Re: apt showing all dependencies?

2004-08-17 Thread dircha
apt-cache in dotty mode --dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade

2004-08-09 Thread dircha
want to override apt pinning. --dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Loading kernel modules at startup

2004-08-08 Thread dircha
packages. Is that what you were looking for? --dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sid is Sid, before or after a release, right?

2004-08-07 Thread dircha
know just offhand. [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/unstable/ --dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Home button not working in shell

2004-08-04 Thread dircha
would look to solve the issue with 'xmodmap'. If the later, I would look to 'loadkeys'. Although there may be better or more appropriate solutions. --dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Toshiba suspend from command line

2004-08-01 Thread dircha
the machine into. --dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Toshiba suspend from command line

2004-08-01 Thread dircha
when the normal user can't? I imagine the executable is setuid root. It's hard to say for certain, not having used or seen it. --dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: script/app to compile statistics about disk usage?

2004-07-30 Thread dircha
of deborphan can be useful. - apt-get clean But then maybe these items are small potatoes to you. I have a difficult time filling up 5GB. --dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vim place marker

2004-07-30 Thread dircha
. Surprisingly enough, I believe I answered this here not 2 weeks ago. Rather than copying and pasting, to find the answer execute: :help position The solution there worked for me, at least. --dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Thanks for Debian Installer

2004-07-29 Thread dircha
to install woody? I swear I remember seeing at least an advanced option to install sid directly. --dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't read my mail

2004-07-29 Thread dircha
is running, only the top half of the screen will be visible, or the bottom half will be a mirror image of the top half. Usually this can rectified by switching to a virtual console and then back to X. --dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Help Installing / Upgrading Cron

2004-07-28 Thread dircha
in the main repository or on your local mirror. [1] http://bugs.debian.org [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkgdata=cronarchive=no [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=261897 Best of luck then, --dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

[OT] pci, 2d video card, with Free driver Xinerama support

2004-07-28 Thread dircha
It has been a while since I've used or put together any new computer other than pre-configured laptops. I've tried to create a little list of what I am aiming for. If anyone has had success along these lines, I would really appreciate any advice or recommendations: - Can drive 1792x1344 at a

Re: Future of proprietary software [was: Is Linux Unix?]

2004-07-23 Thread dircha
creating and marketing new _problems_, as they do solving legitimate ones. --dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Detaching and reattaching a process to different terminals?

2004-07-22 Thread dircha
that it sounds as though you have no need for. --dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-22 Thread dircha
Scarletdown wrote: | == K == X | == P Anyone else care to add to this little list? 0 == O $ == S |-| == H |_| == U |_ == L \/\/ == W /\/\ == M |V| == M |\| == N |-o-| == tie fighter {-o-} == tie interceptor 8~~ ? 8-) ... ! --dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Tiny X pointer

2004-07-15 Thread dircha
pointer. Where should I look for that setting? Albeit you never would have guessed there is a package to do it. I didn't either, so I went to Google first. Give the big-cursor package a try; works for me. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Mozilla T-bird upgrade - wheres all my stuff!!??

2004-07-11 Thread dircha
. If you install apt-listbugs, at the time of upgrade or installation you should be notified of outstanding serious bugs against any affected packages. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=258747 dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Image viewer that support keyboard panning and zooming

2004-07-10 Thread dircha
xloadimage, but that doesn't support keyboard panning. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's the diff between 'aptitude upgrade' and 'aptitude dist-upgrade'?

2004-07-05 Thread dircha
about the respective behavior of these commands, feel free to ask. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get dselect-upgrade

2004-07-04 Thread dircha
will be removed as well. Even if you didn't install the packages with aptitude, you can use aptitude markauto to manually specify automatically installed packages. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to setup sound under Debian

2004-06-27 Thread dircha
will write a modutils snippet which can be then used by modutils to load the correct parameters for your sound card. If successful, it may significantly reduce the time you need to spend getting it working. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread dircha
to open correctly or format just right, or display things in the right order, you will still need to go to a lab machine and preview the converted .doc file. And again, it is almost never worth taking that risk. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Well, time to cut to the bone...

