Re: Knoppix

2006-03-27 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Monday 27 March 2006 17:55, Robert Himmelmann wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: 5.0 (english) DVD is being downloaded via bittorrent as we speak. Should be available for anyone wanting a copy tomorrow. Let me know if you want one, and I'll swap for a blank

Re: Knoppix

2006-03-26 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Steve Holdoway wrote: 5.0 (english) DVD is being downloaded via bittorrent as we speak. Should be available for anyone wanting a copy tomorrow. Let me know if you want one, and I'll swap for a blank. Where can one download it? I cannot find it on knoppix.net or google. Cheers, Steve

Re: CLUG Meeting This Evening - Tuesday, 14th March 2006

2006-03-14 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Tuesday 14 March 2006 00:33, Robert Himmelmann wrote: We will try to make audio recordings of the talks in the future, but it's probably not possible for today's talk. That would be great. The GPL-v3 video is at:- http://gplv3.fsf.org/av/gplv3-draft1

Re: CLUG Meeting This Evening - Tuesday, 14th March 2006

2006-03-13 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Christopher Sawtell wrote: Greetings to the CLUG listers, [...] I also have a file in Theora Ogg format of the TV recording of the launching of the GPLv3 by Eban Moglan and Richard Stallman. It's playable by either Real Player or mplayer provided you have the ogg theora plugins available.

Re: Can someone please fix the mailing list archives

2006-03-04 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Nick Rout wrote: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 I know that many have to use that other OS from time to time, but its really no excuse for using OE, and even less excuse for not properly quoting. Of course you are allowed to use wine(tools) to run Outlook under

Re: Gentoo 2006.0 released at last (:

2006-03-03 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Robert Fisher wrote: On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 9:30 am, Robert Himmelmann wrote: rm /etc/make.profile ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.0/ /etc/make.profile emerge -uDN world should do the job. Unfortunatly the site is Spanish (I think). I did not know that one can understand

Re: Gentoo 2006.0 released at last (:

2006-03-02 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Robert Fisher wrote: On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 8:59 am, Robert Himmelmann wrote: Thanks, but I was more worring about the profile. It seems as if that part does not get updated automatically. The only thing I update when a new version comes out is my Grub file when the splash themes

Re: Gentoo 2006.0 released at last (:

2006-03-02 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Robert Fisher wrote: On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 5:22 am, Robert Himmelmann wrote: Then what does ls -l /etc/make.profile say on your system? Well granted that was in need of updating - not that it makes much difference though. But what exactly is that difference? http://www.gentoo.org

Re: Gentoo 2006.0 released at last (:

2006-03-02 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 20:39:24 +0100 Robert Himmelmann wrote: Robert Fisher wrote: But what exactly is that difference? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml does not cover 2006.0 yet. Happy Hacking, Robert J. C. Himmelmann try diffing the profiles

Re: Gentoo 2006.0 released at last (:

2006-03-02 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Robert Himmelmann wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/ Interesting to note that it's not gone for gcc 4 yet. Must look into that one. Steve How would I upgrade to the new version? Is the following enough? rm /etc/make.profile ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux

Re: Gentoo 2006.0 released at last (:

2006-03-01 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Steve Holdoway wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/ Interesting to note that it's not gone for gcc 4 yet. Must look into that one. Steve How would I upgrade to the new version? Is the following enough? rm /etc/make.profile ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.0/

Re: Gentoo 2006.0 released at last (:

2006-03-01 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Steve Holdoway wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/ Interesting to note that it's not gone for gcc 4 yet. Must look into that one. Steve How would I upgrade to the new version? Is the following enough? rm /etc/make.profile ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.0/

Re: Gentoo 2006.0 released at last (:

2006-03-01 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Thanks, but I was more worring about the profile. It seems as if that part does not get updated automatically. Robert Fisher wrote: On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 2:22 am, Robert Himmelmann wrote: How would I upgrade to the new version? Is the following enough? rm /etc/make.profile ln -s /usr

Re: update on dying disk

2006-02-19 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Steve Holdoway wrote: Fabulous product, that MailWasher (: Steve I have no idea how people manage to get that much spam that they need anti-spam software. ;) With my 6 addresses I get about one message per day. And yes I do use most of those addresses. Happy Hacking, Robert J. C.

