Re: finding and using applications

1999-05-04 Thread John Galt
is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lilo F4A

1999-05-04 Thread John Galt
. Is this prompt usable? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I can be immature if I want to, because I'm mature enough to make my own decisions. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recommendation for best Linux book

1999-05-02 Thread John Galt
! a href=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]John Galt /a

is potato's ssl broken?

1999-04-25 Thread John Galt
When I try to apt-get install ssleay, I get an error saying that libssl09 isn't installed, but I have it installed, usually I prove it by trying to get libssl09 and getting told that I have the newest version. Is there something I can do about this? Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me

Re: slink to potato - minor error messages

1999-04-23 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, updated to potato. Looks like everything went fine except for these two errors I get when I boot: 1. [mntent]: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab edit your fstab and add a blank line on the end 2. Modprobe can't find netpf19

Re: Dayly cron job

1999-04-18 Thread John Galt
is no match for natural stupidity. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: How to install Pine

1999-04-16 Thread John Galt
errors coming up saying patch and pico not found. And I don't know how to do with debian/rules binary. Please help. Thanks Alan John Galt wrote: get the .dsc file and the README as well and read it--dpkg-source -x, debian/rules binary, then install

Re: compiling kernel

1999-04-15 Thread John Galt
now. Tech: Yes, you said that. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: How to install Pine

1999-04-15 Thread John Galt
? Cheers. Alan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Customer: I'm running Windows '98 Tech: Yes. Customer: My computer isn't working now. Tech: Yes, you said that. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: spreadsheet that can open CSV files?

1999-04-15 Thread John Galt
?) like corel quattro or excel... Is there anything out there? Thanks, Rich -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I can be immature if I want to, because I'm mature enough to make my own decisions. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about recompiling kernel ...

1999-04-14 Thread John Galt
, 1926 John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Current kernel configuration?

1999-04-14 Thread John Galt
! -- Dorothy Parker, Resume, 1926 John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

An idea...

1999-04-13 Thread John Galt
Perish the thought--I'm going to originate a thread! I was just messing with /etc/apt/sources.list for the umteenth time to make sure that I could apt-get this package or that one, when it struck me: wouldn't it be nice if there were a web page or somewhere all valid sources.list lines for

Re: Time problem

1999-04-13 Thread John Galt
From Linux tzconfig would be where I would start, from Windoze, the config.sys call that you use setting up pgp would be where I'd start (pgp is timezone dependent, so the installation for pgp has a part that tells you how to configure the timezones on startup, but it's been years since I tried

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-13 Thread John Galt
on... - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Sacred cows make the best burgers Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!!!

Re: Telnet from M$win to Debian (newbie)

1999-04-13 Thread John Galt
? And if that's it, what do I need to change? Groetjes, Tiemen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null a mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Who is John Galt?/a Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -- Ferenc Mantfeld

Re: Null-modem

1999-04-13 Thread John Galt
--- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv --Little things for Linux. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null a mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Who is John Galt?/a Failure

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-12 Thread John Galt
The thread was declared dead last week. On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Jiri Baum wrote: Hello, John Galt: What's the accepted method of sending a file to a person that MUST not get into unfriendly hands, but needs to get between users that have no access to the other's machine, due to dynamic

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-12 Thread John Galt
I regarded it as the fact that you were declaring the part that I was dealing with dead. I will continue to do so, unless there's something I can add to the windoze thing--probably once I start playing with wine. On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12-Apr-99 John Galt wrote

Re: chat serial port configuration

1999-04-12 Thread John Galt
decisions. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Howto text/html to man?

1999-04-12 Thread John Galt
enough to make my own decisions. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie X problem

1999-04-12 Thread John Galt
be immature if I want to, because I'm mature enough to make my own decisions. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PPP-pam - problem

1999-04-09 Thread John Galt
Time: 11:34:58 This message was sent by XFmail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null a mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Who is John Galt?/a Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your

Re: fdformat missing

1999-04-09 Thread John Galt
. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 KeyID 0x5EE61C37] [ICQ#175285] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null a mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Who is John Galt?/a Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -- Ferenc Mantfeld

Re: Lynx, Telnet won't resolve host

1999-04-08 Thread John Galt
now. Tech: Yes, you said that. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-08 Thread John Galt
from sunsite's rfc-index 196 Watson, R. Mail Box Protocol (Not online) 1971 July 20; 4 p. (Obsoleted by RFC 221) On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 03:36:40 -0600 (MDT), John Galt wrote: But the emailing

Re: vi in Debian (slink)

1999-04-08 Thread John Galt
You may be right, tcsh ain't exactly freshmeat's newest. But then again, neither is vim. It certainly can't hurt trying. On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 06:27:41PM -0600, John Galt wrote: Try the HP-UX porting page--they have quite a few GNU-style progs

Re: X thinks my screen is larger than it actually is

1999-04-07 Thread John Galt
impossible. TIA //Marcus -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: online help on c/c++ functions/libraries

1999-04-07 Thread John Galt
at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: where is Pine?

