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Hi, all - Have a lovely, clean and working pair of 3c509 NICs, both for use in a router. But they're both insisting on being on IRQ 10, which rather complicates things. I've tried the 3c5x9tools package, which doesn't do all that much except let me know that there are 2 different

Re: Choosing a database package

I believe mySQL and PostgreSQL would both fit your needs. I'm not sure which languages you are familiar with but Perl probably has the best balance of ease and functionality. There are interfaces to get Perl working with postgresql/mysql and also interfaces to get perl working with GTK. Hope

RE: 2.0 - 2.1 ftp problem

ftp: connect: Connection refused You just need to add your host (the one allowed to ftp into your box) into the /etc/hosts.allow. the hosts.allow and .deny files will allow for a connection but the connection will immediately be terminated. If the ftp program is a daemon and is not

Re: Too New

go to www.linux.org and click on documentation, go to the LDP pages and download (and read) the Getting Started guide -- Sarel Botha On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still trying to install Debian2.0. Here is what I'm doing. My computer boots to the CD-ROM, the rescue

Re: true type fonts

I once saw a page plenty of TrueType fonts for (free?) download, don't remember the pointer, but may be worth to do a search. fonts.themes.org is nice :) -- Sarel Botha

Re: cvs

What are the advantages of using CVS instead of your own complied versions of software sometimes you still need to compile CVS, so that's not what CVS means. It means the software you are downloading is in a VERY developmental stage. Usually new versions of the developer's source is uploaded to

Re: Gnome install using apt - error logging in

but when I do an apt-get update the update does fine with the debian site, but it gives me an error on the gnome sight. The error is: Error: ftp://ftp.gnome.org dists/released/ Packages process_uri_pair: couldn't log in The ftp.gnome.org site is VERY busy, try one of the mirrors you see

Re: How to get Debian and (argh!) Windows 95 machines linked through null modem?

I have a big problem and little time to solve. Can anyone help me? I have to get a Debian (hamm) machine and a (argh!) Windows 95 one linked through a null modem cable using PPP protocol. The Debian machine can be able to connect Internet through ppp0. I already tryed

Re: Broken package requires installation of already installedpackage

Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet dependencies: libc6-dev: Depends:libc6 You probably downloaded and installed libc6, but not libc6-dev, so just download and install libc6-dev and make sure it's the same version as libc6 (dpkg -s libc6). Regards Sarel

Re: Gnome 1.0 debs?

Couldn't .debs that aren't 100% at least go into potato? That's what unstable is for isn't it ? Regards Sarel Botha On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote: On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ya know, I don't want to offend any of the developers or anything, but I'm

Re: APT: packages held back

This showed numerous packages as being 'kept back': Packages are held back when you choose Hold in dselect. When there are dependancy/conflict errors apt tells you. Regards Sarel Botha

Re: APT: packages held back

So, does this mean I'll have to go into dselect and see if these packages are placed on hold? I wonder how this happens, cos for sure I yip never did this myself, and I can't remember ever having had serious problems with dpkg etc. which might have automagically marked these packages as on