Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-15 Thread Frank Copeland
with other members of your household for the seat in front of the Athlon. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/ Not the Scientology Home Page: URL:http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Plain text mail-merge

2005-06-29 Thread Frank Copeland
an hour or so with perl or python will produce the goods for my specific case but I find it hard to believe there's no general purpose tool already available. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/ Not the Scientology Home Page: URL:http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/ Keep

Re: upgrading to unstable

2005-05-20 Thread Frank Copeland
to see what it proposes to do next. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/ Not the Scientology Home Page: URL:http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about hard disk partition strategy for debian

2005-05-09 Thread Frank Copeland
-spool 5.9G 3.4G 2.6G 57% /var/spool /dev/mapper/vg0-mirror 5.0G 1.7G 3.2G 35% /usr/local/mirror Everything except /dev/hda1 is an LVM partition. There is still over 38GB of disk space waiting to be allocated. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-09 Thread Frank Copeland
? If you want to set it up as a desktop system you will be pushing your luck. It can be done but you will learn to live with swapping. As a home server (firewall/router/gateway/fileserver, no GUI) it will be just fine. It would also be more than adequate as a thin client. -- Frank Copeland Home Page

Re: Holy Spam!

2003-10-06 Thread Frank Copeland
insist on receiving mail to both addresses over two modem connections (one of them a mere 33.6K) and uucp is also rumoured to be involved. I've survived the spam and viruses so far. The open nature of the Debian mailing lists is a feature, not a bug, and is well worth preserving. -- Frank Copeland

Re: Acorn A5000

2003-03-29 Thread Frank Copeland
a MC68030. I doubt a 25Mhz ARM3 was enough of an improvement to get over that hurdle. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/ Not the Scientology Home Page: URL:http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Acorn A5000

2003-03-28 Thread Frank Copeland
and if it hadn't been taken off the net by a faulty NIC I would have shut it down anyway when security updates for potato stop. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/ Not the Scientology Home Page: URL:http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Libranet to Sarge

2003-03-07 Thread Frank Copeland
the Libranet installer support? -- Frank Copeland Home Page: URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/ Not the Scientology Home Page: URL:http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hosts.(allow|deny)

2003-03-07 Thread Frank Copeland
firewalls over it. IMHO hosts.allow/deny is far less tricky than a firewall, even when using a high-level firewall-builder like shorewall. I use both; defence in depth is a Good Thang(TM). -- Frank Copeland Home Page: URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/ Not the Scientology Home Page: URL:http

Re: Hardware IDE ATA Raid 1 support in Linux Debian - Linux disapointment

2003-02-14 Thread Frank Copeland
that don't tie them to specific kernel versions and specific distributions; the NVidia video card drivers are an example. If the manufacturer chooses not to properly support its products under GNU/Linux then you are better taking your business to a manufacturer that does. -- Frank Copeland Home Page

Re: sourceforge - why it depends on exim and proftp?

2003-01-11 Thread Frank Copeland
. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/ Not the Scientology Home Page: URL:http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making music

2003-01-10 Thread Frank Copeland
On 9 Jan 03 10:31:01 GMT, I wrote: I've got sheet music for some 19th century military bugle calls and I'd like to hear what they sound like and maybe create .wavs to put on a web site. I'm looking for some combination of software that will allow me to enter the score for each call and then

Making music

2003-01-09 Thread Frank Copeland
suggestions on how to proceed? I'm basically musically illiterate. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/ Not the Scientology Home Page: URL:http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Unofficial Debian package management

2003-01-02 Thread Frank Copeland
to be a developer and building the package from source yourself. How are you creating custom kernel packages with .changes files? I've been unable to work out how to do it with kernel-package and make-kpkg. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/ Not the Scientology Home

Re: which RAID cards work with debian?