Re: ctrlaltdel problem

2006-02-14 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Barry wrote: (after a lot of reading...) There are a lot of security matters being checked (cron hourly) but the man pages do not refer to inittab or this particular alt as far as I can see.. I have fixed my problem successfully by altering the offending line in libmsec.py, but what are

Re: X server

2006-02-09 Thread Robert Himmelmann
HappyEvilSlosh wrote: When starting xserver-xorg to run a thin client in debian all I have to do is run the command /etc/init.d/xserver-xorg start On most distros including Ubuntu you either use /etc/init.d/[x/g]dm. Depending on your display manager. xdm usually starts KDM and gdm as one

Re: vmware server now zero dollars

2006-02-08 Thread Robert Himmelmann
I put ie6setup.exe on my webserver and downloaded it with ie2. I won't use Opera, Firefox or Apache on that VM. When I do use MS then all of MS. ;) Jim Cheetham wrote: Hah :-) last time I installed NT4, you couldn't even access the Microsoft website with IE2 - got stuck in an infinite

Re: ubuntu hoary to breezy - HOW?

2006-02-08 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Jim Cheetham wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 06:27:46AM +0100, Robert Himmelmann wrote: If you want bleeding edge you can go for Ubuntu 6.04. For that use dapper instead of hoary. As far as I can see, only upgrades of one version at a time are supported - so direct from hoary

Re: Gentoo sound card problems - solved

2006-02-07 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Ross Drummond wrote: Recompiled the kernel with sound drivers as modules, ran alsaconf and it now just works. Cimpiling everything in should work as well. Just to make sure: Did you remember to reboot after recompiling the kernel with the driver build in? Thanks all for your help.

Re: ubuntu hoary to breezy - HOW?

2006-02-07 Thread Robert Himmelmann
vim/kwrite/nano /etc/apt/sources.list ((Replace all occurences of warty by hoary and comment out the entry for the CD)) apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade If you want bleeding edge you can go for Ubuntu 6.04. For that use dapper instead of hoary. Nick Rout wrote: I have ubuntu on my

Re: vmware server now zero dollars

2006-02-07 Thread Robert Himmelmann
For me it worked very well. I already downloaded a Ubuntu image from their site and installed Windows NT Server 4.0 on another image. Then I had to face the problem of downloading service pack 6a with IE 2.0. Well now it works. Roger Searle wrote: vmware have responded to the potential

Re: CD to MP3 ripper for Linux/KDE - recommendations

2006-02-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Don Gould wrote: I'm after a gui to run under kde for ripping cd's to MP3 to download to my MP3 player, recommendations? Cheers Don grip does it's job quite well and has support for most command-line rippers and encoders. It is only a gui for those programs just as k3b is a gui for

Re: bash script query - echo date

2006-02-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Steve Holdoway wrote: [...]or set a workable $PATH up for the duration of the script. Steve It might be enough to source /etc/profile: . /etc/profile Happy Hacking, Robert J. C. Himmelmann

Re: bash script query - echo date

2006-02-04 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: bash names are case-sensitive. Volker That script should work though. Maybe it is a good idea to try the full path i.e.: echo Daily Backup Successful: $(/usr/bin/date) /home/dave/.daves_backup.log Otherwise I see no reason why it does not run. Happy Hacking,

Re: E-Mail headers (WAS: Re: change of email addess)

2006-02-03 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Col wrote: As a matter of interest: How would you do that inside firefox. Till now I have used less to view the mbox files. Sorry, I meant thunderbird. Select the message and then hit CTRL U Thanks, that was what I was after. Happy Hacking, Robert J. C. Himmelmann

E-Mail headers (WAS: Re: change of email addess)

2006-02-02 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Carl Cerecke wrote: Use thunderbird, your mail client, to view the headers in a list email. As a matter of interest: How would you do that inside firefox. Till now I have used less to view the mbox files. Happy Hacking, Robert J. C. Himmelmann

Re: qemu or similar on existing filesystem

2006-02-01 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Nick Rout wrote: qemu --hda /mnt/gentoo Whatever you do - do not mount the partition and run qemu on it. That will break the filesystem and you will have to run reiserfsck --rebuilt-tree. Once I got a file (/etc/profile I belive) on my Debian-installation which was corrupted so badly

Re: Qemu - warning to Gentoo users

2006-01-03 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Robert Fisher wrote: Today qemu was upgraded to version 0.8.0 and it stopped working. I have gone back to version 0.7.2 and all is OK again. emerge =qemu-0.7.2 emerge =qemu-softmmu-0.7.2 beast ~ # emerge -s qemu * app-emulation/kqemu Latest version available: 0.7.2 Latest version installed:

Re: acroread 7

2005-12-20 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: [...] Good news. What are all document viewers? Unfortunately there isn't a usable postscript viewer right now. (Other than an obsolete version of ghostscript.) How about kghostview? [...] Volker Happy Hacking, Robert J. C. Himmelmann

Re: os ??

