Re: Can't connect with my new ADSL

2003-12-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Dec 2003, Brian Potkin wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:56:13PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: Believe it or not, I've actually made some progress. Won't bore everyone with the details, but it included using a different cable and 10.0.0.1 to set it up followed by 10.0.0,2

Can't connect with my new ADSL

2003-12-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've subscribed to uklinux ADSL and according to BT the line is working. I have an Ethernet card and an ADSL modem router (Mentor). This appears to be installed correctly: at least, ifconfig recognizes the card and the modem ADSL light is on. I have placed the username and password provided by

Re: Can't connect with my new ADSL

2003-12-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Dec 2003, Anthony Campbell wrote: I've subscribed to uklinux ADSL and according to BT the line is working. I have an Ethernet card and an ADSL modem router (Mentor). This appears to be installed correctly: at least, ifconfig recognizes the card and the modem ADSL light is on. I have

Re: Can't connect with my new ADSL

2003-12-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Dec 2003, Antony Gelberg wrote: - Original Message - From: Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Antony Gelberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 6:52 PM Subject: Re: Can't connect with my new ADSL On 10 Dec 2003, Antony Gelberg wrote: [snip

Re: Is resolv.conf essential? - SOLVED (AGAIN!)

2003-12-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Dec 2003, Anthony Campbell wrote: [snip] I think I've finally found the problem here. I need to have /etc/resolv.conf with just one line: nameserver 127.0.0.1 With this in place everything seems to work as it should. But I don't think I've seen it documented anywhere

Is resolv.conf essential?

2003-12-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
According to the man page for resolv.conf it is not supposed to be necesssary on a properly configured system. However I can't connect to my dialup ISP without it. This creates problems when I use a different ISP. What needs to be configured to make it unnecessary? Anthony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is resolv.conf essential?

2003-12-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Dec 2003, Joerg Johannes wrote: Am Fr, den 05.12.2003 schrieb Anthony Campbell um 14:58: According to the man page for resolv.conf it is not supposed to be necesssary on a properly configured system. However I can't connect to my dialup ISP without it. This creates problems when I use

Re: Is resolv.conf essential?

2003-12-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Dec 2003, John Hasler wrote: Anthony writes: According to the man page for resolv.conf it is not supposed to be necesssary on a properly configured system. The author of that page assumes that every machine is always running a nameserver. This is, of course, not true. I see.

Re: Is resolv.conf essential? - SOLVED

2003-12-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Dec 2003, Anthony Campbell wrote: Run pppconfig and configure a connection for each ISP, specifying the correct nameservers for each ISP (or 'dynamic' if the ISP uses so-called 'dynamic dns'). Everything will just work. I'd done this previously and I think it used to work

Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

2003-11-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Nov 2003, Kent West wrote: [snip] I, too, like icewm. It's got the Windows-like taskbar at the bottom (or top, or hidden in either place) that shows the different apps you have running, so switching between them is easy. (You'll want the icepref package if you want to configure

Re: Hoax: Re: What up with www.debian.org ?

2003-11-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Nov 2003, Marc Haber wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:39:10 -0800, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christ, now I'm really getting scared: chkrootkit reports: Checking `lkm'... You have 4 process hidden for ps command Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed chkrootkit is well known to

Re: Xfree86 and a Matrox G550

2003-11-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Nov 2003, James Hosken wrote: Hi Has any one had experience of installing Debian with a Matrox G550 Graphics Card? I've just installed Woody and XFree86 will not work. I've found some drivers at matrox.com, http://matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm They say that you

Re: OT: Flatbed scanner recommendation?