2002-12-28 Thread Frank Copeland
On 28 Dec 02 11:54:56 GMT, Haim Ashkenazi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 13:45, Frank Copeland wrote: I manage a couple of HP tc4100s with NetRAID 1Ms and the stock (well, it started as stock anyway...) Debian kernel finds the RAID controller just fine: since I'm always

ext3 kernel bug, was: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

2002-12-21 Thread Frank Copeland
in several versions of the 2.4.x kernels prior to 2.4.20. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/ Not the Scientology Home Page: URL:http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Outlook calendar sharing?

2002-12-21 Thread Frank Copeland
will be in the archives if you can be bothered putting in the effort. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/ Not the Scientology Home Page: URL:http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Outlook calendar sharing?

2002-12-21 Thread Frank Copeland
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 02:39:27AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dont think making him search elseware because you cant be bothered to cc him is fair, its NOT obvious Debian has archives, so im ccing him your message below you ass. If he found the list he can find the archives. And

Re: 2.5.50 on Woody

2002-12-16 Thread Frank Copeland
are in for a world of pain, trust me. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/ Not the Scientology Home Page: URL:http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: galeon's screwed up cookie management

2002-12-11 Thread Frank Copeland
bother to fix such a relatively minor issue. It would be more productive to help make sure the gnome2-based galeon2 behaves better. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/ Not the Scientology Home Page: URL:http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/ Keep it in Usenet. E-mail replies

make-kpkg and .changes

2002-12-04 Thread Frank Copeland
with enlightenment. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/ Not the Scientology Home Page: URL:http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: security updates

2002-10-28 Thread Frank Copeland
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 07:42:57AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: Frank Copeland wrote: Did I forget to reply to the list? Bad me. Is there some way that I could crontab an apt-get job that would use ONLY the security debian site for upgrading? fjc@thingy:~$ apt-show cron-apt Package: cron

Re: Changing Hostname

2002-10-26 Thread Frank Copeland
may find it complaining that it can't resolve the hostname. If you don't have a static IP address, try adding the new hostname as an alias for 127.0.0.1 aka localhost in your /etc/hosts file. -- Frank Copeland Home Page: URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/ Not the Scientology Home Page: URL:http

Re: [OT] UPS signaling cable

2002-05-19 Thread Frank Copeland
On 19 May 02 02:53:25 GMT, csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A note from one manufacturer's site, for example, reads in part: Due to special signaling requirements necessary for Windows Plug and Play, the serial cable included with the UPS will not work in the Linux environment. I'm not sure

Re: Galeon quit working

2002-05-13 Thread Frank Copeland
On 12 May 02 18:14:29 GMT, Mario Vukelic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 20:05, Dale Hair wrote: /usr/bin/galeon-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgtkembedmoz.so: undefined symbol: GetFlatBufferHandle__C10nsACString Did you upgrade mozilla? I believe the debian packaging

Re: Eth0 issue

2002-04-17 Thread Frank Copeland
On 16 Apr 02 21:04:59 GMT, curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /etc/default/pcmcia reads: PCMCIA='yes' PCIC=xircom_cb[was =yenta_socket, but either way I get the same results] According to the PCMCIA HOWTO: PCIC This identifies the PC Card Interface Controller driver

Re: Exim - remove many messages

2002-03-26 Thread Frank Copeland
On 26 Mar 02 10:43:43 GMT, Rory Campbell-Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is really a two part message. The first part is about removing many messages from Exim. How does one do that easily, if one has to have the precise id for each? grep the output from # mailq which leads to...

Re: How do remove frozen messages from Exim Queue?

2002-03-15 Thread Frank Copeland
On 14 Mar 02 20:58:12 GMT, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:55:24PM +0100, Troels Petersen wrote: How do I remove frozen messages from the exim queue, messages like : (output from 'exim -bp') 14d 1.7K 16gLfk-0001Ka-00 *** frozen *** [EMAIL

Re: potato version of galeon?

2002-02-18 Thread Frank Copeland
On 17 Feb 02 21:31:06 GMT, will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what's the potato-friendly way to get galeon installed? galeon hasn't been potato-friendly since about version 0.7.x. It is a bleeding-edge gnome application that requires libraries and other facilities only available in gnome

Re: Where to slice a 2 gig drive ?