2005-12-04 Thread Robert Himmelmann
John Mallett wrote: I have heard the open office does not work. I also remember when kde first started. There were a few bugs in it then. But they were quite quickly fixed. Ver 3.5 might already have got rid of most of them. On my Gentoo server/laptop KDE 3.5 does work very well. So does

Re: Be thankful for linux

2005-11-08 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Steve Holdoway wrote: add the 'tml' back on to the end of the url (: How could I miss that? Shame over me. Steve On Tue, November 8, 2005 8:55 am, Robert Himmelmann wrote: Maurice Butler wrote: Check out the lastest windows nightmare http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/11

Re: very small linux portable

2005-11-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
in, though I may be wrong on that. It was larger than a PDA. Volker You can plug a a monitor into a small PCMCIA-card which you plug into a small PCMCIA-to-CF-converter which you can plug into a Zaurus... Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann

Re: Extracting from mac .bin files

2005-10-22 Thread Robert Himmelmann
day timebomb has to work somehow). Which one are you going to try? I could run it in my unionfs-sandbox and tell you if it has changed any files. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann

Re: 64-bit Linux

2005-10-13 Thread Robert Himmelmann
in Germany. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann

Re: 64-bit Linux

2005-10-13 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Lee Begg wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:04, Robert Himmelmann wrote: I have Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Fedora and SuSE (not yet SUSE) on my laptop. Debian does work but there have been no updates for almost half a year, so I do not recommend it. Debian-amd64 moved servers about 6 months

Re: Tip of the day. Don't clobber your files.

2005-10-13 Thread Robert Himmelmann
. pdumpfs --exclude=music /home/robert/ /data/backup/home/ /data/backup/home/log 2/data/backup/home/error-log Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann

Re: Read this before trying control-alt-backspace

2005-09-30 Thread Robert Himmelmann
would ever think of. (See various threads on running multiple distributions at the same time c.) Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann

Re: Second copy of kdm

2005-09-25 Thread Robert Himmelmann
and it works but it is too dirty for normal use. This is not on my computer but my mother's one. She is used to SuSE but Ubuntu works much better, especially for the WLAN. It would be nice for her to switch back to SuSE through pressing C-M-F8. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann

Re: Second copy of kdm

2005-09-25 Thread Robert Himmelmann
nicer. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann

Re: Second copy of kdm

2005-09-25 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Thanks, after ln -s /opt/kde3/bin/startkde /usr/bin/startkde that does work! Nick Rout wrote: a bit of googling suggests: xinit /usr/bin/startkde -- :1 On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 12:14 +0200, Robert Himmelmann wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # startkde #Yes, I do use root

Re: Second copy of kdm

2005-09-25 Thread Robert Himmelmann
for me. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann

Re: Boot Problem with Fedora

2005-09-23 Thread Robert Himmelmann
/etc/profile and two seconds ! after writing the changes to disk gdm started. There is obviously some incompatiblity between profile.in, a file I have written, and gdm/Fedora. Thanks for your help. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann

Boot Problem with Fedora

2005-09-22 Thread Robert Himmelmann
and especially the configuration of my wlan-card was easy once I had found the configuration utility. Thanks, Robert Himmelmann

Re: wget redirecting screws up filename

2005-08-23 Thread Robert Himmelmann
to laby.toybox.de[212.227.43.232]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 4,882,608 [application/x-tgz] Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann

Re: FWIW (OpenSolaris 10)

2005-08-16 Thread Robert Himmelmann
they port it to Xen. That sounds very much like what I did only more difficult because chroot will not work. We should have met some thime when I was still in Chch. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann

Re: Time for a new distro...

2005-08-16 Thread Robert Himmelmann
it works well under maximum settings. Might be the gig of RAM or the Athlon 64 3000+ though. I have not tried it with Windows. It was very painfull to install (Driver and UT). So far I got the driver only working under Gentoo. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann

Re: Gentoo mini-installfest

2005-08-15 Thread Robert Himmelmann
as easy to use and fast as Ubuntu or SuSE. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann

Re: Time for a new distro...

