Re: [Eug-lug] Migrating to Debian

2006-10-26 Thread Ron LeVine
Greetings all, I hand edited the file: XF86Config-4 in the /etc/X11/ directory and it worked great. Now I actually have some screen real estate again. wheee. Thanks again all, Ron larry price wrote: look in /etc/X11/ there is either an xorg.conf (modern) or XFree86.conf (old school) fil

Re: [Eug-lug] Migrating to Debian

2006-10-26 Thread Ron LeVine
Thanks Larry, Unfortunately, neither file is in that directory or listed in the whereis. Yes, I ran updatedb to make sure. Any other thoughts? Is there a tool that I can use besides the XF86config tool??? I was hoping for something in the gui. Thanks again Ron larry price wrote: look in /

Re: [Eug-lug] Migrating to Debian

2006-10-26 Thread larry price
look in /etc/X11/ there is either an xorg.conf (modern) or XFree86.conf (old school) file that needs a modeline. On 10/26/06, Ron LeVine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings all, Ok, I managed to get Debian to play pretty well with my system. The only thing that I see right now that is amiss

[Eug-lug] Migrating to Debian

2006-10-26 Thread Ron LeVine
Greetings all, Ok, I managed to get Debian to play pretty well with my system. The only thing that I see right now that is amiss is I have a 19 inch monitor and 800x600 resolution. Anyone care to share where the config file is or a config utility for adjusting the resolution to something mor

[Eug-lug] Random numbers that aren't random

2006-10-26 Thread Neil Parker
Are there any hardware gurus reading this who can shed some enlightenment on a minor but annoying issue? My new computer has an Intel ICH7 chipset. The ICH7 includes a hardware random number generator, which Linux recognizes when it boots ("Intel 82802 RNG detected", according to dmesg). Its out

[Eug-lug] GUI Upgrade Ubuntu

2006-10-26 Thread Dhosthi Dhosthi
Hey, sorry I missed the meeting this evening... I had a ton of questions related to 'ideal OS server specs...' maybe next week. BTW, if anyone is interested, I was having issues with getting Ubuntu Dapper to see the availability of Edgy until I came across this command: gksu “update-manager -c ”

Re: [Eug-lug] 2 default routes?

2006-10-26 Thread Quentin Hartman
On 10/26/06, euglug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a client with a T1 and a DSL. I would like to split the traffic > between them. For example, email comes in the DSL and web traffic comes > in the T1. I found it's more complicated than just adding another > default route to the server wh

Re: [Eug-lug] New to Evolution

2006-10-26 Thread Mike Cherba
Nyal, If you want to send plaintext email you might try Tools->Settings->Composer Preferences and uncheck the "Format messages in HTML" box. I generally also set the HTML Mail tab in the Tools->Settings->Mail Preferences to only load images from people in my address book on received emai

Re: [Eug-lug] using wget

2006-10-26 Thread Garl Grigsby
Ron LeVine wrote: Ok, I figured out how to add the resource to the listing. But now, where can I find a mirror on the web for Mandriva?? I am thinking that Debian is looking a lot nicer. :) http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ will help you select mirrors.

[Eug-lug] New to Evolution

2006-10-26 Thread Nyal
Greetings All, I've just installed FC6-i386 (an upgrade from SUSE 9.1 and Kmail) and I'm trying to get a feel for Evolution. I've looked around a bit and can't seem to find a setting in Evolution to get my mail in plaintext. Personally I don't want all the HTML, I like plaintext just like I like

Re: [Eug-lug] 2 default routes?

2006-10-26 Thread euglug
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:35:45 -0700, Bob Crandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a client with a T1 and a DSL. I would like to split the traffic > between them. For example, email comes in the DSL and web traffic comes > in the T1. I found it's more complicated than just adding anot

Re: [Eug-lug] using wget

2006-10-26 Thread Ben Barrett
Ubuntu (or Kubuntu or similar) should give you more bells-n-whistles, as well as easier hardware support,as well as offering a lot of the debian standards.Yes, yesterday was the right time to backup your important files!!  I have a client whose backup drive just failed, let that be an alarm call to

Re: [Eug-lug] 2 default routes?

