This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins said:
>James Wilkinson wrote:
>
>> Er, I think this is illegal in unix-land. You need at least one alpha
>> character first. I think the syntax of usernames follows that of C
>> variable names.
>
>Keep trying.
>Numb
This one time, at band camp, Rachel Polanskis said:
>Now we are moving to all numeric logins (not my idea, comments?)
Er, I think this is illegal in unix-land. You need at least one alpha
character first. I think the syntax of usernames follows that of C
variable names.
>where it bombs, excep
On Sat, 04 Nov 2000, Anand Kumria generated:
>On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 06:54:10PM +1100, James Wilkinson wrote:
>> What I'm using at the moment:
>>
>> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
>> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, Doug Stalker generated:
>Matthew Dalton wrote:
>>
>> Doug Stalker wrote:
>> > Is it normal for packages to be missing like this in unstable?
>>
>> I think it's more a problem with the aarnet mirror than with debian
>> unstable. Try a different mirror.
>>
>
>It looks like y
On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, George Vieira generated:
>I have a script which runs in a CGI and outputs a CVS type file. The content
>type is for an Exel spreadsheet and it seems to load up on the clietn
>browser but Exel loads up the CVS data as 1 cell for line instead of
>splitting the cells into column
On Wed, 01 Nov 2000, Terry Collins generated:
>James Wilkinson wrote:
>
>> Dirty balls? can't help more than that, sorry.
>
>If you are under the impression that it might be dirty balls then I
>haven't made myself clear. It is definitely not a dirty ball or roller
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Terry Collins generated:
>The mouse is an MS 2 button emulating three on a serial port (swapping
>this is an option)
>
>Has anyone come across this problem before?
>Does anyone have any ideas?
Yes, but not with a serial mouse. Mine was a BIOS problem with the PS/2
mouse por
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] generated:
>Thanks Colin for the suggestion. But, rsh will be a handy option if I am puttin
g
>the configuration on one remote machine. But, i have a scenarion where the
>remote machines may increase or decrease. I am picking up the Ip address and th
e
>mach
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Arunava Sen generated:
>SYS Temp: +27.4 C (limit = +60 C, hysteresis = +50 C)
>CPU Temp: +36.9 C (limit = +60 C, hysteresis = +50 C)
>SBr Temp: +21.7 C (limit = +60 C, hysteresis = +50 C)
Where abouts is the thermal sensor mounted on your CPU? My manual never
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Michael Still generated:
>Then what does apache virtual hosting do?
AFAIK, the request to the webserver contains the fqdn of the host that the
client thinks it is accessing, so the webserver knows which set of pages
to feed.
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Sure, I subscribe to USENET, but I only get
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, John Clarke generated:
>set followup_to=no
>
>Read the man page :-)
ouch :) bitten by my own advice :)
anyway, hopefully fixed now
cheers.
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Arunava Sen generated:
>Do you mean that the side buttons are just useless clones of the left
>and right buttons? This is exactly what I was scared of. Thanks for
>responding to my post.
Not afaik. It depends on your xserver. 3.3.6 only supports a maximum
of 5 buttons, thi
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Terry Collins generated:
>P.S. Does anyone of know of any Linux mp3's
I find my mp3s play well on most platforms, not just Linux ;)
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Arunava Sen generated:
>So if you have either the "Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer" or the
>"Microsoft Intellimouse Web" and can confirm side-button
>finctionality it will be much appreciated. (the explorer is the
>fully expensive optical one)
When I was setting mine up,
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Michael Lake generated:
>Why can't I get Linux to do what I want Monday morning?
Mondayitis?
>If I "chown root:dosusers dos" or "chgrp dosusers dos" I
>get:
>chgrp: dos/: Operation not permitted
DOS filesystems and ownerships are like oil and water. No, bad analogy,
water
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Jeff Waugh generated:
>Alternatively, try Conectiva's xf86cfg. (How many permutations of X, Free,
>86 and Config can we turn into a filename?)
There's a command to do just that.
# apt-get install an
$ an xfree86config
fixer cog fen
exec grin off
exec ring off
exec frog f
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Conrad Parker generated:
>ps. James, your Mail-Followup-To header is fubar
I noticed that... it's happened since i upgraded mutt to 1.2 from 1.0
Anyone got any advice on which .muttrc line to add to get rid of this?