1999-04-07 Thread John Galt
: Which package contains Pine? I thought I had it installed but I can't find it and I can't find a pine deb. thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37] Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: .rpm -- .deb conversion

1999-04-07 Thread John Galt
-- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-07 Thread John Galt
wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 04:44:00 -0600 (MDT), John Galt wrote: SNEAKERNET just because YOU can't configure procmail? I'd say that your failure to configure procmail is YOUR problem, not one to be visited on the internet at large. I've

Re: vi in Debian (slink)

1999-04-07 Thread John Galt
and Inorg. Chem. (SKA) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-07 Thread John Galt
on the charity of others. But please remember that not all attachments are evil--some of them are at least benign, if not good. On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Gary Singleton wrote: --- John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Gary Singleton wrote: --- John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-07 Thread John Galt
is going to be with us a long time, and carping about the unsuitability one of the protocols for large files ain't helping. On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 18:23:35 -0600 (MDT), John Galt wrote: Basic-4 many a moon ago, those

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-07 Thread John Galt
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 19:10:33 -0600 (MDT), John Galt wrote: I posited a problem wherein FTP and HTTP were both unavailable, so the obvious solution is mail--NOT snail mail, email. And if email

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-06 Thread John Galt
guess I have my answer. On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Gary Singleton wrote: --- John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the accepted method of sending a file to a person that MUST not get into unfriendly hands, but needs to get between users

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-06 Thread John Galt
, not when there exists a simple method to do so, regardless of whether or not you like the method. On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:06:47 -0600 (MDT), John Galt wrote: What's the accepted method of sending a file

Re: Debian install on blank HD

1999-04-06 Thread John Galt
, which has been wiped clean. I can't boot from the CD-Rom, and am having some major problems getting it to work. Any suggestions? -Mike Sacred cows make the best burgers Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!!!

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-04 Thread John Galt
for natural stupidity. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: 'www' now M$ trademark ?

1999-04-01 Thread John Galt
muscles to produce a frown, but only 4 muscles to work the trigger of a good sniper rifle. Who is John galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error

1999-03-30 Thread John Galt
I did--I got around it with apt: don't ask me how, it just worked. IIRC dselect also worked the one time I tried during my dpkg hiatus. It ironed itself out in time and possibly updates, but I can't remember if dpkg or gzip got updated since then :( On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Robbie Huffman wrote:

Re: HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error

1999-03-30 Thread John Galt
apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.1 On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Robbie Huffman wrote: Regarding: dpkg: error processing ../kernel-image-2.2.5_Boris.1.0_i386.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 09:21:46PM -0700, John

Re: Y2K

1999-03-30 Thread John Galt
on personal opinion -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Sacred cows make the best burgers Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!!!

Re: C question

1999-03-25 Thread John Galt
that might describe the proceedure I would appreciate the assistance. thanks -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: Installing Debian Linux on a low-level mem 386.

1999-03-18 Thread John Galt
Them ny first experience with bo didn't exist? I had a 386 w/ 2M of memory and a MFM hd and installed bo with no real problem. The result won't be pretty, but it should work as well as anything else available today. You might wish to get an old bo distribution, tho. On Wed, 17 Mar 1999,

Re: Kernel patches

1999-03-14 Thread John Galt
AFAIK there's no patch path through the 2.0.x - 2.2.x barrier. You could try to install the kernel-source package of the kernel you wish to upgrade to, or you could get the raw source from ftp.kernel.org, the official site. On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Doug Dine wrote: Hi, Where can I download

Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!

1999-03-12 Thread John Galt
NO, that was a late Latin thing-- when the Leigons came home from the Frankish territories, they introduced the idea of merde diem, or sh*tty day, the regular Roman couldn't pronounce merde, so it became meri. How's that for folk entymology? :) On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: still no luck with apt-get

1999-03-12 Thread John Galt
Cute--Debian from Slackware ftp.cdrom.com is the official distributions site for Slackware. If you wanna go to external mirrors, try tsx-11.mit.edu or sunsite.unc.edu--they'll most probably be up and running 100% of the time--mit.edu and unc.edu going down probably means that the entire

Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!