2006-10-26 Thread John Sechrest
The fundamental problem that you have have with T1 + DSL is that while you might be able to get routing tables from your T1 vendor, you are very very very unlikely to get them from your DSL provider. If you had two t1 lines, the classic solution is to get routing tables and to run BGP. Howev

Re: [Eug-lug] using wget

2006-10-26 Thread Ron LeVine
Ok, I figured out how to add the resource to the listing. But now, where can I find a mirror on the web for Mandriva?? I am thinking that Debian is looking a lot nicer. :) Ron Ron LeVine wrote: Is there a way to get the Mandriva Control center to look at sites on the web for resources for get

Re: [Eug-lug] using wget

2006-10-26 Thread Ron LeVine
Is there a way to get the Mandriva Control center to look at sites on the web for resources for getting files? I will research this on my own as well, but if anyone has an answer, please do tell. Incidently, I tried to get Debian to run on my computer but it would not play well with it. I am

Re: [Eug-lug] using wget

2006-10-26 Thread John Sechrest
I don't think you mean wget. Wget is a tool for downloading a file from a website. If you have a package system, then you would use that instead. And the package system knows about dependencies. if you have a debian based system like Ubuntu, then this is called apt-get you can say: apt-get u

[Eug-lug] RealBasic

2006-10-26 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Anyone here have any experience with RealBasic ? (http://www.realbasic.com) I'm looking for a new GUI dev tool... -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG

[Eug-lug] 2 default routes?

2006-10-26 Thread Bob Crandell
Hi, I have a client with a T1 and a DSL. I would like to split the traffic between them. For example, email comes in the DSL and web traffic comes in the T1. I found it's more complicated than just adding another default route to the server which has only one NIC. I'm open to suggestions. Tha

Re: [Eug-lug] using wget

2006-10-26 Thread Garl Grigsby
Ron LeVine wrote: Um right, Yea, that one. Unfortunately, I am not running any of the above distros. So, is there a way to get this package with all it's dependencies easily??? I am using Mandriva 2006. I believe you want urpmi. Been a while since I've used Mandriva products, but I think it

Re: [Eug-lug] using wget

2006-10-26 Thread Fred James
Ron LeVine wrote: Um right, Yea, that one. Unfortunately, I am not running any of the above distros. So, is there a way to get this package with all it's dependencies easily??? I am using Mandriva 2006. Thanks again, Ron Bob Miller wrote: Ron LeVine wrote: I am wanting to use wget to

Re: [Eug-lug] using wget

2006-10-26 Thread Ron LeVine
Um right, Yea, that one. Unfortunately, I am not running any of the above distros. So, is there a way to get this package with all it's dependencies easily??? I am using Mandriva 2006. Thanks again, Ron Bob Miller wrote: Ron LeVine wrote: I am wanting to use wget to install some package

Re: [Eug-lug] using wget

2006-10-26 Thread Bob Miller
Ron LeVine wrote: > I am wanting to use wget to install some packages on my computer. How do > I find the repository for using wget? > > It is my impression that wget will not only grab the package that you > are wanting, but also any packages that are dependencies as well. Is > this the case?

[Eug-lug] using wget

2006-10-26 Thread Ron LeVine
Greetings all, I am wanting to use wget to install some packages on my computer. How do I find the repository for using wget? It is my impression that wget will not only grab the package that you are wanting, but also any packages that are dependencies as well. Is this the case? I want to

Re: [Eug-lug] Tonight's Meeting

2006-10-26 Thread Mike Cherba
Because there is an SAO (Software Association of Oregon) meeting tonight we will meet after that is done and move on for dinner. The SAO meeting is from 5:30 - 7:30 at the Rogue Tap House, Downstairs Room, 844 Olive Street . Many of the Euglug folks will attend the SAO meeting, and afterwards we

[Eug-lug] Tonight's Meeting

2006-10-26 Thread Dhosthi Dhosthi
Been out of touch... haven't heard if there is a change in venue for this evening's meeting... CRR? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___

[Eug-lug] Mozilla mail oddity

2006-10-26 Thread Matthew Jarvis
I just noticed that the View filter in Mozilla Mail seems to be a fuzzy search rather than doing a literal string comparison. Or else it's not working right regardless of the technique it's using... Might be useful to know that in case you want to do a bulk move or delete out of a folder..

Re: [Eug-lug] Zod arrives

2006-10-26 Thread Bob Miller
Matthew Jarvis wrote: > This is the announcement of Zod. Zod permits you to call him "Fedora > Core 6". Here's an article about how Fedora releases are named. Jesse Keating on the naming of Fedora This month we speak with Jesse Keating, Release engineer for Fedora Core. http://ww