(lousy new feature defaults breaking things)
Meanwhile, j
Jim Hague wrote:
>Today's food for thought. You have obtained the entire
>source for, say, W2k and O2k. What do you do with it?
Chesty wrote:
>Fix some bugs and send patch back to MS? maybe not :)
I wrote:
>Actually, I'd prolly browse some of it when really really
>bored, looking for programmi
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Marty Richards generated:
>Yep, this dselect thing is really fsck'd (imho). The rest of it seems ok so
>far, altho the 6 floppies needed for a standard non-cd-boot install was
>nearly enuf to force a return to Slack7.1. ;)
Define 'standard'. Of all the standard non-cd in
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, chesty generated:
>On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:12:12AM +0100, Jim Hague wrote:
>> Today's food for thought. You have obtained the entire source for, say, W2k and
>> O2k. What do you do with it?
>
>Fix some bugs and send patch back to MS? maybe not :)
Actually, I'd prolly brow
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Jim Hague generated:
>Today's food for thought. You have obtained the entire source for, say, W2k and
>O2k. What do you do with it?
import to cvs, build a rudimentary Makefile, tarball it up, upload to sunsite
and some warez ftp sitez, announce on freshmeat. (though whether
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Stuart Cooper generated:
>If you see a book that mentions accomplishing the learning of C or any
>other technology in a particular timeframe (24 hours, a weekend, 12
>easy lessons) it is safe to ignore that book.
Because they tend to only take half the time specified.
These
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Adrian van den Dries generated:
>Wrote Anand:
>>
>> This means, though, that in order to be effective more spam should be
>> reported to MAPS if possible. Gus pointed out
>
>Trouble is, of course, that the envelope headers are lost by mailman, so all
>we have to go on is th
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Aaron Binns generated:
>I have the "Sed & Awk" O'Reilly, but I was wondering if anyone out there who
>works with shell scripting had suggestions for other scripting based books? I
>would like to find a book (or two) which teach how to shell script in general,
>rather than con
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Peter Faulks generated:
>The box won't boot without a monitor. If I stick a monitor in (without
>turning it on), it boots fine.
If it isn't set in the BIOS, like Matt said, then get yerself a cheap
video card that doesn't refuse to boot without a monitor. Boot sequence
tend
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Michael Lake generated:
>Im a bit stumped here and the topic is a bit OT as it would
>also prob occur if I was on a windows machine :-)
Well, of course it's off topic if you say it like that :)
>
>... PHP code ...
>?>
>
The page is shown with < and > where it means < and >
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Alister Waller generated:
>Can I ask why people use non-html enabled mail clients?? What is the benefit
>of this? Is this a linux geeky type thing??
Have you ever used mutt? it's the least sucky of all the mail clients
out there. i find the useablilty/conformance to standa
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Howard Lowndes generated:
>Is there any ability in Linux to associate filename extensions, or
>similar, with applications. I have been fiddling with Staroffice and
>that works OK, but I am curious as to whether the ability exists in
>Linux on a broader basis, more to do w
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Dean Hamstead generated:
>With initrd.img based scsi booting, how does one tell the
>kernel which module to load inorder to access /
You shouldn't have the driver for your root disk compiled as a module,
it needs to be in the kernel (or did I parse that wrong?)
>Im running
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, George Vieira generated:
>There is no /etc/resolv.conf as it's an isolated database server and has no
>connections to any other server..
How can you telnet to it if it has no connections?
>Is there a way to get the TCP wrapper or whatever it is that's trying to
>resolve the
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Jason Stokes generated:
>Here's a queston: why is "From" always quoted with a > if it appears on
>the first column of an email message? Can't SMTP servers distinguish
>between "From" in the header section and "From" in the body of the
>message?
RFC822 holds the answer. Or
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Jeff Waugh generated:
>getting your replies to 'break' the MUA. So, over the last week or so, I've
>set mutt up like this:
I was wondering what you were doing.