2001-12-22 Thread Frank Copeland
On 22 Dec 01 23:44:12 GMT, Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:39:39PM -0500, lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ok..I'm fairly new to linux and extremely new to debian (was mandrake 8.1)..I'm attempting to install 2.2r2 on a 2 gig drive here and not really

Re: Latest Galeon? will it work on potato?

2001-11-27 Thread Frank Copeland
On 25 Nov 01 13:10:53 GMT, Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw the slashdot articel on the latest galeon. Since i'm looking for something to replace netscape (which has crashed 3 time this morning, already). I went tot hat site. I'm runing potato + Progeny + 24. kernel. So you

Re: ssh without password for secvpn

2001-11-21 Thread Frank Copeland
On 20 Nov 01 18:27:53 GMT, Brooks R. Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I try to connect and I am still asked a password. I've tried it with both empty passphrases and obnoxious passphrases, and I get the same result (password not passphrase). I've muddled thorough the man pages for

Re: allowing root to display to a user's X session

2001-11-20 Thread Frank Copeland
On 19 Nov 01 21:25:47 GMT, David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When troubleshooting on RedHat, I often log in to a X session as a user, then su to root in an xterm and run ethereal (a packet-sniffer with GUI) to watch the network traffic that results from my actions as a user. I would

Re: Amiga installation

2001-11-15 Thread Frank Copeland
On 15 Nov 01 01:34:12 GMT, Joseph Doss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_000F_01C16D32.93398FA0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary==_NextPart_001_0010_01C16D32.93398FA0 You probably have no idea what a bloody mess

Re: 3com NIC question

2001-07-12 Thread Frank Copeland
On 12 Jul 01 06:55:28 GMT, Guy Geens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sunny == Sunny Dubey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sunny hey, I have a 3c509 NIC. Sunny I tried getting an IP for this NIC by using DHCP. (I used Sunny dhcpcd) But for some odd reason, it wouldn't work, and so I Try `modprobe 3c509' and

Re: Galeon 0.11.0 with Mozilla 0.9.1

2001-06-18 Thread Frank Copeland
On 17 Jun 01 17:48:05 GMT, csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody successfully built galeon using the mozilla version found at non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/pool/non-US/main/m/mozilla/? Yes. Try using --with-mozilla-libs=/usr/lib/mozilla-0.9.1 as an argument to configure. I also had to grab

Re: acroread

2001-04-21 Thread Frank Copeland
On 20 Apr 01 20:32:39 GMT, Lance Heller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When running acroread 4.0 (x86 linux stout0124 Jan24 2000 15:00:03) on my 2.2r2 x86 system running a 2.2.18 kernel, acroread commonly gobbles up all available system memory causing the system to hang. This happens on

Re: Debian and Trident 9385 VGA Card

2001-03-20 Thread Frank Copeland
On 19 Mar 01 22:07:23 GMT, Greene, Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on my laptop. My card is listed at http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html as supported. Is a generic driver the only thing that is offered? The best resolution I can get is 640x480. I configure it for

Re: DHCP unavailable during installation

2001-03-19 Thread Frank Copeland
On 19 Mar 01 10:20:01 GMT, Justin Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD. Here is what is detected during startup: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0x1440, 00:60:08:14:86:44 IRQ 3 ^ If you have the usual two serial ports with the

Re: Applying colors to Netscape

2001-03-17 Thread Frank Copeland
On 17 Mar 01 20:13:05 GMT, William Leese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I found this mentioned somewhere, something to do with editing your .Xresources file. Does anyone know more of this? If you are using Gnome or KDE, try installing grdb or krdb. This will apply your GTK/KDE theme to

Re: Mozilla requires libnspr4?

2001-03-10 Thread Frank Copeland
On 10 Mar 01 08:16:33 GMT, Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dl the latest Mozilla 0.8 build from Mozilla.org and have been having some trouble. The only library that I loaded on install was libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1. Now someone gave me the site for a potato deb and alongside the deb and tar

Re: Mozilla requires libnspr4?