2004-06-26 Thread dircha
to know too for my 486 laptop. But I for one am doubtful OOo will even run in 32MB RAM. Have you considered EMACS or VI, and LaTeX? Hey, it only cost me 71 bucks for it; it's hard to beat that for a school computer. That is awesome for a functioning laptop. [1] http://www.dillo.org dircha

Re: XTerm resources: disabling bold characters

2004-06-24 Thread dircha
Thomas Dickey wrote: dircha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, when I use the XTerm menu to change (as I do regularly) the font to Huge (10x20) or anything else and then later back to 7x14 (Medium, and also Default now), text is rendered using bold characters or overstriking (whichever

XTerm resources: disabling bold characters

2004-06-23 Thread dircha
characters XTerm*VT100*colorBDMode: on !! Change definition of Medium font *fontMenu*font4*Label: Medium *VT100*font4: 7x14 Thanks, dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-20 Thread dircha
one operation at the end. Right. That's when you bring up a dired buffer in emacs. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-16 Thread dircha
with the -font option. There are plenty of other useful options such as storing x number of lines for scrolling, and disabling scrollbars and using the keyboard/mouse wheel. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: getting started with LISP

2004-06-16 Thread dircha
. Thanks, dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to comfig vim to hold the position that last access?

2004-06-16 Thread dircha
in a file just after opening it, if the ' mark is set: :au BufReadPost * if line('\) 0 line('\) = line($) | exe normal g'\ | endif: See also :help au If you add :autocmd!, be sure to include it at the start, not end of your .vimrc. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread dircha
GNOME, but I do remember that vividly. I like my xterm full screen (without window decorations) and snappy, thank you. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-14 Thread dircha
this can be taken care of at compile time, but the reason I don't use a source based distribution is because I'm not willing to take the time to hassle with that. So I do without, and don't much mind it. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Save to Live CD

2004-06-13 Thread dircha
to blank the previous session, and rewrite it including the links, and including the newer files. Can anyone tell us whether we are on the right track here? [1] http://www.cdrfaq.org/ [2] http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq02.html#S2-5 dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: ccing

2004-06-13 Thread dircha
on a pop account, but when I switched, it failed, and I wasn't willing to take any more time to hassle with it. One of these days I might take the time to give it a second chance, but I hear emacs calling me... dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Getting boot not to hang if ethernet not plugged into modem

2004-06-13 Thread dircha
. Maybe you could modify the script to bring up the 'lo' interface first, and then background the interface connected to the cable modem. I guess that makefile based bootup that was on Slashdot (I think) a few months back would come in handy here. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: how to upgrade a debian system not connected to network

2004-06-13 Thread dircha
. At that point I'll leave it. Really at 4 there you should figure out how to create an apt repository cdrom (similar to the Debian installation CDs). But I've never done that. Perhaps the debian-cd package is you need for this. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Please advise me...

2004-06-12 Thread dircha
emulator causes 4-6% constant CPU usage, you know you have a case of bloat on your hands. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please advise me...

2004-06-12 Thread dircha
Cecil wrote: On Saturday 12 June 2004 08:33 pm, dircha wrote: But how does OS X perform for the following things: Coding(various languages and sorts of apps) Can I run linux apps on it? I will be mainly coding on this little thing, email, and the usual things(research, research papers, etc) Does

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-11 Thread dircha
. It will work fine if you don't use virtual (read: multiple) desktops. If fspanel is too quirky, then try fbpanel. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgraded to unstable - lost network connectivity

2004-06-05 Thread dircha
during the boot process. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgraded to unstable - lost network connectivity

2004-06-04 Thread dircha
(lsmod), and if so, is it? dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apt-announce

2004-06-02 Thread dircha
upgrades are available for your computer. It is similar to Windows Update or the Red Hat Network applet. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thanks; introductions; my question.