'begin' is used for uuencoded attachments on usenet (and in email), so
maybe (as Outhouse Explodes is a (i say cau
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Howard Lowndes generated:
>3. may not continue after the 04:00 deadline
Bugger, I just got home. And not the pub, either :(
--
No, I was looking for warez. The pornography was just a useful byproduct.
-- Dave Coote
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Jeff Waugh generated:
>What's the easiest way to remove compiled software (other than sifting
>through the executables and mish-mash)? Some things have make uninstall, but
>not everything.
rm?
Debian has a package called cruft that I'm playing with, it is supposed
to find s
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Stephen Graham generated:
>I am able to partition this drive as a Linux (type 83 in cfdisk) partition,
>but not as an Linux Extended (ext2 - type 85 in cfdisk) partition. I want
>it all in one ext2 partition if possible - the other drives are 34Gb ones
>divided into ~10Gb pa
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Jeff Waugh generated:
>Which should work, however, my procmaillog reports that whilst it tried to
>start, it couldn't open the display. Gar! How does the procmail setup in
>Debian and Red Hat differ for this to not work?
Jeff,
$ ls -l `which procmail`
might raise the cluon
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Ken Yap generated:
>It's probably that the 100 Mb NICs can't autonegotiate without a hub to
>talk to. You could try specifying the media in the modprobe line, but
>with hubs so cheap, it's not worth spending much time on a crossover.
Cheers, I'll remember that next time. In
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Alister Waller generated:
>I have an Exabyte Eagle TR-3 tape drive. How can I tell what device Redhat
>Linux has assigned to this device???
IDE or SCSI?
cd /proc/ide or /proc/scsi and poke around, look at files named 'media'.
--
No, I was looking for warez. The pornograp
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Heracles generated:
>Depends entirely upon what you want to do. If you are only
>networking two machines together then use a crossover cable
I just want to make a point that not all NICs like crossovers, what with
them being non-standard and all. I've got a 3Com 905C-tx tha
On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, marty generated:
>spyder - web server
Is it an alpha machine?
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On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Angus Lees generated:
>cfengine
> for maintaining config files, processes, etc on networks of
> machines - and how to use it and apt-get to do network-wide y2k
> upgrades without pressing a key ;)
This sounds f'n useful. i'm keen for gus to do talk on this topic.
--
No, I
On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, Dean Hamstead generated:
>At boot, when lilo appear
>type
>
> init=/bin/bash
All well and good, except Mike said:
>>>I can't get near the machine.
Mike, I think the easiest thing will be to get yourself physical access
to the machine in question. However, dealing with
On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, Mike Jones generated:
>I have been locked out of my system and was wondering if anyone could help.
>I need to log on and retrieve files. I don't have console access, my partner
>(soon to be ex) has changed the root passwd, and I can't get near the
>machine.
This could be
On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, Adrian van den Dries generated:
>Wrote Dan:
>> All entries gratefully accepted. :-)
>
>A musician's LAN:
[snip]
Sounds like the CSE network at UNSW :)
--
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-- Dave Coote
--
SLUG - S
On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, Scott Howard generated:
>Something to keep in mind is that underscore (ie, _ ) is technically not
>a valid character in DNS, and thus should probably be avoided in hostnames.
>
>However, a dash - is valid, so blue-midget is fine!
Actually, i've jsut checked, and because the
On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, Rick Welykochy generated:
>etc,ie,ad nausem,and stir
Interesting names, Rick :)
famine, pestilence, greed, and war. The 4 Boxen of the Apocalypse.
--
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-- Dave Coote
--
SLUG - Sydn
On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, Dan Treacy generated:
>So I'm putting it to the collective brilliance of the slugger fraternity to
>see what is put forth.
Work:
lister, rimmer, kryten, holly, cat, bob, blue_midget (nt machine)
Home:
willow, xander, angel, buffy, giles
others i've toyed with:
homer, ma
On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, John Wiltshire generated:
>From: Richard Hayes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>
>>Dear Sluggers,
>>
>>Someone password protected a Winzip file and I need to unzip it.
>>
>>Can anyone point me at any tools / faqs / info on how to crack it.
>
>... in addition, here's the home page
On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, Graeme Merrall generated:
>Can you get the less pin version beasty somewhere?
