On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:56:59PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 03:08:23PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
> ...
> > I have all services locked down to localhost; my only connections to
> > the outside world are mail, news via nntpcached, web via squid... I run
> > Apache but it to
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 05:24:17PM +1100, John wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have just started looking for a new laptop courtesy of the logic board on my ibook
> dying and being hit for a Aust $935 bill for a new one. I have been looking at the
> Lindows Mobile PC which I could get for Aust $1165 from sub3
Hi Debianistas,
I'm trying to setup 2 monitors.
one is a isa t9680 (cirrus logic) - max 800x640 8bit
and the other is a ati 1024x768 16 bit.
I had the ati working and then I added the isa card. Ever since then, the isa is the
only one recognized.
I did a X -configure but it did not work 100% alt
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On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:47:33AM -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> I can't play audio CDs on my Mac 8500. It's running debian for PowerPC,
> but I don't know if it's a problem with the powerpc port.
>
> I have /dev/cdrom linked to /dev/scd0 (first SCSI CD drive). The
> permissions for /dev
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 02:43:10AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> 2 => extended partition (the rest of the harddrive)
> 5 => swap (256 megs)
> 6 => /var (256 megs)
> 7 => /misc (the rest of the harddrive)
>
> After a virgin install, I log on as root and...
>
> mv /home /misc/home
> ln -s /mi
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:45:53AM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 19:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hello, I want to review the lines and lines of text
> > that printout during startup, but they quickly scroll
> > off the screen.
>
> just type 'dmesg'. Once done, you
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 11:59:30PM -0500, H. S. wrote:
> Andreas Janssen wrote:
> >Hello
> >
> >H S (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Okay, I am going to take this step by step because I have many issues
> >>unresolved. I am connected to the internet through an ADSL modem (use
> >>"pon dsl-p
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Tom wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 06:16:39AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> > To us debian users, the most notable thing during this break in or
> > whatever episode, is how the communication structures crumbled.
Tru enough, there was some info but it was scattered. I pers
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Dan Davison wrote:
>
> Hi, I can't remove a package (powernowd) despite trying various forcing
> options and --purge etc with apt-get and dpkg. The error output is below.
> Could someone tell me what I should do in this situation please? The only
> other thing I've tried is
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, tripolar wrote:
> while installing sarge on my parents pc using new installer ( sweet!!) when it
> came to typing in root password I typed it twice in same line but didnt
> notice until it came for me to verify my typing again. I left the second line
> blank thinking when i
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I plan to send copies of the body of this message to the presidents of
> Systemax and Tiger Direct, my senators, my congressmen and any one else
> who might have influence. I am postint it here for suggestions for
> addresses. The body is as follo
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:18:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> > Failing that, boot with the 'init=/bin/sh' parameter (so if you'd
> > normally type 'linux' to LILO, say, type 'linux init=/bin/sh' instead)
> > and run 'passwd root'.
>
> I found t
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 17:46, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:45:04AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> [snip]
> > > Second, more general question: the dependency links in debian
> > > form a directed graph. Presumably, it is acyclic. T
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> csj wrote:
> > Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I
> > describe below.
> >
> > I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for "^Subject:.*Test"
> > and ALLOW rules for "marssociety" and "marssocietynewsletter":
> >
> > $ g
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> hi ya marco
>
> On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 04:41, Marco Cecconi wrote:
> > > Hello, I've been having this question on my mind for a bit now: what is
> > > the best practice to partition a hard drive under Unix, and
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Haines Brown wrote:
>
> I installed a dict front end (ding) and somehow inadvertently
> configured it for "" as background color. I can't figure out in the
> startup script how to correct that, and so decided simply to reinstall
> ding.
>
> I ran: aptitude purge ding, and the
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, wil wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry I have very little info on this...no logs or anything:(
>
> Running SID, with a custom 2.4.22 kernel, ext3 file system.
> HD was checked with the diagnostic utility from IBM, including
> surface (advanced) check and was fine.