2003-11-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Nov 2003, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [snip] Anybody here have any recommendations? I have an Epson Perfection 1250 installed. Works like a charm with Debian -- provided you discovered to change the /etc/sane.d/plustek.conf file. I have described the install experience here:

Re: integrated spell check for vim

2003-11-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Nov 2003, Steve Lamb wrote: Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Is there an quasi intelligent way of spell checking files from within vim? Give vimspell a whirl. Hit http://www.vim.org/ and do a search on vimspell in the scripts section. There's also Charles Campbell's engspchk, which

Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Nov 2003, Paul E Condon wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 06:18:29PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: Help! I am trying to use a2ps to print 2 pages onto one. Very simple: a2ps -2 file.ps The paper is A4, libpaper is configured for A4, --medium=libpaper is set, but the following

Re: Spam filter recommendation

2003-10-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Oct 2003, Brendan J Simon wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend a good spam filter for Debian??? I use Mozilla as my mail client on an Apple PowerBook and also an Intel desktop. Are there differences in power and ease of use between all the various spam filters? Which are the most

Re: Exim4 won't send mail - what does this error message mean?

2003-10-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Oct 2003, David Jardine wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 02:55:13PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm getting serious trouble with exim4. A lot of mail, incoming and outgoing, just sits in /var/log/exim4/input indefinitely. This includes even messages I email to myself. However

Exim4 won't send mail - what does this error message mean?

2003-10-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm getting serious trouble with exim4. A lot of mail, incoming and outgoing, just sits in /var/log/exim4/input indefinitely. This includes even messages I email to myself. However, some things do go out (including this, if it reaches the list). The relevant lines in

Re: Exim4 won't send mail - what does this error message mean?

2003-10-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Oct 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:12:51AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: Yes, the files mode is incorrect. usually it should be 0600, from the looks of it, it appears to be 0620 I am guessing you know how to fix that. Appears to be 0020, not 0620. -- .''`.

Re: More on spam

2003-10-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Oct 2003, John Hasler wrote: Paul E Condon writes: It has been claimed that one person's spam is another person's ham. To what extent is this actually true? Or is this just obfuscation by the advocates of spam? Almost all spam has forged headers. The domains are real and valid but

Re: More on spam

2003-10-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Oct 2003, Alan Chandler wrote: On Monday 20 October 2003 09:02, Anthony Campbell wrote: I've realized recently that I'm inadvertently sending out lots of spam. I'd obviously wish to prevent this but how? I've been to the site you recommend but I find the information there too

Re: More on spam

2003-10-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 at 14:03 GMT, Anthony Campbell penned: The problem has appeared in the last few weeks, since when I've been seeing an increasing number of messages to say that outgoing mail has not been delivered (see below for some examples

Realplay in Mozilla/Firebird - works for anyone?

2003-10-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
I used to have realplay working quite well in Mozilla, but since a recent upgrade to the version in Testing it no longer works, even though it shows up as a plugin. The same applies to Firebird. This means I cannot access any of the ram files on the BBC site. At times the Realplay window appears

Debian voted best!

2003-10-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
http://pr.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=785 Linux Journal Announces Winners of Ninth Annual Readers' Choice Awards Posted on Thursday, October 09, 2003 by Press Editor SEATTLE, WA -- Linux Journal, a publication of Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc. (SSC), has announced the winners of

Re: Spamassassin

2003-10-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 08 Oct 2003, David Krider wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 03:44, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: So, I would strongly recommend you just manually save the spam to a folder for some time now, and build your spam database from there. Don't forget that spamassassin is building it's heuristics database

Re: dangling symlink?

2003-10-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Oct 2003, Richard Kimber wrote: On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 16:17:46 +0100 Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know why this should have happened but occasionally it does. It's probably a fairly rarely-occurring bug in the packaging system whose effects are so trivial and harmless that

Re: Holy Spam!

2003-10-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
to see it. It just makes my mail downloads take a bit longer than they otherwise would, but as I'm on an unmetered account this doesn't matter greatly. Admittedly, if I had to pay depending on my time on line I might feel differently, I suppose. Anthony Campbell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http

Re: Appearance of xterm in xdosemu? - PARTIALLY SOLVED

2003-10-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Sep 2003, Anthony Campbell wrote: Where does xdosemu set the appearance of the xterm it uses? I want to make it larger and also make it a normal subshell to prevent the appearance being messed up. But I can't see where the characteristics of this xterm are set. I finally discovered

Appearance of xterm in xdosemu?