2005-08-15 Thread Robert Himmelmann
, Robert Himmelmann

Re: Time for a new distro...

2005-08-15 Thread Robert Himmelmann
to another session, so this would not be practicable. It would probably also cause some problems with the .Xauthorities and various other things. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann

Re: file system

2005-08-14 Thread Robert Himmelmann
use SCSI there is no distinction between primary, extended and logical partition. I have not tried it because the biggest SCSI drive we have has 2Gb. With drives like that people tend to use LVM and/or RAID instead of multiple partitions. ;) Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann

Re: Toshiba 1800-100 Graphics

2005-08-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
not need it. -jim Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann

Re: security/sudo

2005-08-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Jim Cheetham wrote: On Aug 5, 2005, at 6:27 PM, Robert Himmelmann wrote: Jim Cheetham wrote: lol. sudo su is almost pointless ... sudo -s gives you a root shell :-) Ok, I do not have much experience with sudo and typing 'u' is for me easier than '-'. :-) agreed. Functionally

Genbisutu or four distros on one laptop

2005-08-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
, Robert Himmelmann #!/sbin/runscript #depend() { #} start() { ebegin Starting Debian Emulation mount /data/debian 2 /dev/null mount --bind /dev /data/debian/dev mount --bind /tmp /data/debian/tmp mount --bind /proc /data/debian/proc mount --bind

amarok does not recognise mp3

2005-08-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
file but could not find anything. Is there any way to correct this problem? Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann

Re: Toshiba 1800-100 Graphics

2005-08-04 Thread Robert Himmelmann
. My first real computer was a K7S5A with an AMD Duron 1200 and 512MB of RAM I used to use twm with nothing particularly flash or heavy on the old machine, and it was fine most of the time. Gnome, KDE and Flash work but you have to be patient. ;) Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann

Re: Looking for Chch-based support

2005-08-04 Thread Robert Himmelmann
, especially if there is a meeting during the time I am coming. ;) Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann

Re: Calling all Rik's

2005-08-04 Thread Robert Himmelmann
true ; do killall -s 19 X ; sleep 1 ; killall -s 18 X ; sleep 1 ; done ; WARNING: Do this only over ssh, otherwise it will freeze your mouse, keyboard and screen infinitly. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann

Toshiba 1800-100 Graphics

2005-08-03 Thread Robert Himmelmann
APM instead should work. I am not sure what ubuntu uses as I have not compiled this kernel myself. Whatever it does use, it seems to work. I can powersave the monitor, display battery usage and even hibernate. Any help welcome. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Buddha said: I consider

Re: Toshiba 1800-100 Graphics

2005-08-03 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Thanks for the help. Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 08:57 +0200, Robert Himmelmann wrote: Sorry, I wrote aptitude while I meant synaptic. Greetings, I got an old Toshiba Satellite 1800-100 to configure and play around with. ... For some reason I also thought

Re: debugging USB device problems

2005-07-26 Thread Robert Himmelmann
with the gentoo-sources if that helps. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Buddha said: I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds

Re: advanced xmodmaping

2005-07-02 Thread Robert Himmelmann
, Robert Himmelmann Tanzan and Ekido were once traveling together down a muddy road. A heavy rain was still falling. Coming around a bend, they met a lovely girl in a silk kimono and sash, unable to cross the intersection. Come on, girl said Tanzan at once. Lifting her in his arms, he carried her

advanced xmodmaping

2005-07-01 Thread Robert Himmelmann
, c+new_modifier to 3 c. Then I would be able to type numbers without moving my fingers form the normal typing position. I already have assigned d+mode_switch to $ and ö+mode_switch to ö while ö without modifier is /. (On my German keyboard ö is right of l). Thanks, Robert Himmelmann Tanzan

Re: GLU workshop July 6th +SFD

2005-06-30 Thread Robert Himmelmann
readable than PDF. Most Windows user won't understand it thou. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Tanzan and Ekido were once traveling together down a muddy road. A heavy rain was still falling. Coming around a bend, they met a lovely girl in a silk kimono and sash, unable to cross the intersection

Re: brainfade on cutting sections out of a file

2005-06-26 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely. -- Lao Tsu Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Gödel's Theorem ... -- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow #!/bin

