On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 09:56, Jim Gale wrote:
I didn't have any luck finding this topic in the archive, but I'm sure
it's come up before...
I'm being tortured by a Sony Vaio laptop which does not have a built in
CDROM. Instead it has a PCMCIA connected CDROM drive. Happily the laptop
is
I did the same a while back. i've swiched all my boxes
so far.
First up the only weekness I've found. If you're running
stable you may be a bit behind other distributions. Stable
doesn't mean hey, it worked fine for me. Stable means its
been very thouroughly tested and done right. This is
Hai Chris,
info on large disc problem snipped
I'm no HD-guru, actually no guru at all, but I think I've dealt with a
similar problem here, so...
I think you hit the 8Gig limit. Older BIOSses can't cope with large disks
(they won't pass the correct info onto the OS or something to that
Thanks for everyone's input, this gives me some good places to start!
Kelly
dave brookshire wrote:
On the open source side of things, I'm a big fan of Amanda. You can
find the original source and stuff at ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/amanda, or
at http://www.amanda.org/.
On the closed
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, John L. Fjellstad wrote:
Hi,
I'm a current RedHat user (started with Linux on RedHat because
it was available at Fry's), and I'm currently evaluating
Debian for a possible switch.
Can anyone come up with a list of advantages of using Debian
Linux over Redhat Linux?
Michael Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 28 Jul 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote:
I'm glad that worked. The Debian Way (TM) to do this, by the way, is
to:
chmod 660 /dev/mixer*
chown root.audio /dev/mixer*
and then add the users that you want to allow access to the audio
group. A
Ethan Pierce wrote:
Sorry all, the sources.list line should read:
deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian/ ./
I thought the . in ./ was a typo, so I didn't include it. I got a
bunch of dependency errors. So I went back and added the . and tried
again; still
** On Jul 28, Kent West scribbled:
Ethan Pierce wrote:
Sorry all, the sources.list line should read:
deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian/ ./
I thought the . in ./ was a typo, so I didn't include it. I got a
bunch of dependency errors. So I went
John L. Fjellstad wrote:
Hi,
I'm a current RedHat user (started with Linux on RedHat because
it was available at Fry's), and I'm currently evaluating
Debian for a possible switch.
Can anyone come up with a list of advantages of using Debian
Linux over Redhat Linux?
I chose Debian
Hi
Since I have bought a great (only in size - it's lousy flickering)
19 monitor I can use only the following font in xterm:
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-140-100-100-c-100-iso8859-1
Every other font looks absolutely ugly or, like the default xterm
fonts you can choose with
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, John L. Fjellstad wrote:
Hi,
I'm a current RedHat user (started with Linux on RedHat because
it was available at Fry's), and I'm currently evaluating
Debian for a possible switch.
Can anyone come up with a list of advantages of using Debian
Linux over Redhat Linux?
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On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote:
On 28-Jul-2000 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
That's not the case at all. As some people have mentioned in this thread,
certain proprietary drivers are distrubuted as binary-only kernel
modules. This would obviously not
I am looking for a GUI or web based interface for managing and
installing CPAN modules. AnyOne ever seen such or even heard of one?
Thanks!
John Foster
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ICQ# 19460173
It's very hard to guess. If you want silence, you live in a small
apartment and you have some extra cash, buy a laptop and you'll get in love
with it (but check the hardware, do not get a winmodem with it!).
This is very interesting! I hadn't considered laptops but now I will.
Does
I just bought a dell inspiron 5000, with the svga (1400x1050) 15 screen. I
love it,
and I have never really liked laptops before. I still prefer my desktop CRT for
video quality, but this is a NICE screen. Debian installed on it fine, I only
ran
into some problems getting the network
On 28-Jul-2000 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
C'mon, you don't have to recompile MS Windows in order to install a
module. Do you really think the Linux community would let Windows
actually do something *better* than Linux? ;^)
Well let's just say faxing was easy in Windows, but that is one
On 28, jul, 2000 at 09:56:49 -0700, Jim Gale wrote:
I didn't have any luck finding this topic in the archive, but I'm sure
it's come up before...
I'm being tortured by a Sony Vaio laptop which does not have a built in
CDROM. Instead it has a PCMCIA connected CDROM drive. Happily the laptop
Dear group. I am installing Potato in a laptop which has both an pcmcia
lan connection but should be able to dial up to a provider occasionally.
The lan card works fine. I can dial into the provider also, but am
unable to get ethernet connectivity until I do: route add default ppp0
In the
Hi
Thanks for the quick reply, but unfortuately, no luck. I have done
hdparm -h and man hdparm (I already had it, it seems), but very many
of the features of hdparm (including all that seem to be relevant to
starting/stopping/putting to sleep hard disks) are for IDE disks
ONLY. These are
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How can I configure my box to work correctly with a German keyboard?