2003-09-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
Where does xdosemu set the appearance of the xterm it uses? I want to make it larger and also make it a normal subshell to prevent the appearance being messed up. But I can't see where the characteristics of this xterm are set. AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.uk using

Re: Video Card for Woody

2003-09-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Sep 2003, Richard Otte wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:13:48AM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: I did nothing special at all. It worked out of the box with both the XFree driver and the Matrox-supplied driver. My XF86Config-4 includes this: Section Device Identifier MATROX

Re: glx and xfree86 not working: why?

2003-09-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Sep 2003, Tim Connors wrote: Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:55:39 +0100: I am using xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-6 with a Matrox G550 card. Eveything works provided I don't enable the glx module in /etc/X11/XF86-Config-4. Two questions: 1. What

Re: glx and xfree86 not working: why?

2003-09-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Sep 2003, csj wrote: At Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:55:39 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I am using xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-6 with a Matrox G550 card. That might be the problem. Not too well supported. But don't trust me on this. I don't own that card. Eveything works provided I don't

glx and xfree86 not working: why?

2003-09-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
I am using xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-6 with a Matrox G550 card. Eveything works provided I don't enable the glx module in /etc/X11/XF86-Config-4. Two questions: 1. What exactly does this module do? 2. If it is important, is there any way to enable it? Product of glxinfo: ac:~:$

Re: CUPS alt.

2003-09-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Sep 2003, David Palmer wrote: Hi, I don't know about the HL1440, but Turboprint drives the HL1270N, HL1450, and the HL1470. Regards, David. /quote:Hello, after minor difficulties I've gotten cups to work on my decrepit laptop, using a brother hl-1440 laserprinter (the

Re: CD players not working although sound otherwise fine - SOLVED

2003-08-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Aug 2003, Edward Murrell wrote: Try chmod 770 /dev/hdc Other than that, try running it as root. One thing you may find useful as a side note is the digital CD plugin for XMMS. apt-get install xmms-cdread It enables reading of CD's so the digital-analog conversion is done on the

CD players not working although sound otherwise fine

2003-08-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
I can't use any of the apps that are supposed to work on my CD drive such as cdplay, dcd, xmcd. Sound is otherwise fine: I can play mp3 files from the hard disk and I can listen to CDs by pressing the buttons manually. Attempts to use the above apps produce the following errors: ac:~:$ cdplay

Re: Really stupid use of cleanlinks

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Aug 2003, Joerg Johannes wrote: On Wednesday 06 August 2003 16:56, Anthony Campbell wrote: Never do this! I just ran cleanlinks on my root directory; really stupid thing to do! Lots of things were deleted which should not have been and I don't know how long it will take to get

Kernel 2.6.0-test2 - odd printing error

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
I use lpr with magicfilter for printing and it works well with kernel 4.2.21. With 2.4.60-test2, I can only print plain text; other types of file don't print. The log file says: lp: filter 'f' terminated (termsig=101) I can't imagine why this happens. AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]||

Really stupid use of cleanlinks

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
Never do this! I just ran cleanlinks on my root directory; really stupid thing to do! Lots of things were deleted which should not have been and I don't know how long it will take to get things back working; only just restored ppp. Possibly a new installation will be required? AC -- [EMAIL

Re: Basic 2D graphics card for Linux?

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
Thanks to everyone for helpful comments. AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Linux 2.6.0-test 3 released!

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Aug 2003, Rthoreau wrote: Just thought I would pass the good news to those few brave souls who are testing the new kernel. Seems a lot of bugs are fixed, you can find the sourse at the normal sources. Also slashdot.org has a good thread going. Also on a side note tell us how your

Re: Can't install or remove tetex packages - SOLVED

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Aug 2003, Anthony Campbell wrote: Following a disaster with cleanlinks my tetex-base, tetex-bin, and tetex-extra are in a mess. According to dpkg -C they are half-installed and half-configured. I cannot either reinstall or remove. Can anyone suggest a safe method of rmoving

Basic 2D graphics card for Linux?