>
> Did an update via d
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Deryk Barker wrote:
> Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Joyce, Matthew wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Microsoft's software has always sucked, so I can't imagine
> > > > they're losing too much sleep over quality or securit
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 05:41:33AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> > Rob Weir wrote:
> > > 3) get the non-free binary-only nvidia drivers. The "nvidia-glx-src"
> > >and "nvidia-kernel-src" packages make this rather easy. This is only
> > >an opti
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 22:33 GMT, Tom penned:
> >
> > When I worked at Microsoft there was some discussion: far and away the
> > most common use-case for Excel is entering a few rows and columns of
> > data and making a chart. But nobody uses Micr
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Micha Feigin wrote:
> Is there a way to use the fetchyahoo program with maildirs?
> It seems that using the pipe option to exim or sendmail may work but I
> wasn't sure.
>
> --
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> with a
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Joyce, Matthew wrote:
>
> >
> > Microsoft's software has always sucked, so I can't imagine
> > they're losing too much sleep over quality or security, their Trusted
> > Computing(tm) initiative notwithstanding.
> >
>
> Excel is pretty neat and I wish there was a DOC Edit clo
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, L.F. wrote:
> First of all thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for his comments. I have
> OpenOffice 1.1.0; it is probably the latest version.I am not sure whether I
> understand what you mena by "They use the space bar and not the tab". In
> Windows I had everything in just one fil
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Andy Firman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Today I went to sign up for the Level 1 exams and was
> surprised to see that there is now a choice between
> RPM and DPKG. I did a quick search for news on this and
> found this post by the Debian project leader:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/deb
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I asked this before on the openoffice mailing list and those people told
> me to go asking in a debian specific forum, which let me to repost to
> the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, but that seems to be mainly
> a developers list ... so here it
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 15:52 GMT, Kent West penned:
> > I echo Colin's thought. Forget about "su" and use "sudo". It takes an
> > extra 5 keystrokes per command, but it "just works", and in my opinion
> > is better than forgetting you're root and d
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am using a Nikon CoolPix 3100 digital camera. It is pretty easy to set
> up in Debian unstable. It doesn't seem to be supported by gphoto2 or
> gtkam, but one can mount it as a USB mass storage device after installing
> hotplug, follow
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Johann Koenig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 18:32
> Subject: Re: Acronyms (was Re: reiserfs)
> I will keep your email for the time when and if I am able to get w
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Haines Brown wrote:
> > each user has a session and a session key. this key is used to
> > authenticate yourself to the Xserver. Root as a key and each user
> > does.
>
> Yes, that makes sense.
>
> > so when you login as user and then switch to root, it tried to use your
> >
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Haines Brown wrote:
> > Please don't CC me. (If somehow my sig isn't clear enough, please let
> > me know how I can make it so.)
>
> My apologies. The current auto CC: is something I did not have before,
> and so I'm not used to removing that line. I was aware I had forgott
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, John Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 19:38, Greg Madden wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> first time I hear from mini-install iso's. Great idea! Don't
> know who is responsible for this (searched for netinst in the packages
> but couldn't find anything) but would it be pos
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote:
> Hi.
> How can i do this without losing the data on my NTFS partition?
> This is the final step for moving completely from windows to linux! yay!
> Thanks
> -- Fred
>
>
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On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:25:26PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > ..you say HP support's Debian Linux. Both may well be true, the sheer
> > size of HP suggest one of these support schemes may be un-autorized
> > by HP's corporate board. They might wan
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Johann Koenig wrote:
> On Tuesday October 28 at 04:54pm
> Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > * Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031028 14:48]:
> > > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:51, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
> >
> > > > Speaking for myself only. I have to mak
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, David Z Maze wrote:
> Simon Tod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> Knowing what exactly the version is might be helpful. If the
> >> Knoppix people have added an epoch to their version number, APT
> >> would be entirely corre
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, L.F. wrote:
> I can't convert the Windows file into pdf in Windows because I don't have
> the Acrobat Reader program;
---right.
In Linux the pdf is free but in Windows it costs
> 600 euros.
expected.
> Email the file to me, if you like -- I'll convert it for you on my
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Ken Caldwell wrote:
>
>
> > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:40:29PM +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote:
> > >
> > > I was looking for a small word processor and spreadsheet to be used on
> > > some old computers (Pentium 75 with 32MB RAM and 520MB HDD) and tried to
> > > use Pathetic Wri
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Simon Green wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 09:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I mentioned something a few days ago. You need to redirect your mail flow.