2004-06-01 Thread dircha
Pigeon wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 10:51:16PM -0500, dircha wrote: The case for (b) is inaccurate... the filesystem *will* be readable under Windoze, but will contain a whole bunch of files and directories as opposed to a single file called something.iso. I'm betting it's (a), and all you need

Re: Thunderbird/Firefox rendering without borders and scrollbars

2004-05-31 Thread dircha
Kent West wrote: dircha wrote: [borders in gtk+ apps not showing up after a suspend/resume] Have you tried a different window manager? Have you tried a different user? These quick tests might give you a clue as to where the problem lies. Good idea; I tried a few additional things here. I'm

Re: Reset sound card in alsa?

2004-05-31 Thread dircha
with sarge alsa packages. If it's actually a physical state of the card needing to be reset, then I suppose you would need driver support for that. Have you tried just removing and reinstalling the modules, e.g. modprobe and modprobe -r? dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: problems with sound

2004-05-31 Thread dircha
alsaconf (in alsa-utils), although I've never used it myself. It will attempt to automatically generate a configuration for your card. You'll need to execute it as root. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thanks; introductions; my question.

2004-05-31 Thread dircha
here for any installation questions, and someone will be glad to answer your question or direct you to the proper resource. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thunderbird/Firefox rendering without borders and scrollbars

2004-05-30 Thread dircha
-to-disk to avoid rebooting. I'm not sure just how to figure out what is going wrong here. Is there some way to force a library to be reloaded from disk? dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thunderbird/Firefox rendering without borders and scrollbars

2004-05-30 Thread dircha
dircha wrote: After resuming from suspend-to-disk (ACPI sleep state 4), Thunderbird (mozilla-thunderbird in sid) and Firefox (mozilla-firefox in sid) render their interfaces without borders and scrollbars. Both applications otherwise function correctly. Another update on my troubleshooting

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-05-29 Thread dircha
per indent level, and mandate wrapping for a fixed column width. I'm ready to argue that this should generally be 4-character spaces and 80 column wrapping. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-05-29 Thread dircha
Micha Feigin wrote: On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 04:50:09PM -0500, dircha wrote: Actually the best method when collaborating on someone else's work is to adopt their coding style. If its a joint work then you should a agree on a coding style in the first place. On my last job, every new programmer

Re: OT - Tabs vs. Spaces in a Debian system

2004-05-28 Thread dircha
. Further, while tabs can reduce uncompressed document size, if you are concerned about document storage size then you will compress the document. Compressed, the difference between using tabs and using spaces is insignificant. Therefore: 4 spaces per indent level and 80 columns. dircha

Re: books on debian

2004-05-27 Thread dircha
the apropos command to search installed man pages. The manpages-dev package may be useful to you as well. Is there anything more specific you are looking for? [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/ dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Dynamic DNS Setup

2004-05-20 Thread dircha
. As I recall I used the ddclient package when I needed to use dyndns.org for a while. There were no problems. The help links from your dyndns.org account page will get you to the configuration help. I don't have an account any longer I'd have a better link for you. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian, rpm and corporate world

2004-05-17 Thread dircha
: We're sorry, but we can not presently justify the costs of maintaining a Debian port. Perhaps if one of our larger customers express an interest in it... dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I would like to have my own sources.list

2004-05-17 Thread dircha
repository - i.e. that you would include in the sources.list file and could use apt-get to install packages from? dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How can I install with unmet dependencies

2004-05-16 Thread dircha
for pin E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). Try apt-get update again. libxft-dev: Depends libxft2 (= 2.1.2-5) is no longer true. libxft-dev is now at 2.1.2-6 and depends on libxft2 =2.1.2-6 dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How can I install with unmet dependencies

2004-05-16 Thread dircha
Michael D. Crawford wrote: dircha said to try apt-get update again. I did, and it didn't help. I think maybe the packages are OK for i386, but not for the powerpc which I'm using. It was just an hour or two ago that I previously updated. I'm baffled on that. The mirror I use as well

Re: exim removed ?