2003-08-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
My Riva TNT2 AGP card has just packed up and I'm looking for a replacement that will work reliably on Linux with a 19 monitor. I don't play games so I need something fairly basic but with good 2D performance and AGP. Any recommendations please? AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]||

Re: kernel-2.6.0 says no /dev/dsp - no sound

2003-08-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Aug 2003, Tom White wrote: OSS API emulation needs to be enabled in the ALSA section of the kernel options, (the mixer and digital sections. If it still doesn't work, try man MAKEDEV ~Tom White On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:31:59PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Just trying out

Can't install or remove tetex packages

2003-08-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
Following a disaster with cleanlinks my tetex-base, tetex-bin, and tetex-extra are in a mess. According to dpkg -C they are half-installed and half-configured. I cannot either reinstall or remove. Can anyone suggest a safe method of rmoving these packages and reinstalling them? AC -- [EMAIL

kernel-2.6.0 says no /dev/dsp - no sound

2003-08-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
Just trying out kernel 2.6.0-test2 (from source). Everything seems to work apart from sound; it loads my sound card (Ensoniq 1371) but on trying to play sound files I get a message saying that /dev/dsp is not found. It is there and the same card works with kernel 2.4.21. Any suggestions for what

Re: Permissions denied when enabling DMA

2003-08-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Aug 2003, Wayne Gemmell wrote: Hi The kernel you're using doesn't have support for your IDE chipset. This is why the kernel didn't enable DMA on its own. How would you recomend that I get support? apt-get *new-kernel*, or apt-get source? Are there maybe modules that I should be

Re: Can't enable DMA

2003-07-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Jul 2003, John Little wrote: I'm using 3.0r0 (2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel) with ASRock K7VT2 m/board and Maxtor 30GB ATA133 hard disk. I tried switching on DMA using hdparm -d1 /dev/hda but got the following error message: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted [snip] Not sure if

Re: Can't print from apps

2003-07-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Jul 2003, J. Buchanan wrote: Please reply to me as well as the list since I can't subscibe to high volume lists without my internet connection choking :) My lprng with a Kyocera Mita FS-1010 printer seems to work really well - the KDE printer preferences dialogue sends a test page

Re: color picker

2003-07-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Jul 2003, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: I remember using a color picker tool a while back that allowed you to select any color on the desktop (or in windows etc). I have a feeling it was a KDE application. Does anyone know what it might have been off hand? I tried doing apt-cache search color

Re: Newbie to spamassassin- How to make it learn?

2003-07-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Jul 2003, Marino Fernandez wrote: On Friday 04 July 2003 9:34 am, SRIKANTH NS wrote: Hi Disgusted with the amount of spam received, I installed Spamassassin2.54 and configured it, It works properly for the past one month. I use fetchmail to receive mail and invoke sylpheed to read

Re: USB Floppy drive compatibility?

2003-06-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Jun 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:35:18PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm considering replacing the broken floppy drive on my Toshiba Satellite 4000 with a USB FDD. USB is working on this machine for scanner and downloading camera pictures. Can I assume

USB Floppy drive compatibility?

2003-06-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm considering replacing the broken floppy drive on my Toshiba Satellite 4000 with a USB FDD. USB is working on this machine for scanner and downloading camera pictures. Can I assume it will also work for the drive? Experience, anyone? AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]||

Re: dma fails with kernel 2.4.21 - SOLVED

2003-06-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Jun 2003, Marino Fernandez wrote: On Sunday 22 June 2003 10:17 pm, Kristian Peters wrote: Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I had dma running with kernel 2.4.20. On 2.4.21 hdparm gives an error: HDIO_SET_DMA failed Anyone know why this is or what has changed

dma fails with kernel 2.4.21

2003-06-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
I had dma running with kernel 2.4.20. On 2.4.21 hdparm gives an error: HDIO_SET_DMA failed Anyone know why this is or what has changed between the two kernels? AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic

Advice on tuning bogofilter

2003-06-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
Currently bogofilter is classifying all my mail as spam. I've read the tuning faq but am fairly confused by the large number of parameters you can tune. Can anyone suggest what is the simplest thing to try first please? AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux

Re: Advice on tuning bogofilter

2003-06-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Jun 2003, iain d broadfoot wrote: [snip] if everything is getting badly classified, it might be worth deleting the files in ~/.bogofilter/, and starting again. you don't say how bogofilter is getting the email, i have the following in ~/.procmailrc (basically ripped from the

Re: [OT] Printer recommendations

2003-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Jun 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Greetings list, It's official: my Epson Stylus Color 400 is dead after 6 years of faithful service. I'm in the market for a new printer and I would like some suggestions. [snip] Be careful about Brother. I have an HL-1040 for which I recently had 4

Re: Beginers guide to spamassain ?