> > normally you mail does this:
> > pop3 server -> evo
> > if you want to use spamasssin you need to make evo read mail
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Pigeon wrote:
> Having installed Debian on a mate's PC, his kids are complaining
> because they can't get onto MSN Messenger...
>
> The kids have given me a username eg. '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and a
> password to go with it (an English word). I've tried these in gaim,
> kmerlin
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, ScruLoose wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:06:18PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> Still pluggin' away at this problem with my D-Link DFE-530TX NIC.
>
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> eth0: Transmit timed out, status , PHY status 786d, reset
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 21:26 GMT, Emma Jane Hogbin penned:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm working on a PHP web site that needs to generate PDFs on the fly.
> > I don't want to use PDFlib as the code is totally open source and I
> > don't want people
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Riccardo Gusso wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> I have seen recently one suggestion on how to integrate Mozilla Mail
> with spamassassin; I was wondering if there is a way to do the same with
> evolution.
> Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
> Riccardo
> --
H
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Haines Brown wrote:
> Get rid of everything: what a good idea!
>
> I got rid of everything, and in the .xsession put exec icewm. That
> didn't work. So I replaced the command with exec xterm. That did
> work--sort of.
>
> When I start x with the xterm execution, what I get i
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Simon Tod wrote:
> After a hdd install from knoppix 3.2 I tried to
> dist-upgrade to Debian unstable. It all seems to work
> fine but my debian_version is still reported as
> testing/unstable.
you are correct. knoppix is a combination of some testing and some
unstable packa
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Christophe Courtois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >My Zire 71 was not detected by a 2.4.18 kernel (the latest is OK), so I had
> >to had this in /etc/modules (try to change the value):
> >
> >usbserial vendor=0x830 product=0x60
>
> Thanks, all that I h
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:08:00PM -0400, James D. Freels wrote:
> > Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in
> > Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ?
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>I have a win2k box set to do ICS and dial on demand (not the question) -
> 192.168.0.1
>
> I have my Debian laptop attached to this eth0 192.618.0.10. They share
> files via samba. But, I'd like to be able to set Debian so that it uses
> 19
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, David Palmer. wrote:
> > --
> > David Jardine
> >
> The way I see it is that with all the separate componentry available
> with Debian, you can configure for any eventuality according to the
> individual need, whether that be for high volumn or otherwise. Standard
> config
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Marco Bagni wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> before submitting this request of help I have been looking around quite
> a while in my system and in the user groups without success.
>
> My problem is the following, I run a Debian system aligned with the
> latest testing distribution and
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Haines Brown wrote:
> In moving from RedHat to debian, I'm left with some simple little
> basic configuration questions. They all relate to a situation in which
> I operate at this point from console.
>
> 1. Where do I set the global bash prompt format? I changed PS1= in
>
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, L.F. wrote:
> I have changed from Windows 2000 to Linux because of the viruses.
Good move.
Iam
> very happy now because Linux is much safer and much more stable.However, I
> have a problem: I have a file with words in English with the phonetic
> transcription
Is the file in
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:26:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I asked Earthlink to check for virii [oh the flames] and they said it
> > would be an invasion of my privacy but spam they can che
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:39:11AM -0700, John Yurcik wrote:
> > Is there something I can do to block this stuff with an on-line mail
> > account?
>
> Demand they reject viruses at SMTP time or take yo
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I cannot get my modem to work properly, can you help?
>
> LaBelle
>
Hi 'Belle,
what have you tried? What is the model of your system?
what is the result of lspci?
what is shown in dmesg? in /var/log/messages?
-Kev
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On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a server running Debian with a tape drive and I want to back up
> some Windows PCs to it (via LAN). I could use smbmount and regular Linux
> backup tools (tar or whatever), but the Windows PCs aren't always on.
>
> So I'd prefer that back
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, trevor brooks wrote:
>
>
> Hi my name is Trevor Brooks. I go to Gardner middle school in Lansing Michigan. We
> have to do a project with donating a dollar to an organization. we have to know
> where the dollar goes and how it helps. We have to pretend that we are the do
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