2004-05-16 Thread dircha
. To de-configure exim, execute as root: # dpkg-reconfigure exim and choose option '5' to leave exim unconfigured. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can rpm packages from other linux distribution be used on Debian?

2004-05-15 Thread dircha
(Woody)? [1] http://www.backports.org dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APT

2004-05-15 Thread dircha
/fileutils.html#dd%20invocation dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xserver

2004-05-14 Thread dircha
. Feel free to ask about that here. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Script execution at boot time..

2004-05-14 Thread dircha
)? dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Back up a Windows box w/o Samba?

2004-05-14 Thread dircha
! dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rpm and Debian

2004-05-13 Thread dircha
system to install software, feel free to consult the Debian manual [4], search the list archives [5], or ask here on the list. [1] http://packages.debian.org [2] http://apt-get.org [3] http://www.backports.org [4] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ [5] http://lists.debian.org dircha

Re: apt-get dist-upgarde error: can't perform configuration on initscript

2004-05-13 Thread dircha
-upgrade for installing newer packages for selected software. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing Debian Stable with Software RAID

2004-05-12 Thread dircha
the referenced document is useful or not, that isn't something I can answer. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: suggested/recommended packages

2004-05-12 Thread dircha
show [package] On woody you may need to use apt-cache for the show operation. I don't think the woody version of aptitude supports it. Is this what you had in mind? dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude farted?

2004-05-11 Thread dircha
there are a number of Debian KDE packages of this sort. Correct this manually by executing: # aptitude unmarkauto [package] If you think that you can track this down to a legitimate bug, that would be a helpful thing to get fixed. I have not encountered a similar error, myself. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: edit pdf's

2004-05-11 Thread dircha
collections of document repositories. I don't seem to have the root of this thread any longer. However, have you looked into using pdfimages to extract the images and then gocr to extract the text from the images? You might want netpbm too if you go that route. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Installed webmin using apt-get

2004-05-11 Thread dircha
. Better, a search for webmin at backports.org [1] turns up an apt repository with webmin 1.110 for woody. Are you familiar with using non-official apt repositories? Ask here if you need help making the decision. [1] http://www.backports.org/package.php?search=webmin dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: 2.6.5 -- I broke the internet

2004-05-10 Thread dircha
incorrectly. Does the configuration displayed by the intervening ifconfig have the correct parameters for your wireless network? But that's another issue. You should determine what is wrong with your (PCI?) ethernet card first, as that is more likely a much simpler issue. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: HD recovery debian installation mirroring ( others)

2004-05-10 Thread dircha
write up a quick script to do it for you? Can you still mount the partition? dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Secure OS's

2004-05-10 Thread dircha
to for development or testing. Shouldn't development and testing resources be allocated by the upstream developers and those who fund them? dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HD recovery debian installation mirroring ( others)

2004-05-10 Thread dircha
binary data and then see whether you can track down the file you need. But I'd recommend against this. Instead, you might want to start a new thread (or rename this one) with a name like Recovering data from a corrupted disk. Good luck. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SPAM] Re: openldap and debian

2004-05-09 Thread dircha
of these options sounds best to you? Ask here if you need assistance with whatever you choose. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: google type of search for a desktop

2004-05-08 Thread dircha
useful. You might check whether the htdig and htdig-doc packages meet your needs. A full search-engine/indexing system such as this is easily scalable to multiple systems. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Recently-used document list

2004-05-08 Thread dircha
Is there a desktop environment independent way of getting a recently used file list... something that might complement Debian's menu system (package: menu)? dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Openssh

2004-05-08 Thread dircha
want to stay with official debian stable. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: openldap and debian

2004-05-08 Thread dircha
this with apt-get. I believe that dselect provides for this as well. Are you handy with dselect? dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian running out of threads

2004-05-02 Thread dircha
other than that it exacerbated the problem. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian running out of threads

2004-05-02 Thread dircha
/kernel/threads-max, I personally am not quite sure. You can update (echo # ) the value of /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max during runtime. But if that doesn't work, and it looks like you are running up against the limits in local_lim.h, then probably you will need to recompile glibc. dircha