2003-06-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Jun 2003, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: Quoting stan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] Looks like the maintainer of the Spambouncer rules is falling a bit behind the stae of the art of spammers, as I'm getting a fair number of spam emails into my primary mailbox each day. I'm thinking that

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Apr 2003, Joey Hess wrote: John Griffiths wrote: what I'm after is a recommendation from others who might have used something like this to write 5,000 word plus english language documents. I've had no problems writing documents in that range with vim. Folding becomes fairly useful

Re: Spam filter reviews?

2003-03-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Mar 2003, Bill Wohler wrote: Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed bogofilter about 10 days ago and have been extremely impressed. Previously with spamassassin I was getting several false-negatives daily but now I hardly ever get even one. The training scheme

Re: Spam filter reviews?

2003-03-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Mar 2003, Bill Wohler wrote: Anyone know of any spam filter reviews? I went from junkfilter to spamfilter and I'm currently using spamassassin. But for some reason, I've gone from 1 or 2 messages in my +inbox to day to dozens. Are there other filters that are more state of

Why use COPS?

2003-03-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
A preliminary attempt to set up CUPS was rather demanding and I'm wondering if there is much point on a single-user system. Most of my printing is quite straightforward (plain text and only occasional images) and it works well with apsfilter or magicfilter, so is there any reason to spend several

Re: phoenix - how to make java work?

2003-02-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Feb 2003, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all much to my deslike, several sites that i refer to, have java content. and despite my several attempts, i have not been able to run java under phoenix. here is what i have done so far: download phoenix precompiled binary tar ball and

Re: spamassassin - three basic questions

2003-02-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Feb 2003, Glyn Millington wrote: Levi Waldron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I actually find spamassassin runs pretty slowly on my K6-2/500MHz 384MB machine (I know it's not real fast but not a dinosaur either). It takes about 5-10 seconds per message, so before I started filtering my

Re: Any way to play Canon movie files?

2003-02-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 09:33:35 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use xmovie to play a movie file made with the Canon Powershot A40, which is in .AVI format. It wasn't recognized, and trying to convert it to a different format doesn't work

Re: Mozilla Debian Package 1.2.1-9

2003-02-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Feb 2003, Nathan Poznick wrote: Thus spake Jeff Elkins: Regarding this package, is there a way to enlarge the menu font sizes? They are so tiny I'm going blind! I'm at 1024x768, but prior to the upgrade it was much more readable. Probably the best way to do this (and ensure that

Re: Any way to play Canon movie files? -SOLVED

2003-02-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Feb 2003, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use xmovie to play a movie file made with the Canon Powershot A40, which is in .AVI format. It wasn't recognized, and trying to convert it to a different format doesn't work either. Is there any way of playing these files in Linux

Bogus emails being sent out by me!

2003-02-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm getting notifications of emails having failed which were allegedly sent by me to addresses I never heard of. I presume this is some sort of attack but I can't figure out where it is coming from or what is happening. Does anyone else see anything of the kind? AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]||

Re: Bogus emails being sent out by me!

2003-02-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Feb 2003, Mark Janssen wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 13:30, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm getting notifications of emails having failed which were allegedly sent by me to addresses I never heard of. I presume this is some sort of attack but I can't figure out where it is coming from

Curious cursor effect with gtkam

2003-02-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
When trying to use gtkam I found the cursor disappeared and I had to either exit X altogether or revert to the console and then go back to X before it would appear again. After some fiddling I found that the problem was in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, where the mouse device was given as /dev/mouse.

Re: did www.debian.org change recently?