During installation I selected de-latin1-nodeadkeys, here's what I got:
* emacs will accept umlauts and the such when I'm on the local console
* but when I'm logged in via
Hello
Can anybody tell me what happens when the config file format of a
package changed from one version to the next.
I mean, in the process of downloading, unpacking and installing the
upgrade, what really happens?
Are diffs used for this (config files)? Is this all up to the package
amen !
Laptops are noisy too and cost a bundle + you have to buy cards (modem,
network, scsi). You can buy two desktops for the price of one notebook if
you shop around (I can buy at least three, but hey, I'm Dutch, I watch
every penny :-). BTW, APM is for thing like CPU, PCMCIA cards, not HDs,
etc. What
At 12:03 PM 7/28/00 -0400, Ethan Pierce wrote:
Hi, I was reading today on slashdot about Evolution 0.3. They have a
download link for the tar.gz file. I was wondering if the apt-get utility
will work if I use the spidermonkey.helixgnome.com source for the update?
Has anyone else tried this?
$startx gnome-session works for me. == Hans
At 02:00 PM 7/28/00 +, Marcio Rosa da Silva wrote:
I installed helix-gnome in my notebook and I want to know how to start
it. What should I put in my .xinitrc file? I tried sawfish directly, but
it doesn't work.
Sorry for the newbie question, but
So I'm running EsounD with gdm so that it starts up for all the
local logins through gdm (because I have a quasi-shared machine...everyone
on my floor is free to log in). Weird thing is that I installed the esd
line in the system initfile for gdm, but only the first user to log in
ever
redhat wise (according to brochures):
http://www.dell.com
http://www.tigerdirect.com
(i use dlinux woody/potato and have no financial ties to either of the above.)
hth,
bentley taylor.
//
brian moore wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 06:25:35PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
Can anyone
I've got three problems.
I've had a debian 2.2 system set up on a Dell Dimension XPS T450
With mostly no problems. When I installed the system I choose
the yamaha sound module, but although it said it installed
correctly, I'm now sure it was the wrong one. The sound chip in
this systems
VA Research.aka VA Linux systems
They primarily use Debian
On 28 Jul 2000, at 17:11, pplaw wrote:
redhat wise (according to brochures):
http://www.dell.com
http://www.tigerdirect.com
(i use dlinux woody/potato and have no financial ties to either of the above.)
hth,
bentley
On 28 Jul, Bolan Meek wrote:
SNIP
Oh, I almost forgot to mention: I feel that Debian's commitment
to Freedom in Software is stronger than that of RedHat, and that
is another advantage of Debian, but that's a
religious/political/ethical issue that maybe ought not be brought
up just
Tip 4: use hdparm with the -S switch to suspend HDs after being idle for a
while.
I tried this on my current (and noisy) machine, but it said
16:05:04/etc# hdparm -S 5 /dev/sda
operation not supported on SCSI disks
Is there an alternative for SCSI? -chris
In a galaxy far away, John L. Fjellstad wrote:
Hi,
I'm a current RedHat user (started with Linux on RedHat because
it was available at Fry's), and I'm currently evaluating
Debian for a possible switch.
Can anyone come up with a list of advantages of using Debian
Linux over Redhat
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 06:07:37PM -0500, techlists wrote:
VA Research.aka VA Linux systems
They primarily use Debian
Do they actually -ship- Debian though? According to their web pages,
they ship RH6.2+VA-Enhancements.
Certainly VA does lots of good things, though (like sourceforge,
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From: Hans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 12:22 AM
To: Krzys Majewski; I. Tura
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: advanced power management and linux?
Laptops are noisy too and
I'have a K7V Asus motherboard that like other new motherboard
support STR capabilities,
by debian, wich command I use for to sleep in RAM only my MB?
What support does I need in the kernel:
I suppose ACPI-Enter sleep mode 1, or some like... but
not only the original APM.
Bye
lore
Just curious if anyone knows what the story is with kde.tdyc.com?
It's been down for a few weeks now, and it's the only place
I know for kde debs. Anyone have a clue? Thanks.
