Enberg wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having trouble getting lilo to dualboot with Redmondware. When lilo > > comes up it just says LILO without the colon and I can't type > > anything, then it loads Linu

Sound & 2.4

2001-02-02 Thread William Leese
Hi all, after compiling and installing a new kernel (2.4.1) i've lost sound, most likely due to the wrong default settings being used. As i did not compile it as a module i can't set the options right. I recall that there was an app to change kernel behavior whilst its running, can someone re

2.4.1 kernel

2001-02-01 Thread William Leese
Does anyone know if theres a deb-src available for 2.4.1?

top processes

2001-02-01 Thread William Leese
Hi, when opening top i see that for some reason there are 4 licq processes running, whys this when i've only got one licq window open? top output: 7628 6408 S 40 0.0 7.9 0:00 licq 13137 wleese 0 0 7628 7628 6408 S 40 0.0 7.9 0:00 licq 13138 wleese

Re: Bash Scripting

2001-01-30 Thread William Leese
> | > sed 's/Title/$TITLE/g' title.html >> file.txt && > > ^^ > The single quotes are a problem too. Bash doesn't do any variable > expansion in single quotes. ($TITLE will still be $TITLE for sed) > > Instead: > > sed "s/Title/$TITLE/g" title.html >> file.txt && > > A

Bash Scripting

2001-01-30 Thread William Leese
hi all i need a little help on a script. the following scripts function is to merge several parts of a html page together and insert a new piece of text from text.txt also it has to replace some words (the title, author, submittor, and date) with the words given at prompt. - #!/bin/bas

Shell script

2001-01-28 Thread William Leese
Hi, i'm trying to write a simple script that will do several things: 1) merge 3 files in a predefined order 2) replace a few words in one of the files to be merged, the values with which the words will be replaced must be given(/requested). 3) output the file to a specified filename. having l

Licq & KDE2

2001-01-21 Thread William Leese
Though this might not be the right list to post this im quite sure that other people would have run into this also as these two are commonly used. The problem is that i cant seem to get Licq (LicqWharf) to dock into kicker. Even after configuring (with the options --with-kde for both the qt plug

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