This idea of User groups is great. Does anyone know where I can find a list of
such events? I live in the upper valley of the VT/NH border in the states.
Thanks for any info! -Ethan
Michael Leone [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/15/00 07:40PM
Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior
to
Its my experience that you cannot use lilo per se with the win2k and debian
combo. What I do is have the triple boot of debian, windows ME and windows
2000. I use the dd utility to get an image of the bootsector. I then add the
entry of the linux sector to the boot.ini file for nt5.
It looks like the kind of talent this guy is looking for doesnt involve
spelling, good grammar or good sense :)
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From: John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 4:48 AM
Subject: Talent Contest
To Whom this is i am
So the windows clients will recognize the file format :)
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From: Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Debian user list (undigested) debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 1:22 PM
Subject: OT: what's the point of mp3's?
-rw-r--r--1 krzys
In order to get my tnt2 working to max performance I compiled the X4.0.1 server
from source. Then compiled the NVIDIA kernel driver and glx modules for tnt2
from nvidia.com. Took me about a week, but this debian newbie is playing
quake3 under linux at about 95% performance next to NT5. The
Danel, Try unplugging the unit, and removing the battery. When you pop it back
in, it should reset the defaults for the motherboard BIOS settings.
Daniel Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/08/00 09:25AM
Hello there,
I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week,
which I
Has anyone had any luck getting this to work in debian? How bout all five
buttons?
I just bought it for q3 - works well under nt5
If you want to watch movies, ie mpg, dat, avi, mp2 etc, get MpegTV. Its very
easy to use and compile from source. I believe the URL is mpegtv.com.
Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/02/00 07:45AM
Anybody managed to compile or package XMovie for potato?
It is the Linux Journal, but they did includ UNIX in several of the question
answers. They left out HP-UX too :)
Jürgen_A._Erhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/02/00 03:14PM
kmself == kmself kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
[...]
kmself It's also worth noting that Slackware wasn't listed, nor
I find the pager works well, and the setting up the environments to slide back
and forth with mouse activity by the edge of the screen also.
Please let me know if you discover the hot-keys. I get a lot of info on
irc.ais.net #e
-Ethan
Robert L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/01/00 04:35PM
The main reason I am psyched for evolution is my girlfriend cant grasp pine
or mail. She needs something graphical. If I can avoid booting windows2000
so she can read her email in outlook I will be happy as a clam...hence
evolution is the perfect solution for the ms llamas :)
- Original
Hi, I recently compiled x4.0.1 from source and all seemed to work well. I did
this to get better accel from my tnt2.
When I go to start E now I get:
Xserver does not support Shape extension
Your server is out of date or misconfigured
Has anyone seen this error before, and if so, do you know
If 128 mb of ram is considered a beast of a machine? What class does my ½ gig
of ram box fall in :)
Daniel Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/28/00 06:22AM
Hello there,
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Preben Randhol wrote:
Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 28/07/2000 (00:29) :
Why is it that under
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?
Thanks -Ethan
- this looks promising and a great start to getting MS outta the office!
Ethan Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/28/00 12:00PM
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
Sorry all, the sources.list line should read:
deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian/ ./
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/28/00 12:15PM
Ethan Pierce wrote:
Sorry, I found the answer to my question. Evolution .3 is a Microsoft
Outlook replacement for linux
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,
I believe you need to chmod it for an executable first?
Nicole Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/24/00 05:02PM
In linux, you just
./so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin (from that dir)
and it runs an extracter/installer.
There are installation instructions on the SO website, also, but that's
just about
The DNS server at my workplace went down and I lost a day and a half of
external email. I think after the list gets a certain amount of returns it
takes the recipient off the list. I had to re-subscribe to begin recieving
again.
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From: Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Since no one responded to my messed up help request
last night, Id thought Idhelp others that are trying to upgrade to x4.0.1
- Noah M got me off to a good start and I was up until 4AM getting it going
today.
Apparently in Debian the kernel headers in
/usr/include/linux are kept totally
David, you certainly can. You will need to establish some linux
partions...many on this list prefer fips utility, but I like partition magic
for dos...its graphical and you can get a good feel for the disk layout.
-Ethan
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From: David [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
I thought it was an easy get...a full featured office suite for free...you
cant beat that...it took me about 10 minutes to dload it...sun has a fast
site...the only pain is you have to register once :)
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From: Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
yes thats what I was referring to...5.2 is nice and a seemingly good
improvement over 5.1
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From: Tremaine Lea [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Ethan Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 2:19 PM
Subject
DSL has changed my life :) I was on a modem the last 10 years of my internet
tenure.
Tremaine Lea [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/21/00 03:22PM
And I don't even want to know what kind of internet connection you
have that allows a 100 megabyte download in 10 minutes. :-)
Is that unusual? :)
run a dmesg|less it will show you the startup messages
Look for your cd-rom (hopefully it was detected) It is probably the next hard
disk device after you last physical disk. I have two 20gig hard drives
/dev/hda and b so my burner would be called /dev/hdc and I would mount it to
For the love of quake3, I attempted to upgrade to
xfree86-4.0.1. I compiled from source and it went ok...Next I installed
the NVIDIA GLX driver sucessfully, followed by an unsuccessfull NVIDIA kernel
module install. I got include errors during the make process.