2003-02-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Feb 2003, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: -- nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Monday, 10 February 2003, 08:39 AM -0800): tryin to figure out why www.debian.org crashes my phoenix 0.5. if I remove my profile it loads, but otherwise it crashes. other debian pages such as: snip

Re: editing a text file in a tar.gz file without decompressing

2003-02-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 08 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In linux.debian.user, you wrote: On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 11:32:52AM +0100, Calber Chainy wrote: I have example.tar.gz, and I know in it there is a file named document.text, a plain text file that I want to edit. So I wondered if there is such an

Re: hard lock ups

2003-02-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Feb 2003, Scott Henson wrote: The past few days I have been experiencing some hard lock-ups on my computer and I was wondering if anyone had an idea of what was going on. Basically the screen freezes and the caps lock and scroll lock lights blink about once a second. The box will not

Re: Canon Powershot A40 support?

2003-02-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Feb 2003, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:07:22PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm thinking of buying a Canon Powershot A40 but need to confirm that it is supported in Linux. The gphoto2 website only lists the A50, which seems to be an older model. One or two people

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Jan 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:10:20PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:39:29PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: all i can get is 800x600 which ain't much. :( i've

Re: Image thumbnailer

2003-01-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Jan 2003, Stephen Birch wrote: apt-get install curator On Sunday 12 January 2003 15:42, Trey Sizemore wrote: I have a lot of photos (jpeg's) that I would like to be able to batch thumbnail possibly rename. Any suggestions for a program to 'easily' do this? I will explore all

Re: ppp connection is terminated after 2 hours

2003-01-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Jan 2003, Sven Bornemann wrote: John Hasler wrote: Sven writes: I think somehow I must make the ISP server belief that I just logged on, while I'm online for one and a half our or so... Or just add the 'persist' option so that pppd dials up again whenever it gets

Re: capture realaudio

2003-01-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Jan 2003, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: Ludwig wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 21:04, sean finney wrote: heya, i had to do something similar myself recently, and iirc vsound did the trick. check it out (it's in the vsound package). if not there's another package or two that also do a

Re: Where's /etc/rc.d/rc.local???

2003-01-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Jan 2003, Elijah wrote: Hi! I've been having problems with my second drive (hdd) since everytime I browse through it pauses on occasion and gives some I/O errors. I somehow solved it with hdparm: hdparm -c 1 /dev/hdd hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdd hdparm -k 1 /dev/hdd I'm quite sure the -k

Re: Mozilla: Personal Toolbar bug?

2002-12-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Dec 2002, Paul Scott wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: [snip] The Personal Toolbar is within the Manage Bookmarks window and is available for drag and drop. I just tested doing what you described. I am using 1.2.1 but I am sure I have been able to do this through many versions

Mozilla: Personal Toolbar bug?

2002-12-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
I added a folder from my bookmark file to the Personal Toolbar in Mozilla 1.0.0, resulting in a lot of new buttons. I now want to remove these entries from the toolbar (but not from the bookmark list). This appears to be impossible. From the help file: Removing Bookmarks From the Personal

Re: Mozilla: Personal Toolbar bug?

2002-12-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Dec 2002, Kent West wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: I added a folder from my bookmark file to the Personal Toolbar in Mozilla 1.0.0, resulting in a lot of new buttons. I now want to remove these entries from the toolbar (but not from the bookmark list). This appears to be impossible

Re: Mozilla Java plugin

2002-12-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 26 Dec 2002, Aryan Ameri wrote: hi there: Using apt-get I have installed jdk1.1 runtime only (Sun's JRE) on my sarge. However I don't know how to add java to mozilla's/konqueror's plugins. I know there should be a file called libjavaplugin* or something like thisand that I should make

Re: Printer Recommendations?

2002-12-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Dec 2002, Nicolaus Kedegren wrote: I could not agree more with you. A used HPLJ4 cost me $125, and a refill cartridge about $45 at the same place. Although, I do believe that the toner cartridge was full, 500 pages so far and still going strong. My personal Computer related Best Buy

Re: Printer Recommendations?

2002-12-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Dec 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 04:19, Anthony Campbell wrote: I have a used HPLJ6, which I got for nothing because it was being thrown out. It works well with Linux but the sheets in the paper feed constantly stick together so it is difficult to use except

Re: Printer Recommendations?