USB pins on the mobo tend to hold 2 USB sockets
x x x x x <- usb 1
x x x x x <- usb 2
Plug the connector onto one row.
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On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Chuck Dale generated:
>Bleeding edge, whatever, new features introduce new bugs that didn't
>exist before. The Debian wonder-machine might find most of them.
Given that potato spent a good part of 18 months before earning the
stamp of 'stable', you can safely assume that the
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Chuck Dale generated:
>And the new security holes introduced by new features? New bugs? Never!
[snip]
>Perhaps there are new features that would be useful. If there are, then
>upgrade. Don't upgrade just because of some general belief that there
>are so many new features an
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Jason Rennie generated:
>> Firstly, slink is OLD. There is no question that potato versions of the
>> same software not only contain the security updates that were in slink,
>> but because potato is *newer*, other security holes will undoubtedly be
>> closed. I bet the auth
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, Terry Collins generated:
>My experience in upgrades is such that I never upgrade now, unless the
>machine it totally sacrificial and I have time to waste. Too many
>"upgrades" have gone belly up. I'm yet to experience a debian upgrade,
>but don't see how it will be different
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, marty generated:
>this is not really worth discussing
Too late :)
>http://lwn.net/2000/0928/backpage.php3
This is utter crap. "Debian is crap because the people who volunteer
their time to maintaining it are refusing to provide security updates to
old software that has be
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] generated:
>I've grabbed hold of troops.mov from aarnet. This is Sorenson/QDMC.
>
>How to watch it ? xanim 2.80 does not (at least from the default load).
>
>Running debian 2.2, what are my options ?
Zero.
The sorenson codec is not being released by apple
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Terry Collins generated:
>How do I tell it it has the correct info - just apply the patches?
use the -p option. When I patch kernels, i either patch -p0 <
file.patch or patch -p1 < file.patch
The value says how much of the path to trim, ie, for a patch for
linux/include/li
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Matt generated:
>Does anyone know any Debian 2.2 mirrors ?
>mirror.aarnet.edu.au is absolutely crawling ! :(
Read the MOTD on the site.
!!! Yes, mirror is a bit slow currently - this is due to the
!!! number of people using it to download redhat. Please be
!!! patient
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Terry Collins generated:
>After using various CD players under various distros over the years, I
>can not actually remember it actually providing the playlist on a Cd for
>me. I seem to be forever entering details of my CDs.
I use it with abcde for encoding my cds for my mp3
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Jill Rowling generated:
>I always thought it was supposed to be a nudibranch
There's a nudie branch of SLUG? Is it anything like the MacLUG? :)
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On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, James Wilkinson generated:
>On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Jeff Waugh generated:
>
>>That's the bit that doesn't though. Anything I change is kept between
>>mounts - would it be saved in the partition itself? I guess it would have to
>>store info ab
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Jeff Waugh generated:
>That's the bit that doesn't though. Anything I change is kept between
>mounts - would it be saved in the partition itself? I guess it would have to
>store info about '/' somewhere.
Wild stab: I believe uid/gid can be stored in the superblock of the
fil
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, John Ferlito generated:
> Token Bus. Which is token ring implemented using normal ethernet.
Ahar! That's the word I was looking for.
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On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] generated:
>Yes, but token ring involves specialised hardware. I's there a way of
>adding on this functionality to standard twisted-pair/coax ethernets ?
I recall myself and a friend discussing the usefulness of a token ring
built on ethernet. n boxen, 2n
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Herbert Xu generated:
>The recommended way to disable a daemon (say xdm) is by editing
>/etc/init.d/xdm and putting an "exit 0" at the top. This file is
>a conffile and will be kept intact between pakcage upgrades.
Really? And all this time I thought I was doing a dirty ha
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Stuart Cooper generated:
>Howard needs an ebcdictoa.
Is that anything like an ebcdictomy?
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On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Alex Salmon generated:
>PINE i downloaded the RPM use alien to change it to tgz then copyed out
>the binary.. works np.
Last time I used alien it converted rpms to debs, for a straight dpkg
-i. But it works, so don't worry.
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jamesw
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On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, John Ferlito generated:
> Has anyone worked out how you use make-kpkg in debian and get it to
>create the package without doing a make clean?
/usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README IIRC.
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Usenet is essentially a HUGE group of people passing notes in class.
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Rachel Polanskis generated:
>I do tend to agree though - where are the Olympics for those people
>who do things like discover new technologies or save the environment
>or a treatment for some disease and whatever?
Without trying to continue this off-topic thread, Rachel j
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Kevin generated:
>James Wilkinson wrote:
>
>> if you rtfm you'll see there's a line you change in the .xawtv file that says
>> freqtab = australia
>
>Sorry james that is not the problem. The problem is that I do not have
>us cable tv conn
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Jeff Waugh generated:
>I find the extra two kind of awkward though, but then I haven't been able to
>use them until this week. :)
Raise and lower in your wm, cycle weapon in Q3A :)
--
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On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Arunava Sen generated:
>James Wilkinson wrote:
>> No, i was testing my udma/66 drive on the hpt-370 controller (the extra
>> 4 ide slots), and the bios settings didn't match the actual drive
>> locations.
>
>sounds like you have the exact sa
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Arunava Sen generated:
>James Wilkinson wrote:
>>
>> I got a very similar effect when the bios settings for the harddisks
>> were wrong.
>
>
>do you mean things like the sectors/heads etc. or the boot sequence? cos
>i had it autodetect the
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Arunava Sen generated:
>everytime i restart or shutdown, the motherboard just hangs upon
>starting up. the power and hdd leds come on but thats about it. the very
>strange part is that it works fine if i pull out the power cord out and
>shove it back in and then start it up.
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Terry Collins generated:
>Jason Rennie wrote:
>
>> But how do i get sendmail to accept mail as a secondary mail server ?
>
>As I understand it, you don't. You just set it up as a mail server that
>collects the mail and passes it onto the main later, or have your
>clients poll
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Doug Stalker generated:
>... but will it work with all mail programs? I seem to recall + being used to
>route messages between hosts: something like
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think you're thinking of the 'percent-hack',
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Jeff Waugh generated:
>I'm sure you're aware of the Free Software Song (the only recording I could
>find: http://www.jwz.org/why-cooperation-with-rms-is-impossible.mp3>)
>and the recent DeCSS song. I'm sure we can find a few more geeky tunes.
Pulled straight from the asr faq
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, John Ferlito generated:
> Just wondering what are the security.debian.org list of packages for
>in the default sources.list. When security whole are found aren't the pacjages in the
>main tree updated? Or is it just a speed thing where security is updated much more
>r
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, John Wiltshire generated:
>any other box on the UPS which needs it. I'm assuming the same would work
>for Linux although it would probably be a lot easier to set up (given the
>relative difficulty of scripting on NT compared to Linux.
Yeah, very f'n easy. genpowerd is the
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, George Vieira generated:
>APC Smart-UPS 700va
We got an APC SmartUPS 650 on our servers, you can get an 'NT monitoring
cable' from Harris Tech and use it with... oh i forget which
ups-monitoring software, but the cable works with it. note: ups cables
aren't plain serial cab
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Lyndall Brown generated:
>Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
>
>Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at
>http://profiles.msn.com.
Er, sorry everyone. I've been messing with mutt's config, and was
setting a
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Kevin Pulo generated:
>Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I might be able to buy
>some blank Double Sided, Double Density (DSDD) 5.25" (ie. 360Kb)
>floppy disks?
Here's what you don't want to hear: If you had mailed the list maybe 2
weeks ago you could have had th
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Scott Branden generated:
>How do I fix this if I can't use the keyboard???
Your console keyboard is set to another language keyboard, but if you can
telnet into it you won't be using the console. I don't know how you'd do
it though, but on Debian it's /usr/sbin/kbdconfig
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Tom Massey generated:
>keys etc, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's something like
> :-) Come to think of it, I haven't
$ dict -d jargon 'quadruple bucky'
>From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
quadruple bucky n. obs. 1. On an MIT {space-cadet keyboard},
us
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Jeff Waugh generated:
>> Tom Massey wrote:
>>
>> b) if so, how do you get into BIOS setup on the things?