JP
IN my last-ditch attempt to recover a long text (actually lyx) file that
was deleted, I want to combine all of the unused space on my drive into
files. There's about 80M altogether, and I want to break it into 10M pieces
(so I can manipulate them in the 40M partition normally assigned
try including the output of the X server in any email when you have X
issues.
start X via:
startx X.log
X.log will contain all output from the server.
ive run many g400s and havent had a problem.
nate
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Aaron Stromas wrote:
aaron. hi,
aaron.
aaron. i'm having very little
Incredible :)
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From: montefin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: John L. Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian
In a galaxy far away, John L. Fjellstad wrote:
Hi,
ive had this problem too
to get around it i just 'ifconfig eth0 down'
before logging on
then restart networking after logging off in potato it shoulld be
/etc/init.d/network restart
nate
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Erik van der Meulen wrote:
e.van. Dear group. I am installing Potato in a laptop
That path is for 2.2.15 and the code is already incorporated in 2.2.16 (i
checked)
thanks though
nate
On 27 Jul 2000, Camm Maguire wrote:
camm There is an errata patch on Alan Cox's website that fixes this. Its a
camm one liner.
camm
camm Take care,
camm
camm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL
it seems fine to me. i installed off of it about a week ago.
the deb lines im using:
deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde contrib rkrusty
deb http://sunsite.tut.fi/ftp/Mirror/debian/ruins.tdyc.com/pub potato kde
contrib rkrusty
it comes back with a couple not found errors but everything
JP Sartre wrote:
Just curious if anyone knows what the story is with kde.tdyc.com?
It's been down for a few weeks now, and it's the only place
I know for kde debs. Anyone have a clue? Thanks.
I installed KDE onto a friend's woody box last night off the tdyc.com site
via apt-get ... worked
Hello All,
I am running a proxy server and would like to restrict access to
the web(well atleast some web pages) on one of my clients. What
will I need to add to the squid.conf and can I restrict one machine
and allow access to another machine on the same network ?
Thanks Jay
--
It feels so
Mike Werner wrote :
JP Sartre wrote:
Just curious if anyone knows what the story is with kde.tdyc.com?
It's been down for a few weeks now, and it's the only place
I know for kde debs. Anyone have a clue? Thanks.
I installed KDE onto a friend's woody box last night off the tdyc.com site
Failed to fetch
http://kde.tdyc.com/dists/potato/rkrusty/binary-i386/Packages
404 Not Found
Failed to fetch
http://sunsite.tut.fi/ftp/Mirror/debian/ruins.tdyc.com/pub/dists/potato/rkrusty/binary-i386/Packages
404 File Not Found
funny, neither of those work from here. tdyc used to, but
Restrict in what way? Do you want one machine to have permission to use
the cache, and another machine to be denied permission? then look into the
ACL rules in squid.conf.
If you want to filter web pages then look at an externel authenticator
program - I use squidGuard (on a slackware box -
I'm running potato with the combination gnome desktop and debian? taskbar/ice
window manager. My screen saver doesn't work right. None of the screen savers I
select in settings works. What do I need to do to get a proper screen saver?
Thanks
-- dale
I've used Linux (Redhat) for about 6 months and have just installed potato via
ftp. I have some newbie questions I would appreciate some help with:
1.) If I download a file from the net, where does it go? Which directory, as
netscape seems to automatically determine the target.
2.) Where's the
So here I am:
I've made 5 floppies. (root, rescue, driver[123]) and booted the system. As
usual it
boots up fine, but nowhere are there any hints about installing from the
network. It
gives me options for floppies or a cdrom drive.
I keep reading nebulous references to net install but nobody
On 28 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That path is for 2.2.15 and the code is already incorporated in 2.2.16
(i checked)
thanks though
nate
Nate - you may have checked, but you don't seem to have understood. Read
the note on Alan Cox's page properly - it's a 'patch -R' fix - in other
words,
Folks,
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 11:17:58PM +, montefin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Still, when friends ask me about 'this thing called Linux', I recommend
they go out and buy the latest Red Hat boxed CD set; try Linux; and, if
they like it and want to get serious, switch to Debian, Slackware
Attn: to all great programmers out there..
Hoping that somebody please help me out with this problem?
sum()
{ for x=1 to 10 do
var=var+1
}
shared int var=0 //shared variable
fork(sum, 0);
fork(sum, 0); //executing two concurrent processes
I can't figure this one out...my questions are:
Is it possible to transfer info from my "Contacts" listing in
Outlook to "Contacts" in Outlook Express?
Thanks
Dale
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
Failed to fetch
http://kde.tdyc.com/dists/potato/rkrusty/binary-i386/Packages
404 Not Found
Failed to fetch
http://sunsite.tut.fi/ftp/Mirror/debian/ruins.tdyc.com/pub/dists/potato/rkrusty/binary-i386/Packages
404 File Not Found
Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:57:12PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote:
I'm trying to mount a floppy that I made with Redhat 6.2 system. It
mounted on a previous install of potato, but I reinstalled and now
when I try to mount it I get the following error
Tomcat is nice for testing and development, but performance is not good
enough for live situations and it does not support the full Java2 EE
platform.
Also, there seem to be some annoying bugs in Tomcat, especially with JSP
jsp:include / statements.
J.T. Wenting
http://www.hornet.demon.nl
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