2002-12-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Dec 2002, Jon Dick wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:00:43 + Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17 Dec 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 04:19, Anthony Campbell wrote: I have a used HPLJ6, which I got for nothing because it was being thrown out

Re: spamassassin out of memory

2002-12-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Dec 2002, Nicolas SABOURET wrote: Salut, J'utilise spamassassin pour filtrer mon courier ? moi, ? l'aide d'un .forward et d'une r?gle procmail. Quand j'ai trop de mail d'un coup (genre apr?s un we), il p?te les plombs et j'obtiens des : Out of memory: Killed process 12786

Re: spamassassin out of memory

2002-12-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Dec 2002, Lloyd Zusman wrote: Small but significant correction. See below ... Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Translation: I use spamassassin to filter my mail using .forward and a procmail rule. When I have too much mail it suddenly, usually after a we

Re: www.uk.debian.org

2002-12-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Dec 2002, Matthias Hentges wrote: Am Fre, 2002-12-13 um 11.02 schrieb Rus Foster: Hi, Can anyone else reach www.uk.debian.org or is it just demon being crud? The server seems to be down. -- Quite often is, I find. I generally avoid it. AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]||

Re: Which plugin to listen to internet radio on mozilla?

2002-12-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Dec 2002, Johann Spies wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:20:00PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I use RealPlay for unix, which is the only thing that works for the BBC. Thanks. Earlier there was a realplayer installer package to install Real Player but I can't find one now

Re: Which plugin to listen to internet radio on mozilla?

2002-12-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Dec 2002, Johann Spies wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:20:00PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I use RealPlay for unix, which is the only thing that works for the BBC. Thanks. Earlier there was a realplayer installer package to install Real Player but I can't find one now

Re: Mozilla and x-java-vm - SOLVED

2002-12-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Dec 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 10:54, Wim De Smet wrote: On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:17:38 + Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a plugin anywhere for Mozilla to use application/x-java-vm? I've now got this working, thanks to the following very

Re: Which plugin to listen to internet radio on mozilla?

2002-12-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Dec 2002, Johann Spies wrote: The subject line says it all. Regards. Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch I use RealPlay for unix, which is the only thing that works for the BBC. Some listen again pages on the

Mozilla and x-java-vm

2002-12-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
Is there a plugin anywhere for Mozilla to use application/x-java-vm? I have the java debs from Blackdown but I still get a message telling me I need to install this plugin. Oddly enough, it seems to be there for Netscape, but I can't find it anywhere on my disk. A search on Google brings up

Re: spamassassin razor

2002-11-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Nov 2002, Matthias Hentges wrote: Am Fre, 2002-11-29 um 09.13 schrieb Nicolas SABOURET: Hi, I installed spamassassin and I use it locally (with a user's .forward and a .procmailrc, as told in the README file). I also installed razor. How can I make sure whether it is used by

Re: Updates to Sarge?

2002-11-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Nov 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: Is it just me and my choice of mirrors, or have the number of packages moving from Sid to Sarge fallen off recently due to some dependency on Sid blocking moves? I have had virtually no updated packages since the Twente fire, and it happens that many of the

Can I eliminate carriage returns when sending to mac

2002-11-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
I have to send text files to a publisher who uses a mac. The files are written with vim and sent via mutt. I am told that all the lines have carriage returns. I've tried using no textwidth setting in vim and have converted the files to mac format but it still doesn't work. I also sent them as rtf

Re: Can I eliminate carriage returns when sending to mac

2002-11-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Nov 2002, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 02:43:45PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: | I have to send text files to a publisher who uses a mac. | | The files are written with vim and sent via mutt. I am told that all the | lines have carriage returns. I've tried

Re: xpdf hogging processor

2002-11-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Nov 2002, Glyn Kennington wrote: Hello, I've just tried to view the PDF at http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg36.pdf (1.5MB) with xpdf. It works fine until page 12, when the system slows to a crawl. top tells me that XFree is using 75-80% CPU and xpdf is using most of the rest. I

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