Re: Debian for a Gentoo-user

2005-06-24 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Steve Holdoway wrote: Robert Himmelmann wrote: 1. His package is unstable Nothing unusual. 2. AMD64 is not yet fully tested and/or supported. I am used to that by now. 3. He assumes that I want to rebuild my kernel with the (outdated) Debian kernel-sources. I do not want to do this. I

Debian for a Gentoo-user

2005-06-23 Thread Robert Himmelmann
systems.) I also only have normal user-rights in the chroot. What does the s-bit actually change? Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely. -- Lao Tsu Murphy's Law, that brash

Re: Debian for a Gentoo-user

2005-06-23 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Thanks for the help Steve Holdoway wrote: Robert Himmelmann wrote: I now found out why my Debian did not start. I had included the following lines in /etc/fstab: devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto

Re: Puzzle apparently solved; MTU the clue (Was: Puzzle, ppp)

2005-06-16 Thread Robert Himmelmann
, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely. -- Lao Tsu Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Gdel's Theorem ... -- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

Re: Meeting reminder

2005-06-13 Thread Robert Himmelmann
, and friends. Bring your favourite Free Linux game to share. Thanks, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely. -- Lao Tsu Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement

Re: Genbisu: It's working!

2005-06-11 Thread Robert Himmelmann
of them starts with hda. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely. -- Lao Tsu Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Gödel's Theorem

Re: Genbisu: It's working!

2005-06-09 Thread Robert Himmelmann
found none which has updates for amd64. Has anyone found any yet? Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely. -- Lao Tsu Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement

Booting Debian with Grub

2005-06-06 Thread Robert Himmelmann
root fs on block xxx. This happens beore the framebuffer is initialised. I used reiserfs for the partition. Does anyone know what I have to do to get it working? [1] Steve, the DVDs you gave me are unfrotunatly for ia64 not amd64. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely

Re: Booting Debian with Grub

2005-06-06 Thread Robert Himmelmann
in initrd and if it is not make a new initrd with the module? Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely. -- Lao Tsu Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement

Re: Booting Debian with Grub

2005-06-06 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely. -- Lao Tsu Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Gödel's Theorem ... -- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

SOLVED: Re: Booting Debian with Grub

2005-06-06 Thread Robert Himmelmann
After another emerge sync; emerge -uD world all problems were gone. Now I don't get any errors when I press M-Backspace and xemacs does not crash anymore. I suppose it was a bug somewhere. Thanks for all the help. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which

Re: SOLVED: Re: Booting Debian with Grub

2005-06-06 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Sorry, wrong thread. Robert Himmelmann wrote: After another emerge sync; emerge -uD world all problems were gone. Now I don't get any errors when I press M-Backspace and xemacs does not crash anymore. I suppose it was a bug somewhere. Thanks for all the help. Happy Hacking, Robert

Re: Weired Xemacs behaviour

2005-06-06 Thread Robert Himmelmann
After another emerge sync; emerge -uD world all problems were gone. Now I don't get any errors when I press M-Backspace and xemacs does not crash anymore. I suppose it was a bug somewhere. Thanks for all the help. Robert Himmelmann wrote: Greetings, When I start xemacs in a terminal

SOLVED; Re: Booting Debian with Grub

2005-06-06 Thread Robert Himmelmann
of it comfortabely from Gentoo. Now I have finally apt-get, emerge and yast running at the same time! Thanks for all your help. Robert Himmelmann wrote: Greeting, I finally managed to install Debian. I used knoppix-installer-latest-web from KNOPPIX 3.9.[1] It was somewhat easier and with 20 minutes much

Re: Booting Debian with Grub

2005-06-06 Thread Robert Himmelmann
with reiser. By now everything is working and I don't want to change. I also see my laptop more as a portable desktop. It is running 7/24 and it is only a laptop because anything else wold have been extremely expensive to get here from Germany. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely

Re: Xemacs (Was: Re: SOLVED; Re: Booting Debian with Grub)

2005-06-06 Thread Robert Himmelmann
under SuSE where all the packages are already installed. I also like Novells deault configuration. P.S. Xemacs doesn't work for long (buffer glitch?), on Debian or Ubuntu, on my laptop. Where's best support now?.. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach

Re: Quasar

2005-06-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
I found a rpm for SuSE. I am downloading that now and will then try to install it into my chrooted SuSE. That might be easier than manually comipling everything. Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 20:14, Robert Himmelmann wrote: Where did you get it from? I cannot find