2001-03-10 Thread Frank Copeland
On 10 Mar 01 08:35:16 GMT, Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried installing the deb in question and got conflicts. It wants a newer set of libraries than my potato has. That'll be because it was built on a woody or sid system. The same packages built for potato are at

Re: Mozilla 0.8-Special setup required?

2001-03-09 Thread Frank Copeland
On 9 Mar 01 14:51:26 GMT, Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dl the 0.8 build, untarred and zipped it to /usr/local/share/mozilla than ran /usr/local/share/mozilla/mozilla to get it started. I get lot's of error message and changing themes crahses it cold. They couldn't have released this

Re: ldap debian

2001-02-23 Thread Frank Copeland
On 23 Feb 01 00:50:46 GMT, Known Human Nick Rusnov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I'm having a heck of a time getting a freshly installed Potato box to authenticate with an openldap server. I'm new to this whole ldap thing, is there a guide somewhere to reconfiguring debian to use ldap for

Re: mouse troubles with Debian on Dell Latitude CPx J650GT

2001-02-08 Thread Frank Copeland
On 8 Feb 01 21:53:48 GMT, Michael A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently installed Debian (stable) onto a Dell CPx J650GT laptop. After installing the base system and the required packages, I added the SVGA and Mach64 xservers and the depended-upon packages. startx works in that I get

Re: Gnome window sizes.

2001-02-06 Thread Frank Copeland
On 6 Feb 01 16:27:39 GMT, Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running (Helix)Gnome at 800x600 produces mostly horribly large windows, especially the terminal. I looked at the Gnome website and they basically say you have to live with that. Being stubborn: has anyone found a solution for this? --Hans

Re: galeon..

2001-01-28 Thread Frank Copeland
On 28 Jan 01 18:49:02 GMT, Rob VanFleet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The people you really need to talk to are the galeon developers (or at least whoever packages the deb's for it). If they're packaging a deb for Potato and making it depend on X4, it seems they are obviously out of touch with

Re: xml-i18n-tools ?

2001-01-26 Thread Frank Copeland
On 26 Jan 01 23:49:02 GMT, Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is xml-i18n-tools available as a Debian package, perhaps under a different name? I can't find it. No, but I expect it will be soon. The changelog only starts on Jan 3 2001. It's quite straightforward to package. Frank

Re: Sorry, off topic, but HOWTO get to bios with IBM Thinkpad 755...

2001-01-21 Thread Frank Copeland
On 21 Jan 01 02:37:20 GMT, Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC, you hit F1 during the bootstrap. The manual I read (ThinkPad 560X) said to hold the F1 key down, power on, and continue holding down F1 until the BIOS setup came up. Frank

Re: x on my laptop problems

2001-01-19 Thread Frank Copeland
On 19 Jan 01 06:58:32 GMT, Forrest English [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in my trying to apt all the right files for my laptop to run x, i seem to have missed somthing. when i attemt to run x... Fatal Server error: could not open default font 'fixed' what does this mean, and what do i need to do to

Re: x on my laptop problems

2001-01-19 Thread Frank Copeland
On 19 Jan 01 15:52:36 GMT, Forrest English [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just tried apt-get install tast-x-window-system-core it broke debconf. it said it was upgrading debconf (sources pointing at unstable), and now all packages won't install. because debconf won't install because of aparently a

Re: 2.2r2 and 3c509 network card

2001-01-18 Thread Frank Copeland
On 18 Jan 01 18:45:13 GMT, David S. Bach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian 2.2r2 (kernel 2.2.18pre21) is unable to use the 3c509 ISA network card. Consider yourself lucky you aren't stuck with an SMC Elite or Ultra. In my experience the 3COM cards tend to Just Work with little persuasion. I will

Re: configuring ethernet?