Noah suggested I get the
if its a fat filesystem I got the tools you need...email me back quick!
gotta head to work
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From: Richard E. Hawkins hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 3:16 PM
Subject: scanning physical disk to retrieve file
Agh.
Just wanted to let you all know I reported this spammer to his domain and they
have removed his acct.
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There was some talk on the list earlier today about removing gpm to get
better results with the paste feature.
I plan to try this later when I get home from workbut does anyone know
if taking out gpm will mess up the x server?
My main goal is just to get my middle mouse button working on my
have you tried EFM?? :)
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From: Joseph de los Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Debian Users
debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: Enlightenment and X
From: Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED]
3) Are
Linux ppp is not like the Windows Internet Explorer where it will disconnect
you without permission. It must be an idle timeout with your ISP. Set up
fetchmail or some other program that will request network attention
frequently so your ISP wont bump you.
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From:
The deb packages for xfree4 dont seem to be out yet...will it happen do you
guys think?
Im wondering if I should compile from source...I really want to get q3 running
well and have been told 4.01 is wonderfull with the tnt2 card I have.
1) Has anyone had any luck compiling from source?
2)
Hey Sven, yes Enlightenment ownsif you can get your middle working in E
let me know, I have the same ps/2 mouseman + and cant for the life of me get
it working in E or any other WM for that matter.
For desktop backgrounds drop the jpgs or bmps in
~/.enlightenment/backgrounds...then you can
In my opinion WINE isnt all its cracked up to be, but better than it has
been in the past. If you want to run windows apps in linux, install vmware
(www.vmware.com). It runs VERY fast depending on how much virtual ram you
can afford to allocate. I use 128mb for my virtual machines. Ive even
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Not to put down Trelos, (I havent tried it) but vmware has sound, networking
and runs just about everything aside from dvds
What do you mean by large? The space it takes up is the size of a win98
install and any apps. I even run office 2000 in there :)
No kernel compilation necessary. I will
Hi, im wondering about the security of telnet - people say its really
unsecure...does this mean that someone would need to be running a network
sniffer on my ip to catch the data?
I telnet to my ISP from work, (only telnet available) then run SSH from ISP
shell to home machineis this just
Id like to be able to run ftp and telnet to my home machine from
work...normally this works fine. Today I thought I would just boot up my home
machine to the login and leave it there to save some processor...theoretically
this is supposed to work? I called another friend (this is b4 I left
Hi, Im hoping to set off oss at boot. when I used mandrake I just edited
/etc/rc.d/rc.local . The structure seems a bit diff in debian. I booting to
runlevel2 so do I make some kind of link in /etc/rc2.d?
The program to execute at startup is /usr/lib/oss/soundon
Thanks for any suggestions
Does anyone know where I can find debian OSS packages?
When I tried to compile it I got the following error messages.
No precompiled sndshield module was available for yor kernel.
Loading sndshield module failed. Trying to recompile it.
Attempting to load sndshield again.
Loading sndshield still
My girlfriend insists on a graphical mail client so I thought kmail would
be good for her. Should I just update my sources.list? Im not
familiar with all the addressess and apt-get commands...
Tia -Ethan
--
"Linux is like a WigWam - No Windows, No Gates, and Apache inside."
Have you had your
I use a bootable partition magic diskette to move partitions
around.works flawlessly. Let me know if you want the disks
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From: Tony Laszlo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 12:58 AM
Subject: swap partition too small
Im new to debian so Im not familiar with all the
display settings. When I used mandrake, there were certain programs that
needed to be run as root - like linuxconf/mtv/xcdroast etcall I needed to do
was su and run them. Now in debian when I try such a move, i get a "cant
set display"
Im running a dsl network where I have a real IP on
eth0. I was wondering I could setup a new network for use in masquerading
via eth1...can the single network card translate the non routable network as
well as the physical static one?
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From: Superband [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 11:06 PM
Subject: introduce ourselves to you.
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Hi all, I wanted to test out crack on my /etc/passwd file...someone told me it
takes 6 days to run for good passwords. While my root password is non
dictionary, will crack work? Im very curious about how much a user can gain if
he/she is able to cat my /etc/passwd
Hi, Im having difficulty getting my mouse to work under X
properly...particularly the middle mouse button. xf86config just plain kills
x, but I can get x running with XF86Setup. The problem is the middle mouse
button, what mouse Server to use and what device exactly is it running from.
Its a
I was wondering how to make X switch resolutions. I was told ctrl-alt-+
should work but it doesnt for me. Do I need to have xnest installed? Any
ideas would be appreciated! Thanks -Ethan
Hi I just installed Potato via apt and everything seems to go well until
its all done and I go to test out the x server. I starts but I get the
following error regarding my keyboard:
System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm
-m us -em1 The XKEYBOARD keymap
Greetings all, I have just installed Debian via the apt method. Im not even
sure what this did but it seemed to go right into the compilation where dselect
from the cdrom was near impossible for me to figure out. Anyhow, while it was
compiling it kept asking me if I wanted this WM or that, I
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