Re: Quasar

2005-06-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 21:32 +1200, Robert Himmelmann wrote: I found a rpm for SuSE. I am downloading that now and will then try to install it into my chrooted SuSE. That might be easier than manually comipling everything. Perhaps you missed the post pointing

Re: Quasar

2005-06-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely. -- Lao Tsu Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Gödel's Theorem ... -- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's

Weired Xemacs behaviour

2005-06-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
a modified German keyboard, so the keycode might be different) Does anyone know why things are behaving here as they are? Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely

Re: Weired Xemacs behaviour

2005-06-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:58, Michael JasonSmith wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 11:54 +1200, Robert Himmelmann wrote: When I start xemacs in a terminal and type M-Backspace Alt-Backspace (which may or may not be M-Backspace) is normally used to kill the X

Re: Weired Xemacs behaviour

2005-06-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
of xmodmap shows on my system it seems to be Shift-Backspace. I do not want to try this out now but except for that xemacs-bit nothing happens when I press Alt-Backspace. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about

Re: Weired Xemacs behaviour

2005-06-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 12:30 +1200, Robert Himmelmann wrote: By now it also crashes sometimes when I press M-w. All this has started happening after my last emerge sync; emerge -uD world. I cannot remember to have seen any update for xemacs but there were various changes

Re: Quasar

2005-06-04 Thread Robert Himmelmann
. The article has piqued my interest sufficiently to download the sources and try it out. It's building satisfactorily. More to come. -- C. S. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take

Re: Gmail invitation

2005-06-03 Thread Robert Himmelmann
think that none of us would use a Micro$oft product if there is anything else around. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely. -- Lao Tsu Murphy's Law, that brash

Re: Gmail invitation

2005-06-03 Thread Robert Himmelmann
I only use GMail except for mailing lists and big files (10Mb). The latter problem might be connected with my being on 56k. Could someone please give me the names of some other free providers? I am collecting mail-adresses. Robert Fisher wrote: On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:16, Robert Himmelmann

Re: (OT) You gotta love google ads on slashdot

2005-05-25 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Blender (you know the 3D drawing suite that Caleb showed us a while ago) Google ad? Kitchen Appliances rated [snip] www.consumer.org.nz -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take

Boot OS on usb-hd

2005-05-24 Thread Robert Himmelmann
console=tty0 resume=/dev/hda2 desktop elevator=as showopts initrd (hd1,1)/boot/initrd Is there any way to make grub recognise and boot SuSE? Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take

Re: Boot OS on usb-hd

2005-05-24 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Nick Rout wrote: Can grub see your USB drive? (I doubt it) use tab completion at the grub prompt to see what drives grub recognises. type root (hd then the tab key. It will report every disk that grub sees. Only hd0, my main disk, shows up. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those

Re: Boot OS on usb-hd

2005-05-24 Thread Robert Himmelmann
. Nick Rout wrote: OK well put your kernel and initrd somewhere on hd0, the initrd will need to set up the usb hard drive before trying to mount root. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses

Re: Changing CFLAGS under Gentoo

2005-05-21 Thread Robert Himmelmann
it should be safe to add it. There is an article in a recent linux journal (March/April/May?) on gcc optimisation options, it may be available online, although some articles require you to be a subscriber. www.linuxjournal.com Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach

OT: Hitchhiker's 404

2005-05-21 Thread Robert Himmelmann
For everyone who has a webserver (or collects 404s) and likes Marvin: http://debian.co.nz/errors/404.php Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely. -- Lao Tsu Murphy's

Re: SoftMaker Office for Linux

2005-05-20 Thread Robert Himmelmann
through http://www.softmaker.de/order1.php4?code=maketheswitch They have a cheap clip arts package (2 DVDs) as well. Volker (No affiliations, but they're a Linux-friendly company.) Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy

Re: SoftMaker Office for Linux

2005-05-20 Thread Robert Himmelmann
. I don't think there is any other (easy) way to this. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely. -- Lao Tsu Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Gödel's

Changing CFLAGS under Gentoo

2005-05-20 Thread Robert Himmelmann
afterwards? -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely. -- Lao Tsu Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Gödel's Theorem ... -- Thomas Pynchon

Re: re scripting talks

2005-05-17 Thread Robert Himmelmann
to decipher my code but is it still any use? Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely. -- Lao Tsu Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Gödel's Theorem

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