>
>Try all your function keys (plus modifiers - shift, ctrl, alt) and most of
>your 'grey keys' (at which point I realise my keyboard doesn't have grey
>keys at all).
Se
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Jeff Waugh generated:
>Might I add, add the people who have terrible set up (or non-existant)
>In-Reply-To headers?
You may ;)
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"I have frog fear."
-- Willow Rosenberg, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] generated:
>:). But I have been looking for a nice easy to use/stable email client that
>has support for sending/retriving of multiple email acounts pop3 that is. I
>was woundering what do the slug users use or recommend besides netscapes
>email client :).
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, Graeme Merrall generated:
>Additioanlly, are there any gotchas with sound? I'm not sure if I need to
>load a module for sound since it said it found no fader chip.
My card has a line out and a short cable that plugs in to the line in on
the back of the soundcard.
>oh yeah,
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, George Vieira generated:
>Hi all,
>
>I have PPPD running and sending out via $CONNECT_TIME variable the time the
>link was up for. The problem is that it's in seconds only and I get rsults
>like "37646752 seconds". Is there a way to convert this into H:M:S?
>
>I am doing this
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Danny Yee generated:
>root 24751 0.0 0.0 00 pts/0DW 12:42 0:00 nfsd
>root 24752 0.0 0.0 00 pts/0DW 12:42 0:00 nfsd
>root 24754 0.0 0.0 00 pts/0DW 12:42 0:00 nfsd
>root 24756 0.0 0.0 00 pts/0DW
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, DaZZa generated:
>Anyone know where to find this beastie, and instructions for installing
>it?
What kernel? 2.4 has it in there, 2.2 you need to get the patch.
I got it via cvs from... hang on..
a search of google found this url:
http://www.alainsplace.f2s.com/nvidia/nvidi
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Jeff Waugh generated:
>Am I allowed to say yet? Vi.
>
>Plus I have a BT848... :P It ran in test6, and should do in test8pre1. I'm
>actually running test8-pre1 with Rik van Riel's VM patch.
Ok this is just getting too freaky ;)
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On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Conrad Parker generated:
>wow, you guys are like sisters ... with really different kernel versions!
roflmao :)
Jeff, vi or emacs?
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On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Jeff Waugh generated:
>(My server's name is willow!)
>
>Weird. Let's see... I have a G400, XFree86 3.3.6, utah-glx, woody, Helix...
>What's missing in this picture? Check the X-Operating-System header. ;P
double rofl :) I tried 2.4.0-test7 but it didn't have BT848 support i
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Jeff Waugh generated:
> * First off - and I'm sure you've done this - check to see if your machine
> isn't rebooting out of the blue.
Yup. The uptime on the box is 11 hours, and it's just happened again.
I've never experienced anything like this before, with other wms. I
I'm using debian woody with the helix gnome.. er.. the latest lot via
the apt-repository at mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/helixcode, with sawfish
as my wm.
If i leave my box for a few hours while logged in (via gdm), i come back
to the machine and find myself back at the gdm login screen.
Does anyone
On Sat, 02 Sep 2000, Alex Salmon generated:
>the other thing is why does fdisk say tha /dev/hda2 exists and cfdisk says
>it dosent. what exactly is an extended partition again and why dosent
>cfdisk see it as extended.
IIRC, cfdisk doesn't show up extended partitions... maybe because it's
newbie
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, James Wilkinson generated:
>I've just been installing Debian unstable (woody) on my new machine.
>It's got a lovely Intellimouse Explorer (the silver one with the red
>glowing aura around it ;), however, it will go haywire at random
>intervals. The po
On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, Michael Lake generated:
>killall -HUP passengers
What if the passengers go into uninterruptible sleep?
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On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, John Wiltshire generated:
>I'm pretty sure they have a sensor which can tell if you've actually taken
>the money or not. You'll find most banks are hideously paranoid when it
>comes to dispensing money and the logs in the ATM will record (in a
>non-writeback-cached manner) t
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Alex Salmon generated:
>The boxes are mainly winbloze so it has to be able to handle file names w/
>spaces etc and NOT change them into %20 as it did last time arrg. I have
>ruled out just using a web or ftp server because of speed and filename
>problems. Are there any syste
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