2001-01-18 Thread Frank Copeland
On 19 Jan 01 02:54:28 GMT, Forrest English [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a pcmcia NIC that i want to use in my laptop, i managed to get the base system installed from floppies. but, now after the install, i need to setup my network connection.is there an application that i can use to do

Re: LDAP auth for some users

2001-01-10 Thread Frank Copeland
On 9 Jan 01 20:48:54 GMT, Anton Emmerfors [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using the current style in /etc/pam.d/login I am asked twice for passwords which I don't want. So I tried converting to the new style (value=action) but then it won't work at all. You need to do something along the lines of:

Re: ldap, ldap everywhere

2001-01-09 Thread Frank Copeland
On 7 Jan 01 01:01:20 GMT, Known Human Nick Rusnov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to be running a moderately sized network, and I was wondering how difficult it would be to setup ldap as teh authentication for it? Having just done exactly that I can say it's probably more frustrating than

Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

2000-11-29 Thread Frank Copeland
On 29 Nov 00 05:34:28 GMT, Lawrence H. Robins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular subscribers to this list to deal with the high volume of messages (250/day)? A mail2news gateway. A decent news client is always going to be a better bet for dealing

Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

2000-11-29 Thread Frank Copeland
On 29 Nov 00 08:23:53 GMT, Pap Tibor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Frank Copeland wrote: On 29 Nov 00 05:34:28 GMT, Lawrence H. Robins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular subscribers to this list to deal with the high volume

Re: anXious usage?

2000-11-19 Thread Frank Copeland
On 18 Nov 00 23:50:40 GMT, Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found this programs name as a comment in the begining of /etc/X11/XF86config. Now when I run it, it just does nothng. The prompt comes right back :-( I've had the same problem. Try deleting or moving

Re: wine (woody) can't find KERNEL32.dll

2000-10-24 Thread Frank Copeland
On 24 Oct 00 06:23:38 GMT, Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded wine to the woody version. A program that used to run on the potato version now crashes at the start, complaining: err:module:fixup_imports Module (file) KERNEL32.dll needed by C:\etax2000_1.exe not found Now I

Re: wine (woody) can't find KERNEL32.dll

2000-10-24 Thread Frank Copeland
On 24 Oct 00 08:25:26 GMT, Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went through the same thing at the weekend. Just open up /etc/ld.so.conf and add this line: /usr/lib/wine Do the usual ldconfig afterwards. /etc/wine.conf has changed a fair bit

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-09-09 Thread Frank Copeland
On 5 Sep 00 19:05:33 GMT, Felix Natter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Namely, Gnome does not include its own window manager; KDE does. Gnome depends on hooks for Gnome support compiled into an external window manager, and at present the only window manager with full support for Gnome seems to be

Re: Wine 20000801

2000-09-06 Thread Frank Copeland
On 5 Sep 00 21:05:48 GMT, Richard Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just upgrade to wine (my first upgrade of wine for some time). I've run into a couple of problems. The first one was: [...] LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable. However, after this, wine just hangs whenever I try and use it (it will

Re: Wine 20000801

2000-09-06 Thread Frank Copeland
On 6 Sep 00 21:52:08 GMT, Jonathan Markevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 04:24:22AM +, Frank Copeland wrote: However, the libwine .deb is missing an essential library file, so it won't work anyway. For now your best bet is probably to stick with the wine released

Re: Debian News Group Needed

2000-09-05 Thread Frank Copeland
On 29 Aug 00 12:27:19 GMT, Previ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seriously believe that this and other debian lists are far better managed both by users and debian, using NewsGroups rather than mail lists. Try setting up a mail2news gateway. Install inn|inn2, create a local newsgroup, make it

Re: junkbuster

2000-08-26 Thread Frank Copeland
On 26 Aug 00 21:26:30 GMT, Dale L . Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm afraid I may have botched this one. Trying to get junkbuster to work I removed it with 'apt-get remove junkbuster' then removed the junkbuster directory with rm -rf. Now when I reinstall junkbuster, there's nothing in the

Re: How stable is WINE?