1999-03-12 Thread John Galt
Solipsistic Nazisim promulgated by Hitler. There, three keywords that immediately kill a thread. This thread is now officially dead, further messages on this thread are subject to the author being smacked with a week-old herring :) On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Edward Kear wrote: At 10:19 PM 3/11/99

Re: C Program confused me

1999-03-12 Thread John Galt
That's a kludgy version of the MacLaurin Series for arctan x= sum (n=0 to infinity) of (-1)^n *x^(2n+1)/2n+1 where x=4 to solve for Pi. Most any Calculus text should have an explanation of it in its section of Power Series, or at least in its Index under Maclaurin series or Taylor series (a more

Re: Using crontab to update Debian

1999-03-11 Thread John Galt
There is a holdover command from Berkely Unix called yes used almost exclusively in scripting--what it does is continuously applies yes^M (the ^M is a representation of the return key) [wups--apparently it replies only y now] while it's active. So what your script line would be is yes | apt-get

RE: Using crontab to update Debian

1999-03-10 Thread John Galt
Pipe yes to it. On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Shaleh wrote: On 09-Mar-99 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi Debian users, In my country (Brazil) I only have to pay one tax between 0:00 and 6:00 AM independent of call time. I'm start thinking to get my home machine live at

Re: bitchx and libncurses4

1999-02-28 Thread John Galt
/base/ncurses4. as for BX being the right irc client--I use it and like it, but you're not me. Don't go by what other people say, make your own informed decision by testing a few of them like ircII, epic, tkirc, etc. On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded bithcx_75-2.deb

Re: Intent to Party like its 1999

1999-02-28 Thread John Galt
(massacaring Wimpy's saying) I'd gladly party Tuesday for a Debian today? :) On 27 Feb 1999, Kevin Dalley wrote: snippage Probably more people will be LinuxWorld on Tuesday than Monday. If we need to have a Monday party, it doesn't need to be near LinuxWorld. If the party is on Tuesday,

Re: mouse-pointer acting weird

1999-02-28 Thread John Galt
I've just lived with it for the most part--try using a windowmanager with less overhead, like FVWM vise enlightenment. I have almost exactly the same setup as you, except I invested in 32M of memory, and I have the exact same problem, mostly I've minimized it with afterstep and minimizing system

Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-28 Thread John Galt
There is a movement afoot to replace the imprecise usage of metric prefixes. The three-power-of-ten usage would retain the regular prefix, but the ten-power-of-two would be the first part of the prefix, with the last syllable replaced with bi: thus kibibyte, mebibyte, gibibyte. It sounds kludgy

Re: Compressed Win95 partitions

1999-02-23 Thread John Galt
There is a dmsdos kernel patch at sunsite--I remember patching my kernel a year or so ago when I needed access to my doublespaced drive in DOS--IIRC it allowed access to doublespaced, drivespaced, and stacked drives. On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a tool for Debian/Linux

Re: pine mutt

1999-02-22 Thread John Galt
I dunno about scoring--I rarely use the function, but I re-migrated back to TRN when I realized that SLRN had no killfiles, what I consider to be an essential tool in USENET. On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 07:50:57AM +0100, Frederick Page wrote: Well I tried

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-18 Thread John Galt
There DOES exist, however, an animal called a Gnu--I always thought GNU/Hurd was actually a pun on that idea: so why not do the simple task and use a gnu head for the icon? Or mabye a word-picture of a gnu side view with debian spelled out in the fur? Or better, a simple herd of gnus. Why do

Re: Installing Man Pages

1999-02-09 Thread John Galt
You have just inadvertantly opened an ongoing can of worms. The answer to your query is dpkg -i *.deb. Now as to the wisdom of leaving one of the ten most used commands in almost every flavor of unix out of the base system: whatever logic was used on this one escapes me, and the ongoing thread

Re: KDE debs

1999-02-03 Thread John Galt
Not live, per se, just Marshmallows :) On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone got the KDE debs for 1.1pre2 up yet? I'm sure we're all waiting with baited breath... Why, have we all been eating live bait? -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL

Re: mailsorting with mutt

1999-01-29 Thread John Galt
install package procmail, put in a .forward file to procmail, then set up a procmailrc file to move mail to various folders based on the from header. Works for me... On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day to all, could someone help this slow newbie to sort my mailing lists i'm

Re: SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux

1999-01-09 Thread John Galt
There is a secondary/tertiary problem: the CD I got with my vibra16 won't install in strict dos, but requires win3x to install. The second problem is that the vibra16 configuration is dependent on two drivers: firstly the config.sys device driver CTCM, then the autoexec.bat driver CTCU. Then

Re:debian-user-digest Digest V98 #1539

1999-01-01 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Laurie Leinow wrote: I will be out of the office on Dec. 31, 1998. congratulationsnow read the sig -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email [EMAIL

Re: Installation on a separate hard drive

1998-12-28 Thread John Galt
Not until they fix LILO to install on the MBR of /dev/hda instead of the MBR of the drive linux is on. On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Gordon von Miller wrote: Hello, Would installation be any easier on a separate hard drive? TIA Gordon -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

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