Re: debian running out of threads

2004-05-02 Thread dircha
dircha wrote: You might need to recompile glibc. But first you should do some sanity checking to be sure that you are running up against hard limits. Oh, and before you start looking into that, don't overlook just lowering the value of -Xss passed to the JVM. You've probably tried

Re: spawn of debian: choosing a live-boot CD distro

2004-05-02 Thread dircha
with the services you need, or even creating your own mini modules for it? All of the other live CDs you list bill themselves as Desktop distributions. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie-ish question: centralized debian place for X startup programs?

2004-05-02 Thread dircha
praises! Although for me it is a close call between openbox, window maker, fluxbox, and afterstep. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NIC War

2004-04-21 Thread dircha
/networking/ip-sysctl.txt This really seems like something you might have better luck with on a more specific list (i.e. non-Debian). You might try searching or asking on the kernel mailing lists. Sorry. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: serious apt error after aptitude catastrophe

2004-04-21 Thread dircha
to set it not to be installed? Your system is definitely recoverable though, so don't worry. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: woody to sarge?

2004-04-19 Thread dircha
and your MTA in stable/woody so that you will get timely security updates. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NIC War

2004-04-19 Thread dircha
through it. Didn't help. What do you think, could this indicate a problem with nic2 or its driver? Are nic1, nic2, and nic3 all the same model and using the same drivers? Have you tried replacing nic2 with a nic you know to work, or if you know nic3 to be working, temporarily with nic3? dircha

Re: NIC War

2004-04-19 Thread dircha
, but does it seem plausible that the default behavior here is creating the problem for you? Maybe I misunderstand your situation. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to 'apt-cache search''apt-file search' by distr

2004-04-19 Thread dircha
. These appear to be errors and inconsistencies in aptitude. I don't know what else to tell you. I was not aware of these before. I will check the bug list for the package and report this if it has not been already. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: How to 'apt-cache search''apt-file search' by distr

2004-04-19 Thread dircha
repository. experimental, as you might know, isn't a complete distribution. Packages in experimental may need to satisfy dependencies from unstable/sid. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Modular Kernel:Wat should be modules,wat should be built

2004-04-18 Thread dircha
determine which is the appropriate module to load (although perhaps it ought to be able to in the event that there is only a single such module). dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla Thunderbird questions

2004-04-18 Thread dircha
only lets me send the file as an attachment.) There isn't any extension [1] available to do this either. Unless you have the time to learn how to write this as an extension I believe you are out of luck. [1] http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/extensions/ dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How to 'apt-cache search''apt-file search' by distribut

2004-04-18 Thread dircha
uses. Following is a simple form to do what you want: 'aptitude search ~Astable~nsearch-term' or, 'aptitude search ~Astable~dsearch-term' ~Aarchive-to-search ~nterm-in-name ~dterm-in-description Read /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README for the full list of available search modifiers. dircha

Re: print kernel tree from make xconfig?

2004-04-17 Thread dircha
, you can derive the structure you see in menuconfig or xconfig, with the configured options. A script to parse this information and generate an expanded kernel config tree to text would be fairly straightforward. I'd recommend perl. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: eth0 dissappeared after install

2004-04-17 Thread dircha
card. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Modular Kernel:Wat should be modules,wat should be built-in?

2004-04-17 Thread dircha
for your display cards - modules for your sound cards - modules for your network cards Anything that you may want to run your system without, or might swap for another component. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Distribution Upgrade

2004-04-16 Thread dircha
and just wish to use the standard red ncurses-like menu to make a selection at boot time. Then you would probably want to run LILO again: i.e. execute 'lilo' as root. dircha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: woody - sarge dist-upgrade woes

2004-04-16 Thread dircha
by removing or installing packages directly with dpkg, and the proper --force option if necessary. It may take some tinkering, but your system should be recoverable. Do this before you give up and reinstall the system. I've successfully resolved many similar difficulties in this manner. dircha

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