2000-07-18 Thread Frank Copeland
Cameron Matheson wrote: I'm waiting for the new Debian to come out, and I need some information about WINE. In Potato, how stable is WINE? In my experience the wine currently in potato is as stable as any version of wine I've used, and better than most. However, it is classified as alpha

Re: How stable is WINE?

2000-07-18 Thread Frank Copeland
Ethan Pierce wrote: In my opinion WINE isnt all its cracked up to be, but better than it has been in the past. I don't know that wine has ever been cracked up to be more than it is, at least not by the developers. It is certainly getting better. If you want to run windows apps in linux,

Re: I cannot get JunkBuster to work

2000-07-15 Thread Frank Copeland
Barry Samuels wrote: I would like to continue using woffle and to use junkbuster in addition but the instructions are going to have to be of the 'put this here' and 'put that there' type I'm afraid. In /etc/junkbuster/forwardfile make sure you have something like this at the very end: *

Re: Kernel Compile error: What am I missing?

2000-05-20 Thread Frank Copeland
Russel wrote: Oops...I've got either a 2.2.10, 2.2.12, and 2.2.14. Tried em all. I've got the binutils and gcc versions required in Documentation/Changes ( I even checked using the commands listed in that file) If the file builds just fine on your computer...has the file changed between kernel

Re: Kernel Compile error: What am I missing?

2000-05-18 Thread Frank Copeland
Russell wrote: Here's the message I get: Assembler Messages: Bindec.S :487 /usr/src/linux/arch/m68k/fpsp040 [Bindec.o] error 1 value of -512 too large for field of 1 bytes at 511 I asked the people on the m68k list, and they didn't know. I am sure I'm missing some vital library or other piece

Re: HOW DO I Apply debian patch to original source?

2000-03-07 Thread Frank Copeland
Brian Lavender wrote: I am trying to compile a debian package from source. I can go to the package's web page and get the original source along with the diff. How do I apply the patch? Get the *.dsc file as well. Put all three files in the directory you want to unpack in, and cd to it. Then

Re: wine broke with libc6_2.1.3-5

2000-03-01 Thread Frank Copeland
John Bagdanoff wrote: The current potato wine package worked flawlessly for me, so I didn't save the previous version. I got the latest one in woody, but still wine breaks. If you could, polly, upgrade to the latest libc6 (2.1.3-5). If wine starts up for you, then I'll go to the wine news group

Re: wine broke with libc6_2.1.3-5

2000-03-01 Thread Frank Copeland
John Bagdanoff wrote: Frank Copeland wrote: wine breaks for me too. I get a stack dump and backtrace that seems to implicate the libc towupper() function. I've filed a bug against libc6, we'll see what comes of it. Thanks for the verification, Frank. Guess I'll sit tight for a couple

Re: Squid Proxy server-

2000-02-03 Thread Frank Copeland
Tom wrote: Okay i have done this before but cant remember what i typed to get it to work. I need to clear out the cache on my proxy server so that it wont keep showing some items that i have changed. how do i do this? Basicaly I think what im looking to do is clear out my proxy cache, but i

Re: GNOME performance hit on 486?

2000-02-01 Thread Frank Copeland
Scott Au wrote: I've been itching to install Gnome both for the utilites as well the greater desktop control. I'm worried about the performance hit my box will take though with the increased graphical desktop (as compared to the simpler nature of IceWM). Anybody running a similar processor (I

Re: Poor Modem performance

2000-01-08 Thread Frank Copeland
Scott Au wrote: After installing and running minicom, I've noticed that my modem, a BOCA ISA 28.8 modem is incredibly slow. Dialing my ISP shows text being received with periodic pauses. From personal experience one possibility is that serial interrupts are not being serviced quickly enough,

Re: Download once, apt-get install many?

1999-12-31 Thread Frank Copeland
Robert L. Harris wrote: I'm looking at upgrading to potato. I'm doing the apt-get -d dist-upgrade currently since it looks like it'll take 1day and 15hrs per box. Since the -d downloads, can I take the files being downloaded for box1, tar them up, copy and untar to box[234] and then just

Re: Download once, apt-get install many?

1999-12-31 Thread Frank Copeland
Ben Lutgens wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 04:49:59PM +1100, Frank Copeland wrote: If the boxes are networked together, you can easily set up your own partial mirror and install from that. Once you have upgraded box #1, use apt-move to create a partial mirror from the .debs you downloaded

Re: Boot off non-BIOS SCSI drive - can I use LILO or SysLinux?

1999-12-13 Thread Frank Copeland
Brian wrote: Presumably, I cannot use LILO to dual-boot the machine (after all, how would the machine let LILO see the partition with the kernel?). Up to now, I have been booting off of a floppy, and that is torture. Have you actually tried LILO? I have a SCSI-only box that the BIOS

Re: An open letter to the debian community

1999-12-05 Thread Frank Copeland
David Blackman wrote: Lately I've been thinking about forking Debian, into DWA, meaning Debian Without Attitude. We'll drop the attitude, and the pretenses, about what Free means, and get licensing deals with Corel, Netscape, and Sun, to include Wordperfect, Communicator, and Staroffice.

Re: Can't make menuconfig

1999-11-20 Thread Frank Copeland
Kent West wrote: I can make config and make xconfig but I can not make menuconfig. When I try, I get the following: westk03:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory

Re: atd fails? (potato)

1999-11-10 Thread Frank Copeland
Scott Henry wrote: I did a recent apt-get upgrade, and now atd fails. It used to work fine. It seems to only process items when restarted, and leaves defuct children around. I have at version 3.1.8-7 installed. I am running various 2.3.x kernels with various patches, but atd isn't working even if

Re: what a hack (dselect solution)

1999-11-06 Thread Frank Copeland
Aaron Solochek wrote: Ok, as regular readers probably know, I was having problems with dselect. It was complaing about not finding /usr/share/debconf/confmodule or something similar. There was a /usr/share/debconf/confmodule.sh, so I decided, to cp that file leaving out the .sh, to appease

Re: Compact version for running on 486/33 or /66 with 8-32 Mb ram

1999-10-27 Thread Frank Copeland
Robert Parker wrote: While worming through the pages I found a reference to a compact verison of Debian installation that was designed to work on a 486. I have not been able to find the link since, after 3 days of looking. Is there anyone that can direct me to the site where I can get more

Re: wine.conf example?

1999-10-22 Thread Frank Copeland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can someone kindly give me an example of a working wine.conf? I must be mangling something pretty bad... I have no windows partition anywhere, but I made a windows directory in /var that I point to... What exactly is the problem? The /etc/wine.conf installed by the

Re: Trident T 9750 2 MB AGP Card

1999-10-21 Thread Frank Copeland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'Allo there, has anyone successfully configured the Trident T 9750 2 MB My 9750 claims to have 4MB, but I trust this makes little or no difference. AGP Card under Debian ? I've tried all that I can , and I still cant achieve anything worth looking at...and would

Re: Trident 3dImage975 and X

1999-10-14 Thread Frank Copeland
Nathan Smith wrote: I have what I hope is a quick question. I'm having trouble getting X to work using the SVGA server with my Trident 3DImage 975 Card. The VGA 16 server works fine, but as you can imagine looks slightly less beautiful than I would like. I'm using the X that came with Slink,

Re: wine dependencies

1999-10-13 Thread Frank Copeland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else noticed that wine depends on libgl1, but that package is no longer available? What happened here? Is libgl1 no longer needed for some reason? Does anyone still have this package because it's not on the debian site anywhere. I found a .deb for this

Re: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-27 Thread Frank Copeland
Kent West wrote: On Wed, 26 May 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: On Sun, 23 May 1999 20:51:55 -0500, Matthew W. Roberts wrote: Netscape 4.51 for X is just too slow on my slightly dated pentium. Does Huh??? Netscape 4.51 is everything else but slow. You probably simply have too